Chapter 681 Butterfly Effect
In the mid-winter month of the 36th year of Qin Shihuang (November of the lunar calendar), a large ship slowly sailed from the direction of Kuaiji County and docked at the outer port of Dongyecheng.
Hundreds of Qin soldiers and the Minyue people who surrendered to Qin met at the dock. Everyone worked together and shouted horns to carry the huge bronze objects on the building ship down and transported them to the newly built "Snake King Temple" in the center of the city, and then reassembled them.
At this time, the Yue witches discovered that the bronze giant statue was actually eight "big snakes" entangled with each other, in groups, facing four directions. Although the workmanship was not exquisite, it was majestic and grand, far better than that of the Fujian people.
I heard that this is what the Qin general said, the "snake god" worshipped by the Qin people, so they all shouted and worshiped.
"This is clearly a dragon."
Lu Jia glanced at it and muttered secretly that he knew what this was. After Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, in addition to confiscating the weapons of the world and concentrating them in Xianyang and casting the twelve golden men, the ones that were confiscated one after another were concentrated in each county and county government, casting chime bells and setting them in the palace. They were three feet high, and the small ones were all thousands of stones. There was one in Yuzhang County. Lu Jia had seen them when he went to Nanchang with his husband, and there were also Kuaiji and Jiujiang.
The base of this chime bell is a few bronze dragons wrapped in tangled together, which looks quite similar to the treasures of the Shaanxi Provincial Museum in later generations.
Heifu actually wrote a letter to Kuaiji County, asked the base to come and stuffed it directly into the temple, saying that it was the "snake god" worshipped by the Qin people.
However, the people of Fujian really believed it, because the dragons in the Qin Dynasty were different from those in later generations. The paintings on the bricks had claws, but the bronze dragon cast was not known to be the negligence of the craftsmen or the fact that they cut corners, but they only had patterns on their bodies, so they looked more like a big snake.
Let’s take a look at the banner of Heifu: the red and unliterate dragon slant. Because it is an abstract dragon pattern, it looks like two big snakes entangled with each other. For a moment, many people believed Heifu’s nonsense: “I also admire snakes.”
"It is normal for Fujian people to be unable to distinguish between dragons and snakes."
Heifu smiled and said, "Don't talk about them, even the people of Nanjun can't tell the difference. In the "Red Book" of Anlu County, the twelve zodiac signs are mentioned, "Zi, rat; Chou, ox; Yin, tiger; Mao, rabbit; Chen, Yi, worm..."
The countrymen in Nanjun were also confused about these two things, so the Japanese who visited the villages all called them "worms" in dialects.
Now, the invader who was originally a "pagan" turned into a guardian of faith. He even made people fabricate the story of "no one respects the snake god, but he cannot come out" and "the poisonous snake does not swallow the Qin generals but circle it and dances for it."
He explained to the tribes in this way: "A common belief can make these Fujian people feel at ease, at least I will not destroy their temples..."
Heifu paused slightly, looked at Mei Jing, and smiled, "Or like the people of Nanyue, they stewed all the gods they worshipped to make snake soup."
This is a helpless move by Heifu in order to allow the Qin army to gain a foothold in Dongye City, using this as a water base to attack Nanyue, and at the same time preventing the Fujian people from resisting the endless rebellion.
Even if this incident was spread to Xianyang, it would be fine, because in the Qin Dynasty, Long's status was far inferior to that of later generations.
Heifu once heard Zhang Cang talk to him about the dragons in ancient times. He heard that during the Xia Dynasty, the image of "dragon" mainly appeared on jade artifacts. Most of the dragon heads had no horns and had big ears, which was simply the image of a pig's head, but there were already dragon patterns on the body. Although it had a strong pig color, it had already entered the threshold of a dragon.
However, the status of the "dragon" at that time was not much different from that of the pig. When Xiahou Kong Jia was in the morning of Kong Jia, it was said that two dragons flew to Xiadu, but were not worshipped. Instead, they were raised and finally killed and eaten meat. Xiahou praised it as a beautiful taste and asked if there was any...
In the Shang, Zhou, Zhou, Spring, Autumn and Warring States Period, dragons finally got rid of their status as "meat and animal" and were upgraded to "moving animal". In various myths, they were mostly gods pulling carts. Qu Yuan wrote in "Nine Songs": "The dragon carries in the emperor's clothes, and the sky is soaring and the Zhou Zhang."
The Qin people used the image of dragons two more places: placing ritual vessels, looking at the gate, being pressed under heavy chimes, or being placed on the left and right outside the palace, with functions similar to turtles and lions.
The emperor's robe was not a dragon robe, but a twelve chapters, and the dragon only occupied an inconspicuous corner.
Therefore, as a "prince", the black husband is qualified to fight the Dragon Banner as a banner, and not regarded as a usurpation.
Although the people of the people have begun to call Qin Shihuang "Zulong", the emperor himself has never recognized this title.
"Even if Qin Shihuang changed his mind, Long Zhen became the emperor's exclusive object, and even the official totem of China would not matter."
The black husband was full of confidence and first fooled the people of Fujian. After they accepted the setting of "Qin and Min worship snakes", when the time was ripe, they would come up with the saying "snake turns into dragons". It is not difficult to make Min Yue become the "successor of the dragon".
Deceiving and nonsense without changing your expression, this is a qualified politician.
After stabilizing Dongye City, it was already early November. Thirty thousand troops of land and land gathered in Dongye. Just waited for Wei Yang and others to explore the way to the South China Sea with the Fujian people as the guide and found a safe channel. The army could take a sea boat and attack Panyu directly, and attack the new army from Wuchang from north to south, and catch the Nanyue people off guard!
However, just when Heifu held a banquet and celebrated the heroic journey with the soldiers, Ji Ying, who was responsible for conveying military information throughout the Southern Military Region, sent Heifu a letter from Xianyang.
"It's Zhang Cang's letter."
Heifu had not contacted the fat man for a long time, so he asked everyone to drink slowly and then took it aside to take it apart.
Everyone was drinking, but they heard a loud noise. Heifu lost his mind and knocked down the candle in the lamp stand, hurriedly ran over and stepped on it, and then looked at Heifu with a surprised look.
How could Changnan Hou, who was not surprised to collapse in Mount Tai before, lose his composure? They were all very nervous and thought something extraordinary had happened.
"Is it because of the emperor's death?" Lu Jia felt nervous.
"Could it be that the wife was imprisoned?" Dongmenbao gritted his teeth, and Li Kurakami also tightened his fists.
"Can't it be that the two young gentlemen fell seriously ill and refused to be cured?" Xiao Tao felt sad. His eldest son died of urination at a young age.
"Drunk, drunk."
But the black husband just shook his message, Yun Danfeng smiled lightly and said, "Nothing is serious. Zhang Cang told me that the Queen Mother of the West has found it, and His Majesty has hope of immortality. Two or three sons, let's drink another cup to congratulate Your Majesty!"
Behind the smile, there was a lot of surprise and scolding.
"Is Queen Mother of the West Athena? What an international joke!"
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Things have completely deviated from expectations and are running towards the unknown distance. This is what Heifu feels.
On the boat heading to the South China Sea, Heifu finished reading Zhang Cang's letter again and sighed:
"It's really unintentional to plant willows and willows into shade..."
The Queen Mother of the West was twenty-seven years old. He conspired with the frustrated witch of Chen Bao Temple, using the long-standing legends and the bizarre dreams of Qin Shihuang to bring out the light.
The original intention was to prevent Qin Shihuang from investing in the warlocks, so that these wasteful human and financial resources could be used to empty the Western Regions and connect with distant civilized countries, so that the Chinese could realize the greatness of the world early. Regardless of the advantages and disadvantages of Eastern and Western civilizations, stones from other mountains could be used to polish jade. I hope that China will join the local area network in the future, rather than staying in East Asia to play stand-alone games.
At that time, Heifu thought happily that the people of the Central Plains had not even figured out where Kunlun Mountain was. I am afraid that by the time Qin Shihuang passed away, they would have found nothing, but they could not prove it.
Heifu's original intention was basically achieved. Zhang Cang described to Heifu the sensation caused by the envoys of the Great Xia in Xianyang. Judging from their dress, perhaps it was the Hellenistic state left in the East after Alexander's expedition?
The first dialogue between the East and the West was realized, and Zhang Cang even discussed astrological knowledge with the other party, and there will definitely be more in-depth exchanges in the future.
This is a good thing, but what makes Heifu's toothache is that the people of Daxia have no idea what they are thinking, and they actually called the "Queen Mother of the West" that the Qin envoy was looking for as Athena, and even sent a statue of the god.
What is even more ridiculous is that Qin Shihuang didn't know what purpose he wanted to agree with this setting.
Heifu couldn't help but mutter: "Can your Majesty change his taste after reading all the powders of the six countries, like trying the ocean horse?"
This process is absurd and bizarre.
This is the butterfly effect. Whether Heifu is happy or not, the huge storm has condensed in the distance. It will bring profound and permanent changes to this era...
"I just pushed it lightly behind this empire, and it just happened."
Standing on the tower boat and looking at the vast blue South China Sea, Heifu explained weakly.
He finally underestimated the effect of the time traveler. Not to mention pushing, even a slight touch will cause endless waves...
For example, even if you beat Hei Fu to death, you would never have thought that a joke about "I also admire snakes" would lead to the fact that he would become a Fujianese who would be the right guardian of the snake god parading on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month of the Fujianese. He would beat gongs and drums and carry the right guardian of the snake god parading on the street: "Black Snake Lord"!
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ps: "Sun Book·Thieves": Zi, rat; Chou, ox; Yin, tiger; Mao, rabbit; Chen; Yi, insect; Wu, deer (the idiom "pointing deer to horse" or related to it); Wei, horse; Shen, ring (reading rum, namely ape); You, water (reading pheasant, namely pheasant); Xu, old sheep; Hai, pig (reading pizza), pig (reading pheasant),
Chapter completed!