Chapter 948: The Twelve Golden Men of Qin (II)

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However, Liu Dong has always been skeptical of the view that the Twelve Jin people cast the Jin people based on the Yidi people, and you must know that according to the records of the 'Qinghua Jian', the Qin people were not from Xirong, but after the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, the culture of the Qin people mainly came from the Zhou culture, and the culture of the Rong people came from the Siwa culture.

The Qin people mainly lived in the open valleys and gentle terraces on both sides of the upper reaches of the Western Han River, while the Rong people mostly lived in the valleys of the lower reaches of the Western Han River or tributaries. The residences of the Qin people and the Rong people are staggered and distributed. According to archaeological discoveries and historical records, the Qin people and the Rong people fought a long and tragic tug-of-war, and the two tribes were incompatible in terms of nationality and culture.

And Qin Zhong, the fourth monarch of the Qin State, and Qin Xianggong, the sixth generation of the monarch, all fell on the battlefield of the conquest of Xirong, and more than half of the history of the Qin State for more than 500 years is the history of war with Xirong, and the hatred between Xirong and the Qin State is no worse than today's Sino-Japanese hatred.

Even if it is cast, it should be cast into an image of kneeling and prostrating to disgust the enemy and symbolize one's own merits!

As for the so-called Twelve Golden Figures, it symbolizes that the feudal unified state established by Qin is a multi-ethnic and united country. It's even more nonsense, how ambitious and proud the first emperor is Yingzheng, the people of the six countries who were defeated by him don't pay attention to it, let alone Rong Di!

'Defend the old Qin, go to the national disaster together', the Qin Dynasty under the rule of the Legalist military merit is a strict war machine. With a population of 5 million, she supported an army of more than a million and swept through six countries. This is an impossible task in the eyes of any military expert, but the Qin Dynasty did it!

The Qin Dynasty can be called the most powerful military dynasty among the Chinese dynasties, and it is also a military empire that you will be able to defeat if you don't accept it!

Therefore, when the proud Qin people collected the soldiers of the world and cast the tools of the town, the image could only be the Qin people themselves. Never think about anything else!

As Liu Dong sees now, the height is nearly 14 meters, the weight is more than 80 tons, and he is wearing armor. The bronze giant with the image of a military general with a solemn expression is eight points similar to the image of the Xian-Yang Qin Terracotta Army!

However, compared with the Qin Terracotta Army, the casting of this twelve golden figures is more detailed and the image is more vivid. Of course, the value is higher!

Except for this bronze figure in a standing position. The remaining five large wooden boxes are also loaded with a golden man, but this one of the twelve golden men who is also dressed as a military general and has a similar inscription engraved on his body is different from the former, but a person holding a Qin crossbow and half-squatting in a firing posture!

Compared to the former, it is only 9 meters high, and the weight difference is almost 30 tons!

Look at them. Liu Dong was really excited and heartbroken, excited that he could get such a national treasure. Heartache, they were originally intact by Sun Dianying and his thieves and soldiers' barbaric 'five horse corpses', so that the original intact treasure of the Qin Dynasty Zhenguo was damaged!

"Fortunately, everything can be recovered!" Liu Dong said in his heart.

Although his relics could not reunite these separated golden figures, he was able to restore the bent and shriveled bronze at the fracture to its original form.

If you want to make these two golden figures stand up again, you can only rely on professionals who are proficient in antique restoration, especially bronze restoration, and Liu Dong himself will definitely not be able to do it!

However, what he didn't understand was why two of the twelve golden men of the Qin Dynasty appeared in Qianlong's funeral goods.

There are three speculations about the whereabouts of the Jin people: some people believe that Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, once burned down Afang Palace after conquering Xianyang, the capital of Qin. When the Afang Palace was burned, it was also burned down along with the 12 golden figures who symbolized the immortality of the Qin Dynasty.

Some historians have pointed out that the 12 gold figures were destroyed at the hands of Dong Zhuo. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo led his army into Chang'an, destroyed 10 of them and minted them into copper coins, and the remaining two were ordered by him to move to Qingmen in Chang'an City. By the Three Kingdoms period, Emperor Cao Rui of Wei Ming ordered the two bronze figures to be transported to Luoyang. When hundreds of craftsmen were transported to Bacheng, the weight of the Jin people was too heavy, so they had to abandon this huge project, so they stopped carrying it. When they arrived in the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Shi Hu of Later Zhao transported these two Jin people to Yecheng. Later, Fu Jian of the former Qin unified the north, and he transported the two Jin people from Yecheng back to Chang'an to destroy them. By that time, all 12 gold figures that had existed in the world for about 600 years had been destroyed.

Another theory is more optimistic, and they believe that the 12 Jin people were not destroyed according to historical records. Because the 12 golden figures were Qin Shi Huang's favorite objects during his lifetime, after the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum was built, these 12 gold figures were buried in the mausoleum along with Qin Shi Huang's death along with the death of Qin Shi Huang.

In addition to these three speculations, the official history "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", "Book of the Later Han" and "Zizhi Tongjian" all record that Dong Zhuo destroyed the bronze people and minted copper coins.

"Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Shu VI, Dong Er, Yuan Liu Biography VI", contains "(Dong Zhuo) Xi Shi broke the bronze man, Zhong Yu, and bad five baht coins. It is also cast as a small money, a big five points, no article, no meat and no wheels, and no grinding. ”

"Zizhi Tongjian" volume 59 "Emperor Xiaoling": "Dong Zhuo bad five baht money, but also minted small money, all of the Luoyang and Chang'an bronze people, Zhong Yu, Fei Lian, copper horses to cast it, from the cheap goods to expensive, grain stone to tens of thousands of money. ”

The "Xi" of "Xi Shi Po Bronze Man" and "Xi Zhi Yang and Chang'an Bronze Man" is the meaning of "exhaustion, all", that is to say, the twelve bronze people were destroyed by Dong Zhuo's hands!

So no matter which explanation it is, it can't completely win people's trust, even if Liu Dong has now obtained two golden people, he can't be sure that the remaining ten have been completely destroyed by Dong Zhuo!

But no matter what, these two golden figures have added two more national treasures to his collection!

As for how to show these two immeasurable national treasures in the future, Liu Dong hasn't thought about it for the time being, the most important thing now is to look at all the treasures, be happy first, and have a headache later!

After putting away the two Qin Jin people, Liu Dong looked at a large wooden box next to him that was more than two meters long and wide!

After Liu Dong removed all the box boards except for the ground, a knight wearing armor and dressed as a military general of the Qing Dynasty appeared in front of Liu Dong, the knight grabbed the reins in his left hand, pressed the waist knife with his right hand, hung a bow and arrow on the saddle, and a quiver behind his back, his eyes looked ahead, his expression was serious, as if he was waiting for the monarch's review!

The knight's crotch is a war horse, with hooves as big as a bowl, slender limbs, a strong body, a neck raised high, a mouth open to neigh, and the horse's mane on the back of the neck is clearly visible, everything is like reality!

Liu Dong, who was standing next to him, instantly felt that this knight who straddled the horse did not seem to be a dead thing, but a general who was really ready to fight on the battlefield!

"Is it a yellow flag?" Looking at the knight who was cast in gold and the style of the armor on his body, Liu Dong said secretly in his heart.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Dong opened another wooden box about the same size as him next to the knight, and it was also a mighty knight riding on a war horse!

And the same thing is that both the war horse and the knight themselves are made of gold, if you add the base of the war horse with a length of two meters, a width of 80 centimeters, and a height of about 40 centimeters, but the gold used by these two golden knights with a height of more than 250 centimeters weighs nearly 10 tons!

Of course, the second Golden Knight decorates the edge of the armor with red, of course, this red is not fuel, but a patch of rubies, although there is no pigeon's blood red in these rubies, but it is also the first grade rubies second only to pigeon's blood red!

From the costume of this knight, it can be seen that it represents the yellow flag!

The Jurchens made a career out of hunting. Nurhachi won victories in the war to unify the Jurchen tribes. With the expansion of power and the increase in population, he established the four flags of yellow, white, red and blue in the 29th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, which were called yellow, white, red and blue, and the flags were all pure colors. In the 43rd year, in order to meet the needs of the development of the Manchu society, Nurhachi created the Eight Banners system on the basis of the original cattle recording, that is, in addition to the original four flags, the four flags inlaid with yellow, white, red and blue were added. Organize all the people under the jurisdiction of Houjin in the flag.

The Manchurians used this system of military organization to establish the Qing Dynasty. In normal times, people engage in activities such as farming, hunting, etc.; In wartime, they were conscripted into the army, which originated from the Jurchen hunting organization, the Niu Yan. Family members with flag registration are called flag people. By the end of the 19th century, with the disintegration of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners military organization system ceased to exist. But some of the descendants of the Eight Banners still call themselves banner people.

The military organization system of the Eight Banners was formulated by the Manchu leader Nurhachi. At first, Nurhachi divided his army into four flags, which were identified by flags of different colors, which became 'positive yellow flags' and so on. As the army grew, the four flags were framed and became the 'yellow flag' to form the eight flags. Relying on this military organization system, the Manchus established the Qing state in 1636.

It can be said that the Eight Banners system is the fundamental political system of the Qing Dynasty, just like the communist system in China now, it is the most fundamental political policy of the country, and it is also the foundation of national stability, and its importance is self-evident!

It is not surprising that knights representing the Eight Banners system appeared in the tombs of Qing emperors, but they were made of gold and made of gold to surprise the Qianlong Emperor's extravagance.

However, when he saw the third knight sculpture, Liu Dong instantly felt that the two golden knights in front of him were actually conservative!

Because the third knight is simply a national treasure-level handicraft formed by using the finest Hetian first-class white jade, combined with the peak jade cutting skills of the craftsmen of the Royal Ruyi Pavilion! (To be continued......)