Xuande

Chapter 6 He is no longer impetuous

Liu Bei's plan to change his life against the sky failed unexpectedly.

In the face of Liu Bei who wielded the three axes of the traverser, the society of the Eastern Han Dynasty did not hesitate to strike hard, and taught Liu Bei to be a man instead of his loving mother.

The success of three consecutive heavy punches allowed Liu Bei to receive an education in a social university, and it also made his spirit sink into a decline, making him begin to doubt his so-called prophetic advantage.

But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

At least these three heavy punches made him start to focus on the reality, to truly understand the lower society of the Eastern Han Dynasty, instead of pursuing the illusory fame of the world, and the whole person gradually got rid of the initial impetuous desire to get rid of poverty.

During that time, he was really impetuous.

The main reason is that she can't stand that kind of pure poverty.

The millet that is the staple food at home has a bad taste. Liu Bei, who still remembers the taste of Northeast rice, feels uncomfortable and hard to swallow every bite.

There are no hot stews and stir-fries to serve with rice. The only thing that can be served with rice is the pickle stalks, which have long been invisible. They are hard and bitter, and the astringent feeling makes him feel sick.

It's really unpalatable, very unpalatable.

But if he didn’t eat these things, he would starve to death. A strong sense of hunger was the best lesson, and he had to endure it and force himself to accept it.

In this process of gradual acceptance, he also accepted the fact that he would be in such a state of poverty for a period of time, and he gradually stopped being impetuous.

He realized that even Uncle Liu would be able to become emperor after more than 50 years. What he has experienced in the past 50 years may be the reason why he can become emperor.

Later, he knew that his origin was actually not low among the Liu clan in Zhuo County, Zhuo County, at least not grassroots.

His grandfather, Liu Xiong, was promoted to Xiaolian and served as a county magistrate. He was also a magistrate of a large county with a rank of Qianshi. Unfortunately, he died young and could not climb further. Liu Bei's family was promoted to a higher family rank.

In this era of extremely narrow upward channels, if you do not advance, you will retreat.

Liu Xiong failed to lead his family to the top, and if he died again, the Liu family would naturally fall down the ranks.

So when it was Liu Bei's father Liu Hong's turn, he could only rely on Liu Xiong's little Yu Ze to get a lowly position as a local official, barely considered the humble middle class of a big man.

It is not impossible to be a small official. If you want to go further, the best chance is to be appreciated by your superiors. You can be selected as a "clean" in the process of promoting filial piety, and then you will have the opportunity to become an official.

It's a pity that Liu Hong didn't wait for this opportunity, and died in his 20s, leaving orphans and widows.

So the Liu family couldn't even guarantee the false middle class, so they landed hard, gnawed a mouthful of yellow mud, and lost their dignity.

According to my mother's memories of the past, when she first married into the Liu family, that is, when Liu Bei's grandfather Liu Xiong was still alive, the Liu family was also a decent official family, with a house, land and servants.

Who would have thought that within three to five years, two men would die one after another.

After the two funerals, the small family was devastated.

You can't fight against grandpa, and you can't fight against father. Liu Bei and mother can only support themselves by weaving mats and shoes with their own hands.

As far as this job is concerned, Liu Bei's mother and son are orphans and widows in the clan, so they are assigned to take care of it. It can barely be regarded as a small and micro enterprise, self-employed.

At this time, I really saw the benefits of clan living together and keeping warm in groups. If it weren't for the fact that the Liu clan in Zhuo County still had a little background, Liu Bei's family might have slipped directly from the middle class to kneeling soldiers.

Because of the early death of grandfather and father, they failed to further consolidate the family business, and passed it on to Liu Bei, because he was too young to inherit any of his father's connections, so the family was no different from ordinary grassroots.

The house is gone, the land is gone, the servants are gone.

But amidst the despair, Liu Bei, who had gradually calmed down and was no longer impetuous, keenly discovered a point.

He is eligible for basic education.

The Liu clan in Zhuoxian County has their own rudimentary ethnology, and there are no classics to pass on, but it is not a big problem to teach the children of the clan to read and write.

It is not that there are no wealthy families in the clan, and some families with better business or land management will be richer.

Wealthy families often use some of their income to help poor clansmen, and donate to ethnology, so that the ethnology can continue to operate, which can be regarded as charity.

Liu Bei mastered the skills of reading and writing under the instruction of his father and ethnology when he was young.

In the ethnology, when teaching reading and writing skills, the older clansmen reprimanded some young children who were not serious, saying that those who can read and write are only one in a hundred in the Han Dynasty. If they don’t study hard now, they will regret it in the future.

This statement is obviously a bit exaggerated, but Liu Bei has consulted some information, and the population of the entire Eastern Han Dynasty is more than 5000 million. The most optimistic estimate is that the literacy rate will not exceed [-]%.

More than 90.00% of the population is illiterate, and the remaining [-]% of the literate population, most of them only master the skills of reading and writing, and are not illiterate, that's all.

Among the [-]%, those who can receive book knowledge education beyond reading and writing are also an absolute minority. They are the absolute elite class in the late Han Dynasty, and ordinary people cannot reach them.

But in any case, as one of the eight percent of the population who have mastered reading and writing skills, Liu Bei has already stood on the heads of 90.00% of the people even if he has nothing.

This cruel fact made Liu Bei terrified.

He is already a member of the top 90.00% of the population in this society, and it is difficult to live by eating bran and swallowing vegetables, but he just can't die from starvation, so what kind of state are the remaining [-]% living in?

What kind of astonishing poverty and pain did they experience?

Are the so-called "working people" he came into contact with in the settlement of the Liu clan really what the real working people looked like in the late Eastern Han Dynasty?
This is the first time he has thought seriously since he was reborn in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

But such thinking could not change his situation at that time.

The Liu Bei family used to be the best branch of the Liu family in Zhuo County, and produced many officials. However, after Liu Xiong and Liu Hong passed away one after another, some clan members who had been friends with Liu Bei's family in the past also alienated Liu Bei's family.

Today, only Liu Bo, a businessman, still helps Liu Bei’s family because of his friendship with Liu Hong in the past. Sometimes, when Liu Bei’s family is too poor, they rely on the rice he sent to barely survive. So as not to starve and freeze.

When he first came to the end of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei had great ambitions and wanted to change his fate against the sky, but he was defeated by a hungry belly.

Ambition is not worth a bowl of food. When you are hungry, you can only think about eating, and then what you will have for your next meal. You can't think of anything else.

His vision was severely restricted by hunger.

After the traverser swung the three axes without any effect, after the excitement faded away, hunger took over the mainstream consciousness.

Liu Bei had no choice but to shelve the plan to change his life against the sky, chose to bow his head to admit the reality, and took the initiative to learn from his mother to weave straw mats and straw sandals, and then picked them out to sell.

He lived a life looking forward to selling more straw sandals and straw mats in order to buy more food and eat a few more mouthfuls of food. He mixed at the bottom of society and on both sides of the street, and became a street vendor.

He thought he was already realistic, but he still underestimated reality.

In this era, it is as difficult for a poor person to change from being poor to not being poor or even to have a full stomach, as it is for modern people to buy lottery tickets and win the jackpot. It is a matter of luck.

Since then, Liu Bei and his mother have been struggling on the food and clothing line. They can't eat enough, and they can't starve to death. It's the same with all their efforts, and nothing has changed.

Things that were unpalatable at the beginning are no longer unpalatable, and even a little delicious. After eating a meal, I look forward to the next meal every moment.

Because there is no oil and water in the meal, and the things to do are too many and tiring, Liu Bei always feels hungry prematurely. After eating a bowl of food, he will be hungry again after a long time.

When he was awake, he felt hunger clearly for more than half of the time, and he was sadly recalling the fried chicken, hamburger, cola and french fries in his previous life. Thinking of the sad place, it was tears and saliva that he swallowed together.

But his current home really has no surplus food to eat.

He started complaining constantly, and then he stopped complaining.

Because the mother who loves him has done her best, she eats less and cooks more. At the age of 20, she looks like a 40-year-old middle-aged woman at a glance.

So premature aging.

Therefore, he can only choose to go to bed early like his mother, and he can go to bed when the sun goes down, because he will not feel hungry when he falls asleep.

In such a state, Liu Bei has no time and energy to think about other plans to change his life against the sky, commonly known as - he has tried his best to live.

He could only think for a while when he had just eaten and was not so hungry, thinking about how the real Liu Bei succeeded in breaking the situation in this situation.

Can this hard work and despair that can't be seen at a glance really make him break the game?
Yes, he succeeded.

Liu Bei succeeded.

(End of this chapter)