001 The Beginning of Everything
The sunshine in Ljubljana in spring was bright, filling every corner of the city. In an apartment with the curtains drawn on the outskirts of the city, a figure wearing a blue Hanfu and carrying a cloth bag suddenly appeared in the room.
"I'm finally back -"
As soon as he landed, Liang En opened the cloth bag in his hand and looked inside nervously.
Looking at the wooden box sitting quietly inside the package, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and then concentrated on examining the small three-legged cauldron in his mind.
Different from those common bronze cauldrons, this bronze cauldron floating in the sea of his consciousness was only the size of an adult's fist, and its color was bright golden yellow instead of cyan rust.
This small tripod is the treasure that Liang En can use to travel. With this thing, he can physically travel between here and another ancient world at any time, and he can also bring his own items that he touches.
At the beginning, he was worried that this kind of time travel might cause biological invasion or something similar, but judging from the situation in the past half month, the tripod's time travel ability blocked this possibility.
Although he didn't know the reason behind it, it was enough for Liang En to start the next step of his plan with confidence, and today was the most important step of his plan.
After a brief wash, he took off the mesh scarf on his head, the cyan silk crew neck shirt and pantyhose on his body, and put them away, then changed back into a T-shirt and jeans, and then picked up the wood in the package.
He put the box in his schoolbag and walked out of the room.
For him, how much money he can make from this time travel depends on how much the item in his hand can be sold for next.
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Liang En, a young post-90s generation, successfully joined a multinational company shortly after graduation.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived in this so-called new market, Slovenia, the company announced large-scale layoffs, and he became one of the laid off people. So he was so unlucky to be dumped into this so-called new market, which many Chinese people had never even heard of.
small Balkan country.
Fortunately, he had a one-year work visa, so in order to avoid worrying his parents, he simply continued the purchasing business he had done when he went to the UK to study in college to earn pocket money.
Because of his previous experience, he got started quickly, especially since this place borders Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia, so he was able to get a lot of decorations, cosmetics, bags or small items that Chinese customers liked.
A wide range of wines or liqueurs.
Of course, this kind of job can only be used as a transitional job at best. Therefore, Liang En has always hoped to find another job in a large company. This will provide a good foundation for him to work for a long time or to change jobs in the future.
But he has now changed his plan because an accident half a month ago gave him a better choice.
Previously, Liang En did not tell them that he was laid off because he did not want his parents to worry.
So after the first month of coming here, he saved some money and went to the local flea market to find some unique gadgets to send to his parents. In this way, he expressed himself to his parents.
Living a good life outside, they don't need to worry about themselves.
Unexpectedly, a small bronze tripod he bought from a stall, which he thought was a replica, flew into his consciousness inexplicably that night.
Theoretically, he should have been hit on the head by this thing and soaked in blood, or some kind of ceremony should have been performed, but in reality, this thing just automatically recognized its owner and flew into Liang En's mind.
As an online writer in college, Liang En quickly accepted this cheat. After all, there are all kinds of cheats in novels, and this one can only be regarded as ordinary.
But Liang En didn’t quite understand why this golden finger came to him:
He now has two parents, and he doesn't suffer from any illness. Although he is unlucky enough to be left in a foreign country, his family's financial situation is not too bad.
As for the possibility that his girlfriend will fall in love with someone else or dump him directly, there is no possibility - he has never had a girlfriend since he was born, so he will naturally not be dumped.
Under normal circumstances, a person with an ordinary resume like him cannot theoretically get a golden finger.
He couldn't figure out the reason, but Goldfinger must be used, so he prepared some simple weapons and started his first time travel that day.
Fortunately, the location he traveled to was not too far away from an ancient walled city, which saved many of his fellow travellers from the hardship of surviving in the wild when they first arrived in the precious land.
After simply observing the surrounding environment and the people nearby for a period of time, Liang En discovered that the pedestrians on the road looked similar to himself and were wearing ancient Chinese clothes.
Most of these people speak with strong Jiangsu and Zhejiang accents, but he can still understand them as he grew up living with his maternal grandparents who are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
The only thing that seems a little strange is that at least 1/3 of the men have short hair, and they don't look like Buddhist monks.
After completing the intelligence collection and returning to the modern world, and spending a lot of money and several days to prepare similar clothing, goods and self-defense items for himself, Liang En came to this ancient world again.
But he did not go directly into the city. Instead, he chose to follow the road away from the city and came to a nearby village, and then pretended to be a traveler and inquired about the situation.
Because the village is located on the edge of the official road, the restaurant at the head of the village is quite well-informed, and there are also several books placed in the store. So Liang En learned all the information he wanted to know in a short period of time.
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The history of this world is no different from the general direction of history that Liang En knew, but there are considerable differences in the details. This series of discrepancies finally made history take a big turn at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
For example, the current dynasty that ended the chaos of the late Yuan Dynasty was not the Ming Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty, but it was not the Song Dynasty he knew.
According to the waiter, Emperor Guangwu of the Song Dynasty, Han Shantong, wielded an 81-pound Daguandao to break through the siege of the Yuan army more than 50 years ago. He then fought in the north and south for more than ten years before establishing the Song Dynasty.
In order to defeat the Mongol people across Europe and Asia, Han Shantong had to swallow them whole while integrating other forces.
If there are no accidents, after Emperor Guangwu of Song established a new dynasty, he would gradually cut off these forces like Liu Bang did, and then set off a bloody storm.
But things did not develop like this, because not long after the establishment of the Second Song Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of Song Dynasty died due to injuries sustained in the southern and northern wars.
It was obviously impossible for the Song Hui Emperor Han Lin'er, who died young and died young, to suppress these veterans like his father, especially in the face of the crisis that the Northern Yuan Dynasty might move south at any time. Engaging in internal strife would definitely be a dead end.
So at the suggestion of the civil servants headed by the then Prime Minister Li Shanchang and the Simin of Chengtian Jianguo, who was promoted to King Fu Mingling, eight princes and kings, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhao Pusheng, Zhang Shicheng, Peng Yingyu, Fang Guozhen, Ming Yuzhen, Liu Futong, and Zhang Dingbian, took the blood for the throne.
They made an alliance and vowed to work together to protect the young master.
In addition, they formulated the "Emperor Song Rites", which included a series of contents about law, taxation, army, land, etc.
There are only three most important provisions among them. One is that the emperor can only be succeeded by the direct descendants of Emperor Guangwu of Song Dynasty.
The second is to establish a political affairs hall headed by eight princes and kings. No government affairs can be implemented without the permission of the political affairs hall.
The third is that after the old emperor dies, the new emperor is elected by the political minister.
Although there have been changes since then, the general direction has not changed, and the government has stabilized. The entire country has also emerged from the turmoil, and has gradually become prosperous and powerful. It can already be seen that the prosperous age is coming.
Although Liang En had a strong urge to complain after reading this piece of 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 makes it convenient for him to trade.
According to the decree of Emperor Guangwu of Song Dynasty, as long as the dynasty survives, the reign name will remain unchanged. Therefore, even though two emperors have died and two emperors have retired in these years, the reign title has always remained Dragon and Phoenix.
Now is the 35th year of the founding of the New Song Dynasty. As for Liang En's settlement, Yuanhe County is located between Taihu Lake and Yangcheng Lake, which is considered a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River.
Because the Song Dynasty focused on trade, especially maritime trade, the control of population movements was not very strict.
Especially there are three to five people like him who return from overseas in this county every year. As long as they can speak Chinese and don't look too ridiculous, it's not difficult to settle down if they have money.
At the same time, due to more frequent shipping and wars, short hair, which was easier to manage, gradually became popular under the leadership of the royal family, which saved Liang En the trouble of buying wigs.
An hour later, Liang En successfully entered Yuanhe County after paying a copper plate he had exchanged for cheap silver jewelry he bought at a thrift store at a tea stall as entry tax.
Next, he took advantage of the cliche story in the novel about an overseas traveler whose family falls into ruin and tries to return to his hometown to start over. He pawned a 40-centimeter-high mechanical clock at a pawn shop that he had previously bought from a thrift store.
Due to the expansion of sea trade, the Song Dynasty now used both silver and silver. Considering the convenience of portability, he only exchanged five guan of copper coins, and the remaining money was exchanged for 230 taels of silver.
——If you go to build Yecheng, it is possible to sell this mechanical clock for a thousand taels of silver. But Yuanhe is only a small county, and Liang En has no connections. To be able to sell the clock for more than 200 taels of silver can only be said that the owner of this pawn shop is very nice.
So kind.
With the help of the pawnshop owner, he went to the Yamen and spent 50 taels of silver to register. Then he 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 a
An old couple surnamed Zhang, about 50 years old, cleans, cooks and also looks after the door.
After finishing all this, he returned to the pawn shop where he had sold the clock, and spent twenty taels of silver to buy two pieces of white flower isinglass that weighed a pound each and had been stored for more than 40 years.
After all, it is very close to the seaside, so this kind of seafood is relatively cheap.
In fact, Liang En planned to buy ginseng at the beginning, but it turned out that one tael of fifth-grade ginseng with the lowest quality costs 70 taels of silver, which is obviously not as cost-effective as fish maw.
Think about it, ancient ginseng was very difficult to dig and transport, so it was naturally expensive.
After completing all this, he left the city to find a secluded place and returned to the modern world.
According to Liang En's idea, after gaining status there, he began to try to conduct plane trade, striving to become a rich man on both sides and get rid of his current busy life.
Today's isinglass is his first test of the waters. The final selling price will affect his next actions.
Chapter completed!