Shu Observer realized that the place he traveled to might not be the ancient earth. It happened in the fourteenth year after he came to Taoyuan Village.
Because in this year, he finally saw the written records left by the earliest Taoyuan villagers.
Most of the villagers in Taoyuan Village are illiterate. Literacy here really doesn't mean much. After all, you can't gain fame by reading.
Moreover, most of the earliest villagers more than two hundred years ago were ignorant country people and did not have much idea about the inheritance of traditional Chinese writing.
However, among the earliest villagers, there was an old scholar. It is said that he recorded in detail how they came to this valley.
These records are placed in the ancestral temple in Taoyuan Village.
Ever since Shu Guan learned about the existence of these records, he had always wanted to go into the ancestral temple and read the words left over from that time.
And this opportunity finally came when he was fourteen years old.
That year, because the ancestral temple in Taoyuan Village had not been repaired for a long time, many weeds grew on the roof, and the tiles in many places were seriously damaged. Once it rained heavily, the rainwater would inevitably fall into the ancestral hall. Inside the temple.
Therefore, several village chiefs and village elders in charge of the affairs in the village gathered together to prepare to repair the ancestral temple after the autumn harvest, and unanimously decided to leave this matter to the best mason in Taoyuan Village, that is, the old lame man.
And Shu Guan, who had become the old lame man's right-hand man in recent years, naturally got the opportunity to enter the ancestral temple in Taoyuan Village.
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The sunshine on an autumn afternoon is one of the most drowsy things in the world.
The old lame man, who had been busy all morning, felt a little lack of energy after lunch, so he lay down on the lounge chair under the corridor of the atrium of the ancestral temple and took a nap, and soon he started to snore slightly.
Shu Guan sat on the railing of the corridor, looking at a thin book in his hand.
These are the notes left by the old scholar back then.
These notes are placed in a room on the side of the main hall of the ancestral temple, contained in a wooden box.
There are also other items used by the ancestors of Taoyuan Village in the room, which are specially placed here for future generations to pay their respects.
At this time, the repair work of the ancestral temple has been carried out for more than ten days and has been basically completed. The other helpers have left. Only Lao Laizi and Shu Guan are left here to do some finishing work, so Shu Guan entered without any hindrance. In this room, he found the text he had longed for that recorded the original origin of this Taoyuan Village.
This volume of notes only has a few pages. Although it has been kept in a wooden box and has rarely been opened, after more than two hundred years, the pages have become yellowed and dry, like dry leaves that have been exposed to the scorching sun for a long time. The leaves even look as if they will break apart with the slightest touch of a finger.
Shu Guan took a deep breath, then carefully opened the first page.
A piece of text jumped into his eyes.
What I want to mention is that Lao Laizi is one of the very few literate people in Taoyuan Village, and he has taught Shuguan how to read since he was a child.
Of course, even if the old cripple didn't teach him how to read, it would not affect Shu Guan's ability to read this notebook.
Isn't it just traditional Chinese characters? It's not like Shu Guan doesn't recognize them.
...Not long after... The autumn afternoon sun was still warm, and it fell warmly on my body. However, Shu Guan looked at the notes in his hand, and a slight coldness slowly emerged in his heart.
"In the winter of the Gengshen year of Emperor Guangxi, in October, the Baiyi people brought their armored ships up the river and arrived at Jingcheng. Jingcheng was destroyed in one day, and tens of thousands of troops were defeated in one fell swoop. The Yi army looted and plundered for thousands of miles. , all lives are devastated, and the Central Plains is in turmoil. Our great dynasty has been around for thousands of years, so why has the country's fortunes declined so much in just a few decades..."
This is the first sentence in the notes left by the old scholar.
When he saw these words, Shu Guan frowned, and the large and small uneven pockmarks on his face were squeezed into a ball, like an ugly pile of cow dung.
But he still couldn't hide the emotion called doubt under the cow dung.
"Great China..."
Shu Guan muttered to himself in a low voice.
When Shu Guan was very young, he already guessed that he should still be on the earth. As for the era he traveled to, it should be the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
He has never doubted this judgment.
Until this moment, after reading the notes left by the ancestors of Taoyuan Village, Shu Guan finally wavered in his original judgment.
Great China?
There has never been such a dynasty in the history of China!
Shu Guan is not a history expert, but his literacy in the field of history is still much higher than ordinary people.
What flashed through his mind at this time were not only the dynasties that had basically completed the unification of China, but also the names of the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, or the titles of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in the late Tang Dynasty, and even some minority The names of the short-lived small political powers established by the nation in remote areas quickly went through Shuguan's mind.
Then Shu Guan was very sure that in the five thousand years of China, there would never be a great dynasty.
Moreover, although he didn't know what kind of city "Jing City" was, there could be tens of thousands of troops in one city, so it couldn't be some unknown small political power.
So, where did I travel through time?
In addition, in addition to Dahua, a country name that Shu Guan had never heard of, there were several places in the few crosses in the front of this notebook that made Shu Guan extremely puzzled.
For example, the phrase "Ten Thousand Years of Success".
This is totally unreasonable!
It must be the old scholar who was bragging.
Shu Guan is quite familiar with the problem of ancient Chinese literati writing articles with eloquence, as "removing the head of a general from a crowd of thousands of troops is like picking out an object from a bag".
How could he "vomit several liters of blood" at every turn and still fight to kill the enemy?
What about "making Ai use his vagina to close the Tonglun, so that the Queen Mother can hear it and eat the Queen Mother"... This is completely unscientific.
Anyway, the ancient literati were so prosperous that in order to make their articles look more powerful, they really just said it without thinking about whether it was reasonable or not. If their descriptions were really used to examine historical facts, It's a matter of opinion.
So when Shu Guan saw what was written about the Ten Thousand Years Dynasty in this notebook, he was a little skeptical.
Although those who become emperors hope that their dynasty will live forever, the longest-lived dynasty in Chinese history, the Zhou Dynasty, only lasted eight hundred years.
Shu Guan pondered for a while.
He believed that the description in the old scholar's notes must be exaggerated, but if he dared to boast that it would last for thousands of years, even if he discounted it, it would still last for thousands of years.
A dynasty that lasted for thousands of years? is it possible?
This is not in line with the laws of social development. Under normal circumstances, a dynasty cannot suppress the various contradictions accumulated over such a long period of time.
Unless... that's an abnormal dynasty.
And what do "Baiyi people" and "iron-armored giant ship" mean... Shu Guan had some guesses about this right away.
Could it be a white man, a steamship?
Could the timeline be a little too early... Is the world I traveled through really not the Earth?
Shuguan's heartbeat accelerated a little, and his fingers stayed on a certain word on the page for a long time.
That word is the word "天" for the Great China.
The characters of this world are traditional Chinese characters.
However, when Shu Guan was learning to read from the old cripple when he was a child, he also discovered that some of the characters taught by the old cripple were a bit different from his original impression.
Shu Guan didn't pay much attention to it at the time. He thought that maybe he had remembered it wrong. After all, he had been educated in simplified Chinese characters since he was a child. Although he knew most of the traditional Chinese characters, he couldn't write a few by himself.
But Shu Guan will naturally remember the traditional Chinese characters that are the same as the simplified Chinese characters, such as the word "天".
But the "Heaven" that the old cripple taught him is different from the "Heaven" in Chinese characters.
At that time, Shu Guan thought that the old cripple might have taught him wrong. It may also be that the old cripple himself learned it wrong.
However, he now discovered that perhaps the old lame man had not taught him wrong, because the word "天" in this notebook was also written in the same way.
The old cripple taught him the word "天".
The word "heaven" in this world.
There is an extra horizontal line on the top!
