Door?!

We looked at each other in amazement, I don't know much about Feitian, but judging from the reactions of Song Wenjie and Ye Zhiqiu, it seems very unusual.

"Feitian generally holds musical instruments in his hands, representing peace and solemnity, but Feitian in this painting, the things in his hands are full of anger, which is extremely inconsistent with the image of the gods." Song Wenjie said as he handed me the magnifying glass. "You can take a closer look at the second flying sky on the right."

I took the magnifying glass and buried my head down, the flying man holding the scepter, and was shocked when I saw the top of the scepter: "Skeleton?!" ”

"Yes, it is a skeleton scepter, which is extremely rare to appear in the hands of Feitian, and at that time, Dunhuang did not have such a style in the murals of the Tang Dynasty, and the scepter did not appear in the Central Plains, and this skeleton scepter has an exotic shape." Although Song Wenjie is dull, he is extremely rigorous and serious in his work. "Looking at the entire Dunhuang murals, such a flying sky is unique, and it can be said that this discovery is enough to shock the entire archaeological history of Dunhuang."

"Wen Jie, I have one more thing I want to ask you." Ye Zhiqiu's mood has calmed down now. "Have you heard of the Vientiane Shrine?"

"Of course I did." Song Wenjie didn't even think about blurting it out. "Why, you're now participating in the archaeological research of Mingtang?"

As soon as he heard Song Wenjie's answer, he knew that the Vientiane Divine Palace in his heart was nothing more than a building imitated by Wu Zetian in Luoyang.

"It's not." Ye Zhiqiu couldn't say it too clearly in front of him, but he was a person who couldn't hide it.

"You have been studying the history of Dunhuang, and you must know this place very well, and you know if there are any large-scale buildings in this vicinity." I took Ye Zhiqiu's words and asked Song Wenjie. "It's big, like the size of Vientiane Shrine."

"Dunhuang in the traditional sense, the west of Yumen Pass is called the Western Regions, the earliest is the Zhou Dynasty's lands, to the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions there are 36 countries to submit to the Han Dynasty, but it is too far away from the Central Plains, the rule of the Western Regions in the past dynasties is not complete, and the conquest here is continuous." Song Wenjie shook his head and replied. "With the capabilities of the countries in the Western Regions at that time, it was difficult for the country to complete a large-scale palace building, let alone a huge building complex like the Vientiane Divine Palace."

"What about the Tang Dynasty, at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, during this period of time, the Dunhuang murals also developed to their heyday, and a large number of people migrated into the Western Regions, did any huge buildings ever build?" Ye Zhiqiu asked seriously.

"Not really." Song Wenjie replied very simply. "Because the Tang Dynasty had the most murals, the focus of our research has always been on the Tang Dynasty, and the buildings must have been built, but there is definitely no huge building complex as you said, otherwise even if it was abandoned later, it should be recorded."

"That's strange, judging from the current situation, that place should be somewhere in the Western Regions, why is there no rumor or clue at all." Gong Jue frowned and looked at me and said. "It stands to reason that such a big project costs a lot of money and the construction period is continuous, and there should always be some clues."

"I really don't know where you're going to find it, and I can't help it." Song Wenjie said apologetically, his eyes were still reluctant to glance at the picture scroll on the table, probably because he was worried that he didn't help, I didn't let him copy, and hesitated for a long time and said in a low voice. "However, a few years ago, when we were studying the history of Dunhuang, we found a few rather bizarre things, I don't know if it will help you."

"What's the matter?" Tian Ji asked.

Song Wenjie looked around and whispered to us that in the early Tang Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty army eliminated the Hui and Turkic forces, it extended its tentacles to the Western Regions, and except for Gaochang's disobedience to rule and was eliminated, all the countries in the Western Regions submitted to the Tang Dynasty.

Soon, the rule of the Western Regions was handed over to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate and the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate for handling, and a complete administrative system was established in the Western Regions, the Western Regions were assigned to Longyou Province, and the four towns of Anxi were established as the main cities in the Western Regions. The Tang Dynasty's rule over the Western Regions lasted until after the Anshi Rebellion.

"We unearthed a letter from the Anxi Protector in an archaeology, the time was the fourth year of Wude, and Tang Gaozu issued an edict to the Anxi Protector at that time, ordering him to lead a heavy army to escort the gods into the Western Regions."

"Escort the Godman?!" I looked at Song Wenjie suspiciously.

"It is indeed recorded in the letter, but the name is not mentioned, and we deduce that it should be a monk or something, but it is strange to us that the Anzai Prefecture was personally escorted by the Anzai Prefecture at that time." Song Wenjie hurriedly explained.

"Did you say what you are doing when you escort the gods into the Western Regions?" Ye Zhiqiu asked.

"The letter does not mention the specific reason, but it is recorded that a large number of craftsmen from the Central Plains were accompanied by the gods and men into the Western Regions." Song Wenjie said to us with a serious face. "At that time, the most huge project was the Mogao Grottoes, but from the records in the letters, the number of craftsmen sent to the Western Regions was extremely large, if it was only for the construction of the Mogao Grottoes, the existing grotto area should not be so small."

"You mean that the craftsmen who accompanied the gods into the Western Regions at that time were there to build other things?" The palace lord asked coldly.

"I don't know this, I heard you talk about the huge complex before, so I thought of this matter, because this unearthed letter may be related to the unknown history of the Western Regions, so it has been kept secret, and few people know about it." Song Wenjie's voice became smaller and quieter the more he spoke.

"Four years of martial arts......" Ye Zhiqiu lowered his head and thought for a moment. The No. 60 grotto in Maijishang was built in the third year of Wude, Ling Xuan left clues at that time, and a large number of craftsmen accompanied the gods into the Western Regions in the fourth year of Wude......"

"Maybe the god-man mentioned in the letter should be Ling Xuan, at least the time coincides." I nodded, understanding what Ye Zhiqiu meant.

"I later checked the history of this period, and what puzzled me was that with the strength and combat power of the Anxi Protectorate at that time, it was completely possible to drive straight into the Eastern Turks to destroy the Eastern Turks, but the army has been stationed in the Western Regions, and the number of troops is amazing, but it has put on a defensive posture, as if it is protecting something." Song Wenjie said.

I asked Song Wenjie to bring a map of the Western Regions, spread it on the table, and asked him to draw on the map the place where the troops of the Anxi Protectorate were stationed at that time, and Song Wenjie definitely used a pen to outline a clearly visible line of defense in front of us.

This line of defense is based on the four towns of Anxi, connected into an arc-shaped defense system, any place has a war, the other three towns can immediately wave their troops to help, the construction of the Vientiane Shrine is not an overnight thing, if the Vientiane Shrine is really in the Western Regions, it is far away from the core control of the Tang Dynasty, once the war disaster is likely to destroy the Vientiane Shrine under construction.

Lu Qiao's documents can also prove from another aspect, the Vientiane Divine Palace should be somewhere in the Western Regions, and the real intention of the garrison outside the fortress must be to ensure the smooth construction of the Vientiane Divine Palace.

I clicked my finger a few times inside the defense line on the map, and then looked at the others, believing that they should know what I meant, if the Vientiane Shrine was built in the Western Regions, it should be somewhere deep in this defense line.

"I don't know if there are any huge buildings in the Western Regions, but there are two other things that may be related to what you asked." Song Wenjie's finger fell on the location of Chang'an on the map. "Because of the unearthed letter, I deliberately checked the history of the Tang Dynasty during that period, and found from the documents that the household department in the early Tang Dynasty had been transferring funds to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and the huge amount far exceeded the normal military expenditure of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and it was not a one-time time, it lasted for five years, ending in the ninth year of Wude."

"In the ninth year of Wude, the Xuanwumen Incident, after Li Yuan gave way, Li Shimin ascended the throne." Ye Zhiqiu looked up at me and said seriously. "After Li Yuan's abdication, the household department no longer allocated funds to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, so it seems that the later lord Li Shimin does not know Li Yuan's deployment in the Western Regions."

"That's true, in the same year, not only did the household department not allocate a huge amount of money, but at the same time, because of the convenience of the palace, Li Shimin transferred back to the Western Regions army, which directly led to the Eastern Turks approaching Chang'an." Song Wenjie nodded and said.

What Li Yuan did was related to the fortune of the Tang Dynasty, and I couldn't figure out why he didn't tell the queen Li Shimin, that is to say, the secret of the Vientiane Divine Palace was interrupted by Li Yuan, so that it could also be explained clearly, why Wu Zetian later got the rubbing of the Vientiane Divine Palace and did not know its meaning.

"Didn't you just say that there are two things, and what is the other one?" Gong Jue asked.

"This thing is even more strange, it was also three years ago, we excavated a Tang Dynasty post station in the Western Regions, and found a dried corpse, which was inferred to be buried by yellow sand after testing, we found a document on the corpse, which was reported to Tang Gaozu by the Protectorate of the Rest of the Prefecture, the content of it is irrelevant, but there is a sentence in it that is quite strange, I can't remember the original words, but it means that something is beginning to take shape." Song Wenjie said this, his face was full of doubts. "The style and seal of the document are all protected by Anxi, but the signature of the document is a Xuan character, I have looked through the previous protectors of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and there is no one with this name."

We opened our mouths in shock, Song Wenjie may never be able to comprehend the content of this document, but for us, it seems that this secret buried in the yellow sand for thousands of years is gradually coming to the surface.

We are basically sure that the Vientiane Divine Palace is in the Western Regions, and the god who was escorted into the Western Regions by the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate is Ling Xuan, and the large number of craftsmen who followed her were not building the Mogao Grottoes, but building the Vientiane Divine Palace.

Song Wenjie finally mentioned that the report documents found at the post station were enough to show that Ling Xuan was already in charge of controlling the Anxi Protectorate at that time, and before the ninth year of Wude, all the military and political powers of the Anxi Protectorate were controlled by Ling Xuan.

This is also the reason why the army will be hoarded in the four towns of Anxi to defend, but the queen Li Shimin does not know all this, so this huge palace complex of the Tang Dynasty just disappeared into the vast yellow sand, waiting for the next person to open, this is a thousand years later!