Ye Xianqian screamed. In fact, Wang Ke had already thought of the large piles of ancient sword coins, but Wang Ke had not thought of a bigger secret waiting for them to discover.
The group of people followed Ye Qianpian and rushed into the stone house.
Apart from the skeleton, there were a few piles of knives and coins on the ground.
"Wow, we are rich!" Ye Qian completely ignored the skeleton and circled the knife coin several times.
Professor Wen and Professor Ye Rongguang each picked up a knife coin from the ground and looked at it carefully under the light and flashlight. Professor Wen said: "I have indeed made a fortune, but these sword coins are not from Yan State. Most of them are Qi State sword coins."
"Ah! This is the seat of the State of Yan. Prince Dan of Yan sent Jing Ke to the west here. This is also where the troops were stationed. This person must be a descendant or subordinate of Jing Ke. Why should he store the swords and coins of the State of Qi? "Ye Qianpian asked, and she insisted that the people in the cave were Yan people.
Why didn't she hide some gold?
Professor Wen stood up and said, "Let me explain. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, from here to the north, most of the nomads and Liaodong people lived. The variety of wild animals was very rich. Most of them made a living by hunting. After capturing prey, , would cut meat and peel skins on the spot, so we will see that most of the knife coins have pointed heads and needle-like points to assist in leather cutting. This is the same as the Central Plains, which was mainly farming, and used shovels to make coins."
Professor Wen paused and then continued: "Yan, Qi, Zhao and Zhongshan here all use sword coins. Yan has Mingzi knives, pointed-head knives, needle-headed knives, etc.; Qi has three-character knives and four-character knives. , five-character knives, six-character knives, Qiming knives, Boshan knives, etc.; Zhao Yougandan knives, Baibai knives, Baihua knives, etc.; Zhongshan State-owned City white straight knives and white straight knives; even the ones cast by Wang Mang of the late Eastern Han Dynasty , there are also gold-staggered knives, etc. I wonder if you have discovered it? Most of the things hidden in this grotto are five-character knives and six-character knives from the Qi State. There are also many small knives and coins from the Yan State."
"I understand, the five-character knife and the six-character knife must have been valuable at that time." Ye Xianqian shouted.
"You're right. A six-character knife worth 100 yuan today can buy two or three good blankets!"
When Wang Ke heard this, he suddenly realized and asked: "Teacher Wen, why don't they store the sword coins of Yan State?"
"Yan Dao coins are also called small knife coins. It is said that after the Yan State Leyi conquered Qi, a large number of Yan coins were minted in Qi to meet military expenses. The value of the resulting sword coins was not high. As I said before, when the Yan State was the most powerful , surrounding the Yanshan Mountains, the entire Liaodong Peninsula belongs to it. To the south is the State of Qi, to the west is the State of Zhao, and to the southwest of the State of Zhao is the State of Qin. The State of Yan is the most important regime of the Zhou Dynasty in the Yanshan area At that time, Handan of the State of Zhao, Ji of the State of Yan, and Ying of the State of Chu were all important commodity distribution centers. The fact that the sword coins of the State of Yan were not hidden shows that this person understood that the Yan coins were in danger, but the Qi coins could still maintain their value. It’s just that the Yan coins were in danger. No one expected that so many Qi sword coins were stored underground in this small Tunliu village, which was enough to equip 200,000 soldiers, horses, and food at the time."
"But why does this cave store some gold and gems?" Ye Qianqian asked again.
"You are right to ask. At that time, Yan State not only had an empty treasury, but also had regulations on military rations and pay. They are easy to carry and easy to distribute. These sword coins just prove that there were troops stationed in Tunliu Village."
Professor Wen looked at the skeleton on the ground and the slippers around him that had rotted into putrid mud. He said to himself: "Who is he?"
According to historical records, in 226 BC, after the Qin State defeated Zhao, its army was stationed on the west bank of the Yishui River. Yishui is located between Yan and Zhao. In order to save the country, Prince Dan of Yan recruited many talents. There are three great warriors under his command: Xia Fu, Song Yi, and Qin Wuyang.
Especially Qin Wuyang, the grandson of Yan State general Qin Kai. When he was thirteen years old, he killed an enemy in a downtown area. Prince Dan not only did not sentence him to death, but also took him in. Later, Prince Dan's counselor Tian Guang recommended his friend Jing Ke, and then Jing Ke formulated a plan to save the country by assassinating the King of Qin.
Jing Ke was a calm man, and his martial arts skills were boasted by Tian Guang, so he should be the best candidate to assassinate Qin. Qin Wuyang is the most powerful. Therefore, Qin Wuyang was only thirteen years old when he accompanied Jing Ke to assassinate Qin.
In the end, there was still a lack of a reason to see King Qin. By coincidence, Fan Yuqi, the former general of the Qin State, defected to the State of Yan for participating in a rebellion and was taken in by Prince Dan of Yan State. Prince Dan made a plan to assassinate Qin, and Jing Ke asked for the head of Fan Yuqi and the map of Dukang, the ceded common land (that is, the Gaobeidian area east of Xishan) as a gift to the King of Qin to facilitate the assassination.
When Fan Yuqi learned of this, he immediately committed suicide and offered his own head.
Then Prince Dan of Qin personally sent Jing Ke and Qin Wuyang dozens of miles away, holding the head of Fan Yuqi and the map of Dukang, a commoner, to the Yishui River, preparing to take a boat to the west to assassinate Qin. From then on, he left behind the song "The wind is rustling" "The water is cold, the water is coming" was the eternal song, and Xia Fu was ordered to ambush a large number of troops in Tunliu Village to prepare for the response.
Who would have known that Qin Wuyang would tremble as soon as he entered the Qin Dynasty's main hall. This aroused the suspicion of the King of Thailand, which led to him taking precautions. The King of Qin asked Qin Wuyang to stay and only Jing Ke was allowed to enter the palace. As a result, Jing Ke held Fan Yuqi's head in one hand and a map in the other, in a hurry. In addition, his martial arts skills were average. Although the map was weak and the dagger could be seen, the assassination failed.
Could this person be Qin Wuyang who escaped? Or was it Xia Fu who led troops to ambush Tunliu Village and prepared to respond?
After the failure of the assassination of Qin, the Qin State had a reason to destroy the Yan State. The soldiers and horses in Tunliu Village dispersed, and Xia Fu disappeared. However, there are unofficial legends saying that Qin Wuyang trembled in the main hall on purpose and frequently gave the King of Qin hints with his winks. After the assassination of Qin failed, he still led the Qin army to pass by. He was scolded as a "Yan traitor" and later fled into the mountains without knowing his whereabouts. .
Xia Fu was illiterate, and among Prince Dan's subordinates, only Qin Wuyang and counselor Tian Guang were literate, and not many of them knew where the gold was hidden. This skeleton must be one of the two.
By the way, when Qin Wuyang left, Prince Dan of Yan took off a jade plaque from his neck and hung it on Qin Wuyang's neck with his own hands to keep them safe. This person has no such thing, he must be Tian Guang.
However, to dare to go down this deep well, you need to be resourceful and brave. That should be Qin Wuyang. Is there a third person?
Professor Wen's analysis made everyone confused. But Wang Ke secretly screamed with shame in his heart. It turns out that the ancient dark green jade plaque that he gave to Wu Xiangyu was actually worn by Prince Yan. Now we can't lie about it.
And the skeleton in front of him must be Qin Wuyang.
Unexpectedly, after Qin Wuyang failed to assassinate Qin, he could not bear the infamy and even escaped to a 100-meter-deep well to guard the hidden gold. He was still a man of integrity for the rest of his life. But now, is it meaningful to talk about who these bones are?
Everyone began to count and register these large piles, which contained tens of thousands of sword coins. It took most of the day just to transport them.
After cleaning, everyone began to clean up the slips. However, due to the high humidity under the ground for thousands of years, the slips had rotted into mud. They could not clean out a single word and could only sweep them aside. Finally, there is this skeleton. Professor Ye Rongguang suggested that I don’t know who this skeleton is, so why not let it sleep peacefully here, guarding this ancient well and this underground river.
When everyone heard that it made sense, they gently moved the skeleton to the front of the stone house and placed it again. After the placement was completed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and took turns bowing to the skeleton.
However, just as everyone turned to leave, Professor Wen's sharp eyes discovered that the underground stone surface where the skeleton had just been sleeping seemed to have many carved pictures and words.
I quickly got a light and brushed off the dust on the ground. I found a picture carved with a knife and coins, and there was a small seal script next to it. In particular, this paragraph contains less than twenty characters, and it turns out to be the real reason why Jing Ke failed to assassinate the King of Qin. It was not that Jing Ke was not strong enough in martial arts, nor was it that Qin Wuyang was timid and frightened in battle. But someone snitched on the King of Qin. They were ambushed as soon as they got off the boat, and the snitch was...
The carving of the characters has not been completed at this point, only a vertical line is left, and a half-broken knife coin is still embedded in the ground.
The person who carved the words must have carved it here, suddenly fell to the ground and died, leaving behind this eternal mystery.
Next to it, there is a landscape picture, a winding river, and finally a mountain with smoke rising above it. I don’t know what the deceased wanted to say.
Before this man fell, he carved the picture first and then the words. The position where he fell was exactly where the skeleton covered it.
"I know!" Professor Wen shouted as he looked at the text.
"what do you know?"
"Look at this word. This person must have wanted to tell us a real history before he died. He wanted to say that there is no such thing as a dagger. He must be a man with high martial arts skills. He is here to guard This is the last wealth of the Yan Kingdom, so the informer will not have the opportunity to covet it. Could it be that this person is Jing Ke who broke out? Jing Ke is also literate, otherwise he would not be resourceful and able to outsmart Fan Yuqi's head. He can understand the map of Dukang, a commoner. And he has a good relationship with Xia Fu, but what does the map he carved in the ground mean..."
Professor Wen's words made Wang Ke break into a cold sweat. While he excluded Tian Guang, he thought of Jing Ke again.
"Ah, I know it too!" Ye Xuan looked at the small seal characters and shouted. "The vertical stroke he carved is the first stroke of the character Tian, and the informer is the counselor Tian Guang!"
Professor Wen looked at it carefully for a while and smiled miserably. "Not necessarily. Song Yi and Xia Fu, the three great warriors under Prince Yan, also have the first stroke of their Xiaozhuan characters vertical, especially the character Song. You see." Professor Wen started to make gestures, and after finishing the gesture, he denied it again. "This vertical stroke has left an eternal mystery. Look, the first stroke of the Xiaozhuan character for Prince Dan is also vertical!"
Except for Jing Ke and Qin Wuyang, everyone else is suspected of being an informer.
At that time, Professor Wen no longer thought much about that vertical pillar, and began to look at the picture on the stone on the ground. After looking at it for a while, he stood up and immediately stood in awe of the skeleton. "This ancestor actually carved this underground river."
"Where can I see it?" Ye Qianpian asked.
"Look, this river comes from the direction we came in, then turns around again, and finally ends abruptly at the foot of the smoking mountain. This smoking mountain must be a volcano. Which of you You know, where are the volcanoes around here?”
"I know!" Wang Ke suddenly said from the side.
"Where?" Professor Ye Rongguang asked quickly.
"It's Sha Guoding. Our company is stationed at the foot of that mountain for training. When I went back that day, I had a chat with the platoon leader. He told me that the villagers there were saying that this mountain was a volcano millions of years ago. It's an extinct volcano." When Wang Ke said this, he seemed to see the mountain with the highest altitude, a mountain that looked like an inverted funnel.
"Casserole tripod?" When Professor Wen heard it, the name sounded like it.
"How high is this mountain? How far away is it from us?"
There are two mountains over 1,000 meters high in the western mountainous area, one is Langya Mountain and the other is this casserole tripod.
Wang Ke heard Professor Wen's question and immediately replied: "This mountain is higher than Langya Mountain. It is due north of us and is more than 30 kilometers away from Tunliu Village."
"What? So far! Oh my God!" Professor Wen exclaimed, "Old Ye, this underground river seems to be seventy or eighty kilometers long, and its end point is the extinct volcano. And the source may be Xiao Wang The virgin forest where comrades trained. Now our archaeological investigation is becoming more and more interesting."
