Chapter 259: Bronze Luan
I asked Tian Ji to put away the silk cloth, I never believed Akai Yoshitaka, but this time he said it should be true.
For a more important reason, Akai Yoshitaka said, he has been searching for Akai Nobunari's remains along the way, but he has not found them until now, and the number of corpses found in the Jieshi Palace is also incorrect, at least half of them are missing.
It can be seen that this altar is not the end of the Jieshi Palace, there are other passages, but we did not find it, the palace lord looked around, and whispered to us that the shape and pattern of the altar are the same as those of the Aoki River, but the strange thing is that the remains of the Wako and Lei Yingwei are only distributed below, but not on the altar, and even the steps leading to the altar have not found the bones.
"Since Akai Nobunari knows all the mechanisms in the Jieshi Palace, it should be unimpeded, and he will only leave some people here to block the thunder camp guards." Tian Ji looked under the altar and said. "At that time, there was a fierce fight here, but no one came up, could it be that the hidden entrance was underneath?"
The palace lord nodded, he thought the same way, we hurriedly turned back from the steps, the lower perimeter of the altar was evenly placed with bronze vessels, which should be used as a tribute for the sacrifice, at the entrance of the steps leading to the altar above, there was a bronze platform with a map engraved on it, and the strangest thing was that in one place on the map, there was a bronze carriage the size of a palm.
I carefully looked at the map, and quickly confirmed that it was engraved with a map of the territory of the Qin Dynasty, and the bronze carriage was particularly familiar, and it took me a long time to remember that the same bronze carriage had been unearthed in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, but it was far larger than what we see today.
The whole vehicle is cast in bronze, painted throughout, and the carriage and horse and part of the decoration are made of gold and silver, although the shape is small, but the structure is complete, the decoration is gorgeous, and the craftsmanship is exquisite.
The copper car is a single-wheel, two-wheeled, six-horse system driving, according to the etiquette system, the Son of Heaven drove six, and the rest were driven four.
It can be seen from this that this bronze carriage should be Qin Shi Huang's Luan, and at the same time, in the ritual system, there are extremely strict requirements for Luanjia, and Luanjia is divided into five colors from the five elements, corresponding to the five directions.
The five colors are blue, white, red, black, and yellow, corresponding to east, west, south, north, and center, respectively.
The painted color of this bronze carriage is mainly cyan, which is in harmony with the oriental color in the five colors, which shows the luan drive used by Qin Shi Huang to travel eastward.
The bronze carriage is divided into two rooms, the front room is very small, only the royal hand is seated, a royal official wearing a double curly tail crown, wearing a long undergarment, and wearing a short sword at the waist, kneeling in the front room of the car, holding the reins in his hand.
The back room is the main hall for Qin Shi Huang to ride, but we see a white-bearded old man wearing a white robe and painting and holding a jade ruyi inside.
"The Son of Heaven's car, it should be Qin Shi Huang." I frowned and looked at the old man in the car, puzzled. "Who is this old man?"
Tian Ji just wanted to reach out to touch, but was stopped by Gong Jue, he carefully put his palm flat on the bronze platform, his fingertips were slightly forced, we found that the flat table surface was concave to varying degrees, this is not a complete map, but is made up of many bronze squares.
"This bronze platform triggers the mechanism here, and it will cause the whole body to collapse, and if you press the wrong place to touch the mechanism, it will collapse." Gong Jue slowly retracted his hand and said with a stern expression. "If you want to crack this mechanism, I'm afraid the key is on this bronze carriage."
"There's a word on the back of the car." Ling Zhihan said.
We went around to the back, and there were two lines of small seal text behind the body.
Panshi Ming Sheji, Luan drives the yin and yang.
But we have been thinking about these two sentences for a long time and still can't understand the deep meaning, but I don't focus on the meaning of these two sentences, but carefully look at each word on them.
The seal script text is thin and upright, and the pen is strong and strong, presumably the person who carved this seal book has a strong and magnificent atmosphere, and the seal book we carved on the stone tablet of the Jieshi Palace before is exactly the same, these two inscriptions are from the hand of one person.
This is engraved by Liss himself.
When Gong Jue heard this, he seemed to remember something, and his eyes fell on the bottom of the bronze carriage, and there was a place name under the place where the carriage was parked, Daiyue.
"Tarzan!" The palace lord thought for a moment and said. "Panshi inscription Sheji, according to the literal meaning, is to engrave the words related to Jiangshan Sheji on the Panshi, there are a lot of carved stones on Mount Tai, but the most famous ......"
"Of course, after Qin Shi Huang Taishan sealed the Zen, ordered Li Si to carve a stone in Mount Tai, which is full of the first emperor's words of praise and virtue, this stone stands on the top of Mount Tai on the Jade Girl Pond, and it is also the earliest carved stone of Mount Tai." It dawned on me.
"The first sentence refers to the Taishan stone carvings, so what does that have to do with the organs here?" Tian Ji was puzzled, and then pointed to the white-robed old man in the bronze carriage and said. "Also, why did the Big Dipper Star Monarch sit in Qin Shi Huang's car."
"What Big Dipper-kun?" I asked, stunned.
"The old man inside, my mother believes, there is a statue of a god in the house, just like the old man in the car, holding a jade Ruyi in his hand, wearing a red robe is Nandou, and wearing a white robe is Beidou." Tian Ji said disapprovingly.
"Nakshatra ......" Ling Zhihan's eyes lit up, and he kept reading the second sentence in his mouth, and said in surprise. I didn't think it was the stars. ”
"Do you know the meaning of the second sentence?" I asked.
"The second sentence is not difficult to understand, Emperor Luan Zhen Yin and Yang, Emperor Luan pointed to the emperor's car, which is the bronze carriage in front of us, Zhen Yin and Yang are easy to understand, everything in the world will never leave Yin and Yang, it should refer to all things in the world, taken together, it means that Emperor Qin inspected the world and deterred the Quartet." Gong Jue said calmly. "What does it mean to stay here?"
"The second sentence is that there is a mystery in the words, and it is necessary to cooperate with the white-robed old man in the car to understand, Tian Qi is right, the car is the Big Dipper, but it is actually a hint of the Big Dipper." Ling Zhihan replied unhurriedly.
When it comes to metaphysics, we are not as good as Ling Zhihan, listen to her continue, she told us that the Big Dipper is called the Seven Politics, the princes of the sky, and also the emperor's car, which is said that the Emperor of Heaven sits on the Big Dipper to inspect the Quartet, and sets the four hours of yin and yang, and all beings in the human world regard the North Star as the God Emperor, and the Beidou is the imperial chariot driven by the God Emperor to patrol the world.
The year begins in spring, and at this time the Beidou is in the east, so the God Emperor begins to patrol from the east, so it is called the emperor out of the earthquake, and the earthquake hexagram is in the east, which just coincides with the east referred to by the cyan on the bronze carriage.
Ling Zhihan solved the mystery of the second sentence, but the problems followed, if the second sentence refers to the Big Dipper, but the first sentence we also understood its meaning, it is to say that Emperor Qin left the carved stone in Mount Tai to seal Zen.
But there is no connection between the Big Dipper and the Tarzan carved stone, and I am worried that I have walked back and forth a few steps, and the Big Dipper is in the firmament, and its position will not change, at best it should only be used to indicate the direction.
"Could it have something to do with the content of Mount Tai's carved stone?" Gong Jue asked behind him.
"Li Si's small seal is unique, the glyph is neat and slender, the strokes are round and strong, I have been to Mount Tai more than once to see the stone carving, the small seal on it is elegant and beautiful, such as a fairy in the wind and demeanor." Ling Zhihan shook her head and said to us regretfully. "If the secret is hidden in the stone carvings of Mount Tai, then we will never know how to crack it."
"Ah......" Tian Ji asked in surprise. Why? ”
"The carved stone was originally next to the Jade Girl Pond on the top of Mount Tai, and later suffered a fire and burned the carved stone." Ling Zhihan replied in a deep voice. "The original text of the carved stone has gone through vicissitudes, and now only the cross remains."
"Since Li Si's small seal is the best in the world, even if the original text is destroyed, has it not been rubbed in future generations?" Gong Jue asked.
"It should have nothing to do with the content of the stone carvings." I walked back to the bronze platform, with certainty. "The Jieshi Palace is not trivial in Emperor Qin's heart, and it was built on the bottom of the sea just because he didn't want to leak secretly, and he would never leave the important clues in the Jieshi Palace in the stone carvings."
"Since it has nothing to do with stone carvings, why is the carved stone of Mount Tai mentioned in the first sentence?" Gong Jue asked.
"It's really, if you listen to your ink again, I'll have to starve to death here sooner or later, it's a big fart, is it so troublesome?" Xie Tianhui was distraught and shouted.
"You know, here you come." The palace lord pointed to the bronze platform indignantly and said.
"Lao Tzu is blind, and he actually brought a bunch of waste to help." Xie Tianhui pushed Tian Ji away and stood in front of the bronze platform. "You all said, the car is white and refers to the east, and the Big Dipper also refers to the east, so simple things think about for a long time, doesn't it mean that this carriage is going east."
"There are so many places in the east, who knows where to go." Tian Ji squeezed to Xie Tianhui's side and said.
"I know." I said suddenly.
Others looked at me in surprise, maybe just like Xie Tianhui said, we think things are too complicated, there are records in historical documents, Qin Shi Huang since the third year of the unification of the world, that is, the twenty-ninth year of the first emperor began to inspect the world, but also from the east, the history is called Qin Huang's eastern tour, which just coincides with the second sentence.
"Even if you understand the meaning of the second sentence in this way, it still has no connection with the first sentence?" Ling Zhihan looked at me and said anxiously. "The stone carvings of Mount Tai have been destroyed, since they have nothing to do with the words on them, what does the first sentence mean?"
"If the second sentence refers to Yingzheng's eastern tour, then the first sentence is not as simple as saying the stone carvings left by Li Si on Mount Tai." I replied excitedly.
"Could it be that the first sentence has any other meaning?" Gong Jue asked calmly.
"Emperor Qin's eastern tour is to show his great achievements, Li Si accompanied him during the eastern tour, and the stone carvings left behind are not only Mount Tai."
"Are there still several stone carvings in Lis?" Tian Ji asked in surprise
"There are six of them!" I nodded, pointing on the map. "They are Yishan carved stone, Taishan carved stone, Langya Tai carved stone, Zhifu carved stone, Jieshi carved stone and Huiji carved stone."
"Six carved stone ......" Gong Jue repeated my words in his mouth, and suddenly turned to look at the Qin Dynasty territory map on the bronze platform, which were six completely disconnected points.
Gong Jue's finger hovered over the map, slowly drawing a zigzag line, just connecting the six dots together.
"What do you mean by this line?" Tian Ji asked.
"It is the route of Emperor Qin's eastern tour." The palace lord replied unhurriedly.
I stood and stared for a moment and slowly opened my mouth, the Big Dipper is composed of seven bright stars, arranged in the northern sky in a bucket shape, and the line drawn by the palace lord on the map is actually the same as the Big Dipper.
The six stone carvings left by Li Si turned out to be laid out in the shape of the Big Dipper.
"There are seven Nakshatras in the Big Dipper." Ling Zhihan raised his hand and pointed to the map and said in surprise. "But why are there only six stone carvings on the map, although they coincide with the Big Dipper, but there seems to be one missing stone carving here."
We looked at the place that Ling Zhihan was pointing to, and the six stone carvings were completely consistent with the position of the Big Dipper, but there was one less place below as Ling Zhihan said, and the missing place happened to be the most dazzling Yuheng Star in the Big Dipper......
My eyes lit up, the Big Dipper should be seven, if the stone carvings left by Li Si are according to the layout of the Big Dipper, then there should be seven places, but Li Si only left six, and the missing star corresponds to the place on the map, which is the location of the opening mechanism.
The joy of the spontaneous spread across our faces, I reached out and pressed down on the map, and a low roar came from the soles of our feet, and we involuntarily stepped back, watching the closed ground under our feet slowly open, and a staircase leading to the depths of the sea appeared in our eyes.