Rattle, the horse's hooves struck in the middle of the dirt path, kicking up dust. Nine men galloped down the official road. However, this was not a peaceful period. A few hundred meters ahead, there was a group of "heroes" robbing the rich and helping the poor.

However, after seeing these robbers. He Minggu made a color to the previous brothers. These senior brothers sped up their horses and took the lead to meet them.

The leader of the robbers, who was carrying a large knife, stood in the middle of the road with a face full of flesh and a beard, and just shouted: "Stop, rob!" Those four words. As a result, a sword aura like a white rainbow returned to him.

With the soft sound of the long sword being drawn from the scabbard, it was Shen Ziliang (Xingyun Sect) who drew the long sword, the robber with the long knife who was slashed by the sword qi, and the tripping horse that was blocking the front was split together.

The blade on the ground, which was ploughed by the terrifying sword qi, drew a cut mark about an inch wide and twelve meters long. The ropes hidden in the dirt were sliced like meat on a cutting board.

The robbers, who were holding tripwires on both sides of the road, saw the boss's head fall to the ground and blood spurting from his neck, and immediately dropped the broken rope and fled in a hurry.

This is already the fourth wave of robbers encountered on the way. And everyone is surprised. Eighty percent of the robbers on the road were coerced by monsters. These people are like the little demons under the demon king of Journey to the West. Catching live people for the demon king as blood food is all done by them.

However, He Minggu and the others killed all these robbers. Don't ask the reason behind it at all, because once you ask the reason, you will avoid troublesome things, and someone will find something. Everyone had to hinder the face of the righteous path to let this person perform life-saving techniques.

Medical care for one person is too troublesome. In everyone's logic, as long as the righteousness of the court is restored, they can free up their hands to calm the place, and everyone can retire from this demon subjugation trip.

The impatience of the senior brothers and sisters, Zhao Mingyi understands, because saving the common people is indeed a troublesome thing. But the senior brothers and sisters think that as long as they solve the court, they can solve the logic of the world, and Zhao Mingyi feels that something is wrong.

Lu An's historical memory of the revolutionary party of the Xinhai Revolution did not reach Zhao Mingyi's mind, and if Zhao Mingyi wanted to accept this memory, he would definitely laugh at the naivety of these fellow disciples.

And now, even if Zhao Mingyi has mutilated this memory, he feels that Tongmen's solution to the court and the natural pacification of the local area is a kind of thinking that treats the symptoms but not the root cause. Even if this operation goes well, the demons in the court will be eradicated. Will the demons in the area really retreat into the mountains?

Of course, Zhao Mingyi, who was riding on a horse, was still thinking about another profound question. That is-the court should have been the territory of Confucianism, and those Confucianists have not been able to hold the situation now, and now the Daomen are out of the mountain, what is the reason behind this?

According to Zhao Mingyi's nature this time, he didn't want to drill into a chaotic place like the capital, but before the senior brothers and sisters accompanied him to heal people, and now he had no reason to leave the team, so he could only rush to the capital.

In the continuous change of horses, the group finally arrived in the capital.

It is a magnificent city, with imposing walls ranging from 40 to 60 meters in height, and about seven kilometers long.

On the periphery of the city walls, there is a moat that diverts the water of the river into the depression. The gaps left by the moat are between one kilometer and four hundred meters wide. In times of peace, enough chariots and horses entered the city. If, in wartime, if the enemy were to attack the city, the soldiers and horses were concentrated in these small areas, as long as a few thousand heavy cavalry, the besieging troops could be overturned on their backs in the area.

The existence of the city wall was not built in a day, but was superimposed from generation to generation. The materials of the city wall of Nanjing, the ancient capital of the six dynasties of China, have also been built continuously from generation to generation. And from this magnificent city wall, it reflects the long history of Yongzhou.

After everyone came to the city gate checkpoint and dismounted, He Minggu walked in front of the city gate guards and showed the jade disc at the same time.

This is a kind of ID card-like thing, in this kind of ancient society, people also need a guide to travel. And there is a tacit understanding between the Daomen and the dynasty, so when the swordsmen of the Daomen go out, the elders in the door will hand over this thing to everyone. However, from the performance of these gatekeepers, Zhao Mingyi discovered the specialness of these jade plates, these gatekeepers were very polite and polite, and it can even be said that they flattered these disciples to enter.

After entering the city completely, a senior sister asked this question, and Zhao Mingyi knew that the Daomen sect recognized by the imperial court would issue this kind of jade disc. If it is a Taoist priest of the left faction of other side doors, he will be questioned repeatedly, and his own sect turns out to be the so-called famous and decent sect in the rivers and lakes

Zhao Ming was sure that he still had this identity, and he couldn't help but have the urge to hold his head high, but of course he still restrained his small impulse. I muttered in my heart: "Low-key, low-key." ”

The group walked through the street, and Zhao Mingyi understood the structure of the city as he looked around.

The city's base unit is slightly different from the earth.

In the cities of the new century in China on the earth, the basic unit is a unit, these units are hospitals, factories, schools, scientific research units, companies, etc., these basic units are the backbone of the city, and around the backbone are the auxiliary parts - vegetable markets, commercial streets of banks. Park.

In this ancient capital, the basic unit is the mansion of a big man, and the auxiliary unit is a restaurant, a bazaar, a pawnshop, a Yihong courtyard, etc. There are many people living in the city, except for the big people in the mansion, most of them serve the big people in the mansion, such as the children who open restaurants. Families of craftsmen. The residences of these people are dotted in the vicinity of the mansion.

Zhao Mingyi, who is very simple in thinking and only has the concept of meat and big buns in his head, suddenly discovered that in fact, this huge city is actually not productive. The entire capital city is actually a place where the rules are set for the vast empire. And the big men of these mansions who make the rules.

Some bigwigs have a lot of students, and these students are local officials, so they represent the local forces.

Some bigwigs have been in the army for generations, and there are many people who are close to them in the army, so he represents the military town forces.

And these big people, representing the various groups of the empire, gathered in the capital and gathered in front of the emperor to formulate the rules for the emperor to rule the empire.

So the city is also a privileged city. Stone lions were placed at the entrances of these high gates, and no horseback riding was allowed in front of the gates (unless the emperor rewarded them with a horse to ride around the city).

On the street that Zhao Mingyi is walking on now, it is a road paved with bluestone, and the bluestone is smooth. The subordinates of each mansion washed the bluestone road at the door with clean water.

In the pastoral economy, the emperor really only needs to entrap the Confucian scholars, and the Confucian scholars can maintain the system of absorbing money and grain. No matter how good it is to the people, if the people do not pay for food. Soldiers are not available. For the Empire, the power of the Empire did not grow at all.

When an empire fails, there are two main reasons.

First of all, the local Confucian clique was too greedy to coordinate the operation of the imperial grain collection system, and gave the central government less money and grain. Then there will be less supplies for the empire

The second is that the people who maintain the violent system of the empire cannot fight, the empire rules by violence, and the early empire has power, because the group of people who fight the world can take up the big knife, and a hundred people can intimidate 100,000 people with a big knife.

After the emperor finished conquering the world, he encircled these people who could fight, knighted them, lived in the imperial capital together, united with Confucian scholars, and formulated a system of requisition of grain and materials throughout the country to maintain the stability of the empire.

On Earth, once the second and third generations of these able kings became weak and unable to teach the untouchables of the country to behave with a big sword. And it just so happened that the local peasant uprising had raised a new group of people who could fight, and the wave of people in the imperial capital was about to give way, and a new group of people had to move into this unproductive imperial capital. A new batch of kings is born.

This is the essence of the rise and fall of dynasties in the era of Chinese emperors. When the empire can't guarantee that its side is the best to fight, and can't use ideas to win the allegiance of those who can fight, the empire is finished.

Zhao Mingyi has very few memories of Chinese history, but there is, in this era now, he quickly understands what an empire is? And what is this empire now! The current imperial dynasty has lasted for eight hundred years, and the empire is quite stable, while the wealthy lords are even more stable.

A large amount of food on the earth cannot be combined with individual advantages, and without the persecution of war, there is enough food, and it is impossible to sustain the ruling class from generation to generation. On the European side, there was a high frequency of small wars and persecution, and as a result, the European aristocracy had sufficient food security without hunger and cold for generations, and cultivated nobles who could fight from generation to generation.

But the East on the earth is different from the West, the troubled times and the peaceful and prosperous times, staggered with intervals of up to a hundred years, and the great families have a hundred years to slack. Unlike the medieval castle aristocracy in Europe, they valued martial arts training after birth. The clans were unable to maintain their physical superiority over the ordinary people around them. Therefore, in this era of cold weapons, the rights of the family are unstable in troubled times.

But here, the situation is very different, and the abundance of food can cultivate individual strengths. This is the reason why dynasties can exist for thousands of years and families can exist for thousands of years.

An hour later, Zhao Mingyi followed his brothers to the mansion of a certain marquis and met the one he wanted to meet. See what you want to see, think what you want to think. And in this process, Zhao Mingyi didn't say a word.

The power of Confucianism is very stable in this world.

And the next banquet is proof, a large number of rare beasts, spirit fruits are placed in front of the case. Meat is the meat of carnivores (the meat of so-called spirit animals), and for earthlings, pork is no different from tiger meat, both are proteins.

But in this world, the higher the life in the food chain, the more stacked matter in the body. That is to say, ordinary domestic animals are fed with grain, and then the domestic animals are fed to the beasts, and the beasts are being fed to the spirit animals. Finally, the spirit beast is slaughtered and its meat is boiled. And the spirit fruit is the same, they are all the spirit fruits of carnivorous plants.

The treasures on the plate are the product of a large amount of grain stacked. And the royal family of this world has been stronger than ordinary people from the beginning.