Chapter 24: The Secrets of the Ming Dynasty
Tom's concern is not unreasonable, according to the Tibetan driver said before, the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon can be summed up in ten words: high, strong, deep, moist, secluded, long, dangerous, low, strange, and beautiful. www.biquge.infoTaken literally, we know that the place we are going to is not so easy to walk, let alone the highest Nanga Bhava Peak.
There are many mountains and rivers in the Brahmaputra Grand Canyon that are covered by glaciers, and many mountains and forests are primeval forests, where no one has ever been there, and no one knows what kind of danger there is, if we don't have mountaineering equipment, we will undoubtedly die, so everyone agrees with Tom's suggestion.
There are definitely a lot of people who come to Nyingchi County every year to take risks, so there is also a store that specializes in selling mountaineering equipment in this area, although the things in the store are very expensive, and the types are not very advanced, but I took a closer look, and the quality is still excellent.
Sankra and the monks only brought a few thousand yuan of money for food, so the money to buy equipment was all paid by a few of us, but fortunately, the third uncle prepared it for us very properly, and one of them gave 10,000 yuan in cash, otherwise, we would not be able to buy these expensive mountaineering equipment at all.
After buying the equipment, Tom and I integrated it, and all the money on the four of them added up, and now there are more than 5,000 yuan left, and we don't dare to spend any more money, so we found a small hotel to stay in, and a room costs 100 yuan a night, but in this place of Nyingchi, it is already very cheap.
We opened five double rooms, all next to each other, in case something happened to make it easy to take care of. After a hasty meal outside in the evening, we went back to our room to rest, but soon Sankla knocked on my door and told me to go to their room for a meeting with Biaozi.
I don't know if it was intentional or not, this time Tom was not in the meeting, according to Sankra's words, Tom lived with a warrior monk, if you went to call him, it would be a little inconvenient, those warrior monks might be suspicious.
Biaozi couldn't help the curiosity in his heart for a long time, and hurriedly urged: "Okay, okay, everyone knows those little Jiujiu in your heart, don't talk nonsense, now it's all your own people here, hurry up and tell us about the holy water." ”
We have been talking about holy water these days, but we have never known what holy water is, and at this moment, when we mentioned this matter, everyone's spirits couldn't help but lift, and they immediately gathered around Sankra.
Sankra may have been sorting out his thoughts and thinking for a long time before he began to pretend to be mysterious and said, "What the hell is holy water?" And why was it found by the Nyingma sect in the Nanga Bhava Peak? Alas, if you really want to talk about it, it's a long, long story......"
Before the words were finished, Biaozi walked over and directly gave Sankra a breakdown, and said angrily: "Monk, if you don't pretend to be forced to die, hurry up, pick the key points, Biao Ye's curiosity is about to be broken by you these days, if you are verbose, I will kill you first!" ”
Sankra touched his sore bald head, and said aggrievedly: "Dead fat man, it's unreasonable to ask me to return this attitude when I have something." ”
The latter rolled up his sleeves and walked over again, and was about to serve hard dishes, Sankla immediately continued to speak to us with a pleasant face: "The matter has to start with the Ming Dynasty six hundred years ago, and when it comes to this matter, it is really a coincidence, and it is actually linked to the matter of the Ming Dynasty guards with knives that we investigated before. ”
Six hundred years ago, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, political corruption and unspeakable misery of the people, after the Red Turban Army uprising, Guo Zixing became the marshal, and the world changed. Soon after Guo Zixing's uprising, several rebel armies quickly rose up, among which there were two largest teams, their leaders were Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang, at this time, the world was divided into three except for the Yuan army.
In 1355, Guo Zixing died of illness, and at this time, Zhu Chongba, who was deeply used by Guo Zixing, took his place and became the supreme leader of the Red Turban Army, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely talented in military affairs, and after several years of hard work, his uprising team became bigger and bigger, because he was strict in governing the army, and he also won the support of the common people.
In 1363, Zhu Yuanzhang, assisted by Liu Ji and Xu Da and other civil and military ministers, first defeated Chen Youliang, then defeated Zhang Shicheng after 1367, and finally led a large army to Beijing in 1368, completely ending the 98-year Mongol rule in the Central Plains, allowing the Han people to regain the right to rule the area within the Great Wall, and China returned to the rule of the dynasty established by the Han and established the Ming Dynasty.
After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he ordered the peasants to return to farming, rewarded land reclamation, paid attention to education, and at the same time reduced or exempted taxes, severely punished corrupt officials, and gradually restored and developed social production with years of efforts, which is known as the rule of Hongwu in history.
I have to say that Zhu Yuanzhang not only governs the army well, but also governs the country well, except for Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese emperors of all dynasties, unsurpassed, can really be described as a legendary emperor. However, who would have thought that Zhu Yuanzhang in his later years longed for the way of immortality and stepped into the miserable footsteps of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
In 1371, Zhu Yuanzhang governed the country well, and the world was peaceful for a while, when Taoism arose, with the Wudang faction as the representative at that time. In all dynasties, no matter what kind of sect rises, it is inseparable from the imperial court, and the rise of the Wudang faction is no more than this, because Zhu Yuanzhang is also fascinated by this way.
Taoism advocates quietness, non-action, nothingness, naturalness, weakness, indisputability, simplicity, longevity, immeasurable and so on. However, Zhu Yuanzhang focused on getting lost in the four words "longevity and long-term vision", that is, he wanted to live forever.
Zhu Yuanzhang was idle, knowing that there was little hope for immortality, but after all, he couldn't escape the desire in his heart, and began to move towards the road of immortality. At first, he thought of the Danding sect of Taoism and practiced the golden pill of immortality for himself, but after failing one after another, he summoned the think tank Liu Bowen to come and discuss the matter secretly.
Hearing this, we only felt very familiar, and the mark said again and again: "Big bald head, the beginning of this story seems to be the same as what the third uncle told before, if the rest is the same, I think you can skip over and talk about the key points directly." ”
Sankra was talking about the excitement, and was interrupted at the moment, so he was inevitably a little unhappy, so he said angrily: "Although the previous is similar to the third uncle, but more carefully, the most important thing is that the matter of holy water is also implicated, do you want to listen to it, don't listen to it, go back to the room and close your eyes, don't disturb the good mood of the Buddha telling the story." ”
Seeing that Sankra was still pretending to be a big-tailed wolf, Biaozi immediately stopped doing it, and just wanted to reply, I interrupted: "Okay, it's rare for our Venerable to tell a story, so let's not interrupt, and if there are discrepancies during the period, it may not be necessary?" ”
Biaozi thought about it, so he had to swallow a bad breath, and Sankra smiled thiefly, as if he was a villain, coughed lightly a few times, and then pretended to continue.
Liu Bowen was originally a person in metaphysics, so he naturally knew that this matter was ethereal and could not be done, but Zhu Yuanzhang was on the rise, and the prime minister did not dare to touch his scales, so he could only persuade him with good words, and cited the example of Qin Shi Huang's failure to seek the elixir of immortality. However, at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was yearning for immortality, how could Liu Bowen be able to get away with it in just a few words?
Afterwards, Zhu Yuanzhang not only did not listen to Liu Bowen's gentle persuasion, but on the contrary, ordered him to be responsible for supervising the matter, found the legendary Jin Dan, and said that King Zhou Mu was fortunate to meet the Queen Mother of the West and get the reward of Jin Dan, why can't he who is also the honor of the Ninety-Five?
Liu Bowen knew that it was useless to persuade again, so he had to take the order, but he had to do what Zhu Yuanzhang had explained, because Zhu Yuanzhang sent his henchman Song Taibao, the chief of the guard, to assist, to put it bluntly, to supervise Liu Bowen and see if Liu Bowen did his best for this matter.
Sankra said this, and I was immediately interrupted, and I said in surprise and disbelief: "I'll go, Song Taibao!" Isn't it the head of the Ming Dynasty guard with a knife that the third uncle said, this story is really fucking the same. ”
Sankra looked disgusted at me and said, "I said that you all came out to interrupt one by one, and whether you still want to know about the spring water, if you don't want to know, just say that the poor monk washed and slept." ”
I went, I was really addicted, I just wanted to say a few words, and the mark said out loud: "Lao Yang, what did you say just now, and you forgot it so quickly?" Calm, really have to be calm, let's be calm today. ”
I held back a glance at the smug Sankra, and exchanged a look with the standard, everyone understood, this time I wrote it down first, and next time I will clean up the big bald head, and it is even profitable.
Sankra then told us that what happened after that was indeed what the third uncle said, in order not to attract the disaster of killing, Liu Bowen had to look for those legends of immortality from history, and took action for this.
Since Liu Bowen is a strange person in feng shui, there is naturally no place in the ancient tombs in the world that he does not dare to go, so there are a series of tomb robbery stories, and the locations of those tomb robberies are marked on the map obtained by the third uncle, that is to say, the location marked on the map in the third uncle's hand is indeed the location of Liu Bowen's tomb robbery in those years.
However, Liu Bowen is still Liu Bowen in the end, after more than two years of careful investigation, he finally discovered one thing, no matter all kinds of immortal legends, it seems to point to the same person, that is, the Queen Mother of the West who is in charge of Yaochi.
The official history of the legendary figure of the Queen Mother of the West has not been recorded, and there are not many references in the wild history, however, Liu Bowen finally found clues and determined that the Queen Mother of the West is indeed a person, and there was also a glorious Queen Mother Country in the Kunlun Mountain area, so Liu Bowen decided to go to the Western Regions to find the former site of the Queen Mother Country of the West.
This search took almost two years, and Liu Bowen also found a lot of evidence to prove the existence of the Western Queen Mother Kingdom and the Western Queen Mother, for which he was very excited. (To be continued.) )