The Daoist Registry officials happily went to find Pan Yun and hinted, "Should the Imperial Preceptor's Senior Brother, Senior Sister, and nephew-disciples be assigned posts?"
Pan Yun: ...
She looked at them quietly for a moment and thought to herself, How about you arrange me first?
Pan Yun raised her brows. Only then did she remember that she seemed not to have obtained her ordination certificate yet.
Miao Zhen was quite likely to obtain hers next year, but she had no need for the Daoist Registry to arrange anything for her.
Besides... "Sending people to Luchuan is meant to contribute what little we can toward the nation's stability. South of Luchuan has always been governed by the Tusi, with customs of their own. Some are good and some are bad. Good customs should be inherited and preserved, while the cruel, bloody, and harsh parts should be abolished and covered over with other ideas and customs. Luchuan is not a place for you to send useless people to draw empty salaries. I hope those sent by the Daoist Registry will be capable, responsible, and possess hearts broad enough to embrace all things."
In the Luchuan region, the common people under Tusi rule were equivalent to the Tusi's tenant farmers. In some places, they were even little better than slaves.
The children born to commoners belonged to the Tusi, their lives and deaths resting on a single thought of the Tusi and his family.
Some tribes even had exceedingly cruel customs. For instance, they used the skin of young girls to make drums, and whenever mountain floods came, they sacrificed boys and girls to the mountains.
It achieved little, yet added no small amount of resentment to the world.
The Imperial Court wished to enlighten these places, and Pan Yun did too.