Chapter 112 Qin Lang's Past Identity
Listening to the sound of rain outside the window, although Qin Lang felt that his golden finger was extremely powerful in this chaotic world, he felt very upset when he thought of his current identity.
When the Great Xia Dynasty was first established, it naturally prospered for a period of time, but there has never been a dynasty that has been prosperous forever in this world. The Great Xia Dynasty declined over the years, which was an inevitable result of history.
Since ancient times, the rise and fall of a country is usually accompanied by heavy taxes, excessive taxation, conscription, forced labor, land grabbing by the nobles, and excessive accumulation of wealth.
It's strange to say, not only that, usually a dynasty that is about to fall will keep minting coins and issuing money, which will lead to financial chaos, and then there will be a few wars, natural disasters and man-made disasters one after another. Daxia is just like this, and it has reached the end of the road.
The original owner was not from Beiyang, but from Lingzhou, one of the fiefdoms of King Yin. The emperor was incompetent and had many children, but he was unwilling to give up his power, so he began to divide the land and sent many of his children to various places.
Generally speaking, once a place becomes the fiefdom of a prince, the political power, taxation and population of this place will all become the property of this prince.
The King of Yin was granted the fiefdom of Lingzhou. The first thing he did after arriving was to build a palace. After that, he kept searching for beautiful women in the fiefdom. He was like a sex-hungry ghost.
During the eight years of his fiefdom in Lingzhou, King Yin had ruined many women, and the original owner's escape was also closely related to this incident.
The place where Lingzhou is located is close to the mountains and forests. Most villagers can hunt in the mountains. In addition, silver mines have been discovered there, so they will be taken to mine by King Yin's people. In addition, King Yin has a good relationship with several brothers. Whenever people ask King Yin for people, King Yin will plunder Lingzhou and give heads to his brothers.
This head is of course a conscription.
The original owner's family lived in Qinjia Village in Lingzhou, which was similar to today's Wangjia Village. It was also a small village with a population of only more than 200 people. In the early years, they knew how to make medicine and earned a little money by relying on the mountains and forests, so the village was pretty good.
However, since Daxia began to decline, in addition to the rising head tax, there was also conscription at every turn. In this situation, the original owner had three brothers, namely the eldest brother Qin Feng, the second brother Qin Yun, and the third brother Qin Lie. All three brothers were taken away by the conscripts.
Qin's father and mother were still in good health, but they were extremely panicked when they saw their sons being taken away. The eldest son, Qin Feng, was taken away by King Zhou's men and went to serve as a soldier far away. Although he was away from home, he could at least write letters home and bring some silver and money home.
The second son, Qin Yun, was not so lucky. Not long after he was taken away by the King of Chu, he only returned his belongings and said that Qin Yun had died in battle. From then on, the Qin family lost a son.
When it came to Qin Lie, he was directly taken away by the King of England to the border of Yunhe. He was able to pass on the news to his family that he was still alive, which comforted Qin's father and mother.
Of the four sons in the family, only Qin Lang was left. The reason why Qin Lang was not taken away was very simple: he was just lucky.
Qin Lang has been in poor health since birth, and has been carefully raised in the mountains by the Qin couple. When he grew up, he liked to keep company with wild animals in the mountains and rarely came to the outside village. It sounds a bit unpromising, but even so, Qin's father and mother are already happy enough.
Qin Lang was not there every time there was conscription and was not taken away. Qin's father and mother reluctantly sent their three sons away, leaving only this youngest son by their side. They never let Qin Lang leave the mountains and see people. He eventually married Fang Xiaohe, an orphan from the neighboring village, and only then did they begin to reproduce again.
When Qin Feng was conscripted, his wife was already pregnant. She gave birth to Qin Yiping, the eldest grandson of the Qin family, and granddaughter Qin Taohua. She then married another man.
The second son, Qin Yun, also had a wife, but she died during childbirth, leaving behind only his son and grandson, Qin Yian.
The third son, Qin Lie, was captured when the emperor had not yet officially granted titles, so he didn't even have a wife.
Perhaps Qin Lang had been in poor health since childhood, but after marrying Fang Xiaohe, he only had one daughter, named Qin Meir, who was also as beautiful as a plum blossom.
The conscription in the early years took away all three members of the Qin family. Later, when King Yin was recruiting soldiers, the villagers felt embarrassed to ask the Qin family to send them away. Over the years, Qin's father and mother have been raising their only son Qin Lang and two grandsons and two granddaughters to live together.
But things don't always go as planned. As the two girls grew older, Qin Taohua lived up to her name, with a face like a peach blossom, very beautiful, a face like a silver basin, and a crisp voice. Everyone who saw her would say that she was a beauty.
Originally, Qin's father and mother planned to continue looking for an orphan from the next village to marry into the Qin family. However, before they had even finished looking for an orphan, Qin Taohua's good name was spread by someone unknown.
Afterwards, someone in Lingzhou City suggested that Qin's parents send their granddaughter to live in Prince Yin's mansion. Qin Taohua was only thirteen years old. How could the Qin couple be willing to let her go?
But the people above them didn't say anything. The village head came to the Qin family to persuade Qin's father and mother to be obedient. If they were unwilling, it would be a disaster.
Qin Taohua never thought that her beauty would bring such bad things to her family. She wanted to jump into the well and die. In the end, she decided to serve King Yin.
But everyone knew that King Yin had a bad reputation. The number of beautiful women sent out from his palace was enough to fill up the nameless graves.
How could such a wicked man, who is already in his forties, be Qin Taohua's husband?
So the Qin family discussed together and began to plan to escape, packing up their gold and silver jewelry. In fact, there were not many things. The original owner accidentally met someone sent by King Yin, and after seeing a lot of treasures and cloth, he directly agreed to marry the eldest brother's daughter to King Yin.
She believed that if Qin Taohua entered the palace, she would definitely become the Princess of Yin with her beauty.
He had just received other people's things when he heard his family say they wanted to run away. He was very reluctant because he had already asked someone to make all the things into fine clothes for him to wear. The original owner, who wore silk for the first time, felt that he should be such a noble person.
As long as Taohua becomes Princess Yin, won’t she be able to wear as many nice clothes as she wants?
But his words were useless. Qin's father was a hunter living in the mountains, and Qin's mother was a medicine concocter. Wouldn't it be easy for them to control such a useless son?
So Qin Lang was drugged directly, and then carried by several men from the Qin family to start his escape. He fled all the way from Lingzhou, and his destination was the economically developed Huai'an, which was the fiefdom of King Liang.
During this journey, the original owner woke up and was shocked to find that he had really escaped and his dream of wealth and glory was gone!
After waking up, the original owner was extremely angry and cursed Qin Taohua, saying that Qin Taohua had brought disaster to the family. After that, he ignored his wife and daughter. However, because he had to rely on his parents, he could not lose his temper.
But how could escape be so easy? Living in the open air all the way was something the original owner was very uncomfortable with. He had been a useless person before, supported by Qin's father and mother all day long, just to continue the family line. Now he had to escape, which he naturally couldn't accept.
Fortunately, he found that he still had the silver and jewelry that people had given him before, so he planned to leave the Qin family quietly. When he returned to Lingzhou, he would just tell the Yin Wang family the escape route and ask someone to find Qin Taohua, then he could still live a rich life.
With such a foolish idea in mind, the original owner sneaked away under the cover of night. No one dared to believe that such a cowardly person would do such a bold act.
Unfortunately, the original owner, who had never traveled far, lost his way. Not only did he not return to Lingzhou, but he also did not go to Huai'an as originally planned. Instead, he stumbled all the way and ended up in Beiyang, the fiefdom of King Qi.
This is also considered lucky, otherwise the refugees would be caught running around and imprisoned as slaves.
In this way, the original owner fell into a coma on the mountain and was rescued by the Wang family, but everything was not over yet. After the original owner fell into a coma, he was rescued by Wang Goudan from Wangjia Village and was in a coma for three days and three nights.
However, the original owner who woke up again was no longer the original owner, but a book traveler.
That's right, after Qin Lang entered this world, he discovered that this chaotic world was actually a world of a book. The story line had collapsed. He came here to take away the golden finger and save the world by the way.
The person who traveled through the book was originally excited. After all, he had a golden finger after traveling through time. Doesn’t that sound awesome?
But later, as he lived in such a chaotic world, he saw many horrible things, and his mood changed from excitement at the beginning to pain later.
The chaotic times are coming, there is a severe drought all over the world, people are living in misery, exchanging their own children for food, and there are even plagues and locusts. All kinds of things are forcing the time traveler to suffer.
The time traveler is just an ordinary person. He came here after reading a book called "King's World" in which the male protagonist rebelled against the troubled times and founded a new dynasty. He also wondered whether he could become the king in the troubled times.
But it was too painful. The suffering of the lower class people made the time traveler suffer. He didn't dare to look at these things, and then his eyes were covered by the counselors around him. He had a golden finger that could change his fate, but it was used by these clever counselors and aristocratic families to deceive the people.
In the end, the time traveler even met the male protagonist of the book. He easily defeated the male protagonist with his golden finger, but he thought he could end the chaos like the other party and let the people live a good life with enough food and drink.
However, everything did not go as he wished. He was poisoned by the beauty he saved along the way, betrayed by his most trusted brother, and planned to be killed by his advisers.
What humans like most is to kill gods. When necessary, they rely on the power of gods to control the poor people, but when not needed, they will kill gods for power and status.
The ending is self-evident, Qin Lang saw it all.
Such a grand memory is painful, and too many things have been missed. Saving the world has never been the work of one person. What the world needs is not gods, but emperors who have the hearts of the people and let them live a good life.
Therefore, the identity Qin Lang finally gave himself was an immortal who came to the mortal world to transcend tribulation. This time, he wanted to use this golden finger to save more people, so that these people could see the rise of a new dynasty and no longer be oppressed by more darkness.
The Time Travel Department sent him back to before the real drought, giving Qin Lang the opportunity to change everything.
He will then fulfill the god's duty and return a prosperous dynasty to the people of the world...
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