Ye Shuo didn't know how much chaos he had inadvertently brought to Zhiyuan Academy, and at this time, he had already taken the royal family's approval documents to the largest archive in Yixi Kingdom.

Pushing open the two heavy wooden doors, the light spilled obliquely, and what appeared in front of me was a time and space temple that carried all kinds of time.

The overall layout is magnificent and atmospheric, and the ancient style is clear. The symmetrical shape of the central axis sets off the steady and rigorous demeanor of everyone, and under the background of the quiet color, it seems to be the crown belt of the ancient Confucianism. The transparency of the glass curtain wall is perfectly combined with the calm building shape.

Rows of tall bookshelves, lined up one after another, are full of grandeur and majesty. The heights vary from one to the next, and the staggered arrangement resembles undulating mountains. Tiny lights trickle down from the wave-like ceiling, weaving an endless landscape on the warm yellow bookshelves.

At first glance, I only feel that it is somewhat similar to the library of Zhiyuan College, but in comparison, there is a sense of history here. The two extended corridors are like opening a tunnel of time, showing the vicissitudes of thousands of years.

Ye Shuo stood in front of the door for a long time before he took a step forward and walked towards the depths of the corridor.

He has always lived in a kind of inferiority complex of "small country and poor people", and it is not until today that he stands here that he deeply feels that no matter how small the country is, it also has its own unique history and culture, and today's peace is also a blood and tears that span thousands of years. In any case, this is the place where I was born and my roots.

On the shelves, it is made according to the chronology. Ye Shuo didn't hesitate much, and walked straight towards the back row.

I have heard Guo County Ling say that the Lord of the Nine Shadows Hall rose two thousand years ago, although there is no more detailed investigation direction, but at least investigate the history of that era in detail to see if there are any strange things. From the perspective of a prophet, even the information that was ignored at the time can be a clue to piece together.

Two thousand years ago, there was no such perfect shooting and burning technology as today, and there were no real photos of the old objects, only stick figures drawn by some court painters. The text is also very tongue-twisting, Ye Shuo couldn't understand it, and couldn't help but regret a little, why didn't he bring Nangong Fei with him.

In addition, for a madman who will dominate the world in the future, Ye Shuo believes that even if he is humble at first, he will never be a commoner in the market. Imagine, on the street in front of the Dingtian Mountain Range, even if those uncles who sell meat and aunts who sell watermelons have supreme supernatural powers, can they really rule the world?

No, vision determines ability. In the past, the other party was either a warlike king, a warlike general, or a scheming courtier. He must know a little about the way of using soldiers, and he also has the opportunity to be in contact with him for many years. Therefore, Ye Shuo's investigation direction was placed on those powerful and famous people from the beginning. Including their lives, wives and concubines, and heirs, carefully checked, nothing is missing.

Flipping through the scrolls, in the blink of an eye, Ye Shuo had spent most of the day between the bookshelves. He arrived here early in the morning, and now the sun is already setting in the west, but the actual harvest is still equal to zero.

Those complicated chronicles are nothing more than the conquests of various countries, the change of royal power, what reforms were carried out after the monarch ascended the throne, what new policies were implemented, and then the contribution to the whole country, etc., which were also learned in the history class of Zhiyuan College.

At that time, Ye Shuo always slept in class, and he never thought that one day, he would go through the historical materials in such detail. If his history teacher saw this, would he be moved to tears and praise "this son has finally opened his mind"?

All in all...... Ye Shuo sighed, in this history, there are indeed so many high-ranking officials and important ministers whose causes of death are doubtful, and there is also an appendix of the wild history that said that it was only a stand-in Yunyun who died at that time, but looking at those portraits with bearded faces and dull eyes, he really felt ...... These people don't have the potential to become the number one hero.

Rubbing his eyes, which had been a little glazed by reading for a long time, he pulled out a book again. Halfway through, Ye Shuo's movements suddenly stopped.

It was an appendix at the end of an essay entitled "The Political Pearl Left Behind in the Sea: A Review of Wei Zixi, the Last Chief Auxiliary Minister of Cangping State."

Cangping ...... Ye Shuo stared at these words. Yes, he didn't remember until now, just now, all the materials, there are very few records of Cangping Kingdom, as if there has never been such a country in history.

If anything, it's because the country is small and not worth mentioning...... But even when describing several hostile countries of the Purple Chu Kingdom, even the small countries that were destroyed in World War I are occasionally mentioned, no matter how the Cangping Kingdom says, it is also the destruction of the last Purple Chu Kingdom, but this history is not recorded in the slightest?

Speaking of the Purple Chu Kingdom, the last monarch, King Zhuoyi, is described as an extreme tyrant in historical materials. Brutal and immoral, thirsty for killing and warlike, greedy for beauty, indiscriminately killing loyal ministers, and mediocre...... can be called the first person in the eternal faint king!

In the memories that King Zhuo Yi presented to himself, although he was indeed warlike by nature and invaded a large number of surrounding countries, Ye Shuo felt that he was really too "black" in historical materials.

In any case, his political achievements are still obvious, and the territory of Zichu Kingdom has also been highly expanded in his generation. And in addition to being confused by Zhiling, King Zhuo Yi's personality is really not lustful, why has it been tampered with so unrecognizable in history? And even some articles that can't compete with the eight poles of the Purple Chu Kingdom, when it comes to the faint king, they must use King Zhuo Yi as a negative teaching material!

If you don't know the historical facts, just looking at this record, King Zhuo Yi is simply cruel and mediocre, and everyone is gnashing their teeth, but such a narrative is untrue, as if he spares no effort to smear a person, with Ye Shuo's poor historical knowledge, he can also judge that it must be from the hands of political enemies!

The strange thing is that this discrediting of the previous kings is not the only case, but the unjust cases of other people, even in contemporary times, still need to be avoided, and in later generations, there will always be historians who justify their names and give him a more fair evaluation. And this King Zhuo Yi has been hacked to this day, unless it is, his political opponent is still in power...... And if you want to say that the biggest political enemy of the Zichu Kingdom, it is naturally the Cangping Kingdom!

Ye Shuo's heart jumped, and he hurriedly looked at the appendix carefully. The article said to the effect that Wei Zixi, as an auxiliary minister, although the time is short, his political achievements cannot be ignored. He also listed in detail a series of new policies implemented by him.

At the end of the article, he also commented that his life was only a flash in the pan, and then with the fall of the Cangping Kingdom, if he could live, he would definitely become a generation of heroes.

If he could live...... Ye Shuo unconsciously clenched the scroll. So who would dare to say that he must not be alive?

Ye Shuo had seen it in the memories of King Zhuo Yi, but in the long-term war between Zichu and Cangping, he could only be regarded as a small supporting role at most, and he didn't care about it at that time. Now, memories of him have also emerged with this article......

During the period when King Zhuo Yi was bewitched by Zhiling, the loyal right prime minister repeatedly made suggestions, asking the king not to mislead the country because of his beauty. King Zhuo Yi turned a deaf ear, and finally the right prime minister was disheartened, predicting that the Purple Chu Kingdom would die from the hands of King Zhuo Yi, and he couldn't bear to see it in person, so he committed suicide in public.

The son of the right prime minister, Wei Zixi, witnessed his father's loyal death, hated King Zhuo Yi to the core, and threw himself into Cangping Kingdom in a rage. After the defeat of the Zichu State, the punishment of King Zhuo Yi's imprisonment for thousands of years was also proposed by him.

Later, due to Zhiling's breach of the contract, the Spider Queen led her troops to fall into the Cangping Kingdom, and the national capital became a ruin, and turned into a black jungle in the future...... However, from beginning to end, he never saw the scene of his son dying!

If the other party is really alive and has gained extreme power in the future, with his hatred for King Zhuo Yi, it is entirely possible to do such a distorted thing of history...... Not a child, not a child...... The appearance of the pale young man in the memories had long been blurred in Ye Shuo's mind. Could it be that he would really be the Lord of the Nine Shadows Hall today?

With this question in mind, when Ye Shuo continued to read, he always paid attention to the clues about Cangping Kingdom. However, as he expected, the existence of Cangping Kingdom really had traces of being deliberately concealed. Except for the appendix that I don't know if I forgot to delete, I can't even find any written record about Cangping Kingdom.

The former site of Cangping Country is located in the black jungle, if you want to investigate, you really have to go there...... Ye Shuo was thinking about it, and his eyes suddenly fell on an article in his hand.

This article is about the evolution of porcelain culture in the past dynasties, and there is obviously a large abridgement in it!

If you want to say it, it's like a person who has done enough warm-up movements, is ready to sprint 100 meters, but reaches the finish line in an instant. Reading through it repeatedly, that strong sense of disobedience made Ye Shuo more and more sure of his judgment.

The author of this essay is a historian, and in his style, each period of porcelain evolution expands on a contemporary history and related anecdotes. Isn't it...... That abridged article inadvertently touched the old affairs of Cangping Kingdom?

Even this kind of article that can't be beaten with eight poles has to be deleted, in that era, it was really unspeakable...... Ye Shuo sighed, lifted the jade slip, and took a large page of the article.

For now, this should be the only clue. Looking at the author's information in the appendix below, the other party should still be alive now, so there must be an unabridged manuscript in his hands!

……

Leaving the archives, Ye Shuo followed the address and found a quiet hut.

The historian's surname was Qiu, and everyone else called him Professor Qiu. Fortunately, Professor Yau used to be quite well-known in the academic world, and occasionally taught in a private school after he stopped writing. However, he only held a nominal idle position, and when he was in a good mood, he would say a few words, and when he was free, he would love the landscape and fish for fun.

Ye Shuo found the private school, and with great difficulty, he finally asked where he lived now, and he didn't even have time to eat, so he hurried over.

After knocking on the door, the shabby door panel was quickly pulled open, and a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard glared at him with a frown: "Are you?"

According to Professor Qiu's age, this person is most likely his son. Ye Shuo hurriedly followed the words he had thought of early in the morning and responded: "Ah...... I am a reader of Professor Qiu and I like his articles very much, which is really beautiful! I don't know where he is now, can I talk to him?"

The middle-aged man's brows furrowed even tighter: "My dad went fishing." Why don't you come back another day?" Looking at his appearance, his hair was unkempt, his eyes were half-squinted, and he looked like he hadn't woken up, obviously complaining that Ye Shuo had disturbed his good dreams.

Ye Shuo smiled dryly and waved his hand: "It's okay, it's okay, I can wait for him here!" Seeing the other party's impatient face, he suddenly thought about it, took out the jade slip, and adjusted out the photo taken before, "That, by the way, I like this article very much, but I feel that the content has been deleted a lot, can you show me the original manuscript?"

In his mind, if he asked Professor Qiu directly, the other party was well aware of this history, and he might have some scruples and deliberately avoid it. And the middle-aged man in front of him is impatient with this matter, maybe he can take advantage of this loophole, such as asking him to throw his father's manuscript to himself, and then not disturb each other-

The middle-aged man was a little surprised by his exaggerated performance, and his tone improved a little, "Having said that, it's hard that you are young and would like those old antique words he wrote." But it's unfortunate that you're here, my father has been sealing the pen for many years, and the original manuscript is now burned as firewood. ”

Ye Shuo was taken aback: "Why?"

The middle-aged man tugged at the corners of his mouth, lowered his head and looked at him carefully: "I said you, are you really my father's reader?"

Ye Shuo was startled, and hurriedly raised his neck: "Dang...... Of course, what?"

The middle-aged man sighed: "If you really read a few articles by my father, you should know that there are too many things that can't be touched in the era he studied." 'If you pick up a pen and write a few words, you have to worry about being convicted for your words, then it is better not to write'. That's what he said. ”

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In this way, Ye Shuo left Professor Qiu's forest hut with unsolved but vaguely clear questions.

Sometimes, the more you deliberately cover up, the more flaws will be exposed. At least now he can be sure that the core country of "that era" is Cangping State. And in some ways, this large-scale erasure was indeed a success.

If he hadn't seen the relevant historical facts in King Zhuo Yi's memory, he wouldn't have known about the existence of the Cangping Kingdom, including its historical status, as well as the old grievances with the Zichu Kingdom. So even if I see the article that analyzes Wei Zixi today, I am afraid that I will not think deeply.

If he hadn't met King Zhuo Yi before, he wouldn't have noticed the disconnect between truth and truth in the historical sources. Perhaps at that time, in his mind, this was just a despicable faint king.

The fragments of everything make up the chain of clues today. As for the true identity of the Lord of the Nine Shadows Palace, it is gradually emerging......

Next, let's go to the Black Jungle and check it out......!

(End of chapter)