Chapter 163 The refugees flew with each other
On the day when the tax was collected, the sunlight shone from the sky and was stained in the rustling autumn day.
At this time, above the Nujiang River, there were fairy ships traveling from north to south, roaring and flying on the shimmering river like golden armor.
Above the bow of the boat, the children of aristocratic families stood with their hands behind their backs and looked at the banks of the river on both sides.
On both sides of the river bank, grain trucks are coming and going on the dilapidated and uneven official roads, driving towards the granaries of various aristocratic families, fairy villages, and counties in various places.
There were hundreds of ragged old farmers who were tied up by hemp ropes and walked staggeringly, their faces filled with fatigue and numbness. Finally, they were taken to the high slope on the west side of the river bank by officials. "What are you doing?" "They are all criminals who do not pay full taxes and were taken here to receive whipping after being punished by local governments."
< br>"How much tax is required?"
"It's only 60%."
"This place has a wide range of land. Just rely on more wasteland and work hard to cultivate. Isn't it easy to get taxes? But I don't even want to hand over 60% of them? Isn't it a mess?"
"Yes, farming land, What's the difficulty? It's not easy for me to practice Taoism, and I don't even have some leisure time every day. Isn't it also conscientious and never tired? "
The fairy boat crosses the river, and it takes one day to stay in the three states One night, when I arrived at the west crossing of Beijing, the boat stopped, and someone got on the boat and someone got off.
The immortals who were waiting to enter the boat were bored and naturally they were talking about what they saw and heard on both sides of the coast.
At this time, another convoy of vehicles drove by on the official road in a bumpy manner, running contrary to the grain truck.
This convoy is different from the government grain truck. It is pulled by a mule. The body of the car looks worn out and the roof is densely covered. It looks like it is broken and repaired. After repairing, it is broken, so a few patches are added.
Walking with the car, most of them were ragged people, with strong men leading the way in front, while women, children and old men followed behind.
They seemed to have been traveling for a long distance, and the only thing that was conspicuous on their dark faces was their pale lips.
They were not picking up food bags or soft foods on their cars, they were all mixed items, including pottery pots and clay pots, as well as farm tools and livestock, and even dilapidated quilts.
The convoy had just passed, and then another convoy came with them.
This convoy is slightly different from the one that just passed by, because it is more generous, and the people who pull the carts are all horses, and the people who follow the carts are wearing much better.
Especially for the people behind, there are simple embroidery patterns on the clothes.
A family of aristocratic families speculated with interest, saying that the one in front should be a migration of a whole countryside and deserted village, and the one behind was obviously a mortal landlord's ward from a prestigious city. .
However, everyone has different opinions on where they are going.
Amid the discussion, several older people came, wearing white clothes, and couldn't help but speak softly.
"They are going to the north and Fengzhou."
"Fengzhou? The one on the edge of the northeast?"
"Yes, after the taxes were collected this year, a team like this one There are three or four waves every day, all of which are heading to Fengzhou."
Amid the discussion, both convoys were stopped by the official station by the official road.
There was a fierce man holding a knife, wearing a black robes and a thick beard, which stopped them all.
Then he saw a middle-aged man with a cloth scarf on his head walking in the second convoy, and gave him a bag, and the officers let them pass.
The previous convoy also benefited from them and was released to pass the test at this moment.
Seeing this scene, the children of aristocratic families on the ship looked at each other: "Fengzhou is not a place where birds don't poop? It's reasonable to migrate in this deserted village. The convoy just now was obviously a mortal landlord, and this was also a waste of land. No? "
"Didn't you see it with your own eyes?" "
"This is really strange. Does Fengzhou not pay taxes?" "
"There are also some, but very few, and it is a drop in the bucket compared to other eight states. For thousands of years, the only purpose of people's migration is to live, and you will go wherever you can live."
At this moment, a sedan chair appeared on the official road, followed by countless yamen servants.
When the sedan chair was carried to the tea shed at the inn ahead, the five-foot-tall county magistrate directly lifted the curtain and rushed out.
A few slaps in the face hit the bearded man with a fierce look, resounding across the river bank.
The people on the boat couldn't help but lean over to look, and saw that the necessary pass from Zhongzhou to Fengzhou immediately began to martial law. The rebel horse, made of sharp wooden pillars, was immediately put on the official road. superior.
After that, some of the scattered people who came here were driven back by the yamen who were holding long swords.
There were also some wealthy households who took out the prepared "personnel" as before, but were kicked to the ground.
At this time, the five-foot-tall county magistrate watched with a cold face, his eyes trembling slightly, as if he was trying hard to suppress his anger.
The current court has not clearly stipulated that the people of Jiuzhou will not be allowed to roam around, but this never happened in the past, because it is the same everywhere in Jiuzhou.
But after the tax collection this year, he found that many Duju Villages and ethnic groups in Jiyang County under his rule began to migrate.
He didn't know what happened in Fengzhou in just a few days, but he was different from the stupid pigs under his command.
Now he is blocking the road and asking for personnel. It seems to be profitable, but under the rule of the people, where should he collect enough taxes?
They have many aristocratic families in Zhongzhou. If they annoy the immortals, it would be a death sentence for moving their heads!
So he couldn't wait for any other court laws, nor did he care about any government orders, so he hurried to set up a checkpoint.
At the same time, a sudden burst of storm came from the river, whimpering on both sides.
Seeing this scene, the magistrate of Jiyang County immediately joined hands with the yamen runners to kneel down on the ground and respectfully sent the immortal.
So a mysterious light rose from the bottom of the fairy ship by the river, then closed at the bow, and then quickly entered the sailing.
After a day and night, some of the aristocratic families on the boat left halfway, some boarded the boat halfway, and finally came to Shengjing, the capital of Daxia...
At this time, in Shengjing, It has long been very lively because of the new thing of Tianshu Academy.
The carriages from all over the world gather here, surrounding the main city road is blocked, and the restaurants along the street are brightly lit, all of which are full of the sound of silk and bamboo, and the singers dance.
Countless wealthy families in the capital held banquets in the city and invited the students of Tianshu Academy who were about to be admitted to the hospital to have a meal. Even the breeze around the city was filled with the fragrance of wine.
"How many people in Tianshu Academy have completed the three realms this year?"
"Three."
"Three again?"
"Three again?"
"One of the Lu family in Yunzhou was hospitalized last year, and this year it was Lu Qingqiu's sister, Lu Hanyan. Their family is strange. It seems that this talent for cultivation is all about women."
"Where is another one?"
"The three young masters of the Tu tribe in Zhongzhou had reached the lower three realms last year, but the Fang family did not allow him to be admitted to the hospital at that time. It was said that it was to avoid Chu. The sharpness of the river was delayed by one year. "
"Chu He..."
In the restaurant, when someone mentioned this name again, everyone couldn't help but smack their lips.
This name was indeed extremely dazzling at the beginning, but few people have mentioned it since the beginning of autumn.
"What about the third one?"
"The third one also comes from Yunzhou, the son of the Puyang family, with an ancient family, but the Puyang family has not been famous these years, but it can be produced in one year. It is still okay to be perfected by the three realms of the Puyang Gongzi, the word Xing, seems to be entrusting the Puyang family's hope of revival. "
Hearing this sentence, some aristocratic families in the capital have been heard. Zi couldn't help but pick up the wine glass. Hearing that these three people were all from the Immortal Clan, his interest suddenly became less great.
It was noon, and the sun shone brightly, and countless sedan chairs in the capital rushed to Tianshu Academy.
As in previous years, whether it is the senior officials in the capital or the royal family, they are happy with this kind of good deal with Zhuo Juegui.
However, this time, Wei Li, who lost power, did not come, and King Chong came here alone, but his interest did not seem to be too high.
Especially when I came to the white jade platform, I felt like I thought of something.
Afterward, the admission ceremony of Tianshu Academy was held, and the children of aristocratic families who had changed into the immortal robes of Tianshu Academy flocked to the White Jade Platform to the Immortality.
Standing in the front were two men and one woman, Lu Hanyan, Puyang Xing, and Fang Jincheng, Zhongzhou, all of whom were fluttering in white and wore swords on his waist.
Behind them is Ninghua Realm from other states.
Such a position and such a look made everyone feel dazed, as if the first year of Taichu was like a big dream.
So everyone found that some eyes on the high platform could not help but gather to the end, that is, the southeast side of the Baiyu Platform.
There are also a group of young disciples standing there.
There are men and women, and there are eight people in total. They are not as rich as those who stand on the inside, and their expressions are also very reserved.
Because they all come from Fengzhou.
Among these eight people, only three were sufficiently cultivated, such as Xiang Fu, the daughter of the prefect of Danshui County, Liu Jian'an, the son of the governor of Fengzhou, and Cong Yi, the daughter of the prefect of Guiyun County.
The rest are mostly people from the army who joined the army and have obtained the quota based on Daxia. The better ones are just in the micro-scope realm, and the worst ones are not even open to the spirit.
The Tianshu Academy is no longer the name of the Daxia Holy Sect, and such students are also required to be accepted.
However, in previous years, such disciples did not receive much attention.
Because everyone knows that the lower three realms and the upper five realms are completely different realms, and to break through, a large amount of elixirs and spirit stones are needed to accumulate.
In other words, cultivating immortals is a game exclusive to famous families.
What is surprising is that these Fengzhou children suddenly found that the eyes on the platform were gathering towards them, even the five extraordinary hall masters. "Why are they looking at us all the time?" "They are not looking at us..." Xiang Fu couldn't help but speak and murmured.
After the admission ceremony, Qiuri's outer courtyard quickly became lively.
Lu Hanyan came from Yunzhou wearing a long snow-rolling dress with a twig gauze. As soon as she left the Baiyutai, she saw Lu Qingqiu coming with a group of sisters.
"Hold the smoke."
"Sister."
Lu Qingqiu glanced at her: "Have you entered the next three realms and fulfilled?"
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Lu Hanyan nodded: "I thought I couldn't catch up, but my father finally took a spiritual core from the ore vein to help me condense and perfect it."
Hearing this, Lu Qingqiu couldn't help but suck it. He then reached out and patted his sister on the shoulder.
Although the Lu family is based in Yunzhou with their spiritual mine business, their cultivation talent is actually only considered to be in the middle and upper reaches among the major families in Jiuzhou.
In the past few years, the talent at home is quite good, and she and her sister are highly expected.
Because if someone in the family can enter the inner courtyard of the Seven Immortal Sects or find a good husband, it will be of great help to the family.
But she failed to get what she wanted, and now the responsibility is on her sister.
At this moment, Puyang Xing, who had been standing on the stage, stepped forward and bowed to Lu Qingqiu: "Puyang Xing, I have met my senior sister." "Puyang Junior Brother, welcome to the hospital."
The two looked at each other, their eyes were cold, and the atmosphere was not as harmonious as Lu Qingqiu just now. Instead, they could see some smell of gunpowder.
In this way, this year's dispute in the inner hospital has laid the foreshadowing since admission.
At this time, there were four disciples from the Master of the Innocence Hall who were cleaning the Innocence Hall.
Because it was autumn at this time, and there were many fallen leaves, and the new disciples had already been admitted to the hospital, so they needed to come over to clean from time to time.
"It will be fine in a few days."
"When we first entered the hospital, everyone was like this. At first, they all went to bed early and got up early to realize the temple, and then studied hard and practiced hard. Everyone felt that they were the pride of heaven and must be no weaker than others."
"Then someone was out of the world, and everyone felt that their hearts were broken, so they calmed down."
When the disciples of the Chief Academy murmured, Puyang Xing and Fang Jincheng had already sat down and suddenly entered a state of meditation.
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Lu Qingqiu looked at the enlightenment hall and couldn't help but speak softly: "The Puyang family has been silent for a while. It is said that the bloodline of the family's cultivation talent is becoming increasingly thin. Unexpectedly, he has emerged as a complete third level of the lower three realms that have not been weak in the year. .”
Lou Siyi looked at him and couldn't help but whisper: "This person seems to be a friend to your Lu family."
"This is normal. The Puyang family is now in decline, and it is said that several of them are in the tribe. The branch and paranormal veins are all excluded by all parties, so they need to form alliances everywhere. "
"Sister, Puyang Xing, like Fang Jincheng, seems to be my strong enemy." Lu Hanyan couldn't help but speak softly.
Lu Qingqiu turned to look at her: "What's wrong?"
"When my father came, he told me that I must enter the inner courtyard, so I naturally have to know something about Puyang Xing and Fang Jincheng. , Fang Jincheng has been extremely talented since he was a child. He should have been admitted to the hospital with his sister. Now he has condensed three mysterious lights in advance, and Puyang Xing is also a genius."
"Genius, what can genius do..."
Lu Qingqiu and the other two murmured, then turned to look at the depths of Mount Ni, where the leaves were already golden in the sea of forest.
Chu He was admitted to the hospital at that time, and with the name of the second son of the Chu family, he was called the genius among geniuses.
But in the end everyone realized that the so-called genius is just a threshold to meet that person.
"Sister?"
Lu Qingqiu turned to look at her: "I'll try to invite you tonight so that you can meet the real genius."
Lou Siyi glanced at Lu Qingqiu: "Will he come?"
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"Free meals, probably won't come..."
"This is also..."
Lu Hanyan couldn't help but speak: "But, from the Chongwang Mansion The princess invited me to go to the banquet tonight..."
Lu Qingqiu turned his head to look at his sister, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Zhao Yunyue? No problem, just go to Hongding Tower to eat together, I'll be here to serve."
After speaking, Miss Lu was the first to go to the house. So he took his sister back to the yard, compiled a book and sent it to the prefectural office.
Disciples from the outer courtyard cannot enter the inner courtyard, so they rely on the leadership court to trust each other.
The disciple in charge of delivering the letters in the office happened to have a letter to Ji You, so he took the waist sign into the mountain and walked through the thousands of acres of forests.
At the same time, the overlapping points of the six peaks in the inner courtyard faced westward, in a purple bamboo forest full of energy, a man with a sword-eyed eyebrows and star-like eyes was sitting on the ground, and had been in a state of meditation for a long time.
Some disciples of the Five Halls who were resting couldn't help but turn their heads and look at him, looking at his surging spirit and spiritual light flowing, and they couldn't help but whisper.
From the appearance, they felt that this man was as handsome as a scholar, not sharp at all, but a bit elegant.
But no one will forget that he killed eighteen Tongxuan, killed the ruthless man who used a low-level state to kill Rongdao Realm, and killed Yechengshan.
The most important thing is that he is now the youngest head of a family in Qingyun world, although he is still alone now. "It is said that because of him, Fengzhou's taxes this year are only 10% charged this year?"
"Yes, now that the Ji family has been registered, there are no other immortal sects or aristocratic families in Fengzhou, so the tax affairs will be decided by him."
"The people who went to Fengzhou to establish immortal villages may not have either. I thought that a private rural village would suddenly appear in Fengzhou, and I would pass the quota and be admitted to the hospital for an extraordinary period, kill Chuhe and build a family..."
"Not to mention those fairy villages, even those who are in Tianshu Academy Who could have thought of you and me at the beginning? "
"Yisheng Taxun, he was really fearless when he acted like this." "
"It's fearless, but in fact it's also true Otherwise."
"Oh?"
"He did not put all the tax into his pocket, but he still took it out and distributed it to those foreign villas. I think he was still afraid, but the tax was distributed. There are many and few, not even, I don’t know what evidence it is based on. My family has a family member in Fengzhou, and I don’t ask…”
“No matter Fengzhou, Taxation, etc., this season The breath of worries became more and more mysterious..."
Amid the discussion, Ji You slowly opened his eyes, the golden light in his eyes was restrained, and the breath around him calmed down.
Then he let out a light breath and looked around, and found that the whispers gradually disappeared.
He has been back from Fengzhou for five days, and Ban Yangshu, Wen Zhengxin and Bai Rulong have also returned with them.
Kang Cheng also returned to Beijing at the same time.
Senior Sister Pei stayed in Fengxian Villa to make a name for Qiu Ru. During this period, Lao Qiu stayed in He Zhang's mansion and took the tax collection.
Apart from the court's share, they only collected 10% of the share of the Immortal Sect this year.
Half is used to pay cowardly expenses, and half is left for land reclamation and sowing in the coming year.
Over the past few days, he has mainly been doing three things. One is to read the general outline of Taoism in the library to become familiar with the understanding of the laws of heavenly laws left by the ancestors of the Tianshu Academy.
In addition, go to the lecture hall and listen to the inner courtyard teaching explain some understanding of the way of heaven, the application of laws and theoretical analysis.
Compared with the free-range model of self-cultivation in the outer courtyard, this is the foundation of the inner courtyard of the Seven Immortal Sects.
The last thing he did was to enter the Mountain of Void and practice, and to intuitively evolve the way of heaven.
But after going to see it five times in a row, he didn't see Yan Shuyi.
He knew that this girl was breaking the barrier, and he said that he would not leave the barrier without entering Wuwang.
Her mentality is actually the same as Ji You now, and she is pursuing stronger to resist the invisible undercurrents.
But even though she knew she was in seclusion, Ji You would still feel worried when she hadn't seen her for many days.
At this moment, a disciple from the Chief Academy entered the Zizhu Zen Forest.
"Junior Brother Ji, your letter."
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Ji You reached out to take it and found that it was two letters.
One comes from the outer courtyard, and the other comes from Nanhua City at the foot of Lingjian Mountain, signed by Ding Wanqiu.
The little master of Lingjian Mountain is always high and cannot find that people often write letters to a disciple of Tianshu Academy, so the letters are sent by Ding Yao or Zhuo Wanqiu to Nanhua City.
The spiritual sword he received before Qiu Dou was also sent.
The one who signed Ding Wanqiu is basically the one who sent Ding Yao down the mountain, and the one who signed Zhuo Yao is basically the one who signed Zhuo Wanqiu.
Ji You reached out to open the letter and saw the opening remark in his head: a bold strange man.
The little master of Lingjian Mountain is really an arrogant monster.
"Bold strange man, I have been breaking the key points in recent days. Don't go out of the way at will. I hope you are honest."
"Breaking the key is different from enlightenment. I need to abandon distracting thoughts. , to make the mind of Tao clear, and not to be able to learn from the divine thoughts, so before I break the pass, I will no longer be able to do nothing. ”
"After breaking the realm, I will go down the mountain to travel. If I happen to travel to Shengjing, I will meet you by the way, chat for a while and then leave."
Ji You saw this, and his heart was Say I understand.
Is this sentence translated as "I will go to play with you when I break the realm."
He pinched the letter paper, raised the corners of his mouth and continued to look down, but as he looked, he slowly held his breath.
"If I happened to travel to Shengjing, I would see what the woman Yuan Caiwei had seen."
The letter from Xiao Jianzhu is like her personality, and the ending ends suddenly. To sum up, just one sentence, don’t disturb me when I go into seclusion, and prepare what I want to see.
Ji You's mouth trembled slightly, thinking to himself why she was still thinking about it.
Look at what Yuan Caiwei has seen?
It seems that the subsequent practice should focus on refining the body.
Then he opened Lu Qingqiu's letter, which was brief, saying that the banquet would be held in Hongding Building tonight at Xu hour, and invited three or five friends and newly admitted disciples this year to invite him to go. Gather together.
The content of this letter fell into his eyes with six words: treat guests to dinner, come quickly.
Ji You put away the letter, then turned around and swept his eyes to the Zizhu Zen Forest.
Most of the disciples in the forest are sitting cross-legged into meditation, with a surging light around them, and their expressions are peaceful and pleasant.
But when seeing this scene, Ji You's eyebrows frowned.
The disciples who have entered the inner courtyard of Tianshu Academy in recent years are mostly like him, who have sensed the heavenly books. In the Zizhu Zen Forest, you can see disciples practicing through the heavenly books every day.
But...
From the beginning to the end, all he saw in Xuwu Mountain was Yan Shuyi, and there was no other fellow disciple.
This doubt has actually been in his mind for a long time, but because he was in the outer courtyard, he didn't remember it from time to time, so he didn't go into it too much.
But at this time he was able to confirm that the heavenly book he had realized was different from most people.
However, what comforted Ji You was that he had asked Ban Yangshu for this.
Ban Yangshu said that in the Book of Heaven there is a vast and boundless void, hidden in the laws of heaven and earth, and nothing else is there.
Absolutely...
Ji You couldn't help but mutter.
I thought it was just that there was a mountain, a little more chaotic laws of heaven like a ball of thread, and a stingy fairy with jade feet.
What else can I do if I have reached the Tongxuan Realm? You can't admit that you have gone astray now.
It's okay, his spiritual energy is broken anyway, so I can do whatever I can.
Ji You stood up, then walked towards the foot of the mountain, passing alone through the thousands of acres of forests.
(This chapter ends)