Another thousand years passed, and Lin Jiang woke up.
Walking out of the cave, there was still a forest outside, not a city. He felt the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but there was still nothing. Lin Jiang was very disappointed. How long has it been? The human race has appeared for more than two thousand years, why hasn't the spiritual energy revived yet?
Lin Jiang, who had just woken up, felt a little weak, and quickly went to find some prey to replenish himself, and by the way, get something to cover himself. He was not used to walking his bird.
After walking dozens of miles outside, he saw a village. Lin Jiang used the remaining prey to change a set of clothes. He asked about the situation, but the village was very closed. Except for knowing that the government outside was called Dawei, he knew nothing.
"Go back and continue to sleep or go out for a walk?"
Lin Jiang faced a choice, whether to go back to sleep and wait for the spiritual energy to revive or go out for a walk.
After hesitating for a long time, Lin Jiang finally decided to go out for a walk and see the outside world. If it was a prosperous time, he would play more and feel the beauty of the prosperous time. If it was a chaotic time, he would come back to sleep and not get involved.
Lin Jiang went to the mountains to hunt some prey, such as pheasants, and dressed himself up as a hunter in the mountains. He hoped that the government at the foot of the mountain had not issued any laws to protect animals, otherwise these would not be pheasants, but chickens that would be sentenced to life in prison.
After hundreds of miles of mountain roads, he finally arrived at a small town. The town was not large, but at least there were some shops. Lin Jiang sold the prey for money and got 20 to 30 copper coins. At the foot of the mountain, prey was not worth much.
"Da Wei Bao Tong"
Lin Jiang looked at the words on the copper plate. The shape was still similar to the coins of the Xia Kingdom, but the words were changed.
The government of Da Wei seemed to have strong control power and had come up with road permits. However, road permits could not stump Lin Jiang, or it could not stump warriors. The government could also set up checkpoints on the main road. If the main road could not be taken, then take the small road. When you get the money, find someone to get a road permit.
The rules of the world are like this. If you set rules, there will be people who break the rules or exploit the loopholes in the rules. Only with rules can you make money.
According to his memory, Lin Jiang walked towards the former Yunzhong City. After walking for hundreds of miles, he finally saw a larger city. Taking advantage of the night, Lin Jiang used his Qinggong to climb over the city wall and entered the city.
The city was pitch black. There should be a curfew. There were not many patrolling soldiers, but there were some night watchmen.
Lin Jiang avoided these people and found a bookstore. He sneaked in, found a few history books, threw down some money, and left quietly.
By the afternoon of the next day, Lin Jiang had finished reading the history books and had a general understanding of the history of the past thousand years. He even saw the records of his Guiguzi vest.
Back then, Lin Jiang set off a trend of a hundred schools of thought in the State of Chu. This trend of thought spread from the State of Chu to various feudal states. Within a few decades, it attracted more and more elites to participate, and various propositions emerged, providing a theoretical basis for the reforms of various countries.
After that, each country reformed and strengthened itself. The small countries of Zheng State were annexed by the big feudal states after the reform. Then there was the war of unification, which lasted for more than a hundred years. I don’t know if it was accidental, but in the end, Qin State unified all countries and completely replaced Xia State.
However, Qin State did not perish in the second generation, nor did Qin Shihuang appear, and there was no unified measurement system. Many things had been done by Lin Jiang when he was the Emperor of Xia.
After the unification of Qin State, it continued for more than 300 years. The reason for the fall of Qin State was related to Qingzhou. The history books said that Qin State led millions of troops to Qingzhou, and most of these troops were gone, which led to the complete weakening of Qin State. A large-scale rebellion occurred in a few years, and Qin State perished.
After the fall of Qin State, there were decades of warlords fighting, and it was eventually replaced by Qi State. Qi State lasted for more than 300 years, and then the emperor was incompetent, and the people were living in poverty. Then a large-scale uprising occurred, and it was eventually replaced by Wei State, which is now Wei State. It has been less than a hundred years since the establishment of the country, and it is the time when the country is strong.
“There are many omissions in these history books.”
Lin Jiang looked at the history books in his hand. There were many omissions and they were full of personal emotions. Lin Jiang could only read them roughly. Lin Jiang decided to look for them somewhere else to see if he could find a history book like Zizhi Tongjian, which was more systematic and comprehensive.
"Poor family, rich road, I have to borrow some money."
Before leaving, Lin Jiang looked at the rich families in the city. It would not be too much to play the role of a thief and ask the landlord to borrow some money.
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Da Wei, Yunzhou
Yunzhou is not the Yunzhou in Lin Jiang's memory. It is now just an ordinary state in the territory of Da Wei. Xia State used the feudal states in various places as administrative regions, but when it came to Qi State, the feudal system was abolished and replaced by the county system, dividing the world into 36 counties.
When they arrived in Qi, they set up states above the counties, and used the four-level administrative system of states, counties, prefectures, and counties as a means of management. Qi set up 42 states and hundreds of counties. The administrative system inherited by Wei was still the same, but a few more were added. There were 50 states in total, and with Zhongzhou, where the capital was located, it became 51.
"It's a mess, it's a mess, it's all messed up."
Lin Jiang saw the territory map of Wei in Yunzhou City, and felt a little confused. The 50 states included the former Zhongzhou, Qingzhou, and Bingzhou, but most of the territory was in the former Yunzhou and Hezhou. How could this be summarized as a mess? Lin Jiang was really dizzy after seeing it.
"Hey, why do I think so much? It's none of my business."
After a day, Lin Jiang figured it out. Fifty states are fifty states, and it doesn't matter what it's called. Why bother with so much.
Yunzhou has a prosperous trade, and the management of road permits and the like will be more relaxed. Lin Jiang borrowed money from many big households and got himself a legal identity.
Afterwards, Lin Jiang lingered in the bookstores in Yunzhou again. After a month, he finally made up for the historical knowledge. The things he read before were not wrong, but he missed a lot of things.
For example, the expedition of Qin State was not to fight against Qingzhou, but to help Qingzhou resist the monsters. Before the last sleep, Lin Jiang helped Qingzhou to cripple the monsters on the north bank of Qingjiang River, and Qingzhou gained hundreds of years of peace. For hundreds of years thereafter, Qingzhou firmly controlled Qingjiang River and resisted the enemy on the north bank of Qingjiang River.
However, what Lin Huasheng worried about back then still happened. The monsters avoided Qingjiang River and entered Qingzhou from the southeast of Liangzhou. Caught off guard, Qingzhou was defeated and asked Qin for help.
The king of Qin at that time was a man who understood the overall situation, so he mobilized all the elite troops of Qin State and mobilized three million troops to go on an expedition to resist the attack of the monsters together with Qingzhou.
The war lasted for more than ten years, which directly dragged down the finances of Qin. The internal contradictions of Qin were sharp, and uprisings and rebellions continued, which directly led to the lack of food and grass for the expeditionary army, resulting in a great defeat and the demise of Qin.
After the establishment of Qi, it also sent a large army to the expedition, but this time Qi was fully prepared and did not invest so many troops. In addition, many powerful figures emerged in Qingzhou, and they repelled the attack of the monsters. Qingzhou built a Great Wall in the northwest of Qingzhou to stabilize the situation.
"The Immortal Sect, the Martial Sect, and the Clan Alliance have disappeared. Qingzhou is now called the Immortal Kingdom. Thousands of years have passed, and the world has changed dramatically."
After reading this history, Lin Jiang felt very heavy. Everything he was familiar with no longer existed. The monster army attacked Qingzhou, and the Immortal Sect, the Martial Sect, and the Clan Alliance were the main forces of resistance, and the casualties were extremely heavy.
And they also tried their best to mobilize other ordinary mortals, but the final result was that they themselves were lost in the long river of history and became a thing of the past. The newly rising forces learned from Qi and established their own country. Because the influence of the immortal civilization was too great, they called themselves the immortal country, or regarded themselves as the descendants of immortals.
"Ah..."
After a long time, Lin Jiang sighed again. Sometimes he would doubt himself. Was it right or wrong for him to sleep for a thousand years? Did he need to participate in this history in person, or continue to be a passerby?