Chapter 88: The Most Wonderful Bird in the World
Through Yang Hui's email, I found that Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed superior in dealing with sudden dangers, and from a modern scientific point of view, these practices were very effective. Not only that, but the examples in the e-mail made me realize that the human body has great potential when it is in danger.
Everyone has their own talents and abilities. Li Guang, the general of the Han Dynasty, was able to escape after being captured by the Xiongnu, while Wu Sangui at the end of the Ming Dynasty was able to lead dozens of cavalry to rescue his father from the encirclement of tens of thousands of Houjin soldiers, which is a bit incredible for ordinary people. And Zhu Yuanzhang is indeed very talented in terms of survival ability and liberation ability in danger.
The old monk told Emperor Jianwen that during his years in the capital, he also got acquainted with the minister Tang He. Tang He and Taizu are from the same village, and they still play with their bare butts and play with big and small, so he also knows Zhu Yuanzhang best. Tang He once told the old monk such a thing:
In their Fengyang area, there used to be a bird that was very magical. This bird, very similar in appearance to a peacock, is only the size of a palm, and its crying sound is similar to that of a thrush.
This should be the most amazing kind of bird, definitely the Shih Tzu and Diao Chan among the birds. There was an old man in their village, who had seen this bird up close once when he was young, and he was like a demon, and for decades he had been obsessed with it all day long, almost without doing anything else.
According to local legend, this bird was formed after Daji's death, so in terms of beauty, no bird can match it. And in their part there was a great rich man, whose family had a thousand acres of fertile land, and a herd of mules and horses, and was very wealthy. At that time, the money of a cow and a horse was even enough to marry a daughter-in-law, and you can imagine how rich this rich man's family was.
But the legend is that this rich man's family, the original poor family is surrounded by four walls, and several generations are for the landlord's family to carry the work, until the rich man is twenty years old, or to carry the work for others, the year is busy until the end of the year, the day is busy until dark, it is good to be able to barely fill the stomach. Not to mention making a fortune, marrying a wife and having children.
But somehow, one day, he suddenly caught this very rare, extremely precious "Daji bird", and dedicated this bird to the Mongolian nobles of the Yuan Dynasty, and the nobleman dedicated this bird to the emperor at that time, after seeing this bird, not only the emperor was amazed, the whole court was shaken. Because no one thought that there would be such a wonderful bird in the world. The emperor naturally loved it, and he watched this bird every day when he had time, but he always felt that it was not enjoyable. And specially equipped more than ten palace maids and eunuchs for this bird to take care of.
Of course, this rich man was also rewarded with thousands of hectares of fertile land because of his meritorious work in sacrificing birds, and his fate suddenly turned over from a poor boy who carried a living life to a rich man. Because of this incident, this bird has also become a symbol of good luck.
When Emperor Jianwen heard this, he couldn't help but ask the old monk: "Why haven't I heard of this kind of bird that the master said, if it still exists, it will definitely be famous all over the world, if so, although I am lonely and unheard, I should have heard of it."
The old monk owes a debt, dials the oil lamp next to him, the light in the room suddenly brightens up a lot, he stares at the oil lamp, and said faintly: "The vicissitudes of life, the world changes, the world is like this beating oil lamp, changing and swaying at any time, Your Majesty can know, according to historical records, the land of Qilu, there were tigers in the Song Dynasty, and many areas there were densely wooded, but in this dynasty, although the forests are still there, but compared with the Song Dynasty, it has been greatly reduced, and the tigers there have been extinct. The same is true of the Nadaji bird, which is extremely rare and precious, has been completely extinct for decades, and has gradually been forgotten by the world, so it is normal that His Majesty has never heard of it."
Then, the old monk continued to tell the story he had heard from Tang He about this kind of Daji bird.
Since this kind of Daji bird is so magical and precious, of course, there will be many people who will try their best to catch it, because once this bird is caught, it is much more valuable than getting a few thousand taels of gold.
However, this bird is not only small in number, but also appears for a very short time, only after the vernal equinox, more than ten days. In other seasons, they hardly come out, and no one knows what their nests are like, or where they live.
On the day of the vernal equinox, the catcher of this bird will bury a bamboo filled with wormwood ash half in the ground and half exposed. Because at the moment when the spring equinox comes, the earth qi will change significantly, and the surging earth qi will blow out the wormwood ash in the bamboo. When the bird catchers see the wormwood ash blown out, they immediately rush to the sycamore forest halfway up the mountain, because that is also the favorite place for the birds.
Why don't you go over early and wait over there? Instead of waiting for the weather to start before it passes? Because through the local bird catchers, decades of exploration have found that this kind of Daji bird, only after the earth qi is activated, fly out to move, if in advance ambush into the plane forest, Daji birds will not fly over, these birds are extremely sensitive, and the behavior is extremely strange, if a place, before they fly, there are people in advance, they will never fly over.
But in a place, if people are "latecomers", they can tolerate and appear in the same area as people. Therefore, people must not go to the sycamore forest over there in advance, if they go early, even if the people are ambushed and camouflaged well, the Daji birds can detect it, and they will not appear in that forest again. Therefore, it can only be passed after waiting for the weather to start.
What's even more strange is that if people "come later" to that forest, those Daji birds will be very bold to these "later" people, and sometimes they will even fly to the bird catcher and the stone in front of them, and look at the bird catcher. In that gesture, it seemed a little provocative and a little contemptuous.
It is said that if you are not afraid of people, it should be easy to catch. But this kind of Daji bird also has another very powerful ability, that is, "acting very fast". Tang He, who has seen this bird with his own eyes, said that this bird is so fast that people can't see the process of its movement, because its movement is almost instantaneous, from one place to another, as if it does not need time, and can be reached in an instant.
Therefore, bird catchers often have an illusion to look at a beautiful, pocket-sized peacock-like Daji bird, right on the stone in front of you, looking at you provocatively, such a precious bird seems to be within reach, so with the net in his hand, he slammed it down, and saw that the bird was clearly caught in the net, but when you were ecstatic and looked at it, the net was empty, and there was nothing, and the Daji bird, who thought it had become a "thing in the net", had flown to another stone at some point. Still looking at you with smug and provocative looks, a kind of teasing annoyance, and the frustration of not being caught, will come to my heart strongly.
This is the most typical mental activity process of every Daji bird catcher. It's like a peerless beauty that makes you salivate, taking the initiative to tease you, and when you are very itchy, get up, and feel that you can get it right away, and you are extremely excited, you find that she is simply playing with you and teasing you, in fact, you will never get her, that feeling, for men, is definitely a special torment and loss, and there is a kind of anger after being teased.
Bird catchers say that this kind of Daji bird, whether it is from its glamorous appearance, or its nature of teasing and teasing men, is really similar to the legendary Daji.
No one has ever succeeded in catching a single Daji bird except the rich man. As a result, many people also wanted to learn the secret of bird hunting from the rich man, after all, he was the only one who had successfully caught Daji's bird. No matter who inquires, this rich man pretends to be mysterious, and his response to this kind of question is always a mysterious and smug expression, and he adds: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed." Let those who do everything possible to get an answer have the urge to beat him.
One of them, very scheming, spent several years and done countless things in order to get the rich man's real secret of catching birds, and then slowly became very close friends with the rich man, and one day, after getting drunk, the rich man confided the truth to him. It turned out that the Daji bird was not caught by the rich man himself, but given to him by a Taoist priest after catching it. Here's how it happened: