Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 7: Divine Book, Help Me

Yuanye didn't know the burden of sesame oil on farmers. After Yayoi left, he had been burning lamps and burning oil, which was very wasteful.

Firstly, it was only eight o'clock in the evening, and he couldn't fall asleep even if he was very tired after climbing the mountain all day; secondly, in the current situation, he was under great psychological pressure and couldn't fall asleep at all.

Suddenly traveling back to the Warring States Period in Japan, where should I go?
What should I do?
The current time is probably 1550 or 1551 AD. China should be under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. Which emperor is in power? Is my historical mission to fight against the Qing Dynasty and save Chinese civilization?
With his good knowledge of high school history, Yuan Ye counted on his fingers for a long time and estimated that the "clean family" Jiajing Emperor seemed to be in power at this time. Then... Jiajing seemed to have been in power for more than 40 years, followed by Longqing Emperor, who seemed to have been in power for about 6 or 7 years, and then the Wanli Emperor, who seemed to have been in power for about 50 years. After the Wanli Emperor, there was the Chongzhen Emperor, who seemed to have been in power for more than ten years...

The calculation stops here. There are still nearly a hundred years or four or five generations before the Qing Dynasty enters the Central Plains. If it were Peng Zu, he could probably make it to that age - Peng Zu lived to be eight hundred years old, but he used the small Jiazi method of counting years, with sixty days as one year, so he could have lived to be about one hundred and thirty or one hundred and forty years. Maybe he could have made it to that age?

But even if he survived, and went on to support the Ming Dynasty and fight against the Qing Dynasty when he was over a hundred years old... this is a bit too ridiculous!
Then go back and hold high the red flag?
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the lives of ordinary people seemed to be acceptable and they could barely fill their stomachs. Later, Zhang Juzheng's reforms eased class contradictions. Moreover, with the current level of productivity, there was no working class. Could the red flag be held high relying solely on the peasants and old intellectuals who were in a state of subsistence and food?
I feel like the timing is not right, there is a lack of foundation, the possibility of success is very small, but the probability of being treated as a monster and beheaded is very high.

What if Ming Dynasty became a rich man, made a lot of money, promoted scientific theories, and started the industrial revolution? It was a bit risky. Without destruction, there would be no construction. The feudal dynasty would find it difficult to adapt to the progress of science, culture and technology. It would definitely face all kinds of attacks, and it might not be as smooth as in the time-travel novels.

If I die, maybe those scientific theories will benefit European countries, making China's future even worse. But it seems that there is no other way to go. So I have to weigh the pros and cons carefully. If I can only go this way...

How to get back to Ming? The straight-line distance alone is more than 2,000 kilometers...

It is impossible now to buy a plane ticket and fly back to China in three and a half hours.

Yuanye pondered there for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more difficult it seemed.

With the transportation and living conditions of that era, if he traveled alone, even if he had anti-inflammatory drugs and was not too afraid of getting sick, the continuous bumps and acclimatization could still take his life. What's more, the Muromachi shogunate had basically lost the ability to control the entire country. Many farmers on land were half civilians and half bandits, not to mention the sea, where 80% of pirates were everywhere. He might have eaten either flat noodles or wonton noodles before he even reached southern Kyushu.

Even if I was lucky enough to get to Southern Kyushu without any problems, it seemed like it was still the "trade-friendly" period, so how could I get on the tribute ship of the Ming Dynasty? This was a popular project that was sure to make money, and every year people would fight for the quota. How could a foreigner with no foundation like me get on the official ship?

Even now, Sino-Japanese trade may have been cut off, and there is no legal way to go to Ming Dynasty...

If they sneaked in by smuggling ships, Zhu Yuanzhang's Yellow Book and Baojia Law were unlikely to be just for show. Mandarin and Ming Dynasty Chinese are probably quite different. What if they were mistaken for Japanese pirates and beheaded due to language barriers?

Don't be complacent. The "overseas alien theory" that is popular in Qidian novels is not applicable. As long as you don't have a household registration permit, you will be reported if you want to sneak into the coastal areas. Otherwise, whoever shelters this "overseas alien" will be punished. At the very least, the family will be bankrupt, and at the worst, it will be classified as colluding with pirates and the whole family will be confiscated as government slaves.

Oh, and I don't have money to buy a boat ticket. I guess it's unlikely that a smuggling pirate ship would accept credit card payments. Even if I could pay, my personal safety is not guaranteed at all. Anyone with a little bit of brains would never take such a boat - what good can a pirate do? You'll be devastated halfway through the journey, and your life will be worse than death!

It is already difficult enough to travel alone, and if you bring along a stupid son who is unconscious, fat and handsome, and has no ability to protect himself, the difficulty will increase tenfold.

No matter how you think about it, this is hell difficulty!
Yuanye calculated and calculated, and found that he seemed to be trapped in Japan, and he was a poor man. Apart from a stupid son, he had no gold, no silver, and not even a copper coin.

The reality is despairing.

However, he had a difficult childhood and had a very strong character. It didn't take long for him to suppress negative emotions such as fear and depression.

Among the sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes, Qian is the first one, and the first sentence of it is "Heaven moves with vigor and vitality, and a gentleman should constantly strive to strengthen himself."

Will being afraid prevent me from getting beaten? Will being depressed make things better?

Never!
There is no point in living in this world being afraid of weakness and depression. The only way to survive is to face difficulties head-on and constantly strive for self-improvement.

No matter how difficult it is, you must live well. Only by living can there be hope. Maybe one day when the mountain fog rises again, you will be able to carry your stupid son back to the modern world.

It was determined that under the current conditions, it was unrealistic to bring his stupid son back to Ming Dynasty directly. The possibility of the group being wiped out along the way was as high as 99%. Yuanye immediately began to check the resources at hand and changed the first goal to survival. He had to ensure that he could survive safely before talking about other things.

He opened his backpack and began to take things out.

A set of quick-drying clothes, a bottle of sports drink, a bottle of purified water, a pack of compressed biscuits, two Snickers bars, a bottle of tooth cleaning gel, two large-capacity power banks, a bag of garbage bags, a small bundle of lifelines, a small flashlight, a box of carbon fishing line, a high-voltage electric baton, a signal gun, and a first aid kit. The first aid kit contains a small pack of Band-Aids, a can of Yunnan Baiyao spray, a pack of quick hemostatic powder, a roll of disinfectant bandages, a can of insect repellent spray, a small pack of sunburn masks, a small bottle of loratadine, a cardiotonic shot, a plate each of painkillers, anti-inflammatory antibiotics, and antipyretics, a pack of heat dissipation patches, and a pack of alcohol wipes.

In addition, he and his silly son also carried two smart phones, two leather wallets (containing several banknotes, Suica cards, credit cards, and membership cards), and half a pack of wet wipes.

These things are more than enough for short-term hiking, but they are not enough to deal with troubled times.

After counting the items, Yuanye thought about it for a while and estimated the uses of each of these items. He found that there were not many useful items, not many that could be sold, and even fewer that were worth money. At most, they could only slightly solve the urgent need...

Of course, it is enough to solve the immediate problem. There is no need to worry too much about money. It is impossible to have knowledge beyond this era and still not be able to make money. The main problem now is how to gain a firm foothold and how to save the lives of two people in troubled times.

Personal safety comes first.

He glanced at the medicines in the first aid kit and felt that being a doctor was a good thing. Generally, no one would want to kill a doctor.

On the contrary, most people like to make friends with doctors, just as it is said in Japan's "Kojiki": There are three kinds of friends you need in life: one is a wise man, the second is a noble person, and the third is a doctor.

With this halo, the mortality rate in troubled times is reduced by at least 80%.

There are simply too few of these medicines. Even if we use them sparingly, we can only treat seven or eight people.

The one who specializes in treating dying noble warriors?

Are you going to wander around in this chaotic world with your stupid son to find him?
Yuanye's mind was racing, he made various assumptions and then rejected them one by one, and suddenly he remembered something, and quickly reached for his phone to turn it on - after discovering that there was a high possibility that he would travel through time, he had turned off his phone, and now it still had a little over 70% battery left.

Of course, there was still no signal on the cell phone, and small programs like the bus app were of no use. Even the local map was barely usable. In the past five hundred years, the river had changed its course several times, and the hills were most likely flattened, so its reference value was greatly reduced. At this time, he remembered a book in the reader.

His eyes quickly swept over the crappy books like "My Girlfriend is a Villain" and "Absolute Number One" which were of no help to the current situation - although those guys also traveled to Japan, it was a modern society after all, and if they didn't do well, they wouldn't starve to death even if they went to a construction site to carry bricks. It could only be considered an ordinary, very basic time travel. His situation was much more serious. Not to mention that he was almost out of food, even his personal safety was not guaranteed, and he had a stupid son with him. The whole group could be wiped out at any time.

His eyes finally fell on the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual", which was the life-saving book he was looking for.

He used to often ask for books in the book club. One time, he saw group members discussing the "Three Great Books on Time Travel". A kind-hearted person posted the e-book in the group for everyone to appreciate and browse. Out of curiosity, he downloaded it to take a look.

"Militia Military Training Manual" and "Friends of Military and Civilian Dual-Use Talents" were of no use to him. He had never thought that he would really travel through time one day. He flipped through them to satisfy his curiosity and then deleted them. However, because he liked mountain climbing, he found the part about Chinese herbal medicine in the "Barefoot Doctor Manual" very interesting, so he kept it in his reader.

Now, this book is a life saver in every sense of the word.

This magical book is not like the traditional training of Western medicine, which first teaches anatomy, pathology, and pharmacology. Instead, it focuses on specific problems, simplifies the complex, and popularizes the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in the most simple language and the most practical methods. It covers everything from observation, auscultation, questioning, and palpation to acupuncture, from the collection and preparation of Chinese herbal medicines to the practical operation of Western medicine, and achieves "as long as you can read, you can be a barefoot doctor and quickly diagnose and treat 99% of common diseases."

This is a magical book that has saved hundreds of millions of lives, and now Yuanye has to rely on it to survive.

Thank you, seniors. Thank you very much!
Yuanye turned off his cell phone after checking it carefully. The cell phone + two large-capacity power banks can only support the cell phone to work for seven to ten days in power saving mode. He saved as much power as possible so that he could copy down the book later.

Of course, this is the result of the hard work of our ancestors, involving ancestral prescriptions contributed by nearly a hundred masters of traditional Chinese medicine. It must not be leaked in medieval Japan, and confidentiality must be ensured.

Copy it in pinyin. As long as my stupid son is still awake, he will be the only one in the world who can understand it. There is no need to worry even if he dies accidentally.

With a clear mind and a rough plan in mind, Yuanye gradually felt tired. He covered Meng Ziqi with his coat, covered himself with quick-drying clothes, curled up into a ball and slowly fell asleep.

I hope my silly son can wake up naturally tomorrow!
I hope the mountain fog will clear tomorrow and I can return to the modern world!

(End of this chapter)