Chapter 264: The country is called Le
The Great Cai Armory had four or five large halls.
From See the Truth techniques to True Person techniques, they had it all.
Besides techniques, there were also other documents and materials.
For example, records of important events of the Great Cai Dynasty, such as the year the Emperor died and which prince ascended the throne.
The year a red star descended from the sky, a sign of good fortune. The year they sent troops to quell a rebellion in a certain place.
Major events of the nation, sacrifices and military campaigns, it’s normal for a dynasty to record these things.
Since Great Cai recorded the history of the Great Cai Dynasty, then the dynasties before Great Cai should also have records of the important events they experienced.
The Great Cai Dynasty should have compiled histories of previous dynasties to provide a final assessment.
That’s what Shi Feizhe was looking for.
He gently tapped the stone walls of the Great Cai Armory, relying on the sounds and feedback from the tapping to check if there were any secret chambers within.
For martial artists, the techniques on the walls were important. But for a dynasty like Great Cai, history was undoubtedly more important.
Because history symbolized the legitimacy and orthodoxy of a dynasty.
It was just that the Jianghu had been in chaos for a thousand years, and there had never been a unified regime, so no one had paid attention to the history recorded by Great Cai.
It wasn’t that no one had noticed, but rather that there was no need to.
The Great Cai Armory, with its Eight Mountains and Twelve Caves, was built so large to store copies of important materials. They didn’t preserve the history of previous dynasties?
Who would believe that!
By constantly tapping the stone walls of the Great Cai Armory, Shi Feizhe gradually formed a model of it in his mind. The Great Cai Armory was shaped like the Chinese character “return”, so what was in the middle of the character?
In the stone hall that recorded True Person techniques, Shi Feizhe discovered a stone wall with an empty sound and a hidden switch.
It was a hidden switch made of a huge stone pillar. As long as the pillar was moved, the stone wall could be opened.
But Shi Feizhe moved the stone pillar, and the stone wall didn’t open.
?
Shi Feizhe pondered for a moment and looked at the stone pillar again. Could it be that being submerged in water for seven or eight years had damaged the mechanism?
So, Shi Feizhe simply cut open the stone wall, revealing a small door that one person could pass through.
After that, Shi Feizhe didn’t bother with any mechanisms.
If a door blocked his way, he would demolish the door. If a mechanism blocked his way, he would demolish the mechanism. If a stone cave blocked his way, he would dig a hole. He simply created a straight path towards the secret chamber.
Like a big rat digging a hole.
Along the walls and doors, one could clearly see the wave patterns of Great Cai.
Great Cai was a dynasty that admired “waves.”
They believed that a good man should ride the waves, should be “wild.”
During the Great Cai Dynasty, their control over the sea was unexpectedly strong.
Not only did they explore many unknown islands, but many of the experts in Great Cai had nicknames based on sea creatures, representing their ability to ride the waves.
Like Fathead Fish, Red Snapper, Killer Crab, Snakehead, and so on.
The more ordinary these expert’s nicknames were, the more powerful they were. Nicknames like Great Sage Reaching Heaven, Golden Winged Great Peng, or Sky-Supporting Jade Pillar were not as impressive.
After some effort, Shi Feizhe finally arrived at a secret chamber.
The secret chamber was also a stone hall.
Recorded on the stones of the walls were not martial arts manuals, but the history before Great Cai.
Besides the stone walls, there were also some silk books and animal hide books in the stone hall, similarly recording historical documents in Great Cai script.
After a thousand years, they had become very fragile. Shi Feizhe didn’t open them, but simply made oxygen-proof boxes and carefully packed them all, preparing to take them back to Yangzhou to study slowly.
After doing all this, Shi Feizhe started reading the history of the previous dynasty recorded by Great Cai from the beginning.
The first part of the stone wall used a large amount of space to record the glorious achievements of Great Cai, praising the founding emperor’s wisdom and martial prowess.
Where in the world is there an empire that lasts forever?
Where in the world is there an empire that never falls?
Shi Feizhe didn’t skip over these self-aggrandizing words because they revealed a very important piece of information.
“Cai” inherited the legitimacy of the previous dynasty “Yan,” “Yan” inherited the legitimacy of the dynasty before it “Zhao,” “Zhao” inherited the legitimacy of “Xu,” and “Xu” inherited the legitimacy of “Le.”
“Le” was the first unified dynasty of the Nine Provinces, approximately six or seven thousand years ago!
Why “Le” was chosen as the national title, the introductory prose didn’t explain.
It was clear that “Cai,” “Yan,” “Zhao,” and “Xu” all chose their national titles based on their fiefdoms, just like the “Zhou, Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Tang, Song” in Shi Feizhe’s memory, all derived their national titles from the birthplaces of their founding emperors.
When it came to the national titles of the “Yuan, Ming, and Qing” dynasties, they became more abstract, referring to concepts rather than specific territories.
Even the Xia Dynasty, its name came from the fact that the original Xia was a long-standing tribal alliance in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, composed of over ten tribes with the surname Si, with the Xiahou clan holding a leadership position among these tribes.
Xia was also the self-designation of the Zhou people, descendants of the Yellow Emperor.
The national title of each regime wasn’t chosen randomly; they all had origins.
What the hell was this “Le” that suddenly appeared?
Could it be that someone called themselves the Le people?
Shi Feizhe frowned and continued reading with this question in mind.
Next was the record of the previous dynasty “Yan,” roughly outlining the famous people who appeared during this dynasty, the major events that occurred, and how it eventually fell into chaos due to the incompetence of a certain emperor.
Compared to the Records of the Grand Historian that Shi Feizhe had seen in his past life, it was much simpler.
“Zhao,” which came before “Yan,” was similar, but it mentioned that the greatest achievement of “Zhao” was pacifying the demon race that had plagued the Nine Provinces, unifying the Nine Provinces, and sweeping away the demon scourge.
There were even demon races involved here?
“Xu,” which came before “Zhao,” was beyond Shi Feizhe’s expectations.
In the eyes of the Great Cai people, the greatest achievement of the Xu Dynasty was “transforming shamans into martial artists,” and its greatest harm was “indulging the demon races.”
Shi Feizhe understood that at that time, there were no martial artists, only shamans who, like the martial artists of later generations, possessed incredible power.
Shamans claimed to be messengers of Heaven, possessing divine authority, and often clashed with royal authority. So, the Xu Dynasty supported martial artists and the demon races, gradually eroding the power of the shamans.
The shamans disappeared, but the demon races had also grown too powerful and became uncontrollable.
As for shamans, they were unique to the Le Dynasty before Xu.
According to the stone wall records, at the beginning of the Le Dynasty, it was still in a tribal form. They faced external enemies from the demon races and those who descended from the sky, and internal enemies that emerged from the ground within the tribes.
It could be said that the entire human race was facing a life-or-death crisis.
There was a tribe called the Wu tribe. They stepped forward and helped the surrounding tribes quell both internal and external enemies, and all the tribes elected the Wu tribe as their leader.
The Wu tribe, along with the shamans, fought for many years and finally pacified the chaos in the Nine Provinces.
They drove the demon races beyond the Nine Provinces, shot down the enemies from the sky, and drove the enemies that emerged from the ground to the Extreme North Snow Plains.
From then on, the Nine Provinces were at peace, and the world rejoiced together, hence the name “Le.”
Shi Feizhe was puzzled. What enemies descended from the sky, and what enemies emerged from the ground?
Was their record wrong, or was this world simply beyond his comprehension?
This is outrageous!
