Chapter 2 everyone has a happy life

Liu Bang is a three-year-old at home, so his nickname is Liu San'er.It is said that Liu Bang had an unusual phenomenon when he was born.Liu Bang's hometown, Fengyi, is low and flat, with many lakes, swamps and ponds. It is said that one day, Liu Bang's mother, Mrs. Liu, was resting by the pond after working, and fell asleep in a sleepy dream. In her dream, she met God unexpectedly.Taigong Liu hurried to look, and saw a dragon appearing on Ms. Liu.Soon, Ms. Liu became pregnant, and the boy she gave birth was Liu Bang. It may be because he has two older brothers, so although he was born in a farm family, Liu Bang is extremely lazy and extremely repulsed by farm work.In the end, his father Liu Taigong had no choice but to send him to school, hoping that he could do some learning and learn to keep accounts so that he could start a small business to make ends meet in the future.

We know almost nothing about how Liu Bang spent his childhood.He probably grew up playing games and fighting with friends just like thousands of well-to-do township teenagers at that time. One of Liu Bang's childhood friends was Lu Wan who followed Liu Bang all his life, and he was later named the King of Yan. Lu Wan and Liu Bang are neighbors in the same hometown and Tongli.Liu Taigong and Lu Wan's father, Lu Taigong, are congenial, close and friendly, and the daily exchanges between the two families are like a family.Coincidentally, Aunt Liu was pregnant, and Aunt Lu was also pregnant. On the day Liu Bang was born, Lu Wan was also born.

In ancient times, when worshiping brothers, you usually swear to the sky that you can't be born in the same year, the same month, and the same day, but you hope to die in the same year, the same month, and the same day, and you can't live together as a regret of friendship.It is said that Liu Bang and Lu Wan once worshiped a Confucian scholar named Ma at that time as their teacher, and studied in the same school.But Liu Bang was not interested in reading at all, and it didn't take long before he stopped studying. The grandpa saw it, he was anxious, and he kindly advised him, but Liu Bang didn't listen. Later, the grandpa got very angry and called him "not doing a proper job", "not good enough", "not as promising as the second child".Liu Bang listened to it in his heart, but he was still unconvinced, but still went his own way, wandering in the countryside all day long.Taigong Liu had nothing to do with him, so he kicked him out of the house and forced him to fend for himself.

In the late Warring States period when Liu Bang lived, for a man, the age of seventeen was an important point in his life.In terms of Qin, the most powerful country at that time, a man was considered an adult at the age of seventeen, and he began to bear the taxes and corvee of the country. He was called Fu, also known as Fu Ji, which means that he was registered as a serviceman of the right age in the household registration.When entering an official position as an official, and enlisting in the army, the age standard is 17 years old.Countries other than Qin, although the situation is not very clear, generally do not have much difference from Qin.

In 240 BC, at the age of seventeen, Liu Bang bid farewell to his smooth and carefree childhood and youth, and entered the age of adulthood. In terms of Liu Taigong's wish, the eldest son Liu Bo and the second son Liu Zhong are both successful people. They get married and have children, start a family and start a business. With hard work and hard work, they both earn a family business and become independent at an early age. The door is closed, but Liu Bang has nothing to rely on. He seems to have no interest in farming, business, and real estate.But fortunately, although he is a little restless, he doesn't have a bad reputation in the village. If he continues to develop like this, through the recommendation of the village and the selection of the government, if he can become an official of the township and county government, it will be a good idea. way out.

For a recommendation from the village, first of all, the family must be well-off and the property must meet certain standards.Liu Taigong's family can still meet this condition.But Liu Bang really didn't live up to it, so Taigong Liu kicked him out of the house in a fit of anger. After the grandpa drove him out of the house, Liu Bang became the head of the pavilion under Xiao He's recommendation.Xiao He was Liu Bang's fellow villager and friend. He wrote official documents well. He was considered an individual in Peiyi.Although he is very respectable in the local area, he is devoted to making friends with Liu Bang.When Liu Bang was still a gangster, Xiao Hechang gave him some convenience and benefits within the scope of his authority.

Pavilions were one of the terminal organizations of the government in the Qin and Han Dynasties. They were spread all over the country and were mainly set up at major traffic routes, roughly every ten miles (equivalent to three kilometers today).The pavilion was originally an institution set up for military transportation, but it gradually evolved into a grass-roots government agency with both military transportation and public security administration. As far as the transportation function of the kiosk is concerned, the kiosk has kiosks, which are responsible for receiving traffic envoys who come and go to stay and stay, and the sending and receiving of government mail is also handled by the kiosk transmission system.As far as the local administrative functions of the pavilion are concerned, the area where the pavilion is located is called the Tingbu, and the Ting is responsible for the security of the Tingbu area, and is responsible for maintaining order and hunting down thieves.

In today's terms, the kiosk is a postal transportation station and a police station.The pavilion generally has a pavilion leader, a subordinate who is responsible for security, and a pavilion father who is responsible for the opening and closing, cleaning, management and other miscellaneous tasks of the pavilion. The pavilion is a paramilitary institution, and weapons such as bows, crossbows, halberds and shields, swords, and armor are daily equipped.The head of the pavilion is a military post, either by a retired soldier, or by a qualified military officer.Because it is a dispatched agency, it is directly under the jurisdiction of the county chief official, that is, the county government office.

Sishui Pavilion is located in the east of Peixian County, on the main road in the eastern suburbs of the county, and its former site is close to the present Weishan Lake.However, Weishan Lake is a lake that appeared later. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was a low-lying area with many wetlands and swamps.Liu Bang was born in Fengyi, which is in the west of Peixian County, a hundred miles away from Sishui Pavilion.After being appointed as the head of the pavilion in Surabaya, Liu Bang left his hometown alone and went to the post alone. As the saying goes, the country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.Personality habits formed in adolescence may be difficult to change in a lifetime.Before becoming an official, Liu Bang was a ranger in the countryside. The basic characteristics of a ranger are traveling around, making friends, and paying attention to the loyalty of buddies.Now that he is a small official in the government, he has to be controlled by the way of being an official and the law of an official, just like the monkey king who is a Bi Mawen, and can no longer do anything wrong.The government's laws and regulations are strict, and it is impossible for officials to wander around when they are on official business.However, wine still has to be drunk, and friends still have to be made.

In the era of rangers, most of the friends they made were folk brothers, such as Wang Ling, the eldest brother in Peixian County, and Lu Wan, a follower in Fengyi, and so on.Since Liu Bang became the head of the pavilion in Surabaya, he has been considered as the head of a land, wearing a crown, wearing armor and a sword, holding bamboo slips to order in one hand, and holding a rope to bind people in the other. The township police security officer is really a bit dignified.As the tide rises, the trend dictates that Liu Bang's circle of contacts naturally expanded from local ruffians to the end officials of the Peixian government.These interpersonal relationships have become his great wealth.At the end of Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang joined forces, and a large number of people who later became the founding heroes of the Han Empire were mostly middle- and lower-level officials in Peixian County that Liu Bang met when he was the pavilion chief of Sishui.