There was a big contrast between Li Xianwu's image and Jiang Feng's imagination. Even the place he lived in was different from the luxury Jiang Feng had expected. He originally thought that the traitor to the wind who was not short of money in Li Yufeng's words would live in a spacious and luxurious house.
In the mansion with three entrances and three exits, you can enjoy the service of many servants who are ready to come and go at a moment's notice. However, in front of you is a small courtyard that can only be called "tidy", and there are only four servants working in front and behind, and
There is a person from this town who is temporarily employed.
Li Xianwu has a big belly, which can even be said to be slightly fat, and the sky is wide and full. When Jiang Feng entered the courtyard, he was half leaning on a used Taishi chair to bask in the sun. His bald head was covered with a piece of wood to prevent
The sun-dried gray linen square, humming an unknown ditty, is quite comfortable.
"Are you Li Xianwu?"
"Yes," the fat man reluctantly sat upright from the Taishi chair. He glanced for a while and saw the person clearly. He found that he didn't recognize him, but he knew the old man Li He next to him. He had called Fuyuan Town since then.
Deal less with each other.
"Senior Li, this is the head of my family."
"Master?" When Li Xianwu heard this word, he quickly stood up solemnly, and saluted with fists in his hands with fat fingers, "Disrespect, disrespect, Master Jiang is a rare visitor, and he will be embarrassed when he encounters a wall!"
"It's the plum blossoms that give birth to brilliance." A young man with a square face like a scholar behind him reminded him kindly in a low voice.
"Oh, you are so happy." Li Xianwu was not embarrassed by the young man's reminder. Ever since Jiang Feng revealed his identity, his eyebrows had been shining with a strange look, "Headmaster Jiang had
Have you met my brother?"
The servant brought a half-old wicker chair. The man looked like a rough man, and he was obviously different from the imagined Yufeng Sect. Jiang Feng was not polite and motioned for Li Xianwu to sit down together. The man was also a Xuan-level cultivation, but
Living as a guest in the Qianshan Sect does not mean living under someone else's roof or seeking refuge. The two of them naturally call each other Taoist friends.
"Fellow Daoist Li, I met your brother in the Hanshan Sect. He mentioned your matter to me. Is there anything I can do to help you?"
In fact, everything here makes Jiang Feng feel strange. The ordinary-shaped thatched house, the old and shabby belongings, the plainly dressed servants, and the owner only look like a wealthy family. Is what Li Yufeng said is untrue, or is the other party here?
On the way to the Asan Mountain Sect, something unexpected happened, causing life to become so difficult?
"I want to be an official."
Li Xianwu leaned forward, trying to make a respectful gesture, but his belly restricted his courtesy, "I dream of becoming an official. Let me tell you, I spent a lot of spiritual stones on Yufeng Sect.
, I bought and bought all the way until I sat in the position of director of the Central Cabinet, but it was still not enough. You know, when the Central Cabinet manages foreign affairs, you have to deal with a bunch of old foxes every day. If you can't do anything practical, you might as well go to the Cabinet.
Even going to Badu was more practical. So I was itchy and sent gifts everywhere, but I got into trouble and lost my official position."
The young man behind him cleared his throat. Li Xianwu just glanced back, but ignored him. He spread his fingers on his right hand and continued to say, "You gave me fifty third-level coins. This is a lot of money. They
They actually reported me for bribery. Everyone was unclean. They actually reported me specifically, Mr. Jiang. I am a rough man. To tell you the truth, the word "Wu" in my original name was the word "五" in the fifth place. Later,
I felt uneducated, so I asked someone to change the name of this literary person, just to make it easier to be an official. These guys from the Yufeng Sect have no ink in their stomachs and are discriminated against, so they specifically find fault with me, but I am a real person.
Elegance, elegance and uprightness..."
"He is elegant and generous." The square-faced young man behind him reminded him again. Jiang Feng couldn't help but glance at him and found that this man was quite handsome. He had a slight resemblance to Li Xianwu in his eyebrows and eyes, but he was not as fat as his appearance.
A scholar with spiritual level cultivation, when he saw Jiang Feng's gaze directed at him, he felt a little frightened, his face turned slightly red, and he couldn't help but take a small step back.
"It doesn't matter, Master Jiang is not an outsider," Li Xianwu said excitedly, with signs of spitting, "so I ran away and came here to help people here with some practical things. I like the feeling of helping people.
, if you don’t believe me, just ask Li He, I don’t like to do anything imaginary, let alone use force, I have always convinced people with virtue.”
"I heard." Jiang Feng knew that the other party talked so much, but he also held it back.
There is nowhere to show off in Fuyuan Town. This town is full of ordinary people. There are very few people who are good at rhetoric. Most of them have to run for a living. How can they have time to chat with him? Li He is the only one who has time to talk.
Fortunately, although Li Xianwu was extremely idle and took the initiative to find things to do, most of the things he did were within Jiang Feng's tolerance, and he even approved of them with both hands and feet.
"You can't conduct the Asan Mountain sect's sacrificial ceremony."
"This?" Li Xianwu was stunned, "Haha, I didn't think that much. Li He came over and said that he wanted to find something to do for the idle people in the town, and earn some household income on the way, and he happened to have something to do, so I said,
Why don't we pay homage to the ancestors of the Qianshan Sect by the way? It's just a way of doing it and has no other meaning. Leader Jiang, is this very, very excessive?"
"He who doesn't know is not guilty, and he will not be the same next time." With Li Yufeng's previous greeting, Jiang Feng could not possibly embarrass Li Xianwu, who was known to persuade people with virtue and loved to do good deeds, but necessary warnings were still needed.
"Of course, of course, I will report important events to you in the future. What do you think, can you give me an official position? I don't care about salary, I am not short of money, and I am not greedy for money. Look at this yard."
He held his big fat hands in front of him, waving and pointing at all the furnishings in the yard, as if thinking about the words, "My living requirements are low, as long as I have meat to eat, my own money will be enough to last for thousands of years."
"Although I have some requirements for women, I never force myself and convince others with my virtue. I just like to do good deeds, that is, spend my own money. When I see others being kind to me, I feel happy from the bottom of my heart."
"It's gratitude." The young man reminded him again. He also took a peek at Jiang Feng and found that the other party didn't mind very much, so he felt relieved.
"Yes, Youde is right, be grateful, be grateful." Li Xianwu patted the square-faced young man behind him, "This is my nephew, Li Youde, a scholar, you must be like me, make friends and convince others with virtue."
"Are you willing to spend your own money to help with things?" After hearing Li Xianwu's words, Jiang Feng seemed to have grasped the key to solving the problem.
"A gentleman's words are hard to chase." Li Xianwu blurted out. Seeing that the young man behind him did not correct him again, he knew that he had used the right words this time. The paint on his face became even brighter. He put his hands in front of his chest and said sincerely.
, "Give me a job as an official, I'm not short of money."
This is a good person.
Jiang Feng even had the urge to agree to him immediately. Although Li Xianwu was a bit vulgar, he did not really convince people with virtue, but "conquer people with money" as he understood, but his quality was actually pretty good. According to what he said
, is not interested in money, does not need to be aggressive with women, and only cares about official reputation and the sense of superiority of being an official, then naturally there is no need to worry about him doing things unfairly, or enriching his own pockets.
As a Xuan-level monk, there is one, no, two monks beside him. The old man who has been deliberately looking for things to do in the courtyard seems to also have Xuan-level cultivation, even higher than Li Xianwu. There is a faint hidden power in him.
The breath, if you use spiritual power to explore it, has a deep and invisible feeling, maybe it is a hidden master. In any case, as a force whose strength cannot be underestimated, it can indeed recruit them to work for itself.
The question is, what is the difference between this kind of behavior and the buying and selling of official titles? Even if it is for official purposes, the employment is considered appropriate, but after all, it is still unreasonable. Once you start this way, how will you convince the public in the future? Do you think he is still moral?
If it is considered noble, then whether it is okay to be lower, there is always a lack of fixed measurement standards. There is no precedent for this in the Qianshan Sect.
The power of employing people has always been in the hands of the head of the Sixth Division, just like the Sixth Division. If it were not for reform, in theory, any vacancy in the Sixth Division could be filled by Jiang Feng alone. This naturally includes the ordinary guards of each town.
, as well as the newly established monks from the three counties to guard them. However, the former were recommended by the local clans for their high moral character and the latter were recognized by the elders of the clan as having outstanding abilities. Naturally, no one would speak out against them.
But this is Lee Hyun Oh?
There is definitely no point in being "elegant". There are even some problems with word choice and sentence making. This is the main reason why he can't survive in the Yufeng Sect, which is full of literary scholars. At best, he can only be regarded as a rich man, or to exaggerate, as he himself puts it.
It is said that a virtuous person should replace Li He and appoint him as the guard of Fuyuan Town. Such a small vacancy is not a big problem.
But Fuyuan Town is obviously not able to satisfy Li Xianwu.
, Don’t you see, there is no place to spend the money. There are at most a few hundred townspeople in this place. What future can there be?
It's a bit of a waste of talent, no, it's a bit of a waste of financial resources.
"How much money can you offer?" Jiang Feng decided to be more direct. He was thinking about whether the money offered by the other party could "persuade" several elders and set this precedent.
"How big an official is he?" Li Xianwu's little eyes became brighter. Knowing that he had a way out, he asked more straightforwardly.
"Guardian of Nuangu County. Now the Qianshan Sect has three counties, Dayi and Donghu, all of which have Xuan-level monks in charge. Only Nuangu County is vacant."
"Guardian of a county?" Li Xianwu curled his lips, crossed his hands, rubbed his thick fingers for a moment, and was obviously moved, "I am responsible for all the secular affairs of this county, as well as the communication with the monks?"
"That's right, but matters related to communication with monks and important matters must be reported to the sect every three months, that is, to me."
"Do you also need to report it?" Li Xianwu seemed to have suffered such a loss before, "Can I ghostwrite it? I don't need to write it myself, right?"
"Okay." Jiang Feng couldn't help but look at the young man behind him, thinking that his nephew Li Youde would be the ghostwriter.
"That's no problem, two level 3 coins per year. How about that?" He tentatively made a price.
This price is good, this was Jiang Feng's first feeling, and he was even a little happy. Compared with the investment in the other two counties, not only does he not need to pay for it himself, but he can also make a fortune. Of course, he can't take this money, he can only
It belongs to the treasury of the sect. Otherwise, if you start the business of buying and selling officials and titles, and the elders don't follow the instructions, the order of the sect will be in chaos.
"Yes, but there are two conditions."
"Want more money? Do you want a magic weapon? We can talk about more money, but we don't have any magic weapons. I ran so fast that I lost them all in Yufeng Sect." Li Xianwu spread his hands and said frankly, but looking at his appearance, it seemed that
Not sad.
"First, you have to change your name and your image. I don't want people to recognize you as the heel of Yufeng Sect. This will be troublesome for you and me."
"No problem, no problem. I'll change it..." Li Xianwu was about to say that I would just change my hairstyle. His right hand unconsciously touched his bald head, only to realize that this idea was unworkable. "I'll think of a way. I can
When you are an official, these are all small things."
"Secondly, I'm going to let a few of you here and let you guide the practice." It was obvious that Li Xianwu was not a person with a smooth path to practice, but Jiang Feng deliberately did not reveal or ask about the identity of the elderly hermit in the hospital. He concluded that Li Xianwu could
Running out of Yufeng Sect and surviving to this day is definitely not just about being "rich" and "convincing people with virtue".
Jiang Feng's first priority is to settle the young man Feng Jiming who was just sent over by Ma Taiji. As for the other candidates, he plans to wait until several elders are notified of the matter and Li Xianwu will successfully take office in Nuangu County. He will make a decision after getting familiar with the situation. Here
There are free masters available, so don’t waste it.
"Okay!" Li Xianwu hesitated for a moment on the latter condition, but finally agreed.
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Among the knee-high withered yellow grass, Jiang Feng and Ding Lingyu did not take the flying boat, but walked along the mountain road step by step, heading up the mountain. Now that they have arrived at Fuyuan Town, it would be unseemly not to pay homage to the ancestors.
.
Others can, but Jiang Feng is a leader, the tenth generation leader.
The third-generation head Lin Baicheng, the fourth-generation head Jiang Zicheng, the fifth-generation head Ren Fei, and the sixth-generation head Shen Ailong. There are four heads in total. They are all buried in the mountains of Fuyuan Town, which is enough to cover a thousand steps square.
The seal has long since been eroded by the passage of time, wind and rain, and has become smaller and flatter, leaving behind a still clear inscription on the stone tablet of merit standing in the wilderness.
"Frugality fosters virtue"
Jiang Feng suddenly discovered such a sentence on the merit stone tablet that was as tall as a person of the fourth generation leader.
Jiang Feng rubbed the dust away from the stone tablet and recited this sentence silently, smiling bitterly in his heart. As the tenth generation leader, I am too poor and lack suitable candidates for guarding. I took the spirit stone and invited a "virtue" to come back.
, I wonder if you are happy for me under the Nine Nether Spring?
The mountain wind blows by, leaving behind the tired whistling and whimpering and the swaying rustling of dead grass.