In Song Dynasty, Mizhi Mahu Valley was called Mahuchuan. From the name, it is the breeding base of imperial war and labor horses, and most of them are horse farmers in the ditch. The Li family should belong to one of them. As a base, we must invest. Correspondingly, in addition to ensuring food and clothing, horse owners will have a slight surplus if they do well. Li Zicheng's ancestors were farmers and lived in a foreign land. In addition to hard farming, they are also committed to the work of raising horses in the court. It is also reasonable to get rich because of this. Just when Bian Dahou was digging a grave, he led hundreds of people from the government to see "Thief's Village ... set fire to the thief's old kiln at night", which was enough to show that the Li family was by no means comparable to ordinary farmers.
There is a cave in Niuxinshan, not far from Changmao, called Wang Chuang Kiln or Langong Kiln. Legend has it that it was the cave where people were hired to live. In fact, most of the land there should be surnamed Li, and those caves are just temporary houses for spring planting and autumn harvest or places where long-term workers live. Now the ancient village nest, from a distance, is also a lush. Although it is a barren slope at close range, you can vaguely smell the taste of ample food and clothing in those days. That dry well, which no one drinks, squatted there quietly, as if staring at the old home silently, expecting the return of its owner.
He who knows worries and loses. Success also raises horses, and failure also raises horses. If Li Zicheng's ancestors didn't raise horses for the imperial court, if their life was not so good, it would be entirely possible to live an ordinary life only by relying on the vast land on the sunny slope of Hengshan Mountain and their hard-working spirit. It is not good to raise a horse. From the analysis of historical practice, the result of raising horses has brought them a heavy disaster.
In the Romance of Yongchang, Mr. Li said that he should be a man who is familiar with writing and ink, yin and yang and feng shui. In other words, he has enough capital to invite a Mr. Feng Shui to travel far and near the water to find a beautiful city of Oni Tsuka, buy all the land and plant more than 1000 trees. This cemetery is called Heifengzi, and now it is called Lao Fen Collapse. Yamagata terrain like a giant turtle crawling on the ground, magnificent. The ancestral graves are called "the best". Now it is incomplete, calling for protection and maintenance!
To sum up, Li Zicheng's background is not very bitter, but poor and rich. If it's really a poor and middle-class peasant, with no clothes on and no food to eat, Li Shouzhong can't afford a cemetery about a few acres wide or a young stepmother.
What was Li Zicheng like as a teenager?
From the complicated process of giving birth to this child, it is not difficult to imagine that Li Zicheng enjoyed the treatment that ordinary children of farmers in northern Shaanxi could not enjoy as soon as he was born. Careful care, double care, as far as modern people are concerned, grandpa loves his grandson more than Laozi loves his son.
. As the saying goes, tigers always eat their sons, and people always cherish their sons. Li Shouzhong's son in his later years not only surpassed his grandfather's love for his grandson, but also hoped for revenge on this little man, and the degree of his love can be imagined.
What's more, he still has a little property left over from several generations, and he would rather spend it all on this child. Therefore, when Li Zicheng was not sensible, doting and indulging surrounded him tightly and accompanied him firmly, and that distinctive consciousness took root, sprouted and grew up in his heart early. Arrogant, overbearing, overbearing, and extravagant characters are thus formed.
Being lazy is a habit of parents, and being competitive is an innate nature. Plus, he has a nephew Lee Guo of similar age to play with him. How can he walk into the book? At this time, Li Shouzhong is in a very difficult position, because of his wife's new funeral, his family wealth will be empty, and his son's abrasive. However, the belief of "expecting your own success" never fails. He said: "Huang Laier has made a fortune. What can he do if he plays crime?" (Look at Range Rover) Even if he is naughty, he thinks it is an advantage. If you can't learn, force him to herd sheep. But sheep can be divided into two rows like 54%, obey his command, and sleep on the cape when herding sheep, which is self-contained; He was told to go out and dig wild vegetables, but he and a group of partners played "sitting on the mound" and everyone kowtowed to him three times. A little longer, tell him to strike while the iron is hot and work as a waiter in a restaurant or something. , have accomplished nothing. I am only interested in playing with fists and sticks. Helpless and loyal, we can only let nature take its course and let it drift. So the boy mixed up with a group of idlers and green-skinned bachelors, making trouble, eating and drinking, and never cared about his worries. Li Zicheng was born a big man with great arm strength. Fortunately, he is straightforward in nature and never cheats others for no reason. "Whenever there is injustice in the countryside, it is always good to stand up for others. All the bachelors were beaten by him and naturally pushed him. " (Li's "The Romance of Yongchang") Therefore, it can't be said that Li Zicheng was a local ruffian like "village man" and "village cover" at that time. It can also be said that he was a character who ran wild in the village and caught all the stolen goods. Li Zicheng is bohemian. An uncle (my nephew Lee Guo) kept all the small property he left behind, and there was nothing they could do.
Seeing that his possessions were exhausted and he grew up, Li Shouzhong tried every means to marry his son and let him live a stable life.
There is an old saying in northern Shaanxi: you are not a big boy until you die.
That winter, it was freezing, and the father and son sold porcelain together. On the way, my father accidentally fell from his post and died unfortunately. This is a serious blow to Li Zicheng.
This man is more unruly. In the village, everyone is afraid of him.
To make matters worse, his daughter-in-law was caught red-handed by a quilt on her way back from abroad and stabbed to death, so she was jailed.
Li Zicheng's maturity was gradually formed after experiencing the complete decline of the family, the sudden death of his father, the downsizing of post servants, the murder of the broken marriage and so on. Without these changes and blows, if my father still has a lot of money to support him, Li Zicheng may not be a ruffian in a deep mountain ditch, but at most he will be a mountain king.