The Zhou Chu incident has been over for half a month.
In the early morning, Li Mu, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, slowly opened his eyes, and a golden light flashed in his eyes.
Although he initially prepared to practice both Buddhism and Taoism, since he started practicing, more than 90% of his time has been spent on Taoist guidance and practice, and he rarely has time to recite Dharma sutras and practice Buddhism.
Especially after entering Jushen, the growth of mana became extremely slow, and he spent all his time on cultivation.
Now, his Taoist cultivation has reached the third level, but his Buddhist cultivation barely broke through the first level until last night.
The first realm of Buddhism is called Kanpo, which means that Buddhist disciples see through the world of mortals and escape into Buddhism. This realm requires the cultivation of six senses.
Now, Li Mu's six senses have been perfected. He is in the room and does not need to use his magical powers. Through his ear sense, he can hear the conversation between the butcher shopkeeper and the teahouse waiter a few streets away. Through his smell sense, he can easily
He can distinguish various smells in the air and trace their origins. To a certain extent, he already possesses the innate magical powers of certain monsters.
Some monsters are born with keen hearing and keen sense of smell. Although humans are suitable for cultivation, except for a very small number of natural mutants, their innate magical powers related to the body are far inferior to monsters.
Li Qing once advised him that only one of the two branches of Buddhism and Taoism can be profoundly practiced.
Li Mu didn't feel anything at the time, but now he finally realizes that human energy is limited, and even if he is talented in Buddhism and Taoism, it is impossible to cultivate both to a high level at the same time.
The realm after Buddhism takes longer. The focus of his practice in the next period of time is still on how to break through to the realm of supernatural powers as soon as possible.
After the incident at Zhou Chu, Zhang Chun was unexpectedly promoted again, from Shendu Cheng to Shendu Ling, completely becoming the top leader of Shendu Yamen.
Not only that, His Majesty did not appoint Shendu Cheng and Shendu Wei, which means that he alone makes the decision in this huge government office, and no one can tell him what to do.
Li Mu is still the chief catcher of the Shendu Yamen. His identity is a clerk, not an official. Although officials and officials are both civil servants in the Zhou Dynasty and receive state salaries, there is a clear distinction between the two.
There are no harsh requirements for becoming a Zhou official.
Officials are generally appointed by local officials, or a son inherits his father's business. As long as his family background is clean and no one has committed any crime within three generations, he is qualified to become an honorable official of the Zhou Dynasty.
But officials are different.
The lowest-ranking official in the Great Zhou Dynasty, even a small county magistrate, needed to receive several years of formal education in an academy. After several years, he would be qualified to serve as an official in the court.
This was a rule set by Emperor Wen in order to clean up the chaos in the officialdom of the Zhou Dynasty and improve the quality of the overall officials. This measure indeed played a great role at the time.
In the imperial court at that time, officials were nepotistic, cliques were serious, and the moral character and ability of officials varied greatly. The emergence of academies greatly improved this situation.
If you want to become an official in the court, you must study the thoughts of sages and cultivate your moral character in the academies. You must also learn the methods of governing the country and the methods of spiritual practice. Over a long period of time, several major academies have provided countless talents to the court.
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This rule has been passed down since the time of Emperor Wen and has been used to this day. Even if the emperor wants to promote someone, he still needs to be trained in the academy.
The influence of Emperor Wen's rule was far-reaching. Emperor Wen held a very high status in the hearts of the people and courtiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty. None of the emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty dared to break the rules he had set.
In Li Mu's opinion, Emperor Wen was really far-sighted. Although this method was different from the imperial examination, it was also very progressive compared with the previous official selection system.
Of course, even though Emperor Wen was called a sage, there were things he did not expect.
For example, as the academy has developed to this day, its nature has changed a lot from when it was founded.
The presidents of the four major academies are all detached. There are countless strong men in the third and third realms in the academies. Although they are far inferior to the four sects and six sects, they are still an extremely powerful force.
Officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty could only be born from academies. The status of academies gradually became higher and higher, and even tended to surpass the imperial court.
Whether it is the Xiao family that wants to regain its glory or the Zhou family that wants to replace it, they cannot do without the support of the academy if they want to promote this major event.
Li Mu had never thought about becoming an official, so he did not need to go to an academy to further his studies. Based on what he had seen in the divine capital, becoming an official might not be a good thing.
Under the protection of the Queen, it is much more comfortable to be a petty official than to be an official.
There is no need to worry about any major national affairs. Li Mu only needs to take Xiaobai for a walk on the streets of Shendu every day to ensure that there are no crimes or crimes that disturb the people in his jurisdiction. This is already a good performance.
fulfill their own responsibilities.
After the Zhou Chu Incident, his status in the hearts of the people has risen to its peak.
This allows him to obtain telekinesis power from the people of the divine capital without deliberately doing anything. At this speed, it may not be impossible to advance to magical powers within a year.
After Zhou Chu's incident, the Zhou family's reputation in the divine capital was not greatly affected.
Although Zhou Chu's crime was extremely heinous, the Zhou family's handling of the matter did not disgust the people.
There are many children of the Zhou family, and Zhou Chu is just one of them. Except for Zhou Chu, the children of the Zhou family have no bad deeds. In comparison, the performance of the Xiao royal family in the divine capital is even worse.
In the past few hundred years, they have been the Great Zhou and the masters of the Divine Capital. In the past few years, although they were briefly suppressed by the Zhou family, the sense of superiority deep in their bones cannot be eradicated.
Li Mu counted on his fingers. Not long after he came to Shendu, he had offended almost everyone in the three provinces, six tribes and nine temples, the Xiao family, the Zhou family, and the academy. Except for the academy, he had offended almost everyone.
The Xiao family, his old party, and Li Mu had offended before they came to the capital. When they pushed for the abolition of the surrogacy silver, they even beat up the descendants of many officials from the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Punishment, Taichang Temple, and the three provinces and six ministries.
, offended the Zhou family again, only the academy is missing, and he will become a public enemy of the city of God.
Among the common people, the situation is exactly the opposite.
Li Mu is now extremely popular with the people. He can go to street taverns and go to brothels and restaurants. As long as he is willing, he can get food, entertainment and whoring for free.
When passing by the brothel, the brothel's old madam ran out countless times, leading many girls to wink at Li Mu and say sweetly: "Captain Li, come in..."
Xiaobai was so frightened that he ignored the candied haws in his mouth and hurried over, hugged Li Mu's arm, and held his head high to them in a demonstrative manner.
Ever since Liu Hanyan went to Baiyun Mountain to practice hard, she had strictly carried out the tasks assigned to her by Liu Hanyan and would not let any vixen besides her appear around Li Mu.
These brothel women are naturally her key targets of protection.
The old madam glanced at Xiaobai and said to Li Mu: "Captain Li, why are you so ashamed? The girls won't take your money..."
Li Mu waved his hand, "Next time, next time..."
Yamen have yamen disciplines. In order to prevent officials from being corrupted, they are not allowed to take things from the people for free, and they are not allowed to go to brothels during the day. Going to brothels during the day is naturally not allowed.
God doesn't know how many eyes are staring at Li Mu. He must be careful in his words and deeds and not give anyone an opportunity.
Xiaobai still hugged Li Mu's arm tightly and said: "Sister Liu said that when my benefactor comes to Shendu, he can't mess around with women or go to that kind of place..."
The little fox was obviously saved by him, but he became Liu Hanyan's little spy. Li Mu looked at her and asked: "If I go to that kind of place, will you tell Sister Liu?"
Xiaobai nodded without hesitation and said, "I promised Sister Liu!"
Li Mu asked again: "What if I don't let you tell her, will you listen to Sister Liu or me?"
This question made Xiaobai bite the candied haws for a moment and murmured: "I, I..."
After a moment, she lowered her head and whispered: "I, I listen to my benefactor."
Li Mu was very pleased. Xiaobai's answer proved that she was still his caring little cotton-padded jacket. Even if she made a mistake, she would help him hide it. Who doesn't like such a little cotton-padded jacket?
Of course, Li Mu would not make this kind of mistake. He just wanted to tease Xiao Bai.
Xiaobai lowered his head and hesitated for a while, then raised his head and said: "My benefactor, if you want, Xiaobai can do it, I have already transformed into a human form..."
Li Mu patted her head and said, "I'm just kidding, I won't go to that kind of place..."
He knew very well that before Xiaobai transformed, she was ready to sacrifice herself at any time after transforming, but she was placed by Liu Hanyan next to Li Mu to monitor him. If Liu Hanyan was behind Liu Hanyan's back, she would be a thief.
How can two people be good sisters?
Although Xiao Bai is indeed very tempting, Li Mu will not let the small gain lead him to seek temporary happiness and lay a lead for the future Shura field.
After receiving Li Mu's promise, the girl became happy again. She happily took Li Mu's arm, turned back and stuck out her tongue in the direction of the brothel.
Along the way, he bought some snacks for Xiaobai. Li Muzheng was about to go back to the office, but his eyes accidentally glanced across the front, and his eyes suddenly froze.
On the street ahead, two figures passed by.
The two of them, one old and one young, did not see Li Mu.
Li Mu didn't know the young man, his eyes swept over him, and his eyes stayed on the old man.
This was the first time Li Mu saw this old man, but his figure overlapped with a figure in Li Mu's memory.
To be precise, it was the memory of the killer that Li Mu obtained from Mrs. Chu when he was in Beijun.
This old man was the one who hired the assassin to go to Beijun to assassinate Li Mu.
And he followed the young man step by step, obviously focusing on the other person. In this way, the mastermind behind the North County assassination was about to be revealed.
In Shendu Yamen, Li Mu stretched out his hand and touched the sky, and the shadow of a young man appeared in the sky.
Wang Wu glanced at the phantom and said in shock: "No way, boss, you just killed Zhou Chu and provoked Zhou Chen again?"
