The historical development process of human beings from ancient times to the present is actually a process of fighting against nature... We will encounter various natural disasters.
Among these "natural disasters", "floods" pose the most serious and common threat to people's lives and property!
After all, people have been accustomed to living by water since ancient times.
Most cities and commercial transit places are close to major rivers or lakes. Therefore, human beings and water have a relationship that is both intimate and antagonistic...
When encountering heavy rains and floods in ancient times, in addition to the imperial court and local officials leading the people to control the floods, of course they also needed some "metaphysical" plans.
There are two common ones: one is to please, and the other is to scold!
The former is mainly based on the construction of temples such as [River Temple] and annual sacrifices. For example, livestock and offerings are sacrificed to rivers and the "river gods" in them.
The purpose is to hope that the rivers will stop flooding and that the water gods in the rivers will be kind and not harm the people along the banks.
The latter is mainly based on various suppressive objects such as [He Zhen Iron Ox], [He Zhen Pagoda], [He Zhen Bridge], etc.!
The purpose is the same, but in a euphemistic and semi-threatening way - if they dare to cause another flood disaster, they will suppress the attack with large formations and magic weapons.
In fact, of these two methods, it is impossible to say which one is better and which one is worse.
Each has his or her own merits.
Anyway, as long as it is not the horrible evil method of using living people to sacrifice to the river god - just using livestock and offerings, singing and dancing, etc. to worship the river god, it is actually a legitimate way.
As for the [River Suppressing Order] - it is actually the core component of various suppressive objects in the second method!
In other words, whether it is a river-suppressing iron cow, a river-suppressing pagoda, or a river-suppressing stone bridge, etc... there must be a [river-suppressing order] somewhere inside them.
This is also the core key to the effectiveness of the "river-suppressing" method!
To give a simple and easy-to-understand example...the river-suppressing order is equivalent to a car engine for things that control the river.
Of course, because the method of suppressing the river not only suppresses the water flow of a section of the river, but also deters the flow of the river god in it. Therefore, it has been an extremely profound and powerful magic method since ancient times.
Not only are there not many monks who know this "river-suppressing method", but it also requires the practitioner to pay a certain price.
In addition, the casting or construction of the river-controlling objects themselves also cost a lot of money and food.
Therefore, since ancient times, basically only in the prosperous times can the court be able to find strange people and pay enough money and food to carry out...
Of course, rivers can be big or small, and their drainage basins are extremely wide. Therefore, this "river suppression" naturally cannot suppress the entire river. It is usually established by the government of a certain place and only protects that river.
So of course the things that suppress the river are big and small, strong and weak.
For example, the [Jinmen Zhenhe Order] that Lao Cao saw in Tianjin - according to him, was used to suppress this section of the "Haihe" river flowing through Tianjin.
Originally, the restraint of the Haihe River in Najinmen was a seven-story pagoda, but it was destroyed during the war.
At that time, some patriotic and national-saving monks fought fiercely with foreign evil cultivators nearby, and they found the Zhenhe Order of Jinmen Pagoda from the ruins...
It happened that Lao Cao's master took his master and young him to the capital for business, passed by Tianjin, and stayed there for a while.
In the process of dealing with these patriotic and righteous monks, they happened to see the [Jinmen Zhenhe Order] left over from the [Jinmen Pagoda].
As for the mysterious black token we fished out tonight from the "Yellow Spring Pool" under the back hill of Lianghe District Middle School, Li Miao guessed that it was a river-controlling thing erected outside Lianghe Town more than two hundred years ago. ——The River Control Order of the Two Rivers Iron Monument!
Although Two Rivers is just a town, it has a very long history. From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, it was an important node dock in the waterway transportation artery connecting Sichuan and Chongqing!
You know, with the development of history, the situation of many towns in history was very different from today.
For example, Shanghai was just a small fishing village more than two hundred years ago. But today it is an international metropolis, the most economically prosperous city in the country.
For example, Luoyang was "among the rest of the world" during the Tang Dynasty - its economic level was even better than that of Chang'an. But now, Luoyang is just an ordinary third- and fourth-tier city.
Chang'an will be slightly better...
Similarly, Two Rivers Town was more powerful than it is now more than two hundred years ago! The level of prosperity is even higher than that of Fubei County.
So at that time, the court officials here had enough financial resources and abilities to find a very powerful monk.
With his help, he mobilized the help of civilians and craftsmen to cast an iron monument weighing several thousand kilograms!
Then this iron monument was erected on a hill near the Lianghe Dock to suppress the Sichuan River Basin in the two rivers. It protects the surrounding areas with smooth weather and clear water.
But with the end of the old society and the establishment of New China... all kinds of infrastructure began to be completed.
There is a provincial highway passing through the west side of Lianghe Town, and road transportation and railway transportation have also emerged.
Sichuan-River water transport declined like this.
As well as climate changes, the water level and flow of the Sichuan River have decreased rapidly compared with the old society and ancient times, and the tonnage of large ships that can sail on the river has become smaller and smaller. The freight volume decreased, and eventually the town of Two Rivers completely lost its status as a water transport terminal.
Coupled with the advancement of science and technology and the development of civilization, everyone is becoming less and less convinced of these mysterious things.
The superposition of multiple factors has resulted in the [Zhenhe Iron Monument] outside Lianghe Town being no longer managed and maintained by many people from 40 to 50 years ago...
So gradually, this iron monument to the river was abandoned.
Of course, because the Zhenhe Iron Monument is made of pig iron and weighs several thousand kilograms!
Even if this material is made into an ordinary iron monument, it can still stand in the wind and rain for a long time without anyone taking care of it.
What's more, the river-suppressing iron stele in Lianghe Town itself contains the magical blessings of some incantations left by powerful monks, and there is a river-suppressing order inside.
Even if no one cares about it for another thousand years, it probably won't decay or break!
But later, during some major events that were difficult to explain clearly, a group of people took the initiative to forcibly destroy and destroy...
As a result, the iron monument of Zhenhe, which had protected Lianghe Town for more than 160 years, disappeared.
The Zhenhe Order, which was originally the "internal core" of the Iron Monument, naturally disappeared at the same time and was nowhere to be found.
This has also become a very regrettable thing in Lianghe Town, even the entire Fubei County, and even the entire Xuanmen Jianghu circle in eastern Sichuan and western Chongqing.
Especially those who fished for corpses in the Sichuan River Basin in Fubei County sighed and beat their chests when talking about this!
After all, those who fish for corpses have to deal with big rivers all their lives, so naturally they also need to face river gods or river spirits. Where there are river-suppressing objects, it is not only convenient but also safer for people to go about their work.
Therefore, for those who fish for corpses, the things that calm the river have special symbols and emotions.
Later, when society slowly returns to normal.
It is said that about twenty years ago, some relatively powerful monks from several nearby counties and prefecture-level cities joined forces to find a way to find this river town.
Among them was Li Miao’s adoptive father and master!
But in the end nothing came of it.
The River Suppressing Order of the Two Rivers Iron Monument is still missing...
Although Li Miao has never seen Zhenhe Ling, he has heard his master talk about it since he was a child. I often describe to him in detail the shape, appearance, and various features of the [Two Rivers Zhenhe Order].
Especially when he is drunk, he will even ask Li Miao to repeat it again.
Li Miao's ears have been hearing cocoons since she was a child!
At the same time, he was naturally very impressed by this precious thing - even if it was just the nihilistic impression from the master's mouth.
Of course, after all, no matter how prosperous Lianghe Town is, it is still a town. Compared with Fubei County... it is still incomparable with a huge city like Tianjin.
Therefore, the two rivers' river suppression orders are naturally not as powerful as the Jinmen river suppression order that Lao Cao had seen back then.
But no matter what, this is an extremely precious and remarkable treasure!
At the same time, it is also a good magic weapon.
