Chapter 1: The Traveler (1)
Lee* has heard many stories of time-travelers who have received some preferential treatment after traveling to a bygone era, and it is unknown how much of this preferential treatment comes from the author's favoritism. Anyway, after coming to ancient times, ordinary time-travelers either gained the social status of a grandmaster through their academic insights and scientific and technological knowledge that were ahead of the times, or they took a ride on a large fortune by virtue of their familiarity with history, and at the very least, they also made a windfall by doing small business in a backward world with some inconspicuous tricks.
Even if you are a little worse and have no skills, at least you can rely on your good body fed with the standards of nutrition in the 21st century to earn a bite to eat.
Becoming a farmer, or being hired by businessmen and large families, is a good way to make a living.
The worst thing is to become a wanderer, begging on the street or telling fortunes with that little bit of self-righteous cleverness......
Lee* did not become a traverser of these paths, and his first step in this age of ignorance was to almost die of starvation in the wilderness, but fortunately, he was saved; Unfortunately, he became a house slave to those who saved him; This is his second step in this era, and this promotion has allowed him to cross the line between life and death, and his future has also been shrouded in a cloud of gloom......
The well-wisher who saved Li Bin was a local civil servant over the age of 50.
As the saying goes, the prime minister's domestic slave wears seven grades, in most eras in Chinese history, the status of civil officials is very high, and some high-ranking civil servants' domestic slaves can almost be proud of the state and county in the local area.
It is a pity that Li * traveled to this era, saying that the Tang Dynasty is not like the Song Dynasty and not the Song Dynasty, and the three years of Qianyou in the Later Han Dynasty have passed a full forty-three years since the fall of the Tang Empire, which was once a great force in Chinese history, and there are still nearly ten years before the establishment of the congenitally deficient Great Song Dynasty.
Five dynasties and ten countries, the afterglow of troubled times.
This is an era of rebellion among the military and the country, and this is a history of the near-extinction of civilian politics.
In this era, no moral essay is as convincing as a sword or spear, and any statecraft must give way to a contest of military power and strength.
Li Bin, Li*'s life-saving benefactor, happened to grow up in such an era and served as the imperial history observation judge of the Seven Grades in Yanzhou Domain.
Civil officials in troubled times are like grass mustard, and as the domestic slave of civil officials in troubled times, Li *'s social status is not even as good as grass mustard.
Li Bin's family is not prosperous, his wife died early, in addition to a son and a daughter, there are also three staff members who usually handle documents and cases on his behalf, in addition to eleven domestic slaves.
Li* was the twelfth domestic slave of the Observer's Office.
This body after crossing really made Lee* depressed.
Although the original Li * figure is not tall and mighty, but it is also tall, standing up and standing up is more than 1.8 meters tall, taking off his clothes and shaking his arms in the mirror, the two strong chest muscles are black and red and translucent, with thick eyebrows and big eyes and a high nose bridge on the rectangular face, even among the big men of the whole division, Li * can be called a handsome guy.
Today's Li *, with a thin body and a hand and chest, can count the ribs one by one, not to mention, the height is just less than one meter seven, the limbs are slender and obviously out of proportion, the yellow muscles and thin face can be seen at first glance is the result of long-term malnutrition, a gray-white face has a pair of hanging eyebrows, below is a pair of triangular eyes, the face is slender and long, not to mention, the face is full of gloomy, where is there still a little bit of the masculine beauty of the dignified man?
As a house slave, Li*'s physical strength was far from up to par, and he was so tired that he was panting and staggering when he carried a bucket of water, and this physical strength was despised by everyone even in the small environment of the Observation Mansion.
The housekeeper named Li Fu in the observation house is not a very kind person, Li Fu's father has been a slave in Li Bin's family since forty years ago, and he is a very old domestic slave, but the old man is said to be a very kind person when he is alive, and he never relies on his qualifications to bully other domestic slaves, but unfortunately this fine tradition does not seem to have been inherited to Li Fu, and this kind housekeeper is a very harsh guy. In the observation mansion, except for Li Bin's family and the three staff "gentlemen", there were almost no people he did not dare to bully.
A newcomer like Li *, who can't do anything, is the target of Li Fu's vigorous oppression.
Scolding, humiliation, punching and kicking are commonplace, and it is not easy for Li* to reverse this situation, after all, as a domestic slave engaged in manual work, it is indeed not a good thing to say that his physical strength is so poor.
There were also ranks and classes among domestic slaves, and Lee* was undoubtedly at the bottom of the entire hierarchy, because he was the last to enter the house and the worst to work.
In this miniature social system, Lee* has no friends and no relatives.
Only Li Hu'er, the scholar who served by Li Bin's side, had a better heart, and often secretly brought some food to Li *, who couldn't eat enough, not because Li Hu'er had a particularly good heart, but because this young man who was also thin liked to listen to this former wanderer tell the strange stories of his wandering life.
Li Hu'er was in charge of Li Bin's study, and he was literate and hyphenated, and Li Fu could not afford to provoke him, so he took the form of punishing Li * more severely afterwards to express his dissatisfaction with this private exchange.
Lee* endured this.
Three meals of gruel a day are not enough to eat no matter what, so the coarse grain bread brought by Li Hu'er every day has become an important supply material for Li * to maintain his strength, not to mention, the communication with Li Hu'er is his only spiritual comfort in this evil old society.
After enduring such a hopeless life for a whole year, Lee* finally ushered in the first turning point in his life as a domestic slave.
In August of the first year of Guangshun, the party of the Li family of the Dingyan army marched south again, and carried out crazy looting and sweeping of the ten counties in Yanzhou, and the east and west cities of Yanzhou Prefecture were under martial law at the same time, and the Zhangwu army, which had a total strength of only more than 2,000 people, retreated in the city and did not dare to go out of the city to fight, and the Zhangwu army made Gao Yunquan issue four orders in a row, but none of the troops were willing to obey the order to go out of the city.
Enraged, Ko Yunquan suspended the salaries of the disobedient troops.
There was no salary to pay, those officers who were afraid of the party army immediately changed their faces, they connected in tandem and launched a mutiny that night as fast as possible, the mutinous soldiers blocked the gates of the east and west cities, Gao Yunquan, who was personally stationed in the west city, sent his son Yanzhou Yannei to command Gao Shaoji and deputy envoy Zhang Tu to command hundreds of cronies and soldiers to quell the chaos everywhere, while the east city was occupied by the rebels, and Li Bin, the judge in charge of the Yanzhou Jiedu observation judge who stayed in the city, became the commander of the light pole, when he received Gao Yunquan's order to quell the rebellion, There is not a single soldier in his hands.
The young observer was a man of great courage, and he immediately gathered eight domestic slaves (the strongest of the eight) and told them with his head held high that those who were willing to follow him to quell the rebellion would be rewarded with a hundred acres of sloping fields and two hundred copper coins when they succeeded, and that if they wished, they would be freed from their slavery and become free peasants.
However, in the face of the rebels who were raiding and looting houses all over the city, all the house slaves trembled and did not dare to respond.
Li*, who was feeding the horses with the grass, stood up at this time and said to the observer: "The villain is willing to go!" ”
So, this thin new domestic slave put on the only set of armor in the observation mansion, picked up a sharp short knife (he couldn't hold the long weapon), and followed Li Bin out of the mansion.
Many years later, when the revisers of the Book of Zhou: The Northern Tang Dynasty were allowed to open the Shengshu Ji, which was listed as the top political secret of the Great Zhou Empire, these historians who had been tracing and speculating on the origin of the ruling king of the Northern Tang Dynasty were shocked to find that this great figure who created the ****** of the era wrote in his diary: "At that time, I thought very simply, Li Bin would not die, because he would die in the Gao Shaoji Rebellion two years later, this is history. Since he won't die now, it should be safe to follow him to quell the rebellion......"
In fact, at that time, in addition to this simple rational judgment, Lee* also had another unknown emotion and impulse - if I could survive this upheaval, then I would get out of my current miserable situation; If I die unfortunately, I can also get out of the current situation of life is worse than death, after all, as a failed traverser, I should have died a long time ago......
In this way, a thin traverser, wearing a suit of armor far from his stature, protected his master in a green official robe, and began the feat of quelling the chaos of nine deaths.
The chaos is still fresh in the memory of the people of Yanzhou, and the rebels smashed open the doors of every household with rudimentary weapons and equipment, robbed them of their belongings, molested their wives and daughters, and even deprived them of their lives, and set fire to their houses......
It didn't end until the skinny savior started killing people in the streets.
Li *, who had never killed anyone, carried a short knife that day and stabbed nine rebels in a row on the streets of Dongcheng.
The equipment of the rebels was very poor, not only was there no armor, but even the weapons in their hands were mostly rusty scrap metal, and a considerable number of soldiers were holding sharpened wooden sticks in their hands, compared to the armor on Li *'s body and the sharp blade in his hand, these rudimentary equipment could almost be seen as air.
The officers of the rebels were better equipped than Lee*, but unfortunately these officers would never go out into the streets themselves.
Lee* did not know much about the art of war, did not know much martial arts, and did not even have much strength, and the simple training he received in the military camp in the 21st century gave him only a preliminary understanding of the skeletal structure of the human body.
With such a small advantage, he assassinated nine rebels on the street.
When the dagger pierced through the gap between the collarbones of the first rebel, Lee*'s hand shook desperately.
The blood of the rebel splattered out, staining his face red in an instant.
By the time his short knife stabbed through the middle of a soldier's ribs and into his heart, Lee*'s ears could no longer hear the screams and screams around him.
When the third soldier clutched the severed carotid artery and fell screaming, Li*'s hand was no longer shaking, and his gaze had turned coldly to the next prey, ignoring the several arrows that were fired crookedly around him......
"Book of Zhou, Northern Tang Family": "In August of the first year of Guangshun, Yanzhou was in turmoil, and the soldiers gathered in Dongcheng, Wang Shi was a subordinate of Li Bin, the judge of Yanzhou, and he was on the side, when there were nine people on the street, and he was frightened in the city, and he allowed the soldiers to be paid, and then he ......was peaceful."