My God, I am the emperor, the lord of mankind.

Chapter 389 Civilian archaeological team, right?

This is not a punishment.

When a loyal servant of the empire without any worldly desires begins to make demands for his own interests, the best response is not to refuse and force him to assume obligations.

But by satisfying their desires to continue to win them over to serve the imperial machine.

Zhu Houcong himself did not expect Zhu Changning to guard the palace honestly and defend the royal power for the rest of his life.

After all, he is such a kid, and it is a bit too miserable to spend his good years feeling like he is in jail every day.

"Now that everything has been found, let's go meet Emperor Wenchang and see where this ghost and god who claims to be in charge of the world's fortune comes from."

Zhu Houcong waved his hand and threw the local chronicle and directory into the storage bag.

In Gao Lin's opinion, it disappeared in the blink of an eye from the hands of the emperor who bought it years ago.

This made him feel even more unfathomable about the emperor's power.

Wait until a few people return to the place where the Taoist temple just appeared.

Yu Dayou and Xu Youbang had been waiting for a long time.

When they saw Zhu Houcong, both of them showed surprised expressions.

But he didn't say much.

After all, this is not the first time this great emperor has done such a thing.

After Zhang Fawei turned around to ask Zhu Houcong for instructions, he took the lead and entered the Taoist temple in front of him.

Zhu Houcong once again took out the county chronicle that Gao Lin had not had time to read.

Browsing with superhuman eyes, in just a few seconds, he could see the useful parts of the entire county annals.

"Is that so... No wonder..."

Zhu Houcong murmured to himself, roughly understanding everything.

The record about the Wenchang statue in the county annals only lasts a few pages.

According to local chronicles, it was rumored that during the Sui Dynasty Emperor's reign, the imperial court opened a new branch of the imperial examination to recruit scholars, which aroused great resentment among the wealthy families who had passed down the tradition from the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

However, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty wiped out the Southern Dynasty and flattened the south of the Yangtze River.

He also inherited Emperor Wen's legacy, his treasury was full, and he had millions of armored men.

In addition to the surrender of the Turks, the three conquests of Goryeo had not yet begun at this time, and the power of the Sui Dynasty was still there.

However, no one dared to speak out and protest rashly. They only dared to silently make some small moves behind the scenes to obstruct the imperial examination.

So at the time when there was a surging undercurrent of forces in the DPRK and China due to the imperial examination.

A rumor coming from Liaodong and the Korean Peninsula touched the nerves of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, who had just ruled the world and was ambitious to create a "great cause" that was even more grand than his father's.

The news that came from Liaodong later strengthened him to a certain extent to conquer Goryeo and capture Liaodong, which ultimately led to the excessive consumption of the Sui Dynasty and the death of the second generation.

"The Secret Land of Han and Tibet, Emperor Wenchang——"

Zhu Houcong thought as he tore out a few useful pages from the county annals in front of him.

The others were put back into the storage bag, and the remaining local records were put back into their original places when they came back.

Then he stepped into the Taoist temple-like passage next to him, whose light had dimmed, as if it might dissipate at any time.

It was rumored that Emperor Wenchang controlled the world's fortune.

Whoever can seize the statue of Wenchang will be able to protect his family from everlasting melting and his status will never decline.

For those wealthy families who are full of resistance to the imperial examination, but they know very well that the imperial examination system is an unstoppable trend.

What a huge temptation that would be.

It was also impossible for Emperor Sui Yang to let this thing fall into the hands of a wealthy family.

On the way to conquer Goryeo and search for the elixir of immortality, it was logical to send people to search for the secret treasures of the Han Dynasty and the statue of Wenchang in Liaodong.

All forces are competing again. The local wealthy families of Liaodong, the Jingchu family, the Goryeo royal family, and the Sui Dynasty secret agents gathered together——

Although the local chronicles do not clearly state what kind of cruel battles the various forces fought here at that time.

However, according to local chronicles, when the Sui and Tang Dynasties changed, the local wealthy families in the past were almost extinct, and the huge city was destroyed.

There are many descriptions of looting and plundering by rioters and the destruction of cities in local chronicles. We can all see the fierce competition for this place.

The most important thing is that the Wenchang Statue, according to the description in the local chronicle, was a complete and luxurious statue that was hard to buy when the local wealthy family just accidentally dug it out of the ground.

But it is definitely not comparable to the abominable thing sitting on the altar with a severed head and black skin.

Zhu Houcong stared at the culprit in front of him, and after confirming that he was not currently a threat, he continued to walk in the direction of Zhang Fawei and others.

Then the problem arises.

Zhang Fawei in front of him has been waiting here for a long time, and has set up torches in the black tunnel behind the Taoist temple and deployed Taoist techniques to provide warning.

By the light of the torch in Yu Dayou's hand, Zhu Houcong stared at the uneven cracks on the neck of the decapitated Wenchang statue in front of him.

It seemed that someone had used a heavy object to break off the head and took him away.

The broken body of Emperor Wenchang in front of Zhu Houcong caused the imperial examination boom in Niumao Town for a hundred years.

So where is the most important head of Emperor Wenchang now living?

Zhu Houcong stared at the terrifying statue in front of him. The torch reflected a faint golden light on the dark stone skin of Wenchang.

It seems to imply that it also had a glorious time in the sun.

think.

The reason why Yang Yiqing handled the strange situation in Niumao Town in this way during the Zhengde period was because he did not want to let the Wenchang statue in front of him get out of control, spread too much, and cause an impact on the civil service system of the Ming court.

Could it be that behind the scenes, in addition to the archives and records of the Imperial Household Department, there are other reasons that are not enough to be explained to outsiders.

However, now is obviously not the time to talk about this.

Not far away, there was an exclamation from Zhang Fawei who was setting up the formation and detecting the direction.

When Zhu Houcon heard the reputation, he saw that the old Taoist, who was the representative of Tianshi Tao and entered the court before the contemporary Tianshi, turned back and said to Zhu Houcon with a solemn face.

"Your Majesty... Lord Zhenguo, there is a situation."

Zhu Houcong stepped forward, but he didn't expect to find clues so quickly.

Could it be that the defense of the tombs in the Han Dynasty was so weak because of its disrepair.

Or maybe the Han court did not think that this place needed to be defended very tightly. They were able to quickly put down the Yellow Turban Army and then returned here to continue their secret research.

All kinds of conjectures flashed through Zhu Houcong's mind.

Then he came to Zhang Fawei's side and read the words in the stone tablet.

Only then did Zhu Houcong understand why he found the way so quickly.

I saw that a big hole had been dug out of the wall in front of me where the mural of Nuwa patching up the sky was supposed to be painted.

Moreover, the hole is very level, and there are several rusty Changge and rotten wooden boards intertwined together as supports to prevent the passage from collapsing.

Moreover, looking at the scattered pieces on the ground, the bones of the forerunners lying in the tombs of the Han Dynasty along with the corroded armors.

And the decay of those spears.

Obviously, this robbery hole has been open for some years.

Zhu Houcong looked accusingly at Gao Lin aside.

It means that your ancestors have no awareness of protecting cultural relics at all, and their methods are too rough.

Gao Lin:?

However, in the face of the emperor's occasional convulsions, he could only squat down silently, silently turning over the remaining bone fragments and armor on the ground.

Hoping to find something in there to prove his identity.

Avoid the second round of the emperor's gaze.

In fact, when Gao Lin looked at the bones on the ground, he still had some doubts in his heart at first glance.

I thought about the style of this armor. It doesn't look like the style worn by warriors in the Northern and Southern Dynasties when my ancestors were incarnations of local archaeological teams.

With such doubts, Gao Lin groped among the bones.

Soon, he actually found something.

(End of this chapter)