I really became a king.

Chapter 151 Mr. Jiupu's Thank You Gift

Jiang Shizhuo died. The "Mr. Jiupu" who almost brought down the secular dynasty in later generations also completely disappeared.

A huge weight lifted off Jiang Yi's heart, but he did not feel relieved at all. Instead, he was shrouded in a faint melancholy.

After the other party died, he only left him a secret letter, which was the backup plan after this arrangement.

If this plan is to get rid of him as a banner of secular martial arts, then the backup plan is to completely cut off his wisdom in the secular world.

The matter being discussed was also the one that gave Jiang Yi mixed feelings as soon as he traveled through time, the matter about "scholars".

There is no such thing as educated people in this world, but that does not mean that all people are illiterate. It just means that the status of educated people has been suppressed to a very low level, and they have no identity at all.

Some powerful families, clans, and wealthy families are all literate, and there are even some erudite people like Dong Chengyang, but they are very few. Most of them can only do the basic literacy.

Jiang Yi has always been confused. Any person in a high position should know the importance of reading, but why are scholars suppressed so much in this wild continent?

He had wanted to investigate it, but he had too many things to do and had neither the time nor the energy, so he has not taken any action until now.

The mystery was solved in the secret letter that Jiang Shizhuo left for him.

It turns out that this is a kind of cultural monopoly, which is the deliberate result of the powerful class in order to consolidate the privileges in their hands.

However, this happened a long time ago, and its origins can be traced back to ancient times. Since then, the vast majority of secular dynasty rulers have supported and practiced this cultural monopoly.

However, there were also some enlightened emperors who believed that this was suppressing people's wisdom and was harmful to the entire secular world, and they tried to reverse this trend.

But the resistance was too great. From rural gentry to ordinary wealthy families, from martial arts sects to royal meritorious officials, all strongly opposed it, and ultimately the plan came to nothing.

In the era of the four great dynasties, only the ancestors of the Dali Dynasty took the first step by relying on the supreme prestige when the dynasty was founded. They set up schools of all levels in the entire Dali Dynasty, and everyone, regardless of their background or status, could go in to study.

But the situation was too bad to be reversed. Under the covert exclusion of some people, the school system became a mere decoration. Almost no one went to study there, including the lowest class of people.

Because of the instigation of some people, scholars have almost become synonymous with "lowly". Even the lowest class of people would rather become slaves than let their children go to school.

However, it is not without effect. At least in the Dali Dynasty, the illiteracy rate is much lower than that of the other three dynasties.

The successive emperors of Dali also strictly adhered to the ancestral precept of "schools must be established forever", and even if there were no students in the schools in the prefectures, they were never abandoned.

A large number of scholars also gained the ability to barely support their families through this, and more importantly, it preserved some seeds of learning for Dali.

But overall, the school system of the Dali Dynasty had become a mere formality. Even Dong Chengyang, the "Secretary of Education" of Dali, had never set foot in the court.

And now, the secluded sects represented by Queen Ye have also intervened.

Jiang Shizhuo's secret letter revealed to him a piece of news that the secular sect had set its sights on Dali's school system and was brewing a conspiracy to abolish the school system.

Their most direct purpose was to break the ancestral precepts established by the Dali royal family. As long as a precedent was set, the ancestral precepts and systems that were regarded as the golden rule by successive Dali emperors would no longer be unbreakable.

The school house system is undoubtedly the best breakthrough point, and even among the meritorious and powerful people in Dali, there are many staunch supporters. Once they successfully set this precedent, then the other ancestral precepts and ancestral systems that have been weighing on their heads will have the possibility of being broken. According to the secret letter left by Jiang Shizhuo, in addition to this direct purpose, the secular sect has another most important purpose, which is to completely cut off the foundation of the most basic secular martial arts by abolishing the school house system.

Although the school house system is in name only, many people living at the bottom of society still send their young children aged seven or eight to school because they are too young to do anything else.

Entering the school not only allows one to get a meal, but also allows one to learn a few words, which will be useful whether one does business or becomes a slave in the future.

But they overlooked the most important point. The most basic literacy is not only beneficial for doing business, being a slave, etc., but is also crucial to the most basic inheritance of secular martial arts.

The world is so big that there are all kinds of wonders. It is possible that these seven or eight-year-old children will suddenly come into contact with a martial arts secret book in the future. Those who can read and write will know that this is an extremely precious martial arts secret book, and thus they will have the opportunity to step into the martial arts.

However, illiterate people will miss this opportunity and even burn the martial arts secret book as firewood due to their ignorance.

Similarly, the circumstances and opportunities of a literate warrior and an illiterate warrior are vastly different.

The secular sects, however, wanted to take advantage of the abolition of the "school system" to completely cut off this kind of encounter and opportunity, causing secular martial arts to develop abnormally and lead to its complete decline.

"What a cruel plot!"

"This is to make scholars completely extinct in the secular world!"

This was Jiang Yi's first thought after reading Jiang Shizhuo's secret letter, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

If the other party really succeeds, then the worldly world and martial arts will not only be completely destroyed, but there will be no possibility of reviving.

After reading the secret letter, Jiang Yi made a decision to stop the conspiracy at all costs, in order to continue the inheritance of secular martial arts and also for the obsession that came from the 21st century.

Jiang Yi did not leave the oasis immediately, but read the secret letter in a house somewhere.

Many residents of the oasis also noticed the noise outside, but after opening the door and taking a quick look, they all closed the door immediately.

The dense crowds of people on the streets made their scalps tingle, especially since each of them was covered in black felt and even their eyes could not be seen. They were most likely a group of bandits.

"Your Highness, aren't you setting off for Dacun Farm?" Blood-Clothed Guard leader Lu Fan stepped forward and asked.

"Not going." Although the fierce battle took place on the farm this time, this was the real main battlefield. Now that Jiang Shizhuo was dead, there was no suspense on the farm side, so he didn't plan to go there.

Originally thought that this battle would be a fierce one, but unexpectedly the Blood-Clothed Guards didn't even draw their swords, which made the Blood-Clothed Guards, who came with great force, feel empty in their hearts.

Jiang Yi understood Lu Fan's thoughts, smiled and said, "Don't worry, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future."

Lu Fan smiled awkwardly, then thought of something and asked, "I wonder how to deal with Jiang Shihuai, the leader of Dazhuang?"

"Kill him." Jiang Yi uttered three words lightly, like a fly. Although this little person is insignificant, his "buzzing" is really annoying.

(End of this chapter)