Li Yuanhong's distant aunt's family is living a better life, and Li Yuanhong's main task is to herd cattle for the family, without earning wages and without eating for nothing.

Herding cattle is the simplest kind of work, and many children from poor families have had this experience. A group of children about the same age, running on the grass and barking on the hillside.

As soon as he returned to Huangpi's hometown, Li Yuanhong's witty nature seemed to be activated. A change from begging is dull and silly. Soon, he became the leader of this group of cattle herders, and was regarded as the "head of the character" by everyone.

Man changes the environment, and man is also a product of the environment.

Li Yuanhong had heard many stories from his father, and he had an excellent memory, and after listening to them once, he could almost repeat them. He is also a genius at making up stories, sometimes he talks about it, and he can't remember, he will continue to make it up and complete the story. Listening to Li Yuanhong's stories is what the children who herd cattle together look forward to the most every day.

On this day, everyone surrounded Li Yuanhong again and asked him to tell a story. No matter how many stories a person has, there will always be a time to finish it. Li Yuanhong thought about it for a while, but he really couldn't think of a new story, so he wanted to tell what he had already told and perfunctory about the past.

Unexpectedly, these children, every time they listen to Li Yuanhong's story, they listen to the story very carefully, and they generally remember the main plot of the story. As soon as Li Yuanhong told the beginning, some people immediately protested, this story has been told, I am afraid that everyone will not believe it, and I will tell the synopsis of the story.

After changing a few in a row, some people reported and exposed. In desperation, Li Yuanhong remembered that when he was begging for food, he went to someone else's field to steal radishes, not only was he not blamed and punished, but he was also helped.

And so he began to speak. It's just that the characters in the story are not him and his sister, but have become other people, and have become more unfortunate and sympathetic sisters and brothers. The venerable farmer also became taller and more vivid.

The plot of the story, he is talking about it while rendering and processing it. Because it is my own experience, it is more vivid and fascinating to talk about. After listening to this, the children were all moved by the misfortune of the two children in the story and the kind farmer.

Many years later, Li Yuanhong once told this story to his own children, but the characters in the story changed back to himself and his sister. It can be seen that Li Yuanhong is a person who attaches great importance to feelings and knows how to repay his kindness, and he will never forget the grace of dripping water.

Li Yuanhong didn't seem to be born to herd cattle, he sometimes tied the cow to the tree and ran to the side to play, and the cow couldn't eat well at all. Sometimes the oxen were scattered and left alone, and several times the oxen ran away on their own, and it took a great deal of effort to find the oxen. Because Li Yuanhong's performance in herding cattle was really poor, he was sent home by his uncle before the end of the year.

It is recorded that later in 1933, the Nationalist Government. When the government established Lishan County here, Cheng Ruhuai, the administrative inspector of the fifth district of Hubei at that time, suggested that the county seat be located in Xincheng, which is close to the Tianjia River, because "the president Mr. Li Songqing used to graze here." ”

In 1877, at the age of 14, Li Yuanhong fell seriously ill again. After hearing Xun, his father, who was training in Beitang, Tianjin, hurriedly came back to visit. At this time, Li Chaoyang had been promoted to "general manager", and his silver had also increased.

Hanyang is thousands of miles away from Beitang, and it is really inconvenient to live separately, and after his son's illness improved slightly, Li Chaoyang decided to move his family north.

Before leaving, Li Chaoyang booked a family affair for Li Yuanhong. The woman is also a local, named Wu Jingjun, who has just turned eight years old. The family is poor, and Li Yuanhong's family is also a good match.

Li Chaoyang felt that the two places were so far away that it was difficult to see each other, so he discussed with the woman's parents, hoping to take Wu Jingjun away this time. After getting the consent of the other party's parents, Wu Jingjun joined the team of moving north and became a member of Li Yuanhong's family.

This long-distance trip from Hanyang to Beitang was the first time that Li Yuanhong had traveled so far, and in the days that followed, he called this trip a journey to change his fate.

In the agricultural economy, people pay attention to staying at home and staying on the land, except for the catastrophe and famine, the hometown can no longer survive, and they have to go out to escape the famine, everyone is always unable to leave their homeland.

The seventh day of the Lunar New Year is regarded as a human day. On this day, people in many places give their children noodles, and the emphasis is on tying the children's legs to avoid leaving their hometowns. People's thoughts and feelings reflect the inherent requirements of an agrarian society that binds people firmly to the land. Therefore, the mountain is always the mountain, and the water is always the water, facing the loess and facing the sky. Year after year, people do it at sunrise and return at sunset within a very limited range, and nothing changes, and this becomes the life of the vast majority of people.

However, there are also a small number of people, either because of the compulsion of life, or take the initiative to find opportunities, they are not reconciled, not satisfied with the status quo, but seek change; Li Yuanhong's father, Li Chaoyang, is such a person.

Not all people can change if they want to, to be precise, the end result of most people who seek change is probably to run into walls everywhere and be hit on the head and bleeding.

Li Yuanhong's father should be the lucky one among these people, and in any case, he changed his life and his family's life. More fortunately, Li Yuanhong, compared to those playmates who grew up together, because he has a father like Li Chaoyang, he has his own different life, a new life.

Yes, not everyone who wants to change will be able to change, but if they don't, they will certainly not change.

Li Yuanhong can have a wonderful life later, he should first be lucky that he has a restless father.

From Hubei to Tianjin, the road was far away, and there was no railway or other means of transportation at that time. In addition to crossing the river and taking a boat, those who have money rely on animal power, and those who have no money can only rely on their own legs. People like Li Yuanhong are, of course, walking by step.

This journey will take at least 40 days. We set off every day as soon as it was dawn and stopped at night when it was dark. Generally, I spend the night in a small shop along the way, and the journey is very hard and sinful.

But every day you get to see a new place, meet different people, and hear different accents. Along the way, there are mountains, hills, woods, streams, fields, and sometimes you can see exotic flowers and plants, rare birds and animals. This is also very beautiful for Li Yuanhong. It was an experience, a baptism, which has remained in the depths of his memory.

Later, he often told his children about what he saw and heard along the way, and he told his own experience along the way, which he was always very proud of.

Beitang is the ancestor of China's modern military training, Yi Yi began in 1866, here to invite foreign coaches, the use of foreign guns and artillery training, a full 31 years earlier than Yuan Shikai's small station training.

Beitang has a history of more than 600 years since the early years of the Ming Dynasty with the immigration of Chengzu Zhu Di to form a village. Beitang is close to the sea by the river, and has the benefits of fish, salt and water transportation since ancient times, and is rich.

Beitang is also an important coastal defense town in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial capital of the Acropolis, witnessing the rise and fall of the empire of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty built two forts in the east and west in Beitang, which was known as "Beitang Double Base" in history. In peacetime, the Beitang Fort has become a good place to climb the Range Rover and watch the tide from the base.

In June 1900, the Eight-Nation Allied Forces captured the Dagu Fort, and the Beitang Fort, which was 30 miles away from the Dagu Fort, had also been surrounded by foreign powers. After 1900, the Beitang Fort was completely demolished. However, the heroic performance of the patriotic army and people in Beitang to resist the invasion can be described as magnificent, and it will remain famous in history. Beitang was evaluated by historians as "a Beitang town, half of the history of the late Qing Dynasty".

Beitang since ancient times, the famous religious celebrity Master Xuxu, the Qing Dynasty Imperial History Chen Hongyi, the emperor Gao Gengen, etc. are all from Beitang. Of course, since Li Yuanhong became the president, Beitang's business card has added another ,—— Li Yuanhong, the president of the Republic of China, and walked out of here.

Luoxia and lonely birds fly together, the autumn water is a color of the long sky", the autumn color of Beitang is like a picture scroll, climb the rebuilt double-base fort, experience the "long wind thousands of miles to send autumn geese, this can be a high-rise building" dripping, the feeling of autumn wind, every wisp is so different. The river is overflowing with autumn tides, and how many heroes and heroes are washed up between the ups and downs.

"The stars hang down and the plains are wide, and the moon swells and the rivers flow". Beitang at night is far away and quiet. The moon is in the sky, the stars are shining, and the beautiful sky and sea are even more unforgettable.

In the night of Yanshan, the small bridge in the ancient town is murmuring, and the mottled ancient fort looks particularly solemn in the hazy moonlight. Strict and solemn. With the cool night breeze, take a gentle breath, it seems to have a faint floral fragrance, refreshing people's hearts and spleens, and the body and mind are also the most comfortable.

Autumn is the most beautiful season in Beitang.

However, when Li Yuanhong first arrived here, Beitang was still a desolate town, and most of the residents made a living from fishing and salt. But because of its proximity to Tianjin, Tianjin is at this time on the verge of rebirth.

At this time, Li Hongzhang, a representative of the Westernization faction, was acting as the acting minister of Beiyang, and he used Tianjin as the base camp and experimental ground for the Westernization movement.

New things such as the machine bureau, the telegraph office, the running water, and the water master school have made the people here overwhelmed and dazzled. At this time, Tianjin had become the most important treaty port in northern China. It is a precedent and leads the times, making Tianjin one of the most interesting cities.

With the right time and place, Beitang benefited from Tianjin and ushered in opportunities for development. In Li Yuanhong's later words, witnessing the rapid changes during his time in Beitang, he could even hear the footsteps of historical progress.

At this time, Li Yuanhong's father had already been promoted to "guerrilla" again, and looking at his father's military camp, every day the soldiers practiced with foreign guns, and there were red-haired and big-nosed foreigners as instructors.

Soon, although Li Yuanhong's father was promoted to another level, his silver grew a little longer.

However, in the late Qing Dynasty, when the country was poor and the people were poor, the salaries of civil and military officials were already very low, and arrears of salaries in the army were commonplace. After settling down in Beitang, the family's life is still very poor. For the sake of the family's life, Li Yuanhong has to go to Hetao every day to collect firewood, and sell it to the market to subsidize the family.