Chapter 625 The attitude of the literary sage and the compromise of the aristocratic family
Kong Yuan fell to the ground, crying and shouting.
"Ancestor, you have to make the decision for the unworthy descendants. The Immortal Saint wants to take back our ancestral land. This ancestral land was given by you, the ancestor. The unworthy descendants dare not abandon their traditions and forget their ancestors."
"Given by me?" Wen Sheng corrected seriously: "How do I remember that after defeating the Mowu disaster, I accidentally captured two secret realms. After discussion by the Family Alliance, they were given to the Yan family who had made the most contributions and the one who had made the most contributions.
No, the Kong family has a transcendent status just because they have produced a saint."
Kong Yuan looked at Wen Sheng with confusion in his eyes: "Yes, is that so?"
When Wen Sheng saw this, he shook his head in disappointment.
It seems that they have tampered with this period of history.
It became what I gave to them.
However, Long Sheng smiled and said through his spiritual message: "You didn't object at that time. In fact, you agreed. It is no different from what you gave me. When compiling the family history, it is reasonable to deliberately ignore these disgraceful things.
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However, Wen Sheng was a more sincere person. He shook his head firmly and said, "How can history be tampered with at will? Ding is Ding, and Mao is Mao. There cannot be any mistakes, otherwise it will be disrespect for history."
Long Sheng shrugged and said no more.
Kong Yuan adjusted his mentality and asked again: "Old Ancestor, there are countless corpses of ancestors sealed in the ancestral land. If we lose the ancestral land, we will not be able to keep the corpses of our ancestors. How will we resurrect them in the future? The Immortal Saint is going to kill us again."
Once upon a time, we are the ancestors of the Kong family."
Before Wen Sheng could speak, Qin Xi couldn't see it and stood up to retort: "Kong Yuan, the Holy Emperor specifically mentioned these in the decree, saying that the completed mausoleum can be left untouched and they take care of it. This reason is not valid, right?
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Feng Jue also stood up and said: "Yes, you can tell your reasons, but you cannot confuse right and wrong and slander the Holy Emperor."
Although Zhou Boyuan did not speak, he nodded in agreement.
Kong Yuan somehow ignored the occasion and turned to look at the three of them hatefully. It seemed that he had accumulated a lot of resentment in his heart, and he burst out on the spot and shouted at the three of them.
"I know that if you three lackeys of the Immortal Saint take the lead, nothing can be done! My ancestor of the Kong family has been resurrected. You tell the most important thing as planned. What pollution are you talking about here?
What does pollution have to do with us? The most important thing for us is that our ancestral land is about to be confiscated by that abominable Immortal Saint. If you don’t talk about this urgent matter, I will tell you personally. If you say it, I want you to
do what?"
Qin Xi was stunned for a moment after being scolded. Feng Jue sighed, his eyes full of helplessness. Zhou Boyuan glanced at Kong Yuan disdainfully, shook his head and ignored it.
Wen Sheng finally spoke at this time.
However, he did not say it to Kong Yuan, but to Long Sheng.
"Is the Immortal Saint going to take back the family's ancestral land?"
Long Sheng raised his eyebrows, nodded, and asked: "I wonder, what do you, the ancestor of the Kong family, think?"
Hearing this, Wen Sheng put his hands on his hands and smiled and said: "That's great. I have long wanted to deal with these seriously polluted ancestral lands of the aristocratic family. I can't find a way to eliminate the pollution of these ancestral lands. I can only think of one way, that
I wanted them all to move out, but those aristocratic families didn’t agree, and except for the two public ancestral lands of the Kong family and the Yan family, I didn’t know their locations, so I had to give up in the end."
Speaking of this, Wen Sheng seemed to ask: "Is the Immortal Saint aware of the location of the ancestral lands of those aristocratic families?"
There was no excitement to see, so Long Sheng suddenly lost interest in talking and replied casually: "What's so difficult about this? I can tell where their positions are just by doing some calculations. Immortal Saint's methods are much better than mine, he thought.
It’s too easy to find the location of the family’s ancestral land.”
Wen Sheng glanced at Long Sheng with envy: "My Dao Wen has no advantage in this area. If I had the magical power and secret skills in this area at that time, I guess the problem of the family would have been solved at that time, and there would be no need to keep it until now.
Let this younger generation, the Immortal Saint, handle it."
Long Sheng touched his nose guiltily and asked: "Is the problem of the aristocratic family very troublesome?"
Wen Sheng said with a smile: "In my time, the shortcomings of the aristocratic family have been exposed. I have been thinking of ways to curb the development of the aristocratic family, but the means are limited. It is estimated that after my death, the people will disappear and the government will cease. Now there are more than 1,500
Years have passed, and I am afraid that the family has become stronger and more deformed."
Although the aristocratic family included his clan Kong Shi, Wen Sheng did not shy away from hating the aristocratic family at all.
Long Sheng seemed to smell the gossip.
"It sounds like you've also suffered from the abuse of your aristocratic family?"
Literary Saint is really a real person.
"It doesn't matter. In my time, if you were not from a noble family, you could not be higher than the seventh grade. Everything depends on your family and origin. People who are not from a noble family, no matter how talented they are, will not be reused. The same is true for the later Mowu disaster.
It was caused by the aristocratic families. Although some aristocratic families later formed an alliance and blocked the Mowu disaster, it still could not cover up the evil of the aristocratic families. Later, after I ended the Mowu disaster, I wanted to end the aristocratic family. However, the ancestral land of the aristocratic family, let me
The idea was immediately shattered. Even if I wiped out the aristocratic families that were active in the dynasty and had ancestral lands, they could still accumulate power and dominate the Central Plains after my death. I had no talent for Machiavellian tactics, so I simply gave up.
We can only restrict them by strengthening the imperial power and educating people without discrimination."
Obviously, even literary sages know that treating the symptoms does not cure the root cause.
"After my death, did the family regain a monopoly on martial arts inheritance and seize the opportunity to change the dynasty?"
Thinking of the history he had collected after Wen Sheng these days, Long Sheng clicked his tongue and said: "You said you are not good at tactics, aren't you quite good at it? When you were alive, the family was suppressed so hard,
Later, the struggle between the royal family and the aristocratic families never stopped. Your education led to the birth of a large number of small and medium-sized families, ushering in an era when the imperial power did not extend to counties and could only be ruled by small and medium-sized families. This greatly weakened the power of the aristocratic families.
Because of your views on benevolence and righteousness, many people in later generations who practiced civil and martial arts, including some from aristocratic families, intentionally or unintentionally restricted the aristocratic families from doing evil, which basically guaranteed the interests of the people at the bottom. Wen Sheng, what you did back then
What you have done is a great achievement and will last for thousands of years."
When Wen Sheng heard this, not only did he not feel happy, but his face was filled with disappointment.
"Sure enough, I know that these arrangements of mine are of no use at all. Aristocratic families are still aristocratic families. As long as they rule the Central Plains, it is impossible for the Central Plains to develop."
Speaking of this, Wen Sheng asked curiously: "What is the origin of Immortal Saint and how did he develop? How could he do something to suppress the family?"
Long Sheng laughed loudly and said: "The Immortal Saint is also from an aristocratic family, but he is just a branch of the family. He has lived in a remote mountain village since he was a child. He knows the sufferings of the people and does not regard himself as a child of an aristocratic family at all. However, he has the skin of a child of an aristocratic family.
, Immortal Saint developed very smoothly in the early stage. In the end, he took advantage of the catastrophe that ended the spiritual tide to establish a sect system, which institutionally controlled the development of the family. Only then did the Central Plains regain its vitality. Later, he even ended the previous dynasty.
, established himself as emperor, banned aristocratic families, opened academies widely, enlightened the people's wisdom, promoted martial arts... Haha... Except for being a bad person, this boy Immortal Saint is very good at everything else."
After hearing this, the Literary Sage said with longing in his eyes: "Okay, okay, these are all things I wanted to do back then but couldn't do it. The Immortal Sage actually did them all. It's great that there will be such a person in future generations."
, it is truly a great blessing for the human race.”
Finally, Wen Sheng asked out of curiosity: "Isn't the Immortal Saint a good person? How can I explain this? Has the Immortal Saint done anything excessive to you?"
When this was mentioned, Long Sheng became a little angry. He opened his mouth excitedly and wanted to say something, but after glancing at everyone present, he still didn't say anything.
"Forget it, I'll talk to you later."
The Literary Sage didn't care, as long as it was beneficial to the human race, even if it was a loss of personal ethics, it was acceptable.
After all, no one is perfect.
Wen Sheng continued the previous topic and asked: "Above the soul..."
Before Wen Sheng finished speaking, Long Sheng interrupted Wen Sheng's question with a gesture, glanced at everyone present, and said to Wen Sheng, "Let's go to another place to talk."
Wen Sheng didn't care, but since Long Sheng proposed it, he didn't object. He nodded and disappeared behind Long Sheng's figure.
As the two saints left, there was an uproar in the square.
"I just said that Wen Sheng should not be resurrected. Look, it's okay now. Wen Sheng doesn't care about us at all."
"Then tell me, which saint should be resurrected?"
"I have always said that I would resurrect the First Emperor and Dan Sheng. They are from aristocratic families and they understand what the ancestral land means to our aristocratic family."
"Oh, you won't forget that the first emperor to propose abolishing the family was the First Emperor."
"What about Alchemy Saint? He probably doesn't have any political opinions. I heard that Alchemy Saint has been staying in the ancestral land in his later years. He must have a lot of affection for the ancestral land. Maybe..."
"I have read the family history. In his later years, Alchemy Saint imprisoned himself in the ancestral land. The ancestral land was not a good place for him. Are you sure that Alchemy Saint will protect the ancestral land for us?"
"By the way, I don't know about the remains of the Qin family leader, Dan Sheng and the First Emperor..."
Qin Xi glanced at the person who asked the question: "Like the Kong family, the remains of Dan Sheng and the First Emperor are not in their ancestral land."
"Strange, why don't these saints leave their bodies in their ancestral land?"
Zhou Boyuan chuckled lightly and said: "After listening for so long, don't you understand? Of course it is to ensure that the remains are not contaminated by the ancestral land."
Zhou Boyuan's words poked the wounds of all the children of aristocratic families present.
"How can the ancestral land be polluted? That's nonsense."
"The ancestral land ensures the continuation of the family and is the foundation of our family. We have passed it down from generation to generation. How can we not know whether it is contaminated or not? There is absolutely no way that the ancestral land is contaminated."
"The words of the sage cannot be trusted. Didn't you see that there are also contradictions in the concepts of Wen Sage and Long Sage just now? To put it bluntly, these are just their family's words and cannot be trusted."
Zhou Boyuan sneered lightly and said: "One saint is a member of the same family, two saints are a member of the same family, and three saints in this world have the same opinions. Are they all members of the same family?"
Qin Xi waved his hand, and a barrier enveloped the three of them, blocking out the noise and harassment outside. He solemnly said: "It seems that the two saints Wenlong will not help us. The surrender of the ancestral land is a foregone conclusion.
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Feng Jue sighed and said: "The ancestral land is the root of the family and the backbone of the family. Apart from this, the family can talk about anything. However, this is what the Holy Emperor wants. I, I can't do anything."
Qin Xi sighed and said: "Since ancient times, the Ancestral Land lineage has been a lineage with a transcendent status. Even the clan leader cannot interfere in the affairs of the Ancestral Land. Even sometimes when our clan leaders change, sometimes we have to rely on the help of the Ancestral Land."
For example, she, a woman, could become the head of the Qin family with the help of her ancestral land.
Otherwise, it will be impossible to even pass.
Feng Jue asked very puzzledly: "Didn't the Holy Emperor lift the restrictions on the aristocratic families fifty years ago? We are also doing things according to the rules set by the Holy Emperor. The prosperity of Dajing is partly due to our family.
Well, why does the Holy Emperor hold on to our family?"
Feng Jue really felt that the aristocratic family did no harm to the human race, only benefits.
Zhou Boyuan, who has been in contact with Qin Yi for the longest time, sneered and said: "The aristocratic family has made a lot of contributions, but it has also caused a lot of disasters. The Holy Emperor's behavior is naturally because the current development of the aristocratic family has done more harm than good to the human race. It must not be
If we don’t suppress it again, even if the time comes, we can finally eliminate the family’s existence from the root.”
Feng Jueman said in confusion: "Prime Minister Zhou, why do you say this? How come this family has so many disasters?"
Zhou Boyuan sneered and said: "For fifteen hundred years, under the control of the aristocratic family, the human race has basically had no development. Isn't this a disaster for the aristocratic family?"
Feng Jue frowned and said: "That is the reason for the catastrophe of the spiritual tide. How can this be blamed on our family? You know, if our family had not tried hard to resist the catastrophe of the spiritual tide every time, the catastrophe of the spiritual tide would have
More people died in it. If our family had not rebuilt the Central Plains every time after the spiritual tide disaster, the Central Plains would not have been able to continue."
Zhou Boyuan immediately retorted: "That's because you have the ancestral land and you can retain your strength. If the ancestral land had been handed over early and the talents of the entire human race were retained every time, then the human race would have developed stronger in the past fifteen hundred years.
, even before the Immortal Saint is born, the calamity of the spiritual tide can be solved. The selfishness of your family has caused the human race to waste fifteen hundred years."
Feng Jue snorted coldly and said: "Our aristocratic family is the essence of the human race. Isn't the fire retained by our aristocratic family the fire of the human race? If it is handed over to the dynasty, haha, you can ensure that it is fair and just every time, and what is retained is
The elite of the human race? Are you sure our family can do better and end the spiritual tide disaster in advance?"
When Zhou Boyuan heard this, he was speechless.
Qin Xi sighed and said: "Others may not be able to guarantee it, but the Holy Emperor can."
Feng Jue and Zhou Boyuan turned to look at Qin Xi. Qin Xi said in a sad tone: "You haven't forgotten the general outline of the opening chapter of the Holy Emperor's Order, have you?"
Feng Jue and Zhou Boyuan naturally would not ignore it.
Qin Xi didn't wait for the two to answer, and then said: "The human race may face a catastrophe, and the Holy Emperor is already preparing for this. Retaining the fire should be part of the preparation. Do you think that the Holy Emperor will agree to reserve the fire for the human race?
Are there only children from aristocratic families?”
This heart-wrenching question made Feng Jue feel like a deflated rubber ball, and he suddenly lost all energy.
"Well, it is precisely because of this speculation that our family is even more reluctant to hand over the ancestral land."
Qin Xi said leisurely: "But the world is like this, so we have to pay."
Feng Jue understood that without the support of the saint, their family would not be able to resist the will of the Holy Emperor.
Feng Jue seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden.
"I just hope that because of my family's contribution, my family can be given more places."
Qin Xi and Zhou Boyuan looked at each other and nodded.
"Don't worry, I will fight for the family."
Zhou Boyuan also nodded and said: "You helped our civil servant line resurrect the literary saint, and we will also try our best to help your family lineage gain some benefits."
This can be considered compensation.
Feng Jue laughed bitterly, bowed his hands casually to the two of them, and left the barrier.
Qin Xi looked at Feng Jue's back and smiled: "The plan went very smoothly."
Zhou Boyuan smiled and nodded: "The next step is to resurrect the First Emperor and the Alchemist, right? Are you going to use reincarnation?"
Qin Xi has never concealed his thoughts, so it was naturally easily seen through by Zhou Boyuan and others.
"Yes, the method of rebirth through corpses has too serious consequences. Look at Wen Sheng, didn't the first thing he did when he got the power was to abandon the child who volunteered to become a container?"
Zhou Boyuan looked at Qin Xi enviously.
"If the First Emperor and Alchemy Sage are resurrected, your Qin family will be one of the three sages."
Qin Xi smiled and pulled back her hair on the temples and said modestly: "It's all the work of our ancestors, and the unworthy descendants will enjoy the legacy in vain."