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Chapter 2 Renamed Crazy Demon(1/2)

"Others traveling through time are just breaking the engagement, but I'm here to drop out of school."

After the fifth reunion was finished, he stayed there and turned over a little yellow stallion that was used to carry on his transportation - without a name, who would name the mount?

Next to the official school is the South Gate. When you look out of the city gate, you can see the three words "Changping County" in the center on the two-meter-high wall.

When Wu Lun came, he thought it was Changping's battle between Qin and Zhao Changping, but later he realized that it was not.

This county belongs to Zuo Fengyi, one of the three prefects of the former Han Dynasty. Its former name was Changling County. It was only changed to Changping three years ago. It is probably located in the east of Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province in later generations.

So the wall is old, but the characters are very new, just as Wang Mang hoped - the new emperor treated the world like a house decoration, and wiped away all traces of the old man by tapping and brushing and painting.

So Wang Mang changed the official system and place names of the world, such as the county magistrate becoming the Dayin, the county magistrate becoming the county magistrate, and the three auxiliary magistrate became the six magistrate.

The fifth reunion has already figured out the routine of Wang Mang's name-changing maniac. Everything goes the other way, and the ruler is tall, so it is changed to a peaceful way to a peaceful way that can be calm in the world.

There is a place called Wuxi in the Yangzhou Governor's Department. Wang Mang did not like Wu's word, so he changed it to the antonym "Youxi".

But after asking about the merchants from Kanto, Di Ren was disappointed to find that Changshan was still Changshan, but it was not changed to Shijiazhuang!

Lanling was only renamed "Landong", not Zaozhuang.

"Why is Wang Mang a time traveler senior? If so, he would definitely leave some secret codes on the place name, right?"

The fifth reunion stopped thinking and walked southward, leaving the county town.

In the past life, others were unable to do anything to the point of being thirty. Now it feels great to have a 17-year-old body again. The best thing is to get rid of high myopia and the world becomes clear again.

After leaving the city, Wulun looked up and looked east, and he could see a large mountain covered with buckets standing three miles away. The pine and cypresses at the foot of the mountain are lush, and temple buildings are built around the mountain.

It was actually not a mountain, but Changling, the tomb of Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu of Han. Although Wang Mang changed his old name, he did not dig the ancestral tomb of the Old Liu family. It was just because he played a trick when he was on behalf of the Han Dynasty: someone gave gold and bronze talismans, saying, "The Red Emperor showed his spirit and spread it to the Han family to Mang."

So this abdication was actually a personal propaganda of Emperor Gaozu of Han to Wang Mang?

I heard that Wang Mang had accepted the Jin Ce Book in front of Emperor Gao's spirit. In the eyes of the fifth reunion, this was simply a disco on the grave. If Liu Bang had any knowledge in the spring, he would probably be so angry that he would be lifted up.

Afterwards, Wang Mang used Changling and Gaomiao as the "Wenzu Temple" of the Xin Dynasty, and still maintained the incense of sacrifices.

After passing Changling, we walked south along the dusty dirt road and entered the "Linqu Township" where the Fifth Lun family is located.

...

The hundreds of miles long Chengguo Canal spans the Weibei Plain and irrigates tens of thousands of hectares of land. The best fields in Changling are concentrated on the edge of the canal. Although they cannot compare to Jia Mu around the capital, they are also very valuable.

The Chengguo Canal, which flows continuously, is distributed from east to west, and the eight miles of the hometown are distributed, and the names are simple and clear: the first, the second, the third... the fifth and the eighth miles live in the tribes that moved from Qi two hundred years ago.

Liju in the Qin and Han dynasties was mostly small peasant families of five to eight households, but there were exceptions. The immigrants who were migrated into the pass had no language with the Qin people when they first came. In order to survive on strange land, they could only gather together to keep warm. A hundred families gathered together and became a clan, which was a bit like the Hakka people in the south in later generations, with a strong clan concept.

When you pass the first mile, you can see the Gaojia Temple built by the First Family from afar. You will also meet the two children of the First Family who took a bus to the county town. The fifth family kept their horses and bowed, but the other party just nodded casually, with a very arrogant attitude, as if the fifth family should bow to them.

The companion and servant of the fifth reunion were so angry that he spitted on the backs of the two, and cursed: "This first clan still regards himself as a sect! He did not even return the courtesy of the man!"

But Wu Lun just frowned and stopped the servant: "Five blessings, come home and scold me."

He only called his servant Wufu because his big cake face was festive and looked like Wufu's baby, thick and strong.

In order to facilitate memory, the fifth family labeled all distant relatives. The First Family was undoubtedly the most arrogant. As the descendants of the legitimate son of Tian Guang, the King of Qi, they ranked first in the migration and had the largest population and land. During the reign of Emperor Wu, his family bought an official position as a gang and had two county magistrates. Now, although the officials are getting smaller and smaller, the head of the First Family is only for the three elders of the hometown, but they have always regarded the other families as small clans.

The horses headed westward, and the other families also had their own characteristics.

The second family was the shortest - during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the powerful people were attacked. Because of his relationship with the hero Guo Jie, the second family was defeated as a typical gangster. They were moved to Fangling, Hanzhong to open up land and cut off contact with relatives. This led to only seven of the eight major families becoming common sense in their hometown.

The third clan is the smallest—for some reason, it has been passed down from generation to generation, and even the population is sparse, with only ten households and only a hundred people, and they are dependent on the first clan.

The fourth family is the most skilled - this family takes a different approach and chooses to do business. Can businessmen not be smart?

The fifth family is the most powerful - the Fifth Lun family is famous for their strength, because the Fifth Lun's grandfather was from a rank of a military family. When he was young, he went to the Western Regions with Chen Tang and learned the art of lattice warfare. He fought for water and equipment in busy farming, and no one in the hometown could do them.

The sixth family is the most honest - this family is adjacent to the fifth family, and they are busy farming, managing fields, and rarely participate in battles.

The seventh clan is the most vicious - the seventh clan is a well-known evil hero. There are many gentlemen in the family who dance with swords and swords all day long and bully the weak. It is said that they have had contacts with the Maoling hero Yuanshe and secretly engage in some illegal activities.

The eighth family's best scholar - this family finally moved here, and all the good land was occupied by relatives. The population was not as good as the first family, and they could not fight fifth or seventh. They were also suppressed by the fourth when doing business. So their ancestors went to Chang'an to study scriptures at their own expense and gained the dividends of scriptures. During the Yuan Dynasty, they had a doctoral disciple, and at that time, the students were still precious.

Therefore, the Eighth Family attaches the most importance to education. Once the family tradition is passed down, it has become somewhat declining recently and has not had a student for a long time. This year, the Eighth Family was robbed of the quota by the Fifth Family, which led to a somewhat stale relationship between the two families.

In short, although several families are nominally relatives, they are actually disorganized and even make enemies and fight for their own interests.

"The situation is now, but it will not be true in a few years."

Wu Lun thought so in his heart, and had already left the main road and set foot on the country road to the fifth mile.

The roadside is full of fields with clear fields, which are probably hundreds of hectares in total, of which half are their families, and the rest belong to dozens of families. A small ditch brings water from Chengguo Canal to irrigate, and the corn has been harvested, but the wheat has not been planted, and is preparing to start plowing.

Several men were drinking water by the field with farm tools. Their wives and daughters, who were wearing farm hairpins and cloth skirts, came to deliver food. When they saw Di Wulun riding over, they stood up and bowed to him.

"I've met Xiao Langjun!"

Wu Lun responded with a smile. These people still have to wear calves to work in hot weather. The sun shines their backs and faces dark, and there are traces left by the rope when pulling the plow on their shoulders. After all, not every family can have plowing ox.

Most of the people in the village are self-cultivated farmers, but many of their lands have been annexed by the Fifth Clan. In order to evade labor and taxes by the government, some foreign refugees also defected to wealthy families and became slaves.

When they are close to each other, the slopes that cannot be opened into farmland are planted with mulberry trees and hemp fields, and some people are working in it.

If the fields provide food, then these economic crops guarantee clothing. The fifth reunion, the embroidered clothes and the rich food they eat every day, are the fruits of labor created by the hands of the tenant farmers and serfs, which makes him feel a little uncomfortable.

However, although class is determined by origin, where a person's heart is determined depends on what he has done after tomorrow.

At this moment, Di Wulun heard a painful wail from the orchard.

However, a pear-picking inner man accidentally fell from the tree and was howling with his legs. The fifth reunion separated and looked closer. He found a wooden thorn pierced deeply into his footboard, which had already produced a lot of blood.

I looked at the man's distorted face carefully, but I recognized him. Although he was thirty or forty years old, he was considered his distant nephew in his seniority. Di Wulun asked the people next to him to help pull out the thorns and find a piece of cloth to bandage it to stop the bleeding. He also saw that the injured person had no shoes, so he limped and would not be able to walk back to his home two miles away, so he asked Di Wufu to lead him back.

"Little Langjun, I will lead him to take him, what should you do?"

The Fifth Fu Dapian's face was full of displeasure. People in the middle class were related to their relatives and distant positions, and their status was distinguished according to their blood relationship with their parents. The Fifth Fu family was close to the main body and had not yet had the five sermons. They had been with Di Fifth Lun since childhood. They were a companion to accompany him to study and read. When they grew up, they would manage the manor for Di Fifth Lun and eat for free.

Of course, Du Fu was unhappy to ask him to hold a distant relative who was low in status, and the injured person repeatedly said that he would not dare.

Wu Lun touched the back: "The horse's back hurts me and I want to walk back."

He helped the injured tribe get on the horse, sent the fifth blessing to leave, and walked towards the inner door. However, the men and women in the orchard and the mulberry garden looked at each other: "In the past half month, the little man has treated people much more kindly than before."

"Yes, I always raised my head when I saw it on the road, but now I will stop bowing my hands, and I always have a smile on my face."

This is unimaginable for the past few generations of heads of the family.

Liji is located on a slightly higher plateau. The yellowish wall surrounded it, and only two gates in the north and south were opened, with the gate guarding the gate. During the day, the gates were separated and the servants were sent to work, and closed when it was dark to prevent thieves from being petty.

Here, no matter how to verify the transmission or talismans are effective, you only need to see one thing when entering and exiting - brushing your face.

A strange face and a foreign accent would be guarded as a thief. Even if it is an official tax collector, the parents of the Fifth clan would not have no idea to come in.

I heard that during the Zhaoxuan period of the previous dynasty, the imperial power could still be brought to the countryside. However, after Yuancheng, the Han emperors ruled the world with virtue, and their control gradually relaxed, resulting in annexation becoming a trend, with the rich fraught with the roads and the poor franchise. After the establishment of the new dynasty, the "Private Residents of the King's Fields" issued a "Private Residents of the King's Fields" to announce the nationalization of land and prohibit the transaction of slaves, but the transactions in secret are still repeatedly banned.

After entering the inner door, the fifth reunion received more frequent courtesy. Everyone knew this young man and secretly rejoiced at his sudden kind attitude in the past half month. A head of a clan who is easy to talk and considerate to the clan, means that the clan members will have a better life in the next ten or even decades.

But everyone didn't know that the fifth family was actually glad that he had such a huge clan.

The fifth reunion has read the Lizhong household registration book - the volume that is in the hands of his grandfather and the data is real, rather than the fake account that the Lizhong gave to the tax collector of the government.

There are 57 families in the village, with a population of 469, including 197 men, women, young and old, and most of them are the fifth surname.

If you can train diligently and get enough weapons to be armed, it will be an armament that cannot be underestimated.

The fifth reunion cares for the people in the countryside. In addition to the guilt of being an exploiter, he also has a clear understanding of the future situation:

"Winter is approaching, lonely wolf dies, and group of wolves live."

...

The dirt road in the middle of the road was uneven. After the rain, the ground was muddy. Domestic sewage flowed through small ditches beside the road. The arrogant black-headed pigs, chickens, ducks and geese were pulled everywhere, and the smell was very bad. The running children took the filth everywhere.

The small path leads to every household, and the houses are built very irregularly. If you don’t walk three or four times in person, you will be lost when you go out.

Only one road is paved with cobblestones, starting from Beilimen, passing through the flat ground under a large banyan tree, and then arrives at the bulk dockyard.

The dockyard is actually a separate building independent of the south side of Liju, occupying the highest position on the plateau. The courtyard wall is strong and tall, and the door lintel is thick and tall. When you look up, you can see a row of iron gray tiles.

There were a few rough-working spears beside the door, and the four gatekeepers were joking. After seeing Di Wulun, they immediately stopped talking and welcomed him in.

"The master of my hometown told me that the young man would go to see him as soon as he came back."

Wu Lun ran back all the way after leaving the county town. He thought that the news of his withdrawal from school should have not reached his grandfather's ears.

"Fortunately, the family can be calm for a moment."

After entering the door, I saw that the courtyard was divided into three fronts, middles, and backs. The front yard was where private slaves lived, and the earthen house was simple. There were stables and chariots on both sides. Compared with the large stables, there were pitifully few horses. Only the red old horse was chewing on his head and chewing on the grass that was not nutritious.

The middle courtyard is a double-story main building with a master's living room and a living room for guests, but after searching around the fifth reunion, he didn't see his grandfather.

"Where is the eldest father?"

“In the backyard, the orchard brought newly harvested chestnuts.”

From the side door of the central building, you can enter the backyard. Pigs, workshops, kitchens and other buildings are distributed in the backyard. There is also a garden beside the wall. The vegetable beds in the garden are neat, and the mallow and leeks are growing well. There are wells and ditches next to them for watering. The owner's daily food and vegetables come from this.

The fifth reunion's grandfather was in the kitchen. The old man liked to eat chestnuts. He was standing by the stove at this moment, waiting for the chestnuts to be cooked.

Wu Ren couldn't help but relax his steps. He was still a little afraid of his grandfather, so he walked behind him and bowed: "Big Father."

The old man turned around. He was always stern in his face, but when he saw his grandson, he smiled, his face full of wrinkles.

"Lun'er is back."
To be continued...
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