Chapter 993: The Current Situation of the Hundred Schools of Thought
The auction was very lively. Liu Ying took a quick look and saw that everyone was either rich or noble, and many of them could even be ranked among the top in the Weiyang Palace.
Liu Ying was very interested, but when she saw the first item, she was not very satisfied.
The first items exhibited at the auction were three muscular... humans?
"I remember that human trafficking should have been abolished!" Liu Ying frowned and looked at the boss beside her.
There was anger in his words.
According to the current policies of the Han Dynasty, there are very few one-size-fits-all policies. The first is to fight the Huns, the second is education, and the third is human trafficking.
Favoring sons over daughters is a bad habit, but in ancient times men had to bear more responsibilities, so favoring sons over daughters cannot be changed.
However, in order to prevent the drowning of baby girls, Chen Xi opened a corresponding girls' school in the name of Liu Ying and Guo Hao, which was similar to an orphanage, so that at least the baby girls could grow up.
In order to allow these baby girls to be sent to welfare homes, a series of economic policies were designated. Although sad, it did protect the survival of many babies, including not only baby girls but also sick baby boys.
Human trafficking also occurs based on this policy. Many people are blinded by greed and even a complex industrial chain has been formed.
However, under the iron fist of despotism, everything came to nothing. The Yulin Army personally went out to investigate the case and sent all the noble families and merchants involved in Luoyang to the guillotine.
From then on, this became a red line, and even the profession of human traffickers disappeared. After all, once this thing was discovered, it would be a serious crime that could lead to the extermination of three generations of the family, so no one dared to mess around.
Liu Ying always thought that it was understandable that such things happened in remote areas, because no matter how good the policy was, it needed to be implemented slowly. However, she never thought that there was still human trafficking around Luoyang.
The shopkeeper was a little frightened by the aura, but he was not panicked at all. He flipped through the documents and took out two admission certificates.
"Dear guest, please look, these people are all criminals. We have specially processed the transaction certificates for the sale of slaves, so these people are not protected by the law. These certificates are all issued by the Government Affairs Office. You can see that there are signatures of the adults who are specifically responsible for this business here."
"Criminal..." Liu Ying frowned. She remembered that someone seemed to have told her about this thing.
She could see that the shopkeeper was not lying, and the national fortune on the transaction certificate did prove its authenticity, and the person who signed it was actually Chen Xi.
"Send someone to ask Lord Chen for advice!" After a moment of silence, Liu Ying chose to verify it in person. She still couldn't accept this kind of thing, but she was not sure what Chen Xi meant for a moment.
Lu Bu nodded, and his spiritual thoughts penetrated his body, passing Liu Ying's order to the Yulin soldiers on standby, and someone immediately went to look for Chen Xi.
"Tell me about this criminal!"
Liu Ying knew that according to the Confucian definition, there was a gap between the Han people and the outsiders, that is, the difference between citizens and people.
Citizens of the Han Dynasty enjoyed more power and were called first-class citizens. Above them were the scholar-official class.
This already includes the Qiang people, the southern barbarians, and a series of people who were deeply influenced by the Han culture and had contributed to the Han Dynasty. They were also regarded as citizens, but they were slightly half a head shorter.
Below them are foreign barbarians, stowaways, vagrants, captives and other creatures, including but not limited to orcs and elves.
The so-called criminals were basically foreign barbarians who had violated the law and were not sentenced to death but were imprisoned for a long time.
It can be considered as waste utilization, and it does not flow into the market. It is usually sold to various noble families to be used as servants or for research.
After hearing this, Liu Ying roughly understood it and nodded with satisfaction. She was a real Confucian disciple. The great Confucian Cai Yong passed on his teachings to Cai Wenji, and Cai Wenji passed them on to her. She was a legitimate disciple.
She was very satisfied with this classification. After all, ten years ago, barbarians were not considered human beings, but it was already very good to be considered human beings now.
The Yulin Army also sent back news that this store was indeed approved by Chen Xi, and there was only one in the southeast, northwest, and northeast of Luoyang.
"Then what crime have they committed?" Liu Ying is not a saint. As long as they don't bring harm to the people, they are just barbarians.
"...cannibalism" the shopkeeper blurted out a charge that Liu Ying had not expected.
"No wonder!" Liu Ying nodded. If it was such a serious crime, it was not incomprehensible to be charged with it.
The auction continued, and the first few items were basically criminals of this type.
There are a series of strange creatures such as ogres, orcs, and trolls.
The auction will officially begin only after this wave of craze has passed.
"This is a treasure passed down from the Ji family. The key on the stage is just a key, and there are also matching terracotta warriors. Through the matching method, it can be driven to move freely!"
The shopkeeper introduced carefully. He was not a fool. He almost understood how noble the person in front of him was, and even spoke cautiously.
"According to the children of the Ji family, this is the experimental product of the Twelve Golden Men cast by Qin Shihuang. It is comparable to the internal energy digression and is very useful for protecting the home."
Liu Ying curled her lips in disdain. It was obvious that this thing was used by the Ji family to defraud funds. At the beginning, the Ji family also offered twelve imitation golden men as tribute, which were actually no different from the Mo family's mechanical beast puppets.
The Mohists once thought about forming a puppet army, but so far they have not solved the problem of the sharp decline in combat effectiveness under the cover of cloud.
However, for some small families and businessmen, this thing is still good. It is no problem to deal with a few wandering wild beasts with internal energy leaving their bodies.
After all, these days, if one can leave the body's internal energy and join the army and make some contributions, one can easily become a local official. Why bother serving others as a servant?
Liu Ying found the following things boring. They were basically things with high gimmicks but average cost-effectiveness. There were many things in her treasure pavilion that were better than these things.
But if you have to say it, these things can indeed be called treasures, but for Liu Ying, they are not enough.
But as the last few lots came up, Liu Ying became interested.
After all, it is one of the shops certified by Chen Xi himself, so its strength is unquestionable.
What appeared on the stage was... a phoenix?
"Hello, hey, hey, this is a phoenix, right?" Liu Ying fell into deep thought as she looked at the colorful bird in the cage, which was over one meter tall and flapping its wings as if it was flying.
“It has a golden silk crest on its head, and its upper body is golden yellow except for the dark green upper back. The back of its neck is covered with orange-brown fan-shaped feathers with black edges, forming a shawl. It fits the setting of the phoenix being colorful and patterned.” Diao Chan was also a little surprised. You are auctioning such a good omen so openly?
"So beautiful." Liu Ying looked at the gorgeous feathers and couldn't help but sigh. At this moment, her heart was moved. It would be so stylish to raise such a thing.
"One hundred million!" Before the auction started on the stage, Liu Ying directly threw out a sky-high price, shocking everyone present.
Those who can come up with this kind of liquid funds are basically the most ruthless of the ruthless. Even a few wealthy businessmen would hesitate if they were asked to pay this price.
It's just a bird that looks like a phoenix. Is it necessary to work so hard on it?
But when these people looked at Liu Ying in the stands, all those who could shout out the price lowered their heads.
What a joke. You may not have seen the eldest princess if you were living in the Han Dynasty, but you must have seen Lu Bu and Diao Chan.
If you haven't met these two people, you can't call out a price of 100 million.
Don’t say that this thing looks like a phoenix. Even if it isn’t, the eldest princess says it is, so it is.
Everyone wisely gave up bidding. One reason was that it was not worth it, and the other was that they knew very well that even if they risked their entire fortune, they would never be richer than Liu Ying.
This is the richest person in the entire Han Dynasty. As for Chen Xi, he is the God of Wealth and a walking money printing machine.
This terrifying existence can be written in billions or tens of billions by hand, and no one would put it on the list.
Liu Ying felt very happy after spending the money. Although she had no concept of money, she still felt good to spend money on shopping.
She had no interest in the crown at the back, even if it belonged to the queen of ancient Babylon.
At that time, this was not popular in the Han Dynasty. A crown was just a crown and had nothing to do with a royal crown. In Europe, this was also not popular in Rome. After all, the Roman emperor . He had to first stand from the perspective of a citizen and not be too high-profile.
In addition, the imperial crown is not about luxury, but about territory and imperial power.
Therefore, strength does not depend on how the crown is made, but on one's own strength. Therefore, the golden crown mentioned above is not popular these days.
For Liu Ying, this thing is useless except that it is heavy!
The flashy design is just like the flags stuck on an old general's body; it looks complicated but is actually useless.
She was quite interested in the Queen's story, but no matter how she listened, she felt that it was like the story of King Arthur of Great Britain and the stitched-together story she had experienced herself.
As for the floating city or something, isn’t that Tiangong-1?
Thinking of Tiangong-1, Liu Ying couldn't help but think of another thing, that is, Guo Hao promised to build a palace in the clouds for her.
This is not a random wish made by Guo Hao, but a result of his mature technology.
Under the research and development of Mohism, Tiangong-1 has successfully achieved the replication from one to two, and produced Tiangong-2. Although the combat problem has not been solved, it can still be used as a decoration.
However, Mo Jia played a trick, and then both Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 sank.
The Mohists wanted to create thirty-three heavens, a real heavenly palace.
The plan is simple, which is to stack thirty-three things from the Heavenly Palace series together. This thing is much more powerful than the Star-Picking Pavilion. It is directly a palace floating in the sky.
However, when the two were stacked together, they lost control instantly, causing the heroic sacrifice of both No. 1 and No. 2. Although the wreckage could be used to piece together a new Tiangong-3.
But the problem is that the Mohist School has just started to study why, but they are unable to spare the time to build a new one for the time being. Now the remains of No. 1 and No. 2 are still lying in the suburbs, and a group of Mohist School people are spending every day studying why they fell.
The quarrels between the elders of the Mo family were so fierce that they had to go to the hospital to see Hua Tuo for craniotomy every now and then due to cerebral hemorrhage. Chen Xi and Guo Hao were helpless in this regard.
The Mohist School is about to split into a nine-headed snake. Who would dare to intervene at this time? If the Mohist School splits up, it will be a great loss to the Han Dynasty.
The Mohist family alone carries one-third of the research results of the Han Dynasty. They have made great contributions and even Guo Hao and Chen Xi can only give them good advice.
I can’t afford to offend you. I can’t afford to offend you.
However, compared to these unfortunate children of the Mohist school, the Taoist research and development is very successful, and they have already developed things like healing talismans.
After coming into contact with American magic and magic scrolls, Zhang Jue and his companions opened up a new world. With the idea that talismans were actually such inconvenient things, they also started to tinker with them.
Finally, there are some results. A healing talisman that can be mass-produced, the kind that can bring the dead back to life with just one talisman.
However, these Taoists still have moral integrity and continue to conduct clinical trials.
After all, military supplies need to be stable and controllable. What if there is nothing wrong now, but some side effects suddenly appear and directly kill the soldiers on the front line.
Even if these Taoists had ten heads, they would not be enough.
However, even so, Chen Xi attached great importance to it and frantically increased the funding.
The reason why he vigorously trained medical soldiers was to provide first aid on the battlefield and to save the veterans to the greatest extent possible.
However, in a battlefield environment, medical soldiers can only save seven or eight out of ten patients. If this talisman is used, perhaps all patients can be saved as long as they do not die on the spot.
The results of the Hundred Schools of Thought began to gradually emerge, and many people have realized the role of the various schools of thought.
The educational barriers originally controlled by Confucianism were completely broken. The great Confucian scholars could suppress the various schools of thought, but they could not suppress their own conscience.
In the face of reality, they gave up their condescending attitude, took the initiative to seek change and joined the contention of a hundred schools of thought.
Since they were able to have the last laugh last time, they can do it this time too.
In fact, it is true that even if all the current schools of thought join forces, they can only reach a 50-50 situation with Confucianism.
The foundation of Confucianism is so solid that, although there hasn’t been another great figure like Confucius, there are still a lot of great Confucian scholars.
It was not noticeable when they were not working in the past, but once these great scholars started to work hard on scientific research, the results came out one after another.
Especially Confucianism starts with playing the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting to develop spiritual talents, which directly increases the strength of other schools.
Especially the spiritual talents like Cai Wenji's playing of the zither can enlighten and increase children's intelligence, which is a direct dimensionality reduction attack on other schools.
Even if your achievements are brilliant, it will be useless without complete inheritance. At most, they will only be brilliant for one generation.
However, the methods developed by Confucianism can provide a steady supply of talents.
The other families had no choice but to bear it. It was because they did not have the means at this stage. In order to cultivate the future of their descendants, they had to accept the influence of Confucianism.
But in fact, all the families were not convinced and were studying their own methods of inheritance.
This situation makes Chen Xi very satisfied. Healthy competition is the best competition. Such competition is most likely to produce results. This is the subjective motivation that is needed .
