Chapter 331 Putting the cart before the horse
In order to search for clues more efficiently, everyone started to split up after confirming that there was no danger in the apse.
They first set their target on the surrounding picture walls.
In addition to the large murals, there are also many small murals on these walls. They can be regarded as historical records of the King Xian period. For scholars who study this area, they are absolutely priceless. of treasures.
It’s a pity that none of them are interested in studying chronological history, so they only browse selectively at a very fast speed.
The two walls in front of Chen Ziyan, or war scrolls, mainly record the two most memorable wars in King Xian's life.
The first war was with the Yelang Kingdom. Yelang and the Dian Kingdom were both located in the southwest border, so there were many conflicts between the two.
The second time is the record of King Xian’s conquest of the Zhelong Mountain area after he left the ancient Dian Kingdom.
Of course, it is a bit inaccurate to say it was a conquest. A more accurate term would be a massacre.
The Yelang Kingdom is doing better, and has begun to break away from slavery. However, the social form of the Yi tribe is in the late stage of slave ownership, and the means of production are extremely backward. How can they inherit the bronze smelting from the Pre-Qin Dynasty? The whole process can be described as collapse at the first touch against a technically prodigious opponent.
So after a series of hearty and overwhelming battle depictions, the main content of the mural turned to the scene of capturing slaves.
“Look here!”
Just when Chen Ziyan was about to look at the next wall, he heard Shirley Yang’s voice.
After arriving next to Shirley Yang, the group of people saw a small mural on the top of the wall under her guidance.
What is described in this mural is the origin of the six-legged bronze tripod.
"According to the description above, this six-legged bronze tripod is a treasure that King Xian found in the holy land of the Yi tribe after he captured them." Hu Bayi translated.
"Why does this holy land look so familiar to me?" Wang Kaixuan said with some confusion after looking at the mural.
There wasn't much description of the environment. It looked like a cave, but he just felt that the cave looked familiar.
Chen Ziyan took a closer look at the mural and said, "That's because you just came out of this holy land, so you feel familiar."
He recognized that this holy land was not right. Is it the Calabash Cave they just passed by?
Hearing Chen Ziyan's words, Wang Kaixuan suddenly slapped his head: "Let me tell you, isn't this the place where the strange insect lives in the innermost part of Calabash Cave!"
"Look at the mural next to it, King Xian It seems like something was taken out of it." At this moment, Ding Sitian reminded.
Chen Ziyan and the others quickly looked over and found that in the mural nearby, the lid of the six-legged ancient tripod had been opened, and King Xian was standing next to it holding a square object.
"Such a box..."
Chen Ziyan initially thought that the box was a bronze letter containing a three-legged toad in his hand, but after taking a closer look, he found that it was not what he thought. As such, the box on this mural is much smaller than the bronze letter.
Just when Chen Ziyan was thinking about what this thing was, he heard Shirley Yang say:
"It seems that the six-legged ancient tripod in the apse must have some relationship with the one I know, and even Maybe it’s a set of tripods.”
Compared with the other contents above, she paid more attention to the origins of these six groups of ancient tripods.
The presence of this mural undoubtedly proves that the sacrificial vessel that Xian Wang attaches great importance to was not cast by himself, but also came from elsewhere. After the topic returned to the ancient tripod again, Hu Bayi put forward a different meaning: "I think this is probably not a tripod, but maybe a cauldron used for cooking."
If this was a tripod, it would be too unusual in terms of specifications.
The ancients had a set of exclusive standards for cauldrons. He had never even heard of a round cauldron with six strange beasts as its legs.
So Hu Bayi suspected that the strange cauldron in front of him was not a cauldron at all, but a copper cauldron.
After all, wasn’t King Fu cooked by this thing? King Chuang’s method of using it speaks volumes.
“Cauldron?” Shirley Yang’s expression froze and she subconsciously looked at Chen Ziyan.
Chen Ziyan rubbed his chin habitually and said thoughtfully: "It's really not impossible. Whether it is a cauldron or a cauldron, we don't have clear evidence yet."
But he then said : "But, what is this thing, and is it important to us?"
Their purpose is very clear, which is to offer the Muchen Bead in the king's hand. It doesn't matter what the murder weapon is for cooking corpses. As long as it doesn't hinder their ultimate goal, it doesn't matter whether it's a cauldron or a cauldron.
If you want to know what this is, you will have plenty of time to study it after you get the thing back.
"Yeah, no matter what it is, it won't sell anyway, so there's no need to bother with it." Wang Kaixuan agreed.
Although this six-legged ancient tripod was a priceless treasure, he was not interested at all, because he knew very well that even if he took this kind of thing back, it would have to be sent to a museum.
No matter how precious the fat man is, he will not care about something that cannot create actual value for him.
The others looked at each other a little bit in shock when they heard this, but they immediately realized that this was just an old habit of theirs, and they subconsciously wanted to figure out the reason.
“Let’s put aside the matter of whether it is a cauldron or a cauldron.” When Chen Ziyan saw this, he spoke out to attract everyone’s attention, and then said: “Now we already know that this bronze vessel is dedicated to the king. It was obtained from the Zhelong Mountain Yi people's holy land, so we might as well study its function, which should be more helpful to us."
Compared with the type of this thing, its function deserves more attention.
If it is really filled with corpses as described in the mural, it means that both King Xian and King Chuang believed that this kind of bronze vessel should be used in this way.
It also means that they still have key information that they have not discovered.
It can be seen from the previous figures of human figurines, ferocious infants and other objects that King Xian pays attention to the interlocking of his actions, so Chen Ziyan feels that they need to figure out this key, otherwise it may affect their future. things to do.
After all, this is just a bright building in front of them. They haven't even entered the real main tomb. If this causes problems in any subsequent links, it will be too late to regret it.
"Mr. Chen, do you think it is possible that when King Xian attacked the Yi tribe in Zhelong Mountain, the fundamental reason was because of these things we have seen?" Hu Bayi thought for a while and suddenly said this asked.
He felt that he and others might have put the cart before the horse.
Perhaps it was not King Xian who discovered the many miraculous things here after he captured it, but it was most likely King Xian who captured this area after he discovered the many miraculous things here.
(End of this chapter)