I was silent for a long time before I said: "According to folklore, Jiuding does not recognize the rule of Qin and regards Qin as a tyrant. I think this is the statement of later generations in order to belittle Daqin, and there is no credibility. ”

I paused and said again: "The legend about Jiuding came to an abrupt end after the Qin Dynasty, and the whereabouts of Jiuding in later generations are nothing more than two speculations. ”

"The first statement, as often said, is that after Qin destroyed Zhou, he sent someone to get Jiuding to Qin's Xianyang Palace. Then, Qin Shi Huang smelted Jiuding and cast it into twelve golden figures. Those who adhere to this statement feel that Qin Shi Huang pursues the unification of all generations and the respect of one tripod, and will not allow the nine tripods to stand side by side, so they melted the nine tripods. Of course, it is also said that Jiuding was buried with the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. ”

The second theory is that when Qin destroyed the Zhou, the Jiuding placed in the Taiqiu altar of the Song State was transported by the Song people to Surabaya by boat, sank to the bottom of the river, and then was salvaged and taken away by a mysterious force. This is the reason why Qin Shi Huang sent thousands of people into the water and could not find Jiuding. ”

Ye Xun frowned and said: "Isn't Jiuding in Zhou, why did he become a Song person again?"

I explained: "The Zhou Dynasty was a feudal state, and the Song Dynasty was a vassal state of the Zhou. King Zhou put Jiuding in the Song Kingdom, in fact, it was no different from putting it in his own country. When the Song people broke the country, in order to prevent the Jiuding, which had been enshrined for 800 years, from falling into the hands of the Qin people, they secretly sank them into Surabaya. ”

Ye Xun frowned and said, "Don't you think this statement is a bit strange? Jiuding is the important weapon of the country, and the king of Zhou himself does not worship Jiuding, but gives Jiuding to his courtiers?"

I scratched my head: "I didn't figure it out either. ”

Yu Feng replied for me: "According to historical records, after King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, he built a society and an altar in the old Shang capital, and warned future generations to learn from the lessons of the Shang Dynasty. The reason why this Taiqiu altar was set up in the Song State was because Wei Ziqi, the brother of the Zhou Feng Shang Dynasty, established the Song State in Shangqiu, the old capital of the Shang Dynasty, to house the remnants of the Shang Dynasty. Shangqiu was originally placed with Jiuding, and after the death of Shang, Jiuding was left behind, becoming the heavy weapon of the Taiqiu Society of the Song State established later. ”

Yu Feng continued: "I have heard a legend that King Wu of Zhou never got Jiuding, or rather, Jiuding was a lie from the beginning. It is impossible to cast Jiuding in the era in which Dayu lived, so Jiuding is a lie used by the Xia Dynasty to deceive the people. ”

"After the Shang Dynasty replaced the Xia Dynasty, it found that there was no Jiuding, and in order to stabilize the people's hearts, they cast Jiuding by themselves. This secret was learned by King Wu of Zhou, and he would abandon Jiuding in Taiqiu. ”

Yu Feng only added at this time: "Jiuding went from Xia to Shang, from Shang to Zhou, and then disappeared in the Qin Dynasty. It is not unreasonable for the Divine Explorer to list Jiuding as a heaven-level task. ”

I also said: "Jiuding, let's not think about it." How can you investigate things that have no clues? Can you still dig up the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang? If we really dare to touch the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, we will be caught and shot before we can go in, do you believe it?"

Ye Xun still didn't give up: "Isn't there a legend that Jiuding sank into Surabaya?"

"That legend is not reliable!" I said half-lying on the sofa, "Think about it yourself, how big is the largest bronze tripod unearthed at present? Counting the tripod ears, it is 1.3 meters high and weighs more than 830 kilograms. Stepmother Wu is the temple number of the concubine of Queen Wuding of the Shang Dynasty, and the stepmother Wu Ding is the ritual vessel cast by the daughter of the woman and her own son in order to sacrifice her. ”

I sat up from the couch as I spoke: "The ancients paid attention to hierarchies, and nothing could be crossed casually. Think about it for yourself, can the tripod used to sacrifice the concubine be cast bigger than the size of the nine tripods? If the nine tripods really exist, they would cost 1,000 kilograms, to say the least. ”

"Two thousand pounds of things thrown into the water, can they be washed away by the water casually? Even if they can be washed away, how far can it be washed out of Surabaya? Qin Shi Huang sent more than 1,000 people to dive into the water to find it, but they couldn't find it, I don't think the matter of Jiuding sinking into the water is not reliable at all. ”

At this time, I added: "There is also a legend that the people who went into the water to salvage Jiuding saw a big dragon coiled in the water, and they were so frightened that they didn't dare to go down, so Qin Shi Huang gave up the idea of salvaging Jiuding." I said it was even more unreliable. ”

After I finished speaking, I lay back on the couch: "So, let's not think about it so impossible, think about what to eat tonight is the right thing." Hey, I said Yu Feng, what are we going to eat tonight?"

Yu Feng squinted his eyes and said, "You should cook tonight, right?" If you don't do it reliably, the old lady will kill you." ”

I calculated that it was as if I was really cooking today, so I reluctantly stood up and went out to buy groceries.

When I came back with a bag of vegetables, I happened to see Ren Tianqing grabbing a big orange and stuffing it into a rotating cage: "What are you doing?"

"Give Big Tachibana to lose weight. Ren Tianqing stuffed the big orange into the cage and shouted "Run", she quickly ran in the direction of the sofa and lay comfortably on the sofa.

The wheels that Da Tang was spinning soon drove the two massage hammers hanging above the sofa, and hammered them on Ren Tianqing's legs one by one. Ren Tianqing moved his body: "Run faster, beat it a little lightly." ”

I was dumbfounded: "You really know how to play! Can you still teach Tachibana to sing you a little song?"

Ren Tianqing took out a lollipop: "I'm here not to waste the calories consumed by the big orange, otherwise the big orange will be sad." ”

I pointed at the big orange and said, "If you play with it like this, it will be sad, right?"

The big orange in the cage couldn't help but "meow" and agreed with me. Walking down from upstairs, Yu Feng hung two massage hammers on the linkage shaft: "Big orange, run faster, otherwise you won't have anything to eat for a day, you can only eat mice." ”

"Meow-" Tachibana ran in the cage like crazy. Big orange is a monster, and he eats everything from roast duck, chicken legs, and pork knuckles, but he doesn't eat mice. Yu Feng threatened it with eating rats, could it not go crazy?

I was looking at it vigorously, and Yu Feng had already looked at me with an unkind face: "You still don't go to cook, wait for the dishes to cook by yourself?"

"I'll go, I'll go...... I owe it to you. "I had to carry the food to the kitchen.

Before I could wash the dishes here, Ye Xun slipped in. I was immediately happy: "Ye Xun, are you here to help me cook?" ”

Ye Xun didn't pay attention to the fish at all: "You just said that there is a mysterious force that quietly fished out Jiuding and moved it elsewhere, right?"

"Yes," I nodded, "that's a legend, and maybe it's a far-fetched reason for posterity." Think about it, given the situation at that time, how many people did they have to mobilize to get Jiuding out? With so many people working by the river, can no one see it? Can they hide from the Qin Dynasty's spies? Don't be funny. That's definitely not reliable. ”

Ye Xun said with a serious expression: "What if there are only a few of them?"

I didn't even think about it and said, "Unless they have a crane." ”

Ye Xun said: "You forgot, there was a lost secret technique in ancient times, the mechanism technique. If there was a master of the organ secretly at that time, they might not be able to fish out Jiuding unconsciously. ”

I was stunned: "Tricks?"

Mechanism is one of the ancient secret techniques in China, full of mysteries. Some people think that the trick is a representative of the ancient scientific and technological civilization, and some people think that the trick is just the result of being mythologized. However, no one can deny the existence of the trick.

Ye Xun glanced at the door: "I didn't expect it at first, but then I saw the gadget that Ren Tianqing and the others made, so I thought of the trick." The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were the heyday of the Mo family, and if there was a Mo family giant, maybe they would be able to get Jiuding. Besides......"

Ye Xun paused slightly and said, "The Mo family advocates both love and non-attack. Jiuding is the same as the heirloom jade seal, if it is left in the world, every time it is contested, it will set off a bloody storm. The king of Chu, the king of Qin, and the Song dynasty did not herald the arrival of war? Therefore, I think that the mysterious force in the legend is the Mo family who is good at using tricks. ”

I was dumbfounded: "What you say makes sense. ”

Ye Xun pulled the stool and scurried in front of me, and said, "If our inference is true, then if we find the inheritance of the Mo family, will we be able to find the whereabouts of Jiuding?"

"Where do you go to find the Mo family inheritance? I said disapprerovingly, "Even if you find the heirs of the Mo family, are you sure that they must have the classics of the Mo family's secret arts? If that thing really exists, the Mo family would have already returned to its heyday." I advise you to give up that thought and help me cook. ”

I'm not talking nonsense. The Mo family did reach its peak in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and after Mozi's death, the Mo family began to gradually weaken.

According to the record of "Han Feizi Xianxue": After the death of Mozi, the Mo family was divided into three, the ink of the Xiangli clan, the ink of the Xiangfu clan and the ink of the Deng Ling clan. They each thought it was authentic, and no one obeyed anyone, and even poured into each other, fighting openly and secretly, which caused the vitality of the Mo family to be greatly damaged.

No matter what sect it is, the most taboo is internal fighting, and the consumption of internal fighting is often more terrible than that of external enemies. The Mo family has experienced a split and a fusion.

In the late Warring States period, the three schools of Mohism converged into two branches: one was transformed into a ranger in the Qin and Han dynasties, and the other continued to study Mohist logic, optics, mechanics and other theories, and was known as the late Mohist.

In the later period, Mohism should have had another heyday, but in the more than 2,000 years from the beginning of Qin Shi Huang's unification of the Six Kingdoms to the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Mohology entered the lowest ebb. Moology is basically in a state of stagnation, and there are only a handful of people who control it. There are only a few people who can be found in history, Lu Sheng in the Jin Dynasty, Letai in the Tang Dynasty, He Wu in the Song Dynasty and Lu You in the Yuan Dynasty, but there is no record of the technique. In other words, the Mohist technique has long been lost.