"You guys, I didn't hear this from the cultural relic dealer, but from an old friend when I was young." Hua Lao coughed a few times and his tone became mysterious: "This Yin and Yang Pisces is what I got when I was young. "..." When John Hua was young, the first time he came here was in Yueyang.
At that time, the Yueyang government was ordered to open a port for trade. In order to dredge the river and survey the canal route, they found a surveying and mapping firm in China. At that time, John Hua was working as a translator here, and traveling with him was a colleague, Joseph.
When they were surveying and mapping the river, Joseph once liked a local girl. He originally wanted to take the girl back to China, but the girl wanted him to stay with her. Neither of them wanted to compromise, and they separated after that. .
After completing his mission, Joseph returned to his home country very early. However, before he returned home, he once told John Hua a secret.
Back then, when this girl was mixing honey and oil with him, she once talked about ancient legends about this world.
It is said that when the Zhou Dynasty was established, the northeastern land including the Daxingan Mountains was entrusted to the Sushen Principality by the Zhou Dynasty.
Since the Duke of Sushen itself belonged to a foreign tribe in the north and was far away from the border, in order to gain the trust of Emperor Zhou, he had no choice but to present a drawing of a military talisman, together with Xianbei gold, stone and jade to King Wen of Zhou.
When the new king came to the throne, the world was in chaos. They originally wanted to create a new military talisman of solemnity. However, the people were devastated by war at that time and the people were already exhausted and exhausted to fight the enemy. King Wen of Zhou was kind-hearted and did not want to let the world use weapons again, so they had to cancel it. The plan to build military talismans also warned his successor, King Wu of Zhou, not to make any more military talisman ideas in the future.
In order to end the war once and for all, King Wen of Zhou went to the mountains to hide it, and carved the jade stone into a pair of yin and yang fishes with their heads and tails staggered. He also carved a seal on the back.
The words "Yin and Yang complement each other and create infinite things" to show his intention to stop fighting and work together to govern. Since then, the two jade talismans have always been located in the Zhou palace. The Zhou Dynasty also established a system of governing the world with poems, books and etiquette. Unless it was absolutely necessary, weapons should not be used rashly to avoid harming the people.
However, with the advent of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Zhou royal family's control over the princes and kings weakened. Seeing the absence of the majesty of the royal family, the princely states began to have other ideas. This move also caused the collapse of worldly etiquette and the destruction of moral principles.
With the demise of the Zhou royal family, the pair of yin and yang fish pendants also disappeared again, leaving no trace of them. Listening to Hua John's words, Yue Guanchao guessed that the Joseph he was talking about was Lan Ruling, an old foreign man. At the same time, the local girl Joseph was talking about was Lan Qingping when he was young. Thinking about the relationship between Lan Nuan and them As she said, she and Joseph mentioned the relationship between the Book of Changes and the mirror space, and they were able to get the details right.
While Yue Guanchao was surprised, he also agreed more and more with Taoist Jin's words in his heart. Unexpectedly, they went around in circles and came back to the matter of the mirror space. He also somewhat understood the words fate and cause and effect in his heart.
John Hua continued: "At that time, I had a very good relationship with Joseph, and he also mentioned this matter to me. However, I had only been in China for two or three years at that time, and I only regarded this as a local myth."
"To me, this pair of yin-yang fish pendants is like Aladdin's djinn. It's just a mythical object. I haven't delved into it too much. To truly consider its authenticity, you have to start by entering the Prime Minister's Yamen..." Half a year after Joseph returned to China, under the introduction of his mentor, John Hua went north to the capital and entered the Yingwutang of the Prime Minister's Yamen as an interpreter.
The main content of this job was to take charge of the previous dynasty's negotiations with the United Kingdom and Austria, and to be responsible for the opening of trade ports at the north and south ports, as well as the customs duties at each port. At the same time, he also served as a book translator for the civil servants in the capital, and served as a book translator for the former dynasty's government. Translated Western books.
In the process, he learned thousands of times more about China-related affairs than he did in his own country. Many issues that he did not understand before became clear through interactions with officials. The most important thing is that he learned a lot about business with officials. In the process of dealing with the people, he accumulated a lot of social benefits, and also saw a lot of people's livelihood insider information that he could not see as an overseas resident. In this way, he became more and more comfortable and skillful in dealing with China-related affairs.
Among them, his favorite job is teaching students in Tongwen Library and translating works. When it comes to translation, he must find what the two languages have in common and then accurately express the original meaning. When translating, he will inevitably have to look for vocabulary and quote scriptures, which will inevitably require looking up a lot of books. This is very important for his Chinese mastery. Not a small workout.
When there is a lack of information, he often chooses to look for it in ancient Chinese books. In the process, he once again found records about the Yin Yang Fish Pendant.
The previous royal family itself was a branch of the Sushen clan. They mentioned the value of the Yin Yang Fish Pendant many times in ancient historical books. They also mentioned that the fish pendant had completely disappeared from history after the fall of the Zhou Dynasty.
When John Hua saw that the materials collected by the royal family had records about Yin and Yang Pisces, he realized that it might not be a myth, but something that actually existed.
According to the records of the Sushen tribe, King Wen of Zhou created the Yin-Yang Fish Pendant after understanding Lianshan Guizang. After that, he completely destroyed Lianshan Guizang and only implemented his revised version of the Book of Changes.
In the eyes of outsiders, this kind of behavior is indeed invisible, but in the eyes of Sushen people, they can know that King Wen of Zhou probably saw the future of the Zhou Dynasty, and even the future of mankind, in the Yin-Yang Fish Pendant.
In this way, it was necessary to completely revise the Book of Changes so that the ginseng could not reveal the truth. At the same time, it was no longer possible to peep into the secrets of the mirror world. Even ruling the world with poems, books, etiquette and Yi, and stopping the use of weapons were all done by him in order to prolong the Zhou Dynasty. A helpless move.
All of this is probably because the Yin-Yang Fish Pendant is related to the mirror space. After hearing the news, John Hua was ecstatic, because he was studying space theory in his own country. If he could find the truth about the mirror world, it would be the greatest discovery in the East and the West, and his name, John Hua, would also go down in history. .
From then on, although he remained anonymous on the surface, he secretly kept an eye on the news about the Yin-Yang Fish Pendant. In the end, he finally got results - in the palace library, he found a historical book of the Northern Dynasties "Southern Dynasty". "Inspection Chronicle".
This book was written by a general of the Jin Kingdom. After the Jin Kingdom destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, the generals began to search for treasures everywhere. This general was one of the treasure ship generals. At the same time, he also described the current situation of the Jin Kingdom conquering major towns in the north. , recorded.
In this book, he mentioned something, the Mysterious Book Iron Coupon. What was recorded on this thing was the news about the Yin Yang Fish Pendant!
Finally, the Jin general mentioned at the end of the article that the treasure ship he led ran aground on the Yueyang River and was lost. He was also dismissed because of his inability to transport treasures. After that, An Xin wrote a book and recorded all his experiences here. in this book.
