Chapter 42: Feng Shui
Liu Dongxi reacted at this time, but it was too late, Wang Dake's resentful gaze had already made a hole in Liu Dongxi's face, Liu Dongxi coughed twice in embarrassment, I smiled and avoided it.
Lu Yan was still playing with an iron rod over there, I moved my body, lifted my clothes and saw that it was okay, so I came to him to look. This iron rod is about the same size as the usual eyebrow stick, dark gray throughout, it doesn't look like iron, but the luster is a little like titanium. One end is a little flat, and the other end is eye-catching, a bit like a part on some machine.
The more I watched it, the more novel it became, and I couldn't help but ask Lu Yan, "Where did you get this thing?" ”
"Picked it up underwater." Lu Yan raised his head and said.
"Do you think you're talking a lot now?"
"Hmm!" Lu Yan nodded.
End of conversation.
More than half an hour later, we were on our way again. At the beginning, there were still some differences, Liu Dongxi advocated climbing up from that big crack, saying that what is the closest straight line between two points, and climbing up is the ground is more convenient than anything else. And I noticed signs of human activity in this hole, and there should be a way out if you follow the hole. Besides, the geological structure here seems to be very unstable, and it is difficult to say where this crack passage is.
At this time, I couldn't afford any risks, and Liu Shixi remembered that something was really going to happen to the change of time and space here, and it was not easy for people to do it in mid-air, so my plan was quickly approved by everyone.
So everyone packed up and walked along the tunnel, Xiao A's current leg injury is not conducive to being held in Wang Da's arms happily, it may be that the mouth of eating people is short, although Xiao Adang is still a little ignorant, but he also changed the attitude of resistance.
The tunnel was clearly dug by hand, and its shape was more or less regular, with a rudimentary support at short intervals, and most of it was dilapidated. Strange to say, there wasn't much floating soil in those caves before, but there was a lot of floating soil here, and the feet were a little soft, could it be that the place where people had been active would become dirty? I have seen a saying before that 70% of house dust is the dead cells of the human body, which seems to confirm this matter on the side, and the so-called earthly statement is indeed well-founded.
It is likely that the tunnel was developed by the ancients, and after walking for a few kilometers, I noticed that the supports were all complex mortise and tenon structures, and there was not a single iron nail in them. Liu Dongxi picked up a piece of wood on the ground, touched and buckled it, and finally determined that it was boiled pine wood, looking at the surrounding environment and the erosion of the wood, it would be at least five or six hundred years.
But this is not representative of the history of this tunnel, I shine a flashlight all the way, and there are some notches on the wall from time to time, with some numbers and scattered Chinese characters written on them. I made it look like it was the progress of the project. Although these characters are all casually depicted, they have a strict law in them, which is not something that I remember that the craftsmen could write. Liu Dongxi also looked at it, but did not put forward any constructive statements, but only pointed out that in the more than ten miles we walked out, the fonts and glyphs reflected a trend of getting earlier and earlier.
Wang Dake agrees with this, and points out as an expert that this tunnel is not a simple mine. First, there are no known veins around. Second, if such a long tunnel is to lead to a certain mineral vein underground, then in ancient times when there was no technology, only the Liu family had this ability, but looking at the age of the tunnel, there was no Liu family at that time!
As for what it was, she couldn't say. However, Liu Dongxi said that the environment in ancient times was very different from that of modern times, and that the ancients would have a lot of ideas and practices that seem strange now, and that it was completely inexplicable for them to do this kind of thing now, but in their opinion, it was really necessary, and even worth doing with the strength of the whole country.
Liu also gave an example to illustrate this matter. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was dug for more than 1,700 years, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Yuan Dynasty. Everyone in the world says that the 1,400-kilometer Grand Canal is designed to connect the north and the south and contribute to economic and political development and exchanges, but they have not noticed that if they are considered from these purposes, this Grand Canal shows a lot of illogical places, and the direction is also changed. Why is this happening? Liu Dongxi said that it was because of feng shui.
Everyone knows that China's dragon veins run from Kunlun to the East China Sea, drawing all things in the world. But this dragon vein also has ups and downs, life and death, and it is impossible to protect only one family for eternity. When this person becomes an emperor, he naturally wants to keep the country forever and his youth forever. But the rise and fall of this dynasty is written on the dragon vein, and seeing that his seat is about to change hands in a few hundred years, he is naturally unhappy. I don't know who came up with a bad trick to change feng shui.
So I can't get the world and want to change the feng shui, and the people who have the world also want to change the feng shui, the land of China is like a big sand table, and those who talk and manage things change it on it. But manpower eventually has a limit, don't look at these projects are huge, but it is too reluctant to change the feng shui of the world and change the fortunes of the country. The wind and clouds have changed, the dynasties have risen and fallen, and the Willow River has been brittle for thirty years......
I didn't understand what Liu Shishi said about what we are in now, so I asked, "Teacher Liu, what you said is very interesting, but I don't know what it has to do with us." ”
Liu Dongxi was still intoxicated with the good feeling of preaching and teaching and solving doubts, and was very unhappy to be interrupted by me, raised his eyebrows and said: "You have to listen to me after I finish speaking......"
Originally, there were many feng shui schools since ancient times, especially since the Ming Dynasty, theories have emerged in an endless stream, and there is a trend of a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending. However, going back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties, Feng Shui doctrine is roughly divided into two schools. A faction is called "strange", heavy landscape shape trend, pay attention to climbing high and looking far, and positioning together. A faction is called "reason", the first emphasis is on the geological internal structure, paying attention to the stars, and having a good mind.
The theories of these two schools are very simple, but each has its own biases, and it is also the general trend for later generations to combine them and develop many factions. However, in the process of development and evolution along the way, it is still important to focus on the Qi School, after all, from the emperor and courtiers to the common people of Limin, they are all mortals, and the skin of seeing is believing can attract their attention more, and it also provides more employment opportunities for feng shui practitioners. As a result, the Li faction is weak, and it can almost be called a lingering breath.
It is said that the truth is in the hands of a few, and the feng shui world is no exception. Although the school of science is not popular, there are still some social elites who can see the benefits of the school, and even some university scholars are also involved in it, so I will not say much about this.
This brings us back to the topic just now, no one dares to say that they understand Feng Shui very well, and the emperor is no exception, but they will not hesitate among many choices, considering that the country will always be maintained, this kind of thing is really nothing.
As a result, countless underground projects were carried out at the same time as the Great Wall and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and countless masters of the Li School were scattered all over the world, just like surgery, renewing the dragon veins and cutting off the horizontal tendons. Countless precious mineral treasures were filled into the ground, and countless livestock and even living people were slaughtered during the renewal......
I gradually immersed myself in these things told by Liu Dongxi, and was shocked by this grand scene, those ancient emperors, who spent most of the world's wealth on such nothingness as changing feng shui and immortality, but they were completely unable to change the direction of history, and in the end their bodies and families disappeared with the glory of this dynasty, leaving only a few strokes in history, the corner that was least favored by them.
Liu Dongxi's words changed, "I think this place should be a vein to change feng shui!" ”