Seeing this, Song Siyuan had already translated all the Sogdian characters on the birch booklet, and continued: "Judging from the information provided by the Sogdian text, Queen Shanshan and our guess are correct, from the Western Queen Mother tribe of Kunlun Mountain, but the Western Queen Mother Country during the Northern and Southern Dynasties has been renamed the Chang Bo Luo Kingdom, and with the merger of the Yan Bo Kingdom and the Shanshan Dynasty, this small country located near the Kunlun Mountains has disappeared. ”

Now, Song Siyuan felt that they had gotten enough information, and began to coordinate the information they found.

Putting aside the ancient Xia and Shang periods, since the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Mu of Zhou led the chariot cavalry to Kunlun in order to conquer the western barbarians, and discovered the Western Queen Mother tribe in the east of Kunlun Mountain.

Because the country of the Queen Mother of the West is a matriarchal society, the most noble women in power in the tribe are collectively known as the Queen Mother of the West, in the eyes of the people of the Queen Mother of the West, even if they are thousands of years old, they still maintain their youth and beauty, and can enjoy the blessings of life with heaven and earth.

In contact with the people of the Western Queen's Mother Country, King Zhou Mu was keenly aware of this, and he always liked to ask for immortals, in his opinion, the person who can have thousands of years of life but remain young forever must be a god.

For this reason, King Zhou Mu took his envoys into the West Queen Mother Country, wanting to ask the West Queen Mother for the method of immortality, and when the West Queen Mother saw him, he knew that the so-called Chitose West Queen Mother was just a deified concept, in fact, everyone's supreme ruler was called the West Queen Mother.

King Mu of Zhou learned of this situation, of course, he lost the opportunity to seek the elixir, since he came here to get the warm hospitality of the Queen Mother of the West, as the King of Zhou of the State of Etiquette, he would not give the Queen Mother of the West face too much, and the banquet was very happy.

Maybe the Queen Mother of the West took a fancy to him, or maybe the Queen Mother of the West had other plans, in short, the Queen Mother of the West intended to marry King Zhou Mu, and King Zhou Mu was bitter that the Queen Mother of the West wanted to be in love with him for life, in order to get rid of the Queen Mother of the West, he had to pretend that he wanted to continue to travel west, and when he returned, he would come to get married.

In order to gain the trust of the Queen Mother of the West, he also gave the Yin Fish to the Queen Mother of the West, and the Queen Mother of the West saw that he was sincere, so she generously let King Zhou Mu leave.

After that, no matter whether King Zhou Mu succeeded in his westward expedition or not, he did not return to Kunlun Mountain, and even Yinyu Pei stayed in Kunlun and stayed in the Western Queen Mother tribe.

This fish pendant has become the treasure of the Queen Mother of the West, coinciding with the transition of the Queen Mother of the West from the clan slave society to the feudal society, the matrilineal clan has long been unable to suppress the challenge of the patriarchal system, the people of the Queen Mother of the West just discovered the magical power of the fish pendant, just with the help of the magical power, the authority of the fish pendant, at the same time, but also to the people of the West Queen Mother Country, re-establish the matriarchal society, strengthen the concept of royal power, and press down the domestic turmoil.

From the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the Qin, Han and Eastern Jin Dynasties, the Western Mother Kingdom was repeatedly renamed, and finally in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was determined to be the country of Yan Borneo, and it was active along the desert coast with the reputation of the country of Yan Borneo.

During this period, the desert rivers were diverted, the climate changed dramatically, and the oases began to decrease, and in order to alleviate this situation, the Shanshan Dynasty decided to share the imperial system with the Chang Bora kingdom after several thoughts.

During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the fish pendant did play a role, so that the oasis of Shanshan Kingdom existed for a longer time, but under the general trend of climate upheaval, the oasis eventually continued to disappear, when the oasis can no longer carry the people to survive, Queen Shanshan began to lead her subjects and guards, across the desert hinterland to the Red and White Sacred Mountain, where another oasis was created, and the Sand Sea King City was built.

As for later, many people in Shanshan Kingdom learned of the situation and also migrated to the Sand Sea King City, and some people who were unwilling to follow into the Sand Sea King City also moved to other desert countries with their families.

Since then, the city-states of the ancient Shanshan Kingdom have been abandoned, and finally turned into ruins hidden by loess after the wind and sand swallowed up the oasis.

With the unification of the Central Plains by the Sui and Tang dynasties, they began to plot to restore the territory of the Han Dynasty and take measures to recover the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions.

When the time came to the Tang Dynasty, when the time was finally ripe, Li Shimin sent Kunqiu Dao to march to break through the Western Regions, Qiuzi, Gaochang, Gumo, Shule, Shache, Pishan, Khotan, Shule, Niya, Jimo, Ruoqiang, Loulan...... All the small states in the Western Regions were destroyed, and the territory was incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty and was under the control of the Tang Dynasty.

When the Tang Dynasty army attacked the Shahai Wangcheng, the queen of Shanshan was resolute and resolute, unwilling to destroy the country, and used the fish pendant again, so that the entire royal city disappeared without a trace.

So far, from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, the ancient Shanshan Dynasty, which enjoyed the 800-year-old national ancestry, was like a bright fireworks blooming in the night sky, burning the glory and completely disappearing into the endless void and night, leaving only countless ruins and walls hidden in the yellow sand for future generations.

If anyone finds any trace of Gu Shanshanguo, it will be the recent story of Steinhein's theft of the underground palace.

After hearing this, Xu Xiake asked curiously: "Nothing else, that is, why does the country of Yan Borneo insist on the rule of the matriarchal clan, you have to say that it has owned fish pendants since the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is reasonable, in the time before the Western Zhou Dynasty, what maintained their maternal system of governance, as early as the Xia and Shang periods, most of the regimes have transitioned from the maternal system to the patriarchal system." ”

Song Siyuan thought for a moment and explained to everyone: "I guess it is related to the mountain civilization in ancient times, and in the story about the queen of the concubine, they also mentioned the marriage system. ”

The marriage system refers to the marriage, which is a very unique way of marriage for ethnic minorities in the southwest region, which is completely different from the traditional marriage between men and women, and emphasizes that men do not marry women, women do not marry men, and the combination of the two does not require any official documents or civil contracts, all depending on whether it fits the eye.

Once they are in love with each other, these marriageable men and women will form a marriage pair, forming a stable or short-lived marriage relationship, during which the offspring of the marriageable man and woman do not belong to the man, but to the matrilineal family of the woman.

Although the man and the woman have offspring, those who do not belong to the woman's family still have to return to their matrilineal family to help the female family raise their children.

Speaking of this, Song Siyuan paused: "Whether it is the marriage system of the ethnic minorities in the southwest or the marriage system of the Brahmana country, they all have a common feature, that is, the marriage comes from the matrilineal clan tribe, which is a legacy custom of the early matrilineal society. ”

She continued: "In the Kunlun Mountains, where there are many mountains and few lands, they make a living from fishing and hunting, so they adopt the way that men hunt and women keep their homes to make a living......

This way of life doomed the men to work outside the hunt, and the losses incurred were mostly by the men, and once the number of men in the tribe decreased, the women left behind could continue to increase the population to make up for the lack of men. ”

This is originally the way of life of the matriarchal society, and the Borneo people in the Kunlun Mountain area, in the harsh environment and difficult conditions, can only achieve the purpose of reproducing the population by ensuring the number of women, so since they have to rely on the women to reproduce the population, but also to manage the family affairs, women naturally hold the highest power in the family.

This matrilineal power structure extends from the people to the royal family, that is, they see the West Queen Mother in power, and all the ruling women have the highest power, which can be called the West Queen Mother.

Xu Xiake asked: "Then, we are sure that the royal city of Queen Shanshan is indeed in the Red and White Divine Mountain?" ”

Yue Guanchao nodded: "With the news of the mural of the underground palace, combined with the white birch booklet, there is indeed a sand sea king city near Hongbai Mountain, and the remaining one percent is because Keli said that when he and Uncle Gunizi went to Hongbai Mountain, they didn't find any trace of the royal city at all." ”

Until now, how the Sand Sea King City disappeared, everyone still has no clue, whether it is the Xuanshu Iron Coupon, the underground palace murals, or the Sogdian documents, there is no reason for the disappearance of the Sand Sea King City, only the record is that the Sand Sea King City disappeared in the same place after the queen sacrificed the fish pendant.

At this moment, everyone followed Yue Guanchao's gaze and came to the map of the living room, in which there was a clear line to the eastern foot of Hongbai Mountain, which was probably the route that Keli and Gunizi passed when walking, Keli waited for Song Siyuan to come out, picked up the iron branch and pointed to the Hongbai Mountain at the western end of the desert.

In the past, they had only heard of the Red and White Mountain, and their knowledge of this mountain was limited to its name and geographical features, but at this moment, they happened to carefully analyze the structure of the Red and White Mountain with the help of Keli's instructions, and maybe they could find the reason for the disappearance of the Sand Sea King City.

The red and white sacred mountains in their mouths seem to be a whole, if they are divided from a geographical point of view, they are indeed three independent mountains, which are not coherent, from west to east are Rostag Mountain, Antique Mountain, Red and White Mountain, the three mountains are distributed in a line, as if the long mountain was cut into three sections, the two sides are long, the middle is short, and it appears in the hinterland of the desert from west to east, inclining from northwest to southeast, and the east side probes into the Hotan River.

Keli explained: "If there is really a Sand Sea King City, it must be at the eastern foot of the Red and White Mountain, that is, near the Bu shaped river beach formed by the confluence of the Red and White Mountain and the Hotan River, but there is obviously nothing here, and there is indeed a river now, but I don't know where the Sand Sea King City has gone." ”

Yue Guanchao pinched his chin and said the guess in his heart: "Could it be, there was some kind of flood disaster that directly flooded the Sand Sea King City, and under the sediment deposit, the King City was completely filled in, forming the desert wasteland you see." ”

"Impossible!"

Keli retorted: "The Hotan River is not a seasonal river, this river is a thousand-year-old river, it has never been interrupted since ancient times, if there is really a flood, it is absolutely impossible to only flood the eastern foothills of Hongbai Mountain, and the thousands of years of time will continue to extinct it, and the eastern foothills will be nourished into an oasis." ”

"Besides, whether it is a new river or an old river, there is still some distance from the eastern foothills, the eastern foothills of Hongbai Mountain are much higher than the Hetian River, there are many small tributaries between them, and it is only a rough way to say that they are still far away from the Hetian River."

Yue Guanchao asked, "Then this is strange?" Could it be that the fish pendant can really make the great royal city disappear out of thin air, or that the yin fish pendant and the yang fish pendant can open some mirror spaces and let the oasis hide in it, but in fact, it is not that the oasis has disappeared, but that the human eye cannot see them. ”