Simulates history, but Chongzhen is the Divine Emperor at the beginning

Chapter 166: Good and evil, the real world-destroying disaster!
Qing Dynasty? Qianlong? The 25th year?

[When you hold this memorial in your hands, you feel as if you have traveled through time again...]

[No... Where did the Qing Dynasty come from?! ]

[Fuck! Liaodong was smashed into a no-man's land by the Divine Emperor's punch back then, leaving not even ashes of Yezhupi's family. How come a bunch of Qing Dynasty people are showing up now?]

So, your first reaction is fake news! (Trump voice)

[However, "the 25th year of Qianlong's reign" made you give up this guess...]

Others may not know Qianlong, but do you? This is the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, a dynasty whose events are completely unknown in this worldline.

[So this is not fake news at all, and they are not descendants of ancient people like those from the "Peach Blossom Spring", but real people from the Qing Dynasty!]

[And that raises a big question: Could they also be time travelers?]

[Thinking of the mockery and gloating in the Divine Emperor's will, you feel an inexplicable panic: Could it be that the Divine Emperor's death is the cause?]

What's the rationale behind this?

[A series of questions left you feeling bewildered... So, eager to uncover the truth, you quickly summoned those Qing dynasty figures!]

【…】

When the Qing dynasty people were brought to Tianjing with trepidation and met you, you immediately began to ask them many key questions, including but not limited to: What was the Qing dynasty like? What was the history of the Qing dynasty and before? Did the Qing dynasty also have extraordinary beings like the Divine Emperor? And how did everyone come to this world?

Is there any land route connecting the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty? (Daoguang audio)

[Faced with your inquiries, the "Rule of the Great Ming Kingdom," several Qing Dynasty people thought they had reached the immortal realm, and so they were so frightened that they told you everything they knew...]

[And their answers quickly paint a preliminary picture of the "Qing Dynasty worldview in another world" for you.]

[As you know, this Qing dynasty is exactly the original Qing dynasty: In the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng, the King of Rebellion, captured the capital, and Zhu Youjian, the last emperor of the Ming dynasty, hanged himself. From then on, the Ming dynasty fell and the Shun dynasty was established!]

[But at this critical juncture, Dorgon, the regent of the Qing Dynasty in Northeast China, immediately led his army south and assisted Wu Sangui, the Ming Dynasty commander of Shanhaiguan, in defeating the Shun army. They then successfully entered the pass, overthrowing Li Zicheng's Dashun regime and establishing the Qing Dynasty...]

[Then he shaved his head and changed his clothes, suppressed the Dashi, conquered the Southern Ming, strangled the Yongli Emperor, pacified the Three Feudatories, and recovered the Formosa Boulevard... During this period, the Shunzhi, Kangxi, and Yongzheng Emperors passed through the ranks, and the country gradually prospered... Until the Qianlong Emperor, it reached its peak. It is said that the imperial army had already crossed the Yumen Pass and fought all the way to the Western Regions... Last year, they finally destroyed the so-called Dzungar Khanate and recovered the vast Western Regions that had not been set foot since the heyday of the Tang Dynasty...]

[In short, it's basically the same as the history you know.]

[As for the Divine Emperor... There was no Divine Emperor in the Qing Dynasty; all emperors were mortals.]

As for how they got from the Qing Dynasty in the original historical line to the Divine Emperor's Ming Dynasty historical line, they couldn't explain it clearly. They just said that they inexplicably changed places as soon as they lifted their feet...

[After asking, you couldn't help but fall into deep thought: What... is going on? ]

[Is this really a time-travel incident? ]

How many people traveled from the 25th year of Qianlong's reign to the 133rd year of Chongzhen's reign during the Qing Dynasty?

[Thinking about it, you've been mumbling "the 25th year of Qianlong's reign" a few times for no apparent reason... The Qing Dynasty entered the country in the first year of Shunzhi's reign. Shunzhi was emperor for nearly 20 years, followed by Kangxi, the incredibly long-serving emperor, who reigned for 60 years. Then there was Yongzheng's decade or so, and then the 25 years of Qianlong's reign...]

If we add up all these times, it would be around 120 years. And if we add this to the 17th year of the Chongzhen Emperor's entry into the Pass... then the 25th year of the Qianlong Emperor, converted to the Chongzhen reign, would be around 130 years.

[And the Ming Dynasty's current year is...]

[“The one hundred and thirty-third year of Chongzhen’s reign…”]

You mutter to yourself, as if grasping some crucial information: The two parties' timings just happened to align, which clearly couldn't be a coincidence...

[From this perspective, could it be that the Divine Emperor created a parallel branch in the historical line, so that two historical lines exist simultaneously?]

[The death of the Divine Emperor meant that the two parallel historical lines no longer had any barriers between them, so the two lines intersected, and even people from the Qing Dynasty on the other historical line traveled through...]

The more you think about it, the more likely it seems, and this conjecture gradually takes shape. But you still don't understand: if the death of the God-Emperor simply causes the two worldlines to converge, then this can't be considered a so-called "world-destroying disaster," right?

[I'm not exaggerating. Just look at the situation in the Qing Dynasty. Although it was at the peak of its power during the middle of the Qianlong Emperor's reign, if the two sides went to war, your "Great Ming Kingdom" would defeat the Qing Dynasty in a matter of minutes, and then expel the Tartars, restore China, establish the Ming Dynasty, and equalize land ownership 150 years earlier...]

[A set of silky little combos, sending Dai Qing away on the spot! ]

[This is the confidence that divine power gives you... No! Even without divine power, your feudal heyday, combined with the partial modernization of the "Great Ming Kingdom," is more than enough to overthrow the pure classical feudal dynasty of the Qing Dynasty.]

[So, if the Divine Emperor isn't suffering from Alzheimer's, then the so-called "world of destruction" is definitely more than just this...]

So you immediately raised your alert to the highest level and rapidly expanded your military, increasing the already one million-strong "Divine Heavenly Army" (Jinyiwei) to three million, ready to go to war with Cthulhu, the Trisolarans, the Cultivation World, and the like at any time. The entire country was filled with fighting spirit!

[But unexpectedly, the unknown enemy you were guarding against didn't arrive, but instead, things you never imagined happened one after another...]

【…】

[In the 133rd year of Chongzhen's reign, the Divine Emperor who had ruled this land for over a hundred years finally passed away. From then on, you, an independent and extraordinary powerful being, remained in the world!]

[That year, the stars in the celestial sphere experienced a celestial resonance, the stars disappeared, and the Emperor Star went out...]

[That year, a group of Qing Dynasty time travelers from the "25th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign" were discovered in the capital. This bizarre event seems to be foreshadowing something for you...]

[That year, Qing Dynasty time travelers were also discovered in the Jiangnan region. They also came from the 25th year of the Qianlong reign...]

[That year, Qing Dynasty travelers were also discovered in the Western Regions. This time, they weren't civilians, but Qing soldiers! But how could the mortal Qing soldiers be a match for the extraordinary? They were quickly captured by the local divine celestial forces...]

In the 136th year of Chongzhen's reign, another unusual situation was reported to Xi'an, Tianjing. However, this time it wasn't a time traveler, but a scientific experiment gone awry...

[To put it simply, in order to explore the "scientific phenomena" mentioned by Tianzun, the researchers in charge of scientific research conducted replication experiments, but were shocked by the results because the actual phenomena were different from what Tianzun said!]

For example, in the "Leaning Tower of Iron Balls Experiment," Tianzun said that the result would randomly appear between "the light ball goes faster than the heavy ball" and "the heavy ball goes faster than the light ball." However, after the experiment, it was discovered that both balls actually landed at the same time!

[There's also the "Hemisphere Air Pressure Experiment." Tianzun claimed that the air in the copper ball could never be completely pumped out, but the experimental results showed that the air could be completely pumped out, and air pressure does exist!]

[There was also an "air composition experiment." Tianzun claimed that a candle could burn out normally in a sealed container, and the burnt air could be breathed normally by mice. However, the experimental results showed that the candle went out after burning for a while, and the burnt air suffocated the mice to death...]

[There are many, many more.]

[Looking at these perfectly normal experimental results, you can't help but wonder: Is this... right?]

[These experimental results themselves are indeed correct, but they are obviously wrong when applied to this world! ]

[In this strange world, there shouldn't be such normal things. So here, normal things are actually abnormal...]

[No! This world is abnormal!]

[A flash of inspiration suddenly hits your chaotic mind: Yes! That’s right!]

[It's not that these experiments have become abnormal, but that the world is gradually becoming normal...]

[Right is restored from chaos, and order is restored. The chaotic and strange things gradually return to normal... Then, what changes will happen to the people who were born into this abnormal world?]

[Thinking about it, you shudder...]

[At the same time, you finally figured out the reason behind the Divine Emperor's gloating sarcasm.]

[This is the true disaster that will destroy the world! ]

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(End of this chapter)