Chapter 1, Section 4 I am Liu Bei
Section 4 I am Liu Bei (Xuan)
"Tell me, see what you all asked," I said to them after a long time of silence.
As they talked about it, I gradually clarified my thoughts. It turned out that they learned from the two survivors that it was Emperor Ling of Han, the man in Eguan Bolai was a wealthy businessman in Zhongmu, and the rest were his servants. They planned to go to Xuzhou to purchase some goods, but they were targeted by a group of thieves just crossing the Yellow River. Fortunately, they met an official who was studying abroad - the young man who rode a horse to the end. With his help, they fought and retreated, hoping to avoid Mount Tai. If they could enter the mountain pass first, then there would be rescue after holding on for a few days. However, because they hesitated for a while at the mountain pass, they were caught up by the thieves.
Subsequently, interrogation of several robbers confirmed that at least one thing the rich businessman might have said was true - this era is by no means the era we live in. Also, these people speak in classical Chinese, even irliterate robbers. This is why I originally thought I couldn't understand what they said.
"Now, there is only the last job to be confirmed," they turned their eyes to the carriage. "If someone carries 30,000 taels of gold with you, it can only be said that the cost of this deception is too high, so high that it cannot afford to make such jokes."
I immediately understood that wealthy businessmen must bring huge amounts of cash when they go out to purchase. It is precisely these huge amounts of cash that attract thieves. As long as we check the wealthy businessmen's luggage, we will know the authenticity. After all, in our era, the law would not let people carry so much gold and silver with them. Of course, the police would not allow them. It is said that some people were already in court because the police privately confiscated and divided the gold of jewelry merchants. Therefore, there would be no crew members who were ridiculously ridiculous to play with us with so much gold and silver.
We found the suitcase on the carriage, two wicker boxes that were 1 meter 2 long and 40 cm wide, and a long box that was 20 cm wide and 80 cm long, locked by copper locks, "Did you get the key?" I asked. "The wealthy businessman said that the key was on the servants he sent for help," Gao Shan replied. I waved my knife and cut off the copper lock.
"Don't, antiques." Zhou Yi said with a heartache.
When the box was opened, we were all shocked. We saw round gold cakes neatly placing them in the box. The golden cakes were indeed the method of casting gold in the Han Dynasty. In that era, there was no silver as currency, only copper and gold. It seemed that there must be gold in another long box.
"Zhou Yi, go and take care of the three living thieves. Gao Shan, go and gather the horses. We may need horses and Yin Dong to clean up the bodies with me in the future." I didn't bother to open another box and immediately assigned work. "What should that businessman do?" Zhou Yi asked: "I think he ran away long ago. I don't want to leave so much money and run out alone. He must have something more valuable on him. Besides, he must have lied. This box of gold is up to 200 kilograms, and three boxes of silver are less than 30,000 taels."
When Zhou Yi ran to three thieves tied up by us in panic, Yin Dong murmured in a low voice: "Maybe the merchant didn't lie. I heard that the weight unit of the Han Dynasty was different from what we are now." Yes, I suddenly realized that if it was in the Han Dynasty, the merchant did not lie. One pound in the Han Dynasty was only about 300 grams, and 200 kilograms were equivalent to 600 kilograms in the Han Dynasty, and 16 taels per pound. Isn't it cost about 10,000 taels per box?
We quickly transported the bodies back to the valley for burial, and left the mountains at the entrance of the valley with crossbows. I thought, since this was not the era we lived in, there was no need to keep the scene, and the police would never come anyway. We carefully cleaned the battlefield and collected everything (who knew if we could use these things in the future). During this period, I personally took the initiative to move the body of the study-going official back to the valley.
When everything was cleaned up and Zhou Yi also pulled the carriage and the three surviving thieves back to the valley, I was squatting in front of the servant and gently wiped the blood and dust on his face.
"Then the businessman ran away?" I didn't stop the work in my hand, and Zhou Yi immediately replied: "Boss, my admiration for you is like a surging river, and like the Yellow River flooding out of control..."
"You are plagiarizing this? You plagiarize Zhou Xingxing's words 1800 years later. You can say this first, how can Zhou Xingxing live after 1800 years?" I interrupted him. Zhou Yi smiled and said: Maybe I am Zhou Xingxing's ancestor 1800 years ago. Who told us all the surname Zhou?" He followed my hand and looked at the face that I felt familiar with, and once again made a pig-killing cry: "Boss, why is this person so much like you?"
Suddenly, it was like the sky was struck by lightning, and the sun and the moon changed color. I felt as if I was stunned by a beam of lightning. Oh, yes, no wonder I always felt familiar. Isn’t this my face in the mirror a few years ago? During my days in Shennongjia, I only saw the beard on this face in the shaving mirror. I didn’t see the whole picture in just 40 days. At first glance, I couldn’t recognize you. Didn’t you endure a betrayal when you died? Why did your expression become so calm, without any joy or regret?
Are there really no regrets?
I reached out my hand in a daze to grop in his arms. He had only 15 copper coins and two cloth silk on his body. The cloth silk seemed to be two letters, one of which was pierced by a spear and stained with blood, becoming unrecognizable. I saw a few traditional characters: Gongsun Bogui.
Gongsun Bogui, this word is very familiar. I suddenly thought that this name is in the game I like to play the most. Gongsun Bogui is Gongsun Zan. This man, together with Liu Bei, was a great scholar Lu Zhi, in the Han Dynasty. He treated Liu Bei as his elder brother. He was the first place where he served was Liu Bei's hometown Zhuo County, Liu Bei's parents and official. In history, it seemed that Liu Bei would seek protection whenever he encountered setbacks, and Gongsun Zan always protected Liu Bei like his elder brother, asking for officials and people. This is probably related to Gongsun Zan being a concubine (that is, the one born of his little wife). He was bullied in the Gongsun family and was forced to come out early to start a business alone. Perhaps, he found a little bit of the feeling of being a brother in Liu Bei.
However, Gongsun Zan is sometimes absolutely stubborn and has only Zhao Yun, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who are overlords like Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and is eventually defeated by Yuan Shao. What is sad is that even if this person dies, he is still strong. When the city is broken, he summoned his whole family to live in a high-rise building to raise fire. It can be said that he is the ancestor of China, the most ruthless person in the Han Dynasty, and he is even more ruthless to his enemies.
The book of the Later Han Dynasty records: "In February of the third year of Guanghe, there was an earthquake in Mount Tai; the sea water overflowed, and the coastal residents were all swept into the sea by big waves. All the shores of Wuyuan Mountains collapsed. All kinds of ominousness are not just one end." It seems that we are experiencing the Taishan earthquake in February of the third year of Guanghe in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The February of the lunar calendar should be around the third month of the Gregorian calendar. The person in front of him was still a celebrity of the time no matter how he was able to interact with Gongsun Zan.
I opened another letter and carefully identified the ancient words through the stained blood, "Xuande, my brother, I will return home after leaving my teacher... My father Yuan ordered me to ask you that your mother should be taken care of by the children of the sect, if you can study with peace of mind... My brother Deran respects you."
"Xuande, this person is actually Liu Bei." This is the Liu Bei who had few ambitions and fought repeatedly, the Liu Bei who had 100,000 people, knew that the pursuers were behind, but he only walked 10 miles a day; the Liu Bei who was benevolent and righteous all over the world and could not even be killed by assassins; the Liu Bei who had three days of leisure; the Liu Bei who had only 15 eldest sons who dared to study alone; the Japanese who only saw benevolence and righteousness in the Three Kingdoms, and the Chinese who saw the Three Kingdoms, only saw the treacherous and thick-skinned Liu Bei.
"You can't make a mistake?" The three of them surrounded him and asked, "Look, this is called Xuande. The Zong brother Deran is Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan. He is a brother of Liu Bei, the same clan, Liu Deran, who was the prefect of Jiujiang, who was the same clan, Liu Bei, who was the prefect of Jiujiang. Historical records show that Liu Bei's mother was widowed. When he was 15 years old, Liu Bei went to Lu Zhi to study. His widowed mother relied on Liu Deran's father Yuan Qi to support him. Liu Bei's tuition fee was also provided by him. Yuan Qi's wife was often unhappy and said, "Each one is his family, how can you keep it wrong!" Yuan Qi replied, "There is such a child in my sect, which is an extraordinary person." This letter was written by Liu Bei's friend Gongsun Zan before Liu Bei's study tour. This other letter was written by Liu Bei's friend Gongsun Zan. Unfortunately, it is no longer recognizable. But did not Liu Bei die in Baidi City? What's wrong with this world?"
We sat underground, speechless for a long time. If we were skeptical about returning to the Three Kingdoms era at the beginning, we were completely speechless now. "Maybe, Liu Bei is not dead yet," Yin Dong said. "What, doctor, you said he still has rescue, it is impossible." I said excitedly, thinking that the person I admire most in history still has rescue, I couldn't help but tremble with excitement.
But after a second thought, my heart became cold again. His body was already cold in front of me. If Yin Dong really had the skills to bring about a resurrection, could he still hide it from me?
However, the three people raised their eyes from the corpse, nodded to each other, showing a sudden enlightenment. Six eyes stared at me, like a mouse seeing rice.
"So, you are Liu Bei," they said word by word: "This may be the reason why we came here from Shennongjia, and that is where our Han people lived. The Han Dynasty was the era when our Han people finally took shape, but the great turmoil at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty caused a great impact on our nation. At the end of the Three Kingdoms, the Shu Kingdom had only a population of 940,000. It was really a depression in thousands of miles of white bones and tens of thousands of households. Because the Han people weakened greatly through the turmoil of the Three Kingdoms, the Five Barbarians invaded China later, and the Han people suffered 400 years of suffering. Perhaps, it was the ancestors of our Han people who called us here to end this chaotic era and avoid disasters for our nation."
I was thundering in my heart, and a thought slapped me like the clouds and mist under the scenery, surging like waves. Yes, I often sighed when I saw Chinese history, why is China not like Japan, a emperor passed down to the present, and always changed the flag of the king on the city wall. Until now, employees are not loyal to the company at all, and they always think that they can replace it. Colleagues are also full of fraud, and friends only want to use each other.
Looking at the entire Chinese history, there is no period without war for 10 consecutive years. Since the Han Dynasty, history has been written in blood, and the development of the nation's technological development has been tragically damaged, and many inventions have been lost. I have also fantasized many times that if I come to that century and extend the rule of the Han emperor for another 300 years, then no matter who wants to shake this 800-year dynasty in the future, I must think carefully.
Maybe in this way, the fate of our entire nation will change; maybe in this way, we will not have to change the king's flag on the city wall in the future, and we will no longer have to ced out land and pay compensation; there will be no Japanese invasion...
"Well, since we have come to this world, let's end this troubled times! Revitalizing our Chinese nation is also the mission given to us by our ancestors. Come on, let's make the storm more violent! From today on, I, that's Liu, Bei, Liu, Xuan, De."
All four of us stood up, each of us burst into tears, and we stretched out our hands and held them together: "Use my blood, defend my great man, use my bones, build my Great Wall, use my blade, protect my people, and use my sweat to restore my China. If we violate this oath, heaven will be punished by the earth."
In February of the third year of Guanghe, in 181 AD, Liu Bei was 20 years old, Guan Yu was 21 years old, Zhang Fei was 14 years old, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang was 12 years old, Yan Liang, Dian Wei, Guan Hai was 21 years old, Gongsun Zan was 28 years old, Yuan Shao was 31 years old, Lu Bu was 25 years old, and Cao Cao was 26 years old. In this year, the eunuch Zhang Rang invented the water wheel, and Zhang Heng's seismometer was tested in this earthquake. Papermaking has been invented for many years, but paper has not been popularized, brushes have begun to be used, regular script and cursive script have become popular. Bronze weapons have not been completely eliminated, and iron smelting is not yet developed.
In the distant West, the Roman Empire began to decline this year. Jesus’ disciples had preached for 181 years. Caesar formulated the solar calendar, which is the Gregorian calendar we use for nearly 300 years. The warships of the Roman Empire sailed on the Mediterranean Sea, and their soldiers have called the Mediterranean Sea: "Our Sea".
This year, I came to the Han Dynasty and became Liu Bei.
Since we have made a decision, we must take action. We immediately take off all the clothes of the dead, store modern clothes and boxes of gold and silver in the carriage, and pick up some clean clothes and put them on our bodies.
I brought the tall hat that Liu Bei wore (called E-crown in the Han Dynasty), tied the wide belt he wore, and asked everyone in the shaving mirror: "Do I look like me? After all, I have lived for 30 years. I don't know how we are now, but is it not appropriate to let me play a 20-year-old young man?"
"It's so similar," they said in unison: "Do you think that ancient people were well maintained by modern people? Do you think that you would have been worse than Liu Bei who was lonely since childhood? Also, do you think that our bodies have been transformed in vain?"
Suddenly a malicious intention surged into my heart, and I said to Gao Shan: "Look at what are those merchants holding in their arms, and the 30,000 taels of gold thrown in the car. Do you think the things in their arms are worth 300,000 taels of gold?" Looking at the light emitted in Gao Shan's eyes, I further tempted him and said, "Do you want to see the antiques in antiques and treasures?"
Gao Shan's mouth opened very wide immediately, and his shiny saliva was brewing beside him. "Wipe your mouth clean first, I tell you, they are seriously injured," Gao Shan nodded.
"It's hard to walk on the mountain road", Gao Shan nodded.
"It's almost dark" Gao Shan nodded.
"They have no bows and arrows in their hands, so they must find a place to hide first. This place will never be too far away. They have seen us - these people in strange costumes. If they go around to spread it, it will be unfavorable for us in the future. So, you must bring an infrared telescope, turn on the flashlight, and bring them back. The things on them will be yours. Also, be careful, that bodyguard is very powerful." I thought fiercely, and dared to throw Liu Bei to the robbers, and then throw us to the robbers to run by themselves. I'm sorry for you. After the irritable mountain catches up with them, two dying people will definitely protect the treasures. As long as the fight is more intense, the mountain I hinted over will...
Why did Zhou Yi and the other two look at me like this? I smiled at them, and they actually trembled: "Am I even darker than Cao Cao now?" I tried to say to them as gentle as possible. "Where, boss, you are kind and righteous all over the world, and I admire you like...". "Stop, stop, stop, I said to them: "Where are those three prisoners now?"
"I fell asleep after taking morphine. Since they had not passed any Western medicine, they probably won't wake up until tomorrow morning, but the boss wants to ask me, I have a way to wake them up immediately," said Yin Dong.
"Wake them right away. Tomorrow we must leave this place quickly. Tonight we must decide whether to kill or stay them. Also, I have decided that the destination of our itinerary is Gongsun Zan in Liaodong. In ancient times, people had a small range of activities, and some people had never left the village in their lives. Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan had not seen each other for many days. At the same time, Liu Bei was 19 years old and was the time when his appearance changed the most. If we played Liu Bei, we could not hide it from Gongsun Zan, it would be fine if Liu Bei didn't do it."
Ignoring the horror expressions that the thieves seemed to see the resurrected Liu Bei, I interrogated them. One of the three thieves was Chen Yong and the other was Wang Zhi, and he used a strong man to dare to call him Guan Hai, "Guan Hai, you are the Guan Hai who fought with Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide for 30 rounds." I used half-baked classical Chinese to say. "Who is Yide?" The big man said to me with his blank eyes.
I was dizzy, why did I forget that it was Guanghe for 3 years now? Liu Bei may not know Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide yet. There were still 4 years left in the Yellow Turban Uprising. How could this man fight Yide for 30 rounds?
However, if he was really Guan Hai, I would have made a profit. You should know that in that era, there were very few people who could fight Zhang Fei, a super fierce man, for 30 rounds. Even the powerful general Xiahou Dun of Cao camp, had only fought with Zhang Fei for 7 or 8 rounds before running away. Xu Huang and Zhang He could fight with Zhang Fei for more than ten rounds. Guan Hai met Liu Bei who rescued Tao Qian when he attacked Beihai County. He fought for more than 30 rounds before being killed by Zhang Fei. His bravery was really comparable to Xiahou Dun.
However, Guan Hai, who can survive in this fierce battle, become one of the only three lucky ones among the more than 200 bandits, and can compete with Liu Bei for a long time. If it weren't for our accident, I think there would be a great future in the future. It would be possible to become a famous thief and fight Zhang Fei. I decided not to let him go.
"You kill people and rob people, and take lives. I want to bind the counties and counties, and I am afraid that you will not be alive. I can't bear it in my heart. I am afraid that you will harm your lives again. What will I do?" I said to them.
"If you die, you will die, why fear it?" Guan Hai said with a high voice. I like it. "You are all seriously injured. Let's stay by my side for the time being. When the injury improves, I will think about it again." After your injury heals, I will consider how to deal with you. A joke. I will not be moved by you at that time, and I will not let you go. Wait for a day to be a cow or a horse for me.
The treatment effect is very good. During Yin Dong's bandage for them, in addition to Guan Hai being a little hesitant and embarrassed, Chen Yong and Wang Zhi were already moved to tears. After the bandage, even Guan Hai knelt on the ground and said in tears: "Lord, benevolence and righteousness, we can only die if we die."
Ha, in that era, when powerful figures caught robbers who killed people and robbed people, they often cut them off. Who would not only not kill them, but also cure them. Besides, before they fell into a coma, the merchants had already escaped. After they woke up, I did not tell them that they had sent people to chase the wealthy businessman (I deliberately). Once the merchants reported the case, where can they go in the world? If I don’t take them in, who can take them in?
After dark, Gao Shan came back alone. Seeing his expression, he seemed to be excited. I knew that the businessman was finished. Before we could ask him about the specific situation, we began to discuss the future principles.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, land annexation became more and more intense, with great landlords and powerful people standing in hand with a large number of land and family slaves. It is said that when Mi Zhu married his sister to Liu Bei, the dowry was actually 4,000 family servants. The latest archaeological results believe that Zhao Yun was the leader of the family servant at that time, so he became Liu Bei's.
We think that it would be unrealistic if we come forward now to ease this sharp class contradiction. The best way is to prepare and wait four years later when the Yellow Turban Rebellion defeats the old order of the old world and rebuilds a new world. Of course, for this purpose, we must find a place where the Yellow Turban Rebellion will not destroy it to accumulate strength.
Given that Liu Bei's current status is impossible to recruit famous scholars, I must use this study tour to expand my reputation and meet talented people. At the same time, given that the smelting technology in the Han Dynasty was very low, Zhou Yi needed to quickly record the smelting technology he learned and recruit craftsmen in the future (craftsmen have had very low status in all dynasties in our country, which is convenient for recruitment), and provide high-quality weapons and protective gear for our battle.
Given that Liu Bei was lonely and poor throughout his life, we decided that Gaoshan’s future task was to make money. War is all about money, and only with money can there be materials; we already have the initial materials of this era (30,000 taels of gold), and we must use it well to lay a foundation for our struggle. Given that the knowledge of this era is only mastered among a few high-ranking corpses, and few people are literate among the common people, we decided that Yin Dong’s task was to teach and educate people, and to teach some advanced technologies that could be understood in this era to the children of ordinary people.
Of course, although Yin Dong's job seems to be the lightest on the surface, I am going to hand him an important job, but the time is not right and I don't plan to speak to him.
It should be said that what we are most grateful to now is Zhou Yi's cute stupid nephew. His teacher played a big role in the question bank we installed. From elementary school to high school mathematics, physics and chemistry textbooks are all included. These textbooks have been compiled after hundreds of years of hard work by Chinese and foreign teachers. There are also some excellent lesson plans. Since we don't have a printer, our first job is to copy all the books. Of course, the main ones are the primary school textbooks. If you have deeper knowledge, people today probably can't understand them.
Finally, we discussed our political goals: taking advantage of the weakest opportunity of the feudal dynasty's imperial power after the Yellow Turban Uprising, and using the emperor to order the princes to establish a constitutional monarchy, and ease class contradictions through constitutional monarchy, and thus extend the Han Dynasty for another 300 years or forever, so as to eliminate the hidden dangers of the subsequent Five Barbarians' invasion of China, so that the Han nation will not be bullied by foreign enemies forever.
Chapter completed!