Tang Gu stayed up all night to count and clean the tombs that the men in black had stolen from the Huiling tomb one by one. In the following days, Jiang Yinnong and Tang Gu thanked guests behind closed doors and studied these tombs carefully. Among them, the bamboo slips "Wuhou Shence" are two
The place where people communicate and discuss the most.
At this time, it was already the second watch, but neither of them felt sleepy. After Jiang Yinnong read a scroll, he covered it with a sigh. Tang Gu was curious, walked to the couch, and spread out the bamboo slips again.
Prime Minister Zhuge Junxiu's handwriting is vividly written on the slip:
"In the 19th year of Jian'an, when the soldiers and civilians of Bashu were dredging the Dujiangyan river, they discovered a huge bronze tripod in the mud at the bottom of the river.
According to the textual research of famous people in Shu, this tripod turned out to be the Yong tripod among the nine tripods of Xia Yu that had been lost for many years. This discovery made the late emperor and important ministers rejoice. Because the nine tripods are a symbol of the supreme power of the king and the unity and prosperity of the country. The Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty,
Three generations of the Zhou Dynasty regarded it as a national treasure symbolizing state power.
According to legend, in the early years of the Xia Dynasty, King Yu of Xia divided the world into nine states, and ordered the governors of the nine states to contribute bronze and cast nine tripods to symbolize the nine states. The famous mountains, rivers, ghosts, spirits, and strange objects of the nine states across the country were engraved on the nine tripods, so that one tripod symbolizes one state.
, and concentrated the Jiuding in the capital of the Xia Dynasty and displayed it outside the palace gate to avoid evil and bring good luck. This move won the praise of God, and the Xia Dynasty received the blessing of the Emperor of Heaven.
After Shang Tang drove away Xia Jie, he moved Jiuding to his capital. After Pan Geng established his capital in Yin, Jiuding moved here.
After King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, he publicly displayed the Nine Tripods. After King Cheng of Zhou came to the throne, Zhou Gongdan built Luoyi and placed the Nine Tripods in the city. He also asked King Cheng to personally preside over the ceremony and place the Nine Tripods in the Mingtang.
After the beginning of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty declined, and various princes began to covet the royal power. During the reign of King Zhou Ding, King Chuzhuang first "asked for the importance of the throne" in Luoyi, but was rejected by Zhou Dafu Wang Sunman: "In virtue, not in Ding. Although Zhou's virtue has declined
, The destiny of heaven has not changed. The importance of the tripod cannot be questioned." The king of Chu returned. Later, King Ling of Chu also wanted to aspire for the tripod, but due to a rebellion in the country, he failed.
During the reign of King Hui of Qin, Zhang Yi formulated a strategy, hoping to seize the Jiuding to command the princes. King Qingxiang of Chu and King Qi also hoped to compete for the tripod. King Nan of Zhou circled between the two countries, as well as Wei and South Korea, ordering them to fight against each other.
Restriction can ensure that the Nine Cauldrons are not lost.
In the fourth year of King Wu of Qin, the State of Qin captured Yiyang, an important town in South Korea. King Wu of Qin was overjoyed and led a group of warriors such as Ren Bi and Meng Ben to inspect Yiyang, and then went straight to Luoyang to get a glimpse of the Zhou Dynasty. King Nan of Zhou sent envoys to meet him in the suburbs, and King Wu of Qin
He went directly into the Mingtang of the Imperial Ancestral Temple to get a glimpse of the Nine Tripods. King Wu of Qin looked around the Nine Tripods and was filled with admiration. King Wu of Qin pointed to the tripod with the word Yong and sighed: "This tripod in Yongzhou is the tripod of Qin. I should take it back to Xianyang."
The official guarding the tripod said: "King Wu ordered the tripod here and has not moved it. Each tripod is so heavy that no one can lift it." King Wu of Qin tried his best to lift the tripod half a foot off the ground. Just as he was about to take a step, he couldn't lift it.
Feeling that all his strength was gone, the cauldron fell to the ground and hit King Wu's right foot. With a crack, the tibia was broken. Everyone hurriedly helped him back to the mansion. King Wu of Qin was in unbearable pain and bleeding. He died in the middle of the night.
He died. When King Wu of Qin came to the throne, he once said: "If you have to travel to Gong and Luo, you will have no regrets in life or death." He died in Luoyang today.
It is said that the Jiuding of the Zhou royal family was moved westward to Xianyang in the second year after the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Zhou Dynasty. However, when Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world, the whereabouts of the Jiuding were unknown. Some people say that the Jiuding sank in Pengcheng, Surabaya. Qin Shihuang once visited Pengcheng, Surabaya.
They sent people to dive and salvage, but their efforts were in vain.
Tai Shigong's description of Jiuding in "Historical Records" is inconsistent. In the "Benji" of Zhou and Qin, it is said that in the fifty-second year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, King Nan of Zhou died and Qin plundered Luoyi.
Jiuding entered the Qin Dynasty.
However, it is also written in "Historical Records: Book of Fengchan": "Yu collected the gold from Jiu Mu and cast nine tripods. They all tasted the gods and ghosts. When they were sanctified, they prospered and the tripod moved to Xia and Shang. The virtue of Zhou Dynasty declined, the society of Song Dynasty died, and the tripod was
It is lost and disappears without being seen."
But in any case, Jiuding disappeared and became an eternal mystery.
Today, the Han Dynasty actually discovered the whereabouts of Yong Ding. Doesn't it mean that God believed that the late emperor was the lord of the nine states, and that the Han Empire would unify the world in the hands of the late emperor.
The late emperor displayed the tripod in the main hall, and the Yong tripod often had strange phenomena every full moon night. So the late emperor ordered me to research the Yong tripod. I read a large number of ancient documents, and after several years of repeated speculation, I accidentally discovered the mystery of the Yong tripod:
After many years of research, I believe that the Xia Yu Jiuding was not forged by Dayu, but was discovered accidentally during the process of controlling floods.
The pattern on the bottom of the Yong tripod comes from ancient star maps. On the outside of the tripod, there is a huge symbol and eight landscape paintings. This huge symbol is the Kan hexagram in the Book of Changes, with a yang line in the middle and yin lines above and below.
Look is the pictogram of water. The Kan hexagram represents water in nature, so it can be seen that the Yong Ding should represent the power of water, as well as traps and dangers.
What is shocking is that the eight landscape paintings on the tripod are real. At first, I thought they were just the creations of the painter who made the tripod, until I accidentally discovered the real landforms in reality. Take the picture of Kowloon entering the sea as an example. I followed
When the late emperor's fleet crossed the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, when the fleet arrived at Qutang Gorge, it rained heavily. The mountain walls around Qutang Gorge formed nine waterfalls, like nine white dragons entering the sea, exactly like the landscape painting on the side of the tripod. When I was on the boat
On the deck, looking at the steepness of the Qutang Gorge, the pattern of the tripod was poured into my mind like an electric shock. My soul instantly left my body and my whole body seemed to be floating in the air. Looking down at the entire river and mountain peaks, my whole body seemed to have the power of a god. A stick
When the fragrance lasted, my soul returned to my body. After returning to the cabin, this power seemed to continue to dominate me. I couldn't help but hold the pen in my hand and draw the map of the formation of Kowloon entering the sea.
At this moment, I suddenly realized. It turns out that the eight landscape paintings of Ding Shen contain huge mysteries. From the Kan hexagram symbol of Ding Shen, Yong Ding represents the power of water. But only by seeing the actual topography of Ding Shen landscape paintings with your own eyes can you truly understand Ding Shen.
The meaning of the pattern is that if one can master the method of combining the tripod diagram with the landform, one may be able to grasp the secret of using the huge power of water between heaven and earth, and gain a glimpse of the way of heaven that says "the best is as good as water".
I have been studying the formations of military calligraphy all year round. When I was at the Qutang Gorge and Yong Ding, I came to understand the military formations used in military expeditions. I boldly guessed that warriors might be able to get a glimpse of the heavenly ways of martial arts from them, and national chess players might be able to understand the infinite skills of calligraphy and calligraphy.
Maybe you can have a wonderful pen that can flow smoothly... In short, the secrets of the tripod diagram are endless, waiting for the wise to understand.
In the following years, by chance, I saw the true appearance of several other pictures of the tripod body. They were the Jiange natural danger, Hukou waterfall...
Based on the tripod diagram and on-site insights, I created several other formations, namely the Bagua Formation and the Long Snake Formation... In the following years of campaigning, I commanded the army in the above formations. Once arrayed, the army would produce super
Strong momentum and combat power help our Shu army win battles one after another:
In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, I passed down the diagram of the formation of Nine Dragons into the Sea and the method of controlling it to Hou Ting of the Han Dynasty and General Yunchang. They read it at night and understood the mystery. In August, there was a heavy rain for more than ten days, and the water was flooded.
Sheng. General Yunchang dug a river embankment to flood Cao's army. The Han River overflowed, and the ground below Fan City was flooded for 50 to 60 feet. Yu Jin and other seven armies were wiped out. Yu Jin and his generals climbed high to look at the water, and there was no way to avoid it. General Yunchang took a big boat.
He attacked Jin and others, and then surrendered at Jin. Pang De also avoided the embankment on the water. General Yun Chang took a boat to attack it, and used large ships to shoot at the embankment from all sides. From Pingdan to the middle of the day, General Yun Chang's attack became more urgent, and all his arrows were exhausted.
The soldiers engaged in battle. General Guan followed Pang De.
In the third year of Jianxing's reign, our army crossed the Lu River and reached Nanzhong, where we won a victory. I heard that Meng Huo was a leader of the Yi and Han people and was convinced by the locals. I wanted to capture him alive and force him to submit. I captured him with the Bagua formation.
He asked him to observe the camp and ask: "What is this army like?" Meng Huo said to him: "The enemy did not know the true and false, so they were defeated. Now I have been given to observe the camp. If this is the only way, it will be easy to win!"
He smiled and released him to fight again. In subsequent battles, our army sent the Nine Dragons into the sea and the Long Snake Formation came one by one and captured them seven times. Meng Huo was completely convinced and refused to leave, saying: "My lord,
The power of Heaven! The southerners will no longer rebel." Meng Huo then led his troops to Dianchi Lake and swore an alliance with our army. The southern part of the country was peaceful, and everyone was led by him to use it.
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The reason why the above-mentioned tripod diagrams are so wonderful is that they contain the great power of the gods and the mysteries of heaven and earth.
Although Ma Su and others are familiar with military books and are familiar with my formation diagram, they have never been able to let the army display the full power of the formation diagram in actual combat. After thinking about it, I am afraid that Ma Su and others have not seen the scenery such as the Kowloon and the sea in Qutang Gorge.
The real landform. Perhaps only those who feel the magical combination of the tripod map and the real landform, and have personally experienced the momentum of nature, can truly understand this formation and maximize the power of the tripod map.
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It is a pity that in my whole life, I have not been able to find several other landforms on Yongding.
What’s even more regrettable is that with all the efforts of the Han Dynasty, we only found one of the nine tripods. The School Affairs Department had previously reported secretly that the bronze tripod representing Li Gua fell into the hands of Soochow. With the talents of Soochow, sooner or later
The secret of the cauldron will be discovered.
What I am curious about is, what kind of patterns are engraved on the eight tripods left? Finding the tripod diagram is equivalent to finding the source of the power of heaven and earth. If we can understand this power, mortals can also possess the great power of gods, and so can the army.
Bless the power of heaven and earth.
I guess that the reason why Dayu was able to control floods was to learn the secrets of the Nine Cauldrons and to control this power. After that, the secret of the Nine Cauldrons was gradually lost for some unknown reason. Although the emperors of later generations placed the Nine Cauldrons in the main hall of the court, but later generations
We only know that Jiuding is a national treasure that symbolizes the power of the emperor, but we don’t know the huge secret hidden in Jiuding.
The royal family of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties lived in the treasure mountain and missed the treasure. If they could have studied it thoroughly back then, how could they have lost their great country... Oh, how sad, God's will is like this, what can I do!
Taking into account the huge secrets contained in the Yong Ding, if it is mastered by Xiao Xiaoxiao or Cao Wei, it will definitely drag our great man into a situation of eternal disaster. Therefore, the mystery of the Jiuding is only known to the late emperor and me. Before his death, the late emperor secretly ordered me to
Yong Ding's secret collection.
The Battle of Yiling ended, and the late emperor retreated to Baidi City. In April of the following year, the late emperor died. In May, Zi Palace returned from Yong'an to Chengdu, and in autumn and August, he was buried in Huiling. It was hot summer at that time, and with the heat of Sichuan, from then on
It’s a long way from Baidi City to Chengdu.
It was extremely difficult to bury the coffin in Chengdu a few months later. After discussion with the important ministers, the young master decided to bury the late emperor at the Lotus Dam in Pengshan, Baidi City, and set the Huiling Mausoleum in Chengdu as a tomb. Therefore, I personally designed the path to the tomb of Huiling, and
Yong Ding was buried with him in Huiling.
At this point, the mystery of Jiuding is left to fate.