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Li Er looked at the young man in front of him.

He has a weak body, even an immortal servant can easily kill him.

But inside such a weak body lives a powerful soul. It was like a prank from God, inserting the soul of a monster into an ordinary human body.

At Li Er's level of cultivation, he could easily see through the mismatch between the young man's body and soul. In his eyes, this young man's soul was neither black, nor white, nor gray, but chaos. When the heaven and earth first opened, it was a state of chaos with no distinction between good and evil.

Only such people can solve the current predicament of the fairy world.

He has been waiting since he got that hexagram three hundred years ago. Fortunately, he finally waited.

"That's why a hundred years ago, I sealed off the Immortal Road under the orders of the Jade Emperor." Li Er twitched the corner of his mouth, feeling a hint of bitterness in his mouth: "The times of the mortal world have changed, and the monks have also I began to have other unprecedented and rebellious thoughts. The Jade Emperor believed that this would shake the stability and order of the immortal world, so he ordered me to cut off the immortal path and refuse to accept monks from the mortal world."

Le Jing raised his eyebrows and almost immediately thought of the "isolation" of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the eyes of later generations, the reason for seclusion was too absurd, and the rulers who made such a policy were the sinners of the nation.

But later generations have forgotten one thing. That is, in the eyes of the rulers of the Ming Dynasty at that time, the common people were like cattle and horses, and only the royal family and scholar-bureaucrats were human beings. The rulers of the Qing Dynasty took another step forward on this basis. Except for the Aisin Gioro family, everyone in the world was a slave. So who cares what the slaves think and live or die? After all, history has always been recorded and commented on by the literati and officials who were under their rule.

And history has made a "ridiculous" joke in modern times. The slaves turned over! The slaves have taken charge and become the new masters of the country! The slaves began to write and comment on history! Therefore, the rulers of the Ming and Qing Dynasties were completely consigned to the pillar of shame in history and will be infamous for thousands of years. If they knew better, they would definitely cry out for injustice. After all, they are safeguarding the interests of the royal family and the big landowners and bureaucratic class. Who would have thought that one day there would be no emperor in the world?

In this case, it's just the butt that determines the head.

"This is not surprising." A hint of sarcasm flashed in Le Jing's eyes: "Even in the mortal world, China has been closed to the outside world for hundreds of years. This is just the last self-deception of the rulers of a declining feudal society."

Lao Jun was silent for a moment, and then looked at Le Jing seriously, his voice extremely condensed: "A big ship is about to sink, and everyone on the ship is asleep. You are the first to wake up. Will you choose to wake them up?"

Le Jing replied without hesitation: "Of course, I will."

Li Er sneered: "But even if you wake them up, the ship will still sink. They might even blame you for waking them up and letting them suffer the pain and despair before their death."

"So what?" The young man raised his eyebrows and said slowly but firmly: "Even if ninety-nine out of a hundred people will blame me, the only person I want to save is the only one who can jump into the sea to survive. What do those who dare not jump into the sea but only want to deceive themselves and others have to do with me?”

Li Er was silent for a while, looking at the misty clouds outside the window, with a touch of melancholy and helplessness in his eyes: "The fairyland has existed for too long. It is like a big ship piled with heavy objects, and it is difficult to return."

"Then just let the ship sink and build a new one." The young man said calmly in a chillingly calm tone: "Since ancient times, it is of course easier to rebuild a new world and a new order after destruction than to reform."

Taishang Laojun seemed not surprised to get such an answer from Le Jing. He took a deep look at Le Jing and asked, "How do you know that the new ship will not become the old ship?"

To this, the young man answered frankly: "There is no such thing as an eternal ship. As long as it is a ship, it will sink one day." He raised his eyes and looked at Li Er, his eyes like the warm wind before the storm: "We What we can do is try to extend the life of the ship and let the passengers live longer.”

Li Er lowered his head and muttered: "Can you live longer..." A vague smile finally appeared on the corner of his mouth. He raised his eyes and looked at Le Jing, his eyes were as clear and sharp as the young man: "Have you ever thought about it? , the surviving passengers may not thank the person who saved them at all, but will blame him for the dead passengers. What's more, they will complain about the unsatisfactory new ship and begin to miss the long life of the old ship.' As good as it gets'.

In response to Li Er's question, Le Jing responded with a poem by Bai Juyi: "I will give you a method to eliminate doubts, and you don't need to drill turtles and Zhu Pei. It takes three days to burn the jade, and it takes seven years to identify the material. The Duke of Zhou is afraid On the day of the rumor, Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp the throne. Xiangshi died at the beginning, who knows the truth of his life? "

History is a little girl who can be dressed up, but at the same time, history is also a mirror looking into evil spirits. Any history is contemporary history, and contemporary history has its own comments from future generations.

Wasn't Wang Anshi, who was labeled as a traitor because of the reform and scolded by scholars of the Southern Song Dynasty and even scholars of all dynasties for hundreds of years, now a reformer and thinker praised in history textbooks?

The people, as the silent majority, often keep silent in the turbulent times of today, and wave their flags and shout in calm future generations.

People are forgetful, but also long-term.

Li Er finally laughed loudly. He stroked his long beard and looked at Le Jing with deep admiration and expectation: "Then I'll wait and see."

"I will always keep an eye on you." He said to the calm young man: "Let's see what kind of new world you can create."

"Me? Creation?" Le Jing laughed and shook his head: "I am just a witness of the coming new world. I really cannot bear the heavy responsibility of creating a new world."

Li Er was stunned for a moment, and he asked the young man in confusion: "Who else can create a new world besides you?"

"Yes, there are many." The young man's eyes flickered, with a mysterious smile on his lips: "We call them, the people."

"People?" Taishang Laojun chewed the word carefully and seemed to understand a little, but he seemed to understand nothing. He cast his confused eyes on the calm young man in front of him, "I don't quite understand."

“All you need is a pen, enough paper, advanced printing technology, and a motivating speaker and leader, and you will soon see the power of the people.”

The young man smiled, his eyes flashed with an excited smile, and an inexplicable aura erupted around him, making Li Er subconsciously feel a little...dangerous.

But when he thought about the young man, he really couldn't understand the use of the conditions listed by the young man. If the young man said that he wanted to recruit people to organize a rebel army, Li Er would not be surprised at all. But the requirements for pens, paper, printing technology, speakers, and leaders are all too bizarre. In his view, if there is to be an uprising, one must first ensure that there are enough elixirs, equipment and wages, and then recruit as many powerful immortal kings as possible. This is the first step in planning a great cause.

Of course Le Jing could see Li Er's doubts, but he was not in a hurry to explain more. Let the facts confirm his judgment.

This world has a prerequisite that is superior to that of all Chinese dynasties - the literacy rate of the people at the bottom. In addition to those born immortals and monks who ascended from the mortal world, there are also a large number of mortals in the immortal world. Some of them are the immortal's family members and descendants, and some are the servants adopted by the immortal from the mortal world.

The former has its own immortals to look after and teach it, while the latter will also have its master's family pass down its basic skills to help it practice so that it can better serve its master.

And this is precisely the biggest contradiction beneath the prosperous appearance of the fairy world. Who can be willing to be a slave and a servant from generation to generation? Especially when you are talented and talented, and have advanced cultivation, but you are being dominated by a dandy who relies on the shadow of your ancestors to dominate you, who would be willing to do so?

During these twenty days, Le Jing discovered that even traffickers and lackeys were literate. This undoubtedly creates good conditions for cultural dissemination.

The young man intertwined his hands on the table, leaned forward and looked at Li Er almost impatiently, "Please find me a pen and some paper. I will prove it to you."

Pen and paper were quickly presented. Le Jing picked up the brush and dipped ink on the inkstone, and wrote beautiful regular script on the rice paper.

Li Er walked behind him and looked down, and couldn't help but read aloud: "Social Contract Theory"?

Le Jing nodded slightly and explained: "This is one of the three masterpieces of a great man named Rousseau in France during the Enlightenment period of Western thought. His other two works are "Confessions" and "On Human Inequality". "Origin and Foundation", all three books have had a profound impact on contemporary and later generations. Rousseau believed that all rights belong to the people and was a representative figure in the Western Enlightenment. "

Hearing the word "West", Li Er couldn't help but feel contempt and contempt: "They are just sages from the barbaric lands of the West."

Le Jing sighed inwardly.

Taishang Laojun is already a rare enlightened person in the immortal world. He is keenly aware of the undercurrent of current society, but he is still limited by past experiences and cognition.

Immortals have a long lifespan, almost as long as heaven and earth. This is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they are healthy and energetic, but on the other hand, it makes them stick to the old routine and make it more difficult for them to accept new things.

Historically, it has been young people who have issued revolutions, but middle-aged and elderly people are rarely seen for this reason.

He had a premonition that the birth of the new world would be a rough and long process, and he might not even be able to see the dawn after darkness before leaving.

And he, a little butterfly, doesn't know which direction the world will move in after flapping its wings. Everything is shrouded in layers of fog, waiting for countless travelers to explore.

Just like at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the ideological circles here will also show unprecedented chaos.

Just let them be confused. Because only chaos can bring about thinking and lead to a clear and painful life.

Next, let’s see which path history chooses.

And no matter which path history chooses, great chaos will be followed by great rule. Then the new world born on the corpse of the old world will usher in a golden age of rapid development.

Then when the time is right, history will turn to the next spiral.

Everything will be reshuffled.