Nanyang Heritage

(This story is purely fictitious! All plots related to the characters are fabricated, please do not take it seriously!) The sixteenth year of the Yongli calendar is one thousand six hundred and sixty-two years of the Western calendar. In June, news came from the east that Zheng Chenggong, the king of Yanping, died of illness in Taiwan. It took nearly two months for the news to reach Kunming. There was no sea route, so the messenger took the land route and traveled more than half of Yunnan before arriving. After Zheng Chenggong retreated to Taiwan, he had been plotting a comeback. He still had tens of thousands of people under his command, but he himself could not wait until that day. Before the news could be digested, another news came from the west - King Li Dingguo of Jin died of illness in Mengla. When Li Dingguo entered Myanmar, he brought thousands of soldiers and horses with him. After hearing that Emperor Yongli was strangled by Wu Sangui in Kunming, he became ill with grief and anger. He retreated all the way to Mengla, with only a few hundred people left by his side. Before he died, he left a message: "I would rather die in the wilderness than surrender." Two sources of news, one from the east and one from the west, tell the same thing. A word began to spread in the city: It's already dark. A scholar upstairs was flipping through old files. When he came to the word "Yongli", he paused and continued copying down without saying anything. At night, he took out a few booklets and sealed them in wooden boxes. What the booklets contained was not history, but the situation of mountains and rivers, ports and waterways, and the products of other countries. At the bottom of the box was a short knife. He closed the lid and blew out the lamp. There are two types of fire, one is swords and the other is books. Two hundred years later, both will ignite a prairie fire in Southeast Asia.