Chapter 54: Methods
This is Xuzhou. Li Chen followed the caravan, paid the entrance fee, and entered the city gate of Xuzhou. In front of me is a stone road, judging from the traces of the road surface, I know that this road has a history of many years, and the wheels of the years have left an indelible mark on it.
Li Chen arrived in Xuzhou, or rather, he finally returned home!? The author is not crazy, and neither is Li Chen, of course, Li Chen is not from Xuzhou more than a thousand years later, he has come to Xuzhou for the first time in his previous life and in this life.
Entering the city gate, Li Chen spread out the paper in his hand, and Li Chen looked at it carefully. This piece of paper says that everyone can know how to call it a road guide, the Tang Dynasty called it a passing place, and the unification is called a public inspection. will say unity, because people with different identities take different things, and they use them too much for the dead people.
There is a long list of written on it, and the beginning of the content is basically to write about so-and-so in a certain place, how old he is, what he looks like, and where he is going for what reason.
There is also a guarantor at the back, who proves that this person is not a bad person, and finally writes that if this person is too late to pay the taxes, who will pay them for him. Then, there is also a list of properties that states how much property there is. There's a long trail of where someone has passed, and then there's a checkpoint over there. Prove that this person has passed through here and the test is correct.
In fact, this thing has no "road use", Li Chen is purely curious, so he asked for it from the caravan owner. After Li Chen saw it, he took it into his arms. The city of Xuzhou has come in, and now he has a headache and how to find a job. But before looking for a job, find a place to stay.
Well?! Some people protested that the jump was too fast, the protagonist didn't say that he was going to Yangzhou, how did he get to Xuzhou, and what happened in the middle, so it was too brief to bring the past. Alright then, let's rewind and start at the beginning.
There is a saying that people say that they are old, and it is called that the ideal is very plump and the reality is very skinny. Li Chen encountered such a situation. That day, he cleaned up from the temple, only left a letter for Fan, packed up and left.
When he arrived at the ferry, he wanted to learn from the last time Wang Erniang took him away from Chang'an, and he had to go out with Wukong to go out on a cloud tour, charter a boat down the river and go directly to Yangzhou, but when he asked the boat price, he was startled. It costs five times a month to charter a boat.
It turns out that chartering a boat means that this boat is a month, which means that this boat is even hired by you, so it is naturally so expensive. People rely on this boat to support their families, and if you hire someone to be the breadwinner of the family all of a sudden, it is equivalent to raising a family, which is naturally expensive. Want to be a little cheaper? Then you have to partner with someone. It's like renting a room with someone.
Li Chen naturally didn't want to spend so much money, and chartering a boat was equivalent to his monthly salary for two months, so he could only share it with others. It can't be said that the longevity temple is slamming the door, because he used to be a month, the monthly salary is three times, that is the package of food and shelter, every season, there are two sets of new clothes in the temple supply, so the monthly salary will appear relatively small.
In fact, this money is also a lot, and in Datang, the five officials are only three and six. The six-grade official is only two and four. However, this cannot be used as a reference, because the income of officials in the Tang Dynasty is not only that little monthly income, but the actual income is definitely several times this, but that is not the topic of our discussion for the time being.
Li Chen, in the end, found a relatively large passenger boat, and it took two runs, and there were quite a few people on this boat. In fact, the kind of boat rented by Li Chen is actually not much, most of them are short-distance, and few people like him rent a boat to go to Yangzhou. If you want to go far away, most of them are in groups.
'O inverted frieze.... Li Chen got on the boat, thinking that there would be some wonderful things on this trip, so good things happened. To put it simply, Li Chen, who thinks he has become the protagonist of a time-traveling novel, hopes to have some good luck on this trip, for example, when he meets a beautiful heroine, he falls in love with him at first sight. was moved by a poem he casually read and said a word, and then he didn't want to marry.
What's worse is that if he doesn't marry, his father has to pay back hundreds of millions of dollars, and she is an only daughter. When such a thing happens, everyone is looking for death and life, and he will not marry. He didn't want to live up to the kindness of others, and then he used the money to say some ideas casually, and as a result, the family property doubled again, and then he could travel all over the world, and what kind of female thieves and the like, preferably what kind of female pervert.
Okay, after talking for a long time, Li Chen is looking forward to some sexual encounters, sexual encounters, or sexual encounters and the like, it is best to have another fortune or something, anyway, sooner or later, it will be given to him, the author saves some heart, and the reader is also happy to read, not very good.
It's a pity, as I said before, the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. Or rather, daydreaming wakes up quickly. On the first day of boarding, Li Chen sneaked off the boat in a hurry. There is no other reason, the card is in front of him, and he has to pass the examination..., he doesn't have it at all.
In desperation, Li Chen had no choice but to abandon the boat and land, "The dead ship family collected so much money from me, and they didn't warn me." Li Chen complained that the boatman did not warn him. In fact, these are common sense, and Datang has common sense. There are few people who have no identity to escape, and they will take a boat like him.
Usually there is no regular pass, and the people who rush to the big lama to clear the customs are people who have the means, and they will not make mistakes without common sense like him.
After getting off the boat, Li Chen didn't dare to enter the big city, so he could only pick some country roads and avoid those checkpoints. This is still very easy to get, in fact, normally all the people in the world run away like this, and sometimes they will go to work in the city when they get the opportunity.
This kind of action, thinking about the benefits, has solved the problem. The downside is that this way, he doesn't know where he's going.
Because Li Chen, in order to save travel expenses and make more money, he began to wander around the countryside, and everywhere he went, he came up with a little story to tell, and he would tell a lot of stories.
However, because he did not intend to linger too long in various places, he told short stories, such as Aesop's prophecies, Arabian Nights, Chinese folk tales, or two casual episodes of Di Gong's case.
Although he often spoke dryly, the villagers would give him a reward every time, and entertain him for a day, and then in another village, the villagers saw that he was wearing a pair of shoes, and gave him a pair of good shoes as a thank you gift.
But, in general, he didn't make much money.......... it was very simple, he complained three times that the Tang Dynasty had an underdeveloped economy and that the money was too heavy. has always had a lot of weight, Li Chen roughly estimated, and it was about the same weight as the dumbbells he used for fitness before he crossed over.
And then the dumbbell is about four kilograms, that is to say, the money has always weighed four kilograms (4,000 grams), and ten pounds of money is forty kilograms, carrying such a heavy amount of money, he still has to go through the streets and alleys, and hide from those checkpoints, is it to exhaust him?
Therefore, Li Chen kicked three times in his arms at most, which did not hinder the activity. Keep all the gold he brought from the temple.
Li Chen is like this, walking along the road where people can walk, passing through the countryside and villages to avoid checkpoints, this day, after he stole a checkpoint, he got on a road, and found that there were many people in front of him, and there seemed to be something lively to see.
The Chinese watched the talent, Li Chen didn't know when it started, but the talent tree of the Tang Dynasty people in this aspect had definitely been ordered, Li Chen leaned over and found that it was two small caravans quarreling, and then there was a circle of people around.
'May I ask this Lang Jun, what are they stirring up? Li Chen asked an onlooker. It's as if they were arguing about who gets the money. , complained about the economy of the Tang Dynasty many times, and always prepared a bunch of money for transactions.
In this case, a caravan had its axle broken, and as a result, the money bag that had been on the car was spilled. Sprinkle it out and put it back on, and just change the axle. The bad thing is that there is another caravan passing by, and the caravan has to be the leader, insisting that the money is his own. As a result, the two caravans quarreled, because no one else happened to see it, and the two caravans talked their own words, and they quarreled for a long time without any results.
Li Chen watched from the sidelines, and the two middle-aged team leaders quarreled for a long time, just saying that the money was their family's income. As for the broken axle, I didn't see it, it seemed to have been repaired. The two teams have different directions, one is selling oil and the other is cloth.
I found it, look, the money fell under my car, proving that the money belongs to my family. The merchant who sold the cloth took the money that one of the fellows had found on the ground, and said in a loud voice, 'Liar, the money is under the wheels of your house, and it proves that the money has been thrown from me.' ’
'Hey, I said when you're going to fight, we're still waiting to get there.' Probably boring, someone shouted, causing a chorus, "Yes, yes, ah, we are all impatient." ''As I say, one and a half are counted.'' I don't know who made this suggestion, and I echoed it.
Just kidding, how can you be half of one person, there are dozens of times, but how can you rate this liar with the hard-earned money of a few months. "Whoever is a liar, that is also a servant's hard-earned money, so I will not rate you." ’
'Don't argue, I have a way to tell who got the money. For such a low-level farce, Li Chen didn't want to watch it, he still wanted to find a place to live as soon as possible. If he was delayed on this road, he was about to sleep in the wilderness, so he shouted loudly, and for a while, dozens of people present turned their eyes to Li Chen.
This Lang Jun is invited, but I don't know this Lang Jun's surname. The merchant who sold the oil said politely, "Excuse me, Jing Zhao Li, line thirteen." ''Just now Li Langjun said, who gets the money if there is a way?'' 'What can he do?' It won't be where you found an accomplice. The cloth seller disdained it, and looked like he had seen through the world, saying that I saw through you and you were a gang.
'Kouxiang, I have no way, wait and see. Li Chen snorted, "But I am here to ask you to testify, if you catch a liar, what to do." ’
Finally give the liar a chance, and if you admit it, that's it." If someone finds out the evidence, it will be sent to the government at that time. Li Chen said with confidence, "Before sending the official, I will be beaten." In order to do this evil thing, we also delayed everyone's time. Everyone said that it should not be fought. ’
'It's time to fight, it's time to fix it.' "That's right, a liar still delays everyone's time to repair it before sending it to the official." The crowd echoed.