Chapter 2 The Difficult Start
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The sky does not follow people's wishes, and the time does not follow the world.
In the blink of an eye, the winter has passed, the early warblers are competing for the trees, the new swallows are pecking at the mud, the shallow grass has no horseshoe, and the world has reached the spring of March.
Spring in the south of the Yangtze River comes earlier than in the north, which does not refer to the time, but to the speed of spring grass germination and tree branching.
The grass is green everywhere, the spring is bright, and the heavy mood of the people seems to be much better.
The spring of the world has come, and the spring of this empire, this eastern country, is still far away, and they are experiencing a long, dark winter night.
Not only was it bitterly cold, but it had just begun.
The war against Goguryeo in the north has begun, all parties are betting on treasure, Sui Emperor Yang Guang thought that he had a good card in his hand, and sent a million troops to conquer, so that Hu'er, Yuwenshu and other generals led the army, how can there be a gift of failure?
Many people are optimistic about this war, whether it is the common people or the dignitaries, they all feel that the Son of Heaven who is lying in the sky has gathered so many men and horses, and has spent so many materials and manpower, and it is impossible to block the imperial army with a small Goguryeo projectile.
What will disappoint them is that in March of the eighth year of the Great Cause, it will finally be the beginning of everything, and when the million army is gone, the gate valve families will have strange thoughts.
In the city of Yangzhou, Bai Ye didn't hear anything outside the window, and in the station of the original Bamboo Flower Gang, he began his great teaching and educating people, guiding people to use their wisdom and minds.
The peach blossoms in the courtyard outside the house opened, the petals fell with the wind, and a bouquet of flower branches stretched out of the window, and the dark fragrance filled the room, attracting the attention of some children.
The room is small and crowded due to the large number of people, and there are dozens of purpose-made desks in the quaint wooden room, each of which is shared by two children.
The children in this class are not young, the older ones are fifteen or sixteen years old, and the younger ones are eleven or twelve years old, and they are one of the several classes in the white night.
If you sweep the children in the house, you will find that there are many girls, accounting for two-thirds, who are malnourished, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and dry and yellowish hair.
They are very serious, study hard with paper and pen, and dare not be sloppy at all.
Since coming to the Datang World for a few months, Bai Ye has been collecting beggars and homeless people, and these children were brought in by him.
Most of them are orphans, and a few of them are carried by their parents, who have fled from the north, and even if they do, they are refugees and beggars.
As for why they are so mostly girls?
It's just that in these days, patriarchal thinking is too common and too serious, and girls are far less important than boys.
Many of the girls here have been abandoned by their parents and have been left in exile here. Some people live alone by begging and stealing at a very young age, and even when they are caught stealing food, they are often beaten and then killed and maimed.
Take a closer look, Wei Zhenzhen, Kou Zhong, and Xu Ziling are also among this group of children who read aloud, and the three of them are equally serious and cherish this hard-won gift.
Yes, it was a hard-won gift, although Bai Ye never thought so, but almost all of the more than a thousand orphaned children he took in thought like this.
With a house to live in, clothes to wear, and enough to eat, no one dares to bully them, and they can learn those magical knowledge, some of them occasionally think that this is a dream, this is heaven, and no one should be so kind to them as ants and pariahs.
Therefore, they are grateful, they cherish, and they do their best to repay the white night. Even the little guy who is only five or six years old among the children who have been gathered knows how to thank Bai Ye and regards Bai Ye as his relatives and teachers.
People who have not experienced hardship can hardly imagine the torture of that kind of suffering, without being like this group of children who live at the bottom, are not noticed, struggle on the food and clothing line all day long, and have to steal and beg in order to survive!
When the children of the gate valve clan who are rich in fine clothes and fine food, and the wine and meat of Zhumen are playing, they may be wrapped in a layer of single clothes and begging along the street; When those children who are accompanied by their parents and family and loved by their grandparents sleep in the warm bed, they may shiver in the cold wind, hide in the corner, and stay in the ruined temple to settle down; When children who have no food and clothing and have snacks to eat all day are anorexic and picky eaters, they may be begging or snatching leftovers with wild dogs.
Because of this, they know how to cherish it more and appreciate it even more.
Especially learning book knowledge, in this era that is worse than the Southern Song Dynasty, knowledge is not to mention popularization, even books are also in the hands of a few people, they are the gate lords, for the world, and will never be for the common people, otherwise how can there be such a monster as five surnames and seven hopes? There are more than a dozen prime ministers in one door!
Knowledge is very sacred in this era, and the scholars are clothed with a glorious coat, which arouses the envy of outsiders, but in fact, the people inside know what kind of goods these family gate valves are.
Bai Ye copied the method of producing paper in his former base, movable type printing is not a high-end difficulty, with the existence of these two hands, he has textbooks, with the tangible carrier of knowledge, he can use people's wisdom to gradually become the will of the times.
Of course, he did all this very secretly. The tool for the five surnames and seven hopes to gain a foothold lies in knowledge, and if he reveals these two things now, it will inevitably attract hostility and covet and kill from many parties.
Although he holds his own martial arts in this world, there should be no one who is his opponent, but one person can't calm the world and create the world he wants.
These children have a sick desire to learn, not only for them, but also for the adults among the homeless beggars who have been gathered in the White Night, and when they hear that the White Night will teach them to read, they instantly fall to their knees and are so moved.
In this era, knowledge is too sacred, and it is not so cheap that it is useless, something that many people desire but cannot get.
Bai Ye taught ten classes every day, each class was almost the size of the number in the room, and more than 100 children listened to his lectures.
Fortunately, his martial arts cultivation is profound, and it takes almost no physical effort to attend classes, but the daily class schedule is very full, from morning to night, he can hardly stop, and at night he has to clean the literacy of those adult homeless beggars, which makes him extremely troubled.
Without Huang Rong's help this time, he is not in Guo Mansion, he does not have such a long development time, and he can only run for his life alone.
The time is too tight, Yang Guang's first failure to conquer Goguryeo shook the country, and there were continuous uprisings in various places, two in succession, which hurt the country to the bones, and all roads were in flames, as the Son of Heaven, he could only watch, hide in the palace and pretend not to see, and wait for death in a daze.
The curriculum arranged by Bai Ye for these children is similar to that in the Condor World, which is also language and writing, mathematics, physics and chemistry knowledge, martial arts and physical strengthening, and administrative education.
The language of this period was different from that of the Southern Song Dynasty, but fortunately, Bai Ye himself had the skills to remember, and he was able to master the written language of his own world in a very short time.
There is nothing to say about mathematics, physics and chemistry, that is, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, he is very attentive to teach, not only the theory of knowledge, he will also take these children to do some interesting experiments, let them know how mysterious and wonderful the world is, magnificent and strange.
The martial arts course is the sports of the white night, he teaches the children to understand the meridians of the human body, and guides them according to the martial arts enlightenment made by the people of the Chinese Republic.
He didn't immediately teach them advanced martial arts, not that they could learn to fly if they could climb, but they had to walk slowly.
Judging from the current progress, Bai Ye felt that it would be impossible for this group of children to accumulate basic scientific research talents before they graduated from elementary school.
Fortunately, with the experience of making weapons in the previous life, it is not a problem to make some iron ball artillery and ancient muskets, after all, these two things are not very technical, and the main raw material gunpowder is not difficult to get.
It's just that after experiencing the era of cannonballs washing the floor, bullets raining down, and cutting-edge weapons, I suddenly have to go back to the years of millet plus rifles, and I may have to pick up cold weapons and fight with the enemy with bayonets to see blood, which makes Bai Ye feel quite awkward.
At this time, he thought of his mother Huang Rong even more!
What a help that beautiful woman gave him back then, not only sheltering under her wing for sixteen years, but also allowing him to successfully gain the power to soar into the sky.
When teaching and educating people, Bai Ye imitated his previous life and began to lay out the world.
He did not dismiss the original gang of the Bamboo Flower Gang, but only killed some people who committed the most heinous crimes, and he left these gangs to maintain the original Bamboo Flower Gang, which was actually controlled by him.
These people were part of his plan, and he made glass mirrors, opened hotels, built caravans, and sold his goods at high prices, accumulating a large amount of money and materials for him.
It wasn't good, but he had to.
In his last life, he had his mother Huang Rong to shelter him from the wind and rain, which could block the covetous eyes of people with intentions.
Now, he had to deal with it himself.
Glass mirrors, new hotels, high-purity spirits, too big movements, too high profits, attracting a lot of flies to follow, there are family valves, there are ordinary martial arts people, there are demons, there are righteous ways, one by one will show their ugly faces, causing hundreds of deaths, injuries and missing hundreds of employees recruited by Baiye.
Bai Ye was furious, fought for hundreds of miles in one night, beheaded 23 forces involved in a row, the leaders of the forces were killed, and nearly 1,000 members of the forces were either killed or disabled.
Stirring up the martial arts overnight, they don't know the name of the white night, they don't know the image of the white night, but they know a little from the forces that disappeared in the twenty-three nights, the forces that sell glass mirrors, open hotels, and build caravans have masters behind them, and not ordinary people can provoke them.
The Demon Gate and the Righteous Path Martial Arts, inferred from the phoenix-like remnants deliberately left by Bai Ye, there is a supreme master behind this force who is not inferior to the three great grandmasters.
And so, everything was back on track, and his hotel caravan walked in all directions, no one was easily offended, and his glassware and mirrors were sold in all directions, attracting the attention of everyone, and no one did anything else.
There is no longer his figure in the rivers and lakes, and his legend remains in the hearts of those people and the desks of those forces.
The days passed slowly, the years became more difficult, Yangzhou City was still red and green, but there were many changes, more homeless people, more orphans and beggars.
Gradually, this world was chaotic, the wind and clouds were moving, Bai Ye collected the homeless beggars, built bases in the wilderness around Yangzhou, trained the army and taught at the same time, and he lived a busy and hard life every day.
Born in this world, the officials of the Great Sui in Yangzhou City are not ordinary officials in history, they know that the people in the rivers and lakes are powerful, and the white night movements are not big or small, they can't be unaware, but under all kinds of coercion and temptation, they open one eye, close one eye, and live a good life of hello, me, and everyone.
It's just that such days will not last long, and there will always be someone to break this increasingly chaotic era.