Chapter 18: Finding the City
"Wanahi, have you ever seen an object like this?" Sun Hao grabbed Wanahi's shoulders with both hands and asked excitedly. Where there is a city wall, there will be people, and where there is a Chinese style city wall, there must be Chinese, so Sun Hao is extremely excited. I've been going crazy for the past few days, and I haven't even had anyone to finish, which almost broke Sun Hao.
Due to the language barrier between the two sides, Wanahi could not answer Sun Hao's question.
"Where have you seen it?" Sun Hao asked again.
Wanashi didn't understand Sun Hao's language at all, but she was very smart and thought for a while, as if she was comprehending the meaning of Sun Hao's words. After a moment, Wanahi pointed to the foot of the hill across the river.
How can there be a wall over there? Sun Hao looked in the direction that Wanahi was pointing, and he didn't see anything other than the dense deep forest at the foot of the mountain. Could it be that the city is hidden in the deep forest? Sun Hao thought to himself.
After thinking like this, Sun Hao hurriedly returned to the tribe with Wanahi, and then called a native army of 100 people, and crossed the river on a raft in full armor, heading to the foot of the mountain in the distance.
A few hours later, when 100 or so people were about to reach the foot of the mountain, they were blocked by a river that was at least a kilometer wide, so Sun Hao ordered trees to be cut down to make a raft to cross the river.
After successfully crossing the river, everyone walked to the foot of the mountain.
After walking a short distance, Sun Hao found that there were traces of human activity here, and the age was not very old, and some of the stumps that had been cut down had either grown new thick branches, or were covered by dead branches or moss.
Sun Hao carefully inspected these felled stumps and found that they were all cut down with sharp weapons, and these cut down trees were definitely not caused by indigenous stone axes, could it be that there were Han people living here before? Sun Hao thought to himself.
After checking, Sun Hao took everyone to the foot of the mountain, half an hour later, Sun Hao saw a city faintly in the dense deep forest, after seeing, Sun Hao was overjoyed, is there a Han people living here?
When Sun Hao and 100 people soon came to a tall city, he saw that the city wall was already covered with moss, and many wooden vines were also climbing on the city wall.
This city is very large, and because it is hidden by trees, it is difficult for Sun Hao to estimate how big this city is?
The city wall is at least about 15 meters high, and there are shooting battlements and attics, which are completely the architectural style of ancient China, but I didn't see a single figure. There were even some small trees growing on the walls, and the wide moat was deserted, as if it had not been managed for many years. The moat was full of fallen leaves, and there were a lot of aquatic plants, and from time to time some fish could be seen swimming in the water.
Although it is a deserted city wall, Sun Hao is still very happy in his heart, there is a city wall, which proves that people have lived here before, and it is still a large number of people, otherwise he would not be able to build such a large city.
Sun Hao followed the moat to find the city gate, wanting to enter the city to see what was going on.
Half an hour later, Sun Hao finally found the city gate. However, the iron sheet wrapped around the wide gate was rusty, and the suspension bridge was still pulled up, and the iron chains on it were also rusty, as if they would break at any moment. Many small trees had grown under the city gate, and faintly visible were all small grass and stone slabs laid under the dead leaves.
The city is a bit desolate because it is not managed, and with moss and strange vines, this city looks like a ghost town.
Sun Hao took a closer look at the words on the city wall above the gate of the city, although the moss trees and vines were dense, but it was vaguely visible that there were several vigorous and powerful gilded characters written on it, "Fuming City".
Restoration City? Could it be that this is called a place of regain sight by the original inhabitants? No, it's completely illogical. Don't? Sun Hao suddenly thought that when the Ming Dynasty fell, some of the emperor's descendants fled to Nanyang, Australia, East Asia and other places.
History records that the emperor ordered some major generals to protect their descendants to develop in Nanyang, East Asia and other places, in order to recapture the Ming Dynasty one day.
Sun Hao thought of someone who might be a descendant of the Ming Dynasty, so he was excited and immediately ordered to cross the moat, climb a tree into the city, and climb up with him.
After climbing the city wall, Sun Hao saw that the walkway of the city wall had been covered with thick leaves and dead branches, and a layer of green moss had almost completely submerged the walkway.
Then, Sun Hao beckoned dozens of natives, slowly lowered the suspension bridge of the city gate, and then opened the city gate wide.
After the city gate opened, Sun Hao carefully examined the buildings in the city with a telescope.
These buildings are magnificent in shape, and the courtyards are bright and open, arranged in relative order and orderly. The courtyard has a single eaves hall and a heavy eaves hall. There are single eaves rest mountain, heavy eaves rest mountain, three drops of water pavilion rest mountain, big eaves rest mountain, roll shed rest mountain, etc., there are both one floor, there are two to three floors of buildings, and the sharp building has triangular, four corners, five corners, hexagonal, octagonal, round, single eaves, heavy eaves, multi-layer eaves and other forms.
In the garden, there are the pine and cypress that are not carved in the cold year, there are the exquisite rockeries of the beautiful stones, the buildings, pavilions, pavilions and pavilions are hidden in the meantime, beautiful and quiet. Palaces, altar temples, temples and other large buildings, drum towers, bell towers, courtyards, a wide avenue of more than 10 meters runs through the whole city, the spirit is magnificent, the planning is rigorous, extremely spectacular.
Unfortunately, some of the buildings are crumbling, the tiles are full of moss and leaves, and the city is full of small trees and weeds that have grown later, which is quite desolate.
After Sun Hao and his party walked down the city wall, they walked to the largest courtyard in the distance. Although the buildings in this city are magnificent, there is not a single ghost to be seen, but there are rats and snakes, and there are many birds. Weeds, dead leaves everywhere. It looks extremely dark, even with a hint of terror, and at night, ghosts will kill people.
After the group approached the largest courtyard, Sun Hao saw that there were several gilded plaques of "Dingwangfu" hanging on the gate of the courtyard, and two unicorn beasts weighing several tons were placed on both sides of the gate, as if guarding the owner of this courtyard.
Dingwang? Sun Hao didn't know which powerful person Dingwang was. Sun Hao doesn't know much about the history of the Ming Dynasty, is he the son of Emperor Chongzhen? Sun Hao thought to himself.
Several people pushed open the gate of the palace, and after entering the door, Sun Hao led more than 100 people to shuttle through this majestic courtyard.
Seeing that there is an auspicious beast on each of the four corners of these buildings, it is vivid and lifelike. The tall courtyard timber frame has three different structural methods: lifting beams, wearing buckets, and well drying.
The beam lifting type is to erect the beam on the column, and the beam is lifted again, and the bucket type is to wear the row of columns to become a row of frames with a fang, and then connect it with a fang and a purlin. The courtyard walls are painted and carved. Color paintings mostly appear in the beams and arches of the inner and outer eaves, as well as the indoor ceiling, caisson and column head, the composition and the shape of the components are closely combined, the painting is exquisite, and the colors are rich.
Walking through the entire courtyard, Sun Hao judged by the dust in the room, the weeds in the courtyard wall, and the height of small trees, and felt that the people here would disappear for about 6 years at most.
The architectural features here are completely Ming Dynasty style, seeing these buildings, as well as calligraphy and paintings, porcelain, living utensils, armor, etc. in many rooms, Sun Hao is more sure that this was the place where the people of the Ming Dynasty lived here before.
Why did these people disappear? With the scale of this city, it can accommodate at least about 300,000 people, and if 300,000 people don't have it, it's gone. Could it be a relocation? But it's not like, the relocation should move the living materials here, because Sun Hao saw a lot of living tools and utensils, so the idea of relocation was excluded by Sun Hao.
Walking out of Dingwang's Mansion, not far away, Sun Hao saw a courtyard slightly smaller than Dingwang's Mansion, and after the group approached, Sun Hao saw a large plaque of "Jinwei Mansion".