Chapter 209: The Capital of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland!

"I'll give you the building yì is, stop the construction!"

Wang Zhong said without any hesitation.

"How is this possible? This is the company's biggest real estate project this year, and 10 million pounds have been invested in the early stage, if the work is stopped halfway, Herron can only declare bankruptcy!"

Gerard did not hesitate to deny Wang Zhong's suggestion. But Wang Zhong's words also made his heart move, if it is really in the earthquake-prone zone, then it will also be a fatal blow to their company!

"Wang Sheng, you must have a way!"

Gerald looked at Wang Zhong and said pleadingly.

"This!"

Wang Zhong looked at the construction site in front of him with some embarrassment, this is really a very tricky problem.

Suddenly, he thought of Xuanwu, one of the four spirits!

"In Chinese Feng Shui, tortoiseshell represents strong support, protection, and safety. As a result, tortoise shells are often placed in the foundations of buildings that follow the principles of Feng Shui, which is said to help keep the building safe and is considered a good luck!"

Wang Zhong thought for a moment and said seriously:

"Burying a tortoiseshell in the foundation of the Heron Mansion will solve this problem!"

"Do you have any requirements for tortoise shells?"

Gerald asked in surprise.

"The older the tortoise shell, the better, the tortoise is a spiritual animal, and the older the tortoise shell, the stronger its power!"

Wang Zhong said affirmatively.

"Okay, I'll scour the market!"

Gerald nodded in understanding.

In order to enhance the stability of the house, Wang Zhong referred to the shape of Xuanwu in Gerald's design, and the whole building looked more like a big turtle that wanted to enter the water.

Wang Zhong looked at Gerald with some concern, because the shape of the building was so weird!

To Wang Zhong's surprise, Gerald was surprisingly satisfied with Wang Zhong's design.

"Wang Sheng, this is the most unique building I have ever seen, I think he will definitely be famous!"

Gerald said excitedly.

"When the time comes, it's not just England, it's Europe. will know about him!"

"Don't you think it's ugly?"

Wang Zhong asked in disbelief.

"No, how beautiful! It gives me a feeling of steady, heavy, as if it were a continent, silently carrying all things. It reminds me of Gaia, the mother of the earth in Greek mythology!"

Gerald said excitedly.

Wang Zhong had to sigh at Gerald's intuition, in Chinese mythology, the dragon turtle is a symbol of divine power that can carry mountains. In ancient mythology, the limbs of the turtle were used to support the heavens and the earth, forming the four poles of heaven and earth.

Turtle. From beginning to end, it gives people a kind of earth-like heaviness and stability!

"I've decided, Heron Mansion will be called Gaia from now on!"

"The development of our Herron company should also be like this building, steady and heavy!"

Gerald said earnestly.

"The terrain is good, and the virtue is loaded!"

Wang Zhong looked at Gerald and couldn't help but think of a passage from the Book of Changes.

Gerald has a good personality and is a loyal man, and blessed are the faithful. But the kun hexagram is passively accepted, will not be proactive, and it is difficult to become a leader in the industry, Gerald's character and the feng shui of the building. It is destined that Heron International will not be able to become a leading brand of British real estate.

However, although Gerald approved of Wang Zhong's design, in Wang Zhong's opinion, the whole design was not complete!

Because this building only has a form and no god, and it lacks a key town!

Wang Zhong is for this town. Ran all over London!

Finally in a corner shop in London, Wang Zhong found what he needed to start with!

That's a palm-sized tortoise shell!

But Wang Zhong has a feeling of being a treasure!

Because that seemingly ordinary turtle shell is already hundreds of years old!

I don't know though. How did this tortoise shell end up in England, but Wang Zhong is sure that the history of this tortoise shell can be traced back to the Qing Dynasty!

Burying this tortoise shell in the ground can stabilize the earth's qi and reduce fluctuations!

Wang Zhong was not polite to Gerald, and in Gerald's thousand thanks, a piece of tortoise shell was sold for Gerald 100,000 US dollars!

Half a month after Wang Zhong lectured in Cambridge, he received an invitation from the School of Science and Engineering of the University of Edinburgh, inviting him to give a lecture in Edinburgh, and the content of the lecture was "Modern Feng Shui"!

After Wang Zhong asked Selena and William Brown for their opinions, he thought it was a difficult opportunity. It was decided to go to Edinburgh for a short lecture of ten days.

The University of Edinburgh, abbreviated as the University of Edinburgh, is one of the world's top 20 universities and has always enjoyed a high reputation in the UK and even the world. Located in Edinburgh, the capital of England, Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities founded in 1583 and the sixth oldest comprehensive research university in the UK.

Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland in the south of Scotland, and it was close to noon when Wang Zhong drove to the city of Edinburgh, and he did not go directly to the University of Edinburgh, but visited the main city of Edinburgh accompanied by Selena.

Every city has a central axis, and Edinburgh is no different, with Princes Road being the central axis that runs through the city. From the perspective of feng shui in the urban pattern, the north and the south can complement each other, with the new city in the north and the old city in the south, and the old and new cities in stark contrast. The construction of the new town began in 1767 and moved towards a modern design, in which the roofs of the buildings are pointed, the pointed shape belongs to fire in the five elements, and the appearance of the buildings is rectangular, and the rectangular shape belongs to wood, and wood makes fire. In the Seven Fortunes of the Xia Yuan, the northeast direction is the four green stars, and the four greens are the Wenchang stars, the chief poets and writers. Edinburgh's history over the past 500 years has been marked by countless writers, artists and philosophers.

Wang Zhong believes that such a layout of the city can give birth to literati mayors in the future.

To the south of Princes Road is the medieval Old Town, with many narrow alleys that are orderly and affectionate from a feng shui point of view, and the alleys are equipped with elegant and charming street lamps that illuminate passers-by at night.

The south side belongs to the fire in the Five Elements, and Edinburgh Castle is located south of the central axis, which is the place of the regime and the vicissitudes of life, which was destroyed in 313 and rebuilt in the 19th century.

For more than 50 years, from 1757 to 1814, the castle's cellars were used as a prison for prisoners of war. Strict zhòng will provoke war.

The whole city of Edinburgh is backed by Caltonhill, doing east to west, Qinglong is a short hill in the west, so it presents a dragon bullying tiger pattern, which is more conducive to the development of men, men should hold military positions, and women should develop smoothly, and the industry should choose clothing, beauty, etc.

Analyze from a feng shui perspective. Edinburgh is a city full of auspicious places to live, but it is not a business affair.

Wang Zhong spent a whole afternoon in Edinburgh, and there were a lot of dense records in the small notebook he carried.

According to historical records, there were activities of the Xiang Mansion long before Qin Shi Huang, on the one hand, it was the residence of the living, and on the other hand, it was the cemetery of the dead. The virtuous monarch of the pre-Qin Dynasty, Pan Geng, and the Duke of Zhou have made contributions to the practice of Xiangdi. There were no taboos in the pre-Qin Xiangzhai, and it also developed into a kind of number technique. There are also not so many superstitious colors. The Han Dynasty was an era full of taboos, with various taboos such as directions, tombs, etc., and the tombs were decorated with stone figures to ward off evil spirits. Stone beasts. Town Tomb Text. The Wei and Jin dynasties produced masters such as Guan Luo, Zhuge Liang, and Guo Pu. Guan Luo is a warlock of the plains of the Three Kingdoms, and he is famous all over the world for his tomb occupation. The "Guan's Geographical Fingers" that is now circulating is made in his name.

Emperor Song and Ming of the Southern Dynasty was the most taboo emperor, moving beds and repairing walls in the palace. You must first pray to the gods. He heard that there were five-colored clouds on Xiao Daocheng's ancestral tomb, so he secretly sent someone to nail iron nails in the four corners of the tomb.

During the Southern Qi Dynasty, there was a strange custom in Hengyang, the mountain people were sick, that is, the ancestors were man-made, and they had to dig the ancestral graves, wash the corpses, and wash the bones to get rid of the disease.

When Yang Gongren, the prime minister of the Sui Dynasty, moved the tomb, he invited five groups of feng shui masters to Xiangdi. During the Tang Dynasty, generally literate people knew Feng Shui; in the Song Dynasty, the common people generally paid attention to Feng Shui, and the "Zhuzi Family Rites" said that the common people died in their families and were buried in March.

Throughout history, the pre-Qin period was the gestation period of Feng Shui doctrine, the Song Dynasty was the period of prevalence, and the Ming Dynasty was the period of flooding. In recent years, with the international attention to Feng Shui and its applicability, the ancient science of Feng Shui has been revitalized. ”

Wang Zhong stood on the podium and explained to the blonde and blue-eyed Irishman about China's oldest science. In order to add interest, Wang Zhong also used Edinburgh as an example to analyze Feng Shui.

"Wang Sheng, you're right, Edinburgh's most famous Edinburgh International Festival brings together the world's craziest literati and artists. They turned the whole city upside down with their passion!"

The student below agreed.

Seeing that the students were more interested in specific feng shui cases, Wang Zhong simply changed the teaching plan and analyzed the architectural pattern of the foggy capital of London from the perspective of Feng Shui to the students of the University of Edinburgh.

"Britain is the birther of modern times, and the industrial revolution that represents the modern enlightenment took place here, why does it have such a noble gifted mission? It is precisely because of the dragon and the Thames River, which is the "blood of the dragon's head", that Britain has successfully played the role of the incubator of modern times, giving birth to the masculine hegemony -- the United States, and promoting British culture to the world as the leading factor of world fashion. A new era was ushered in, and a vast empire on which the sun never set was established. This is the British Empire, with London as its capital.

London's own planning is also very distinctive, and its "axis line" and "rich in the east and expensive in the west" pattern can reflect the characteristics of London's planning. For example, the Thames River enters London from west to east, which fundamentally creates the pattern of "rich in the east and expensive in the west" in the city - the west is the royal palace and the seat of government agencies, the middle is the core financial district, and the east is the industrial area.

The axis of London is the Thames, the mother river of London. London relies on the river. London relied on the river's facilities for gradual development, with business districts, political centres and industrial areas all hitting on both sides of the Thames. However, despite the axis, the urban layout of London in this period was very chaotic, and by the eighteenth century, Georgian London, in terms of finance, politics, economy, etc., it was the most important era of urban development in London's history, and the core layout from the inside out was established in this era.

On this basis, London began a process of cultural radiation, which brought far-reaching cultural influence to its colonies and semi-colonies. Gradually, world civilization formed a pattern with Britain as the axis, the industrial revolution unfolded around the world, and English became the lingua franca and even the mother tongue of many countries...... These influences are the expression of London as the axis of the world, and even in modern times, London is still one of the axes of the world. When the world is surrounded by London, nature has brought a strong accumulation of energy to London, so that it can still lead the world fashion in terms of clothing and culture after the decline of the United Kingdom.

London's axiality is the source of its fashion, and it is not a simple concept, but a combination of "heaven, earth, and man". ”

"I see!"

Every student let out a voice of admiration.

"What a magical feng shui!"

"Professor, I want to know, from the perspective of metaphysical feng shui, when will Scotland be free from the rule of England?"

One of the students stood up and said excitedly.

Wow!

It was as if a boulder had been thrown into the calm water, and the order of the class suddenly became chaotic.

Many people think that Scotland and England are brothers, there are no ethnic differences, and independence can only satisfy the desires of politicians, and they have changed from local governors to prime ministers of a country. But if you know the history of Scotland, you will find that this perception is outrageously wrong, they are not brothers, they are not a country in history, and Scotland has been in the shadow of English invasion for thousands of years.

In terms of national history, the Scots are very different from the English, the Celts are the aborigines of the British Isles, in the first century BC, the powerful Roman Empire came to this small island and conquered England, but the Celts relied on the steep terrain of Scotland to block the Roman army in the south of the Scottish Highlands, after the Roman Empire was divided, another branch of the Germanic people, the Anglo-Saxons, occupied the territory of England, and did not go north after reaching the border of England. So, England was ruled by all sorts of different people, Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, and the Scottish bloodline was very simple, that is, Celts. Johnson said it was because Scotland was not worthy of invasion, and the Scots did not think so, they felt that Scotland was the wretched creature who was invaded, raped, and accused by foreigners.

Although there is no such thing as an oppressor or an oppressed in Scotland and England today, their union is entirely a result of interests. But because both Parliament and the monarch were in London, many of the English felt betrayed, and they boycotted the union, and it was said that the Union Act was signed in secret, and the heads of England who signed the bills were bribed. The Scotsman Pence wrote, "We have been bought and sold by the gold of England, such a great number of thieves of the nation," and so the day of the union of the two countries was the beginning of the Scottish independence movement.

Wang Zhong thought for a while, turned around and wrote four huge Arabic numerals for 2014 on the blackboard! (To be continued...... R1292