In the matter of looking for the Immortal Tower, Gu Jing adopted a method that can be called unprecedented, and found another way. If you look at it today, this may seem like nothing, but in ancient times it was no small achievement, and it was a great victory of dialectics.

He first assumed that the wild history and rumors were true, that is, the Immortal Tower did exist and was indeed built in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and finally became the mausoleum of King Zhou Luo.

Based on this assumption, if the Immortal Mansion existed, the original Zhou royal family would definitely try their best to cover up the news of the Immortal Building, after all, in this nine-story quadrangular pavilion, a monarch was buried. Who would want future generations to dig up their own tombs and disturb their eternal sleep after death?

Needless to say, the slaughter of the craftsmen and all those in the know, and at the same time, such news cannot appear in the official history. Therefore, there is no record of the immortal building in the official history, which is reasonable. At this point, the question arises, if the Zhou royal family has blocked the news without the slightest leakage, then how did the legend about the fairy building be handed down and seen in the history of later generations?

The Zhou Dynasty is closed to news, and the Zhou royal family has supreme authority, so it is not difficult to block such a piece of news. But in the end, the rumors leaked, and the emperors of later generations rushed to explore, why?

There are only two possibilities.

The first is that the Immortal Building does not exist in the first place, but it is just a careful compilation by later generations. But this result is acceptable to Gu Jing, but not to Ming Shizong. Imagine, if Gu Jing ran to Ming Shizong and pouted his ass and presented an excerpt: "Your Majesty, Weichen has really worked hard to find it, and there is no such immortal building at all." Oh, don't take it personally, the news you've heard is all made up to amuse you. ”

Anyone can imagine Ming Shizong's reaction, he will definitely jump up on the spot and directly let people pick Gu Jing's head.

Gu Jing naturally knew quite well, there was no way, he could only assume that the Immortal Mansion would continue to exist, so there was only the second hypothesis left, the news about the Immortal Mansion did not come from the side of the Zhou royal family. In other words, the Zhou royal family has made a comprehensive news blockade, but it still leaves a loophole, either their negligence, or their inability to do it, so that the news is still spread to future generations.

So where is this loophole?

There is no doubt that in the Hakka.

The legendary heroine of the Immortal Building, the princess who was ordered to be beheaded by the Zhou royal family, is a Hakka woman.

That Hakka woman can be accepted as a concubine by King Zhou Luo, and her status in Gu Xilong should not be low, plus she is good at demon Gu techniques, maybe it will be a priest or something. Moreover, in many primitive tribes, there is also a tradition of choosing beautiful young virgins as priests and communicating with the gods.

The fate of deceiving a generation of monarchs is simply unimaginable, at that time, Chaida has succumbed to the majesty of King Zhou, and the Hakka woman will not think about her own kind. She is very pampered, she is a princess, and she doesn't need to make up a mess to make a sensational. Even in order to take revenge, it would be difficult to kill King Zhou Luo by building a nine-story square pavilion, so the probability of this Hakka woman telling a lie is almost non-existent.

"Receiving the heavenly river and pouring it, leading the water of the Yellow Spring, the intersection of the two veins, reshaping the dragon tendon with the ancient method, and protecting the emperor's longevity. ”

This sentence is by no means casual, it is very likely to originate from the ancient legend of the Hakka people, and the Hakka woman herself really believes that if she does what she does, she can really make King Zhou live forever.

If King Zhou Luo had been alive, with his favor for Hakka women, the ancient kingdom of Qaida would have been able to exist forever. And the historical conditions at that time, only the powerful Western Zhou Dynasty had the manpower, material resources, and financial resources to achieve such a nine-story quadrangular pavilion, so that the world could truly feel the power of the gods.

In any case, this seems to be a transaction that will not lose money, so why not do it? But the final result is that the Hakka woman was beheaded, the ancient kingdom of Qaida was destroyed, and then experienced a great migration of ethnic groups, the Hakka people were driven out of the land on which they depended for survival, and gradually merged with the Chinese people, and the civilization that had been inherited for thousands of years was wiped out.

Of course, these are not the problems that Gu Jing considered, he probably just figured this out at the time, it is not only a deep-rooted ancient legend of the Hakka people, but it has also happened, and it is not surprising that the Hakka people spread the news of the fairy building.

In the Tang Dynasty, when Jiazong set up a town and a general, he was looking for the immortal building, and more than 1,000 years had passed until Gujing.

For more than a thousand years, countless manpower and material resources have been invested in it, but I am afraid that every inch of land in the entire West Asia has been turned over, but I still have not been able to find the whereabouts of the fairy building. How smart Gu Jing is, it took a thousand years for all dynasties to find it, and I can find it by sending someone out to search the mountains?

According to the previous reasoning, he completely changed the direction of the investigation and started from the Hakka side!

After formulating this direction of investigation, Gu Jing went deep into the people, searched for the elderly Hakka elders, and explored the clues of the immortal ancient building from their mouths and the surviving historical materials and ruins. At the same time, Gu Jing also set up a special team to investigate the mountains and rivers of Longxi, and tried his best to restore the city ruins of ancient Chaida, especially the large-scale residential area of the Hakka people at that time.

Why do you want to explore the ruins of ancient Chaida? This starts with the Hakka woman.

According to later records, Hakka women were punished by the Zhou royal family.

The owl is an animal, and legend has it that it looks very similar to an owl. When a child is born, it eats its parents, leaving only a head. Therefore, a kind of criminal law called the head of the man appeared later, that is, the head of a person was cut off and hung on the city gate for public display. This was an extremely common criminal law in ancient times, and it could have a good effect of killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys. On the one hand, the Zhou royal family wants to promote its prestige and deter the Hakka people, and on the other hand, it wants to hide the tomb of King Zhou and not be known by future generations, which is really tiring.

Therefore, the conditions for the execution of this Hakka woman require a large city and a considerable number of people to play a warning role. If you can find the city where the execution was carried out back then, you can correspondingly demarcate the approximate location of Gu Chaida, which greatly narrows the scope of search. Later facts also proved that Gu Jing did the right thing.

Gu Jing did something that no one could do for thousands of years, and in the eighth year he spent in Longxi, he finally found the Immortal Tower. He finally knew why his predecessors had been trying for so long but had not been able to find the reason for this mysterious place. Since then, the Immortal Ancient Mansion has finally been tightly tied to the general of the Zhen Domain.

And the magnificence of this nine-story quadrangular pavilion makes it difficult to believe that it was created by humans thousands of years ago.

Gu Jing finally lived up to the emperor's grace and completed his mission quite satisfactorily. As long as the news of finding the immortal tower is reported to the imperial court, he will be greeted by high-ranking officials and marquis, endless glory.

But at this time, Gu Jing hesitated. After a short period of excitement, Gu Jing fell into endless depression, and he was deeply ashamed of his actions. The emperor was superstitious about magic, drunk on visiting immortals and asked, and had no intention of state affairs. As a courtier, he took his family and country as his own responsibility, and he should have admonished and persuaded him, but instead he helped the people here to abuse, wouldn't he have betrayed the infamy of future generations?

When Gu Jing was depressed, he suffered another blow, which came from his father. The ancient father's name is inherited, and he is also a rare upright person in the Ming court. It's just that because he told too many truths and didn't like people, he stayed at home and lived for a long time.

The father and son have a very good relationship, they are both father and son, and they are also master and apprentice. Gu Cheng has paid special attention to the cultivation of children since he was a child, so Gu Jing's character and martial arts knowledge were cultivated by his father, and he was quite family-styled. But three years after Gu Jing arrived in Longxi, the relationship between father and son broke down completely.

Gu Cheng has a temperament, and he naturally can't stand what his son did in Longxi. I have written several letters to persuade Gu Jing to repent, and the general meaning is nothing more than that when you go to Longxi to take up your post, you swear to promise me that when you go there, you will quell the rebellion, govern Longxi with peace of mind, benefit the people, and completely eradicate the border troubles. But how come it is that after only a few years of hard work, you have become the culprit of dragging down the country's social and social affairs, and helping His Majesty the Emperor to find out what immortal ancient buildings are coming? The situation in Longxi is getting worse day by day, and after a few years of recuperation, Xilong has shown signs of rebellion again, and you don't consider these serious things, but the excerpts about the ancient buildings of the town and the clan are sent to the capital one after another, which makes the emperor's heart flutter, and even your wife has added Mrs. Command, what do you want to do?

When Gu Jing was forty-eight years old, his father Gu Cheng died, and before he died, he wrote a peerless letter and left it to Gu Jing.

The death of his father was originally a great sorrow of the ancients, but when Gu Jing got this letter, he was really cold. In the letter, Gu Cheng called Gu Jing a visiting general, ridiculed and scolded him as much as possible, and severed the father-son relationship with him, and never allowed him to enter the gate of the Gu family. His father's last writing before his death turned out to be such a letter, Gu Jing only felt infinitely sad in his heart, and directly broke the custom of mourning that night and got drunk.

He was drunk and didn't care, the key was to die under the loss of his soul, and wrote a scribbled admonition to Ming Shizong, persuading the emperor to wake up, stop asking the immortals, reorganize the dynasty, severely punish Xiaoxiao, and return the government to Qingming.

According to the usual practice, this letter was sent to the capital in an expedited manner of 600 miles. Wait until Gu Jing wakes up the next morning and then send someone to chase him, but the post rider has already left Longxi and can no longer chase back.