Chapter VII, Dongli Hou Mansion
From the Hou, the King and even the Son of Heaven, the Juefu of this Tianyuan world is similar to the so-called "sect", although the main training is the children of the family, after all, the number of large families is also very limited, and it is difficult to support a county or even a state and a country, so it is inevitable that some foreign surnames will be recruited. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Among the foreign surnames, there are those who are purely from official families as generals, and most of them bring art to vote, and there is no need to cultivate them in the Juefu. However, there are also those who are specially taught by the Juefu with family exercises, and most of them are cultivated at a young age, just like the so-called "family children". This part of the people is the same as the sect, and it is also divided into two categories: most of the outer disciples are not welcomed, and they can just practice a little martial arts, and no one expects him to be able to enter the realm of selflessness;
To put it bluntly, the outer disciples are raised as minions, and the inner disciples are raised as humerus.
Li Jianchi asked Zhang Lu: "Brother Zhang, do you know what is the biggest difference between the Jue Mansion and the Zongmen?" Zhang Lu speculated: "Although they practice martial arts together, the Jue Mansion belongs to the official family, but the Zongmen belongs to the private ...... Is this the difference?" Li Jianchi shook his head and smiled: "No, the biggest difference is that the sect recruits people to collect money, and the Juefu recruits people to send money. ”
The sect also has its own industry, especially the big sects, which often have mountains, forests, ponds, and rivers, and are widely owned by the fields and tenants, but the source of money and food is limited after all, so the disciples must be given a bundle - unless it is some unborn genius, in order to expand the sect, they are willing to teach at a loss. The Jue Mansion is different, it is an official government itself, and it controls the tax revenue of a county, a state or even the whole world, and cultivating talents not only expands its own fame and power, but also may be the ruler of the government in the future, assisting the Jue Mansion to guard the pastoral side, so recruiting foreign surnames, not only does not collect money, but also covers food and accommodation.
To put it bluntly, the sect is a real disciple, and the Jue Mansion is actually raising guests.
Li Jianchi tempted Zhang Lu, saying that you have no place to go anyway, and you are about to take refuge in the East Lihou Mansion, this favor simply let me do it, and I will lead you into the door, with Brother Zhang's qualifications, you will be able to get ahead in the future and cultivate to the realm of selflessness. Zhang Luxin said that the selfless realm is a fart, but Lao Tzu wants to ascend to the immortal, and immediately bit the bait, saying that since Li Gongzi sincerely solicited, Zhang was willing to follow the work of dogs and horses.
As he was talking, he reported outside the door: "The owner of the ship has first set up a table of meals to shock the guests." "The previous soup was mixed with "ungassing and dispersing", and as for the food, no one could guarantee whether there were any ingredients or not, so they had to be poured out. Li Jianchi thought that his tongue was a lotus, and when he said that he moved Zhang Lu, he was in a good mood, so he waved his hand: "Brother Zhang, please." ”
At his request, the shipowner was forced to prepare a meal for Zhang Lu as well, so that he would not have to go hungry anymore - anyway, if there was one less person on board, the shipowner would not lose money. In this way, the four-day voyage passed in a flash, and Zhang Lu kept asking Li Jianchi about his own world and the customs of Dongli County, but he benefited a lot. When he was about to approach his destination, Li Jianchi asked his companion to run to the bow of the boat first and shot a colorful rocket into the sky. Everyone else was inexplicable, only the businessman rushed over and asked, Childe, what do you mean?
Li Jianchi said with a cold face: "The news of my arrival is just for someone to pick it up, and it has nothing to do with you, so why bother asking." He has never touched the businessman these days, and it seems that when he accidentally stepped on the ****, he was afraid that he would not be able to get rid of it.
The ship docked, and the merchant took the account office and the seriously injured bodyguard, and dragged the body of another bodyguard, and was about to get off the ship first, but saw that the dock had been emptied, and dozens of soldiers with their weapons lined up in two columns as if they were facing a great enemy. A general came out of the crowd, his chest was tall, his mouth was long, he glared at him, and asked viciously: "Go slowly, have you paid your taxes?!"
The merchant was full of doubts: "The villain didn't carry goods, only some carry-on luggage, why do you have to pay taxes?" The general snorted coldly: "Who knows what private goods you are carrying." Wait for now, and you'll have to search your luggage later!" Several soldiers immediately came up, swords and guns facing each other. The businessman knew that something was wrong, but although he had practiced martial arts for a few days, he really didn't dare to fight the enemy with the officers and soldiers, and the bodyguards next to him were killed and wounded......
Li Jianchi pressed the long sword on his waist with his hand, and then stepped down the pedal - Zhang Lu and his companion followed behind him. When the general saw it, he hurriedly came over to salute, Li Jianchi leaned close to the other party's ear, whispered a few times, the general's eyes lit up at that time, and when he turned around, he ordered: "Detain the boat and give me a detailed search!"
Li Jianchi turned around and pointed at Zhang Lu: "Except for this Mr. Zhang, don't let the rest run away first, and wait until you find something." ”
Zhang Lu had long expected such a show, and it was not surprising. In the past few days, he deliberately didn't ask Li Jianchi about the "Chiming Fu", one has nothing to do with himself, and the other is this kind of treasure...... It is better to know as little as possible, so as not to be coveted. Ever since he knew that Li Jianchi was a disciple of the Eastern Lihou Mansion, he knew that this young man pretended to have no greed, but in fact, he would definitely attack the "Chiming Fu". No matter how precious the treasure is, even if the whole world covets it, who can still compete with the government? Li Jianchi can't eat it himself, so he can give it to the Hou Mansion as a merit; if the Hou Mansion can't eat it, he can still pay tribute to the Wangfu; if the palace can't eat it, he can enter the Son of Heaven...... No matter how awesome the sect is, it is also fighting alone, where can it compare to the Juefu in a complete political structure?
In any era, in any region, unless they are really immortals, the people cannot fight with the officials-even the earth immortal Yu Ji, don't you still let Sun Ce slaughter him? Sun Bofu is just a warlord who no one relies on.
The wharf is not far from the county seat, there is already a carriage to greet him, Li Jianchi asked Zhang Lu to get on the car, galloped for more than an hour, and finally arrived at Dongli County. Zhang Lu lifted the curtain of the car to take a look, only to see merchants and pedestrians, this city is quite lively - compared to the Han Dynasty China, there are probably only a few famous cities in Sanhe (Henan, Hedong, Hanoi), and Dongli County is only a middle county in the entire Dayuan Dynasty.
It is estimated that the territory of Dayuan is slightly smaller than that of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the population should be much denser, probably close to 100 million......
The location and regulation of the county marquis mansion is somewhat like the imperial capital of the later generations (the later generations in Zhang Lu's mind, referring to the Chinese Han Dynasty on earth and later), located in the north of the city, slightly to the west due to the topography. The high wall outside the palace is towering, and the middle of the palace is divided into two - the inner palace and the outer palace, just like the imperial city and the palace city.
In the past dynasties of China, there were very few royal families living in the palace, and most of them were released to build a feudal domain when they came of age, or set up another "prince's residence" to settle down. The Li clan dominated Dongli County for a thousand years (after the split), and the family was huge, of course, it was impossible for all of them to live in the inner mansion, most of the mansions were with the official office, and the home of Li Jianchi, the outer mansion located on the south side, was also here.
His father, Li Shida, had already gone west in a crane - it is said that when he was attacking the second order of Wangxuan in the Selfless Realm, he went mad and died. Now Li Jianchi is the main part of the house, and there is also a little brother Li Jianyi, who ranks fourteenth in his generation - not the eldest, there are a total of nineteen people in this generation, two of whom died young, and three of them went to other families.
The fourth and the fourteenth...... Zhang Luxin said, why is this setting so familiar?
Li Jianchi did not immediately introduce Zhang Lu to the beginning, because the vast majority of the inner disciples of the Eastern Lihou Mansion were cultivated from an early age, and they had to enter the mansion to study, learn swords, and lay a foundation when they were only seven or eight years old, and asked Zhang Lu to learn elementary swordsmanship with a group of children, even if Li Jianchi was willing, Zhang Lu still felt awkward. Therefore, Li Jianchi personally went into battle to guide the most basic exercises and swordsmanship of Zhang Luhou's Mansion - the exercise is called "Najing Exhalation Technique", and the swordsmanship is called "Zhengheng Sword Technique".
As far as the names of these martial arts that Zhang Lu has come into contact with, they are all vulgar, lack novelty, and lack flavor. He found that the literary level of this Tianyuan world was very low, and he couldn't find a few poetry collections and anthologies in the bookstore. If I plagiarize Tang poetry, Song Ci, and Wei and Jin articles, I will become one of the great scholars in this world! But think about it, forget it, the reason why literature and education are not prosperous is because they respect martial arts, and scholars who have no power to restrain chickens have no status here.
Even if an ordinary official does not require you to have a high level of martial arts, the key depends on the ability of the director, but the practice of martial arts among the people is so prevalent, if you don't know the slightest martial arts, who can you control? Can you understand the idea of martial arts and then manage it effectively?
The so-called "technique of absorbing essence and exhaling qi" is only the most basic method of regulating breathing, and Zhang Lu understands it all after listening to the essence once -- this is more than what he has learned in the past, the difference in level is like a world of earth, what is the difference between you letting a character with a full level of sixty to practice a level of internal strength, and teaching mathematics to teach the ninety-nine multiplication table? What needs to be memorized is just some terms that are different from the two worlds for the cultivation of exercises.
As for the "Zhengheng Sword Technique", Zhang Lu also practiced quite smoothly - he already has a foundation in playing swords, and his qualifications are good - according to Li Jianchi, it takes two to three years for ordinary teenagers to practice this set of swordsmanship, even if it takes a year for Tianzong Wizard, but Zhang Lu only took seven days before and after. After the "Zhengheng Sword Technique", there are two sets of advanced swordsmanship - "Splitting Stone Sword Technique" and "Rouyun Sword Technique", the former is fierce and unprepared, mainly attacking, and the latter is dense and silky, focusing on defense, Zhang Lu has also seen Li Jianchi play on the boat before.
These two sets of swordsmanship are easy to learn, but difficult to master, as long as they can really be mastered, they can break through the Dao realm and enter the realm of selflessness. Li Jianchi taught Zhang Lu the basic moves, and when he became proficient, he was officially introduced as an inner disciple.
After inquiry, at this time, there were more than 200 inner disciples in the Hou Mansion, and their levels were uneven, ranging from the third order of the Dao Realm to the highest level of Peeping Ao - if they broke through the Dao Dao Realm, they could not be named disciples, and if they were foreign surnames, they would be given the position of worship or guest, or even conferred a position. The Li Jianchi brothers themselves are also inner disciples, and they must go to the Ming Dao Hall in the inner house every three days to study. The Tianyuan world does not pay attention to literary affairs, so it is only sixteen years old to read and write, and the Li brothers, including the newcomer Zhang Lu, go to the Mingdao Hall purely to learn martial arts.
The inner disciples recruited from the outside, the Jue Mansion were all covered with food and accommodation, but Li Jianchi insisted on asking Zhang Lu to still live in his own mansion, and even the money and food were received by him for Zhang Lu, and then handed it over to Zhang Lu himself. Zhang Lu understood that Li Jianchi deliberately wanted to cultivate himself as his confidant, and he didn't have too much to do with other forces in the Jue Mansion, but he was all about cultivation, and he just wanted to break through the realm and ascend as soon as possible, so he didn't care about it.
Anyway, if I have food, shelter and exercise, that's enough, I don't have any ambitions, and this life is just a reverse journey for me.
In the Mingdao Hall, the Master instructs the essence of two sets of advanced swordsmanship, and sometimes introduces and demonstrates the martial arts of other schools to teach the art of fighting the enemy. The more than 200 inner disciples were probably deliberately divided into three groups, so they had to enter the school every three days, and Zhang Lu usually came into contact with only sixty or seventy people. He concentrated on martial arts, and he didn't usually communicate with people much, and soon got the nickname of "dumb", but he didn't take it to heart.
In the Mingdao Pavilion, there is a competition in 100 days, and the results are arranged to determine the rank of each disciple. In fact, if there is a difference between heaven and earth between the three realms, there is no too clear indicator between the various levels - there is no level on the head, and various parameters such as attack and defense, magic and martial arts cannot be measured - so it is not uncommon to defeat the enemy by crossing the ranks. After the first competition, Zhang Lu was determined to be the sixth order to enter the room, one order higher than Li Jianchi.
He said yes in his heart, I'll just say that Lian Jin guy is blind, Lao Tzu is not the fifth order......
Although the level was suppressed, it was definitely much easier to rebuild, and Zhang Lu felt that he was rising quickly. He waited for the second competition, wanting to see if he could step to the peeping level - maybe after practicing like this for half a year, he would be able to draw with Lian Jin. If this speed is maintained, referring to the average ascension speed of the masters of the Tianyuan World, it is estimated that it will only take thirty years for him to reach the no-man's land, and he is expected to soar in forty or fifty years......
I've been relying on forty or fifty years, so far away, and this is another lifetime in the past......
But just a few days before the competition, Li Jianchi suddenly found Zhang Lu and handed him a portrait. Zhang Lu took it and took a look - to say that although the overall cultural level of the world is not high, painting has a unique secret. Ancient Chinese painting is based on imitating the gods, painting the form is the bottom, but the real can get the charm of the things depicted, there is no one in ten thousand, the level of the vast majority of folk painters, may not be as good as a new game art in later generations...... In particular, painters can only depict certain outstanding characteristics, and the so-called "shadow figures" are basically impossible to catch criminals...... Or catch a big bunch of them.
The method of painting people in this Tianyuan world pays more attention to the depiction of the shape, even if the ordinary painter puts a little effort, it can be used as a ID photo. Zhang Lu looked at the person in this painting, about thirty years old, with a black face and no beard, and his appearance was quite ordinary. Hearing Li Jianchi ask, "Do you recognize me?" He pursed his lips and shook his head: "Do you know where I come from, how many people can I recognize?"
Li Jianchi smiled faintly, immediately picked up the pen, added a few wrinkles to the portrait's face, and added a few more strands of beard to his chin. Zhang Lu's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he recognized it on the spot: "It's the guy who disguised himself as an old man and fought with us on the boat!"