Chapter 79: First Arrival in Luoyang, the Divine Capital!
Long live the first year of the Book of Heaven.
Luoyang, the capital of the gods.
Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty was the eastern capital at the beginning, and Chang'an was the two major cities in the world, five years ago, Wu Zetian called the emperor to change the Yuan, and the capital was Luoyang.
In fact, more than 40 years ago, two years after Wu Zetian was established as the queen by Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, Wu Zetian came to Luoyang for the first time, and then began to consciously develop and expand Luoyang, so that in the following decades, political affairs gradually shifted to Luoyang, and Li Zhi stayed in Luoyang for 11 years during his reign.
Wu Zetian completely settled in Luoyang eight years before he became emperor, no longer traveled back and forth to Chang'an, and began to build Mingtang and other seven-day buildings, which cost a lot of money.
When Fan Xian came here, he couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the most prosperous period of the ancient capital of the Nine Dynasties, the place where he was located was relatively close to the corner of the city, but he could still see the thirty-meter-high Tianshu bronze pillar at a glance, Wu Zetian was really domineering enough, very much the momentum of those buildings in the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen in later generations, as far as the Ming Hall was concerned, it was ninety-nine meters high, which was quite incredible in this era.
However, at this time, the Ming Hall was in the process of rebuilding, the Ming Hall caught fire in the previous year, and after the reconstruction, it was called Tongtian Futu, and the heaven next door was also affected by the fire the year before, and the big Buddha inside was also destroyed, because of this incident, Xue Huaiyi, who was originally extremely favored, was also killed by Wu Zetian with an excuse.
Looking at the Ming Hall that is being rebuilt not far from Tianshu, it must not take long to be rebuilt, but in just one year, a building close to 100 meters high can be built in this era, which is indeed impressive.
For this point in time, Fan Xian is very clear about some relevant historical materials, Wu Zetian will go to Songshan to seal Zen in another month, and then change the Yuan Long Live Dengfeng, and at this time, it should be casting Jiuding and Twelve Gods, but I don't know where to cast it?
This mission, Fan Xian has a very clear purpose, if according to the original historical process, Wu Zetian will not abdicate until ten years later, and Fan Xian wants to see if he can end it in advance, if he kills Wu Zetian at this time, I don't know what will happen?
"It's just that at present, it's not easy to meet Wu Zetian!"
Fan Xian thought secretly, estimated the time, and now it was about three o'clock in the afternoon, so he simply walked to Tianshu's side, and simply saw if this Tianshu was a signal tower, if so, then destroy it first, and then investigate the whereabouts of Jiuding by the way.
Along the way, the streets are bustling with traders and pedestrians, compared to the Ming Dynasty Hongwu Yingtian is simply a heaven and a place, but there seems to be no comparison, Zhu Yuanzhang was just set the capital at that time, and Luoyang was set as the eastern capital from the Sui Dynasty, and now it is one of the largest cities in the world, in order to surpass Chang'an and deliberately become the capital of the gods, the political status can be said to be the first center today.
Tianshu is standing in front of the end gate of the imperial city, although it is a feng shui treasure, but there is no prohibition on pedestrians to watch here, because this is the place where the imperial court makes a list, and a lot of information is announced here first, so at this time, there are also a lot of people here to watch, but there are many heavily armed soldiers standing with guns in the vicinity.
When Fan Xian came here, the more he looked at this Tianshu, the more strange he felt.
This prismatic body is surrounded by copper dragons, unicorns, and the names of the civil and military officials and the chiefs of the subject countries are engraved on the pillar body tablet, "Great Zhou Wanguo Song De Tianshu", and there is a disc on the top of the pillar, and there is an inexplicable huge bead on the disk, which is about three meters in diameter.
Wu Zetian asked several relatives of her Wu family to spend ten months to get this 30-meter-high copper pillar, and 500,000 catties of copper alone, as well as the octagonal eight-sided iron seat at the bottom, which used 3 million catties, and the circumference was more than 50 meters wide.
According to Fan Xian's speculation, Wu Zetian should have built a base to contact future generations in the Mingtang or the Heavenly Buddha, two places known as communicating with heaven's will, but the biggest hidden danger of this kind of wooden structure building is the fire, and it is estimated that she didn't expect a fire at the time, so after the fire, she cast this copper and iron pillar in order to be foolproof, so that there is no possibility of burning.
Although Tianshu looked inexplicable, the data on the signal detector in Fan Xian's hand was completely sure that this Tianshu pillar was a signal tower.
Since it is a signal tower, and it can be detected by the instruments of later generations, it is very likely that it is driven by electricity, so the line should be laid underground, and the source of electricity is several possibilities, Wu Zetian is a prepared traverser, and has been in power for many years, most likely to use hydropower.
First of all, Fan Xian doesn't think that Wu Zetian has the ability to make solar panels in this era to drive such a large signal column, so it is estimated that the solar panels will be spread all over the imperial city, and if the wind is blowing, Fan Xian did not see any towering windmills, so this signal column close to the Luohe River is very likely to use hydropower.
Thinking of this, Fan Xian turned around and walked towards the Luo River.
As long as it's water, it's easy to do!
Fan Xian's water resistance technique, although it has not yet reached the point of overwhelming the mountains and seas, but with the help of water perception, his current spiritual power is 49 points, compared to the 10 points of ordinary people, although it is only less than 40 points, but this is not a gap in surface numbers, but a gap of nearly four times.
Coupled with Fan Xian's mana blessing, as long as the divine mind enters the water, it can perceive the general situation in the water within ten kilometers in a linear way, such as the source of some free electrons.
Standing on the shore, Fan Xian closed his eyes and carefully felt the situation upstream and downstream, and from time to time someone around him looked at him in a daze, with a puzzled look on his face, but he didn't rush forward to talk, but suddenly saw this young man plunging into the river.
There were about five or six people who noticed Fan Xian, and when they saw him jump into the water, they couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then came back to their senses.
Looking for a short sight in this river so close to Tianshu? Isn't this looking for death?
Do you want to go down to the river to save people?
Several people looked at each other, looked at the group of soldiers who suddenly ran behind them, and shook their heads helplessly.
This section of the river is not allowed to enter the water without a will!
From this section of the river to the mountain col outside the city ten miles upstream, a heavily guarded place is not allowed to go back to the water at will!
Violators will be killed!
Fan Xian obviously didn't know about this ban, and he didn't notice the ban signs erected by the river from time to time, but he sensed that there was something under the waterfront that interested him, so he plunged into the water, because relatively speaking, his speed in the water was much faster than walking!
As for the water temperature at the end of November, it is not a problem for him at the moment!
Under the water, there is a thigh-thick pottery pipe that stretches five kilometers upstream......