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"Yes, it's as if there's an invisible hand that doesn't want humanity to trace back into history."
Upon hearing this, Wang Dayong's expression also turned serious.
"So, the history we know now might only be the tip of the iceberg, and the true history has been deliberately hidden by some force?"
The old man sighed and nodded heavily.
"However, not all of history has disappeared. Some books can still be consulted, although the text is somewhat blurry."
Jiang Xiao reached out and casually pulled out a history book from the bookshelf. He opened it and frowned.
As the old man had said, the writing on the pages had indeed become blurred, as if it had been covered by the dust of time, or as if some force had deliberately erased the traces.
He tried to decipher the characters, but found it to be no easy task.
Each character seems hastily written, devoid of any detail, much like an ancient landscape painting sketched with broad strokes, leaving only the roughest outline.
However, it is undeniable that when these books were published, they were printed in regular script using electronic typesetting.
But what's most incomprehensible is...
Is this a history book?
That's too brief!
Many things are only briefly mentioned. How should I put it? This doesn't seem like a history book, but rather like a condensed version of history into a single sentence.
Jiang Fan would point to a section of the dynasty's history and ask the historians questions at any time.
"Look here, the history of the Great Fang Dynasty is all about 'a certain battle, one side won,' 'a great famine, countless people died,' is that all the descriptions?"
Jiang Xiao couldn't help but read a sentence from the book sarcastically.
He couldn't believe his eyes; such a description could hardly be called history.
Wang Dayong walked over, glanced at the pages, and was equally shocked.
What about the scholars and military generals in history?
Some emperors were even unknown by their real names and could only be referred to as "Emperor" or by their reign title.
"That's outrageous!"
Even Niu Jieshi shook his head repeatedly, saying that this history was simply too outrageous.
Their history is monotonous, dull, and lacks any entertainment value.
"What about Tang and Song dynasty poetry? Uh, I mean, you must have some ancient poems passed down here, right?"
"some."
Yes, there are some, but these poems are incomplete. They are either missing the preceding and following lines or have missing words in a single line, so that they can only be pieced together by later generations through speculation.
Historical chaos
However, its technological development far surpasses that of Earth.
After all, their fragmented history did not stop their scientific development.
These historians were also completely baffled.
They never considered that their history was incomplete.
But when Jiang Xiao mentioned Emperor Taizong of Tang and Emperor Taizu of Song, Yue Fei, Xiang Yu, Bai Qi, Hua Mulan, and Huo Qubing, who were all outstanding women, he was outshone by men.
They then realized that history is so rich and colorful.
Even though Jiang Xiao's speech was quite stilted, it did not diminish their admiration for their father-in-law and Mulan.
"And what about our history?"
Wang Dayong was speechless. "You're asking me? We're the ones who want to ask you the same thing!"
"Yes, but what about your history? God only appeared recently, has your history always been like this?"
Yes.
Historians lowered their heads in shame; such was their history.
Extremely simple, with absolutely no readability or entertainment value.
"Logically speaking, as long as those emperors weren't idiots, they would know to write some history books to praise themselves, right?"
This is human nature.
It's like if you bought a Mercedes-Maybach, you would post it on your WeChat Moments.
It's like if your girlfriend gave you a 4090 graphics card, you would post it on social media.
You're the emperor!
That would be a name that goes down in history!
Why don't you find someone to record your great achievements?
"You mean, someone in later generations destroyed the records of previous emperors?"
"impossible!"
Jiang Xiao asserted that besides official history, there are also unofficial histories!
This isn't about destroying a few books; it's about burying that entire period of history in the dust.
Even if he were an emperor, he could not completely erase the story of the previous dynasty.
Besides, even if there was enmity between the next dynasty and the previous one, it could be completely erased.
But even within a single dynasty, there are changes of emperors, right?
Surely a son wouldn't risk public condemnation by slandering his father and erasing all of his father's deeds during his lifetime?
And what about those brave and skilled generals and poets?
Why should their stories be covered up?
Therefore, everything about them must have been buried by that so-called "god".
As Jiang Xiao spoke eloquently and logically, the historian in the room grew increasingly grim.
Yes
Jiang Xiao's words make a lot of sense.
But they wasted most of their lives studying history and failed to discover this.
Of course, that's how history has always been, and that's how their teachers taught them.
It's like one day someone discovers the errors in relativity and quantum mechanics and successfully proves them.
But before that, no one thought there was anything wrong with the knowledge they had learned.
Chapter 568 A Brilliant Kingdom
That is, history does not disappear suddenly, but rather disappears slowly at a certain pace.
Take, for example, the history book that Jiang Xiao just read.
The writing on it is already very blurry and can only be roughly identified, because this history of the Dafang Dynasty is more than 800 years old.
Although the history of the Dafang Dynasty lacks "flavor," it at least reveals the general direction of the dynasty.
But if it's history from over a thousand years ago, then only scattered fragments remain.
If it's about four hundred years old, then the printed text will be quite clear.
The modern history section can be viewed normally, but the font is problematic.
The font looked like it had grown tentacles, with each character's corner extending a little bit longer than a normally written character.
It looks very clear, but looking at it too much can make one's body tingle.
But in modern history, there is absolutely no problem!
"No, you've studied history for most of your lives, and these books have such obvious problems, how come you didn't notice them before?"
"No, no"
The old men lowered their heads in shame. They didn't understand why they hadn't noticed this before.
Jiang Xiao was too lazy to argue with them anymore; that already spoke volumes.
"The power of God has long since begun to permeate your civilization, but I don't understand why He would interfere with history?"
“Actually, I don’t think it really matters,” the mathematician who had been silent spoke up. “The lost history can’t affect us.”
At first glance, this statement seems to make no mistake.
However, Jiang Xiao spoke up, his tone filled with disappointment and frustration.
"Have you ever thought that one day, your current history will be slowly covered up by the next chapter of history?"
"It's as if you, the geniuses at the top of the scientific pyramid, never came into this world. Even if you are a physicist who has won countless awards, no record of you will be found in the future."
"They use the technology you developed, enjoy the products you invented, and live in the facilities of your advanced medical system, yet they don't know who invented all of this. Don't you find that pathetic?"
Jiang Xiao's words were insightful and left these people speechless.