Chapter 22: The Secret of the Meteorite

It was already afternoon when he returned to Guangling, and he ordered Liu Bi and Liu Zihua to be detained separately. Brought in Lang to arrange a ceremony to commemorate the fallen soldiers, but it has been delayed for two days due to the meteorite and the siege of Liu Bi. Communicate with the people who accompany the army, tomorrow is an auspicious time, suitable for worship. Ouyang Xuan set the time and returned to his residence and wrote a note, detailing the process of arresting Liu Bi, and the follow-up plan and arrangement, as well as the plan for the dispersion of the reorganized Wu army to various counties and counties, and the plan for forming the Jianghuai Southern Army.

When I was done with my work, I had a little food, and when I saw the basin of water on my desk, I remembered the blue stone and moss that I threw into the water last night. Quickly lifted the lid, the moss had grown a lot, it was only the size of a fingernail, but now it had to be five or six times the size of the original, and it was brighter and greener. When the stone is taken out, the water scatters a faint blue fluorescence. Some of it resembles hot spring water, but is it possible that the hot spring water is also made from this extraterrestrial meteorite? Find Zhao Zhou and ask him to order someone to look for the fluorescent extraterrestrial meteorite that has just fallen within a radius of 500 miles and transport it back. carried the water to Liu Xian's cell, now this guy can only lie on his stomach, and the beating of fifty military sticks is not light. Seeing Ouyang Xuan coming in, he was so frightened that he quickly gritted his teeth and hid in the corner. "Get up, Ben Hou is not here to harm you, but to treat your injuries, come and lie down, just go to Chang'an like this, I'm afraid I'm already dead before I arrive in Chang'an, Ben Hou doesn't want the princes surnamed Liu to die in his hands." Pull Liu Xian, let him lie down, use a clean linen cloth dipped in fluorescent water, and gently wipe the wound. After finishing it, I observed it for another half an hour, and saw that the wound was obviously healing, and small granulations had grown. Ouyang Xuan had also used hot spring water to wipe the wound in the past, but it didn't work, only canine saliva had a slight effect, and the best was the saliva of the white wolf brothers and sisters, but the effect was not so obvious. It seems to be a good thing too. Find a soldier and let him wipe Liu Xian's wound in the morning.

Go back and put away the blue stone and continue to transcribe the "Compendium of Materia Medica". Until late at night, I soaked the white wolf in a bucket of fluorescent water, let them drink it full, and took a bath. I checked the camp before I fell asleep.

The sacrifice was very solemn, Ouyang Xuan was wearing a black crown and a black jade crown, which was very solemn. In addition to the guards on duty, all of them gathered on the altar outside the south gate of the city, the county guards who had not yet taken office, and the county commanders were all present, all wearing crowns and crowns, which was a mandatory requirement of Ouyang Xuan. The ceremony is presided over by the Zhuren to offer sacrifices, read the names of the fallen soldiers, send the flags, burn the yin, and finally worship by Ouyang Xuan, read the words that the people have explained in advance, burn the table, sacrifice three animals, cut the fingers and blood to slaughter the ears of the Ding, hold the flags around the nine circles of the Ding, and finally throw the bamboo slips with the list of fallen soldiers into the Ding, and the soldiers of the whole army and all the people present bow three times. The ceremony concludes with a personal dance performance until all the items in the ding are burned. (Now some film and television drama emperors wear twelve crowns at every turn, and even wear them when they go to court, especially the image of Qin Shi Huang, in fact, it is all nonsense.) It is only worn when participating in the memorial ceremony, not only by the emperor, but also by the princes and ministers. The Han system stipulates that the emperor's crown is 12 times, which is a white jade bead, and the three princes are seven, which is a green jade bead, and the emperor is a five-year-old doctor, and the black jade is a pearl. Each is composed of ribbon color and hangs on the side. When wearing a crown, wear a crown dress, and cover the knees and wear a ribbon according to the rank. It is made of woven material and supervised by the service officer of Chen Liuxiangyi. )

At the end of the ceremony, nearly 200,000 soldiers knelt down to Ouyang Xuan on the stage, shouting: "Shangsheng, Hanxing, wait for the mighty!" Shangsheng, Hanxing, Hu Hou mighty! Shangsheng, Hanxing, Hu Hou mighty! ”。 The officials in the audience had different expressions on their faces, some of them were indifferent, some shook their heads, some were a little excited, and more were an expression of envy, jealousy and hatred.

summoned the oath and the chief secretary to order the whole army to rest for a few days, waiting for His Majesty's instructions; He ordered the chief secretary to arrange for people to go to the counties and counties of Wu to recruit and surrender, and arrange for the appointed officials to be in place. Recruited Gong Cao, and ordered him to reorganize the Wu army according to the size of the military merits to report hundreds of people, and Lang Xuan, Zhang Jian, and Zhao Zhou each recommended 100 people to be selected by Ouyang Xuan to appoint county captains, county lieutenants and other positions. He also ordered Gong Cao to classify the reorganized soldiers according to their place of household registration and reserve them.

When everything is done, it is already noon, and the meal is finished. Before Ouyang Xuan could spread out the paper, Zhao Zhou came to report that a total of Jinqian fast meteorites had been found, and only two pieces of fluorescent were found. Ouyang Xuan went out, and in the night, the two stones also glowed with a faint blue fluorescence, much larger than the one Ouyang Xuan found, but the color of the stones was red. Let Zhao Zhou and the soldiers keep this matter a secret, and let them carry the stone to the house. Pulled out the knife, slashed at the largest piece, the stone was very hard, probably because it was cooled, and found a sledgehammer, smashed for a long time, before prying open the hard outer layer, the inside was solid iron, the color was as black as ink, the knife was broken, and it took two hours to cut with the knife before taking out the glowing core, and let everyone exit the room, and it was better not to let these people touch it when the safety was not determined. Because this core is golden, but it glows blue, and when you put it in water, the water is still golden, and it fluoresces blue. The other core is the same as the original, except that the fluorescence is more intense. I put them all in the water, found a broken branch and a moss the size of a fingernail and threw it into the pot, and the next day I saw the effect.

instructed these people again, and ordered Zhao Zhou to expand to thousands of miles to continue the search, including Huaiyang City. Strive not to leave one behind, and increase the number of manpower to 50,000. Ouyang Xuan has always felt that these meteorites have a certain connection with the hot spring water, as well as the spring water in Daqing Mountain, and it may also be related to the space-time gate when he came, this mystery Ouyang Xuan has always wanted to solve. There are many such records in history, including some stone statues, and even some petroglyphs have related content, and the blood rain after the meteorite fell in Kerala, India in 2001 has the same function as white wolf saliva, and there are also stone carvings with meteorite cores glowing in Mayan remains, and the blue five-dimensional space is also blue light. How the potential energy of time and space repairs the body, all this is a mystery, there are several such records in the history books, there are two more in the Jingdi period, and three more in the Han Wu Emperor period, which may be helpful to solve this mystery. Where is the exit singularity of the space gate in this time? Is it still in the Altai Mountains? Are these meteorites meteorites or graupel-energy detritus material produced when the key is thrown and exploded? Have you ever soaked in this kind of stone in the water of the hot springs, and how did you get to that valley? Now Ouyang Xuan recalled that the shape of the valley was very similar to the traces of a meteorite falling to the ground, but it had been severely weathered over time. Thinking of this, Ouyang Xuan's heart of decryption became stronger and stronger, and Ouyang Xuan didn't fall asleep until late at night.

The next morning, after washing and exercising, I looked at the moss and branches in the basin, and the moss in the golden stone basin was obviously much larger and greener. The branches are already showing signs of germination, and root shoots have grown on one side. The blue stones were not growing well, so they quickly fished out two of them from the water, dried them, wrapped them in buffalo skin, and polished them in a box with the same stones. The white wolf drank some water soaked in golden stones, and in less than half an hour after drinking, the saliva began to glow blue. I don't have time to study these now, so I'll talk about it back in the fiefdom.

After eating, I went to each battalion to supervise the training, all of which were short-term intensive training, except for the combat formation, which was a quick combat skill, and each captain was trained by Ouyang Xuan, so it should be no different. When Liu Qi's decree came down, these soldiers would be assigned to each county according to their household registration to assist the Taishou, and the county magistrate would deal with post-war related matters. In the afternoon, I went to the house where Liu Bi was detained, which was also the place where Liu Bi held prisoners and outspoken officials, and the walls were covered with thick straw, and there was no place to hang ropes. Ouyang Xuan didn't want to follow the old path of Zhidu Zhang Tang, as long as he didn't die in his own hands. Ordering people to be hospitable. looked at Liu Xian's injuries and basically healed.

Time flies, and five days later, Liu Qi's edict finally came down, and all the county lieutenants provided by Ouyang Xuan were approved, and the plan for the placement of Wu Jun's prisoners was also approved. There is also an edict, which is to order Ouyang Xuan and Yulin Jun to escort Liu Biao and his son back to Chang'an. The people sent to the counties and counties of Wu Chu to persuade them to surrender also returned to Guangling, and after learning that King Wu was captured, they all surrendered unconditionally. Ouyang Xuan ordered Lang to swear to gather the whole army and announced Liu Qi's edict. In addition to the 50,000 standing forces left to defend the granary, 100,000 soldiers were assigned to various counties and counties, and a group of commanders and county lieutenants were appointed according to merit and recommendations from all parties, and the soldiers were assigned to each county according to their place of origin, and those who were not assigned were disbanded and returned to their hometowns, and were exempted from taxes and conscription for three years. The Taishou, the county magistrate and the county lieutenant approached, and took the team to take office one after another, which lasted for three days before it was completed. The Yulin Army regrouped. The standing army was originally led by Zhao Zhou, but it was to return to Chang'an to be entitled, and it was temporarily led by the deputy general. Ouyang Xuan also asked Zhao Zhou to send some people to Yangxian County (now Yixing) to buy 5,000 catties of rich soil (purple sand soil), and repair a book, and told the king of Dongou about his family affection, explaining that if he was in trouble, he would find the Han family. Ordered Zhao Zhou to use the ship to send letters and buy land, just to put pressure on Dongou and a deterrent to Minyue Kingdom, without Liu Ju's demagogy in history, there should be no infighting.

When all the Yulin troops were in place, it was ten days later, with the purchased rich soil and the special rice of the south of the Yangtze River, and the handover with the Guangling Taishou was completed, and the team went straight to Shouchun. All the way is a swamp after the snow, muddy and difficult to walk, the horses are all five-person groups, close exploration release five miles, far exploration ten miles. Because of the escort of Liu Bi's father and son, the team was not very fast. The white wolf regained its mischievous nature, with snow-white fur when he went out, and black mud when he returned, always holding some rabbits, wild birds and other animals. When I came back, I would find someone I thought looked pleasing to the eye to bathe me, and along the way, in addition to Liu Bi's father and son, he was also laughing. It's okay Ouyang Xuan will get off the horse, sit in the white wolf's special car, and play a few songs. The army marched slowly, and when it arrived ten miles east of Shouchun City half a month later, Liu An, the king of Huainan, and Shili Pavilion led the ministers and guests to greet them. The whole army returned to its seriousness fifty miles away, and marched in strict accordance with the queue trained by Ouyang Xuan, and the white wolf brothers and sisters were naturally locked in the car by Ouyang Xuan. Four horses rode side by side, both front and rear were cavalry, and in the middle of the four-wheeled carriage were foot soldiers with swords and guns. There was a lot of damage to the carriages along the way, all of which were temporarily made by Ouyang Xuan's priests, and they were all replaced by Shouchun. It's all that kind of box type, with the non-commissioned and shield-soldiers outside, the spearmen behind, and the sword-soldiers standing beside the shields. The whole team of men and horses gave people a kind of pressure, the cavalry and horses were well controlled, there was no slightest confusion, the soldiers on the car were full of energy, their eyes were like torches, and their knives and guns reflected the cold light in the sun. The driver in the center is clearly armoured, and there are swords and guns on both sides to guard them. Seeing Liu An in a cold sweat, what Liu Bi saw at the beginning of the road was a dissolute Ouyang Xuan, who put down his identity and frolicked with the soldiers, and played the piano and teased his pets during the march. These soldiers are very stupid, they don't use the carriage or horses, they will run fifty or sixty miles fully armed every day, several people carry wood to please Ouyang Xuan, and it is common to fight with pets, although they can't see it after a short training after camping at night, but Liu Biao doesn't believe that this is the army of 10,000 people who are better than 50,000 of themselves. But the visual impact of the current army marching formation on him is not small, as if there are two teams in front and behind.

Outside the Shili Pavilion, when he saw the team greeted by Liu An, he ordered the team to assemble according to the phalanx and raise his sword to salute. The horsemen brushed their swords with their right grip and side, their arms at a ninety-degree angle, and the same goes for their foot soldiers. Ouyang Xuan stepped forward and bowed to the King of Huainan in the stars holding the moon: "The general of the chariot cavalry has waited for Ouyang Shixuan to march here, and I have seen His Royal Highness the King of Huainan."