"Taoist Master Jin, those same people are here to find you." These scholars didn't seem very happy. Taoist Jin turned around and said, "You tell them to come down."
"Okay!" Yue Guanchao and the others descended from the city wall and came to the Guanshui Pavilion. Yue Qingshan didn't waste any time and took out the jade plaque and handed it to Old Man Jin: "Taoist Priest, this is the token Luo Shiniang asked me to give to you. "Taoist Master Jin took the jade pendant, and a strange color flashed in his eyes: "We have come this far after all, come with me." After saying that, Taoist Master Jin led them up the stairs to the top floor of Yueyang Tower. , this is an attic similar to a tea room, probably the tea room of Daochang Jin.
The old Taoist priest took out the key and moved the square table, took off the blanket and opened the floor. It was seen that there was a copper box with the opening facing upward, about the size of half a pillow. He took out the box and placed it on the table. He opened the box with the key and lifted the lid. , which is full of various handwritings.
Yue Qingshan picked up one of the handwritten notes, which recorded the year, month and day when Huasheng Trading Company asked her to assassinate someone, or to solve something. Hundreds of handwritten notes overlapped to form countless victims. life.
"Taoist Master Jin, we actually have something to do here." After Song Siyuan finished speaking, she took out the photos they had just developed. Taoist Master Jin picked up the photos and browsed them for a while. She took advantage of the old Taoist priest to browse the photos and Tell me the story of finding the mysterious book in detail.
After saying that, the old Taoist priest looked at the photo with a strange look in his eyes. He took out a bunch of copper coins from his waist and placed it on the table. There were about four or five copper coins. He picked up a red rope and threaded it through it. Each one had a different shape. , probably a variety of money.
Song Siyuan picked up the copper coins and looked at the details of the coins carefully. One of the coins aroused her curiosity. The coin was probably in the shape of a normal copper coin, with a round square hole and the word "Yantang" written above and below the hole. In addition, the square hole The runes scattered around are very special, they are neither Chinese nor Manchu.
The appearance of the rune is a rhombus, similar to
The shape of the character "Duo" is deformed. The upper right is higher, the lower left is lower, the strokes are slanted, and the strokes are slender. The overall shape is beautiful, meaningful, smart and delicate. At first glance, it looks like the shape of a bird, with its wings constantly outstretched. Many of the strokes are as familiar as Chinese characters, but they are not. Don't even know each other very well.
She picked up the copper coins and compared the photos carefully. Sure enough, she could see that they were of the same origin and had similar glyphs, which also meant that the old Taoist priest had seen these runes before.
"This is this?" the old Taoist priest poured a cup of tea and said slowly: "The money you are holding is called Taiping Nu Qian, also called Diao Mu Qian. On the back of the money, the words "Women of the World, Sisters and Family" are printed in Nv script. The characters are from the envoy coins minted in the area when the Taiping Army occupied Jiangyong County."
"Nüshu? Taiping Army?" Song Siyuan has frequently heard them mention the Taiping Army since she entered Hunan. Even this copper coin and Nüshu are related to the Taiping Army. Her curiosity about these things surpasses everything else, and she asked urgently. : "Since Taoist Master, you know that the runes are called Nushu, can you tell us what these mean?"
"This copper coin of mine was given to me by an old friend in the past. He was the first kind-hearted person I met when I went down the mountain for training." When he was young, Taoist Master Jin encountered the Taiping Army crossing the border. He went up the mountain with a dagger to practice Taoism. After ten years, he finally learned martial arts and took his master with him.
"Thou shalt not kill," he was told, and he went down the mountain to act chivalrously. At that time, the Taiping Army had established its capital in Jinling. After the Taiping Army passed through Xiangsheng, it left a mess, especially in Jiangyong County.
This is located at the junction of Hunan Province and Guangxi. It was the main area occupied by the Taiping Army in the early days. In order to stabilize the situation and win over the people, they issued copper coins here, rectified folk customs, and killed bureaucrats. At the same time, it was also here that they began to agitate for the door to be closed. The young women joined the army and were euphemistically called the Taiping Women's Army. In this way, as many people as possible were mobilized to follow them in the uprising.
In order to attract the hearts and minds of women, they used the writing language used by local women to communicate, Nvshu, on the copper coins minted in Jiangyong County. From then on, women used Nvshu as a medium and took advantage of their own advantages to help the Taiping Army obtain intelligence many times. , and also spread the reputation of the Taiping Women’s Army to the world.
After the Taiping Army passed through, Jiangyong County immediately became the focus of the Hunan Provincial Government. Firstly, because Nushu was still used by the Taiping Army to convey secrets. Secondly, the people here had been bewitched by the Taiping Army. Even if the Taiping Army Even after the army left, they still refused to obey the court. After the third visit, the Taiping Army, which luckily did not leave, had become bandits in the southwest. In order to eliminate the rebellious people, they must also be wiped out.
The Hunan Provincial Youth League New Army and the Case Investigation Bureau wanted to stay here in Jiangyong County and killed many people. At the same time, in order to get the women to completely hand over the secret of Nushu, they also created many unjust, false and wrong cases in Jiangyong County. .
Nushu is not only used for communication between women, but also a tool for women to communicate with the outside world. It is impossible for them to explain clearly to the government. Of course, the government does not want to see this situation. In addition to creating unjust, false and wrong cases, they also use imperial edicts to issue orders. As a bait, he lured some women to teach them the runes of Nu Shu.
However, the government overestimated the role of financial interests. Not only did the women in Jiangyong County remain unmoved, they also provided them with a lot of false information in Nu Shu, which caused the government a huge headache. Later, they had no choice but to start slandering If the people are innocent, they should be forced to hand over the secret of Nu Shu on the grounds of sinking them into the pond.
These women were all mothers, wives, children, sisters-in-law, and sisters from Jiangyong County. This move not only aroused civil unrest, but also made the local people more violently oppose the imperial court, causing several civil unrests. It ended in a disastrous defeat. It was not until the Taiping Army failed that Jiangyong County stabilized.
When Jin Shouxuan left, it was just a few years before the defeat of the Taiping Army. The government was arrogant in this area. For this reason, he killed many evil subordinates. When he was wanted by the government, he hid in a village near Fengzu River. Pass a tribulation.
Here, he met Hu Yuxiang by the Fengzu River. It was she who took care of him when he was injured, treated him and fed him, and this made his injury heal.
After Jin Daozhang recovered from his injury, Hu Yuxiang gave him a bunch of copper coins before leaving and asked him to spend them on the road. When he only had this one copper coin left, he felt that meeting Hu Yuxiang was a cause and effect. Now that he has not repaid the kindness, he left one alone as a gift. A token.
"In the past few decades, I have never been to Jiangyong County again. I have always worn this copper coin around my waist to remind myself that I have not repaid the kindness of some people." Taoist Master Jin finished, Song Siyuan asked: "Taoist Jin, don't you know what these runes represent?" Taoist Jin nodded: "Indeed, these runes are female scripts. Not to mention me, not even the men in Jiangyong County. Who knows what it means? Only women can understand it. Before I left, Hu Yuxiang told me the origin of these copper coins. Only then did I understand that these runes meant women and sisters in the world. In addition, , I don’t know any other runes.”
