Chapter 1016: Empress Shanshan

"No, this is completely inconsistent with the chronicle of the ancient Shanshan Kingdom in the Xuanshu Iron Coupon." Yue Guanchao continued: "The legend of the ancient Shanshan Kingdom has been recorded in the Xuanshu Iron Coupon......"

In the legend of the Xuanshu Iron Coupon, the ancient Shanshan Kingdom is located near the Tianshan Mountains and is a desert dynasty with a strong mystery.

This is the transit point of the Silk Road, but also the end of the Hexi Corridor, because of its proximity to the Silk Road trade line extending from the Central Plains, relying on trade and the flow of goods, the development is very prosperous, which completely corresponds to Steinhein's investigation.

It's just that Steinhein didn't mention the issue of the succession to the throne of Gu Shanshan at all.

In the record of the Xuanshu Iron Coupon, the biggest difference between the Shanshan royal family and other desert royal families is that the Shanshan royal family is a female successor, which is particularly special in the case of other small countries being male succession, even if it is placed in the Central Plains Dynasty of the same era, Shanshan can be regarded as the opposite.

In the Central Plains Dynasty, there were indeed many cases of women ruling the government, but the legal system of these women ruling the country came from the late emperor's husband or the son of the emperor who ascended the throne, in other words, their legal system was entirely based on the fact that they were relatives of the male emperor.

From Empress Dowager Xuan, Empress Lu, Dou Yifang, to Wei Zifu and Wang Zhengjun, their power all came from the emperor's descendants of the Han Dynasty.

This alone is completely different from the ancient Shanshan Kingdom, where every monarch is a woman, which means that they let women succeed to the throne, not because they can't find a male heir, but because the system and legal principles are exactly like this, and have nothing to do with the quantity and quality of male heirs.

In other words, the ancient kingdom of Shanshan is a country ruled entirely by a female monarch!

In layman's terms, in the ancient country of Shanshan, only women can legally inherit the throne, regardless of whether the lord has male descendants or not, the only one who can win the throne legally is the princess or the princess.

The explanation of this by the Xuanshu Iron Coupon is related to the Yin Fish Pei!

The people of Shanshan Ancient Kingdom are willing to rule the country with a female monarch, which is closely related to the fish pendant that has been passed down from generation to generation in Shanshan Kingdom, and it is rumored that wearing this fish pendant can understand all the unsolved mysteries, count all the disasters and auspicious things that happen in the world, and even, it can make the desert become an oasis out of thin air, and dry roads and rivers.

Such a magical fish pendant has an extremely strange feature, that is, it can only be controlled by women.

If it is held by a man, it is no different from an ordinary stone, there is no magical power at all, in their concept, only the real king can use this jade pendant, if the king can not use this jade pendant, then it is not a real king, just a bluffing pseudo-king.

It is impossible for such a king to gain the respect of the people, let alone lead the people to resist all kinds of hazards and disasters from the desert.

Under the influence of this kind of jade, the position of the lord of the country is naturally inherited by women, and the Shanshan royal family also guarantees that the divine power of the jade pendant is in the hands of the lord of the country forever through the female heir.

This system of female heirs, which lasted for nearly two hundred years from the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the early Tang Dynasty, also produced nearly 25 Shanshan queens in the ancient kingdom of Shanshan.

In the course of the queen's reign for two hundred years, the female monarch is directly born, and the bloodline of her children is more fixed and clear, as long as it is from the queen, basically there will be no doubt about the bloodline, and the purity of the bloodline makes the Shanshan royal family value the purity of blood.

Generally speaking, in order to improve the legitimacy and stability of the rule, the ancient rulers would make a big fuss about the bloodline and legal system, and the Queen of Shanshan was no exception, in the records of the Shanshan Kingdom, the Queen of Shanshan was the patron saint of the oasis and the desert, and also the ruling god of the Shanshan Kingdom, and at the same time, she was also a goddess who was favored by the heavens and could communicate with the heavens and the earth.

This statement marks the beginning of the evolution of Queen Shanshan from a human king to a god king, and at the same time, the Shanshan royal family also respects herself as a goddess, and consolidates the idea of the queen as a god in disguise.

Once the royal family is deified, it will continue to be elevated, until it becomes a real resident god, Queen Shanshan has undergone several generations of deification, and began to develop from the ruling entity to the ruling void, and the queen after that, no longer has a name and appearance, and no longer appears in front of people, only exists in this world as the queen of Shanshan or the honorific title of Empress Shanshan.

Whether it is the priesthood of Shanshanguo, the courtiers and guards, or the foreign envoys, they cannot meet the queen directly, they need to see it from a distance through the veil, or wait for the queen to summon them, and no one has the opportunity to contact the queen except that.

No one knows how old the queen is, nor how long she has ruled Shanshanguo, only knowing that where there is a queen, she will return to peace, otherwise, there will be a disaster and be swallowed up by the endless desert.

When the mystery becomes unrevealed, the truth becomes farther and farther away, and Queen Shanshan gradually only has legends left.

In the end, as Li Tang opened the Hexi Corridor, Gu Shanguo disappeared into the depths of the desert with the queen.

When Yue Guanchao said this, he questioned: "In the record of the Xuanshu Iron Coupon, it was only more than 200 years from the establishment of the queen's ruling system to the fall of the early Tang Dynasty, which seems to be a little different from the Guozuo of the ancient Shanshan Dynasty researched by Steinhein. ”

"According to the research of this old foreign dog, Shanshan Kingdom has existed for at least 600 to 800 years, from the fall of Shanshan Kingdom in the early Tang Dynasty and then back, the node of the real determination of the queen system is probably the end of the Three Kingdoms and Two Jin Dynasty in the Han Dynasty, so this also means that from the early years of the Han Dynasty to the end of the Three Kingdoms and Two Jin Dynasty, there are still nearly 600 years, and it is the male lord who rules the ancient Shanshan Kingdom."

Yue Guanchao narrowed his eyes when he said this: "For such a long time, what happened to establish the queen's ruling system?" ”

"Or is it that the history of the ancient Shanshan Kingdom has actually been seriously misreported, and the real time of existence is only two hundred years, and the previous six hundred years are completely due to Steinhe's false reports to decorate the faΓ§ade, and the next two hundred years are the actual national glory?"

Yue Guanchao's question, everyone present also understood that there is indeed a big discrepancy between Steinhein's research and legends, and this problem cannot be solved, so no matter which statement it is, it can only be doubted.

Song Siyuan pondered for a moment, pondered and said: "In the classics of the same period, the ancient Loulan Kingdom was indeed mentioned, which shows that the Shanshan Kingdom was indeed produced in the Han Dynasty, probably at the end of the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, the ancient Shanshan Kingdom established the queen inheritance system, and it took two hundred years before it perished in the early Tang Dynasty. ”

"I just looked at the literature carefully, Steinhein mainly researched the tombs of the ancient Shanshan Kingdom, and deduced the existence of the ancient Shanshan Kingdom from the nearby architectural ruins, as for why the queen system appeared after 600 years, this point is really not reflected in the investigation report."

"Still." Her eyes lit up: "This does not necessarily mean that Stein's investigation report is fake, this kind of investigation report can be published in the journal of Physical Geography, and the authenticity of the data and evidence can be guaranteed, we can only guess now that in the two hundred years from the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, something happened in the ancient Shanshan Kingdom, which made the male heir system disappear and transform into the queen inheritance system." ”