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1771 The King of Shangtai

History turned a corner on King Shangtai. In the parallel world of Xiao Letian's previous life, King Shangtai ascended the throne at the age of four. In the 11th year of Tongzhi, Ryukyu Kingdom was abolished by Japan. In the fifth year of Guangxu, King Shangtai was deposed twice. This time he was forcibly abducted to Kyoto, Japan.

Then he lived in imprisonment in Tokyo. Although he had no worries about food and clothing, he had no freedom. Until 1901, King Shangtai died of illness in Tokyo and was buried in Naha after his death.

It was a tragic world, not only the Chinese nation suffered, but the weaker Chinese vassal states were even more miserable.

Although a great country has experienced hardships, it has a strong foundation. As long as a group of heroes burst out, they can turn the tide and turn their luck around.

But a small country is not the case. The country is weak and the people are poor and the family is extremely poor. Even a few heroes are destined to be a tragedy in life.

Now, everything has changed in the parallel world where Xiao Letian is located. King Shangtai takes the initiative to offer his power. It seems that he has lost the king's authority, but in fact he has lost a steel knife that chases his life.

In front of the whole world, King Shangtai dedicated all his rights to the Chinese people, retaining only the king's title and all benefits, which made other ambitious people unable to deal with him.

Even if you imprison King Shangtai, even if you put a steel knife on his neck, you will not be able to take away all the rights of Ryukyu, because the power is in the hands of the parliament and the people.

If you want to get the land, people and governance of Ryukyu, you have to snatch it from the Chinese Parliament. If you want to get close to the Chinese Parliament, it depends on whether you can do the Chinese army.

King Shangtai’s business is definitely not a loss. It is a good deal to use those poisonous powers to exchange for a huge protection network so that he can get rid of his desolation and become rich for a lifetime.

Facts have proved everything. Among the books of kings written by descendants of the Ryukyu royal family in later generations, King Shangtai was praised the most.

When King Shangtai was alive, he was jointly rated by the global media as the monarch who was most in line with the historical trend in the feudal era. King Shangtai later became an example of the bloodless movement in the hearts of young people who were free and democratic.

Which king in the world is willing to give up his power? And King Shangtai did it, which provides a very perfect example of the transformation of later dynasties to other political systems.

Whether or not other countries learn or not is their business, but this precedent appears, just like a beacon that will shine on human history books.

King Shangtai's influence is not only that. Since King Shangtai has received huge financial support from the Yinlong Plan, he can use the funds to do his favorite adventure career.

During Xiao Letian and Zaichun's trip to Europe, along the way from Ryukyu to the Suez Canal, King Shangtai's Adventure King sailed with the large army formation until the Nile River entered the sea.

Just when Xiao Letian and Zaichun swept the headlines of European newspapers and magazines, and when the flames of the Franco-Prussian War were simmering, King Shangtai was exposed to a huge upset in Egypt.

An expedition team built by him heavily, found a treasure-hidden room in the Khufu pyramid, and a mysterious imperial valley in the desert with yellow sand... In just half a year, King Shangtai had as many as twelve archaeological discoveries, and the number of ancient Egyptian cultural relics was excavated was as high as 1,100.

At that time, the British Empire Museum quickly contacted King Shangtai and tried to buy these cultural relics with a lot of money. Unfortunately, King Shangtai had too much money and had no place to spend it, so he didn't care about the price offered by the British.

More than 1,100 cultural relics were transported to Ryukyu and eventually became precious collections in the Prime Minister's Museum, while one-third were used to exchange Chinese cultural relics with the UK. At that time, there were not many Chinese cultural relics preserved in Britain and the loss was not that serious.

The great discovery in Egypt was just the beginning. Later, King Shangtai was invited by the Queen of England to become an honorary student at the Bridge and Oxford University, and was free to attend any course.

Three years of hard work allowed his knowledge to grow rapidly, and his attainments in ancient human history were particularly amazing. In the fourth year, he became an honorary professor and published ancient cultural works such as "Morning of the Nile River" and "History of the Cultural Heritage of Ancient Ryukyu".

A king quickly became a world-class scholar, and universities in Europe and the United States all offered olive branches to hope that King Shangtai could come to their school to study and teach.

But Adventure King's heart will not be bound by the classroom. In the fifth year of his college life, the Super Adventure King customized at Armstrong Shipyard in the UK was finally launched and the first voyage was successfully launched.

This is a giant ironclad ship with a displacement of 20,000 tons. It is specially customized for King Shangtai's adventure. It uses dual power of sails and steam turbines. The hull has a certain ice-breaking ability. The sailors are full of 980 people, including 300 ship operators, and the rest are members of the expedition team.

When the Super Adventure King appeared at the mouth of the Thames, the whole of London was shocked. Ships of this size were already comparable to large battleships at that time, and it was the first time that someone had made such a big deal for the adventure.

At that time, London was crowded with people, and major European media reported on King Shangtai's big moves. There were more than 100 scientists requesting to join the expedition team at that time.

The Super Adventure King was basically the peak of the British shipbuilding industry at that time. After three months of traveling to Europe, this expedition ship went straight to Asia after gaining countless envious gazes, crossed the Indian Ocean and began the most detailed scientific investigation of Australia.

For a whole year, King Shangtai had a more detailed Australian topographic map than the British, and the British didn't know many islands and reefs.

Even King Shangtai discovered the super large iron ore in the unmanned land of western Australia, which is the rich mine area where Rio Tinto and BHP started in later generations.

Of course, such a treasure has to be dedicated to the Chinese. The Super Adventure King set out to enter Nanyang. After being welcomed by millions of people in the Lion City, he headed north and returned to Naha.

Unofficial history rumored that the Australian mineral treasure map doubled the dividend income of King Shangtai in the Hidden Dragon Plan, and he also brought a complete set of construction drawings for the Super Adventure King.

The drawings weighing 120 kilograms have overcome 214 important technical difficulties for the Chinese shipbuilding industry. It was from that time that the Chinese shipbuilding industry began to flourish.

King Shangtai has become a world legend in the late 19th and early 20th century. His Adventure King was the first expedition ship to sail around Antarctica. King Shangtai also successfully became an explorer who climbed Antarctica and advanced a hundred kilometers to the heart of the mainland.

Regarding the inspection of Brazil's tropical rainforests, King Shangtai invested 16 expeditions, with a total investment of 3.59 million silver dollars. Africa is one of his most important destinations, and the investment in Africa's scientific research funds reaches one million yuan every year.

Until the end, King Shangtai was no longer taking risks alone. He even set up an adventurer company to help many scientists and expedition teams through investment. At the same time, he had the first right to use all the adventure gains.

For example, the crystal skull in the Mayan pyramids in Central America was discovered by an adventure team invested by King Shangtai. Finally, according to the previous agreement, the Prime Minister's Museum acquired the crystal skull with the first priority, completely ignoring the angry curse of other European colleagues.

The image of King Shangtai became increasingly mysterious. People gradually forgot his original halo, but only remembered his titles of anthropologist, historian, archaeologist, etc.

Until King Shangtai died, his various biographies and various versions of bizarre legends actually formed the Adventure King myth, and he became the longest mysterious figure in human books and film and television works.
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