Chapter 2 Chapter 2 The Seeds That Don't Frozen

Home, step by step, away from home for the first time in his life, how does Zhao Kuangyin feel?It is entirely conceivable that he stood very straight (he never wanted his family to worry? Or did he not want to lose face in front of the hated person for the last time?), under the watchful eyes of his family, his back soon disappeared. For no reason, I imagined that Zhao Kuangyin would also turn his head once, and he would stop and look the way he had come before he had gone far.But he can no longer see anything.His home is in the city of Kaifeng, where there are thousands of households and alleys are connected. If you are more than ten steps away, his home will be blocked by other people's homes.

He could no longer see his home. Then let's go, he tightened the burden on his back, and started on the road. The first stop was going south to Suizhou to seek refuge with his father's good friend, Dong Zongben, the governor of Suizhou. Dong Zong was originally the leader of one party, so where can't there be another person?So Zhao Kuangyin started working as he wished.What was his ideal at that time?How long do you want to work under Dong Zongben?The purpose of work is to send money to the family every month?Or do you want to lay a foundation in Suizhou as soon as possible and bring your wife and children by your side?

These are no longer verifiable.Even what work he was responsible for at that time, there is no real evidence.But it is entirely conceivable that Zhao Kuangyin, who is tall, strong, dignified, cheerful and generous, is very popular.In particular, he had been living in the largest capital city in the north at that time. Whether it was Luoyang or Kaifeng, they were far from being comparable to the small Suizhou. Habits will attract everyone's attention and stand out from the crowd. However, this also caused trouble, and he stole the limelight from others.A person who was noticed by everyone and stood out from the crowd felt humiliated. This person is the first son of the local area, the oldest second-generation ancestor, Dong Zunhai, the son of Mr. Dong Zongben, the governor of Suizhou.

Here we must point out some of Zhao Kuangyin's characteristics and the helplessness of these characteristics in the world. I don't know if my friends have noticed that there are some very strange people around us ordinary people.Wherever these people go, they are popular.When everyone drinks, they will always think of him; if there are any benefits such as gift certificates, they will also give him some.But thinking about it carefully, these people have never done anything for us, and they themselves are nothing special.So when everyone thought about it in private, they felt that this kind of person was not very good, so they decided to alienate them and ignore them.But the strange thing is that even if you have made up your mind, once you meet, you can't help but laugh, fight, and get along with them, throwing your previous prejudices out of the blue.

This is charm, which cannot be explained, cannot be copied, and those who don’t have it can’t force it, but those who have it can’t get rid of it. It’s the most unreasonable thing to say.Some people will go straight to the top and make a fortune just because of this trait (for example, those who treat guests and give gifts, or go wrong).And this is only at the initial low-level stage. Once this charm has improved taste, combined with extraordinary appearance and extraordinary ability, it will be really amazing, and it will make people fall in love at first sight and die for it. He worked hard until he died, and he still smiled at the corner of his mouth, feeling that his life was worth it.

Unfortunately, Zhao Kuangyin has this trait.Speaking of this trait, it is also a double-edged sword, which will make him different anytime and anywhere, and also make him show his face all the time, attracting people's envy. Having been robbed of the limelight, Mr. Dong hated Zhao Kuangyin to the core, and having Zhao Kuangyin in Suizhou made it hard for him to sleep or eat.It's no wonder that he, a high-ranking kid like him who has no worries about food and clothing, isn't the most important thing every day is the pursuit of "spiritual realm"?Therefore, under his vigorous interference, Zhao Kuangyin had only stayed in Suizhou for half a year before he had to pack up and leave.

The second stop was Fuzhou (now Tianmen City, Hubei Province). This time he went to join his father's old subordinate Wang Yanchao.This person is a military officer and is a history of defense.Zhao Kuangyin was fed up with the anger of the civil servants, thinking that he would be happier under the generals, right? The result was very happy. Wang Yanchao invited him to have a meal. During the dinner, the host and guest had a good time. The last dish was a tray with copper coins on it. Zhao Kuangyin was sent off on the road. What a joy. After leaving Fuzhou, Zhao Kuangyin stopped in the boundless field outside the city.Looking around, where else to go?His legs and feet are still full of strength, and he can go farther at any time, but the question is why he was rejected by people even after reaching two places?

Where did I do something wrong?Or is this method of visiting relatives and friends itself wrong?Zhao Kuangyin felt that this issue must be clarified, otherwise he had no idea, and he was afraid that if he walked eight times, the result would still be the same. Zhao Kuangyin thought about it for a long time but couldn't verify whether he had figured it out or not, and outsiders couldn't deliberate. Anyway, he never went to his father's other friends to embarrass himself.He remembered that he was the eldest son of the Zhao family, and he also remembered that his ancestors had been officials for generations, and the little connections he had accumulated with great difficulty, must not be destroyed in his own hands, and become a laughing stock from now on.

But soon the original problem found him again—his stomach.A person has to eat three meals a day, he is too young, he is in the era of the most vigorous metabolism, and he is also so strong (I heard that the better the body, the less hungry, the first to starve to death in difficult times is the best boy), what should he do? It can be imagined that he didn't bring much money from home at first, and he didn't get much money from Dong Zongben's place for half a year, and Wang Yanchao's N copper coins, after careful calculation, probably allowed him to walk out of Fuzhou without starving to death on Wang Yanchao's territory. .Therefore, in the history of the Song Dynasty and in the notes of the people of the Song Dynasty, such records have been handed down:

For example, a certain monk was taking a nap when he suddenly dreamed that a golden dragon descended from the sky and landed in the cabbage field he was planting.The behavior of this dragon after landing was very strange, which did not conform to the image of a fetish in people's impressions. It actually opened its mouth and munched, and swept away several ridges of cabbage. The monk woke up in fright (probably because he felt sorry for his Chinese cabbage), and immediately ran to the field to see.It turned out that a big man was squatting in the cabbage field, and a lot of cabbage was gone, and the big man was like a super vegetable bug, he didn't respond when he saw someone coming, he just squatted there and continued to chew, with no intention of stopping at all.

For another example, Zhao Kuangyin was tired from traveling and had nowhere to rest, so he had to lie under a big tree in the field, and the tree did not move its shade, and it always shaded him. Another example... There are many such things, and all the bits and pieces have the same meaning when combined.It is worth mentioning that Zhao Kuangyin was so poor and bored that he started gambling.It’s just a bit miserable, he won big first, and then he lost it all—he forgot that a strong dragon does not overwhelm a local snake, and he gambled with a group of strange people in a strange place, and he won’t stop if he wins too much (no money Ah, I guess if I win a little, I just want to eat more, and the result will be dizzy), then the result must be to exercise.Unfortunately, Zhao Kuangyin was not in good form that day and was besieged and beaten. One after another, these incidents kept hitting Zhao Kuangyin's body and destroying his mind.He is constantly struggling to survive in this troubled world with his own strength, but he is at a loss as to where to go, and he is getting more and more at a loss.Please note that at this time he was only Zhao Kuangyin, far from being Song Taizu, he was just a young boy in his early twenties, who went out to survive for the first time, so far he had no relatives and nowhere to turn. What would you do if you were replaced? But Zhao Kuangyin did not sink.The predicament made him see his true self.It is not easy for a person to understand himself. Zhao Kuangyin, who was walking in a sinister and indifferent strange world, faced the rising sun one day, suddenly became very excited, and recited a poem casually—“I want to come out before I come out.” Da, thousands of mountains are like fire, and they will go up to the sky in a moment, and the meteors will be chased away by the moon. Poetry, very common, does not have much literary talent.But singing words, poetry expresses aspirations, to read a poem depends on the atmosphere in it (studying the words and sentences, scratching the head all day long for one or two characters, and constantly deliberating, is rotten!).Zhao Kuangyin was not only not discouraged, but even more vigorous and passionate.He decided to go back north and return to his hometown.Only in the north, in the world that has become more chaotic, there is room for him to play. At this time, it has been two years since Zhao Kuangyin left home, he can be said to be very confused, if he can have a photo at that time as a souvenir, we must be able to see a heroic young man in ragged clothes, sallow and thin, but with piercing eyes .No need to laugh, to be honest, I admire Zhao Kuangyin's appearance very much, and I am even proud of him. Why?Think about it, why did he fall to such an extent?Is he incapable?Or is he just out of luck?neither.The biggest reason is that he insists on principles and must live according to his own ideals, which makes him poor and miserable.A foreign Sinologist once said that in the heart of every Chinese, there is a Confucian, a Buddhist, and a robber.In normal life, Chinese people tend to become Confucianists, or to admire Confucianism; and when they are depressed, or dream of greater wealth, the shadow of Buddhists will cover their hearts; robber. Needless to say, this is how we have lived for thousands of years, and in our subconscious, the behavior of robbers is so romantic and ideal.If we list our idols, the brothers on Liangshan will be among the best. During these two years, Zhao Kuangyin could become a robber at any moment.And based on his personal quality, in this era of chaos and no kingly law, he must be very good at being a robber (it is recognized in the world that Zhao Kuangyin is the most powerful personal fighter among all the emperors in China), so he didn't need to put I messed up myself.But he persevered. Faith is like a seed that has survived the winter. The cold has not killed its life, so it is destined to grow stronger when it breaks out of the ground. Everyone's success is not accidental, just like Liu Zhiyuan's throne did not fall out of thin air.The reason why Zhao Kuangyin was able to become Song Taizu instead of Zhu Wen, the dynasty he founded was elegant, gentle and not harsh, all of these were doomed from his initial persistence. All the way to the north, returning home is like an arrow.Zhao Kuangyin didn't know that he was already late.At least a full year late.A year ago, when he left Dong Zongben to join Wang Yanchao, his hometown was turned upside down again. The emperor died again. Liu Zhiyuan, who had just been enthroned as emperor for a year, suddenly fell ill and died. His eighteen-year-old second son, Liu Chengyou, took the throne. This was already the best choice in the Liu family at that time, but it was still not stable. situation. Immediately someone rebelled. Li Shouzhen, the military governor of Hezhong, Wang Jingchong, the military governor of Fengxiang, and Zhao Siwan, the military governor of Yongxing Army, joined forces to rebel. The newly ascended emperor was put to the test immediately.But what is surprising is that upon receiving such a letter of challenge, the young emperor actually yawned while sitting on the golden palace (absolutely true, dare not make up). This is really a strange phenomenon, the courtiers couldn't help whispering to each other, even Feng Dao, an old man in the officialdom, couldn't figure it out.In the end, they came to three conclusions. 1. Your Majesty has already made up his mind, so he dismisses rebellious stupid people (this is great, it means that they can also sit back and relax, and don't have to be trembling and wait around all day long); 2. It can be seen that although His Majesty is young, he is a master who hides his secrets and lifts weights lightly (this is even more gratifying, even if he doesn't immediately come up with a good way to suppress the rebellion, it doesn't matter, because quality determines everything); 3. It's a bit bad, the spirit of the eighteen-year-old youth is sluggish, could it be that the young emperor loves flirting, has he already flirted too much? Liu Chengyou, who had just grown up, sat high on the emperor's throne, bearing the whispers and many ambiguous gazes from below, he could only smile wryly, unable to explain.He suffers from insomnia every night, what can he use to shake his spirits and frighten his officials the next morning? The thing is, before his father died, he left him the five most precious bequests.They are: Yang Bin, Shi Hongzhao, Wang Zhang, Su Fengji, and Guo Wei.These people are either Wen (Su Fengji, the prime minister) or Wu (Yang Bin and Guo Wei are both privy envoys, Yang Bin is in charge of secrets, and Guo Wei is in charge of expeditions. Shi Hongzhao is the commander of the guards and the army, responsible for the security of the capital) or money management ( Wang Zhang, the third envoy, in charge of the national wealth), each of them is sophisticated and time-tested.Liu Zhiyuan firmly believed that as long as these five people supported and protected his son, the future of the Later Han Dynasty would be as stable as Mount Tai. But he committed the common fault of all parents in the world, he did a lot for his son, but forgot to ask his son if he wanted it. From the very beginning, Liu Chengyou believed that these five people emptied him. Military, political, and money, isn't that what matters in a country?He can't touch anything!He has never really tasted what it's like to be an emperor! Dad... why do you love me so much? But now the opportunity has come, someone rebelled, it's wonderful!Liu Chengyou is smart, he knows himself without a teacher, and immediately understands the truth that danger and opportunity coexist.First of all, he must suppress the rebellion, so who should he send?The starting candidate-Guo Wei.In charge of the privy envoy, who is not he?What's more, this person has been in battle for a long time and is famous, especially in the national army. Maybe as long as he goes, there is no need to do anything at all, just show his face to make the rebels surrender.But just don't send him. Send other people, even some unknown people, as long as they win the battle, they will be able to control the most critical military power, cultivate their own lineage from then on, and take back all the movable and immovable properties under the emperor's name step by step. That's how it was done. In March of that year, the new emperor ordered Guo Wei to go home and go fishing, and then ordered Bai Wenke, Guo Congyi, and Chang Si, three people whose official positions could not be found in the history books at that time, to send troops to gather the king's division in order to victory! But the time soon came to July. From the bright spring to the sweltering summer, everyone began to wear shorts to fight, but Li Shouzhen and his partners were still alive and kicking, constantly showing to the other Jiedu envoys that they were still alive and well. Alive and alive. The situation became even more turbulent, and Liu Chengyou's prestige index plummeted. He had no choice but to go to Guo Wei's house in person, just like Liu Chan, the empress of the Three Kingdoms, visited Zhuge Liang, and asked carefully——Can I trouble you to do something? (I want to bother you?) Guo Wei's answer was extremely restrained and dignified - the minister dared not ask, nor did he dare to resign, only His Majesty ordered. In this way, Guo Wei sent troops and was ordered to control the entire army of the Later Han Dynasty.On the way of marching, a young man who was full of travel and dust joined his team and became an ordinary soldier.No one expected that this was the beginning of a legend.Taking this as an opportunity, the young man climbed to dizzying heights step by step.Become the only one in Chinese history. The only one who started as a professional soldier and became the founding emperor of the Zhengshuo Dynasty, which has been established for more than a hundred years. Guo Wei, a native of Yaoshan, Xingzhou, whose father, Guo Jian, was the governor of Shunzhou in the later Jin Dynasty, died in the rebellion.Guo Wei was lonely and wandering around since he was a child, growing up alone in troubled times. At the age of 18, he enlisted in the army with courage.He was a soldier and a prisoner, and went through the four dynasties of Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, and Later Han. He was constantly promoted in different armies with wisdom and courage. Finally, he supported Liu Zhiyuan and proclaimed himself emperor in Taiyuan. heroes. We all know that in the near future, if we want to calculate accurately, he will become the founding emperor of the Later Zhou Dynasty in two years.In just two years, he can reach the pinnacle and copy Liu Zhiyuan, so how is he feeling now?Excited?After eagerly anticipating two years?No, this is a very bad joke.Like everyone else, Guo Wei didn't know what he would encounter the next day, just like he was marching normally on this day, and suddenly received a report that a young man who claimed to be the son of Zhao Hongyin, the commander of the Imperial Guard Sanctuary, wanted to see him . Zhao Hongyin?There was a chance, his son came, what's the matter?Guo Wei thought for a while, let's see each other, he casually told his subordinates to let that young man in. He would never have known that this would be a very rare scene in history—the two founding emperors met while they were still alive, and neither of them were emperors. When Zhao Kuangyin came in, he immediately surprised Guo Wei, but he was not shocked by his demeanor, but doubted his real identity.This can't really be blamed on Guo Wei, the young man who came in was dressed in ragged clothes and looked disheveled, like a person who has not had enough food or clothing for a long time, how could he look like a son of an official? This is really embarrassing, but there is really no way.Zhao Kuangyin has done his best, his clothes and head and face are washed very clean, but his complexion and physical condition can never deceive anyone.If you can only eat some pure green food such as corn noodles and steamed buns plus some raw Chinese cabbage every day, and you are only half full, you can't act like those people who eat sea cucumbers, abalones and lobsters all day long, let alone at this time Zhao Kuangyin's spiritual temperament is also very different from when he just walked out of the house and left Kaifeng, the most prosperous city in the north at that time. He is definitely not like a young master in Kaifeng. Greetings to Guo Wei. After a few questions and answers, Guo Wei believed in Zhao Kuangyin's identity. Although there was no ID card to confirm his identity at that time, a person's conversation and the information he possessed could explain the problem better.Especially the attitude shown by Zhao Kuangyin made Guo Wei appreciate it very much.The young man expressed his wish very frankly-hoping to join the army and serve Guo Gong.Guo Wei asked him why he didn't go back to Kaifeng, wouldn't it be better to work under his father?It's easier to be closer to home that way.If there is a lack of travel expenses, he can help. Zhao Kuangyin thanked him for his kindness, and then shared his experience in the past two years, which can prove that no matter how well he is doing outside, he does not want to rely on his father, and is determined to travel the world alone and work hard in life.He didn't hide anything in the narration, and he didn't hide all kinds of embarrassments. He found that Guo Wei listened very carefully, listened to him very quietly and attentively, and then asked him directly what position he wanted. Note that this is a critical moment, which means that Guo Wei is ready to accept him and is asking him about his specific work and remuneration.what to do?If you go back two years ago, when you first applied for a job with Dong Zongben in Suizhou, what would Zhao Kuangyin say?I believe he will definitely consider his father's identity, his own identity, and his extraordinary ambitions (except for his own actual weight), and then ask for a position that is not too high, but it will definitely be conducive to promotion.This is in line with his Zhao Kuangyin! But now it is his third job application. He has been living independently outside for two years. The countless times of cold and hunger, wind, frost, rain and snow, and the reality of being displaced in a troubled world that he has witnessed has made him rational. , I have known for a long time that the sky is high and the earth is thick.At this time, under Guo Wei's gaze, he calmly expressed his wish. I just want to be an ordinary soldier and ask Guo Gonggong to be kind to me. Very good, Guo Wei nodded, and immediately agreed to his request.Zhao Kuangyin became a soldier from then on. Guo Wei didn't throw him to the field troops outside, but kept him by his side. In this way, he became a soldier.