Chapter 1: Another Chance

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Between 794 and 1185 AD, Chinese mainland was turbulent, the situation was turbulent and calm, calm and turbulent, and it had gone through the Tang Dynasty, five generations of war, and the three periods of the Song Dynasty. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

While the Central Plains was prosperous and war-torn at a time, the Japanese islands on the other side of the sea had only just ended a period, the Heian period.

During the Heian period, Emperor Kanmu moved the capital from Nara to Heiankyo (present-day Kyoto) in 794 AD, and ended in 1185, when the Taira clan was defeated by the Genji clan, and Minamoto Yoritomo took over power to establish the Kamakura shogunate.

The Heian period was a period when Japan absorbed and integrated the Chinese Sui and Tang cultures and developed their own national culture on this basis.

Since 645 A.D., when Emperor Kotoku reformed the feudal system based on the feudal system of the Sui and Tang dynasties in China, Japan began to shift from a slave country to a feudal state.

Buddhism, Confucianism, medicine, architecture, agriculture, military doctrine, various subsets of scriptures and histories, and hundreds of literary works were brought back to Japan by the Tang Dynasty envoys, laying the foundation for the development of Japanese culture. The calligraphy, painting, sculpture, music, dance and other arts of the Tang Dynasty also flowed into Japan, thus integrating into the Japanese national culture.

After absorbing the advanced culture of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Heian period gradually developed and formed a prosperous era of the culture of the princes and nobles. Hunting clothes and black hats, wide long sleeves, painted black teeth, playing Noh, waka, haiku, and romantic love between female officials and the royal family constitute the main colors of the whole society.

On the surface, cherry blossoms are flying all over the sky, the promenade winds and turns, the flying bridge is vermilion and birty, and Enryakuji Temple is solemn. The twelve single clothes dyed with a faint plum fragrance, accompanied by the melodious and moving sound of the piano, the seven-foot green silk as black as ink, and the cherry lips haloed by rouge, everything is gorgeous like a dream, like an ancient painting and an old scroll.

However, the glamorous appearance can't hide the erosion inside.

The aristocratic class was indulged in indulgence and luxury, and the centralization of power lasted only a few decades before it began to ossify. By the ninth century, the system of laws and orders had weakened, and the central government was keen to expand its power, making it increasingly difficult for local governments to manage under the bureaucracy.

As a result, the system was modified, and the aristocracy and some powerful monasteries owned large tracts of land (i.e., the land manor system). Overwhelmed by the peasants who cultivated the emperor's lands, they fled the imperial domain, and the lords began to gather political and military power in various places.

Ignoring the local situation and for a time when bandits were rampant, and the officials were too busy collecting their wealth to settle the country, the great lords continued to develop their military power, which eventually led to a major war that ended 400 years of peace and prosperity.

After the Battle of Genpei, Minamoto Yoritomo established the Kamakura Shogunate, marking the rise of the samurai class.

However, in less than 150 years, Emperor Daigo took advantage of the dissatisfaction of all classes with Kamakura and the decline of the shogunate, but the curtain fell successfully, and Japan fell into civil strife again.

The Ashikaga clan, a descendant of Genji, took the opportunity to establish the Muromachi shogunate, which was opposed to Emperor Daigo's north and south, and Japan entered the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties that lasted for about 50 years, and it was not until the third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu that the division ended and the government became stable.

However, more than 70 years later, the Muromachi shogunate fought another major war over the issue of the heir, and the famous Onin War in Japanese history began......

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"Get up, untouchables, get up and work!"

"Still sleeping! I want to ......"

"If you go to sleep again, don't even think about getting rice balls!"

"Stop fighting! Stop fighting! It's already ......."

"I'm up! I'm up!"

"****** give me a quieter voice, and the boss will have you to suffer......

"Don't talk nonsense! When you get up, go to work! Go quickly!"

……

All kinds of shouting, begging for mercy, noisy footsteps, and vague kicking sounds, as if they were ...... Yes, there is!

Chengli was confused, just thinking of this, it was like being poured cold water on his head, and he immediately sobered up, just glanced at it, but he was stunned on the spot, where is this?

Shabby, dirty, filled with a dull smell of mold and decay, a few rays of sunlight reflecting floating dust.

The simplicity of the house was unheard of, the walls were made of mud mixed with straw branches, and the roof was just a crooked and vertical branch, covered with a layer of dead grass, through which the sun crept in.

The room is small, in an irregular circle with a radius of less than two meters. In the corner were scattered some clay pots, on which hung a coat, and a hat drooping, some broken, with a few holes.

Chengli stretched out his palm, looked at it carefully, it was not his own hand, and slowly clenched, feeling the power of the palm, this is not a dream.

The strange smell of dampness filled the entire nasal cavity of Chengli, and there was a faint sour smell, but if I looked carefully, it was from a layer of withered grass covering my body.

Chengli knew that this was the quilt, but the withered grass looked exactly the same as the pile on the roof, Chengli touched it, and the tip of the grass was stuck in his hand, itchy.

Pushing away the pile of dead grass, he found himself wearing a shoddy cloth coat.

This variegated shoddy cloth is simply worse than the kind of clothing fabric that can be bought for ten dollars in the vegetable market, the variegated fabric is a mixture of several colors of silk intertwined, the weaving process is very poor, the uneven thread mouth is clear at a glance, rubbing the body, indescribable discomfort.

And the clothes were uneven and did not fit, the threads were everywhere, and they were more than one size larger.

Cheng Li frowned and looked at his now thin and young arms, no hysterical yelling, no panic and helpless panic, just pressed his eyebrows, carefully remembering what happened.

Memories are simple, no headaches, no messy memories that almost burst out of my head, as simple as recalling my past.

It wasn't accurate to the minute or second, and everything didn't come to mind.

Some of it was blurred, just a picture, the content seemed to be fogged, but what it was was clear.

Some of them are a whole event, as clear as a movie, who is, what happens, and when is it very clear.

After being silent for a while, Chengli laughed softly.

"Oh, that's true. ”

Pictures, fragments, some of them have not been remembered for a while, but what they remember let Chengli know what he should know.

So, now, who am I?

Seung-ri closed his eyes and recalled, asking himself in his mind.

Who am I?

Hate what?

What do you like to do?

What now?

……

"Or I'm not wrong. ”

Cheng Li analyzed.

"Since my way of thinking is still modern, my eyes are also based on history, and I pursue what I never thought of in the original addition. ”

"Well, I'm leaving. "Although it is incorporated into all the habits of many people nowadays, as long as the subject does not change, it will be fine.

Chengli exhaled and relaxed suddenly, this is really, a gift from heaven, rebirth or something.

A sense of excitement rose in my heart.

"So, let's get started, my new life!", after a short rest, Seori suddenly stood up and expertly picked up the samurai sword beside him.

The handle is sheathed.

"Wow", after only a little resistance, the oil came out of the sheath, the snow-white blade, the sharp blade, the cold knife light, and Chengli's gaze was a little hot.

Even if this knife has flaws, the blade has several cracks, even if it has been played hundreds of times in memory, it still can't calm the little excitement in Chengli's heart.

This is the first time in Chengli's life that he has held a knife, and it is no longer the plastic knife he bought after watching martial arts movies, and it is almost weightless.

The handle of the knife was tied with a layer of cloth, but you could still feel the coldness and the heaviness in your hands.

Cheng Li touched the blade of the knife, and the cold through the bones made Cheng Li a spirit, and his excited heart instantly calmed down.

"It's just a knife. Cheng Li said softly, telling himself that it was just a knife.

Later, there will be many, there will be more.

The clutch knife was put into the sheath, inserted into the cloth belt around the waist, and a pair of straw sandals were found on the side, which were carefully woven and worn for three months, although they were dusty and looked very old, but still not broken.

"I heard that Liu Bei sells straw sandals, but I don't know if it's this general style. Chengli suddenly laughed, dissipated a little nervousness in his heart, shook his head, picked it up and put it on.

It was time to go out, removing the straw that was leaning against the door to block the evening breeze, and Seoli opened the door.

"Squeak ~ squeak ~ squeak ~ ya~" The friction of the shaft of the chaimen made a series of sharp and piercing friction sounds, and for a while, the nearby noisy voices paused, and they all looked at Chengli,

Cheng Li turned his head and glanced at it.

Finding that Cheng Li noticed them, one of the leading people hurriedly trotted over, five short figures, messy hair, covered with a layer of loess, and more loess on the bun tied out of the back of the head.

His complexion was yellow, no, it should be said that the skin of his whole body was yellow—Chengli noticed the complexion of his hands and feet, and there were several deep wrinkles on his forehead, which were common among those who worked in the fields.

At the age of 24, he is almost as old as a 40-year-old because of overwork.

The body was a gray-black linen robe, the material was worse than the one on Chengli's body, I don't know how long it had not been washed, and the hem of the clothes was covered with a layer of black dirt.

At his feet were a pair of rudimentary shoes, which were just drilled and roped on the four sides of the planks on the feet. I knew that rough straw ropes could easily wear down the instep and ankle.

So few people wear it, usually barefoot, unless it is a long trip, or some status, and want to look different, such as the one in front of you, Luo Mi.

After Luo Mi dedicated his outstanding sister and daughter to Yan Shou Lisheng and them, he was appreciated, had some small rights, and seemed to regard himself as the principal of the common people, since he was different from the common people, how could he still be barefoot all day long?

Of course, there are also people like him, Muduo, who sacrificed his wife and daughter.

Yan Shou Lisheng, Yan Shou Liyuan, Teng Wuyuan, Inu Shengyi, Inu Zhimaru, and even the eight or nine-year-old Jiudaoyi Shangneng and Jiudaoyi Dalang are all frequent visitors to these women.

They are the heirs of the leader, not the leader who has little power like a security guard, but the leader who is in charge of the fate of the entire cottage and two hundred people.

It can be said that it is the future owners of the village, and Chengli can be regarded as their friends, at least in person.

These women were recommended by Chengli to deepen their friendship.

Of course, this is not forcing Liang to become a prostitute, in fact, Chengli didn't expect it, it was Luo Mi and Mu Duo who came to ask for it, and these women were also very willing, and now they often thank them when they see Chengli, and sometimes there are thanks, of course, it can be regarded as a bribe.

There's no way, after so many years, Chengli also understands that the common people lived like animals in ancient Japan. Girls are generally eight or nine years old, and those who are a little more beautiful will try their best to blend into caravans and go to the town to sell prostitution.

One can maintain the family, the other can also seek a future for themselves, and when they are old enough to accompany customers, they will return to the countryside with relatively large savings, these women are fragrant buns in the eyes of local men.

Fortunately, this body has not taken care of those businesses before, of course, it is not that I haven't thought about it, but I don't have money, and even if I have it, it's just a little, not enough to eat.

It can be said that the Japanese concept of ethical chastity has never really been formed. All kinds of things are disgusting and unimaginable.

There are even prostitutes, orphans raised since childhood, or those who have no choice but to submit to survival after being caught, or slaves who are sold by their parents.

Cheng has been wandering since he can remember, has been a beggar, a thief, hungry and faint, robbed the snacks of the rich people's children to satisfy his hunger, and also encountered human traffickers, fortunately, although Cheng Li is malnourished, he has a good physique, clear ears and eyes, and is young and flexible, so he escaped.

I finally accumulated experience, my hands and feet were fast, and when I was stealing food in a village, I met a robber, and I was taken captive with a group of children, and became a little robber.

Later, I met a litter of flying heads, and I happened to save the three masters, so I was appreciated and accepted him as a follower, and then I felt that Chengli was very good, and decided to marry Kazuko to him, but it didn't take long for the robbers to be subdued by the current commanders.

This gang plundered several villages, coerced the population into the mountains, and built a cottage here, until now.

The job of a civilian leader is not favored by other leaders, and even the robbers feel that it is a bit of a loss to mingle with the common people, and Kasaku thinks the same way.

It's just that those robbers were not qualified at that time, and among the leaders, he was the youngest and not old enough, so he was sent over, but he was also free, and there were bribes from the common people from time to time, and he lived well.

No one wants to escape, not to mention the sentry in the mountain pass, and the beasts in the mountains and forests alone are terrifying, not to mention that this place is actually no worse than the outside.

There are no all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, no robbers, homeless people, and rebellious soldiers, it is simply peaceful like a paradise.

It's true to work hard, but it's better than dying.

Very capable people, Cheng Li thought of those commanders.

"My lord, do you need anything?" Luo Mi bowed, his voice hoarse, very respectful, careful.

Luo Mi's question brought Cheng Li back from his thoughts, "Don't use it yet," Cheng Li recalled the words he used yesterday morning, and asked, "Have the people all risen?"

Memory is quite good.

Chengli looked up in the distance again, the sun had just revealed a little crimson, but with this light, Chengli found that the vision of this body was quite excellent, everything was clear everywhere he could see, even the trees on the mountainside at the end could be seen.

"The men are all up, but some women are very popular with the adults, and they have just come back, and they are very tired," Luo Mi said again.

Cheng Li turned his head to look at him, "How many people?"

"Five," Luo Mi replied with a bowed head, but Chengli noticed that he glanced at the shoes on his feet.

"Get up after noon to do things. ”

"Yes, the villain thanked the Lord for his kindness on their behalf. Luo Mi hurriedly thanked him.

"No, you can go yourself. Chengli waved his hand and turned to leave.

What about the other women? I'm afraid it's his wife and daughter, and his sister is among them, and as for the other women, he must be going to collect the meat debt now.

There was some disdain under the centrifugation.

However, the previous Chengli didn't care, and it wasn't a big deal, plus Luo Mi sent some mountain fruits and the like from time to time, just turned a blind eye, not to mention that the shoes on his feet were offered by his sister.

Now, I just need to read from the book, and everything is as it is, without any changes, and I don't need to make any changes, and I will make people suspicious.

Chengli walked across the pontoon bridge and thought.

As for the others?

I haven't been kind enough to that extent.

Not to mention the Japanese.

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