Chapter 765: To Deshi
Yongzhou Prefecture.
It is the end of the year, and the streets that should be bustling with people coming and going, are actually sparsely populated and look very depressed.
"Boss, have a bowl of noodles, a big bowl." Xu Zhi walked into a noodle shop on the street and found a seat near the door and sat down.
"Okay!" The boss, who was lying on the chair, suddenly stood up and walked quickly to Xu Zhi.
"Does the guest need anything else?"
Xu Zhi took out a few large coins, lined them up on the table, and said, "Tell me about anything new in Yongzhou Prefecture recently?"
"What's new?" The boss scratched his head, a little confused, but the desire for the big money in front of him still made him try hard to guess. The person in front of him looked like a guest from out of state. He wanted to Know what.
After thinking for a long time, he patted his head and said: "This guest wants to ask why this city is so depressed, right?"
"It's not because of the group of barbarians on the east grassland that have been I heard that even the Xiazhou Mansion was attacked a few days ago, and there were countless casualties in the city. Even the great monks of the Xia family were unable to escape."
"There are only three state capitals between Yongzhou and Xiazhou. I don't know when the war started here. Therefore, many people in the capital took refuge with their families."
Xu Zhi nodded slightly and took out a few more big coins, "Since it is so dangerous, then dare to ask the boss why he didn't escape together and still stayed here."
The boss sighed and said: " Where can we escape? We ordinary people can't leave Yongzhou for a year with our feet. What's more, we can only be safe in other states. In today's world, there is no chance of escape. Sometimes, if you encounter a strong man who cuts off the road, your life will be lost."
"At least in Yongzhou City today, the Chen family still has rules and order."
" Besides, I have worked hard for half my life to build this small store in this city. What will happen to this store if I leave?”
"I think the guest should be a man of cultivation. You should understand, little old man, how much hard work I have to put in to reach this day."
"It must be very difficult." Xu Zhi echoed.
Perhaps it was rare to see a monk like Xu Zhi have such empathy, and the boss seemed to have opened up his chat box.
"Little old man, I am also lucky. In my early years, I was fortunate enough to be a stable horse in the Chen Mansion. I took good care of that monster horse, so he often said a few words to me in front of the owner. The good words later helped the little old man secure this future."
"The neighbors all know my origin and dare not offend me easily for fear of incurring the revenge of my brother Ma. It is precisely because of this that I had the opportunity to open such a noodle shop on Fucheng Street.”
The monks need to obtain the golden elixir cultivation level before they can fully enjoy the wind and dew speed. Although those who have not yet reached the golden elixir, only one Bigu elixir can last for several years without eating.
But it is also an old saying. Cultivation does not mean cultivating oneself to the point of being heartless and severing desires. The immortals in heaven still often hold feasts to satisfy their appetites.
Not to mention low-level monks, in the real world, low-level monks often have more and stronger desires. That's why there are so many monks controlled by desire.
There are hundreds of billions of people in the entire Central Plains, and there are less than a thousand people who can successfully build the foundation, and low-level monks such as foundation building and Qi refining occupy even more of these thousand times. 90%.
Tongxuan, Yanfa, Yin Shen, Yang Shen, with each higher level, the number of monks decreases geometrically.
The aristocratic family controls the Taoist books, spiritual stones and spiritual veins, making it difficult for most people to see the door to spiritual practice.
Any monk who steps into the path can be called a noble. From then on, he no longer needs to be involved in production and only needs to concentrate on cultivation.
As a result, some mortals have gained a more respectable status as slaves than goods. They are producers who support the nobles.
However, it is indeed rare for a mortal like the old man to own a store by himself in the city. However, he also said that these are gifts from the monster horse he raised.
After Xu Zhi escaped from Shengjing, he traveled around for another five years, and gained a relatively complete understanding of the world here.
After hundreds of thousands of millions of years of evolution, the practitioners of the aristocratic families here have been completely separated from the mortals. They can almost be called two races. The relationship between the two is only one of slavery and being enslaved. Nothing else. The Shengjing family has been extremely restrained in their actions. They built a city for mortals, and all transactions were carried out in secret without being brought to the table.
But the lower state capital and even the countryside are much more naked. Xu Zhi once saw that just a Qi-training monk could rule three mountains and four fields and nearly a million mortals, taking whatever they wanted. Millions of mortals have no social organization and are almost like domestic animals in captivity.
Not to mention the practice books, the vast majority of people don’t even know how to read, have no culture, and no inheritance. They think that this is what mortals are born to do.
Xu Zhi felt that even if she was reborn among these mortals, it would be difficult for her to escape from this hopeless future.
So when she passed that place, she didn't even kill the monk and his family.
Because if they are lost, these millions of mortals will only die more and faster, just like "livestock" that lose their owners are often devoured by nature. Until another monk tamed them and kept them captive.
Xu Zhi sensed Zhou Ju's aura all the way from Shengjing in the north to Yongzhou in the northwest. Everything he heard and saw was like this.
Perhaps in some state capitals and rural areas, the monk families entrenched here will not be extremely harsh on the mortals under their rule, but when it comes to the essence, it has never changed.
“Guest, what else do you want to know?”
The boss rubbed his hands and looked at the big money on the table with a hint of longing.
Xu Zhi pushed the big coins in front of the boss, and then slowly took out a small crystal clear stone.
The boss's eyes straightened up when he saw it, "Ling Ling Stone?"
"Then tell me about Zhideshi."
I don't want to do that. After the boss heard this, his expression suddenly changed. He looked around and then whispered: "My lord, I wonder where you heard these words?"
Xu Zhi pretended to be curious and said: "After I entered Yongzhou, I often heard people mention it. What? Is there any problem?"
"Oh, there is no problem. It's so simple. These few You can't mention it in this city. If you mention it, you will be beheaded."
"Oh? What is this Zhideshi doing? Why can't you even mention it?"
< br>The boss looked a little hesitant, looked at the spirit stone on the table with a slight struggle, and finally said with a brave face: "The guest's words can only be circulated in this room, don't mention it casually outside. "
"This is the world of virtue, but it is a family founded by a newly emerged monk in recent years. It stands to reason that Yongzhou is big enough, and it is not a big deal to have a few more families. We only need to pay attention to the Chen family on time. Just accept it.”
"But this most virtuous monk has gone so crazy that he actually teaches the Tao of cultivation to mortals. If it stops here, forget it. After all, other families do this kind of thing in order to promote their slaves."
"But they gave them the Taoist book and refused to accept them as slaves. They preached that everyone can become an immortal by learning Taoism."
The boss slapped his thigh and said: "Isn't this harmful to people!"
Xu Zhi asked curiously: "Everyone can practice immortality and seek Taoism, isn't it good?"
The boss waved his hand and said: "Of course not Well, let’s not talk about the people who have cultivated the supreme virtue of the world. They are undoubtedly digging for the roots of major families and will be hunted down by them.”
"Even for ordinary people like us, it is a big bad thing."
"Oh, where do you come from? For the aristocratic family, this is indeed a bad thing, but for ordinary people, this is not a good thing. Really?"
"What this guest thinks is too simple. Only a mere mortal like us, worth at least ten thousand people, can barely provide for a monk."
"But if you are a monk. When the number of masters increases, won’t the burden become heavier for us mortals?”