The old man raised his hand and pointed, and Lin Xifeng followed his finger and pointed. There were several bungalows staggered in the distance.
"That is?"
"That's the school in our Xinghua Village. If you study well, you can go to the academy on the mountain to study. The Immortal Family of the Thousand Demons Sect said that students who pass the examination can be recommended to become officials in the imperial court!"
The old man raised his hand and pointed to a woman planting rice in the distance and said, "Do you know who she is?"
Lin Xifeng shook his head.
"I don't know about this. It seems that you haven't read many books." The old man rolled his eyes, "Her son was the crown prince of the Rouge Kingdom last year, but the crown prince refused to be an official in Jinling and gave up his position.
He decided to return to his hometown and become a small county magistrate without a big salary, do you know why?"
Lin Xifeng thought for a while and said softly: "Repay your kindness and use your meager efforts to benefit your hometown."
The old man shook his hand, poured the burned tobacco in the pipe on the ground, and said disdainfully: "How can the ideological consciousness be so high? Here we don't have to worry about food and clothing. If you want to eat meat, you can go to the town to buy it. It's not as happy here as in Jinling.
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"Well, what the old man said makes sense."
Lin Xifeng lowered his voice and said: "This Thousand Demons Sect is a demonic sect, and those immortal families are so kind to pay you money and taxes without any intention of paying back?"
The old man pointed to the soil in the field and said: "There must be rewards. The Thousand Demons Sect charges 20% of the crops we grow. This applies to cloth, fish, cattle, sheep, and pigs."
"Twenty percent!"
Lin Xifeng calculated that if one acre of land could produce one hundred kilograms of grain, Qian Mo Sect would have to charge twenty kilograms. However, Qian Mo Sect helped the villagers pay taxes, and the remaining eighty kilograms of grain was equivalent to the villagers' own.
Calculating this, the burden on the villagers here is not that big.
"Later, we felt that the Xian family's kindness was too great, and we were a little scared, so we took the initiative to ask the Xian family to change the 20% to 30%."
Lin Xifeng's mouth opened wide. He had lived for hundreds of years and had only heard of people suffering from heavy taxes, but never heard of people actively asking for more taxes.
The old man went to the fields again and continued: "Thanks to the immortal family, we can now harvest four to five hundred kilograms from one acre of land. This is also thanks to the teachings of those immortal families. Although the immortal family collected a lot of food, we saved
If there is more food, we can store some and sell some, and our lives will become richer."
Lin Xifeng raised his eyes and saw that there were indeed some people with spiritual energy fluctuations in the vast fields. Thousand Demons Sect disciples actually taught people to farm, which completely overturned his impression of Thousand Demons Sect from head to toe.
"Thank you very much, old man."
Lin Xifeng cupped his hands and gave the old man a blessing.
There was still too little information in the Shanshui Di newspaper. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would have been hard to believe that the Thousand Demons Sect was like this now.
Teaching to the people begins with thinking, diligence in asking questions, and ends with doing.
The Thousand Demons Sect has made great achievements. No wonder someone from Guanhai Academy suggested that the Thousand Demons Sect change "Devil" to "Xuan". This makes sense.
In just a few years, Thousand Demons Sect has surpassed some established righteous sects in the hearts of the people.
Is this really what Jiang Wanli can think of?
Lin Xifeng couldn't help but have doubts.
His teacher, Yan Shaoqing, was the most favored disciple of the sage. He was known for his strength in doing righteousness, weakness in accepting admonitions, fear of receiving salary, and caution in managing his body. He was blessed with the four virtues and achieved the status of saint in his early years, becoming "
If the ruler and his ministers are of one mind, the superiors and subordinates will be in harmony, they will have ample food and clothing, the young and old will be healthy, and everyone will be well fed, the world will be at peace." This belief stands high.
After his trip today, he felt that the Thousand Demons Sect's way of doing things coincided with his teacher's thoughts.
Could it be that his own teacher is adding fuel to the fire behind his back?
Lin Xifeng's eyes widened, as if he had grasped the key point.
When the teacher was teaching, he said many times that he accompanied Jiang Wanli on a long journey through the mountains and rivers in the form of an incarnation. Unexpectedly, it was for today.
He couldn't help but bow deeply to the sky.
"The teacher is brilliant!"
After staying in the field for a while and communicating with some villagers, and confirming that what the old man said before was true, Lin Xifeng quietly rode the wind to the foot of the outer peak of the Thousand Demons Sect.
There were two disciples on duty at the foot of the mountain, both first-level monks. When they saw Lin Xifeng coming on the wind, they walked forward and cupped their hands.
"I have met my senior. He is not a member of our Thousand Demons Sect. If you want to go to the outer peak of our Thousand Demons Sect, you need to register and ask for instructions from the elders and wear a visitor's token."
Lin Xifeng nodded and said, "Well, follow your rules."
The two disciples took out a piece of white paper from the table and asked: "Senior's name, cultivation level and place of origin, and the purpose of coming to Thousand Demons Sect this time."
Lin Xifeng said in a warm voice: "Lin Xifeng, Guangling Mountain, Jiaozhou, Antarctica, cultivated in the fifth realm, would like to meet your sect master."
The two Thousand Demon Sect disciples looked at each other, put away the white paper in their hands, and made an invitation gesture: "Since it is Senior Lin, there is no need to register. My sect leader is in retreat, and you may not be able to see her.
But the scenery here is quite pleasant, seniors can walk around and have a look, of course, you still have to wear the token."
After hearing this, Lin Xifeng nodded in response, took a token from the hands of a disciple of the Thousand Demons Sect, stepped on the breeze, and followed the mountain road straight to the top of the mountain.
Coming out of a forest, spring is in sight. The mountain gate of Thousand Demons Sect stands on a high ground in the distance, which looks a bit conspicuous.
Lin Xifeng approached the mountain gate and happened to see two framed couplets.
First couplet: Change your mind and face, and return to the earth with a new look;
Second line: Change the old appearance and make everything new again.
Banner: Become a new person.
He looked crooked and twisted, like an eight-legged crab crawling across his body. Needless to say, this must have been Lin Yanli's handiwork.
But, is it really appropriate to hang this on the mountain gate of a Demonic Sect? Wouldn’t the enshrined elders of the Thousand Demons Sect object?
Lin Xifeng pondered for a moment, then raised his legs and stepped into the mountain gate. The surrounding scenery suddenly changed. In front of him was a blue stone step leading directly to the top of the mountain. Judging from the wear and tear of the blue bricks, it should not have been laid for a long time.
On the way, Qian Mo Sect disciples were going up and down the mountain gate. People with discerning eyes saw that the man in Confucian robes was Lin Xifeng. When he was three feet in front of Lin Xifeng, he stopped and bowed his hands.
Lin Xifeng clasped his right hand behind his back and nodded in return without saying a word.
Halfway through the walk, a group of girls in their prime came forward. They were all exquisite in appearance and figure. The only drawback was that these girls were all mortals.
What surprised Lin Xifeng was that when the girl saluted the disciples of the Thousand Demon Sect along the way, those disciples would nod in return.
Are the disciples of Thousand Demon Sect so qualified?
Several girls walked up to Lin Xifeng and saw the visitor's token hanging on Lin Xifeng's waist, so they blessed Lin Xifeng.
"I've met senior."
The girls raised their heads, and Lin Xifeng saw respect, confidence, pride, and even a hint of pride in their eyes.
Lin Xifeng suddenly understood.
All the way to the top of the mountain, at the top of the mountain, apart from the Yunzhan pontoon bridge, there were many iron cables, and iron boxes were shuttled back and forth on each iron cable. Lin Xifeng looked at it, not knowing what to say for a moment.
He has lived for hundreds of years and read thousands of books, but he has never seen this thing in the book.