Chapter 3 Northern Song Dynasty

Troubled times. There is no way to mess up. Li Dongyuan was born at a very bad time. When he was born, the emperor of the Song Dynasty had already gone to the south of the Yangtze River, leaving the people and land in the north and handing them over to the ruler of the Jin Dynasty who came from the north.Li Dongyuan's home is located in Zhending, which is now south of Zhengding, Hebei Province, and belongs to the place where he was thrown.Everyone is familiar with the appearance of the rulers of the Dajin Kingdom. This familiarity comes from the anti-golden stories we often heard when we were young, such as storytelling, and the names of these people are rather strange. It’s his nostrils and big eyes. I believe that Li Dongyuan is more familiar with their faces than we are, because he has never seen what the rulers of the Song Dynasty looked like since the day he was born. When he opened his eyes, he saw Jin Wushu. brothers.

We have always been more concerned about the Song Dynasty's confrontation with the Dajin Kingdom, because there are more epic things. But what about the group of ordinary people who were thrown to the north by the rulers of the Song Dynasty like motherless children?How are they doing?Do they also have to marry wives and have children to earn a living? Perhaps we can find some clues from our narration of Li Dongyuan.Of course, there is nothing to sing or cry about. The common people will always be wage earners. No matter how the boss changes, they still have to live their lives. It’s just that there is a difference between a stingy boss and a non-stingy boss. The surname Jin felt that he could not hold his head up, so he went on with his life as usual.

Therefore, we must treat the wage earners under the boss named Jin objectively. It is said that Li Dongyuan was born in troubled times, because in the time he lived, the Mongols who were farther north than the ruler of the Dajin Kingdom had already approached the south. In the tide of war, this was the popular wave of the year-everyone felt that the south was very easy to bully. Now let me introduce the official name of this new classmate, Li Dongyuan. His name is Li Gao, and his courtesy name is Mingzhi. In his later years, he called himself Old Man Dongyuan. The name of the ancients was quite learned, and some of them were named after their own preferences and aspirations or the place where they lived for a long time, such as our classmate Li Dongyuan; Some are posthumous titles, conferred by the emperor or someone else, which are generally considered to have a special face, so posterity basically use them at any time—but the characteristic is that they were not used when they were alive; some nicknames were given by others, For example, Zhu Danxi, this is a kind of respect.How did the title come about? The ancients must have written it clearly, such as their own title, other people's honorific title, or given by the emperor, etc. This is an ancient style of writing.The ancients paid special attention to the issue of names. If you make a mistake, he will be very unhappy, just like introducing the director of the department as the section chief now.

Okay, the introduction is over, for convenience, let's call Li Gao Li Dongyuan.