Chapter 25 The Guardian of the Qin Clan-Qingluan

Trust building is mutual.

Wang Li took the initiative to let Wang Xu check the letters he wrote, and by the way, he wanted to show off their Wang family's unique letters.

As a military family, the Wang family naturally has a set of its own private way of writing, and this technology is a kind of cryptographic culture erected on words after the birth of civilization and the emergence of privacy by the ruling class.

Among them, the tiger talisman code of the Qin State is the most sophisticated.

The mechanism of deciphering the secret letter of the Wang family is similar to that of Caesar's code, and after Wang Xu only took ten minutes to decipher the letter, Wang Li's originally triumphant face instantly turned blue.

"Don't worry, the secret letter is very advanced, only a little worse than your tiger talisman, and ordinary people can't decipher it." Wang Xu patted Wang Li's shoulder and comforted.

Wang Li shrugged his shoulders in frustration: "You people in the envy door really know everything? ”

"It's all about the limits of what you can do." Wang Xu smiled.

Wang Li folded the letter, put it in his personal cloth bag with the mineral water bottle, and handed it to Tu Tan, "Since you can know about my family's detailed work in Liaoyang City, then there must be a way to deliver this letter to my father by hand." ”

Tu Tan took the cloth bag and did not speak, but looked at Wang Xu.

"You should have a token on you, let him hold it more securely." Wang Xu said.

"Do you think the army is our family's house slave?" Wang Li rolled his eyes, "Any wind and grass in the army will be presented on the dragon case of Xianyang Palace every ten days, if it is overdue, then the other tiger talisman may be on the road." ”

"King Qin can directly intervene in military affairs?" Wang Xu raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Of course." Wang Li nodded, "But he won't, all movements in the army are supervised by 'Qingluan'." ”

"Qingluan?" Wang Xu frowned, the name of this divine bird that often appeared in later fantasy novels was familiar, but he knew that it must not refer to birds, it should be some institution that serves the royal power, similar to a spy agency.

"The green luan in the sky, the red dog on the ground, the eyes of the king, patrol the world on behalf of the king." Wang Li said with a complicated expression.

Wang Xu's eyelids jumped, and he said to Tu Tan Zhengse, "If it doesn't work out, don't take risks." ”

Tu Tan was stunned for a moment and was greatly moved.

"We have a second plan, which is to let him out fishing as bait." Wang Xu pointed at Wang Li and smiled.

Wang Li rolled his eyes with a dark face.

Tu Tan knocked his head on the ground and said in a muffled voice: "The guilty minister will never give up!" ”

"It's not that you want to die, it's that you want to deliver a letter." Wang Xu glanced at Tu Tan, "Don't be reckless, after all, this letter is related to the life and death of hundreds of us." ”

Tu Tan hurriedly agreed.

"If there's nothing to do, you guys go ahead and get busy." Wang Xu waved his hand.

Mo Kui and Tu Tan kowtowed again and helped them out of the room.

"The ancestor of the Qin people, the descendants of Emperor Fei Lian, was an important minister of the Shang Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty took the Xuanniao as the ancestor, and Fei Lian was the grandson of the Xuanniao, so the Qin people inherited the Xuanniao totem, the Xuanniao is the Emperor of Heaven, the Heaven and Earth of the Five Phoenix Towns, the Red Phoenix, the Green Luan, the Yellow Yuanchu, the Purple Bird (yuezhuo), and the White Honghu." Wang Xu opened his mouth and said, "Since there is Qingluan, there are naturally four more, right?" ”

Wang Li looked at Wang Xu in surprise: "How do you know?" ”

"I'm a descendant of Yin Shang." Wang Xu grinned.

Wang Li raised his eyebrows: "Then you should know it very well." ”

"The Qin clan is just a Yin Shang clan, thousands of years have passed, who knows how much you have inherited now?" Wang Xu rolled his eyes.

"Well, Qingluan is the guardian of the Qin clan, according to legend, after the ancestor was relegated to the Western Wilderness by Zhou Tianzi, when the clansmen had no food and were going to starve to death, a group of Qingluan suddenly flew through the sky and brought grain seeds, the ancestors survived by eating these seeds, and later established immortal achievements in the border wasteland." Wang Li explained, "So in the Qin clan, Qingluan is the guardian god, and Qingluan is an institution that is specifically subordinate to the royal family and is in charge of the royal family, as for the other four you mentioned, there should be, but I haven't heard of it yet." ”

Wang Xu sorted out a little, although the myths and stories of China are not the history of faith, they are all sorted out by the ancestors after oral transmission, but they also have certain historical meanings and evidence, this way of using myths to reason about the historical process is a very popular way of reasoning in the archaeological field in later generations.

Fei Lian is the wind of the Yellow Emperor in ancient times, with a peacock head, dragon horns, a deer body, a snake tail, and a phoenix feather, the main role is the vanguard general under the Yellow Emperor, and he is a figure with a high status.

Therefore, the ancestor of the Qin people, Fei Lian, was undoubtedly also an important figure in the Yin Shang period, because the Yin Shang respected bird culture, and any name related to birds had a relatively high status.

But from a historical point of view, during the battle of Zhou to destroy Shang, Fei Lian and his son died in the battle for Yin Shang, and their descendants were expelled to the land of the Western Wilderness, where there was a famous mythical figure at that time, that is, the Queen Mother of the West.

Later scholars directly compared the Queen Mother of the West to the empress of a female tribe in ancient times, and it is very likely that the ancestors of the Qin tribe were helped by this tribe when they fled to the west, and even merged with this tribe.

Because Qingluan is the mount of the Queen Mother of the West, and the Qin people also take Qingluan as their guardian saint, the two may be related, otherwise how did the ancestors of the Qin people establish a not weak political institution in the Western Wilderness within a hundred years, and finally be able to be named a prince by Zhou Tianzi for the merit of 'raising horses'?

The totem of the Qin State is composed of three parts: "Xuanniao Dead Eggs", "Hands-on Offerings" and "Seedlings", of which the Xuanniao is the inheritance of Yin Shang, and the remaining two are important symbols of the independent development of the Qin people later.

There are also scholars from the "Historical Records. Qin Benji" "Da Fei Zuoshun, training birds and beasts, birds and beasts training uniforms, is for Bo Peng." It is reasoned that the ancestors of the Qin people may have been the first to domesticate eagle harriers in China.

But no matter which origin, there is no doubt that the bird worship of the Qin people has been inherited in its entirety.

As an archaeologist, Wang Xu felt that his occupational disease had been committed again, and if he had the opportunity to chat with Qin Shi Huang in the future, Wang Xu would have to ask this question well.

"But I've always had a question, do these things really exist?" Wang Li asked suspiciously.

"I don't know about that." Wang Xu shook his head with a smile and pointed his finger at the map, "I just want to know how many people there are in the forest now." ”

"I'm not sure." Wang Li shook his head and said, "The land of Yanqi has been in war for almost three hundred years without recuperation, and after every war, a large number of displaced people will flee into the mountains and forests. ”

"It makes a lot of sense, but I think there may be a large number of people who have been taken captive by Donghu or Buyeo." Wang Xu reasonably suspected, because according to archaeological statistics, it is speculated in the ruins of the Xiongnu tribe in the later period that in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, the Xiongnu population had a population of more than two million.

Judging from the difficulty of Bai Mountain, Mao Dun and 300,000 iron cavalry besieging Liu Bang, the Xiongnu at that time had a population of more than one million, of course, some of these populations must have been captured by Mao Dun after conquering Donghu.

However, Donghu, which was conquered by the Xiongnu, did not completely wipe out the clan, but divided into Wuhuan and Xianbei and re-entered the Central Plains after a hundred years of multiplication.

It can be seen that the total population of the entire northeast region should not be less than one million people now, and it was enough for Jizi to go to Korea with 5,000 people back then, which can show that the population of the northeast to the Korean Peninsula at that time should not be more than 100,000, or distributed among the tribes in various regions, and the population is not large.

And judging from the degree of suffering of the climatic factors on human reproduction, it is difficult to increase the population tenfold in a few hundred years.

Then the population of the Xiongnu or Donghu is most likely to have been taken from the land of Yanqi to Taonan or taken captive.

"Possibly, what do you want to do?" Wang Li thought for a moment and asked.

"I don't like war, so I don't know if there is a peaceful way to solve the problem with Donghu." Wang Xu pinched his chin and muttered.

"The Hu people are all barbarians, they don't know how to be polite and are insatiable, and they won't reason with you, don't think about it." Wang Li rolled his eyes: "Didn't you just swear that you could have a foundation in a year?" ”

"There's no conflict between the two, I'm just looking for a peaceful solution." Wang Xu smiled.

"Don't tell me, you're going to pay tribute to these barbarians." Wang Li's eyes widened.

"Of course not." Wang Xu shook his head and said, "Your Empress Dowager Xuan of the Qin State treated the old things of Yiqu. ”

Wang Li glared at Wang Xu angrily, "You seem to mean something!" ”

"Don't think too much, I mean to use the commercial policy of softness and slowly assimilate, if there are really a lot of Yanqi people in Donghu and Buyeo." Wang Xu knew that he was reluctant when he looked at Wang Li's expression, after all, the matter of Empress Dowager Xuan and King Yiqu was a small taboo in the Qin State. Even though Empress Dowager Xuan made great contributions to the Qin State, this history still made the Qin people reluctant to mention it.

Wang Li snorted coldly, "I don't care about this, I just want the Wang family to be able to leave Xianyang in a year." ”

"Huh?" Wang Xu raised his eyebrows slightly, "Why do you want to leave?" A year later, your Wang family is still the pillar of Great Qin. ”

"I'm afraid that being with you for a long time will make me have some thoughts that shouldn't be born." Wang Li said with a complicated gaze.

"You can't be a king with IQ and EQ, so be a good marquis who is above 10,000 people under one person, and don't bring disaster to the country and the people." Wang Xu chuckled and shook his head.

Wang Li snorted coldly and limped out to walk the bird.