Blessings of Time Traveling

Is it easy for modern people to travel back to ancient times to make money?

not easy!

Although many time-travel novels describe modern people as omnipotent, were ancient people really stupid?In terms of vision, the ancients are indeed inferior to modern people.But if you compare IQ, there are dull people in every era, and wise men in every era, it's really hard to compare.

Get rich by relying on pigs into the water?

Sorry, even the beasts of nature know offal is a good thing.For example, cheetahs that don’t eat carrion can’t eat up their prey in one go after they kill their prey, but they can’t put the prey on for a second meal. Those who can’t finish eating on the spot can only be cheap vultures and hyenas, then they will How to do it?They will tear open the belly of the prey, eat the internal organs first, and wait until the internal organs are almost eaten, and then eat the limbs of the prey.

The invention and creativity of ordinary people in food is amazing!They're actually pretty good at eating.Moreover, the living standard at this time was low, and when meeting poorer families, meat and bones that could not be chewed or boiled had to be ground into powder and eaten with vegetables. How could it be cheaper for the traveler to pick up pigs and put them into the water?

Go to the mountains to dig herbs and pick up treasures to make money?

I’m sorry, but most of the ancients lived on mountains and rivers. They knew exactly what things in the mountains, rivers, and seas could be exchanged for money, and what could fill their stomachs. It was not the traveler’s turn to find out.Under the burden of life, the wisdom of the people is infinite!

Besides, the mountains in ancient times are the same as the mountains in modern times. The species are distributed according to the geographical location and the time of the four seasons.Things that ripen in spring will not grow together with things that ripen in autumn, and things that are abundant in the subtropical zone will not grow together with things that can only grow in the cold zone.

Although the resources in the mountains are abundant, they are not to the extent that the land is full of silver.

If the last mountain could make a lot of money, the hunters in the village would have already become the richest people in this mountain village.In fact, however, only those who have no land at home are forced to become hunters.Their days are often harder than those of those who live off the fields.

Make money by inventing?

This is fine.After all, the traversers are standing on the shoulders of giants. If they can come up with prescriptions for glass, soap, wine, etc., they can indeed make a lot of money.However, as long as you think about it carefully, you can know that this is not an easy task.

Even if the prescription is correct, the relevant equipment can be manufactured. For a penniless traveler like Qi Mingcheng, where is his capital?Even if he has capital, in this era without intellectual property rights, can he ensure that these prescriptions that are making money every day will not attract people to rob?

Besides glass, glass appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and there were sunglasses in the Song Dynasty.Qi Mingcheng is now in the Jing Dynasty, which is an era unprecedented in the history of the Hua Kingdom, but according to memory, the Jing Dynasty is similar to the Ming Dynasty in the history of the Hua Kingdom. Although the social atmosphere and some technological developments are not the same, but This place is the same as the Ming Dynasty, even presbyopic glasses have appeared, it is really not Qi Mingcheng's turn to invent glass!

Besides soap, if you can really make all kinds of soaps, you can actually make money in ancient times.

However, the problem now is that even though Qi Mingcheng is very knowledgeable and knows the recipe of handmade soap, there is a sodium hydroxide in the recipe.In ancient times, he could not easily buy sodium hydroxide in supermarkets or pharmacies like modern people, so this prescription was useless.

Of course, take clear saturated lime water and slowly add soda ash solution to it, so that sodium hydroxide solution can be obtained, so where does soda ash come from?The industrial reduction method cannot be realized in this era.He can obtain plant alkaloids by calcining plants, but plant alkaloids cannot be equivalent to soda ash.To obtain soda ash, he had to find other methods. The technology was backward and the cost was high, so the gain outweighed the loss.

If a chemist traveled back to ancient times, maybe he could make soap smoothly, but Qi Mingcheng felt that he couldn't do it anyway.

Besides wine, after grapes were introduced to Xinjiang, there will be wine in Xinjiang.In the Han Dynasty, wine production was already on a large scale; in the Tang Dynasty, the wine produced not only had good color and luster, but also had a good color; in the Yuan Dynasty, the production areas of grapes and wine expanded again and again, ushering in a heyday.What does this mean?This means that Jingchao has no shortage of wine.It is impossible for Qi Mingcheng to make a lot of money by relying on this recipe.

If grapes had already been planted in the villages near the Qi family and the Zhao family, then Qi Mingcheng could still make wine and sell it to the nearby people.The problem is that firstly, no one grows grapes in this area, and secondly, many local people can brew rice wine. They have rice wine to drink, and they don’t want to spend a lot of money to buy wine to drink.

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In this way, it seems that all ways to make money have been blocked.

Qi Mingcheng sighed deeply.With his current dilapidated body, he can't even go out to work or run a business.

So, what about taking the imperial examination road?

Qi Mingcheng is indeed a top student. If he had grown up in this ancient environment, then he might be able to pass the examination of a scholar and then a scholar.But in fact, he was 15 years old when he crossed over. Even if he had the memory of his original body, it was just a memory. If he wanted to turn these memories into his own skills, he had to continue to work hard.In his current state where he can't write traditional Chinese characters well, he will go to the imperial examination?

Come on!

Being a top student in modern times doesn't mean he's still a top student when he travels back to ancient times!

The ancients were really not stupid. Compared with Qi Mingcheng, who was too dependent on technology and became inattentive and indiscriminate, the ancients were actually more capable of surviving.Take Zhao Dalang as an example. He can farm, raise livestock, build houses, and do carpentry... And he is not special. All the men in the village who are as old as him actually have these skills. , You don't need to ask others to do your own things.

Moreover, from the limited memories of the original body—there are actually very few memories about the future events in his mind. After all, he later became a lowly citizen, so he was confined to a small courtyard, so many things only know a rough idea— —The next few years will be years of intense political struggles, and the officialdom will become darker and darker. I don’t know how many officials lost their lives, and I don’t know how many families were ransacked.

If Qi Mingcheng really wanted to be an official, then he might as well throw his pen and join the army, which would be safer instead.

Qi Mingcheng sighed again.He looked at his thin arms with distaste, and the pride that belonged to the traverser immediately disappeared.

However, Qi Mingcheng will never give up!Although he felt that the road ahead was difficult, he did not lose confidence.The road is taken step by step, and money is earned little by little. Even if there is no shortcut, he started from nothing in modern times. Could it be impossible to start from nothing in ancient times?

Then again, although Qi Mingcheng has clearly realized his own shortcomings compared to many time-traveling predecessors, he is also aware of his own advantages!Some time-travel novels are indeed too obscene, but art is separated from life, and the advantages of time-travelers naturally still exist.

After all, they are the ones standing on the shoulders of modern civilization!

Well, the civilized Qi Mingcheng is staring at Zhao's pigsty and the big eyes of the pigs inside.

I am not afraid of your jokes, although Qi Mingcheng is an orphan, but the orphanage he lives in is located in a third-tier city, and he has never had any relatives in the countryside to go with, so this is the first time Qi Mingcheng has had close contact with a "pig".It's not like the one you saw on TV!

The Zhao family has two pigs.Qi Erniang took care of Mrs. Zhao after taking the medicine, and then went up the mountain with a basket on her back to hunt pigweed.

Qi Mingcheng also wanted to follow, but was stopped by Qi Erniang.

"You've just been seriously ill, and you've gotten better just now, so it's better not to go out for a shower." Qi Erniang said.

Qi Mingcheng had no choice but to stay at home honestly.

The village where the Zhao family lives is called Shanglai Village, and most people in the village are surnamed Lu; the village where the Qi family lives is called Xiahe Village, and most people in the village are surnamed Wu and Qi.The two villages are not far from each other, and it takes only half an hour to walk there.The eldest sister of the Qi family married in the village of Xiahe.

Based on his original body's memory, Qi Mingcheng is fairly familiar with Xiahe Village, but he really doesn't know anything about Shanglai Village.

Because the Zhao family is a foreigner, the house was built alone at the end of the village. The nearest house in the village is more than 50 meters away. Usually, few people come to visit, but it can be quiet.When Mrs. Zhao was not ill, she didn't like to get together and gossip, she was a bit "high-minded".

Such estranged neighbors are actually rare in this era.However, Qi Mingcheng from modern times is very adaptable to this.

Qi Mingcheng saw that the sunshine was good, so he found a branch and squatted in the yard to practice calligraphy.

According to his memory, he used branches to write traditional Chinese characters on the mud.

It is easy to get dizzy after squatting for a long time, so every time Qi Mingcheng writes a few words, he will stand up and walk around, and by the way, use the sole of his shoes to erase all the words he has written.Zhao Sanlang is taking care of the old lady in the house, so don't let him see such ugly characters.Otherwise, he must have doubts in his heart!

When Qi Erniang came home, the Zhao family's eldest son also came back from the town.

Seeing Qi Mingcheng walking around the yard, Zhao Dalang breathed a sigh of relief.

Ever since Qi Mingcheng "married" here, he has been sick all the time because of his impatience, but Zhao Dalang thought that his dead brother wanted to take this "daughter-in-law" away, and Qi Mingcheng got sick only when he was entangled in Yin Qi.The loyal Da Lang couldn't help feeling guilty towards Qi Mingcheng.

Zhao Dalang called Qi Mingcheng brother, while Zhao Silang and Zhao Xiaomei called Qi Mingcheng Brother Mingcheng just like Zhao Sanlang.

Zhao Silang and Zhao Xiaomei are also twins, but they don't look much alike.They are actually the same age as Qi Mingcheng, counting the months, they are even a little older than Qi Mingcheng.Qi Mingcheng is the youngest in this family.Because of being weak and sick since childhood, Qi Mingcheng is also the shortest.

Zhao Dalang took his siblings to greet the old lady first, and when he came out of the house, he found Qi Erniang who was chopping pig grass in the yard, handed the red dates in his arms to Qi Erniang, and said, "Erniang , this one is for Brother to make tea and replenish blood. I saw that his face was too pale."

Qi Erniang didn't dare to take it, and quickly said: "Save it for mother to eat..."

"Can I be less filial to my mother? Mother has it, and this is for brother." Zhao Dalang stuffed the red dates into his wife's arms.As an eldest uncle, it's not easy for him to take care of Qi Mingcheng directly. Fortunately, his wife is Qi Mingcheng's biological sister, so he will never let Qi Mingcheng lose.

Qi Erniang let out a "hmm".

Zhao Dalang wanted to take the knife from Qi Erniang's hand, and planned to help her chop pig grass.

Qi Erniang pushed him and said in a low voice, "You just came back from outside, go wash your face first."

Standing not far away, Qi Mingcheng looked up at the sky. Although he couldn't hear what his sister and brother-in-law were saying, he still felt like he was being fed a handful of dog food!