Extra 7. Worlds that have been visited by time-travelers (4)
7. The great chaos in the late Ming Dynasty
AD 1654, the capital of Jiangxi’s “Dameng Kingdom”, Nanchang
Your Excellency, Prince Teng, the Gan River flows north.
More than twenty years have passed since the Ming Dynasty fell apart, but China's future and destiny are still unclear.
At this moment, a grand banquet is being held in Prince Teng's Pavilion in Nanchang, where Wang Bo wrote splendid articles with his pen and ink. Zhang Xianzhong, the founding monarch of the Dameng Kingdom, "Emperor Meng", recently met with the Qing Dynasty's capital in Jinling. The empire formed an alliance and married, marrying his favorite daughter "Princess Mengxiang" to Dorbo, the adopted son of Qing Emperor Dorgon, and becoming the crown prince of the Qing Empire (Dorgon had no biological son).
For such a happy event that is celebrated by the whole world, well, at least by two provinces, the Big Meng Kingdom naturally has to organize it well and make it lively. Because the main hall of Nanchang's "Imperial Palace" caught fire and collapsed not long ago, and had not yet been repaired, a banquet was held at Tengwang Pavilion to see off the wedding team.
All of a sudden, the Qing envoys with moneyed rat-tail braids and cute officials wearing Eguanbo belts gathered together. While greeting each other and toasting each other, they also greeted the "cute emperor" Zhang Xianzhong, who didn't look cute at all. "Princess Mengxiang", who looks really cute, complimented and congratulated her continuously.
And a group of literati and guests were also reciting poems and lyrics outside, writing and writing to commemorate this grand event of "diplomatic relations" between the Dameng Kingdom.
At the same time, on the high pavilion, there were rings and colorful ribbons, and the singers sang Wang Bo's "Poetry of Prince Teng's Pavilion" and danced gracefully.
"...Teng Wang's high pavilion is near the river, and he wears jade and sings the luan while singing and dancing..."
The dance ribbons fluttered and the songs were loud. In a trance, it seemed that people could see the three thousand prosperity and ten feet of soft red that belonged to the Tang Dynasty.
However, the current situation in the Central Plains is...
"...We are crowned by monkeys, and we sweep the floor with grace!"
Under the shade of a remote tree outside Prince Teng's Pavilion, a thin old Confucian scholar listened to the sound of silk and bamboo on the high pavilion and couldn't help but cursed angrily.
"...Shh!" Another old man with money rat-tail braids and wearing Qing Dynasty official uniform quickly stopped him. At the same time, he looked around in a panic. He breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was no one else nearby, "... …Brother Yi Zhong, be careful! Things are not as good as in the past, so beware of trouble coming from your mouth!”
Xia Yunyi, who was called "Brother Yi Zhong", glared at him displeasedly, but in the end he did not continue to speak arrogantly. He just looked at the money rat tail behind Zhang Pu's head and sighed quietly, "... Brother Tianru, After more than ten years of separation, I didn’t expect you to have shaved your head, changed your clothes, and joined the Tartars!”
In response, Zhang Pu smiled helplessly, "...Oh, things are unpredictable! Brother Yi Zhong, haven't you joined the bandits now?"
For a moment, the two old men looked at each other speechlessly - thinking about how high-spirited they were in the past, Jiangnan scholars, pointing out the country, inspiring words, and wanting to single-handedly hold back the day. But today, the glory is gone, the career is in ruins, the reputation is also lost, and Zhijiao people are in tears!
——After the Qing army crossed the Yangtze River, conquered Jinling and massacred Suzhou, the surviving Jiangnan celebrities Xia Yunyi, Zhang Pu, Sun Yuanhua, Zhang Dai, Chen Zilong, Shen Tingyang and others supported the Yonghe Emperor Zhu Yihai in Shanghai to rebuild the imperial court. According to Jiangyin and Shanghai counties continued to resist the Qing Dynasty. However, after two years of hard work, the Qing army finally invaded Shanghai. Sun Yuanhua and Chen Zilong died in battle one after another. "Emperor Yonghe" fell into the water and died on the way to break through, and Zhang Pu's fate was unknown. Zhang Dai went to Hangzhou to seek help from the Australian thieves but failed, so he became frustrated and became a hermit in the mountains. Shen Tingyang and Fang Yizhi led the remaining navy to surrender to the Australian bandits entrenched in eastern Zhejiang. The Shanghai *** has since disappeared.
After the indomitable Xia Yunyi failed to resist the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty in Shanghai, he fled to Huizhou with his family, children, and hundreds of remaining soldiers, where he went to Zhu Cixiang, the crown prince of Chongzhen Emperor, who was stationed here, and continued to persevere in the cause of restoring the Ming Dynasty. Unexpectedly, in the spring of the following year, the Huizhou Army was also attacked by a group of rogue bandits and massacred the city. Only Xia Yunyi and his son Xia Wanchun went to Hangzhou to purchase ordnance from the Australian thieves, and they managed to escape.
Despite this, the stubborn Xia Yunyi still refused to admit defeat. However, looking around the world, he found that the Central Plains at this time was already "populated with thousands of nations", and there were all kinds of inexplicable country names and courts everywhere. On the contrary, the several small political regimes established by the clan of the Ming Dynasty became the key targets of the heroes in troubled times, and by this time they had all been destroyed. Even if there are surviving princes and grandchildren, they can only hide their family trees and change their names without daring to reveal their whereabouts.
Seeing that the world was completely ruined, Xia Yunyi could only pinch his nose and lower his standards, hoping to find a "true dragon master" to help him conquer the world. However, under the malicious instigation and indiscriminate canonization of the Australian thieves, many military leaders and thieves only occupied a county, a township or even a village, and they dared to proclaim themselves emperor. As a result, there are not only tens of thousands but also thousands of people claiming to be emperors in the world, which makes people really at a loss as to what to do.
During this period, Xia Yunyi also thought about whether to join the "Australians". However, these Australian thieves were really shameless. Not only did they pretend to be descendants of the Miao Dynasty of the Song Dynasty, but they also turned the barbarians into Xia, promoted Hu customs, and despised the orthodoxy of the saints. More importantly, they refused to go to any trouble to recruit famous people like him. He was asked to take some civil service examination together with the traffickers and lackeys. Xia Yunyi felt that this was a great shame and humiliation, and was determined not to join them
Afterwards, after some inquiring, Xia Yunyi believed that the Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng, who was sitting in Xiangyang, not only had a strong army and horses, but also started to recruit scholars, respected Confucianism and Taoism, and seemed to be a wise emperor, so he took his son Xia Wanchun to Xiangyang and tried to invest Under Li Zicheng's account, he was the counselor's military aircraft. The Dashun Dynasty continued to win many battles. First, they made a northern expedition to the Central Plains and conquered Luoyang, forcing Emperor Wu Sangui of the Great Zhou Dynasty to flee north to the Taihang Mountains. Then they went east to conquer the Huaihe River and fought a fierce battle in Xuzhou with the Qing Emperor Dorgon of the Qing Dynasty who had just killed his nephew and usurped the throne. , defeated the Eight Banners cavalry, captured all the land of the two Huaihe Rivers, and had the potential to sweep across Yunei.
However, at the peak of the Dashun Dynasty, Li Zicheng was suddenly assassinated while hunting. His Dashun Kingdom immediately fell apart, and all the soldiers and horses in his tent killed each other. Xia Yunyi's son Xia Wanchun was also killed in the chaos. Xia Yunyi, who was left alone, fled to the border of Dameng Kingdom in Jiangxi, hoping to find an official position in the court of "Cute Emperor" Zhang Xianzhong to support his retirement. But because there was no one to help him in the Dameng Dynasty, Xia Yunyi was finally sent to Prince Teng's Pavilion, where he worked as a clerk managing books and copying books for others, barely making a living.
Xia Yunyi felt ashamed because he had surrendered to the bandits, and he had not inquired much about the current status of Donglin and Fushe over the years. Unexpectedly, today I met Zhang Tianru, the former leader of the society, and found that he was actually among the wedding delegation of the Qing court. He shaved his hair and changed his clothes to become a foreign minister of the Ministry of Etiquette!
If it were in the past, Xia Yunyi would have already scolded Zhang Pu for forgetting the hatred of the country and the family. But now that my background is not clean, I really don't have the shame to accuse others, so I can only casually chat with Zhang Pu without embarrassment. Zhang Pu, on the other hand, wanted to recruit him to defect to the Qing Dynasty, claiming that although the Qing Dynasty Emperor Dorgon was a barbarian chieftain, he admired sacred learning. After wiping out all the kings and unifying the Eight Banners, he had opened the imperial examination to promote culture and education in the territory under his jurisdiction, which seemed to bring order to the chaos. . If Xia Yunyi was willing to go there, he would at least be able to get a classy post, which would be better than working as a low-grade official in Dameng Country for Zhang Xianzhong, a big boss.
However, Xia Yunyi rejected Zhang Pu's invitation, "...Yi Zhong accepted Tianru's good intentions. But I am already despondent and have no intention of becoming an official to gain fame. Besides, the world is ruthless and the one who claims to be emperor will succeed. Hundreds and thousands of countries are rising and falling. Even if they get an official title, they are still in danger. In comparison, although Zhang Xianzhong was vulgar and illiterate, and the Meng Dynasty had no more than three mansions under his jurisdiction, he had enjoyed the country for a long time. Nanchang had been peaceful under his rule for more than ten years. Although it could not be said to be a prosperous age, at any rate The products are plentiful and the people’s livelihood is acceptable. Yi Zhong is satisfied to be able to retire here.”
Despite this, when the evening sun set and the feast at Prince Teng's Pavilion dispersed, Xia Yunyi still felt melancholy and uneasy. So he followed the servants and maids who were dividing up the remaining food and wine, and snatched a pot of herbal tea and a plate of pastries from the messy mats with cups and plates. Then, Xia Yunyi sat alone on the railing of Tengwang Pavilion, pouring himself a drink. While watching the rolling Gan water flowing under his feet, and the bright moon rising from the distance, he thought about the chaos in the world, the overthrow of the country, the loss of family heirs, and the failure of ambitions. I couldn't help but shed tears, feeling something in my heart, and then I composed a poem called "Qi Jue" and put it on the wall:
The wind blows the scent of tea, and the moon shines on the angry waves of Han's oars and plows.
I know from afar that the world is far away, and the same text and pronunciation are in a foreign country.
However, when Xia Yunyi, who was in a state of desolation, took up a pen to write down his thoughts about his homeland and his sorrow for leaving the country in Tengwang Pavilion, he never imagined that thousands of miles away, a huge fleet that covered the sky and sun had sailed in. At the mouth of the Yangtze River, artillery shells are about to smash the solid high walls of Nanjing City. The headquarters of the Global Chinese Travelers Alliance (hereinafter referred to as the Chinese Alliance), which is far away in the "Chinatown" on the west coast of Australia, has even issued a eloquent message to the four-pronged army gathered in Liaodong, Zhejiang, Shandong, and Guangdong through radio waves. General Attack Order: "Order to March on All of China"!
After decades of turmoil, division, and fierce battles between princes, the chaotic land of China finally ushered in the dawn of unity.
——Although in the eyes of most feudal literati, this dawn from the "Australian thieves" is simply comparable to a nightmare...
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8. "OVERLORD King of the Undead" plane
After conquering many tribes, countries, and city-states, the invincible Lich King Gu Aotian, or Ainz, was frightened by his terrifying reputation. Ur. Your Majesty, while you are taking care of everything and working hard, you sometimes think of your former companions and friends. For example, those "21st Century Ancient Earth" players who came to this different world with him in the form of goblins, catmen, tigers, slimes and metal golems...
When His Majesty Ainz first came to this strange world, he received great help from these "ancient people of the twenty-first century Earth".
However, then, these "ancient people of the 21st century Earth" who were "happy to help others (help others to do evil)" disappeared collectively - it was said at that time that it was because the server program needed to be repaired, so the server was forced to temporarily stop and all players were ejected. But to this day, I haven't seen them come back.
"...It's been so many years and I haven't come back. Now I don't even have anyone around me that I can chat with easily. I feel really lonely!"
Under the bright crystal chandelier, the Lich King Gu Aotian sighed while at the end of an application document for ordering various towns to regularly pay human or orc children to offset taxes, which would be used to skin paper, produce magic scrolls, He picked up the pen and signed the word "permission".
——With the passage of time, the so-called "moral residue of being a human being" has basically disappeared in his soul...
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9. Marvel Plane
The brief encounter with the time-travelers did not seem to have much obvious impact on the life trajectories of the superheroes.
Except for Iron Man's girlfriend Pepper Pepper, who involuntarily enjoyed a thrilling space adventure; the landing site where the dark elves invaded the earth changed from London to New York; the ninety-five-year-old famous female agent Carter of World War II, in the twilight of her life I was able to relive my dream with my boyfriend, Captain America Steve Rogers... However, after the disturbance caused by these time travellers, everything in the Marvel world basically returned to its original normality. After all, for the Marvel world where there are so many powerful people and constant catastrophes, a few time-travelers are really no big deal.