Chapter 45: Exploring the Ancient City

What appeared in front of Lu Yuan was an innumerable number of bamboo slips and wooden slips!

Lu Yuan casually took down a roll of bamboo slips, opened it and saw that it was written by a big seal.

Lu Yuan secretly congratulated himself that he studied history when he was in college.

This large seal, also known as 籀 (zhòu) script, was a commonly used font in the late Western Zhou Dynasty and is said to have been created by Boyi of the Xia Dynasty. It is the predecessor of the small seal.

There are very few existing articles on the Great Seal, mainly "Stone Drum Text".

Engraved on it are ten four-character poems written in the eleventh year of Qin Xiangong, which were originally engraved with more than 700 words, and now have more than 300 words.

In addition, the "Shuowen Jie Zi" and various Zhong Ding Yi vessels collected by later generations have also been preserved.

Of course, the most famous are "Sleeping Tiger Land Qin Jian" and Mao Gongding.

"Sleeping Tiger Land Qin Jian" was excavated in December 1975 in Hubei Yunmengcheng Guan, 12 tombs from the Warring States period to the Qin Dynasty, numbered 11 Qin tombs.

There are 1,155 bamboo slips (another 80 fragments) in the tomb, and the content is mainly legal and administrative documents, and daily writing.

Mao Gongding was unearthed in Qishan County, Shaanxi Province in the last years of Daoguang. There are 32 lines of inscriptions on the inner wall of the ding, with a total of 497 characters, which is the longest known bronze inscription so far.

The inscription on Mao Gongding records that in the early days of the reign of King Xuan of Zhou, he wanted to revitalize the government, so he ordered Mao Gong to deal with the affairs of the country, and ordered Mao Gong and his family to serve as the Praetorian Guard, defend the royal family's order, and reward wine, food, clothing, weapons, etc.

The tone of the language is similar to that of the Shangshu and other articles, and it is an important historical material reflecting the history of the late Western Zhou Dynasty.

Fortunately, Lu Yuan has been very interested in history since he was a child, and he has also studied the big seal. These ancient texts still can't bother him.

He took the bamboo slip and looked at it directly.

The more Lu Yuan looked at it, the more excited he became, "This... This... This is actually the real "Book of Ink"!"

He put down the bamboo slips in his hand and took the trouble to check each scroll one by one.

"There is actually a complete "Mozi" here"

Lu Yuan felt that he was about to faint with happiness.

After a long period of suppression and four large-scale book destruction campaigns in history, only 53 Mozi chapters have been preserved.

If this batch of bamboo slips is unearthed, it will be tantamount to a major earthquake for the Zhuxia historical scholars.

Lu Yuan put all the slips in this room into the Xiaoding space as quickly as possible.

Then he went to other rooms, which were also full of various classics from the Qin and Han dynasties.

Most of them are also written in large seals, but there are also a small number of small seals.

These books, in addition to the Mohist classics, are also included in the classics of other hundreds of schools.

There is still a long-lost "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period", but what makes Lu Yuan feel strange is that other famous pre-Qin classics are available, but they lack "Zuo Chuan" and "The Book of Music".

Lu Yuan counted three times in a row, but there was no "Zuo Chuan" and "The Book of Music".

"Could it be that the legend is true!" Lu Yuanhu was suspicious.

When Lu Yuan was reading history, he found that some people had been questioning the authenticity of "Zuo Chuan" since the Han Dynasty.

Especially among the literati of the Han Dynasty, many people thought that Zuo Chuan was a fake book and was fabricated by the ancient literature school, and it was not until the Song Dynasty that the doubts gradually decreased.

There is no book "Zuo Chuan" here, which has to make Lu Yuan suspicious, but because there is no "Book of Music" at the same time, Lu Yuan can't be completely sure.

However, Lu Yuan was quickly relieved, these things should be left to specialized scholars to study, I just need to help them provide as many materials as possible.

After packing up all the slips, Lu Yuan walked to the last room, which was not used for storing books, but should belong to the lounge.

The house was very simple, with only a few collapses and a broken futon.

Walking into the room, the first thing that caught Lu Yuan's attention was a few rolls of bamboo slips on the low table.

Lu Yuan stepped forward to open the bamboo slips, and he was surprised to find that these bamboo slips were neither written by big seals nor small seals, but were actually written in divine script.

The content of the divine inscription shocked Lu Yuan very much, and judging from the records on the bamboo slips, these texts described a great battle that took place during the Yu Dynasty.

The great battle took place between the Great Witch and the Aliens.

"Alien ...... Could it be an alien!" Lu Yuan was shocked.

He quickly read the bamboo slips on the table, but unfortunately the records on it were very incomplete, and a lot of things were lost in the middle.

The above only records that the Great Witch and the other two major forces have joined forces against the Aliens.

In the end, although all the aliens were annihilated, the earth was also shattered, and three continents sank into the sea.

As a result, a large amount of energy from the entire earth escaped, and it slowly began to become unsuitable for cultivation.

These things shocked Lu Yuan.

At the same time, it also gave him infinite reverie.

"Could it be that the Mu Empire and the Atlantean Empire are fighting side by side with the Great Witches?"

"The sunken continents are the Mu continent and the Great West Continent...... So what's the other sunken continent?"

"Is there another sunken continent?"

At this time, Lu Yuan suddenly remembered a legend among the indigenous people of southern India.

Tamils in the poisonous south have always believed that they are from a place called Lemuriya.

More than a hundred years ago, legends of the continent of Lemuria also prevailed.

Legend has it that there was once a highly civilized continent between the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and the poisonous state of Tamil Nadu.

More than 10,000 years ago, it sank into the sea due to a disaster.

However, this legend has only been around for a few decades and is no longer taken seriously, because the legendary continent is located in a place where there is no trace of crustal movement for millions of years.

In addition, some geologists later speculated that the Lemurian continent should have begun to sink about 34 million years ago (that is, at the beginning of the Tertiary period) and completely sank about 25 million years ago.

The gap between this time and the legendary more than 10,000 years ago is too big, so slowly no one believes it, and no one studies the legends of this continent anymore.

However, on these bamboo slips, it is clearly recorded that a total of three continents have sunk, so if it is not this Lemuria continent, the other one will be there.

Lu Yuan couldn't help but open the world map, looking at the map, Lu Yuan really couldn't find out where there was another continent.

"It seems that the world is really getting more and more interesting, and there are endless secrets waiting for me to explore!"

Lu Yuan put away these bamboo slips, because these bamboo slips were extraordinary, so he chose to store them separately. These things are not yet suitable for ordinary people to know.

After putting all the things that could be taken away into the Xiaoding space, Lu Yuan left this secret room.

After returning to the library, Lu Yuan continued to explore the ancient city.

After a while, Lu Yuan came to a tall building in the center of the city.

After he confirmed that it was safe, he entered it, and here, Lu Yuan made some discoveries.

This place has the remains of many musical instruments, which have unfortunately been corrupted by time.

He carefully wrapped the decayed instruments.

Although they have decayed, they still have high archaeological value.

After packing up these things, Lu Yuan turned to a small door on the west side.

Behind the small door is a hut with bamboo slips scattered throughout the house.

Lu Yuan carefully picked them up, and the bamboo slip read, "It is said that the heavenly palace clamps the bell yin, and its symbiosis is from the yang, and its yang has no shot." No shot on the birth of Zhonglu, Zhonglu and the underground palace are in the same position, do not use Zhonglu on the birth of Huang Zhong, Huang Zhong under the birth of Lin Zhong, Lin Zhong underground palace ,......."

"What is this?"

Lu Yuan felt very strange, this seemed to be written about music.

"Is it the Book of Music?"

Lu Yuan turned on his computer, although there was no network here, but Lu Yuan downloaded some information about the Book of Music on his computer.

Compared with the information on the computer, Lu Yuan happily patted his thigh.

"Sure enough, it's the Book of Music!"

The Book of Music is one of the most respected Confucian classics, with more than 300 volumes, but after the war at the end of the Qin Dynasty, most of them have been lost, and only 23 articles remain.

Scholars of the Han Dynasty generally believe that the Book of Music was burned when Xiang Yu burned Xianyang, but some people believe that it was destroyed by the First Emperor's "Book Burning Pit Confucianism", and after the Song Dynasty, it is generally believed that it was destroyed by the First Emperor, but there has always been controversy.

Because of the loss of the "Book of Music", since the Han Dynasty, musicians can only barely play and cannot understand music theory.

After arriving at Yashan and Jiashen, he couldn't even play.

Now, if the "Book of Music" can be found, after several years of research, maybe the sound of Zhuxia's "Yale" can be resounded on the land of Zhuxia.

For 2,000 years, the regrets of the literati and scholars may be remedied!

Lu Yuan rummaged through the entire building, and finally he found a total of 278 volumes of the Book of Music, although it was still incomplete, it was much better than before.

With a happy mood, Lu Yuan continued to explore in the ancient city, and in the next half month, he found some ancient books of the pre-Qin period, some of which he had never heard of.

Lu Yuan believes that if these ancient books are circulated, they will definitely produce a 12-magnitude earthquake in the cultural and historical circles.

In the end, Lu Yuan also found a huge arsenal in the ancient city. Inside, there are tens of thousands of ancient weapons of all kinds, ranging from bronze to iron and steel.

These weapons are also of considerable use to the study of Qin and Han culture and military.

After a final check, and finding nothing meaningful, Lu Yuan left the ancient city.

However, instead of going back, he took another strange path.

This road is also unconventional, but it gives Lu Yuan a strange feeling, he always feels that this road is not artificially built. And the road is not straight, but in a loop.

After walking along this road for about 3 kilometers, Lu Yuan finally saw a ray of sunshine.

However, as soon as he walked out of the cave, a feeling of palpitations rose in his heart......