012 Oracle Bone Mystery (2)
Suddenly, Gu Zhenting's eyes were attracted by a message, which recorded "Jia Shen, Wang Zhao...... Bu Va, fierce. Gu Zhenting was shocked, and hurriedly looked through the record card and found that this oracle bone was from the No. 4 grave pit. With these few words, Gu Zhenting can already judge such a thing: on the third day, the king of Shang summoned this person and asked him to divinate the conquest, but the divination was not good. This shows that the person's identity should have belonged to a clergyman at the time. At that time, the three officials who were in charge of divination, sacrifices, and recorded histories, divination in divination, and prayers to ghosts and gods had a very high status in society, and they were often able to influence the decisions of the Shang king.
Gu Zhenting hurriedly recorded this important piece of information, and Gu Zhenting wondered in his heart: Could it be that the owner of Tomb No. 4 turned out to be a former diviner? If so, who would the other graves be? With this doubt, Gu Zhenting continued to look at the translated oracle bone inscription. He carefully discovered that several oracle bones had two characters written together, but he did not know what they meant. Because these two characters have never been found before, and the characters that appear with it are basically the first time Gu Zhenting has seen them, even if they have seen them before, they are words that have not yet been cracked. Gu Zhenting couldn't help but trace the mysterious ancient characters and drew a circle on the first page of his notebook. It took a whole day, and Gu Zhenting finally finished reading the thousands of characters on the more than 600 oracle bones. He also fully recorded the sentences that he thought were important:
"Jia Shen, Wang Zhao...... Bu Va, fierce. (Pit 4)
"Jiashen, call, good to cut down Bava Shu, and the king will follow." (Pit 2)
"Three years, return, capture Bayon, Bu, fierce, the king's wrath." (Pit 2)
"Wang Gui Hao Geng, Ji" (No. 4 pit)
“…… Collapse, divination, fierceness, the king sacrifice to the sun and the moon ......, banditry. (Pit 5)
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There are more than ten pieces of information in total, which makes Gu Zhenting like a treasure. This roughly allowed Gu Zhenting to judge the true age of these ancient tombs. Of course, Gu Zhenting knew that the earliest recorded female general in ancient China was the wife of the Shang king Wuding. The tomb of Nuhao was excavated by archaeologists decades ago, and there are a large number of written records about the Shang Dynasty. Gu Zhenting can almost determine that the "good" recorded in the oracle bones unearthed in the No. 2 pit is the woman's good, she led the army out to attack this place in Ba, Wu Ding led the army to reinforce her, and after attacking Ba, she attacked Shu again. From the oracle bone inscriptions in the graves of several other people, it was found that this expedition seemed to be the result of Wu Ding's willful action, because the result of divination was fierce. It is hard to imagine in an age of theocracy, for what purpose the ruler waged a foreign war when God "did not allow it". As a result, after three years, the victorious Wu Ding still got the "fierce" result in the divination of the sacrifice to the gods. And the No. 4 grave faintly mentioned the death of the woman. According to the oracle bones, after the death of the woman, Wu Ding once gave the soul of the woman to his ancestors, and let the ancestors take care of her in the underworld. And the No. 5 pit mentioned that there seemed to be something bad, and after Wu Ding sacrificed the sun and the moon, he still got a bad result.
Gu Zhenting watched all this and completed his own inference. Combined with other things unearthed from each tomb, it is speculated that these six tombs were buried by the six most powerful officials of the Wuding period.
Among them, Shi, Bu, Zhu and others must be among them, because there are the most conversations with the king about their identities, and in addition, Gu Zhenting thinks that there must be more than one person who is a military attaché.
But what does all this mean?
Gu Zhenting listed several intricate things:
Ancient Books—Weeping Blood Spring—Biluo Lingzhi—Linglong Box=Feng Shui Fragments—Blood Pool—Corpse Blood—White Jade—?
Yin Shang Ancient Tomb - Bashu Sanxingdui Bronze (Civilization Differences) - Tianshu Town Demon Feng Shui Bureau (Feng Shui Warring States began to mature) - Taiji Diagram (not earlier than the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period) - Undecipherable oracle bone script - Six Tomb Owners (?) )—?
Gu Zhenting looked at the last question mark and was too empty, what is hidden behind this? Gu Zhenting seemed to have some clues in his heart, as long as he broke through, all the problems could be solved, but he just couldn't capture that little bit of inspiration.
"Professor, your phone." Wu Haode broke into Gu Zhenting's tent in a rage. It's not a desperate thing, Wu Haode won't lose his temper like this. Gu Zhenting has known Wu Haode for several years, and this was only the case in the last blood pool incident.
Gu Zhenting frowned slightly, he didn't like to be disturbed when he was thinking about problems, Wu Haode naturally knew his temper.
"Hey, I'm Gu Zhenting." Gu Zhenting took the phone. Looking at Wu Haode's expression, he also knew that there must be a reason for it.
"Zhenting, I'm Xie Haidong!" There was a rush of voices over there. Gu Zhenting was stunned, Xie Haidong was the direct person in charge of Bureau W, what was he calling for at this time? "You put aside the work at hand for a while and come back to help with a tricky matter." There are a lot of talents in Bureau W, what is it that makes Xie Haidong call himself back like this? I have known Xie Haidong for many years, and I have never seen him so anxious. Gu Zhenting chuckled in his heart.
"Director, what's going on?" Gu Zhenting hurriedly asked. Gu Zhenting knew that he had no other expertise besides archaeology.
"Something happened to the second team." Xie Haidong said gloomily: "Of the 27 people in the second team, only two of them came back alive, and they seem to have been greatly traumatized mentally, all of them are delirious, and the team leader Xu Menghai is now alive and dead, and he can't see the corpse......"
"What?!" The phone in Gu Zhenting's hand almost fell. There are three archaeological teams in the W Bureau, Gu Zhenting is the leader of the first team, the three teams are responsible for archaeological activities in different historical stages, the first team is responsible for the pre-Qin Dynasty, the second team is responsible for the period from the Qin Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, and the third team is responsible for the period after the Tang Dynasty. The leaders of the three expeditions, Gu Zhenting, Xu Menghai, and Zhou Dingxuan, have a very good relationship with each other, and often discuss their respective investigation results and experiences together. Before Gu Zhenting set off for archaeology, Xu Menghai had already led a team to set off in the desert, which is said to be looking for some historical relics of the Han Dynasty on the Silk Road. In addition to seven experienced archaeologists, the team also includes a guide and desert survival expert, as well as eighteen guards armed to the teeth.
However, with the exception of one Guardian and the Desert Survival Specialist who are still alive, everyone else is either missing or has already found their bodies, and this time the activity has hit Bureau W hard.
"We found some strange things on their relics, Zhou Dingxuan of the third team is already on his way back, and the special plane to pick you up has flown to you!"
"Okay, I'll get ready right away." Gu Zhenting said. What the hell is going on, Xu Menghai, what happened to you? Gu Zhenting was anxious for a while.