redvbooks Chapter 2897: Change of Mind
Chapter 2897: Change of Mind
Chapter 2897: Change of Mind
County Magistrate Li thought that it was impossible for him to stay in power forever.
After all, mortals always have a limited lifespan.
Unless it's God.
But isn't there a God now?
But how can mortals covet the throne of God?
So he decided to educate his son well.
Ten years have passed.
He discovered that his eldest son was a fool.
Although he is kind and upright, under his teaching, he is also frugal enough.
But he is not as pedantic as outsiders imagine.
He is shrewdly honest.
He was good at using existing conditions to benefit the people and the court.
However, his son obviously did not have this ability.
So he had to have another child.
Still an idiot.
regeneration.
For some reason, he found himself aging very slowly.
This must be God's grace.
He understood it in his heart, but he would not blindly believe in God because of this.
However, he forgot that if he did not blindly believe in God, why should he believe in the King and Father?
Doesn't he understand that the so-called king is the biggest thief?
Thinking this way, he continued to educate his children.
Finally, a smart heir appeared.
But he soon discovered that the child was too smart.
He was so smart that he just used the people as a cover to gain benefits for himself.
They applied for money and grain from him in the name of doing things for the people, but only one in 3000 was actually spent on the people.
The youngest son applied for one million taels of silver to build a canal, but he ended up spending only thirty taels. He found thirty people and hastily dredged several existing small ditches, passing them off as the river he had built.
Yes, it is that outrageous, that smart, and that stupid.
Yes, smart stupidity.
Didn’t he know that he would send someone to check it out?
Oh, so you think that as the son of a vassal king, checking is just a formality?
It's like he doesn't even want to act!
As long as 99% of the money was spent on the people, he would tolerate it.
Eighty-five percent, he could barely accept it, after all, he was used to drifting.
If it's 70%, he will punish severely.
Fifty percent, he wants to kill his son.
Now, only one three thousandth of it is spent on the people!
He was speechless.
So he ignored the pleas of his mother and concubines, and ordered that his youngest son be beaten with a hundred sticks and then executed by slow slicing.
In the end, it was Old Wang who convinced him with the truth that "a benevolent king cannot kill his son" and instead put him in jail and imprisoned him forever.
However, he then ordered him to commit suicide by taking poison.
He cannot leave such a scourge to future generations.
This move also made Zhao Qingyu admire him very much.
If it were Zhao Qingyu, he wouldn't be able to do it and could only curse a few words at most.
In fact, there are very few people who are smart and who regard the people's hearts as their own.
The proportion is probably less than 5%.
I can’t say there are none, but it’s definitely very few.
Most of them are ignorant and selfish.
Magistrate Li sighed.
this day.
He took the children out into the streets.
All I saw was prosperity in the vassal state.
Everyone has food to eat, everyone has clothes to wear, and everyone lives and works in peace and contentment.
This was already a prosperous era in ancient times.
In a feudal peasant society, as long as there was enough land and a good magistrate, it was very likely that a county could be self-sufficient.
This is why the common people in ancient times hoped for a fair government - a lord who held county power could truly decide whether their lives were good or bad.
But the clear sky often only lasts three years.
And now, the vassal state of Li County has enjoyed more than 30 years of good times.
It can be said that every household lives a comfortable life.
Of course, there are people who become poor because of marriage, illness, or accidents.
But that was an accident, not a big picture thing.
There is one such family out of a hundred.
And there will be relief.
At least there won't be a large number of refugees.
Seeing this, the sons were all convinced by their father.
Ever since their youngest brother was executed, they have all been afraid of their father.
And now, they understand the suffering their father went through.
Seeing the smiling faces of the people and their sincere gratitude, County Magistrate Li was very satisfied.
He does not regret killing his son.
Kill!
If he stayed, the other sons would not be as good as the youngest son.
However, he thought of a problem.
What should I do after I leave?
At this time, he heard a voice coming from a temple.
"Lord Mountain God, may the king live a thousand years!"
"You're wrong, it should be long live!"
"Yes, as long as the king is always here, we can always have a good life."
"That's right. My family used to live in the north. We built the palace three times a year, and we went bankrupt in two years."
"Since I came here, I have been able to live and work in peace and contentment again. This is all thanks to the king!"
"That's right, we have to pray to the mountain god to keep the king alive."
Always alive?
County Magistrate Li was not afraid of death, nor did he ever think about immortality.
But when he saw the people's heartfelt thoughts, he began to waver.
He knew that for decades, no one had been able to persuade the previous emperor to change.
It's all just coping.
He only has this sharp sword.
So for the sake of the people, he cannot rely on others.
He can only count on himself!
He wants to live forever!
He will always watch over the people.
This is his responsibility!
He became enlightened.
So, he started to worship God for the first time.
I hope the mountain god will give me eternal life.
……
Zhao Qingyu was somewhat disappointed. He found that County Governor Li had also become weak and could no longer control his inner feelings.
This is ridiculous.
Immortality is not something that mortals can seek.
He will not give immortality to the second person either.
If that happens, you will be threatened.
So this is not feasible.
He wouldn't do that.
However, this person did pass the test.
He actually always sticks to his original intention.
So he began to transform himself into a boy, and by some coincidence, he appeared in front of County Magistrate Li when he was traveling.
Then he fainted on the ground.
Sure enough, he was rescued by County Magistrate Li. After finding out the situation, he successfully worshipped the other party as his godfather and was adopted by him.
In fact, there are many orphans like him.
If the county magistrate sees it personally, he will take the child in and personally educate him when he has the time.
……
"The beginning of man..."
Subsequently, Zhao Qingyu received Confucian education.
This is natural. After going deeper, Zhao Qingyu gradually understood the growth experience of Li Junshou.
The other party truly regards those saints' classics as the principles of life.
But most people only regard them as stepping stones to success, fame, fortune and wealth.
For example, the required study "The Great Learning".
Every administrator can recite: "The way of the university is to manifest the bright virtue, to love the people, and to stop at the highest good."
However, only one in ten thousand can really follow it.
The Prime Minister had a clean demeanor, but that did not prevent his family from relying on his influence to take over the land of an entire county.
And the Prime Minister never really stopped it.
And County Magistrate Li did it.
One day, Zhao Qingyu could not help asking, "Foster father, this sage book is read by everyone, and without it, one cannot pass the imperial examination."
"But why after the imperial examination, everyone did the opposite?"
Magistrate Li was speechless.
He sighed: "There are many people in the world who love profit."
"Those who are virtuous are few."
“The virtuous leave their names in the future, and the profit-seekers gain profit in the present.”
“People like the present, so they like profit.”
Zhao Qingyu is a modern man, and what he is actually looking for is how the other party can hold on.
So he asked: "Why, foster father, was able to block out those temptations and insist on putting morality first?"
"Insist on not seeking fame or profit, but only serving the people?"
"Is it because you are naturally good?"
County Magistrate Li thought about it and told him a story:
"I grew up without a father and was raised by my mother."
"And with the help of the villagers, I was able to take the imperial examination."
"I am paid by the court, so naturally I have to work for the court."
"I am supported by the people, so I must work for the people."
Zhao Qingyu understood.
In fact, County Magistrate Li's moral integrity was trained through one thing after another.
It's not completely innate.
Of course he knew modern scientific theory that biological communities are naturally composed of altruistic individuals.
Because such communities can survive better.
Therefore, the groups that have survived to the present day are often altruistic groups.
This is determined by genes and biology.
Just like humans can reproduce and become the first.
Other social creatures also have sentinels.
And the animals on sentinel obviously have more altruistic genes.
After all, it is tiring and dangerous.
……
Zhao Qingyu understood that he could not completely copy County Magistrate Li's method.
But you can learn from one thing at a time.
In this way, he learned the character of Magistrate Li - of course, he did not learn altruism.
It's about resisting temptation and fighting against indulgence.
He soon discovered that the best way was to cultivate an opponent for himself so that they could restrain each other.
Because there are constraints, he won't do whatever he wants.
Without an opponent, people will do whatever they want.
But he would not be so stupid as to cultivate an opponent that he could not control and who would kill him in the future.
So he will cultivate an opponent, but leave a backdoor.
In addition, instead of cultivating others, he would try his best to suppress others.
He only allowed himself to be the only truly extraordinary person in this world.
The other extraordinary person is just his puppet, a brake, a valve.
So he began to act like the emperor.
He gave Li Junshou the position of river god.
But the opponent's divine power can only be used to eliminate disasters and restrict him from destroying the world.
……
Ten years later.
Zhao Qingyu sighed, he finally turned into a dragon.
In the past, when he saw the protagonist of the story being hit by the upper class, he felt very aggrieved and wanted to defeat these super bosses immediately.
And now he has become this kind of super boss.
Now it's his turn to suppress others.
He had to do this for the sake of his power and his position.
It turns out that what determines what a person does is his butt, not his brain.
Just like now, he clearly knows that this kind of suppression will make the world's development extremely slow, but he will still do it.
Not only is he suppressing supernatural powers, he is also suppressing the development of scientific and technological power.
Zhao Qingyu does not allow technological research in this world.
He will only bring a large number of industrial products from the modern world.
He described these industrial products as gifts from the gods.
At the same time, he asked this feudal society to design a system that would tie everyone to the land.
Small farmers are the easiest to manage.
To do this, he used modern computers to impose population restrictions.
It can be said that ordinary people cannot do this.
Even the emperor can't do that.
Because human energy and ability are limited.
But one person or one class cannot deal with the billions of people who want to live a better life.
Even if we deal with them, there are still others out there who will have stronger power because they have activated hundreds of millions of people.
In this way, the interest groups themselves will be in internal conflict and other opponents will be killed.
It was not until the emergence of AI that there was no need for hundreds of millions of ordinary people, and there was no need to divide the profits among ordinary people.
And Zhao Qingyu is the super AI.
He saw that the whole world had enough food and clothes, and everyone could have enough food and clothes.
But if you want to improve further, it is impossible.
And he began to use all kinds of modern equipment to win over a small part of the temple class and let these people manage the others.
Most ordinary people are only allowed to do a few things every day, such as eating, defecating, sleeping, praying, and offering incense. As for scientific research, technology, and various hobbies, they are not allowed.
Soon he discovered another problem. As his temples grew larger and larger, some nobles, who were well fed and well clothed and had nothing to do, secretly began to study science.
Some people study pinhole imaging, some study chemistry, some study physics, and some study biology. Especially some island countries, which are relatively far away from us, do more things.
Moreover, many people are very interested in the true nature of the mountain god. They even secretly send people to infiltrate the temple system in order to study him. They also want to become gods.
There are actually a lot of people like this, especially those who are about to die of old age in seven or eight years.
They took out all their money and wanted to study how to become gods.
In the past, they saved all their gold and silver.
It remains unchanged for decades and is passed down to the next generation.
It’s different now. These guys have a few years before they die, and they use a lot of gold for secret bounties.
Their purpose is to find out the secret of the mountain god and let me become a god too.
Some people are smarter and just flatter him directly.
After flattering the emperor, he directly begged for immortality.
Only a true deity could withstand this kind of flattery test.
It was really hard for him to bear this fake god situation, so he had to comfort himself.
He took the sugar coating and just fired the shell back.
So he stayed away from these people and attacked them.
And these people began to carry out various infiltration activities.
They sent people to investigate how the temple worked.
And in remote places, far away, they began to experiment on their own.
They also built a temple, carved their own portraits on the temple, and then organized a group of people to burn incense and pray for them every day.
In short, they are all imitating him.
Of course, these people are just imitating others, which is useless.
Because they don't have that glass ball, and they don't have a cheat.
In this real physical world, you cannot master any extraordinary powers without cheating.
And these people have no choice but to turn to the power of technology.
But they were all suppressed by Zhao Qingyu.
Zhao Qingyu severely suppressed it, prohibiting people from making steam engines and conducting various scientific experiments.
Today you can work on steam engines, tomorrow you can work on mushrooms.
Mushrooms pose a great threat to him.
Because it is the only weapon that has the potential to kill everyone.
(End of this chapter)