Chapter 66: The Jade Seal

Xiao Tianxiong looked at the fallen clansmen one by one, and there was no sadness and anger in his heart, only deep helplessness and complaints to God. Since ancient times, he has been a king and a loser, although he doesn't remember when he had a grudge with the Meng family's fishing village, but he also admitted it, because he killed too many people.

In the days of hegemony at sea, the treatment of merchant ships was sometimes similar to that of the Mongol cavalry when they conquered the west, if the merchant ships did not resist and obediently gave some money to buy roads, they would save trouble and would not kill anyone. If there is resistance, especially the lives of his pirates, they must be redoubled, and the entire ship's slaughter also happens from time to time.

Meng Hao and the other captain are scrambling to fight, to see who can kill Xiao Tianxiong's side first, whoever cuts off his head will be a great achievement, and the people of the Meng family are all going to fight. However, Xiao Tianxiong had already lost the courage to fight, and he wiped his neck without waiting for the Meng family's village soldiers to kill.

Collecting tables, chairs, benches and other things, an offering table was temporarily set up on the deck, and the tablets of the ancestors of the Meng family were written on red paper on it. Rows of pirate corpses were placed under the offering table, and Xiao Tianxiong's head was cut off and placed on the offering table as a sacrifice. Hundreds of soldiers of the Meng family knelt on the ground, and the blood on the deck was stained on everyone's body, and the revenge of the entire family was avenged, which was worth celebrating.

After cleaning up the corpses on the deck, Zhao Tianyou still decided not to want this ship, in addition to the need for maintenance and delay, there is also a reason that there are too many dead people on this ship, which is not very lucky. The blood on the deck had been lost in size, seeping into the cracks in the wood, and there was a black-red liquid everywhere, even flowing down the blasted holes into the cabin below.

"No, we don't have time to trim, even if we can drive away, it's a burden!" Du Hu's opinion is to burn it, even if it is an opponent, it should respect the corpses killed in battle, and it should be done good to hold a cremation for them.

The Mengjiazhai soldiers did not mean to touch the property in the cabin, which was also strongly requested by Mencius, no matter what property was distributed by Zhao Tianyou, so the work of cleaning the cabin was handed over to the Gan soldiers under Du Hu.

The black lacquer box containing the jade seal was discovered, and when it was delivered to Zhao Tianyou, Mencius Yan, who was smiling, also leaned over.

"Oh, it's still a blessing to Sect Leader Zhao! Finally seeing it again, I thought I would never find it again! ”

Zhao Tianyou laughed and said: "Old man, you have been staring at it, you didn't leave after setting up the offering table, I think you still have something!" ”

"Zhao Jiaotou told you to laugh, I was young when the accident happened, but I remember this black lacquer box, I don't know what is inside!"

Zhao Tianyou casually handed the box to Mencius Yan and said: "Okay, I won't look at it either, you take it, it must be your Meng family's valuable treasure!" ”

"Thank you Zhao Jiaotou for having a heart, it's not that I'm greedy for money, but the mystery that has been bothering me back then, my father, they attach great importance to this box, and when they wanted to send it there, they ran into pirates from Sanshan Island.

Nearly sixty years have passed, and after the revenge is avenged, I can still see this box again, all relying on the help of Zhao Jiaotou. So I just took a look, what was inside, no matter how valuable it was, I would give it to you, thank you for your help to the Meng family fishing village this year. ”

Zhao Tianyou laughed, waved his hand and said: "Old man, you can take it, rare treasures are useless to me, I don't like those things either, the ancestral things of the Meng family must be very precious, and it is okay to take them back as treasures of the town." ”

But when Mencius Yan opened the box and revealed the true face of the jade seal, Zhao Tianyou's face changed, he had really seen this thing. But that was on TV, explained by the famous CCTV host, the mystery of the whereabouts of the jade seal of the top ten secrets of China.

At that time, the program exhibited collections from several museums, as well as collections from different dynasties in foreign museums, although they were of different colors and sizes, but at a glance they were all born from this thing in a box.

The show didn't make it clear at the end, and there was no way to verify the whereabouts of the jade seal that didn't really pass on the country, even if it disappeared in which era. But the last well-documented thing about this jade seal is that in the Northern Song Dynasty, when Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, he also used the two jade seals engraved by Guo Wei, Taizu of Zhou, "Emperor Treasure".

At the time of Song Zhezong, it is said that a peasant dug out a jade seal from the ground and sent it to Bian Liangxian and the imperial court, where more than a dozen scholars jointly identified the authenticity. After more than half a year of research, compared with the text description of the previous dynasty, the reproduction of the seal left behind, and other means, it was finally determined that this jade seal was carved by the first emperor of the Great Qin.

But the good times did not last long, the Song Dynasty did not keep it for long, the Jin soldiers broke through Bianliang, the two emperors of Huizong and Qinzong were captured, and the "heirloom jade seal" was plundered together, and then disappeared. And the jade seal used by the imperial court now is one of the ten jade seals copied by Song Huizong according to the original state, which is not orthodox.

In the more than 1,000 years from its birth to the Southern Song Dynasty, the heirloom jade seal has gone through several dynasties, and has been played with by countless emperors of the Ninety-Five Supreme, and has become a token of whether the Han emperor is orthodox or not. Whether it was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty or the Li Dynasty of the Sui and Tang dynasties, they all regarded obtaining this jade seal as a top priority in the early days, and Tang Taizong ordered Li Jing to go deep into the desert for thousands of miles to pursue the Turks, only to force Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao, the grandson of Emperor Yang of Sui, to return to the Central Plains, and bring back the heirloom jade seal to Tang Taizong.

These thoughts turned around in Zhao Tianyou's mind a few times, and Mencius Yan's eyes were also full of fear, it was naturally a good thing for this thing to fall into the emperor's house, and if it fell into the hands of the people, it would bring disaster.

The husband is not guilty of his crimes, starting from the harmony of the family, which brings all the strife and disasters, and even leads to wars between countries. Unless it is a great hero who is destined to return, and has the luck of a king who has changed the dynasty, he can suppress this heirloom jade seal.

"Smack!" Zhao Tianyou stretched out his hand and buckled the box, but fortunately, no one saw it, so he covered him first. Du Hu and others were cleaning up the things in the bed, and these Gan soldiers, who had always been very poor, were smiling one by one when they lifted the silver, and no one felt tired.

Mencius Yan shook his head, and forcibly endured the apprehension in his heart and said, "Sect Leader Zhao, do you think this thing is real or fake?" ”

"Old man, forget about it, whether it's true or not, this can't be put in the fishing village, and don't even talk to anyone about it in the future!"

Mencius gritted his teeth, reached out to open the box, wrapped the jade seal in silk cloth, and stuffed it into Zhao Tianyou's arms. Then he picked up the black-lacquered wooden box, beckoned two working soldiers to help him, and staggered up the bamboo ladder.

Suddenly, the bamboo ladder shook, and Mencius Yan also shook it, and under the watchful eyes of the soldiers on both boats, the black lacquered wooden box fell off from his arms and fell into the sea.

Zhao Tianyou looked at it from afar and smiled, and secretly said in his heart that Jiang was still old and spicy!