Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 8 Helping the world?Alone?
To be honest, the first time he went out, he actually earned 50 taels of silver. Yang Chao was still very excited, but he fell asleep in the middle of the night.

"what!"

Yang Chao suddenly screamed and got up from the bed, already covered in sweat.

He had a lot of dreams. At the beginning, he used 50 taels of silver to start a business. He didn't remember what business he did, and maybe his dreams were not so clear.

Anyway, he made a lot of money in his dream, and he built a very tall building, and he was well-clothed and well-fed every day.

My sister is happy to eat meat every day.

My mother has many maids at her disposal, so she doesn't have to do housework, and she always yells at the maids sharply.

My father stopped working as a blacksmith, and he always took a few servants by his side to hang out, majestic and majestic.

But suddenly, endless cavalry in black iron armor attacked the city, burning, killing and looting everywhere, and corpses littered the field.

Their hair was left behind, and countless people knelt on the ground trembling. In front of them, the ferocious braided executioner shaved off their hair with a razor, and chopped off their heads if they resisted.

There are too many human heads on the ground.

Yang Chao suddenly saw that one of the heads belonged to his sister, one belonged to his mother, and one belonged to his father. He was in great pain, and then he saw another head, which turned out to be his own.

The dream ended here, and Yang Chao was startled awake.

Knowing that he was in the late Ming Dynasty, Yang Chao didn't have a strong sense of crisis at first, and he didn't even think about the change of dynasty. Only then did I gradually realize that the era I lived in was the worst era.

At this time, it was still not bright outside, and it was very quiet. Suddenly there was a noise, and Yang Chao shuddered. At this time, his mood had not recovered from the dream.

After sleeping, he couldn't sleep anymore, so Yang Chao got up and put on his clothes, then opened the door of his room, a gust of cold air rushed towards his face, and he couldn't help but feel a layer of pimples on his body.

The weather in early spring is extremely cold, and it seems to be much colder than Nanjing in later generations. It is said that this period happened to be in a small ice age, and the weather was much colder than later generations. The city was colder than later generations, and the temperature was even lower Ten degrees.

Going out in such weather is simply suffering.

Suddenly, Yang Chao saw a tall figure in the yard. He was tall, but his back was slightly hunched.

The figure was walking out with his head bowed, and was about to reach the gate.

"father!"

Yang Chao shouted, that figure was very familiar, it was Yang Chao's father Yang Yong.

It suddenly occurred to me that I had been in this world for several days, but I didn't seem to have seen my father.

When the father turned his head, his face was a little red. He had been doing blacksmith work by the stove all year round, and Yang Chao's father's face was always black and red.

"Chao'er, wake up."

Father nodded when he saw Yang Chao.

Yang Chao said: "Get up."

Father continued: "I heard that you went out for a day of shopping yesterday. Be careful. When you feel better, go to the bookstore to study."

Yang Chao hummed habitually.

Father continued: "There is no rush, just rest for a few more days."

After speaking, he had already grasped the latch with his hand, and opened the door at once.

Yang Chao suddenly said: "Father, do you shave your hair?"

The father turned his head and wondered, "Why shave your hair?"

Yang Chao said: "It's just a haircut and a half bald head."

Father frowned: "How do you say this? You're not a monk, why shave your head bald. If you shave your hair, your dead ancestors won't recognize you."

"Go back and rest soon."

His father instructed Yang Chao to step out of the yard by himself, and then closed the door behind him.

Through the crack of the door, Yang Chao saw his father's worried face at the end, he probably thought that Yang Chao's body was not well and his mind was stupid.

Shaved head, ancestors do not recognize, this is why so many people refused to shave their heads and took up arms to rebel after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs.It's just a haircut, it's just a change of clothing culture, but the Chinese nation, in order to protect its own culture, dares to fight against a powerful enemy that seems impossible to defeat.

He doesn't care much about who is the emperor.After the Qing army entered the customs, many places surrendered without a fight, but after shaving their hair and obeying orders, the whole of China was almost full of wars, and the weakest Jiangnan became the place where resistance was the most intense.Coincidentally, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom swept across the south in the late Qing Dynasty, destroying Confucian temples and temples everywhere, and was finally wiped out by the Hunan Army for the purpose of defending rituals and morals.

China's unique culture is the most cherished thing for Chinese people. Maybe they don't care about it at ordinary times, but when drastic changes happen, it can arouse the strongest emotions in their hearts.

Yang Chao didn't understand this before, because he had never encountered it before.But if one day, someone told him that if he didn't want to die, he should stop speaking Chinese, stop writing Chinese characters, and stop burning paper for his ancestors, then Yang Chao might rise up to rebel.

Those who can make seemingly meaningless sacrifices for their own culture are the ancient Chinese.As a person of later generations, in fact, some people cannot understand this kind of decision.But if you know that Chinese people do not distinguish ethnic groups by blood, but by culture, then you can understand.For the Chinese, changing culture means not only the subjugation of the country but also the extermination of the species. The subjugation of the country is not terrible, but the extinction of the species is terrible.

But now Yang Chao was extremely confused.

He was but a blacksmith's son.What can you do with a low status.

Waiting for the dynasty to change, Yang Chao is absolutely unwilling, not to mention that his family members are not willing to shave their hair and make clothes easier, even if he kneels on the ground and asks someone to cut his hair and leave a ridiculous braid, that is also unwilling to accept it.And most importantly, Yang Chao refused to accept it!
Why is such a big country destroyed by others? It has the largest population, the most developed culture, and the most powerful technological capabilities in the world, but it perishes in the hands of a rising safari nation.This blow to culture and to advanced technology is huge. As a result, after a few hundred years, it lags behind the West too much, and even loses the ability to adjust, and can only be left alone.

Traveling back to ancient times, changing history, waking up and taking power in the world, lying on the knees of beautiful women, anyone can dream this kind of dream.But if you really want to do it, that's another matter.Yang Chao knew that it was not that easy.

First you have to be entitled.

There are two ways to gain power. The first is to take the right path, take part in the imperial examination, get a title on the gold list, and then become an official. But Yang Chao can't even pass the exam for a scholar, and even if he works hard now, starting next year, he will be a scholar first. It will take at least three years to win the Juren, and then take the Jinshi examination, before you can guarantee to be a Ming official.

To become an official, you have to climb up step by step. If you have enough emotional intelligence and good luck, then after two or three decades, you can probably climb to the level of prime minister. At that time, you will have enough power to change the country. Fate, the premise is to meet a trustworthy good emperor to support you.However, there was only one person who reformed in the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng, but the result after Zhang Juzheng's death was very miserable. Not only was the reform abolished, Zhang Juzheng's family was ransacked and exterminated, the men were allotted, and the women were sold.

The second way is to recruit troops and use force to gain power.To put it simply, it is rebellion, and this is what Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong did.But there are many rebels in Chinese history, and those who really achieved good results can be counted with a single slap.Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang succeeded and became emperors, but Chen Sheng and Wu Guang who took the lead for Liu Bang, the overlords of Chu at the same time, the Ming and Ming kings who took the lead for Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang at the same time, all these people are miserable.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had rebelled a long time ago, and they were doing well in the cause of rebellion, but in the end, they were nothing more than making wedding clothes for the Qing army.

The imperial examination is actually a trial and error within the system. The advantage is that there is no need to take risks, and the disadvantage is that it takes too long.Rebellion is to break the system and establish a new system. The advantage is that it takes effect quickly, but the disadvantage is that it is risky.

It has been 14 years since Chongzhen, and Yang Chao vaguely remembers that Emperor Chongzhen has only been emperor for 17 years, that is to say, there are still three years left, and three years of studying hard by himself, but he can only persist until he becomes a Jinshi, and then becomes a petty official. change anything.In terms of time, Yang Chao has no conditions to choose the imperial examination.

If you rebel, the risk is too great.Yang Chao has a family, so he didn't dare to take this risk, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong failed in the end, which shows that this road may not work.

But without doing anything, Yang Chao is very unwilling, unwilling to wait to die!

There is a saying in China that if you are rich, you will benefit the world, and if you are poor, you will be good for yourself.

If he doesn't work hard, Yang Chao will not be reconciled anyway. If he develops, he will naturally be willing to do something for the country and the nation, and benefit the world at the same time.

But if Yang Chao is not developed, there must be a bottom line, not only to be alone, but also to protect the safety of his family, this is what Yang Chao must do.

Yang Chao has no choice, whether public or private, Yang Chao can't wait for the situation to change.

(End of this chapter)