Volume 1: The Highest Mandate of Heaven Chapter 9: Valuable (I)

Older people are always very fond of money. As soon as the King of Qi heard that Zhao Guo was going to compensate Qi State, he became interested. "Oh?" he asked. What is the compensation? ”

Pang Xuan carefully picked up the brocade box beside him and held it high above the top. Said solemnly: "Pang Xuan, the minister of Zhao, presented the treasure and the clan to the king. From now on, the two countries will work together and become friends forever. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was shocked. King Qi and Tian Dan, the eldest prince and the second prince, and even Chen Sheng and Cao Qiudao, were all dumbfounded, never imagined that Pang Xuan would bring this treasure to the Qi Kingdom secretly, let alone that King Zhao would be so willing to pay the capital. Even though he knew that Pang Xuan would never come out with an empty box to deceive people on such an occasion, in an instant, everyone still had a strange feeling that it was like a dream, illusory and unreal, and everything was unbelievable.

After a moment, King Qi was the first to recover from the shock. His eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to stand up and ask, "Is it really He's Bi?" Hurry up, bring it to the widow and take a closer look. At his command, the two attendants immediately stepped forward to take the brocade box, and then took it and put it on several cases in front of King Qi. Expectant hurriedly opened the brocade box, only to turn out that the outside of the box was only covered with brocade, and the inside was a swarthy metal box.

King Qi lifted the lid of the box again. It was too late, it was dazzling, and the brilliant and beautiful treasure light immediately burst into the sky, and then it was scattered in all directions, enveloping the entire hall in it. Everywhere the light went, everyone in the hall was without exception, and at the same time they were terrified. Immediately afterwards, a mysterious and inexplicable strange feeling filled everyone's hearts, making everyone's body and mind more peaceful and peaceful than ever.

Looking carefully through the treasure light, but I saw a pure white and flawless, shining jade with treasure light, which was placed in the box without any dispute with the world at this moment. The light that swirls above the jade seems to belong to some kind of energy beyond anyone's comprehension. And Shibi! Although everyone present had never heard of his name, he had not seen it. But at this moment, everyone knew that the jade bi in front of them was the legendary He's bi! Only the three words of He's Bi can stand up to this treasure in front of you!

In that year, King Ji of Wu sent a war, destroyed Shang and established Zhou. By the time of King You of Zhou, he lost his position because of the princes of the Beacon Fire Opera. The Zhou room moved eastward, and from then on the Western Zhou Dynasty ended and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty began. In the first half of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, it is also called the Chūn Autumn Period. To the division of the three families of Zhao, Wei and Han, it opened the prelude to the Warring States Period. Let's say that in the autumn of Chūn, there was a person named Bian He in the Chu State. When he was chopping wood in Jingshan, he saw a phoenix perched on a green rock. As the saying goes, "the phoenix does not fall without treasure", so Bian He thought that this piece of green rock must be a treasure, so he dug it out and dedicated it to the monarch Chu Li.

How do you know that after the palace jade craftsman saw it, he said that it was just a mortal stone. King Li was furious and cut off Bian and his left foot for the crime of bullying the king. King Li died, King Wu ascended the throne, and Bian He offered treasure again. King Wu ordered the jade worker to check again, but still said that it was just a mortal stone, and Bian He was cut off his right foot because of this. King Wu died, King Wen ascended the throne, Bian He hugged Qingshi and cried bitterly under Chu Mountain, crying until he was stained with blood and tears. King Wen sent someone to inquire, and Bian He said: "I am not crying that my feet have been cut off, but that Baoyu has been treated as a stone, and the loyal have been treated as a bully." So King Wen ordered someone to cut open this bluestone and found that it was indeed a rare and beautiful jade. In order to commemorate Bian He, he carved the beautiful jade into a jade bi and renamed it He's Bi.

He's Bi was originally the treasure of the Chu State. But hundreds of years later, it was stolen and disappeared. It wasn't until fifty years ago that He's Bi reappeared in the Zhao Kingdom. Owned by King Zhao Huiwen. When King Zhaoxiang of Qin found out, he sent someone to inform King Huiwen of Zhao that he had ceded fifteen cities in exchange for He's Bi. King Huiwen of Zhao sent Lin Xiangru to the Qin State to make a deal. King Qin Zhaoxiang got the Heshi Bi, but he never talked about the exchange of cities. So Lin Xiangru designed to deceive He's Bi back, and sent someone to send it back to Zhao overnight. This is the origin of the two idioms "Valuable" and "Returning to Zhao".

The above allusions are familiar to everyone present. But in addition, Chen Sheng, who came from the 21st century, knew that after Qin Shi Huang unified the world, He's bi was also carved into a jade seal. Li Si engraved the eight words "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity" on the seal. Since then, He's Bi has been called the seal of the country, and has become a symbol of the Son of Heaven. Legend has it that those who get the harmony can win the world, and those who lose the harmony will lose the world. All kinds of myths and legends, and so on. After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, this treasure completely disappeared in the long river of history and was never found again.

In the eyes of others, although He's Bi can be called a rare treasure and a peerless treasure, it is just a jade after all, and there is nothing special. But for Chen Sheng, things are completely different. Just as the treasure light shone on his upper body, Chen Sheng suddenly noticed that he had an inexplicable sense of irritability. It's even more cold and hot all over my body, and I feel weird and inexplicable.

Chen Sheng didn't know why, and subconsciously looked up. It seems that except for himself, no one else, including Cao Qiudao, has the same abnormality. Taking advantage of the fact that everyone else's attention was focused on He's Bi, Chen Sheng quietly moved half a foot back, slightly away from He's Bi. The irritability in the heart and the alternating feeling of cold and heat in the body immediately weakened significantly. Moving closer, the irritability and the feeling of cold and heat immediately intensified significantly.

The truth couldn't be more obvious. The root of all the abnormalities that happened to him is He's Bi! But...... Weishenme is like this? Weishenme is the only one who can feel He's abnormality, and everyone else doesn't react to it? Too many questions, too many doubts. To find the answer, the most direct way is to take He's Bi in your hand and study it carefully.

Here's your chance. King Qi picked up this rare treasure and played with it in the palm of his hand for a long time, and finally put it down, and said, "Prime Minister, Mr. Cao, the eldest prince, the second prince, and Chen Bingwei, you all come over to have a look."

Cao Qiudao wasn't interested in He Shibi, and he couldn't feel the strangeness of this treasure, so he just glanced at it casually and didn't care too much. Tian Dan and the second prince of the eldest prince respectively picked up He's bi to admire and watch, and praised them one after another. But the thing is too precious, after all, I don't dare to watch it for a long time, for fear of accidentally breaking it, it will be bad.

In a moment, everyone had finished reading it, and the second prince carefully took He's Bi over and handed it to Chen Sheng, and said with a smile: "Chen Mi...... Chen Bingwei, come and see, this is He's Bi. Good stuff, really good stuff. ”