Chapter 1: Before the Beginning
The year was 256 B.C., when the sound of a baby's cry pierced the silence in Zhongyangli in Fengyi, Pei County (present-day Feng County, Jiangsu Province), and the village suddenly became lively.
Born, born! Someone shouted.
The villagers gathered in front of the courtyard of the Liu family to express their congratulations to the head of the family. Coincidentally, the little Zhongyang ushered in the birth of two newborns on the same day, what a celebration! Some villagers excitedly rushed to tell each other.
The honest Liu Zhijia finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his mother and son were safe.
Liu Zhijia is the famous Liu Taigong, and today, Liu Zhijia's real name has been forgotten, and it is customary to call him Liu Taigong. Today, Mrs. Liu waited for her third son to come to the world.
Mrs. Liu is not a first-time father, and the newborn baby did not bring him much excitement, but was a little more worried. With the current economic situation of the Liu family, it is not easy to pull a child. Therefore, even if the sky is thundering and the house is full of joy now, Mrs. Liu has no intention of appreciating it. As a father, he has already begun to think about the problems that come with it, such as the child's feeding problems, nutrition problems, education problems, and so on. Thinking that the current year is not good and the grain output is not high, Mrs. Liu breathed a sigh of relief, when others were playing around the newborn, Mrs. Liu was thinking about how much more food he would have to make every year, of course, he had the same honest smile on his face as ever.
The life trajectory of the farmers for generations is very simple, and Liu Taigong is no exception, so in his plan, after raising his sons to adulthood, he will teach them the ancestral technique of farming, and then retire early to enjoy some blessings.
Mrs. Liu gave the newborn a name according to the ranking: Liu Ji, because Liu Ji has two older brothers, Liu Bo, Liu Zhong, Liu Bo died early, and after that, there will be a younger brother Liu Jiao.
When Liu Ji grew up, he thought his name was too delicate and changed his name to Liu Bang.
Liu Bang after growing up, Liu Bang has extraordinary characteristics, which makes Liu Taigong very disappointed. Liu Bang is idle all day long, eating and drinking everywhere, and belongs to the type of full breadth. Liu Bang lives as he pleases, in addition to not being proficient in agricultural production technology, he is very proficient in the skills of stealing chickens and dogs, drinking and cheating. Liu Bang is bold, informal, likes to make friends, often stands out for his brothers, and unknowingly, he has become the leading brother of a group of brothers.
When Liu Bang was bored, he did some things to steal chickens and dogs and cause some lawsuits, one to adjust his life, and the other to exercise his courage. Under his efforts, the Liu family is often a chicken flying and a dog jumping, and there is no peace. Mrs. Liu complained about this, and he asked Liu Bang to learn from the honest Liu Zhong from time to time, and asked him to take his second brother as an example, change his past mistakes, farm well, and stay home every day. But Liu Bang went in and out of his left ear and out of his right ear, and he still went his own way.
Although Liu Bang is handsome, he has become a well-known scoundrel and hooligan because he is idle and does not do his job, so his marriage has been delayed, and he has unconsciously become the oldest leftover man in the village, and this surplus is left to forty-three years old. Of course, in the past forty-three years, Liu Bang has not been in vain, in order to solve the problem of incense, he boldly adopted the method of unmarried childbearing, and gave birth to the eldest son Liu Fei with the widow surnamed Cao in the village.
Liu Bang, who had a son, suddenly felt the burden on his shoulders, and Liu Bang, as a father, began to look for a breakthrough point in life. Relying on more than 40 years of accumulated contacts, Liu Bang became the chief of the Surabaya Pavilion in the year of not being confused, according to the regulations of the Qin State, a pavilion is set up in ten miles, and a township is set up in ten pavilions, and the pavilion chief is probably equivalent to the position of the village head, and the main responsibility is to maintain law and order within the scope of the pavilion under his jurisdiction, and also to usher in matters such as sending to officials and delivering official documents.
During Liu Bang's tenure as the pavilion chief, he has always been lenient with others and more lenient with himself. Liu Bang is particularly fond of wine, and when he gets drunk, he often plays white strips, which earns him the title of "hooligan". Although Liu Bang has always been dissolute and uninhibited, he was able to pay close attention to the style of the cadres of the Surabaya Pavilion, and often carried out criticism and non-self-criticism activities, so that almost all the cadres in the Surabaya Pavilion were reproached by him. Liu Bang is well versed in the principle of being an official: subordinates can scold, but superiors must have deep friendships. Therefore, he became a good friend with the cadres in the county, and he was even more brother and sister with Gong Cao Xiao He and Prison Peng Cao Shen.
Liu Bang's happy life finally came late when he was forty-three years old, and that year, someone finally couldn't resist his charm and gave him a wife, this person was the single father Lu Gong.
Lü Gong migrated to Pei County to avoid his enemies, and Lü Gong had an excellent relationship with the county magistrate of Pei County. In order to catch the wind for Lu Gong, the county magistrate of Pei County specially invited the rich officials in the county to a banquet. The county order treats guests, and subordinates naturally want to give some gift money.
Liu Bang didn't have any money, but he thought of a way.
His method is actually not clever, and he didn't break it because there were people above Liu Bang.
When he arrived at the county magistrate's house, he shouted "He Qianwan", and swaggered in, but in fact, he didn't give a single copper boy. At the banquet, Liu Bang ate and drank, and talked even more during the banquet, which can be described as talking and laughing freely, and the scenery is infinite. Liu Bang's high profile attracted the attention of Lu Gong, he silently observed Liu Bang, saw Liu Bang's dignified appearance, and then listened to his words, he was even more proud, and every sentence was not good. The more Lu Gong looked at it, the more pleasing it became, and he believed that this person would be rich and rich, so he privately found Liu Bang and said that he was willing to marry his daughter to him. When Liu Bang heard this, he was immediately excited, can he not want such a good thing? Promise it without thinking.
Liu Bang not only ate for nothing, but also picked up a wife.
This is God's favor for him!
At this moment, a storm is quietly brewing. If there is no storm, with Liu Bang's family background and personality, it would be thankful if he could be famous in Pei County!
However, life can never be assumed.
Liu Bang, ready, come on!