Section 4: I am Liu Bei (repair)

"Tell me what you've asked," I said to them after a long silence.

As they talked, I gradually cleared my mind. It turned out that they learned from the two survivors that it was now the third year of Emperor Guanghe of Han Ling, and that the person who was brought by Eguanbo was a wealthy merchant from Zhongmu, and the rest were his family members. They had planned to go to Xuzhou to buy some goods, but they did not expect to cross the Yellow River, they were targeted by a group of thieves, fortunately they met a scholar - that is, the young man who fought to the end on horseback, with his help, they fought and retreated, hoping to avoid Mount Tai. If they can get into the pass first, then there will be rescue after holding out for a few days. However, due to the fact that at the mountain pass they hesitated, and as a result, were caught up by thieves.

Subsequently, the cross-examination of several robbers confirmed that the rich merchant was at least one thing likely to be true—that the present era is by no means the era in which we live. Also, these people speak in classical Chinese, even among the illiterate robbers, which is why I didn't think I could understand what they were saying.

"Now, only one last work needs to be confirmed," they turned their gaze to the carriage, "and if someone is carrying 30,000 taels of gold with him to deceive you, it can only be said that the price of such deception is too high to be able to afford such a joke." ”

I immediately understood that a wealthy businessman must go out to buy with a huge amount of cash, and it is this huge amount of cash that attracts thieves, as long as we check the rich businessman's luggage, we will know the authenticity. After all, in our time, the law would not allow people to carry so much gold and silver with them, and of course, the police would not allow it, and it is said that the police have been brought to court for confiscating and dividing up the gold of jewelry merchants. So, no crew member will be ridiculous enough to play us with so much gold and silver.

We found the trunks on the carriage, two wicker boxes 1 meter 2 long and 40 cm wide, and a long box 20 cm wide and 80 cm long, which was locked with copper locks, "Did you get the key?" "I asked." The rich merchant said that the key was on the man he had sent for help," Gao Shan replied. I swung my knife and slashed the copper lock.

"Don't, antique." Zhou Yi said with a distressed face.

When the box opened, we were all shocked. I saw round pieces of gold cakes neatly stacked in the box. Gold cake, this is indeed the Han Dynasty gold casting method, that era there was no silver as currency, only copper and gold. It seems that there must be gold in the other long box.

"Zhou Yi, immediately go and take care of the three thieves who are alive, Gao Shan, go and put the horse away, we may need the horse in the future, Yin Dong, and I will clean up the body." I didn't bother to open the other boxes and assign work immediately. "What about the merchant?" , Zhou Yi asked: "I see that he ran away early, don't leave so much money and don't want to run out alone, there must be something more valuable on him." Besides, he must have lied, this box of gold is at most 200 kilograms, and three boxes of silver are definitely less than 30,000 taels. ”

As Zhou Yi ran towards the three thieves who had been tied up by us in a panic, Yin Dong muttered, "Maybe the merchant didn't lie, I heard that the weight unit in the Han Dynasty was different from what we have now." Yes, I suddenly woke up, if it was in the Han Dynasty, the merchant really didn't lie, a pound in the Han Dynasty was only equivalent to about 300 grams now, 200 kilograms is equivalent to 600 pounds in the Han Dynasty, 16 taels per catty, isn't it about 10,000 taels for a box of money.

We quickly transported the body back to the valley and buried it, leaving Takayama at the mouth of the valley with a crossbow and a sentry. I thought, since this is not the era we live in, there is no need to keep the scene, and the police will never come anyway. We carefully cleaned the battlefield and gathered everything (who knows if we'll be able to use it in the future). During this period, I took matters into my own hands and moved the body of the traveling scholar back to the valley.

When everything was packed up and Zhou Yi also pulled the carriage and the three surviving thieves back to the valley, I was squatting in front of the gentleman, gently wiping the blood and dust from his face.

"The merchant ran away, right?" I didn't stop what I was doing, and Zhou Yi immediately replied: "Boss, my admiration for you is like a surging river, and like the Yellow River flooding out of control......

"You are plagiarizing, you know? You plagiarized Zhou Xingxing's words after 1800, you say this first, how can Zhou Xingxing live after 1800? I interrupted him. Zhou Yi smiled and said: Maybe I am the ancestor of Zhou Xingxing 1800 years ago, who let us all have the surname Zhou. He followed my hand, looked at the face that I thought was familiar, and let out a pig-killing cry again: "Boss, why is this man so like you?" ”

Suddenly, the sky thundered, the sun and the moon changed color, and I felt like I had been struck by a beam of lightning. Ah, yes, no wonder I always have another familiar feeling, isn't this the same face I saw in the mirror a few years ago? During my days in Shennongjia, I only saw the beard on this face from the shaving mirror, and I didn't see the whole picture for 40 days, and I couldn't recognize you at first glance. Didn't you experience a betrayal when you were dying? Why has your expression become so calm, no joy and no regrets?

Do you really have no regrets?

I reached out and groped in his arms, and he had only 15 copper coins and two silks. The silk seemed to be two letters, one of which had been impaled and stained with blood, making it unrecognizable. I vaguely saw a few traditional Chinese characters: Gongsun Boqi.

Gongsun Boju, this word is so familiar. It suddenly occurred to me that there is this name in my favorite game "Three Kingdoms", Gongsun Boqi is Gongsun Zhan, this person and Liu Bei were taught under the Han Dynasty Confucian Lu Zhimen, and treated Liu Bei as a brother, and his earliest place of service was Liu Bei's hometown Zhuo County, and he was Liu Bei's parent official. In history, it seems that Liu Bei must seek refuge from Gongsun Chan whenever he encounters a setback, and Gongsun Chan always protects Liu Bei like a brother, asking for officials and people. This is probably related to the fact that Gongsun Zhan is a concubine (that is, born to a little wife), he himself was bullied in the Gongsun family and was forced to come out early to start his own business, perhaps, he found a little bit of a feeling of being a brother in Liu Bei.

However, Gongsun Zan is sometimes absolutely stubborn and self-serving, and there are no overlord-level generals like Zhao Yun, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, and he was finally defeated by Yuan Shao. Sadly, this person is fierce even if he dies, when the city is broken, he gathers the whole family to live in a high-rise building to raise fire*, it can be said that the ancestor of China*, the first ruthless man of the Han Dynasty, is even more ruthless to the enemy.

It is recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "In February of the third year of Guanghe, there was an earthquake in Mount Tai; and the sea overflowed, and the inhabitants of the coast were swept into the sea by the great waves. The banks of the five plains are all cracked. All kinds of ominousness are not limited to one end. "It seems that we are experiencing the Taishan earthquake in February of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the third year, and the February of the lunar calendar should be around March of the Gregorian calendar. And this person in front of him can associate with Gongsun Zhan, no matter how he counts, he is also a celebrity at that time.

I opened another letter, and through the bloodstains, I carefully recognized the ancient text, "Brother Xuande, my brother has returned home from his teacher...... My father Yuan ordered you to ask you that your mother should be taken care of by the children of the sect, so that you can study with peace of mind...... Sect Brother Deran respectfully"

"Xuande, this person is actually Liu Bei" This is the Liu Bei who has few great ambitions and has been defeated repeatedly, the Liu Bei who led 100,000 people, knew that the chasing soldiers were behind, but only walked 10 miles a day; that Liu Bei, who is full of benevolence and righteousness in the world, and even assassins can't bear to kill him; Liu Bei, who had three days of leisure, lamented the resurrection of his hips; The Liu Bei, who only had 15 eldest sons and dared to study alone, the Japanese only saw benevolence and righteousness when they looked at the Three Kingdoms, and the Chinese only saw the treacherous and thick-skinned Liu Bei when they looked at the Three Kingdoms.

"You can't be mistaken, can you?" The three of them gathered around and asked, "You see, this is called Xuande, and the sect brother Deran is Liu Deran, the brother of Liu Bei, who is the same clan brother of Liu Bei who studied with Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan and guarded Lu Zhi in Jiujiang. According to historical records, Liu Bei's mother was widowed, and at the age of 15, Liu Bei went to Lu to study, and his widowed mother relied on Liu Deran's father Yuan Qi to support him, and Liu Bei's tuition was also provided by him. Yuan Qi replied: "There is a son in my sect, and it is very human." This letter is a letter written by Liu Deran to inform him of his family situation before Liu Bei's school trip, and this other letter was written by Liu Bei's friend Gongsun Zhan, but unfortunately it is no longer legible. But didn't Liu Bei die in White Emperor City? What's going on with this world? ”

We sat on the ground and were speechless for a long time. If at the beginning, we were skeptical about returning to the Three Kingdoms era, now we are completely speechless. "Perhaps, Liu Bei is not dead yet," Yin Dong said. "What, the doctor said he could still be saved, impossible." I said excitedly, thinking that the person I admired most in history was still saved, and my hands trembled with excitement.

But as soon as I thought about it, my heart cooled again. His corpse was in front of me, it was already cold, if Yin Dong really had the technology to bring the dead back to life, would he be able to hide it from me.

However, the three of them raised their eyes from the corpse and nodded to each other with expressions of sudden realization. Six eyes stared at me, like a mouse seeing rice.

"So, you are Liu Bei", they said word by word: "This may be the reason why we came here from Shennongjia, that is where the ancestors of our Han nation lived, the Han Dynasty was the era when our Han nation was finally formed, but the big **** in the late Eastern Han Dynasty made our nation suffer a big impact." In the last years of the Three Kingdoms, Shu had a population of only 940,000. It was really a thousand miles of white bones and thousands of households depression, because the **** power of the Han nation through the Three Kingdoms was greatly weakened, which led to the subsequent Wuhu chaos, and the Han nation suffered for 400 years. Perhaps, it was our Han ancestors who called us here to end this troubled era. to avoid the catastrophe of our nation".

My heart flashed lightning and thunder, a thought like the clouds under the scenery, the waves beat me, yes, I see Chinese history often sigh, why China is not like Japan, an emperor has been passed down to the present, and the city always changes the king's flag. Until now, employees have no loyalty to the company, always thinking: he can replace him. As a result, colleagues are full of fraud, and friends only want to take advantage of each other.

Throughout the history of China, there is no period in which there has been no war for 10 consecutive years. Since the Han Dynasty, history has been written in blood, and the nation's scientific and technological development has been devastated, and how many inventions and stunts have been lost. I have also fantasized many times that if I came to that century and extended the reign of the Han emperor for another 300 years, then whoever wanted to shake this 800-year-old dynasty in the future would have to think carefully.

Perhaps, in this way, the fate of our whole nation will be changed as a result; Perhaps, in this way, we will not have to change the king's banner at the head of the city all the time in the future, and we will no longer have to cede land and pay compensation; There will be no Japanese invasion......

"Well, since we have come to this world, let's put an end to this troubled world! The rejuvenation of our Chinese nation is also the mission entrusted to us by our ancestors, come on, let the storm come more violently! From today on, I, just, is, Liu, Bei, Liu, Xuan, and De. ”

The four of us all stood up, everyone had tears in their eyes, and we stretched out our hands and shook them together: "With my blood, defend my Han, with my bones, build my Great Wall, with my blade, protect my people, and restore my China with my sweat. ”

In February of the third year of Guanghe, 181 AD, Liu Bei was 20 years old, Guan Yu was 21 years old, Zhang Fei was 14 years old, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang were 12 years old, Yan Liang, Dian Wei, Guan Hai were 21 years old, and Gongsun Zan was 28 years old. Yuan Shao is 31 years old, Lu Bu is 25 years old, and Cao Cao is 26 years old. In this year, the great eunuch Zhang Rang invented the waterwheel, Zhang Heng's geodynamic instrument was tested in this earthquake, papermaking has been invented for many years but paper is still not popular, the brush began to be used, and regular script cursive began to be popular. Bronze weapons are still not completely eliminated, and iron smelting is not yet developed.

In the far west, this year, the Roman Empire has begun to decline, the disciples of Jesus have been preaching for 181 years, Caesar has established the solar calendar, which is the Gregorian calendar we use today, for nearly 300 years, the warships of the Roman Empire sailed on the Mediterranean, and their soldiers have called the Mediterranean: "our sea".

This year, I came to the Han Dynasty. I became Liu Bei.

Now that we had made the decision to act, we immediately stripped off all the clothes of the deceased, put the modern clothes in the carriage together with the boxes of gold and silver, and picked up some clean clothes to put on our bodies.

I put on Liu Bei's tall hat (the Han Dynasty called this Eguan), tied the wide belt he brought, and asked everyone in front of the shaving glasses: "Do I look like me, after all, I have lived for 30 years, I don't know how old we are now, but is it not appropriate for me to play a 20-year-old young man?" ”

"It's too similar", they said in unison, "Do you think that the ancient people are better maintained than the modern people?" Do you think you will be worse maintained than Liu Bei, who has been lonely since childhood? Also, do you think that our bodies have been modified in vain? ”

Suddenly, a wave of malice surged into my heart, and I said to Gao Shan: "Look at what those merchants are carrying in their arms, the 30,000 taels of gold thrown on the car, do you think the things in their arms are worth 300,000 taels of gold?" Looking at the light in Takayama's eyes, I further tempted him to say, "Do you want to see the antiques of antiques, the treasures of treasures?" ”

Gao Shan's mouth immediately opened so wide, and shiny saliva brewed around his mouth. "Wipe your mouth clean first, I'll tell you, they're badly hurt," Takayama nodded.

"The mountain road is very difficult to walk," Takayama nodded.

"It's getting dark," Takayama nodded.

"They don't have any bows and arrows in their hands, so they must find a place to hide first, and this place will never be too far away. They had seen us—these strangely dressed people, and if they went around preaching, it would be bad for us in the future. So, you have to bring an infrared telescope, turn on a flashlight, bring them back, and what is on them is yours. Also, be careful, that bodyguard is very powerful. "I thought viciously, I dared to throw Liu Bei to the robbers, and then I left us to the robbers to run by themselves, then I'm sorry for you, after the irritable mountains catch up with them, the two dying people will definitely protect the treasure to the death, as long as the fight is fierce, the mountains that I have hinted at will ......

Why did Zhou Yi and the others look at me like this, I smiled at them, and they trembled: "Am I blacker than Cao Cao now?" "I try to be as gentle as I can with them." Where, boss, you are full of benevolence and righteousness all over the world, and I admire you like ......." "Stop," I said to them, "where are the three captives now?" ”

"I fell asleep with morphine, and with their bodies that haven't gone through any Western medicine, it is estimated that they will not wake up until tomorrow morning, but if the boss wants to ask me, I can make them wake up immediately," Yin Dong said.

"Wake them up immediately, tomorrow we must leave this place quickly, tonight we must decide whether to kill them or stay, and, I have decided, the destination of our trip this time is Liaodong Gongsun Zhan, in ancient times, people did not have a large range of activities, some people have never been out of the village in their lives, Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan have not seen each other for many days, at the same time, Liu Bei is 19 years old and travels, it is the time when the appearance changes the most, if we play Liu Bei can't even hide Gongsun Zhan, which Liu Bei doesn't do."

Ignoring the shocked expressions of the thieves who seemed to see Liu Bei come back from the dead, I interrogated them. One of the three thieves is named Chen Yong, the other is called Wang Zhi, and a strong man dares to call Guan Hai, "Guan Hai, you are the Guan Hai who has fought Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide for 30 rounds", I said in half-baked Chinese. "Who is Yide?" The big man said to me with blank eyes.

I'm dizzy, how did I forget that it's 3 years of Guanghe, Liu Bei may not know Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide, there are still 4 years left in the Yellow Turban Uprising, how can this person fight with Yide for 30 rounds.

However, if he were really the one who was the one to do, I would have earned it. You must know that in that era, there were very few people who could fight Zhang Fei, a super big man, for 30 rounds. Even Cao Ying's fierce general Xiahoudun only fought with Zhang Fei for 7 or 8 rounds before fleeing, Xu Huang and Zhang Heneng fought with Zhang Fei for more than ten rounds, and Guan Hai met Liu Bei, who rescued Tao Qian, and fought for more than 30 times before being killed by Zhang Fei.

However, this Guan Hai in front of him can survive in this fierce battle, become one of the only three lucky ones among the more than 200 bandits, and can compete with Liu Bei for a long time, if it is not for us to appear unexpectedly, I think it will be a great future in the future, become a famous thief, and it is also possible to fight Zhang Fei. I decided that I would never let him go.

"You kill people and take people's lives, I want to bind the county, and I'm afraid that you and others won't be able to live, I can't bear it in my heart, like a mountain forest, and I'm afraid that you will harm people's lives again, how will I deal with it?" I said to them.

"Death is death, why be afraid", Guan Hai said. There's character and I like it. "You and the others are all seriously injured, stay with me for the time being, when the injury improves, how to deal with it, I will think about it again", after you are injured, I will think about how to deal with you, joke, I will not be able to move you at that time, and I will not let you go. Wait for the day when you will make a cow and a horse for me.

The effect of treating the injuries is very good, in the process of Yin Dong bandaging them, in addition to Guan Hai is still a little twisted and embarrassed, Chen Yong and Wang Zhi have already been moved to tears, and after the bandage, even Guan Hai knelt on the ground and said with tears: "The Lord is benevolent and righteous, we only serve to die." ”

Ha, in that era, powerful people caught robbers who killed people and oversold goods, and often cut them down, who would not only not kill them, but also treat their injuries. Moreover, before they fell unconscious, the merchant had fled, and when they awoke, I did not tell them, but I had sent after the rich merchant (which I had done on purpose), and if the merchant reported the crime, where could they go, if the world was so great, I would not take them in, and who could take them in.

After dark, Takayama came back alone, and looking at his expression as if he was excited, I knew that the merchant was finished. We didn't have time to ask him about the specifics, so we began to discuss the future policy.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the land annexation became more and more intense, the big landlords were strong and strong, sitting on a large amount of land and domestic slaves, it is said that when Mi Zhu married his sister to Liu Bei, the dowry was 4,000 families. The latest archaeological results believe that Zhao Yun was the head of the family at that time, so he became Liu Bei's.

We believe that it would be too unrealistic for us to come forward now to ease this acute class contradiction. The best way to do this is to be prepared and wait for us to rebuild a new world four years from now, when the Yellow Turban Rebellion has shattered the old order of the old world. Of course, for this purpose, we must find a place where the Yellow Turban Rebellion will not destroy and accumulate strength.

In view of Liu Bei's current status, it is impossible to recruit celebrities, so I must use this study tour to expand my reputation and meet capable people; At the same time, in view of the very low smelting technology in the Han Dynasty, Zhou Yi needed to quickly record the smelting technology he had learned, and recruit craftsmen in the future (craftsmen have a very low status in all dynasties in our country, which is easy to recruit), to provide us with high-quality weapons and protective gear for our battles.

In view of Liu Bei's loneliness and poverty all his life, we decided that Gao Shan's future task was to make money. War is fought about money, and only when there is money can there be materials; We already have the initial material of this age (30,000 taels of gold), and we must put it to good use to lay the financial foundation for our struggle. In view of the fact that the knowledge of this era was only in the hands of a few high-ranking lords, and there were very few literate among the common people, we decided that Yin Dong's task was to teach and educate people, and to teach some advanced technologies that could be understood in this era to the children of the common people.

Of course, although on the surface, Yin Dong's work is the lightest, but I am ready to hand over an important task to him, but now that the time has not come, I do not plan to open up to him.

It should be said that we are most grateful to Zhou Yi's cute stupid nephew, whose teacher has played a big role in the question bank installed for us, and the textbooks of mathematics, physics and chemistry from primary school to high school are all in it, these textbooks have been compiled by hundreds of years of Chinese and foreign teachers, and there are some excellent lesson plans. Since we don't have a printer, our first job is to transcribe all the books, of course, mainly the primary school textbooks, in the depth of knowledge, it is estimated that people today can not understand.

Finally, we discussed our political goal: to take advantage of the weakest time of the imperial power of the feudal dynasty after the Yellow Turban Uprising, coerce the princes of the Son of Heaven to establish a constitutional monarchy, and through the constitutional monarchy, to alleviate the class contradictions, and thus to continue the Han Dynasty for another 300 years or forever, to eliminate the hidden danger of the subsequent chaos in China, so that the Han nation will not be bullied by foreign enemies forever.

For this reason, we swore in unison: "Those who offend my great Han Tianwei will be punished even if they are far away."