Chapter 61: The Golden Seal of the Phoenix Button
The moment he saw this golden phoenix, Wang Zi choked on the scolding in his stomach.
This is a palm-sized seal, next to a gold silk sac, surrounded by a circle of purple ribbons, that is, purple ribbons, is used to tie the ribbon of the seal, the color of the ribbon represents the dignity of status, purple is already the prime minister, or the level of the king. This seal is golden, perhaps pure gold casting, the seal button is the image of a phoenix with wings soaring, and the seal body is engraved with cloud patterns, presenting a picture of a phoenix swimming for nine days. If you interpret the text on the bronze coffin just now by Wang Zi, this is the purple ribbon gold seal of the "pro-Wei Wei King".
Bai Ma Xiao just wanted to stretch out his hand to grab it, but Wang Zi opened it, "Don't touch it indiscriminately! Touch it one more time, discount it more, haven't you heard of it?"
Bai Ma Xiaoxin said okay, you are the boss in the tomb, listen to you. He obediently retracted his hand and asked, "I often see this kind of seal in movies, and most of the parts on the top are snakes or turtles, this phoenix is really rare." ”
"That's called the Seal Button. Like this seal should be called 'phoenix button golden seal', in ancient times the dragon represents the highest status, that is, the emperor, the phoenix generally refers to women, and the status of the dragon is about the same, in ancient times mostly refers to the queen, the dragon and the phoenix are auspicious. However, women with high status in ancient times, like the queen's seal, most of the buttons are tiger buttons, and the queen mother is mostly unicorn buttons, which is rare. If the emperor gave this queen the seal of the phoenix button, then he must have had great respect for this queen, and it seems that he was conquered by the witchcraft displayed by the messenger. ”
When Hakuma Xiao first heard him mention witchcraft, he thought of something, "Could this queen be an ancient spirit?"
Wang Zi said: "I guessed it at the beginning. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the eastern island country, a vassal of Wei, was named 'pro-Wei king'. This country is supposed to be the country of Japan's Yayoi period - Yamadai. This queen is Himiko. The prototype of the legendary god Amaterasu, a witch who serves the sun. ”
Himiko has appeared in many film and television works, and Hakumashi has some impressions, and legend has it that she does know witchcraft.
"I didn't expect Himiko's tomb to be in Xingang?" Hakuba Xiao couldn't figure out why such an ancient Japanese queen would be buried in China.
Wang Zi didn't answer, but continued to look at her life engraved on the bronze coffin.
Later, the envoys who returned home showed the queen the gifts given by Emperor Wei, and the countries that had always admired bronze began to change, and they abandoned bronze in favor of iron, but due to the scarcity of gold, silver and jade, bronze still served as a royal symbol. Soon after the queen died, the new queen buried Himiko in the southernmost part of the Wei kingdom and brought all the bronzes with her to mark Himiko as the last queen of Japan's Bronze Age.
At this point, even if Himiko's life is over, Wang Zi went on to talk about what he knew, "The history of Yamadai is almost not recorded in Japan, and people still know about this country from the history books of the Wei State. It seems that if Himiko had not sent an envoy to Wei at that time, perhaps the country would not have left a mark on history. However, the history books of the Wei State only recorded the death of Himiko and the new queen's call for Taihe, and there was no record after that. Historically, the Emperor of Wei who received the envoy from Yamatai at that time was Emperor Cao Rong of Wei Ming, that is, the grandson of Cao Cao. According to the timeline recorded in the historical records, not long after Himiko's death, Sima Yi launched the Gaopingling Rebellion, and the Sima family began to control the Wei State until Sima Yan usurped the throne and became emperor, the Wei State was destroyed, the Jin State was born, and then the Three Kingdoms returned to Jin. After the fall of the Wei state, Yamatai lost its backer, although there is no record, but it is possible to guess what happened, perhaps it was annexed by a neighboring country, which may be the reason why Yamatai is almost not recorded in Japanese history books. ”
Bai Maxiao listened with interest, the history of that era was quite interesting, "So this is the queen of a mysterious small country, because she worships Wei and presses her tomb to the southernmost part of Wei State, that is, Xingang." But at that time, the area around Xingang should be the territory of Wu State, right? ”
Wang Zi analyzed: "At that time, Yamatai did not necessarily understand the distribution of the Three Kingdoms, and the south coast was not developed at that time, perhaps it was from Japan and went around to the coast of the South China Sea by sea, thinking that it was also part of the Wei State, so he built a tomb there, as for why it must be in the south...... I don't know. ”
I thought that there would be some records in the tomb that were not recorded in the history books, which was really of great archaeological value, but I didn't expect it to be written no different from the history that modern people know, except that I knew that Yamatai was a country with extremely developed bronze casting technology at that time.
Regarding the bronze ware, Wang Zi still has questions, "There is almost no record of the Bronze Age in Japanese history, as if Japan jumped directly from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, and Japan did not have the ability to cast a large number of copper coins until hundreds of years ago, so it can be said that the bronze smelting technology in ancient Japan was very underdeveloped, why is the bronze casting of Yamadai so prosperous?"
"There may be two reasons. First, Yamadai did have a very powerful technology, but after Himiko's death, Yamadai also entered the Iron Age, and it was annexed by neighboring countries soon after, so the technology was lost. Second, perhaps the legend of the witch of Himiko is true, she is an ancient spirit, and the heavenly fire of the 'molten gold and jade' mentioned in the text may be her spiritual art, and it is not impossible to use spiritual magic to create a sufficiently high temperature flame to smelt bronze, don't forget that she is called the sun goddess. ”
After knowing so much and roughly understanding who was sleeping in this bronze tomb, these two people looked at the bronze coffin more curiously and began to think about how to open the coffin. Wang Zi first looked for a gap on the edge of the bronze coffin, and hit the wall in the first step - the whole bronze coffin did not have any gaps, as if it was a completely sealed bronze cuboid, this is really a coffin?
Bai Maxiao remembered the bronze door and said, "Do you remember the entrance door? There is no gap at all, maybe this bronze coffin opens in the same way as the door." ”
Wang Zi took a few steps back, "That makes sense." Why don't you try shooting two more lasers?"
Bai Maxiao nodded, stretched out a finger, stared at the bronze coffin in front of him, and was stunned for half a minute, "So...... Where should I shoot?"
Now both of them are blinded. If the door was opened by Bai Maxiao by accident because the insect king happened to climb onto the bronze mirror, then this bronze coffin should also have a place where spiritual power can be sensed.
The two of them groped up and down for a long time, and the entire bronze coffin was not decorated except for the words engraved around it.
Wang Zi speculated, "Could it be that these words are hidden organs?"
They read every word carefully, and there was no difference at all, not only did it look and feel, but even the brightness reflected by the light on it was exactly the same.
The two sat down in front of the bronze coffin, out of ideas.
"Or ......"
"Don't think about it. Wang Zi knew what he was going to do, nothing more than to blow up the coffin, "Not to mention that this is a great disrespect to the deceased, even if you blow it up, the contents will definitely be blown up, so it's better not to open it." ”
"Then what should I do?" After asking this question, Bai Maxiao seemed to remember something, stood up suddenly, and patted his buttocks, "Damn, Lao Tzu just reacted, I didn't go to the tomb to make money, why follow you here to think about this shit? Hurry up and meet the eldest brother!"
Wang Zi was stunned, and seemed to have just realized why he was with this guy, it seemed that they bumped into each other by accident, and just now he unknowingly regarded him as a companion who went to the grave together, "You're not here to make money, but I'm ah." Hey, I just thought about it for a long time before I remembered that I came alone. ”
Bai Ma Xiao scolded, "Phew, you would have been burned to death by yourself without me, and you would have been killed here?" And you wouldn't have been able to open the door without me, and you were still here chattering?"
Wang Zi thought about it, and his momentum immediately softened, "Okay, okay, you're right." Anyway, I can't take away a bunch of bronzes here, and I can't open this bronze coffin, so I can just take this phoenix button gold seal away, and sell it for a good price. When the time comes, I'll just give you a little bit. ”
It seems that the only thing he can take away in such a large tomb is this golden seal, but Bai Maxiao never thought of asking for money, "Whatever you want, I don't rely on this to eat." You quickly took the golden seal, and then we found a way to go out and meet the eldest brother. ”
Wang Zi knew that the two of them were now using each other, Bai Ma Xiao needed to rely on him to determine the direction and route in the tomb, and he needed Bai Ma Xiao's protection, this relationship might not be able to be broken in a short time, so he listened to his advice.
This bronze box containing the golden seal is also an antique, Wang Zi wanted to take it away, but he didn't expect that the box was also extremely heavy, and he couldn't lift it alive, and he didn't know if it was too heavy, or it was welded to the bronze coffin.
After a few attempts, it still didn't work, so I simply gave up and accepted the reality that I only earned a piece of gold lump.
There is just a ribbon bag in the box, which can be used to hold the seal. Wang Zi picked up the phoenix button golden seal and stuffed it into the golden silk ribbon sac, and even the purple ribbon was not spared, tied to the silk sac, and put it in the backpack together.
Wang Zi's sense of protection of this kind of antique is high, and the whole action is slow, for fear of rubbing off a small gram, making this object cheaper by one or two points, extremely careful, Bai Ma Xiao waited patiently, and saw him put the silk bag containing the golden seal into the bag, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, but at that moment, he also saw that Wang Zi still had something in his bag, "You also took the small bronze mirror on the crown of the other person?"
"What do you mean by Shun? These two things are already the only things that can be taken away in the entire tomb, do you know that I am thanks to this trip?" Wang Zi looked bloody, endured heartache and pulled up his backpack, and carried it behind his back again, looking at the bronze coffin in front of him reluctantly, it is estimated that if he leaves without opening this bronze coffin this time, it will become the regret of his life.
Bai Maxiao walked up to him, looked at the bronze coffin with him, put his hand on his shoulder like an old father, and said earnestly, "People, you have to learn to let go of ......"
Speaking of this, the two of them were stunned in unison.
I saw that the upper part of the bronze coffin actually began to rotate, separated from the lower part, and rotated on the axis of the bronze box in the middle, so that the coffin board of a coffin was rotated ninety degrees, revealing the head and feet of the corpse. This way of opening is really unheard of, and the two of them curiously stretched out their heads to see the contents of the bronze coffin, but for some reason they always felt a little weird, and they didn't dare to come forward to look.
Suddenly, from the bronze coffin sat a woman dressed in an ornate robe and wearing a sun crown on her head.