At this time, Yamazaki was so shocked that his soul was so shocked that he could not speak.
After a long time, he said:
"Are those rumors true, but why didn't the scholars in the school tell them?"
Lin Shuanghe glanced at him and suddenly said:
"Do you know why the first king of the kingdom, Yan Hongcan, abdicated the throne to the king of Shanqiao?"
Yamada immediately replied:
"The Lord of the Flame Red Silkworm Kingdom feels that he is old and weak and can no longer preside over the affairs of the country. Our ancestors are talented in strategy and have the talent to help the world and stabilize the country. Therefore, the Lord of the Flame Red Silkworm Kingdom abdicates the throne."
Lin Shuanghe laughed "hehe", the laughter was full of unexplainable meaning.
"Do you believe this statement?"
Shan Feng couldn't help but feel his face getting hot. Even he himself wouldn't believe this statement.
How could anyone in this world give up the power to command the world?
After he became sensible, he also asked his parents and junior high school students about this matter, but no one could ever give a reasonable explanation.
At this time, Lin Shuanghe's tone was unclear, but he seemed to know the reason and couldn't help but ask:
"Shuanghe, what is the truth of the matter?"
Lin Shuanghe said calmly:
"Back then, because my ancestor witnessed the ancestral god killing the dragon and resisting the divine punishment, he also made great achievements by handing over three volumes of scriptures. He was appointed by the clan leader as a historian, responsible for recording the changes in the tribe.
This duty has been inherited from generation to generation in our clan since then, and at least three people in each generation are responsible for recording the changes in the kingdom.
Although the historian is insignificant, not everyone is qualified to be a historian. However, the fact that the things recorded are authentic and credible prevents most people from doing so.
Haha, not everyone dares to risk great injustice to record the mistakes made by the king."
Shan Zhu felt a chill in his heart, and when he looked at Lin Shuanghe again, there was a hint of respect in his eyes.
Lin Shuanghe paused briefly and then said:
"When Yan Hongcan, the first king of the kingdom, abdicated the throne to Shan Qiao, he was actually forced to do so, but it was not without reason."
Shan Zhi held his breath. He longed to know the true history, but was afraid that his most admired ancestor had used dishonorable means to seize the throne.
Just when he was feeling anxious and complicated, Lin Shuanghe's slow and low voice came to his ears.
"One is because the leader of the Flame Red Silkworm Kingdom wants to restore the system of female power, and she is planning to pass the throne to her youngest daughter, Flame Bird.
Secondly, she discovered that the prestige of Shan Qiao, the then Taifu, among the people had surpassed hers, and she secretly entangled her confidants to take action against Taifu Shan Qiao.
The third reason is that the leader of the Flame Red Silkworm Kingdom wanted to build a mausoleum for himself."
Shan Zhi was startled, and while he breathed a sigh of relief, he was also a little strange and couldn't help but ask:
"How can a woman be the leader of the country because she is weak in temperament? Moreover, most of the three princes, nine ministers, twenty-seven officials, and eighty-one ministers in the country are men. It would be unreasonable for the leader of the Yan Kingdom to restore the old system.
Since she wanted to do something to my ancestors, I can understand why she was forced to abdicate, but why did it become the fault of the leader of the Flame Kingdom to build the mausoleum himself?"
Lin Shuanghe said leisurely:
"There is nothing wrong with building a mausoleum, but not only does she want to build a mausoleum as big as the capital, but she also wants to bury sixteen thousand guards, maids, servants, etc. in the palace, so that these people can continue to serve in the underworld.
To her."
Shan Feng couldn't help but gasped when he heard this.
The national capital, Flame Bay City, covers an area of hundreds of miles. It would take at least ten years to build such a capital city even if the entire country was mobilized.
Besides, she actually wanted to bury tens of thousands of people, so it’s no wonder that she lost the hearts of the people and was forced to give in.
Lin Shuanghe continued:
"At that time, the military power controlled by the leader of the Flame Red Silkworm Kingdom was actually far greater than that of Taifu Shanqiao.
However, the Taifu has been adhering to the ancestor's wish to teach and educate people in the school all his life. Over the past thirty years, almost all the young people in the country have been taught by the Taifu and his disciples.
Therefore, when the Grand Tutor heard that the Flame Red Silkworm was going to attack him, he left Su City alone without any soldiers or swords and went to the capital to question him.
Every time he passed a city, the soldiers in the city immediately turned against him and followed him. By the time he arrived at the capital, there were 100,000 soldiers behind him.
However, the Taifu did not attack the city with force, but ordered all the armored soldiers to sheath their weapons and stop outside the gate of the capital city.
He tied his hands and entered the city alone.
At that time, even Jiuqing Weiwei, who was in charge of the city gate guard, was moved and directly opened the city gate to welcome him into the city.
The Taifu went straight to the palace gate. There were three thousand soldiers in the palace, but no one stopped him. They all faced each other with their arms in hand.
When Taifu walked straight into the palace gate and saw the leader of the Flame Red Silkworm Kingdom, the leader of the Flame Red Silkworm Kingdom immediately understood that the situation was over and gave up the throne to Taifu Shanqiao in despair."
Shan Zhi's eyes were filled with excitement when he heard this, and the blood in his heart was surging and he couldn't control himself. He thought about the scene at that time with fascination.
After Lin Shuanghe finished speaking, he couldn't help but ask:
"My ancestors did nothing wrong in this matter. Why are there no historical records?"
Lin Shuanghe smiled slightly.
"In the final analysis, Tai Tu Shan Qiao, the king of the country, came to the position of some evil, and it is a big taboo to commit the following offenses.
After all, even the leader of the Shanqiao Kingdom did not want anyone to repeat his old tricks in the future, so the historical materials only recorded the abdication event, but the specific circumstances were briefly mentioned.
However, as a historian, I want to record the truth one by one."
Shan Chu suddenly understood why Lin Shuanghe was not welcomed in the court and was assigned to serve him as an attendant.
Just as he was sighing secretly in his heart, he heard Lin Shuanghe continue:
"Didn't King Sun ask before why the rumors about the ancestor gods were only circulated among the people and not written down in writing?
In fact, this is the same thing as the king's abdication. There are always things that some people don't want the people to know.
If the people know that all the good life they have today comes from the blessings of the ancestor gods, they will turn their gratitude to the ancestor gods.
As a result, the cohesion of the people will be greatly weakened, and even the country's credibility will lose most of it.
This is no lie. Over the past 100 years, many groups have been established among the people in the name of ancestors and gods, cheating and destroying the national system."
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Shanchu breathed a sigh of relief, and finally figured out some of the reasons. He looked at the stone wall in front of him, then turned to look at the tall stone statue, and his heart was filled with awe.
"Eh~!"
Suddenly, he discovered something strange at the top of the mountain. He went to other stone walls to investigate, and said hesitantly:
"Shuanghe, did I see it wrong, or is there an error in the depiction on the stone wall? The ancestor god looks very small?"
Lin Shuanghe smiled "haha" and praised:
"Your Majesty has good eyesight."
Then he said:
"Have you noticed any mistakes in the patterns on these stone walls?"
Shan Zhi was slightly startled and looked back and forth on the numerous stone walls for a while. He felt something was wrong, but he never found anything out of the ordinary.
For a moment, I felt like I was stuck in a distant place, looking at flowers in the mist.
Seeing his appearance, Lin Shuanghe smiled and pointed at the flag covering the sky in the stone wall.
"look here!"
The fog in Shan's mind was suddenly broken by lightning, and he shouted:
"This flag is wrong."
He suddenly looked up at the sky.
An unknown distance above the head, a pennant fluttered in the wind, its shadow covering less than half of the sky.
Ever since he was born, he has seen this pennant in the sky.
But also because it has always been manifested in the sky, the creatures in the world have already regarded it as something that exists like the sun, moon and stars, and have never thought of anything else.
At this time, after being pointed out by Lin Shuanghe, Shan Gu suddenly discovered that in the pattern on the stone wall, the flag pan was actually rectangular instead of triangular.
Shan Fang had a vague feeling that a shocking secret would be revealed today.
He didn't care much, and quickly walked around the stone walls to explore, and found that the rectangular flag-pan only appeared before the establishment of the Suzaku Kingdom, and in the patterns after that, the flag-pan in the sky had become a triangle.
Shan Zhi's heart trembled. After being stunned for a moment, he suddenly rushed to Lin Shuanghe, stared at a pair of bloodshot eyes and shouted:
"what on earth is it?"
Lin Shuanghe did not directly answer Shanzhu's inquiry, but waved to him and led him to the first stone wall.
"The answer you want is right here."
Shan Zhi quickly looked towards the stone wall, but all he could see were countless stars streaking across the sky with their light patterns.
It's just that this stone wall is divided into two halves. Although both show meteors flashing by, the number of meteors shown on the left is far more than dozens of times that of the right.
He said doubtfully:
"Isn't this a shooting star?"
Lin Shuanghe stood aside and looked at the stone wall, his eyes a little blurred, as if he was thinking about something.
After a long time, he said:
"Hundreds of years ago, countless meteors fell into this world from outside this world, but later people discovered that they were not meteors, but a group of creatures from outside this world. They were called 'demons'."
Shantou's whole body felt as if he had been struck by lightning. He trembled violently and couldn't help but take a step back. He cried out:
"What?"
Then he took two steps forward and came to Lin Shuanghe and shouted:
"'Heavenly Demon', isn't that a terrifying creature in legend?"
Lin Shuanghe did not explain, but continued:
"Six hundred years after the 'Heavenly Demon' entered this world, another group of outsiders entered this world. They called themselves practitioners and came to kill the 'Heavenly Demon'."
Lin Shuanghe glanced at the stunned Shan Jie.
"The Ancestor God is one of those practitioners.
Aren't you curious why the ancestor god in the stone wall is so small?
Because the ancestor gods are not from this world, these people from outside the world are all short in stature for some reason.
Now you know why our country can develop so fast?
It was the ancestral gods who imparted countless knowledge from outside the world to the tribesmen who were still just tribes at that time.
The reason why the [Conformity Flag] in the sky changed from a rectangular shape to a triangle is precisely because the Ancestral God killed the dragon in the river and was punished by the rules of the [Conformity Flag].
But the Ancestral God was so powerful that before his death, he also cut off a corner of this [Conformity Flag], changing it from a rectangular shape to a triangular shape."
Shan Chu's mind was blank at the moment. He wanted to think about Lin Shuanghe's words, but his thoughts were as frozen as ice frozen in winter.
After a while, Shanxi murmured to himself:
"Could everything in the legend be true, then..."
He turned to look at Lin Shuanghe and asked bitterly:
"Is it true that there is a continuing war coming?"
"well!"
Lin Shuanghe sighed and explained:
"The ancestor gods came to this world to kill the 'Heavenly Demons', but the number of 'Heavenly Demons' far exceed those of the practitioners, and they have been living in this world for six hundred years, and their deep-rooted power is huge.
Later, a cultivator set up a [Contract Flag] in this world and signed a three-article war contract with the 'Heavenly Demon'.
The rules of the war contract are as follows:
First, this battle should focus on attacking various creatures from the ‘Mountain and Sea Realm’.
People outside the realm are not allowed to conquer each other and take direct action against the intelligent beings in this realm, but they can guide the development of the creatures in the 'mountain and sea realm'.
Second, the time limit for this war is four hundred years. During the first two hundred years, the two sides are not allowed to initiate a war. After two hundred years, they will no longer be protected by the rules of the contract.
Third, the outcome between the practitioners and the ‘demons’ is determined based on the outcome of the war.
If the creature represented by the practitioner wins as a result of this battle, the 'Heavenly Demon' will be sealed. After the confinement of the 'Mountain and Sea Realm' is lifted, the 'Heavenly Demon' will be expelled from this realm.
If the winner of this battle is the 'Heavenly Demon', the practitioner will no longer interfere with the actions of the 'Heavenly Demon' in this world. After the confinement of the 'Mountain and Sea Realm' is lifted, the practitioner will leave this world on his own.
Because this battle is a battle between practitioners and "celestial demons", it is also called the "battle between Tao and demons".
But although it is a war between practitioners and ‘demons’.
But in the end, the "mountain and sea realm" is used as the chessboard, and the creatures in this realm are the chess pieces, and they conquer each other, and in the end it is up to us to decide which side wins."
The scroll of history unfolded, and Shan Zhi finally knew everything, but instead of feeling relaxed, his mood became even heavier.
"Shuanghe, how do you know all this?"
Shantou raised a question.
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"The tribe chosen by the ancestor god to participate in the war is the Xiawan tribe. The matter of [Qi Banner] was personally told by him to the Yanhong Silkworm and other tribe senior officials. As for other things, some of them come from historical records, and some are just speculations."
Shanzhu was silent for a moment and said angrily:
"Since it is a war between cultivators and 'demons', why should the living beings of this world be involved? This is really unfair to us."
Hearing this, Lin Shuanghe laughed with unclear meaning.
"Hey, someone asked the ancestor god the same question back then.
But God Ancestor's answer is, when you walk, please pay attention to the ants under your feet. In our eyes, you are the same as ants. All you have to do is obey, and there is no need to consider your thoughts."
Shan Feng was even more dissatisfied and shouted with a 'hum':
"It seems that the Ancestral God also has ulterior motives for helping us. If so, then just ignore this war.
He can’t take action against us anyway, not to mention he has already fallen.”
Lin Shuanghe shook his head and sighed:
"There are no unbroken eggs when the nest is overturned. This was the explanation given by the ancestor god back then. When the war comes, it will not refuse to join just because you don't want to join.
Listen clearly, this is a war that will last for two hundred years, and no intelligent creature can escape.
Moreover, there will only be one winner in this war."
After a brief pause, Lin Shuanghe said again:
"Actually, Ancestor God did a pretty good job, at least he didn't hide the root cause of this war.
Moreover, it was for the people of Suicun that he killed the dragon in the river, so he suffered divine punishment and died."
Yamada finally understood why the kingdom spent 30% of its taxes every year to develop military equipment.
After thinking of something, Shan Fang felt nervous and asked:
"Then...when will the war break out?"
Lin Shuanghe took a slight breath and said slowly:
"This year is the 193rd year of the lunar calendar. This calendar was promulgated by the ancestral gods after the practitioners signed a war contract with the 'devil'.
In another seven years, which is the 200th year of the lunar calendar, the two-hundred-year rule protection of the War Deed will be ineffective.
By then, the war that will sweep through all living beings in this world will come."
Shantou murmured to himself:
"Seven years!"
The pace of war was already so close, but he was not mentally prepared at all. He couldn't help but feel a sense of urgency in his heart.
"Can we win?"
Lin Shuanghe smiled bitterly.
This is a life and death battle, and who dares to say that he will definitely win this victory!
"Wang Sun, you have to understand one thing, our world is very backward.
Without the help of the ancestral gods, we would not even have words or surnames, we would be wearing animal skin grass skirts, and the weapons in our hands would be just a bone.
The civilization of these outsiders and 'demons' is very advanced, which means that not only the ancestor gods have taught us all this knowledge, but other tribes have also received different civilization inheritances.
The reason why we have not encountered tribes or countries with other civilizations is just because of the protection of the war contract. All tribes that are ready to go can only develop where they are.
However, the ancestor gods died early, and other tribes have been guided by outside practitioners and ‘demons’ for nearly two hundred years, so we are now at a disadvantage.”
As soon as these words came out, Shan Fang's heart became even heavier.
Lin Shuanghe didn't want Shan Chu to lose his fighting spirit, so he asked in a deep voice:
"Prince Sun, do you know which kind of army is the most powerful in your country?"
Shanfeng blurted out:
"Our country is undoubtedly the strongest in controlling strings!"
Lin Shuanghe said "hmm" and then said:
"Do you know the name of the ancestor god?"
Shanzhu tried hard to remember for a moment and said hesitantly:
"The ancestor god is named Ruyi Jushi?"
Lin Shuanghe nodded and said:
"Ruyi Jushi is just the Taoist name of the ancestor god. His surname is Zhang, his given name is Ke, and his name is Ruyi."
After a brief pause, he continued:
"According to the ancestral gods, the surname Zhang in his realm comes from the person who first invented the bow and arrow.
Therefore, the ancestor god specially introduced this bow and arrow method to his country. For this reason, the crossbow sergeants in his country are the most powerful.
This is the country's advantage. Perhaps in this ongoing war in the future, it will be this weapon that ultimately determines the outcome.
Therefore, our country may not win this battle."
Although Shan Chu knew that Lin Shuanghe was trying to comfort himself by saying this, he had to say that his heart did feel a little more at ease.
Over the past 100 years, the Suzaku Kingdom has grown from 400,000 people in five cities to nearly 300 million people in 800 cities.
The area has also expanded from a few hundred miles at the beginning to four million square kilometers today.
Seventy-two tribes have been integrated into the kingdom.
Shan Zhi secretly calculated the military strength of the country.
‘Now the total number of sergeants in the country is six million, divided into twelve battalions, with each battalion having 500,000 people.
Among them, there are three cavalry battalions, one each for light cavalry, heavy cavalry and wandering cavalry.
The sixth infantry battalion has the largest number of soldiers, with three million people.
The third naval battalion has fifty large ships and eight hundred small and medium-sized ships.’
It cannot be said that this strength is not powerful. In the past, Shanzhi had always been proud of it, but after some calculations at this time, he suddenly found that this strength was not enough at all.
There are 800 large cities, 3,000 small towns, and countless villages and towns in the country, all of which require troops to be garrisoned. Even if 6 million soldiers are spread out, there won't be much.
What's more, the knowledge he learned since childhood told him that if he wanted to minimize the damage to the country, the war must be fought outside the country.
This means that the kingdom must have an absolutely powerful external military force.
Some things cannot be thought about in detail. The more he thinks about them, the more anxious he becomes.
"Does my father know about the coming war?"
Lin Shuanghe said slowly:
"How can a monarch be unaware of such a major event, but..."
Lin Shuanghe sighed softly and said:
"Now the people in the country are doubtful about the coming war, aren't you the same?
It's like a fire. No one will pay attention to it until it burns down their own house."
Shan Zhi was speechless. This was not what he thought before coming to the ‘Land of God’s Fall’.
"Alas~~!"
...
night.
The bright moon is in the sky, and the moonlight shines through the window lattice and onto the bed.
I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
What Lin Shuanghe said today had a great impact on him, and he had a lot of thoughts in his heart.
At one moment, he imagined that he was leading an army to fight in an invincible way. At the next moment, he seemed to see smoke rising from all directions in the country, and countless people were scattered and crying and running away under the iron heel of the enemy.
"Alas~! It would be great if the ancestor god was still alive!"
Shanfeng couldn't help but muttered in a low voice.
At this moment, he suddenly felt that the vitality of heaven and earth seemed to be undergoing drastic changes.
'Um?'
Shan Jie got up from the bed and used his natural sensitivity to vitality to explore carefully.
"Chachacha~chachacha~"
The candlelight danced erratically, the ground shook slightly, and the tea bowl on the table made a slight collision sound after being shaken.
After Shanzhu felt it for a moment, he suddenly discovered that the source of the fluctuations in vitality actually came from the stone statue of the ancestor god.
His heart suddenly tightened. He rolled over and rolled off the bed. With a backhand move, the sheathed long knife flew into his palm. He didn't have time to put on his clothes, so he kicked open the door and rushed outside with bare feet.
At this time, some other people were also alerted and came out of their homes one after another.
Shan Zhi followed the sensor and saw that the nine-foot-nine-foot-tall stone statue of the ancestor god was trembling continuously.
After a moment, there was first a bit of white-gold light coming from the center of the stone statue's eyebrows, and countless cracks like wood grains spread to the whole body of the stone statue.
Soon, little bits of platinum light appeared from all over the stone statue.
At this time, Lin Shuanghe also brought dozens of soldiers to the mountain to protect him.
"Chi chi chi~~ chi chi chi~~"
After a few breaths, the trembling stone statue suddenly began to disintegrate from top to bottom, and countless gravels dispersed downward like water.
"How...why did the statue of Ancestor God collapse?"
Lin Shuanghe, who had always been as calm as a mountain, stared dumbly at the stone statues that disintegrated like sand dunes, and couldn't help but stammered.
Not only Lin Shuanghe, but all the people looking at the stone statue at this time had the same demented expression.
At this moment, a small figure slowly raised his hands and stretched greatly at the collapsed stone statue.