Volume 1: A Stranger in a Foreign Land Chapter 11 Zhao Wei
The trouble is finally over.
The inn is temporarily closed.
After leaving three strings of cash as wages, Shen Fa also disappeared.
Yang Ge, who had nothing to do, put all his energy into the tedious project of renovating the small dilapidated courtyard.
He first demolished the small, dilapidated courtyard, leaving only a few beams and pillars.
Then he found a few bricklayers to help, and together they raised the low house, which was originally only eight feet high, to fifteen feet, which is nearly five meters.
Two more windows were opened on the north and south sides, and now sunlight can finally shine into the house.
After that, it was his job alone.
Building walls, painting, making furniture, paving the small courtyard with bluestone slabs , digging a pond, planting green plants...
He is not a skilled worker, so it is common for him to make mistakes.
Even if he didn't make any mistakes, it would still take him several times longer to barely meet the standards.
But it doesn't matter, what he has the most is time...
For the entire summer, apart from visiting the old fisherman, he spent the rest of his time sweating in the yard.
Under the scorching sun day after day, the small, broken courtyard gradually turned into the shape that Yang Ge wanted.
After Yang Ge was sunburned and peeled off several layers of skin, he turned as black as a piece of charcoal.
But there was light in his eyes.
Shopkeeper Liu came twice. Seeing Yang Ge, who had been tortured into a piece of charcoal, and the small courtyard that had been completely destroyed by Yang Ge, he could not express his relief on his old face. He promised Yang Ge that as long as Yang Ge did not leave, the Liu family would never take the house away!
Wang Dali, on the other hand, comes here often.
Every time they said they were there to help him, they ended up just talking to him about the martial arts competition points with spit flying everywhere. They took a long time to sweep the floor, and then came back to extort two more steamed buns from him!
This guy is a local, and his relatives and friends are spread across the middle and lower levels of all walks of life in Luting County.
Luting County is the gateway to the capital, and merchants coming and going are either entering or leaving the capital. What they casually chat about may be the big news in the capital.
Therefore, this guy is extremely well-informed about all kinds of gossip and insider information!
Wang Dali's heart was full of twists and turns...
Of course Yang Ge knew it very well.
But he didn't even tell Manager Liu that the secret of the Luanfeng Leg was still in his hands, so how could he tell Wang Dali, the big speaker?
Isn’t that enough trouble?
Look at Manager Liu. He could clearly guess that the secret book was still in his hands, but he never even mentioned it again.
Only Wang Dali had no clue. He kept bringing up the matter every other day, saying things like, "For a family like ours, the only way to get ahead is through martial arts," "Young man, if you can learn martial arts, maybe you can go to Beijing and make a career," and "We can't be waiters for the rest of our lives, can we?"
Yang Ge naturally ignored him and just thought he was farting.
It was just that because he had listened to Wang Dali fart too much, he still passively learned some things.
First of all, of course, is the process of the Grace Martial Arts Examination.
After Jiang Kui entered the capital, he won the first place in the outer field of the martial arts examination with his ferocious North Wind swordsmanship, and became the most famous person at that time!
Unfortunately, in the subsequent internal policy discussions, Jiang Kui was far inferior to those sons of military families, and ultimately only got the fifth place in the imperial examination.
Yang Ge did ask about Jiang Kui's whereabouts, but unfortunately, Wang Dali was not able to find out such things.
Then, among the top three in this Grace Martial Arts Examination, except for the third place winner who was a top disciple of Huashan Sect, the other two were rumored to be sons of nobles with hidden identities.
During the days when the Grace Martial Arts Test came to an end, Yang Ge could see large numbers of people from the martial arts world carrying swords and knives, quietly leaving Luting County to the east.
There is no longer the laughter and joy of calling friends and being high-spirited when we first came here...
During those days, even the words "fight for a future" never appeared in Wang Dali's mouth again.
In addition to the ups and downs of the Endian Martial Arts Examination, Yang Ge also got a lot of information about the current situation in Wei from Wang Dali's farts.
For example, the Wei Dynasty went through three emperors, Taizu, Taizong, and Zhongzong, and was passed down to the current Emperor Xiping, a total of four generations of emperors.
For example, in the past twenty years, the Tartars on the grasslands have become increasingly powerful, often sending troops south to provoke border attacks, plunder property, and massacre civilians. Five years ago, the current emperor took advantage of the change of Khan's throne on the grasslands and sent three armies, totaling 250,000 elite soldiers, to conquer the Mobei grasslands.
But in the end they suffered heavy losses and returned empty-handed.
For example, in five years, food prices have more than doubled...
Yang Ge finally developed a little interest in the environment he was in.
It happened to be the beginning of autumn and it had been raining for several days, so construction in the courtyard could not continue. Yang Ge went to the bookstore and, with the recommendation of the shopkeeper, rented a few books of unofficial history that were full of fabricated details but generally in line with historical facts.
In the following days, he read through these unofficial histories, comparing them with each other, listening to the rustling sound of raindrops falling on the tiles.
In the end, his previous guess was confirmed: this world is indeed a space-time with a different historical direction from the space-time he originally lived in!
The historical divergence between the two worlds occurred at the end of the Three Kingdoms period.
Before the Three Kingdoms period, the historical trends of the two worlds were roughly the same: Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States Period, and Qin and Han Dynasties.
Even the various schools of thought, heroes of the Warring States Period, and various famous scenes and allusions are almost the same.
By the end of the Three Kingdoms period, the Later Han, which should have been fading, was radiantly more brilliant. Zhuge Liang, the Marquis of Qi, made three expeditions to Mount Qi to defeat Cao Cao and reclaim the north. Jiang Wei of Tianshui, carrying on his legacy, defeated Sun Quan of Eastern Wu and reclaimed the Jiangzuo region. Later Han successfully unified the Three Kingdoms, extending the Han dynasty's reign for over two hundred years...
Until the world is divided again, and the historical cycle of long-term division will lead to unification, and long-term unification will lead to division will begin again.
Later on, Xiao Qi, Li Liang, Zhou Tang... and now Zhao Wei appeared one after another.
Yang Ge was so obsessed with his research that he went to bookstores several times and rented a large number of books containing historical materials to study at home.
In the end, he really found the answer: the Sima family is gone!
To be precise, it’s not that the Sima family is gone, but that Sima Yi was killed early!
Yang Ge couldn't find out where exactly it was recorded, but in all the books from the Three Kingdoms period, there was only one sentence about Sima Yi: 'Sima Yi, whose courtesy name was Zhongda, was appointed as a literary official in the Prime Minister's Office of Cao Cao. He was arrogant and was not liked by Cao Cao.'
Judging from Boss Cao’s style of killing people in his dreams, it may not be true that Sima Yi is arrogant, but it is definitely true that Boss Cao doesn’t like him!
Cao Wei no longer had Sima Yi, the late-stage tiger. After Boss Cao died, naturally no one could stop Zhuge Liang.
Now that Cao Wei is gone, how long can the Eastern Wu, which is isolated in a corner and has no successors, last?
The greatest strength of Emperor Xiaohuai Liu Chan was that he listened to advice and was tolerant of others. With his character, combined with the civil and military team headed by Jiang Wei in the late Han Dynasty, couldn't he have extended the life of the Han Dynasty by two hundred years?
If this happens, wouldn’t the course of history be completely disrupted?
If the ancestors are gone, where will the descendants come from?
