The documents from the Old Imperial Household's Grand Secretariat archive and the Veritable Records Repository had all been gathered in one place.
Chen Chuan had arranged for three Active Consciousness Entities here. Mu Xiaoren had provided two of them, while the third was a large Active Consciousness Entity temporarily requisitioned from the military.
They would scan and categorize all the archives, especially the books and documents frequently consulted by the emperors of the old dynasty.
Naturally, the focus was on the period after they had relocated to the Nether Capital.
During the scanning process, Chen Chuan noticed several rather important clues.
One was that Emperor Quan, the great-grandfather of Emperor Wenguang, had left behind a collection of books that every future heir to the imperial throne was required to read, collectively known as the Imperial Edict Record.
Emperor Quan had been the second emperor after entering the Convergence Zone. He had been a capable ruler, and it was he who had stabilized the End Dynasty's rule within the Convergence Zone.
Great Shun had not refrained from attempting invasions, but with his outstanding diplomatic and military abilities, as well as the aid of the Ancient Deities and certain members of the Xuan Sect and Zen Sect, he had successfully held back Great Shun's advancing armies.
The strategic standoff against the various Central Cities, as well as the enfeoffment of the Convergence Zone's feudal lords, had all been accomplished by him alone.
During his reign, the End Dynasty's territory in the Convergence Zone had not only failed to shrink, but had expanded considerably deeper within. Without him, the End Dynasty could never have established itself firmly in the Convergence Zone.
History was truly strange. It was like a rebound after hitting rock bottom. Nearly every regime that retreated into the Convergence Zone