Chapter 218
Listening to the description of the black-robed man, Nexi let out an eerie sneer, he looked at the two people in front of him, and after carefully studying it for a moment, he said in jerky but very fluent Chinese: "I remember that there seemed to be a discrepancy between the description of these broken books and your Excellency's statement. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info people say that this is a treasure, and it is definitely not a broken book as your Excellency said. Although I don't understand Chinese culture, I still know a little about these broken books, especially those that have been placed in the attic of the Bible in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican for more than 400 years. More than 400 years ago, our ancestors still longed for your glorious and mysterious oriental civilization. European explorers who traveled the world brought the pomp and circumstance of Eastern civilization to Europe, which shook Renaissance Europe. At that time, the European nobles who had advanced civilizations wanted to trade with you, and our ancestors sent the marquis to the East with heavy gifts. They have brought with them gifts from the European nobles as a gesture of goodwill to the Emperor of the East, and a message that they want to trade with you on an equal footing. But you Orientals who are behind closed doors do not understand what we mean, they do not trust our translations, and those foolish ministers have translated the letter of commerce to your emperor as a war letter for the conquest of the East by force. No matter how the war starts, and it doesn't matter who started the war first. Of course, this is not important, what matters is whether we can look back and learn from history and let history continue to move human civilization forward. Let's go back and talk about the origins of these books. Here I have to talk about the Yuanmingyuan, the royal garden of the Qing Dynasty, which is comparable to the Hanging Gardens of Barbillon and amazed Europeans, and it is also the pinnacle of architectural history. Of course, the most unique should be the bronze statue of the beast head, and now people call these things the bronze statue of the human body and the head of the beast of the 12 zodiac animals in the Old Summer Palace. As part of the fountain outside the Haiyan Hall of the Old Summer Palace, they are red bronze statues from the Qianlong period. The bronze statue of the head of the 12 zodiac animals is in the shape of "eight", which is arranged on the stone platform of the human body on both sides of the fountain. Each beast's head is a fountain trap, and every hour the corresponding animal sprays water from its mouth for two hours. Because at that time, the Oriental people calculated time by one hour representing two hours, so twelve hours were exactly twenty-four hours. But at noon, they will spray water together, and the sight is spectacular. In 1860, the Roman missionaries brought back these lovely animals from the Old Summer Palace, and you only know that we brought back the relics that belong to you in the Old Summer Palace, but you don't know why we took these red bronze statues. This is because our great archaeologists have discovered something wonderful in that spectacular fountain. Now I can tell you the real reason why we burned the Old Summer Palace. Of course, this is an important part of the Pope's desire to be honest with you.
Our soldiers were cutting off one of the beast's heads with a mechanical tool, trying to figure out how it would spray water automatically. When the beast's head was removed, he smelled a strange fragrant smell. The smell of this lemon scent soothes the meridians all over his body. But because of this, the Grim Reaper came to his young life two hours later, and his companions, and we had eight soldiers who died mysteriously. After their deaths, their bodies shrank by nearly half, and they also bled from seven orifices and died of poisoning with black faces. The mysterious death of the poison forced our military doctor to report the matter to our commander.
At the behest of the United Nations Command, a team of Chinese missionaries and European scholars of Oriental culture conducted a covert investigation. The soldiers cordoned off the Old Summer Palace, and you can't imagine how fascinated our people would be in the face of the mechanism of this perfect fountain. Of course, this is not the main component, but the important thing is that after we cut off all the heads along the water supply, we realized that there was a mystery hidden in these water-spraying heads from afar.
We heard that Qianlong's grandfather, Emperor Kangxi, built a labyrinth for himself when he was old, and he spent most of his later years there, in order to prevent Huangzi and Huangsun from secretly framing him. In this labyrinth, if there is no guide from Emperor Kangxi's most trusted poison-taking eunuch, anyone who mistakenly breaks in will be killed by various organs.
After the twelve beast heads stopped spraying water, the investigation team was surprised to discover the secret of the fountain cistern, and the bottom of the exposed cistern looked very strange. It was a huge diagram of black diamond and a white diamond, and of course now I know that it was a magnificent diagram of the sixty-four trigrams. As for how they managed to open this Bagua Map mechanism, I can't say it here, and there is no relevant record in the literature. It seems that it was still an old eunuch who finally helped the investigation team. They gave the old man a hundred taels of gold, and later they found out that the deal was worth it.
They opened a secret passage to the bottom of the fountain, and later discovered the labyrinth of the Kangxi Emperor at the end of the secret passage. The reason why it can be concluded that it is the palace of Emperor Kangxi is because the investigation team only found those things that belonged to him in the magnificent buildings that were piled up in the depths of the stone forest, especially calligraphy and paintings. A large number of mercury-injected pills placed in the underground palace made the investigation team look horrified, and there were a lot of immortal works neatly placed next to those pills, which gave Europeans a new understanding of this great emperor of the East. Of course, it may have been the emperors of later generations who felt that the things here were too unlucky, so many of the things that the emperor had used in front of him were left there untouched. History has made all the adventures fall into the hands of the investigation team, and they have brought out more treasures in this underground labyrinth than from the Forbidden City. And even later, our people could only pick the best among them and take them secretly. The members of the church found a mezzanine in the emperor's secret chamber, the room where the Buddha's relics were enshrined. It is a treasure that is unique in the world, and the glorious treasure proves that this is the treasure of the mysterious emperor who has ruled the Eastern country for more than 60 years, and you call it the emperor's treasure cabinet.
You should now know why these broken books have been treasured by successive popes. Because in that small treasure pavilion, it was carefully treasured by the owner in a silk brocade box, and the brocade box was covered with a wooden box, and the wooden box was also covered with an iron box. This iron box is not an ordinary iron box, but the space steel that Chen Xinyao now uses to make the shell of the spaceship. It's incredible. This is also the reason why the final investigation team decided to burn down the Old Summer Palace. We can't let anyone know the secrets hidden in the underworld of the Old Summer Palace, and the church people in the investigation team have so vividly predicted something that even the chemists who accompanied it at the time could not determine its composition. They felt that the discovery of the tin box was extraordinary, and even asserted that it was the greatest discovery of mankind in a century. They are unknown, but they shock everyone who knows the inside story. Compared to the civilization and wealth that human beings can create, we feel that these things are irreplaceable. They do not belong to this planet and are intertwined with the eternity of life, which is why the investigation team finally decided to burn down the entire Old Summer Palace. We want to make these things eternal secrets in the eyes of the world, until one day those who know these secrets will be able to decipher the mysteries. Although we cannot understand the contents of the book, it is not surprising that successive popes have studied Oriental culture for hundreds of years. However, this does not mean that we will forget its origins, especially those words of immortality are vividly remembered in the books, and its existence has made countless Chinese emperors obsessed with it, even at the cost of giving up their lives and rights to take risks. We're really curious about this, what kind of ** is this supposed to be? The information it conveyed, associated with the place where it was found, and the identity of its owner, no one would put a few broken books in their own treasure pavilion for no reason, or the treasure pavilion of a great emperor.
I forgot to tell you that there are only nine treasures placed in the treasure pavilion, in addition to the famous calligraphy and painting of the Tang and Song dynasties, pigeon eggs and red pickaxe agate, and the pearl of the sky and night, there are also Buddha finger relics, and it is this iron letter that is placed next to the Buddha's finger relics. Do you think this counts as a few pieces of torn paper? What are the calligraphy and paintings of Sanxi Hall, and what is placed in the underground treasure pavilion is the treasure that the emperor appreciates the most.
As friends, friends on the united front. I think it's too insincere to treat your friends like this. Time was running out now, and after Pierre's affair, the Church was also devastated. Chen Xinyao is becoming more and more wary of us, and Ouyang Xun's demon is chasing after us closely, so he won't go around the bend with Your Excellency.
That's what we have in our holes, and while we don't know the secrets of these broken papers, we know where they come from, and that's enough. As a shrewd businessman, I think you can weigh the weight of that. Otherwise, you would not have risked being discovered by Chen Xinyao to continue to cooperate with us, you are warriors, people who seek benefits on the tip of the knife, fighting side by side with you, it is our pride, the Pope and I are equally honored to meet people like you. Think about it, if Chen Xinyao knew the truth, what kind of mood would it be. Perhaps everything is in the past, day and night alternate, and time has witnessed the journey of human civilization to glory. After saying this in one breath, Nexi took the coffee on the table and drank it all.
Listening to Nexi's slow description, the more the two black-robed men listened, the more they felt a little hairy in their hearts. They don't know what to say, or how to end up now that the disgusted European knows what's going on. It seems to be like two martial arts masters who have competed in martial arts, and they have only been fighting for a few rounds, and the winner has already been distinguished.