Chapter 1189 Deliberation

For several days in a row, Shen Hao was sorting out what he had obtained from the Royal Library.

While filling up my many doubts about evil beasts, there are still many details that are still blank. For example, the Royal Library did not clearly say how many evil beasts there are. And in the end why the evil beasts gathered in the evil sea to fight to the death with the three extremely powerful evil sects.

Finally, the panic of the evil beasts in the troubled world is over, why the evil sects in the world will be wiped out quickly. And what did Zongmen and the Jing Dynasty do at that time?

Although there is no direct text for these blanks, Shen Hao still found some content that can be used to deduce after synthesizing some other documents on the third floor above ground and the two underground floors.

For example, some documents about the former dynasty, that is, the "Jing Dynasty" recorded the complete process of the Jing Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and it was recorded according to the chronology. Calculating the time, it can be clearly seen that the decline of the Jing Dynasty almost coincides with the time of "Evil Beasts and Troubled Times".

This seems reasonable but does not stand up to scrutiny.

From the literature before "Evil Beasts and Troubled Times", we can actually see that the Jing Dynasty was not very different from the current Jing Dynasty. Apart from some differences in the royal family and the law, the living conditions of the people in various places are actually the same as they are now. Jingjiu is on a mission. The big deal is that the external enemies, that is, the barbarians were relatively strong at the time, which led to endless wars.

In terms of national strength, the Jing Dynasty can undoubtedly be called powerful.

Moreover, although there were not so many teleportation circles in the Jing Dynasty, there were still teleportation circles, which had considerable integration ability and effectiveness for the ruling party.

Even in the catastrophe of "evil beasts and troubled times", the Jing Dynasty did not lose its functions as a ruler, and it seemed that it did not slack off in organizing resistance, rescue, and evacuation.

So logically speaking, after the "evil beasts and troubled times" have passed, Jingchao should be more united after all this tempering, and it should be able to usher in a growth in the national fortune. But the fact is just the opposite.

It's like the old Jing dynasty defeated the barbarians in the south. When the whole country was supposed to celebrate and use the resources in the south to improve the people's livelihood in the country, the days went from bad to worse. Not to mention that this happened, just thinking about it feels weird.

This was discovered by Shen Hao after careful combing. Oddities hidden beneath the surface of thick literature.

What about on the surface? What was the reason for the decline of the former Jing Dynasty?

dead!

That's right, on the bright side, the decline of the former Jing Dynasty was due to the dead.

Certainly not ordinary people who died. It was the person in power at the top of the right who died at the time. According to the records, five emperors died of illness successively during the 30 years after the Jing Dynasty survived the "evil and beast chaos", and dozens of military and government officials died of accidents or illnesses. Even this rare and weird situation is dubbed "bad luck" in historical materials.

Under the rule of the imperial system, the change of the power holder at the top is definitely a major event that affects everyone from top to bottom. Looking at the Jing old dynasty, Emperor Shu has not fully figured out all the relationships between his superiors and subordinates until he ascended the throne. It is conceivable how much impact a change of imperial power will have.

And what about the former Jing Dynasty? In thirty years, five emperors and dozens of top officials and generals have changed.

How much internal waste will such frequent power changes produce? How many undercurrents and hidden dangers will it cause the underlying structure?

Especially in local and military ranks. What happens in your heart when you change back and forth all day long at the top, and there is no restriction at the bottom?

The first thing the top does is to stabilize the bottom. This undoubtedly turns a blind eye to the personnel and affairs below in disguise, which increases the space for various selfish desires to ferment below.

Thirty years is not long, and it is actually not short. The most serious thing is that these 30 years are enough to breed a stubborn illness and bad habits in the underlying power structure of the former Jing Dynasty.

From then on, the emperors of the former Jing Dynasty seemed to be short-lived. Until the fall of the Jing Dynasty, no emperor lived past the age of fifty, and the longest reign was only eleven years. The shortest is only two years.

The history books say that they all "died of illness" or "disease from overwork".

However, there are also anecdotal speculations that the royal family of the Jing Dynasty had some kind of family disease, and that was the fundamental reason why the emperors of the Jing Dynasty did not live long. In addition, rumors such as "murder of the royal family" or "spells haunting the palace" have been recorded in the literature. It seems that the real reason cannot be tested, and the different opinions have cast a black veil on the former Jing Dynasty.

When Shen Hao sorted out these situations, he scoffed. He didn't know what the person who wrote these historical materials thought at the time, anyway, he didn't believe in the sayings such as "sickness from overwork" or "murder".

It's not the poor people, what is the emperor's food and drink that is not high-quality goods? It's just a little tired, but relying on elixir and warming can completely stabilize the bones of the body, so why do you say "overworked"? Still overworked and died of illness? nonsense!

It is even more nonsense to use spells to murder the emperor. Is it really so easy to deal with the emperor? People who can write these reasons are also very clear-headed.

Finally, family disease, this is a little bit possible. But it doesn't make sense either. Because the Jing Dynasty royal family is not limited to the emperor, not everyone in the huge royal family is short-lived, there are also long-lived people, and quite a few.

From Shen Hao's point of view, it should be some kind of external reason. But what exactly he couldn't figure out. In short, along with the frequent changes of high-level power in the Jing Dynasty, the power at the lower level began to deteriorate, and the entire Jing Dynasty gradually degenerated as a whole, and the situation became more and more serious, directly affecting the survival of ordinary people everywhere.

When a dynasty makes people at the lowest level unable to survive, it means that its path has come to an end.

However, what overthrew the Jing Dynasty was not the anger ignited in various places, but the barbarians in the south who thought they had an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Rushed across the bamboo road, broke through the passes, drove straight in and invaded like fire from the southwest, and quickly occupied more than half of the land of Jingchao.

The human race is to the barbarian race, and the barbarian race is actually the same to the human race. The same thing is done on each side's land. Therefore, as miserable as the barbarians are now, as miserable as the human race was then.

At this point, more than a thousand years after experiencing the "evil beasts and troubled times", the Jing Dynasty was completely destroyed. At that time, the Yang family, which was the clan of the Jing Dynasty, took advantage of the momentum. Relying on years of accumulation and preparation, while stabilizing the foundation, while absorbing scattered forces from the surrounding area to strengthen themselves, they finally drove away the barbarians and established the world, and then set the capital Tianlan City as the imperial city , established Jingjiu Dynasty.

After that, it will be recorded in the historical records of the old Jing Dynasty. Compared with the previous dynasties, the emperors of the old Jing dynasty were all diligent, and their life expectancy was not too short, some were eighty or ninety years old, and some were sixty or seventy years old. Moreover, the development of the old Jing Dynasty was very stable. Now that Yang Shu has ascended the throne, Shen Hao even feels that this is the time of its heyday.

Because not only is the interior stable and prosperous, but even the only external enemy has been buried in the soil. Isn't this the peak?