Chapter 263: National Treasure (3)

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"Oh, you said that looking at the Great Han Kingdom, now that is the power of the Bendu Protector, and the conditions to solve the puzzle brought out of the tomb of the Marquis of Bowang?"

"You can really look up to me."

Wei Heyi listened to Gou Shen's ridicule and explained: "Originally, there were no conditions for the protection of the capital, but now that he has been the protector of the Western Regions, and the master of the Jiaofang Palace is the backing of the protector, plus the protector is the husband of Princess Wusun, the princess of Yuan Guimi and the princess of the worry will be grateful to the protector in the future, therefore, the time and place are favorable, and all these three conditions are met." ”

"That's why I say that."

Gou Shen smiled indifferently when he heard this: "I am a little flustered about what you said, but it seems to be true." ”

"Tell me what secret you've discovered."

Wei Heyi nodded and said: "Du Hu, at that time, I wanted to kill Bao Fangquan's whole family, Bao Fangquan told me a possible secret, and then, according to Bao Fangquan's narrative, with the mentality of preferring to believe it or not, I consulted a lot of classics, and asked many Ding Ling clan and Xiongnu old people, so as to roughly determine what Bao Fangquan said, it should be right." ”

"Bao Fangquan snatched the water jade from the half-human, half-ghost thing that night, and at the same time there was a piece of cowhide, which was marked with a map with Xiongnu characters and some Chinese characters written on it."

"This map hides a great secret."

"You stay, wait, you said that this cowhide is a map, and there are Xiongnu characters and Chinese characters on it, I ask you, Xiongnu. Is there a text? ”

Wei He's opinion was skeptical. Said solemnly: "Duhu." Although the Huns were not barbaric, they did have their own writings, but these words were more like symbols, and few people could understand them, and only a very small number of people could grasp them. ”

"At this point, I have made a special inquiry, this dynasty Taishi Gong said in the "Historical Records of the Xiongnu Liebiography", the Xiongnu's mother document. Restrained by words, 'this is not true, starting from Gaozu, my dynasty and the Xiongnu continue to be friendly, there are many national correspondence, especially in the year of the Empress Lu, the Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun also wrote a very rebellious letter to the Empress Lu, the content of which is very disrespectful. ”

Mao Dun said that he was very lonely in the north, and Empress Lu was because of Gao Zu Xuetian. Lonely and widowed in Chang'an, why didn't Queen Lu go to the Huns. Two people live together and comfort each other? ”

"This letter back then was written in Xiongnu script and Chinese at the same time, it is said that the Xiongnu font was still written by Mao Dun himself, why is it so? The reason is that the Xiongnu script is too simple, the vocabulary is single, and it often cannot express the meaning that people need to express, so this letter is written with Xiongnu characters on one side and Chinese characters on the other. ”

The matter of Mao Dun's teasing of Empress Lu was a great secret back then, but now everyone in the Han Kingdom knows it, and Wei He did not speak, and then said: "I once went to the border of Liaodong with an old Xiongnu man, and he took me to a cave, where I saw a lot of Xiongnu characters written on the rocks, and the symbols on this cowhide. ”

"Sima Qian admits that the Huns have their own language, but does not think that the Huns have their own writing, that is, he does not know and cannot see the original letter from Mao Dun to Empress LΓΌ, and Kong Zhongni said hundreds of years ago that the people of the five directions, the language is not comprehensible, and the appetite is different, he did not deny that the Huns did not have a written language, and the Huns themselves felt that they 'did not eat clothes with Huatong, did not understand currency, did not reach the language, and sat down and retorted'."

The meaning of sitting is to spread your legs like a dustpan when you are sitting, and when you speak, the subject-verb of the language is reversed, making people feel top-heavy and unable to understand the center of gravity of the speech.

"Then Bao Fangquan, for the sake of his own life and saving his son, told me that this cowhide map was captured by him and Shui Yu at that time, and he was not surprised, thinking that the function of cowhide was to wrap Shui Yu."

"Later, Bao Fangquan was exiled to the Yuyang area, he was very rich and did not dare to show it, so he could only exchange some gold and jade for five baht to spend, that water jade could not be sold anyway, not to mention that no one could buy it, even if it was known, he was also guilty and precarious."

"Bao Fangquan took out the water jade out of boredom and played with it, only then did he notice that there was a map on the cowhide, but Bao Fangquan didn't know the words, he didn't know the Chinese characters, and the Xiongnu script didn't need to be said, but Bao Fangquan was also a blessing to the soul, and there was always a difference between Chinese characters and the Xiongnu script, he traced the Chinese characters on the cowhide one by one, and asked someone to tell him what they were."

In this way, he finished asking the Chinese characters on the cowhide, and knew that they were some place names in the territory of the Xiongnu Kingdom, but none of the Xiongnu fonts knew what they meant.

"Didn't you say that Bao Fangquan had been to the Xiongnu for a while?" Gou Shen asked: "When he goes over there, it won't be as simple as wandering, right?" ”

Wei Heyi nodded and said: "Yes, Du Hu, I also asked Bao Fangquan like this at the time, Bao Fangquan asked me to swear to let him and his son go, so that I would tell me this secret, as for the woman who betrayed him, he wanted to eat her flesh raw." ”

Wei Heyi said and looked at Gou Shen, and Gou Shenxin said Bao Fangquan and your current situation is about the same.

Wei Heyi said: "Then Bao Fangquan said, either let him and his son go, or he will disappear into the Netherworld with that secret." ”

"I agreed to Bao Fangquan's request, and killed his woman and the thief in front of him, and swore a poisonous oath before he told me that what was buried on this map was actually the location of a great treasure."

"Bao Fangquan said that the map is very old, although it was obtained from Zhang Qian's tomb, but Zhang Qian's death is only a few decades away from now, and the year of the cowhide is more than 100 years old, and it must not be Zhang Qian's time."

"Why is the priceless water jade buried in Zhang Qian's tomb together with a cowhide map that is hundreds of years old? Doesn't that mean this map is precious? Or is it that the place marked by the map itself is the one that produced this large piece of water jade? Otherwise, it means that somewhere in this map, there are many treasures hidden, this piece of water jade. Just one of them. ”

Wei Heyi shook his head and said, "Although this Bao Fangquan is illiterate. He's a grave robber. But this man had an indescribable sense of smell about where the treasure was hidden, and he felt that the secret in this cowhide figure was promising, but he was troubled by the fact that the words like the Huns were not clear, so he went to the Huns. ”

"After arriving in the Xiongnu, he learned that those Xiongnu characters were not related to the Chinese characters written on the cowhide."

"You know, what is written on the cowhide?"

Gou Shen didn't speak, Wei Heyi said: "The Chinese characters on the cowhide say that the march route of Gaozu and the Xiongnu Mao Dunshan in the big battle at Baishan Mountain was the one that Gaozu led his troops and the Xiongnu Mao Dunshan fought in the Great War. It is very clear that Gaozu defeated the Huns in the copper roller, and pursued to Loufu, until Baishan Mountain was besieged by 400,000 Xiongnu soldiers for seven days and seven nights, and where did the Huns retreat. ”

"However, Bao Fangquan didn't understand what the Xiongnu script on the cowhide was, but he roughly understood that there were also some place names written on it, but the area was far from Baishan Mountain, and it seemed to be in the area west of the Hetao."

Bao Fangquan said that he had thought about going to Zhang Qian's tomb in Chenggu County again to explore. Let's see what else is related to treasure in Zhang Qian's tomb, but since that night. As soon as he thought of the situation in Zhang Qian's tomb, he was frightened and lost his courage, besides, Zhang Meng, Huangmenlang, rebuilt Zhang Qian's tomb, added some protection facilities, and paid someone to guard the tomb of Bowang Hou, and it was impossible to enter the tomb again. ”

Gou Shen said: "You said that until now, it's just Bao Fangquan himself guessing this so-called treasure?" ”

"No," Wei Heyi shook his head and said: "Du Hu, the Chinese characters on this cowhide are 108,000 miles different from the Xiongnu text, and the Chinese characters are not the paraphrase of the Xiongnu script, but why do unrelated things appear on the same cowhide?" This in itself is very strange. ”

"Bao Fangquan is just speculating about all this, and because the Hetao area is in the territory of the Xiongnu, and Liyuyang is too far away, he has no choice but to give up and wait for the opportunity to find out, but something happened."

"You're going to kill all of Bao Fang, right?" Gou Shen said: "Cut the grass and eradicate the roots, I think you won't leave his son in the future?" ”

Wei Heyi nodded and said, "Now I don't have to worry about it in front of Du Hu, I killed Bao Fangquan and his son after I got the cowhide." ”

Wei Heyi was very calm: "Pifu is not guilty, he is guilty, Bao Fangquan should have died as a tomb robber a long time ago, according to the law of the Han Dynasty, his son is also a pariah, and he must be distributed, how can he live alone?" It's better to die early and live early. ”

"After I got the cowhide, I thought about it day and night, and I went to Baishan Mountain a few times under the pretext of it, and asked some Huns who surrendered, and then I slowly realized a truth, this cowhide is indeed a treasure."

"Du Hu should know about the siege of Baishan Mountain in the time of Gaozu?"

Han Gaozu Liu Bang was besieged by the Xiongnu Mao Dun Shan Yu in Baishan Mountain, and everyone in the Han Kingdom knew about it, so Gou Shen asked: "Treasure and Gaozu were besieged by Mao Dun, is there anything involved?" ”

"All the highs!"

Wei Heyi was a little excited: "I thought about it for a few months before I figured it out, but I can understand it at all, and I deserve to be a hero and a teenager." ”

"Duhu, that Mao Dun is the crown prince of the Xiongnu Shan Yu Touman, this Touman was defeated by General Meng Tian during the Qin Dynasty and was driven to the desolate land in the north by Qin."

"Tou Manshan didn't like Mao Dun, and wanted to set up another son as the prince, Mao Dun used means to train his subordinates with Ming Di, and Ming Di pointed out, and his subordinates followed with bows and arrows."

"Maudun shot at his wife, his subordinates shot Maudun's wife with bows and arrows, Maudun's chirping shot at his own mount, and his men shot Maudun's mount, and later, Maudun's chirping shot at Touman, so Touman was killed, and Maudun became the king of the Huns."

"Mao Dun succeeded Shan Yu, taking advantage of the war in the Central Plains, wiped out several neighboring tribes, and recovered all the areas occupied by Meng Tian, and his cavalry reached 300,000, and at that time, Han Wangxin was garrisoned by Gaozu in a place adjacent to the Xiongnu, and Mao Dun fought with Han Wangxin."

This Han Wangxin is not Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin, Han Wangxin's reign at that time was in Mayi, which is today's Shuozhou City, Shanxi, this Gou Shen is very clear: "Han Wangxin was named the King of Han by Gaozu, this person later surrendered in Xingyang Xiang Yu was captured, and later fled back to the Han Dynasty, Gaozu still let him be the King of Han, and let him guard the frontier, not thin to him, but unfortunately ............"

Wei Heyi said: "What Du Hu said is, but I feel that Han Wangxin finally rebelled against the Han at that time, and he has his own helplessness and thoughts. ”

"Oh? Are you talking about how helpless Han Wangxin is? What did he think? ”

"Yes. All protection. Although Gaozu is good to Han Wangxin. But Han Wangxin is a king with a different surname after all, what happened to the kings with different surnames at that time, Zang Di, Liji, and Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin? ”

Zang Di was originally the general of Han Guang, the king of Yan, and Xiang Yu divided the world into the princes of the Eighteen Roads, and established Zang Tu as the king of Yan, and then Zang Tu, the king of Yan, returned to Han Xin and surrendered to Liu Bang.

In the fifth year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu, and Zang Tu and Han Xin, the king of Chu, Han Wangxin, Yingbu of Huainan, Peng Yue, the king of Liang, Wu Rui, the king of Changsha, and Zhang Er, the king of Zhao, jointly honored Liu Bang, the king of Han, as the emperor. Two years after his accession to the throne, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, killed the rebellious Yan King Zang Di.

Li Ji was originally a general of Xiang Yu, and later surrendered to Liu Bang, and was named the Marquis of Yingchuan, in the autumn of the fifth year of Han Gaozu, Li Ji rebelled, was defeated by Liu Bang, and Li Ji was killed.

And Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin, was killed by Empress Lu in Weiyang Palace, this person is well known.

"The birds are all good and have their bows hidden, and they have to plan for themselves, and Gaozu was the three new kings at that time. All of them are members of the Liu family, and the future of the kings with different surnames is worrying. ”

"The most important point. That is, there were too many cavalry from Maodun at that time, and the strength was too strong, and where could Gao Zu understand this in Chang'an? He also accused Han Wangxin of 'not being brave in death, not being in charge, attacking Mayi, and the king's strength is not enough to hold on? Where safety and death are in danger, why do I blame the king? ’”

"Gaozu accused Han Wangxin of being afraid of death and disgusted with his lack of troops, and asked him why he didn't go to war, and secretly communicated with the Xiongnu, and was suspected of surrendering, so Han Wangxin completely didn't do anything, sacrificed Mayi City, and really surrendered to the Xiongnu."

Wei Heyi saw that Gou Shen was silent, and then said: "Mao Dun received Han Wangxin's surrender troops, let Han Wang Xin lead the troops to attack the south, at this time Guanzhong is dangerous, Mao Dun's army can cross the Yellow River to the south to attack the hinterland of the Central Plains, so Gao Zu drove his own expedition, first and Han Wangxin's rebels fought in Tongba, Han Wangxin was defeated, and then Mao Dun gave Han Wangxin 10,000 cavalry, and Han Wangxin was defeated again in Jinyang, at this time, Gaozu knew that the Huns had joined in, so on the one hand, he was actively preparing for war in Jinyang, and on the other hand, he sent Liu Jing to negotiate peace with Mao Dun. ”

"Liu Jing?" Gou Shen asked: "This Liu Jing should be the Lou Jing who suggested that Gaozu move the capital back then, right?" ”

Wei Heyi spoke, seeing that Gou Shen always said a few words at critical times, and always said the point, he felt that this young Du Hu was really not a good match, so he nodded and said: "Du Hu is erudite and talented, this Liu Jing is the Lou Jing who persuaded Gaozu to move the capital to Chang'an, but Liu Jing has not come back, but Gaozu has sent a batch of people to negotiate peace with Maodun, but there is no peace negotiation, and after these people come back, they all say that the Hun soldiers in Maodun are very weak, and say that if Gaozu leads the troops to attack, he will definitely succeed in one fell swoop." ”

"In fact, these people have all fallen for Maudun's arrogant tactics."

"At this time, the weather in the Jinyang area suddenly changed, the temperature plummeted, the snow fell, and a large number of soldiers suffered frostbite.

"Gaozu claims to have a military strength of 320,000, this number is also written by Sima Qian in the history books, I checked the written records of the relevant aspects of the Xiongnu, in fact, the Han army had a maximum of 200,000 people that day, and there were very few cavalry."

"Gaozu sat in the formation, Fan Hao was the forward, all the way north from Jinyang, only encountered sporadic Huns, these Huns were vulnerable, and fell apart in an instant, so Gaozu was overjoyed, and rushed to Gouzhu Mountain, and met Liu Jing who returned from the Huns."

"Liu Jing said to Gaozu that the Huns were deceitful, he came from the Huns all the way, and all he saw were the old, weak, sick and disabled, which must be the Huns showing weakness, but Gaozu reprimanded Liu Jing for being the puppet of the Qi State, and he was confusing the army with evil words, so he locked Liu Jing up."

"So, as a result, we all learned later, that Gao Zu and Fan Xu were surrounded by Maudun's cavalry troops on Baishan Mountain on the edge of Pingcheng."

Wei Heyi's eyes will become very bright, which is very inconsistent with his sloppy image: "As for how Gaozu was able to get out of trouble back then, why Mao Dun led 400,000 cavalry and turned against him, the history books say that Chen Ping took advantage of the cover of the fog to run to Mao Dun's military camp, found Mao Dun's queen Yan clan, and then bribed the Xiongnu queen to intercede with Mao Dun through the Yan branch, and then Mao Dun took the initiative to relieve the siege, and Gao Zu came out. ”

Wei Heyi looked at Gou Shen and asked, "Du Hu, do you believe it?" ”

Gou Shen asked, "What do you want to say?" ”

Wei Heyi's eyes narrowed: "Ma Qian of Taishi Company mentioned this matter in the history books, and used such a sentence, 'Its plan is secret.'" The world is unheard of'! ”

"I couldn't figure it out. I don't believe it either. What is Chen Ping's secret? I think it's really trying to cover it up, and I want to talk about other things. ”

Regarding how Liu Bang escaped from the siege of Maodun's army in Baishan Mountain, Gou Shen also consulted some information in later generations, and because he studied classical Chinese, he consulted some professors, but the more he looked at the information and asked others, the more confused Gou Shen became.

The weather was bad at that time. There was a heavy fog, but how could Chen Ping, as a member of the Han Dynasty, casually enter and leave the Huns' military camp on a foggy day, and still meet with the princess of Maudun quietly?

That's a bit of.

Chen Ping quietly met Mao Dun's wife? What is the difference between that and the Huns who quietly came to Dahan to meet Gou Shen's sister Wang Zhengjun?

Is this possible?

Unless, Chen Ping is a top master with unpredictable abilities, who can enter and exit the Xiongnu army camp as if entering a no-man's land.

But this assumption can't be established at all, Chen Ping took refuge in Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, can Xiang Yu know his strength?

Chen Ping has always been a minister, not a general.

- If Chen Ping is a supreme martial artist. So why didn't Chen Ping directly assassinate Mao Dun? Wouldn't that solve all the problems in one fell swoop?

Also, the history books also say that Chen Ping bribed the Yan family after he arrived at the Xiongnu military camp?

- Chen Ping can avoid the patrol of the 400,000 army, and it would be good to see the Yan family. How to bribe the Yan family in person, does Chen Ping have a lot of real money on him?

And how much of the gold and silver are there?

If it is less, will the queen of the Huns be tempted? If there are too many, Chen Ping, can you take it?

Chen Ping has to bribe the Xiongnu's property in the future, and he has to avoid layers of soldiers patrolling, how incredible is this person's ability......

"I won't believe that Chen Ping bribed the Yan clan anyway, and Mao Dun will let Gao Zu go because the Yan clan is soft and hard in his ear, if so, Mao Dun is not Mao Dun," Wei Heyi looked at Gou Shen and said: "Du Hu, this Mao Dun, in order to be a Xiongnu Shan Yu, but he used a Ming Di to shoot at his own woman, shot at his father, and trained a wolf and tiger guard." ”

Gou Shen knew that two hundred years later, there was a person named Huan Tan in the Eastern Han Dynasty who said that during the siege of Baishan Mountain, Chen Ping mixed into the camp of the Xiongnu army, and told Mao Dun that the Han Emperor Liu Bang wanted to choose a stunning woman from the Central Plains as a condition for breaking the siege and give it to Mao Dun, Mao Dun would definitely like it, so you would fall out of favor! So if you want to keep your position, you have to find a way to get the Han army out of trouble, and when the emperor goes back, he won't give it to Maodun women.

Therefore, Yan Zhi was greatly nervous by Chen Ping's words, so he tried to find a way to let the Xiongnu army break the siege and Liu Bang was able to get out of trouble.

Gou Shen thinks this is nonsense.

"Then you say, how did Gao Zu get out of trouble?"

Wei Heyi whispered: "Gaozu raised the strength of the whole country, collected countless gold, silver, money and goods, and handed them all over to Mao Dun, which was exchanged for his own peace. ”

"You say this, I believe it, because the Huns originally came for benefits, they just came to loot rather than capture the land, because they don't know how to live in the occupied Han land, moreover, the Han is very mysterious to them, there are too many uncertain factors, let someone send their own finances every year, why bother to build a division and move the people to break the boat with the Han Dynasty?"

"However, Gao Zu was besieged in Baishan Mountain for seven days, how could he gather enough financial resources to make Mao Dun retreat within seven days?"

"Where does all that money come from? If this is the case, it is not recorded in the history books, then it is understandable, but why are there no rumors among the people at all? ”

Wei Heyi shook his hands, and the shackles on his arms rattled: "Du Hu, this matter is secret, naturally it can't be known to the people of the Han Dynasty, otherwise where is the face of the royal family?" ”

"As for where the money for Mao Dun came from, Du Hu forgot, at that time, Chu and Han were fighting, who was the first to enter the Guannai?"

"Gaozu - do you mean that after Gaozu entered the customs, he collected the property of the former Qin royal family, which is equivalent to the private property of the royal family, and when it came to Baishan Mountain, he handed over these belongings to Mao Dun, so he was released by Mao Dun? And the people don't know anything about it? ”

Wei Heyi nodded: "Yes, in fact, one of the reasons why Mao Dun withdrew was that he got the property sent from Chang'an by Gao Zu's order, and the other was because Mao Dun agreed with Wang Huang and Zhao Li to attack Gao Zu together, but these two people never appeared, and that Han Wangxin was nowhere to be found. ”

"Liu Jing was later named the Marquis of Guan Nei by Gaozu, not to mention this, just to say that the property that was taken away by Mao Dun is too huge, Mao Dun is worried that the royal court is in danger, and the property will inevitably be divided to other Hun princes after going back, so he left Bai Shan Mountain on the way back to the royal court, buried these treasures, marked them, this is the origin of the treasure on this cowhide I said."

"As for later, the Han Dynasty has been weak, every year to the Xiongnu to pay tribute to money, food, women, these money and things that were hidden by Mao Dun were put on hold, not used at all, and later, Mao Dun died, the Xiongnu civil strife, this secret was originally known by few people, and the cowhide map where the treasure was buried is nowhere to be found, somehow, decades later, it was in the hands of Zhang Qian, who went to the Western Regions."

Wei Heyi's eyes were blazing and he said, "Du Hu, I think that Bo Wanghou definitely knew the whereabouts of this treasure back then!" ”

Gou Shen wondered: "Why are you so sure?" ”

Wei Heyi sneered: "Zhang Qian's first mission to the Western Regions was sent by Emperor Wu, and he was imprisoned for more than ten years, but not long after he came back from great hardship, he once again took the initiative to ask to go to the Western Regions again, what to do there?" ”

"If it were me, I would have suffered a loss in the Western Regions, and I would definitely not set foot in the Western Regions again, unless there is enough to tempt me to take risks and entice me to repeat the mistakes of the past!"

"Moreover, the water jade in Zhang Qian's tomb is the most powerful evidence!" (To be continued......)

PS: [Mr. Tao Ketao, a famous Mongolian historian, in his masterpiece "Spring and Autumn Period in Felt Township - Xiongnu Chapter", listed a lot of relevant information about the Xiongnu who had their own writing, and the Xiongnu had the existence of "rock inscriptions". According to Mang. Pastoral forest (Mang. Mulin is also known as Mulin, formerly known as Dun Ruobu and Laxi Donglubu, and is a lecturer at the Institute of Mongolian Language and Literature of Inner Mongolia Normal University. Born on September 17, 1929, a native of the Zhenglan period of the Xilin Gol League in Inner Mongolia, Mongolian) said that the so-called "ancient Xiongnu characters" refer to a unique text symbol system left by the Xiongnu people on their monuments and tombs in the Mongolian steppe, including the rock paintings in the north and south of the desert. At present, the Xiongnu languages collected mainly come from three places: first, the Northern European region, such as Hungary, the former German and Scandiner regions, Bulgaria regions, etc.; the second is Mongolia, such as near the Arshan Rock, the Chagan River area, the Tomstu Mountain petroglyphs, etc.; The third is within China. 】

[Copper roller, now Qinxian County, Shanxi, Loufu, now Ningwu, Shanxi, Gouzhu Mountain, now Yanmen Mountain, Pingcheng now Datong, Shanxi, Jinyang, now Taiyuan, Shanxi]