Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Chapter 1225 – Great Xia Emperor Dynasty
At the start of the year, right after the Lantern Festival, Bing’er went to Qiongzhou to learn. In the blink of an eye, a year had passed.
Looking at the little girl who ran into the reading room, a look of surprise appeared in his eyes. His face seemed really warm. Pretty much every time he saw Bing’er, she would bring him surprises.
A year of learning and training had made her capable, but it did not hide her active personality. The moment she rushed in, she ran around and made a lot of noise, sitting beside Ouyang Shuo and describing the interesting things in Qiongzhou.
As Bing’er was not of age, Ouyang Shuo let her proceed there to spectate as more of an experience. She was also really happy, and she had seen all kinds of things during this year.
Based on Bing’er’s words, she stayed in villages to experience the farming life, followed the tax officials into the city, went into jails, and lived like a commoner; her life was really interesting.
These things could not be learned from books.
Ouyang Shuo only listened quietly, and he did not give his opinion. He did not want his life standards and views to affect her growth.
Each person was unique.
Seeing that it was already noon, Ouyang Shuo got up and interrupted her. He smiled as he said, “Let’s go and have our meal. Your sister-in-law prepared your favorite vinegar blood duck.”
“Great.”
Bing’er was not as excited as Ouyang Shuo imagined she would be. She simply gave a crisp answer.
Ouyang Shuo was stunned, but he followed her with a smile.
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After accompanying Bing’er to eat, Ouyang Shuo did not care about rest and went back to the Imperial Reading Room once more.
Tomorrow would be the Emperor dynasty ceremony and the first day of the New Year. It was really complicated, and there were many things that Ouyang Shuo had to decide on. The title awarding ceremony was among them.
For any ceremony, regardless of if it were rewarding people with merit or giving praise, titles would be given out.
This time, Ouyang Shuo was prepared to model after the Tang Dynasty Lingyan Pavilion to set up the Shanhe Pavilion and choose 24 officials of great merit to enter; this would be their reward for their contributions to Great Xia.
Great Xia was filled with talents, which included the essence of China civilization. To choose 24 out of all these people was much more difficult than the choices made during the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, the Shanhe Pavilion would not be limited to 24 people. However, to ensure its prestige, the next batch would have to wait till the dynasty upgraded to imperial dynasty.
The selection criteria was naturally based on merit.
After much deliberation, Ouyang Shuo finally decided on the 24 people. They were Baiqi, Jiang Shang, Huo Qubing, Han Xin, Wei Yang, Zhang Liang, Du Ruhui, Jia Xu, Shi Wanshui, Fan Li, Zheng He, Shen Buhai, Sun Bin, Er’Lai, Zhang Yi, Cui Yingyu, Liu Mo, Zhang Han, Di Qing, Yu Dayou, Tian Wenjing, Fan Zhongyan, and Xu Chu.
Apart from Liu Mo, who was the head of the No. 7 Research Institute, the rest were all historical talents.
The No.7 Research Institute led by Liu Mo had made many contributions in terms of thermal weapons research, so it was expected for him to be added to the list.
Without a doubt, those historical talents listed in the Shanhe Pavilion would be those that Ouyang Shuo would instantiate first.
Just last night, Ouyang Shuo had especially went offline to meet Jiang Shang, Baiqi, Zhang Liang, and Jia Xu, who had all been successfully instantiated.
As expected of geniuses, under the leadership of Gaia, they quickly adapted.
However, as the space on the spaceship was limited, they could not do much. After the meeting, they went back to their jobs; this made Ouyang Shuo realize that instantiating historical talents early on did not give many benefits.
The only advantage would be that Jiang Shang and the others would be undying like the players once they re-entered the game. They would also be able to obtain achievement value.
Ouyang Shuo told them that their achievement value were theirs, and they could use them freely to instantiate their families and loved ones.
Baiqi’s choice was totally unexpected; he said that he would only instantiate one or two of them, while Jia Xu did not want to instantiate any.
Ouyang Shuo clearly remembered the words of Jia Xu, “My king, we all know that the moment Gaia created us, we became completely different people. Our life began from that moment. As for our memories, they are just memories. I and the Jia Xu of history belong to two different eras.”
“The loved ones in the game are more like a rope holding us back in our memories. If we instantiate them, it might not be a good thing.”
Ouyang Shuo understood their thoughts.
Baiqi added, “I plan to instantiate Wei Lan. However, it is not because we were husband and wife in history but because we have developed true feelings in the game.”
Ouyang Shuo was enlightened.
As a result of this, Ouyang Shuo decided to temporarily stop instantiating and wait till a year before they arrived on Planet Hope before doing it all at once.
After a year, Ouyang Shuo’s achievement value had increased by five million points, making normal players totally envious. The high-speed development of Great Xia in the future would only cause this value to increase at a more exaggerated rate.
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Gaia 7th year, 1st month, 1st day, Shanhai City.
On the day of the ceremony, the entire city had a joyous atmosphere, and lanterns and banners were hung up everywhere.
At 8 AM, Ouyang Shuo especially went to the main hall and opened up the territory interface to apply for the upgrade to Emperor dynasty. The moment he clicked, a System Notification sounded out.
“System Notification: Checking Great Xia’s upgrade requirements…”
“Requirement 1: Lord rank has reached prince, after checking, player Ouyang Shuo has reached the highest Son of God Rank, requirement met.”
“Requirement 2: Lord’s reputation has at least reached known far and wide. Player Ouyang Shuo’s reputation has reached the highest shining through the nine states, requirement met!”
Not long ago, Ouyang Shuo’s reputation points had hit five million and upgraded to the highest reputation rank.
“Requirement 3: Dynasty must at least occupy a third of the territory of the region. Great Xia occupies 42% of China, requirement met!”
After West Xia submitted, Great Xia’s territory had directly exceeded one-third of the region.
“Requirement 4: territory’s population must be at least 50 million. Great Xia has 413.5 million people, requirement met!”
Along with Zhan Lang and West Xia submitting, Great Xia’s population had broken through the 400 million mark, and it swiftly drew close to the record of Chinese history.
“Requirement 5: Dynasty must at least have a city overseas. Great Xia has taken down 14 countries, forming many provinces, requirement met!”
Such an achievement was something that only Great Xia could have accomplished.
“Requirement 6: Dynasty fate dragon must be at least at the Purple level. Great Xia’s dynasty fate dragon has reached stage 4 golden dragon, requirement met!”
Along with Great Xia expanding, the fate dragon had upgraded too.
“Requirement 7: At least taken down one imperial city in the local region. Great Xia has taken down Dali, Luoyang, Jingdu, Quanzhou, and Chengdu, requirement met!”
The submitting of a dynasty was included.
“Requirement 8: At least destroy one country. Great Xia has taken down 14 countries, requirement met!”
Destroying did not mean building a city. For example, Great Xia taking down Morocco but losing it did not count; similarly, building a city did not count as destroying a country like in the case of Ecuador.
Hence, requirement five and eight did not clash.
In other words, if one did well, requirement five could be easily achieved.
“Requirement 9: have at least one country upgrading treasure. Great Xia has the secret treasure Jiuzhou Cauldron, requirement met.”
Of the nine basic requirements, apart from the country upgrading treasure, Great Xia had exceeded them all.
“System Notification: Checks completed, Great Xia satisfies all Emperor dynasty upgrade requirements, will you upgrade?”
“Yes!”
The moment Ouyang Shuo said those words, the heaven and earth showed changes.
A seven colored light rose up from the palace and shot into the skies. Soon afterwards, seven colored clouds appeared, shining a prosperous seven colored glow.
The heavens were showing signs of prosperity.
The moment the signs were shown, a System Notification sounded out across the entire world.
