Chapter 107 New National History

In the 4713th year of the Yellow Emperor era, in the year 2016.

In the Chinese National History Archives, an old man wearing modern clothes with ancient style passed through many checkpoints with his certificate and came to a closed archive.

Ding Ding Ding!

After entering his pupils and fingerprints and confirming himself, the door opened.

Inside were rows of bookshelves, with some new and some old books, some sealed in glass cabinets.

"Great, I finally got the application."

Li Sixian was full of excitement. As the most experienced professor of ancient history in China, he also took a lot of effort to get permission from his superiors to come to this archive full of top secrets.

He did not rush to read the materials, but walked step by step, looking at the covers on the bookshelf.

The earliest even had official documents from the Chenzhou period.

It recorded how a merchant family in Chenzhou took steps to save China and eventually led the nation to a greater prosperity.

These official documents are inseparable from two people - Baidi Sect Leader Xu Xuan and Hanchang Emperor Xu Yong. These two names are well-known to everyone in China. Even an illiterate person who has never been to school knows their names.

From national policies, world exchange norms, and political systems to street snacks and roadside clinics, they are all closely related to them.

Official history is always bright and correct.

As a senior ancient history and archaeology expert, Li Sixian wants to know why the two brothers can always walk on the right path, and the ideas they left behind even allow future generations to overcome all crises.

And why the country has not yet declassified the ancient documents of this period.

With all kinds of curiosity, Li Sixian came here.

"Ahem, documents cannot be borrowed or photographed. There is a study room in the corner. You can stay there to write your thesis." At this time, an old man with a cane coughed and reminded.

"Okay, I will abide by the rules." Li Sixian said seriously.

He roughly flipped through his outline. Although he was familiar with it, he still had to check if there was anything missing.

Li Sixian is very ambitious. He plans to write a concise and clear history of the development of Shenzhou and the entire Huameng in one book.

It is also the task assigned to him by his superiors to summarize a historical law centered on Shenzhou and in line with the values ​​of the new era.

Compared with three hundred years ago, human society has undergone great changes.

From the unification of Shenzhou to the Taiping Shang Rebellion in the early years of Taiping, historians call it the embryonic period.

The Taiping Shang Rebellion and the death of Xu Xuan the following year were a turning point. After Emperor Taiping suppressed the rebellion, he did not expand outward, but focused on governing internal affairs. He made a comprehensive review of the relationship between Shenzhou and foreign vassal states, and the policies promulgated are still in use today.

Historians highly praised this and called it "the transition from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization." This is a test point, which is usually tested in high school history.

People in this period began to realize that as an industrial civilization, it is not enough to have guns and steam engines, but must have a matching system.

Emperor Taiping reigned for thirty-five years, followed by Emperor Shengdao.

"Tsk tsk, the Xu Dynasty is really a long-lived dynasty, but longevity is indeed one of the keys to the stability of a dynasty. There have been many cases in history where the emperors were short-lived and the country was in chaos."

Li Sixian recorded his thoughts in a notebook.

They generally gave birth relatively late. Except for the first generation of Hanchang, the princes usually had their first offspring at the age of 25.

Because the emperors of the previous dynasty lived a long life, the emperors who succeeded them were generally around 50 years old.

This age is considered an old man in the eyes of ordinary people, but it is considered a prime age in the political arena; there is vigor, but not too much; there is tact, but not losing principles.

Emperor Shengdao launched a larger-scale and more in-depth colonization. In Li Sixian's words, it brought advanced culture to the surrounding backward civilizations.

After Shengdao was Yongchang, Yongchang had no sense of existence. He was in power for five years, indulged in pleasure, and even restored the eunuch system. Social thought tended to be conservative.

In this regard, historians have evaluated that the development of the country reached its limit and internal contradictions began to emerge. It was during this period that the Western Shenluo and other countries began to have differences with Shenzhou, and some vassal states in distant places began to be out of control and finally parted ways, but there was no war.

After Yongchang, there was Emperor Shenwu. At the beginning of his reign, there was chaos. Then the internal combustion engine began to appear. Shenzhou once again led the trend and national strength began to recover.

There is no need to say much about what happened afterwards. There were ups and downs, and other civilizations in the world also began to enter the historical stage.

After that, the world war broke out, new classes emerged, and power was divided again, until the current situation of one superpower and many strong countries. The one superpower is naturally the current China, and the surrounding allies have established a huge alliance with China as the center.

"The history of the reform of the White Lotus Sect, the White Emperor Sect, and other religions... Oh, here we go again. This period of history is the most difficult to deal with. I just want to know how Master Xu lived to be 110 years old. Maybe it's just because of his good physique."

Li Sixian scratched his head. The history of the White Emperor Sect was too complicated. Although they were Taoists and advocated self-cultivation, it was still hard to say... He began to look for archives on other bookshelves.

"Found it." Li Sixian found relevant books on a bookshelf.

Not to mention the history of Baidi Sect, people's evaluation of them is a group of Taoists who study the Taoism of Immortality all day long, and finally made science.

From gunpowder, guns and cannons to steam engines and internal combustion engines, they have their presence. They did find the Tao, but unfortunately it was not the Tao of Immortality.

The most famous among them is Xu Xuan, the greatest scientist, inventor, and thinker.

Many scientific discoveries are related to him, and the earliest law of mechanics was proposed during the Chenzhou period.

In the ranking of human contributions in the past few years, Xu Xuan ranked first, Xie Miao, who created modern medicine, was also in the top ten, and Chongzhen, who discovered cells, was in the top 100.

There are some myths and legends about him everywhere in the folk. For historians like them, this is actually the limitation of the times.

Because people's scientific level was generally not high at that time and they did not understand science, they could only make far-fetched connections with myths. Some myths were just rumors spread by people at that time.

Hot air balloons were used on a large scale during the Shengdao period, but people with a keen eye found that they actually had a prototype in the Hanchang period.

Perhaps Xu Xuan's so-called flying legend and the so-called real dragon and phoenix were actually just hot air balloons.

Later generations did not think that this behavior was inappropriate. After all, the situation was critical at the time. Only by using religion to establish prestige could people unite. In the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, they also relied on the Ming Cult.

"What is this?" He saw one of the rows of files and was immediately attracted.

"The Heavenly Master used the corpse-driving technique... killed Xu Feng to restore order; during the Chu King period, the Heavenly Master used the corpse-driving technique to kill Haoge, and used fireballs, flying, corpse-driving, and golden light to kill Wu Sangui... In the capital, the Heavenly Master beheaded Emperor Qianqing. In the early years of Hanchang, the Heavenly Master gave the method of planting insects, so that everyone could have extraordinary power and a long life; in the early years of Hanchang, the materials for the construction of the formation and the materials for elixirs are as follows..."

There are reports on Xu Xuan's use of magic to kill people, as well as Xu Yong's comments on this, as well as the memoirs of the people at the scene, and the reports of the Northern Barbarians are all there, and they are very detailed.

The handwriting of the comments is indeed Xu Yong's writing habits when he was young.

"Does magic really exist in the world? Is Xu Xuan really a god? Impossible!" Li Sixian suddenly came into contact with the truth and was a little bit unable to accept it for a while.

In fact, he had already accepted it in his heart.

Because the historical materials are too detailed, and the National History Museum cannot forge materials.

Secondly, the above historical materials explain the mystery of the deaths of Haoge, Wu Sangui, Duoduo, and Ashendra Taiji.

No matter from which aspect, when the Heavenly Master was besieged, the other party had absolute military force, and they were all elite barbarians. It was impossible for hundreds of troops to defeat tens of thousands.

Especially beheading the emperor at the birthday banquet in the capital, it belongs to the category of fantasy. Historians have several theories, such as firearms, hot air balloons, poison gas, and spy warfare.

The official textbooks combine the theories of firearms and spy warfare, because firearms are beyond the times, and spies are everywhere, so they can accomplish such a feat.

This official statement cannot completely convince the rigorous Li Sixian, but he can hardly accept the fact of gods for a while.

Finally, the decryption of the method of planting insects revealed the origin of those great generals on the battlefield in the early years. After Shenwu, these powerful generals almost never appeared. The reason was that the Neijing Pills were used up.

As for the popular powders that replenish qi and blood and strengthen physical fitness, they also originated from the Heavenly Master.

"Is this true?..." Li Sixian muttered to himself.

"It's true, I can testify."

The old man guarding the archives appeared behind him at some point.

"Who are you?"

"The descendant of Gengwu, the fourth generation of the White Emperor Sect's chief priest-"

"Geng Xin."