The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 317
What's more, I am declining.Desperate about my life, friends and friends, only a few days left!The white hair hangs three thousand feet empty, smiling at everything in the world.Ask what can make the public happy?I see how charming Qingshan is, but I expect Qingshan to see me like this.Love and appearance are slightly similar.

One scratched his head in the east window.Xiang Yuanming's poem "Stopping the Clouds" is just like that.Jiang Zuo, who is insanely seeking a name, does not know the magic of muddy mash.Looking back and calling, Yun Fei Feng Qi.If I don't hate the ancients, I don't see them. If I hate the ancients, I don't see my crazy ears.Those who know me, two or three sons.

——"Congratulations to the Bridegroom: I'm Failing" by Xin Qiji
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Why did Bai Fu leave in such a hurry?

Because of the mess lingering in his mind, he finally found the thread:
Li Chu used an inkstone to smash the wall with cobweb-like cracks, and the wall with words was like a huge jigsaw puzzle.

"If you find all the original stones of the remaining monuments and put them together like a puzzle, wouldn't it look like this?"

Bai Fu suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and finally figured out a way to restore the inscriptions on the inscription.

The remaining steles found in the forest of steles were chiseled into hundreds of original stones, which were used to restore other precious stone steles.Since it is impossible to chisel out the original stones of these remnants of steles, Bai Fu has been unable to restore the complete picture of the remnants of steles, and he has no way of knowing the order of the oracle bone characters on the remnants of steles.

Therefore, even though Bai Fu deciphered the oracle bone inscriptions, he still could not know what was recorded on this remnant stele.

The puzzle method allowed Bai Fu to find his way of thinking:

Although the original stones of these remnants cannot be chiseled out, the traces of repairs on the precious steles can be removed.In this way, you can probably know the appearance of each original stone when it was chiseled from the remnant stele.

Then cut the rubbings into the shape of the original stone of the remnant stele, and put them together like a jigsaw puzzle.According to the method of jigsaw puzzles, these rubbings with different canine teeth are assembled one by one.

You can spell out the original appearance of the whole piece of remnant stele, and you can also know the order in which the oracle bone characters appeared.

Finally, by matching the oracle bone inscriptions with the Chinese characters one by one, the inscription on this remnant stele can be deciphered!
Once the window paper is pierced, the method is actually very simple.

Bai Fu was overjoyed, he put the fight with Li Chu out of his mind, flew over the eaves and walls, and hurried back to the Hongwen Museum.

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This method was indeed feasible. Two days later, Bai Fu finally deciphered the contents of the incomplete stele:

The owner of the remnant stele, whose family has been collecting history for the Zhou royal family for generations.When several generations of the family sorted out ancient documents, they researched the origin of the bronze Jiuding, and engraved it on the stone tablet with the oracle bone script of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

The stele Bai Fu found in Prince Yin’s mansion is the first volume, and the remnant stele in Hongwenguan is the second volume.

Dayu Jiuding came to the era of King Zhou of Shang. King Zhou of Shang was quick-witted, quick to hear and see, and capable of fighting fierce beasts. He was recognized as the king of the Shang Dynasty for hundreds of years, second only to Shang Tang in talent.

King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty was a great man, eager to imitate Dayu, once again have the power of Pangu to open up the world, establish great achievements, and surpass the three emperors Yao, Shun and Yu.

However, according to Shang Tang's behest, Pan Geng burned all the human fragments that recorded the mystery of the Eight Tripods realized by Shang Tang, sacrificed them to the sky, and returned the power of Pangu to the sky.King Zhou of Shang did not know how to regain the power of the Eight Tripods.

So King Zhou of Shang continued to improve the ceremony of offering sacrifices to Jiuding, and in the end, he even used slaves as human sacrifices to pay homage to Jiuding.This cruel and tyrannical sacrifice did not summon the Pangu power of the Eight Cauldrons, but accidentally activated the bloodthirsty Ninth Cauldron.

In order to surpass the other eight tripods and enjoy its honor alone, the ninth tripod once again extended its clutches to King Zhou of Shang, deeply affecting King Zhou's mind, and King Zhou of Shang gradually began to be extravagant and lustful.

According to historical records: "King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty was fond of wine and sex, indulged in women, spoiled the demon girl Daji, but Daji's orders were obeyed. So he made new obscene sounds, dances in Beili, and extravagant pleasures. Thick taxes are used to realize the deer stage. Money is the millet of the huge bridge. It is beneficial to collect dogs and horses to fill the palace. Yiguang Sand Dune Garden Terrace, take more wild animals and birds to put in it, play in the sand dunes, use wine as a pool, hang meat as a forest, Let men and women chase each other naked, and drink for a long night."

If anyone among the people dared to complain, and if anyone among the princes dared to rebel, King Zhou of Shang would brutally kill them with cannon fire and severe punishment.

Wei Zi refused to listen to several remonstrances, so he left the capital and fled far away for refuge.

Bigan was utterly loyal and remonstrated with death, but was brutally murdered by King Zhou.

Jizi was frightened and pretended to be crazy, but he was not spared and was imprisoned by King Zhou.

Master Yin Shang and the young master saw that something was wrong, so they fled overnight.

At that time, Xibochang, Jiuhou, and Ehou were the three princes in the world.Hou Jiu had a beautiful and virtuous daughter who married King Zhou.Because he didn't like King Zhou's prostitution all day long, King Zhou was furious.Not only killed him, but also killed his father Jiuhou.

Ehou's loyal words were harsh, so King Zhou chopped them into meat sauce.

Xibo Jichang lamented in private when he heard about the tragedy of Jiuhou and Ehou.Chonghou Hu, a courtier under King Zhou, told King Zhou about this.King Zhou was furious and imprisoned Xibochang in Yuli City.

The three princes were killed or imprisoned, and King Zhou became more and more promiscuous.

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At this time, the world is in chaos. In order to prevent the loss of life and to get rid of the control of Jiuding, Bading, who has stood silently in the temple of Yin for a hundred years, upholds the destiny and comes to the world again.

Bading chose the most benevolent Xibo Jichang as the inheritor to save the people from fire and water.

Xibo Jichang once visited the Jiuding in the Mingtang of Taimiao, and still has a vague impression of its shape, carving patterns and inscriptions.

Under the guidance of Bading, Xibo Jichang, who was imprisoned in Yuli City, suddenly realized the way of heaven, and deduced the 64 hexagrams and 380 four lines of Yijing from the eight trigrams of Bading.

The way of heaven is explained by the opposite changes of yin and yang.Because Zhou Pu is omnipotent, later generations call it "Zhou Yi".

Ji Chang's mysterious deduction of gossip in Yuli City was discovered by the prison guards and reported to King Zhou.

King Zhou was worried that Ji Chang would figure out the secret of the Eight Dings, so he killed Ji Chang's eldest son Bo Yi Kao, made meat soup, and gave it to Ji Chang to eat.

King Zhou's traitor Fei Zhonghe said to his subordinates, "If Ji Chang attains the Tao, he can predict the future through divination, and he will definitely not eat the meat soup made by his son." He tried to test Ji Chang.

Ji Chang learned from the hexagrams in the Book of Changes that his beloved son had been robbed. The next day, he pretended not to know and ate the meat soup from his eldest son Bo Yi Kao in order to deceive and paralyze King Zhou.

After receiving the jailer's report, King Zhou laughed out loud, thinking that Ji Chang's divination was just a vain name.Therefore, he relaxed his vigilance against Ji Chang, and finally released Ji Chang.

Based on the wisdom obtained from Bading, Xibo Jichang escaped from the clutches of King Zhou, and found Lu Shang who had been hidden in the mountains by Bading Snow. situation.

In order to avoid being controlled by Jiuding, he became the second king of Shang Zhou.Ji Chang passed on the force contained in the Eight Tripods to Lu Shang and his second son Ji Fa, and passed on the wisdom of governing the country to his fourth son Ji Dan, so as to balance the power of the Eight Tripods and fight against the Ninth Tripod.

Afterwards, Ji Chang became seriously ill. In his will "Bao Xun" to Ji Fa, Ji Chang warned Ji Fa that governing the world should follow the benevolence and wisdom of the Bading, and govern the country with the middle way:
"Measure the things of yin and yang, if the salt is not against it, then Shun will win."

(End of this chapter)