Chapter 2 Misfortune and fortune, who knows the extreme?
The twelfth lunar month.
It has stopped snowing in Guanzhong recently, but the cold is getting heavier day by day.
In a quiet house deep in Lishan Mountain, the sound of reading could be heard.
"The Tao can be a Tao, but it is not a permanent Tao. A name can be a name, but it is not a permanent name."
"The nameless beginning of all things is the name of the mother of all things. Therefore: there is always no desire, so as to observe its lust; there is always desire, so as to observe its pleasure."
"Both come from the same place, have different names and the same predicate."
"Mysterious and mysterious, the door to all mysteries."
"..."
The young man in the house opened the window slightly, lit a fire in the house, added some dry firewood, then picked up the "Tao Te Ching" placed on the table and started to read.
The fire roared and the smoke filled the air.
The cold wind outside the house penetrated through the doors and windows, rolling up strands of hair, and coupled with the Taoist scriptures recited by the young man, it gave his whole body a somewhat elegant and otherworldly appearance.
The young man was wearing heavy clothes, he was seventeen or eighteen years old, he had fine features and a slightly dark complexion, but his figure was not thin.
The furnishings in the room are very simple.
Apart from rows of bookshelves, there was only a desk for reading and a stove for burning fire. The stove was made of clay, and the thing burning inside was not charcoal with low smoke, but dead wood picked up from the nearby mountains and forests.
The young man’s name is Qin Luoheng.
He is not from this world.
He traveled here ten years ago and opened his eyes. He was in a deep palace with high walls. But before he could take a closer look, he heard the sounds of gold and iron clashing in his ears, as well as the roar of soldiers and horses.
sound.
He immediately felt a pain in his head and passed out instantly.
Wait until you wake up again.
Already in the wild forest, covered in rags.
Since then, he has been wandering nearby. When he was on the verge of starving to death, he was rescued by a wandering master. The two of them depended on each other for life, bumping into each other along the way, and arrived at Lishan Mountain, where they lived in seclusion.
The name Qin Luoheng was given to him by his master.
He could not recall the name of his predecessor, nor could he recall any related memories.
He asked the master why he gave himself this name and what it meant. The master just smiled and said: "Qin is the surname of the country, and the world has become a general trend. You are destined to be a Qin person from now on. Luoheng is taken from 'The way life is like'.
In chess, you will have no regrets when you make a move."
but.
However, Qin Luoheng clearly felt that when the master mentioned 'Qin', his tone was always a bit cold, a bit helpless, a bit sleepy, and was far from as free and easy as he said.
He also asked the Master's name several times, but the Master just smiled and never answered.
By his master's side, Qin Luoheng learned to read and digit.
He also knew where he was in the world.
Da Qin!!!
When he found out that he was in Da Qin, he was quite excited at first, thinking about how he could make a difference in Da Qin with his future wisdom.
But after following his master down the mountain several times, he finally realized that the plots on TV were all lies.
Don't talk about joining an official career.
Even if you want to farm or do business, you are not qualified.
He is a gangster!!!
The Qin Dynasty had an extremely strict household registration system, that is, the registration system of "registering households to equalize the people".
Every Qin person has a "test" and a "pass".
Qin Luoheng cannot remember the memory of his previous life at all, which means that he cannot realize his current identity.
Before the Qin State unified the world, he could still regain his household registration for the crime of "destruction of the country" and only had to bear a lighter punishment.
But as the Qin State unified the world, and all the subjects in the world were the subjects of Qin, the "crime of state destruction" had ceased to exist in name only. People like him who could not prove their identity would only be punished as prisoners, and at the end of their sentences they would be classified as "
Private slave status'.
In the Qin Dynasty, ministers and concubines who were private slaves were not considered Qin people.
Parents have the right to 'visit and kill' slaves and maids.
Da Qin's household registration system was strict. After classifying the place of origin for various types of people in the society, it was clearly stipulated that people with certain place of origin could do their job.
If you dare to overstep your bounds, you will be punished.
Once Qin Luoheng enters the "private slave registration", it means that his descendants will also be slaves and maids for generations. Unless they obtain military merit, they will not be able to change their household registration.
even……
He didn't dare to leave the vicinity of Xianyang because he didn't have a "talisman", "test" or "pass". Once he was discovered, he would be tied up and sent to see the official.
This is a society with clearly divided classes.
After learning about the relevant laws and regulations of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Luoheng immediately gave up the idea of leaving Xianyang and becoming an official in the Qin Dynasty.
He is waiting.
Waiting for the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony at the end of Qin Dynasty!
In his original memory, the struggle for hegemony between Chu and Han did not last long. When the struggle between Chu and Han ended, Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty. In the early Han Dynasty, the main promotion was the "Huang-Lao Thought".
That is the ‘quiet and inactive’ advocated by Taoism.
Lishan lived in seclusion for ten years. After he learned how to read and hyphenate, he mainly read Taoist classics such as "Huangdi Neijing", "Taodejing", "Zhuangzi", "Liezi" and so on.
The stage is vast and there is much to be done.
However, he did not take the initiative to read the Taoist classics, but was forced to do so by the Master.
The Master personally experienced the raging wars and intrigues at the end of the Warring States Period, and did not want him to get involved again, so he was strictly prohibited from reading classics about the art of war, strategy, and tactics.
I just hope that he can avoid the world and pursue the path of heaven and earth.
Master never imagined that the once powerful Qin Empire would collapse in the next ten years or so, and that the newly established Han Dynasty would practice the Taoist principle of "quiet and inactive" in its early days.
But he didn't tell his master about this.
It was due to this kind of mistake that Qin Luoheng stayed in Lishan to practice Taoist classics for ten years.
Take back your mind.
Qin Luoheng continued to flip through the bamboo slips and read aloud.
"Therefore, the Tao is big, the sky is big, the earth is big, and the people are also big. There are four big things in the domain, and people live in one of them."
"Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature."
"..."
The mountains are empty and silent.
The sound of his reading could be heard loudly.
Lishan Mountain is huge, and the location he is in is extremely remote. There are almost no people within a radius of one mile, only the white snow of Songsong falls on the branches, forming patches of rime.
While reading, Qin Luoheng felt that he had a deeper understanding of the Tao Te Ching.
He paused briefly, thought about it in his mind for a moment, and then continued to recite: "The government is dull, but the people are honest; the government is censorious, but the people are lacking."
"Misfortune lies on which blessing depends;"
"For good fortune, disaster lies ahead;"
"Who knows how extreme it is? It's..."
Just as Qin Luoheng was reciting, a response suddenly came from outside the room.
"Disaster? Blessing?"
"But if I come here this time, is it a blessing or a curse for you?"
Hear the sound.
The sound of reading in the room suddenly stopped.
The entire residence fell into dead silence.
The visitor stood tall and his eyes swept across the courtyard coldly.
"Lishan is the imperial palace, but there is a private house hidden in a secluded place. If word spreads, wouldn't it make the world laugh?"
"The laws of the Great Qin Dynasty stipulate that those who illegally break into the forbidden garden shall be punished by 'abandoning the market'."
"Do you know your guilt?!!!"
The words of the visitor were cold, ruthless, and frightening. The sound was so loud that rime fell from the branches.