Saint Immortal Way

() On the ninth day of the lunar new year, it was auspiciously snowy and clear at the beginning of the day. It was a rare good weather. There was a faint ray of sunshine shining through the clouds in the sky, which made the cold weather also have a gratifying warmth.

Lu Yang, Huang Daoyun, Huang Yiyi and others came to Zhenzhitang early in the morning and found a 20-meter-long cloud-bound flying boat docked in front of Zhenzhitang. Many Confucian scholars who came early were whispering and seemed to be discussing this time. The situation of the competition.

"What's the matter, senior sister, will the Yunji Flying Boat be used in this spell competition?" Lu Yang turned his head and asked Huang Daoyun. The Yunji Flying Boat in front of him is quite magnificent. The flying boat looks like a ship, except for the hull of the flying boat. It is engraved with countless spiritual inscriptions shining with spiritual light, which looks miraculous and extraordinary.

This is the first time for Lu Yang to watch the flying boat in the sky at such a close distance. This kind of transportation is still very common in the Dynasty. It can fly in the sky and travel between the major cities of the Dynasty Kyushu. It has become the fastest transportation for the Dynasty. Tools are far more convenient than any horses and ships.

It's just that the flying boat in the sky is relatively expensive, and ordinary people can't afford it, and the flying boat has always been controlled by the imperial government and major academies, and private construction or private ownership is not allowed.

"It seems that this time the spell competition will not be held in the academy!" Huang Daoyun shook his head, and glanced at Lu Yang, showing a look that had been foreseen for a long time.

"Hehe, it seems to be true!" Lu Yang looked at the distant sky, only to feel that the weather today is good, and the clouds in the sky are connected together. If he takes the cloud-bound flying boat, he may be able to see the scene of the vast sea of ​​clouds.

After waiting in front of Zhenzhi Hall for a while, gradually, more and more Confucian scholars have arrived, even Princess Shouyang, the supervisor of the academy, and Confucian teachers have arrived.

"Dangdangdang..." The bell rang again, indicating that the time for the competition was approaching.

"Confucian students participating in the Shushu Academy Competition, please board the Yunji Flying Boat!" Cao Daoyuan, the director of the school, shouted, and then motioned for Princess Shouyang and other Confucian masters to board the Yunji Flying Boat.

The Confucian scholars also boarded the Yunji Flying Boat one after another. After everyone boarded the Flying Boat, a Confucian teacher began to roll their names. Only then did Lu Yang know that this time the number of students in the Shushu Academy was even smaller, only 36 people.

Shushu is indeed the most difficult knowledge among the six arts. Confucian scholars who are still practicing in the academy will not spend too much energy studying it if it is not necessary.

Generally speaking, Confucian students studying in academies are generally laying the foundation, which is the advanced stage of basic Taoism. It is enough to know the basics of spells. As for Jing, generally only those with high Taoism will consider it.

After counting the rosters, all 36 Confucian scholars arrived, and then the Yunji flying boat slowly floated into the air, gradually sailed into the clouds, and above the clouds, it flew slowly to the southwest of the academy, which was the direction of Dadongshan.

Lu Yang and Huang Daoyun stood on the side of the flying boat, looked at each other, Huang Daoyun smiled and said: "Junior brother, your skill in arithmetic is still better than mine, and you must have a chance to enter the top three in this arithmetic competition!"

"Senior sister won the award, but it was just a lucky guess!" Lv Yang smiled, and the two stood shoulder to shoulder, so talented and beautiful, like a married couple in the world, looking at the sea of ​​clouds, through the clouds, you can see the vast and boundless land and the distant towering There are countless peaks in Dadongshan.

"Junior brother, is this the first time to take a flying boat in the sky?" Huang Daoyun said with a smile.

"Well, I've seen flying boats fly through the sky a long time ago. It seems to be a dream. Today, I can board the boat and swim in the sea of ​​clouds in person. I know this feeling. It's very pleasant!"

Huang Daoyun nodded, stretched out his fingers a few times, and signaled Lu Yang to look at the sea of ​​clouds. Occasionally, he could see a few white cranes or vultures soaring and shuttling above the sea of ​​clouds. Mountain peaks, some peaks are illuminated by the morning sun, a piece of golden color, looks infinitely bright, it is really a rare scenic spot in the world.

"Hey, what a bumpkin, it's even the first time I've ridden the Yunji Flying Boat!" A voice came from behind Lu Yang, with a somewhat hostile tone.

Lu Yang turned his head to look, and saw Lu Haoming and two Confucian scholars approaching. The three of them were all excellent students who cultivated awe-inspiring righteousness, and they all participated in the spell competition today.

Lu Yang couldn't help laughing: "So it's Brother Lu, what advice can I give?"

Lu Haoming's face twitched. Just now he saw Lu Yang and Huang Daoyun standing side by side, like a married couple, and he couldn't help being furious. Then he spoke with sarcasm. Now seeing Lu Yang's appearance, he couldn't help Lukewarm, even more jealous.

The last time he went to the Huang family to propose a marriage, the Huang family did not agree, which made him feel so embarrassed, it was a great shame, and this hatred was hard to get rid of.

"You are Lu Yang?" the Confucian scholar beside Lu Haoming said in a low voice.

"I'm Lu Yang, what's your name?" Lu Yang narrowed his eyes slightly, and his eyes shone with the same strange light, obviously unhappy with the rude people.

"Me? Listen carefully, I'm Lu Jianzhang!" the Confucian scholar said proudly.

"I've never heard of it!" Lu Yang shook his head.

"You... from the Lu family, don't be complacent just thinking that you won the three items. Let me tell you, magic is not about showing off your writing skills. You can win or lose by writing a few articles. I think you should retreat in spite of the difficulties. Time to embarrass yourself!" Lu Jianzhang was annoyed.

"Brother Lu, you are really strange. When did I become so proud? To be able to win three events is based on real ability. You can't accept it. If you have the ability, you can all sign up and win. If you don't have this ability , so don’t talk, so as not to make people think that Xiongtai is jealous now, hehe, if you are jealous, Xiongtai will have no grace!” Lu Yang said lightly, and Lu Jianzhang’s face turned red.

"Lu Yang, don't be crazy, after a while, I will let you know what it means to be superior!" Lu Jianzhang snorted coldly, turned around and walked away.

Lu Haoming's face was livid, and he pointed at Huang Daoyun and said, "Daoyun, you refuse my young master's marriage proposal, do you really have a crush on this kid?"

Huang Daoyun's face was ashen, and he sneered: "Lu Haoming, I don't need outsiders to intervene in my affairs. Although the Lu and Huang families are family friends, it doesn't mean that family friends will get married. You have to find out the situation, and don't think that not getting married will affect the relationship. The family friends of the two families, if the family friends are so weak, it is worth noting this family friend, do you think this is the reason?"

"You..." Lu Haoming pointed at Huang Daoyun, trembling for a moment, unable to speak.Huang Daoyun's words are completely clear to him. This is the so-called rather broken jade than whole. This little lady of the Huang family is really ruthless, why didn't he realize it before?

"You wait, one day, you will regret it!" Lu Haoming felt that he couldn't hold his face, and immediately uttered harsh words, Huang Daoyun chuckled twice, and raised his hand to signal Lu to be free.

Lu Haoming snorted coldly and walked away.

"Junior brother, as you can see, that Lu Haoming is already stern." Huang Daoyun smiled.

"Senior sister, you still need to beware of this kind of villain!"

"Don't worry, he doesn't dare to act recklessly, you must know that he is not the only one who has the final say on the Lu family!" Huang Daoyun waved his hands, not caring at all.

After a while, the Yunji flying boat flew over several big mountains, hundreds of miles away from the academy, and then slowly stopped in a valley.

This is a small valley, and the whole valley is relatively desolate. There is only one big tree, 200 meters high, with luxuriant branches and leaves, spreading out like a cloud of red clouds, covering the whole valley.

"Where is this place? I feel that this valley exudes a huge fire energy!" Lu Yang frowned.

"This is the Fire Phosphorus Valley. Under this valley, there is a fire phosphorus mine buried, but because it is far away from Moling Mansion, it has not been developed here yet. When a fire phosphorus mine in Moling Mansion is almost developed, the Academy Will continue to develop here!"

"So, this valley belongs to the Academy?"

"That's right. This mineral lode was originally discovered by the Confucian masters of the Academy. Regarding the ownership of the mineral vein, the Dynasty owns [-]% of the ownership rights, and the Academy owns [-]% of the ownership rights. The benefits are also distributed according to this ratio!"

Lu Yang nodded, understood. He turned his head and looked around, sighing in his heart. This is indeed a large open-air fire phosphorus deposit. In the imperial dynasty, fire phosphorus had a wide range of uses, the most important of which was iron making and forging. Steel, the amount of steel consumed by the Dynasty is very large every year, and it needs to use a lot of fire phosphorus. However, large fire phosphorus deposits have been found in various places in the Dynasty. Relatively remote mines like small valleys are not priority mining areas.

From this point of view, Lu Yang understood the imperial dynasty's control over the Kyushu region. Just within the imperial dynasty, there are still countless mineral deposits buried in the wilderness and mountains that are still quietly buried under the earth, and have not had time to mine them?

Not to mention how many rich mineral deposits are buried in the earth and cannot be used in the endless mountains and seas, in the barren lands outside the Kyushu of the imperial dynasty.

Lu Yang has seen the era of China's great industry. The grand scene of mining coal, iron ore, and aluminum mines will never appear in the dynasty. This is definitely not because the productivity cannot keep up, but because the demand cannot keep up. It is also conceptual Lag, unable to keep up with development.

The Confucian teachers of the Great Kuang Dynasty never put down their dignity and invented tools that were of great use to farmers to improve production, let alone digging mineral deposits with machines like large-scale industrial production.

The Confucian teachers of the imperial dynasty would only bury their heads in the study of knowledge, temper their spirits, breathe out the mighty energy of the world, and condense the awe-inspiring righteousness. Other things are trivial things, they don't bother to do them, and they don't bother to do them.

"It's such a pity!" Lu Yang couldn't help sighing as he looked at this large open-air pyrophosphate deposit.In any case, people in this era have limited vision and limitations of the times, and they cannot see the incomparably vigorous era like Lu Yang.

"What a pity?" Huang Daoyun asked curiously.

"It's a pity that these mineral deposits are not outside of Kyushu. Just within Kyushu, how many mineral deposits are still beneficial to the people? Let's talk about pyrophosphate and iron ore. If the annual mining can be increased by a hundred times, the dynasty Iron farm tools are not so expensive. As long as farmers have good farm tools, farming and water conservancy will be improved, and grain production will also increase. A stable increase in grain production will have a comprehensive and far-reaching impact on the entire country. Dynasty, have these senior sisters ever thought about it?"

"..." Huang Daoyun couldn't think about it anymore, in her opinion, this was completely irrelevant.

Lu Yang doesn't think so. People in the holy way should not only care about their studies, but also pay attention to people's livelihood. Improving people's livelihood is also important, but the dynasty has not done a good job in this regard.

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