There is no better difference between heaven and man when those beautiful and natural practitioners, who are dressed in neon clothes and feathers, immortals, come out of the golden and resplendent floating mountains and look down upon the Yellow skinny, ragged and even smelly common people on the ground!
"Ordinary people are mole ants!"
Growing up in a new era, it is extremely difficult for Li Yao to agree with this statement.
Because in the modern cultivation civilization of Xingyao Federation, even ordinary people who have no power to bind a chicken can be well-dressed, clean and tidy, with strong physique and good mental outlook. At least at a glance, they may not be very different from the cultivators.
However, in such a world of ancient cultivation where the productivity is not very developed, the so-called "difference between the immortal and the ordinary" is real. What are the ordinary people who are struggling in the den, not lambs and ants?
Therefore, Li Yao''s Secret observation of the practitioners, not to say that they are evil to the ordinary people and willful, at least when they come into contact with the ordinary people, naturally reveals a sense of supremacy.
The way they look at ordinary people is not so much "contempt" as "indifference". It seems that the difference between them and ordinary people is natural and natural.
Almost all of them passed by more than a dozen sects in a row.
In his heart, Li Yao sighed that he was trying to use the brilliant theory of Xingyao Federation that "practitioners are fish, ordinary people are water, and practitioners are the sword of human civilization" to criticize these ancient practitioners who despise ordinary people.
Some of the words of the ancient sages slapped him in the face.
When he stayed in a town called "Shiwu city", he saw that the Mountain Gate of the local sect "Shiwu gate" was extremely tall and magnificent, and the fortress was extremely golden. However, the villages of ordinary people nearby were extremely desolate. He stopped to investigate deeply.
He opened Ling Lanyin, dressed up as a dusty traveler, and entered Shiwu city.
Sure enough, the practitioners here are extremely arrogant and rampant, and regard ordinary people as nothing.
At a tea shop at the foot of the mountain outside the city, Li Yao could not help his anger when he heard a few tea guests chatting.
It turns out that this shiwumen is independent, not only intercepting the grain and taxes that should have been paid to the imperial court, but even starting corvee instead of the imperial court!
Ordinary people in shiwumen''s sphere of influence have to recruit strong men to work in shiwumen for three or five or seven years. During this period, they can only get very meager remuneration, or even no money.
The youngest son of this tea guest was working as a messenger in Shiwu gate and worked as an ox and horse for the cultivator. He has been suffering for three years and is about to be put back home.
Suddenly one day, he turned into a cold corpse and was thrown out by shiwumen. He said that he was overworked and died suddenly.
Looking at his corpse, he was really thin and bony, his tendons burst and his blood dried up. It was obvious that he had been working hard for a long time.
The key is that when the tea guest was talking about the death of his youngest son, he was not dissatisfied with shiwumen except for mourning.
Even other tea guests just sigh about his bad luck. His youngest son, Fu Bo, has a short life, but he doesn''t dare to complain about shiwumen. He doesn''t even realize shiwumen''s responsibility.
Li Yaoshi couldn''t listen to it. His thoughts such as "mourning his misfortune and being angry at him" and "gifted human rights, born equal", and "rousing the ignorant and numb ancients" ran wildly among the viscera, and he couldn''t help making a few sarcastic remarks.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the words were uttered, they provoked people''s anger and were attacked by a group of people. Even the Teaman whose little son died in the Shiwu gate was angry with him and spat at him.
At first, Li Yaomu was stunned by the rebuke of many tea guests. Then he had nothing to say. Finally, he turned red in the face and was extremely ashamed.
It turns out that the area where shiwumen is located is the most precipitous and thickest mountainous area in Wujiang River Basin.
In addition to this small basin, it is surrounded by mountains, which are shrouded by endless clouds.
In many places in the mountains, there are only two or three days of sunshine throughout the year, and the rest of the year is continuous rain.
These poor mountains and evil waters are naturally full of monsters, dragons, snakes, tigers and leopards. They will not only devour those mountain people who have strayed into the deep mountains and forests, but also go down the mountain in groups to sweep away, leaving only piles of bones and dregs in the whole village.
Such a bad living environment can develop a big city, seven or eight towns and dozens of villages, all thanks to shiwumen practitioners.
Only by their bravery and fearlessness, they go deep into the mountain forest again and again, kill demons and demons, and open up living space, can ordinary people follow suit, burn mountains and open up wasteland, and build new villages!
"For more than 200 years since the establishment of shiwumen, it has been necessary to sweep the forest of Sifang mountain more than ten times a year to eradicate the nests of demons and fierce beasts. There are no 50 immortal masters who fall every year, at least 10 or 20 miles!"
"That''s right. In recent decades, in order to kill demons and demons, even the leader of shiwumen has died two times!"
"If there is no immortal master in Shiwu gate, all the villages and towns within hundreds of miles will be ruined by demons and ghosts. That''s why this place is called Shiwu city. It''s just to thank the immortal masters for their great kindness."
"If you want to repay your kindness, how can you be the ungrateful and cruel bastard? There are even two headmasters who have great powers. Ordinary people die more than ten or twenty every year. Just one trial can kill seven or eight headmasters. What can we say if one of our common people''s families dies? "
Li Yao didn''t expect that these "ignorant and insensitive victims" would say that. He had been talking for a long time. Anyway, shiwumen shouldn''t cut off the taxes of the imperial court or levy corvee privately. This is where to put the imperial court''s dignity. If every sect is like shiwumen, it''s like a small kingdom, What about the precarious Daqian dynasty?
These words, but also caused a happy laugh.
Until now, many tea guests regard Li Yao as a sour, stinky and corrupt scholar who is stupid in reading, but they are too lazy to care about him.
A slightly gentlemanly aborigine, who seemed to be a teacher, broke his fingers and made an account with him.
First of all, in theory, shiwumen certainly has no power to intercept the grain and taxes paid to the imperial court.
But then again, for the common people, they have to pay taxes anyway. If these grain and taxes are handed over to the imperial court, who knows where they will be used in the end, or they will be turned around and around in the hands of the imperial officials, and they will not be turned around in the end!
If you pay all the grain and taxes to shiwumen directly, shiwumen is a local sect. No matter how much money you spend, most of it will be wasted in the local area. This is the reason why pigs and pork are rotten in the pot and the fat and water do not flow to outsiders.
What''s more, exterminating the demons and ghosts in the surrounding mountains and forests in order to collect their precious materials, as well as the natural materials and local treasures deep in the mountains and forests, is a great benefit to shiwumen, and even the fundamental way to maintain the development of shiwumen.
Even if they don''t need to be urged by the common people, shiwumen will do their best to kill demons and demons. Most of the resources they collect will be used in this aspect.
To a certain extent, this is "from the people, for the people"!
So, of course, the local people wholeheartedly support shiwumen. Every tax season, they try every means to help shiwumen intercept grain and taxes together.
The same is true of corvee.
For the common people, they all have to do corvee, either for shiwumen or for the imperial court.
But it''s a lot of good to work for shiwumen.
First of all, shiwumen is in the hometown. Even if the high-ranking practitioners are mostly villagers, they can have some relationship with each other.
It is the so-called "if one person gains the Tao, the dog and the rooster will ascend to heaven". When one becomes a practitioner of truth, he will be able to completely disown his six relatives. Does he even treat his mother and Laozi as a mole ant?
Naturally, it is impossible, at least for the vast majority of low-level friars, to watch their 70 year old mother sit on the ground and tumble with indifference.
Therefore, the most indifferent attitude towards the drudgery introduced by his 70 year old mother is that it is impossible to deliberately torture.
So, over the years, ordinary people who worked as clerks in shiwumen worked too hard to die, but they were rarely abused to death. Even if they did, they were in violation of the clan law and were "disciplined".
Another, if you work for shiwumen, you can make the practitioners of shiwumen have more time to practice. The more powerful you are, the more you can kill one more monster. Isn''t it more peaceful in the place?
What''s more, if you''re clever and lucky enough to be an official in the cultivation sect, you may be able to learn some basic Kung Fu. Even when it''s time, you will become a practitioner!
Although such a possibility is extremely small, it is the only way for the common people who "face the Loess and face the sky all day long, with a bead of sweat falling eight petals" to go up.
Even if this road doesn''t work, as long as you serve with all your heart and win the favor of an immortal master, you will have a big support to walk in the countryside in the future!
None of these benefits, if they were to serve as corvee for the imperial court, would be available.
First of all, when working as an official for the imperial court, they often have to be sent to places thousands of miles away where they are not familiar with the land. It''s still a small matter to be acclimatized. It''s common to be beaten, beaten, and beaten to the marrow, but it''s not supposed to happen every day and the land is not working.
Hard to say, if you die in shiwumen, you can leave the whole body to come back.
Join the Imperial Army and die on the battlefield thousands of miles away. If you can leave a jar of ashes back, you will be blessed by your ancestors!
Moreover, the Imperial Army, composed of ordinary people, is the lowest profession. It has almost no chance of contacting with the practitioners, getting instruction and looking for support.
In the end, the local young people are all called up to 18000 miles away. What about the demons and ghosts in the nearby mountain forests? The immortal masters can''t do the heavy chores again, and go to kill the demons and demons?
What, does the imperial court need a large army to kill the Qin people?
What''s the relationship between the ghost Qin people and Laozi? It''s not the ghost Qin people who have ravaged Shiwu for hundreds of years. It''s the ghosts and ghosts in the nearby mountains!
The ghost Qin wolf tramples on the north. It''s a matter for the Yankees. Why should we southerners bleed for nothing?
"Court? Here, the imperial court is an egg, and shiwumen is heaven! "
"Demons are rampant. When the tiger and wolf come down the mountain, the immortal masters of shiwumen rush to fight. Where is the imperial army? Not a hair
"The harvest is ripe in autumn. When it''s time to collect grain, it''s very fast. All the immortal masters of shiwumen are called back!"
The aborigines, who looked like a teacher, told Li Yao in a vulgar and proud tone.