Chapter 120

"Hehehe, old gentleman, listening to you speak, it seems you are also a well-read person, and your ancestors must have been from a scholarly family, so how did you end up in such a harsh place?"

Li Er continued to ask the doubts in his heart.

"Hahaha! A harsh place?" The old man seemed to have heard a huge joke and laughed loudly: "It seems you two are not locals of our Great Qin? Why don't I take you around to see?"

Saying this, the old man walked outside.

"Master, we..."

Fang Xuanling looked at the old man's back and turned to look at Li Er.

"Follow him! Maybe we can grasp some of the situation here in Tibet."

Li Er made a prompt decision and immediately took Fang Xuanling to follow the old man.

Soon.

The old man led Li Er and his party to their destination.

When Li Er and Fang Xuanling saw the scene before them, their eyes almost fell out in surprise.

They saw houses and villages in orderly fashion.

Fertile fields were everywhere, with green crops swaying in the wind.

Countless farmers were working diligently in the fields.

There were also many children playing and frolicking around.

A scene of a prosperous farmstead emerged spontaneously.

How is this like a barren and desolate plateau region?

It is simply comparable to the most fertile fields in the suburbs near Changancheng!

Of course.

The fields in the suburbs of Changancheng do not have such a prosperous scene.

After all, those fertile lands are all in the hands of aristocratic families.

"This... what is going on?"

"When I came last time, I never saw such a scene."

Fang Xuanling's shock was even greater than Li Er's.

Last time.

When he was an envoy to Tibet.

There was war everywhere, and corpses were strewn across the fields.

The barren land was too hard to grow any crops.

In the vast, desolate territory, you probably wouldn't run into a single household even after walking for a day.

But now...

What happened?

Li Er's face also became extremely ugly.

He had the same thought as Fang Xuanling, thinking that this was just some barren land and not worth worrying about.

But now it seems.

Whether it is the fertility of the land or the density of the population, it is almost catching up to Great Tang!

The more this is the case, the heavier Li Er's heart becomes.

Is the scene before him just the tip of the iceberg, or is the entire Great Qin like this?

"Two gentlemen, now, do you still think the place where I live is harsh?"

"Also, I am not from any scholarly family; the people here, whether they are farmers working in the fields, farm women delivering meals, or even three-year-old children, all know how to read and write and understand the words of sages."

The old man stroked his beard, his tone and expression carrying a rather proud boast.

"What?"

"Even these farmers and farm women know how to read and write?"

Li Er widened his eyes, looking at the fields not far away, his surprise and astonishment reaching an extreme point.

Impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

Even Great Tang cannot achieve such a level!

Li Er's thoughts were normal.

In ancient times.

Reading and writing were the patent of the upper nobility.

And ordinary commoners, let alone not seeing a book in their lifetime, didn't even have a decent name.

The most typical example is Zhu Chongba!

Great Tang's prosperous age is like flowers, but the drawbacks hidden beneath the prosperous age are still countless.

Not being able to let the common people read and write is one of the biggest drawbacks!

Tracing it to the root.

It is still because most books are controlled by aristocratic families, leading to cultural monopoly.