Chapter Seventy-Eight: National Fortune, Taimiao
After the mysterious man's words, I was finally able to determine in my heart that the picture that appeared in my eyes now was the scene when Mu Gongzhen's Qin Sword was cast.
And after hearing what the mysterious man said, Qin Mugong couldn't help muttering to himself.
"Mugong Town Qin Jian ......"
To put it simply, just because this is a sword forged by Qin Mugong to suppress the national fortune of Qin, the mysterious person named it Mugongzhen Qin Jian, which can be said to be extremely arbitrary.
But when you think about it, this simple name is extremely much in line with the true meaning of this sword.
It could be seen from Qin Mugong's expression that he was very satisfied with the name, but after thinking about it, he still put forward another opinion.
"My lord, if it weren't for your help, the Qin State would just be a small country that had been defeated by the Jin State and could not advance eastward, and it was you who helped my Qin State dominate Xirong, but you never got any benefits, how could you dare to name this sword of the Zhenguo after yourself?"
Qin Mugong, surnamed Ying, name Ren Hao, in front of this mysterious person, Qin Mugong actually gave up his identity as the lord of the Qin State, but used such a humble way as a self-title, which is enough to see his respect and fear for the mysterious person.
"It's just a name, it doesn't matter."
The mysterious man waved his hand indifferently, and his mouth was light.
"I have my plan to help you, although in your eyes I have not received any benefits, but the fact that the Qin State is dominating one side itself has great benefits to me, so you don't need to be so grateful to me at all, in the end, it's just to take what you need."
"As for the name is just a code name, in the final analysis, you are the monarch of the Qin State, if you name this Zhenguo Sword after me, it will inevitably be discussed, there is no need to say more, it is so decided, this sword will be called Mu Gongzhen Qin Sword in the future."
Qin Mugong was already quite satisfied with this name, but now he saw such a resolute attitude of the mysterious man, so he did not continue to refute, but accepted this name that has been passed down for thousands of years in later generations.
Mu Gongzhen Qin Jian.
After deciding on the name of the sword in a few words, the mysterious man looked around, and I was shocked to find that even in this state, I still couldn't see his face.
On his face, there seemed to be a layer of black qi that seemed to be nothing, and this black qi blocked all my observations of him, and it could not prove whether I was dazzled at the beginning, and whether this person's appearance was really the same as mine.
He glanced around, and his falcon-like gaze seemed to be able to see me who wasn't supposed to be here, and he didn't know whether he was telling Qin Mugong or me.
"Since this sword has been cast, then there is no need for us to continue to stay here, now, what we have to do is to seal a trace of Qin's national fortune in it, in this case, it is time to go to Taimiao."
As the mysterious man finished speaking, the image was reduced to fragments, and my eyes were once again plunged into darkness.
In the darkness, I secretly guessed that if my guess was correct, then in the next picture, what I saw should be the Taimiao he mentioned.
The so-called Taimiao is the temple of the ancient Chinese emperor, which has a long history, it was called the world room in the Xia Dynasty, it was called the heavy house in the Yin Shang Dynasty, it was called the Ming Hall in the Zhou Dynasty, and it was called the Taimiao from the Qin and Han dynasties.
Generally speaking, the Taimiao Temple is a special place of worship for the royal family, so generally only the emperor's ancestors can enjoy this honor, and they must be close relatives or imperial relatives who have contributed to the Jiangshan Sheji.
However, in later generations, there are some courtiers who have made great contributions to the society, with the permission of the emperor, they can also enjoy the treatment of the temple after death, and these courtiers will be buried with the ceremony of the king of the county after death, which is the so-called worthy of the temple, which is a great honor in ancient times.
Because the ancestors of the emperor are enshrined in the Taimiao, and there are also many courtiers who have made great contributions to the society, so in the underworld, the Taimiao is closely related to the national fortune of this dynasty, and it is the most sacred and important place for each dynasty and each generation.
What the mysterious man and Qin Mugong said just now was very clear, even if the Qin sword of Mu Gongzhen had been cast, if there was no mysterious person to seal the national fortune of the Qin State in it, then this sword would be just a sharp weapon at best, and it would not have any other meaning.
And if you want to seal the national fortune in the Zhen Qin Sword, then the top priority is to find the national fortune of the Qin State first.
And the so-called national fortune is illusory, even if it is a legendary saint, it is absolutely impossible to fabricate it out of thin air, even if the mysterious person means to the sky, there is nothing he can do about it, if he wants to find the national fortune, then it is necessary to go to the Taimiao that is most closely related to the national fortune.
As I pondered, the blackness in front of me faded, and countless fragments pieced together a new picture in my eyes.
This new picture appeared in a spacious hall.
This hall is mainly black, the beams in the hall are agarwood, the rest are made of gold elm, the ground is covered with gold bricks, even the ceiling and the pillars are covered with red gold flowers, the production is fine, the decoration is luxurious, the overall arrangement is simple, revealing a majesty that ordinary people dare not look up to.
At the top of the throne is a wooden and gold-lacquered shrine, and behind the shrine is carved a lifelike bird, which looks up at the sky and its wings are slightly folded, as if it is invisibly blessing the person sitting on the throne with these wings.
On the east side of this place, there are shrined chairs, incense tables, beds, pillows and other things, and dense ancestral tablets stand on the mattress, symbolizing the ancestors' living and sleeping.
In front of the tablet of the ancestors, there are offerings, incense cases and copper stoves, etc., although the arrangement is not cumbersome, but people can intuitively feel the solemnity in it.
I took a look and found that these tablets all start with the word "Ying", and combined with the layout here, we can see that everything is as I guessed, and this new picture is the Taimiao of Qin.
"Squeak."
Just when I guessed these complacents, with the sound of the door opening, the door of the temple was slowly opened from the outside.
Following the light shining in from outside the door, I could clearly see that the people who came to the Taimiao were the mysterious man and Qin Mugong.
After entering the temple, Qin Mugong first saluted the mysterious person, and then he walked to the tablet with a serious expression, only to see that he worshiped his ancestors with a devout attitude, and there were words in his mouth, but I don't know.
Just when Qin Mugong was paying homage to his ancestors, the mysterious man scanned the Taimiao with his eyes, and he seemed to have discovered where I was again, and those eagle-like eyes were firmly staring at me, as if he had something to say to me.