In the library, Li Ang held a stack of files and placed them on the table.
It is not easy to investigate the so-called "Wujun Changmen Sea Falcon Thirty-Nine". It has been a long time, things and people have changed, and the former Changmen Shipyard is no longer at its original address.
Fortunately, there are still fragments of words in the thick files.
Many of the emperors of the former Sui Dynasty were keen to search for the legendary endless seas and fairy mountains in order to obtain the elixir of immortality, live forever, and hold imperial power forever.
This also made the shipbuilding and shipping industries of the former Sui Dynasty extremely developed.
He will supervise the construction of large-scale sea-going ships regardless of cost. Even now, their performance is still excellent.
There are also large-scale private merchant fleets that go as far as the West for trade.
"Sea Falcon is the name of a medium-sized sea-going ship. It was first produced by Changmen Shipyard in the fourth year of Daye. Because of its stability and reliability, it was purchased by various companies for maritime trade."
"Among the various firms in Suzhou at that time, the most prominent one was undoubtedly the Yiyuan firm. At its peak, it owned more than 200 seagoing ships, large and small, and more than 20,000 sailors and workers. The Su family who controlled the Yiyuan firm also had family members
He achieved the official position of long history - second only to the governor of Suzhou."
"However, in the tenth year of the Great Cause, natural disasters occurred frequently on the coastline, sea conditions deteriorated, and many ships were sunk by natural disasters. The Yiyuan Company was particularly hard hit and declined rapidly. As for the Su family, it was as if they had been cursed, and family members behaved strangely one by one.
Died of illness."
Li Ang looked at the dossier information and frowned slightly.
The former Sui Dynasty was no different than the Yu Kingdom. At that time, there were many sects of spiritual practice and people were born into the world more frequently.
Some monks will be tied to private businesses and gangs.
As an offering, solve problems for companies and gangs,
In exchange for practice resources.
According to the size of Yiyuan Company, it is not difficult to hire monks. However, in the tenth year of Daye and the thirteenth year of Daye, in just three years, nearly two thousand people in the direct and collateral branches of the Su family died.
Next four hundred.
There was no epidemic in Wu County at that time, so there were rumors among the people that the Su family had salvaged something from the bottom of the sea that should not be messed with, which brought irreversible misfortune to the family.
The reason why this story has been handed down is that the head of the Su family at that time, probably for the purpose of saving the family, built a large-scale manor on the outskirts of the south of Suzhou City.
The manor covers a large area, and its architectural style is completely different from popular folk. It lacks an atrium as a partition.
On the contrary, all the houses are closely packed together, and the internal structure is extremely complicated, full of hidden doors, secret passages, and secret rooms that are difficult to find.
Outsiders can easily get lost if they walk into it, so they must be led by a guide.
According to rumors, the head of the Su family built such a manor at that time to resist the curse on his family - the more complex the manor, the more it could delay the evil spirits seeking life and fight for the family's survival.
It is unknown whether this strategy worked in the end. More than ten years later, with the assassination of the former Sui emperor, the Sui Empire collapsed.
The states and counties fell into chaos and disorder, and wars raged. The Su family, along with countless "wealthy families", was submerged in the long river of history.
"It is clearly recorded in the file that Su's firm purchased the first forty Sea Falcons from Changmen Shipyard. In other words, the number Thirty-Nine Sea Falcons engraved on the stone box containing the ink silk indeed belongs to Su's firm.
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Li Ang said silently, "The question is, what happened to that ship and the entire Su family..."
To figure this out, the best way is undoubtedly to find shipwrecks, family records, or epitaphs.
After Li Ang left the library, he immediately controlled Mo Si's clone and sneaked to the southern suburbs of Suzhou City at night. After some searching, he found the ruins of the Su Family Manor.
The ruins are located on a hillside and have long been covered by wildly growing vegetation and vines. Only some stone bricks and tiles that have not been picked up by previous villagers can be found under the vegetation.
‘The scattered wooden structures that remain have obvious signs of being burned. I don’t know if they were burned by Su’s own people, or because of the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty...’
Mo Si's clone searched for a while, but it might be because the Su family was so rich that the country was coveted.
Including the underground structures of the manor ruins, they have been dug up and searched, but nothing of value has been found.
In desperation, Li Ang controlled Mo Si's clone to continue southward and came to a graveyard.
Rich families have family tombs, where dozens or dozens of generations of family members are buried.
According to family rules, family tombs should be guarded by dedicated personnel to prevent thieves from digging the tomb, stealing tomb objects, or even eating the offerings.
The results of the investigation are still not going well,
The collapse of the Su family was so rapid that it was impossible to even send people to guard the ancestral graveyard. Most of the tombs were stolen and dug up, and the tombstones and coffins were destroyed.
"The only few epitaphs and inscriptions all record the life stories of great scholars or important officials in the Su family. They are dated before the Daye period and have nothing to do with the mutation that caused the demise of the Su family."
Has the clue been interrupted again...
A trace of reluctance rose in Li Ang's heart, and he finally followed the clues to trace it here, and he was about to get close to the origin of Mo Si.
Mosi's clone stood there for a long time and sighed.
Forget it, go back.
Mo Si turned around and turned back, her spiritual consciousness inadvertently swept across the valley, and she accidentally discovered something.
It was placed in front of a tombstone, a relatively fresh... offering.
"Huh?"
Mo Si's clone immediately escaped underground and approached the tombstone quietly.
You read that right, in front of the old tombstone, there are fruits, vegetarian food, drinks, and pastries that have not completely decayed.
As for the tombstone itself, it had been scratched many years ago. Only the surname of the owner of the tomb could be vaguely seen, and the age matched that of the late Sui Dynasty.
"The offerings are still relatively fresh. It feels like they were put down more than ten days ago."
Li Ang's thoughts quickly changed: "This tombstone is at the entrance of the valley. It is blocked by trees and is quite hidden. Could it be that these fairies were placed by the descendants of the Su family? Because the family has declined and has no ability to renovate or maintain the ancestral tombs, it can only enshrine them.
One of the ancestral graves."
The more I think about it, the more likely it is, especially after I notice that the tomb itself is unremarkable and the burial objects are somewhat precious.
"Where will the descendants of the Su family...be?"
Mo Si's clone searched the spot, but could not find any spiritual energy traces, and the footprints were also destroyed by the forest ecological environment.
Only a piece of cat hair was found in a small pit near the grave.
With the salty smell of the sea breeze, the fur of the ship cat.
This chapter has been completed!