As the sun set, its final rays fell upon the Pantheon's enormous concrete dome. The armoured infantry of the Han Empire were already stationed in the corridors; the air was thick with the odours of gunpowder and ancient stone. The remnants of the Senate trembled on the ground, holding their breath as they awaited the flames that would consume the symbols of Western civilisation.
Gripping the Dingqin Sword, Liu Xun ascended the marble steps one by one.
'Your Majesty, the oil is ready. With just your nod, this lair of the Old Gods, harbouring the remnants of the 'Reformers', will be reduced to ruins within three-quarters of an hour.' Gongshu Qi held up a torch, his eyes gleaming with the fervour of a conqueror.
Liu Xun stopped before the towering Corinthian column and reached out to touch the battle scars on its surface, activating Supreme Tolerance: Civilisation Devourer.
'Burn it?' Liu Xun chuckled, his voice echoing in the empty hall. 'Gongshu Qi, the lowest form of conquest is the destruction of the body; the middle form, the destruction of buildings. But the highest form of conquest is the rewriting of its essence.' He snatched the torch, but instead of throwing it into the hall, he casually extinguished it in the rain gutters.
'Issue my decree: This place will no longer be used to worship these empty gods. From this day forward, it will be renamed the Great Han Province Shrine of Sages.'
Following Liu Xun's order, the engineering corps sprang into action. The Olympian statues, symbols of the 'Revisers'' will, were moved to the crypt and replaced with bronze statues of Confucius, Lao Tzu, Lu Ban and the mechanical craftsmen who sacrificed their lives in the Great Han Industrial Revolution.
The Latin eulogy before the hall was chiselled away and replaced with Liu Xun's own handwritten Ode to Civilisation and Great Harmony in the style of the Han dynasty, deeply engraved into the stone wall.
[Cultural Takeover] The centre of the hall was no longer an altar, but rather a slowly rotating miniature solar system zodiacal instrument, showcasing the power of science to the world.
Roman scholars and priests looked up tremblingly, expecting to see scriptures being burned. Instead, they found Han scholars meticulously annotating tattered ancient texts with brushes.
'Your gods are not dead; they have merely abdicated,' said Liu Xun, looking at the old scholars. His tone was calm yet domineering. 'I have compiled the history of this entire peninsula into the Han dynasty's Treatise on Literature: Western Regions. From this day forward, your epics are merely a prelude to Han civilisation.'
[System Cultural Module: Civilisation Assimilation]
Activation effect: Resistance in the Roman region decreases by 85%.
Attribute: [Cultural Pride] is converted to [Han Citizen's Honour].
Evaluation: You didn't kill their souls; you merely gave them a new dragon robe.
As night fell, thousands of arc lamps suddenly lit up the millennia-old doors of the Pantheon.
A blinding beam of light shot straight into the sky from the pores of the dome, like a divine pillar reaching to the heavens — a more awe-inspiring sight to the Roman commoners than any miracle. Liu Xun stood on the brightly lit steps, receiving the heartfelt adoration of tens of thousands of Romans. This was not kneeling before a butcher, but surrendering to 'light and civilisation'.
Standing atop the Pantheon, Liu Xun gazed up at the full moon, its far side pulsing increasingly rapidly. Clearly, the true form of the 'Corrector' had sensed that Liu Xun had 'overturned the chessboard' on Earth — even the table itself.
[System Announcement] Achievement Completed: [All Things Return to Han – Ultimate Takeover of Civilisation]
Judgement: Earth civilisation has officially entered the 'unipolar integration' stage.
Unlocked rewards: Earth-Moon Lagrange Point Space Station Design Blueprint, Antimatter Annihilation Bomb Prototype
Liu Xun gently stroked the cold stone wall of the Pantheon and whispered coldly into deep space: 'Corrector, I have dismantled the divine thrones on Earth. Next, I will go to the Moon and dismantle your so-called 'divine throne' as well.'
Following the Pantheon's change of allegiance, the remaining Roman forces, exiled to an Atlantic island, surrendered to the Han envoy. From the bell towers of Chang'an to the fog of London, from the permafrost of Siberia to the Cape of Good Hope, the black flag bearing a red dragon was raised in administrative centres across three continents.
Standing beneath the Pantheon's dome, Liu Xun felt the long-dormant system in his mind suddenly erupt with a blinding golden light, like a collapsing star.
[System Global Notification: Ultimate Milestone Achieved! Achievement Name: Universal Unity — Lord of the Old World'.
Civilisation assessment: For the first time in human history, absolute political unification has been achieved across oceans, races and geopolitics.
Reward distribution: Initial establishment of a global communication network.
Technological supplements: Submarine cable laying technology, medium-wave encrypted broadcast matrix, primary ionospheric reflection communication theory
Liu Xun took a deep breath. He could feel an invisible bond growing rapidly within the very fabric of the planet beneath his feet as the system's rewards were distributed.
'Your Majesty! Look!' Gongshu Qi stumbled into the hall, clutching a Morse code message that he had just received from the port of Rome — a greeting from the Weiyang Palace in Chang'an, twelve thousand miles away.
With the system's immense power, the tens of thousands of kilometres of submarine cables pre-buried by the Han Dynasty's engineering corps were instantly activated, connecting the Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans like nerve fibres.
The giant antenna array atop the Tower of Babel in Chang'an began to emit a low-frequency rumble — the ionosphere was repeatedly folded as radio waves surged into the atmosphere, transmitting Liu Xun's every decree in real time to every province in the world.Previously, it took six months for a message to travel from Rome to Chang'an — enough time for a rebellion to rage across half a province. But now, Liu Xun sat at his desk in the Pantheon, gently tapping the telegraph machine.
'Beep, beep, tap — Imperial decree: Order the Egyptian province to allocate three million shi of aged grain to support the mining areas of the Gaul province. Order the Chang'an Academy of Sciences to transmit the liquid oxygen purification plan to twelve space bases worldwide via encrypted radio immediately.'
Just five minutes later, officials on the banks of the Nile received instructions bearing the imperial seal and electronic encoding. This 'instant sovereignty' transformed the Han Empire from a loosely organised conqueror into a precisely coupled industrial giant. In order to win the hearts and minds of people across Eurasia and Africa, Liu Xun initiated a 'global brainwashing matrix'.
In the central square of each province, a 'giant crystal radio and megaphone' manufactured by the Han dynasty was erected. Every morning, accompanied by the solemn 'Qin King's Battle Music', standard Guanzhong Mandarin (the national language of the Han dynasty) would resound across the pyramids, Greek theatres and English beaches.
'This is the Central People's Broadcasting Station of the Great Han Dynasty, now broadcasting His Majesty's words: 'Science is the primary productive force, and the Great Han is the only civilisation.'" The moment the global communication network shut down, a blood-red countdown appeared in the top right corner of the system interface.
[System Warning: High-dimensional interference detected! Reason: The electromagnetic field generated by the global communication network has disturbed the Corrector's fundamental observation frequency.'
Lunar status: Large-scale mass migration has been detected, and the energy response in the dark areas on the far side of the Moon has increased by 400%.
Liu Xun emerged from the Ancestral Shrine and gazed at the cold, clear moon in the sky, revealing a haughty sneer. Whispering into the radio transmitter behind him, he said, 'Gongshu Qi, tell all the people of the Great Han Dynasty that matters on Earth have been resolved. All factories are now operating at full capacity. Before the moon opens its mouth to swallow us, I will smash its teeth with electromagnetic railguns!'
The Great Han "Cultural and Educational Bureau" was officially established on the site of the former Library of Alexandria. Recognising that linguistic unification was key to eliminating resistance, Liu Xun activated the 'Advanced Language Affinity' system, abolishing Latin grammar and implementing Chinese characters as the sole language for global scientific research and administration. Addressing the Senate, he said, "Want to learn advanced physics? Start with 'horizontal and vertical strokes'!"
Using the movable type printing presses provided by the system, hundreds of millions of copies of the Great Han Dictionary were distributed worldwide. While Roman youths began writing 'Heaven and Man's Era' with brushes, the fragmented epics of the West were rapidly being formatted by the rigorous logic of Chinese characters.
In the heart of Rome, the Great Han Royal Mint – Branch Factory was officially established, its high-pressure hydraulic presses roaring. Each new Wuzhu coin gleamed with the cold light of an alloy, its edges engraved with miniature gear patterns to prevent counterfeiting. The Great Han government announced the abolition of all gold and silver coins, mandating that they be pegged to the Great Han credit Wuzhu coin. Utilising a central bank credit model, Liu Xun controlled the money supply, instantly concentrating global wealth in Chang'an and rendering centuries of accumulated Western noble gold worthless.
When merchants discovered that these copper coins could be exchanged for soap, sugar and antibiotics at the Great Han Supply and Marketing Cooperative, they became their sole 'god'.
Massive titanium alloy plates inscribed with articles were affixed to the stone pillars of the Pantheon (Great Han Ancestral Temple). This was the culmination of Liu Xun's work, combining the Qin Law, modern civil codes and industrial conventions from the system's database. It transcended all national traditions and religious rules, establishing the legal code that 'under the heavens, all laws are Han law'.
The principle of "equality before the law for all Han citizens" was established, turning the former lower classes into the most fervent supporters of the code. Great Han armoured command vehicles carrying judges toured the globe using the 'Logic Analyser' (a piece of advanced technology) to end millennia of tribal blood feuds.
Liu Xun erected a one-metre-long platinum pole on the banks of the Seine and promoted the units of measurement of the Han Dynasty — jin, liang, chi and cun — globally. Without a unified system of weights and measures, there can be no standardised parts. Liu Xun sneered, 'If a screw can't be tightened, it's unconstitutional.' Factories worldwide were required to produce according to the millimetre-level dimensional standards of the Han Dynasty. Due to the unification of global physical constants and the resulting rewards for prototypes of precision CNC machine tools, Han Dynasty industry officially entered the 'Precision Era'.
The last psychological barrier to global unification crumbled when writing, currency, laws, and weights and measures were all unified into the Han system. Under the Han dynasty's education system, young people worshipped rockets that could fly and were fascinated by light bulbs that could emit light, while the altars of the old gods were covered in dust.
A huge red pop-up appeared on the system interface:
'Earth civilisation has completed unipolar formatting and has been judged a rebellious civilisation.' On the far side of the moon, the Cleaners' mothership has emerged from hibernation. The orbital cannon's charging countdown has begun: 72 hours.'
Liu Xun sat on the throne of a Roman provincial governor, playing with a five-zhu coin. He raised his head to look at the moon during the day, a cold glint in his eyes. 'Gongshuqi, forget the legal code. Bring out our atomic fission bombs. Now that the rules on Earth have been established, let's go to Heaven and inform those cleaners of the rules of the Great Han.'
As the last rays of sunlight faded over Rome, the true conquest had only just begun. On the site of the former Library of Alexandria, the enormous sign of the 'Great Han Cultural and Educational Administration' stood out starkly against the marble columns. Among the bookshelves, Liu Xun stood with his hands behind his back, casually tossing redundant and grammatically chaotic Latin scrolls into a nearby wastebasket as he flipped through them.
'Gongshuqi, this script, defined solely by letter combinations and pronunciation, cannot support the industrial future of the Great Han,' Liu Xun's voice echoed through the empty library. 'What I want is "dimensional reduction logic".'
[System Culture Plugin Activated: Advanced Civilization Resonance]
Core Logic: Chinese characters (ideographic script) possess extremely high information entropy and are capable of carrying massive amounts of physical and chemical instructions within a very short string of characters.
Dimensional Reduction Attribute: Eliminates ambiguity caused by regional accents in alphabetic scripts.
Judgement: Chinese characters are the only 'oracle' that enables millions of artisans in Eurasia and Africa to read the same precise blueprints without misinterpretation.
Emperor Liu Xun officially promulgated the 'Great Edict on Standardising the Written Language': From that day forward, Chinese characters became the sole official script across the entire territory of the Han Dynasty. All technical manuals, legal texts and factory canteen menus had to be written in Chinese.
In London, Paris, Cairo and Athens, tens of thousands of 'Han Dynasty Elementary Schools' sprang up.
Roman youths were no longer expected to memorise lengthy epics; instead, they held brushes and began copying characters, starting with 'one, two, three'.
[Benefit-driven integration] Emperor Liu Xun decreed that any young people from other ethnic groups who passed the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) Classical Chinese version would be exempt from one year of military service and given priority for government employment.
[Pinyin Boost] Using the 'Modern Chinese Pinyin Scheme', the 'right to use the written language', which had previously been monopolised by Western elites, was instantly made available to millions of ordinary people.
'If you were to write a "Self-Inspection Procedure for Steam Engine Boiler Pressure" in Latin, it would require ten parchment scrolls,' said Liu Xun, pointing to a huge rubbing of Chinese characters hanging on the wall. 'But with Chinese characters, only this one array of squares is needed.' The structural characteristics of Chinese characters were naturally suited to the standardised industrial management being promoted by the Han dynasty.
[Instructional]Up, down, left, right, dots, strokes — each radical is like a miniature logic gate.
Standardisation: When a Gallic miner could understand the four characters 'Caution: High Temperature", the industrial efficiency of the Han dynasty increased instantly by 300%. This was not merely a change of writing system, but a 'standardisation of civilisation'.
With the popularisation of Chinese characters, Western history began to be rewritten by Han dynasty historians. Greek mythology was dismissed as 'ancient and fantastical tales', and the rise and fall of Rome was incorporated into the 'Study of the Western Regions'.
Standing before the stele forest of the Ancestral Temple, Liu Xun watched craftsmen carve the Great Code in Chinese characters. He smiled calmly at Gongshu Qi behind him. 'Once they are accustomed to thinking in Chinese characters, they will never be able to return to that barbaric way of life. Even if they regain their independence a thousand years later, they will still be influenced by the logic of my civilisation.'
Just as the world's last phonetic library was being converted into a school for learning Chinese characters, the system interface suddenly started flashing red lights frantically.
[System Emergency Report]
Judgement: Earth's civilisation logic coupling degree has reached 99.9%!
Effect: Global consciousness has unified, generating a powerful 'civilisation force field'.
Negative impact: The monitoring station on the far side of the Moon has determined this logical unification to be an 'extremely dangerous civilisation leap', and its 'stellar core shockwave' transmitter has locked onto the coordinates of Chang'an.
Looking at the inkstones and brushes scattered on the ground, Liu Xun's eyes were as cold as knives: 'Gongshu Qi, you can put the brushes away now. Since cultural unification has bought us enough time, let's send the astronauts to the moon with these characters to write 'I was here'."
Although the war did not extinguish Rome's prosperity, the lifeblood of commerce — currency — was undergoing a silent 'great reshuffling'. Standing on the high platform of the newly built 'Great Han Royal Bank Mediterranean Branch', Liu Xun overlooked the long lines of Roman merchants filling the streets. They carried heavy gold and silver coins and unpolished gold nuggets. Their eyes were filled with fear and humility.
'Your Majesty, these are the first batch of "Global Version Wuzhu Coins".' Gongshu Qi handed over a coin that gleamed with a deep blue lustre. Unlike the hand-minted coins of the early Han dynasty, this Wuzhu coin utilised advanced techniques such as 'high-pressure hydraulic punching' and 'electrolytic refining of copper alloys'.
[Anti-Counterfeiting Hegemony] — The coin's edge is engraved with miniature geometric patterns that are only visible under a magnifying glass (laser-etched prototype).
[Standardisation] The weight error of each Wuzhu coin is controlled to within 0.01 grams.
[Face Value Lock-in]: Liu Xun abolished the traditional 'weight-based system' and promoted a 'credit-based system'. The Wuzhu coin was no longer merely copper; it was a physical extension of the Han Empire's national power.
Liu Xun also issued the globally shocking 'Gold and Silver Confiscation Compensation Order':
Abolition of old currency: Roman Aurelius and Dinar coins immediately lost their legal tender status.
- Mandatory Exchange: All precious metals held by the people had to be handed over within three months and exchanged for "Wuzhu coins" or "Han Jiaozi (paper money)" at the Han Empire's stipulated exchange rate.
- Exchange Rate Plunder: Liu Xun activated the 'Financial Trader' system plugin, setting the exchange rate between gold, silver, and Wuzhu coins at an extremely low level.
[System Statistics: Great Wealth Transfer]
Effect: By manipulating the exchange rate, the Han Empire acquired 70% of the wealth accumulated by the West over hundreds of years, without firing a single shot.
To facilitate large-scale trade, Liu Xun introduced the 'Han Global Exchange Certificate', printed on 'special wood pulp paper with an anti-counterfeiting watermark'.
'With this piece of paper, you can buy the finest silk in Chang'an and the cheapest grain in Egypt,' Liu Xun told the sceptical merchants. 'Its value doesn't depend on the paper itself, but on the strength of the Han dynasty. If I think it's worth a hundred gold coins, then it's worth a hundred gold coins.' When the first Roman merchant used this paper to purchase a shipload of essential steam pumps and antibiotics from a Han merchant, the concept of credit spread rapidly across the globe. Liu Xun established a globally unified central credit system.
Low-interest loans: He provided loans in five-zhu coins to large Western landowners who were willing to switch to industry and grain production.
After purchasing Han machinery and adopting Han technology, these large Western landowners found themselves earning endless "five-zhu coins" to repay the principal and interest.
Global Harvesting: The Han Dynasty only needed to adjust the 'interest rate' to make the labour force across Eurasia and Africa produce resources for the empire. Just as the global financial order was completely closed and the Wuzhu coin became the only hard currency on Earth, electromagnetic disturbances on the far side of the Moon reached their peak.
System warning: Judgement: Earth civilisation has completed the closed loop of 'economic integration'.
External interference detected: the 'cleaners' on the far side of the Moon believe this highly consistent economic cooperation model is a sign of 'Type III civilisation evolution' and have activated the 'mass projector'. The first wave of the attack is a metallic hydrogen meteorite, weighing tens of thousands of tons, hurtling towards Earth from the lunar surface. Its intended landing point is the headquarters of the Chang'an Royal Bank.
Standing by the window, Liu Xun caressed a cold Wuzhu coin and looked up with a cold laugh. 'Gongshu Qi, inform the Space Department that the "paying" meteorite has arrived. Activate the electromagnetic pulse array we set up in the Kunlun Mountains. Since they want to play hardball, I'll show them just how much 'interest' is hidden behind this Wuzhu coin.'
On the ruins of the Roman Senate, a new Supreme Court, constructed from black marble and refined steel, rose from the ground. Rather than holding a sword, Liu Xun pressed his hand on a massive book, a thousand pages thick, with a golden dragon and scales emblazoned on its cover — the Great Han Global Code. This was no ordinary stack of papers, but rather a 'civilisational operating system' created by Liu Xun using the system's computing power. It merged the strictness of Qin law, the ritualistic rule of Han law and the contractual logic of modern society.
'Your Majesty, the tribal chiefs of Gaul protest, saying that our execution of rapists violates their "ancestral laws"; the priests of Jerusalem also say that only God can judge believers.' Gongshu Qi, clutching a stack of protest documents, spoke with a grave expression.
Liu Xun sneered and activated Supreme Judge: Will of Order.
[System Legal Module: Social Formatting] Core Logic: All geographical traditions, religious precepts and tribal vigilante justice automatically become invalid before the Great Code.
Execution Capability: Equipped with 'Armoured Military Police Battalions' for global patrols. Wherever the Code extends, so does sovereignty.
Judgement: Low-entropy logic, such as 'blood revenge', is forcibly elevated to the high-entropy order of 'state prosecution'.
'Tell them,' Liu Xun's voice was broadcast globally via radio, 'that my code is the only "oracle" on this planet. Those who disobey need not go to see the gods; I will send them directly to hell.'
The first three chapters of the Great Code were inscribed on obelisks in the centre of every province.
The Sacred Decree of Private Property: established individual property rights, encouraged global merchants to invest in Han Dynasty industry and completely dismantled the feudal lord system.The Decree of Contract Obligation stipulated that those who breached it would face hefty fines and have their 'citizen rank' erased from the Han Dynasty's credit system. This would deprive them of the right to purchase cheap electricity and medicine.
* The Labour Protection Law stipulated daily working hours (initially 10 hours) and guaranteed basic wages. While this may seem benevolent, it was actually intended to ensure continuous production in global factories and prevent technological stagnation due to the resurgence of slavery.
To ensure the Code's deterrent effect, Liu Xun deployed the First-Generation Biometric Data Collection Device, a system reward. In courtrooms across the country, Han judges no longer listened to lengthy arguments; instead, they used the Skin Conductivity Lie Detector. 'Before the Code, lies had nowhere to hide.'
A Roman official attempting to embezzle funds allocated by the Han government for road construction collapsed to the ground amidst the piercing screeching of the lie detector. The surrounding nobles finally recognised a harsh reality: under the Han order, the 'leniency' and 'human touch' of the old era were dead; only cold algorithms and ironclad laws remained. With the implementation of the Code, global security improved significantly.
Trade dividends — because contracts were protected by law, caravans travelling from Chang'an to Rome no longer required private escorts, thereby reducing trade costs by 70%.
[Talent Attraction]: countless skilled technicians, oppressed in the old era, flocked to the Han provinces to seek the protection of the Great Code.
[Civilisation assimilation] When Western commoners became accustomed to 'seeking help from the circuit courts' rather than 'seeking help from their lords', the foundations of the old era's rule crumbled.
Just as Liu Xun signed the first 'Global Amnesty Decree', the air above the courtroom suddenly distorted.
[System Emergency Pop-up]
Judgement: Earth's civilisation has reached its lowest point of entropy in history, and order is approaching "Level Two Perfect Form".
Consequences: This highly organised civilisation is highly susceptible to a 'collective subconscious outburst', which could trigger an interstellar rebellion. Lunar far-side monitoring station response: Anomalies in gravitational waves have been detected inside the moon and the 'Crust Collapse Bomb' is in the final stages of guidance.
Liu Xun slowly closed the Great Code, looking up at the Supreme Courtroom, which was illuminated by order. His eyes burned with fanatical flames.
'Gongshu Qi, the last chapter of the code isn't finished yet. It's called "The Ultimate Judgement of the False God". Notify all 'Long March' rockets that the court has moved to the heavens. If the Moon wants to referee Earth, I'll sentence it to death first!"
If Chinese characters are the soul of civilisation and law is its skeleton, then the Han Empire's system of weights and measures is the 'genetic code' embedded in every machine, building and link in global trade.
Liu Xun stood before the newly built 'Han Dynasty Weights and Measures Bureau' on the banks of the Seine. Before him was a standard one-metre ruler, cast from meteorite iron and platinum, preserved in a vacuum glass case.
Previously, the Italian 'foot' depended on the foot length of the local lord, the Gaulish 'pound' fluctuated with the seasons, and the Egyptian 'liter' was hidden in the greedy sleeves of priests. This chaotic system of physical measurement severely hindered industrial development.
'Your Majesty, if the size of the parts depends entirely on the craftsman's whim, our steam engine will never be assembled in Rome,' said Gongshu Qi, pointing to a pile of gears that had been scrapped due to dimensional errors. His face was full of worry.
Liu Xun activated the system plugin, 'Absolute Precision: Industrial Standard': the core logic of which was to implement the Han dynasty's weights and measures system based on the decimal system.
Mandatory standards: Meter (foot), Kilogram (pound), Second
Judgement: Administrative unification of global physical constants.
The Han Dynasty's engineering corps, carrying tens of thousands of precision steel callipers and standard weights, rushed to major provinces around the world.
[Industrial Noose]
Liu Xun issued a decree that all arsenals and shipyards worldwide must use the 'standard moulds' issued by the Han Dynasty.
[Dimensional Reduction Monopoly]: Roman blacksmiths discovered that their bolts could not be screwed into Han Dynasty nuts, forcing them to purchase standard parts produced by the Han Dynasty.
All precision blueprints were in the 'millimetre' unit. Civilisations unable to understand the Han Dynasty's scale would be excluded from the threshold of industrial civilisation forever.
[Technological Lockdown] All precision blueprints were in the 'millimetre' unit. Civilisations unable to understand the scale of the Han Dynasty would be excluded from industrial civilisation forever. In the markets of Constantinople, Han Dynasty tax collectors removed all ancient stone weights and replaced them with lever balances bearing the dragon emblem of the Han Dynasty.
'Whether you buy silk in Chang'an or coal in London, a jin is exactly 500 grams, not a milligram less,' announced Liu Xun over the radio. This extreme precision and fairness quickly won the trust of the common people. However, behind this fairness lay the Han Dynasty's absolute monitoring of global resource flows. Every grain entering the granary and every gram of gold dust produced was under the numerical control of the Audit Bureau of the Han Dynasty.
With the complete unification of global weights and measures, a progress bar appeared on the system interface: 'System Industrial Module Upgrade: The Micrometer Era Begins.' The achievement condition was global physical measurement variance below 0.001%.
Rewards:
[Precision Optical Grinding Machine]
Interferometer measurement technology
Effect: The precision of the Han Dynasty's machine tools will improve from 'visible to the naked eye' to 'microscopic level', meaning that the sealing performance of internal combustion engine pistons will improve by an order of magnitude.
Liu Xun personally placed a scaled-down model of the standard ruler into the payload bay of the Long March 2 rocket, which was soon to be launched.
'Gongshu Qi,' he said. 'The rulers on Earth have been standardised, but the ruler I need can measure not only mountains and rivers, but also the stars.' He looked up at the moon, home to a 'prehistoric monitoring station' that had been interfering with humanity for millennia.
"Instruct the Academy of Sciences to use the latest micron-level technology to craft a giant radio reflector for me," he ordered. Since the 'Cleaners' intend to burn us with lasers, we will use the most precise mirror to reflect the light back at them!"
The winds of Rome carried away the incense smoke that had lingered at the altars for millennia, but they also brought the distinctive coal smoke of the Han dynasty's heavy industry. Liu Xun stood beneath the towering marble dome of the papacy, his feet resting on a shattered golden crown. Before him stood the last pope to attempt to challenge imperial power with divine authority.
This was not physical annihilation, but a spiritual 'dimensional reduction attack'.
The old pope's withered finger pointed at the dome and his hoarse voice said: 'Liu Xun, you may have taken the land, but you cannot take away the people's awe of the void! Divine punishment will surely descend in the shadow of the moon..."
Liu Xun sneered and snapped his fingers lightly. The Han Dynasty's engineering corps pushed several massive 'Tesla high-voltage discharge arrays' into the hall.
When the switch was pulled, blinding arcs of electricity leapt wildly between the statues, emitting a thunderous roar yet precisely avoiding Liu Xun's fingertips.
[System Plugin: Miracle Simulator – Science Descends]
Technical methods: Faraday cage principle (self-protection), ozone synthesis (creating a unique fragrance), arc discharge.
Effect: The inhabitants of the entire city witness the Han Emperor effortlessly controlling lightning.
Judgment: The lightning of the Old Gods is a punishment, whereas the Han's electricity is a source of energy.
Liu Xun promulgated the 'Global Codex Religious Amendment: Order for the Protection of Civilisation Relics', which abolished all clergy privileges and required all monks and priests to register as 'Researchers of Han Folk Culture'.
[Asset restructuring] The vast tracts of fertile land owned by the Vatican were nationalised and transformed into 'Han mechanised farms'.
[Functional Remodelling] St Peter's Basilica no longer holds Mass. Instead, a plaque reading 'Museum of the History of Roman Science and Technology' now hangs on the main entrance. Where sacred relics were once kept, a massive 'three-cylinder, double-acting steam engine' now stands.
"Tell the common people," said Liu Xun, looking at the kneeling believers. "Worshipping stone statues won't guarantee a bountiful wheat harvest, but learning how to mix fertilisers can."
As the last statue was lifted by a crane and placed in a dark warehouse, the 'scientific idolisation' movement of the Han dynasty officially began. Zhang Heng, Zu Chongzhi, and Shen Kuo became the new sages in the textbooks of the Great Han Public School. Children no longer prayed for God's forgiveness, but discussed gravity's constant. Chinese characters became the only means of communicating with these 'new gods'. "
System Social Module: Faith Entropy Reduction".
Progress: Atheism level in global core urban areas reaches 92%.
- By-products: Scientific research enthusiasm has increased by 400% and labour obedience has reached its maximum.
Evaluation: You killed God and filled his place with 'efficiency'. Before being taken to the 'retirement home', the old pope glanced back at the bright full moon visible in the daytime sky — his last hope.
Liu Xun walked over to him and said in a low voice, 'Old man, you're right. There is indeed something in the moon's shadow, but it's not God; it's a group of 'alien observers' in need of repair. I demolished your temple because my artillery fire requires purer faith.' That evening, a globally unified radio wave was emitted from Chang'an at 8 pm, spreading across three continents.
[System Announcement: Global Civilisation Unification Perfectly Achieved]
Civilisation status: Humanity has undergone a complete transformation, evolving from a state of "multi-polar conflict" to a "unipolar order".
Trigger conditions: [Collapse of the Old Gods], [Standardisation of Writing], [Standardisation of Laws].
Ultimate Warning: The prehistoric monitoring station on the far side of the Moon has determined that: 'Human civilisation has crossed the red line and evolved into a potential threat.'
The 'Gravitational Wave Oscillator' has been activated and is expected to trigger global crustal movements within 72 hours.
Liu Xun stood on the Senate's terrace, looking down at the brightly lit, orderly New Roman province. He crushed the holy water bottle in his hand, his eyes as cold as knives.
'Gongshu Qi, forget about those spineless cowards kneeling on the ground. Activate the 'Long March Manned Interceptor.' Now that the false gods on Earth have been swept away, we should ascend to Heaven and kill the real god..."