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Happy Tycoon - Chapter 520

Published at 29th of September 2021 01:36:34 PM


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After unlocking the secret in Luban's box, Yang Jing couldn't hold her breath anymore.

Although Yang Jing is more than 90% sure that the clue recorded by the silk in the box points to the national jade seal, the question is where is the "Yuecheng view" marked in this picture?

Now the only thing Yang Jing can be sure of is that the location of this picture is definitely in China, but China is big. Where can I find this Yuecheng temple?

Not to mention that this picture was painted more than a thousand years ago. At that time, there was the Taoist temple of Yuecheng temple, but now?

At present, there are only a few Taoist temples that can be preserved in China the year before last, and those are large-scale Taoist temples. For example, the Taoist temple in the painting, which looks not much bigger than ordinary houses, must not be preserved for thousands of years.

If you want to find such a small Taoist temple in the long history of thousands of years, it is no less difficult than looking for a needle in a haystack.

There is no doubt about the seductive power of the national seal. Even if it is only a clue, it is enough to keep Yang Jing awake.

Through the identification skills, Yang Jing already knew that this picture was also made by the yuechengzi, and the drawing time was three years later than that of the Luban box. This picture drawn on silk was painted in 936, which happened to be the year when Li Congke, the late Tang emperor, threw himself into fire with the legendary national seal.

What does this time difference mean?

Unable to sleep, Yang Jing sat up from the bed and pushed open the bedroom window. The cold night wind immediately rushed in from the outside, making Yang Jing shiver involuntarily.

Lit a cigarette, Yang Jing looked at the dimly lit Manhattan below, but her sight did not stay on any building for even a second. Perhaps it was the stimulation of tobacco or the cold wind blowing on her face. Yang Jing's originally impatient mood gradually calmed down, and her brain began to clear up gradually.

"This yuechengzi must have something to do with Li Congke!" Yang Jing said to herself. "Li Congke respects Taoism, while yuechengzi is a Taoist. There is a great possibility that there is a direct connection between the two."

Yang Jing returned to his desk, picked up a piece of paper and a pen from the table, wrote down the names of "Li Congke" and "yuechengzi", and then wrote a "Luban box" under these two names.

"According to the manufacturing process of this Luban box, it shows that yuechengzi is a very powerful Taoist. I'm afraid such a complex Luban box mechanism can't be made without two brushes. The most important thing is that the material for making this box is mainly silver. At that time, ordinary Taoist couldn't afford such expensive silver?"

Yang Jing knew that before the Ming Dynasty, China was short of silver. Silver was a very expensive precious metal. Although it was not as valuable as gold, its value far exceeded the exchange ratio between copper and silver at that time.

In the later Tang Dynasty, China was also short of silver, and the weight of the Luban box in hand was about 3.5kg alone. According to one or two silver coins in the later Tang Dynasty, it was exchanged for one copper coin, that is, one thousand copper coins, one kilogram and sixteen Liang. If the weight of the Luban box was converted into the weight of the Tang Dynasty, it was about five kilograms (680g in the Tang Dynasty), that is to say, This box alone can exchange eighty Liang silver and eighty thousand copper coins. Then in the Tang Dynasty, the proportion of silver to copper was even higher, so the silver used to make this Luban box alone could be exchanged for almost 100000 copper coins.

I'm afraid an ordinary Taoist couldn't give so much copper money at that time, let alone use it to make a Luban box.

"This yuechengzi should be highly valued by Li Congke, otherwise he will not extravagantly use silver to build this Luban box! Even this yuechengzi is likely to be a senior official of Li Congke during the Qing and Thai dynasties!"

This is not Yang Jing's random guess. Taoists were very important in the Tang Dynasty. For example, Yuan Tiangang once served as Li Shimin's think tank, and later was delegated to the lower level as a county magistrate. Li Congke worshipped Taoism. Maybe he knew the Yue Chengzi somewhere. In addition, the Yue Chengzi did have some skills. Therefore, it is not impossible for Li Congke to pay attention to it and be entrusted with an important task after Li Congke became the emperor of the later Tang Dynasty.

"Only if the yuechengzi had a certain position in the Qing Tai period of the later Tang Dynasty, would he use silver mixed with other metals to make this Luban box." Yang Jing said to herself and wrote "Qing Tai senior official" next to the name of "yuechengzi" on the paper with a pen.

Qing Tai was the year of Li Congke, the late Tang emperor.

"The box was made three years earlier than silk, but why did you write those eight words on the silk?" Yang Jing rubbed his eyebrows in distress. He always wondered why yuechengzi wrote those eight words on the picture.

"Did Yue Chengzi find the imperial seal after Li Congke burned himself and put out the fire? Then he hid it secretly? Well, it's not impossible, and it seems that it's very possible!" after thinking for a long time, Yang Jing can only explain it with this reason.

But we have to go around, and finally we have to go around to where the "Yuecheng view" is.

Yang Jing looked at the piece of paper painted into a mess. She could only reluctantly turn the piece of paper into a group and throw it into the wastepaper basket.

After thinking about it, Yang Jing can only sink her consciousness into the storage space again, open the picture and observe it carefully.

"Don't worry about Yuecheng view. The most obvious mark of this picture is the sixteen peaks and the river!" Yang Jing deeply printed this picture in her mind, then withdrew from the storage space, and then drew the picture from a piece of paper.

Yang Jing wants to check the information about the "Sixteen peaks" on the Internet, but in this age, where is the Internet? Even if there is, we can't find the geographical data of China in the United States now.

In desperation, Yang Jing tore up the paper again and threw it into the wastebasket

Early the next morning, Yang Jing came to the office of KY investment fund and convened a group of senior executives for a meeting. At the meeting, Yang Jing focused on the investment intention of next year and the merger and acquisition of Hartford national corporation and Arlington trust, which ended the meeting. After saying goodbye to Mike Allah, Yang Jing went out of the office building to find a place where there was no one and directly crossed back to the original time and space.

After returning to Tianqu, Yang Jing immediately returned home, then turned on the computer and began to query.

After inputting some key words such as "Sixteen peaks" in Du Niang's search bar, Du Niang immediately showed many entries about "Sixteen peaks". Among them, the most is Changbai Mountain.

After clicking an entry to enter, sure enough, the most famous mountain in Changbai Mountain is the sixteen peaks around the Tianchi Lake except the Tianchi Lake.

Both the introduction and the pictures clearly show that the 16 peaks around Tianchi are one of the most famous scenic spots of Changbai Mountain.

Unfortunately, Yang Jing directly rejected Changbai Mountain.

Yuechengzi appeared in the later Tang Dynasty. In the later Tang Dynasty, Changbai Mountain was still a wilderness. The most important thing is that when Li Congke was emperor, the capital of the country was Luoyang.

In the late Tang Dynasty, it took more than two hours to fly from Luoyang to Changbai Mountain, even dozens of hours by train. In the late Tang Dynasty, if you want to go from Changbai Mountain to Luoyang, you can't come in two or three months.

Li Congke obviously won't find a Taoist from Changbai Mountain to serve as his senior official.

That is, yuechengzi, a Taoist, should be a Taoist born near Luoyang. This can also prove the area where Taoism flourished at that time.

Both Wangwu mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain around Luoyang are areas where Taoism is extremely prosperous. Even before Li Congke became emperor, King Lu stayed in Xijing (Chang'an). The Qinling Mountains near Chang'an was also a very prosperous area of Taoism.

In other words, the yuechengzi is likely to come from the mountains around Chang'an or Luoyang!

However, there are too many mountains in this area. For example, Luoyang has Wangwu mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain in the north, Waifang mountain in the south, Song Mountain and Mang Mountain in the West and Gu mountain and Xiong'er mountain in the East. It is completely in the arms of mountains.

As for Chang'an, there are more mountains around. Just a Qinling mountain is enough!

With so many mountains, where can I find the 16 peaks?

Yang Jing opened Google maps and looked at a green area representing the mountains with a bitter face. His right hand unconsciously controlled the wheel of the mouse, making the idea map on the screen expand, shrink, and constantly convert from satellite to topographic map.

Suddenly, Yang Jing's sight was attracted by a big river on the map - the mother river of China, the Yellow River.

"Yes, isn't there a big river on that picture?" Yang Jing was so excited that he almost gave himself a ear scraper. Why did he forget such an important clue just now?

With the sixteen peaks and the big river in the valley, it is obviously impossible to be near Chang'an. Although there is Weihe River in the north of Qinling Mountains, Weihe River is still a little away from Qinling Mountains. It is impossible for the river to roar and shuttle in the valley as shown in the picture.

Then only Luoyang is qualified.

The Yellow River in the north of Luoyang has been shuttling through the mountains since it turned eastward from Tongguan, a natural danger? After the founding of the people's Republic of China, in order to control the Yellow River, the government has successively built two large-scale water control projects in this section of the river - Sanmenxia Reservoir and Xiaolangdi project.

Yang Jing immediately expanded the electronic map again. Looking at this section of the Yellow River, the more he looked, the more interesting he felt.

Then, when Yang Jing again input several other key words from Du Niang's search bar, Du Niang's answer made him happy





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