Great time travel

Chapter 76. Are you building a tomb of the living dead?

On the edge of the desert in western Australia, the periphery of the ruins of "Song City" under intense construction

Near the desert coastline near the Indian Ocean, on a rocky mountain that has faded to reddish brown due to sun exposure, just like the Bamiyan Giant Buddha in Afghanistan and the Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan, a tall statue was dug out.

——This is the landmark designed by the traveler for the ruins of "Song City", just like the Statue of Liberty in New York, USA and the Statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The existence of this colossus can be seen from the boat.

However, unlike the giant Buddhas in the Buddhist grottoes of the Old World who are benevolent and kind, the giant statue in the "Australian Grottoes" is a general in armor and standing with a sword, his eyes are meditating. Staring at the sea, his expression is serious and tragic.

On the cliff above the giant statue's head, the four characters "Return my rivers and mountains" are engraved impressively, making this general seem to be full of sacred brilliance.

Obviously, this is the statue of Yue Fei, the "Military God" of the Southern Song Dynasty, which contains the eternal sad wish of the "Australian Song Empire" to regain their homeland and return to the Central Plains.

——The major events of the country lie in the sacrificial and military affairs.

Every nation will strive to myth their great history and make it a precious spiritual wealth, even if it is a virtual country and a virtual history-any great nation must have a great origin or idea, otherwise the nation It will be very lack of cohesion.

Take the Roman Empire as an example. The Roman city-state at the beginning of its birth was just a bandit stronghold built by a group of slaves, fugitives and vagrants on the banks of the Tiber River under the gathering of the Romulus brothers (wolf boys).Because the cottage was too poor and dilapidated, a group of poor bachelors couldn’t marry a wife, so they had to use their brains to play tricks and go to the neighboring Sabines to snatch the “Mrs. They are the descendants of this or that mythical hero, so noble that they couldn't be more noble, and they couldn't help but feel that their ancestors were too vulgar, and they couldn't help themselves.

Therefore, in order to increase their value, the Romans dug out a Trojan hero Aeneas who had not clearly recorded his whereabouts from the popular "Homer's Epic", and then concocted a trojan after Troy was attacked by the Trojan horse of the Greek coalition forces. Aeneas led the remnants of Troy to sail out to sea, escaped from the pursuit of the Greeks, traveled thousands of miles into exile in North Africa, met the queen of Carthage, and finally landed in Italy, becoming a myth of the ancestors of the Romans, in order to put gold on his face, At the same time, it also provides a theoretical basis for the Roman legions to conquer Greece.

Next, after a thousand years, it is clear that the Russians, who have nothing to do with Rome in terms of race or territory, insist on the extremely far-fetched reason that a certain monarch married a Byzantine princess. The "Third Rome" (Second Rome is the Byzantine Empire) who has the cheek to claim to be the successor of ancient Roman civilization and is blessed by God... is also out of consideration of improving national pride and enhancing national cohesion-the real Slavs of the Russian Empire Human ancestors were generally regarded as slaves and savages by the civilized world at that time.
In the same way, although the "Global Chinese Travelers Alliance" comes from the future world, all members still have a strong identity as a "Chinese". It seems that there is no need to think hard to concoct a non-existent wealth for the travelers. ancestors.

But the problem is that Huameng not only needs to consider the situation of the traversers, but also needs to consider the perception of the naturalized people.After all, these traversers are very different from the Ming Dynasty people in this time and space in terms of thoughts, concepts, culture, etc., even greater than the gap between people from other countries at the same time and Ming Dynasty people.In order for the natives of the Ming Dynasty to successfully integrate into the national system of the traversers and prevent the traversers from being regarded as barbarians and invaders on Chinese soil, this requires a fictitious "connection" and transition—hence the present The construction project of this "Song City" site.

——Don't underestimate the role of "soft power". The great Soviet Union, which used to be majestic and dominated half of the world, was not defeated in soft power, even though it still had millions of troops and countless nuclear warheads , or still collapsed all of a sudden, and died extremely aggrieved?

In short, the construction theme of the "Song City" ruins must serve the ambition of the "Huameng" to rule the Central Plains and conquer the world.

Of course, this is to say in a good direction, if it is to say in a bad direction, it is...to promote the superiority of the time-traveler regime, to let the locals of the Ming Dynasty in this time and space establish a sense of identity with the time-traveler regime, and to let the former The lies told by the Gao Group, the North American Group and the South American Group in front of people all over the world will not be exposed. The lies told before must be covered with big lies, and the big lies can only be remedied with bigger cowhide——thus, the traveler When the Huameng was founded, it had to spend so much manpower and material resources to build the ruins of a lost "Australia-Song Empire".

Is this supposed to be romantic?Or mentally retarded?Alas, it is really hard to say, it seems that only the benevolent see benevolence, and the wise see wisdom.

In addition, speaking of it, it feels really cool to be able to spend the money of the country to play the real version of the game settings on a vast land.

Riding a bumpy off-road vehicle, he came to the foot of the newly completed giant statue of Yue Fei. Wang Qiu looked up at the resolute face of this national hero through the car window—obviously, in the near future, this place will become the place where Ming Dynasty Let's go to the "Patriotic Education Base" visited by the immigrant group!

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While the "Song City" ruins were gradually taking shape, a "History of the Rise and Fall of the Australian Song Empire" with ups and downs has also been preliminarily finalized.

——After the Yashan naval battle, the Southern Song Dynasty court was completely collapsed, Wen Tianxiang was captured and taken to Dadu, and Lu Xiufu committed suicide by jumping into the sea with the last young emperor of the Song Dynasty on his back.

Afterwards, [-] Song people committed suicide by crossing the sea in despair, and hundreds of thousands of Song survivors refused to submit to the Tartars, and went into exile to the sea, scattered among Southeast Asian countries.

But after all, this is living under the fence of others, and they are discriminated against and bullied by the natives of Nanyang in all aspects, so the survivors of the Song Dynasty generally live very aggrieved.

Moreover, shortly after the Mongols perished in the Southern Song Dynasty, they launched large-scale expeditions to Vietnam and Java one after another (it has to be admitted that the Yuan army’s long-distance cross-sea expedition to Java really broke through the imagination of feudal dynasties. It's hard to believe that this is actually a decision made by a grassland nomad), whose desire for war seems to be endless, and even vaguely has the momentum to conquer the world.

Therefore, the adherents of the Song Dynasty, who had already become frightened, believed that the countries in Southeast Asia might not be a safe place to live, and sooner or later they would be trampled by the iron hooves of the Mongols, so they set sail again, heading for more distant places, in an attempt to find their own paradise.

Such a long voyage is of course very dangerous, and many people just disappeared in the vast sea, but there is also a fleet of survivors of the Song Dynasty, carrying distant relatives of the Zhao and Song royal families, outstanding scholars who fled, and the most outstanding craftsmen of the old empire , successfully found a new piece of land - "then there was still abundant water and grass and fertile land" in western Australia. Because there was a large lake ("Big Australia") on the shore, it was named Australia by the immigrant fleet.

Then, in this strange land, these outstanding sons and daughters who have inherited all the essence of Chinese civilization spent hundreds of years overcoming obstacles, clearing roads, reclaiming wasteland and farming, and finally established their own country, named "Ausong".

After multiplying for several generations and gaining certain strength, the Ausong Empire also sent a fleet to investigate the situation in their homeland in an attempt to avenge the Mongol Tartars.But the news came back: the once invincible Mongolian and Yuan Tartars have been expelled, and a new Han Dynasty has restored the orthodoxy of the Central Plains... Now that the enemy of the subjugated country no longer exists, and now it is the Han compatriots who rule the homeland, These "Australians" discussed for a while, but in the end they still didn't want brothers to cross the wall and fight with people of the same clan, so they temporarily put aside the idea of ​​returning to the Central Plains.

In the days that followed, the Australia-Song Empire continued to prosper and develop, realizing the industrial revolution and raising civilization and technology to an astonishing height.However, the good times didn’t last long. A terrible drought came suddenly. There was not a drop of rain in the entire Australia-Song Empire for many years. The rivers dried up and the crops died of drought. In the end, countless once-prosperous towns and villages were rapidly expanded. engulfed by the desert.

At the same time as the tragic natural disaster broke out, the internal contradictions of the ruling class of the Australia-Song Empire also intensified. Regardless of the fact that the country was gradually turning into a desert, it was caught in frequent palace coups and bloody all-out civil wars, which further weakened the country's ability to cope. The ability of natural disasters.

(This paragraph is modeled on "The Destruction of the Netheril Empire" in the DND Faerun Continental Battle Setting Collection.)
Amidst the devastating civil wars and natural disasters, the once-prosperous Ausong Empire quickly fell apart, and it was suddenly destroyed like the legendary Atlantis civilization.Many "Australians" who are Miao descendants of the Song Dynasty once again bid farewell to their hometown with tears, and set sail to find a new home like their ancestors... and thus blossomed everywhere in every corner of the world, establishing the Huamei, the East Coast, and the Lin Colonies such as the High Senate and the Far Eastern Company in Vladivostok.

As for those who remained in the homeland of the Australia-Song Empire, they barely struggled for a while.But not long after, with a tragic super sandstorm, even the capital of the empire "Song City" became a barren place where human beings could not survive.These last survivors of the Australia-Song Empire had no choice but to embark on a migration journey, relocating outside the territory of the Australia-Song Empire, to the remaining desolate places on the Australian mainland, trying to rebuild their homes...

——So far, the origins of the forces of traversers from North America to Australia have all been given a "reasonable" explanation.And the ambitions of the "Huameng" traversers to land in the Central Plains and take control of China also have a legal origin: that was their hometown in the first place.

Although going around such a big circle to prove that the traversers are Chinese seems a bit too much trouble, but in order to make up for the lies they told the natives of this time and space before, the central government had no choice but to hold their noses like this after taking over.

It seemed that everything was fine and reasonable, but Wang Qiu still felt a subtle incongruity.

"...that...Brother Li Wei, although this 'Australian Songcheng Ruins' does look interesting, I still can't figure out why you are making such an effort? Anyway, you have made up your mind to leave this world, And hasn't my sister-in-law already brought her little nephew back?"

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——Just as Wang Qiu was puzzled, the "authentic Australians" in this time and space, that is, the more than 100 unlucky passengers who first boarded the modern all-metal sailing ship "COSCO Star" and unfortunately crossed to Darwin Port in Australia, After connecting with the liaison personnel sent by the central government, all of them cried and shouted to return to the modern world, including Li Wei, the "senior traveler", and none of them were willing to stay.

Later, the relevant departments let more than 50 young and middle-aged people temporarily stay and work for the central government in Australia in this time and space after all kinds of talk. After all, they have traveled through the country for two years and are more familiar with this land.But the rest of nearly a hundred women, children, old, weak, and unwilling guys, including Li Wei's wife Zhao Na, have all returned to the modern world of the 21st century to enjoy modern urban life.

Even those who stayed were eager to return home, and they had all agreed with the relevant departments in advance that when the central government dispatched personnel to evacuate this world, they must be taken back with them instead of letting them stay in this world for the rest of their lives. What a horrible place, gnawing rotten kangaroo meat... In this situation, it feels a little strange that Li Wei is not so anxious to get through the day, but is so enthusiastic and active in the counterfeiting work.

"...This...Is there any contradiction between my plan to leave this barbaric world and leave some souvenirs in this world?"

Li Wei glanced at Wang Qiu and said, "...Of course, there are reasons for this—you can get off the car with me and take a look."

Having said that, Li Wei opened the car door and walked down. With his action, a gust of hot air poured out of the car instantly, and Wang Qiu suddenly felt as if he had become a toy in an oven. Roasted duck, just so smoked, I feel almost cooked

Shaking his head, he took out Doraemon's magical prop [Universal Adaptive Lamp] from his backpack, and took a photo of himself, and immediately felt better.Immediately, Wang Qiucai jumped off the off-road vehicle, followed behind Li Wei, and walked to a slope behind the cliff where the giant statue of Yue Fei was.

At this time, a hot wind suddenly blew, and the wind and sand stinged the skin, but Li Wei didn't seem to care, just walked forward quickly, and Wang Qiu could only frown, struggling to keep up... Fortunately, after turning to the back of the cliff, the wind and sand became much smaller.

Then, Wang Qiu saw an unfinished cemetery on this sloping land. The periphery of the cemetery was filled with various Christian-themed religious decorations-marble statues of Christian angels, a holy face of the Virgin Mary Leah relief panels, as well as the bronze statue of "Jesus on the Cross" and the ultra-miniature "Dollhouse" chapel... and in the center of the cemetery, there stands a majestic marble statue of a knight in uniform. The full body armor, wearing the cloak of the Knights Hospitaller, but deliberately not wearing a helmet, showing the face of Levi himself!
Looking at the inscription on the stone base of the equestrian statue of Li Wei in military uniform, Wang Qiu couldn't help feeling embarrassed for a while:
"...The most devout Christian, from the tomb of the paladin Levi in ​​France? Hey, this is your identity in the time and space of medieval Europe in the Black Death era before? The port of Marseille, France, in this time and space has never had a name A member of the Knights Hospitaller called Levi!"

"...Hey, according to the settings here, my title of paladin is not conferred by the Holy See, but from the Australian Church! In the virtual history of the Australia-Song Empire, my identity is set He became a French knight who wandered to the Ausong Empire in the [-]th century, and was also the first famous saint who introduced Christianity to the Ausong Empire and made the Ausong Dynasty abandon the old-style year name and switch to the Gregorian calendar. Europeans explain why 'Australians' use the same day of the week and the Gregorian calendar as they do, and the origin of 'Australian Church'..."

As a Chinese-Russian mixed-race, Li Wei, who has quite a few Western characteristics in appearance, replied with a smile, "...about my amulets, statuettes and murals, and odes praising my 'achievements' Transcripts will appear in many corners of this ruin—roughly, we have slightly modified our previous struggle to eradicate the Black Death in the European Middle Ages, and put them in this non-existent Australia-Song Empire. In the future, Australia The church will also praise me as a saint from generation to generation—it feels so cool to be a celebrity in both worlds, and to be engraved with monuments and statues! My wife also has a reputation as a saint!"

"...Uh... Forgive me for being a little hard to understand your thinking, Brother Li Wei. Anyway, I will never create such a living dead tomb for myself...Of course, it is not impossible for me to understand that I can set up such a tomb for myself. Respecting the statue is a very beautiful thing anyway..."

Wang Qiu stretched out his hands and rubbed his temples, with an expression of entangled thinking on his face, "...but there will be a problem in this way, I don't think you plan to bury yourself here! But if you leave an empty tomb, it seems It's not too plausible! Do you plan to just get a dead body and put it in your own tomb, so that others can enjoy incense and offerings in your name? With all due respect, this feeling is so awkward that it cannot be more awkward... ..."

"... Regarding this matter, I have thought about it a long time ago! Everything is in the plan!" Li Wei said confidently, patting his chest, "I will dig another hole after all the tombs are covered. Pretend to look like the tomb has been robbed. In this way, since the tomb robbers have been encountered, the coffins, dead people and funerary objects in the tomb can be saved. Just throw some junk into the tomb, and it will probably be able to deal with it ..."

Looking at this knight Li Wei who was so excited about repairing his own tomb, Wang Qiu didn't know how to complain for a while.

But then, after returning to the Sanya base through the [Random Gate], Wang Qiu didn't even have the leisure to complain about it.

"...What what? Huang Shi, the commander of the East Asia theater, sent an urgent telegram from Xingyuan, Quanzhou, claiming that there has been a drastic change in Fujian?"