Volume 1 The Coming Storm Chapter 34 Ancient Xu Kingdom
"The royal family of the Xia Dynasty is also quite miserable, and then." Chu Tianyi also found it interesting to listen to.
"Later," Mu Feng took a sip of water and continued, "Later, this brutal Hou Yi didn't end well, and he was killed by his own prime minister, Han Xun, who usurped the throne. After Han Xun obtained the power of Xu State, he continued to hunt down the royal family of the Xia Dynasty, and Xia Jun, 'Xiang', was finally killed. However, 'Xiang' left a posthumous son, which was later Shaokang. In the end, with the help of his grandfather Youyou still clan and his father-in-law Youyu clan, Shaokang defeated the Han Xun of Xu State, and the Xia Dynasty was able to restore its power, known as 'Shaokang Zhongxing' in history. ”
Chu Tianyi felt that he had taken a history lesson, but he still didn't quite understand, "Brother Feng, what is the relationship between Xu Guo and Changbai Mountain?" ”
Mu Feng smiled slightly, "What I just talked about is background knowledge, so that you can understand the origin of Xu Guo." ”
"You said a lot of this, it's all foreshadowing??" Chu Tianyi was speechless, he looked at Mu Feng helplessly, "Okay, I understand now, you can talk about the point, right?" ”
"Haha," Mu Feng laughed, but because he laughed too hard, he coughed again, and it took a while to calm down, "Okay, I'll continue." It stands to reason that after this Xu State was defeated by Shaokang, it should have declined. But this is not the case, and Xu has always maintained a strong strength in history. During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the state of Xu was a powerful vassal state that could not be underestimated, and was never annexed and invaded. ”
Mu Feng was so engrossed that he didn't care at all that Chu Tianyi was already a little absent-minded, he had already yawned three times in a row.
Mu Fengshen continued to preach mysteriously, "However, later, it was this Xu Kingdom, but an extremely strange thing happened. It is said that until the Spring and Autumn Period, this Xu State was close to Wu and Chu, because it was friendly with Chu, and although Wu had always been ready to move against Xu, it had never dared to act rashly. In 512 BC, Wu finally found an excuse to send troops to Xu in a big way. What Wu didn't expect was that their army did not encounter any resistance, and they directly captured the capital of Xu State almost without a single soldier. However, when they arrived at the capital of Xu, the Wu army found that something was not quite right, not only did they not see the main army of Xu, but even the Xu royal family and the princes and ministers disappeared. It is an exaggeration to say that the capital city of Xu has become an empty city at that time, but the entire city is already empty. The Wu army wanted to continue to advance westward, but found that most of the other territories of the Xu State had been occupied by the Chu army, so some people in history speculated that the Chu State and the Wu State jointly annexed the Xu State, but what is incomprehensible is that even if the Chu State and the Wu State jointly annexed the Xu State, how could there be no battle! Speaking of this, Mu Feng tilted his head and sighed, "Although the power of the Xu State was no longer inferior to the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons at that time, it was still a not weak force, and it was not easy to annex the Xu State." Otherwise, it would not have been able to exist in the cracks of the great powers for hundreds of years. But this is the case, the powerful Xu State disappeared mysteriously, which is also an unsolved mystery in history. ”
After listening to Mu Feng's story, Chu Tianyi became a little interested again this time, and pondered for a while before he spoke, "Could it be that the ancient tomb found in Changbai Mountain back then is related to Xu Guo?" ”
"That's right," Mu Feng nodded, "There are many metal utensils unearthed in the ancient tomb, and through its inscriptions, it can be determined that it is an ancient tomb of the Xu Kingdom. Ancient literature experts believe that the text on the Dading found in the ancient tomb is actually a way of keeping records in secret texts handed down by the Xu Kingdom since ancient times. The history of Xu is very long, if it is counted from the beginning of Dayu's reward of the Xu region to Ruomu, to its mysterious disappearance, this country has existed for 1,600 years, this situation is absolutely rare in Chinese history! Therefore, its cultural inheritance is extremely orderly, but there is no relevant record of this kind of ciphertext, so no one can understand the meaning. ”
"But," Chu Tianyi frowned, "From Changbai Mountain to the location of the Xu Kingdom you mentioned, there are more than a thousand kilometers between it. Even if they were to migrate, how did they get there safely? ”
Mu Feng didn't answer Chu Tianyi's words directly, but asked, "Tianyi, do you know the Bamboo Book Chronicle?" ”
"Of course I know," Chu Tianyi nodded, "This is a history book unearthed in the Western Jin Dynasty, which has been edited and sorted out by many dynasties and has been passed down to this day." It is said that its content is extremely obscure, and the content of the record is simply contrary to the "Historical Records", and the appearance of the "Bamboo Book Chronicle" can be said to have shocked the historiography, and its controversy has continued to this day. ”
"There is such a sentence in the "Bamboo Book Chronicle", 'Chu borrows the Jin Dao and gets the land of Xu, then the two Yi converge.' Mu Feng said directly.
But Chu Tianyi didn't understand at all, "What do you mean by this?" ”
Mu Feng smiled, "It's not just you, all historians don't understand what it means when they read this sentence. It wasn't until the discovery of the ancient tomb of Xu Guo in Changbai Mountain that those historians finally understood that this sentence actually referred to Xu Guo! You see," Mu Feng dipped his fingers in wine with interest, drawing on the table, "the location of the State of Xu was like this, it was between the State of Chu and the State of Wu, and the State of Chu bordered the State of Jin to the north. According to the "Bamboo Book Chronicle", 'Chu borrowed the Jin Dao', do you think about why Chu borrowed the Jin Dao? ”
"Maybe it's for the war?" Chu Tianyi guessed.
"This is unlikely," Mu Feng shook his head, "If it is for war, since the State of Chu and the State of Qin, the State of Wu, and the State of Yue are directly bordered, even if it is with the State of Qi, it is very close, and it can almost be regarded as a border, then it can only be used by the State of Jin for the State of Yan in the northeast of the Kingdom of Jin." Skip the two great rivals of Jin and Qi to fight Yan, unless the king of Chu is crazy. So," Mu Feng knocked on the table, "Look at the second sentence: 'Dexudi', why Xudi?" So you can understand why the first sentence says 'Chu borrowed the Jin Dao', its road was borrowed for the Xu State, and the benefit of the Chu State was to get most of the land of the Xu State. Xu Di was given to the State of Chu, so where did the State of Xu go? ”
Chu Tianyi felt that he couldn't keep up with Mu Feng's train of thought, but he still speculated in a daze: "This Jin country has the Qin country on the left and the Qi country on the right, so I guess that this Xu country went north by the way, so they came to Changbai Mountain." But why is that? ”
The answer is in the third sentence, "Mu Feng turned his head and asked the boss for another bottle of beer, "The two Yi in 'then two Yi Huizhi' actually refer to Dongyi and Huaiyi. As early as the late Neolithic period, there was a great war between the Yanhuang tribe and the Dongyi tribes, and after the defeat of the Dongyi, one of them went north to Jilin, Liaodong and the Korean Peninsula, while the other merged with the Yanhuang tribe and became the later Huaiyi, the predecessor of the Xu State. "Bamboo Book Chronicle" said that "then the two Yi converge" refers to the Xu State to the north and the Dongyi of that year converged together, although I don't know what the deep reason is, but the fact is that the Xu clan of the Xu State came to Changbai Mountain in a mighty way. ”
After listening to Mu Feng's explanation, Chu Tianyi was a little difficult to digest for a while, he rubbed his head vigorously, "Brother Feng, I have a headache now!" ”
Mu Feng smiled, and then said, "I think this Xu Guo is probably a very key factor. ”
Chu Tianyiqiang opened his eyes, past the initial curiosity, he now has an urge to sleep on the table, just like when he was in school. He beat his spirit and said, "I still don't quite understand, isn't the purpose of the Qi family a secret box?" What does this have to do with this yin talisman? What does it have to do with this Xu Kingdom? ”
Mu Feng didn't speak, he took out his phone again, pressed it a few times, and handed it to Chu Tianyi.
Chu Tianyi glanced at it, and saw that Mu Feng's mobile phone screen was still showing a photo, Chu Tianyi instinctively had a kind of rejection, "Brother Feng, I won't look at it, what is this?" Just say it, my brain is a bit messed up right now! ”
"Take a look!" Mu Feng forced the mobile phone into Chu Tianyi's hand. "If you look closely, you'll understand."
Chu Tianyi took the phone listlessly, and he was no stranger to the photos on the phone screen. The content on the photo is a hand-drawn drawing of the secret box sent to everyone present on the day the Qi family released the reward.
After looking at it for a while, except that the secret box itself was relatively strange, Chu Tianyi didn't see any strange doorways, "This is a hand-drawn drawing of the dragon pattern secret box, what's wrong?" ”
"Take a closer look," Mu Feng said, "the hand-drawn drawing of this secret box can be said to be quite detailed. Qi Buchen, the ancestor of the Qi family, is indeed not an ordinary person. ”
Hearing Mu Feng say this, Chu Tianyi began to pay attention to the details on the secret box, and he looked at every corner and pattern over and over again.
Suddenly, in the lower part of the box, in the middle of the two moirés, several characters were engraved. And it was these characters that made Chu Tianyi gasp, "This, isn't this a yin charm?" ”
"That's right," Mu Feng nodded, "Now you know the relationship between the secret box and this Yin Talisman, as well as Xu Guo." ”
"Could it be that this secret box was originally a thing of the Xu Kingdom?" Chu Tianyi thought for a moment and said.
Mu Feng took back his mobile phone, "This is not clear, but I know that the Qi family found clues about the Yin Fu at the previous exchange meeting of the University of Geosciences, so they discovered the relationship between the Yin Fu and the secret box, so they came to Changbai Mountain." ”
Chu Tianyi looked at Mu Feng and nodded, and sighed a little that he was psychic. However, it is no wonder that if he thinks about it, since he was able to get the information that Qi Tai called Qi Guangyu to go to Changbai Mountain, it was not difficult to get the information that the Qi family had found the clues of the Yin Talisman.
Mu Feng continued, "I also followed this clue and missed the origin of this Yin Talisman, so I found out about the archaeological activities of the ancient tomb of the Xu Kingdom back then. I also just received that rubbing. ”