Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 661 The Truth of History

It is said that Xiang Yu led his army to wreak havoc everywhere in Xianyang, and the warehouse of Qin State also became their target.

However, although Qin State's warehouse was sealed, it was not full because of years of wars. Now that Qin Ershi died, some palace people ran away with the warehouse, so there was nothing valuable in it. Until that Xiang Yu saw A Fang Gong.

The first time he saw Efang Palace, his eyes were already red. This palace is really too luxurious and magnificent!But in the eyes of Chu people, it has become the Palace of Blood and Tears and a mass grave.

The first floor of five steps and one pavilion of ten steps are made of the white skeletons of hundreds of thousands of strong men. The rivers in the palace and the pools for King Qin to play are all the blood of strong men.Therefore, when Xiang Yu's subordinate soldiers saw this, their monstrous anger directly burned all their sanity.

So the army set fire to Efang Palace, and the whole palace was shrouded in flames and thick smoke. After half a month of burning, Efang Palace finally became a pile of rubble.

Therefore, Efang Palace has long since ceased to exist.

After listening to Professor Xu's introduction, we just felt absurd. If Efang Palace would have ceased to exist, what exactly is this in front of us?
Lao Yan also had a strange expression on his face, saying that the story of Efang Palace is known to all women and children. Back then, Xiang Yu’s fire destroyed the Efang Palace that was three hundred miles away. Now Shaanxi Province also has the ruins of Efang Palace. What about the discovery of A Fang Palace?
Professor Xu didn't know how to express it, saying that he also knew this, but the front was indeed Efang Palace!

We all looked confused. I had only heard the story of the Efang Palace. As for what it looked like and how to identify it, to be honest, I didn’t know anything about it, so I had to wait for Professor Xu to clarify.

"Five hundred feet from east to west, fifty feet from north to south, ten thousand people can sit on the top, and a five-foot flag can be built on the bottom." Professor Xu said while gesticulating, saying that this is the description of the front hall of A Fang Palace, and it is also the A Fang in historical records. The place where the palace was built.

Efang Palace has two components, one is the front hall, and the other is the upper roof, but the latter has not been completed.

Professor Xu said that we are now in the front hall, and if we walk forward, we must be able to see pavilions.

Looking at the lintel made of white jade in the distance, I felt incredible, so I asked Professor Xu, since the ruins of Efang Palace have already been discovered, how could there be another one here?

The project of Efang Palace is huge, and there will be complaints to build one. If there are two, I am afraid that the whole country will not be able to do it, right?
Professor Xu exhaled slowly, saying that he didn't believe it either, but the facts were in front of him.He hadn't noticed it before, but looking at it this way, it was clearly the same as the front hall at the ruins, but he ignored it because the entrance was an iron gate.

"The point is here." Professor Xu pointed to the floor tiles under his and Hou Chengcheng's feet: "It's these things that don't look like ancient things at all, which lead us to think that this is just an underground fortification of the Japanese."

We heard him speak slowly, and it turns out that the floor tiles are made of bluestone bricks, and the outside of the bluestone bricks is covered with a layer of colored glaze, that is, glass.

They wrapped colored glaze on the outside of the bluestone bricks, which looked very bright and also had a certain safety effect.

I frowned: At that time there was glass?Glass is not fully popular now, at least not when I was a child.

Professor Xu said that it is not glass, but quartz. The ancients could not refine it into glass, so they used this method, which is considered an invention!But these are not the point. The point is that this is the method used by Qin Shihuang on the Efang Palace. Glazed glass is not easy to make. Even Qin Shihuang can only lay it on the front hall, and there is no way to use this method after that.

"In addition, the records in the unofficial history say that the real Afang Palace is not the one that Xiang Yu burned at all. The floor tiles in front of the front hall are just ordinary bluestone bricks. It has been lost since China, at least thousands of years ago, but these floor tiles are indeed thousands of years ago." Professor Xu was almost lying on the ground, saying that he never thought that the records in wild history were true, and that there were really other An Epang Palace.

Lao Yan didn't take it seriously, saying that regardless of whether this is another Efang Palace or not, even if it was, the Afang Palace was only built with a front hall, and there was nothing surprising about it.

"No, no, Lao Yan, that's not the case," Professor Xu looked up at Lao Yan, his eyes shining brightly: "Qin Shihuang fought such a big battle, how could it be possible that there was only the front hall in the end?"

Lao Yan also answered the conversation instantly, asking him if the real Efang Palace has already been built?
Professor Xu nodded, saying that at least that's what was recorded in the Unofficial History, and the so-called three hundred miles of Efang Palace really existed.

Of course, [-] miles is an exaggeration. The site has a total area of ​​[-] square miles. It is impossible for the completed Efang Palace to be smaller than this.

I was confused, I just felt that they were exchanging scriptures, not that they could not understand, but a little vague, what is true and false Efang Palace, I think it is really unbelievable!
Qin Shihuang spent a lot of manpower and material resources, but in the end he built a fake Efang Palace. Could it be that it was for Xiang Yu to burn?

I shook my head, really wondering why.

However, Professor Xu's reasoning also sounds very reasonable. I also know that his temperament has always been prudent, so it is impossible to fool us.So there really might be an Efang Palace hidden here. In this way, we are afraid that we can complete the task without taking out the Tai'a Excalibur, right?
The Afang Palace itself surpassed countless national treasures, not to mention that there are probably many ghost objects from the Qin Dynasty in it.

"Old Xu." Suddenly, Lao Yan's face became serious: "This is a major event that has caused a sensation in the world. Now the ruins outside are applying to become a world heritage site. Even if it is the real Efang Palace, it is not suitable to be publicized."

Professor Xu was a little disappointed, explaining that there is a magnificent and magnificent Efang Palace, why can't the people of the country and the world know about it?
Lao Yan sighed and said that the current environment is not good. If this incident broke out at this time, the focus of foreign countries would not be on the real Efang Palace, but why the country came up with a fake Efang Palace to fool them. At that time, it will be out of control.

The light in Professor Xu's eyes went out a bit, and then he shook his head with a smile and said, "Forget it! At least in this life, I have seen the real Efang Palace, so even if I die, I will have no regrets."

The two of them settled the matter with a few words, and when they returned to Yanjing, the superior department also agreed with them. The existence of Efang Palace was thus hidden, and they did not know when they would see the light of day again. That's another story.

(End of this chapter)