Chapter 144: Vientiane Shrine
That night, a mourning hall was set up in the courtyard for Ling Xiao Pavilion, how to say that it was also a senior, we all left a vigil, and Ling Ran and Ling Zhihan wore linen and wore filial piety and could not kneel.
"You said, with the friendship between the shopkeeper and Ling Ran, if the shopkeeper comes back safely this time, will he really hand me over to Ling Ran?" I asked the palace lord and Tian Ji who were sitting on the side.
"Actually, there's nothing wrong with it, think about it, Gu Su Ling's family, how big is it, you can be regarded as jumping the dragon gate, and it is also a blessing." Tian Ji replied heartlessly.
"Blessing, look at Ling Ran like that, or I'll give you this blessing." I gave him a blank look and said angrily.
"Don't, I've had enough of my old man, let me be crazy with such an old man." Tian Ji spread his hands and said with a smile. "It's not that I'm crazy, it's that I'm going to mad him."
"It's not something you worry about, you said that Ye Jiuqing and Ling Ran's friendship is important, or is Ye Zhiqiu important in the shopkeeper's heart." Gong Jue said calmly.
"What does this have to do with Ye Zhiqiu?" I asked blankly.
"Even if the shopkeeper agrees to Ling Ran, Ye Zhiqiu will not agree, and in the end, the shopkeeper will have to compromise." Gong Jue said coldly with disdain. "I didn't see Ye Zhiqiu saying that you are worthless, people treat you as a treasure."
"Ye Zhiqiu? Don't talk nonsense, she hasn't looked at me before. I shook my head, distraught.
"You have also taught him eyesight for more than ten years, how can you teach this kind of color." The general couldn't listen to it and sarcastically treated Zhao Yan. "With this eyesight, you are not afraid of burying your reputation as King Zhao Yan."
"I taught him eyesight, but his brain is elm pimple, what do you think I can do." Zhao Yan said.
The two of them sang and didn't work together at all, and when I saw Ling Zhihan coming over and said that Ling Ran would let us go.
"How are you going to save Ye Jiuqing?" Ling Ran asked with a solemn face.
"Du Yi said that as long as we help him find Vientiane, he will let the shopkeeper come back." I say.
"Dad, I also asked you before, what is Vientiane, why did Lu Qiao torture Ling Wuchen to extract a confession, and he also mentioned these two words? Is Vientiane related to the secrets of our Ling family? ”
"The secrets of the Ling family are now known only to your grandfather, but Vientiane...... I haven't told you before, I've heard your grandfather mention it once. Ling Ran said.
"Uncle, do you know what Vientiane is?" Ye Zhiqiu, who came from the house to bring water, asked eagerly.
"Vientiane is ......," Ling Ran hesitated for a moment before speaking. It's a palace. ”
"Vientiane Palace?" We repeat this strange place in unison.
"Vientiane Palace?!" Zhao Yan looked at Ling Ran with wide eyes. "It's hard to ...... Could it be that Vientiane refers to the Vientiane Shrine! ”
Ling Ran took a deep breath and nodded silently.
"Hades, how do you know about this place?" The general asked in surprise. "What is Vientiane Shrine?"
"Uncle Zhao, shouldn't you be talking about the Vientiane Divine Palace in Luoyang, the divine capital, during the Wuzhou Dynasty?" Ye Zhiqiu asked with a surprised expression.
"You...... Do you know this place too? "I frowned, Du Yi has been imprisoned in Ling Xiao Pavilion for more than twenty years, I must be looking for this place, in my heart this should be an extremely hidden place, but I didn't expect that as soon as Ling Ran said it, so many people knew.
"Fortunately, Uncle Feng is not here, and he will scold you again, telling you to read more books, who doesn't know the Vientiane Divine Palace." Ye Zhiqiu glanced at me and ridiculed. "Vientiane Shrine, also known as the Ming Hall, was built in four years of vertical arching, about 90 meters high, the Ming Hall is magnificent, magnificent and magnificent."
"I'm from Luoyang, and there's no one who doesn't know about the Vientiane Divine Palace, speaking of this palace,......" Zhao Yan said to us. It is said that the hall is 300 feet wide, a total of three floors, it took nearly a year to complete the huge cost, the upper is a round cover, there is a nine dragons as a posture of holding, there is an iron phoenix, one zhang high. Garnished with yellow gold. ”
"What is this palace for?" Gong Jue asked.
"Wu Zetian is called the emperor, and the Vientiane Shrine has become the political center of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, and the ceremonies of sacrificing heaven and earth are held every year, and at the same time welcoming envoys from all over the world are here." Ye Zhiqiu replied calmly.
"Du Yi is not looking for trouble, the Vientiane Divine Palace is in Luoyang, you want to find yourself to see, why do you stir us in." Tian Ji said indignantly.
"The Vientiane Shrine has long ceased to exist, and in the first year of the Enlightenment, the Shrine was destroyed in a fire." Zhao Yan shook his head regretfully.
"Vientiane Shrine was later rebuilt, Wu Zetian gave the name Tongtian Palace, it can be said that this meteorological palace has witnessed the ups and downs of the Tang Empire, the changes of honor and disgrace, Vientiane Shrine was once the world's first height in the world, looking down on the world." Ye Zhiqiu sighed with emotion. "But in the end, it collapsed in the chaos of war and turned into scorched ruins."
"That's unreasonable, the monk can't run the temple, even if it becomes a ruin, but the ruins of the Vientiane Shrine are still in Luoyang, a well-known place, why does Du Yi want us to find it?" The palace lord asked with a stunned expression.
Seeing that Ling Ran had been speechless for a long time, presumably things were not so simple, I turned my head and asked seriously, "Is there anything else strange about the Vientiane Divine Palace?" ”
"What Du Yi is looking for should be the Vientiane Divine Palace, but it shouldn't be the one we know." Ling Ran took a deep breath and nodded silently.
"Are there any other Vientiane Shrines?" Ling Zhihan looked puzzled.
"Among the mystical techniques that the Ling family has passed down from generation to generation, there is one person who has been mentioned, and that is Yuan Tiangang, the national master of the Tang Dynasty." Ling Ran said with a calm face. "Volcano Ling Yuan Tiangang, according to legend, he knows the wind Jian, that is, by the sound of the wind and the direction of the wind, he can determine the good and the bad, and he is proficient in physiognomy, six and five elements, and the best thing is the art of feng shui."
"How could Yuan Tiangang be mentioned in the Ling family's secret things?" I asked, puzzled.
"About the beginning and end of the Vientiane Divine Palace, you have to start with this person, and you are afraid that you have misunderstood the meaning of the Vientiane Divine Palace, later generations have always thought that the Vientiane Divine Palace is just a palace, but in fact, this is not the case."
"Uncle, what is Vientiane Divine Palace not a palace?" Ye Zhiqiu was full of doubts and curiosity.
"If you study archaeology, you should know that the most prestigious and magnificent building in the Tang Dynasty is none other than the Seven Heavens Building." Ling Ran said.
"Seven days of construction, tofu scum project, who would dare to live in something that will be repaired in seven days." Tian Ji said innocently.
"A seven-day building is not a building that was repaired in seven days."
Ye Zhiqiu shook his head and told us that the Tang Dynasty was designed in Luoyang City according to the concept of the unity of heaven and man, and the imperial city surrounded the palace city from the southeast and west, implying that it was like the Beichen Domain, and the tall buildings on the north and south axes were crowned with the word "sky", and the entire axis could be described as a word sky.
Especially after Wu Zetian's construction of Luoyang City, the main hall of the central axis of Luoyang Ziwei Palace was changed to a single-storey tradition, which made the three-dimensional outline and style of the Luoyang Palace City Palace more brilliant and magnificent.
And these palaces crowned with the word Tian, no more, no less, just seven, and called the Seven Heavens Building.
"But in the secret biography of the Ling family, there is another theory about the Seven Heavens Building, it was not Wu Zetian who designed and built the Seven Heavens Building, but Volcano Ling Yuan Tiangang." Ling Ran raised his hand and pointed to the night sky and said solemnly. "According to legend, Yuan Tiangang took the Big Dipper in the sky as the benchmark, took the pivot as the sky, Xuan as the earth, Ji as the people, the right as the time, the balance as the sound, the opening of the sun as the law, and the shaking light as the star, and built seven palaces corresponding to the seven stars, because this magnificent palace has the all-encompassing atmosphere of swallowing the sky and spitting out the earth, so it is called the Vientiane Shrine."
"In this way, Vientiane Shrine is not a palace, but a huge complex." After listening to this, it dawned on me. "It turns out that the Vientiane Divine Palace was designed and built by Yuan Tiangang, so what is the Ming Hall in Luoyang?"
"This is also what I don't understand, it seems that there were two Vientiane Shrines in the Tang Dynasty, and what is known is that there are only ruins left in Luoyang today." Ling Ran shook his head and replied. "But as for the legendary Seven Heavens Building, there has been no trace."
"It's impossible for no one to know about such a huge complex, and if it's still preserved to this day, why haven't anyone ever heard of it?" Ye Zhiqiu thought about it for a long time and frowned. "Even if it is destroyed in the war, there should always be a record in literature and history."
"This is the mystery of the Seven Heavens Building, because the Seven Heavens Building was not built in plain sight." Ling Ran's face was calm.
"That'...... Where was that built? The general asked.
Ling Ran was silent and pointed to the ground: "It is said that Yuan Tiangang built the Seven Heavens Building in an unknown underground. ”
"With such a huge and splendid palace, why should he build it underground, and it is not a mausoleum, isn't it a waste." Tian Ji looked dazed.
"Yuan Tianganggui is the national teacher of the Tang Dynasty, Feng Shui is the peak of his attainments, it is said that he explored the dragon vein of the Tang Dynasty, and built it with a seven-day building, and the seven palaces are no more and no less just with two hundred and eighty-nine pillars." Ling Ran's voice was full of admiration.
"Two hundred and eighty-nine pillars...... Ye Zhiqiu lowered his head as if he was counting something, and suddenly raised his head in surprise. The Tang Dynasty began with Gaozu Li Yuan and ended with Emperor Mourning, just after two hundred and eighty-nine years! ”
"That's right, Yuan Tiangang has used the seven-day construction to protect the Tang Dynasty for more than 200 years, so the Ling family's secret biography also calls the Vientiane Divine Palace the Zhenlong Divine Palace." Ling Ran nodded unhurriedly.
I took a deep breath, so it seems that what Du Yi wants us to find should be the palace group located on the underground dragon vein, maybe the secret that the Ling family has passed down from generation to generation is also related to the Vientiane Divine Palace.
"But no, when we met your grandfather in the ward, he didn't ask you to memorize some words, but there was no mention of Vientiane Shrine in those words." I hesitated for a moment and turned my head to look at Ling Zhihan.
"Also, I remember those words word for word, but to be honest, I still don't understand what grandpa means by this, and I even think it's because grandpa is confused." Ling Zhihan also nodded suspiciously. "His words seem to be confused."
"What did your grandfather tell you?" Ling Ran hurriedly asked seriously.
"Grandpa asked me to memorize every word he said, saying that it was related to the secret that the Ling family had passed down from generation to generation, and I was sure to pass on these words." Ling Zhihan asked Ling Ran with a calm face. "Dad, you just happened to be here, I can just ask you."