Chapter 178: What Role Does Chizhou Represent?
Chizhou.
Demon Suppression Bureau.
Li Yingling sat in the records library of the Demon Suppression Bureau, rather boredly flipping through the few pages of paper before her.
She had only looked for a moment before finishing reading the contents on the few pages before her.
Li Yingling picked up the papers on the table and questioned the middle-aged man standing silently to the side:
"What is this? A storybook?"
The middle-aged man was the Records Officer of the Demon Suppression Bureau's records library here.
Hearing this, the Records Officer raised his head and looked at Li Yingling. Unlike his current calm face, his heart was already filled with an endless desire to complain.
Two days ago, this young-looking girl, holding the Xuanwu Order of the Xuanwu Kingdom, swaggered into the records library.
His first sentence from this young girl, he still remembered clearly: "Take out the unofficial history of the Founding Emperor. The more wild, the better."
Upon hearing this, the Records Officer was confused on the spot.
If the Director of the Demon Suppression Bureau had not been standing beside this young girl at that time, revealing an expression that was as indescribable as his own...
He would have even thought that he had done something wrong and planned to randomly find an excuse to fire him.
This is the Demon Suppression Bureau of the Xuanwu Kingdom!
Those who work here eat the food of the Xuanwu Kingdom. You come here asking for the unofficial history of the Founding Emperor?
And the more wild, the better?
Little girl, even if you don't care about your own nine relations, you should consider your nine relations, right?
Before the Records Officer could recover, the Director of the Demon Suppression Bureau just left behind a sentence — Do everything possible to meet this honored guest's request.
Then he left without looking back, throwing himself to deal with the girl before him.
This girl was quite good-looking; in the past, he would have been happy to look a few more times.
But the Records Officer did not want to see this face at all right now.
Li Yingling glanced at the contents on the paper. This was not unofficial history at all; this was simply praising the Founding Emperor without any bottom line.
Things that official history dared not to praise, were all placed in the unofficial history to be praised?
What is it called—Founding Emperor Zhao, alone with a single spear, breaking out of the siege among tens of thousands of enemy troops and many experts...
Moreover, Founding Emperor Zhao in this unofficial history had a noble character and extraordinary charm.
Li Yingling asked reproachfully: "I remember when I asked you to find unofficial history, I asked you to find strange anecdotes regarding Xuanwu, Cangzhou, and the Emperor and Empress, right?"
"Which of the four I mentioned above does your unofficial history relate to?"
The Records Officer knew deeply that he could not avoid it this time. Hearing this, he could only remind her in a low voice:
"This is the Demon Suppression Bureau of the Xuanwu Kingdom. How would we have the unofficial history the young lady wants? We used to arrest those who spread that kind of unofficial history."
Li Yingling looked at the Records Officer, somewhat understanding what this person meant, and then slapped the papers in her hand back onto the table before her.
She tentatively opened her mouth and said: "Then you can give the order now to go arrest those who spread unofficial history, and bring them before me?"
Hearing this, the Records Officer hurriedly breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said: "Okay, please wait a moment!"
These two days have been truly torture for the Records Officer.
Because initially, he really wasn't clear whether Li Yingling came here because she truly had a mission or to fish for enforcement, preparing to use himself to fill her performance quota or something.
After these two days, this girl indeed has been studying unofficial history. Even if the unofficial history materials he gave were completely different from what this girl wanted.
She would also conscientiously do data summaries and mark the same points between different unofficial histories.
If it were just fishing for enforcement, she wouldn't be so serious for two days.
Although he didn't know what this girl was planning to find... what to do with that kind of unofficial history, he still wanted to send this great god away early.
Staying a few more days, his heart really couldn't take it.
Especially those tricky questions the girl asked—Do you think Emperor Zhao Gaozu was Founding Emperor Zhao's biological son?
This question converted in the Records Officer's ears was roughly—Do you want your nine relations to be sliced to death or torn apart by five horses?
Give me a break!
Li Yingling watched the Records Officer, who had breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly walk out of the room.
She picked up the summary she had made in the last two days again and scanned over the summaries made in the last few days.
The unofficial histories provided by the Records Officer over the past two days could basically be considered storybooks written by the blatant flattery faction.
If this stuff were burned as an offering for Emperor Taizu of Zhao to read, even someone as enduring as him would probably blush.
However... between the unofficial histories that were not flattered quite so intensely, there was actually some rather consistent intelligence.
Although different unofficial histories had their own different points of focus, whenever they arrived at a critical turning point in history, even if their explanations differed, there would be some shocking consistency regarding these major events that changed the historical course.
After all, unofficial history must rely somewhat on actual history, and history is not only circulated in books.
It also circulates through word of mouth; those unofficial histories that randomly write about turning points would also quickly disappear amidst a wave of scolding.
Among them, military defeat, strategic transfer, Cangzhou, and Xuanwu all appeared coincidentally.
But what use is Chizhou here?
If it is just as Master said, if the thieves were forced to do this, then within this secret history, what kind of role does it play?
Li Yingling put down her pen, stood up, walked to the window, and pushed it open.
The heavy rain still had not stopped; it continued to fall ceaselessly.
The gloomy sky seemed as if it would collapse in the next moment, about to drown the multitudes of living beings.
Regarding this unusual heavy rain, how could the Xuanwu Kingdom fail to understand that the weather was not right?
It was just that the Xuanwu Kingdom could no longer spare the manpower now; they could only entrust sect cultivators to help investigate.
The current Xuanwu Kingdom seemed to have reached the moment of the setting sun.
The Demon Slaying Battle at Luopo Ridge, even though Bai Xuanling took the field in the end, the harm caused to the Xuanwu Kingdom was far from being just a matter of how many people died or how much territory was lost.
It was that someone had taken a fancy to this weak, sick tiger.
For cultivators of great sects, the replacement of dynasties was an extremely common occurrence.
All cultivation sects defaulted to not participating in the replacement of secular dynasties; this seemed to be related to the saying of Qi Luck.
Therefore, facing rebellion, the Xuanwu Kingdom could only face it alone.
According to Cui Hao, rebel troops in the east were already attacking cities and seizing territory.
Li Yingling felt that if the "thief" mentioned by Master was considered the ultimate goal, then everything that had happened before seemed to be the groundwork laid for the thief's actions.
They seemed to intend to shake this country, and subsequently...
Li Yingling sighed. At this moment, she had a sudden realization—by cultivating immortality, one could truly transcend destiny.
If she had not cultivated, all she could do at this moment was pray for the rain to stop.
Two hours later.
The Records Officer walked in carrying a large stack of Xuan paper. After placing them on Li Yingling's table, he wiped the sweat from his face with his right hand, which was extremely sore.
He smiled and said: "My Lord, the confessions of the prisoners you requested have arrived."
Li Yingling glanced at the paper on top, where the handwriting was not yet completely dry.
She did not ask why the arrest and interrogation of the people had been so swift.
After wiping his sweat, the Records Officer hurriedly stood up to close the door of the records room, then walked over quickly and said:
"My Lord, please look quickly. These treasonous things cannot be allowed to remain on paper. Once you have finished reading, I must take them to be burned."
Li Yingling glanced at the Records Officer's right hand, which was still trembling somewhat, and said: "It has been hard work for you."
Seeing that the window was open, the Records Officer hurriedly over to close it as well, and spoke with a somewhat uneasy tone:
"Please just look quickly."
Li Yingling looked at the unofficial history personally written by the Records Officer. With just a few glances, Li Yingling realized that these unofficial histories were the information she truly needed.
Her gaze quickly became serious.
A few quarters of an hour later.
Li Yingling finally pieced together this information. She picked up the summary to the side and looked at the Records Officer, who was still sweating cold sweat:
"You can take them all to be burned now."
Upon saying this, Li Yingling walked away directly.
She understood what role Chizhou represented in this segment of history.
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