Prehistoric: Lord of the Nine Heavens at the Beginning, the Mythical Kunpeng

Chapter 241 The big deal determines the outcome

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Huang Di looked at Cangjie and others in front of him, and an idea came to his mind.

He has arranged for Cangjie to create characters. Everything that has happened in the past and present can be recorded in words. This is definitely a huge progress.

However, there is another problem, that is, people in ancient times were not particularly accurate in calculating time.

They have no idea what year it is this year or what year it will be next year. There is no very unified measurement standard.

In this way, even if writing was invented, recording it would still be difficult.

For example, an incident was recorded, but later people had no way of knowing in what year it happened.

Huang Di felt that this would greatly affect the spread of human civilization, and he had to find a way to solve this problem.

After thinking for a long time, I really thought of a candidate.

"Big scratch."

Huang Di called softly, and a man of about forty years old in commoner clothes came out from among the ministers.

"Huang Emperor, why are you calling me?"

Huang Di looked at Da Nao in front of him and assigned a task to Da Nao.

"Da Nao, Cangjie and his friends invented writing, which can record what happened exactly as it was."

"This is a great thing, but when people later see what we recorded, how will they know in which year this incident occurred?"

"So, I want you to research a way to record the year. When you record it in writing in the future, you don't have to worry about how to record the year."

After listening to Huang Di's words, the ministers present had to be impressed by Huang Di's foresight.

Indeed, the long river of history spreads unbridled. The history of the human race is relatively short now, and it is difficult to remember what year it happened.

After many years, wouldn’t it be even more impossible to calculate?

"Your Majesty, please accept your orders."

Da Nao responded briefly, then stood back silently.

"Okay, that's it for today. You can go about your own business."

"If anything happens, I'll find you again."

After Xuanyuan finished speaking, he waved his hand to indicate that the ministers could leave.

After Da Nao left, he found Cangjie and others.

"Cangjie, can you tell me about the characters you created?"

"The emperor asked me to study a method of chronology. I thought about it and decided that it would be better to express it in words. This way, it would be more unified."

After Cangjie and others listened, they also generously explained to Da Nao the text created by himself and others.

Da Nao listened very carefully and asked questions quickly when he encountered something he didn't understand.

After a few days, Da Nao also recognized a lot of words.

After a period of thinking, Da Nao finally came up with a way to keep track of time.

After countless calculations, Da Nao felt that his dating method was relatively mature, so he took the initiative to report it to Huang Di.

"Huang Emperor, I have already thought of how to express the year."

As he spoke, Da Nao took out more than twenty bone fragments with different symbols painted on them.

"Huang Emperor, look."

"These are ten bone fragments with ten characters painted on them. I named them Tiangan."

"The twelve bone fragments here have ten characters painted on them. I named them Earthly Branches." "The twelve heavenly stems are A, B, C, D, E, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren and Gui.”

"The twelve earthly branches are: Zi, Chou, Ji, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai."

Huang Di was confused when he heard this. I asked you to record the year. What are you doing with these things?

There are more than twenty characters in total. Do you want to use it to commemorate the year?

However, Huang Di knew that Da Nao was always relatively safe in handling matters, so he didn't ask any more questions.

As expected, Da Nao went on to explain.

"A heavenly stem, paired with an earthly branch, represents a year."

"After one heavenly stem has been matched with all the earthly branches, the next heavenly stem can be used to correspond."

"In this way, the ten heavenly stems, coupled with the twelve earthly branches, can represent a time span of sixty years. I call sixty years a period."

"A period of Jiazi comes around again. For example, this year is the Year of Jiazi. Sixty years from now, it will still be the Year of Jiazi."

After hearing this, Xuanyuan fully affirmed Da Nao's idea.

According to Da Nao's chronological method, it is easy to calculate how many years ago something happened.

"Okay, Big Nao, you did a good job."

"I understand your idea."

"Ministers, do you understand?"

The ministers present shook their heads one after another. They were indeed inferior to Huang Emperor in their ability to understand and comprehend emerging things.

"You don't understand, do you?"

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. After following for a while, you will understand."

"Da Nao, according to your request, this year will be called the Year of Jiazi!"

Huang Di was very happy. In this way, he would not have to worry about forgetting the time in the future.

"Cangjie, you are the historian responsible for recording that in the Jiazi year, Xuanyuan defeated Chi You of the Jiuyi tribe in the Zhuolu area, unified the Yellow River Basin, and became the Yellow Emperor."

"This is the result of everyone's joint efforts, and it is also a major event in the history of our human race. We must not be careless."

"If you don't understand anything, just communicate with Da Nao."

Hearing this, Cangjie knelt down and said respectfully: "Don't worry, Huangdi, I will definitely cooperate with Da Nao and record this matter in detail so that future generations can admire Huangdi's great achievements."

"No need. What I do is all my responsibility as the co-leader of the human race. There is no need to write a big book about it."

After saying that, Huang Di's thoughts began to diverge in other directions.

Now, they have defeated Chi You, unified the Yellow River Basin, studied writing, and created a way of counting years.

The next step is to consider how to make the human race more prosperous.

The human race has just emerged, and many things are not very perfect yet. There are still many things that need to be done by oneself.

"Everyone, the human race has just emerged. As the managers of the human race, we should do everything we can to make the human race more prosperous. What do you think?"

Huang Di's majestic voice rang in the ears of many ministers.

"What Huangdi said makes sense. The human race is indeed not doing well right now."

"We should do our best to assist the Yellow Emperor and make the human race prosperous."

Many ministers knelt on the ground and expressed their loyalty to Huangdi.

"Okay, then let's work together and strive for a better human race."

"Now, please tell me, what are the difficulties our human race faces?"

(End of this chapter)