Chapter 22: The Last Words of the Tomb Master
Feng Weiguo asked puzzledly: "It's amazing, isn't it?" Isn't he dead, staring at us all the time? β
"I'm not talking about the owner of the tomb still alive, but that he knows how many years later someone will come here through the chess endgame, not just us."
"Oh, what did he say?"
"The owner of the tomb said that these are his painstaking efforts, and he summed up the art of war and his feelings for peace after fighting on the battlefield for so many years, and in his later years, because of the political situation, he withdrew from the career of conquest for a lifetime, sorted out his battlefield experience, and also analyzed the war and national stability."
"Did he mention the endgame?"
"This is not true, maybe there will be records in other bamboo slips, and there will definitely be a specific description of the identity of the tomb owner in these severals, let's look for it together, it will be helpful to enter the main tomb."
Under the call of Professor Chen, everyone searched for the shelves where Professor Chen had just taken the bamboo slips, and sure enough, after a few minutes, everyone found that after being copied and sorted out by Zhu Gong, the identity background of the tomb owner came out.
The tomb owner was born at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the family conditions are superior, since childhood study and martial arts, soon after the fall of the Western Han Dynasty, during the outbreak of the Green Forest Red Eyebrow Uprising, the tomb owner with the Jianshi Emperor Liu Penzi's Red Eyebrow Army to fight everywhere, in 25 AD, with the Red Eyebrow Army defeated and retreated, Liu Penzi surrendered to Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, the tomb owner followed Liu Wenshu's troops to fight everywhere, because of its brave and good fighting and good cultural foundation, so that his official career rose sharply, and soon the official was promoted to the head of the military attachΓ© general; In 37 AD, King Daewujin of Goguryeo launched an attack on Lelang County, and in 44 AD, Emperor Gwangmu sent the tomb lord to recover Lelang County and crush Goguryeo's attack. In the meantime, the tomb owner's military camp was attacked by it, because the tomb owner was light on the enemy, the garrison troops sent out suffered an ambush in advance, although the quality of the soldiers was high, but after several days of fighting, physical strength and supplies were overdrawn, both sides suffered heavy casualties, the general lost 5, because the garrison all participated in the pursuit, the tomb owner was almost assassinated by the villain of the subject country who had infiltrated in advance. After 49 A.D., the country was stable, there was little war, and the tomb owner, tired of the war, withdrew from politics. Seeing the orderly development of society and the fact that the people were no longer in the chaos of the past, the tomb owner went to seclusion in the mountains to study military theories, and wrote down his own experience, one is to explain the practical use of the art of war, and the other is to warn and yearn for peace.
After listening to Qin Gong's speech, Professor Zhang asked: "After talking for a long time, who is the owner of this tomb?" β
Qin Gong replied: "He didn't say who he was, but after knowing this, you can know who he is when you go back and check the relevant records." β
"That's all there is to it, by the way, did he say how he got this ancient tomb?"
"Yes, the back is what he said to us, let me sort it out again and talk about it later."
After speaking, Qin Gong continued to record and interpret the bamboo slips, and after a while, Qin Gong continued: "The owner of the tomb about the establishment of this tomb was a whim after an illness, and felt that he should leave something for the future, he knew that the dynasty would continue to change, and his things would not be preserved permanently, and sooner or later they would be destroyed in the war, so he designed this tomb by himself, the tomb has a total of three doors and three organs, and our current position is already the second door and the first mechanism, and there are two more in front, But I didn't say what it was, now I will interpret it to you according to the original text and tell you the part he said to us, 'Maybe the age of reading this book is a thousand years away from me, and after a thousand years, we can connect our hearts through the chess game, the chess game is the battlefield I personally encountered, and the soldiers fought bravely, but because of my negligence fell into a heavy siege, and finally because I was outnumbered, all the blood was spilled on the battlefield, and I thought I was familiar with the art of war, but I forgot to turn the tiger away from the mountain, and the light enemy sent all the garrison sergeants to pursue and make the camp an empty city, In order to warn myself and future generations, I put this chess game here, hoping that people who are destined to know me, understand me, understand the overall situation of the world, the chess game can not explain the real crisis situation at that time, but can be properly reflected, so I will meet friends with chess, I hope that these can be used as a permanent military warning, victory will not continue, there will always be defeat, do not underestimate the enemy; I don't know if you have been to my coffin, if you have been, it means that you are talented, you have passed the three doors and three organs, I set up the organ not to prevent anyone from disturbing my peace, there is no tomb in the past dynasties will not be opened, I know this very well, so I used some techniques to ensure that there are destined people, and in order to stop the wicked, so use this to test you, if you pass successfully, it means that you have a fate with me, in addition to the things here you take away, if you promise to use my story as a warning in front of me, I have another generous gift, if you haven't entered, then I advise you not to use brute force to get in, otherwise my greeting gift will cease to exist in the flames, and whether we are destined to see if you can really come to me,' he said and said that. β
After listening to this, Professor Chen savored it carefully, and said slowly, "Director Feng, what do you think this means?" β
Feng Weiguo hadn't really entered the tomb through the cracking mechanism, and he didn't know anything about them, so he said blankly: "Professor Chen, I don't really understand those. β
Professor Wang also thought carefully about Qin Gong's interpretation and said: "Since it is said that it is his meeting gift, if it encounters brute force to enter, it will be destroyed in the flames, which means that the mechanism inside is very dangerous, and the tomb owner has set up a self-destruct device, and without brute force, it means that we must crack his mechanism head-on, the three mechanisms, the stone gate is already one, and the nine-palace diagram of the statue should also be one, this should have been interpreted, then the rest may be the Yongdao behind the statue." β
Professor Chen took Professor Wang's words and said: "The answer to the Nine Palaces diagram can be basically determined, we will try it in a while, and the main tomb generally does not have a mechanism, the mechanism should be in the corridor, we still have the instrument after opening the Yong." β
"If you have to have fire, it's mainly white phosphorus, and if you want to ignite the flame here, either water or air, which can be measured with an instrument."
Zhang Gong listened for a long time, and after thinking about the meeting, he also participated in the discussion: "What can be measured is the clear place, the tomb owner can say this will definitely not be so simple on the bright side, what I am most worried about now is that there are two Yong roads on both sides of the statue, one is the real road, there may be a mechanism halfway, and the other is directly a dead end, there is no return." β
"It may exist, but there are four mechanisms."
"If you put one of the two choice questions together, this is a question in itself, and two ways are a mechanism."
Professor Chen thought for a moment, then asked, "How wide are the corridors on both sides?" β
"I didn't measure it, that one also needs ground penetrating radar to know, but looking at the stone strips on both sides of the stone carving, it should be about the same width as the corridor inside, and the visual inspection is only 2.5 meters."
"2.5 meters, there are more organs that can be laid out, let's go in carefully, now, we will seal all these bamboo slips and send them to the museum for temporary storage, and after getting these, we will break the nine-palace diagram first!"