I am an immortal in heaven and earth

Chapter 363 Some Thoughts on Equal Land Use

"Other girls wear flowers, but I, an old man, have no money to buy them. Please pull out a two-foot red hair string and tie it up for Xier."

"Other girls have flowers to wear, but my father has no money to buy them, so he just pulled out a two-foot red hair string and tied it up happily."

On the big stage, a skinny little girl with a pale face and a dark-faced, barefoot man in a short shirt, although they had joyful looks, they aroused too much resonance.

At this time, a flattering voice came out, it was the lackey housekeeper: "As long as you marry our Master Huang Shiren, not only will you have a two-foot red hairband, but you will also have enough white rice and flour to eat for ten years and enough silk to wear for ten years. Have you made up your mind, Yang Bailao?"

When the people in the audience saw this man, some showed disgust and wanted to beat him, while others showed envy. Some girls who were also watching the show asked curiously, "Dad, why is Xier's family so poor and she doesn't want to marry a landlord? If she marries a landlord, won't she and her father live a better life? She is too selfish."

As soon as she asked, her father looked at her in disbelief, his heart pounding: "Why do you think so?"

"I heard from my neighbor's sister that the maids in rich families live better than the young ladies in small families. They eat and dress the same as their masters. If her family wants to give it back, she will not agree."

This is a typical idea that it is glorious to be a slave to others, but it is shameful to be a slave.

This was also one of the obstacles to Xu Jia's equal distribution of land. Landlords were easy to arrest and kill, but most of the people who protected the landlords were his tenants and hired farmers...

They have regarded these people as the only piece of sky above their heads. They depend on them for food and drink and cannot afford to lose them for a single day. They are like a dog raised by a wealthy family. If the family is gone, the dog will become a stray dog.

Xu Jia also felt a little frustrated because he had ignored the "thought emancipation movement", which allowed a part of the people to become disenchanted with imperial power, created the soil for revolution, and allowed the people to embrace the valuable spirit of pursuing freedom.

Just like the imperial examination system is the maintenance of the feudal system, these slave mentality is also a huge mountain of the feudal system. Behind these landlords are clans, aristocratic families, and officials of all sizes.

Even those who were responsible for confiscating Xu Jia's property would sometimes secretly embezzle the proceeds, thinking that there was no reason not to take what was confiscated, as it was a lucrative job.

The result of such property confiscations is nothing more than the creation of a group of new feudal landlords, or even a class of slave owners. They cannot be considered the original landlords. When they suddenly become rich, they will become a hundred times more cunning. Having come from poor backgrounds, they will know how to make things difficult for poor people more easily. This is a common problem among petty officials at the grassroots level who have gained some small power.

Xu Jia happened to have cultivated such a group of confidants overseas, and now they have returned here by boat. For example, Chen Gongming has been overseas for three years.

The most basic construction in Luzon has been almost completed. We have subdued the natives, absorbed refugees, reclaimed land, built houses and docks, mined ore, repaired bridges, and paved roads. All of this is part of the annual production plan. We accomplish more each year than the previous one. The five-year plan was completed in three years.

Now that he is back he is in charge of the work. In addition, the first batch of "international students" have also returned, namely the first batch of 500 Taoist children who went to the mountains to learn skills. The second batch of Taoist children are still staying overseas, and the third batch of Taoist children are being recruited.

At this time, Xu's father also returned to Yushan from Poyang. He was in charge of the work there, but after all, the foundation was not very stable. The redistribution of land needed him to play a mediating role. After all, he was a juren and came from a landlord family. He could represent a part of the landlords, and he was the kind of gentry who maintained stability in the village, donated schools, and built temples.

When Xu's father arrived, he said to Xu Jia, "You asked those landlords to sell their land at a fair price, so that they could open factories and do business. However, the court has always believed that scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans should be the most important class. They believe that doing business is lowly, so the master of the family should control the land and property, study hard, and work hard to become an official. I also went through this in the past. I was a concubine's son, or the second son, and became a steward to manage the family's business assets."

"These landlords have never had any experience in business. Instead, it is these second sons and illegitimate sons who are willing to do so. If you do this, it will be equivalent to splitting their clan system, and the interests of the direct line will inevitably be damaged. You have to give them a way out, a way that is more promising than being a businessman, a way to become an official."

Xu Jia understood what his father meant, so he said, "I will open a school and let some of them have a sense of identity. Now we haven't reached the time to select officials, but you can hint to them to prepare in advance. However, what we will test is no longer the Four Books and Five Classics. We will test only part of them. The other subjects, such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, geography, biology, history, etc., will also become test questions. Let their children study in the school we open, which is called New Learning."

Father Xu said, "Apart from the new learning, what else do they really want? What they really want is to become an immortal. If they can become an immortal, what kind of wealth and glory can they not give up? When people are poor, they just want to have enough to eat. When they are full, they want to be rich. When they are rich, they naturally want power. When they have power, they want to have children and grandchildren. This goes on for generations, and they want to live forever."

"You have demonstrated your powers several times, showing off your saintly abilities in front of people. Even your mother and I have some magical powers. How could they not know? Who doesn't fantasize about having magical powers? It seems that all difficulties can be solved with magical powers."

"Those witches and sorcerers are just widows and orphans. How can they be respected? Isn't it you who taught them magic?"

"Throughout history, how many people have wanted to learn magic and magical powers and spend all their wealth?"

Although Xu Jia was spreading the Dharma in America, he had no scruples, and could even be said to be looser than his belt, but he really didn't dare to do anything too reckless here. His foundation was really here, and the merits of a lifetime of immortals were here. Whenever he spread the Dharma, he had to make a vow, and if he violated it, it would be fulfilled.

Xu Jia thought about it and said, "It turns out that studying the law and cultivating immortality has replaced studying for the imperial examinations and has become the new class of the rich and powerful."

However, Xu Jia does hope that more people can practice cultivation and combine cultivation with industrialization. However, cultivation is never a quick success. Those that can be accomplished quickly are all unorthodox methods, and unorthodox methods overdraw the foundation.

"Then let them pray for immortality and see who is more sincere. The previous court had people donating money to become officials, and now I am also donating money to become immortal. Whoever donates more will be accepted as a registered disciple. They will learn quickly in two months and will be guaranteed to learn a magic spell."

Xu Jia was also more abstract: "In fact, these magical skills were naturally bred in the process of solving the problems of sentient beings. I have been practicing until now. Except for some unorthodox methods that I learned, the real magical skills are all realized in the heart. If you can understand your mind and see your nature, you will be a first-class immortal. But sentient beings are fools, so let's just leave it like this for now."

Father Xu nodded and said, "They would be willing to learn a magic skill even if they had to exchange it for a thousand acres of good farmland. As long as they learn one skill and pass it on to their descendants, and their descendants learn another skill, or learn a few more skills, then they will become a family of practitioners, right?"

When Xu Jia heard this, his mind suddenly lit up. He didn't think it was a bad idea. They trained monks themselves, spent all their family wealth, and raised one, but in the end, he had to work in the factory for them...

Xu Jia immediately started planning, what kind of magic should he teach?

What kind of magic is the most popular in immortal cultivation novels?
That must be the "Little Cloud and Rain Technique", a magical tool for farming.

Another one is "turn mud into stone, turn stone into mud", which is a civil engineering artifact.

It’s just that Xu Jia’s style of fairy-tale painting is different from that style of fairy-tale painting.

If you want it to rain, you have to hold an altar and proclaim the Five Thunders Method. If you want to turn stone into mud and mud into stone, you have to at least study one or two strange escape techniques.

It's easy to make it rain. I have the Dragon God and earth and stone magic, so I can get the authority from the mountain god, Chang Yu.

Xu Jia thought about it, apart from these two, something like the "Gengjin Sword Finger" can be used as a "knife skill" to rub the secret pieces by hand, and the Zhurong Fire Qi Curse can be used for metallurgy and casting...

These can all be integrated into the Lingbao Daomin Lu. After these people practice it, they will go from barely activating it, to activating it continuously, and then to activating it for eight hours, which is quite good.

If we can teach you some tricks to control birds and beasts, wouldn't it be possible to do large-scale special breeding?

In fact, Xujia Normal College recruits students and cultivates compulsory education, which is good, but the results are slow. These people can catch up with the quick training and transform from landlords into urgently needed talents, and can also fill some vacancies.

Although the grievance meeting had little effect, Xu Jia still discovered some problems from it, namely the problem of thinking. Children are the focus, but adults should not be ignored. They can more easily influence the next generation through their words and deeds.

Find some singers, playwrights and storytellers to tell the story of "Journey to the West". It is a classical novel about gods and demons, it has the spirit of resistance and struggle, and it also includes many philosophical principles and runs through the three religions.

In addition to this, we should also publish newspapers and find some intellectuals to curse each other and debate opinions. Ordinary people like to watch the fun. Although they don’t have much culture, they do have simple views on good and evil and philosophy. It is better to guide them a little and get some thinking than to be numb.

The wind of culture is like the spring rain and the summer thunder. The spring rain is silent, while the summer thunder is deafening.

In addition, although Xu Jia cultivated gods, gods were not superstitious panaceas that could cure all diseases. The people had to be disenchanted with the gods and he even encouraged them to "become gods." Couldn't those who made special contributions "become gods through merit"?

Of course, personality cult is undesirable, but leaving a name during one's lifetime and being remembered forever after death is what people of this era pursue most.

Xu Jia's great wish is the great desire of all living beings. Xu Jia has always thought about restraining the desires of all living beings. It is better to guide than to block, and everyone must have a way out.

(End of this chapter)