The Immortal Taoist Priest in the Martial Arts World

Chapter 107 New National History

Year 4713 of the Yellow Emperor's Era, 2016 AD.

At the National History Archives of China, an old man dressed in ancient modern clothes held a certificate and passed through many checkpoints before arriving in front of a closed archives.

Ding Ding Ding!
Enter your pupils and fingerprints, confirm your identity, and the door will open.

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

"Great, the application has finally been approved."

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

He did not rush through the information, but walked step by step while looking at the covers on the bookshelf.

The earliest ones even have official records from the Chenzhou period.

It records how a merchant family in Chenzhou walked step by step on the road to saving China, and ultimately led the nation to greater prosperity.

These official documents are inseparable from two people - Xu Xuan, the leader of Baidi, and Xu Yong, the emperor of Hanchang. These two names are known to everyone in China. Even an illiterate person who has not gone to school knows their names. name.

They range from national policies, world exchange norms, and political systems to street snacks and roadside clinics, all of which are closely related to them.

Official history is always bright and correct.

As a senior expert in ancient history and archaeology, Li Sixian wanted to know why the two brothers were able to walk on the right path every time, and the ideas they left behind even helped future generations survive all crises.

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

With all kinds of curiosity, Li Sixian came here.

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

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

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

Li Sixian was very ambitious. He planned to write the history of the development of China and the entire Chinese League in a concise and clear book.

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

Compared with 300 years ago, human society has undergone great changes.

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

The Taiping Shang Rebellion and the death of Xu Xuan the following year were a turning point. After the Taiping Emperor quelled the rebellion, he did not expand outwards, but concentrated on managing internal affairs. He made a comprehensive review of the relationship between China's mainland and foreign vassals, and promulgated the The policy is still in use today.

Historians speak highly of this, calling it "the transition from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization." This is a test point that is usually tested in high school history.

People during this period began to realize that as an industrial civilization, it does not just have guns and steam engines, but it must have matching systems.

Emperor Taiping reigned for 35 years, followed by Emperor Shengdao.

"Tsk, tsk, the Xu Chang Dynasty is really a long-lived dynasty, but longevity is indeed one of the keys to the stability of a dynasty. In history, there were many things that caused chaos in the country because of the emperor's short life."

Li Sixian recorded his thoughts in his notebook.

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

Because the previous emperor lived a long life, subsequent emperors were generally around 50 years old.

This age is considered an old man in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the political arena he is considered a prime man; he is energetic but not too prosperous; he is diplomatic but does not lose his principles.

The Holy Emperor 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 came Yongchang. Yongchang had no sense of existence. During his five years in office, he indulged in pleasure and even restored the eunuch system. Social thoughts tended to be conservative.

In this regard, historians commented that the development of the country reached its upper limit and internal conflicts began to appear. It was during this period that the Western Shinra and others began to have differences with China. Some distant vassal states began to go out of control and finally parted ways. But there was no Start a war.

After Yongchang came Emperor Shenwu, who was relatively chaotic at the beginning of his accession to the throne. Then the internal combustion engine began to appear, and Shenzhou once again led the trend, and the national power began to recover.

Needless to say, what happened after that was ups and downs, and other civilizations in the world also began to appear on the stage of history.After that, a world war broke out, new classes emerged, and forces were divided again. Until the current situation of one superpower and multiple powers, one superpower is now China. The surrounding allies have established a huge alliance with China as the center.

"The reform history of the White Lotus Sect, Baidi Sect and other religions... Hey, here it comes 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 his physical fitness."

Li Sixian scratched his head. The history of the Baidi Sect was too complicated. Although they were Taoists and advocated self-cultivation, it was still difficult to explain... He began to search for files on other bookshelves.

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

Not to mention the history of the Baidi Sect, the world's evaluation of them is that they are a group of Taoist priests who study the path to immortality all day long, and in the end they developed science.

From gunpowder, guns, to steam engines and internal combustion engines, they are all present. They have indeed found the Tao, but unfortunately it is not the immortal Tao.

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

Many scientific discoveries are related to him, including the first mechanical laws proposed in the Chenzhou period.

In the evaluation of human contribution rankings in the past few years, Xu Xuan ranked first, Xie Miao, who founded modern medicine, was also in the top ten, and Chongzhen, who discovered cells, was in the top [-].

Some of his myths and legends are everywhere among the people. For historians like them, this is actually the limitation of the times.

Because people at that time generally had low scientific standards and did not understand science, they could only rely on myths. Some myths were just rumors spread by people at the time.

Hot air balloons were used on a large scale during the Shengdao period, but interested people discovered that they actually had their prototypes in the Hanchang period.

Perhaps Xu Xuan’s so-called flying legends and so-called real dragons and colorful phoenixes are actually just hot air balloons.

Later generations did not feel that this behavior was inappropriate. After all, the situation was critical at that time, and only by using religion to establish prestige could we unite everyone. Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty also relied on Mingjiao in his early years.

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

"The Celestial Master used the corpse-driving technique... to kill Xu Feng to bring order to the chaos; during the Chu king's period, the Celestial Master used the corpse-driving technique to kill Haoge, and used fireballs, flying sky, corpse-driving, and golden light spells to kill Wu Sangui... In the capital, the Celestial Master beheaded Qian Qing Emperor . In the early years of Hanchang, the Heavenly Master gave the method of seeding insects, so that everyone can have extraordinary power and a long life; in the early years of Hanchang, the materials for forming formations and elixirs were as follows..."

It contains a report recording Xu Xuan's use of magic to kill people, as well as Xu Yong's instructions on this, as well as the memoirs of those who were at the scene. The reports from the Northern Barbarians are all included, and they are very detailed.

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

"Is there really magic in the world? Is Xu Xuan really a god? Impossible!" Li Sixian was suddenly exposed to the truth and couldn't accept it for a while.

In fact, he already agreed in his heart.

Because the historical materials are too detailed, and it is impossible for the National History Museum to forge materials.

Secondly, the above historical materials explain the mystery of the deaths of Hauge, Wu Sangui, Duduo, and Ashandra Taiji.

No matter from which aspect you look at it, the Heavenly Master was besieged back then. The opponent had absolute force and were all elite barbarians. It was impossible for hundreds of troops to defeat tens of thousands.

Especially the beheading of an emperor at a birthday banquet in the capital falls into the category of fantasy. Historians have several theories including the firearm theory, the hot air balloon theory, the poison gas theory, and the spy theory.

The official textbook combines the theory of firearms and espionage, because firearms transcend the times and pervasive spies are able to accomplish such feats.

The official statement could not completely convince the strict Li Sixian, but he also found it difficult to accept the fact that he was a god for a while.

Finally, the decryption of the method of seeding insects revealed the origins of those great generals on the battlefield in the early years. After Shenwu, these powerful generals almost never appeared. The reason turned out to be that the Neijingwan ran out.

As for the currently popular powders that replenish qi and blood and enhance physical fitness, they also originated from Tianshi.

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

"It's true, I can testify."

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

"you are?"

"Descendants of the fourth generation of the Baidi Sect's Grand Priest Jiu Gengwu——"

"Geng Xin."

(End of this chapter)