On the same day, Zongwei Shen Yu and others moved a large basket of bamboo slips from the treasury of the Zongfu and a few sheepskin-like things.

Looking at those bamboo slips, Zhao Hongrun frowned, you must know that paper has been more common in Dawei, and today's books are copied on paper, and even, the Ministry of Industry has created engraving printing, but it has not yet reached movable type printing.

However, the materials that Shen Yu and the others brought back were a basket of bamboo slips, plus sheepskin-like gadgets.

How many years old does this have to be?

From this, can we really find any clues about the frogs?

To be honest, it was difficult for Zhao Hongrun to convince himself to hold on to his expectations.

But having said that, in the absence of any clues at present, Zhao Hongrun can only honestly find clues from these ancient documents.

He sat on the throne of the front hall and took a piece of sheepskin from the table.

I saw a very abstract picture drawn on the sheepskin: a person, a pot.

Judging by the pictures, the man seemed to be refining something.

"Is it refining Gu? Do you need fire to refine Gu?'

Zhao Hongrun carefully inspected it, and found that on the lower left side of this sheepskin, in the dirt, its original owner remarked a paragraph to the effect of: "The witch of Baqian, the art of good witchcraft, can extract a special yellow sand from the yellow mud, which can be taken to prevent the disease of a thick neck." ”

"I'll go!"

Zhao Hongrun almost spurted out a mouthful of blood.

He casually threw the sheepskin into the bamboo basket, and at the same time couldn't help muttering in his heart: what did he think it was, it turned out to be the 'brine clay salt making method'.

Shaking his head, Zhao Hongrun picked up another piece of sheepskin again.

I saw that on this piece of sheepskin, there was a seemingly very powerful bear drawn, the only regret. This tall, obese bear has a black and white body with two black eye circles.

“……”

Zhao Hongrun exhaled lightly, raised his hand to support his forehead, and at the same time glanced at the remarks on the lower left of the itchy skin: There is a strange beast in the land of Bashu, with a wide body and a fat body. The hair is white, and he likes to eat tender bamboo.

"Smack."

Another sheepskin was thrown into the bamboo basket for Zhao Hongrun.

"Isn't there anything useful?"

After a cursory glance at the sheepskins, and found that the sheepskins described were all such so-called "strange beasts", Zhao Hongrun was inevitably a little anxious, and after thinking about it, he picked up a roll of bamboo slips and read them.

According to the opening record, Zhao Hongrun has in his hand a record of envoys visiting Ba, Guizhou, Shu and other places, written by a person named "Wei Youzi".

Undoubtedly. "Wei Youzi" is a pseudonym, after all, "Wei" is the name of the Great Wei, the whole country of the Great Wei does not have the surname Wei, it is said that Han and Qi have this surname, if nothing else, it should be decades or hundreds of years ago, from the Wei country to other countries in exile.

Therefore, judging from the pseudonym "Wei Youzi". Zhao Hongrun thought that it was very likely to be the ancestor of his Ji clan, or even the ancestor of the clan. After all, from a literal understanding, 'Wei Youzi' can be understood as 'Wei people who travel abroad', and there is no need for ordinary Wei people to hide their true identity when they visit Bashu Qian, unless that person is a member of the Ji clan.

After all, Zhao Hongrun's father, Emperor Wei Tianzi, once mentioned that the Ba people and the Wei people have an unforgettable deep hatred.

And this point is described by Zhao Hongrun in this humanities. found sufficient evidence: in the text, Wei Youzi mentioned the Shu people and the Guizhou people, but there was no word Ba people, but there were many references such as "barbarians" and "Yi". From this, it is not difficult to guess that this "Wei Youzi" is very likely to hate the Ba people to the core.

However, in spite of this, Wei Youzi's in-depth understanding of the Ba people was by no means perfunctory, he not only noted in the text that in addition to the five largest ethnic groups of the Ba people, "Ba", "Fan", "Mu Qin", "Xiang", and "Zheng", he also recorded in detail the small ethnic groups divided by these five large ethnic groups, as well as the information that the Ba people used the tiger as a totem, were good at hunting, fishing, and even could tame fierce beasts.

Then it was gone, this scroll of bamboo slips, what is recorded is the origin, humanity and habits of the Ba people.

"I think this thing is a piece of?"

Reluctantly, he put the bamboo slips in his hand back into the bamboo basket, and Zhao Hongrun took another roll of bamboo slips.

It is a pity that this scroll of bamboo slips does not record the knowledge he wants to know, but records the humanities of the Shu people.

Unlike the Ba people who were hated by Wei Youzi, Wei Youzi praised the culture of the Shu people at great length, and when it was mentioned that the Shu people raised a white "yarn worm" and used the silk it spit out to weave into a slippery satin, Wei Youzi's evaluation of this was "breathtaking" and "really a heavenly worm".

Zhao Hongrun rolled his eyes, he finally understood why the silkworm was called a silkworm, but it wasn't, the heavenly worm!

"Hey!"

casually threw a roll of bamboo slips into the bamboo basket, this time Zhao Hongrun was not anxious, because he felt that Wei Youzi's travelogue codex was indeed a little interesting, of course, if this ancestor could get rid of some subjective prejudices, don't use any barbarian and other pronouns to call the Ba people, Zhao Hongrun believes that he can read more smoothly.

Not to mention, in this era of lack of entertainment, it is interesting to look at the records left by the ancestors when they traveled to other countries, even if there are some things that Zhao Hongrun already knew.

I have to admire, this Wei Youzi is definitely a master who will "play", according to the records of his travels, Zhao Hongrun feels that the footprints of this ancestor seem to be all over every place in Baqian Shu, he "warned" the Wei people: the Shu people are not what they Wei people used to do, they are wild people who drink blood, in fact, Shu has its long humanities, they know how to farm, know how to raise silkworms, know how to fish, are hard-working people.

All in all, it is to praise the Shu people and belittle the Ba people, which is the case throughout the text.

From this, Zhao Hongrun guessed that this may be related to the national policy of the Great Wei at that time: to win over the Shu people and deal with the Ba people.

Compared with Bashu, Wei Youzi's evaluation of Qiandi is greatly discounted, the reason may be that he commented on Qiandi as "poor mountains and bad waters" in the article, and even emphasized in the article, "The land cannot raise people, and the water cannot live fish".

Zhao Hongrun was really puzzled at first, wondering what the "Qianshui (black water)" described by Wei Youzi in the text was "Qianshui (black water) that cannot keep fish alive", until he saw the descriptions of "Xuan (black) and sticky" and "pungent smell". He almost vomited blood.

He suspected it was oil.

Can oil be used to raise fish? No!

Can crops be grown where oil is produced? No!

Wei Youzi's evaluation of this land was correct, but he didn't realize the true value of this land.

"Natural and easy to extract oil ......"

I have to say that Zhao Hongrun is a little excited, after all, oil is one of the important energy sources, but if you think about it carefully, it seems that he has no place to get oil in Dawei at present. This excitement gradually faded.

But it is undeniable that Zhao Hongrun still wrote it down, just like the ash trees and ash insects he wrote down in the land of Bashu.

When he has the opportunity in the future, he doesn't mind taking all these precious resources into the pocket of their Great Wei for the benefit of future generations.

As for the evaluation of the Qian, Wei Youzi is much more objective than the Ba people, and he speculates in the article that the Qianren may have been exiled prisoners from some countries, or they may have migrated from Bashu and Shu. But in any case, the number of Qianren will not be too large, because that land is really unsuitable for him to live.

"It's not that I haven't gained anything at all, but I finally learned about a place where oil is produced......

Comforting himself in his heart, Zhao Hongrun gradually put the roll in his hand into the bamboo basket.

The reason for this is that on his desk, only the last roll of bamboo slips remains. If there is no record of witchcraft in this scroll, then. Either he will go to the Zongfu to rummage through the cabinets again, or he will have to give up and change his strategy and find a way to find a way from other ways.

Exhaling slightly, Zhao Hongrun spread out the last roll of bamboo slips, he had no expectations, he really didn't expect it. The ancestor of Wei Youzi really depicted something about witchcraft in this bamboo slip.

It's just that it's not Zhao Hongrun's Ba Gu, but Qian Gu.

『…… In the land of Ba and Qian, there are tribes and Qianmiao, and they are in awe of all things in heaven and earth......

According to Wei Youzi's account in the bamboo slips. In this scroll, he refuted his speculation that he had mistakenly thought that the Qianren Naiba and Shu migrated their people, and was more inclined to another theory: it is very likely that this was the person who had failed to compete with the Central Plains countries for territory and was expelled, because Wei Youzi wrote the annotation "died in Guizhou" in the text, and according to the previous and subsequent contexts, it should be the meaning of "fleeing to Guizhou".

Zhao Hongrun concluded that the predecessors of the Qianren were likely to be the ethnic groups that had failed to compete for territory with a large country in the Central Plains and were expelled from the barren land, and they fled to the barren land of Guizhou, a poor mountain and bad water, and the Central Plains was not uncommon, and they survived tenaciously in this barren land, and gradually evolved into the Miao people who revered nature.

In the process of evolution, the Qianren had to come into contact with the Ba people because of the barrenness of the Qiandi, and even intermarried, and over time, the culture of the Qianren and the culture of the Ba people converged.

And what made Zhao Hongrun happy was that Wei Youzi really mentioned the Gu technique of the Qianren.

Wei Youzi recorded in the article that because of the poor mountains and bad waters in Guizhou, the Guizhou people would often die of poison because they ate something by mistake, or were bitten by some poisonous insects and poisonous snakes.

At first, the Guizhou people, who were in awe of nature, thought that this was God's punishment, until a Guizhou man who was bitten by a poisonous snake gave up on himself and swallowed another poisonous weed, but survived by luck, and the Guizhou people learned to fight poison with poison.

Not to mention Zhao Hongrun, even Wei Youzi recorded this incident in an exclamatory tone in the article: The Guizhou people raised Gu to remove poison, and they actually made the mortal live.

Subsequently, with the gradual convergence of the cultures of the two ethnic groups in Ba and Qian, the witch culture of the Ba people and the Gu culture of the Qian people gradually merged into a new culture, Wu Gu.

What made Zhao Hongrun even more ecstatic was that Wei Youzi's description of a 'lovesick Gu' way of going down Gu in the article was very similar to the scene when he was Gu by Mi Rui at that time, and it could be said to be exactly the same.

And what is incredible is Wei Youzi's evaluation of this kind of Gu worm: it does not hurt life, but it makes it difficult for a man to leave this woman, which is divine and evil, and extraordinary people can predict it. The mystery or the blood of the woman who fed the Gu?

"Hoo ......"

Although he failed to get a way to remove the frog Gu from it, Zhao Hongrun was already very satisfied, after all, Wei Youzi noted in the bamboo slip that this kind of frog Gu or lovesick Gu was not fatal, and that was enough.

It's just that the sentence "It's hard to leave this girl" made Zhao Hongrun a little incomprehensible, because he didn't think he would be inseparable from Mi Jiang.

Or rather, it's not there yet. (To be continued.) )