In a state of confusion and dizziness, Liu Jin felt like he had a splitting headache. A large amount of information was pouring into his brain. This information seemed to be a person's experience from childhood to adulthood, and this person was still an ancient person.
"Have I read too many historical novels?"
In his mind, Liu Jin thought like this.
As a hard-core bookworm with more than ten years of online writing experience, Liu Jin has read not less than 10,000 but also thousands of novels, among which his favorite online novels are historical time travel novels.
Recently, he just became obsessed with a historical time-travel novel. The author's writing style is quite good. Liu Jin was so addicted to it that he forgot to sleep and eat. He was addicted to it for several days in a row and couldn't extricate himself.
Therefore, there was an additional piece of information about an ancient person from his childhood to adulthood in his brain. Liu Jin thought that he was too addicted to novels and had many thoughts and dreams during the day and night.
In the haze, Liu Jin struggled to open his eyes, and a little light refracted in.
In a dilapidated hut, the window paper on the windows has been completely torn. Next to the window, only three of the legs of a dilapidated desk are intact, and the other leg is still supported by a wooden root.
There are several slightly worn books neatly placed on the desk. These books are not modern books, but ancient thread-bound books. The paper of the books is very rough at first glance, and is far less white than modern paper.
In addition to a few books, there were also a few writing brushes. The tip of this writing brush was already split, and a lot of wolf hair on it had fallen off, but it was washed clean.
The inkstone was made from a piece of stone randomly picked up from the river and polished. The yellow-brown spots were clearly visible, and there was some dried ink inside. It seemed that it had not been used for a few days.
Apart from the desk, the only thing in the entire cabin was the bed where Liu Jin lay.
This bed was also made of soil and a few wooden boards, with a thick layer of hay spread on it. As for the quilt covering Liu Jin, it was full of patches, and some clumps could be seen in some tattered places.
Black cotton wool.
"Have I traveled through time?"
Liu Jin wiped his eyes and looked at everything in front of him in disbelief.
Although my family is not a wealthy family, but I grew up in the new era, no matter how poor I am, I will not be like this. What's more, this scene is clearly the home of poor people in ancient times.
"Pa~"
Liu Jin slapped himself hard, and suddenly there was a sharp pain on his face.
"Did I really travel through time?"
Liu Jin's whole person became a little dull.
I was reading the novel and living a happy life, and I suddenly traveled through time.
"Jesus Christ!"
"Just travel through time. You can at least give me a higher starting point. The time-traveling army in the novel is not about time-traveling to become emperors, princes, princes, or at least the stupid sons of landlords."
"As for me, look at this, I don't even have a knife at the beginning, let alone a dog."
Soon, Liu Jin combined the extra information in his mind and immediately understood his situation. He couldn't help but jump up, point at the sky and curse.
It turns out that not all Liu Jin has traveled through time, but only his soul has traveled back to ancient times.
The original owner of the body in front of me is also named Liu Jin. He is still a scholar and has already achieved the title of scholar. He is waiting to take the triennial provincial examination next fall. As long as he can pass the provincial examination, he will become a privileged scholar.
Logically speaking, with such a start, Liu Jin should not criticize others. After all, in the Ming Dynasty, the status of scholars was quite high. The scholar-bureaucrats and the emperor co-ruling the world were not just slogans, but actually had various
privilege.
In addition to being an official and a master, you don't have to pay taxes or do corvee labor. In modern terms, you can not only be an official, but you can also enjoy tax exemptions and the privilege of working for the country in vain.
You must know that in ancient times, paying grain and performing corvee service were inevitable from birth. As long as you did not want to be a rebel, a refugee, or a noble, these two things would go hand in hand and accompany you throughout your life.
Only by becoming a scholar-official can one escape from the Three Realms and the Five Elements and become a privileged being.
Once you become a privileged class, a large number of people will naturally come to you and put their fields in your name. With just a name fee, you can sit at home and share the farmer's hard work for a year. As for your spoiled wife and concubine,
And so on, let alone in this day and age.
But the prerequisite for all this is to become a Juren, that is, to pass the provincial examination and become a Juren master.
However, he was only a scholar and was taken over by Liu Jin of later generations. Liu Jin felt that he was somewhat self-aware when he asked a later generation to take part in the eight-part imperial examination of this era.
This is also the reason why Liu Jin is pointing his fingers at the sky and scolding his mother.
Not winning the imperial examination means that Liu Jin still has not got rid of his original class. It also means that Liu Jin still needs to pay food and perform corvee service. As for becoming an official and making a fortune, forget about it.
It was simply impossible for Liu Jin to pass the imperial examination and become a civil servant.
"After all, you have to become a Juren before being time-traveled by me."
Liu Jin was about to cry but had no tears. He looked at the four walls of his house. Waves of cold wind kept blowing in through the broken windows, making Liu Jin couldn't help but shiver.
Through the memory of the previous owner of this body, Liu Jin knew that it was the tenth year of Hongzhi, which belonged to the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, the Little Ice Age has arrived, and the Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed, but the weather is already very cold, and frost has already formed outside.
The cold wind came one after another, making Liu Jin's thin body unable to help but hide in the quilt. However, this quilt must have been there for a long time, and its thermal insulation effect was really worrying.
At the same time, Liu Jin also seriously doubted whether there were some small animals among the black cotton balls. When he thought of this, Liu Jin couldn't help but want to throw away the quilt, but a cold wind blew.
After thinking about it, Liu Jin felt that it might be warmer to live with small animals.
"What a cheating time travel."
Curling up in the quilt, with his head resting on his hands, Liu Jin couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh.
Although Liu Jin in later generations also had a very ordinary family, at least he had a home that was sheltered from the wind and rain. The home also had heating in winter, so he could eat popsicles while shirtless while watching the snowflakes falling outside.
Although it is impossible to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, big fish and meat, etc., it is the most basic thing to have meat for three meals a day and have a full meal. Occasionally, you can even invite a few friends to a restaurant and have a drink.
, bragging or something.
But through the memory in his mind, Liu Jin knew clearly.
In this era, even the life of a landlord's family is definitely not up to the standards of ordinary people in later generations. In this ancient world that relied on the sky for food, everything was maintained on the land.
The output of the land is extremely limited, and you can barely survive when the weather is good. But now is the beginning of the Little Ice Age. Under the influence of the Little Ice Age, the weather is freezing, and the output of food is greatly reduced. There are even
Sometimes there will be no harvest of grains.
Even if you are a landlord, when the farmers have no harvest, the landlord's family will not have much surplus grain, and all the harvest is grain. If you want to have meat for every meal, the landlord's family will not have such luxury.
Although Liu Xiucai was a scholar, his family only had a dozen acres of land passed down from his ancestors. It was with this land that Liu Xiucai's mother, Wang, was able to send Liu Xiucai to a private school and pass the examination as a scholar.
But studying in ancient times was not an easy task. Ordinary families simply could not support a scholar. Generally, only wealthy landlords could support a scholar.
In ancient times, the first thing you needed was a large sum of money for training. This training was for private school teachers. Generally, the better the teacher, the more expensive the training. After all, teachers are human beings and they also need to eat. They cannot teach you to read and write for free.
of.
In addition to Shuxiu, the pens, inks, paper and inkstones required for reading are also very expensive. Not to mention anything else, books alone, which are commonplace in modern times, were incredibly expensive in ancient times.
In ancient times, without modern advanced printing technology, how much did a book cost?
Taking the Song Dynasty as an example, one tael of gold was exchanged for 36 guan. There is a book called "Cui Yan of the Dayi", its cost is 3.3 guan, which is about 2.8 grams of gold, and gold costs about 300 grams per gram in modern times.
Therefore, the cost of printing such a book was 840 yuan. Later, an official set the price for the book. This book doubled the price and sold for a high price of more than 1,000 yuan.
This is just a simple conversion. In fact, in ancient times, the value of gold was far more valuable than today's gold. However, under the circumstances of a small-scale peasant economy, it was much more difficult for people in ancient times to obtain a penny than in modern times.
It can be seen how expensive this book was in ancient times. For ordinary families, let alone studying, just one book is enough to give up the idea of sending your children to study.
What's more, there are Shu Xiu, pen, ink, paper and inkstone. In addition, since he is a noble scholar, he naturally ignores what is happening outside the window and only concentrates on reading the books of sages. In this field, there are many mouths inside and outside the home, and there are few laborers.
, under this situation, families that can support scholars are all well-off families.
Obviously, the home that Liu Jin traveled through was far from affluent. If he didn't study, he could barely have enough food and clothing. But with only a dozen acres of land, if he wanted to support Liu Jin's studies, it would be difficult to live in such a life.
And know it.
Liu Jin reached out and touched the ribs on his belly, then looked at his tiny arms, and couldn't help but curse again.