Chapter 585: Envoy of the Ghost Country, Yin Si Night Banquet II
As for Meng Chang, who was forty-seven years old at the time, he didn't say anything wrong with his body, he was fine when he traveled thousands of miles to Bianliang, and how he died in the end, everyone can imagine.
The most shameless thing is that it was rumored afterwards that Meng Chang, the queen of Shu, was infatuated with Mrs. Hua Rui, who confused the court, so he was close to Yuanxian, extravagant and lascivious, and gave him the name of a mediocre lord.
In contrast, the reputation of Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty who was captured ten years later, was much better, firstly, the Southern Tang Dynasty was already weak, and secondly, Li Yu's words were indeed a must, but in terms of politics, he could only be described by mediocrity. Therefore, there are not too many Southern Tang people who are attached to the old master, and there is no need for Zhao Song to pour dirty water on Li Yu.
Originally, Li Yu might have been able to live a few more years, but it may be that this kid's words are too good, and he has a lot of nostalgia for his homeland, so he is probably not pleasing to the eye by Zhao Heizi, so he casually found an excuse to solve it.
Because both of them have the title of Zhao Song's posthumous king, these two will call themselves "Little Wang".
After Gao Jingfei learned the identities of the two, he suddenly thought of the few blue qi heavenly pillars he saw before, and said secretly in his heart:
"Thinking about it, eighty percent of the bigwigs in this mountain ghost country are either emperors or hegemons, and they can't pull down their faces to greet them in person, so they find a master with enough identity, and two queens with enough status, but no real power status, come over to serve as deputy envoys, which can be said to give me enough face as Danyang Bo!"
As for Meng Chang and Li Yu, both of whom are also monarchs, the queen is also a monarch, why was he arranged to greet him as an envoy, or just as a deputy envoy for the tablet?
This is an absolute humiliating act for any monarch.
But who made these two queens both kings of the lost country, and they didn't have any strong backgrounds?
Whether it is Hou Shu or the Southern Tang Dynasty, they are all regimes that have died in no more than forty years and three generations of Guozuo, so naturally they cannot establish a powerful dragon court in the underworld, and can only continue to exist as a vassal attached to other dragon courts.
History called the queen because firstly, these two ruled only the local separatist regime, and did not unify the world, and secondly, Li Yu was the last of the three generations of monarchs in the Southern Tang Dynasty, because he was the king of the dead country, and he was ashamed to be a prisoner, and accepted the humiliating title of disobedient Hou of the Song State, so no one posthumously gave him the title of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
You must know that after Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, there were also the nicknames of "Emperor Shaotian Interpretation Dao Gangming Ke Jian Wen Fen Wu Dun Ren Mao Xiaolie Emperor", as well as Sizong, Yizong, Weizong and other temple names!
And Li Yu? Later generations can only imitate Liu Chan, the queen of the Han Dynasty, and Chen Shubao, the queen of Chen, to name him the queen of the Tang Dynasty, and the history is known as the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the queen of Li.
The same is true for Meng Chang, the country was destroyed by the Song State, and the two naturally did not dare to call themselves emperors again.
After all, Zhao Kuangyin only dared to call himself an "official family", and the fundamental reason was that the Zhao family was not in the right position, because he had taken the throne of Guo Wei, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and bullied the orphans and widows left by others.
Therefore, the Zhao family of the Song Dynasty was trying to win over the scholar class and was committed to suppressing the military generals, for fear that their unconvinced old brothers or later generals would also usurp the throne like themselves, and a wave of yellow robes would add to them.
This point can't be washed in vain, and it has laid the root of the origin of the weak Song Dynasty's name.
Gao Jingfei has some sympathy for what happened to the two queens, but it doesn't matter to him.
As for why Liu Chan, the queen of the Shu Han Dynasty, who was also buried in the north, was not in the envoy team, it can only be said that the Shu Han is also a Han, and he has the thigh of the most powerful Han court in the Yin Division, and as the last monarch, it is naturally impossible to greet him, the nominal Han princes and courtiers.
Originally, he was a little Danyang Bo, plus a Daoji monk in the Yang World, he should not let these Yin Si Dragon Court be so polite, Gao Jingfei thought clearly in his heart.
"Eighty percent of this is because of this cyan luck on my head, right?"
After thinking about it, the messenger Xiahou Ying said a few polite words, and invited Gao Jingfei and others to get in the car for the banquet.
As for the others, it's just incidental.
As a ghost country in the human world jointly ruled by many dragons and yin divisions, this Pishan ghost country almost includes most of the forces of the Yin world in Middle Earth, if no one is introduced, let alone lay people such as Secretary Zhang, and a few monks who have not yet become congenital can only be regarded as mortals, that is, Yin gods such as Chong Hezi and Zhang Xuanji, aren't they not allowed to enter for more than half a month?
Gao Jingfei put away the Feiyun Ship, a giant spirit ship, in the surprised eyes of Xiahou Ying, Meng Chang, and Li Yu, and then at the invitation of Xiahou Ying, he got on the first frame, accompanied by Xiahou Ying and the two deputy envoys.
The other three people, Lingqiaosuo, Chong Hezi and Zhang Xuanji, got into the second car, and Ruan Bingyang and the five of them, plus Songhe Daoren and Secretary Zhang, got into the last two cars respectively, but they were only accompanied by ordinary ghost country attendants on their frames.
The carriage set off quickly under the pull of several horses with blue and white colors, and Gao Jingfei could clearly see that the horses were not living creatures, but were made of clay, apparently made of burial objects such as terracotta figurines. Just like his psychic paper figures, in fact, the art of cutting paper into soldiers was originally derived from this kind of puppet terracotta figure straw man that originated from ancient witchcraft.
The difference is that puppets such as puppets and terracotta figurines are difficult to refine, but once successful, they are powerful and not easy to damage, while means such as paper-cutting and paper-making are easier to achieve quickly, and the disadvantage is that because the raw materials are made of paper, the power is weak at first, and they are also afraid of fire and water, and they are easy to be destroyed.
But I have to say that the rise of papermaking also brought some convenience to the later Xuanmen monks, making it easier to get started with the art of paper-cutting into soldiers and even the art of talismans.
After Gao Jingfei sat on this frame, he found that the carriage looked quaint, but it actually contained a strong historical charm, and it was gorgeous in the details.
The body is made of metal, and the whole is golden, but Gao Jingfei knows that this is not gold, but should be made of bronze.
As for why this bronze carriage is not as turquoise as the bronzes seen in the museum, it is because the copper-tin alloy is actually beautiful golden yellow after the casting is completed at the beginning, similar to gold, and the color will be slightly different according to the content ratio of copper, tin or lead.
The frame of this ghost country is supported by spiritual power, and of course it will not be oxidized and corroded like ordinary things.
The earliest alloy in the history of bronze metal smelting and casting, originated from the bronze civilization, but due to the good castability, wear resistance and chemical stability of bronze material, compared with pure copper (copper), bronze has high strength and low melting point and other excellent characteristics, until later modern times are still being used.
For example, the best Napoleonic cannon is cast in bronze, which can almost be said to have created the last glorious era of smoothbore artillery, and also created a new mode of modern warfare with large-scale application of artillery, making artillery known as the god of war started with Napoleon cannons.
It can be said that the bronze windproof lamp hanging on the bronze carriage and the carved ornaments in the carriage, whether it is the ingenuity of the design or the precision of the casting, have the beauty of the ancient civilization, which proves that the Middle-earth civilization of that era is still ahead of the Western world.
If this bronze frame is brought to modern times, it must be a priceless national treasure-level cultural relic, and it is the kind of level that is forbidden to be exhibited abroad.
Even the curtain of pearls around the frame has a high historical research value.
Not to mention, this frame is a thing of the Yin Si Ghost Kingdom, but it is not simply the kind of ancient burial goods excavated by later generations, it can be regarded as a Yin Spirit Magic Weapon, which is rare in the mortal world.