To be honest, the first time he went out on the horse, he actually earned fifty taels of silver, Yang Chao was still very excited, and he fell asleep in the middle of the night.

"Ahh

Yang Chao suddenly screamed and got up from the bed, already sweating profusely.

He had a lot of dreams, and at first he used fifty taels of silver to start trading, but he didn't remember what he did, and maybe his dreams weren't so clear.

Anyway, he made a lot of money in his dream, and he built a very high building, and he had fine clothes and food every day.

My sister has meat to eat every day and is happy.

Mother has a lot of maids, she doesn't have to do housework, and she always scolds the girls.

My father stopped working as a blacksmith, and he always took a few family members around him to hang out and be majestic.

But suddenly, boundless, cavalry in black iron armor attacked the city, burning and looting everywhere, and corpses were everywhere.

Hundreds of people knelt on the ground and shivered, and the menacing dreadlocks in front of them shaved off their hair with razors, and cut off their heads at the slightest resistance.

The number of men on the earth is exceeding.

Yang Chao suddenly saw that one of the heads belonged to his sister, one to his mother, and one to his father, he was very painful, and then he saw another head, which turned out to be his own.

The dream ended here, and Yang Chao was frightened awake.

Yang Chao knew that he was in the late Ming Dynasty, and he didn't have a strong sense of crisis at the beginning, and he didn't think about changing the dynasty, his mind was completely on the hardships of the family, and he couldn't take care of those at all.

At this time, it was not bright outside, it was very quiet, and suddenly there was a loud sound, Yang Chao shuddered, and his mood had not yet recovered from the dream.

I couldn't sleep, Yang Chao got up and got dressed, and then opened the door of his room, and a cold air rushed towards him, and he couldn't help but have a layer of pimples on his body.

The weather in the early spring season is extremely cold, it seems to be much colder than Nanjing in later generations, and I heard that this period is just in a Xiaoice period, the weather is much colder than in later generations, and the city is colder than later generations, and even the temperature is ten degrees lower.

Going out in such weather is simply a sin.

Suddenly, Yang Chao saw a figure in the courtyard, burly and tall, but his back was slightly hunched.

The figure was walking out with his head bowed, and was about to reach the door.

"Daddy!"

Yang Chao shouted, that figure was extremely familiar, it was Yang Chao's father, Yang Yong.

I suddenly thought that I had been in this world for a few days, and it was as if I had never seen my father.

Father turned around, his face was a little red, he worked as a blacksmith by the stove all the year round, and Yang Chao's father's face was always black and red.

"Chao'er, it's up."

Father nodded when he saw Yang Chao.

Yang Chao said: "Get up." ”

The father continued, "I heard you went out for a day yesterday. Be careful. When I was in good shape, I went to the bookstore to study. ”

Yang Chao habitually hummed.

The father continued: "There is no hurry, a few more days of rest. ”

After saying that, his hand had already grasped the deadbolt of the door and opened the door at once.

Yang Chao suddenly said, "Dad." Do you shave your hair? ”

The father looked back and wondered, "What kind of hair?" ”

Yang Chao said: "It's just that I cut my hair and shaved it into a half-bald head." ”

Father frowned: "What do you say about this." It's not a monk, what a bald head. Shaved his hair, and his ancestors didn't recognize him when he died. ”

"Hurry back and rest."

Father instructed Yang Chao to step out of the courtyard by himself, and turned around and closed the door.

Through the crack in the door, Yang Chao saw that his father was worried in the end, probably thinking that Yang Chao's body was not good and his brain was stupid.

After shaving their heads, their ancestors did not recognize them, which is why after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, so many ordinary people took up arms to resist because they refused to shave their heads. Shaving his hair is just a change of clothing and culture, but the Chinese nation, he can dare to fight against a strong enemy that seems impossible to defeat in order to protect his own culture.

I don't care so much about who is the emperor. After the Qing army entered the customs, many places surrendered without a fight, but when it was easy to shave their hair and obey the order, the whole of China was almost everywhere, and the weakest Jiangnan happened to be the place where the resistance was fiercest. Coincidentally, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom swept across the south, destroying Confucian temples and temples everywhere, and was finally wiped out by the Hunan army for the purpose of defending rituals, religions, and ethics.

China's unique culture is the most cherished thing for Chinese, and it may not be cared about at all, but when drastic changes occur, it can arouse the strongest feelings in the heart.

Yang Chao would not have understood this before, because he had never encountered it. But if one day, someone told him that if he didn't want to die, he wouldn't speak Chinese in the future, stop writing Chinese characters, and don't burn paper for his ancestors, then Yang Chao would probably also rebel.

To be able to make the most meaningless sacrifice for the sake of one's own culture is the ancient Chinese. As a person of later generations, in fact, some people cannot understand this kind of decision. But if you know that the Chinese do not distinguish ethnic groups by blood, but by culture, you can understand. For the Chinese, changing culture means not only the destruction of the country but also the extinction of the species, and the destruction of the country is not terrible, but the extinction of the species is terrible.

But now Yang Chao is extremely confused.

He was nothing more than the son of a blacksmith. What can you do with a low status.

Yang Chao is absolutely unwilling to wait for the change of dynasty, not to mention that his family is unwilling to shave his hair and change clothes, even if he kneels on the ground and asks people to cut off his hair and keep a ridiculous braid, he is also unwilling to accept it. And most importantly, Yang Chao is not convinced!

Why is it that such a large country is destroyed, with the largest population, the most developed culture, and the most powerful technological capabilities in the world, but it is perished at the hands of a rising nomadic people. This is a huge blow to culture and advanced technology, and the result is that after a few hundred years, the West has fallen too far behind, and even lost the ability to adjust, and can only be completely Westernized.

Travel back to ancient times, change history, wake up to the power of the world, drunk and lying on the knees of beauties, this kind of dream will be done by anyone. But if you really want to do it, that's another matter. Yang Chao knew that it was not so easy.

First of all, you have to have power.

There are two ways to take power, the first is to take the right path, participate in the imperial examination, the title of the gold list, and then become an official, but Yang Chao can't even pass the show now, and even if he works hard now, starting from next year, he will first show his talents, and then he will be promoted, and then he will take the Jinshi exam, and it will take at least three years to ensure that he can be a Ming official.

If you have enough emotional intelligence and your luck is not bad, then you can climb to the level of prime minister after twenty or thirty years, and then you will have enough power to change the fate of the country, and the premise is that you must meet a good emperor who can be trusted to support you. However, in the Ming Dynasty, there was only one person who changed the law, that is, Zhang Juzheng, but the result after Zhang Juzheng's death was very miserable, not only was the change abolished, Zhang Juzheng's family was exterminated, the male was distributed, and the female was sold.

The second way is to recruit troops and use force to gain power. To put it simply, it is a rebellion, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong did this kind of thing. But there have been many rebels in Chinese history, and those who really have good results can be counted in a slap. Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang succeeded and became emperors, but Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, who took the lead for Liu Bang, the overlord of Chu in the same era, the big and small Ming kings who led Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang in the same era, these people are all miserable.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had rebelled a long time ago, and they were doing a good job in the cause of rebellion, but the final result was just to make wedding clothes for the Qing army.

The imperial examination is actually a struggle within the system, the advantage is that there is no risk, and the disadvantage is that it takes too long. Rebellion is to break the system and build a new system on its own, and the advantage is that it can take effect quickly, but the disadvantage is that it is risky.

It has been fourteen years since Chongzhen, and Yang Chao vaguely remembers that Emperor Chongzhen has only been the emperor for seventeen years, that is to say, there are still three years, and three years of studying by himself, he can only persist until he is a junior officer, and then he is a petty official, and he is powerless to change anything. In terms of time, Yang Chao simply did not have the conditions to choose the imperial examination.

If you rebel, the risk is too great. Yang Chao has a family, he doesn't dare to take this risk, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong didn't succeed in the end, which shows that this road may not work.

But he didn't do anything, Yang Chao was very unwilling, unwilling to wait for death!

There is a saying in China that if you are good, you will help the world, and if you are poor, you will be good alone.

If he doesn't work hard, Yang Chao will not be willing to do anything anyway, if he is developed, he is naturally willing to do something for the country and the nation, and help the world.

But if Yang Chao is not developed, he must also have a bottom line, not only to be independent, but also to protect the safety of his family, which is what Yang Chao must do.

Yang Chao has no choice, whether it is public or private, Yang Chao cannot sit back and wait for the situation to change.