Feeling sorry for Liu Bei's heroic words, Jian Yong could not say a word for a long time.
After coming back to his senses, he didn't stay much longer and left with the Qingzhou parchment he had always wanted.
He couldn't learn Liu Bei's courage, he felt that it was something he was born with.
Jian Yong had never imagined fighting against the sky, but after Liu Bei said such words, he inexplicably felt that this future seemed a bit interesting.
It might be interesting to watch someone do something that you want to do but can't do.
So as he walked, he laughed.
After Jian Yong left, Liu Bei did not waste time. Instead, he continued to review the "Zuo Shi Chun Qiu" and "Guwen Shangshu" taught to him by Lu Zhi, and prepared for the re-examination in Luoyang that he would need to take once he succeeded in promoting Xiaolian.
The government re-examination was the last effort made by Zuo Xiong, a famous official in the Eastern Han Dynasty, to save the collapse of the imperial examination system.
At that time, Zuo Xiong noticed that the imperial examination system had become the entry level for high-ranking gentry and local wealthy families. They manipulated the selection process wantonly, so that the quality of the selected scholars was extremely poor.
In order to save this situation, Zuo Xiong took the risk and established the rules of the public re-examination despite opposition, requiring that the scholars who entered the central government through filial piety and integrity must pass the public re-examination before they can officially become Lang officials.
It is said that this rule did play a big role when Zuo Xiong was still there. Zuo Xiong even stipulated that only those who were forty years old could be promoted to be filial and honest officials.
However, the decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty was inevitable, and all kinds of abuses were hard to come back. After Zuo Xiong's death, the government re-examination was in vain, and the rule of being filial and honest at the age of forty was also broken.
To this day, as long as you say hello in advance or have a famous person pass on it, the public re-examination is really just a formality.
Having said that, Liu Bei felt that he should be prepared. After all, he had reached this point by relying on his true ability, which was completely different from those who had reached this point by relying on their background.
Can people who have worked hard to get to where they are today be the same as those who relied on their family background to win along the way?
While reading, Liu Bei felt a little tired, so he put down the bamboo slips and stretched himself. He looked around at his study room, which was a relatively good environment, and suddenly felt a little emotional.
Could my seven-year-old self have thought that my nineteen-year-old self had already changed his cruel fate, that Liu Bei wasted half his life to partially realize his ideals until his twilight years, and was about to embark on a new life path?
Probably not possible?
Because at that time, just being alive was already trying my best.
Looking back on that time, Liu Bei was filled with emotion.
He realized that he became Liu Bei twelve years ago, when he was seven years old.
At that time, Liu Bei had just fallen from the big mulberry tree in front of his house that looked like the hood of a car used by important people when traveling. He broke his head and it took him a while to heal it.
And he came to the late Han Dynasty at that time.
When he realized that he was Liu Bei, he was first hesitant and then ecstatic.
There is nothing unacceptable, because his original life has come to an end, and now he has an inexplicable second chance to be a human being. Isn't it wonderful?
What's more, he actually became Liu Bei.
Liu Bei, Emperor Zhaolie of the Shu Han Dynasty.
This is someone who will become an emperor in the future.
His heart was quickly filled with a sense of superiority above all else.
But this sense of superiority soon ran into the reality of having a poor family.
His family was very poor, in a heart-wrenching kind of poverty. Their food and clothing were extremely poor, and they couldn't even have a full stomach.
This made Liu Bei extremely dissatisfied.
So he immediately decided to embark on a path to change his destiny.
At the beginning, he tried many means to change his destiny.
Like trying to run a business.
He thought that he would be able to make a lot of money by opening a restaurant that cooked vegetables and distilled wine. However, when he was about to start, he discovered that his family didn't even have an iron pot, let alone money.
Oh, I remembered it.
It turns out that iron pots capable of cooking vegetables only existed in the Song Dynasty.
Then go find a blacksmith for a fight!
It was rare in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty that there was no official salt and iron operation, and private individuals could also operate it.
So Liu Bei went to the blacksmith in the clan for help. When the blacksmith saw the pattern of the iron pot he drew with clay on the ground, he was so shocked that he quickly asked him to go to Luoyang to find a master general for help. Such a person would definitely be able to
Find a skilled craftsman who can make iron pots.
After being ridiculed, Liu Bei realized that even making an iron pot required skill.
It’s so funny that I want to open a restaurant and cook dishes, but I don’t even have a pot, let alone many other requirements.
The plan to change one's life against the will of heaven failed and fell into disrepair.
After the failure of the first operation, Liu Bei was not discouraged.
He learned the hard way and quickly realized that you don't have to be a cook to change your destiny. In addition to being a cook, wouldn't the advantage of a time traveler be that you can also be a copywriter?
He can also write poems and become famous all over the world. With the preparation of culture and literary talents by the ancients, if he writes Tang poetry and Song lyrics, is he afraid that he will not be able to change his destiny?
As soon as he said it, Liu Bei was ready to start using the Tang poetry and Song lyrics he had memorized in his head, and to amaze the world.
Then he discovered that he only had a pen and three scrolls of bamboo slips at home, not a single piece of paper, and he had to grind the ink himself.
Two of the three volumes of bamboo slips are full of words, and only one is blank. They are all legacies left by his father, who died young and was a clerk in the county. His mother kept them as treasures.
He looked at the bamboo slips and found that if they were added together, they could write several hundred words, which would be considered good.
If I still want to buy it after I finish writing it...
It's funny, considering the extremely poor financial situation of the Liu family at that time, they couldn't afford it at all.
The mother worked hard to make straw sandals and straw mats in exchange for a meager income, so she could barely raise the young Liu Bei, which was very hard.
But this did not stop Liu Bei's determination to change his destiny against nature.
He is a modern visitor who is nearly two thousand years ahead of mankind. How can he be content with being ordinary?
So when his mother wasn't paying attention, he secretly took a scroll of bamboo slips, wrote a poem about "Hoeing Day at Noon", and then prepared to amaze the world.
After finishing writing, he felt that the future was under control, and the most famous child prodigy of the Han Dynasty was about to be born.
But it wasn't until he walked out of the house that he realized a very serious problem.
Who should this poem be shown to help him become famous?
These days, there is no Internet, no scarves, and you cannot write essays or boxing. If you want to become famous all over the world, you need to spread word of mouth. It is far from being as convenient as a network cable in the Internet era.
If you want to spread the word from person to person, you need help from capable people.
Who can help him?
teacher?
He didn't.
Celebrities?
He doesn't recognize it.
Are there any famous people in this three-acre area of Zhuo County?
He searched in the name column in his memory and thought of a great person like Lu Zhi.
That’s right! It’s Lu Zhi!
Didn’t it say that Lu Zhi was Liu Bei’s teacher?
If students have needs, won’t teachers help?
Then he was going to find Lu Zhi.
As a result, Lu Zhi had already been recruited by the emperor to serve as an official in Luoyang, and there was no way to find him. Moreover, Liu Bei was not Lu Zhi's student yet, so why should he help?
In desperation, Liu Bei retreated to the next best thing and went to the patriarch of his Liu clan, hoping to gain the patriarch's appreciation and help him become famous.
After all, the Liu family in Zhuo County, Zhuo County, is a descendant of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty. As a member of the Han clan, as a member of the royal family, they should have some prestige and influence in the county, right?
result……
It's so funny that the gatekeeper won't let him enter the patriarch's house at all. No matter what he says, it's useless.
That is to say, he didn't take action because he was young. If he were replaced by another older man, if he was so messy, the disciples would probably take action.
Liu Bei was very angry at that time.
"I am Emperor Xiaojing, how dare you do this to me?"
Menzi sneered and pointed at himself.
"Since I am also Emperor Xiaojing, what should you do to me?"
After being ridiculed, Liu Bei suddenly remembered.
These days, clans live together, and everyone living together for several generations is one family.
In other words, all people with the surname Liu who live in clan settlements are "royal nobles".
This family, the stooped old man on the street, and the young boy running and jumping next to him, are all descendants of Emperor Xiaojing.
How many years?
After Emperor Xiaojing?
Ah this...
Feeling inexplicably embarrassed, Liu Bei could only hide his face and walk away.
When he got home, his mother stared at the bamboo slips in his hand, took them and opened them to look at, then picked up the braided straw sandals and beat Liu Bei's hands into braised pig's trotters.
Obviously, the mother's better-than-nothing cultural level was not enough to make her realize how talented her son was. She was just very angry that her late husband's relics were offended by her son.
While recovering from his injuries, Liu Bei kept reflecting on why he could not become famous. Finally, he figured it out.
This is the era of examinations, not the era of imperial examinations.
In this era of selecting talents through the examination and examination system, people do not become famous because of their talents, but because they are famous, they become "talented."
He reversed the relationship between cause and effect.
Defying fate and changing fate with 0 actions, it failed and fell into the sand.
After learning from the painful experience, Liu Bei decided to follow this new cause-and-effect relationship and embark on the road of changing his destiny again, and started the action of changing his destiny.
Make a name for yourself first, then show your talent.
So, first of all, make a name for yourself!
How to become famous?
I still have to rely on this poem.
But they are not allowed to enter the clan leader's house at all. How can he become famous if the clan leader can't see him?
If you want to get in, you have to be famous.
But if you don’t go in, where will the fame come from?
However, the fact is that without fame, you can’t get in...
Liu Bei thought hard about how to break the situation, but fell into an embarrassing matryoshka dilemma.
He was like a puppy running in circles trying to bite its own tail, but could never succeed. He felt like a big invisible net was covering him, and he couldn't break free no matter how hard he tried.
Then, on a thunderstorm night, Liu Bei had an epiphany.
This cannibalistic feudal society does not give the lower class people a way to survive at all. If this is the case, then I will rebel! Make a revolution! Just flip the table!
I have joined the Communist Party!
I'm willing to be killed, but I dare to drag your emperor off his horse!
Just do what you say. Liu Bei, who grew up under the red flag, immediately rushed out to find the working people to preach revolutionary principles, criticize the cannibalistic feudal society, lead them to establish organizations, train troops, and always be ready to carry out the rebellion to the end.
Of course, it was not the county magistrate's turn to send a few petty officials to deal with Liu Bei.
In fact, Liu Bei really took the first step. Of course, it was just that step.
He went to the working people in the area where the Liu family lived to preach the revolutionary principles, calling on everyone to follow him in rebellion and revolution, and to put an end to the evil feudal society.
Of course, the working people in Youzhou are really hard-working, and they are not too cold towards the Liu family emperor who is far away. Basically, they are in the state of "Who is it? Do I know him?". It can be said that they have a bit of awe.
, and there is no sense of awe at all.
But compared with rebellion and revolution, the working people are more concerned about having enough food to eat.
So Liu Bei said that rebelling and making revolution would satisfy his hunger.
The working people have more concerns.
"But if you have no food to eat and no strength, how can you rebel?"
Liu Bei smiled slightly.
"If you rebel and start a revolution, you will have food to eat."
The working people still don’t agree.
“Without food and energy, we can’t rebel.”
Liu Bei smiled helplessly.
"So I say that if you rebel and start a revolution, you will have food to eat and you will have the strength to rebel."
The working people spread their hands.
"Then you have to eat first before you can rebel."
The smile on Liu Bei's face disappeared and he was a little irritated.
"So I said, you have to rebel first before you can have food to eat. If you don't rebel, you won't have food to eat."
The working people are also impatient.
"How can we rebel if we have no food to eat and no strength?"
Liu Bei was angry.
"That's why we rebel! If we don't rebel, who will eat?"
The working people were also angry.
"If you don't have food to eat, are you going to rebel against your family?"
Liu Bei was immediately speechless.
Don't tell me, if you round up to 100 million, you are still trying to rebel against my family. After all, I am a member of the Han clan, and my surname is Liu.
Then there is no more.
Liu Bei was very depressed and realized that he seemed to be unable to take this route of rebellion, because rebellion also requires money. He spread his hands and sleeves to breathe in the wind, and his pocket was cleaner than his face. Who would rebel with him?
Liu Bei fell silent.
Three days later, while standing by the big mulberry tree next to his house and thinking about life, he suddenly realized a serious problem.
If the road to fame is blocked, you will not be able to enter the upper class of society through formal routes.
If the path of rebellion is impassable, you cannot enter the upper echelons of society by flipping tables.
Doesn't that mean...
Do I have to eat bran bran for the rest of my life?
He turned his head and looked at the small house where Liu Yuxi, who he and his mother now lived in, was silent. He was stunned.
How did the original Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty break through this situation?
How did he go from being a humble person who ate rice bran, weaved mats, and sold shoes to the throne of emperor?
What kind of bad luck did he get to stand out from scratch?
I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out.