Chapter VIII Jianwen Ruins

We came outside slowly, and Zhang Qian and Lu Liang fell behind. Gao Yanan said with a frosty face: "Forget it, let's not worry about you guys today, let's talk about what's going on here, right?" How did we get here last night and sleep like this? Can anyone give me an answer. "That's when we looked up at everything.

"Where is this?" I asked, "Gao Yanan, can you determine the location here?" ”

Gao Yanan nodded and said, "We are still in the Taklamakan Desert, and we are in the hinterland of the Taklamakan Desert. I don't want to worry about what happened last night, it's just too cheap for you kid. If Leng Feng wasn't here, I wouldn't have spared you easily. ”

Leng Feng said with a smile: "Okay, Gao Yanan, if I hadn't been here, it wouldn't have been your turn, there are still two little girls over there." I don't have the faith to keep it, let alone you. ”

I smiled bitterly and said, "Leng Feng, why don't you have confidence in yourself?" ”

Leng Feng pursed his lips and said, "It's not that I don't have confidence in myself, but I don't have confidence in you." How do you like a woman? Wait one day, I'll pour some sulfuric acid on your face and see who else wants you. ”

I nodded Leng Feng and said, "The most poisonous woman's heart, count you as cross." Too lazy to pay attention to you. "I looked at it again carefully, and since it was still in China, nothing could happen. But how did you come to the heart of the Taklamakan Desert? I just ran into a ghost. When I came last night, I flew all the way, so many sand dunes, I usually can't go up without adding maximum horsepower, how did I get here last night? There was no bump in the road, just like on the highway.

Gao Ping asked, "Captain." It can't be Loulan, Niya or Dandan Ulric, right? ”

Gao Yanan shook his head and said, "What you said are all on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert. Although it has been swallowed by the desert, it is not in the heart of the desert. It's pretty much the center of the Taklamakan Desert. There are only more than 20 kilometers in the center, and it is not surprising that there is an ancient city here, there are many buried ancient cities in the desert, maybe they will be blown out by the wind that day, but the strange thing is, how did we get here? Gao Yanan said and pointed to the surrounding sand dunes, "Look at the height of these dunes, we usually increase the car to the maximum horsepower." And when the equipment is unloaded, it takes someone to push it to get up. But last night, not only did we not unload our equipment, but there were so many rocks in the car, how did we sometimes get here? ”

Zhang Qiang also said: "Yes, those places are recorded in books, and they are all in ancient classics, but I haven't seen any records in the classics here." It's like there's an ancient city under Lop Nur. And the foreign explorer Sven? Hedin, Stein. Bo Xihe and others have entered Loulan and other places to excavate one step ahead of China. But, if you look at it, it seems like no one has ever been there, so everything is so neatly arranged. No one has been here at all. ”

I took a closer look at the place and circled the buildings. It's a city, an ancient city. The top of the wall is about three to four meters wide. The remaining height is also three to four meters. Two rows of vertical poplar trees are exposed inside and outside the wall, and it appears that these are skeletons. Wasn't there a stone in the desert in ancient times? If there are no stones, where does the sand come from? What is the use of the slope protection made of willow branches and poplar branches and silt outside? It's about two or three miles around the city. A very small city. The length and width are about 250 meters each, and they are placed in Beijing. Compared to the Forbidden City, it was simply a joke.

Gao Yanan said: "Professor Shui, you say, is it just a city, or is it a palace?" ”

I smiled and said, "It should be the palace." If it's a city. You say ......," I said, pointing to the inside, "What is this less than 20,000 square meters?" It's less than two of the size of Tiananmen Square. If it's just a city, how many people can be in it? There are too many people to let go. Many villages in rural China are much larger than him, so they should be royal palaces. "I came to a conclusion.

The city has two gates, north and south, in a straight line. In the center there are several remnants of the building. Although the walls have arrived, the north and south gates are still strong. The two gates are wooden and somewhat decayed, but the deadbolts on them are still there.

Lu Liang shook his head and said, "If they use stones, this will be a beautiful castle. ”

I shook my head and said, "This is not the Sahara Desert, there are still a few stone mountains in the Sahara Desert, but this is the Tarim Basin, there are no big mountains, a few weathered for so many years, there are no more, except for the sand everywhere here to tell the fact that there were mountains here before, but that would have been many years ago." Perhaps when this city was built, there were no mountains left in the Taklamakan Desert. ”

Leng Feng received: "There is another possibility." You see, where is this? The hinterland of the Taklamakan Desert. In the history of China, there has never been a record of anyone in this existence. It is also that no one has come in and lived in the forbidden land of death. So, why are these people here? I suspect that these people may have fled here for refuge. You know, the wood will rot for only a dozen years before it will all decay. It's dry, but the wind is strong. And there will also be heavy rain, fog. These can cause the wood to rot earlier. So, I guess the city was built in the last few hundred years. ”

Gao Ping shook his head and said, "Sister-in-law, I don't agree with your point of view. You see, what are these? Populus euphratica, poplar wood with a thick bowl mouth. Poplar wood is hard, so it grows very slowly. Do you think there were trees here hundreds of years ago? Also, the river, without trees, without water, who can survive here? ”

Gao Yanan said with a smile: "Gao Gaoping, you are wrong about this. According to a map scanned by satellite, the Kriya River used to flow here. It's just that it dried up later. There are two ancient river channels here, which are not very clear, but they can be distinguished. And the city is in the middle of two branches of the Kriya River. Do you understand, too? In other words, unless both rivers are cut off, they will not have water to drink. So. It is not surprising that there are some poplar trees on the banks of the river. Look at those things, they look like reeds. So it means that they ...... Belch? Reeds, this city may not have been there for so many years. Even the reeds didn't rot. It was really built later. ”

I looked at Gao Yanan and asked, "Do you know the year when this river dried up?" ”

You shook your head and said, "The Kriya River is still there, but it's been rerouted. Although it also disappeared into the desert, the current is not small. Experts estimate that one of the two dry rivers has been dry for hundreds of years. ”

I frowned and said, "Expert? So why didn't they find out about it? ”

Gao Yanan said with a wry smile: "The experts will not go deep into the desert, they are just a few kilometers away from the broken stream." Now that the upstream is cut off, do you still need to see the downstream? ”

I shook my head, these experts. I pointed to the ruins and said, "Let's look and see if we can find something useful." Since there are demons and gods in the shadows who have brought us here, there must be something. Everyone agreed, and dispersed. Find it yourself.

It's not big here, so it's not too scattered, and there's something that can help and support quickly. Leng Feng and I walked around the city wall to look at the scenery, and we had to pretend to be serious, as if we were looking for something. Suddenly, something shiny came into view, right in the center of the city, shining in the sun's light. If it weren't for this location, it wouldn't be visible at all.

We hurriedly jumped off the fence. Run towards the ruins of the center. When everyone saw us running, they knew what they had found, and they hurriedly followed. I carefully identified the location and said, "Help." Yes, there is. The crowd moved aside all the rocks and pieces of wood, revealing a slate. The slate is flattened with a sparkling gemstone in the middle. Leng Feng leaned over and dug out the gem. He looked at it carefully and said, "It's a glass bead." ”

Lu Liang pursed his lips and said, "Isn't it just a piece of rotten glass?" Also glass beads. What's the use? Leng Feng ignored him, pointed to an orifice below and said, "What might you need here?" ”

We take a closer look at the hole. Bewildered. The hole was also so small that it seemed like only one finger could fit in. But we don't dare to reach out indiscriminately, who knows what's underneath? I took out the chisel and put the tip of the chisel in, and I saw a black thing bite on the chisel. The chisel creaked at the gnawing chisel.

Everyone's faces changed, what is this, actually gnawing on a chisel. My chisels are made of stainless steel, but they can be made into stone if necessary. These people all know, but now they are gnawed like this by this thing that they don't know what it is, and they are still gnawing and moving. Such a shock is something that everyone dare not accept.

Lu Liang looked at me and said, "Boss, do you want to blow him up." ”

I nodded and said, "Well, it's necessary." Even if you exterminate a species, you can't lose a few companions. Who knows how many of these things there are, and who knows what harm they will do if they come out. It's better to nip him in the bud first. Granny Blue Flower has been looking at this thing carefully since she saw it, and when she heard that we were going to put explosives, she hurriedly said, "Is there any other way, can you do without explosives?" ”

I looked at her and said, "Are you sure you can bless him?" "We all know that Granny Jacaranda has a special penchant for these strange insects. The more rare the insects, once they are refined into Gu worms, the power is also amazing. But this kind of strange insect is very rare, and it is not easy to see, and when I see such a thing today, Granny Blue Flower really can't give up.

Granny Blue Flower shook her head and said, "We also grasp it." ”

I said, "Blow it up and try it, if you don't die, you're putting it away." If he dies, it means that he is not good material. Are you right? Granny Blue nodded. I thought about it for a moment and put a piece of super-concentrated micro-explosives. Granny Blue looked at me, shook her head, and said, "You want to blow this place up." ”

We avoided it from a distance, and the explosives went off and the rocks flew everywhere. When the smoke cleared, we leaned over and saw a large brown bug with two large black pincers, a black head, and a long tail with a barb on it. Is it obviously a big scorpion? There is nothing strange about it. Granny Blue Flower saw the treasure and carefully took out a leather bag and put it up, and said with a smile: "This is an iron warrior. It's been extinct for years. Whether alive or dead, but a treasure. If the Gu worm I raised eats it. You can go up at least three levels. Although it is not that the world is invincible, it is certainly rare in the world. Except for dragons. There should be no more opponents.

There is a large pit under the slate, but it is unfortunately dilapidated. There were some items in there, and we took them out and looked at them. A worn-out map, a wooden box. In addition to this, there are several ingots of gold scattered around. We opened the map and looked at it carefully, Gao Yanan exclaimed, "It's just a map of the Taklamakan Desert." How can it be so detailed? "There are a few words on the back of the map, just traditional characters, we all know each other. It says 'Liu Bowen'. Liu Bowen? Isn't this Zhu Yuanzhang's advisor? What's going on. So what's going on with his map?

We hurriedly opened the wooden box and kept the jade seal upright inside. We took it out and saw that a corner of the jade seal was missing, and it was filled with gold. There are eight large characters on it. Zhang Qiang looked at it and exclaimed, "This ...... This is...... Heirloom of the Seal. ”

We were stunned for a moment, the national seal? How is this possible? Didn't the seal of the country be lost in the Song Dynasty, how could it appear here? "Are you sure?" I looked at Zhang Qiang and asked. Gao Ping nodded and said, "Boss, it's not bad." Look at the above eight words: 'Ordered by the heavens, longevity, and Yongchang'. This was done by Qin Shi Huang when he became the emperor and was ordered by Prime Minister Li Si. During the Han Dynasty, a horn was broken and repaired with gold. Can't be wrong. It's him. ”

Leng Feng said: "Think about it, there is Liu Bowen's map. There is also a national seal, who are the people here? ”

We looked at each other for a long time. Gao Yanan said: "Could it really be him?" It turned out that he did not go to sea, but came here. However, I also thought that he had appeared as a great navigator. It's not a loss. ”

"Liu Bowen is really a god, and he can actually draw a map of the Taklamakan Desert. I can't imagine it. I sighed softly, "It's a pity that there is no one left." What kind of princes and princes will be, it is not a pile of loess. ”

Came and picked up a gold ingot. looked at it and said, "It's really him." "There are four seals under the gold, which are 'four years of Jianwen'. Just these few words. The price of this ingot has doubled.

"Is this official silver?" Li Meiting took the gold ingot in Lu Liang's hand and asked.

"It's not." Gao Yanan shook his head and said, "It's just Gong Yin." Inside the palace. It is basically not circulated outside. Looking at such puzzled eyes, Gao Yanan explained: "Palace silver is generally the silver that the emperor rewards to concubines and eunuchs and palace maids. There is very little money in circulation. The official silver is the tax revenue of various places, which is minted by the state in a unified manner. There are also some scattered silver and silver ingots and gold ingots from major money banks, and only this kind of money will not have a mark. That's what is circulating in the market. We nodded, I see. In ancient times, there were so many ways of money, unlike now, they were all unified systems, how convenient it was

Gao Yanan seemed to see through our thoughts, she smiled slightly, and then said: "Don't think that it is a lot of Taoism and trouble, in fact, it is just a method of preventing theft from them." If you have the official money, if you can't get out, you will go into the class room. At the very least, I will beat you with dozens of boards. If it's Gong Yin, it's even more powerful, maybe it will be sent directly to the capital, and if you can't get out of the calendar, you will die. ”

We nodded, and then we knew the Tao inside the silver. These ingots of gold are really for the exclusive use of the palace. He was buried here, probably because he was afraid that he would be arrested if he couldn't tell his history, so he abandoned it. If our guess is correct, this is the hiding place of Emperor Jianwen after escaping Nanjing. Zhu Di failed to pursue him, so he sent the three treasure eunuchs out to sea several times to pursue everywhere, but he didn't expect that Emperor Jianwen was still within his jurisdiction. Just a place he couldn't think of.

Gao Gao Ping said: "We now finally understand the reason why this is so small. Emperor Jianwen escaped from Nanjing, and there were few people left around him, so he came here to build a large courtyard, a safe place to resist bandits and fierce beasts, and there was no need to mine stones to build a high wall. Besides, his people are very limited, and he can't afford to quarry and build a city. According to the size of this city, there would be no more than five hundred people around him. ”

Liu Qiang said: "My God, is there still less than 500 people? Don't you want to think about it, how far is it from Nanjing to here? After a long journey to come here, and he was still fleeing, there were 200 people to Amitabha, and he actually had 500 people. Just by this, you can see how deeply rooted Emperor Jianwen is. If Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi had this kind of charisma, they would not have fallen into such a miserable state. Emperor Jianwen, it's not simple. ”

Gao Yanan looked at us and said, "The matter here is over, we should go back to Beijing." The country is still waiting for our news. Counting the time, the state should have been ready to reveal the secrets on those sheepskins. The day we go back is the day of secrecy and disclosure. ”

I had a headache and said, "Isn't it good for us to go by ourselves?" Why should it be made public? Have you forgotten the faces of those people in the Amazon jungle? You entered the Golden City after nine deaths, and you forgot about the things that almost didn't come back? Why are you still thinking about going public this time? The secret organizations of all countries in the world are not good at stubble, and if they are made public, you know how much danger we will increase? (To be continued......)

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