Gu Chengren sighed, "I know this, but didn't you say that the natural disaster in Binzhou has nothing to do with His Majesty?"

"It doesn't matter, but the problem is that the Binzhou sea boil really killed so many people!"

Lou Youzhi explained, "Using the same bloodline of the Lord of the Cave Heaven as a guide, sacrificing ten times the human race can delay the decline of the Cave Heaven... This is the content of the letter."

!!!

Gu Chengren was horrified.

It was exactly the same as Lou Youzhi's reaction before.

The same bloodline of the Lord of Cave Heaven...

If you put it on Your Majesty, you are the blood descendant of the people left by Taizu!

What your Majesty wants to kill is not the refugees, but the blood descendants of Taizu?!

"Isn't it possible?"

Gu Chengren looked ugly.

"I thought it was impossible before, so I calculated it based on the drought in Bingzhou."

Lou Youzhi sighed quietly, "Eight million people died in the drought in Bingzhou. Calculating half of them, that's 400,000 blood descendants."

"It took eighteen years from the drought in Bingzhou to the boiling sea in Binzhou."

"If you calculate it this way, four hundred thousand blood descendants, plus four million people, can delay the decline of Dongtian for more than eighteen years."

"About 20,000 blood descendants can delay the attack for less than a year."

"And the Binzhou sea boil killed 4.2 million people, and the blood descendants were about 210,000... It took eleven years from the Binzhou sea boil to the Yongzhou locust plague."

"The same 20,000 blood descendants have been delayed for less than a year."

"The number of blood descendants here is just a rough estimate. It is definitely not accurate enough. Plus there is the possibility of early delay..."

Lou Youzhi took a deep breath, "It should be that using 20,000 Taizu's blood descendants for sacrifice and 200,000 clan sacrifices can delay the decline of Dongtian for one year."

"..."

Gu Chengren's heart was up and down, and after a long while he gritted his teeth and said, "Two natural disasters alone cannot prove anything... I will continue to investigate."

With that said, he turned around and took down a thick stack of books from the bookshelf.

In this way, the two began to calculate the number of deaths from natural disasters over the years.

An hour later.

Gu Chengren closed the book and looked at the paper pages filled with small characters that were used for statistics. "This doesn't match up. We have almost counted the 10,000 blood descendants, which has been postponed for two years..."

indeed.

As the two extrapolate further back in time, the rule of "delaying the death of 20,000 blood descendants for one year" becomes less and less applicable.

Lou Youzhi did not respond to Gu Chengren, but closed his eyes and thought hard.

After a while, a flash of lightning flashed through my mind.

"No! It's not that we can't match it!"

Lou Youzhi opened his eyes suddenly, "It's just that we overlooked a key point!"

"Key point?"

Gu Chengren was stunned.

"Didn't Mr. Gu realize that the proportion of using blood descendants to delay death is gradually increasing..."

Lou Youzhi said slowly, "If it doesn't correspond at all, then why does the ratio gradually increase instead of suddenly increasing and then decreasing?"

"This...is indeed a problem!"

Gu Chengren thought for a moment and his expression became solemn, "What did you think of?"

"Our calculation is based on the fact that if we don't kill anyone, the cave will collapse immediately."

Lou Youzhi's eyes flashed, "But what if this cave itself still has enough life left?"

"you mean……"

Gu Chengren's expression was ugly, "As early as many years ago, even when Dongtian's decline was not urgent at all, I, the emperor of Daqing, had already begun to extend Dongtian's life?"

"That's right!"

Lou Youzhi pointed to the page of manuscript paper and said, "Let's start from Leizhou."

"In the 20th year of Zhengfeng, the Leizhou Heavenly Fire killed seven million people, including about 350,000 blood descendants."

"According to the conclusions we deduced before, it can delay the decline of Dongtian for more than seventeen years."

"But the next natural disaster will be a full sixty years after the 20th year of Zhengfeng!"

"That is to say, in these sixty years, forty-three years are the lifespan that Dongtian still has!"

"Let's look further down..."

As Lou Youzhi recalculated, after a while, the two came to a surprising conclusion.

Using 20,000 blood descendants as a guide and sacrificing 200,000 clansmen can indeed prolong the decline of Dongtian by one year.

Previously, I was just misled by Dongtian's inherent lifespan, but now I have eliminated Dongtian's inherent lifespan, and everything has given way.

However, this conclusion was somewhat unacceptable to both of them for a while.

"Hehehe..."

Gu Chengren laughed nervously, "That is to say, as early as the 20th year of Zhengfeng, when Dongtian's lifespan was still several hundred years away, Emperor Zhengfeng had already started to commit murder...delay? No! This is clearly feeding!"

"To be precise, we calculated it to be two hundred and seventy years."

In comparison, Lou Youzhi was much calmer and deeper, "Besides, this is no longer important, it has completely lost its lifespan..."

By the time of Emperor Wenchang, all natural disasters that occurred were very consistent with the law of "twenty thousand for one year".

In other words, Dongtian has reached the critical point of decline.

If no one is killed in the next natural disaster, this cave will completely collapse.

"Yeah, it's not important anymore."

Gu Chengren let out a long sigh and looked at the last unused booklet, "The important thing is the future."

That booklet is also a copy of the household records.

The reason why it was not used just now is because what is recorded in it is the locust plague in Yongzhou, and it cannot be used in the calculation just now.

"Yongzhou..."

Lou Youzhi looked disappointed because he remembered how many people there were in Yongzhou.

The situation in Yongzhou is somewhat different.

Even among the thirty provinces, Yongzhou's population is not even ranked in the middle, but it is still dead.

No, it's more than that.

In addition to the people of Yongzhou, there were even hundreds of thousands of disaster relief teams involved.

Even if he only counts 18 million, there are nearly 900,000 blood descendants of Taizu.

Calculated, it can delay the decline of Dongtian for 45 years.

In forty-five years, I am afraid that I will have died of old age long ago, right?

When the time comes, who else will remember this?

Thinking of this, Lou Youzhi suddenly felt something.

Did he really hide his actions from Emperor Yongtai?

Du Qianchuan, Yan Fang, Gu Chengren...

Did Emperor Yongtai really have no knowledge of these people or things that turned against him, died because of him, or helped him?

Or is it that Emperor Yongtai knew but didn't care?

Lou Youzhi looked dazed, suddenly feeling helpless and frustrated.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Gu Chengren glanced at Lou Youzhi strangely, "I feel like you suddenly lost your energy."

"……nothing."

Lou Youzhi shook his head, reached out and stuffed the last booklet into his arms.

Gu Chengren was baffled by this action.

"Mr. Gu, thank you for your help these days."

Lou Youzhi stood up and bowed solemnly to Gu Chengren, "In a few days, I will arrange for you to return home and take care of yourself."

"you……"
To be continued...