Shi Le was not originally called Shi Le, and his parents gave him a name, just like Zhu Yuanzhang's original name was Zhu Chongba. The nickname is Ler, which probably means a little cub lying on the ground, and you can also understand it as cat eggs, dog eggs, and the like. Later, I met a man named Jisang, and he had his own surname and his own big name: Shile. After becoming a "big event", he became famous, and there were many people who knew him, and everyone remembered Shile.

Before Shile became Shiler, let's call him that, and we will save it from changing it in the future.

Shile is a Xiongnu people, in the Xiongnu people have not moved into the Sai when the Xiongnu people, the Xiongnu people are as a vassal of the Xiongnu people, the history contains: "the Xiongnu other departments, the Qiang canal." In other words, the slaves of the Huns and the descendants of the Qiangqu people. It is easy to recognize, with a high nose and deep eyes. It is said that later, when the Han people rose up to resist the oppression of the Hu because of the "Killing Hu Order", they cut people according to this standard, and the knife fell with their hands, and there were few unjust ghosts.

With the internal migration of the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu people, who were slaves, naturally followed their masters into the Central Plains. After entering the fortress, the Qiang people maintained a tribal structure on the steppe, with large and small chieftains. However, since it has moved into the Central Plains, it will always be affected to some extent. They originally believed in "Hu Tian" (Zoroastrianism), and later believed in Buddhism, and it was in the hands of Shile that the cause of Buddhism in China began to flourish. After the death of the Qian, cremation was practiced (which was much more advanced than that of the Central Plains).

Although there is a certain nomadic economy, they are mainly engaged in agricultural production, but they do not have the developed farming technology like the Han people in the Central Plains, and their lives are very difficult.

When Shile was a teenager, his family's main livelihood was farming, and he was a tenant who farmed for large families.

The Book of Jin records that when Shi Le was born, the house was full of red light, and not only that, but a white light fell from the sky and shone directly into the courtyard of Shi Le's house.

Awesome, right? Every time I read a book, I always thought that an alien had shone a flashlight, but I never thought that it was Mr. Schler's strangeness.

Shi Le's family situation was not as good as that of the aristocrat Liu Yuan, who belonged to the poor middle peasants, and when he was old enough to carry a hoe, he began to live a life of "sunrise and sunset". If it weren't for too many changes later, the peasant Shile would have been in peace for the rest of his life. can eat enough, who wants to lick the blood from the knife? Everything is because of the necessity of not being able to live.

After all, there is no way to drown the hero, and wherever Shi Le goes, others will find out that he will never lose his heroic temperament. At the age of fourteen, in ancient times, this age could already be considered an adult. Shi Le and his fellow villagers went to Luoyang to do a small business. Just like Zhu Yuanzhang's family opened a tofu workshop, Shi Le may also have to go out to sell tofu.

It may be the first time to enter the city, Shi Le, like those rural children now, has never seen anything in the world, and when he saw the Luoyang City Gate, he was very powerful, and he couldn't help but run to the top and yelled (leaning on the east gate and roaring), and went to do business after the roar. After all, livelihood is more important than seeing the scenery.

However, the roarer has no intention, and the listener has the intention. Unfortunately, this roar was heard by Shangshu's left servant Wang Yan, and Wang Yan was very surprised at the time: "The little kid who was Hu just now, I heard his voice as if he had a strange ambition, I am afraid that it will disturb the world in the future." So he sent someone to arrest Shile, but Shile had already left first, and did not take a cloud with him.

In fact, this is a very normal thing, I often do this when I stand high and see far away, very cool and heroic, quite a bit of guidance, but unfortunately, no one found my heroism. Perhaps, Shile said something that should not be said, such as "the husband should be like this", "he can take his place" and so on.

It is no longer verifiable.

Shi Le's father is a small leader, probably equivalent to the current village chief, who has no official or character, but is somewhat in charge of things. His personality is rough, vicious, brave and ruthless, and he does not get along well with his people, so he does his job incompetently. At that time, there was no such thing as democratic elections, and the opinions of the masses could not be reported, and there was no way to change people. Based on the consideration that leadership work should be done for a lifetime, Lao Shi often asked Xiao Shi to manage the Hu people in the department. Contrary to his father, Scheller's management work was quite good and "very popular". Lao Shi's incompetence just exercised Shi Le's talent, and unintentionally, cultivated Shi Le well.

The legend continues, Shi Le's home is at the foot of the North Plains Mountain in Wuxiang, the history books record that since there is Shi Le, around Shi Le's house, the grass and trees have the image of an iron horse, and there are ginseng growing in the vegetable garden, the flowers and leaves are very lush, and they are all human-shaped. The fathers and elders (fortune tellers) all said: "This beard has a strange appearance, and his ambition is very high, and it is immeasurable." He persuaded his fellow villagers to treat him well, and many people laughed at him.

Even when he was working in the fields, he often heard the sound of the iron horse, and when Shile came home and told his mother about it, his mother replied, "Tinnitus is not ominous."

It's not ominous, it's a good thing!

Later, good things didn't come, but the tribulations that preceded the "good things" followed.

During the Tai'an period of the Western Jin Dynasty (302-303), there was a famine in the Bingzhou area, and Shile's tenants could not do it, so he joined the ranks of the displaced people with no food and clothing. They just want food, the land can't be planted, there is no food or drink, and they can only starve to death if they stay at home, so they have to wander around looking for food.

As for the homeless people, Shile has already had it before, and there will still be after Shile. The huge ranks of displaced people play a huge role, they influence history, they move history, they change history. The same was true in Schler's time. Soon after, they organized their own army: the Beggars' Army; He even founded his own state: the Cheng Han Empire.

We'll talk more about the beggar army and the Cheng Han Empire in a later chapter. Now, allow me to return to the story of Shiler the outcast.

At that time, the Hu people who left the grassland had no status, and the Hu people who became homeless people were even more so. In that era of chaos in the world, thousands of Han people died like ants, who would care about the life and death of those wandering Hu people?

Yes, people who think that they will make huge profits from these outcasts.

Sima Teng, who was the assassin of the state, made his fortune by selling Hu people and displaced people. The exile Shile did not escape his fate, and was soon captured by Sima Teng and sold as a slave (no wonder Shile wanted to kill him).

No way, people who are out of the organization are easy to be bullied. The pauper Shiler became a slave Shiler from then on.

In fact, when we hate the cruelty of the caravan, should we also reflect on ourselves, there was a history of not seeing them as human beings. Mutual respect is so necessary.

At that time, Shiler was only in his twenties, but in the best of years, he was branded as a slave. Is there anything more tragic than that? Maybe it was only fifty copper coins, and Shile was sold like an animal. This was the lowest point of his life, but it was also a turning point in his life. Shi Le was unlucky, he was sold into slavery with Chiping (Chiping County, Shandong), and Shi Le was also lucky, because his life changed dramatically there.

During the Wei and Jin dynasties, China had already entered the feudal society from a slave society, which meant that Shi Le was not a pure slave working with shackles, as long as he did not escape, he still had some personal freedom, but he was not allowed to return until late at night. Every night, the legend of Shile comes again: every night in the wilderness, taste the sound of drums and horns, and all slaves also hear it, return to Bai Huan, and be afraid to avoid it.

This meant that at night, Shile and his fellow slaves, who were working in the fields, could hear the sound of drums and horns on the battlefield heralding the march. When the slaves came back to tell their master about Shi Huan's strange phenomenon, Shi Huan was frightened and exempted Shi Le from being a slave.

From then on, Schler became a free man.

That's! If this is the case, I am more willing to believe that when Shi Huan heard about it, he immediately killed Shi Le. The Hu people have the appearance of Jin Ge Iron Horse, which is not a good sign for the Central Plains. Shi Huan knows fear, and he must have this insight. Why not kill? Shile was not exempted from slavery, but must have found an opportunity to escape.

Breaking away from his slave status, Shi Le came to a horse farm, a horse ranch near Shi Huan's house (he didn't run far), where he met the horse herder Jisang, who was actually a horse breeder, and Shi Le took refuge in him. Relying on the Soma skills that he had practiced in dealing with horses all year round, Ji Sang rewarded him with a bite to eat. Shi Le would never have thought that it was this "Bi Ma Wen" that allowed him to grow from a penniless slave to an iron-blooded warrior who was feared by everyone, and even had the opportunity to dominate the Central Plains.

In fact, now it seems to us that the myths and legends about heroes in history books are actually very nonsense, and the ancients deliberately did it in order to highlight their talents. It's a non-existent thing, we don't have to take it too seriously, and reading it should be fun, it's enough.

But one thing is true, many, many big people in history do not have outstanding skills, but rely on an excellent partner who is of great benefit to them, so as to soar to the sky. It's really important to choose the right partner. Of course, Shile has no choice, and if Shile is really destined for heaven, then, here, I recognize his fate.

Okay, let's talk about the legend of Schle. After all, Ji Sang is a businessman, and he is very particular about making the best use of things, and he can't let Shi Le eat in vain, in that era when almost no one farms, the price of raising an idler is high.

Shile was found by patrolling soldiers while crossing the river, with a high nose and deep eyes! His appearance is outstanding, his features are obvious, and his identity as a Hu person can be seen at a glance. Caught selling for money! This was the first reaction of the GIs.

Just as the weight of the thousand pounds was tied to a hair, a herd of elk ran past the soldiers. Without any thought, the soldiers abandoned the fifty taels worth of shile and went to capture the elk, which was worth fifty taels.

Lenai was exempted.

It's a coincidence that the ecological environment at that time really achieved the harmony between humans and animals.

At this time, the real legend came: I saw an old father (the kind with white hair fluttering, fairy wind bones, and a cane similar to a deer's antlers in his hand, and a gourd hanging), and said: "To the deer, I am too." Jun should be the lord of Zhongzhou, so he saves his ears. ”

This is a copy of the son of the Red Emperor and the son of the White Emperor! There is no novelty, but it is also full of novelty. If you believe Liu Bang's nonsense, it doesn't hurt to believe him.

Shile believed.

In response to the white-haired old man's assertion about the lord of Zhongzhou, Shi Le quickly recruited eighteen people: Wang Yang, Kui'an, Zhixiong, Ji Bao, Wu Yu, Liu Ying, Taobao, Lu Ming, Guo Ao, Liu Zheng, Liu Bao, Zhang Yufu, Hu Yanmo, Guo Heiluo, Zhang Yue, Kong Dolphin, Zhao Lu, and Zhiqu Liu. It's certainly not hired for money, and at that age, it's enough for people to trust their lives if someone is willing to eat a full meal. This is the team he started with, known as the "Eighteen Horsemen", and Schle began his glorious journey of pulling poles on the mountain. In the later years when Shile fought in all directions, all of the above people were generals who he could fight for. Of course, the story at the beginning is not glorious, and the main job is to take his eighteen brothers to rob, money, food, women, and horses. …… It is used to tie the knot.

The ancients once said a truth: money can make ghosts grind. Relying on the relationship of receiving and giving money, Jisang and Shile established a brotherly friendship, and of course, they also had common goals and ideals, such as getting rich (mainly by robbing), such as Bi Ma Wen wanting to be a Monkey King. These make their friendship extra strong.