Chapter 1 Backward Agrarian Society
Somehow, Sun Xiangfu came to this world inexplicably, yes, it was the Tang Dynasty in history, and the time was just in time for a few days after Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen coup.
Of course, this so-called coup d'Γ©tat has nothing to do with Sun Xiangfu at this time, his location is just a dilapidated small mountain village outside Xinfeng County, more than 100 miles away from Chang'an City.
At this moment, a team of cavalry took a piece of sweat-stained bright yellow silk cloth to the village and began to tell the story, the gist of the story is: everyone listen, for some reason, we will listen to Li Shimin, the king of Qin, in the future, and you and other farmers should respond to the call of the king of Qin, be diligent in farming, and serve the country.
Perhaps this cavalry team ran too many villages in a row, and when they saw the small river flowing with green water around the village, the cavalry captain shouted to the peasants gathered at the entrance of the village, "Bring some firewood, grass and iron pots, I will have lunch here, don't worry, I don't need you to provide food, just boil some hot water." β
The villagers scattered, and Sun Xiangfu, who was forcibly pulled by the village chief, also wanted to retreat with the crowd, and his soul had been here for three days, and his brain had been dizzy, thinking that it was a dream, and looking forward to waking up from the dream.
"I said, Xiangfu, isn't your iron pot already worn out, what are you going to run to home, go outside the village to pick up some dry firewood to deal with it."
A man dressed like a beggar and looking to be in his twenties pulled Sun Xiangfudao, who was expressionless.
The man's name is Sun Dali, he is not tall, he is not strong, in fact, there is no strong person in this nameless village, and in Sun Xiangfu's opinion, everyone in this village is dressed like a beggar, and after so many years of war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, there are several sets of clothes that the farmer can change at home!
Through the memory of the original owner of this body, Sun Xiangfu knew that the people of this village were outsiders who were ordered by Emperor Li Yuan to move from the war-torn areas in the north to enrich the population of Guanzhong in the eighth year of Wude.
So in more than a year, the village has plummeted from more than 200 people to about 150 people, all of whom died of starvation and disease, and the good thing is that the rest of the people have used their tenacious labor force to open up more than 1,000 acres of fields, and this year they can barely gain a foothold, relying on the output of the fields, there should not be too many deaths in winter.
"Oh, yes! When you say that, I think about it, I haven't cooked in a pot for a few days. β
Because they are the only ones with the same surname in the village, Sun Xiangfu and Sun Dali are usually quite familiar, and they habitually responded, after speaking, Sun Xiangfu remembered that after his soul passed through, he had not eaten for three days, and in his shack made of mud and straw, there was still a nine-year-old brother and a seven-year-old sister.
"It's bad, the second and third girls are probably hungry and faint at home."
At this moment, Sun Xiangfu's emotions were full of guilt, although the two children still looked a little strange to him, but they may have been influenced by the original owner of the body! This feeling of blood connection makes Sun Xiangfu, who was an only child in his previous life, feel amazing.
"Then don't look for firewood, I still have a few bundles of firewood at home, let's take them in your name to the officers and soldiers, you should go home and take a look!" If you are hungry, you will have no relatives in this world. β
Sun Xiangfu glanced at Sun Dali gratefully, then turned his head and ran towards his home, remembering that more than a year ago, the parents of the original owner of this body were malnourished because of long-term lack of food, and finally both died of illness, you know, they were only in their thirties at that time, and they should be considered in the prime of life.
Pushing open the door of the thatched and reed-woven house, Sun Xiangfu saw the two motionless children on the bed at a glance, pushed twice, the second brother Sun Deshou opened his eyes in confusion, and after seeing Sun Xiangfu's face, he just snorted lightly and stopped moving, and the little sister Sun Lili, although she still had breath, couldn't wake up at all.
Sun Xiangfu, who was in a hurry, hurriedly rummaged through the two thatched huts at home, but did not find anything edible, so he had to use a broken pottery bowl at home that lacked a lot of mouths to fill some cold water and pour it into his younger brothers and sisters.
Grain, at this moment, he urgently needs food, and now it is midsummer, the millet and wheat in the field have not yet emerged, can not be eaten at all, glanced at the side of the field, and from time to time a few locusts can barely be used as food, in order to find a bite to eat, Sun Xiangfu sweated in a hurry.
The situation of the families in the village is not much better than Sun Xiangfu's family, it is good to be able to find more than two mouthfuls of food a day, usually they are hungry and eat one meal a day, all of them are yellow and thin, and they regard food as life-saving materials, and it is estimated that there is no way to borrow food, Sun Xiangfu first thought of those who were soldiers at the entrance of the village, and they had grain bags on their horses, and there should be food in them.
After a while, Sun Xiangfu came to the entrance of the village again, at this time, there were already fast villagers with their own iron pots, and even clay pots came here, several cavalry were adding water to the pot filled with millet seeds, and the villagers who took the pot were enthusiastically helping them to pick up the gravel and set up the pot, at this moment most of them thought in their hearts, these officials' appetite must not be too good, leave some pot bottom for them, today's days are over.
"A few military masters, after a while, this millet porridge will be cooked, can you give it to a small bowl, no, half a bowl is fine, a pair of younger siblings in the family have fainted from hunger, if there is no food, it is estimated that they will not survive today."
While speaking, while seeing the eyes of the officers and soldiers looking at him in disgust, Sun Xiangfu took the initiative to reduce the bowl to half a bowl, and at this moment, he happened to grasp the pottery bowl that lacked a lot of small mouths in his hand, looking like a beggar.
"There are more people starving to death every day in this world, and it's the first time I've seen it when I start to think of a way to die, do you think this army is easy to deceive?"
The cavalry captain lit the firewood and grass in the middle of the gravel pile with two flints, turned around and put a pot full of millet and water on the stone pile, and then turned to look at Sun Xiangfu and spoke.
Sun Xiangfu is fifteen or sixteen years old, although he is thin like a hemp pole, but he is more than one meter and seven meters tall, his complexion looks very vegetable, but his spirit is very full, perhaps it is the reason for the soul wearing, his eyes have the temperament of Sun Xiangfu in later generations, that is a master's degree student specializing in agriculture, a senior intellectual.
This kind of temperament makes him look not like a person who is about to starve to death, you yourself don't look like a person who is about to starve to death, but your family is about to starve to death, this is unreasonable! Cavalry captain Daniel Zhang decisively believed that Sun Xiangfu had come to cheat on food, and he had seen a lot of such people in the past few days.
"The kid will never dare to deceive the military master, if the military master can evenly produce half a bowl of millet porridge, the kid will keep it before the military master finishes eating, and make up for the grain and rice consumed with other food."
Perhaps realizing that his performance just now was a little different from the submissive farmer in this world, Sun Xiangfu learned the etiquette of the ancients in the TV series, and bowed to the cavalry captain.
"Yo, since you have a way to find food, why did you come to us evenly." When the cavalry captain saw this standard literati etiquette, he was upset by the little boy dressed as a beggar, and asked as he pulled the firewood from the gravel pile.
"This matter is not clear in the next three words, if the military master feels that he has lost at that time, he can behead me." Sun Xiangfu said sincerely, but his eyes kept looking around the village, the soul passed through for three days, it was the first time he had a good look at this world, he didn't believe that with the huge amount of knowledge he brought in later life, he would not find food in this world.
"You kid is ruthless, for half a bowl of millet porridge, dare to gamble with your own life, then okay, I'll put an extra handful of millet in the pot, and see what you find to eat to count." Daniel Zhang said, untied his grain bag, and sprinkled a handful of millet into the iron pot, the food for the march was counted, and if he used it more, he would have to be hungry later, and he did not dare to use it indiscriminately.