Blue Star, the Yanhuang Empire.
A month had passed since the last grand celebration.
Today was the moment the war began.
Ye Chen stood on a high platform with his hands behind his back, dressed in a black Star Robe. He looked down at the seemingly endless ranks of soldiers stretching as far as the eye could see.
In the distance were several hundred Kunpeng Fighters, with the pilots standing ready beside them.
At that moment, the commanders of the forces below were giving speeches to boost morale. Ye Chen did not need to say much. As the emperor and the sole god of the Yanhuang Empire, merely standing there was the greatest encouragement he could give the soldiers.
Could they not see how the soldiers below listened to their commanders while gazing at Ye Chen with fervent eyes?
At last, under the crowd's feverish gazes, Ye Chen gave a brief conclusion.
"A thousand days of training are meant for one moment of use. Now that war is about to begin, the glory and might of the empire..."
"Clatter!!"
As Ye Chen's voice fell, the endless ranks of soldiers dropped to one knee in perfect unison.
"For the glory of the empire, we shall die for the Emperor!!"
"Gentlemen, draw your swords!!"
"Shing!!"
"Fight! Fight!! Fight!!!"
As the long swords left their sheaths, their battle spirit surged into the heavens, and killing intent filled the air.
"Good. That is the battle spirit I want."
Looking at the people below, whose battle spirit soared into the sky, Ye Chen was deeply satisfied.
Soon afterward, the fighters roared into the air and flew toward the empire's borders, preparing for the campaign ahead.
For this war, Ye Chen's first choice was the nearest continental region surrounding him. Several countries were located there, and he would destroy them first.
Although he very much wanted to cross the ocean and attack China, which was now in the late Ming period, he knew that the people there were different from those elsewhere. The main difference lay in their way of thinking.
The people there were extremely hostile to outsiders and placed great importance on bloodline legitimacy.
They could fight among themselves, because if one traced their ancestry back several thousand years, they all shared the same ancestor. They were one family. Thus, no matter how fiercely they fought, it was merely internal strife within their own household.
But outsiders could not attack them. If outsiders dared to do so, they would instantly abandon their internal conflicts and unite. Like a pack of enraged wolves, they would tear a piece of flesh from their enemy even if it cost them their lives.
The people of that land also revered fighting to the death, refusing to retreat, taking their enemies down with them, and dying on the battlefield.
They were not like those foreign barbarians who would raise their hands and surrender without hesitation the moment they realized they could not win.
Therefore, if Ye Chen wanted China to become part of the Yanhuang Empire, he had to find a legitimate identity. In other words, he had to find himself an ancestor.
Only then would they regard him as one of their own rather than an invading enemy.
Fortunately, he was originally Chinese himself and did not reject the idea of finding an ancestor. Although his ancestor belonged to the China of his previous life, who would know if he did not tell them that his ancestor came from China in another world?
Moreover, the people of the Yanhuang Empire he had established were all Native Americans with yellow skin, black eyes, and black hair. These Native Americans were themselves descendants of people who had crossed the sea during the Shang period.
Thus, whether in appearance or bloodline, the Yanhuang Empire and China were one family.
Their union would be national unification—a perfectly justifiable act.
As for the claim that the Native Americans had crossed the sea from China, Ye Chen had already discovered it when he subdued the Native American tribes. Their customs, tools, language, and much of the information passed down through the generations had all evolved from Chinese culture.
For example, many of the pottery pieces used by the Native Americans were carved with taotie and cloud patterns. These designs were identical to the patterns on the ritual bronzes of China's Shang and Zhou periods.
The characters they used were also oracle-bone script and bronze inscriptions, the primary writing systems of the Shang and Zhou periods.
All these traces proved that the ancestors of these people had come from China.
Otherwise, how could there be so many coincidences in the world? They all had yellow skin, dark eyes, and black hair, and even their written characters and drawings were so similar.
Three months later.
In western South America were the continent's only two empires: the Inca Empire, founded by the local Incas, and the Holy Land Andes Empire, founded by the Spanish.
According to history, the Spanish overseas colonists would originally have established an empire in North America. Unfortunately, Ye Chen had arrived in North America first and had long since regarded it as the territory of the Yanhuang Empire.
Thus, when the original group of Spanish arrived, they discovered the existence of the Yanhuang Empire.
At the time, those people still dared to look down on the Yanhuang Empire and tried to deceive Ye Chen.
When Ye Chen saw their arrogant faces and realized that they regarded him as an uncivilized native, he was almost laughing with anger.
So he could not be bothered to play games with those arrogant idiots and simply ordered his people to slaughter them.
As for the survivors, after hearing what had happened, they fled far away from the Yanhuang Empire in terror.
Because of this, Ye Chen classified the Spanish who were incompatible with the people of the Yanhuang Empire as foreign barbarians and prohibited them from entering imperial territory.
That was also why, when Angel Chase arrived in the imperial capital, she was reported as a foreigner, which led to the city guards arresting her.
After escaping, the remaining Spanish mixed with the Native Americans who had not yet been subdued.
At the same time, they sent messages to Spanish overseas colonists in other regions, asking them to gather and unite against Ye Chen, the tyrant and native.
The outcome was obvious. Ye Chen had never taken them seriously. Over the years, the soldiers stationed at the empire's borders had beaten those Spanish like dogs.
Furthermore, whenever they were captured, they were slaughtered on the spot. There was never a second possible outcome.
As the Yanhuang Empire rapidly expanded outward, those people retreated again and again, fleeing farther and farther until they finally reached the Inca Empire in western South America.
While causing trouble, they also established a country near the Inca Empire called the Holy Land Andes Empire, clashing with the Inca Empire from time to time.
Moreover, because of Ye Chen, these people deeply hated the Incas, who had the same yellow skin. Whenever they captured an Inca, they subjected them to the harshest punishment.
As a result, after one conflict followed another, the Inca Empire and the Holy Land Andes Empire became sworn enemies. However, relying on firearms, the Holy Land Andes Empire beat the Inca Empire like dogs.
They vented all the humiliation and hatred they had suffered at the hands of the Yanhuang Empire on the Inca Empire.
It had to be said that the butterfly effect caused by Ye Chen's arrival had changed the entire situation in North and South America.
It had driven the Spanish, who should have established a country in North America, all the way to South America. It had also caused the Inca Empire, which should have fallen in the sixteenth century, to end its internal conflicts and unite against an external enemy under the pressure of the Holy Land Andes Empire, allowing the empire to survive until the present.
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