Xuande

Chapter 5 How did he break the game?
Feeling overwhelmed by Liu Bei's bold words and lofty ambitions, Jian Yong couldn't say a word for a long time.

When he came back to his senses, he didn't stay long, and left with the Qingzhou parchment he had always wanted.

He can't learn Liu Bei's boldness, and he feels that this kind of thing is also innate.

Jian Yong never imagined fighting against the sky, but after Liu Bei said this, he somehow felt that this future seemed interesting.

It may be interesting to watch someone else do what you want to do but can't.

So as he walked, he laughed.

After Jian Yong left, Liu Bei did not waste time, but continued to study "Zuoshi Chunqiu" and "Guwen Shangshu" taught to him by Lu Zhi, preparing for the re-examination at the government office in Luoyang once he succeeded in promoting Xiaolian.

The re-examination of the public office was the last effort made by Zuo Xiong, a famous official in the Eastern Han Dynasty, to save the collapse of the procuratorial system.

At that time, Zuo Xiong noticed that the probation system had become a step up for the noble families and local wealthy families. They manipulated the selection process arbitrarily, so that the selected scholars were of extremely poor quality.

In order to restore this situation, Zuo Xiong took the risk and opposed the rule of the re-examination of the government, requiring scholars who are filial and honest to enter the central government must pass the re-examination of the government before they can officially become officials.

It is said that this rule did play a big role when Zuo Xiong was still there. Zuo Xiong even stipulated that only when he was 40 years old could he be promoted to be a filial and honest official.

However, the decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty was inevitable, and all kinds of disadvantages were hard to recover. After Zuo Xiong's death, the re-examination of the government was useless, and the rule of filial piety at the age of 40 did not break by itself.

Today, as long as there is a greeting in advance, or there is a famous inheritance, the re-examination by the government is really just a formality.

Having said that, Liu Bei thinks that what should be prepared is still to be prepared. After all, he has come to this point by his real ability, which is completely different from those who have come to this point by his background.

Can people who risked their lives to get to where they are today be the same as those who relied on their family background to win all the way?

While reading, Liu Bei felt a little tired, so he put down the bamboo slips and stretched, looked around his study room, which was considered to be a good environment, and felt a little emotional.

At the age of seven, could I have imagined that my 19-year-old self had already changed his cruel fate, changed the fate of Liu Bei who spent half his life until his ideal was partially realized in his twilight years, and was about to embark on a new life path?
Probably not?
Because at that time, just being alive was already doing your best.

Looking back at the beginning, Liu Bei was filled with emotion.

When he realized that he became Liu Bei, it was 12 years ago when he was seven years old.

At that time, Liu Bei had just fallen from the big mulberry tree in front of his house that looked like a car cover used by a big man when he traveled, and his head was broken. It took a long time to raise it.

And he came to the end of Han Dynasty at that time.

When he realized that he was Liu Bei, he was hesitant at first, and then ecstatic.

There is nothing unacceptable, because his original life has come to an end, and now he has a second chance to be a man for no reason, wouldn't it be wonderful?
What's more, he actually became Liu Bei.

Liu Bei, Emperor Zhaolie of the Shu Han Dynasty.

This is the existence that will become the emperor in the future.

His heart was soon filled with a sense of superiority above all else.

But this sense of superiority soon ran into the reality of the family's utter desolation.

His family is very poor, the kind of soul-stirring poverty, the food and clothing are extremely cheap, and they can't even eat enough.

This made Liu Bei extremely dissatisfied.

So he immediately decided to embark on a path of changing his fate against the sky.

At the beginning, he tried many means to change his destiny.

Like trying to run a business.

He thought that he could make a lot of money by opening a restaurant to do cooking and distilling wine, but when he was about to do it, he found that the family didn't even have an iron pot, let alone money.

Oh, remembered.

It turns out that the iron pot that can cook vegetables was only available in the Song Dynasty.

Then go to the blacksmith for a fight!
In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, it was rare that there was no official salt and iron operation, and private operators could also operate it.

So Liu Bei went to the blacksmith of the clan for help, but the blacksmith saw the shape of the iron pot he had drawn on the ground with mud, and was astonished. Find skilled craftsmen who can make iron pots.

After being ridiculed by others, Liu Bei realized that even making an iron pot requires skill.

Laughing to death, I want to open a restaurant and do cooking, but I don't even have a pot, let alone many other requirements.

The 1.0 action of the fate-changing plan against the sky, the halberd fell into the sand.

After the failure of the first operation, Liu Bei was not discouraged.

He learned from the painful experience, and soon realized that he didn't have to be a cook to change his fate against the sky. Besides being a cook, the traverser's advantage is that he can also be a civil servant?

He can also write poems and become famous all over the world. With the preparation of the ancients for culture and literary talents, he is afraid that he will not be able to change his fate against the sky when he comes to Tang poetry and Song poetry?

Just do what you say, Liu Bei is going to start to impress the world with a wave of Tang poetry and Song Ci memorized in his head.

Then he found that he only had a pen and three scrolls of bamboo slips at home, not a single piece of paper, and had to grind the ink himself.

Of the three bamboo slips, two were filled with words, and only one was blank. They were the inheritance left by his father who died early as a small official in the county, and his mother kept them as treasures.

He read the bamboo slips, and if they add up to a few hundred characters, it's not bad.

If I want to buy it after I finish writing...

Laughing to death, judging from the impoverished financial situation of the Liu family at that time, they couldn't afford it at all.

The mother worked hard to weave straw sandals and straw mats in exchange for a meager income, so that she could barely raise the young Liu Bei, which was very hard.

But this does not stop Liu Bei's determination to change his fate against the sky.

He is a modern visitor who is nearly 2000 years ahead of human beings. How can he be content with being ordinary?

So, while his mother wasn't paying attention, he secretly took a roll of bamboo slips and wrote a poem about the day of hoeing, and then prepared to amaze the world.

After finishing writing, he felt that the future path was under his control, and the most famous child prodigy of the Han Dynasty was about to be born.

But he didn't realize a very serious problem until he walked out of the house.

Who should this poem show to help him become famous?

These days, there is no internet, no scarf, no ability to write short essays and no punches. If you want to become famous in the world, you need to spread it from person to person, which is far less convenient than a network cable in the Internet era.

And if you want to pass it on from population to population, you need capable people to help you.

Who can help him?
teacher?

He did not.

celebrity?

He doesn't know.

In this three-acre land in Zhuo County, is there any famous personage?
He searched in the column of names in memory, and thought of such a big cow as Lu Zhi.

correct!It's Lu Zhi!
Didn't you say that Lu Zhi was Liu Bei's teacher?
Students have needs, wouldn't teachers help?

Then he was going to find Lu Zhi.

As a result, Lu Zhi had already been conscripted by the emperor to become an official in Luoyang, so there was no way to find him, and Liu Bei was not Lu Zhi's student yet, so why should he help?
In desperation, Liu Bei retreated to the next best thing and went to find the patriarch of their Liu clan, hoping to be appreciated by the patriarch and help them become famous.

The Liu clan in Zhuo County, Zhuo County is at least after Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty. As the nobles of the royal family, the clan of the Han family should have some popularity and influence in the county, right?

result……

Laughing to death, the gatekeeper didn't let him enter the patriarch's house at all, it didn't matter how he said it.

That is to say, he was young and didn't make a move. If he was replaced by another older one, if he was so messed up, he probably would have to make a move.

Liu Bei was very angry at the time.

"I am the Empress Xiaojing, how dare you treat me like this?"

Menzi sneered and pointed at himself.

"I am also Empress Xiaojing, what should you do to me?"

After being ridiculed in the face, Liu Bei suddenly remembered.

Clans live together these days, and those who live together for several generations are a family.

That is to say, all people with the surname Liu who live in clan settlements are "royal nobles".

In this gate, the old man with a hunched waist on the side of the street, and the little boy with a long hair running and jumping beside him, are all descendants of Emperor Xiaojing.

how many years?

After Emperor Xiaojing?
Ah this...

Feeling inexplicably embarrassed, Liu Bei could only cover his face and walk away.

Back home, my mother stared at the bamboo slips in his hand, took it over and opened it for a look, then picked up the braided straw sandals and beat Liu Bei's hands into braised pig's trotters.

Obviously, the mother's level of education is not enough to make her realize how talented her son is, but she is very angry that her son offended her deceased husband's relics.

While recuperating from his injuries, Liu Bei kept reflecting on why he couldn't get famous, and finally, he figured it out.

Now is the era of the examination, not the era of the imperial examination.

In this era of selecting talents through the procuratorate system, people are not famous because they are talented, but they are "brilliant" because they are famous.

He reversed cause and effect.

Defying the sky and changing fate 2.0, the halberd fell into the sand.

After learning from the pain, Liu Bei decided to follow this brand-new causal relationship to embark on the road of changing fate against the sky again, and started the action of changing fate against the sky 3.0.

Make a name first, then show your talent.

So, first of all, make a name for yourself!

How to become famous?
Still rely on this poem.

But people don't let them enter the patriarch's house at all, and the patriarch can't see it, so how can they become famous?
To get in, you have to be famous.

But if you don't go in, where's the fame?
But the fact is that if you don't have a reputation, you can't get in...

Liu Bei thought hard about the way to break the situation, but fell into an embarrassing predicament of nesting dolls.

He was like a puppy trying to bite his own tail in circles, but he couldn't succeed. He felt that an invisible net was covering him, making him unable to break free no matter how hard he tried.

Then, on a thunderstorm night, Liu Bei had an epiphany.

This man-eating feudal society doesn't give the low-level civilians a way to survive at all. If that's the case, then I will rebel!Make a revolution!Turn the table directly!

Grandpa voted together!

You are willing to cut yourself to pieces, dare to drag your old emperor off the horse!
As soon as he said it, Liu Bei, who grew up under the red flag, rushed out to find the working people to spread the revolutionary truth, attack the feudal society that cannibalize people, lead them to establish organizations, train the army, and always be ready to carry the rebellion to the end.

As a result, of course it was not the county magistrate's turn to send a few small officials to deal with Liu Bei.

In fact, Liu Bei really took the first step. Of course, he only took that step.

He went to the working people in the Liu family's settlement to spread the truth of the revolution, and called on everyone to follow him to rebel and make revolution, so as to end the evil feudal society.

Of course, the hardworking people in Youzhou are really suffering, and they don’t have much cold for the Emperor Liu’s family who is far away in the sky. They basically belong to the kind of [Who?do i know him ] state, it can be said that as long as they have a little awe, it is not impossible to have no awe.

But compared with rebellion and revolution, the working people are more concerned about having a full stomach.

So Liu Bei said that rebellion and revolution can fill his stomach.

The working people have more concerns.

"But there is no food, no strength, how can you rebel?"

Liu Bei smiled slightly.

"If you rebel and start a revolution, you will have something to eat."

The working people still do not agree.

"No food, no strength, no rebellion."

Liu Bei smiled helplessly.

"That's why I said that if you rebel and start a revolution, you will have food and strength, and you will be able to rebel."

The working people spread their hands.

"Then you have to eat before rebelling."

The smile on Liu Bei's face disappeared, and he was a little irritable.

"That's why I said, you have to rebel before you have food, and if you don't rebel, you have nothing to eat."

The working people are impatient.

"No food, no energy, how can you rebel?"

Liu Bei was angry.

"That's why we rebelled! If there is no rebellion, who will eat?"

The working people were also angry.

"No food to eat, make your family rebel?"

Liu Bei was speechless for a moment.

Not to mention, rounding up to [-], you are still rebelling against my family. After all, I am a relative of the Han family, and my surname is Liu.

Then there is no more.

Liu Bei was very depressed and realized that he didn't seem to be able to take this route of rebellion, because rebellion also required money. His hands were clean and his pockets were cleaner than his face. Who rebelled against him?

Liu Bei was silent.

Three days later, when he was standing next to the big mulberry tree next to his house and thinking about life, he suddenly realized a serious problem.

If the road to fame is not feasible, it is impossible to take the formal route to enter the upper class of society.

If the path of rebellion is blocked, one cannot gain access to the upper strata of society by overturning the table.

Doesn't that mean...

Do I want to eat bran pharynx for the rest of my life?

He turned his head and looked at Liu Yuxi's little house where he and his mother lived now, and he was stunned.

Faced with such a situation, how did the original Emperor Zhaolie of Han break the situation?
How did he go from a small man who ate chaff, swallowed vegetables, weaved mats and sold shoes to the throne of emperor?

What kind of shit luck did he have to come out of nowhere?
Can't figure it out, really can't figure it out.

(End of this chapter)