172. The Secret Passage of the Lodge
Shennong Villa was originally built by Li Zimu, because there were no people around who were quiet, so he also lived for a long time, and then after leaving, he threw it to Shi An to deal with, and handed over everything about the ghost market to him.
"This is Shennong Villa?" Zhang Jingyang looked at the building complex on the mountain peak in front of him and asked, he had never been here, he didn't expect that there was such a huge building complex in the deep mountains and old forests.
"Well, this is Shennong Villa, grandma said that it was a long time ago, longer than her" Chi Ling nodded and said, when her grandma took her into the ghost market, she also walked the Qiankun Road, so she is quite familiar with Shennong Villa.
The car drove quickly towards the top of the mountain, and after a while, it came to the entrance of Shennong Villa, which has long been turned into a tourist attraction, some areas can be visited by tourists, and some are forbidden to tourists.
The gate was open, and the lights were shining brightly, and Li Zimu drove straight inside, passing through the fountain square at the entrance, and then through a stone gate, and heading straight for the road where the tourists stopped.
Next to it is still a square surrounded by buildings, at this time there are a lot of cars parked in the square, roughly some luxury cars with millions of Chinese coins, Li Zimu found a vacant seat to stop the car, and the three people opened the door and walked out.
It's still the same as it was, Li Zimu looked at the buildings and said with relief, after six hundred years, it still hasn't changed, it's just a little bit of modern facilities, as for the building, it hasn't changed at all.
As we all know, there are very few ancient buildings in China that have been preserved for thousands of years and have not been destroyed, and even the Forbidden City, which was built at the same time as Shennong Villa, has been repaired and repaired, while Shennong Villa still maintains the appearance of 600 years ago.
This plum wood has the most say, because he was involved in the construction of both buildings, and he knows the difference very well.
The Chinese people do not have too strict requirements for repairing the house, and the emphasis is only on a fast one, because the house is just a condition for timely pleasure in the eyes of the Chinese people.
Therefore, most of the houses in ancient China are wooden buildings, even the palace in the capital is all wooden structure, its advantage is fast, the emperor ordered the construction of a palace, the time limit, the following civil and military officials are naturally to complete as soon as possible, if the stone is used, it takes a long time, the emperor is not satisfied, all people have to lose their heads, it is much more convenient to use wood, and it will not collapse if it is repaired every year.
That's why those people can burn the entire palace clean with a fire, so once a fire breaks out, the chance of recovery is really pitiful.
But Shennong Villa is different, all the walls of Shennong Villa are made of regular-sized stones, and the stone can be preserved for much longer than wood, so it is not surprising that this Shennong Villa can be preserved for 600 years.
As for why Li Zimu wanted to use stone to repair, it was just a copy of the ancient Roman architecture, for this aspect I have to admit that they are more experienced, in some Western countries, you can still see those buildings that are still standing for thousands of years, and there is a lot of it.
"I'll lead the way!" said Chi Ling with a master's attitude, taking the lead first, she had been to this place a few times, so she was naturally familiar with the road, and Li Zimu was happy, so he pretended that he was here for the first time......
"Go this way," the spirit said as he walked forward, passing through the gate of the main building, there were a few people sitting in the lobby, and after glancing at the Li Zimu people who had come in, he turned his head and continued to chat.
Li Zimu squinted his eyes when he passed by them, his brows furrowed slightly, and he didn't stop and walked straight inside with the spirit.
"Why are these people here, can it be said?" Zhang Jingyang turned his head to look at Li Zimu and said suspiciously, although he didn't know the previous few people, he knew their identities.
"Did you find it too" Li Zimu nodded and said, the three of them were wearing black tunics with standing collars, the embroidery on their chests was a golden coiled dragon, holding a straight-handled black umbrella in their hands, and their hairstyles were uniform.
Why did the people of the imperial court appear here? Li Zimu wondered in his heart, the ghost market is a force in the rivers and lakes, and it has always been like fire and water with the imperial court, and the policies of the successive emperors for thousands of years have been very different, but most of them have maintained an attitude towards the forces in the rivers and lakes, that is, suppression, suppression to death.
But what is very strange is that the ghost market, the biggest force in the rivers and lakes, is a place that almost all people in the rivers and lakes know, and the imperial court should also know about it, but it has existed peacefully for six hundred years.
Could it be that the power of the ghost city is already strong enough to compete with the imperial court machine?
No, it can't be, Li Zimu immediately denied in his heart, since the appearance of firearms, the center of gravity of the balance between the imperial court and the Jianghu forces has been maintained on the side of the imperial court, because the imperial court has the strength to manufacture firearms on a large scale. However, the forces in the rivers and lakes are in their own camp because of various interest disputes, and unless it is possible to temporarily unite on the major matter of human survival, it will never be possible to unite the front.
I really didn't understand, Li Zimu shook his head and didn't think about it, the spirit in front of him had stopped, and Li Zimu and Zhang Jingyang immediately followed and stood at the door of this room, this is the location of the basement of this building, Li Zimu is too familiar with this, because the layout inside has not changed, but everything has been replaced with a new one.
"This is it," said the Ling, looking at the quaint door, she had also walked with her grandmother a few years ago. Then he pushed open the door and walked inside.
"How many?" asked a man in a black uniform, sitting at the edge of the table, without looking up. Li Zimu glanced at the book, there were already many people who had entered, and the final number was two hundred and thirty, which means that there were already two hundred and thirty people who entered from Qiankun Road.
Most people walk through the ghost gate, and only a small number of people who have Qiankun coins take the Qiankun Road, which means that there may be 2,000 people in the ghost market this year.
After waiting for the person to write a number of two hundred and thirty-three, Li Zimu flicked the Qiankun coin in his hand to the person standing in the corner of the wall with a flick of his fingers.
The man stretched out his right hand and caught it steadily, took a closer look at the Qiankun coin, and after confirming that it was real, he pressed the mechanism button on the wall, and the floor in front of him split from the middle to the inside, revealing a stone staircase passage downward.
Taking the Qiankun coin that person threw back, the three of them walked down the stone steps......