Chapter 34 Hu Nuzhen Fengyun (17) The Legend of Peach Blossom Stone
Li Mi faced Sun Xiurong, in the past, he could talk freely in front of famous scholars like Zhang Yue and Zhang Jiuling, and even refuted them speechlessly forever.
It is due to the huge difference in knowledge background that although Li Mi was extremely intelligent, he could not escape the influence of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. He would eventually find answers to people and things when dealing with people and looking at affairs. However, Sun Xiurong, who has gone through three lifetimes, is different. He is a theology in later generations, mixed with the various schools of thought, and his logical system is very different from that of people at this time. On the surface, he seems a little "arrogant", but after careful study, there are still some truths. The key is that you cannot argue these truths.
This is the real reason why Li Mikong is full of knowledge but cannot play it out. This is also the open Tang Dynasty. If it were in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people like Sun Xiurong would definitely not be able to survive.
But Li Mi is a smart man after all. Seeing that this young man who was only two years older than him was actually better than him in words, he suddenly remembered something and smiled and said, "Does Sun Lang have any words?"
Sun Xiurong shook his head, "I haven't reached the crown yet, so I have no words yet."
"Then do you have it in your heart?"
Sun Xiurong said intimately: "Of course there is, but if you say it, you may be scared again, but it is inappropriate if you don't explain."
Finally, it was said, "I am known as the Han people, and I have benefited from the Han Dynasty. The revival of the Han Dynasty was thanks to Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu. Our country's etiquette and law began in the Zhou Dynasty and the Central Plains, and was known as a country of etiquette. I firmly believe in it, Zhou Wu, what do you think?"
In fact, Sun Xiurong secretly made an ambush. In his mind, the character Zhou did not come from the Zhou Dynasty, but from the Zhou Shizong Chai Rong. In addition to the character Rong, he naturally had this person who was one of the few ancient emperors he respected.
In fact, he used "Guangshi" best, which was one of his choices, but the hidden edge was not something that anyone could understand at the moment, because Zhou Shizong had not appeared yet, so he did not say it out.
"It's not only funny," Li Mi is not only funny, but it's really ridiculous to take the word like this, let alone the name of an ancient emperor. If someone is interested, wouldn't he have no chance to hear it?
"Sun Lang, I have read a few more books below, so why not do this. According to "Shuowen Jiezi", the beautiful one is the meaning of spring flowers blooming, all things reviving, and hundreds of ears sprouting. The glorious one initially refers specifically to the flowers of plants and trees. I know that your original surname is Yang. The ancestor of the family made Sun Wanrong the adopted son of Khitan and changed his surname to Sun. The latter word changed every five generations. Khitan people are crude and unwilling. It would be better to change it to Yang."
“…”
Seeing Sun Xiurong falling into silence, Li Mi thought to himself: "Changing a name cannot be changed unless it becomes someone else's adopted son or the saint gives it a name. Because it involves the household registration, taxes and service books, it will affect the whole body. It is estimated that Sun Lang is worried about this."
What he could not have imagined was that Sun Xiurong was willing to use this name simply because it was exactly the same as later generations, not just other things.
"Cough cough", seeing that Sun Xiurong had regained his expression, Li Mi smiled and said, "Well, the Sun surname is one of the great surnames of my Han family. Sun Wu is also the ancestor of the military strategist. The Three Kingdoms dominate the Eastern Wu. It is so glorious, so I use the Sun surname and the Sun surname. I just said that according to the initial meaning of Shuowen Jie, whether it is Xiu or Rong, it is a state of growing plants."
"Although I am young, I also know the suffering of farming. After a seed is planted, it will sprout when it encounters a suitable climate, and then produces young buds and drills out of the soil. The word "Xiu" is called "Zhong Ling Yu Xiu". The word "Xiu" is mostly accompanied by the word "Ling Ling Yu Xiu""
"Then it grows vigorously and even blossoms and bears fruit. Sun Lang's name is already in its shape, but the fruit is not the shape of fruit. The fruit is wood solid, and it is often accompanied by the word "true" and is common. It is better to use spiritual solid than to use "spirit, real" together. The sounds of "spirit, real" are not in line with each other. Sun Lang just talked about Kunlun Mountain. No matter whether this is the origin of my Han family, its specialty jade is real."
"So, it is quite appropriate to use 'spirit stone' instead of 'spiritual reality', you see..."
Sun Xiurong felt a little nervous and thought to himself: "Why did it come to the stone again?"
Li Mi continued: "There is still something that Sun Lang knows what seal is used for the countries built by the outside world in addition to the Chinese generation?"
Sun Xiurong shook his head and said, "The jade seals passed down from China for generations were passed down from the Qin Dynasty. The capital of the Qin Dynasty, Xianyang, was in Guanzhong. Naturally, Lantian jade was used. Does the Khanate State built by the grassland tribes have seals? They did not have any written words at the beginning, so why did they use seals?"
"Hahaha," Li Mi smiled, "There are finally things that Sun Lang didn't know about. The grassland tribes only use seals without words. Carving the patterns that the Khan likes on the seal, wouldn't it be the same as the imperial edict of the Central Plains?"
"Also, it is said that in the north of the desert, all the grassland Khanate in the northwest had seals, and they were also jade seals. Do you know what seals it is the most?"
"Oh? I really don't know this."
"Haha, it is a kind of jade specialty of Kunlun Mountain. The locals call it Peach Blossom Stone. I heard that all the grassland Khanate that is devoted to the Central Plains, or the Khanate that has some inheritance from the Central Plains dynasty will use this stone to carve the jade seal. In the past, the Turkic Khanate, now the Uighur Khanate, and even the remote Jiegas tribe, use this seal. Anyone with a peach Blossom Stone with excellent quality will use a lot of money to buy it."
"Why is this?"
"Oh, I heard from you too. It is said that in the eyes of Westerners, China is a country of peach blossom stone. Of course, this peach blossom stone is probably a transliteration, and later it was spread through rumors. In any case, it was all the materials used for the Jade Seal of King Khan. Sun Lang clearly obtained a top-quality peach blossom stone, so why did he offer it to Bian Lingcheng?"
Sun Xiurong's old face turned red, "Li Lang, you don't know that Bian Lingcheng was looted by a horse thief on the way to Bohezhou, and all the treasures he brought were lost. After we defeated Larudoji, we used factors such as language barriers to make him mistakenly think that we had killed all the horse thiefs. If there were no one or two credible things to meet the situation, how could we win the trust of a cunning person like Bian Lingcheng?"
"Well, you're right"
Hearing Sun Xiurong say this, Li Mi did not make fun of him anymore, and his face became serious, "Bian Lingcheng competed for favor with Gao Lishi, which is not a secret in the world. Now it is time for Bian Lingcheng to lose power and Gao Lishi to be favored, but in the next generation, there is also King Shou and King Zhong. Bian Lingcheng closely clings to King Shou, because the emperor favors Concubine Wu Hui the most. King Shou is the son of Concubine Wu Hui, while King Zhong is the eldest son. Although there is a difference between legitimate and illegitimate, there is Taizong and the lesson of Emperor Gaozong. It is not certain who can inherit the throne."
"Bian Lingcheng has been in the Western Regions for two years. He naturally knows the legend of the Peach Blossom Stone. He finally found one, but it is not considered a treasure. The eunuchs are helpless. The king is the only one who relies on it. Naturally, he has to do his best to find the treasure for the King of Longevity. In the Western Regions, the most excellent treasure is naturally the Peach Blossom Stone. You are right, the governor is what he can find."
"Oh? How did Li Lang learn it?"
"Haha, if you don't know, unless you don't do it yourself, Bian Lingcheng's two years in the Western Regions were in the Western Regions, and he went to the Western Regions to seek immortals and seek Taoism. If he hadn't met Sun Lang, he might be either in India or somewhere in the hinterland of Kunlun Mountain."
"No more, Bian Lingcheng holds the power of the Western Regions and has the power to submit a close report to the saints. Naturally, officials of all sizes, including the Jiedushi, are submissive. At the same time, according to the regulations of the border army of the Tang Dynasty, those who dispatch more than one army need eunuchs to supervise the army, which makes generals of all sizes who pursue military merits curry favor with each other."
"There were two peach blossom stones, one with a small snake in it and the other with a butterfly. It was the one obtained by Sun Lang. In the Western Regions, the small snake implies the meaning of a dragon, while the butterfly means a phoenix, which is extremely precious. The whereabouts of the dragon are now unknown, but the phoenix is owned by the Ju family of the former Gaochang Kingdom and carved with the imperial jade seal."
"After the general Hou Junji defeated Gaochang during the Zhenguan period, the whereabouts of this imperial seal were unknown. Later, somehow it was passed on to the hands of the great power of the Western Regions. After Bian Lingcheng learned about it, he obtained it from the King of the Stone Kingdom. Fortunately, the King of the Stone Kingdom had two jade seals, one was this thing, and the other was a fiery red serpent stone. For the Stone Kingdom who believed in Zoroastrianism, although the fiery red butterflies were very strange, they were not as useful as the fiery red serpent stone, and finally gave it to Bian Lingcheng..."
"Dalang, you missed a big thing!"
"Li Lang, don't tease me anymore. Tell me quickly, what's the matter?"
"There is a secret legend in the Western Regions. Only the monks who believe in the Zorosa and Manichaeism know that not long ago, when I was debating with everyone in Weilong Kingdom, there was a Zorosa who fled here. After debating with him, he couldn't argue, and in a hurry, he revealed the secret."
"What's the secret?"
"According to legend, on the grassland, as long as you collect two jades, you can become the Khan King who will unify the world. Dragon jade represents water, and phoenix jade represents fire. There is no saying that water and fire are incompatible. Instead, it is a sign of great luck. Now that the phoenix jade has arrived in Bian Lingcheng, it will definitely be in the hands of King Shou in the end. The whereabouts of Dragon jade are unknown. I think there will be no unification in the grassland, hahahaha."
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Sun Xiurong was stunned for a moment, but he quickly recovered.
"Is there any specific statement here?"
"Of course, it's similar to your messy statement. They believe that at the beginning, the most important transformation of human beings was fire. Since the fire was found, they had separated from eating raw meat and drinking blood. From then on, they were clearly separated from the barbarian world. The sun was the source of light. It was probably influenced by the tribes of the northern desert grasslands. They also worshiped the sun very much, and then they had Zoroastrianism, as well as the dispute between the Venerable Light and the Dark Demon Lord. They attributed all this to fire."
"On the grassland, what we fear most is not wind and sand or heavy snow, but drought. Once a major drought occurs, the animals will starve to death in large numbers, and the tribes will also decline. Therefore, water is the second important thing they think. The amber in the dragon jade is a small black snake. The black dragon represents the sea and the deep pool, so there is no risk of water shortage."
"With the fire that can be cooked and boiled water, the tribes can be continued. With water, the animals can be continued, and the tribes can be continued. Therefore, they believe that these two peach blossom stones were given to the grassland tribe by God. Whoever can get them will have great blessings. Of course, if they fall into the hands of ordinary people, he will not be able to keep it. It is a good thing that Sun Lang gave to Bian Lingcheng. If it is still in your hands, it is not only not blessings, but also dangerous!"
"I'm doing the right thing?"
“Of course it’s”
When saying this, Li Mi secretly glanced at Sun Xiurong's reaction. Seeing that he seemed relieved, he thought to himself: "Sun Lang is naturally intelligent and brave, but after all, he is a young man's heart and has times when he is afraid of things."
Chapter completed!