Chapter 521 Passing on the Seal of the Kingdom
By the time I got back to Upper Manhattan, it was already late at night.
As early as when he bought office space for the KY investment fund, Yang Jing also bought an apartment, which was a high-end apartment with an area of more than 500 square meters, and the price at that time was 8.9 million US dollars.
Although it is not as appropriate to invest in real estate in the United States as it is three years later, since the KY Investment Fund is about to stand up, Yang Jing, as the owner of the KY Investment Fund, also needs to have a sufficiently high-end apartment in Manhattan, so he bought such an apartment at the beginning of the year.
If such an apartment were to be placed in 30 years, no fifteen million dollars would have been wanted to buy. Although home prices in the United States are not rising as fast as the dollar is depreciating, this kind of high-end apartment in Manhattan will be a scarce resource in 30 years, and many times you will not be able to buy an apartment in such a good location if you have the money.
After returning to the apartment, Yang Jing took a shower, and then took out the other half of the Luban box found from the treasure of the last tsar from the space.
I don't know if I don't put them together, as soon as these two half-cut Luban boxes are put together, you can immediately see that this is definitely a set.
However, compared with the half of the Luban box found in the treasure of the last Tsar, the half of the Luban box preserved by the Mellon family is in better condition, presumably this half of the Luban box has not been taken care of in the Mellon family over the years.
At the auction, the Mellon family also said that this Luban box was made of silver doped with other metals, which is not the same as those Luban boxes commonly used in Chinese history. In China, most of the Luban boxes made by the ancients were made of hardwood.
It may be that it has been doped with a lot of other metals, and after so many years of oxidation, so these two boxes are now completely devoid of the silvery-white color of silver, and the gray is inconspicuous.
But Yang Jing's mood at this time was extremely excited, these two half-cut boxes cost him a total of more than 100 million US dollars to get their hands on, which can be said to be the most valuable thing in Yang Jing's current collection. But if there are clues about that treasure inside, it's really worth it.
The two Luban boxes are about the same size, and the appearance is not much different. However, Yang Jing used his perspective skills to look at these two boxes, and knew that although the two boxes were not much different on the outside, they were very different on the inside.
The half of the Luban box found in the last Tsar's treasure is densely packed with mechanisms, and the only bulge is the key to making these mechanisms work.
As for the half of the Luban box taken from the Mellon family, there are hidden things inside, but this box is not opened by a mechanism, but by a "key". In the past, the Mellon family did not open this box for a long time, because it lacked the most critical "key". But now, the "key" is in Yang Jing's hands.
Yang Jing aligned the two halves of the Luban box, turned on the perspective skill, and then used the bulge of the left-hand box to align the depression on the right-hand box, slowly but forcefully inward, and the two halves of the Luban box suddenly merged together seamlessly.
Under the observation of the perspective skill, Yang Jing saw that after the small protrusion was inserted into the depression, he didn't know that he had touched that part, and then the half of the Luban box immediately emitted a slight "click" sound, and the originally dense mechanism began to operate rapidly, and one by one the metal bars were lifted or dropped or rotated, anyway, with the movement of the mechanism in this half of the box, the bulge that was originally less than a centimeter long magically began to extend......
As this bulge continued to extend inward, some of the mechanisms in the depression were also touched, and the other half of the organs in the Luban box also began to move.
Eventually, with a crisp "click", the two boxes were tightly combined, but the boxes were still not opened.
Yang Jing pondered slightly, then stretched out his hand and twisted it, but with a "snap", the top cover of the half of the box containing the silk silk suddenly bounced to the side, revealing the silk inside.
Yang Jing suddenly remembered that this box was very likely to be a very well-sealed thing, and the silk inside had not been in contact with the outside air for a long time, so Yang Jing almost subconsciously stretched out his hand and put the silk into the storage space.
Sure enough, not long after the silk was put in, the metal inside the box exposed to the air quickly began to change color......
Yang Jing was startled, and then let out a breath and muttered in a low voice: "Fortunately, Lao Tzu's hands are fast, otherwise this ball of silk would have hanged!"
Sink your consciousness into the storage space, and fortunately, the silk silk has not changed at all in the storage space without any air.
He gently opened the silk ball with his consciousness, and the things revealed inside immediately made Yang Jing ecstatic.
It's a painting, or a map, to be exact.
The most conspicuous thing on the map is the eight words - "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity".
The appearance of these eight words made Yang Jing completely relieved, at least the 100 million US dollars were not spent in vain. This map is indeed as I imagined, a map involving the legendary national seal, or a clue related to the national seal that has been lost for more than a thousand years.
There is no doubt about the status of the jade seal in China, no matter from which aspect, the seal is a well-deserved first place. Since the beginning of the first emperor, this jade seal has been recognized by the Chinese people as a symbol of virtue inheritance of the world, otherwise this jade seal would not be called "the jade seal of the country".
The name alone is enough to see the preciousness and importance of this jade seal.
It's a pity that the seal of the country disappeared without a trace after the late Tang Dynasty emperor Li Congke burned himself, and no matter how the emperors of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties mobilized the world to find this jade seal, but unfortunately they were never found.
Known as the most authentic Ming Dynasty in the world in Chinese history, its founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang had three major regrets in his life, and the first place was that he did not find the heirloom seal in his life. It can be seen how high the status of the heirloom seal is in the eyes of the descendants of Yan and Huang!
Of course, there are countless rumors about the national seal, but all of them are false. But the real heirloom seal has never appeared since Li Congke, which is true!
When Yang Jing got the treasure of the last tsar from Siberia before, he found this strange half-cut Luban box, but he didn't think about it at that time, after all, there are too many treasures handed down by the Chinese ancestors, and there are more treasures floating overseas, all of which were snatched by those robbers.
At that time, Russia was a part of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the polar bears did not cause much trouble to Yanjing, and they also snatched the treasures of China.
So when Yang Jing found out about this strange half-cut Luban box, he really didn't think about passing on the national seal.
Even if he saw the other half of the Luban box in Mellon Manor today, Yang Jing thought that it was just a complete set of Luban boxes, and at first even if he found something hidden in the box, he didn't consider the national seal.
It wasn't until Harper Lawrence maliciously bid that Yang Jing used his perspective skills to observe the silk again when he vaguely saw the word "accept", and then he suddenly remembered the heirloom seal......
Sure enough, it was not wasted to spend 100 million yuan at that time, and this picture is indeed a picture of clues about the national seal.
The silk was not large, about the size of a sixteen-carat piece of paper. At the top of this silk, there are eight calligraphy fonts that read: "Ordered by the Heavens, Both Shou Yongchang".
Then under these eight words, there is an arrow, pointing directly to a place in the picture called "Yuechengguan", obviously, this Yuechengguan should be the nest of the Taoist priest named Yuechengzi.
If it weren't for the three words Yuechengguan, Yang Jing would not be able to determine that this Yuechengzi was a Taoist, but now it seems that this Yuechengzi is very likely to be a Taoist.
The Tang Dynasty respected Taoism as the state religion, and the Later Tang Dynasty was established in the name of the heir of the Tang Dynasty, so it was naturally also Taoism, and historical rumors also said that Li Congke, the late emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, believed in Taoism very much.
I just don't know what the relationship between this Yue Chengzi and the late Tang Emperor Li Congke is.
In addition to the eight characters and the view of Yuecheng and the view of Yuecheng, the rest of the painting is a landscape.
Although this picture is painted on silk, the painting is extremely exquisite, and it can be seen that this Yue Chengzi's painting skills are still extremely clever.
Below the painting is a mountain peak, these peaks are very strange, Yang Jing counted carefully, there are a total of sixteen peaks, and from the location of these peaks, it is obviously not far from this Yuecheng Temple.
The Yuecheng Temple is located at the foot of the mountain on the north side of this peak, which is a Taoist temple that does not look very large, and in front of the Taoist temple is a raging river, crossing the lofty mountains and disappearing into the distance.
The painting is simple, just a few words, a mountain peak, a Taoist temple, and a big river, and nothing else. Although there are many trees on the mountain, it is estimated that they are of little use.
The most important thing is this Taoist temple!
Yang Jing was even wondering if the heirloom seal, which had been missing for thousands of years, was hidden in this Taoist temple? After all, Li Congke, the late emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, threw himself on fire while holding the heirloom seal, which was a well-known thing, but fire could burn people to death, but it could not burn the heirloom seal.
It is very likely that the seal of the country was found by someone after the fire was extinguished, and then hidden. And the biggest possibility of this person who found the heirloom seal is this Yue Chengzi.
Otherwise, why did this Yuechengzi go to such great lengths to build this Luban box? Why did he hide such a lump of silk silk in the Luban box? Why did he write the eight big characters "Ordered by the heavens, both longevity and eternal prosperity" written in the silk?
I'm not sure about anything else, but I can definitely be sure that this Yuechengzi should have had direct contact with the Chuan Guoxi!
I just don't know where this view of the city is depicted in the picture......
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