God Weird Fairy

Chapter 202: The Thirty-fifth Emperor leaves the capital at his feet

After leaving Junshan Blessed Land, the corresponding entrance is halfway up Junshan Mountain.

A few people went down to the foot of the mountain and found a small mountain village. There were actually a hundred mortals living here, which was quite lively.

There is a small temple in the village called Junshan Temple.The temple blessing in the temple is the monk who is on duty here at Junshan Blessed Land.

Nan Yi and others went to Miao Zhu to buy some strong horses and rushed to leave Beijing.

In Dali, according to the custom of naming each county, the land of Gyeonggi can actually be regarded as one county, called Weijun.

And away from the capital, it is like a city governed by various counties.

The so-called imperial Wei family is also called the largest family in Dali, which is very different.

Although Junshan Paradise is the closest Cave Heaven Paradise to Li Beijing, it would still take two full days and nights to reach Li Beijing if we rush as fast as we can.

However, by using the Light Body Talisman and the Divine Movement Talisman, and using the "Full Healing" talent, the four horses can always remain in peak condition without having to stop to graze and rest. However, it only takes one day to reach the capital. .

Nan Yi and the others worked non-stop all day and night, and finally arrived in Lijing on the evening of June 29th.

Nan Yi entered the city and saw that the lively and noisy scene was no less than the provincial capital of Shu in his previous life.

Bustling crowds shuttled between the vast streets, and colorful glass lanterns and brightly embroidered silk flags adorned the entire city.

On both sides of the spacious and flat streets, there are various shops, high-rise courtyards, and even the streets and alleys. Although the cornices, carved beams and painted buildings are full of ancient style, under the radiance of various colorful lights, they reveal a bit of cyberspace. of prosperity.

In other words, the boundaries between immortality and mortals seem to be blurred here.

Several people were planning to rush to Du Heng's Jingzhong Mansion to rest for a while, but it was rare to see a scene as lively and noisy as the Shu capital in the previous life during the evening meal. Nan Yi became interested and suggested to find a restaurant on the street to treat himself. Ichiban.

"Unexpectedly, my junior disciple has a cold temperament, but he is so fond of the world of mortals." Du Heng chuckled, but did not object.

Nan Yi then answered: "My cold temperament is because I walk alone, and I have to think twice before I act. But the world is so prosperous, which shows that under the rule of the Immortal Dao, the people are always happy and less worried, which is far from the point where the people are miserable. As a human race I am honored to be a member and a disciple of the Immortal Sect."

"Well said, it's an honor to be a good person." Du Heng praised.

In this world, we cannot escape the situation where aristocratic families monopolize the market and control the economy.

But firstly, all walks of life restrict each other, and there is no truly dictatorial family oligarch; secondly, the purpose of the family monopoly is to cultivate the monks, rather than to squeeze the common people and suck out the bones and marrow. There is always a bottom line.

Therefore, apart from some aristocratic families who occasionally bully men and dominate women, the lives of ordinary people are not bad if they have savings every year; and the lives of ordinary people who can live in the capital for a long time are even more enjoyable. Tasty.

Of course, no matter how hard the monks from the aristocratic family keep a bottom line, they can only allow ordinary people to live a decent life and seem to have hope.If you really want to look into it carefully, as long as you can't enter Taoism and practice, your class will be fixed and you will never get ahead.

However, this hope of "respectability", this hope that ordinary people are not regarded as screws in the social machine, and even the bottom line of cold numbers, in Nan Yi's eyes and empathetic heart, can also be regarded as "what's the difference between being proud and honorable"? ".

Several people walked along the long street.

I saw an endless stream of pedestrians on the street. There were aristocratic families dressed in rich clothes, people from Jianghu with long swords on their backs, college students in blue shirts and long sleeves, and ordinary people in simple clothes.

But no matter who they are, these people at the emperor's feet all exude a strong sense of self-confidence. They dare to speak and do what they dare to do.

In a square, many artists and warriors gathered here to perform spontaneous performances.There are both music, chess, calligraphy and painting, as well as swordsmanship performances. They are obviously different things, but they naturally gather in different corners of the same square.

Nan Yi saw a pair of young warriors having a sparring match.They were holding special long swords, and each sword move was like waving sword light, drawing mysterious arcs in the air; and then the interlacing of the two swords bloomed with radiance, which was really beautiful and attracted bursts of cheers and cheers. .

In the streets and alleys, various shops have turned into stalls of various vendors, with shouts and shouts coming and going, and they are filled with a dazzling array of goods.There are not only accessories, spices and miscellaneous items, but also various snacks and delicacies, which are integrated with the hustle and bustle of the bustling city.

Nan Yi and the others found a restaurant and ordered a table of wine and food at the street-facing seats on the second floor of the restaurant.

At this time, there is still an hour before the curfew.The atmosphere in the entire capital city was warm, as if there was a constant flow of people and bright lights until the last moment, like a sleepless city with surging vitality.

When Nan Yi saw this, he was even more impressed by Li Jingcheng.

After waiting for a while, the food and wine were served. After tasting each one, Nan Yi nodded with satisfaction.

Among the signature dishes of this restaurant, the steamed sea bass is bright in color and tender in texture. The fish rolls on the tip of the tongue when you eat it, as if it has just melted into the throat after a refreshing swim in the water, leaving a fragrant aroma on your lips and teeth;

The braised lion's head is alternately fat and thin. The soup is rich and fragrant. As soon as you bite it, it seems that infinite fragrance blooms in your mouth;
The sweet and sour pork ribs are sweet and sour, the meat is soft and waxy, and the texture is excellent when you gently scrape it with your lips and teeth, leaving you with endless aftertaste;

White Jade Tofu Soup is a fresh and elegant delicacy. The tofu has a delicate texture and the soup is mellow, melting in your mouth and making your taste buds tremble;

Even the simplest stir-fried vegetables are full of flavor and color; it can be seen that they are carefully made and make people salivate.

Nan Yi raised the wine in the cup and took a sip. A rich aroma bloomed from the tip of his tongue and quickly filled his mouth.

He suspected that most of the chefs in the restaurant, even if they were not monks, had corresponding talents and magical powers, and could fully combine ingredients with cooking skills like masters.

And this restaurant was just Nan Yi’s choice.Although it is not a fly restaurant, it is probably not ranked among the best in the capital.

Nan Yi thought to himself that Dali Capital was indeed much better than Nantian City in all aspects.

Because Nan Yi firmly believes that the level of cultural development of a city in daily life can be inferred from the taste of delicacies, or the level of cooking skills.

Judging from the results, Nan Yi is quite satisfied with Li Jingcheng.

As time passed and the curfew approached, some watchers started to watch, urging passers-by to go home as soon as possible.

Nan Yi and his party finished the banquet, left the restaurant, and walked on the streets again.

The flow of people on the street gradually decreased, but the glazed lanterns all over the street were still bright, faithfully decorating Lijing City.

Nan Yi and others came to Du Heng's mansion and settled down to rest.

Tonight is Nan Yi's first night in Lijing.

But even though Emperor Li had the intention to summon Nan Yi to Beijing for an audience, it was not that Nan Yi could see Emperor Li whenever he wanted.

Du Heng needs to report the matter to the Ministry of Personnel first, upload the news, and then wait for notification from the palace.

But the day after tomorrow is July [-], and a court meeting will happen to be held.

Nan Yi's arrival time in Beijing is stuck here. He thinks that if he arrives the day after tomorrow at the latest, he will have to be summoned by Emperor Li to attend the court meeting.Although Nan Yi arrived in Lijing with Zhenqi Martial Arts, it would be like a stone falling into a lake, causing ripples and even waves, causing changes in the situation among the nine Dali tribes, that is, the outer disciples of the major immortal sects.

But the relevant decree was issued in April.This means that the blocking force that did not want Nan Yi to come to Beijing had been temporarily defeated by Li Huang in April.

In this way, Nan Yilai has come, and his first meeting with Emperor Li will not be pushed away by external forces.

However, it is not yet clear how the situation will evolve after the meeting with the Holy Spirit.

Nan Yi stayed in the guest houses that Du Heng arranged for several people, quietly thinking about the current situation.

The current Emperor Li moved from a small sect to a large sect. Originally, he was supposed to be the transitional king, continuing the direct lineage, trying to give birth to a prince with the qualifications to practice, and abdicating the throne when the prince came of age.

As a result, Emperor Li, as a mortal, just relied on the rules to commit "several crimes" and asked all the officials to bow their heads, so as to effectively take over the imperial power and not become a powerless king. At the same time, he had an enmity with the royal clan elders, and has never been punished so far. The concubine gave birth to a son and did not want to give way to the prince.

But no matter how good the imperial power is, it only lasts for decades.Deep in Lihuang's heart, he always yearned for extraordinary power.

So when he heard that Nan Yi had opened up Zhenqi martial arts, Emperor Li was very happy and immediately wanted to summon Nan Yi to the capital.

If we push it forward 50 years, the civil and military officials will never hinder this matter. They will only think about how to get a share of the promotion of Zhenqi Martial Arts.

However, as luck would have it, steam technology was in the ascendant and was being introduced by Dali and being fully promoted.

For Dali Baiguan, steam technology is a foreign technology. During the process of domestic dissemination, they can seek the right to define and interpret it, and take it as their own to a certain extent to help practice.

But Zhenqi Martial Arts was pioneered by Nan Yi. Nan Yi himself holds the final power of interpretation, and it is difficult for other monks to usurp it.

Comparing the two, civil and military officials are naturally more willing to promote steam technology and seek the dividends of steam technology, rather than trying their best to get a share of Nan Yi's bowl.

It can only be said that Nan Yi did not expect that the first battle he encountered when establishing Zhenqi Martial Arts would actually be a battle with steam technology for the trend of the times.

In the next hundred years, whether it will be the age of steam or the age of true energy, it all depends on whether Nan Yi can gain a firm foothold in Li Jing City and successfully persuade all civil and military officials to use Li Jing City as a starting point to spread throughout the country and comprehensively promote Zhen Qi. Qi martial arts.

Of course, Qi and steam are not incapable of coexisting.Just like the royal family of Dali herds the common people, it does not affect the family's monopoly on a certain industry. It can also collect scattered spirituality from the common people.

But mortals always have a limit to their energy, and their daily dissipation of spirituality also has its upper limit.If there is more on one side, there will naturally be less on the other side.

No one wants to succumb to others unless they really can't compete.

Fortunately, there is no absolute leader in the practice level of steam technology. No matter how much the Dali monks seek the power to define and explain, they are just stealing the Tao, not the Tao master.

At the same time, hundreds of officials competed with each other to carve up the right to speak about steam technology. They were like a bunch of scattered sand fighting each other and criticizing each other.

Even if they have a tacit understanding to jointly suppress Zhenqi martial arts, they cannot work together and may instead hold each other back.

Therefore, Nan Yi seems to be engaged in a Taoist struggle with the entire Dali cultivation world, that is, all the monks from the outer sect of the Immortal Sect, but in fact he can advance and retreat freely, and is not really fighting alone.

He briefly considered friends and foes.

Judging from the general trend of the era and the struggle for destiny, this generation of outer monks, that is, the civil and military officials, want to share the dividends of steam technology, and do not want Nan Yi to appear out of thin air to disrupt the situation, and become an enemy of Taoism.

The introduction of steam technology and the innovation of all industries will slightly shake the Dali Dynasty's control over the people at the bottom. For the royal family patriarch, the Yuanshi Xianmen, it is a bad government.So from this aspect, Nan Yi can win the support of the royal family to a certain extent.

However, Emperor Li, as the most important supporter of Zhenqi Martial Arts, had a rift with the royal clan elders, and was very unhappy about the ownership of imperial power.

Even the reason why Emperor Li decreed the introduction of steam technology was that, apart from the fact that population growth had put great pressure on people to find jobs, and the northern Kan Dynasty had to follow suit due to the surge in national power of steam technology, it was Emperor Li himself who was transferring power and using this method to win over Civil and military officials suppressed the royal family and elders.

Looking at it this way, the situation in Lijing can be described as complicated. There is me among you and you among me. It is difficult to distinguish between friends and foes.

If Nan Yi wants to break the situation, he can only find ways to divide the civil and military officials, break the tacit suppression of the nine tribes of Da Li, and then win the full support of Emperor Li, who will personally stand for Zhenqi martial arts.

For the second half, you need to wait for the summons from Emperor Li, and then study it in detail after meeting Emperor Li.

In the first half, you can move around and plan things.

Nan Yi settled his mind, then began to empty his mind and look inside quietly, breathing in the energy and transferring the mana.

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After dawn, Du Heng rushed to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Pastoral Affairs to perform his duties, while Nan Yi transferred to Wuxiang Academy.

Wuxiang Academy is located in the administrative offices of various counties and is a branch academy; while Wuxiang Academy in Lijing City can be called the main academy, and can also be regarded as the headquarters of the outer gate of Wuxiang Immortal Sect.

It is still possible for teachers in each county branch to become officials in the Ministry of Culture and Literature, and to assist their cultivation with the help of official administration.

However, the masters and teachers of the General Academy basically focused on writing books and compositions to accumulate fame, and were deeply involved in the literary world, and had no involvement with officialdom.

Nanyit came to pay a visit to the dock.

No matter what, he is a disciple of the Wuxiang Immortal Sect after all.Even if Nantian Branch of Wuxiang Academy suffered a series of changes, causing Nan Yi to lose his identity as a student of Wuxiang Academy, he would still be a disciple of Wuxiang Academy.

Now that I have left the capital, it's time to visit the headquarters of Wuxiang Immortal Sect's Outer Sect.

Moreover, officials from the Ministry of Education in the Nine Departments of Dali, that is, Nan Yi's many outer sect brothers, although they do not want Nan Yi to come to Beijing to disrupt the situation, bring Zhenqi Martial Arts with them to compete for the general trend of people's destiny in the next hundred years.

But no matter what, we all come from the same sect, are both Wuxiang disciples, and share a common bond.

Even if this incense and love alone will not allow the two sides to turn their hostility into friendship, the moral dispute will be eliminated.Because it is related to one's own practice, only by fighting for precedence and deciding the winner can we willingly accept the status quo of being inferior to others in terms of skills and be willing to be second to others.

But at least on the surface, both parties will look harmonious and will not cause a particularly unpleasant or embarrassing situation.

Of course, this is also because the current Taoist dispute is about the ownership of people's destiny, that is, the largest piece of cake composed of ordinary people's scattered spirituality.

Those who win the Taoist struggle will have good luck and can make brave and diligent progress in the realm of cultivation.

Those who lose in the Taoist struggle just don't get a share of the pie. They don't have luck to help them practice, so they can't make brave and diligent progress. They can only rely on hard work to slowly accumulate Taoism.

If it were a conflict between two fundamental great ways, it would not be so harmonious. It would inevitably lead to distinctions between superiority and inferiority, as well as life and death.

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(End of this chapter)