It is said that knowledge is more difficult to inherit than wealth, but sometimes this is not the case.

In fact, before the advent of compulsory education, knowledge was generally easier to inherit than wealth, and even more so after compulsory education.

Of course, this compulsory education refers to the seven years of martial arts in the Tang Dynasty, the end of the long war, and the Gaozu Emperor Li Yuan issued the "Order Zhuzhou to Send the Ming Jing Edict" to order: prefectures, counties and townships, each order to go to school.

It was from this year that basic education in ancient China took root at the grassroots level, and the government-sponsored public schools covered the world with a scale of 500 households, and the supporting imperial examination selection system was finally perfected.

At that time, there were only two kinds of people in the world who held power, one was the nobleman who was born in power, and the other was the bureaucrat who went to school and held power.

Outside of China, from the point of view of the aristocracy, the easiest thing to inherit is blood, and inheriting bloodline means monopolizing and inheriting knowledge; In China, knowledge is also the easiest thing to inherit.

Outside of ancient China, this was precisely the positive significance of the emergence of religion - it broke the monopoly of the feudal aristocracy on knowledge, allowed the children of the common people to talk to the nobility through theology, and expanded the selection of the ruling class as the main promotion channel for breaking classes.

Brother Xiao Zuo has always been very envious of Ren Ping's light and breezy temperament, obviously he was sunk by a warship while sailing, but he never complained; It was clear that there was a great deal of wealth on the ship, but it was burned down to avoid disaster; He burned all his wealth, but he still has an extraordinary self-confidence that he can start over and turn it into a reality through his actions.

The confidence that he envied came from the knowledge in his head.

Ren Ping told him with his own actions that wealth can be burned, but as long as the person who is the carrier of knowledge is not dead, even if he has nothing, as long as he has time, he will soon be able to stand up again.

Later, Brother Xiao Zuo met a lot of Ming people, on the sea route back to South Asia from Luzon, on the way to sell goods and barter, and naturally in the process of receiving Ming merchants in Lima, those experiences let him know that Ren Ping was not a god, he was just a very ordinary Ming maritime merchant.

So on the first day of the chaos, he gave the goods to the workers, let them take everything in the shop, and burned the door himself, and then fled upstairs with his sister and nephew...... The upstairs used to be the workers' quarters, and the downstairs house had food and water for the seven workers who were able to survive the disaster.

Survived, with what was in his head, Xiao Zuo firmly believed that he could start over like Ren Ping.

But just last night, maybe when Xiao Zuo opened the window, the nobles who were hiding on the street found that the arrival of the four uninvited guests of the master and servant suddenly made the already scarce food and water.

"Where are you going?"

The noble lady had met Xiao Zuo and his sister in the past, her husband was born in the Iberian Peninsula Mysta, that is, a pastoral nobleman, and only came to the New World the year before to open up pastures to raise merino sheep, and died of smallpox in less than three months, because she had no son, the pasture became the property of the lady, but the lady had no intention of selling it, and enjoyed herself in the city all day.

In the past, when I bought clothes in the store, I always looked arrogant, thinking that all the mixed-race, aborigines were lowly people, and they were not even worthy of talking to her.

Even in this small room, small enough to permeate her, she stubbornly whispered the matter first to the servant, and then the servant relayed it.

If it weren't for the fear that she would be yelling or being stabbed in the center by the old veteran guard, Xiao Zuo would have kicked them out and didn't want to deal with them at all.

But she could see that Brother Xiao Zuo had prepared his bags and made a pair of flags, which looked very much like the flags of the Ming merchant ships hanging on the mast.

"Daming District."

Xiao Zuo glanced at it, continued to count his backpack, and made sure that all the items were still there before he looked up and said to them: "We will leave tonight, you can go with me...... Crossing the Square of the Armed Forces is not easy. ”

The Armed Square is now home to the Incas and their mestizos, and perhaps even a group of aboriginal slave laborers will rest next night next door, which no one can say.

"No, we're not going to go over there with you, and it's okay if you go now - food and water, stay."

It's like thinking of yourself as your master.

Water and food are not important, not to mention that this is a nobleman's request, Xiao Zuo has no reason to refuse at all, he is just strange.

"Every day, the governor sends at least three teams of cavalry to gallop through the streets to protect the nobles and go to the Daming District, which is far easier than ordinary people like us, so why?"

Brother Xiao Zuo didn't know how to describe the current situation, Ren Ping taught him not to make people feel uncomfortable.

How so? The noble lady huddled with him in a rat hole and also asked him for water and food?

"Take care of your own business, we won't go to Daming District."

This reaction only made Xiao Zuo more curious, almost every day, there were Spanish light cavalry shuttling through the streets, and the cavalry in groups did not have to fear any robbers, as long as they did not break into the Daming district drawn in the northwest, they had no enemies in this Lima city.

They were responsible for taking the nobles to the Ming district for examination, where they would be examined by the Ming military doctors like animals, until they were sure that there were no symptoms of any disease, and then they would put a blue stamp on their wrists, put them in the protected area under the jurisdiction of the Ming army, and wait for the ship to carry them.

Brother Xiao Zuo doesn't think that they don't go to Daming District because they are afraid of inspection, because it doesn't matter if they are found to be sick, but they will be stamped with a red stamp and placed in the quarantine area in the north.

At this time, you can see the benefits of the Servant disease, at least those who have this disease can survive to get on the boat, and smallpox may not be able to get on the boat.

Obviously, the Ming army was not afraid of smallpox, which was a very enviable ability.

In fact, this is also the reason why Brother Xiao Zuo must go to Daming District, the two armies of Ming and Western are unable to blockade Lima City, which will allow smallpox patients outside to take advantage of the chaos to enter the city, the Ming army is not afraid of smallpox, they are afraid.

They were scared to death.

"You'd better go to Daming District too, a lot of people have died in the city, someone told me that if there are too many dead people but don't deal with it well, there will be a plague, only Daming is not afraid of these, even if there is no plague...... A young and beautiful woman like you is also not safe in the city. ”

What made Xiao Zuo think of it was the words he said casually, but it made the noble lady speak: "Your knife belongs to the Ming army, and that flag is the flag of the merchant ships of the Ming Kingdom, if you can let me enter the Ming army garrison without leaving Lima, I can give you a lot of money." ”

"Those ships can't get me back to Iberia."