Volume 1 Kurosawa's Domain Chapter 46 A Trip to the Western Regions
The anonymous man said on the inscription that he wanted to enjoy his old age in Dunhuang, but in this life, he never thought that the Yi tribes and the Tibetan states in the Western Regions were constantly in turmoil, and disasters broke out again.
During the reign of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, a subject country of the Han Dynasty became more and more prosperous, holding strong and arrogant, and very ambitious, in case of serious matters and disobeying the control of the imperial court, after suppressing the rebellion, the court sent troops to suppress it, and quelled the rebellion of its relatives and affiliated tribes.
In order to avoid pursuit, Yu Xian fled to the Western Regions, married with the local women's country, won the royal power, and the national power grew.
Then he began to fight and expand, causing the small countries to compete with each other, so that the war in the vast territory of the Western Regions continued for more than 100 years.
When the anonymous clan moved to Dunhuang, the country established by the marriage of the two countries had ruled for more than 100 years, but the Western Regions were still in flames.
This anonymous man originally wanted to be only a civilian from now on, living in seclusion here, but he was still alive, but after several wars, disputes and disturbances, he suffered many twists and turns, and he was miserable, only sighed: "The big hidden in the court, the middle hidden in the city, and the small hidden in the wild."
The small people in the market are as weak as ants, how can they withstand the bloody rain? If you want to survive in turbulent times, you must serve in the imperial court, whether you want to or not.
It is necessary to know that with the sharp weapons of the state in hand and the authority refers to, even if you cannot change the society of the country, you can still maintain wealth and peace.
In this way, this anonymous clan passed through the roots of the imperial court, climbed the nepotism, entered the dynasty, gave full play to the country's governing talents, and steadily climbed in the kingdom's government and government.
Because he can assist the king as much as he can, he has won the trust and appointment. After several years, I thought it was safe, but I didn't want to, the king was killed by the usurper's brother, the royal power changed hands, and the original Jiaoyan princess also remarried with the new king.
The new king ascended the throne and changed the name of the country to "Dayue Kingdom" and proclaimed himself "King Abraham".
As the saying goes, "one courtier a day", the new king who killed his brother and usurped the throne is really a tyrant, cruel and violent, bloody and ruthless, and suspicious by nature.
At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, if he wanted to establish his authority in the world, and was suspicious of the ministers of the original dynasty, he immediately threw all the old ministers of the original class into prison, and he had to choose the time to execute all of them.
Seeing that there was no way to live, this anonymous man was unwilling to die when he lamented the twists and turns of his fate in prison, so he bribed the supervisor with a few pieces of priceless jade that he had hidden with him, and climbed to the important ministers of the new dynasty by the way, and spoke well in front of the new king.
As an important minister of the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains, he was not only proficient in governing the country, but also familiar with strange things such as witch hexagrams, fortunes, stars, and feng shui tombs, and was willing to serve the new king, just trying to live a cheap life.
Fortunately, although the new king was brutal, he was fanatical and superstitious about feng shui and divination, like those mediocre emperors, who were obsessed with immortality and paradoxically sought the dragon vein of feng shui, as the ideal place to return to the west after a hundred years.
Therefore, the amnesty of this anonymous person was spared from death, and he calculated the foundation of the country, conquered and expanded and other national events, and asked him to lead people to find the treasure land of dragon vein feng shui, and designed a hidden and solid tomb.
The anonymous man used some joyful and praising hexagrams to please the tyrannical king, and when he stood on his heels, he led the people to find the site of the tomb.
It is said that it is to bring people, but in fact, it is supervised and escorted, and it is impossible to get out, so it can only find a special terrain first, but also the wish of the tyrannical king, and then leave a secret passage when building, such as the Jade Pillar Peak Cao Pi tomb to get out of trouble, and flee again, only for the only way to survive.
Otherwise, you will become an angry tyrant at any time, or you will be buried in the future.
Before the "Devil City" in the territory of the Great Moon Country, near the left of the underground, the best dragon vein was found, but because of this, Kurosawa was evil, and although the dragon vein was good, it was born filthy.
It is necessary to use the method of "Kunyin Ink Jiao" and the technique of "floor drain" to lead the lake of salt crystals into the "Kungong Palace" and reverse the yin and evil situation of the underground black sawa.
And the use of the fire of the underworld, with the continuation of the black water to provide a steady stream of fire, the method of driving away evil and anger, can not only correct the feng shui veins, but also make a sinister tomb, this is an excellent strategy.
According to this policy, it was approved, and it lasted seven years, and it was to build a royal tomb for this king.
Two years later, the tyrannical king fell ill and died, and was buried in a coffin by the hands of an anonymous man.
At the right time, the people who were buried were the core nobles of the royal court, the confidants of the royal family, and after the burial, they wanted to harm the anonymous clan to accompany the burial, and the anonymous clan used a different method to summon the magical and powerful "Akoni" to destroy everyone, and then escaped in the hidden secret passage left behind.
Escaping death again, this anonymous man lurked in the desert, like a lost dog, feeling bored and misanthropic for no reason, and suddenly saw through the heart of the red dust, so he gave up the foundation when he worked in Dayue, and marched from Dayue to Dunhuang, where he had lived in seclusion.
After arriving in Dunhuang, this anonymous person has been disheartened, only the heart of serving the Buddha, and then to the southeast of Dunhuang City, the eastern foot of Mingsha Mountain, Mogao Grottoes monks.
Before he went to assist King Yelang, the private property hidden in Dunhuang City and the charred corpse of his subordinates were not taken away, and they were still hoarded in the private house, so they carried them here together, focusing on Buddhism.
However, it is said on the inscription that its "six roots are impure, and hatred is especially existing", although he has taken refuge in Buddhism, it is difficult to get rid of vulgar resentment.
Although I don't want to be blessed by the dragon vein feng shui treasure behind me, but I am still obsessed with lifelong learning, after three knocks and nine bows in front of the Buddha statue to apologize, I will follow the talent of feng shui mastery, and see that there is a hidden water dragon vein under the ground, and the precise acupuncture points are determined.
Scattered the wealth of his life, left one or two treasures to accompany the burial, hired hundreds of craftsmen, villagers to dig caves, build tombs, after more than six years, the tomb was completed, so that the money was scattered to everyone, and the tomb was cultivated.
When the people were sent to repair the tomb, this anonymous man made a large sum of money to buy off the sand bandits and thieves, and crisscrossed the radius of a hundred miles, capturing more than ten 12 or 3-year-old pretty girls born on the leap day of the leap month of the leap year, and getting a few swaddling babies, and using the secret method he mastered, refining the "green baby" and "fragrant corpse baby".
At the end of his life, he entered the coffin by himself, got the lid of the coffin, and was buried in a room with the charred corpses of his subordinates who were like relatives, and this life ended.
Now it is conjectured that before the anonymous man died, he had already engraved the inscription, and when he had reached the end of his own time, he entered the coffin, covered the lid of the coffin with only one end for him to enter the gap, and waited for him to close his eyes and return to heaven, thus ending his legendary life.
At the end of the inscription, the anonymous man wrote that during his lifetime, he designed this tomb for himself, not to preserve his wealth or to occupy the treasure of dragon vein feng shui, but to comfort himself with his seemingly brilliant but actually tragic life in this way.
That "torture scale" was originally proposed when designing a tomb for the emperor, but it was not adopted by the emperor, so he decided to use it in his own tomb to avoid regrets.
The only thing that made him feel guilty but still thought he could do it was the design of those "green babies" and "fragrant corpse babies", which poisoned many children.
But he said that although he felt guilty, he did not regret it, saying that people in the world have their own destiny, and if they can't change like him, they can only accept it.
I saw that this perverted eunuch had done something to exterminate humanity, but he still had to find excuses for himself, which was really vicious and hypocritical.
He also said that since he did not want to keep his wealth and occupy the treasure land of feng shui, then he welcomed future generations to visit, pay respects, and even rob tombs.
Several people can also see from the design that this way, there is no idea of hiding, directly extending all the way, it seems that as he said, as long as the future generations have real talent and real learning, you can pass it, and it can be regarded as completing a game with the tomb owner.
I'm afraid that if you don't have his talent, you can only be miserable or trapped here, and bury him.
The last few words of the inscription are: "Only be kind to my bones, if you violate, you will be destroyed by ghosts and demons, and you will never enter reincarnation!" ”
What a self-conceited and arrogant nameless man, when he is dying, he will also intimidate future generations.
In addition to these inscriptions, several special symbols are depicted on the inscriptions on the stone walls:
One is a symbol in the shape of a "◎", and another is very similar to the word "mountain" in the oracle bone inscription, so that is, it may represent "mountain", "fire" or even "crown", and the last symbol is a symbol that resembles a triangle, except that one end is missing a corner and becomes an inwardly concave arc.
And it was precisely this triangle symbol that lacked a corner that made Cao Longxuan suddenly change color and look extremely excited.
Everyone was puzzled, it must be very unusual to make a person like Cao Longxuan, who is calm, resolute, and scheming, change color.
Old Ghost Su asked Cao Longxuan, what does this triangle symbol with a missing corner represent? Cao Longxuan turned a deaf ear and didn't mean to answer him at all.
It's a long story, but in ancient texts, the expression is concise, just to summarize the essence, unlike the current language and writing, which is so verbose, and a few short words can express a lot of meaning.
For example, if modern people say "I went to the vegetable market to buy five catties of vegetables to cook and eat at home", then in the ancient text, only the words "Shiyi Cai Wu" are finished, although the number of words is brief, but the meaning of the words depends on the understanding of the meaning.
Originally, this Cao Longxuan spoke in a crepe, and if he asked him to translate, he had to listen carefully and understand, otherwise it might be similar to listening to classical Chinese.
However, as he kept explaining, everyone still understood the meaning of the inscription engraved on the stone wall, this genius who had been wandering all his life, a eunuch with no heirs, served many emperors all his life, designed a number of dangerous and exquisite mausoleums, but he almost died several times because of this, and his fate was bumpy, and he was very legendary.
In the inscription, he recorded the first half of his life in more detail, especially his past with that subordinate, which shows the importance he attached to this friendship or kindness.
The second half of his life is introduced more roughly, with a few words, which may also be related to his mood in the later period.
"Done? Then let's take a look at the coffin, can we have any good things. Niu Gang couldn't hold it back.
According to his inscription, he entered the coffin by himself before he died, and he scratched off the lid of the coffin that had been reserved and covered it directly.
It shouldn't be false now, because the coffin is not even sealed, and it is estimated that even if he was dying at that time, he would have to be suffocated to death even if he was dying.
Everyone began to open the lid of the coffin, and after a try, it was indeed relatively smooth.
But everyone will not be so reckless and blindly believe in an ancient person, especially a guy who dares to make "Qing Jiao Baby" and "Xiang Corpse Baby", which may make everyone die without a place to bury.
So everyone was ready, the weapons and tools were prepared, and the coffin lid was carried by Niu Gang and Thirteen, and as soon as there was a situation, everyone went up together, whether it was a big toad or that corpse, they would deal with it ruthlessly and dismantle it in eight pieces.
Hearing the sound of a long series of sarcophagi opening, Niu Gang and Thirteen lifted the lid of the sarcophagus violently and moved it to one end.
Everyone's heartbeat was already as fast as a thousand mallets beating a drum, "dong dong" violently hitting the chest, and breathing was heavy and rapid.
At this time, time seemed to stand still, and in the silent sarcophagus, it seemed that a vicious toad was about to jump out.
However, there was nothing abnormal, and after the coffin was opened, it was always quiet, and it was only until everyone confirmed that it was indeed impossible for any more abnormalities to occur, and everyone slowly gathered in front of the coffin to take a closer look.