This is a vassal state with hundreds of countries.
There was a legitimate emperor above, and he also granted fiefs to the princes of various countries, but that was a hundred years ago.
Now, after several generations, the vassal states have become independent. They have gone from obeying orders but not announcements to now ignoring the emperor's orders.
An Jingzhi has been here for some time. Based on the original owner's memories and experiences during this period, he has a general idea of the situation.
In general, productivity in this era was very backward.
On this small piece of the Central Plains, if you throw a stone slab down casually, it might hit a nobleman.
In short, it's a mess.
But these people pursue aristocratic etiquette to the extreme, and almost have that pursuit engraved in their bones.
Knowledge and various cultures were monopolized by the upper class and exclusive to the aristocracy.
The lower class people can only use that little knowledge to survive every day.
How well you live depends entirely on how much conscience the nobles in your fiefdom have.
There are also some people who are not in the nobles' fiefdoms. The advantage is that they do not have to be exploited by the nobles, but the disadvantage is also obvious. The thieves and bandits who are roaming around will regard them as the best targets for looting.
The village where the original owner lived happened to be in a no-man's land.
They used their own tools to cultivate plots of land and became self-sufficient.
Whenever they needed something, they would go to the surrounding aristocratic cities to exchange it for some. Of course, they were not commoners in the aristocratic fiefdoms, so they were inevitably exploited.
But if there were no thieves and bandits robbing them, perhaps their lives would be pretty good, at least a little better than those civilians in the fiefdoms.
But the good ones are very limited.
But for everyone in the village where the original owner lived, this kind of life was enough to satisfy them.
Generations of village life have taught them how to fight off bandits and protect the village.
The nobleman that An Jingzhi is pretending to be now actually encountered robbers and horse thieves on the way to his fiefdom.
He was robbed twice and separated from the escort team. He fled along the way and lost almost all his belongings except his identity documents.
The nobleman, who had lived a life of luxury since childhood, had never experienced the hardship of fleeing. After running all the way and being injured, he fainted in the woods where the original owner often went to chop wood, and was rescued by the original owner.
At first, the original owner saved him just to look at him. Although his clothes were tattered, it was obvious that the fabric of his clothes was not something that ordinary people could wear.
Rescue the person, hoping that the nobleman will be kind enough to reward him with some good things.
In order to keep this benefit for himself, he did not even bring the nobleman back home, but simply hid him in a cave on the mountain that could shelter him from the rain.
As expected, the noble was very grateful to him after waking up.
He saw that the nobles were amiable and had no intention of looking down on the common people, so he boldly asked them many questions about the nobles.
After the other party washed up, he found that the nobleman seemed to look a bit like him, and learned about the nobleman's daily luxurious life, so he became more and more evil.
But after all, he had been a commoner for more than ten years and had a natural awe of the nobles, so he didn't dare to take any real action.
Maybe he was just too lucky, but the nobleman's injuries had gradually healed, and he would be able to return to his fiefdom soon.
One day when the original owner came up to bring him food, he found that the nobleman had a fever.
In this era when farming can only rely on human labor, a fever can take a life.
After the noble died, the plan that had been suppressed by the original owner resurfaced.
He got along well with this noble during this period, and the other party also told him some information about the life of the nobles.
He felt that although he could not guarantee that he would not be recognized, at least in this remote place, with the identification cards of the nobles, he would definitely not be discovered if he disguised himself.
In the end, the original owner stripped the nobleman of his clothes and threw his body into the wild. He watched him being eaten by wild beasts with his own eyes before he left with peace of mind.
When I arrived at the nobleman's fiefdom, I thought I would live a luxurious life as a nobleman from then on.
However, the eating and living habits brought about by the different growing environments of commoners and nobles cannot be easily disguised by listening to a few stories.
But fortunately, he was the largest in the fiefdom, and although some people had doubts, no one thought that anyone would dare to pretend to be a noble.
The original owner was not a fool. He noticed that the way people around him looked at him was a little strange. In addition to using the excuse that he had suffered a head impact and could not remember some things, he was also secretly studying the etiquette of the nobility in private.
He pretended to have a headache in private and couldn't see the words clearly, so he asked the old housekeeper to read them to him. Just by listening to the other person read them a few times, he was able to remember the words clearly.
Although the handwriting is ugly, it can be used as an excuse for being hit on the head.
He imitated the person more and more, to the point where even the other person's original family would hardly recognize him. Then, someone came and disrupted his wonderful aristocratic life.
It turned out that the reason why the noble was attacked twice in a row was because someone in his entourage wanted to kill him deliberately.
The other party was sent by the elder brother of that noble family who was fighting for power.
After the noble escaped, the man searched for him all the way, but he didn't expect that after searching for a long time, he found out that the original owner was actually pretending to be the noble himself.
So the killer began to threaten the original owner, constantly asking him to give him various precious gems and gold and silver.
If the other party refused to comply, he threatened to report them.
The original owner knew that his disguise was similar enough, the only problem was the village where he was born.
After giving the killer some gold and silver to keep him in check several times, he sent people to secretly massacre the village where he grew up.
Precisely because he grew up in the village, he was more familiar with the layout of the village. With his guidance, the people he sent burned the entire village to death with almost no effort.
But the killer was no pushover. After discovering the original owner's actions, he began to spread his true identity widely.
People of this era paid special attention to bloodline and class. They had clear hierarchies and would never allow a commoner to enter the aristocratic class in such a rebellious way. Otherwise, who knew if they would be the next one?
Countless people began to head towards the original owner's fiefdom, and even the original owner's family sent people over.
In the end, the original owner's fate was obvious. He was torn into pieces by five horses and left dead in the wilderness.
When An Jingzhi finished reading the original owner's memories, he discovered that the hierarchy in the Central Plains of this small world was very strict.
If the original owner wanted to take shortcuts to live a good life, that was his own business.
But he should never have directly massacred the villagers where he grew up.
Commoners and nobles differ greatly not only in knowledge but also in physical appearance.
All civilians often work in the fields, so their skin becomes very rough and is tanned by the sun.
The nobles only needed to learn some knowledge and attend some banquets, and the only thing they needed to do was practice horse riding and archery.
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