Crossing a Thousand Years (Part 2)

"1100 AD?"

"The Northern Song?"

Hearing Zhu Qizhen's words, Zhang Ying and Wang Tong both froze.

As mentioned earlier, although Zhang Ying wasn't much of a history buff, after being bombarded with all kinds of videos for so long, she had picked up some basic historical knowledge.

For example, when the Northern Song fell.

The young woman lightly rubbed her chin and said to Zhu Qizhen:

"Mister Zhu, if I remember correctly, the Northern Song fell not long after 1100 AD, didn't it? The Jingkang humiliation was in the twenties, wasn't it?"

"Mm, you remember correctly."

Zhu Qizhen quickly nodded, confirming what Zhang Ying had said:

"The Jingkang Incident happened in 1126, just twenty-six years from now. To put it loosely, less than thirty years."

"To put it plainly, it's just one page-turn in a history book."

Twenty-six years.

That wasn't exactly a short time, but it wasn't that long, either.

Take the present day, for example.

Twenty-six years before 2024 was 1998. That year, the national football team lost 2–3 to Qatar on a rainy night in the final round of the World Cup qualifiers, missing out on a place in the tournament. Lao Rong wrote an article titled Dalian Jinzhou Doesn't Believe in Tears, and many fans still remembered it to this day.

Of course.

Compared with 1998, more people probably remembered 2001 and 2002.

China joined the WTO, the national football team made its first World Cup appearance, the Twin Towers were attacked on 9/11, and there was the SARS outbreak that year. All of that had happened just twenty-three or twenty-four years ago.

For a country, twenty-six years really wasn't much.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ying couldn't help looking around the courtyard again.

Unlike other dynasties in history, the Northern Song's fall, despite all its internal