001 It all began
The spring sun is shining in Ljubljanas, spilling into every corner of the city, and in a curtained apartment suite on the outskirts of the city, a figure wearing a cyan hanfu and carrying a cloth bag suddenly appears in the room.
"It's finally back—"
As soon as he landed, Liang En opened the cloth bag in his hand and looked inside nervously.
He let out a long sigh of relief as he looked at the wooden box that was quietly waiting inside the package, and then concentrated his mind on checking the three-legged tripod in his mind.
Unlike those common bronze tripods, this bronze tripod floating in his sea of consciousness was only the size of an adult's fist, and its color was a bright golden yellow instead of a cyan rust.
This Xiaoding is a treasure that Liang En can pass through, relying on this thing, he can travel through each other between here and another ancient world at any time, and he can also bring his own items that he touches.
At first, he was worried that this kind of crossing might cause biological invasion or something similar, but judging from the situation in the past half month, this tripod's crossing ability blocked this possibility.
Although I don't know what the principle is, it is enough for Liang En to confidently and boldly carry out the next step, and today is the most important step of his plan.
After a brief wash, he took off the net towel on his head, the blue silk crewneck shirt and pantyhose on his body, and then changed back into a T-shirt and jeans, then picked up the wooden box in the package and put it in his school bag and walked out of the room.
For him, how much money he can make from this time travel depends on how much he can sell for the next thing.
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Liang En, a young post-90s generation, successfully joined a multinational company shortly after graduation.
As a result, as soon as people arrived in this so-called new market, Slovenia, the company announced large-scale layoffs, and he became one of the people who were laid off, so he was so unlucky to be thrown into this small Balkan country that many Chinese have never even heard of.
Fortunately, he had a one-year work visa, so in order to avoid his parents' worries, he simply continued the purchasing business he did here to earn pocket money when he went to university in the UK.
Because of his previous experience, he got started very quickly, especially since this place borders Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia, so he can get a lot of decorations, cosmetics, bags or niche wines or dessert wines that customers in China like.
Of course, this kind of work can only be a transition at best. Therefore, Liang En has always hoped to find another job in a large company, so that it is a good foundation for both long-term work and changing jobs in the future.
However, he has now changed his plan, because an accident half a month ago gave him a better choice.
Because he didn't want his parents to worry, Liang En didn't tell them that he was being laid off.
So after the first month here, after saving some money, he went to the local thrift market to find some unique knick-knacks to send to his parents, and in this way he told his parents that he was doing well outside and that they didn't need to worry about himself.
As a result, he didn't expect a small bronze tripod that he bought from the stall that he thought was an imitation, and that night inexplicably flew into his consciousness.
Theoretically, he should have been smashed on the head by this thing, soaked in blood, or performed some kind of ritual, but the reality was that this thing automatically recognized the owner and flew into Liang En's mind.
As an Internet writer in college, Liang En quickly accepted this golden finger, after all, there are all kinds of golden fingers in the novel, and this can only be regarded as ordinary.
But Liang En didn't quite understand why this golden finger would find him:
He now has both parents and no illnesses, although he is a little unlucky to be left in a foreign country, but the family's economic situation is not too bad.
As for the probability that his girlfriend will empathize with him or dump him directly, there is no such thing as a girlfriend - he has no girlfriend at all since he was born, so he will naturally not be dumped.
Under normal circumstances, a person with an overly ordinary resume like him would theoretically not be able to get a golden finger.
If he can't figure out the reason, he can't figure out the reason, and the golden finger must be used, so he started the first crossing with some simple weapons prepared that day.
Fortunately, the place he traveled through was not far from an ancient city with city walls, and he avoided the pain of surviving in the wild after crossing his peers when they first came to the precious land.
After briefly observing the surrounding environment and the people nearby for a while, Liang En found that the pedestrians on the road looked similar to himself and wore ancient Chinese clothes.
As for most of these people, they speak with a strong Jiangsu and Zhejiang accent, but he can still understand it after living with his maternal grandparents who are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang since he was a child.
The only thing that seems a little strange is that at least one-third of the men have short hair, and they don't look like Buddhist monks.
After completing the intelligence gathering and returning to the modern world, and spending a lot of money and several days preparing similar clothing, goods and self-defense items for himself, Liang En came to this ancient world again.
But instead of going straight into the city, he chose to follow the road away from the city to a nearby village, and then pretended to be a traveler to inquire about the situation.
Because the village is located on the edge of the official road, the restaurant at the head of the village is fairly well-informed, and there are several books in the store. So in a short time, Liang En knew all the information he wanted to know.
The history of this world is no different from the general direction of history that Liang En knows, but there are many differences in details. And this series of unevenness finally made history turn a big corner at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
For example, the dynasty that ended the chaotic era at the end of the Yuan Dynasty is not the Ming Dynasty, but the Great Song Dynasty, but it is not the Great Song Dynasty that he knows.
According to Dian Xiaoer, more than 50 years ago, Emperor Guangwu of the Song Dynasty, Han Shantong, brandished an 81-pound Daguan knife to break through the encirclement when he was surrounded by the Yuan army, and then fought in the south and north for more than ten years before establishing the Great Song Dynasty.
In order to defeat the Mughurs across Europe and Asia, Han Shantong had to swallow it when integrating other forces.
If nothing else, the Song Guangwu Emperor will gradually cut off these forces after establishing a new dynasty, as Liu Bang did. Then there was a bloody storm.
But things didn't go on like this, because not long after the beginning of the Second Song Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of Song died of injuries sustained in the Southern and Northern Wars.
Han Lin'er, the young and premature Emperor of Song Hui, obviously could not suppress this group of old ministers like his father, especially in the face of the crisis that the Northern Yuan might go south at any time, engaging in internal strife is definitely a dead end.
So at the suggestion of the civil officials headed by the then Prime Minister Li Shanchang and the Chengtian Jianguo Si Minsheng Ming Ling King, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhao Pusheng, Zhang Shicheng, Peng Yingyu, Fang Guozhen, Ming Yuzhen, Liu Futong, and Zhang Dingbian The eight princes and kings made a blood alliance and vowed to jointly support the young master.
In addition to this, they established the Book of Rites of the Emperor and the Song Dynasty, which included a series of contents on laws, taxes, armies, land, and so on.
Among them, there are only three most important provisions, one of which is that the emperor can only be inherited by the direct descendants of Emperor Guangwu of Song.
The second is the establishment of a political hall headed by eight princes and kings, and no government can be implemented without the permission of the political hall.
The third is that after the death of the old emperor, the new emperor was elected by the government office.
Although there were some changes since then, the general direction has not changed, and the government has stabilized. The whole country has also come out of the storm, gradually becoming prosperous and powerful, and can already faintly see that the prosperous era is coming.
Although Liang En has a strong urge to complain after reading this history, it is always a good thing to be able to connect with such a peaceful and peaceful world.
Especially for Liang En, who wants to trade across time and space, this kind of world is convenient for him to trade.
According to the will of Emperor Guangwu of the Song Dynasty, as long as the dynasty does not die, the era name will remain the same, so even if the emperor has died two times and retired two over the years, the era name has always been the dragon and phoenix.
It is now the 35th year of the establishment of the New Song Dynasty, and as for Liang En's foothold in Yuanhe County, between Taihu Lake and Yangcheng Lake, it is considered a rich place in the south of the Yangtze River.
Because the Great Song Dynasty focused on trade, especially maritime trade, the control of population movement was not very strict.
Especially people like him who return from overseas have three or five people in this county every year, as long as they can speak Chinese, don't look too outrageous, it is not difficult to have silver to settle down.
At the same time, because of the more frequent shipping and war, short hair, which is more convenient to care for under the leadership of the royal family and nobles, has gradually become popular, which saves Liang En the trouble of buying wigs.
An hour later, Liang En, who had paid a copper plate at the tea stall in exchange for cheap silver jewelry bought at the thrift store last time, as an entry tax, successfully entered the county seat of Yuanhe.
Next, he took advantage of the extremely clichéd overseas traveler in the novel, tried to return to his hometown and start over, and sold a mechanical table clock more than 40cm high that he had bought from a thrift store at the pawn shop.
Due to the development of maritime trade, the Great Song Dynasty now uses both silver and money. Considering the convenience of carrying, he only exchanged five copper coins, and the rest of the money was exchanged for 230 taels of silver.
- If you go to Jianye City, it is possible that this mechanical clock will be sold for a thousand taels of silver. But Yuanhe is only a small county town, and Liang En has no connections, so he can sell clocks for more than two hundred taels of silver, which can only be said that the owner of this pawnshop is very kind.
With the help of the pawnshop owner, he went to the yamen and spent 50 silver to settle down, and then spent 60 taels of silver to buy a house in the city with three main rooms, three wing rooms, and three front rooms, and hired an old couple surnamed Zhang about 50 years old to clean, cook, and watch the door.
After finishing all this, he returned to the pawn shop where he had sold the table clock before, and then spent twenty taels of silver to take down two pieces, each weighing a catty, and the white fish maw that had been aged for more than 40 years.
After all, it's close to the sea, so this kind of seafood is relatively cheap.
In fact, Liang En planned to buy ginseng at the beginning, but it turned out that the fifth-class ginseng with the lowest quality cost 70 taels of silver, which is obviously inferior to fish gelatin from the perspective of cost performance.
Come to think of it, ancient ginseng was very difficult to excavate or transport, so the price was naturally expensive.
After doing all this, he went out of the city to find a secluded place and returned to the modern world.
According to Liang En's idea, after obtaining the status there, he began to try to conduct plane trade, striving to become rich on both sides and get rid of the current hectic life.
And today's fish gelatin is the first time he has tested the waters. The final selling price will affect his next move.
If all goes well, his dream of getting rid of 996 and living an early retirement life should soon come true.