Doctor, I'm really strong!

Ten thousand years ago, now humans can barely last a year.

Wei Renmin looked up at the holographic map in front of him. Except for one point that was still glowing, the rest of it had all dimmed.

"We have spared no effort in deploying a large number of seeds around the world. After the inheritance of human civilization is replicated, it is stored in these seeds one by one, so that they can survive for 100,000 years."

“We paid a heavy price in building these seeds. Some seeds, even if they were successfully established, would be destroyed by even more terrifying geological activities in a very short time. In the end, only I was left.”

"It's ironic, really. I wasn't a biology student at all. I underwent the most devastating modifications, but I persevered. I thought I'd go insane after ten years, but now, a hundred thousand years later, I've even influenced the development of a new civilization. It's truly... remarkable."

"Let's not talk about these things anymore. These are all stories of the past. In any case, in the final stage, we humans still had a period of working together. We realized it a little late, but those days were still glorious, and I am proud of them."

Liu Jiuli said respectfully, "You are all heroes, true human heroes."

Wei Renmin smiled and then said to Liu Jiuli, "Next, let's talk about your situation, or rather, the situation with your body, which was also an accident."

Liu Jiuli: "What accident?"

Wei Renmin: "Do you remember the two babies with immune mineralogy disease that I mentioned before? One of them was you."

Liu Jiuli nodded, but he already knew that he had absolutely no connection to the baby. The real doctor had long since vanished; he was just a newbie who had been accidentally transported here.

No wonder there were no memories from the doctor; there was no inheritance relationship at all.

Wei Renmin was unaware of these things. He assumed that Liu Jiuli was the child, so he told him what he knew.

"In fact, the baby boy had been in a deep sleep since the day he was born, and this continued until he was eighteen years old. That day, he suddenly woke up and asked, 'Where am I?'"

Liu Jiuli nodded, already having the answer in his heart.

So the professor really was a soul that traveled from another world.

What followed was pretty much as Liu Jiuli had predicted. According to Wei Renmin, the doctor would faint every so often, and when he woke up again, there was a different person inside. After studying the case, the remaining scientists came to a conclusion that they were unwilling to believe but had to accept.

The doctor's body is connected to countless parallel worlds. The souls of those who died in these parallel worlds have a certain probability of possessing the doctor's body. However, these souls themselves also have a limited lifespan, with an average lifespan ranging from twenty to one hundred years.

Liu Jiuli interrupted, "Wait a minute, you've come to this conclusion that at least one doctor's soul existed for a hundred years, right? Was human lifespan really that terrifying back then?"

Wei Renmin explained, "Of course, we accepted the transformation. It has to be said that Originium has enabled us to do things that we never dared to imagine in the past, and we did them very easily. So it is a gift from the devil."

Liu Jiuli nodded: "Understood, please continue."

Wei Renmin continued to recall: "Ten thousand years later, the natural disasters subsided considerably, and at this time, many new intelligent life forms appeared on the earth. They were all experimental subjects that we released back then. Fortunately, they all persevered and formed the first primitive civilization. The earth prospered once again."

Liu Jiuli: "In the next part of the script, will you guide these primitive civilizations and help them develop quickly?"

Wei Renmin nodded and said, "Yes, that's how we did it. Other countries also have survivors, and people who have persevered through the long years. That's how the first countries on Terra were established, and Yan Kingdom is no exception."

According to Wei Renmin's description, drastic geological changes have completely transformed the earth. They drew the first map of Terra using various methods. In Liu Jiuli's view, this map is simply a work of the Age of Exploration from the 16th century. In addition to topographical maps, it also contains many monster symbols, a coexistence of reality and imagination.

Wei Renmin said, “This is not imagination, but a real creature that existed at that time. We call it a giant beast. Some primitive people in some places worshiped them as gods. For example, look at Yan Kingdom, where the Sui beast originally lived.”

Liu Jiuli looked in the direction Wei Renmin pointed and sure enough, there was an icon of the Sui Beast, which looked quite cute.

"Are they all mutated?" Liu Jiuli asked, pointing to the giant icon.

Wei Renmin: "We haven't studied how the giant beasts were born, but they should be mutated creatures. However, these mutated creatures are very consistent with certain myths and legends, which shows that the idealistic properties of Originium can play a role far beyond what we found in the laboratory."

Liu Jiuli looked through the initial version of the Terra map, then pointed at the Yan Kingdom and asked, "How exactly did this country come into being? Don't tell me that you were forced to choose an imperial system because your productivity was too low."

Wei Renmin took a deep breath and said, suppressing his anger, "Although we also suffered heavy losses at the time, our existing production capacity and technology can still quickly restore production. Even if we were to develop national industry and commerce, it wouldn't mean bringing back the feudal imperial system. That wouldn't be going backwards, it would be a direct counterattack. I'm not MacArthur."

Liu Jiuli nodded, having gleaned some important clues from Wei Renmin's words.

Knowing about MacArthur's reverse charge, we can see that the history of the Arknights world 100,000 years ago was equivalent to a parallel world to Earth, where everyone could shake hands and understand each other.

On the path of development, Wei Renmin and other Xinhua researchers firmly believe that although the world is different from the past, the beliefs of the past must not be forgotten, and we must rebuild Xinhua.

The initial Yan Kingdom did indeed develop according to this script, but these researchers clearly lacked political acumen and underestimated the greed and depravity of human nature.

As the Yan Kingdom developed, many problems that had occurred in human history also began to occur here. By the time they realized what was happening, it was too late. Other comrades were brutally murdered one after another, but the people of Wei survived.

He survived for two reasons: one was that he was quite capable, and the other was that he married the daughter of a wealthy family, which made him one of the powerful and influential people.

"Who says they're one of us!"

Wei Renmin's eyes seemed to be spitting fire, but he knew that he could not die and had to fight with all his might to survive.

So he pretended to support those powerful families and began to transform Yan Kingdom according to the ancient Chinese imperial system, leaving behind as much as possible while protecting all the core technologies. He left only a few remnants for the Yan Kingdom's court and the public, and sealed off the rest, so that Yan Kingdom would become powerful but not completely out of control.

Finally, the Wei people, as the ancestors, abdicated and yielded the throne to a more capable ruler, remaining behind the scenes and waiting for their chance to strike back. They remotely controlled various affairs within the Yan state through various means, and this wait lasted a full two thousand years. Perhaps you think this is outrageous—two thousand years without an opportunity?

Yes, there was absolutely no chance, because the people of Yan at that time were happy as long as they could survive. Natural disasters left them no time to think about anything beyond survival. In this environment, families and privileged classes were most likely to emerge. Relying on primitive military force, Yan built a brand-new system of gentry, landlords, and bureaucrats. Once the three cornerstones were formed, the people of Wei alone were powerless to reverse the situation. After all, he was not like Liu Jiuli, who had unlimited human nuclear bombs with cheat codes.

As for those within the Yan Kingdom who knew about the ancestors' past, the older generation had all passed away with time, and the younger generation all considered the royal ancestors to be their own people. In addition, the authority that time had accumulated for the Wei people meant that, although he could no longer leave this place, he still had some understanding of the outside world.

But his biggest gain was learning about Liu Jiuli's existence.

From Wei Renmin's perspective, Liu Jiuli is a complete replica of Xinhua, although he is still very young, he has already begun to take shape.

Even though Liu Jiuli is still everyone's child, this inheritance is precious, successful, and hopeful.

However, judging from Liu Jiuli's actual performance, the doctor's body has obviously undergone new changes, but these are all minor details. Wouldn't it be better to be a powerful Red Warrior, so that there is enough strength to fight back against the enemy?

Now that Liu Jiuli has come knocking, the people of Wei are overjoyed. They immediately contact him through a specially made communication device, hoping to have a good talk with him about the future of Yan Kingdom and even the new world.

He succeeded; Liu Jiuli stood on the side of the people.

The history told by Wei Renmin is an abridged version, focusing on the key points and lacking details, but even these few hundred words are enough to summarize many people's lives.

Liu Jiuli: "So how am I supposed to get along with Yan Guo next? Let me make it clear beforehand, I refuse to come to their door and confront them directly."

Wei Renmin laughed and said, "Of course not. On the contrary, with me here, you can get a lot of benefits from Yan. Yan will save face, and you will gain something in return. How about that?"

Liu Jiuli: "That would be the best, of course."

With Wei Renmin, a good person hidden among the bad guys, and the Yan Kingdom's royal ancestor, such a special person, the conquest of the Yan Kingdom will be too easy, practically a freebie.

However, the people of Wei were not going to let Liu Jiuli get away with it for free; he had to prove that he could make Yan a better place.

Liu Jiuli: "That's simple. You can take a look at the changes in Ursus first."

Wei Renmin: "Are you going to fire a cannon?"

Liu Jiuli: "Switching to Katyusha's song wouldn't be out of the question either."

Thus, without the complete knowledge of the Yan Kingdom's court, Liu Jiuli and the people of Wei secretly plotted to launch a pincer attack on the imperial Yan Kingdom.

Before leaving, Wei Renmin allowed Liu Jiuli to take away the data storage core and a large amount of Yan Kingdom's confidential intelligence.

The main focus was on the actual living conditions of various social strata within the Yan Kingdom. After reading it, Liu Jiuli could only shake his head.

"As expected, even the best feudal empire will not care about the lives of its people."

Many people sing praises of how prosperous a certain dynasty was, but even under the Tang Dynasty's golden age, many peasants still starved to death, and there was still severe class stratification and land annexation. The An Lushan Rebellion has been criticized by countless later generations, but few people know that during the An Lushan Rebellion, the regions under An Lushan's command were already among the top in the Tang Dynasty in terms of total economic output, and were more fair and prosperous than other places.

Because the area was frequently raided by northern nomadic tribes, those horsemen would plunder and kill the wealthy locals with great efficiency and thoroughness. As a result, the local land annexation was far less severe than in other parts of the Tang Dynasty, indirectly attracting many talented people to An Lushan's side. These people were the main force behind the An Lushan Rebellion. However, history only records An Lushan as someone who was "not of our race, and his heart must be different," rarely mentioning that the main force of the An Lushan Rebellion was actually Han Chinese officials and soldiers. An Lushan, this fat man, was merely a scapegoat.

This happened because the rigid social hierarchy of the Tang Dynasty had reached a point where ordinary people had no way to rise in social status. Beneath the prosperity lay deep-seated problems that had spread very severely. These fatal cancers of governance could not be cured by a single emperor.

The Nine-Rank System of the Jin Dynasty drove countless poor scholars to nomadic tribes, which in turn triggered the Five Barbarian Invasions. The An Lushan Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty can only be described as follows: "The only lesson that mankind learns from history is that mankind never learns any lessons."

Isn't that incredibly dark humor?

Even the prosperous Tang Dynasty was like this; other dynasties were just competing to see who was worse. The Song Dynasty was the peak of rottenness beneath the surface of prosperity. To expect the so-called peaceful and prosperous life of the people in a feudal dynasty is like panning for gold in a dung heap, my friend.

Liu Jiuli now has a clear understanding of the Yan Kingdom.

The Yan Kingdom in the Hypergryph game is a dream version with tinted glasses. How could the real feudal dynasty be like this? Does it mean that the Yan Kingdom is characterized by rigid class divisions, widespread suffering, and officials who are in positions of power but do nothing?

I have to learn history just to play a game. It's so frustrating. Hypergryph, you better give me my money back!

After all, it was a feudal dynasty, so we can't expect too much.

The next day, when Liu Jiuli came again, the Wei people pulled him to play Go, saying it was good for self-cultivation. As for the dissatisfaction and opinions of the Yan emperor, they said their ancestor would handle it.

"Do you really care about the attitude of a feudal monarch?" Wei Renmin asked with a smile.

Liu Jiuli: "Those are your descendants, aren't you worried about them?"

Wei Renmin waved his hand: "Those are descendants of who-knows-how-many generations ago. Besides, kinship is based on class. It's better not to acknowledge these descendants who have been completely alienated to the opposing class."

Liu Jiuli: "If the Flame Emperor knew that his ancestor thought this way, would he want to attack Xuanwu Gate on the spot?"

Wei Renmin smiled slightly: "Then he has to have the ability. Although I can't leave here, it doesn't mean I'm powerless to fight back."

Since the elder Wei Renmin had said he was still able to eat, Liu Jiuli joined in the joke. He really didn't care about the Yan Emperor's attitude. Now that he had an ancestor to deal with the younger generation, he had even less to worry about. He would treat it as a trip with a side visit to the Yan Emperor.

Your ancestors could chat and laugh with me, who do you think you are, Dior?

Section 179: Earning Money While Standing Up

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Because an emperor's ancestor had given him special favors, Liu Jiuli was spared a lot of trouble.

All the complicated formalities were cancelled, there was no prior preparation, and even the questioning process at the Imperial Household Department was skipped. They went directly to Emperor Yan's study. After meeting Emperor Yan, the two shook hands, and then Liu Jiuli naturally sat on the sofa opposite him, causing the blood pressure of the other ministers around them to rise by more than ten basis points.

Although that's what the Emperor said to you, could you please be a little more self-aware?

One official, unable to bear it any longer, shouted angrily, "How dare you! How can you not bow before His Majesty? What kind of decorum is this!"

Liu Jiuli glanced at him and laughed, "Even your emperor himself has no objections, so why are you jumping out to protest? Are you trying to say that you are more important than the emperor here?"

The official was speechless, his face flushed red, and he hurriedly explained to the Emperor, "No, no, no, Your Majesty, I had no such intention..."

Emperor Yan interrupted the official by gesturing for him to leave, thus defusing the awkward situation.

After this small incident, everyone present realized that Liu Jiuli was not someone to be trifled with. The fact that he dared to come to the capital alone and was specifically instructed by the ancestor to be taken care of showed that he had connections everywhere.

It seems the other party's visit wasn't just to meet the emperor.

After the pawn was rebuked, other officials dared not speak freely anymore. Those who could speak stood by and watched, clearly preparing to see what would happen and assess the impact of the incident.

For Yan Huang, facing Liu Jiuli, who was of a different level, was indeed a very novel experience.

In the imperial court, one's word is law, and the protests of other officials are called remonstrances, dissatisfaction is called silence, and opposition is called competing with the people for profit. But Liu Jiuli was the first to directly place himself on equal footing with the emperor.

Yan Huang had naturally collected a lot of information about Liu Jiuli. Whether it was true or false, or even outrageous, and regardless of its credibility, it at least proved one thing: the other party was indeed qualified to have a dialogue with him based on strength.

Of course, as the emperor of Yan Kingdom and the ruler of a powerful nation, the Yan Emperor did not believe that the seemingly young new version of the Sui Beast clone was qualified to challenge him and the Yan Kingdom behind him. This confidence came from the leader of a powerful nation.

Aside from that, there were some complaints, such as not being able to kneel and kowtow three times when meeting the emperor, but these complaints were not enough to make him do anything outrageous.

But if the person in front of you is bluffing, then this little bit of dissatisfaction is enough to crush him.

When Emperor Yan was scrutinizing Liu Jiuli, Liu Jiuli was also scrutinizing him.