Chapter 645: The Secret of Crossing (I)
It's the New Year... In Chang'an City, every house is full of lights.
When Li Shimin announced Chinese New Year's Eve... Lift the curfew for three days... On Chinese New Year's Eve, Chang'an City is bustling, and people will hold an activity called "exorcism", where everyone wears masks and jumps around, intending to drive away ghosts and demons and pray for good fortune.
The people of the Tang Dynasty liked to live together in large families, and a large family gathered together to celebrate the New Year. At that time, there were no firecrackers made of gunpowder, so when the time was approaching, the family would take out the prepared firecrackers, the so-called "firecrackers sound goodbye to the old year", because there was air in the bamboo, and when it was burned by the fire, it would crackle, so as to achieve the meaning of driving away ghosts.
As soon as the time comes, the bells and drums on the street are ringing, and it is a moment to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. People who "keep the New Year" at home have gotten up, and the younger generations salute the elders, and everyone has to say some auspicious words for the New Year. The Tang Dynasty did not have a New Year's money, and wealthy families may prepare some gold, silver, jewelry and other valuable ornaments to give to children for good luck.
Tossing so much and being hungry, every household in Chang'an City has a wine banquet, and the neighbors greet each other for the New Year, go to whose house to eat, and eat all the way, which is called "passing the seat".
There are two kinds of wine to be drunk in the Tang Dynasty: one is "Tusu wine" and the other is "pepper and cypress wine". "Tu Su" is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which is made by mixing seven kinds of medicinal materials such as rhubarb, bellflower, and aconitum. Because of the use of eight products, it is also known as eight gods. Therefore, the purpose of drinking this wine is to "drive away evil spirits, detoxify and prolong life".
There is a saying in Bai Juyi's poem that "the old wine can't be said first, and he is recommended as a young man by the king". It can be seen that the drinking order is young and long. From young to old, the older ones at the end of the year drink three cups in a row to show comfort, which is called "blue tail". It means that he is the oldest, and he is the last person to drink three cups in a row.
The spring flag, also called the spring flag, is a kind of flag woven with green silk, the flag is embroidered with auspicious words, people put the flag on the bamboo pole and put it at the door, or in the major Spring Festival activities, set up in a row, in order to express people's good wishes for the Spring Festival.
This custom has been inherited until the Song Dynasty, and even in the court is very prevalent, the Song Dynasty Zhou Mi has recorded: "Pre-made small spring cattle dozens, decorated with colorful flags and snow willows, distributed to the palace, each with gold and silver thread color as a reward. On the same day, the hundred palaces were given spring flags to win, and the prince of Zaizhi was gold, and the rest was wrapped in gold and silver and Luo silk for it. It can be seen that the spring flags at that time have become an indispensable "must-have" for the Spring Festival in people's hearts.
The lively scene directly stunned the envoys from all over the world... Especially the Songtsen Inca of Tibet, who saw such a magnificent and lively festival for the first time.
This kind of excitement will be engraved in the hearts of the Songtsen Inca forever until he became the king of Tibet.
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However, just when the New Year was celebrating happily outside, Li Zhan was in the Huben Army barracks thirty miles away from Chang'an at this time, outside a room, three floors inside, three floors outside, Cheng Chumo, Suningbao, Qin Huaiyu, Hou Guangliang, guarding all sides.
Li Zhan sat alone in the room, looking at the time capsule on the table, because according to the pinyin on the capsule, today should be the day the capsule was opened.
Li Zhan wanted to know what the reason for his arrival was.
Soon... Midnight passed, when there was a sound of joy inside and outside Chang'an, a bright light suddenly appeared from the time capsule on the table, and it slowly opened.
Originally, Li Zhan thought that there would be something in the capsule, but what Li Zhan didn't expect was that after the time capsule was opened, there was actually a holographic projection inside.
A man who looked a bit like the future appeared in front of Li Zhan, and then heard the future man say to Li Zhan: "Hello... The third traverser, I'm here to solve your doubts. β
"The third traverser?" Li Zhan was slightly stunned and said, "You mean to say that there are two more traversers in front of me?" β
"That's right... The first is named Ying Zheng, the second is named Wang Mang, and you are the third Li Zhan. β
After the future man finished speaking, Li Zhan's eyes were slightly shocked and said, "Ying Zheng and Wang Mang are actually traversers?" β
Looking at Li Zhan's frightened expression, the future man laughed and said, "Time can be shuttled, in fact, human beings have discovered many marks of traversers, but human beings themselves don't want to admit it."
An ancient tomb of the Ming Dynasty was excavated in Guangxi, and a ring was unearthed in the tomb, which was also engraved with the Swiss English alphabet.
Archaeologists identified the material of the ring and found that it was a bronze product, the size of an ordinary ring, and the "ring" showed the shape of a watch, while the hour and minute hands pointed to 10:06, and the edge also had a button like a clockwork on a watch, and the whole "ring" resembled a pocket watch. Later, someone wiped the inside of the "ring" and found that there was a depressed pattern of plum blossom piles inside, from which you can see two clear big characters "Switzerland".
Experts believe that even though it was a funeral watch, the locals did not have the habit of making it pocket-sized with gold objects. At the same time, the world's first watch for wearing was born in 1904, so at the time of the Ming Dynasty, watches did not exist. At the same time, the introduction of watches to China is much later than this, in recent decades, and the age of the sarcophagus is very old. In other words, the probability that this watch is a "funeral item" is not large.
However, if the watch was not a funerary object, then it is always a bit strange why it appeared near the grave and was discovered by later generations. However, archaeologists still have not got an accurate answer to the reason for this, what is the age of this "watch", what it is used for, and how it appeared in the soil next to the tomb, which is still a mystery that is difficult to solve.
In fact, this is a traverser, but you were experts at that time, and you didn't dare to break things down...! β
Li Zhan nodded slightly: "I believe that there is such a thing as crossing, but you said that I am the third, that is to say, my crossing is your active act with a purpose, I think... Did you move my memory, or what purpose do you have? β
"You're smart... Very judgmental, very wise, it is true that you and the first two were specially sent to ancient times, however, we can send people through, but we can't specify who will complete it.
Do you know the dimensional space? β
Li Zhan looked at the future and said: "I have seen in it, is there another space that is the same as it, but not the same. β
The future man nodded and smiled: "That's right, your space, for us, is the dimensional space, you have to know that through time, it is easy to change the future."
We can't do such things in our own space, because if we do it in our own space, chances are we all disappear.
So we can only choose people from the plane space to cross, and choose people from other planes to cross, we can't specify, we can only rely on luck, the first person to cross is Ying Zheng, this person is the first person we randomly selected.
It's a pity that the appearance of this person only changed the world a little bit, although he unified the six countries, but his technology level is not enough! β
When Li Zhan heard this, he was also stunned in his heart, thinking about it so carefully at this time, the system of governing the country according to law formulated by Qin Shi Huang after the unification of China is exactly the same as the current rule of law, although Qin Shi Huang's punishment may be a little more brutal.
At that time, Qin Shi Huang emphasized the need to govern the country by legal means, because it was still a feudal society at that time, so he established a hierarchical system of respecting the noble and the lowly, followed by a bureaucratic system of respecting titles and performing their own duties.
Then there is the social system of six relatives protecting each other, there are no thieves in it, and there are some family systems, anyway, everything must be regulated by law.
You may say why he didn't move the feudal country to democracy, because although the Central Plains was unified at that time, there were still many people with great ambitions, so it was actually turbulent at that time, and if you relied on democracy to govern the country, it would only make the society at that time more turbulent.
The second is that Qin Shi Huang directly issued an order prohibiting the private possession of weapons by the people, and directly destroyed the weapons that did not have time to collect, which is very similar to the lack of weapons and guns in China now. In places like the United States, where you can freely own guns, but because you can freely own guns, many people die.
There is also Qin Shi Huang's policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce in the economy and abolishing private ownership of land, although it is somewhat different from the current economic policy, but because in that era, peasant arable land was still the main source of economy, and the status of merchants at that time was the lowest.
It is the need for agricultural products and agricultural tools to improve the overall economic level. It is important to know that even if it is a policy, it must be formulated according to the specific social situation.
In the end, various passages were built in order to develop the country's transportation, which is a bit like the concept of building roads before you want to get rich, because in ancient times transportation was inconvenient.
There is no tool like the current high-speed train that can travel hundreds of kilometers per hour, and only by horse-drawn carriages or people's feet to move forward. Therefore, the smooth and direct access of the road has become a very important factor. In the time of Qin Shi Huang, the only way to improve transportation was to build roads.
These practices turned out to be because Qin Shi Huang was a traverser.
Thinking of this, I listened to the future people continue: "Technology is insufficient, and the future cannot be developed, so we chose the second person, this person was originally very much expected by us, because this is a doctor, we think that his ability must be able to strengthen science and technology, who knows, this person has no idea of developing science and technology at all."
All he wanted was to help the working people at the bottom.
Abolish slavery and prohibit the sale and production of slaves. In addition, he also issued an edict: "Now the name of Tianxia Tian is called 'Wang Tian', and the slaves and maids are called 'private belongings', and they are not allowed to be bought and sold." Its male mouth is not full of eight, and the field over a well, the rest of the field to the nine ethnic neighborhood and township party, so there is no field, now should receive the field, such as the system, dare to have a non-well field holy system, can not confuse the public, cast the four descendants, in order to resist the charm. β
In other words, if the land is nationalized and no buying or selling is allowed, a family with more than eight males can cultivate one well, that is, roughly 900 acres of land, and if there are less than eight males, but they own more than one well, the excess land needs to be distributed to other landless people in the same township. This decree appeared to be a good way to curb land annexation, but in practice, it was met with resistance from all over the world.
His decree helped the working people at the bottom, but it hurt the interests of the landlord class, who of course did not want to lose their land for nothing, so they resorted to radical means of resistance, and Wang Mang had to make concessions and approve of the sale of land.
Of course, the most surprising thing for later generations is the "income tax" system proposed by Wang Mang. He nationalized salt, iron, liquor, and other industries, and taxed hunters, fishermen, and other industries according to their income, thereby amassing wealth.
In order to prevent businessmen from maliciously regulating the market, Wang Mang relied on political means to buy daily necessities, buy them at low prices when the market was oversupplied, and sell them at reasonable prices when the supply was in short supply, so as to stabilize the market. Many of Wang Mang's reforms are similar to today's social system, although he failed when the social conditions were not in place.
And you are the third person we are looking for, we hope that you can work hard to light up science and technology in your Datang, gunpowder, steam engine, electricity... You can definitely do it.
As soon as you finish it, we will reward you and take you to our space, and at that time, your life will change, including the lives of your children and grandchildren. β
At this time, Li Zhan was in a fog when he listened, but he seemed to understand one thing, that is, his world is not the world of future people, and he has nothing to do with future people.
The only relationship is that he is randomly transported to Datang by the people of the future, and the meaning of these future people who will travel to Datang is to let themselves click on the technology tree with all their might, so that science and technology can develop as soon as possible.
"Why...?"
Li Zhan looked at the future and was humane.
"What, why?" The future is anti-human.
Li Zhan looked at the future and said, "Why do you want to travel us to ancient times and then do your best to open the technology tree?" β
"Uh...!" Looking at Li Zhan, the future man smiled and said: "Because we want to make our country strong, so that we will not be bullied by other countries, have you forgotten the Eight-Nation Alliance and the war of aggression against China?" β
Li Zhan was slightly stunned, this is indeed a statement, however, this statement is untenable, after the technology is opened, it will not just take care of one country, such as the island country of Wadao, at this time the Wadao is completely inferior to the Tang Dynasty, after the technology is clicked, it will only illuminate the whole world, at first we may become strong, but thousands of years later, if we are occupied by a similar Qing Dynasty, and then a closed country, we will still be bullied.
And maybe because of the strengthening of science and technology, we will also die because of the evolution of weapons, so it is not the strongest technology now, and your position as the overlord will be unshakable in the future, and there are too many unknowns behind.
This person is deliberately tricking himself, thinking about it and thinking about it, Li Zhan looked at this future human: "Don't talk to me about clichΓ©s, I want to hear your truth, and tell me clearly, why do I want to go all out to open the technology tree."
If you don't say it, then I won't do anything. β
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