Chapter 14 The Angkor Wat Underground Palace Meets the Descendants of Qi Jiguang
"Are we going to run away like this for an hour?
At this time, suddenly a black shadow flew out from the front, like a bat in the night, and a sharp sword in his hand stabbed straight at Xie.
Xie kept picking up the dog beating stick and immediately blocked it, and threw up the stick to fight with the other party.
After a few moves, Xie kept flashing back, stopped, and said to the other party: "You are not a terracotta warrior, you actually used the sword technique of the Qi family's army." Are you a descendant of Qi Jiguang?"
The man in the black cloak stopped, with a black mask on his face: "Even if you have a vision, Qi Jiajun's sword skills can be seen, which is a bit interesting." Who are you? How dare you invade this ancient kingdom of Zhenla? ”
Xie non-stop: "You can speak Chinese! Fellow countrymen, we are also from the Central Plains." Tell me about you, a big Han citizen of the Central Plains, who came here to work as a security guard for the Khmers, what are you doing here? The treatment here is very good, and there are a lot of beautiful women?"
The masked man said, "Are you really from the Central Plains?
Li Xiaoning also came over to interject: "It's all Chinese, it's easy to talk." We are just tourists who come to play. ”
Masked Man: "You can defeat my three terracotta warriors, you are better than those tomb robbers." ”
Li Xiaoning: "We are not tomb robbers, we are not interested in gold and silver treasures, at most we just understand history and study academics." ”
Masked Man: "Since you're not a tomb robber, and you're my fellow countryman, it's easy to say." ”
The masked man clapped his hands, and the remaining two terracotta warriors stopped.
Li Xiaoning: "This is long overdue." Come on, sit down and talk, chat, chatter. ”
The masked man led them to a stone chamber, which was full of stone utensils, stone cups, stone chairs, and tables.
A few people sat down.
Su Bai said to the masked man, "Your mask is so stylish, where did you buy it?"
The masked man took off the mask and revealed a delicate face: "I just did it myself." Reached next week, in charge of garrisoning the Khmer Empire. ”
Su Bai suddenly exclaimed: "So handsome! ”
Li Xiaoning: "May I ask who your ancestors are, why did they come to this remote Angkor to be the guard of the Khmer ruins?"
Zhou Daguan: "My ancestor is Zhou Daguan. ”
"Zhou Daguan!" Li Xiaoning said in surprise, "You are actually a descendant of Zhou Daguan!"
Xie kept patting him: "Tell me who Zhou Daguan is this time, what songs and movies have you sang, is it Jay Chou's pseudonym?"
"Play your head!" Li Xiaoning explained, "This Zhou Daguan is an envoy of the Yuan Dynasty, and he is also the only person in history who has recorded the Khmer Empire. The only written record related to the Khmer Empire in history is in Zhou Daguan's "Records of the Wind and Soil of Chenla", which has been passed down for generations. This book has long been translated into English, French, Japanese, German and other languages, so many tourists who come to Cambodia almost have a copy of "The Legend of the Wind and Soil of Zhenla", without which they would not have come to Cambodia at all. If Zhou Daguan had asked Europeans and Americans to collect royalties, he would have become a local tyrant long ago. Zhenla is the name of the ancient Khmer Empire, which is now Cambodia, and the Zhenla people are Khmer. If it weren't for Zhou Daguan's envoy to the Khmer and writing this book to circulate to the world, many Europeans would not have come to Cambodia to explore the secrets, and in that case, the ancient monuments of Angkor Wat, one of the seven wonders of the world, would have been hidden in this dense rainforest for a few hundred years at least. ”
Xie Buzhi: "So in history, there was once a Khmer Empire on the land of present-day Cambodia, and then it suddenly disappeared, and then the ruins of this site were left, and people found out that there was this history. So the Khmer people are not the Cambodians they are now?"
Li Xiaoning: "That's right, the current Cambodians should be descendants of Siamese. It was the Siamese who invaded the Khmer Empire. The invasion of the Siamese made the Khmer Empire seem to disappear from the face of the earth overnight, leaving only the dark fragrance of this Angkor Wat monument to remain in the world. ”
"Did the Siamese kill all the Khmers?" Xie asked.
Li Xiaoning shook his head: "I don't know, there is no detailed record of this matter." Anyway, the Khmers are gone. ”
"The Khmer people have not disappeared," Zhou Dada, who was on the side, said suddenly, "My ancestor Zhou Daguan visited Chenla and stayed in Chenla for more than a year, and he was also full of affection for Chenla, and he always wanted to visit Chenla again but never made the trip again." The ancestors left a testament, once Zhenla is in trouble, my Zhou clan will go to help. Therefore, many years after the death of the ancestor immortal, in the last year of Ming Chengzu, we learned that Zhenla was invaded by Siam and was in danger, so we immediately led a group of men and horses to Zhenla to help, but unfortunately we still failed to reverse the situation. ”
Li Xiaoning asked: "Then why did you use the Qi family's saber method, and thought you were a descendant of Qi Jiguang." ”
Zhou Dacheng: "That's just because among the people and horses of my Zhou family who came to rescue Zhenla, that is, my ancestors, who had served in the Qi family's army, naturally made the Qi family knife technique, and then passed it down from generation to generation, passed to me, naturally it is still the Qi family saber method, but it has been slightly improved." ”
Li Xiaoning: "Your Zhou family has been guarding here for generations...... That is, there are other Khmers who are still alive as well?"
Zhou Dacheng: "Of course. ”
The three of them were amazed at the same time, forming five hundred arhats.
"Where are they?" asked Li Xiaoning.
Zhou Da: "He's in this dungeon. The level of stone architecture in Chenla has reached a very high level, and in addition to the temples outside the surface, a huge underground city has long been built. Therefore, the dwellings of the Zhenla people at that time were both built on the surface of the earth and cities built underground. One is to escape the heat of the rainforest, and the other is to take refuge in the underground city during war. But the power of the Siamese invasion was too strong for Chenla to resist, and in order to prevent the last barrier, the dungeon, from being discovered by the Siamese, the king ordered the dungeon to be sealed forever, leaving only one secret passage. And our Zhou clan is the guardian of this secret passage, and the place where we are now is in the secret passage. ”
Li Xiaoning: "Wow! That means that for more than 1,000 years, the Khmer people have lived in isolation from the outside world, never in contact with the outside world, and do not know what is happening outside?"
Zhou Dacheng: "Yes, including me, I don't know what the outside world is like now. The main thing is that we have become accustomed to the comfortable life underground, and we never want to go back to the surface again, facing invasions and wars from all sides. Because I'm a guardian of the secret passage, I occasionally encounter a few thieves from the outside world who have gone underground to steal jewels. The Zhenla people below have really not seen anyone outside for more than a thousand years. ”
Su Bai cautiously asked, "What about those thieves, were they killed by you or put back into the earthly world?"
Zhou Da said to the side: "No, it's all over there, I've made it into a terracotta army." ”
The three of them were immediately frightened into the shape of five hundred arhats.
Su Bai: "I don't want to be made into terracotta warriors, it's so uncomfortable, it looks ugly, and no matter how much mask you put on, it's useless." ”
Zhou Dacheng: "It's not that I'm cruel, it's also something that can't be helped." There are tens of thousands of living Zhenla people below, who are tired of the wars in the outside world and just want to live quietly underground, no longer wandering. Our Zhou clan strictly abides by the ancestral precepts and wants to protect this last Zhenla people, so we can only make this decision. But don't worry, you are the same people as I am the people of the Ming Dynasty, I believe that our people of the Ming Dynasty are kind, the Ming Dynasty will not invade other countries since ancient times, and there is no such aggression gene, so I will not make you a terracotta army. ”
"Brother, wake up!" Xie kept waving his hand at him and said, "Without Da Ming, Da Ming would have been finished long ago, and the emperor would have changed several times." ”
"What!" Zhou Da suddenly sat there as if he had been struck by lightning, and then turned to crying bitterly, "When was our Ming Dynasty killed? Who did it? Although I was born here, I received the education of the Zhou family since I was a child, and the Ming Dynasty described by my ancestors was a rich and powerful empire, where the people lived a good life, the country was rich and the people were strong, how could it be ......?"
Xie non-stop: "I was killed by the Manchu Qing, that is, the Jurchen tribe who used to live in the Northeast." ”
Zhou Da wiped away his tears and pulled out his knife: "My Zhou clan has always been favored by the emperor, the emperor was merciful and knew that Zhenla was in trouble, and my Zhou clan had old friends with Zhenla, so more than a thousand years ago, my clan was entrusted by the emperor to come to Zhenla to support and protect the people of Zhenla." But I didn't expect that my Daming country was taken away by thieves, and Daming, who has always been merciful to the world, has ...... himself ceases to exist...... I must go back to take revenge! ”
Xie didn't stop: "Wake up, what are you excited about, what kind of favor does the emperor have, don't go, the Manchu Qing is gone, and it has already been killed, thank you, thank you, thank me." ”
"Huh?" Zhou Da was dumbfounded, "The Manchu Qing have also been killed?"
Li Xiaoning added: "There is no emperor now, now it is the People's Republic of China. Rest assured, now that our Han people are in power, the former alien race is now integrated into our Han, we are now collectively referred to as the Chinese nation, and we are now a family for a long time. The history in this is too complicated to explain a sentence or two, so I have to make up for your history lesson. To put it simply, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was killed by the Republic of China, and then fought with Japan, and then fought back and forth, and now the Celestial Empire is in power. ”
"Oh," Zhou Da half-understood, "then I'd better continue to hold my ground here." ”
Li Xiaoning: "Tell us about it, how did this terracotta warrior army come about, I'm so curious." My rune paper didn't work for them. ”
Zhou Dacheng: "Oh, the production technology of this terracotta warrior comes from the pre-Qin period." ”
"Xianqin?" Xie kept interjecting, "Then the terracotta warriors and horses unearthed in Xi'an are also the same technology as these......? Made of real people?"
Zhou Dacheng: "That's right, Qin Shi Huang did make a large number of terracotta warriors and horses into the tomb, but because the time was too long and there was no maintenance, I estimate that it would have long since become invalid and turned into useless stones." ”
Li Xiaoning: "Another historical mystery has been solved. ”
Xie non-stop: "It's like the breasts of a sexy beauty, and another one has been undone." After speaking, he glanced at Su Bai, who was wearing a low-cut white shirt next to him.
Su Bai slapped him.