Chapter 3: The Ancestors of the Li Family

Listening to the old man Li excitedly tell the various incredible deeds of the ancestor of the Li family who turned things around, Li Wei didn't know how to evaluate this predecessor who was also a traverser, that was called a yearning!

How nice it would be if Lao Tzu also traveled back to that era? Don't say anything about being a king side by side, just a prince is also a super nobleman who can be passed down to the present! This is much more compelling than what knights canonized by the Queen of England in his own world!

According to the old man's narration, as well as his own bizarre experiences based on the protagonists of many online novels he has read in his own world, Li Wei feels that the truth of the matter should be like this.

One year, a young man from another world suddenly traveled through time and space for some reasons (such as electric shock, car accident, lightning strike, etc.), and arrived in North America, which was still wild.

Then, with great perseverance, great ability and great luck, this senior actually integrated a part of the indigenous Indians who were still in the primitive society at that time, and successfully fooled them into believing that they were of the same race.

Actually, this is not a fool, because he can definitely find a lot of bizarre things about the locals. Those can prove from all sides that these Indians really seem to be the Indians who have been talked about in their own world, and they are from China.

In the original world, some people found that the Indians and Mayans in the Americas were very similar to the ancient Chinese in many aspects, such as appearance, skin color, such as writing, and some special customs.

Based on this, some scholars have proposed that the Indian is actually Yindian, or the capital of Yin Shang An*yang (Yindi An*yang). At least some of these Indians in the Americas were the elite soldiers and their family slaves who were unwilling to surrender to the Western Zhou after the last emperor of the Shang Dynasty, Shang Xu, self-immolated.

They overcame great fears and difficulties, and relied on rudimentary ships to cross the ocean, and finally came to the other side of the ocean. And also successfully survived and multiplied in the Americas, thousands of miles away from their homeland, and gradually integrated with the local natives, and eventually formed the Indians.

When the ancestors of the Li family first came to the Americas, they didn't know what they had experienced, but according to the official historical records and the old man Li Guangming's account, Li Wei himself summarized it comprehensively, and it still felt a little unbelievable.

According to the history textbooks of this world, when King Side by side first arrived in the Americas, he became acquainted with each other in two years, became king in two years, built ships in two years, and only three years later, and had a huge regular army and territory under his command.

It also included naval ships and weapons that were far ahead of the technological level of the time, especially several of them that should have appeared more than a hundred years later. For example, the standard equipment of naval warships - cannons, with the level of science and technology at that time, it is absolutely impossible to make them.

When the Yin Shang Republic Navy first appeared, it was precisely because of the existence of a powerful cannon with an accurate range of more than two kilometers that it defeated the huge naval fleet of Meng Yuan and laid an extremely solid step for the revival of the Song Dynasty.

Of course, all of them are mentioned in history textbooks. The hardships of being able to build a powerful nation from almost the ruins are self-evident.

If nothing else, a constitutional monarchy political system is far from being able to be imagined by people at that time, and it can really be successfully reformed in an era when feudal ideas are extremely strong.

That requires great ability, great perseverance, great power and atmospheric luck as the backing.

Facts have proved that the ancestor of the Li family not only did it, but also did it quite well and successfully.

According to historical records, during the Ten Years War (the Battle of Yashan began, it took ten years to completely sweep away all enemies or potential enemies around the Song Dynasty. The ancestor of the Li family has consciously introduced some reform policies.

For example, we vigorously supported the development of industry and commerce and universal civilian education, and attached importance to science and technology, especially agricultural science and technology and applications, and when the war ended and began to enter a period of peacebuilding, the entire country had greatly surpassed other countries on the earth at that time in all aspects.

For example, after 10 years of reform, it is said that the number of illiterate citizens has dropped from 890 percent to less than 20 percent. You must know that with the population base of the Song Dynasty at that time, even after wars and turmoil, there was still a huge population of the people.

One can imagine how much a government that benefited from the huge dividends of the war invested in education to achieve such astonishing results in just a decade.

With the support of a large number of literate ordinary people who make up the majority of the country's population and a huge number of industrial workers, and with the strong support of a large number of wealthy and powerful vested interests, businessmen, this vigorous reform had the basis for success.

The most important thing is the support of the army with the handle of the sword and the support of the country's nominal head emperor, and it took another ten years of ups and downs for the country's political system and related laws and regulations to be initially improved.

It is precisely because of its great achievements that have never been seen before or since, that the ancestor of the Li family has long been deified by the government and the people. Even if science and technology have developed to this era, there are still countless people who think that the ancestors of the Li family are the immortals sent by God to restore the Song Dynasty.

The common people even say that he can pinch and calculate, can call the wind and rain, sprinkle beans as soldiers, know five hundred years before and know one thousand years later, can be an official, can lead soldiers to fight, and is still a god of wealth who turns stones into gold.

Especially the last point, hundreds of years have passed, and there is almost no businessman in this contemporary world of commerce and prosperity who does not worship this ancestor of the Li family. It can be said that in the eyes of all businessmen in today's society, especially in the eyes of foreign businessmen, this is the living embodiment of the God of Wealth in the world, which has nothing to do with religion or country.

The large-scale glass firing process, the large-scale steelmaking process, the invention of the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, the electric motor, the subdivision and establishment of various disciplines such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and even the optimization and breeding of crops, this can be said to be one, two, three, and in many ways shocked the people at that time.

Now, Li Wei is not at all surprised by the words of Li Guangming, the contemporary patriarch of the Li family.

Can you imagine that the entire country and even the whole world have worshiped that ancestor of the Li family as an immortal for nearly a thousand years! As a direct descendant of this ancestor, if the old man hadn't heard anything about this ancestor, it would be strange!

As for the fact that with a wave of his hand, a white light pierced through several mountains and opened a secret tunnel in and out of the mountain, for the ancestor of the Li family who had become a god, it was too simple and easy, right?

Regarding the expression of disbelief and disdain on Li Wei's face, the old man Li Guangming really saw it, if it wasn't for what his ancestors saw with their own eyes, he couldn't believe that someone could really do this.

"Don't pout, about our ancestor, when you really become the village chief, you will know better than me that the ancestor will only be a hundred times more powerful than we know. ”

As the village head, there are a lot of benefits and many inheritance treasures, but Li Wei has just woken up and hasn't had time to know these things.

"After you accept the inheritance of the ancestor and get the many treasures left to you by the ancestor, you will know what kind of person the ancestor is.

Li Wei nodded longingly, indicating that he knew, and had a little admiration for this senior's heartfelt arrival.

Don't be too awesome, isn't it? It's been hundreds of years, and there are still legends in this world! Look at what people mix after crossing, it's definitely high-end and high-grade!

It's just that there is one thing that makes Li Wei quite confused. Why did he have to take people back to the Central Plains after the founding of the Americas to help the Southern Song Dynasty sweep away the border troubles and rejuvenate the country?

You must know that such a large piece of the American continent (South America plus North America), which is strategically located and rich in resources, is much larger than that of the Southern Song Dynasty at that time! Isn't it much easier to make your own decisions in the blank land over there?

And after defeating the Tartars, they did not leave immediately, but stayed, and led the country to a more prosperous, powerful, and powerful path, and then they successfully retired, without any nostalgia for the power in their hands.

In order to avoid being fooled, he finally led his family to live in seclusion in the depths of the mountains. Since then, the golden basin has washed his hands and no longer cares about the affairs of the rivers and lakes. Live a hermit life of picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and leisurely seeing Nanshan.

This calmness, this mentality, is indeed incomprehensible. I feel that there is really a sense that a cultivator sees through the red dust and does not love the world. Perhaps, this immortal cultivator is really successful, so he will not be attached to the earthly scenery and glory and wealth.

Moreover, for many years after that, except for each new emperor before the accession to the throne, there would be a village chief who would take the new emperor, that is, the crown prince, to the village and stay for half a year to a year, no outsiders could enter the village.

Most of the time, no one even the generations of garrisons stationed outside the surrounding mountains, guarding the forests and the hermitage of the historical ancestors, could enter the village. You must know that when they usually patrol, they have already checked this mountain forest.

Some scholars have speculated early on that Lijiacun is likely to be in the same dimension as this world at all. When the king came here on purpose, it may have been a trick.

The real Lijia Village is likely to be built in a higher latitude space, and then use a special teleportation array or something to shuttle back and forth between two different dimensional spaces.

There are even some people who have a big brain, thinking that the side by side king may have something similar to a space magic weapon or the immortal cave mansion. Usually, it may turn into something of any shape, a small grass, a leaf, hidden in the mountains and forests, and no one will find it.

Of course, there are also people who think that King Side by side is an alien visitor, and for some reason, he has a good impression of the Han people, so he did his best to help the imperial court revive the Song dynasty and create a powerful Chinese federation.

No matter what kind of speculation it is, there are many people who believe it, and there are even quite a few of them. But which one is true and the closest to the truth, in this world, I am afraid that the two people who are likely to know the most clearly are Old Man Li and Li Wei.