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Chapter 61 Extra - The Records of the Investigation of the Queen Mother of Heaven
September 5178, 9 in the Taiyi calendar.

After experiencing turbulent times, it took another 58 years to catch up, but Iwakuni, which suffered heavy losses in cultural heritage, officially decided that the government would work with the history, archaeology, religion and other related departments of major colleges to jointly launch a civilization tracing project. At the same time, it was taken into consideration that compared to boring history, mythological stories and characters are more interesting.

So the first thing to start is to trace the origin of the myth.

However, researchers are arguing fiercely about which mythological figure or story to trace first. Some believe the origin must be the creation god, while others believe that creation myths are too ancient to be verified, and that the first step should be to look at real human gods, preferably those with clear miraculous evidence.

In the end, of course, humans and gods have absolute advantage.

After all, the God of Creation is indeed too illusory.

However, it is still difficult for relevant researchers to decide which human god to choose, because there are also many human gods, including ancient human sages, famous ministers and generals, and heroes who sacrificed their lives for the people.

Later, someone suggested that since the oldest god, the Creator God, had been ruled out at the beginning, they should simply trace the origin from the more recent and more famous ones.

So in the end they chose the Goddess of Heaven, the Goddess of Justice of the Country.

He is also the most recently added god of the country.

The concept of the "Ordinary Gods of the Land and State" has a long history. Only deities that enjoy formal state worship can be called "Ordinary Gods of the Land and State." Historically, these deities included Taiyi Dijun, Haotian, the Five Heavenly Emperors, the Gods of Spring and Autumn, or perhaps Xuanyuan Huangdi and Chiyou, the Lord of War. The imperial court generally did not arbitrarily add or remove these deities, at most replacing the chief priest.

For example, some royal families considered themselves to be descendants of Emperor Huang.

Naturally, the main priest would be replaced by Emperor Huangdi.

Some people consider themselves to be descendants of Emperor Ku, so they may replace the main priest with Taiyi or Emperor Jun. Some people who have no relationship with them will choose a certain emperor who is in line with themselves as the main priest based on the theory of the Five Virtues. Under normal circumstances, the main sacrifice is still to the God of Heaven.

Most of the gods of the country have remained unchanged for two thousand years, but the Goddess of Blue Sky is an exception. She was added more than seven hundred years ago.

He is the youngest among the gods of the country.

People also call her the God of Agriculture and Shepherd, and the Goddess of Agriculture in the Sky. The most important thing is that this goddess still has miracles passed down through the ages, and everyone is inseparable from her miracles.

I feel like it would be relatively easier to trace back.

In any case, it is much easier than Taiyi Dijun.

After selecting the target, the tracing team immediately split into three groups. One group went to the Qingtian Niangniang temples in various places for on-site investigations, one group went to the National Museum to look for ancient books and materials, and another group offered rewards online to collect information related to Qingtian Niangniang.

Although collecting information on the Internet may be the least reliable.

But it is definitely the most extensive.

The first two teams hadn't gained anything yet, and hadn't even reached their destination, but the one responsible for collecting information by posting a reward online had already received thousands of pieces of information.

It is to sort out and distinguish the true from the false.

It takes a lot of time.

[I know this. My ancestor was a eunuch guarding the Lu Prince's mausoleum. The family tree states that my ancestor saw the Blue Sky Goddess appear three times. The first time, she appeared in the capital and killed the Lu Prince. The second time, she appeared when my ancestors mentioned that many people would be buried with the Lu Prince. She then took away the Lu Prince's mausoleum. The third time, my ancestors tried to steal the burial objects from the Lu Prince's wife's coffin, but found that the wife's body was not inside...]

[So my ancestor specifically wrote in the family tree that Qingtian Niangniang was the corpse-reincarnated immortal of Princess Lu. However, no one believed it. I don’t know why. What my ancestor said was all true. Moreover, my ancestor and Qingtian Niangniang lived from the same era!]

[The above poster is really stubborn. Your first sentence is not believable, let alone the rest. Your ancestors were infertile, so how could you have so many children and grandchildren?]

[What's wrong? Isn't Cao Cao also a descendant of a eunuch?]

["The Eunuch Ancestor's Grave Robbers' Chronicles"?]

[I'm writing a novel here on the first floor! ]

[There are some things I am not very clear about, but I do know that there is indeed a Qingtian Niangniang Temple next to the Mausoleum of Prince Lu, and it has a long history. It is said that it was built during the same period as the Mausoleum of Prince Lu, and should be considered the oldest Qingtian Niangniang Temple. The county annals also record that it was built by a group of eunuchs guarding the mausoleum, but I still find it unreliable.

Even if Princess Lu was sentenced to death, stealing her burial objects should still be a capital crime. Who would dare to write about a capital crime in their family tree? It's ridiculous...

[Yeah, I almost believed it!]

[My family tree is not shown to the public! ! ]

[If you don't believe me, let alone committing a capital crime, even if I did something shameful, I wouldn't be able to secretly write it down in a diary, let alone record it in the family tree.]

[By the way, do you really believe that those high-yield seeds and other goodies were sent by the Goddess of Justice? There's always been another theory, that Lord Youguo Yuan was an incredibly talented agronomist, perhaps even a reclusive agricultural magnate. They spent countless years cultivating those good things, and then, to facilitate their promotion and consolidate imperial power, they joined forces with the then-Xingwu Emperor.]

Seize the hot topic of the time and write an article about it.

I really don't understand. It was clearly Youguo Yuanjun who planted, cultivated, presented the treasures, and was responsible for promotion. Why does it seem as if all the credit goes to Qingtian Niangniang?

The Queen Mother of Justice is just a fictional character, okay?

What can you trace back to?

[Even if those good seeds were not bestowed by the Queen Mother of Justice, her punishment of the evil princes, forcing Emperor Tianwu to punish his own son according to the law, and the complete abolition of burying people alive with the dead are all recorded in both official and unofficial history.

It's just that the official historical records are relatively obscure.

Unofficial historical records tend to be story-like.

But at least the general content should be correct. The fiefs of the Kings of Lu, Han, Qi, and Jin are all recorded in the county annals. [Please, some people, please, can you please read the history books before you start spouting nonsense? Youguo Yuanjun was only 24 when she presented those high-yield seeds. For the previous decade or so, she'd been essentially a daughter of a wealthy family. Until she was nearly buried alive with the King of Lu, and no one dared to marry her, she became a Taoist nun and only then began to learn about farming. She must have been 16 that year.

In less than eight years, they went from knowing nothing to developing so many improved varieties, and even achieved a considerable scale. Isn't it funny? Even today's agronomists are not that impressive.

As for the Nong family, it's even more ridiculous. The Mohist school, which was countless times more prosperous than the Nong family back then, has basically perished, let alone the Nong family. If the Nong family could produce so many high-yield varieties under a false name, the Mohist school should have been able to fly into space by now. This is pure nonsense!

[Yes, if Youguo Yuanjun was an old Taoist nun in her seventies or eighties, or even in her fifties or sixties, I might believe it, but being in her twenties is too outrageous, so I would rather believe that Youguo Yuanjun did not lie.

It is indeed a good breed given to her by the Goddess of Heaven.

If you really don't want to believe in myths and legends, you can also believe that Qingtian Niangniang is a mysterious organization that has the ability to take action against Emperor Tianwu's sons, even making Emperor Tianwu helpless and compromise.

[Why can't that mysterious organization be a farmer? ]

"Are you arguing with the Nong family? The Nong family has always been rubbish, they've never produced anyone of any ability. If the Nong family could directly confront the founding emperor of a dynasty, or even force him to compromise, they could probably even compete with the Confucianists. Why hide it?"

But it still doesn't make sense. Why would such a powerful and mysterious organization disappear without a trace? Why did it appear so quietly and then disappear so quietly? I've read many official and unofficial histories, and they all directly mention the Queen Mother of Justice, rather than any particular organization or force.

It's not like everyone at that time was stupid.

I can't tell, maybe it was done by some force.]

Wait, I suddenly remembered. Someone mentioned earlier that Qingtian Niangniang was actually the reincarnated corpse of Princess Lu. Youguo Yuanjun was Princess Lu's sister, right? Long ago, people questioned why Qingtian Niangniang chose Youguo Yuanjun. If the two knew each other, or were even related, wouldn't that make a lot more sense? Oh my god, what that eunuch's descendant said above couldn't be true.

[More than 600 years ago, there were actually similar speculations, and there was even a novel about it. The classical Chinese was hard to read, but the content seemed to be about the story of Princess Lu being wrongly executed and then turning into a ghost to seek revenge.

However, there is no solid evidence to verify this. Unless someone opens the tomb of King Lu, there might be some clues.

[The Luwang Mausoleum has never been robbed, and it is said that there are no burial objects inside. Under these circumstances, it is unlikely that the authorities would allow the Luwang Mausoleum to be opened for inspection.]

[Regardless of whether this so-called Goddess of Justice is a person or a force, what I am more curious about now is how she managed to do all those things in the legend, collecting eight royal tombs in one breath, throwing all eight royal tombs into the palace, and destroying the Zhu Family Ancestral Temple.

It's completely outrageous. If you don't know her, you might think she's Zhen Yuanzi, who knows how to do things.

Emperor Tianwu and Emperor Xingwu, and even the prosperous Tianxing era they jointly created, all seemed to be closely connected to this Qingtian Niangniang. Furthermore, Qingtian Niangniang's attitude towards them differed greatly. To Emperor Tianwu, she directly threatened him, but to Emperor Xingwu, she presented him with a special gift.

[Could it be that they have an affair? ? ]

[It is also possible that a tacit agreement was reached.]

……

As time went by, although there was more and more information on the reward website, the valuable information was getting less and less. Later, the discussion went off topic and other topics were discussed, or there were a lot of related topics. The relevant departments finally made a decisive decision to close the website, so as to avoid the daily complaints of sorting out the information.

Meanwhile, the other two groups also made good progress.

One found out a lot of official and unofficial histories, and even records in the county annals; the other heard a lot of folk legends, stories from different temples of the Goddess of Heaven, and so on.

Finally, combine this information together.

Everyone was shocked to find that the Queen Mother of Heaven was very likely to have a close connection with Youguo Yuanjun. Especially after the timeline was listed, everyone felt that such a coincidence might not be a coincidence.

But it's all just speculation.

There is no actual evidence.

Until the guy who said on the Internet that he was a descendant of a eunuch was so angry that few people believed him that he stole his family tree and sent it to the tracing team, and asked for an appraisal to verify that his family tree was real. Since the tree was real, the content on it should also be true.

It was not for anything else, just to prove that what he said was right and he was not talking nonsense. As for why his ancestor wrote so much deadly information in the family tree, how would he know? He was not his ancestor. Maybe he was mentally ill. As a eunuch, his thinking logic was different from that of normal people, which was understandable.

After identification, his family tree was indeed true.

It has hundreds of years of history.

But it’s hard to tell whether the content is true or not.

As the saying goes, the first project must be completed no matter what, and get off to a good start, otherwise it will definitely affect the tracing of mythological figures and stories later. After some discussion, they made a special report and finally obtained the right to open the Mausoleum of King Lu. Then, naturally, with the help of modern technology, they successfully opened the Mausoleum of King Lu within two days and saw all the layouts inside.

The coffin of Princess Lu was also inspected with a X-ray machine.

It was finally discovered that there was indeed no body of Princess Lu and no burial objects inside, only a pile of bones, which was completely consistent with the content of the family tree provided by the descendants of the eunuch.

So a comprehensive comparison.

The records in the family tree are undoubtedly much more reliable.

Finally, the tracing team completed the project based on the contents of the family tree and confirmed that the identity of Qingtian Niangniang was the Princess of Lu who was sentenced to death. However, no one could tell whether she was not dead that year, or turned into a ghost, or became a corpse-reincarnated immortal.

A documentary was even made specifically for it.

It became the first case of the Myth Tracing Project.

(End of this chapter)