Chapter 2 2. Change careers and rebel

After Liu Xiu was gilded in Chang'an, he returned to Baishui Township, Nanyang County.At that time, Wang Mang had become obsessed with playing tricks.The price of this madness is that people across the country have been laid off one after another, and those who have been forced to do nothing have no choice but to devote themselves to the fiery cause of rebellion. Wang Mang is really a bad breed.Man-made disasters are not over, and natural disasters come again.The drought was like a plague, sweeping the country with locust plagues and affecting Nanyang County.Immediately afterwards, the price of grain soared, one price per day, which was more terrible than the flooding of the Yellow River, and it seemed to be going up to the sky.

Despite the current troubled times, Liu Xiu never thought of rebelling.No matter what ideas he had received in Chang'an, he was still a small farmer at heart.The simplest idea of ​​a small farmer is to farm well and live well.So Liu Xiu, who returned to his hometown, still resumed his old business, planting his few rotten lands. It is said that a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier.By the same token, a farmer who does not want to plant the land well is not a good farmer.There is no doubt that Liu Xiu is an excellent farmer. At that time, the farmers in Nanyang County basically had no harvest, but the crops planted by Liu Xiu were blessed by the gods, and the harvest was quite good.Liu Xiu has engaged in leasing, so he still understands the basic laws of market economy.He believes that there is a severe drought in the world, and the price of grain has soared. It should be a good income to wash their feet and go to the fields to sell grain.

He thought so, and he did so.Soon, Liu Xiu transported his own grain and went out to sell it. In my opinion, there are several things in Liu Xiu, a small farmer, that other farmers do not have.It was these few things that completely changed his life.These few sharp weapons are - excellent market vision; broad vision of life; kind-hearted spirit of life. Liu Xiu's second sister, Liu Yuan, married a Xinyeren named Deng Chen.So without even thinking about it, Liu Xiu picked up the millet and went to Xinye to sell it.In Xinye, besides doing food business, Liu Xiu also participated in various social activities with her second brother-in-law Deng Chen.During a social event, Liu Xiu met a strange person and heard a strange sentence.

That strange expert, known as Cai Shaogong, was born in Rang County and was famous for his research on prophecies. In layman's terms, the picture prophecy is a prophecy book invented by some masters of alchemy, which can predict the future.It began in Qin Dynasty and developed into Wang Mang's new dynasty, which has formed a research atmosphere in the society.In Wang Mang's era, among the many masters who studied prophecy, Liu Xin is probably the only one who can be called the master of masters. Liu Xin, the son of Liu Xiang, a master of Chinese studies.Liu Xiang gave birth to several sons, and this guy was the most promising one.Liu Xin's most promising place is to inherit his father's legacy, research and organize ancient books.Besides, there was one thing that Papa didn't have, and that was superstition and sycophancy.

Before Liu Xiang was alive, he had studied prophecy for a long time, but in Liu Xin's hands, he was even better than blue.According to the prophecy, Liu Xin changed his name to Liu Xiu.In order to prevent confusion, it is better to call him Liu Xin. It is not unfair to say that Liu Xin was one of the driving forces behind Wang Mang's seizure of power and ascension to the throne.He once fully combined the great theory of the study of prophecy with practice, created momentum for Wang Mang, and fabricated many reasons for becoming emperor.Not all the people of the Han Dynasty were blind. Some people were already displeased with Liu Xin's ostentatious way, and wrote to Wang Mang one after another, requesting that Liu Xin's martial arts be abolished.

As a result, Wang Mang did not abolish Liu Xin.On the contrary, he was promoted to a noble rank, and Liu Xin was made a national teacher.why?Quite simply, Wang Mang is also a fan of the study of prophecies and a theoretical practitioner.The group of people who wanted to mess with Liu Xin had the wrong partner. Back to the topic.At that time, Cai Shaogong was good at studying prophecies, and there were many people who came to visit him.When Liu Xiu and Deng Chen came, they happened to meet Cai Shaogong giving a lecture.At the end of the lecture, Cai Shaogong leaked the secret—Wang Mang is about to collapse, and the emperor of the new dynasty should be Liu Xiu.

As mentioned earlier, there were two Liu Xius in the Han Dynasty at that time.One is Liu Xin, the national teacher in front, and the other is Liu Xiu, the young man in front of him who has just washed his feet and gone to the fields and sells grain for a living.When Cai Shaogong said that the son of heaven should be Liu Xiu, someone shouted on the spot. Cai Shaogong said that Liu Xiu should be the son of heaven. Could it be that he was referring to Liu Xiu, the national teacher? As soon as the guy finished speaking, Liu Xiu in front of him answered the words, and said silently: "Why must it be the national teacher, maybe that Liu Xiu is referring to me."

Liu Xiu's words made everyone burst into laughter.Everyone laughed, and Liu Xiu laughed too, taking it as a joke.However, in the dark, Liu Xiu seemed to hear a call from afar.what is ithe does not know.It seemed that a mysterious mission was about to befall him. Since then, Liu Xiu has learned two closely related nouns.One is the Son of Heaven, and the other is the prophecy.He seemed to see that half of the emperor's future was in the prophecy, and the other half was in his own hands.In order to get the half of the prophecy, he must cater to God's will. God's will, where is God's will?For the first time, Liu Xiu thought deeply and was ready to crack this great historical topic.

Liu Xiu sells valleys and often travels to two places, one is Xinye and the other is Wan County.Once, when he came to Wan County from Xinye, someone came to his door and told him, my lord would like to treat you to a drink, could you do me a favor.Liu Xiu asked, who is your master.When the other party reported her name, Liu Xiu's heart skipped a beat immediately, and she refused, saying, I'm sorry, I'm busy with business and I don't have time. The person who asked to see Liu Xiu was Li Yi from a family with the surname of Wan County.Liu Xiu has been to Chang'an, but he has never seen anything, so what is a family with a surname in Wan County.Of course, he wasn't playing big cards either. The reason for his refusal was that it might be a grand banquet for someone to ask him to drink a little wine.

The situation is like this, Li Yi has a cousin named Li Boyu, Li Boyu's mother remarried, and gave birth to a brother-in-law, Gongsunchen, who is a doctor.Once, Liu Xiu's elder brother Liu invited him to see a doctor, but Gongsunchen played big cards and refused to come.Ever since, Liu, who was a gangster, was so angry that he rushed to the family's house, dragged Gongsunchen out and killed him. Today, Li Yi said that he wanted to buy him a drink for no reason, and he was unpredictable. What else could he do besides retaliate?So Liu Xiu decided to avoid him, not to see him, not to see him.

Two days later, Li Yi sent someone to invite Liu Xiu again, but he refused; two days later, he invited Liu Xiu again, and refused again.In the end, Li Yi sent someone to tell Liu Xiu again, and said sincerely, I just sincerely want to treat you to a drink, and there is really no malice. Liu Xiu thought about it carefully, forget it, let's go see her.However, he was still uneasy, so he prepared a sharp knife, hid it in his bosom, and followed the envoy to the banquet. At the banquet, Li Yi had three cups and two cups, and said straight to the point, "The world disturbs the hunger, the soldiers in the lower river flourish, and Nanyang's heroes disturb the clouds." Liu Xiu squinted her eyes and listened, the world is hungry, it is a good time to sell grain to make money; Xiajiang soldiers are flourishing, Nanyang Hao Youyun disturbs my business, I can't afford to provoke them, I can afford to hide. At this time, Li Yi seemed to have seen through the secret, and continued: "According to the prophecy, in the current troubled times, the Liu family will rise again, and the Li family will be the assistant." Oh... Liu Xiu finally realized that Li Yi didn't ask him to settle accounts with him today, but asked him to settle accounts with Wang Mang, who seized Liu's regime.According to Li Yi's picture prophecy that Liu's family will rise again, and Cai Shaogong's picture prophecy that "Liu Xiu will be the emperor", then, isn't Liu Xiu the one who will be the emperor in the future? No wonder Li Yi repeatedly sent people to invite Liu Xiu to drink.It turned out that he bought Liu Xiu, a potential stock, before others.In the future, the skyrocketing price will bring considerable profits. When Liu Xiu heard this, her heart itched.To be honest, the current price of food is soaring, and selling grain is also very good.Although the profit is not as high as the rebellion, it is very safe.Safety first, safety is more important than anything else.But if God doesn't take it, you will be blamed.Listen to God's words, if you want to be the emperor, you must rebel.If you want to rebel, you have to shed blood and sweat, raise the heads of the whole family, tie them around your waist, and charge into battle.High risk, high income, the probability of being hacked to death is very high. Thinking of this, Liu Xiu's heart skipped a beat again, hesitating. At this time, Li Yi went on to say: "Wang Mang's defeat has already appeared, the world is in turmoil, and the people are changing everywhere. Occupy the mountain as king, and occupy the pond as lord. Brother, why are you hesitating?" Yes, a rebellion is like stock market entry. All forces accumulate energy and rush into it.Early listing, early income; early income, early wealth and early wealth.This is the same as farming, the early bird gets the worm, and when the princes of the world eat up the worm, it will be too late for you to grab it. Liu Xiu was silent, unable to speak for a long time.In his heart, it seems that he still has his millet.If it wasn't for the wine, he might have sold a lot of millet.To put it bluntly, I still can't get over the hurdle in my heart. Li Yi seemed to have seen through Liu Xiu's mind, and then said: "My family name is Li, the surname of Wan County, and my father is Zongqing teacher. If we are rich or honored, we have nothing to worry about. If you want to raise the flag and raise a big event, you still care about your What do you do with a few loads of millet?" Li Yi awakened the dreamer, and Liu Xiu suddenly thought of his elder brother Liu.Liu Changnian has been in the underworld for a long time, and he has long disliked Wang Mang. In the current troubled times, he will definitely rebel.If one person rebels, the whole family must follow him in the revolution.Other than that, is there a better option? Wagyu, Wagya, what is Wagya.It's a small business, and if it's done today, I don't know what will happen tomorrow.Rebellion is a big cause, if you don't boil the pot, you can eat it for three years, or even ten years, or a hundred years.If you want high returns, you must invest with high risks.A man was born between heaven and earth, why not dare to give it a try? The bend in my heart has finally been bypassed. At this time, Liu Xiu spoke.He said: "If you want to drag me into such things as rebellion, then count me in." Having said all of this, the following things will be much easier to handle.Finally, Li Yi discussed with Liu Xiu and prepared to revolt in Liqiu. Power grows out of the barrel of a gun, and to rebel you must have troops.Troops not only rely on pulling, but also rely on robbing.Every year in the beginning of autumn, all counties across the country inspect the militia.It would save a lot of trouble if the inside and the outside cooperated, killed the leader, and led the troops to rebel during the militia review ceremony. Li Yi's move is exactly the one Zhai Yi used back then, and the success rate is extremely high.Li Yi's target is Nanyang County.He has already installed eyes and ears in Nanyang County. As long as the prefect and militia commander of Nanyang County are dealt with, great things will be accomplished. Of course, if you want to grab the Nanyang County prefect, you can't just think about empty hands and white wolves.This is a gamble, and a certain amount of gambling money must be prepared, otherwise he will be kicked out of the stage.So, where do you go to raise money for gambling? At this time, both Li Yi and Liu Xiu thought of a place at the same time.