"After Fen VI, after ten years of war, there was a strong Great Qin Empire. The Qin army of the southern expedition was far away from their homeland, died in a bitter battle, buried their bones in a foreign land, and could no longer go home to serve their fathers and mothers, and this green mountains and green waters became their final destination. Daqin is gone, and these soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country have not left their names in the annals of history. ”

Yu Shu picked a large bouquet of mountain flowers in the grass and stuck it in the small pit where the skull was buried: "Although I don't know who you are, I know who you are for." ”

"Let's go over there and have a look." Lao Yi took out a long knife from his waist to cut the mountain, and struggled to cut through the thorns and artemisia grass in front of him.

With the continuous movement of Lao Yi's arm, a path opened up in the grassy area. Of course, Lao Yi has to come and walk this path once a year, and he has not stepped on any swamp.

The group walked along the path for about 20 minutes before they reached the foot of the largest lichen round. A porcupine poked its head out of the dirt, pricked up its ears, heard footsteps nearby, and quickly shrank back.

"This is the legendary Qin Army Martyrs Cemetery, with a radius of about ten miles, it looks like a cauldron for cooking on the march from a distance, but it looks like a bronze helmet of a soldier up close." Lao Yi compared, "Due to the age, the collective tombs are covered with a large area of meadow, and the traces of the original rammed earth layer are not obvious. ”

"Lao Yi, how can you be sure that this lichen round bag is the collective tomb of the Qin army?" Nishino approached the hole where the porcupine had entered, grabbed a handful of sand, put it under his nose and sniffed it again.

"I also doubted its authenticity, there are a few sentences on the Miao section - Tu Sui has 500,000 soldiers, all the way to Tongrenchong, all the way to guard the line of water village. coincided with the outbreak of the disease, and 3,000 of our tribe passed through Huangquan and killed more than 30,000 northerners. Since then, leprosy mountain has not dared to enter the ......" Lao Yi squatted on a huge bluestone slab, "here is surrounded by water on three sides, there is danger to be based, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the plank road is the only passage from the outside world that can enter the top of the mountain. It stands to reason that the Yue people and Zhu Miao will not be able to break through this line of defense and attack the base camp of the Qin army. We can imagine that the wind is high and the night is dark, and the hundreds of thousands of Qin troops stationed around the Lotus Village were raided and became chaotic......"

"Three thousand of my clan have passed through the Yellow Spring...... What is this Yellow Spring? Yushu asked Lao Yi.

"On Huangquan Road...... Let me think...... Yellow springs and earth springs, should they be underground springs and underground passages? Lao Yi pondered.

According to the record of "Zuo Chuan: The First Year of the Yin Dynasty", Gong (Zhuang Gong) entered and endowed: in the tunnel, his joy was also harmonious. Jiang (Wu Jiang) came out and endowed: outside the tunnel, his joy was also vented, so he was the mother and son. Nishino muttered.

"Dear, what you said about this piece of classical Chinese has a woolen relationship with the martyr's cemetery?" Yushu was puzzled.

"Don't interrupt, the story of Huangquan meeting his mother may be able to open our minds." Nishino answered.

"What the hell is going on with Huangquan seeing his mother?" Chen Yuliang asked.

"Zheng Wugong and his wife Wu Jiangsheng have two sons, the eldest is Kou Sheng, and the younger is famous. Wu Jiang had a difficult birth when he was born, almost died, and was frightened, so he hated his eldest son very much, and doted on his younger son Duan very much, and wanted him to be on the throne.

After the death of Duke Wu, Yu Sheng inherited the throne of Zheng Guo according to the ancient system and was the Duke of Zheng Zhuang. Because his youngest son did not inherit the throne, Wu Jiang was very angry and strongly asked Duke Zheng Zhuang to seal the territory of the capital to Gongzi Duan.

Zheng Zhuang Gong knew that this was 'forcing the palace' and interfering in the government, but he still did what his mother wanted. Wu Jiang was still not satisfied, and she conspired with Duan Li Yingwai to join forces to seize power.

Zhuang Gong noticed it and secretly took countermeasures, hoping that his younger brother who was peeping on the throne would be able to restrain himself from the precipice. Soon, at the instigation of his mother Wu Jiang, Taishu Duan rebelled, but was soon defeated by Zhuang Gong's army and had no choice but to draw his sword and commit suicide.

The younger brother and his mother teamed up to want their own lives, for which Zheng Zhuanggong was very angry, put his mother under house arrest in Yingdi, and swore that 'until Huangquan, never see you again!'

But after a long time, Zhuang Gongsi, as a great filial son, thinks of his mother, and is valuable as a monarch, so he can't change his oath at will, so that he can't sleep well.

Uncle Yingkao, a courtier, said that the Yellow Spring is underground, and if you dig a tunnel, find the spring water, cover the underground palace, and meet your mother in the underground palace, it will be like seeing your mother in the Yellow Spring. In this way, it is not only possible to see the mother, but also not to break the original vow, the best of both worlds, why not?

Zheng Zhuanggong was very happy to hear this, and immediately adopted Uncle Yingkao's suggestion, sent people to dig the spring day and night, built the underground palace, and finally met Wu Jiang in the 'Yellow Spring' Palace. The mother and son hugged their heads and cried, and they reconciled. ”

After Xiye finished talking about the origin of this allusion, Chen Yuliang suddenly realized: "Huangquan is likely to be an underground passage, is there any other hidden passage to reach the top of the mountain besides the plank road?" ”

"In ancient times, when soldiers were camped on the top of the mountain, they should advance and retreat freely, and it was taboo to suffer the enemy on their backs. Some hunters told me that there was a cave in the Tongrenchong area that was five or six miles long, but now because of a landslide, the entrance to the cave has been blocked by huge stones.

Those old people who had been to the cave many years ago said that after entering the cave from the entrance of the cave, there was a spring on the way, and when they reached the location of the spring, the cave was two-thirds of the way away. Continue a little further and you'll get straight here. Lao Yi finally remembered, "If only we could find the exit of the cave on the top of the mountain." ”

"It's full of fluffy grass and countless unseen swamps, so don't look for it. Besides, time doesn't allow, we have to go back. When Chen Yuliang thought of Zixuan, he was a little afraid.

"Since we're here, we'll have to find the cave entrance down the mountain to confirm the existence of this possibility." Nishino didn't want to go back in vain.

"Young man, this mountaintop is more than ten miles in circumference, how much effort does it take. Even if you can find the entrance to the cave, you may not be able to get in. Lao Yi did not agree with Nishino's statement.

"If you don't try, why can't you get in?" Nishino drilled the horns of the cow.

"We didn't bring torches, axes, ropes, it was like an underground labyrinth, full of dangers, in case we lost our way, stranded in the hole, the mobile phone signal was very weak, and there was basically no hope for help, then it would be a big trouble." Lao Yi said.

Lao Yi has lived in the mountains for many years, has been to a lot of caves, and has accumulated rich experience in exploration, what it means to be trapped in a cave knows better than anyone else, and he has to think twice about Xiye's proposal.

"Accidentally picking up an arrow today does not prove that this place is the martyr's cemetery of tens of thousands of Qin soldiers. It's a long time coming, and when you have enough time to prepare the archaeological excavation tools, it's not too late to explore again. Nishino took the arrow and knocked several times on the exposed part of the stone slab that Lao Yi had stepped on, and a crisp and loud sound came from under the stone slab, and he thought, "Isn't this the exit of the cave?" ”

"Lao Yi, come and help......" Nishino tried to move the slate, but the slate didn't move.

Lao Yi smiled and said: "The stone slab weighing more than ten tons, even if dozens of strong men go on it together, it may not be able to move it away, not to mention that we don't have any auxiliary machinery." ”

The slate is covered with thick moss, and the weathering is not serious. Xiye suddenly thought of looking at the stone tablet with Tao Jin at the Lingshan Temple, and he picked up Lao Yi's mountain knife and peeled off the moss layer by layer.

Twenty minutes passed, and the surface of the granite slab was fully revealed. The surface of the slate is smooth and delicate, and there seem to be a few big characters on it. It's just a little blurry, Xiye wiped it with moss a few times, and he can finally see it clearly, it's Qin Xiaozhen!

The mausoleum of the Great Qin soldiers of Lotus Mountain

In addition to these ten big characters, the dense small characters on both sides are so badly damaged that most of them are simply unrecognizable, and less than 30 can barely be recognized.

"It's a pity......" Nishino sighed.

"Dear, this word seems to be a Zhao (Zhao) character." Yushu pointed to a word in the last two lines of the slate and shouted.

"I'll take a look......" Nishino's head and Yushu collided, and the two of them watched for a full minute.

"Sure enough, it's a Zhao (Zhao) character!" Nishino was excited, "It's just the word below...... The left side is missing, and there is one on the right...... Zhao it...... Those who can be qualified to write inscriptions on the mausoleum, except for Tu Sui and Ren Huan, are only the deputy general Zhao Tuo! Finally found the handwriting of Emperor Wu of Nanyue! ”

"Who is Zhao Tuo?" Although Lao Yi is the "Lotus Village Master", it is the first time he has heard of this name, and he is very unfamiliar.

"Zhao Tuo, Emperor Wu of South Vietnam. Before he became emperor, he led troops to carry out a production self-help movement in Lianhua Mountain, and cultivated ......fields for several years," Nishino said.

"The common people are rumored to have an emperor in Lotus Mountain, but they didn't name who it was." Lao Yi said, "I don't know if it's Zhao Tuo you said." ”

"Let's talk about it—" Yu Shu likes to explain the myths and legends of Lotus Mountain in a colorful way.

"A long, long time ago, the ancestors of the Miao and Yue tribes of the Southern Barbarians lived in the Lingnan area, belonging to different tribes, slash-and-burn, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, and getting along with each other as brothers and sisters.

Until one day, hundreds of thousands of troops came from the north, and the troops were divided into five routes, wanting to seize the territory of the southern barbarians and incorporate them into the political territory of the northern army. In the first year of the war, the Northern Army, with its superior equipment and numerical superiority, repelled the Southern Barbarian Tribal Alliance for hundreds of miles.

The supreme commander of the Northern Army was so overjoyed that he bragged in front of the emperor that he could conquer the Southern Barbarian region in one year. In order to end the war as soon as possible, he ordered that people should be killed when they saw them, and that all men under the age of fifteen should be killed every time they captured a cottage. Lao Yi paused, "After this commander who likes to kill entered the hinterland where the Southern Barbarians lived, he was met with fierce resistance. ”

"Lao Yi, let's talk about the point." Chen Yuliang urged.

"Hmm. The southern barbarians refused to surrender, fled into the deep mountains and old forests, and attacked the northern army from time to time, inflicting heavy losses on them, frightening the northern army day and night with bows and arrows, and the armor did not leave their bodies...... The Southern Barbarian Coalition Army set up an ambush 300 miles away from Lotus Mountain, and shot the supreme commander of the Northern Army with a bow and arrow soaked in venom, killing hundreds of thousands of Northern Army. Fortunately, the generals of Lotus Mountain led their troops to rescue in time, and the northern army did not fall into the catastrophe. ”

"What is the name of this ministry?" Nishino asked.

"Let's just call him General." Lao Yi shook his head, "However, under his command, the Northern Army changed the policy of slaughter, pacified the barbarians, and let the tribal leaders of the barbarians continue to manage their own people, so this general won the popularity and support of the barbarians. Soon, a large-scale peasant uprising broke out in the north, and the general did not go north to fight for hegemony and recuperate, and his territory was saved from the flames of war. With the support of the Southern Barbarians and the Northern Army who stayed in Lingnan, the general established his own country, proclaimed himself the Son of Heaven, became the emperor, and he lived for more than a hundred years before dying without illness. ”