Chapter 34: The Historical Debate
After walking through the deep corridor, Li De and the others finally arrived at the high-level priesthood hall in the core of Zanshuer.
In the Hall of High Priests, there are not only the Parliament Hall that handles government affairs, but also the Intelligence Department, Statistics Department, War Hall and History Museum.
The other places were highly confidential. After everyone knew the responsibilities of those halls, they immediately did not even look at them to avoid suspicion.
After passing through the quaint stone door, everyone was immediately shocked by the scene in front of them. This was a pavilion with a height of ten meters, but the walls were not visible at all because they were all blocked by bookshelfs that were as high as the ceiling.
Here you can see the classics of various historical periods: stone slabs from the ignorant period; gold and bronze slabs from the ancient times; parchment scrolls from the medieval period and paper books from the modern times. Conservatively estimated that nearly a hundred people are sorting and copying them in this historical museum.
"Parking up history is an extremely huge project. It records all the history from before the Zandalah Empire to the present.
When King Rastaha succeeded to the throne, he issued an order to compile all the history recorded here into a great general history to demonstrate the glory of the empire.
The king ruled Zandala for two hundred years, and this huge project was also carried out for two hundred years. During this period, there were several drafts, and it was finally reached the ending stage today.
Of course, now you are here, and the history of Zulfarak is to be re-written."
Yazma's tone was very ordinary, but Li De was already stupid. He spent two hundred years to compile a historical book. What kind of courage should this be?!
As we all know, the so-called general history is actually a holistic outline in the vast historical documents. It is more like a catalog. If future generations want to study the history of dynasties in depth, they can search more first-hand information through general history.
But it was such an outline that it took Zandala two hundred years to complete it.
With such a huge project, only a country like Zandala with a long history is capable of doing it.
Yazma wants to take Nipur to the Zandala historian to confirm the ancient Zul Falakhsky with him, and also continue the new Zul Falakhsky.
Li De is not a sand troll, so he really can't help with this matter.
Seeing that he became an irrelevant person, Li De suddenly had some other ideas.
"Ms. Yazma, can I take a look at the information here?"
This made Yazma a little worried. It would be a violation of the rules for bringing Li De in. If Li De was asked to read it randomly, if it caused damage to these historical materials, it would be a huge sin.
But Li De soon made a promise.
"I just look at the names of the historical books on the bookshelf and guarantee that they will not touch them."
This made Yazma breathe a sigh of relief, because she didn't know what Rastaha had to do with Li De, and she couldn't refuse it directly.
"Wait a minute, even if I am here, I will first obtain the permission of the elder."
The person in charge of this place is Zandala's most profound historian elder. He has absolute power in the compilation of history books. In the History Museum, even the God King Rastaha, the prophet Zuer must respect his opinions.
Unlike Li De imagined, he thought the Elder would be a troll with a hunched figure and aging. Unexpectedly, although the elder's face and voice were old, his waist was straight and energetic. Although his figure was a little thin, the muscles on his arms were still very strong.
Facing this elder, Yazma also said a lot of things. After listening to Yazma's detailed introduction to Li De, the elder nodded.
"The human race who rescued the sand trolls from their embarrassment and brought to this place... You are qualified to visit here. You can read the names of historical books on the bookshelf, but you must not reach out to touch them."
Li De quickly agreed that he was indeed respectful to the knowledgeable people.
Li De, who received permission, began to shuttle through the bookshelf. In addition to the bookshelf filled with four walls, there were also hundreds of huge bookshelfs in the middle of the history museum. In order to facilitate people to obtain information, many ladders and springboards were even arranged in the middle of the bookshelf.
Li De had not yet climbed the steps, but the position of his eyes on the ground was enough to bring him a lot of shock.
In this historical museum, although the history recorded is mainly composed of trolls, it also has a large number of history of other races. Moreover, the writing styles that record history are also blooming.
Most of them are national historical books such as "The History of Zandalah", "The History of Amani", "The History of Gulabashi", "The History of Night Elf", and "The History of High Elf", but there are also chronicles such as "The History of Gukalimdor", and even personal biography history books such as "The History of Thunder".
After walking many circles between the bookshelf, Li De was so jealous that he saw. Zandala's literary prosperity made him envious, and he really had the urge to take these historical books off the bookshelf and read them.
But he finally suppressed his impulse and returned to the table where everyone compiled the general history.
At this time, several sand trolls were talking to each other in the lounge in the history museum with a doctor in the editor-in-chief Zul Farakshi. It was the doctor who told Nibule and the others. After the doctor finished speaking, Nibule would tell him what happened to Zul Farak later.
The sound insulation of the lounge is very good, mainly to prevent interference with work here.
Li De and Yazma stood at the long table where the elders worked and waited for the Nipur and the doctor.
Li De, who was idle, couldn't help but glance at the general catalog that the Great Elder was writing. The troll's words are hieroglyphs, and Li De could roughly understand them.
He saw the end of this general history at: Zandala went to Zurghrab to seal the blood god Haka, the human race was formed in the pattern of the seven kingdoms, and the battle of the three hammers of the dwarfs. This made Li De sigh heavily because of the devil.
In the quiet history museum, there is no other sound except for searching for information and writing.
Li De sighed suddenly, and everyone turned their eyes to him in an instant.
Seeing everyone staring at him with bad intentions, Li De apologized repeatedly with guilt.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, it was because I suddenly thought of something that was distracted."
However, what he didn't expect was that the elder did not listen to his excuse. He knew that Li De sighed at the general catalog he wrote. A mere human race with a short life span was sighing at his elder Zandala, which was clearly questioning his achievements!
"Why are you sighing? Is there any problem with me editing?"
When we were talking before, the elder was quite kind. However, when it comes to general history, the old troll's words clearly contained murderous aura!
Li De felt the hostility from all troll scholars, and he was under great pressure in an instant. Good guy, he has carried out major projects for 200 years, would he dare to question it?
But at this time, the pale apology could not get away with it, but Li De could only express his true thoughts.
"You are very knowledgeable, of course I don't think there is something wrong with your work. I just saw you at the end and sighed that the vastness of history is endless."
Li De's words made the elder's eyes lit up, and he chewed the taste of the words.
"The vast and endless soup... This sentence is profound, but you haven't finished it yet?"
Li De carefully chose words and sentences and said carefully.
"It is great for you to compile this masterpiece. It almost records the most detailed history of the mortals of Azeroth. But what is the purpose of compiling general history? I think in addition to demonstrating the greatness of Zandalah, I also hope to find out the historical laws in it and summarize the lessons of our predecessors, so as not to make the past mistakes again."
Elder Zandala smiled and nodded with satisfaction.
"Yes, you are indeed not ordinary if a human race has such a deep understanding of history. But you still didn't say the reason for your sigh."
Li De gritted his teeth and simply gave up.
"I sigh because this masterpiece was born at the wrong time. If it had been released ten years earlier, it might have become Azeroth's greatest work. Unfortunately, it is a bit out of place under the great changes that have not been seen in Azeroth today."
Now the Great Elder can basically be sure that Li De is not a ignorant madman, so he did not show any special anger, but asked calmly.
"What is your basis for empty words?"
Seeing that the other party's attitude was not very bad, Li De felt relieved.
“Just five years ago, a huge dark door was opened in the swamp south of the Eastern Kingdoms continent, and orcs from another world invaded the continent of Azeroth.
More than a year ago, the orcs captured the Kingdom of Storm. Today, they are still encroaching on the Eastern Kingdom. No matter what the outcome of this war ends, the world of Azeroth will undergo tremendous changes.
At this time, continuing to study Azeroth's history in isolation will eventually fall into one-sidedness."
Li De's words made the scholars look extremely confused.
"Dark Gate?"
"Another world?"
"Orc?"
"What is that?"
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The scholars' reaction caught Li De off guard. The Zandala Empire was so blocked that it was so closed. Didn't you even know about the big orc war?!
In the end, Yazma couldn't bear to watch it anymore. She had never participated in the conversation before, but just watched Li De's deliberate behavior from the side. But unexpectedly, this guy had the means to stop the elder's anger and even chatted back and forth.
"Well, Marshal Li De doesn't know anything. In order to study history, the doctors and elders have not left this room for ten years. In the past ten years, even all kinds of things in daily life have been solved here. Apart from facing these information every day, he has never been exposed to external information.
We must have carefully collected important information such as orc invasion. However, I don’t think it is necessary to report this to all scholars.
From ancient times to the present, there have been too many wars in Azeroth. There are many wars that have caused serious consequences than the orc invasion, and this war is still continuing. It is irresponsible to record an event that has no result and has not yet been finalized in history books."
Yazma explained so much, of course he didn't want Li De to underestimate Zandala. Even the goblins knew about the incident of orc invasion. Why wouldn't they know about it?
The Great Elder was still thinking after hearing Yazma's words, while other doctors who compiled history books spoke.
"The words of the High Priest Yazma make sense. Wars that have not yet been concluded cannot be recorded rashly in history books. And even if this is not considered, as you said, the invasion of the orcs has only destroyed a human kingdom.
How many powerful empires in history are still demise in the long river of time? Is it the short history and lifespan of the human race that makes you fuss like this?
Let’s leave this kind of contemporary historical matter to future generations to organize.”
Li De obviously noticed that when the scholar said this, the elder frowned clearly. He knew that he had bet right and immediately said it.
"It's different. This war is different from the past. It cannot be viewed from the perspective of the internal war in Azeroth. This is an invasion from another world.
Completely unfamiliar races, completely different world systems, they have a long history of independence.
If all this is ignored, you cannot understand the internal logic of the invasion. If you pretend to be invisible, even if the war is over, Azeroth will not be able to learn a lesson.
And I believe that in many years that followed, these orcs who invaded Azeroth will continue to shape our world. If we cannot understand the history of the orc world, our future will be out of control.
To be honest, as a victim of war, it is always difficult for the human race, including me, to study the history of orcs fairly. For Azeroth, there must be a race that stands up and does something."
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Chapter completed!