Chapter 724: Lushui Rice Capture
At this time, Yu Yao and Xiao Ying also roughly saw the scene inside the door outside the door.
Inside it should be a square structure, like a large hall, about the size of a basketball court. There is a circular stone platform with a diameter of about five meters and a height of about two meters in the center, and from the door, there is a stone step, I don't know if there is still on the back of the stone platform.
"Come in. Xiao Ying felt that there was nothing abnormal in his breath, and walked in after speaking.
After entering, Yu Yao saw that at the four corners of the main hall, there was a thick stone pillar about one and a half meters high, with a bowl shape at the top of the column, and a wick inside, which had been lit at this time, and the light was emitted like this.
The floor of this hall is more than five meters high, but the top is uneven, and it has not been carefully chiseled.
Behind the circular stone platform, there seems to be a sunken area, which is not very clear below.
The two of them first approached the corner of the "stone lamp" to take a look, there is an unknown grease in it, the milky white is slightly blood-red, and the wick is a translucent tendon-like thing, after getting closer, you can smell a strange fragrance slightly, and there is a feeling of comfort after entering the nose.
"The oil and wick of the lamp are not ordinary things. Xiao Ying said, "And it should have undergone special treatment, after opening the door, the air circulates and can automatically ignite." ”
Yu Yao nodded and pointed to the circular stone platform, "Let's go up and have a look first." ”
The two of them walked up the stone steps to the top of the stone platform, and first looked down at the inner edge.
There are no steps on the back of the stone platform, it is vertical. The depression behind the stone platform is a sloping area, and in the center, there is a circular pool. More like a well, to be exact, because the diameter is only about two meters.
There is water in the well, but it is only a few meters below the wall of the well, and there is no obvious smell.
"It's supposed to be living water. Xiao Ying spoke.
"In my opinion, this well has the potential to connect to the Lancang River. Yu Yao responded.
"Look at that. Xiao Ying pointed to the stone wall behind the well.
Part of the stone wall is polished to a smooth and flat surface, and there is a mural in this area. They saw this mural when they went up to the stone platform, but they looked at the well first, and did not observe it in detail.
In the upper part of the mural, there is a serpentine animal.
The head and the snake are six or seven points apart, the most obvious difference is in the mouth, where two thick fangs stick diagonally forward. At the same time, the mouth is thicker than that of a snake, and on both sides of the mouth, there are two sarcoma-like bumps.
The middle of the body is wide, but there are no feet. The tail tapered and the last part became thin and even, very long, and the end looked like a sharp spine.
The serpentine's head tilted slightly, as if looking downward.
In the lower part of the mural, a group of people kneel by the river, saluting the serpentine animal. In front of the people is a stretch of river, half of which is stormy and the other half is calm.
"This must be the god of the river worshiped by the Xifeng clan. Yu Yao said, "If this well is connected to the Lancang River, then this so-called river god thinks it can come here from the river!"
"I'm afraid it hasn't been there for a long time. Xiao Ying stood on the stone platform and looked around, "This place should have been built by the Xifeng clan before Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian called it, that is to say, if you want to come in to worship the Jiang God before, you don't need a formation talisman; ”
"Hmm. It is possible that after being dispatched by Yang Jian to fight, the technique of controlling water became known to more people, and for the sake of safety, the formation was made. And this jade plaque happens to be used as a formation talisman. Originally, 'avoiding death' relied on the technique of water control, and the technique of water control, in their opinion, benefited from the protection of the river god. Yu Yao responded.
"Look at the two stone tablets in the corner. Xiao Ying said as she turned and walked down the stone steps.
The two corners of the stone door of this hall, next to the "stone lamp", each have a stone tablet, the size is not the same, the one on the left hand side of the door is about one and a half meters high and half a meter wide, and the one on the right hand side is about two meters high and about one meter wide.
Yu Yao went to see the small ones, and Xiao Ying went to see the big ones.
The small stele does not have words, but a scimiferous sheep's head carved in bas-relief.
At that time, the Dangxiang clan was also called Dangxiang Qiang, and the sheep should be their totem, and the leopard can also be glimpsed from the glyphs of "Qiang" and "sheep".
Other than that, there's nothing special about it. Yu Yao immediately walked to the big stone tablet that Xiao Ying was looking at, and Xiao Ying happened to shout at Yu Yao at this time, "There are Chinese characters on it!"
"There is no word on the small stone tablet, and a sheep's head totem is carved. Yu Yao said as he walked.
Walking to the big stone stele, Yu Yao found that the lettering on it was crooked, a bit of a script structure, but the strokes were very straight, and there was a lack of pen in some places, which looked nondescript.
However, this did not affect Yu Yao's identification.
The main content of this inscription is basically the content of an edict, but it has no format.
This tone is the emperor's tone, which roughly means: thousands of clansmen of the fine seal clan, under the leadership of the patriarch Su Mian, made great contributions to the Great Sui, rewarded the jade medal of Su Mian from death, knighted the "founding county man", rewarded the clansmen with gold and silver, grain, cloth, salt, cattle and sheep, fur and other materials, and at the same time, transferred one of Su Mian's sons to the capital as a six-grade military attaché.
The title of "Founding County Boy" of the fine seal of Su Mian is the fifth grade, and the son is a real military attache of the sixth grade, not to mention the high and low, but the transfer of the son of the fine seal of the millet cotton to the capital is obviously a bit of a hostage. In fact, there are only a few thousand people in the fine Feng clan, and even if they have the art of controlling water, it is impossible to rebel. However, Yang Jian still didn't feel at ease when he thought about it.
The main content is these, but in addition, there is another sentence: fine seal, rice capture two parts, the same merit is rewarded, and then entrust the important task, stationed in Langcang, Lushui, repay the grace of the saint and refuse to the west, and the two will help each other.
"In this way, because of the art of water control, in addition to the Xifeng tribe, there is also a Mi Bao tribe!" Yu Yao said while taking out his mobile phone and taking a picture of the inscription.
"And the base camp of the Mi Bao clan is guarding the Jinsha River!" Xiao Ying immediately said.
Langcang is the Lancang River, and Lushui is the Jinsha River.
However, the name of Jinsha River was only in the Song Dynasty, and the Song people did not think that the Jinsha River was the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, but based on the saying of "Yu Gong" that "Minshan guides the river"; it was not until Xu Xiake of the Ming Dynasty proposed that "those who push the source of the river must be headed by Jinsha", which was finally recognized.
There were many names of Jinsha River before the Song Dynasty, and during the Three Kingdoms and the Two Jin Dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the most commonly called were "Lushui" and "Lishui". For example, Zhuge Liang "crossed the Lu in May, and went deep into the barren"; for example, in the thousand-character text, "Jin Shenglishui, jade out of Kungang".
Judging from this sentence, Yang Jian didn't know how to reward the Mi Bao clan, but in addition to rewarding the two clans, he also assigned a task, that is, to resist the restless forces in the west. At the same time, Yang Jian also asked the two clans of Xifeng and Mi Bao to help each other.
Of course, Yang Jian's real purpose is actually to let them spy on each other, because there is a "superior" ahead.
This stele with the inscription was obviously erected after the fine seal was rewarded, and it basically copied the content of the edict, but they may not be able to find a decent stonemason, although the inscription is a gourd drawing a scoop according to the edict, but it is still ugly.
How could Yu Yao and Xiao Ying care about this at this time? Both of them had excited lights in their eyes. This fine Feng clan has a large hall dedicated to the river god on the side of the Lancang River, so will the Mi Bao clan, which is active on the side of the Jinsha River, also have such a similar place?