So Ye Feng explained it to everyone.
"For the Great Xia Dynasty, from the perspective of its functions, the academy was like a floating official in the imperial court's county system. It belonged to a local management agency, which was the ancient local government.
"But there is a difference between the two. In ancient times, local officials relied on the prestige of the court and the court's violent organization, that is, the army, to make the local gentry and powerful people in various places submit to the unified local management of the central court. But when it came to the end of a dynasty, The people were in dire straits, and the prestige of the court was greatly damaged. More importantly, after the local gentry had their own armed forces, it was only a matter of time before they could rise up against the imperial army or plot to usurp the government.
"However, the prehistoric fairyland is different. The academy is fundamentally different from the ancient imperial court and local government. The academy does not need the prestige of the imperial court or the army at all, so that the local gentry can willingly submit to the unified local management of the Great Xia Dynasty. There is no other reason, because the academy is a sect that cultivates immortality, and it is a place for cultivators. No matter how powerful the local gentry is, it is useless to hoard more troops. They are just ants in front of the cultivators.
"Although I don't want to say this, in terms of pure power to kill, ordinary mortals are like ants in front of immortal cultivators. This fact can never be changed. Even if the local gentry can think of gathering casual cultivators as an army, it is impossible. . In the final analysis, the local gentry are not cultivators and cannot provide the cultivation resources needed by casual cultivators, so it is okay for them to spend some money to ask casual cultivators to do other things to fight against the cultivators like the Great Xia Dynasty, which are composed of monks. The dynasty is simply an extremely stupid act. What's more, the eight strongest sects support this dynasty of monks who treat the common people as their own beasts. It is even more impossible for those casual cultivators to resist the Great Xia Dynasty.
"So the powerful local gentry have no other ideas except to curry favor with the academy, obey the academy's management, and actively pay taxes in the hope that someone in their family can successfully enter the academy to practice and become monks and immortals. So this also reflects the relationship between me and As Xia Yimo said, the institutions that the people at the bottom served from the beginning were small sects and small colleges, not large sects at all, and this is the underlying logic.
"To put it simply, because of the absolute gap in power between immortals and mortals, the college system is a local administrative system that is countless times better than the county system. This is also the reason why the Great Xia Dynasty can last forever. But it is also In this way, it is almost inevitable that the Daxia Dynasty, with its feudal ideas, regarded the common people as cattle and horses. Because from the beginning, mortals did not have an equal status with immortal cultivators in terms of strength. From this perspective, the common people were regarded as cattle and horses, which was a violation of the original It can only be regarded as the greatest "gift" of the people who are ants. Resistance? Impossible."
As he spoke, Ye Feng looked at Xi Ruo and said: "So even for a declining college like Yangming Academy, the only thing those local gentry can think of is that good birds choose trees to live in, and they will choose other stronger colleges to attach themselves to. But you will never think of subversion. So the local gentry who originally paid taxes to Yangming College should now pay taxes to the colleges around Yangming College. This is also the main reason why you are now in poverty. And you guessed it right If so, most of the land originally under the jurisdiction of Yangming Academy has been annexed by other surrounding academies, right? The land deeds are already in the hands of those other academies, right?"
Xiruo blushed, lowered her head in shame, and muttered: "Yes, yes."
At this time, Ye Feng continued to add: "The college system encourages competition among colleges, but the bottom line is that we must not annex other colleges independently. After all, I said before that the college is essentially a sect and has a legacy of cultivating immortals. Therefore, if you want to ban the annexation of the academy, this matter must be implemented through the Academy Management Department to ensure that the inheritance will not be interrupted. After all, for the Great Xia Dynasty that wants to stand up and rebel against the eight major sects, reducing the sect inheritance in Middle-earth is no different. Because of the act of cutting off one's own arm. Therefore, no college dares to do such a thing, but other than that, annexing land and robbing the land's population and food resources is indeed allowed.
"And that Jiang Yunhe probably accepted a bribe from a nearby college and banned Yangming Academy in order to allow that academy to annex Yangming Academy according to legal procedures."
Hearing this, Mei Jiu said angrily: "That ungrateful bastard Jiang Yunhe deserves to have a son without an asshole, should he die?"
"..." Everyone laughed silently at Mei Jiu's foul language, but Xiruo pulled Mei Jiu's sleeve from behind and told her to stop saying it. It was too embarrassing.
"Jiang Yunhe is dead," Ye Feng suddenly said.
The atmosphere suddenly became quiet and silent, because everyone was convinced that Ye Feng killed Jiang Yunhe. Including Xiruo also thinks so. Xiruo lowered his head and remained silent for a long time, then asked with a trembling voice: "Ye Feng, did you kill this person?"
But Ye Feng shook his head and said: "It wasn't me, it was Xia Wuyan who killed him."
Hearing this, Xiruo suddenly raised his head and finally breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "It's okay if you weren't the one who killed me. Otherwise..."
Xiruo's words became as loud as a mosquito's moan as they went on, becoming softer and silent.
Mei Jiu couldn't tell what Xi Ruo was thinking. Although Jiang Yunhe deserved to die, he had been very kind to Xi Ruo after all. In Xi Ruo's eyes, Jiang Yunhe was her brother. So even if Jiang Yunhe deserves to die, she can't kill Jiang Yunhe herself, and she doesn't want the people she values to kill Jiang Yunhe, otherwise she won't be able to get along with the person in her heart in the future. After all, falling in love with the person who killed your brother or even your father is a plot that can only be found in novels written by authors with cerebral palsy.
However, Mei Jiu found that the plot between Xi Ruo and Ye Feng was very reasonable and suitable to be used as material in her own romance novel.
But Ye Feng said to Xiruo: "Where is the ring that thousands of people gave it to? Give it to me, I have to do something."
Xiruo handed the storage ring to Ye Feng. After all, Ye Feng is now the dean of Yangming Academy. And now Xiruo completely trusts Ye Feng.
After Ye Feng took the ring, he said to everyone: "Everyone, take a rest for a while. I'll be back soon."
After saying that, Ye Feng disappeared instantly. As for Ye Feng's method, Mei Jiu's eyes were straightened. She knew that this was the application of the laws of time and space. Moreover, Mei Jiu had seen the level of accomplishments in time and space of the great masters of time and space in the ancient immortal realm, but those people's application of the principles of time and space was nothing compared to Ye Feng.
No matter how subtle those people's application of Tao is, it is still very powerful and has traces to follow. However, Ye Feng's use of the Tao of Time and Space truly moisturizes things silently and leaves no trace. That kind of use has reached a level of following nature and returning to nature, truly achieving the highest state of doing nothing but doing everything.
But Ren Xiaojin and the others were used to it.
