subvert the late Tang Dynasty

Zhu Wenwen and his eldest brother Zhu Yu carried hoes and walked back against the afterglow of the setting sun.At the entrance of the village, I met Zhu Cun. Zhu Cun brought a big man with him. Both of them carried bows and arrows.As soon as Zhu Cun saw his elder brother and third younger brother, he yelled, "I have relatives here today. This is Brother Zhu Zhen from Feng County, Xuzhou..."

Zhu Wen was shocked when he heard that: "Are you that Zhu Zhen who is both civil and military, capable of fighting?"

Zhu Zhen frowned and said, "Have you heard of me?"

Zhu Zhen was a great figure in the history of the late Tang Dynasty. She followed Zhu Wen in conquests, chased Huang Chao, broke Qin Zongquan, and defeated Zhu Xuan and Zhu Jin brothers.Including Jin Wang Li Keyong, who was famous for his bravery, was also killed by Zhu Zhen at Shangyuanyi, and fled back to Hedong alone.

How could he, a person from the 21st century, not know about such a big man?It's just that now, as Zhu Wen, I've heard of this Zhu Zhen before she made a fortune.

Zhu Wen smiled awkwardly, and made nonsense: "When I was fighting Huangchao with the officers and soldiers, I passed through Fengxian County, Xuzhou once. I heard that there is a good archer in Fengxian County named Zhu Zhen, who can penetrate Yang with a hundred steps. It's a good example... "

The flattery made Zhu Zhen, a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old, unable to find him. He immediately regarded Zhu Wen as a lifelong confidant, and sighed, "The parents who gave birth to me, and the third brother Zhu who knows me!"

After a few greetings, explain the purpose of your visit.

It turned out that Zhu Maolin, Zhu Wen's great-grandfather, moved from Feng County to Dangshan, and he and Zhu Zhen's ancestors were originally in the same family. Speaking of which, Zhu Zhen is still Zhu Wen's distant cousin, but it is not known how far away.But at that time people had a very strong sense of family, and relatives who were far away were like a family. I didn't know why I thought about it, but I had to look like a family in face.

Zhu Zhen is also a dishonest master. She is only a half-baked student and doesn't farm well at home. She runs around Mangdang Mountain with a bow and arrow to hunt all day long.He went hunting a few days ago and didn't go home for a few days. When he got home, he found that there was no one in the family, and the whole village was gone.He searched around, and bumped into a group of fleeing people on the road. After asking, he learned that the rogue Huang Chao had fought from Shandong to Henan, and now he was going all the way south to attack Xuzhou.The warlords of all walks of life fortified the wall and cleared the field, that is, as long as Huang Chao fought wherever, the government would evacuate the people in advance, either to go to the city to join relatives, or to stay away from other places, anyway, Huang Chao could not be allowed to grab food.

Zhu Zhen couldn't find her family and had to go to Mount Mangdang. Today she happened to meet Zhu Cun.When the two talked about their backgrounds, they realized that they were all from the old Zhu family, so Zhu Cun invited Zhu Zhen to stay at home temporarily.

Zhu Wen saw that Zhu Zhen was really tall and burly, and she seemed to be capable of charging into battle.

Several people arrived at Zhu Wen's house. Zhu Zhen met with Zhu Wen's mother, Wang Shi. Wang Shi was very enthusiastic when she heard that she was the nephew of the old Zhujiafeng County.Zhu Cun was busy skinning and dehairing the rabbits and pheasants that had been brought in, and Zhu Wen volunteered to cook.

When Wang heard that the third child was going to cook, she was very happy. The third child has become more sensible after three years outside, and can cook.However, Mrs. Wang still asked a little worriedly: "San'er, have you cooked?"

Zhu Wen said in his heart, I haven't done anything else, cooking is my specialty.He said in his mouth, "Don't worry if you are old, I have been cooking in the army for eight years..."

When Wang heard this, she felt even more worried. She tapped Zhu Wen on the head and said, "I said, third child, you have only been away for three years. Where did you cook for eight years? I just thought you knew something. It's over, I didn't expect to speak so unreliably."

Zhu Wen stuck out his tongue, and said with a smile: "I'm just bragging in front of Brother Zhu Zhen, mother, why do you keep exposing me? Isn't this a joke for Brother Zhen?" Another nonsense.

Zhu Zhen hurriedly came to smooth things over and said: "Ma'am, don't talk about the third brother all the time. I think the third brother is handsome and behaves well. He will definitely be rich and powerful in the future. Maybe you will have to rely on the third brother to enjoy yourself when you grow old." .”

Zhu Wen was startled, and took a deep look at Zhu Zhen, how does this buddy know that I will be rich in the future?Could it be that he is also a person from time travel, and knowing that I will be the emperor in the future, he deliberately came to join me?The more Zhu Wen thought about it, the more suspicious he became. Now that he was dressed in rags and spoke glibly, he actually said that there must be something wrong with him because he said that he was "good-looking and well-behaved".

Zhu Wen took the opportunity to pull Zhu Zhen aside and asked in a low voice, "How do you know that I will be rich in the future? Tell me clearly."

Zhu Zhen looked at Zhu Wen with an idiot expression on her face, and said, "I said third brother, didn't I deliberately praise you in front of the aunt, hey, you still take you seriously. Who knows what will happen to you in the future? I It’s not fortune-telling.”

I was dizzy, it turned out that I was thinking too much, Zhu Wen blushed, and sighed in his heart that he was unlucky, it seemed that it was too difficult to find someone of the same age as him.

When Wang looked back and saw Zhu Wen and the others whispering something there, she asked, "Third brother, didn't you cook? Why are you dawdling?"

Zhu Wen hurried out to cook.But after a while, he ran back again, yelling: "Where is our pot?" It turned out that Zhu Wen couldn't find the pot after searching for a long time. How can I cook without a pot?

Wang said: "Our family is so poor, where can we buy pots? Isn't there a big earthen pot on the shelf outside? Isn't it usually made there?"

Zhu Wen just felt a little dizzy. What era is this? I don’t even have a pot for cooking. It’s a bit too poor. Although I am a super chef with first-class cooking skills, I don’t even have a pot What meal?After Zhu Wen asked carefully, he realized that they were not the ones who couldn't afford the pot.

Think about it too, in that era when science and technology and productivity were extremely backward, the speed of ironmaking can be imagined.And now that wars are raging everywhere, in this era of cold weapons, iron is undoubtedly the main raw material for armor, and of course all the imperial courts must hold it tightly in their hands.Iron has become an industry monopolized by the government, and individuals have no right to operate it. Once discovered, one word-kill.

Iron, salt, distiller's grains, cowhide, etc. are all monopolized by the government, and they are also the main source of finance for the government.As a result, the price of iron products rose sharply, so that an iron pot could be sold for five taels of silver, and five taels of silver could feed and drink a middle-level family for two years.How many people can afford such a high price?

After figuring this out, Zhu Wen wanted to ask his boss Liu Chong to borrow a pot to use. Today Zhu Zhen and the others hunted a lot of game, so they gave him two pheasants by the way.He knew that there was more than one pot in Liu Chong's family, so it shouldn't be difficult to borrow it.

Zhu Wen brought two pheasants to Liu Chong's house, but Liu Chong was not at home. He yelled twice but no one answered, thinking why Liu Chong's mother and daughter-in-law were not at home?I thought about going to the back hall to ask, and then thought that the ancients had a lot of etiquette, and men were not allowed to go to other people's backyards without permission.Go back empty-handed, Zhu Zhen is still waiting at home, he can't use that clay pot for cooking.

Come on, let's use their pot first, and then tell him after cooking, it should be fine.

Zhu Wen put down the two pheasants, took a pot and went home to start cooking.

Liu Chong's mother was unwell and a little dizzy. Liu Chong asked his wife to wait for the old mother to go to bed, and went to ask the doctor in the village.The doctor checked Liu's mother's pulse, and Liu Chong's wife went to the kitchen to cook.Seeing that the pot was missing a mouthful, it was still worth it, five taels of silver for a pot, "Which god stole the pot, it's a terrible thing..." I shouted at that time.

In this way, the neighbors were alarmed, and one of them said that he saw Zhu Laosan returning home with a pot.Surprised and angry, the couple rushed to Zhu Wen's house in a hurry.

Zhu Wen was eating the pheasant, when he heard Liu Chong and his wife came to Zhu Wen's house cursing, followed by a large group of spectators.

"Come out to me, Mr. Zhu, the pot thief. How did our old Liu family treat you badly? Ah! Zhu Wujing died early. It wasn't our Liu family. How did your three brothers survive until now? I thought I would raise you and let you give it to me." As a long-term worker in our Liu family, we can make a living and help us, but who knows that we have raised a white-eyed wolf. If we don’t work hard, we will steal our pot. Zhu Laosan will come out to me ..."

Zhu Wen thought in his heart, it's just such a big deal, as for it?Suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his head, damn, that's how Zhu Wen's nickname of "Pot Stealer" came from!That's not right, even if Liu Chong's wife makes a big fuss, the big shit that happened in this small place won't be known to the world?How did it spread?This fake Zhu Wen from more than 1000 years later really can't figure it out.

He didn't have time to think about it, seeing that the couple had quarreled at home, he hurried forward to explain.Afterwards, he repeatedly assured that there was only a guest at home who would borrow it temporarily, and would return it in a few days, so Liu Chong and his wife were appeased.They stayed to eat together again, and gave Liu Chong's mother a bowl of pheasant chicken, and the matter was settled.

After the meal, Zhu Cun wanted to fight with Zhu Zhen by taking advantage of the alcohol, and Zhu Zhen was not vague, and came as soon as he said it.The two started a "battle" in the yard under the moonlight, and the fight was very lively.

Of course, Zhu Wen would not miss the contest between the two generals in the late Tang Dynasty, seeing that the two of them did not fight very quickly, nor did they have the spectacular scene of the masters' contest that is usually seen on TV.However, their mutual attacks are very practical. Zhu Wen (Zhu Riguang) has also practiced Sanda, capture, and free combat in the army. Although he did not train very hard as a cooking soldier, he still couldn't get close to five or six people.

But after watching the competition between the two of them, I realized that what I learned in the army would not be of much use to them.Their moves are mainly ruthless, although there are no routines, but every punch they make is very useful.Both of them are people who can fight fierce tigers with bare hands. If one of their punches hits someone, the consequences can be imagined.

After forty rounds, Zhu Zhen was still young after all, and those who were attacked by Zhu Cun could only parry but had no power to fight back, so she hurriedly took two steps back and said: "No more fights, no more fights, second brother doesn't know that he is such an adult Give brother a little bit, really."

Zhu Cun said with an innocent face: "I let you? Just now I almost knocked out your teeth with a punch. How embarrassing it is for you to say that I am such an adult, and I will be defeated by you!"

There was another war of words between the two, Zhu Wen watched and shook his head, no matter how you look at it, Zhu Zhen doesn't look like a high-ranking commander who can fight well, but looks like a rascal.Damn, with this kind of virtue, can you follow Zhu Wen and make great achievements in the Southern and Northern Wars?Zhu Wen's early No. [-] champion?

However, Zhu Wen, who came from 1000 years later, knew that Zhu Zhen in history was indeed wise and brave, and good at using soldiers.Zhu Zhen's greatest ability in history was his unique vision. He could tell who was outstanding at a glance. Many people promoted by Zhu Zhen later became powerful generals under Zhu Wen.However, Zhu Wen knew that many of the history books of later generations were far-fetched, exaggerated, etc., but Zhu Wen could only understand so much from the history books of later generations.

What about the real historical truth?Later generations have no way to verify it, and can only seek answers from the works left by the literati of the past dynasties, and the historians of the past dynasties have only processed these works of the predecessors and then written them from their own standpoints, which is definitely far from the real history.

He, Zhu Wen, does not study history, he is just an ordinary person who "wandered" here inadvertently, and became Zhu Wen because of the same appearance as Zhu Wen who disappeared. Zhu Wen will continue to do this.

He didn't want to be emperor, and he didn't want to let his son get killed because of the "pick up ashes".He thought: Zhu Wen is the emperor, what kind of beauties don't come at the beck and call?How could he do anything wrong with his own daughter-in-law?Rabbits don't even eat grass beside their nests, let alone a person?

What's more, how could this person be able to go from a sneaky rascal with nothing to the peak of power step by step, and finally stand out in the melee of many separatist regimes in the world, how could he be an ignorant and despicable villain?If it is true that Zhu Wen is desolate, brutal, despicable, and ignorant as recorded in the history books, how could he be able to unify the Central Plains and establish the first dynasty of the Five Dynasties, Houliang?

Is it really "the destiny is so" as historians say?Or is it because of the era in which historians live that they have to find a suitable reason for the demise of Hou Liang?He thought that the latter might be more likely, but after careful consideration, the reason he found was not convincing enough.

However, Xue Juzheng's "Old History of the Five Dynasties" and the famous Ouyang Xiu's "New History of the Five Dynasties" both said so, and these two books have also been recognized as official history and have been handed down to this day. This reason has become a fact in the minds of future generations.Isn't that how history is written?

He is really a bit unfair for the ancients, but he can't change it.The ancients may not know what they really are in the eyes of later generations, just like Fan Zhongyan, a famous official in the Northern Song Dynasty who worried about the country and the people, also lamented "worry about the world's worries first, and enjoy the world's joy later", while binge drinking Enjoy being a prostitute?

Even Su Dongpo, the number one talented man in the Song Dynasty who was not very successful in his official career, had a lot of wives and concubines in his family, and he still often lingered in brothels and restaurants?Li Taibai, Bai Juyi, etc. Which one is not like this?But they are still revered and worshiped by future generations. It is unknown how much they really did for the people at that time, but they have been admired by future generations through the ages because of their gorgeous poems.

However, Wang Anshi, one of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, who was equally talented, was listed as a treacherous official by historians because he wanted to do something for the common people.Is it fate, or is the historian unfair?

When Zhu Wen was thinking wildly in his head, Liu Chong left and returned, interrupting Zhu Wen's thoughts.Zhu Cun and Zhu Zhen were still having a war of words, but they were just laughing and slandering each other, not that there was any real conflict.The young man was just talking nonsense, but Zhu Wen didn't care.

On the contrary, Liu Chong's arrival made him a little puzzled, so he hurried forward and said, "My master, didn't I tell you to borrow your pot for a few days? Why do you want it again?"

Liu Chong smiled awkwardly, and said: "Mr. Zhu, don't talk nonsense. Didn't the tigress yell at you just now? Did I say anything? I came here this time at the order of my mother. The old mother said that she watched you grow up, and she hadn't seen you for more than three years, so she was a little bit worried, so she asked you to go over and talk about family affairs."

Zhu Wen was a little confused, not knowing what mother Liu wanted from him.However, history books and various storytelling records record that before Zhu Wen voted for Huang Chao, Liu's mother valued him very much, saying that this man would surely achieve great things in the future.

I thought: "Could it be true that Liu's mother saw coiling dragons flying on the couch when Zhu Wen was sleeping when he was a child in the history books? This is too nonsense!" Thinking wildly in his heart, he followed Liu Chong to see Liu's mother .