For several days, Shen Hao was sorting out what he had gained from the Royal Library.
While it has filled in many of my doubts about evil beasts, there are still many details that are still blank. For example, the Royal Library does not clearly state how many evil beasts there are. And in the end, why the evil beasts gathered in the Sea of Evil to fight to the death with three evil masters.
Finally, the panic of evil beasts in the chaotic world is over, and why are the evil sects in the world quickly wiped out? And what did the sect and the Jing Dynasty do?
Although there are no direct text annotations for these blanks, Shen Hao still found some content that can be used to deduce after integrating some other documentary records on the third floor above ground and the two underground floors.
For example, some documents about the previous dynasty, also known as the "Jing Dynasty", record the complete process of the Jing Dynasty from its prosperity to its decline, and they are recorded according to chronology. If we calculate the time, it can be clearly seen that the decline of the Jing Dynasty actually almost coincides with the time of the "Evil Beast Troubled Times".
This seems reasonable but cannot withstand scrutiny.
From the documents before the "Evil Beast Chaos", we can actually see that the Jing Dynasty was not much different from the current Jing Dynasty. Apart from some differences in the royal family and laws, the living conditions of the people in various places were actually no better than they are now. Jing Jiu Chao Chao. At worst, the external enemies, that is, the barbarians, were still relatively strong at the time, which led to endless wars.
When it comes to whether the country is strong or not, Jingchao can undoubtedly be called strong.
Moreover, during the Jing Dynasty, although there were not as many teleportation arrays as there are now, there were still teleportation arrays, which had considerable integration capabilities and effectiveness for the ruling party.
Even when a catastrophe like the "Evil Beast Chaos" occurred, the Jing Dynasty did not lose its function as a ruler, organizing resistance, rescue, and evacuation, and it seemed that it was not slacking off.
It stands to reason that after the "Evil Beast Troubled Times" has passed, the Jing Dynasty should be more united and usher in an increase in national fortunes after going through such hardships. But the truth is exactly the opposite.
Just like when the Jing Dynasty defeated the barbarians in the south, when the whole country should have celebrated and used the resources in the south to improve the domestic people's livelihood, instead, the situation got worse and worse. Not to mention it happened, just thinking about it makes me feel weird.
This was discovered by Shen Hao after careful combing. The weirdness hidden under the surface of thick documents.
What about above the surface? What was the reason for the decline of the former Jing Dynasty?
dead!
Yes, on the surface, the decline of the previous Jing Dynasty was due to dead people.
Of course not ordinary people who die. It was the person in power who was at the top of his power at the time who died. According to records, in the thirty years after the Jing Dynasty passed through the "Evil Beast Troubled Times", five emperors died of illness, and dozens of military and political officials died of accidents or illness. Even this rare and strange situation is labeled "bad luck" in historical records.
Under the rule of an imperial system, the replacement of those in power at the top is definitely a major event that affects everyone above and below. Looking at the Jingjiu Dynasty, Emperor Shu has not yet completely sorted out all the relationships between the top and bottom until he ascended the throne. One can imagine how much impact a change in imperial power would have.
And what about the former Jingchao? There have been five emperors in thirty years... dozens of top officials and generals...
How much internal waste will be generated by such frequent changes of power? How many undercurrents and hidden dangers will be caused to the underlying structure?
Especially in local areas and in the military. If you go back and forth all day long on top and there is no restraint on the bottom, what will happen in your heart?
The first thing that people at the top do when changing people is to stabilize the bottom. This undoubtedly turns a blind eye to the people below in disguise, and increases the space for all kinds of selfish desires to ferment below.
Thirty years is not a long time, but it is not a short time at all. The most serious thing is that these thirty years were enough to breed a stubborn disease and bad habits in the underlying power structure of the previous Jing Dynasty.
From then on, the emperors of the previous 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.
History books say that they all "died of illness" or "got sick from overwork."
However, there are also anecdotes that speculate that the royal family of the Jing Dynasty had some kind of family disease, and that was the fundamental reason why the later Emperor Jing Dynasty did not live long. In addition, there are also rumors such as "murder against the royal family" or "spells lingering in the palace" and other rumors recorded in the documents. It seems that the real reason cannot be determined, and the different opinions have cast a dark veil over the former Jingchao.
When Shen Hao sorted out these situations, he sneered. He didn't know what the people who wrote these historical materials were thinking at the time. Anyway, he didn't believe in the statements such as "illness from overwork" or "murder".
They are not poor people, so what kind of food and drinks the emperor eats and drinks is not of high quality? It's just a bit tired. You can completely stabilize your body and bones by relying on elixirs and warmth, so why is there such a thing as "overwork"? Or died of illness due to overwork? Nonsense!
It is even more nonsense to use spells to murder the emperor. Is it really that easy to deal with being an emperor? People who can write these reasons are also very clear-minded.
Finally, it is a family disease, which is somewhat possible. But it doesn’t make sense. Because the Jing Dynasty royal family is not limited to the emperor. Not everyone in the huge royal family is short-lived, and there are also many long-lived ones.
In Shen Hao's opinion, there should be some external reason affecting it. But he couldn't figure out what it was. In short, with the frequent changes in the top levels of power in the Jing Dynasty, the power at the lower levels began to deteriorate, and the entire Jing Dynasty gradually declined as a whole, and the situation became more and more serious, directly affecting the survival of ordinary people everywhere.
When a dynasty makes it difficult for the people at the bottom to survive, it means that its road 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 felt they had an opportunity.
Rushing through the bamboo road, breaking through the pass, driving straight in from the southwest and invading like fire, they quickly occupied more than half of the land of Jing Dynasty.
The human race is to the barbarians, and the barbarians are to the human race. Both sides do the same thing on each other's land. Therefore, how miserable the barbarians are now, how miserable the human race was at that time.
At this point, after more than a thousand years of "evil beast chaos", the Jing Dynasty was completely destroyed. At that time, the Yang family, which was the leader of the Jing Dynasty, took advantage of the situation and relied on years of accumulation and preparation to stabilize its foundation while absorbing scattered surrounding forces to strengthen itself. Finally, it drove away the barbarians and established the world, and then made Tianlan City its capital as the imperial city. , established the Jingjiu Dynasty.
Going forward, that is the historical records of the Jingjiu Dynasty. Compared with the previous dynasties, the emperors of the Jingjiu Dynasty were all diligent, and their life spans were not too short. Some were as long as eighty or ninety years old, while some were as short as 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 when it is at its peak.
Because not only is there internal stability and prosperity, but the only external enemy has also been buried in the ground, is this not prosperity?
