Careerist in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 176 The Flower of Sin
"The moon god has the moon god's trajectory, and you have your trajectory."

"The sun cannot overtake the moon, and the moon cannot overtake the sun. Only by performing their own duties can they comply with the laws of the stars."

Donghuang raised his hand and took out the blue dragon copper box entrusted by the Moon God:
"You have to decipher the secret of Canglong Qisu together. As for the various schools of thought," he just turned the copper box around in his hand, and the leader of the Yin-Yang family returned it to the Moon God: "You have your own." Duty.”

"Yes"

The two girls, Sun and Moon, understood what Dong Huang meant: the Yin Yang family's first task was to decipher the secrets of Canglong Qisu. As for the Mo family and the Nong family among the hundreds of families, each of them was responsible for one.

After resigning and walking out of Donghuang's secret room, Concubine Yan immediately felt that the breath of her sister next to her was a little unfamiliar.

"Master Dongjun has just returned to Yin Yang's house, so he should stay in Xianyang for a while and walk around. The environment here is different from five years ago."

One step ahead of Concubine Yan, Moon God's tone was solemn, consistent with the tone when he just spoke to Xinghun, with the right guardian's admonishment.

"Lord Moon God has also been away from Xianyang for a long time. For this trip to Xianyang, Lord Moon God might as well come with us."

Concubine Yan's deep pupils shone faintly, but she chuckled.

She kept some secrets after all.

After discussing with Zhou Wen, Lu Wei handled various tedious Gonggong Hall affairs in the main hall.

He planned to go to Songhai City for inspection after finishing his busy work.

At this time, Uncle Qing suddenly walked in with a strange disciple.

Lu Qing usually rarely comes to disturb the hall master's work at this time. Since he is here, it means that something important must have happened. Hall Master Lu put down his pen and looked at the strange disciple, preparing to listen to the report.

The strange disciple was indeed wearing peasant clothes, but the identification mark on the clothes was not the symbol of Gonggongtang, but the symbol of Kueitang. He was a disciple of Kueitang.

This disciple's body was trembling slightly, and his expression was filled with excitement and nervousness. The most conspicuous thing about his body was that he was holding a bright red flower that was as red as fire in his hand.

'poppy?No, it’s the flower of sin! '

Lu Wei, who had sharp eyes and was familiar with the internal affairs of Daze Mountain, roughly understood what was going on, but he still looked at Lu Qing and waited for Lu Qing's report according to the procedure.

"Hall Master, this is a disciple of Kui Kui Hall. He said that he stole the secret of 'Seeing Flowers in the Smoke' from Master Tian Mi of Kui Kai Hall and wanted to join Gonggong Hall."

The art of seeing flowers in the mist is Tian Mi's special skill, and it is an illusion method.

When using it, the woman will use the pipe in her hand to exhale a burst of pink smoke from her mouth. Once the enemy inhales it, the inhaler will inevitably be in a trance. Those with weak skills will immediately fall into hallucinations and be followed by Tian Mi. The poisonous needle hidden in the head of the smoking gun sneak attack.

Tian Mi herself is very weak, and she can't deal with the master through smoke and mirrors, but this woman is very good at using her body and charming words to get both sides. Once she is underestimated, she can also sneak up on her through smoke and mirrors.

The driving force of illusion methods is usually herbal medicine or the user's internal power. Seeing flowers in the mist belongs to the former. The medicine it uses is the 'Flower of Sin' held in the hands of the disciple of Kuei Hall who is standing aside. '!
Also known as heartbroken grass, an evil product called Fu Shou Ointment was made from it in later generations.
"Reporting to Hall Master Lu Wei, Tian Mi used this safflower fruit to make a medicine called 'Huakai Tea'. After adding it to the pipe, it can be used to see flowers in the mist."

The disciples of Kuei Hall knelt down and held red flowers in their hands, and said excitedly: "Tian Mi has planted a large area of ​​these flowers in Kuei Hall. Regular disciples are strictly prohibited from getting close to them, and only close associates are used to pick and make medicine. The younger one has been lurking for many years, and finally secretly picked one. , dedicated to the Hall Master Lu Wei, and I hope the Hall Master can accept me into the Gonggong Hall."

If you want to abandon the weakest Kuei Hall and join the strongest Gonggong Hall, you always need to show your worth. This is probably what the disciple kneeling and bowing his head in front of him thinks.

He raised his hand and sucked it, and the sinful flower fell into Lu Wei's hand.

Holding it in the hand, the stems of the flowers that are very similar to poppies are smooth and smooth, not like the 'burrs' of poppies.

"Does Tian Mi have any rumors about such a flower?"

The hall master threw it aside, calmly used his inner energy to lift up the kneeling disciple, and asked.

"Such a precious medicine, Tian Mi hides it tightly. Except for the place where she planted it herself, there is no outside news in Kuei Hall."

The disciple answered carefully.

"Well, I know about this." Lu Wei glanced at the sin flower. The flower is innocent, but when combined with the darkness of the human heart, sin will be born.

"Uncle Qing, please take him down. Just follow the rules of Gonggongtang."

"Yes, Master"

If a disciple within a farm family wants to change churches, as long as a church is willing to accept them, there will be a set of standard rules.There are actually many rules in the farmhouse, but over the centuries, they have been simplified a lot, and now the form has become more rugged after being adapted to the Jianghu sect.

After the two of them retreated, Hall Master Lu went to the wild, crushed the Sinful Flower into pieces and buried it in the soil, washed his hands carefully, and then went to the backyard.

This kind of plant does have certain medicinal value, but the doctor Xiao Duanmu has better and safer alternatives with similar medicinal effects, so it is not worth keeping.

In addition to Siyuetang, Kueitang also wanted to speed up their planning. They had to find Chen Sheng and let the black swordsman cause trouble for Tian Mi.In early summer, Lu Wei took Lu Qing along with him during the inspection trip to Songhai.

As the general manager of Gonggongtang, Lu Qing needs to conduct actual inspections of each local branch before deciding on future material distribution.

In the past, he could only make decisions based on disciple reports, data lists, and requests from local responsible persons for material distribution issues.

How to distribute it all depends on his personal judgment. If there are some things that he is really not sure about, he has to write to the local hall master to make a decision.

In the early days, this would not be a big problem if the people in charge of each place were the confidants personally selected by Hall Master Lu. However, once the area under jurisdiction becomes larger and there are more branches, it will be even more necessary to maintain it through a system. Overall operation.

After Lu Qing was asked by Lu Wei and gave a rough plan, he needed to refer to the actual situation in various places and use the old loose system as a reference to slowly improve a new system with better effects to standardize the operation of Gonggongtang.

In the future, it may even be extended to the entire farm.

A few years ago, when Hall Master Lu Wei was running around, Lu Qing had to sit at the Gonggong Hall headquarters and had no time.Now that Ah Shan shares the responsibility, he can finally do this seriously.

"The main responsibility of the Songhai City branch is to contact Confucianism. We have no land there and can only make money by operating shops and fishing. It is not very important."

Lu Qing made his own judgment based on the actual situation.

From the perspective of current interests, there is rarely a direct connection between the Confucians studying in the small sage village and the farmers.

In addition to special talents like Li Shiqi, Confucian disciples also yearned to serve as officials and spread Confucianism.

Asking them to join a farmers' organization whose name sounds like a bitter one may even be considered humiliating.

After all, Fan Chi, a student of Confucius, asked Confucius for farming knowledge and was evaluated as a "little man".The Confucianism founded by Confucius is a political knowledge. What he hopes is that his disciples will seek political status, not small 'farming'.

Confucius may not necessarily look down on agriculture. When he was young, he guarded warehouses and herded cattle and sheep for others, but he would never teach his disciples to learn agriculture.

Lords, ministers, fathers and sons, everyone should stick to their respective positions. Officials should not despise agriculture, but if they plant agriculture themselves, they will be criticized by Confucius.

After this attitude was passed down from generation to generation, it was gradually distorted in the eyes of some, to put it bluntly, most of the scholars who read the books of sages and sages, and agriculture became the knowledge of the lowly.

Lu Wei and Lu Qing rarely work in the fields themselves, and the same goes for other people in the farm family who can work in the field.

"Li Shiqi and Ziwu of Songhai City can maintain the normal operation of the branch. The price of good relations with Confucianism is very small for Gonggongtang."

The master of the hall sat on horseback and responded to Lu Qing:
"Confucianism really can't give us much help now, and Taoism, Mohism, and other schools of thought have little contact with farmers, but they can maintain good contact at these small costs, so why not do it~"

"The effort is nothing compared to the potential gains. Uncle Qing, the Songhai branch must continue to maintain its position."

"Yes, I understand."

Lu Qing nodded, he actually understood this very well.

Before joining the farmer's family, when Lu Qing was running a tavern and inn in Zhuang Town, he often used charity and money to make friends with passers-by. What he wanted was the huge returns that a small investment could bring.

He succeeded because of this, and now the Lu family and his son hold high positions in the Gonggong Hall of the farm.

Applying the act of casting a wide net to the entire Gonggongtang is, for Lu Qing, doing something old and doing something new, and it makes sense.

The reason why he asked on the way to Songhai City was because Lu Qing could feel that Lu Wei's investment in Songhai went beyond "casting a wide net".

The leader of the hall is so concerned about Sanghai. As a subordinate, sometimes he needs to pretend to be stupid to find out the leader's thoughts and avoid misunderstandings, so as to facilitate better conduct.

Lu Wei understood Uncle Qing's intention and replied with the words "keep going". The latter immediately knew what to do next.
'The hall leader attaches great importance to Songhai City and must increase investment in Songhai! '

Songhai was not notified of the inspection in advance, so when the hall master and general manager came to the branch, Li Shiqi and Ziwu were not there.

There were only a few disciples who hurriedly wanted to go out to search, but were stopped by Lu Wei:
"It's okay, I'll go find them myself. Uncle Qing, please stay here."

"Yes, Hall Master."

Lu Qing nodded and ordered his disciple to take him to the accounting room.

It is said that Li Shiqi was in the tavern and Ziwu went out to sea with the fishing boat.After the Lord Hall Master walked out of the branch, he didn't go anywhere to the tavern or the beach. Instead, he went straight to the Little Saint's Manor.

When you come to Confucian territory, it is etiquette to pay a visit to the owner of the place.

Although there is nothing important, I am still showing my courtesy even if I have nothing to do now. How can the three Confucian masters be embarrassed to shirk it when something does happen in the future.

(End of this chapter)