Chapter 1 The Vicissitudes of Life
Yongjia chaos, disaster prolonged the year, Liu Yuan rebelled, Hu Rong rebelled, the eastern capital of the army fell, and the people of Jingguan Shili were frightened.
Chongronghua, still imaginary, Taiwei Yan, good strategy, Wang Shi 100,000 days and nights, handsome like clouds can not fight.
The country is over, the scholar sighs, Qin Chuanzhong, blood has no wrist, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are frightened, only Liangzhou leans on the pillar...
The desolate folk song echoed in the wilderness, Li Yanzhao looked up, the sky was blue, as if the dome covered the four fields, quietly watching the people in the world. However, what brought Li Yanzhao was only an endless strangeness.
yes, strange. Strange times, strange air, strange people, and even the blue of the sky are completely unfamiliar.
"I don't belong to this era!" Li Yanzhao clenched his hands into fists and shouted in his heart. Groups of people sat and lay down, their faces different, but their expressions were similar to that of trepidation.
"Thief God! Why did you arrange for me to come into this era? I don't belong to this era! I'm going back! Li Yanzhao looked up at the sky, and these thoughts kept trying to turn into angry roars and rush out, but the remaining reason in his mind blocked them in his throat. At this moment, Li Yanzhao profoundly realized what it means to "call the heavens undesirable and the earth unspiritual".
In a trance, an old man walked up to him and sat on the ground. Seeing Li Yanzhao's sad expression, he couldn't help but feel compassion, and said slowly: "Xiao Langjun misses his relatives? β
Li Yanzhao glanced back at the old man, he only knew that this person was a lieutenant in a small state under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou in Guanzhong, only because the war between Han Zhao and Shi Zhao broke out again, and Liu Yao of Han Zhao was to replenish military supplies, and the people under his rule were extorted violently, and the taxes were several times higher than in previous years.
However, at the beginning of this year, there was a drought in Yongzhou, and the grain harvest was poor, but the officials and soldiers in Yongzhou did not care so much at all, and they couldn't help but say anything about the civilians who couldn't pay the taxes, and directly locked up and took them away with their families. Even the elderly and children were not spared, and the corpses of gray-haired old men could be seen on the side of the official roads in various states and counties within a few steps. In the land of Sanqin, families are ruined everywhere, and the cry is shocking. Witnessing the tragic situation in the surrounding states and counties, the old man made a decision and resolutely led dozens of families under his rule to leave their hometowns and go straight to the west.
Li Yanzhao came back to his senses, felt that his eyes were already red, and arched his hand at the old man and said, "Li Chang Mingjian." I was really sad because I missed my relatives. β
The old man showed a clear look, pondered for a long time, and said: "The little old man took the liberty to ask, so can his relatives be in the world?" β
Li Yanzhao smiled bitterly and replied: "Yes, but I am here, but in my life, I am afraid that it will be difficult to see each other again." β
The old man arched his hand and said: "The little old man looks at Langjun's appearance and bearing, and he must be an ordinary person, so that Gao Tang will have many blessings in this troubled world." Don't worry, you should protect your body in order to reunite with Gao Tang in the future. β
Li Yanzhao sighed secretly, but felt a trace of warmth for the old man's concern, and said, "Thank you for your good words." The old man smiled, took out a bran vegetable nest from his arms, and handed it to Li Yanzhao: "Xiao Langjun, the old man sees that you haven't eaten water and rice day and night, and you must be hungry when you think about it, take it and eat it, you have the strength to hurry, you must have come to Lang Jun to be a rich and noble person before, but the road conditions are limited, and I hope that Lang Jun will not be disgusted." β
Li Yanzhao looked at the nest, the nest was gray, and he didn't know what kind of wild vegetables and bran were made of, which made people lose their appetite when they looked at it. However, when he came to this strange era, Li Yanzhao had no choice, thanked the old man, took the nest head with trembling hands, and brought it to his mouth and took a bite.
At the entrance of a nest, Li Yanzhao suddenly felt that his mouth was dry, as if his saliva was instantly sucked dry by the nest, and the nest head was bitter and astringent, and it was difficult to swallow. The old man seemed to see Li Yanzhao's bitterness, poured out half a bowl of water from the skin pouch around his waist, and handed it to Li Yanzhao.
Li Yanzhao took the water and poured two sips. The bitter nest finally went down. Then he bit the head of the nest one bite after another, took a bite and chewed twice, and then swallowed it with water. After a day and night, hunger still prevailed. He can no longer be picky about food, thinking back to the life he once had, the life that the old man called "brocade clothes and jade food", his heart is full of taste - compared to the bran vegetable nest in his hand now, how could the original days not be brocade clothes and jade food? It's ridiculous that I was still picky at the beginning. With a bitterness similar to Wotou in his heart, Li Yanzhao finally swallowed the last bite of Wotou.
Handing the bowl back to the old man, Li Yanzhao thanked him, got up and moved his body, and sat down to talk to the old man.
"Where do you want to go with your neighbors?"
The old man squinted his eyes and looked at the west quietly, and replied to Li Yanzhao: "Liangzhou." After Yongjia, the world was in turmoil, and Hu Rong attacked each other, but it hurt the people of the Central Plains. β
"During the Yongjia year, there were already a large number of people in order to avoid the war, crossed the river south to the south of the Yangtze River, and many of the neighbors in the countryside under the rule of Lao Er did not want to leave their hometowns, and every household had land, and life was passable, so they never had the idea of leaving their hometowns. How do you know that the Hu people surnamed Liu established a country under the banner of recovering the Han Dynasty, killed the saint in Chang'an City, and turned his head to bully the people in Guanzhong, and the taxes became heavier and heavier year by year. It's good that you can pay the tax, but once you can't pay the tax, the officials and soldiers of the Hu Rong government will not be polite to the villagers. β
"The better officials take away the young and middle-aged people in the family, and do not forcibly recruit the elderly. Some officials are just brutes in human skin! Not only did they forcibly escort the old people in their families away, but they also used the excuse that the old people couldn't go fast, so they killed the old people and threw them on the side of the road. Xiao Lao'er went to the governance office to inquire about the history of the administration for this year's taxes, and saw the tragic scenes with his own eyes. If Lao Er doesn't make a decision, I'm afraid that the neighbors under my rule will follow in the footsteps of their predecessors at this time. β
"Lao Er thought about it carefully, if we want to cross the river and return to Jin in the south, we must have boats and boats to cross each other. However, the ferries are all in the hands of Hu Renguan, and if they take this road, I am afraid it will be difficult to be good. Lao Er then led his neighbors to the west, and the land west of the river is still in the hands of my Jin people. β
After a pause, he poured a bowl of water and drank it, the old man lowered his voice again, and asked quietly: "Xiao Langjun, do you know where the villagers who were taken away by the Hu Ren Mansion have gone?" As if knowing that Li Yanzhao couldn't answer, the old man gritted his teeth and replied, "...... They...... All of them were used as military rations by Hurong dog thieves! The Hu people call them 'two-legged sheep'! After speaking, the old man was heartbroken, his eyes were full of tears, he sighed and thought about it for a long time, and sighed heavily.
After listening to the old man's story for a long time, Li Yanzhao finally understood what kind of era he was going to live in. What a terrible scene he was about to face.
It was a catastrophe that had not been encountered in the Central Plains for thousands of years! It is the verge of extinction of the Han nation!
Li Yanzhao once studied history lessons about this era in a middle school history class in his previous life. He vaguely remembered that the title of that moment was called "The Great Integration of Northern Peoples". Later, I also inadvertently learned another name from this period on the Internet, called "Wuhu Chaohua". However, he could never have imagined that an innocuous text in a textbook more than 1,700 years later would have been written by countless people in this era with their blood. The eight kings of the Western Jin Dynasty fought for the supreme power, but the Hu people took advantage of the weakness to enter, the Central Plains was in chaos, and the children of the Han family became like pigs and sheep in the eyes of the Hu ruling class and let them slaughter.
In later life, he was just a small person. No right, with his hard-working hands desperately earned a little family business, but fate played such a big joke with him, in order to save his fiancΓ©e's life, he insisted on participating in a time travel project that was still in the experimental stage, I don't know what kind of failure there was, or God saw that he was still not miserable enough, so he deliberately made a big joke with him, threw him into the most chaotic troubled era in the history of Chinese civilization, and gave him a burden heavier than Mount Tai.
Li Yanzhao smiled bitterly and scolded angrily in his heart, the thief dares to bully me! I'm just a small person, why do I have such a big responsibility!
After secretly scolding God in his heart, Li Yanzhao pulled his mind back to reality. As a time traveler, there's no better thing to do than immerse yourself in the times we live in.
The official who led these fleeing people was the old man who talked to Li Yanzhao, named Liu Zhongkang. Li Yanzhao knows that he is a fancy dress compared to this era, and his dress will inevitably make others wonder. At least when he came to this era, when he met this group of neighbors led by Mr. Liu, the surprised gazes of others could already explain everything.
Fortunately, his own hair is quite long, so except for the strange costumes of his cape, there doesn't seem to be anything too unusual about ordinary people. Mr. Liu saw that he was born white and pure, his body was spotless, and his gestures were also considered humble and polite, so he thought to himself that it was probably an official eunuch or a famous family who was separated from his relatives in the world. didn't doubt him, invited him to go along, and took care of him along the way.
And those ordinary people looked at Li Yanzhao, although they were surprised, but they were full of kindness to him. Li Yanzhao always lamented the unpredictability of the hearts of future generations, but now in front of him, these ordinary and ordinary people who have experienced hardships bring him only a wisp of warmth.
Night slowly fell, this special evacuation team, under the leadership of Mr. Liu, climbed a nearby hill, found a slightly flat place on the leeward side of the mountain, and the young men cut wood and set up a small shack that was shabby, as if it would fall down when the wind blew, that was where their family sheltered from the wind and rain tonight.
At the request of Mr. Liu, a young man named Er Zhuang went to cut some more wood and built a small shack for Li Yanzhao. Li Yanzhao was on the side throughout the whole process, and kept thanking the young man named Erzhuang, who turned around and smiled at him, revealing a mouthful of white and neat teeth.
As night fell, Li Yanzhao tossed and turned, quietly thinking about his own past and present lives, and the vicissitudes of life under these earth-shattering changes in front of him.