Chapter 131 Ye Canghai, who passed the five veins in one breath
His Royal Highness and his entourage finally left Wudang Mountain.
"Grandpa Xue, is there any news in the world recently?" the young man in brocade clothes asked with a smile in the carriage.
In the Jianghu, things are happening all the time.
Xue Shengbai stroked his beard and said: "The biggest news in the world recently is naturally the incident of Immortal Zhang overthrowing the two holy places of Buddhism and Taoism. In addition, there are also some other major events, such as the fact that the master of Dulong Lake just married Lian
The third lady of the Cloud Escort Agency, this is a marriage between the two major forces on Jiangnan Road, the land and water. In the future, there will be new changes in the pattern of the water, land and green forest forces. Also, seven days ago, there were sudden reports of some monsters in Miao territory.
There are rumors of people entering the village and cannibalizing people. I don’t know if it is true or not yet..."
Listening to Xue Shengbai tell one by one some interesting and major events in the world after he entered reincarnation.
The young man nodded slowly.
At this time, Xue Shengbai changed the topic and said: "But if it is related to His Royal Highness, there are two other pieces of news."
"oh?"
Lu Qingping raised her eyebrows and asked, "What does it have to do with me?"
Xue Shengbai smiled softly and said: "The first thing is a good thing. An hour ago, the prince sent someone to summon you. After His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrives in the capital, His Majesty the Emperor will hold a state banquet for the Crown Prince to welcome you..."
"State banquet?" Lu Qingping's face froze.
Even though he didn't know much about the etiquette standards of some ancient courts, he could still use the word "state banquet".
"Isn't this too grand?"
Xue Shengbai looked at the young man seriously at this moment and said: "How can it be so grand? I believe that in the past ten years, no one has been more worthy of this state banquet than you and Your Highness the Princess."
How did the ten years of peace in the Southern Sui Dynasty come about?
It's not a call.
It was obtained in exchange for the ten years spent by two young boys in a foreign country.
It can be said that the people's livelihood and contentment in the past ten years, and the time that the Southern Sui Dynasty was able to develop its national strength, are directly linked to the ten years of sacrifice of the two young men and women.
Lu Qingping felt complicated in her heart, but then she changed her mind and asked: "Grandpa Xue, do you know why the prince went to the capital?"
What on earth was Lu Qi doing in the capital?
Xue Shengbai was a little hesitant, but thinking that the crown prince would arrive in the capital soon, and sooner or later he would hear the news, he was silent for a moment, and then said: "I heard that it is to be the last reform of the Southern Sui Dynasty decade, to mark the beginning of the reform.
The final full stop.”
Lu Qingping thought in her mind after hearing this.
The last revolution?
He already knew that during his ten years in the Southern Sui Dynasty, Lu Qi helped promote the reforms of Prime Minister Han Ziqing, and implemented new systems in the military, agriculture, industry, and business.
It is precisely because of the promotion of these new systems that the people's farmland harvested more, and the operation and circulation of the industrial and commercial industries greatly accelerated the circulation of coins, increasing the number of coins in the Southern Sui Dynasty. Then there was the reform of the military system, and people used military merit to gain positions.
, even if the princes and nobles join the army, they must be rewarded with military merit.
Various reforms in the past ten years have given farmers in the Southern Sui Dynasty a surplus of food. Although it has not reached the level of prosperity, at least it will not cause large numbers of people to starve to death every cold winter.
When farmers have surplus food and workers have surplus money, merchants can take official trade routes to ancient barren tribes and bring back more precious ores and crystals. Soldiers no longer have to be forced to fight in wars, but they are dedicated to making achievements and killing enemies.
Receive the reward and leave.
But regardless of any legal system, no matter how good it is, it will always offend some interests.
Therefore, Lu Qi, the Spring and Autumn War God, was the strongest guarantee for the Sui Dynasty's laws to be passed.
Anyone who refuses to obey will be killed!
In the past ten years, Prime Minister Han Ziqing and Lu Qi have not known how many rights of beneficiaries under the old law have been violated due to the implementation of the new law.
Lu Qingping slowly closed the five fingers of her hand: "Soldier, agriculture, industry, business..."
Four classes have successfully promoted reforms under Lu Qi's iron-blooded suppression.
What is next? As a young man who is familiar with five thousand years of historical knowledge, he can naturally find corresponding examples in the history of his hometown.
Then think of this land of Jambudvipa that is too specious and very similar.
"The rest is the gentry class. It's the Sui Dynasty again. The content of this last revolution should be..."
Two words slowly flashed through Lu Qingping's mind.
Imperial examination.
If this system is really true, it can indeed break the tens of thousands of years of aristocratic clans' monopoly on temple power.
In today's temples, whether it is the Southern Sui Dynasty or the Northern Tang Dynasty, the employment system is inherited from the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Shu and Wu periods. It is based on recommendation. Most officials in the court are promoted to be filial and honest.
Under this system, a person's abilities and conduct depend entirely on the recommender's words.
This has led to the fact that under the influence of the aristocratic family lineage, all the descendants of the family are highly recommended, and all major families have talented people.
If an ordinary poor student wants to become an official, the only way out is to get a recommendation from an academy gentleman.
And if Lu Qi and the prime minister really want to implement the imperial examination system, it will be equivalent to giving too many poor scholars a way to reach heaven.
"Being a farmer in the morning, ascending to the Emperor's Hall in the evening."
Whether one can become an official depends entirely on one's ability. This will destroy the monopoly of power in the temple by the family in one fell swoop and allow a second voice to appear in the temple.
In Lu Qingping's view, the original role of the imperial examination in history was not to destroy the clan.
If the imperial examination is used to pluck out a generation from a poor family and suppress the clan, then the poor family will be just another formal clan.
For emperors, the most important thing between temples is the balance.
The emperor cannot regard himself as one end of the temple scale.
He should be the one who holds the balance.
But the problem is that in the thousands of years that the aristocratic families in Jambudvipa have controlled the power of the temple, the balance in the temple has always been the emperor and the clan.
This is tantamount to the emperor personally rolling up his arms and sleeves, and then playing a game with his own officials.
This is so miserable. No wonder that unless he is a hero, he will never be able to achieve anything while in office.
Once some of the emperor's orders infringe upon the interests of these aristocratic families, it will inevitably be impossible to implement them smoothly.
But if the imperial examination can be launched smoothly.
When both the poor family members and the clan members can occupy half of the temple, then there will be a balance between the temples.
The dominance of aristocratic families is no longer a problem, and people from poor families will become their opponents.
The emperor will jump off one side of the scale and become the one in charge of the scale.
This will make the emperor's power more stable and greater, and he will be able to implement a unified system and make his orders effective.
At the same time, the imperial examination system can also identify talents. For the most important brains of a country, the scholars and officials after the first level will at least be useful people, instead of the current mediocre temple where meritocracy is favored.
It is undeniable that elites are easy to emerge under the education of aristocratic families, but there are even more mediocrities born from the system of meritocracy.
"If it is really the imperial examination, the difficulties that this final reform will encounter will be dozens of times more difficult than the previous ones. What Lu Qi and his party will be shaken when they go to the capital this time are the ancient families that have existed on this land for tens of thousands of years.
fundamental.”
Lu Qingping is now on board the Lu family, so she naturally hopes that Lu Qi can successfully complete the change.
"The fundamental reason why Lu Qi helped implement the reforms was because he wanted to improve the basic national strength of the Southern Sui Dynasty so that it could compete with the Tang Dynasty."
Thinking of this, Lu Qingping remembered the explanation of the Tao by the old immortal Zhang when she asked Zhang Sanfeng.
The so-called "dao" of a person is the most precious thing in his life, what he should pursue throughout his life, and the meaning of a person's life.
Understanding the meaning of life is called "attaining the Tao".
Persevering in it for a lifetime is called "cultivating the Tao".
Previously, Lu Qingping had always been a little confused about what she wanted most after coming to Jambudvipa.
At this moment, he made his last revolution from the mainland and thought of the root cause of the Southern Sui Dynasty Reform. In fact, he still wanted to have a strong national power and fight to the death with the Tang Dynasty.
In other words, the future of troubled times will be within the next few years.
Lu Qingping entered the world for the first time and wanted to live a happy and wonderful life.
But if troubled times are coming, the world is covered by the flames of war, and there is no paradise anymore, and you can't even guarantee your own safety, how can you talk about happy grudges and a wonderful life.
He suddenly felt something and murmured: "If you really ask me what I want, I want a peaceful and prosperous age now, which will allow me to live a comfortable life."
As a person born in a peaceful era, he was about to face troubled times, and he began to feel that "peaceful and prosperous times" were the best things.
When Xue Shengbai heard the young man's words, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Taiping is not something that can be said."
The young man looked at the old man and continued with a smile: "Peace is created by fighting."
The two looked at each other.
Xue Shengbai laughed loudly.
In this war between the Sui and Tang Dynasties, as his relationship with Lu Qi became deeper and deeper, the time of the North-South War became closer and closer.
He was destined to be unable to escape.
"So, His Highness the Crown Prince's mission is to create a peaceful and prosperous age?"
After Xue Shengbai smiled, he murmured to himself: "This ambition is really big."
Lu Qingping said: "Actually, what I want is very small. I just want to be free and happy, but the troubled times will take away all this, so I can only do my best to end the troubled times as soon as possible and let the peaceful age come as soon as possible, so that I can live my life."
My own little life.”
Xue Shengbai looked at the young man and said, "If I tell the prince about my ambition as the crown prince, he will definitely be very happy."
Lu Qingping waved her hand: "Let's talk about the second thing related to me."
Xue Shengbai pondered for a moment and said: "The second news is not very good."
Lu Qingping looked at the old man and said, "Say it first."
Xue Shengbai took out a secret letter in his hand and said: "The second news is that the daughter of the Ye family, Ye Canghai, has broken through to the Heaven and Human Profound Pass three days ago, and entered the third level of Heaven and Human in one breath."
"Connecting the five meridians in one breath, one enters the third level of heavenly being..."
Lu Qingping's expression turned solemn.
After establishing the foundation of martial arts, the Mysterious Gate of Heaven and Humanity is divided into eight levels, which refers to the eight extraordinary meridians of the human body.
When a martial artist can break through the mysterious barrier, and the big world of the universe resonates with the small world of the human body, he can draw the spiritual energy of the world into the body to nourish the body.
After the spiritual energy enters the body, it travels through the eight extraordinary meridians, and each broken meridians is a level.
From ancient times to the present, there have been geniuses who have accumulated profound knowledge in the foundation-building realm of martial arts, and then once they break through the mysterious entrance, they can connect several pulses in one go.
But it is really rare for Ye Canghai to pass through the five meridians in one breath and become a third-grade heavenly being at the age of fifteen.
Xue Shengbai paused for a moment and said: "The little girl heard that the Crown Prince was going to the capital, so she proposed to fight His Highness the Crown Prince in Luoyang, the capital of the gods, on the agreed date."