Song Siyuan's guess is already the most reasonable inference, otherwise, it is impossible to explain why Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, would go to surrender his identity and be buried with the soldiers of the Northern Mansion.

"Then, what about the other half of Yin Yupei?" Since it is a clue about the yin and yang fish pendant, it is somewhat impossible to only mention the yang fish pendant.

Song Siyuan said: "Yin Yupei is also missing, but it is even related to mythology. ”

"Mythology?" Yue Guanchao became curious.

"Yes, as mentioned above, the Yin Yu Pei is likely to have been taken by the northern ethnic minorities, and it has been scattered all over the country since then, the Northern and Southern Dynasties were already very chaotic and dark, and the regimes established by the northern nomads are as many as the stars, and the Yin Yu Pei is basically in a state of unknown whereabouts, and when the news of the Yin Yu Pei reappeared, it was already the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty."

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was hanged by the northern generals with a bowstring in the palace in Jiangdu, and Empress Xiao fled to the northwest desert with the palace dependents and daughters and threw herself into the camp of the Turks.

After the Tang Dynasty stabilized, Tang Taizong Li Shimin insisted on inviting Empress Xiao of the Sui Dynasty, who was more than half a hundred years old, to accommodate Chang'an was just a saying, and Empress Xiao was able to live to the age of seventy and eighty, all because she provided extremely useful news to the Tang royal family.

Back then, Empress Xiao joined the Turkic camp, and Luo Khan of the Eastern Turkic Department saw that the royal family of the Sui Dynasty had come to him, and he had a better plan in his heart.

In his opinion, if he can support the restoration of the Sui Dynasty, even if he is the savior of the Sui Dynasty in the future, if the restoration is successful, he can ask the Sui Emperor to treat them preferentially, and even cede some fertile land and cities.

In order to obtain long-term war gains, he decided to support Yang Zhengdao, the grandson of Empress Xiao, to restore the country, first respecting him as the king of Sui, and then returning all the officials and people of the Central Plains who had plundered the Han land to Yang Zhengdao, and rewarding him with gold and silver property for his use.

With these officials from the Central Plains, Yang Zhengdao quickly restored the "Great Sui" regime, with his grandmother Empress Xiao as the empress dowager, according to the original system of the Sui Dynasty, set up hundreds of officials, built palaces, and became the new lord of the Sui Dynasty.

It's just that since the former Sui was destroyed, the so-called New Sui was of course short-lived, and the Eastern Turks were destroyed, and the backers of the New Sui were completely gone.

Empress Xiao knew that the Eastern Turks were gone, and they had no chance to escape if they wanted to, and if they could exchange for the safety of the whole family, then they had to come up with something real - the whereabouts of the other half of Yin Yupei.

When Empress Xiao was the empress dowager of the new Sui Dynasty, she had a lot of contact with the Eastern Turkic Khans, and she had also heard some legends about the Northwest Desert.

It is rumored that there is a very legendary Shanshan country near the Tianshan Mountains!

This is the transit station of the Silk Road, but also the end of the Hexi Corridor, because of its proximity to the Silk Road trade line extending from the Central Plains, relying on trade and goods flow, the development is very prosperous.

The Shanshan royal family is completely different from other royal families, other small countries are mostly succeeded by men, but Shanshan country does the opposite, can only be ruled by female monarchs, that is, only women can inherit the throne, and even, regardless of whether the lord has male descendants, only women can inherit the throne. m.

They are willing to rule the country as a female monarch, simply because this Shanshan royal family has a jade pendant that has been passed down from generation to generation, wearing it to comprehend all things, count all the disasters and wonders that happen in the world, and even, can turn the desert into an oasis out of thin air, and the main road can grow a river.

It's just that although such a jade pendant is magical, it has a great disadvantage, that is, it can only be controlled by a woman, otherwise, it is no different from an ordinary stone, if the king can't use this jade pendant, then it is impossible to get the respect of the people, and there is no way to lead the people to resist all kinds of invasions and disasters in the desert, even if they barely sit on the throne, they will be pushed down by the people.

Over time, the position of the lord of the country will be inherited by women, so as to ensure that the divine power of the jade pendant will always be in the hands of the lord.

From the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, this nearly two hundred years, Shanshan Kingdom produced nearly twenty-five Shanshan queens, because the queen ruled, the bloodline of female monarchs is more clear and continuous, probably a hundred years after the founding of the country, Shanshan Queen began to evolve from the king of people to the king of gods.

The people began to regard Queen Shanshan as the patron saint of the desert and the god of Shanshan, and the queen of Shanshan was gradually removed from the name, and only the honorific title of Queen Shanshan or Empress Shanshan was retained to show the queen's identity as a god king, and at the same time, the image of the queen was reduced to mystery and became more unremarkable.

This Shanshan kingdom eventually became the dynasty that ruled most of the desert and lasted until the early years of the Tang Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

It was this story that Empress Xiao told Li Shimin, which made Li Shimin realize that what Shanguo got in his hand may be the other half of the Yin Yu Pei.

He wanted to get the Yin Fish Pendant, but he had more than enough heart and not enough strength!

Because the Tang Dynasty at that time had just been founded, the national strength was not strong, and sometimes the border was harassed by the Turks, and Shanshan and the Tang Dynasty did not border, and there were other small countries such as Turks and Tuyuhun between the two.

The opportunity has finally come!

In the same year that Li Shimin died, the Tang Dynasty solved Tuyuhun and destroyed the Turks.

About the twenty-third year of Zhenguan, the old Li Shimin ordered Ashina Sheer to form the Kunqiu Road March, with him as the commander, worship as the general manager of the march, and ask him to take charge of the military and enter the Western Regions along the Hexi Corridor.

In this year, the Kunqiu Road march broke through the Western Regions, and the countries of Qiuzi, Khotan, Loulan, and Gaochang near the Tianshan Mountains were all destroyed by the military cavalry, and the cities were all included in the management of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and Shanshan State, of course, was also destroyed by the Tang Dynasty army and disappeared in the long river of history.

When Shanshan Kingdom was destroyed, the last Queen of Shanshan was nowhere to be found, and even the royal city of King Shanshan disappeared without a trace, and no one could find any trace of the existence of the city.

At this time, Li Shimin has reached his old age, and since Queen Shanshan is missing, of course Yin Yupei will be missed, and he can only die with regret.

"Since this Queen of Shanshan can predict future blessings and misfortunes, doesn't she know that the Shanshan Kingdom perished in the early Tang Dynasty?"

Yue Guanchao asked.

Song Siyuan guessed: "Probably, it is very likely that Queen Shanshan has already calculated that the Shanshan Kingdom has been destroyed, so she used some methods to make the royal city completely disappear into the desert." ”

"Think about it, maybe in the eyes of Queen Shanshan, forcibly going against a thriving and powerful dynasty will only damage Shanshan, it is better to let Shanshan disappear completely, and maybe, it can continue to exist in some parts of the desert."

Some people died, but not completely......