Sky Curtain: The Overlord Charges into Battle, Shocking Emperors of All Dynasties

"How dare you!!!!"

"presumptuous!!!"

"Arrogant!!!"

The sky was covered with dense text, among which a few lines stood out particularly, piercing the eyes of emperors, ministers, and Confucian scholars from various dynasties.

"Ingenious tricks and gimmicks!!! This nation is doomed!!!"

An elderly scholar in a Confucian robe, with a white beard and wrinkles around his eyes that could crush a fly, cried out loudly in a hoarse, aged voice.

He couldn't catch his breath and kept pounding his chest with his hands.

No matter how impressive or technologically advanced this bridge is,

In their eyes, it was nothing more than the work of a craftsman, a "strange skill and frivolous trick".

Nothing can compare to governing the world through literature, or the words of a sage!

"It's just a bridge that was built. A few craftsmen, do they even deserve to be hailed as 'Long Live the Emperor'?"

"They don't even deserve it?!"

"Even I dare not claim to be the Emperor for ten thousand years!"

In the emperor's eyes, craftsmen were nothing more than a bunch of peasants.

Building palaces for emperors and nobles is a blessing they could never enjoy in eight lifetimes. They should feel honored, not worthy of the title "Long Live the Emperor"!

The four large characters that followed were even more glaring.

What does "Long live the people" mean?

How dare they?! How dare they?!

Or rather, they didn't believe anyone would actually dare to say that.

Even knowing that there would be no emperors in later generations, there would always be replacements for emperors.

For thousands of years, Chinese history has been almost entirely a stage for kings, generals, and powerful families.

In the eyes of the ancients, the people, or rather the common folk, only needed to honestly farm, serve in the army, and pay taxes.

Do they even know what governing a country is? What contributions have they made to governing a country?

Han Dynasty

Liu Che stared at the four characters on the sky, his shock still lingering.

"Who on earth dares to say such a thing?"

"Isn't he afraid of being attacked by the masses and becoming isolated?"

Although ancient emperors were said to be "the lonely one" and "the widowed one," in reality, emperors never acted alone.

Perhaps they were civil officials, perhaps military generals, perhaps relatives of the emperor, or perhaps members of a prominent family.

But it has never been the people.

Liu Che, or rather, the emperors of ancient times, only cared about their own great achievements and their place in history.

As for the common people at the bottom of society, they don't care, or rather, they don't concern themselves with it.

Those are just sources of manpower and funds; as long as they don't rebel in the end, it's fine.

The benevolent rulers and emperors who loved their people like their own children, praised by many dynasties, but which people did they truly love?

When have the common people ever truly been seen?

Ming Dynasty

Upon seeing these words on the sky, Zhu Yuanzhang reacted even more violently, angrily throwing the jade ruyi in his hand to the ground.

"How could such absurd words appear so openly in later generations!"

"Isn't this exactly what that old man Mencius said?!"

"The people are the people, and the ruler is the ruler. How can the people be above the ruler?!"

"Outrageous and absurd words!!"

Zhu Biao listened to his father's words with mixed feelings, and seemed to disagree with them.

He naturally disagreed with his father's words, but as a son, he knew his father's temperament.

No one could persuade him otherwise, not even his own mother could change his mind on this matter.

"The imperial harem must not interfere in politics!"

Zhu Biao sighed, thinking to himself:

Father, you always told us about the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty and how tragic our family's situation was.

But after becoming emperor, Father seemed to have forgotten...

He used to be a commoner, the same "Qianshou" he always referred to!

...

And each dynasty

Craftsmen, tenant farmers, peddlers, servants, hunters, and so on.

Those who had been reduced to dust by the words of the emperor, who sat high above them on the palace steps, were now weeping.

"Long live the workers!"

"Long live the people!"

These few Chinese characters rushed into their eyes, causing a great stir in their minds and igniting a burning passion within them.

This seemed to be the first time they had been seen, the first time they had been cared for.

They couldn't understand the structure of that bridge in the sky, nor could they understand its impact on the country.

But there's one thing they understand.

It seems that this bridge was built specifically for these common people.

On the screen above, in the comments section,

The mountains are high, the waters are swift, but beyond the mountains are the people, beyond the waters are the common folk.

Follow-up comment: The entire project took less than four years to complete and cost approximately 22 billion yuan. There were zero accidents and zero casualties during the entire project.

Follow-up comment: Just think about the construction projects in ancient times; every time, tens of thousands of people would die.

Zero casualties?

How is that possible?!

When Li Shimin saw this, his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. He paced back and forth, his mind far from calm.

"Such a high level of difficulty, yet there were zero casualties!"

"Are the technologies developed by craftsmen really that important and advanced?"

Li Shimin began to doubt whether his strategy was flawed and whether he should improve the treatment and status of artisans.

He really wanted that kind of technology on the dome, especially that thing called concrete.

"Brother, we really can't build this bridge, it's too difficult."

"Have you finished eating? Was the cured meat delicious?"

"It's delicious, bro, why are you saying this?"

"This is cured meat that the children climbed over four mountains to get, something they only get to eat during festivals. Go tell the children that this bridge can't be built."

Follow-up comment: Damn it, fix it!!

Follow-up comment: Looking at the faces of the villagers, how could you say such a thing?

Construction team: When we get to the design institute, we'll beat up anyone we see, even the dogs!

Design Institute: Hehe (bruised and battered), if you can fight, it means there's room for negotiation and repairs!

Follow-up comment: Being able to fight shows competence; the worst thing is sitting there without saying a word.

Upon seeing the words on the sky, some people even closed their eyes and immersed themselves in the story.

Looking at the expectant eyes of the people and children, who held in their hands the cured meat they usually couldn't bear to eat,

The moment the words "cannot be repaired" were uttered...

That anticipation, that fervent hope, was extinguished instantly, as if doused with a bucket of cold water.

Although her eyes were full of disappointment, she forced herself to comfort him, repeatedly saying, "It's okay!"

No way, who could stand it!

We'd have to fix it too if we were in that situation!

In some dynasties, the focus was on the objects appearing on the bridge in the image.

"What is that? It looks like a box and it moves incredibly fast!!"

"It looks like a horse-drawn carriage, but where are the horses?"

"What exactly makes this move? Is it some kind of machine? What should it be called?"

"I know, what you hold in your hand is called a cell phone, what can fight is called a fighter jet, and this thing can run, so it must be called a runway aircraft!!"

One person spoke with absolute certainty, utterly certain of their answer.

After careful consideration, those around the speaker found this answer to be perfectly appropriate.

"That makes sense!!"

"If we could have one of these runways, wouldn't we be able to go wherever we want?!"

"Do we even have something like that?"

The man quietly pointed to the sky.

"The emperor and his ministers haven't said anything yet!"

Just as he expected, the appearance of this thing once again aroused envy among the emperor and his ministers. If they had this thing, wouldn't they be able to go wherever they wanted?

Wouldn't that make the army's logistics and food transportation much more convenient?

Late Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms

"Brother, if we had this, transporting grain could be completed in just a few days, and we'd never have to worry about logistics again!"

Zhang Fei was an impatient man, and he hurriedly said to Liu Bei, his tone revealing without any attempt to conceal that this thing was of great military use!

Liu Bei nodded repeatedly after hearing this, without replying.

Instead, she turned her head, blinked her big eyes, and looked at Zhuge Liang.

Although there were no words, Zhuge Liang could clearly see the meaning in those eyes:

Strategist, I want this!

Zhuge Liang lowered his eyes, shook his feather fan, and sighed.

He doesn't know this either!

The gentle breeze from the feather fan seemed to bring inspiration.

and many more!

Zhuge Liang had an idea: although it was impossible to make it exactly as it appeared on the sky, it was possible to imitate it.

It's just four wheels, can you put anything on it?

Zhuge Liang gradually formed an idea and a plan in his mind.

He planned to create two types of grain transport machines modeled after the celestial canopy.

I've already decided on a name.

One type is called the Wooden Ox, and the other is called the Flowing Horse!