Sky Curtain: The opening scene explains the four major cases of the Ming Dynasty plus the early Ming

Khazars!

When those two words were uttered from Judy Jun's mouth once again, an invisible chill instantly enveloped all of time and space.

If the speculation about the "Yang family of Hongnong" brings people a sense of awe and dread regarding the ancient aristocratic families, then...

Therefore, the name "Khazar" evokes a deep-seated fear of the unknown and evil!

That is a ghost that has been lurking in the shadows since the very beginning of Chinese civilization, constantly trying to erode, subvert, and destroy this great civilization!

Now, this ghost might actually be directly equated with Yang Shiqi, the most powerful of the Three Yangs who held immense power in the court!

Everyone's breathing stopped.

They waited, waiting for the crucial chain of evidence that would connect everything.

Above the sky, Judy Jun's face was shrouded in shadow, except for his eyes, which shone frighteningly bright.

"Family members, before I make my second hypothesis, I need to introduce a person, or rather, a family."

Screen switch.

A portrait of an ancient person appeared in the sky.

He was a man with deep-set eyes and a high nose, bearing distinctly exotic features. He was dressed in luxurious silk, yet his eyes revealed the shrewdness of a merchant and the ruthlessness of a tyrant.

Below the portrait is his name.

【Pu Shougeng】

And his shocking biography.

Pu Shougeng, a descendant of Arabs, was the largest maritime merchant in Quanzhou from the late Southern Song Dynasty to the early Yuan Dynasty. He rose to the position of Pacification Commissioner of Fujian and Guangdong, controlling the Quanzhou Maritime Trade Office for thirty years, monopolizing trade in the South China Sea, and becoming incredibly wealthy.

At the end of the Song Dynasty, Pu Shougeng possessed thousands of ships and tens of thousands of soldiers, establishing a separatist regime in Quanzhou. When the Song emperors Zhao Shi and Zhao Bing fled south to Quanzhou, they sought to borrow his fleet and wealth to resist the Yuan Dynasty, but Pu Shougeng refused to grant them entry.

[Later, in order to pledge allegiance to the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, he carried out a large-scale massacre of over three thousand members of the Southern Song imperial family, officials, and Huai soldiers within the city of Quanzhou. Blood flowed like rivers, and corpses piled up like mountains.]

Because of their merit in "defending Quanzhou and killing members of the imperial clan," after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the Pu family continued to control trade along the southeastern coast, becoming even more powerful than before and the largest Semu (Central Asian) maritime merchant group in the Yuan Dynasty.

boom!!!

When the words on the screen were clearly visible to everyone.

In the Song Dynasty era, whether it was the Southern Song court, which was confined to a corner of the country, or the heroic spirits of the Northern Song Dynasty that had long since perished, at this moment, they all erupted with boundless hatred and rage!

Lin'an Imperial Palace.

Emperor Gaozong of Song, Zhao Gou, looked at the sky...

Upon seeing the words "massacred more than 3,000 members of the Southern Song imperial family," he trembled with rage and spat out a mouthful of blood!

"You beast! You beast!!!"

He pointed at Pu Shougeng on the sky, looking like a madman, "I shouldn't have trusted those Semu merchants in the first place! I shouldn't have let them control the Maritime Trade Office! I've raised a tiger to cause trouble! I've raised a tiger to cause trouble!"

Cliff Mountain.

The spirits of Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie, and others who had just jumped into the sea and died for their country, seeing this scene, were filled with rage and let out a silent roar!

They remembered!

I remembered the tightly closed city gate under the walls of Quanzhou back then!

He recalled how that last hope had been ruthlessly extinguished by this foreign merchant!

The Song Dynasty they protected with their lives was ultimately betrayed by their own people—no, by an "outsider" whom they had once relied on immensely and who had bestowed upon them unparalleled wealth and power.

This overwhelming hatred reached its peak in the Hongwu era!

Inside the Hongwu Hall.

As Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Pu Shougeng's portrait, at his "achievements" of slaughtering Song imperial relatives and currying favor with the Yuan Dynasty, the murderous intent in his bloodshot eyes had become tangible.

He remembered.

After he established the Ming Dynasty, he issued an order.

"The remnants of the Pu family shall be imprisoned for life, forbidden from studying, forbidden from holding office, and their descendants shall be relegated to the lowest social class for generations to come!"

At the time, many ministers did not understand why the emperor would issue such a ruthless order to a Yuan dynasty family that had already been destroyed.

Now they understand!

Mao Xiang stood beside Zhu Yuanzhang and felt a chill run from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.

He heard their emperor speak slowly, in a tone devoid of any emotion:

"Back then... we didn't kill enough."

"We only wiped out their people, but we didn't eradicate their roots!"

"We thought that by demoting them to the lowest social class, they would never be able to rise again."

"But we forgot that these maggots in the gutter are best at changing their appearance, about possessing another's body and being resurrected!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's gaze suddenly turned to the sky, staring intently at Zhu Dijun's figure, as if trying to see the final answer through the ages!

On the sky, Zhu Dijun's voice also turned as cold as iron at this moment.

"Family members, did you see that?"

"Pu Shougeng, and the Pu family behind him, are typical agents of the Khazars Group, as I mentioned before!"

"They entered China as merchants, taking advantage of our open and inclusive maritime policy to amass wealth and build their own power."

"When China was powerful, they were obedient subjects and major taxpayers."

"But if China is in trouble, when the old dynasty is about to collapse and a new order has not yet been established, they will not hesitate to bare their most ferocious fangs and deliver the most fatal blow to the mother country that has nurtured them for hundreds of years!"

"They will choose to cooperate with the most barbaric invaders, using the blood of their fellow Chinese to stain their own official hats, in exchange for the privilege of continuing to monopolize wealth in the new dynasty!"

"That's what they did from the Southern Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty!"

Zhu Dijun's voice suddenly rose, like a thunderclap!

"So, have you thought about this?"

"When the Yuan Dynasty collapsed, Zhu Yuanzhang, the iron-fisted nationalist emperor, launched a bloody purge and ruthless suppression of the Pu clan!"

"Would this enormous, incredibly wealthy family, with its intricate connections to the overseas Khazars Group, willingly accept its annihilation?"

"What will their remaining followers who escaped the pursuit do?"

"Would they willingly let the wealth and glory accumulated by their ancestors vanish into thin air?"

"No! They won't!"

Zhu Dijun suddenly waved his hand, and the images on the sky changed wildly!

The portraits of Pu Shougeng and Yang Shiqi are displayed side by side!

One was a wealthy Semu merchant who murdered his master for personal gain during the Yuan Dynasty!

One of them was the head of the civil officials who undermined imperial power in the Ming Dynasty!

"The second speculation is—"

Zhu Dijun's voice, like a judge's final verdict, was filled with an unquestionable resolve!

"The so-called 'Yang Shiqi' is not actually surnamed Yang at all!"

"He is a descendant of the Pu family who escaped the purge by the founding emperor!"

"After their annihilation, in order to evade persecution and rebuild their fortunes, their family changed their names and used vast sums of money to pave the way, fabricating a 'clean' Han Chinese identity!"

"They went from one extreme to the other!"

"Since their status as merchants can no longer guarantee their family's eternal prosperity, then they'll find another path!"

"They want to become scholars! To become officials! To become the rule-makers of this country!"

"They want to use 'sacred scriptures' as a cloak and 'serving the country and its people' as a disguise to completely control the country from within, from the highest levels!"

"Yang Shiqi is the one they chose and supported with the remaining power of their entire family—the Avenger and his proxy!"

"What he continued was not the glory of the Hongnong Yang clan, but the genes of betrayal and bloodthirstiness inherited from Pu Shougeng!"

"Everything he did—murdering the emperor, disrupting the government, lifting the maritime ban, condoning smuggling…"

"There is only one ultimate goal!"

"To avenge his family, which was exterminated by the Ming Dynasty's founding emperor!"

"And rebuild an ideal state like the Yuan Dynasty, where these 'agents' control the economic lifeline from behind the scenes, undermine imperial power, and drain the blood of the entire nation!"

After he finished speaking, all was silent!

This chain of logic is too complete! Too terrifying!

From motive to means to end, everything fits together perfectly!

If the first speculation was merely frightening...

This second speculation brings with it a chilling feeling and boundless killing intent!

It turns out that all of this was not just a struggle for interests.

It was also a blood feud that had lasted for hundreds of years and was irreconcilable!