Chapter 723: Peeling Back the Threads
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But even the patterns on the silk cloth, we have been studying for two days without any progress, we have carefully checked the tin stick many times, there is no mechanism or mystery in it, we have not found a single word on these two things.
"What is this, playing dumb riddles? There are no hints, a tin stick and a silk cloth, what does Qing Taizu want to prompt? Xue Xinrou rubbed her eyes tiredly.
"There are dragons, tigers, horses, and rats in the painting, and these things should be a metaphor for something." Tian Ji said tiredly and limply in his chair.
"But what's the allusion to the white tiger and the disc?" The palace lord asked anxiously.
"No, I've thought about it over and over again, and there's really no record of the two." Ye Jiuqing shook his head, then looked at Turzhan. "Could it have something to do with Manchu customs?"
"The tiger is one of the totems of the Manchu ancestors in Tasiha, but there has never been a white tiger, and as for the disc, I have never heard of it." Turzhan replied.
"White Tiger...... The white tiger, in Taoism, is one of the four elephants of the Seven Stars of the West, the seven Western Houses of the Twenty-eight Houses, and its image of the Tiger, located in the West, belongs to the gold, the main killing, the color is white, and the name is the White Tiger. I slowly straightened up and said thoughtfully. But I don't know what the disc represents. ”
"Western Seven Nights......" Xue Xinrou slowly looked at the painting again, turned around and walked to the side, pushed open the window, looked up for a long time, and suddenly turned his head and pointed to the night sky and said to us. The disc refers to whether this is the case. ”
We all turned our heads and looked over with Xue Xinrou's hand, and a bright moon hung in the sky like a round silver plate.
"That's right, why didn't I think of this, the White Tiger is the Lord of the West, and the disc of the West of course refers to the moon!" Gong Jue's eyes lit up and he said happily. "The white tiger holding the moon should be pointing to the direction, and it also determines the direction of this silk painting."
Xue Xinrou immediately took out a clean white paper after listening, marked the south, south, north, and west on it, and then copied the star map under the silk cloth, the only thing we could be sure of before was the star distribution map on this painting, but because there was no direction, it was impossible to judge what the star was, and after Xue Xinrou copied it, she looked at it for a long time and said happily.
"This nakushatra chart is the constellation of Ursa Minor!"
We gathered around and saw Xue Xinrou connect the transcribed stars with lines on a white piece of paper and mark the directions, and sure enough, it was a shape like a bear.
Gong Jue suddenly took the pen in Xue Xinrou's hand, and slowly drew lines on the paper that we couldn't understand with a shocked face, and when she finished drawing, a complete circular star map appeared in front of us.
"The master taught me the technique, the most important of which is stargazing, and the most important of them is this nakshatra map, according to the direction marked in the original painting, this nakshatra is located in the north." The palace lord took a pen and drew a circle on one of the stars, and then told us in a serious way. "This star is called the North Star, the most respected star of the sky, and the center of its new star and the sky, the fortune of the sky is endless, and the pole star does not move, and the stars arch in its place."
"Polaris!" I was surprised to say it.
"This constellation map is Ziweiyuan, one of the three walls." The palace lord is quite proficient in the stars, and continues to speak to us. "Ziweiyuan is the middle wall of the three walls, located in the center of the North Heaven, so it is called the Middle Palace, it is the place where the Emperor of Heaven lives, with the North Pole as the center, there are fifteen stars, divided into two columns of the left wall and the right wall, called Ziweiyuan in the north of the Beidou, the left and right ring columns, the elephant of Yiwei."
"The North Star is also known as the Purple Palace...... The constellation diagram on this painting is actually an allusion to the imperial palace! Ye Zhiqiu said with certainty.
"Could it be that you're talking about the Shengjing Palace?!" Bai Jin was ecstatic.
"If it is the Shengjing Imperial Palace, why should Qing Taizu leave a well hexagram in one fell swoop, this imperial palace should refer to other places." I shook my head and said.
"Before Shengjing, Liaoyang became the capital of the Qing Dynasty, could it mean Liaoyang?" Xue Xinrou said.
"Are you sure this nakshatra is referring to the North Star?" Turzhan suddenly asked seriously.
Xue Xinrou nodded affirmatively: "Do you always know anything?" ”
"If the North Star is a hint at the emperor's palace, it will not refer to Shengjing, let alone Liaoyang." Turzhan said unusually firmly.
"What's that?" We asked in unison.
"Hetuala!" Turzhan blurted out.
I hurriedly asked Tian Ji to bring a map of Liaodong, spread it on the table and found the location of Hetuala, which happened to be due east of Shengjing, and this place was the place of Zhaoxing in the Qing Dynasty.
Turzhan pointed to the map and said to us: "Hetuara City, looking forward to the Fengling, the rooster song, the show of the stove, the back of the Longgang, the rolling horse, the Jinling Zhiwei, the traditional Kanyu Feng Shui, the left green dragon, the right white tiger, the former Vermilion Bird, the back Xuanwu four elements are readily available, there has always been the North Star, the king of the eastern capital is all over the mountains and rivers. ”
"That's strange, the ban on the Northeast is an order given by Qing Taizu, the purpose is to smoothly build the Great Qing Dragon Vein Treasure, and Qing Taizu is far away from Hetuala, just to avoid the ancestors of the Bai family, so that the treasure can be passed on secretly, why do you go around and point to this ancient city again?" Ye Jiuqing looked puzzled.
"But even if we know that the stars in this picture are alluding to Hetuala, and the white tiger hugging the moon is a hint of direction, then what does this soaring dragon mean by the rats and horses connected to the tail below?"
"Since the white tiger is hinting at the direction, will the dragon also mean the same?" I asked, frowning.
"It shouldn't be, the white tiger can already mark the direction of this painting, no need to do more, the green dragon in the east of the four elephants, corresponds to the white tiger, and it seems that it does not match the position in the painting." The palace lord shook his head and said affirmatively. "And rats and horses aren't directions."
"Under what circumstances do rats and horses get together?" Ye Zhiqiu also muttered to himself in puzzlement.
"There are rats and horses in the zodiac, the rat is the rat, and the horse is the noon horse, which represents different years, and it is impossible for the two to appear at the same time, if there is, it is also the meridian opposition, and there will be no connection." Ye Jiuqing shook his head and replied.
Xue Xinrou stepped forward and looked at it for a long time, and suddenly took a pen and drew a line on the white paper, and we were surprised to find that the line through the rat's head and the horse's head was impartial and just crossed the North Star, and the rat's head was just facing the North Star.
"Here the mouse and the horse are connected, which should refer to the meridian, and the ancients thought that the son was due north and the noon was due south, which is why the rat's head is exactly aligned with the North Star in the picture, and the meridian here is also marking the direction." Xue Xinrou's voice was calm.
Turzhan frowned suddenly, slowly buried his head and looked at the painting in front of him, muttering the meridian repeatedly in his mouth, and then said with some surprise.
"The constellation diagram is a metaphor for Hetuala, from the mouse and horse in the picture, it is impartial and just on the north-south axis of Hetuala, and the meridian here is indeed the direction, but I think there should be another meaning."
"What do you mean?" We asked in unison.
Turzhan was excited to tell us that in the north of the city of Hetuala, there is an octagonal, heavy eaves and pointed building, and it is in this building that the Qing Taizu holds the eight flags and is called me in yellow, and since then Hetuara has become the first capital of the Qing Dynasty.
"This building is still standing in Hetuala's Khan Palace Yamen, which also places the throne of the great grandfather who ascended the throne and called the Khan, in front of the throne is the dragon book case of the review and folding, and on the east and west sides of the dragon book case, there are crane rank lotus wax tables, smokers and incense pavilions." The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and his fingers on the map trembled slightly. "The Great Yamen of the Khan Palace sits in the south and faces north, and it is also due north, so this palace is also called the Meridian Palace."
"It's all over that, the stars allude to Hetuala, and the rat and the horse refer to the great yamen of the Khan Palace......" Ye Zhiqiu suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking. Isn't it really that simple? ”
"What's simple?" I asked.
Ye Zhiqiu said that the rumors about the treasure of the dragon vein of the Great Qing Dynasty were mentioned the most in Hetuala, and so far, the vast majority of people, including the descendants of the Eight Banners, believe that the treasure of the world is buried somewhere in Hetuala.
"These clues were all left by Qing Taizu himself, not only pointed out Hetuala, but also determined the specific location, just in the Great Yamen of the Khan Palace, you say......" Ye Zhiqiu was a little hesitant. Could the treasure be under the Great Yamen of the Khan's Palace? ”
"It definitely won't be in Hetuala, I have been to the Great Yamen of the Khan Palace, such an important and eye-catching place, the slightest movement will be noticed, not to mention that so many gold, silver and jewels are buried, if so, I am afraid that the treasure of the dragon vein of the Qing Dynasty would have been discovered a long time ago." Bai Jin shook his head and denied Ye Zhiqiu's speculation.
"What the ancestors of the Bai family want to repair is not a treasure, but a dock that can be provided to the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, this place must be hidden, and I don't want anyone to know, so I will let the Qing Taizu ban the Northeast, just imagine building it in Hetuara City, can such a secret be maintained until now?" I shook my head.
"You didn't say that the ship would stop at the land of dragon qi, I took Old Man Ling to Hetuala, he personally inspected the geophysiognomy feng shui there, and he is sure that it is not the place where the dragon veins are located." Bai Jin said.
"Since the treasure is not in Hetuala, what does Qing Taizu mean by leaving these clues?" The field chicken is at a loss.
"If we are right, then we will unravel the meaning of what is in this painting, and all that remains is this soaring dragon between the white tiger hugging the moon and the great yamen of the Khan Palace." Ye Zhiqiu pursed his lips and said thoughtfully. "Maybe we won't be able to fully grasp the meaning of this painting until we unravel the dragon."
After pondering for a moment, Turzhan told us that the Great Yamen of the Khan Palace was the most important core building of Hetuala, connected on all sides, like a majestic mountain surrounded by mountains, and he knew the Great Yamen of the Khan Palace so well that every brick and tile of this building was still fresh in his memory.
"I'm sure that there is no dragon pattern depicted on the silk cloth on the Great Yamen of the Khan's Palace."