Chapter 814 - The Impact on the Worldview of Lin Mengsheng

Chapter 814: The Impact on the Worldview of Lin Mengsheng

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“Take this and learn the characters first.” Ren Baqian threw a set of the Three Character Classic cross-reference manual to Lin Mengsheng.
Lin Mengsheng took it, flipped through a few pages, and understood why Ren Baqian wanted him to learn the characters. One of the two types of characters was commonly seen and used by Great Xia, the Yun Nation, and the Chen Nation.
He hadn’t seen the other type of characters before.
“This type of characters is…” Lin Mengsheng was uncertain, but didn’t ask further and continued turning the pages.
There was a total of more than 1,000 characters. By right, he should have been able to finish reading very quickly, but he read very slowly. The more he read, the more uncertain he became.
After reading part of the contents, Lin Mengsheng exclaimed in admiration, “As I thought, Principal Ren is aiming to transform the barbarians through the values of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and filial piety! This is really the way of the sages.”
Then, he asked, “But why can’t I find the source of some of the content?”
Lin Mengsheng highly appreciated the writing within the Three Character Classic . This book was even more brilliant than the enlightenment books of Great Xia. Moreover, the excellent moral, social, and value concepts flowed straight out of the text.
The only thing that he didn’t understand was where this text came from.
“Oh, you assume that only Great Xia, the Yun Nation, the Chen Nation, and Dayao exist in this world. However, this is actually just a corner of the world!” Ren Baqian chuckled. Since Lin Mengshen was entering the academy, he would certainly see those textbooks and robots, so it wasn’t necessary to hide anything. Ren Baqian might as well brag.
Originally, it wasn’t easy to brag, but now they knew that humans were from the mountain and sea on the other side, he had a rough idea of what to say.
“On the mountain and sea on the other side, there’s a group of Smurfs who are lively and intelligent. They are also mischievous and agile…
Cough! There’s another nation there! Their culture is different from the four nations here and is more developed. I’m a top talent from that country, which explains many things.”
Anyway, no one could go there to prove this. By the time they were able to go there, he could say that they were in outer space!
The origin of the human race was mentioned once in the imperial court by the empress, but there was a gag order to stop the spread of this news as it was too sensitive and there was no benefit if many people were to know.
However, this didn’t prevent Ren Baqian from leaking the fact that the four nations were just one corner of the world.
Ren Baqian’s explanation stunned Lin Mengsheng, and he found it to be incredible!
“Principal Ren means that… You mean…” This intelligent guy was tongue-tied, and the impact on his worldview was great.
Before this, many people believed that the center of the world was where they were located.
They also thought that this was the only continent!
This revelation from Ren Baqian shattered the worldview that Lin Mengsheng had always held.
“That is what it means! This is just a corner of the world! Whether you are aboriginals or hail from Great Xia or the Yun Nation, in my eyes, all of you are barbarians…” Ren Baqian pronounced profoundly.
“Are there really other nations in this world?” Lin Mengsheng looked at the Three Character Classic and didn’t know whether to believe it or not.
He didn’t expect to hear such frightening facts on his first day at the academy and was rather disorientated.
“The pavement outside, the glass, and the cement roads look amazing to you, but they are actually quite common in my nation.” Ren Baqian shrugged his shoulder.
Lin Mengsheng thought about the things mentioned by Ren Baqian, looked at the Three Character Classic , and started to believe.
Seeing that it was about time, Ren Baqian took the bemused looking Lin Mengsheng to class.
“This is Lin Mengsheng, who will later be your assistant teacher.” Ren Baqian pointed at the bewildered Lin Mengsheng who was standing at the door.
“Jing Tribe?” someone asked.
“Are you stupid? Jing Tribe people have big foreheads! He should be from the Yun Nation.”
“I heard yesterday that someone rejected Her Majesty’s offer of a Rank 6 official post and wanted to be a teacher at our academy. I guess he should be that person.”
The rest of the students immediately began discussing this.
“Since you have heard about it, I will not say more. Be more respectful in the future! You can’t beat, scold, or threaten the teacher! If I find out that you have done such things, you know the consequences!” Ren Baqian said sternly.
Ren Baqian knew that this Lin Mengsheng was only a Man Wheel expert. In the Yun Nation, this level was considered good and was sufficient to open a martial arts center to accept disciples. For a scholar, this level of martial arts ability was considered exceptional.
However, this was Dayao! The peddlers on the street were all Man Wheel experts and were embarrassed to say they practiced martial arts if they weren’t Earth Wheel experts.
The unscrupulous merchants from the Yun Nation had offended the people of Dayao for all these years. Plus, Dayao had just fought a war with the Yun Nation for more than a year. If he didn’t exhort these students to behave, there would be posters the next day that read, “Insult to the classroom.”
After Ren Baqian finished teaching the morning lessons, Lin Mengsheng was even more befuddled.
Prior to coming here, he was very confident in his literary level. To be a teacher or even to take the examination in Great Xia wasn’t a problem.
He only discovered this morning that he totally couldn’t understand the things that Ren Baqian said…
Square roots, cube roots, and the law of gravity were things that he had never heard of.
Besides these, there was something even more earth-shaking. It was a puppet that could talk, emit lights, and project pictures on the wall!
Previously, he thought that stories about moving wooden cows and horses were fascinating enough, but they were nothing compared to the things he saw today! If they said that the puppet he saw was made by the gods, he would believe it.
At this juncture, he completely believed Ren Baqian.
It was impossible not to believe.
To his dismay, he found that he not only needed to learn a new type of characters, but many other things as well… Not to mention being a teacher, any student here could be his teacher…
Ren Baqian ignored what was on Lin Mengsheng’s mind and waited in his office after class.
In addition to lecturing, Ren Baqian came to the academy to make arrangements for Lin Mengsheng and for one additional matter, which was waiting to receive his gifts!
Although it wasn’t a big deal, so many people enthusiastically came here bearing gifts. Shouldn’t he give them the opportunity to do so?
…
At this moment, a few people were walking on a street in the Beihong District while looking horrified.
Yesterday, there was nothing unusual on this street, but today, all kinds of skeletons and bones were hung up on walls on either side. Animal heads, human heads, sternums, spines, thigh bones, feet, and so on. There were many corpses on the street, and when the wind blew, the noise it made as it passed through the cracks in these bones sounded like ghosts weeping and spirits howling. Even in the bright daylight, they felt cold and eerie.
“I heard that some new criminals entered the prison and that some will be severely dealt with by the new official as a show of power. Is this really the case?”
“Why are they doing this? We are here to make a courtesy call—is there a need to put on such a show of power?”
“I feel that today isn’t a good time to send the visiting card…”
“Cough, stick out your neck! We are here to send gifts! No matter how barbaric they are, they surely wouldn’t cut off our heads.”
“Didn’t they execute one yesterday?!”