Su Bai also jumped into the carriage. Fatso's will-o '-wisps floated in the carriage, illuminating the interior of the carriage.
"Da Bai, do you know what these words are?"
Fatso asked.
At the bottom of the carriage, there were many grooves with mysterious patterns. Because the carriage was very big, the area at the bottom was also very big. The patterns were also very fine. It was as if if one looked at them for too long, one's entire mind would be unable to help but be immersed in them.
Su Bai did not know much about array formations, but even a fool could tell that this was not an ordinary thing.
As for the words that Fatso asked about, they should be on the walls of the carriage. There were no illustrations, but there were some words. There were not many words, but they were all obscure and difficult to understand. For outsiders, they could only tell that they were ancient characters of China.
"Xiaozhuan," Su Bai replied. "Yes, it's Xiaozhuan."
"Damn, not bad, Da Bai. I feel that you can go to a university and be a history professor now." Fatty exclaimed in surprise. Because he had discovered the Teleportation Formation in the carriage, for Fatty, on one hand, it was a turning point for him to get out alive, and on the other hand, he was very excited. As a Formation Master, encountering a well-preserved Teleportation Formation from the Pre-Qin Dynasty was really no different from a pervert encountering a beautiful woman.
"I used to have a lot of seals in my study. The words on the seals were mostly in Xiaozhuan." Su Bai exhaled and reached out to touch the wall gently. "After Emperor Qin unified China, Xiaozhuan was the cultural unification policy of 'books are the same language, carriages are the same track' and the unification of weights and measures. Prime Minister Li Si was in charge of simplifying the original large seal characters used in the Qin Dynasty. He removed the other six scripts and created a unified script. It was only gradually replaced by clerical script at the end of the Western Han Dynasty. However, seals have always been engraved with Xiaozhuan characters."
Su Bai turned around and looked at Fatso. "Since this is a carriage escorted by the army during the Qin Dynasty, it is of course normal for there to be Xiaozhuan characters in the carriage."
"Then, Da Bai, can you understand it?" Fatso asked.
Su Bai shook his head. "I can only understand a few words, but I can't understand what they mean. That old professor should be able to understand it, right?"
"If he can understand it, then he can. There must be some hidden message in it. If everyone on our side can understand it, then I just feel uneasy." Fatty said what was on his mind.
"At this time, he shouldn't be hiding anything. Doesn't he need you and that Zhou fellow to repair and activate the array formation? We are just using each other."
At this time, the young man surnamed Zhou and the old listener who had finished kowtowing outside also began to return. The old listener climbed in through the window first, followed by the young man surnamed Zhou.
"There is no food or water here. Fatso, how long will it take for the two of you to activate this array formation?" Su Bai asked.
Zhou fellow pondered for a while and looked at Fatso. "The array formation is well preserved. Even the spiritual power needed to activate it can be replaced by the blood essence of the four of us. However, what the two of us need to do now is to understand some of the veins of the array formation. This way, we can ensure that we will be teleported upwards and not to the left, right, or down. This array formation is too profound. With our level, we can barely determine a direction. As for the specific location that we want to be teleported to, we can't fix a fixed coordinate at all."
Fatso nodded. "Even the Western Space Magic Enhanced Listeners would be at a loss for this array formation. Although there are many arrays passed down in the East that are similar to this one, I have never seen such an authentic one. If it's just to teleport us upwards, we should be able to figure it out in twelve hours and then we can activate it."
"Twelve hours." Su Bai pursed his lips. "It's not a big problem to not eat or drink for twelve hours."
At this moment, the old listener interrupted, "Aren't you curious as to why these two hundred Qin soldiers are escorting the carriage deep into the heart of Tibet?"
"Old man, if you have anything to say, just say it. We are not here for an outdoor archeology class," Fatso muttered.
The old professor shook his head. Clearly, he was very dissatisfied with Fatso's "learning attitude". He pointed at the words and said, "According to the written records, this Qin army is escorting a princess to a tribe deep in Tibet."
"Peace marriage?" the young man surnamed Zhou asked.
This was very normal. Although the young man surnamed Zhou was not from the mainland, most of the history textbooks in Taiwan were similar, except for the description of modern history and the historical peasant uprising.
Since ancient times, the Central Plains' dynasties had sent their princesses to the barbarians, which represented a compromise and humiliation.
"This is a peace marriage team?" Fatso said in disbelief. "Back then, there was also a powerful country in Tibet? So powerful that the First Emperor had to send a princess to make peace? "
The old professor seemed very satisfied that Fatso and the young man surnamed Zhou had thought of the wrong thing. This gave him a sense of satisfaction from teaching them.
"No, no. Ying Zheng thought that his achievements were higher than the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, so he called himself the Emperor. He was the first to truly unify China and was known as the Ancestral Dragon by later generations.
Such a person, you want him to swallow his anger and humiliation? You want him to lower his voice to another country? He even did not hesitate to send a princess to make peace. Is that even possible? "
"Damn, you're still keeping us in suspense!" Fatso said unhappily.
"This princess was sent to the depths of Tibet with the Ancestral Dragon's communication talisman. She represented the Ancestral Dragon in integrating the Tibetan tribes at that time." The old professor looked at the words on the wall and said, "She was not sent to be the wife of the tribal chief, but to let the Tibetan tribes at that time be her grandson."
"This is what was written on this wall. There are more on the opposite side, and the font is different from this side. It should have been written later." Su Bai pointed to the opposite carriage wall and asked.
"Yes, it was written later." The old man walked to the other side and took out his ruler so that he could see the Xiaozhuan characters more clearly. "The meaning recorded here is that after this princess was escorted to Tibet, she held the Ancestral Dragon's message talisman in her hand and quickly took over the Tibetan tribe. At the beginning, they were fighting against people with wings, people who could turn into bats to suck blood, werewolves, and a strangely dressed army."
A scene from the vampire's memory immediately appeared in Su Bai's mind. Could it be that Alexander the Great had fought his way here during his expedition to the East? But the historical timeline of the two did not seem to match. Alexander the Great and the First Emperor had a difference of a hundred years. Even if there was an error in the historical timeline calculation, the difference should not be so big.
But the following words explained Su Bai's doubts.
"Those strange troops should be the defeated army. They were chased from the west to the east and wanted to build a new territory here to recuperate. The Princess led the Tibetan tribe and fought with them for a long time. In the end, the Princess emerged victorious and captured many of them. She even sent people to escort them back to Xianyang to present the captives to the Ancestral Dragon."
Alexander the Great's army was defeated by a terrifying existence. Then, the remnants of the army fled to the east and ran into the Tibetan tribal alliance army organized by the princess of the Great Qin Dynasty. In the end, the defeated army from the west was defeated.
This matched the second part of the memory. The vampire in the research institute should have been sent to the First Emperor of Xianyang as a captive.
This was what Su Bai thought.
"But …" The old professor paused for a moment. It seemed that the last few paragraphs were a little hard for him to understand.
"F * ck, you're making things difficult again. Hurry up and tell me, the story is getting interesting!" Fatso urged. "I don't understand the last two paragraphs either.
"I don't understand the last two paragraphs, but the rough translation is that darkness has descended, and a truly terrifying enemy has appeared. The Tibetan Ancestral Tribes under the Princess have been defeated by that terrifying enemy, and the alliance has collapsed. Many Tibetan Ancestral Tribes are crawling at the feet of the darkness, begging for their lives. The Princess has led two hundred Qin soldiers to resist, and in the end, she has been forced into this desperate situation. The last few words are that the Princess requests the First Emperor to send the Qin army from the kingdom as soon as possible to rescue them. The Tibetan Ancestral Tribes cannot withstand a single blow from the darkness, and only the Qin army can defeat it."
At this point, the old listener pointed to the inscription at the bottom and said, "This is the most unimaginable part. This princess left her inscription here. She is actually called — — Princess Wencheng."
"Isn't Princess Wencheng from the Tang Dynasty?" Fatso was aware of this historical common sense.
"Yes, Princess Wencheng is indeed from the Tang Dynasty, but this is the Qin Dynasty's army. It can't be a transmigration," the old listener agreed.
"Perhaps, this is the real Princess Wencheng, and the one from the Tang Dynasty could be a coincidence. Or, it could also be that Li Shimin purposely made up this title to disgust Songtsen Gampo." Su Bai speculated, "After all, Li Shimin was the emperor, and he had people like Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang who could write the Push Back Chart to assist him. It's not impossible that he would know some secrets about the Qin Dynasty."
"Yes, my young friend, what you said makes sense. Perhaps, this is really the case!" the old listener said excitedly, "This is the real Princess Wencheng!"
"Oh please, why did the Tang Dynasty's Princess Wencheng become an imposter?" Fatso was puzzled, "Didn't the Tang Dynasty's Princess Wencheng and Songtsen Gampo love each other, and they built a century of peace between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, making a great contribution to historical peace?"
The old listener and Su Bai looked at Fatso as if they were looking at an idiot. Fatso's historical knowledge was really only suitable for textbooks and Princess Huanzhu.
Su Bai had to explain, "The story of Princess Wencheng and Songtsen Gampo has been written in the Spring and Autumn Annals style by the Han historians. Since ancient times, for the dynasties of the Central Plains, it was an extremely humiliating thing to send a princess to a barbarian land for marriage.
In fact, Songtsen Gampo initially sent an envoy to Chang 'an to ask Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty to marry a princess to him. However, Li Shimin looked down on the leader of the barbarian tribe and directly refused.
Later on, Songzan Gampo led the Tubo army and fought with the Tang army. Only then did Li Shimin admit defeat. He picked a woman from his clan and bestowed her the title of Princess Wencheng. He sent her to Tibet to marry Songzan Gampo. It was a marriage of peace.
As for what was written in the history textbooks, how Princess Wencheng and Songtsen Gampo became inseparable after entering Tibet, how Princess Wencheng spread Han culture, how she was loved and respected by the Tibetans, and how she established more than a hundred years of peace between the two tribes, these were all the effects of the Spring and Autumn Annals.
In fact, Songtsen Gampo had five wives at that time. After marrying him, Princess Wencheng's status was equivalent to that of the youngest wife, and even her title was the lowest. Now there is a scenic spot in Lhasa called the Jokhang Temple. Now it is said that Songtsen Gampo built it for Princess Wencheng, but in fact, it was built for Princess Chizun who married from Nepal. That woman was the official wife. It was originally built for Princess Wencheng.
The peace brought by the marriage alliance did not last for more than 20 years. After that, the Tufan Empire and the Tang Empire met on the battlefield. The two sides fought for nearly a hundred years. The Tufan Empire not only annexed the Tang Empire's achievements in the Western Region, but also occupied the Tang Empire's capital, Chang 'an. Therefore, the saying of peace and friendship was originally deliberately embellished by the historians of the dynasties for fear that it would be too ugly.
Until now, the greatness and role of Princess Wencheng have been exaggerated and politicized. "
"Why is that?"
"National harmony. National unity is greater than the sky. " Su Bai concluded, "With this general policy and foundation, even the law can be ignored, not to mention modifying and exaggerating the so-called history.
The story of Princess Wencheng in the Tang Dynasty is actually very similar to the story of the ancient Silk Road. The government kept publicizing it, and even the leaders would shout these slogans to win over the relationship between the domestic ethnic groups and foreign countries.
In fact, anyone with some knowledge of history and common sense would be able to see these clues. What happened to Princess Wencheng could be found in the history books, and even the history books of Tubo could be used as evidence. The Silk Road was a name randomly named by a German explorer more than a hundred years ago, but it was now being promoted to the point that it was almost mythical. This is politics, a bit like the emperor's new clothes. "
The old man listened and nodded, which meant that he agreed with Su Bai's statement.
At the same time, he said, "Now it seems that Li Shimin had no way to deal with Tubo at that time, so he had to make the move of marriage. And he conferred the title of Princess Wencheng either by coincidence or by coincidence.
Or maybe he really knew some secrets about the Qin Dynasty, so he deliberately conferred the title to disgust the Tubo people.
Li Shimin may even have a little fantasy that this Princess Wencheng could be like the one in the Qin Dynasty, holding the power of the Tibetan tribes in her hands. "
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