Zong Zhenlei saw it right, Li Ruhui's history of the late Ming Dynasty really deeply touched Hong Xitai; Especially when he heard the ending of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty later, it made him feel heavy and breathless, so that he wanted to deliberately avoid this topic later; Until Zong Zhenlei and Li Ruhui were sent away, they didn't seem to have eased up.

Hong Xitai did not tell the two young men about his family history, because his family history is a part of the history of the late Ming Dynasty.

After seeing the two off, Hong Seok-tae returned to the studio. He stood in front of the window for a long time, and he fell into deep thought.

His ancestors were a descendant of Zhu Qiugui, the eleventh Jin king of the Ming Dynasty, so his hometown should have been in the city where the Jin king's mansion was located. Zhu Qiugui, the king of Jinyu, ascended the throne in 1613, a year after the completion of Yongzuo Temple.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when Li Zicheng broke through this city, his ancestor was in the province at that time and escaped a catastrophe. Since he was a child, he had heard his father tell the story of Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi, who led his generals to guard the city, which was a story passed down from generation to generation. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1644), Li Zicheng's Dashun army hit this city, Cai Maode made a will and led his troops to defend the city. Cai Maode broke out of the city, and found that many soldiers did not come out, so he fought again, seeing that he was outnumbered, and finally committed suicide in the Sanli Temple in the city; In order to follow Cai Maode, his subordinate Shi Sheng killed all his wives and children when the city was broken, rushed back and forth with Cai Maode, and finally committed suicide with Cai Maode in the Sanli Temple. At that time, there were 16 officials who died and died with Cai Maode, and Li Zicheng resented Cai Maode's refusal to surrender, so he cut off Cai Maode's head and took it away, and hung the bodies of the other 16 people on the street.

What also made Hong Xitai sad was that after the Qing army entered the capital, Li Zicheng's subordinates killed more than 1,000 captured relatives of the King of Jin in Haiziyan in the city, and the blood of the relatives and children dyed the whole Haizi red. At that time, because his ancestors had been stranded in the south, although he escaped, but later in the process of the Qing army's domination of the world, the Qing army vigorously pursued and killed the Ming Dynasty royal family, causing the family to suffer another catastrophe.

His ancestors first followed Zhu Shugui, the king of Ningjing, to Taiwan in 1663; In 1683, after the Zheng regime in Taiwan fell to the Qing Dynasty, the ancestors could not escape and stayed in Taiwan; After World War II, his late father, as a Taiwanese Japanese veteran, did not return to Taiwan, first to Malaysia, then to Singapore, and then to develop there. Therefore, he knew a thing or two about the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and he knew his family history better, and it was the first time that he had heard such a detailed explanation of the political reasons for the decline of the Ming Dynasty.

Just now I was listening to Li Ruhui's explanation of the end of the Ming Dynasty, especially after hearing it, his heart seemed to be repeatedly impacted by the sudden rush of blood, beating wildly, and he couldn't calm down, which was a phenomenon he had never had.

As a perfumer, in addition to his special sense of smell, which allows him to discern every difference in the air, he also has very sensitive nerves, and what he hears and sees can provoke his mood to fluctuate, especially when it comes to him.

He thought of this city from his ancestors and thought it was very magical. Although this city has been captured and destroyed again and again in the wars of the past dynasties, the people of this place, no matter which dynasty they are in, will defend this city desperately with the spirit of loyalty and righteousness that would rather be broken than broken; Their unwillingness to survive in humiliation has made the story of defending the city, which has been passed down from generation to generation, move the hearts of the people who care about the city, no matter where they are! Could it be that the people who grew up in this place have been supported by a magical spiritual force for generations?

He respectfully lit an incense, bent down and took out a delicate wooden box from under the cabinet of the executive desk, opened the wooden box, and took out a round copper box from it and placed it on the executive table, and the lid of the copper box was engraved with a delicate image of Guanyin; Stroking the copper box, Hong Seok-tae felt as if he had been soothed by a kind of power, and his mood gradually calmed down.

What prompted him to return to China and start his operations was because of a report about the twin towers of Yongzuo Temple. In this interview report, the person in charge of Yongzuo Temple who was interviewed said: As the manager of Yongzuo Temple, I have been looking for the answer to the question of whether there are really relics in the underground palace of Xuanwen Pagoda, and according to the legend of Xuanwen Pagoda, there should be corresponding Buddhist treasures here. Even if it is not a relic of Shakyamuni, there should be a relic of a certain eminent monk, but what is puzzling is that this so-called "relic" stupa cannot find an exact written record of this event.

He bookmarked the message and read it many times; This matter in the article is what he has been secretly concerned about, and this matter is related to a mission left by his late father, in order to allow him to successfully complete this mission, his late father also left a special amount of money before his death.

He heard his father say that according to his ancestors, there is a piece of auspicious land in the southeast outside the city, where the first Ming and Jin kings Zhu Li were buried, and that place was also the burial place of some later Jin kings, and the mausoleum of his ancestor Zhu Qiugui was also in that area; In addition to worshiping the imperial temple in the city, the clan also regards the Yongzuo Temple outside the city as a place of prayer, because the Yongzuo Temple is on a high platform that is far away from the treasure land in the southeast direction, and you can overlook the treasure land from afar when you climb to the top of the tower on the high platform, and get the protection of the ancestor Deze; And because this place is so important, there is a treasure of the temple in this temple.

When he heard Zong Zhenlei's report at the first video conference on the progress of the project, saying that "the intention of building the Xuanwen Pagoda should have the meaning of worshiping the ancestors of the royal family and praying for the blessing of the national fortune and the blessing of the ethnic group", he felt that their research direction was very consistent with the direction he was looking forward to, and he was very excited; Combined with the speculation of the person in charge of Yongzuo Temple, "even if it is not the relics of Shakyamuni, there should be the relics of a certain monk", he vaguely felt from his father's message that this temple was regarded as a place of blessing and protection by the clansmen, and it was very likely that the Buddha treasure hidden was the Buddha relics.

He knew that it would be quite difficult to confirm. But no matter how difficult it is, he doesn't want to give up, and his goal in his heart is to solve this mystery through research and find out the basis for the ancestral rumors.

This was also the wish left by his late father. His father told him that he must seize the time to figure it out once he has the opportunity, and repeatedly expressed his regret that he could not find out this matter in person.

As for why the father was so eager for his generation to find out about the legend left by his ancestors, it was related to one thing that his father had done, and the secret was in the copper box left by his father.

He knew that he could not study this matter alone, that his strength was too weak, and that he would often not get good results after trying his best; I wanted to entrust scholars to do it, but I didn't want to focus on foreign scholars to carry out this research, because the family was forced to leave this place and experienced too much suffering without a homeland, which left the shadow of bullying by outsiders in the hearts of several generations of clansmen; Although history has been turned over, he still only wants to leave the opportunity to gain knowledge and sublimate wisdom through research to the people who built his hometown.

He is not only a perfumer, but also a distinguished professor at a private university in Singapore; Because he studied Buddhism and respected Buddhism, he studied Buddhism deeply, and when he talked about the preparation of incense and the perception of incense with young people in college, he often liked to communicate with young people about some unique understanding of fragrance and life, which was deeply loved by the students of that college; As a result, he thought of asking scholars from universities to help him solve his difficulties.

He came up with the idea of using the academic ties between the two countries to carry out a research project funded by him. It just so happened that he was familiar with people from universities in Singapore, and he was also familiar with some friends who were engaged in finance, and the idea of using funds to support research projects quickly took shape.

There is another reason for choosing S University as a research unit in China, that is, the predecessor of S University can be traced back to the origin of Sanli Academy, which was established in the Wanli period, and the early address of the school was in the Sanli Temple that he remembered.

As soon as he retired last year, he immediately came to the capital to open a studio; In addition to wanting to get new inspiration in a new environment to continue his work as a perfumer, but more importantly, to facilitate the fulfillment of the mission given by his father.

That interview was a clarion call for action, and he felt that it was time for him to take action and complete that important mission.

What you want to do, since you think of it, you must seize the opportunity to do it, you can't procrastinate, and you can't waste time in your own hands.

As a descendant of the Zhu Ming clan in this city, he felt it was his duty to find out that important events related to ethnic groups had taken place here; In addition, he also deeply understood that the people who had been wandering abroad for many years had hidden a kind of expectation in their hearts, that is, they longed for the blessing of their ancestors; As his gray hair grew, he felt that the time to complete his mission was getting shorter and shorter.

However, I did not expect to encounter resistance from Professor Li before and since the official launch of this research work. He didn't understand why Professor Li was like this, but even this didn't dampen his confidence, and he knew that there was no turning back when he opened his bow.

He didn't know if it was a misunderstanding caused by his alien status, but if it was, he felt that the problem would be cleared up in the future. His plan was to publish his family history at the same time as the results of his research were obtained, and then naturally all the truth would be revealed; He believes that the early publication of his family history would affect the objectivity of the research.

Thinking of this, he shook his head, remembering his impetuous mentality when he was excited a few days ago and proposed to participate in the investigation and research in person.

Hong Xitai put the copper round box back into the wooden box and thought of a sentence in the "Huayan Sutra": "All sentient beings have the wisdom and virtue of the truth, but they do not obtain it because of delusional attachment." "In today's terms, it means that everyone originally has the wisdom of a Buddha and the merits of a Buddha, but they are only lost because of delusional attachment, so that wisdom and virtue cannot be manifested. Therefore, if you want to have wisdom, you must let go of your attachments.

He's back in the world of perfume. He likes to swim in his own perfume kingdom, carefully discerning different scents, and thinking about the interpretation of life. He believes that all the origin and disappearance will not disappear without a trace, and the best restoration is memory, recalling the past can make people understand life; In addition to taste, hearing, and vision, people can also carry emotional memories, including smell.

He couldn't help but recall that his father once took him to sit on the beach and told him that if you want to do things, you should "look at your actions and be steady", if you are impetuous and impatient, you can't do anything; He nodded, feeling that he needed to approach the research with a calmer mind.

He meditated on the fact that there are many things in life that cannot be forced, and that the objectivity of research should be respected. Those who can conquer the world may not be able to conquer themselves, so they cannot force the development of things according to the subjective will of "me"; From the point of view of the truth that letting go of obsessions cannot be delusional, everything needs to be done naturally and gradually.

He thought of meeting these two scholars today, and valued them for the meticulous and rigorous way of thinking they showed in their inquiry. He sensed from the brief descriptions of the historical events of the Ming Dynasty that they had the enthusiasm and knowledge he needed to deal with the subject, and thus felt that the research would proceed smoothly in the direction he expected. Through his conversations with them, his instincts also taught him that they could be trusted.

Suddenly, he thought of Professor Li, an important figure in the research team, from the development of the research topic. He was now aware of the obstacle between Professor Lee and him, but he felt that it was not an insurmountable barrier; He believes that only by facing the contradictions can the contradictions be resolved, and that we should come up with ways to remove the obstacles between him and Professor Li......