Chapter 6: Four Years Have Passed
"Emperor Xiaoshengwu Benji"
The emperor was born intelligent, able to speak at the age of half, able to read at the age of two, read four books and five classics at the age of three, and able to write poetry at the age of four. Ancient and modern people who are called prodigies are beyond their reach.
The soul of an adult was lonely in ancient times, and in this era, the Han Dynasty had no rubber, no steam engine, and no oil was discovered, which meant that in addition to some basic traditional industries, the industrial industry was basically barren.
There are still many fruits in this era, and the crops are not introduced to each other, and there is no corn, no potatoes, no carrots, no watermelons, no peppers, etc...... If you are a foodie, you will go to hell. If it weren't for the large-scale promotion of stone milling, even the wheat would be directly boiled and eaten as wheat rice, and it would hurt to think about it.
This era is blocked, the straight road of the Qin Dynasty has not even been realized, except for manpower, animal power, water conservancy, there is no other way to travel, some remote villages and towns, may not be able to walk a day to the county seat, some people in their lives if not to serve conscription, conscription to fight, even their own county has not been out. Lao Tzu's chickens and dogs smell each other, and the old and dead do not get along, in fact, it is written very true. With the exception of salt and iron, the society of a small-scale peasant economy was basically self-sufficient.
This era is still barbaric, backward times, manpower for the destruction of nature is very little, the day is the world of human beings, at night it has become a paradise of tigers, leopards and jackals, there are barbarians on all sides of the Han family, Hu people, Jiangnan is even more undeveloped, and the Shanyue tribe is rampant. The Worm Swamp is terrifying. Some ethnic groups are still in the tribal era, and still retain the tradition of sacrificing living people and having no food.
An adult who has lived in modern society has seen the society of the information explosion era, and has seen holidays when there are more people than grass. He was alive in ancient times, and even eating spicy noodles was an unattainable luxury, and he really needed a strong spirit.
And you need to be cautious in your words and deeds, because in this era of the average age of thirty or forty years old, medicine still carries a lot of superstitions, and even if you have a defective birth and the wrong day of your birth, it will be regarded as a disaster, and you will be killed without even seeing this world. Not to mention the words and deeds of those who are traversal?
Liu Wei is very lonely, very lonely looking at the world.
Like a person standing on the dry shore looking at the Han family, this "giant" drowned himself in the water little by little, and he, as the grandson of the Liu family, has long coexisted and prospered with the Han family. This is equivalent to watching one's own death come, and this kind of taste is simply not too sour......
In the sixth year of Xi, (177), Wang Fu and Taizhong doctor Cheng A framed the Empress of Song to curse Liu Hong with witchcraft, and then the Empress of Song was deposed and died in the violent room. His father, Jin Wu Song Yu, was imprisoned and died. The surviving people of the Song family were all sent to the frontier, and the former queen family was wiped out. He Guiren, has been cleared, the last obstacle to the queen's throne.
The official position of He's relatives is also like a rocket, and it rises one by one in a few months, which makes everyone in Luoyang City envious, and they are looking for someone to ponder how they can send their daughter to the palace in exchange for this great glory and wealth.
In the past four years, the Han Dynasty has suffered from natural and man-made disasters, and several earthquakes have occurred in Luoyang, Beijing. There was no rain in the seven states, and the drought was extremely dry and locusts, and then there was a great plague, the people were displaced, and the small households wailed and wept. In the Han Dynasty, which had a small-scale peasant feudal economy, it was as if it had experienced a fatal blow and slashed at the main artery.
The tax revenue of the imperial court is also difficult to collect due to the shortage of famine, and the Quartet needs to pay money, and Emperor Han Ling thinks that he likes to enjoy it. The people have no money, but the families and officials have money. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty thought of a faint move, and in the first year of Guanghe (178), he opened the West Mansion to sell officials, and from the Guannei Hou, Huben, and Yulin, the money was different. Private orders are sold left and right, tens of millions of ministers, and five million secretaries.
If the official position can be bought with money, it is like letting go of the last shackles of the unleashed wild horse in the officialdom at the end of the dynasty, which is already corrupt. People who don't have officials want to buy officials, and small officials want to change to big officials, how can a little money buy an official position? The money from the sale of official positions with a clear price is still intensified and apportioned to the heads of the people, and the people's livelihood is miserable.
The court struggle has become more and more brutal, and those who participate in the fighting, if they fail, are sentenced to death. Everyone has lost their patience, and bigger storms and more radical methods are brewing in the dark.
In the past four years, the Xianbei people, under the leadership of the heroic Tanshi puppet who unified the Xianbei people, invaded the frontier of the Han Dynasty every year, from Liaodong in the east to Liangzhou in the west, on this long frontier line. It's like shearing sheep, bleeding the Han family every year. Step by step, the Han Empire's population, technology, and wealth were used to strengthen the Xianbei themselves.
The barbarians of the Quartet also continue to have movements and rebellions, although they are suppressed by the military generals every time, but the momentum is getting stronger and stronger, and there is even a matter of attacking the county, and the poisonous pus on the Han family has gradually penetrated into the bone marrow, and it is only five years since the turbulent Yellow Turban Rebellion in history......
Luoyang has a total of thirteen dynasties such as Shang, Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou, Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Western Jin, Northern Wei, Sui, and Tang to build their capitals in Luoyang. There are too many stories and traces of Chinese civilization here, "there is no difference in the whole world, and there is no dominance in the four seas".
Borrowing a poem from the Northern Song Dynasty politician and historian Sima Guang, it is also the sentence that can best represent the historical status of Luoyang and make Luoyang people proud, that is, "If you ask about the rise and fall of the past and the present, please only look at Luoyang City".
In the Song Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was far-sighted, and for the sake of military defense and many comprehensive factors, he also wanted to set the capital Luoyang. However, the city of Luoyang has been abandoned for too long, and the spring of the city is already deep in grass and trees.
The ancient capital of China, the cradle of civilization, was destroyed by war, and only the towering city walls tell the glorious past.
The high-ranking officials will not think about this, in order to warn them, they are intoxicated by the prosperity of Luoyang, and the children of the high-ranking families are still fighting chickens and dogs, but they don't know that they are already standing on the tumbling boiler.
Outside the city of Luoyang, almost surrounded by the victims, people and cars passing by, they will swarm to pull the carriage and beg for food, here are dead people every day, there are rows of people with straw sticks kneeling at the gate of the city, as long as there is a stutter can buy them.
Those high-ranking court officials, they will not know how miserable hell the refugees outside the city live, because the victims can't even pay the city gate tax in Luoyang, the officers and soldiers will only drive them out of the city, Jing Zhaoyin also regards them as the biggest cancer, and all the time just thinking about extermination, not disaster relief.
The restaurant near the river is hung with a small string of lanterns, and the book "Tongfu Restaurant" is written. The private room with the best street view was occupied, and Liu Wei sat indecently drinking tea and looking at the scenery. Most of the people next to him are known to the princes and nobles, and they are praised by them as strange people, capable people, and the grandson shopkeeper.
Next to them, there was still some arrogant shopkeeper Sun, but he stood respectfully on the side to report the current business status of Tongfu Restaurant.
"Childe, several prosperous areas in Luoyang City and near the city gate have opened branches according to your instructions, most of the original private stores in Luoyang (hotels in the Han Dynasty) can not be opened, many people have been recruited by us, Chang'an, Yecheng, Hanzhong, Xiangyang, Xuzhou, Yingchuan several places Tongfu Restaurant has also opened, if there is no difference, this year's income is estimated to be no less than 10,000 gold!"
Shopkeeper Sun's voice trembled a little, he couldn't even think of so much income before, he admired and knew how noble this son's identity was, and at the same time, he also admired this son's good methods.
A year ago, he was just a small shopkeeper, and he relied on the dregs of selling to the low-level people to maintain his business.
Shopkeeper Sun will always remember the scene of the year, as soon as the little boy came to the door, he shouted that good wine and good meat came up, and the servant next to him looked like a dog, disgusted with this and disgusted with that. The guards are powerful.
At first glance, I knew that I couldn't afford to offend. Hurry up and serve the best food in the store to this noble man, but this noble man is in a daze at the large pieces of beef and mutton that are roasted or boiled. Curiously, he pointed to the wine and meat on the table and asked, "Is this the way to eat in the hotel in Luoyang?" ”
"Hui Gongzi, the beef and mutton shops made by the barbecue method (barbecue) in Luoyang City also have a middle and upper level, and it is rare for ordinary people to eat such a thing once a year." Shopkeeper Sun despised this noble man who was estimated to be born and raised in the boudoir, they were born rich and noble, and how did they know that the food they disliked was something that the people could not afford to eat?
"In the future, I will buy your store, are you interested in doing a big business with me?"
A year has passed, and I never thought that I could do such a big business. His shop was renamed Tongfu Inn, Childe said what the trademark packaging was, he didn't understand, but Childe told himself a few secret recipes for cooking, and he did it himself, when those dishes were served on the table, the first bite of eating, tears of happiness gushed out, which was no less than the excitement of people in primitive civilization when they saw the tap tap! He also knows what he can do to make a big career and become the shopkeeper of Sun who everyone gives a thumbs up.