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Chapter 173 The meaning of practice (Fifth update! Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass!)

Zhao Xun is an imperial envoy, so the official boat he takes is naturally a very high-grade building boat.

This kind of building boat has a very deep draft, and even if it encounters a hidden reef in the canal, there is a risk of being stranded.

But Zhao Xun doesn't need to worry too much, because there are six senior brothers accompanying him.

As a master of geomantic omen, Sixth Brother also has a unique skill, which is the ability to see through objects.

The sixth brother can open and hang the perspective all the way, and reasonably avoid the waterway with hidden reefs.

Zhao Xun had to sigh with emotion, too many skills don't overwhelm him.

Being a slasher is really good sometimes.

At least there are more possibilities when you need it.

"Brother Mingyun, look at how prosperous the area around this waterway is. There should be a lot of common people living on it, right?"

"Indeed."

Zhao Xun nodded and said with emotion: "As the saying goes, relying on mountains to eat mountains depends on water to drink water. The Grand Canal connects the north and the south, and almost all the people along the coast rely on it for their livelihood. If the Grand Canal is blocked by silt and sand one day, it may affect hundreds of people. A giant of ten thousand people."

The waterway transportation of the Great Zhou Empire was very developed, mainly divided into water transportation and sea transportation.

The so-called water transportation refers to the transportation of goods through the Grand Canal.

Sea freight is the transport of goods by sea.

Hundreds of years ago, when the Grand Canal was first dug, the water transport was very prosperous, but with the passage of time, many disadvantages gradually emerged.

The most obvious is that the channel is blocked by sediment deposition.

The imperial court and local government spend countless money on dredging every year.As for manpower consumption, it is even more impossible to estimate.

There is also a very serious problem that all levels of government and tyrants set up cards and exploits.

As long as there is one relationship that is not handled well, it is impossible to do business.

In this way, the money that can be earned after a water transport is really limited, and it is even possible to lose money.

Gradually, merchants with little background were no longer willing to do business by water transport, but chose sea transport.

Compared with water transport, sea transport is faster and pays less taxes, which can be said to be crushed in all directions.

If it weren't for the recent uproar of sea monsters and sea monsters eating and hurting people along the coast, I am afraid that the water transport would be even more deserted.

After all, saving your life is more important than making money.

It is the most painful thing in this world to earn money but not to spend it.

I have to say that taking a boat is definitely the most comfortable way to travel in this era.

Ever since the boat from Huangzhou changed to the waterway, even those censors who complained constantly have become quiet.

Zhao Xun took an indifferent attitude towards these guys.

Do whatever you want, No. 1 mouthpiece.

This is Zhao Xun's evaluation of these censors.

Zhao Xun didn't ask them to help, as long as they don't make trouble.

"Little brother, you are in a good mood."

The third brother Long Qingquan did not know when he came to the deck and walked towards Zhao Xun leisurely.

Looking back, Zhao Xun was really taken aback.

It turned out that the third senior brother took off the hairpin that bound his hair, and his long black hair fluttered away.

When the river wind blows, the hair flutters, making Zhao Xun think of a person
That's right, it's Nie Xiaoqian!
Before Zhao Xun always felt that the third senior brother looked like a person, but he couldn't tell.

It's all right now, the third senior brother's attire looks exactly like this famous female ghost.

Good guy, when Zhao Xun met the sixth senior brother Lu Guangdou for the first time, the sixth senior brother was dressed as a Confucian scholar with a cage on his back, very much like the scholar Ning Caichen.

Zhao Xun even once wanted to arrange a play and let the sixth senior brother act in his true colors.

It's all right now, Ning Caichen has it, and Nie Xiaoqian is also there, just a pair of CPs.

Academy Youth League yyds!

"Uh, I think the third senior brother is in a good mood, otherwise why don't you even bother to tie your hair."

"Little brother sees transparency."

Long Qingquan raised his chin proudly and arrogantly, and said with a stinky fart: "This time I had a serious illness, but it made me understand a lot of truths. In the past, all I could think about was pursuing cultivation. Ultimate. I am already at the second rank, but I really want to break through and enter the first rank. Because the first rank and the second rank are very different."

The third senior brother paused, and then continued: "But now that I think about it, what a stupid idea this is? There are super-ranks above the first rank, and I will definitely want to enter the super-rank after entering the first rank. What about after the super-rank? Isn't it Do you have to be high? You are like Shan Zhang, Yuan Tiangang, and Zheng Jie. Who is superior? So this is an endless appeal. Even if you are really number one in the world, won’t you be born in the sky? The idea of ​​fighting with God?"

I have to say that the third senior brother is a very thoughtful person.

"So I think life itself is the most important thing."

The third brother raised his head and said: "I really like a sentence you said, little brother, do you know which sentence it is?"

"Which one?"

"Life should be lived delicately, with a sense of ritual."

The third senior brother said with emotion: "I now understand that if it is just for living, it is no different from a walking dead. In the past ten years, although I had no worries about food and clothing, I was indifferent to other things except for the pursuit of the ultimate in cultivation. I don’t wash the patina when it turns black. What’s the point of living like this? Or can it be considered alive like this?”

Fuck, Zhao Xun thinks that the third brother is a philosopher.

This is something a philosopher can say.

"So third senior brother, what are you pursuing now?"

"Pursue the feeling of being alive, that kind of fireworks, that kind of breathing."

The third brother Da Che realized: "I used to hate that kind of fireworks, and I pursued immortal energy. But this is very stupid. Not to mention whether mortals can become immortals through practice, even if they can, they can go to the heavens and enter the earth to live forever. But what’s the meaning of life if you lose all your emotions and desires, and become as cold as a stone? Fireworks are different, you can feel bitterness, happiness, and many subtle touches. I want to understand, I imagine a Ordinary people live like ordinary people. As for the realm of practice, let it go."

Someone who can say such a thing is definitely not bad.

Zhao Xun even once suspected that the third senior brother was a time traveler.

But it's impossible to think about it carefully.

If the third senior brother is really a time traveler, he must be able to judge that Zhao Xun is also a time traveler through the many details of getting along with Zhao Xun at the first time, and he will not act like this.

"That's what I'm after too."

Zhao Xun nodded and said: "Senior brother, you are doing well. If you live in the way you want, I think your cultivation level will also be improved."

Although Zhao Xun didn't know where the third senior brother's cultivation limit was, he must be able to reach the first rank.

Haoran Academy needs first-rank powerhouses other than Shanzhang, and Zhao Xun feels that compared with senior sisters, the third senior brother is more likely to enter the first-rank realm first.

(End of this chapter)