Chapter 5 The South of the Clouds
Biaozi said to Li Yishan like seeing an idiot: "Your mother's head was broken by the crack in the door, "The Biography of Mu Tianzi" is simply made up by later generations, if the Queen Mother of the West and King Zhou Mu really fall in love, do you think King Zhou Mu will leave, doesn't he want to be a fairy couple with the Queen Mother of the West?" As for the legend of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty getting the peach, it is even more nonsense, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wants to live forever and already wants to go crazy, if he really gets the peach of the Queen Mother of the West, do you think there will be the current Maoling? ”
Li Yishan wanted to refute a few words, but Professor Sun waved his hand to stop him and said, "Okay, what we are discussing now is not the ancient legends, but the relationship between the Western Queen Mother Kingdom and the Loulan Kingdom, which is the focus of today's meeting." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Professor Sun told us that the font on the epitaph is oracle bone inscription, although the text is jerky and difficult to understand, but after more than a month of hard work by text experts, the content of it was finally deciphered. The epitaph not only mentions the origin of Shanshanguo, but also reveals the identity of the monkey man in the crystal coffin.
The epitaph records that the Mother Kingdom of the West was established at the foot of Mount Kunlun, and the Shanshan tribe is only one of the many tribes led by the Mother Kingdom of the West Wang, and the beginning of the matter is from the leader of the Shanshan tribe at that time, Shanshanhong.
The specific time is unknown, but it is known that one day the Queen Mother of the West issued an edict asking all the tribal leaders to go to the palace to discuss matters, and Shanshanhong was naturally among them. Shanhong originally didn't want to go, because he knew that the Queen Mother of the West was now old, and what she was most concerned about was not national affairs, but refining the legendary elixir of immortality, in order to achieve her dream of immortality.
In order to refine the elixir of immortality, the Queen Mother of the West in the past dynasties has spent a lot of effort, but in her lifetime, no one has refined the real elixir. And this generation of the Queen Mother of the West is even more crazy, since she succeeded to the throne, the big and small affairs of the kingdom have been handed over to the left and right ministers to deal with, and she has brought a large number of pharmacists with her, and she has indulged in alchemy every day.
After refining the pill, it is natural to find someone to test the pill, over the years, there have been too many tribes to be the object of the pill, and some tribes have died overnight because of the failure of the pill. But since there are failures, there are naturally times when there are successes.
Shanhong remembered that the ancestor said that with the efforts of the thirteenth Queen Mother of the West, a magical anti-Yan Pill was once refined, and after people took it, it could slow down the aging of the face.
After the success of the Zhuyan Dan, the Queen Mother of the West was very happy, she did not monopolize this achievement, but very generously distributed a certain amount of Zhuyan Dan to each tribe, and she herself took it every day.
Facts have proved that due to taking a large amount of Zhuyan Pill, until her death, the Queen Mother of the West maintained her middle-aged appearance. And later generations were surprised to find that as long as people who took Zhuyan Dan, the average life expectancy increased by at least about 20 years. However, the effect of Zhuyan Pill cannot be superimposed, and eating one pill has the same effect as eating ten, which can only increase the lifespan by twenty years. The only difference is that people who eat more will age more slowly, which is why the Queen Mother of the West still maintains her appearance until she dies.
Since then, Zhuyan Dan has become the magic medicine of the Western Queen Mother Country, and all the children of the Western Queen Mother will be rewarded with one pill after birth. However, the later Queen Mother of the West felt that the Zhuyan Pill was still far from the effect of the elixir, so she decided to refine an even more magical elixir. But since it is a miracle medicine, how can it be so easy to refine, so the later Queen Mother of the West failed, not only that, but in order to practice the elixir of immortality, they also brought ruin to many tribes.
In order to continue to live, she stayed in the Dan Pharmacy all day long, desperately researching the elixir of life, which was crazier than any Queen Mother of the West in the past.
Every time the Queen Mother of the West developed a new elixir, she would gather all the tribal leaders to discuss which tribe would test the new elixir. Therefore, her edict is also equivalent to a death invitation.
Although Shanhong was extremely reluctant to go to the palace to discuss matters, he was afraid of the authority of the Queen Mother of the West, so he had to go. But what he didn't expect was that the result of this discussion was that his tribe would try a new elixir, for the simple reason that their tribe had the smallest number of people.
Although Shanshanhong was afraid of the Queen Mother of the West, he knew that if he cowered again this time, he would not die alone, but all the clansmen. In the case of being forced to be helpless, he and the Queen Mother of the West had an incentive dispute.
The result was very sad, Shanshan Hong not only did not persuade the Queen Mother of the West to retract her order, but was removed from the position of tribal leader, and his people still had to take on the task of testing the medicine, and if they resisted, they were all sentenced to death.
After returning to the tribe, Shanshanhong was disheartened and informed the clansmen of this disaster and asked what they thought. The clansmen all panicked when they found out, but there were also a few people who didn't want to die and suggested that there was no good end to the left and right, so it was better to flee from the Western Queen Mother Country.
Shanhong was furious on the surface and reprimanded those clansmen, but secretly found his confidants and discussed the escape. He did this careful because he knew that no matter what tribe it was, there was an eyeliner planted by the Queen Mother of the West, and if he was not careful, he was likely to be wiped out immediately.
The Queen Mother's plan for the test was at noon the next day, when all the clansmen would be escorted to the square outside the palace by the soldiers, so there was not much time left for Shanshanhong, and he had to make a decision immediately.
After careful consideration, Shanhong felt that if he wanted to escape, then night was the best time, because night was the best cover. Although the Shanshan tribe is a small tribe, there are more than 500 people, and if they come out, they will definitely be discovered by the soldiers of the Queen Mother of the West patrolling nearby.
For the sake of insurance, Shanhong had to make up his mind to sacrifice some people to stay in the clan and confuse those guards. And he took the others and divided them into several groups of people, and left quietly from the back mountain.
Everything went more smoothly than expected, after a long night of travel, Shanhong took five hundred tribesmen, and finally left the territory of the West Queen Mother Country without danger. But in the world outside the Mother Country of the Western Queen, Shanhong has never seen it, so he is very confused and doesn't know where to take root.
A well-informed old man in the clan told him that as long as he walked along the Kunlun Mountains, there would always be water sources along the way, and as long as he found a place with sufficient water, he would be able to live and work in peace and contentment.
Shanhong followed the old man's advice and walked along the Kunlun Mountains for several months, but he did not find an ideal habitat. But fortunately, there was food replenishment along the way, and they didn't starve to death.
However, some clansmen began to complain, saying that Shanhong had no leadership skills and could not even find a place to live and work in peace and contentment, and they expressed their reluctance to follow Shanshan Hung anymore and wanted to find another homeland by themselves.
Shanhong couldn't appease those people, so he had to let them go, and this time, there were only about 300 people left in the team of more than 500 people, almost half of them left. Later, they continued to look for their own paradise, and walked like this for more than a month, until they arrived at a Gobi desert. In the depths of the Gobi Desert, they found a large river with so many fish that they could catch it with their hands.
Then they found an oasis near the creek, with many fruit trees and wild beasts, which was a natural hunting ground. Shanhong made up his mind at that time to make that oasis the future home of the tribe. However, what Shanshan didn't expect was that there were "wild people" in and around the oasis.
The reason why Shanhong called those people savages was because their weapons, tools, and houses were very backward and they were still in the stage of savages.
When the savages saw that Shanhong's tribe was half-human, half-beast, they took them as beasts and expelled them.
After several major battles between the two sides, there was no doubt that the Shanshan tribe, with their advanced weapons, won each victory, so they ruled the oasis and built their homeland there. Later, after a period of recuperation, the Shanshan tribe grew stronger and stronger, and Shanshanhong led the tribe to defeat the scattered savage tribes around the oasis, and ruled them, and established the Shanshan Kingdom.
Soon after the establishment of Shanshan State, people of Shanshan began to die for no reason, and after the examination of the witch doctor, a conclusion was drawn that there is a terrible poison in the body of Shanshan people, it is called Dan powder, which is a necessity for alchemy.
The witch doctor explained that if you don't eat much, this kind of pill powder will not be fatal, but if you take it for a long time, when it reaches a certain amount, the pill poison will break out, causing people to die, and there is no cure. The most terrifying thing is that the elidan toxin hidden in the body is hereditary, so the poisoned person, its offspring will not be spared.
In order to ensure the success of the elixir, none of the tribes were spared and became the object of her drug test. The witch doctor suspects that it is precisely because the ancestors have been the object of the Western Queen Mother's drug test for generations, so the erysipelas poison in the body has accumulated more and more, and now it has reached the moment of toxin outbreak, if it is not curbed in time, all the Shanshan people will die.
Naturally, Shanhong would not watch his clan perish, so he and the witch doctor thought of many ways to resolve the elidan toxin in the clan's body, but they all ended in failure. Later, one of the clans proposed that since the pill poison could not be dissolved, it was better to intermarry with the savage clan and disperse the toxins in the body to achieve the effect of breaking the whole into zero.
Shanhong disagreed at first, believing that the bloodline of his tribe was the most noble, and if he intermarried with those savages, wouldn't it mean that the noblest bloodline would disappear? But seeing that the number of clansmen was getting smaller and smaller day by day, he could no longer care about the issue of bloodline, and issued a death order, all Shanshan clansmen, regardless of men and women, could only intermarry with the savage clan, otherwise they would all be killed.
And the death order issued by Shanshanhong is the last king of Loulan, Shanshanjin, who mentioned the ancestor's last life in the epitaph.
Professor Sun said to us calmly: "This is the origin of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, and the reason why they really disappeared, I don't know if you have any other opinions about the things in the epitaph?" ”
Biaozi said a little jokingly: "If the things in the epitaph are true, then my guess is not wrong at all, the Queen Mother of the West, who is admired by tens of thousands of people, is really a half-human and half-beast monster, and she is also the queen of monsters." At the end of his speech, he deliberately amplified his voice, obviously reminding Li Yishan that his previous guess was correct.
Li Yishan pretended not to hear it, and said to Professor Sun: "I don't have any other opinions, but I'm very curious, what is the Dan powder mentioned in the epitaph?" I don't think I've ever heard of such a thing. ”
The standard came again, took the opportunity to hit Li Yishan, and said: "Damn, uneducated people are really terrible, to tell you honestly, Dan powder is what we refer to now." It's just that a long, long time ago, alchemists didn't know much about the composition of mercury, and because every pill was inseparable from mercury, it was called Dan powder. ”
Li Yishan was very depressed by the label, and burst into a foul language for the first time: "I am an ancestor of the day, as if you know everything, can't you give face and pretend to be confused?" ”
Biaozi shook his head and sighed: "You kid is too uneducated, I told you what you know and what you don't know, you don't fucking thank me for passing on the truth to you, forget it, there are so many bullshit, just your attitude, kneel and beg me in the future, I won't guide you, I have to kill you in a hurry." ”
Professor Sun said with a smile: "Don't say it's useless, let's get back to the topic." ”
Biaozi and Li Yishan glared at each other unconvinced, and it was also for Professor Sun's face that they didn't care about each other.
At this time, Wu Jian said: "Dan powder is indeed the current mercury powder, but it has no genetic properties, I suspect that in addition to mercury poison, the body of the Shanshan people should also contain other toxins, and the unknown toxin is the ultimate cause of mercury poison to be inherited." ”
Everyone knows the composition of mercury, although it is extremely poisonous, and if you eat too much, you will die immediately, but it is indeed not hereditary, so Wu Jian's guess is very reasonable. However, as for what the genetic unknown toxin is, we are not the alchemists of the Queen Mother of the West, so there is no way to know.
I suddenly remembered something and thought it was a small discovery, so I couldn't help but say: "The epitaph records that when Shanshan Hong escaped from the Western Queen Mother Country, nearly half of the clansmen left him. ”
"If you don't talk about it, we really didn't expect this idea to come up." Professor Sun patted his thigh and said: "The bronze box containing bone artifacts obtained from the Water Monkey Tomb has been tested by carbon 14, and it is indeed something that belongs to more than 4,000 years ago, and more than 4,000 years ago, it was the period when Shanshan Hong escaped from the Western Queen Mother Country. So there is no doubt that the owner of the bronze box is one of the small leaders who coaxed away from the Shanshan clan. In fact, the owner of the bone artifact has no relationship with the ancient kingdom of Loulan at all, and we went to Loulan because of the word Shanshan on the bone artifact, but we didn't expect to hit it by mistake, so we solved the mystery of the appearance and disappearance of the ancient Loulan, and also learned some secrets of the West Queen Mother Country, which is really an unexpected harvest! ”
Biaozi snorted: "What the hell, if I hadn't insisted on opening that sarcophagus, would you have this kind of gain?" But you are too shameless, don't thank me, forget it, and use tricks to trick me and Lao Yang into the scientific research team, what's going on. ”
"Don't brag about yourself, you know your own affairs best, have we wronged you?" Turning his head, Professor Sun said to the others, "Okay, that's all for the discussion of the epitaph." Now let's talk about tomorrow's actions. ”
Li Yishan stood up all of a sudden, like a monkey burned to the buttocks, and exclaimed: "Didn't you say that there are no new tasks recently, why are you going to start acting again, can you let me take annual leave?" ”
Professor Sun sneered and said, "This is an order from above that came down directly yesterday, and it is very urgent, do you think it will keep you out of the matter?" Li Yishan was weak, and sat on the chair weakly, the expression on his face was more desolate than that of the eunuch who had been castrated.
Tan Jia said to us seriously: "The location of our mission this time is Yunnan, the purpose is to find the legendary tomb of the Dian King. ”
Biaozi was happy all of a sudden, and couldn't help laughing: "Why is there another uneducated?" If I'm not mistaken, the tomb of the Dian King was excavated by the state as early as 1950, and the legendary Dian King's seal was also obtained from the ancient tomb, so where do you tell us to find the second Dian King Tomb at this time? ”
Tan Jia didn't care about the sarcasm of the mark, just shook his head and said: "You are talking about the tomb of the King of Dian unearthed in Jinning County, but let me tell you, the tomb of the King of Dian is fake, including the seal of the King of Dian is also fake." ”
Seeing the surprise on Biaozi's face, Tan Jia continued, "You may not know that the seal of the King of Dian given to the King of Dian by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty belongs to the treasure passed down from generation to generation by the King of Dian, and it is not allowed to be used for burial. And more importantly, the unearthed seal of the Dian King is rough in production, and the handwriting on it is not rigorous, and it is an imitation after the identification of the instrument. Therefore, experts feel that the tomb of the Dian King unearthed in Jinning County is a fake tomb used to confuse the tomb robbers, and the real Dian King Tomb is still hidden in an unknown place. ”
Biaozi said helplessly: "Even if what you say is right, but the territory of Yunnan is so big, where can we go to find the real tomb of King Dian?" ”
Tan Jia explained: "I have got some clues above, thinking that the real tomb of the Dian King is still in Jinning County, but it is not on land, but in the Dianchi Lake, and it is estimated that it will not be too far from the fake Dian King Tomb, so the difficulty of finding the tomb of the Dian King is not as great as we imagined." ”
Liu Dapeng didn't seem to know the details of this matter, and asked curiously: "What did the above send us to find the tomb of the King of Dian for, is it for the seal of the legendary King of Dian?" ”
Tan Jia shook his head and said: "Through the investigation of various materials, it was found that there was a person in history who had a lifespan of more than two hundred years, and this person was the King of Dian. The purpose of letting us go above is to bring back the corpse of the King of Dian to analyze his DNA and find out the reason for his longevity. ”
Although Tan Jia didn't say it directly, the meaning was already obvious, the top was anxious to find the body of the King of Dian, but he just wanted to study the reason for his longevity, so that the old man could live a few more years.
Undoubtedly, early the next morning, we boarded a passenger plane and flew to Kunming, Yunnan. When we stepped off the plane, the sun had just come out, and the lazy light shone on us, and we couldn't tell if it was comfortable, and we couldn't help but stretch our waists. (To be continued.) )