"Zuo Zhenren, what's wrong with you?" Jia Zhen saw that Zuo Dengfeng had been frowning and silent, so he asked.

"It's nothing, let's go to the ancestral temple and have a look." Zuo Dengfeng retracted his thoughts and sped up.

Chinese attach great importance to the clan and have the habit of worshipping ancestors, there will be two places of worship in the ancient city, and this is no exception, the ancestral temple in the east city is a place to worship the ancestors, and the shrine altar in the west city is a place to worship the heavens.

The ancestral temple is a single courtyard building, the wooden door is closed, push the door and enter, the courtyard is in the middle of a passage, there is a metal incense burner up to five feet on the left and right sides of the passage, the material of the incense burner is not bronze, but a kind of metal with gray color, the incense burner on the left side is three-legged, the incense burner on the right side is four-legged, in ancient times the odd number represents the man, the even number represents the woman, the two incense burners are respectively dedicated to the male and female ancestors.

These two incense burners do not have the kind of cloud pattern and dragon and phoenix pattern decoration on the incense burner in the Central Plains, only two casting words, the three-legged incense burner is casting "Ji", and the reverse casting is "dry". The front of the four-legged incense burner is also the word "Ji", and the reverse side is "Kun".

Although he has not yet entered the main hall of the four corners and horizontal ridges, it has been determined that this city was Guan Shuxian's city before, because the surname Ji is the surname of the Zhou Dynasty, and the Son of Heaven is the surname Ji, and the exact name of Guan Shuxian is Ji Xian, Guan is his fief, and Uncle is his generation, because he is the third son of King Wen, and he is smaller than the second brother, that is, Ji Fa, the king of Zhou Wu, so he is called uncle.

There are seven rooms in the ancestral temple of Wangcheng, strictly follow the etiquette of the nine princes of the Son of Heaven, push the door in, there is no ancestral tablet in the ancestral temple, only the large long tribute table and the incense burner on the offering table remain, the incense burner in the courtyard is the place where the clan worships, the incense burner on the tribute table is the special utensils of the princes and kings and the sons of the world to worship the ancestors, it stands to reason that it should also be two incense burners in Qiankun, but there are three incense burners on the tribute table here, two are placed close to the area where the spiritual position was placed, one left and one right. The third one is outward, in the center, and is a three-legged incense burner, without two ears.

The incense burner is a ceremonial utensil, and it is also a sacred object for mortals to communicate with immortals or ancestors, and it is used carefully and strictly in ancient times, and there should be two incense burners in the ancestral temple, because these two incense burners are not aimed at a certain ancestor, but contain all the male and female ancestors of the family, two is enough, there is no need to use three.

The third censer is a three-legged censer, which means that it is a man. The orthodox incense burner all have two ears, but this incense burner does not have two ears, which belongs to the living sacrifice in the sacrificial rites, and the nature is similar to the ancestral hall built by the common people for a certain Qing official, because this person is still alive, so the incense burner does not have two ears. The appearance of this third incense burner in the ancestral temple indicates that there was once a man who had the same kindness as his parents to their clan, otherwise it would not be enough to enjoy such treatment. It's a pity that the tablet was taken away by the residents here, and it is impossible to determine who this person who helped them is.

"Zuo Zhenren, there are no clues here, let's go to the palace and have a look." Jia Zhen looked around at the empty ancestral temple.

"You've got everything you need, what more clues do you want?" Zuo Dengfeng replied casually, and everyone thought that the lack of clues was because they were not careful enough, and also because they lacked knowledge.

"This is a regenerative censer, it is a sacrifice to the living, and once a man helped them." The scarab is a Taoist person, and the Taoist people naturally know more traditional rituals and etiquette.

"Ma Zhenren, what is a regenerated incense burner?" Wan Xiaotang asked, the scarab had been carrying her on her back, and the relationship between the two was naturally closer.

"There should be no such incense burner in the ancestral temple, unless someone has saved their lives, like their reborn parents, they can burn incense to their benefactors, regeneration incense burner is our colloquial language, the formal saying is raw incense, that is, the incense burner for sacrificing the living." Scarab replied.

"Go on." Zuo Dengfeng raised his eyebrows and glanced at the scarab, this person is in his forties, although his cultivation is not as good as the big head, his knowledge is more than the big head, the food is not eaten in vain, the bridge is not in vain, and the people are not living in vain.

"Zuo Zhenren must already know it, then I'll guess, don't laugh at me if you guess wrong." The scarab took the lead in leaving the back road, so as not to lose face by Zuo Dengfeng like the big head.

"Zuo Zhenren also said, this city may be Ji Xian's royal city, I feel that the owner of this city is Ji Xian himself, he is the third brother of King Wu of Zhou, King Wu of Zhou was alive when he named him the prince of Fangbo, has his own territory but is still serving in the imperial court, in the words of the Qing Dynasty called the auxiliary minister, in the current words called the Politburo Standing Committee and the governor of the province, there is another such role, that is, the fourth brother of King Wu of Zhou, Ji Dan, King Wu of Zhou is the second, after the second died, the third and fourth are auxiliary ministers, but the fief of the third is in Henan, He couldn't stay in the center all the time, he had to go back to the fiefdom every once in a while. And the fief of the fourth child is in Shaanxi, he can accompany the little emperor all day long, Zuo Zhenren, how old was King Zhou Cheng at that time? Scarab turned his head halfway through his words and looked at Zuo Dengfeng.

"I was thirteen years old when I ascended the throne." Zuo Dengfeng thought about it and replied.

"Or Zuo Zhenren remembers clearly, everyone thinks, the little emperor is only thirteen years old, it must be whoever he likes for a long time by his side, after a long time, the little emperor and the fourth Ji Dan got closer, Ji Dan everyone may not be familiar with, it is the very famous Zhou Gongdan, Zhou Gongdan took the opportunity to control the government, the third Ji Xian found that the signs were wrong, so he united the fief with his neighboring fifth and Wu Geng to jointly raise troops to fight against Zhou Gongdan, and the result was defeated, which is a very famous rebellion of the three eunuchs in history. The next thing I guess is that Ji Xian was very powerful at that time, and he was the uncle of the east, he always had the opportunity to contact the cultivators, and the cultivators helped him when he was in trouble, and brought him and the clansmen here for refuge, so Ji Xian's clansmen added a stove in the ancestral temple for the cultivators who had helped them. Scarab voiced his analysis.

Scarab's analysis in exchange for the admiring eyes of everyone present, this person's analytical ability is slightly insufficient, but he knows the major events in history, so these young ** who should know history but don't understand history are admired.

"Zuo Zhenren, I'm just guessing, if there's something wrong, please advise." Seeing Zuo Dengfeng's expressionless face, the scarab thought that he had stolen the limelight from Zuo Dengfeng, and Zuo Dengfeng was unhappy.

"Your analysis is still very reasonable, but have you thought about it, it's okay for people in cultivation to save one person, but it seems unlikely that you want to save the entire Ji Xian clan." Zuo Dengfeng said.

"What do you mean?" Scarab asked.

"According to the scale of this city, there were at least two or three thousand people who lived here back then, even if they bred some after coming here, there were not a few people who came here at the beginning, and without the permission of the Zhou Dynasty, they would never be able to leave the country with their families. I agree with your first half of the analysis, but you said that it was the cultivator who saved Ji Xian, I don't think it's all right, the person who saved them can know such a position, there must be a certain amount of cultivation, but the most important thing is that this person should be in a high position in the Zhou Dynasty and be able to save these people openly. Zuo Dengfeng said calmly.

"Jiang Ziya?!" Scarab thought of the answer for the first time, in fact, the answer is not difficult to guess, the only person who has both is Jiang Ziya.

"Yes, as far as I know, Jiang Ziya's relationship with Zhou Gongdan is not good, and after his death, he did not return to Zhou for burial according to Zhou Tianzi's request, but chose the cemetery by himself. It can be seen that what Zhou Gongdan did back then aroused public indignation, Ji Xian and his fifth brother Ji Du are the Ji family's own people, so the way they chose was a little more extreme, although Jiang Ziya was also dissatisfied with Zhou Gongdan's practice, but he was old and still a foreign surname, so he took a blind attitude. After Ji Xian and Ji Du were defeated, Jiang Ziya managed to keep them and sent them here. Zuo Dengfeng expressed his analysis.

"Zuo Zhenren, how do you know that Jiang Ziya didn't return to the Zhou Dynasty for burial?" After all, the big head is a young man, and he can't suppress his curiosity.

"Because I dug Jiang Ziya's grave." Zuo Dengfeng smiled and spoke.

One place in this word, there is an 'ah' sound.

"Zuo Zhenren, why does Jiang Ziya want to protect them?" Scarab is more concerned about the basis of Zuo Dengfeng's inference.

"Good question, there is no such thing in the world for no reason, I feel that Jiang Ziya has two possibilities for protecting them, one is to take care of the old feelings, Jiang Ziya is an old minister in the period of King Wen, even if he assists King Wu, it is also to repay King Wen's kindness, that is to say, the deepest relationship with Jiang Ziya is still King Wen, and Ji Fa, Ji Xian, Ji Dan, Ji Du and others are the sons of King Wen, in Jiang Ziya's eyes, these people are the blood of King Wen, he doesn't want these people to kill each other, so he managed to keep the third and fifth children who rebelled."

"Those who are confidants die, Jiang Ziya and Zhuge Liang are the leaders of this generation." Scarab said.

"There is another possibility, Jiang Ziya was sealed in the country of Qi, in Shandong. The fiefdoms of the third and fifth children were in Henan, adjacent to Shandong. Jiang Ziya's move may not have been intended to buy the hearts of these two vassal states, but later the Qi State did replace Guan Guo and became the Fang Bo of the East, that is, the largest vassal state in the East. Zuo Dengfeng said.

After Zuo Dengfeng finished speaking, everyone didn't speak for a long time, everyone's thinking coherence and reaction speed were different, and everyone hadn't reacted yet.

"Zuo Zhenren, as far as I know, Jiang Ziya is not as powerful as recorded on the list of gods, he is only a rough cultivator, how can he know that there is such a place in the North Pole?" Scarab asked, he felt that Zuo Dengfeng's inference was too subjective.

"Jiang Ziya has a bird that can travel thousands of miles in a day, and if you are made a prince, you will definitely go around." Zuo Dengfeng smiled and spoke.

"Zuo Zhenren's clever calculations are really beyond our reach." Scarab stopped arguing.

"You're not convinced, you must want to ask why the people here are good at smelting metals?" Zuo Dengfeng said with a smile.

"Don't dare, Zuo Zhenren laughed." Scarab said, waving his hand.

"Why?" The curiosity of the big head is heavier than that of the scarab.

"Jiang Ziya has a strange book, called the Heavenly Seal Book, which is divided into four chapters, namely thirteen chapters of the art of war, twelve chapters of the law of solitude, one thousand and eighty bureaus of Qimen Dunjia, and two articles on refining. It is very likely that Jiang Ziya passed on the content of the two articles of refining to Ji Xian's people, otherwise they would not be able to pull out the wire used in the longbow, nor would they be able to make the armor we saw earlier......"