Chapter 11

After some thought, Xie Zhi decided to tell Fang Xianxing about his business trip.

When Xie Zhi told her that he was going to be an expert consultant for a drama with a Yuan Shun Dynasty background, Fang Xianxing felt it sounded very familiar. After asking, it was indeed the drama “Yuan Shun Empress”.

The world was really small.

She was one of the investors in this TV drama, and her younger sister played the second female lead in it. Although the crew was in Nige Film City, which was quite far from the city center, it could still be considered half their own territory.

On this end, a series of government bidding procedures couldn’t be sped up.

The underwater archaeological team on the other side of the Boundary Sea needed to be trained for a period of time, which also couldn’t be sped up.

Therefore, she supported Xie Zhi going to the crew first to relax.

Because Song Longsha was still running away from home and didn’t want to expose her relationship with her family, Fang Xianxing avoided Song Longsha and only said that she had invested in this drama. When he arrived there, if anyone bullied him, he should contact her.

After Fang Xianxing’s analysis, Xie Zhi’s mood improved a lot. He got up and started packing his luggage while continuing to chat with Fang Xianxing on and off.

Fang Xianxing started gossiping about that TV series.

She asked him if the Yuan Shun Empress and Wen Ru really had something going on, her tone a bit gossipy.

Thinking of Fang Xianxing’s usually serious appearance, tilting her ear to listen to gossip, Xie Zhi curved his lips in a smile. When he realized it, he quickly flattened the corners of his mouth and wrinkled his nose.

“Those are all wild historical rumors. The Yuan Shun Empress had the largest number of harem members among the emperors of the Mi Dynasty. The Three Palaces and Six Courtyards system started with her. The phrase ‘Your departure is silent, mountains and seas crumble’ that she later ordered to be engraved on Wen Ru’s coffin and tomb was just to express her sadness.”

“In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient. It was very difficult to see each other alive again after separation, so ancient people valued friendship very much. The Yuan Shun Empress and Wen Ru should have had a friendship beneath their monarch-subject relationship.”

“In the Wei Dynasty, there was once a princess who wrote a nearly thousand-character epitaph for her staff member, using extremely affectionate and touching words. But from the existing historical materials and cultural relic verifications, they were very chaste.”

Seeing him send such a long paragraph seriously, a smile appeared on Fang Xianxing’s face: “What about Yiyang Prince? And the Yuan Shun Empress’s Emperor Consort Gu? No relationships either?”

Xie Zhi didn’t expect Fang Xianxing to know quite a lot. He answered her seriously: “The death of Yiyang Prince has not been fully deciphered to this day. Historical records only say that the Yuan Shun Empress was bewitched by a sorcerer physician in her middle age, allowing the sorcerer physician to infiltrate the nursing homes throughout the Great Mi and harm millions of lives.”

“Yiyang Prince couldn’t bear to see the people suffer. He set himself on fire in the palace, his blood staining the palace walls, which finally awakened the Yuan Shun Empress. The Empress deeply regretted and captured all the chaotic sorcerer physicians to be executed in Weiing City, burning more than 30,000 volumes of their evil books.”

After saying that, Xie Zhi let out a long sigh: “In an instant, only one out of ten nursing homes originally throughout the Great Mi remained. It was difficult for men to seek medical treatment for childbirth, and countless people died of difficult labor.”

“If it weren’t for the wealth Wen Ru had accumulated for the Yuan Shun Dynasty before his disappearance as a foundation, and the support of officials, gentry, and women’s groups in various places, the Mi Dynasty might have ended with the Yuan Shun Dynasty.”

“But excluding the mistakes in the sorcerer physician calamity, the Yuan Shun Empress can still be considered a once-in-a-millennium emperor. After the chaos, the people were in a miserable state, yet she only took seven years to recover. Later, she organized people many times to collect scattered medical books in the Great Mi and countries outside the Great Mi. Separating sorcerer physicians, she compiled the largest medical encyclopedia at that time, benefiting all the people. As a result, the population of the Mi Dynasty reached three times more than before the sorcerer physician calamity. She truly reversed the crisis and made the Mi Dynasty extremely prosperous for 400 years afterward.”