CHAPTER 157: CHAPTER 128 [HUAXIA · ANNALS] FLOOD CONTROL! FLOOD CONTROL!!! (6.6K DOUBLE-LENGTH CHAPTER)_2

However, the ancestors of this tribe did not give up. Instead, they continually expanded and grew through resisting the floods of the ’Yellow River’ time and again, until a man appeared who clearly and methodically planned a water-control strategy for the first time.

He united people from other tribes to collectively manage the flood around all the tribes from a single tribe, growing from hundreds to tens of thousands. During this flood-control process, a collective consciousness was formed among all the tribes in the Yellow River basin for the first time.

They divided the land into nine regions and established collaboration.

At the same time, it promoted the advancement of this civilization, introducing the concept of ’under heaven’ for the first time.

The path to controlling water was arduous; some died from exhaustion, some from falling, some from drowning, but no one gave up. They ceaselessly carved through mountains, persisting day and night.

Finally.

Under the leadership of that man who persisted for thirteen years.

The roaring ’Yellow River’ lost its former ferocity and gently flowed eastward. The hills previously submerged by water revealed their majesty, farmlands transformed into granaries, and the divine statues in temples were replaced with that man’s clay sculptures.

The gradually prosperous ancestors of Huaxia began to rapidly develop, with ever-updating architecture faintly resembling palaces.

The scene slowly reveals several large characters.

[According to "Records of the Historiographer·Huaxia Annals": "Yu tamed the flood for thirteen years, not entering his home; traveling by cart on land, by boat on water, by sled in mud, by chariot on mountains. With a rule on the left and compass on the right, he marked four seasons, opened nine provinces, cleared nine paths, irrigated nine marshes, and surveyed nine mountains."]

The scene then swiftly changes, portraying the birth of a dynasty with the banner of ’Xia’ fluttering.

Xia cast the Nine Tripods and unified the land.

The passage of time sees the rise and fall of seasons; the once flourishing Xia Dynasty was engulfed in smoke as time elapsed. The view ascends, floating towards the east of Huaxia Land, then descends. A strange-looking xuan bird lands on the banner marked ’Shang’.

A xuan bird’s cry suddenly echoes within the scene.

The destiny of the xuan bird led to the birth of Shang.

As time flowed, even the flourishing Shang reached its end, and a dynasty named ’Zhou’ emerged. Duke of Zhou created rituals and music, laying the foundation for Huaxia civilization.

Soon the ’Zhou’ Dynasty also came to its end.

At this moment, the map of ’Huaxia Land’ appears with densely packed feudal states. Subsequently, the text above disappears, leaving only patches of colors representing various feudal states scattered across Huaxia Land.

Then, akin to big fish eating small fish, Blue Star netizens watched as those patches rapidly engulfed one another; some barely absorbed others before being absorbed themselves by neighboring patches, observing the passage of time above.

Three hundred years passed in entirety.

Only seven patches of differing colors were left.

Blue Star’s netizens involuntarily gasped, three hundred years?

They fought for three hundred years?!

To know that Blue Star’s meteor shower has only lasted three hundred years up till now, during those times ’Earth’ had already been fighting for three hundred years. How many people must have perished?

An unprecedented shock overwhelmed the minds of Blue Star netizens.

Originally thinking games like Polestar Company’s "World War II: Empire’s Rise" portrayed a very brutal European Battlefield, but compared to this history of warfare on Huaxia Land, it seems rather mundane.

Fought for a full three hundred years... Hiss—

One could hardly imagine how gruesome it became.

The scene suddenly shifts.

Woo—

The sound of horns rings out, the screen shows the back of a man in a black-gold imperial robe on top of a high platform. Below are countless armored soldiers ready to fight.

Blood-soaked grand characters slowly emerge.

[The birth of vast kingly power]

Seeing these displayed words, Blue Star netizens seemed to understand that Huaxia Land had been unified, though they didn’t know which among the seven colored patches represented the state.

The scenes alternate under a series of decrees.

’Unified writing’

’Unified axle width’

’Standardized measurements’

’Constructed Lingqu canal’

’Expanded the Great Wall’

A series of decrees left Blue Star netizens gape-headed; alongside each scene, their hearts surged. After all, just one order over time, if really able to experience the feeling of being an emperor, how exhilarating it must be.

However.

The scene drastically switches.

Exorbitant taxes, heavy forced labor.

Constructing palaces, the Great Wall, roads, countless laborers died of exhaustion or were beaten to death.

The scene shifts to a torrent rain.

Hundreds of border guards horrifiedly staring at a grass pavilion in the storm, beside the fire pit within the pavilion lies an official’s corpse. The man holding a blood-stained sword turned around, his chest heavily breathing, sweeping over hundreds of guards, a roaring voice pierced through the rain:

"You all missed the deadline due to the rain, according to law, you deserve decapitation!"

Hearing this, the faces of hundreds of guards turned even paler, all due to the harsh laws of the court.

Some were already slumped on the ground, not daring to think.

Sweeping over the crowd, the man holding the sword slowly said:

"If a warrior does not die, one must make a significant name!"

Then he took a deep breath, roaring like thunder:

"Kings, dukes, and ministers! Are they born of special stock?!!"

Crack!

A flash of lightning streaked through the sky, resonating in the ears of these hundreds of guards, whose expressions gradually solidified.

Large characters slowly emerged on the screen.

[The demise of royal authority mythology]

Subsequently, the map reappeared, the singular color domain shattered, transforming once more into numerous fragmented patches, only to be swiftly devoured entirely by a red force.

At this moment, Blue Star People watched this scene, feeling as if witnessing a cycle.

Unity, division, unity, division....

The next second.

In the north of the Huaxia nation, an expanse of black also appeared.