At the end of the forty-fourth year of the Great Jin Dynasty, the ancestral land of the Zhu family in Chilong Mansion of Chong'an State.

This is a huge private Wubao of the scholar clan by the mountains and rivers, covering an extremely wide area, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a mountain city.

The walls of Wubao are three feet high, and they encircle a few hills and lakes on a piece of land, and hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land have been cultivated outside Wubao.

As the ancestral land of a scholar family, it is natural to choose a good land for feng shui, and the land with good feng shui is naturally fertile, so the ancestral land chosen by each scholar family must be a land of fish and rice.

The people living in the ancestral land of the Zhu clan are mainly the people of the Zhu clan, with a population of about 10,000 or 20,000, and as the children of the scholar clan, they do not need to work and enjoy their privileges.

In addition, there are 40,000 or 50,000 domestic slaves who serve the Zhu clan, and on average, there are basically three or four people serving one Zhu clansman.

Outside of Wubao, there are thousands of natural villages of different sizes, and the common people in these villages are also serfs and private people attached to the name of the Zhu family, and they have a total population of at least 500,000 or 600,000.

This is also the family wealth owned by the Zhu family as the family of the high-ranking scholars in Chong'an State, and it is precisely with hundreds of thousands of serfs producing food that can meet the needs of one or twenty thousand Zhu children, so that they can live a free and flashy life.

Of course, in addition to these domestic slaves and serfs, there are also an unknown number of slaves who work in the mines, workshops, and other places under the Zhu family, and these slaves are not counted in the population.

Under the rule of the Great Jin Dynasty in Xuanyuzhou, everything was divided into three, six, nine and so on.

As the ruling class, there are three distinctions of the royal family, the royal family and the scholar family, and for the scholar family, the nine-grade classification system is used, and the scholar family of different grades is determined according to the law and enjoys different rights and status.

As the common people of the ruling class, they are also divided into three different classes: national, private, and untouchable.

Those with relatively high status are the nationals, also known as the national people, who are the basic population of the Great Jin Dynasty and even the local feudal states, most of them own their own private land, enjoy free human rights, and also bear the obligation of forced labor and taxation.

Like Liu Ping, the master of the poor land in the Shu clan belongs to the wealthy family among the people, even if they are attached to the scholar to do things, but they only have a mutually related interest relationship with the main family, as a guest of the scholar family, the main family also has a certain respect for them.

Below the people, however, there is a class of common people called private people, also known as private people, who are directly attached to the family of the noble clan and belong to a state of half-selling and half-freedom.

The private people were sold to the nobles, but they could own their own private property, so that when they had enough money, they could buy their freedom from the master's family, and thus become a free citizen again.

However, most of the private people were poor and sold to the families of the nobles, so it was naturally unlikely that they would accumulate too much money, and only a few of them could redeem their freedom.

Of course, there are also some private people who would rather give up their free national identity and sell themselves to the scholars as slaves, not because they are cheap, but because they have to sell themselves to avoid the tax burden in order to avoid the heavy taxes of the state.

Because according to the law of today's Great Jin Dynasty, if you can't pay the tax, you are likely to be convicted, or even sold as a cheap slave by the government.

According to the laws of the Great Jin Dynasty, as long as private people sell themselves to the scholars, the obligations they originally need to bear such as forced labor, taxes and so on will naturally be borne by the scholars.

In this way, the private people no longer have a subordinate relationship with the country where they live, but only a kind of slave relationship with their noble masters.

Because the scholars had the right to be exempted from forced labor and taxes in many cases, the laws of the Great Jin Dynasty also stipulated that the number of private people that the scholars of different ranks could have.

Otherwise, the people of a country will become the private citizens of the noble clan, and the country will have no tax revenue, and the country will probably perish.

Only by stipulating the proportion of population can the dominance of the royal family and the royal family over the scholar clan be guaranteed.

In this respect, the royal family and the royal family are just high-status scholars, and the people are only private people in the name of the royal family and the royal family.

Of course, whether the life of the private people is good or not depends on the conditions of the scholar clan master who sells their bodies to treat the private people, so many private people will also choose the scholar clan master before selling their bodies, after all, they sell themselves as slaves, and from then on they will not be able to help themselves, and life and death are controlled by the master's family.

The dog-legged talents beside Zhu Lingwu, as well as personal servants like Chuyang, Xia Yang, and Qiuyang, belong to this kind of private background, and in addition, Zhu's private soldiers are also recruited and trained from private people.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the private territory of the Shi clan is an independent kingdom, because on the Shi clan's own territory, the life and death of those private people are in the hands of the master.

Zuihou is the lowest lowly slave, also known as untouchables, they don't even have an identity account, and they can't own their own private property, which means that they can never get rid of their slave status, unless the master frees them.

Cheap slaves are not even treated as human beings, but only as livestock and goods, and even in value, they are inferior to the goods of their masters.

Cheap slaves originally mainly came from enemy soldiers and civilians captured in the war, and with the unification of Xuanyuzhou by the Great Jin Dynasty, the local war basically subsided, so the source of cheap slaves was mainly criminals.

Just like those who can't pay taxes and are trafficked by the government, but more often than not, because of serious crimes such as rebellion, the clansmen who are implicated by the clan, and many scholars may also become untouchable slaves because of this.

So in the red dust, even if you were once a child of the royal family, you may become an involuntary slave overnight.

Zhu Lingwu looked out from the window of the carriage he was sitting in, and saw the grandeur of the Zhu family's ancestral land, Zhu Lingwu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, what will become of the current wealth in a few hundred years?

Although the royal family of the Great Jin Dynasty has been firmly on the throne of Xuanyuzhou for thousands of years, which emperor can live forever?

Although the current Great Jin Dynasty is guarded by foreign sects, but those imperial empires before the Great Jin Dynasty are not guarded by foreign sects, and now these former empires have not also perished.

Wealth is like a passing cloud!

Maybe in this life you can enjoy luxury as a nobleman, but in the next life, you may become a slave you ignore in your eyes.

Since he got the memories left by the Mongolian Medicine Master, Zhu Lingwu has become more determined in his heart on his path of refining qi and cultivating immortals, and the memory of the Mongolian Medicine Master from a foreign sect is full of contempt for the so-called powerful people in this red and earthly world.

In the process of fleeing, the Mongolian pharmacist traveled in various countries of the Great Jin Dynasty, and naturally saw all kinds of children of the scholar clan.

Although the Xuanming Sect where the Meng Yao Master used to be located was an evil sect that was rejected by the righteous path, for the Meng Yao Master, the Qi Refining Method he practiced was also the authentic Xuanmen Qi Gong Cultivation Method with a long history.

In his opinion, these children of the scholar clan in the secular world were originally from the outer disciples of some non-worldly sects, and it was also because there was no hope of cultivating immortals that they would be put into the world by the sect and help the sect do some trivial chores.

Therefore, the qigong refining methods possessed by these scholars are just low-level qigong refining methods, and with this low-level qigong refining method, if you want to refine qi and build a foundation, it is naturally half the work.

In addition, those children of the scholar clan, who are in the rich and noble family of Hongchen, have been served and enjoyed since they were children, how can they have the perseverance to refine qi and cultivate immortals, if they don't have that kind of perseverance, how can they break through the barrier of qi refining?

Even if there are a few talented people who can pass the foundation building realm, but the road to cultivating immortals is long, and the flowers that come out of these greenhouses have reached the real immortal cultivator Shijie, I am afraid that before they can flutter a few times, they will become dry bones on the side of the road.

Building a foundation is just the beginning of the road of cultivating immortals, and the road of cultivating immortals is not completely risk-free, especially in the back, it is even more necessary to lead the thunder to respond to the catastrophe, without the belief of fighting against the sky, how can you cross the catastrophe and become an immortal.

Therefore, for example, when the inner disciples of the outer sect of the Mongolian Medicine Master were in the Xuanming Sect, although they were taken care of by their parents who were elders, they were only taken care of in terms of cultivation resources, and everything else was obtained by the Medicine Master Meng himself through hard cultivation.

For Zhu Lingwu, he felt that the greatest wealth he had received from the Meng Yao Master was not the high number of spirit stones, all kinds of refining materials, and so on in the Qiankun storage bag, but this kind of belief in refining qi and cultivating immortals and changing one's life against the sky was the most precious.

Now that he is about to enter the ancestral land of the Zhu family, Zhu Lingwu will also really start his own path of refining qi and cultivating immortals, but being able to get the experience of cultivating immortals from the sects outside the world is the biggest gain for him.

Since the attack of the Mongolian pharmacist on Yeliuyi that night, the journey after that was a smooth journey, from Tongshan County to the ancestral land of the Zhu family in Chilong Mansion, the road to eat and sleep in the open for more than ten days.

Although Liu Ping originally had the intention of retreating, at Zhu Lingwu's insistence, he still dispelled this idea.

And the business travelers who originally followed the Zhu family's convoy on the road, after leaving Yongling Mansion, also dispersed one after another, even some of Zuihou's business travelers naturally dispersed when they arrived in Qinglong Mansion.

Now that they can enter the Zhu family's territory, they will naturally be left with the Zhu family's own people.

In recent years, on the official road of the Zhu family's territory, there was not only such a convoy as Zhu Lingwu, and soon someone came to inquire where Zhu Lingwu's convoy came from.

When they heard that there was Zhu Ling in the convoy, their expressions were really a little weird......