I remember that when Chen Blind told us about the tomb robbery, he once mentioned the Guanshan Taibao, when he moved the mountain and unloaded the mountain to rob the ancient tomb of Bottle Mountain, he saw a strange corpse in the corridor of the iron pavilion open house under the Danjing of Wuliang Palace, and according to the relics on the corpse, it was speculated that it was the tomb robber Guanshan Taibao of the Ming Dynasty.

With the experience and knowledge of the blind man Chen and the partridge whistle who moved the mountain, he only heard his name to the Guanshan Taibao, but he didn't know the fact, he only heard that the whereabouts of this generation were mysterious and unruly, and the gods couldn't guess the matter of watching the mountain.

Chen's words are still in our ears, but Shirley Yang and I did not expect that in this work record left by Professor Sun, there would be a mention of Guanshan Taibao.

Professor Sun and I have only met twice in Gulan County, Shaanxi, and the two sides are not speculative, and this person has a strange temper, moody, secretive when he speaks, and often wants to talk and stops, and seems to hate the craftsmen who fight backwards. But as an archaeologist, he sneaked into the museum to spy on cultural relics, and also studied the history of ancient tomb robbers in his work records.

But people who know too many secrets and can't tell them must have a hard time, and after a long time, those secrets will become torment and torture in the hearts of those who know, so some people will choose some special channels to relieve their pressure, such as recording things in detail in writing. Sun Xuewu is probably this kind of person, in addition to recording many little-known secrets in detail in his work notes, he also reveals a lot of his personal subjective consciousness from between the lines.

Shirley Yang and I carefully read this notebook, Professor Chen and Sun Xuewu have been old friends for many years, and they have often mentioned his affairs to us in the past, and with some of our speculations, it is easy to understand the contents of the notepad. It turns out that the state secrets mentioned by Professor Sun are indeed "state secrets", but the so-called "state secrets" he calls are not contemporary times, but most of them are absolute secrets in ancient times.

Ancient texts such as divination, signs, prophecies, and hints are not only found in the East but also in the West, and most of them are very mysterious and obscure in content and form. Ancient Chinese secret documents, the earliest seen in the Yin Shang period of the dragon bones, that is, carved on the tortoise shell inscriptions and symbols, later scholars will these strange and difficult mysterious characters, called the book of heaven, riddles.

There are a large number of contents such as witches, heavenly signs, immortality, and immortality recorded in the Dragon Bone Book of Heaven, and the cracking work of experts for the "Book of Heaven" is extremely difficult and boring, and there are very few people engaged in this work. Although from the perspective of modern people, most of the contents of those witches are not credible and are ancient products of science that have not yet been civilized, but for the study of social, economic, military, and political activities thousands of years ago, the Dragon Bone Book still has a very important value.

Sun Xuewu's work content is to decipher and interpret ancient secret documents, and is also responsible for excavating and collecting tortoise shells and animal bones engraved with various ancient characters and symbols from all over the world. Sometimes a simple symbol can take months to research. Facing this kind of difficult and boring work for a long time, Professor Sun has developed a withdrawn character, but he is still obsessed with this way and cannot extricate himself, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a "fire man".

It was not until later that the Tang Dynasty's "Dragon Bone Mystery Text" was unearthed, and the study of the Dragon Bone Book finally made substantial progress, but what followed was another insurmountable obstacle, that is, hexagrams, and machine numbers.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the hexagram produced by the candle turtle divination was the highest level of witch divination, and it is also the so-called "heavenly machine", which may be difficult for many people to understand now, since the ancients had the art of predicting good fortune and bad luck, why should the result be displayed with a hexagram, rather than directly describing the result?

In fact, it is not only the performance of hexagrams, but also various prophecies in later Chinese history, such as pushing back pictures, horse lessons, plum blossom poems, baked cake songs, etc., all of which are obscure and difficult to understand, and there are many tricks and tricks, and the so-called predictions and secrets are handed down by suggestive methods, or pictures, or poems, with various types, and their meanings are explained after the fact, and it seems that they deliberately refuse to tell people the results in advance.

This form is actually a manifestation of the ancient traditional concept, the ancients believed that "deep and subtle, the opportunity of heaven also; Creation changes, and so does the principle of heaven. On the theory that heaven should be human, but also: if you leak the heavens to confuse people, heaven will punish them."

It means that the endless "Heavenly Dao" can be talked about, so that people can understand the corresponding truth of heaven and man, but the "Heavenly Machine" cannot be explicitly stated, because the Heavenly Opportunity is subtle, and it is easy to confuse people and delusion, as the saying goes, "The Heavenly Opportunity cannot be revealed", and the gentleman should "hide the weapon in his body and move when the time comes".

The sixteen hexagrams of Zhou Tian in the Western Zhou Dynasty were exhausted through the changes of heaven and earth, and there was nothing to hide. According to the "Dragon Bone Book of Heaven", when the Zhou Tian hexagram was born, there were ghosts crying at night, and then the Yellow River flooded, drowning countless people and animals, only because of the secrets in the creation, since then vented out, so it was forced to destroy one-half, leaving only the gossip to survive.

These lost ancient hexagrams have also become a bottleneck in Professor Sun's research, recording tens of thousands of tortoise shells of ancient hexagrams, which is a huge and incomparably large information treasure, but without the number of Zhou Tian hexagrams, it is impossible to interpret at all.

And because Professor Sun has an old-fashioned personality, does not understand people, and does not have good interpersonal relationships, he often does not get the attention he deserves. But he drilled the tip of the horns, planning to find out the number of Zhou Tian hexagrams, and completely crack the ancient hexagram keel of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which will definitely shock China and foreign countries at that time, and it will also live up to the countless efforts spent over the years.

Most of the secret documents of antiquity are hidden in ruins, tombs, or caves. Because the ancient tomb is deep underground, the space is relatively closed, and the burial crystals inside can often be preserved intact, Professor Sun pins his hopes on this, whenever the archaeological department discovers the tomb tomb, he always pays special attention to the tortoise shell, animal bones and bell inscriptions in the tomb, hoping to get some inspiration from it.

However, most of the archaeological excavations after the liberation were passive excavations, while those ancient tombs that had not yet been destroyed were protected intact according to regulations. Professor Sun has been working at the grassroots level and archaeological sites for many years, and what he has seen and heard over the years is that most of the ancient tombs in various places are ten tombs and ten empty, and I don't know how many times they have been filtered by tomb robbers in the past.

There were several times when archaeologists found that there were relatively few robbed holes in ancient tombs, and they were full of joy, thinking that some things could be preserved in it, but who knew that when they went in, they were dug into honeycombs under the tomb. It turns out that the tomb robbers in ancient times could look at the mountains to find hidden, and the robbery holes could go straight to the underground palace, deliberately avoiding the tomb top of the thick earth boulder. Compared with those tomb robbers whose experience, equipment, and craftsmanship have been passed down for thousands of years, the methods of contemporary archaeology are particularly clumsy, backward, and slow.

Professor Sun was bitter about this and hated the tomb robbers. These guys have been robbing tombs for thousands of years, and only then have they buried a large number of precious cultural relics, but only empty pits remain. If it weren't for the fact that there were too many thieves robbing the tomb, the various mysterious hexagrams in the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book would have been cracked a long time ago, and the value and research results of Professor Sun would also be recognized, and he would be respected wherever he went, but now he can only be squeezed out, and he suffers all day long, and he can't earn this breath for a while.

This selfishness in academic status is only one of them, and Professor Sun is already fascinated by the contents of the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book, and if he does not understand the mystery of the ancient hexagram on the tortoise shell, he will not be able to eat and sleep every day and night.

Once, Professor Sun accidentally learned of an important clue. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a wealthy clan in Sichuan Province, similar to the evil people of the gods, good at witchcraft, proficient in a feng shui method called "Guanshan Finger Fans", the male is called "Taibao", and the female is "Shi Niang". This group of people is demagogic and extremely powerful, and the government of the late Ming Dynasty has a weak ruling ability, and there is nothing to be done about it.

The person headed by the Guanshan Taibao is a local wealthy, surnamed Feng, who knows the way of fire, refining qi and cultivating shape, has the ability to reach the sky, the furniture of the enemy country, and has received countless disciples, and he is self-proclaimed "earth immortal". This person not only has the ability to rob tombs, steal a lot of ancient tombs of various dynasties, but also have the addiction of building tombs, and spent decades to build a "Dixian Village" in the mountains. Although it is called a village, it is actually a yin house, that is, a tomb.

He stole the coffin of the Ming vessel, Danding (Danding, Neidan. Terracotta figurines, and even other precious and rare building materials in ancient tombs, tomb bricks and wooden coffins, are all collected in their own tombs, build many tombs with strange styles, and lay all kinds of machine bracket pins in the tombs, cast "silver screen iron wall" in the city of immortals, built-in "Xuanji Tower", the secret treasures in the mountains and tombs of the past dynasties, many of them.

From a modern point of view, this Guanshan Taibao may have some kind of mental abnormality, Duo Niu is a madman, overly obsessed with organs, feng shui, and mausoleums, and I don't know what motives, he actually spent half his life building such a "tomb museum" for himself. There is also a legend that this person has dug a large ancient mound in the local area, excavated the dragon bone hexagram, and actually got a glimpse of the heavenly opportunity from it, and since then his temperament has changed greatly, so he built the Dixian Village as a place to hide the truth after a hundred years. As for the real reason why he built the Guanshan Mausoleum, probably only he himself knows.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to raise the people, he led the crowd to avoid the deep mountains, killed the men, women and children of the Ju clan and all the craftsmen who built the tomb and dug the mountain, and activated the mechanism to put down the broken dragon stone and buried himself alive in it. The natives also called this mysterious "Dixian Village" "Fengwang Tomb", and no one has known the location of Dixian Village since then.

There is no clear historical record of this matter, but when Professor Sun was working in Sichuan, he heard the mountain people mention various legends of the "Dixian Yin Mansion", and the various statements are not consistent, and it is even difficult to confirm whether these legends are true or false, and with the passage of time, fewer and fewer people know about it.

However, in the course of his work, Professor Sun came into contact with more and more information, which convinced him that there were indeed Guanshan Taibao and Dixian Village in the Ming Dynasty. In that year, Zhang Xianzhong's Liukou troops had dug mountains and excavated tombs on a large scale, and the history books recorded that "the Liukou people in the caves of the mountains, in order to seek the golden books and jade spells and dragon bones hidden by the immortals, failed, slaughtered 10,000 people, and filled the corpses and flattened the gullies", which is likely to mean that the peasant army intended to steal and dig the ancient mound of Guanshan, but did not find the location, so they killed many local people to vent their anger, and filled the deep ditches dug up the mountains when robbing the tombs.

In addition, there are some sporadic records, all of which confirm this from the side. This tomb museum built painstakingly by tomb robbers and hidden deep in Shu has collected rare treasures from the ancient mounds of previous dynasties.

So Professor Sun made a report and asked his superiors to approve him to organize a group of experts to go to Sichuan to find Dixian Village, but many people accused him of being whimsical. Guanshan Taibao is just a folk legend, and at present, manpower and funds are very tight, how can it be possible to spend manpower and material resources to find an ancient tomb that does not exist at all with some news that catches the wind and shadows? This is not in line with our working principles.

Professor Sun touched a nail and was said to be mentally ill, so he had to endure his temperament, secretly collect information, and every time he went to Sichuan on a business trip, he would always squeeze out time to go to the countryside and villages, and inquire and investigate in many ways, but with the gradual in-depth contact, he found that the specific location of the Guanshan tomb was not traceable at all.

It is said that the traditional Chinese industry in the leader of the gold school captain, good at finding the dragon to search the mountain, the gold and the hole, and the Guanshan Taibao of the mountain view of the way, but also in the Han Dynasty of the Qiu to touch the gold of the generation of the ancient arts, the grasp of the Qingwu Kanyu is unfathomable, and the Guanshan Taibao is the master of the tomb robbery, the mausoleum they built, the anti-theft means are certainly not ordinary people can imagine, and even people can not even find the exact location. Perhaps even after thousands of years, the mystery of the Earth Immortal Ancient Tomb is still just a folk legend.