In Lin Hai’s mind, there were ten thousand heavily armored cavalrymen running past...running back...and running past again.
There were so many flaws in the conversation that he didn't even know where to start.
Xin Yueping looked at Lin Hai's constipated expression, neither anxious nor annoyed, and said calmly: "It's okay, I'll start from the beginning, and you can ask any questions. I know you have a lot of questions, but after I finish, I think you will understand."
Lin Hai really wanted to ask a few questions first, but since Xin Yueping said so, there was no need to rush. He decided to let Xin Yueping speak first according to his thoughts.
"Okay, go ahead."
"Everything I'm going to talk about comes from my father. What he knew came from his father. It's probably passed down like this from generation to generation. Oh...oh, I know. You're asking where the Khmer traditions that have been passed down for only four hundred years came from, right?"
Xin Yueping smiled.
"Yes, I'm curious."
"It's probably the same as it is now," Xin Yueping explained. "This moment is just like that moment."
"So, it was passed down by the last king of the previous country when the Khmer Empire destroyed it?" Lin Hai found it a little unbelievable.
"Yes. This is considered the inheritance of the ruling families of each country. While they still have control over the country, they pass it down within the family. If it can no longer be passed down, it will be passed on to the next family to rule this land."
Facing the situation where the Xinyue Family's rule had come to an end, Xinyue Ping didn't seem to care. He said, "If you had come, I would have said more. If you hadn't come, I would have told these words to my son, and he would have told his son, until the Xinyue Family's rule was replaced by someone else, or until you came here."
"So you're the only one who knows what I'm going to say? Wouldn't that easily break the inheritance?"
"It's not that easy to break off. The ruling families of all the major nations have an unwritten rule: if the capital is surrounded and unable to be liberated, the royal family will not resist. It's just like I won't bother with the garrison's outrageous actions. Oh, and by the way, I heard that the term 'outrageous actions' was coined by you. I've always thought it's very apt."
"Hmm... Setting aside the fact that I've never mentioned this term here, nor the meaning of 'what I left behind,' I'll continue with my previous question. If there's a rebellion within Cambodia, like the palace coups or ministerial rebellions that have occurred before, can you also pass down these contents?"
Lin Hai actually had a lot of questions to ask, but he still wanted to know the authenticity of these contents first.
"If it's a coup or something else, as long as the enemy can break into the palace, I will come to the bedroom and sit in the cage like I am now, waiting for him to come. If you don't believe me, you can ask the newly registered Cube King of Xia Country. He should have just received such an inheritance in the cage."
Xin Yueping watched Lin Hai's expression change and smiled, "Caution is necessary, but you don't have to doubt what I say. Our heritage may have many loopholes, but there have indeed been no problems over the years. Moreover, the royal families of Xia, Liang, and Chen are also aware of what I know. Even if the Cambodian tradition is cut off, they will continue to pass on this information. Even if a new country is established and the ruler knows nothing, they will come and tell him."
"I had no idea there was such a thing." Lin Hai said in disbelief.
"Hahahaha, of course you don't know. You have to understand that your title is only that of an earl, and legally your fiefdom is only a county. And I'm the only one in the Khmer royal family who knows about it. Others might be able to sense something, but they definitely don't know the details, and these details are definitely not something you can imagine."
Seeing that Lin Hai had stopped asking questions, Xin Yueping continued, "Let's talk about history first. You should have noticed that the historical records of this continent only go back a thousand years. I remember you asked Xin Yuetu this question, and it really got the kid upset."
This... it was a bit embarrassing to have his secrets exposed so suddenly, but luckily Xin Yuetu wasn't there, so Lin Hai could only suppress his embarrassment, "We don't actually know the reason. A long, long time ago, probably ten or twenty thousand years ago, the royal family and historians at the time desperately wanted to record even more ancient history, but no matter what they did, they couldn't write it down.
It is said that if records were forced, such as writing a diary like a daily record, recording everything that happened day by day, then once the record reached the thousandth year, the historian who wrote the thousand years and one day would suddenly go crazy, destroy all previous records, and then die suddenly.
Forget about writing multiple copies and hiding them. Countless people have tried these methods over the past millennia, and they've all failed. There was once a historian who wrote down thousands of years of history, hid them, and then committed suicide. Before his death, he instructed his children to continue writing in blank history books, thinking that this method would record everything. After all, his children wouldn't know anything, so they wouldn't go crazy.
Hearing this, Lin Hai couldn't help but sigh: "It's a responsible historian, and it's also a good method."
"Haha," Xin Yueping said with a smile, "This historian is certainly responsible, but his method is not a good one, otherwise the history of the past would have been left behind."
"What's wrong with this approach?"
"The problem lies with the contents from a thousand years ago. Much later, someone found the book left by the historian. From the traces on it, it can be determined that the book is at least hundreds of years old, and the history recorded in it must be more than a thousand years old. The person, unaware of the thousand-year taboo, picked up the book and began reading, then immediately collapsed and died. Someone later discovered the body and, naturally, the book, so they also went to read it and, of course, died suddenly...
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