When those handsome and unrestrained cultivators in neon clothes and feathered clothes, with immortal spirit and spirit, came out with swords from the resplendent floating mountain, looking down at the ordinary people on the ground who were skinny and sallow, dressed in ragged clothes, and even emitting bursts of stench, there was no difference between heaven and man.
More than this!
"Ordinary people are just ants!"
Li Yao, who grew up in the new era, found it extremely difficult to agree with this statement.
Because in the modern cultivation civilization in which the Star Star Federation exists, even ordinary people who have no strength can still be well-dressed, clean and tidy, have a strong body and a good mental outlook, at least at first glance, they may not be the same as cultivators.
What a difference.
However, in such an ancient world where productivity is not very developed, the so-called "difference between immortals and mortals" really exists.
Those ordinary people struggling in their dens are not lambs and ants, so what are they?
Woolen cloth?
Therefore, the cultivators that Li Yao secretly observed, not only behaved evilly and wantonly towards ordinary people, but at least when they came into contact with ordinary people, they naturally showed a condescending air.
The way they looked at ordinary people was not so much "contempt" as "indifference", as if the difference between them and ordinary people was natural and natural.
I passed by more than a dozen sects in a row, and almost all of them were like this.
Li Yao secretly sighed in his heart, and was about to use the glorious theory of Xingyao Federation that "cultivators are fish, ordinary people are water, and cultivators are the swords of human civilization" to criticize these ancient cultivators who look down on ordinary people. .
The words of some natives of the ancient holy world slapped him hard in the face.
That was when he stopped in a town called "Shiwu City".
He saw that the mountain gate of the local sect "Shiwumen" was exceptionally tall and magnificent, and the fortress was exceptionally golden, while the nearby ordinary people's villages were extremely dilapidated and desolate.
He felt moved in his heart and stopped.
Investigate deeply.
He pushed Ling Lanyin aside, disguised himself as a traveler covered in dust, and entered Shiwucheng.
Sure enough, I saw that the cultivators here were particularly arrogant, running rampant and treating ordinary people as nothing.
When he arrived at a tea shop at the foot of the mountain outside the city and heard the chatter of several tea guests, Li Yao couldn't hold back the unknown anger in his heart.
It turned out that this Shiwumen separatist faction had its own way of doing things, not only intercepting the grain and taxes that should have been handed over to the imperial court, but even launching corvee services on behalf of the imperial court!
Ordinary families within Shiwumen's sphere of influence have to send their young men to work for Shiwumen for three to five to seven years.
During this period, they can only receive very meager remuneration, or even no penny.
The young son of this tea guest was originally working as an errand in Shiwumen, working as a cow and horse for cultivators.
He had been working hard for three years and was about to be released back home.
Suddenly one day, he turned into a cold corpse and was thrown out by Shiwumen.
He was said to have died suddenly due to overwork.
Looking at his corpse, it was indeed emaciated, with bulging veins and depleted energy and blood.
It was obviously the result of enduring too much work for a long time.
The key point is that when the tea guest talked about the death of his youngest son, apart from his grief, he didn't have any dissatisfaction with Shiwumen.
Even the other tea guests just lamented that he was unlucky and his youngest son was short-lived, but they didn't dare to complain about Shi Wumen, and they didn't even realize Shi Wumen's responsibility.
Li Yao really couldn't bear to listen.
Thoughts such as "sorrow for his misfortune and anger for his inability to fight", "natural human rights and all creation equal", and "raise his arms to awaken the ignorant and numb ancients" and other thoughts were running through his organs. , couldn't help but make some sarcastic remarks.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he said a few words, he would arouse the anger of everyone and be attacked by a group of people.
Even the tea guest whose youngest son died of working in Shiwumen scowled and spat at him.
The rebuke from many tea guests made Li Yao stunned at first, then speechless, and finally blushing and extremely ashamed.
It turns out that the area where Shiwu Gate is located is the most steep and densely forested mountainous area in the Wujiang River Basin.
Except for this small basin, it is surrounded by high mountains and ridges, and the high mountains and ridges are shrouded in clouds and mist that linger all year round.
In many places in the mountains, you can only see sunshine for two or three days throughout the year, and the rest of the days are filled with continuous rain.
Such poor mountains and rivers are naturally full of monsters, dragons, snakes, tigers and leopards.
They will not only devour the mountain people who stray into the deep mountains and old forests, but will even go down the mountain in groups to sweep away the people in the entire village and town until they are left in piles. of bone dregs.
The fact that a large city, seven or eight large towns and dozens of villages could be developed in such a harsh living environment is all due to the efforts of the Shiwumen cultivators.
It’s all because of their bravery and fearlessness, going deep into the mountains and forests again and again to slay demons and open up living space, so that ordinary people can follow suit, burn mountains to open up wasteland, and build new villages!
"Shiwu Sect has been established for more than two hundred years.
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Every year, it sweeps through the mountains and forests in all directions more than ten times to eradicate the nests of demons and ferocious beasts.
Every year, not fifty immortal masters fall, but at least ten or twenty!
" "That's right, that's right.
In the past few decades alone, two of the leaders of the Shiwu Sect have died in order to slay demons!"
"Without the immortal masters of Shiwu Sect, all the villages and towns within a radius of hundreds of miles would be destroyed by demons and monsters.
That's why our place is called 'Shiwu City' because we are grateful for the great kindness of the immortal masters!
" "As a man, you must repay your kindness.
How can you be that ungrateful, wolf-hearted bad guy?
Even two of the most powerful sect members died, and more than ten or twenty ordinary disciples died every year.
Just once. ...Seven or eight disciples can die during the trial, but if one of us ordinary people dies, what can we say?"
Li Yao did not expect that these "ignorant and insensitive victims" would actually say this.
He murmured for a long time and said, no matter what, Shiwumen should not withhold the imperial court's taxes or levy them privately.
The issue of corvee, however, does not place the majesty of the imperial court.
If every sect is like Shiwumen, just like a small kingdom, what will happen to the precarious Daqian Dynasty?
These words caused even more cheerful laughter.
Until now, many teagoers regarded Li Yao as a sour and rotten scholar who was stupid at reading, but they were too lazy to argue with him.
A somewhat gentle native who looked like a teacher settled an account with him on his fingers.
First of all, theoretically speaking, Shiwumen certainly had no power to withhold grain and taxes paid to the court.
But having said that, for the common people, they have to pay taxes anyway.
If these grains and taxes are handed over to the court, who knows where they will be used in the end, or they will be used in the hands of the big officials in the court.
Turn it, and finally it will be turned away!
And if you pay all the grain and taxes directly to Shiwumen, Shiwumen is a local sect after all.
No matter how much you squander, most of it will be squandered locally.
This is a pig head and pork rotten in the pot, and the fat will not flow out.
The truth of outsiders’ fields.
What's more, exterminating the demons and monsters in the surrounding mountains and forests in order to collect the rare materials from them, as well as the natural materials and earthly treasures deep in the mountains and forests, is a matter of great benefit to Shiwu Sect, and is even fundamental to maintaining the development of Shiwu Sect. way.
Even without the urging of the people, Shiwumen will still do their best to kill demons and eliminate demons, and most of the resources they collect will be used in this regard.
To a certain extent, this can be regarded as "taking from the people and using it for the people"!
Therefore, the local people of course support Shiwumen wholeheartedly, and every tax season, they try their best to help Shiwumen withhold food and taxes.
The same principle applies to corvée.
For the common people, everyone on the left and right had to do corvee service, either as errands for Shiwumen or the imperial court.
But working as an errand for Shiwumen has many benefits.
First of all, Shiwumen is located in this hometown.
Even the high-ranking cultivators are mostly fellow villagers.
After all the twists and turns, they can get some connections.
As the saying goes, "When a person attains enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven."
If you become a cultivator, you will completely disown all your relatives.
Do you even treat your mother and me like ants?
Of course it was impossible, at least for the vast majority of low-level monks, it was still impossible to watch their seventy-year-old mother sitting on the ground and rolling around without being indifferent.
Therefore, when it comes to the handyman introduced by his seventy-year-old mother, he can at most be a little indifferent, but it is impossible to deliberately torture him.
Therefore, after so many years, ordinary people who worked for Shiwumen sometimes died of overwork, but it rarely happened that they were tortured to death.
Even if they did, they violated the sect's laws and were " Make the rules”.
Another one, working for Shiwu Sect, with an extra bit of effort, the cultivators of Shiwu Sect can have more time to practice.
The more powerful they practice, the more monsters they can kill, and the more local cultivators will be.
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What's more, if you work as an errand in a cultivating sect, if you are smart and lucky enough, you may be able to learn some basic boxing and kicking skills under the influence, and even become a cultivator when the opportunity comes!
Although the possibility of this is extremely small, for the common people who "face the loess and turn their backs to the sky all day long, and a bead of sweat breaks into eight petals", it is the only way for their children to rise.
Even if this road doesn't work, as long as you serve with all your heart and win the favor of a certain immortal master, you will have a great supporter when you walk in the countryside in the future!
None of these benefits would come from doing corvee service for the imperial court.
First of all, working for the imperial court often requires you to be sent to a place thousands of miles away, where you are unfamiliar with the place.
It is a trivial matter to be acclimatized to the local environment.
It is common to be beaten, beaten, raped to the bone and sucked out the marrow, but it is common for the sky to be unfavorable and the earth to be unfit. matter.
To put it harshly, if you die in Shiwumen, you can still leave your body intact.
Join the imperial army, die on the battlefield thousands of miles away, and come back with a jar of ashes, it will be regarded as the blessing of the ancestors!
Furthermore, the imperial army composed of ordinary people has the lowest occupation, with almost no possibility of contacting cultivators, receiving guidance, and finding support.
In the end, all the local young men and women were recruited thousands of miles away.
What to do with the monsters and monsters in the nearby mountains and forests?
The immortal masters couldn't do heavy chores and kill monsters and demons again, right?
What, the imperial court needs a large army to fight the ghost Qin people?
What the hell does the Gui Qin people have to do with me?
It’s not the Gui Qin people who have been wreaking havoc on Shiwu for hundreds of years, but the demons and monsters in the nearby mountains!
The ghosts and wolves are trampling the North.
That is the Yankees' business.
Why should we southerners bleed in vain?
"The imperial court?
In our place, the imperial court is just an egg, and Shiwumen is the sky!"
"The demons are rampant, and when tigers and wolves descend from the mountain, all the immortal masters from Shiwumen rush to fight.
Where are the imperial troops?
Not even a hair comes!"
"The autumn harvest is ripe, and when it's time to collect grain, it comes very quickly.
I asked all the immortal masters from Shiwu Sect to fight back!"
The native who looked like a teacher said to Li Yao in a vulgar and proud tone.