Lanting Collection Preface Part 2 Lanting Mystery Chapter 30 Donating Your Life

"Zhang Zhangjiao, do you know Wen Tao?" Sun Ting looked at Zhang Guozhong and smiled slightly.

"I know, I know so much!" When Zhang Guozhong heard Wen Tao, he couldn't help but smile, but he asked about his strengths, and Zhang Guozhong still knew a lot about the ancient history of China.

Wen Tao, a native of Jing Zhaohua, served as the envoy of Yaozhou Festival at the end of the Tang Dynasty, after Liang Taizu Zhu Quanzhong established Hou Liang, Wen Tao surrendered to Yaozhou to Hou Liang, and later Zhu Quanzhong changed Yaozhou to Chongzhou, Wen Tao continued to be a festival envoy in this place.

When Wen Tao was born, according to legend, there was a bandit star falling in the Sagashan Mountain, in the seven years of the town, did not live up to the fallen bandit star, with perseverance to all the Tang Dynasty tombs in the jurisdiction of the tomb of the emperor stolen all over the place, which even includes the famous Zhaoling, can be said to be a wonderful flower in the Chinese tomb robbery world, which is also the reason why it is a small festival envoy in the troubled times of the five dynasties, is more famous than many emperors and generals, compared to Wen Tao, the head of the tomb robbers in the nature of the moving company, Dong Zhuo in the late Han Dynasty, the tomb that Cao Cao sent people to steal is simply not on the table, and Sun Dianying in the Republic of China period is simply a good citizen.

For the theft of Zhaoling, it should be regarded as the most glorious page of Wen Tao's tomb robbery career, according to legend, the stolen treasure cart pulled the horse, and thousands of people moved it for a month to finish. Zhaoling, also known as Taizong Li Shimin's Lin Tomb, is the largest imperial tomb in the Tang Dynasty, with a total area of 20,000 hectares and a circumference of 60 kilometers (the total circumference of Beijing's Third Ring Road is only XX kilometers). More than 200 princes and nobles were buried with them. Estimated with modern data, including the entire Zhaoling Tomb including the tomb of Taizong and the surrounding burial of the princes and princes, the total value of its burial goods is about equivalent to the gross national product of about three years during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, among the many rare treasures, Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Preface" authentic work should be regarded as one of the most rumored treasures, in Li Shimin's edict, named to use the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" to accompany the burial, according to the historical records, this Wang Xizhi's peak work should be in Li Shimin's coffin.

Again, that's the same sentence. People are not as good as the sky, Wen Tao also robbed the tomb when he missed, when he robbed Wu Zetian's Qianling, suddenly the sky fell wind and rain. The excavation project could only be stopped, and when the wind and rain stopped, Wen Tao just ordered to continue, and the wind and rain suddenly came again, which Wen Tao thought was providential. gave up Qianling, which can be regarded as the only good thing Wen Tao has done in his life.

"It's not a tomb in Zhongtiao Mountain. Was also stolen by Wen Tao? Zhang Guozhong asked.

"No, the owner of the tomb. It's the one who killed Wen Tao......" A glimmer of light flashed in Sun Ting's eyes.

"Li Siyuan?" Zhang Guozhong smiled slightly, since the last trip to Dibashan, Zhang Guozhong has also become interested in the history of the Five Dynasties.

"Zhang Zhangjiao is really erudite..."Sun Ting smiled, "As the saying goes, the tree is a big wind." In folklore, in order to protect his official life, Wen Tao used the treasures he stole from tomb robberies to go around, but in the end, he never escaped the greed of the ruler... The praying mantis catches the cicada, the yellow finch is behind, and when Wen Tao makes a lot of money because of tomb robbery, there are more than one person who covets his wealth, and Li Siyuan is one of them..."Sun Ting frowned, and began to compare and analyze.

Later Tang Mingzong Li Siyuan, whose real name is Miao Jilie, became the adopted son of Li Keyong, the Taizu of the Later Tang Dynasty, and changed his name to Li Siyuan, who was originally a military general, and had no culture, although he was relatively upright, very concerned about the people's livelihood, and was once known as the Five Generations of Mingjun, but he still couldn't get rid of the kind of greed unique to being a military general, and one of the reasons why he killed Wen Tao was that he was worried that Wen Tao's fickleness would threaten the safety of the society, and the other reason was that he saw the huge wealth obtained by Wen Tao's tomb robbery.

""Orchid Pavilion Preface" is in Li Siyuan's tomb?" Zhang Guozhong has seen a long time this time, but he didn't expect that the two rare treasures of He's Bichuan and "Orchid Pavilion Preface" were actually taken by these emperors of the Five Dynasties period.

"Yes, in order to curry favor with Li Siyuan's promotion and save his life, Wen Tao did not hesitate to dedicate the most valuable "Lanting Preface" in his hand to Li Siyuan, but this time aroused Li Siyuan's greed, and simply killed Wen Tao and returned all his family property to the treasury..."Sun Ting said, "The reason why the treasury was relatively rich during Li Siyuan's reign was that in addition to Li Siyuan's benevolence in the political world, which led to the wealth of the country and the strength of the people, the confiscation of Wen Tao's family property also made Li Siyuan earn enough..."

"By the way, according to Mr. Sun, the failure of Yun Lingzi's serial plan is related to this tomb, which... What's going on? ”

"Zhang Zhangjiao, as I said just now, Wen Tao also missed the tomb robbery..."Sun Ting said, "When robbing the Qianling, Wen Tao encountered wind and rain, which caused Wen Tao to give up the Qianling. ”

"Could it be... This Li Siyuan Mausoleum, what are the similarities with the Qianling Tomb? Zhang Guozhong was puzzled.

"Isn't it the same thing, it can be said that it has intensified..."Sun Ting smiled slightly, "Li Siyuan killed no one else, it was Wen Tao, the originator of the tomb robbery industry, according to Taoist theory, Zhaoling should be regarded as the most complicated Tang Tomb, and Wen Tao still robbed it without much effort, so Li Siyuan had to consider using some ingenious methods to build his own tomb..."

"Chisel Dragon Array", is the most popular anti-robbery tomb bureau in the Tang Dynasty, this deformed popularity of course starved out of a group of warlocks who specialize in the study of "Chisel Dragon Array", although Zhaoling is complicated, but in the eyes of these warlocks is only equivalent to high school students encountered the same arithmetic problems of addition and subtraction, according to legend, Zhaoling uses the most complex "Chisel Dragon Array" in the "Chisel Dragon Array", each of the princes and nobles who accompany the burial has an independent "Chisel Dragon Array", each independent "Chisel Dragon Array" is used as a town platform of Taizong Mausoleum "Main Array" exists, if its complexity is put to modern timesIn view of the lessons of Zhaoling, Li Siyuan believes that the traditional "Chisel Dragon Array" has been difficult to play a role in preventing theft, so he used the "Refining Cauldron" to make a different "Chisel Dragon Array", although its basic principle is still not out of the "Chisel Dragon Array", but the actual effect is much higher than that of Zhaoling.

"Back then, the nine-tailed civet cat temporarily broke the corpse refining kiln by headbutting. gave Yun Lingzi a lot of inspiration, and later Yun Lingzi broke this "corpse refining cauldron", the principle is similar to the principle of the tanuki hitting his head, it is only temporarily broken, not really broken, I don't know the specific principle, but it is certain that Yun Lingzi is sure that when Gansu Jutaro and Sakurai Shosan appear, the power of the corpse refining kettle will be restored at any time. Although he himself was not spared at that time, the death of those two Japanese was certain..."Sun Ting shook his head, showing a very regretful expression.

"And then? What happened when the heavy rain extinguished the soul-attracting incense? Could it be that in Li Siyuan's tomb, there is a way to control the wind and rain? Zhang Guozhong seemed to be a little disbelieving. In his impression, although Taoism is profound, it is not so powerful as to call for wind and rain.

"The only time Wen Tao missed the tomb was in the Qianling Tomb..."Sun Ting said, "The reason for the failure was that it rained..."

"Guozhong. There are some things in ancient times that you and I can't imagine with our heads... Taoism can indeed call the wind and rain, when Wen Tao robbed the Qianling, he suddenly encountered wind and rain. In fact, those spells that control the wind and rain have taken effect, we won't, we can't say that others won't..."Old Liu Tou took a puff of cigarette and pursed his lips, "Those spells are actually tricks to scare people, I didn't expect Wen Tao to really get hit, his strategists may be the same as you." thought that it was impossible for the Taoist technique to control the wind and rain, so he suggested that he stop, but unexpectedly, Li Siyuan referred to Wen Tao's success or failure, and also used this trick in his own tomb..."

"According to Tanaka Chito, when Yun Lingzi lit three incense sticks, suddenly the sky changed greatly, and in an instant, the wind and rain poured down, and Harada Kokuro's face also changed, and Yun Lingzi suddenly pulled out his saber and stabbed Sakurai Shengsan, who was closer to him, and was shot to death by the Japanese soldiers next to him..."

"That's the soul incense..."Old Liu Tou frowned, thoughtful, "According to my analysis, the situation at that time was probably like this: Yun Lingzi referred to the polite method to temporarily break the "Chisel Dragon Array" composed of corpse refining cauldrons, and temporarily attracted the power of the corpse refining cauldron to the three Maoshan disciples with the burial array, theoretically speaking, there is a strict time limit for doing so, if the power of the corpse refining cauldron is not brought back, then the three Maoshan brothers must be worried about their lives, However, when Yun Lingzi lit the soul-attracting incense and was about to lead the corpse refining cauldron back, suddenly the kind of Taoist way in Li Siyuan's tomb that called for wind and rain took effect, extinguishing the soul-attracting incense, and the funeral array failed, and the three brothers in Maoshan were sure that their lives were certain, but Yun Lingzi was desperate, seeing that the burial array was not completed, he wanted to stab the four Sakurai provinces with a sword with real kung fu, but he was also shot to death..."Old Liu Tou paused, and sorted out his thoughts a little, "After the power of the corpse refining cauldron was led away by the burial array, the "Chisel Dragon Array" Basically, it has no power, so after Yun Lingzi's death, the Japanese swaggered and emptied all the burial goods in Li Siyuan's tomb, including the rare treasure "Orchid Pavilion Preface"... But all this, especially the rain, the old man Ma Sijia didn't know, seeing the tragic death of the three apprentices, the fruit was also emptied by the thieves, and Yun Lingzi disappeared, the old man Ma had to suspect Yun Lingzi's head, so Yun Lingzi has the current reputation of a traitor..."Speaking of this, even the old Liu Tou sighed.

"So that's the case..."Zhang Guozhong sighed and slammed the table with his fist, "By the way, who is Chito Tanaka"...

"It was Sakurai Province's personal guard at that time, I made a special trip to Japan to visit this person, according to his description, Yun Lingzi was shot at least seven times, and finally supported the ground with a sword, and ended up standing, even Harada Kokuro himself, and finally bowed to Yun Lingzi's body..."Speaking of this, Sun Ting's eyes suddenly turned red, and his expectations trembled a little, "Zhang Zhangjiao, about the ins and outs of Yun Lingzi's matter, I have been checking for five years, but the people in the mainland and Hong Kong don't believe what I say at all, So I hope that you can help me clarify this matter as the head of Maoshan and return Yun Lingzi's innocence, and I will be grateful to the next general! Speaking of this, Sun Ting suddenly gritted his teeth and stood up and bowed deeply to Zhang Guozhong.

"Mr. Sun! I can't help it! Zhang Guozhong hurriedly stood up and helped, "Mr. Sun, it is our bounden duty to clarify our innocence for the anti-Japanese commanders... Sit down! After Zhang Guozhong sat down with Sun Ting in his arms, he couldn't help but be full of doubts, "Please forgive me for taking the liberty of being presumptuous, I don't know what Mr. Sun has worked hard for five years for a person he has never met?" ”