Daily Life In Qin Dynasty

When he first discovered that he had traveled through time, Mo Jun refused in his heart.

After all, as an agricultural graduate student, I have to work in the fields frequently; although my tutor is a bit lazy and often works overtime; even though I worked hard to raise my graduation thesis, it was accidentally eaten...

But the thought of committing suicide never occurred to him.

And in his opinion, even if he really wants to go on the road, wouldn't it be a loss if he doesn't bring a few thieves as companions?

However, things are unpredictable.

Because his "graduation thesis" was accidentally eaten by someone, and the culprit could not be found for a while, Mo Jun was so angry that he couldn't sleep all night, so he found an Internet cafe, went in and played two DNFs, just to commemorate himself. Lost youth.

As a result, the eyes closed and opened.

When I woke up again, I had already appeared in a completely unfamiliar place - the end of the Warring States Period.

Or Qin.

Traveling through time is not a good experience. The confusion of entering a foreign place for the first time, the panic of being alone... is by no means as beautiful as imagined.

But there is an old saying that goes well.

Life is like that. Since you can't resist, just enjoy it quietly!

After a whole night of thinking.

Now he has accepted his new identity.

······

Name: Mo Jun.

Age: 12 years old.

Identity: gangster, refugee, savage, street kid...

This is how Mo Jun found the extremely limited information about himself in this world from his original memory.

No room.

No land.

Even nationality is uncertain.

Because although Mo Jun's family lived in the Qin State before, as mentioned before, their family can only be regarded as refugees, not even civilians.

no way.

It's not that Mo Jun's family doesn't want to guard one-third of an acre of land and live a simple life with men farming and women weaving.

But reality simply doesn’t allow it. !

Qin Wangzheng for three years. It is a great year of hunger and food shortage.

The fourth year of Qin Wangzheng's reign. The locust plague covers the whole world, starting in July and ending in October. Then there was a great epidemic in the world. The original mother and brother both died of the epidemic. The whole family was forced to flee their hometown.

The sixth year of Qin Wangzheng's reign. The fish in the river were abundant, the water level of the Yellow River was rising, and the west of the river was flooded. The family once again fled to the east of the river.

same year.

Some bandits took the opportunity to rob the wild people. The original person's father died under a butcher's knife, and the original person was sold into slavery and became a field slave of a small landowner.

In a way, although the original person had no culture, his knowledge might be greater than that of Mr. Mo from two thousand years later. Because two thousand years later, Mo Jun had never left the country even once, while the original person had moved back and forth several times within the three kingdoms of Qin, Han, and Wei in order to avoid disasters when he was less than ten years old.

The reason for this result.

One is because natural and man-made disasters did occur too frequently in this era. After all, at the end of the Warring States Period... no, to be precise, it should be the entire Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which had been in chaos.

The second is that in this era, ordinary people are too weak to resist disasters.

It is better to be a peace dog than a person in troubled times.

After reading all the memories of the original person, Mr. Mo truly realized the bitterness and suffering contained in these ten short words.

Living in such times.

From birth, the original body has been lost.

Faced with a natural disaster at a young age, he lost his hometown and half of his family ties. Faced with a man-made disaster when he was young, he lost the other half of his family and all his belongings.

And the only 'precious thing' left to him is probably his own name.

And even the name [Mo Jun] is actually not precious.

At present, among names, the most precious thing is the ‘surname’, not the ‘first name’.

"The Book of Songs Ya Tianbao" once said: "The common people are also the surnames of the officials and clans.

In short, in this era, only princes and nobles deserve to have surnames. As for ordinary people, they can only have a 'first name' but not a 'surname'.

But for the original person, having such a 'name' full of poetry and knowledge is already extremely precious.

Knowledge is precious and rare.

Given the living conditions and cultural level of the original family, it was obviously impossible to come up with such a name that was full of knowledge.

In fact.

The original name was "Black Mountain", which came from a large black mountain near the village at that time.

But on the day Mo Jun was born, a Confucian scholar happened to travel here and asked for a bowl of water from Mo Jun's family. When he saw Mo Jun was born, he added a word to the word "Black Mountain" and took out the word "Mo Jun". As a return gift in your name.

And this name later became what [Mo Jun] was most proud of.

Although he was sold as a field slave, the funny thing is that from the original person's memory, Mo Jun found that this period of time was actually the happiest time since the original person was born.

Even though it was very hard to work in the fields and even sometimes get whipped by the master, at least he could be stable. Although he didn't have enough to eat, he could ensure that he wouldn't starve to death.

This kind of spiritual security was extremely rare for Mr. Mo in the past ten years.

The life of a field slave lasted for more than a year.

Until half a month ago.

The state began to conquer corvées from local counties.

······

After Shang Jun's reform, the new "military merit system" formulated by the Qin Dynasty set off a craze for the whole country to join the army.

"The people are brave enough to fight in public and timid to fight privately."

"You will be happy when you hear the battle."

These are records from later generations.

According to the memory of the original person, these records cannot be said to be wrong, but they are not comprehensive enough.

"Being afraid of private fights" is true, because after Shang Yang's reform, the Qin Dynasty implemented a system of heavy penalties for minor crimes and a system of joint imprisonment. If one person breaks the law, the whole family will be imprisoned.

"The people are brave enough to fight in public" is not necessarily true. At least in Mo Jun's impression, there are indeed many people at the bottom of the Qin Dynasty who are keen to join the army, but a large part of them have the original goal just to have food to eat.

In this troubled world where natural and man-made disasters are rampant, human life is as cheap as grass, and just for a mouthful of food is enough for countless people to fight for it.

What's more, the treatment of the Qin State's corvee service is not bad, and even for ordinary refugees, it is already excellent.

As for "being happy when hearing war", these basically have nothing to do with ordinary people.

The military merit and title system of the Qin Dynasty can indeed be regarded as the best way for lower-class civilians to cross class in all dynasties.

But the question is how high is the probability?

For ordinary people, once you are on a frontal battlefield, if you can kill others, it means that there is a high probability that others can kill you.

It is estimated that only one out of ten people can kill the enemy and still survive.

Therefore, "you will be happy when you hear the war." Probably only the truly great nobles would have such a reaction. Because only those people can be sure to gain credit on the battlefield and ensure their own survival.

As for the middle class, especially small landowners and small nobles, for them, the disadvantages of joining the army far outweigh the advantages.

Therefore, something like "serving on behalf of others" was derived.

…