Chapter 104: Half a Room

Nangong Yi is really full of economy, there seems to be nothing she doesn't know, and before we ask about Xingshi, she told us in detail that this is a kind of monkey with wings, with wings on his back, and a vajra treasure pestle in his hand, which is the incarnation of the legendary thunder shock, because it ranks tenth among the beasts, so it is called Xingshi.

"Why does Dao Yan want to put an extra line on the Jinluan Palace?" I rubbed my forehead and thought about it for a long time, and said in surprise. "The Ming Dynasty symbolizes imperial power with nine, but ten beast ornaments are placed on the emperor's head, even if Zhu Di doesn't know the art of Xuanzhi, but Daoyan is a Xuangao person will not be unaware of the truth that things must be reversed, what is the meaning of this line?"

"Wait!" Han Yu looked up at Xingshi, who was ranked tenth, and said with some surprise. "Xingshi is the incarnation of Lei Zhen, Lei Zhen was not canonized as a god in Taoism, he was sanctified in the flesh, and later turned into the Ministry of Thunder to obey the Nine Heavens Puhua Tianzun moderation, and was in charge of the thunder and lightning to run to the magic weapon in his hand to summon the sky and thunder to split the earth."

"Even if Xingshi is the incarnation of Lei Zhen, what is the purpose of Dao Yan here?" Yun Duruo asked puzzled.

"Why did you forget that we saw that person in Xiangshan, he asked Xiaoxiao to start a hexagram with the sixty-four hexagrams of the king, and what he got was not the shock as the thunder hexagram." Han Yu said thoughtfully. "The hexagram of this hexagram is like the night collision of the Golden Bell, indicating that we finally found that this is the place where Zhu Di hid the treasure, and this hexagram is a shock hexagram in the Zhou Yi gossip, and the shock is not just in line with this extra beast ornament."

"Could it be that this hexagram has two meanings, in addition to the Forbidden City, there is also this line of work!" The corners of his eyebrows stretched and said happily. "In this way, the treasures hidden in the Forbidden City really have something to do with this business."

"The earthquake is the thunder hexagram, it is the earthquake hexagram in the Zhouyi gossip, it is the earthquake up and down, the earthquake is the thunder and the two shocks overlap with a huge repercussion, the original meaning of this hexagram is to say that the huge thunder is shocked when the sacrifice is made, but some people are calm, holding a wine spoon in their hands, and not even a drop of wine is spilled." Gu Xiaoxiao walked back and forth a few steps and said as she walked. "Most people will think that it is to protect the building from lightning, but in fact, it should be an allusion to the thunder splitting the earth."

"Has this Forbidden City been struck by lightning?" Yun Duruo asked eagerly.

"There really were!" Nangong Yi hurriedly nodded and said. "When the Jinluan Palace was completed, the wind and rain in Beiping City were heavy, mixed with bursts of thunder, and the Jinluan Palace was split by the thunder and caught fire, so Zhu Di was still furious, thinking that it was the anger of the heavens and the resentment of the people and the slashing of the official."

"This is a natural disaster*, thunder and lightning are not very normal." Yun Duruo said.

"At that time, there was also a theory that when Zhu Di built the Forbidden City, it was originally designed to build 10,000 houses, but this move angered the Emperor of Heaven, because the Emperor of the Nine Heavens Palace only had 10,000 palaces, and a mortal emperor wanted to be on an equal footing with the Emperor of Heaven, so he suffered from the curse of God." Han Yu told us that this was what his master Fang wanted to tell him during a small talk.

"These are just rumors, according to the history of how many houses in the Forbidden City are very obscure, no clear number is given, this may be a long time, many houses are damaged and difficult to count, but later surveyed the entire Forbidden City, now there are a total of 8,707 rooms." Nangong Yi said with certainty.

"This is really not a rumor, you also know that my father found the Ming Tombs, I once saw an ancient book in his study, it was about the Forbidden City, according to the statistics in the book, the Forbidden City is indeed 10,000 houses." I shook my head in the affirmative.

"My master said that later, Zhu Di was worried about the anger of the heavens and the resentment, so he changed the 10,000 houses in the Forbidden City to 9,999 and a half." Han Yu nodded and said seriously. "In this way, the Forbidden City has never experienced a natural disaster again."

"Dao Yan put Xingshi on the roof, and others will think that the intention is to avoid lightning, so it seems that Dao Yan is alluding to the number of houses in the Forbidden City." Gu Xiaoxiao's eyes suddenly lit up and said happily. "The name Xingshi is because it ranks tenth, and it is the only palace with ten things on the eaves, the emperor is respected by nine, and only the emperor is higher than the emperor, and the emperor can enjoy all ten, so the number of rooms in the Forbidden City and the number of rooms in the Nine Heavens Palace is the same, all of them are 10,000!"

"Since Dao Yan wants to leave the secret of the treasures hidden under the Forbidden City, what is the purpose of mentioning the number of rooms?" Yun Duruo asked puzzled.

I suddenly squirmed in my Adam's apple, and my mouth slowly opened as I looked at the others excitedly.

"Zhu Di later reduced the number of 10,000 houses to 9,999 and a half, but Dao Yan left a line on the eaves to imply that there were 10,000 rooms in the Forbidden City, in fact, Zhu Di did not reduce the number of rooms!"

"That'...... Where is the remaining half? Nangong Yi asked suspiciously.

"Underground!" I looked at them ecstatically. "This is the line that Dao Yan left about the treasure, and the other room is the passage that Zhu Di left to enter and exit the treasure, and this passage is under the half of the room!"

There has always been a half-room in the Forbidden City, and it is not a rumor, we found a tour guide to ask about the half-room, and the guide told us that the half-room in the Forbidden City is on the east side of the Yuan Pavilion.

Yuan Pavilion is used to store books, located in the Forbidden City Donghua Gate behind the Inner Hua Palace, sit in the north and face the south, the appearance is two floors up and down, the west end is connected by stairs up and down, two gables are built of blue bricks until the roof, simple and elegant.

Black glazed tile roof, green glazed tile trimming, metaphor black main water, water pressure fire, in order to protect the safety of the library, the front porch of the pavilion is set up with a back pattern railing, the eaves are hung upside down, plus the green eaves column, fresh and pleasant Soviet-style color paintings, more garden architectural style.

A pond is chiseled in front of the pavilion, the water of the river flows into the golden water, a stone bridge is erected on the pool, the stone bridge and the railing around the pool are carved with the pattern of aquatic animals, the spirit is exquisite, the lake stone piled up into a mountain behind the pavilion, the momentum is like a barrier, the pine and cypress are planted in the meantime, it lasts for several years, the vigor is upright and lush.

The deep pavilion is a heavy eaves hard hilltop, brick and wood structure, a two-storey small building with six bays, six rooms downstairs are lined up, respectively, they are partitioned, the west side of the upper floor is a stairwell, the large room in the middle is one, and a small room on the east side is vacant.

And this vacant is the half of the room in the Forbidden City, we can hardly hold back the excitement and excitement in our hearts when we stand here, there must be the treasure of the world under our feet, this secret that has been buried for several years has been found by us.

"The Yuan Pavilion was built in the Ming Dynasty, it was built after Zhu Di moved the capital to Beiping, and it was destroyed in the war when the Ming Dynasty died, and then Qianlong rebuilt the Yuan Pavilion that we see now is not the original site built by Zhu Di." Nangong Yi touched the carved pillar of the lintel and said to us. "Zhu Di's construction of the Yuan Pavilion is mainly to collect books and compile books, and the famous books of the big category are compiled here."

Yongle Canon was compiled in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, is a Chinese classical collection of the great classics, the original name of the great achievement, bringing together seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient and modern books, showing the glorious achievements of the ancient Han nationality, but the original Yongle Canon has long been lost, even the copy was tragically destroyed, most of them died in the war, and now there are less than eight volumes, leaving many rich stories and difficult mysteries for future generations.

Zhu Di's lifelong self-proclaimed great achievements are this ceremony, witnessing the Yongle prosperous era he created, for Zhu Di, this grand ceremony is his most precious treasure.

"Zhu Di is really well-intentioned, the Yongle Ceremony is a masterpiece that he is proud of all his life, it is a priceless treasure for him, and the recitation of the future generations can make him famous, and in the underground where the Yongle Ceremony is compiled, Zhu Di hides an amazing treasure." I looked around at the half of the house and said with a faint smile. "Zhu Di put the two most important things in his life here, and the world remembers the Yongle Ceremony that can be seen, but no one will think of the secret of His Excellency Yuan."

"Although the building here is being rebuilt, the foundation should not have been touched." Han Yu squatted on the ground and said to us after examining it.

When I looked outside, the Forbidden City was full of tourists, and all of them were visitors, and even if we found a way for the treasure to enter and exit, we couldn't dig it in plain sight.

"Otherwise, I will inform the military police to impose martial law on this place and start excavating immediately." Nangong Yi said seriously.

"No way!" I shook my head and said. "In that case, the movement will be big, and it will inevitably make the Fusang people also aware that Genghis Khan's remains may be down there, once the Fusang people know the exact location, they are all clans, do you think the military and police can stop them? What's more, now that the remnants have no scruples, they will stop at nothing to break in, and once they get the silver bottle containing the blood of Genghis Khan, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

"Since we can't make it public, how can we find a passage?" Nangong Yi asked in surprise.

"This has to be done secretly, it can't be done during the day, we can only come at night." I looked around and said in a low voice.

"Dig up the Forbidden City!" Han Yu looked at me dumbfounded. "If this is discovered, we won't have enough brains to lose.

"Is there any other way for you?" I asked Han Yu with a smile.

Everyone glanced at each other, took a deep breath and nodded in unison, we came out of the Forbidden City, I plan to rush to Xiao Lianshan to tell him the progress of the matter, and the others are going to agree to sneak in before the Forbidden City closes the next day, find a place to hide first, and wait until night to dig in the half room.