Although there is nothing to take with me, but with these few archaeological experts around me, at least I can learn something, before I came down, I was very interested in the coffin in the middle, and after I came first, that interest was completely gone, replaced by the colorful murals around it. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Gu Tong had the same interest as me, and Gu Tong saw that I was also interested, so he looked at the mural and explained it one by one. The picture talks about the Yanqi Kingdom, maybe the era of the formation of this mural is not called the Yanqi Kingdom, here we will call it such a name. The first few pictures tell that I don't know what year and month, there was such a group of people who migrated here from one place and formed a country here, and with the passage of time, the people here gradually prospered, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, living a life without contention. One day, a group of nomads riding war horses and carrying sabers suddenly appeared, and carried out inhumane burning and looting of the people here, and the king here realized the crisis, so he began to expand his army, and gradually began to expand outward in order to become stronger.

Walking to the last mural money, Gu Tong looked at it for a long time: "This painting is a little weird, you see, the king in the painting is standing on this altar to worship, and suddenly a strong wind blows, and the people who originally sacrificed with the king suddenly lost their heads, even the cattle and sheep used for sacrifice..."

I was confused, and was about to ask, but Emma said, "What kind of monster are they worshipping?" ”

"Youkai?" Gu Tong was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said to Emma: "Although many things in ancient times cannot be explained, the sects they believe in are different, and cults are just things that people imagine, so there shouldn't be real monsters, right?" ”

Emma pointed to the mural and said: "The fossil painting technique of this mural is very exquisite, although there is no written record, but on the whole, it is still very expressive, and the meaning and characteristics to be described are very obvious, and it is not particularly difficult to understand." ”

Several people were fascinated by Emma's words, as she said, the characters, costumes, architecture, and even the events described in the mural are very realistic and clear. Even those of us who don't know anything about the culture of the Western Regions can guess through the murals.

Just listen to Emma continue: "You just said that these frescoes record the events before the founding of the Yanqi Kingdom, and it is not surprising that no matter what happened in those years, in this last painting, the king is making sacrifices, and then a strange wind blows, except for the king, the heads of the people who accompany him are cut off alive, what if this is a means taken by the king in order to establish himself as a symbol of his command to heaven?" After all, in that era, under that kind of environment, since only the king survived, then the matter itself could not withstand scrutiny. ”

When I heard this, I couldn't help but interject: "Miss Duan, do you mean that the events depicted in this painting are just a farce orchestrated by this king, whose motive is simply to consolidate his own power?" ”

"You're right," Emma said, "a means of achieving a political goal and eradicating dissidents. ”

I shook my head with a wry smile, and the fat man interjected: "It's understandable that a gust of wind blows and cuts off a head, to cut off the heads of so many people in such a short time, let alone one person, even ten people can't do it." And it's hard to fake so many corpses. ”

The three of us all agreed with the fat man's statement, the fat man and I have both been soldiers and fought in battles, and have been on the battlefield to kill people, and we both know in our hearts that it is a lot of strength to cut off a person's head with a knife, not to mention that to cut off so many people's heads, without a good enough knife, and enough time and strength, it is simply impossible to accomplish. All three looked at Emma suspiciously, waiting for her next step.

"It's really hard to understand, but what if it's not artificial? The ancient culture of the Western Regions is intricate, and the mythological system is even more intertwined, but it is rarely recorded in the official history. Among them, there is a legend about the phoenix egg you had before, the Western Regions culture has a big difference, the most obvious of which is the succession to the throne, if the king suddenly dies, and he did not make a will before his death, his wife is the first heir to the throne, and thus the queen is born. ”

"In one of the small countries in the Western Regions for hundreds of years, there was a queen, in the place of succession, the sky changed, a black and white strange egg fell from the sky, since then the original timid and afraid of the queen suddenly became strong, as long as the court is against her, the night will inexplicably lose her head, the whereabouts of the head is also a matter of opinion, this atrocity gradually extended to the common people. Maybe he did too much evil, and within a few years, he suddenly got a vicious illness and died violently. ”

"Whether it is a prince and nobleman, or a civilian slave, has been oppressed for too long, after the death of the queen, the long-pent-up interest suddenly broke out, rushed into the royal city, vowing to dig out the queen's body, whip the corpse in public, and vent the hatred in his heart, but unfortunately he searched the royal city and did not find any clues of the queen's body. Phoenix eggs have become a topic of conversation after dinner. ”

"When I was working as a consultant in the British Museum, I saw it in some ancient books, and at that time it was just a legend and story, without the background of the times, the name of the country, or the dynasty, so I never took it seriously, and when I saw this mural today, I think that there are too many similarities in it, maybe under these dusty yellow sands, we have never really understood the history of such a thing."

Emma's explanation also explains why the place is so well preserved, and the altar may not have been used to honor the queen, but to worship the phoenix egg, which is still there even though the queen is dead. The people and animals above came to worship the phoenix eggs. Although the queen was brutal during her lifetime, she was also worried that there would be no one to take care of her posthumous affairs, so she was prepared when she was alive, and no one would have thought that the queen's mausoleum would be next to the ancient well. The altar above the mausoleum may have been built later.

Here is the mausoleum and then the altar, it is repaired from the bottom to the top, it can be repaired so properly, and the relationship between the person who designed the mausoleum and the queen is not ordinary, Li Guohua couldn't help asking: "Is there any special relationship between these maps drawn around the table where the coffin is placed and the drawings handed down by my family?" ”

Emma glanced at Gu Tong, Gu Tong nodded and said: "Mr. Li, your picture is one of these four paintings, and these four pictures are combined to form a complete map, and the map describes the place where the wealth of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions is most concentrated, and the Western Regions Protectorate..."

The fat man interrupted Gu Tong: "Hey... Are you mistaken, didn't we all say when we first entered the desert, the Western Regions Protectorate is in Luntai County, how did you come to this ghost desert? ”

Gu Tong lifted his eyes on the bridge of his nose: "You are right, now the archaeological community believes that the Western Regions Protectorate is in the territory of Tire County, mainly because of historical records, field investigations have discovered the existence of the Western Regions Protectorate. The Western Regions Protectorate I'm talking about and the Western Regions Protectorate you're talking about are two different concepts. The Western Regions Protectorate began in the Han Dynasty, after hundreds of years and 23 Protectors, to protect the peace of the 36 countries in the Western Regions and the smooth flow of the Silk Road, legend has it that there is a small country in the desert, and the successive kings have a relationship with the Protectorate, what do you think this irreversible friendship will eventually bring? ”

Hearing this, he felt even more confused, so he asked, "What does the map of Lao Li's family have to do with the phoenix egg?" If it's really like what you said, then what is this small ancient country called? Isn't it documented? Hundreds of years of accumulation, how many treasures must there be. ”

Emma smiled, took over and explained: "Mr. Zou, you are right, after hundreds of years, twenty-three generations of protection, there will definitely be a lot of treasures, the strange thing is that the records of this small country in the official history are very limited, almost negligible, this small country has a lot of rumors in the market, some say that it was the ancient country of Loulan that disappeared later, and some say that it was the Xiaowan annexed by the ancient country of Loulan, and the end is also exquisite. But only in the legends. As for the relationship with this phoenix egg, it's really hard to say. ”

I thought about it for a while, and then said to Emma: "Miss Duan, if you want to say so, this phoenix egg is still a murderous and bloodthirsty monster, and I don't know why it was lost to Yunnan, and then our strength returned to the Western Regions, if we look for it again, it's good if we don't find it, if we find it, just its ability to make hundreds of people head in different places in an instant, I'm afraid that we are not enough to stuff people's teeth." ”

After speaking, except for Emma, everyone unconsciously touched their necks to feel whether their heads were still standing on their necks, but Emma smiled and said: "You have listened to all of what I said, but you have not listened to the most important sentence, these are limited to legends, and most of the legends are imaginary things from facts that the ancients could not explain." In the circulation of later generations, in order to stabilize his rights, it is normal for the emperor to erase these unfavorable legends from the official history, just like saying, Tang Taizong Li Shimin, the historical records are simply a very perfect king in all aspects, but can you say that he really did not interfere with the historical records? Ancient people have limited cognitive ability of some things in the natural world, and today it seems that some relatively normal phenomena are easily associated with gods and ghosts in the eyes of the ancients, and the emperors are precisely taking advantage of the people's psychology of worshiping ghosts and fearing gods, and will tell the people in any case, I am the true dragon son of heaven, and the destiny of heaven returns, in fact, where does the dragon come from in this world? ”