I looked at Jin Ping Mei with a look of disbelief on his face. His topic was too outrageous and beyond my scope of thinking. Some things that I had been familiar with since childhood were suddenly completely overturned by him. But I was looking forward to him continuing to talk, which was often contradictory.
Common sense things are very attractive.
"Tell me, what is the real function of the Great Wall of Qin?"
"Maybe what I just said is a bit out of touch with reality. Let me correct you. Resisting foreign enemies is one of the functions of the Great Wall, but it is only a very small part. In other words, treating it as a fortification is only a very secondary purpose." Jin Pingmei said.
Tan is very much like a learned old scholar.
"Can you just get to the point?"
"The Great Wall of Qin was built in the Qin Dynasty, specifically during the period of Qin Shihuang. As a side note, emperors in ancient times often had hidden scheming, and generally no one could peek into the emperor's mind, especially a generation of heroes with great talents and strategies.
The pinnacle of empire and power is as small as a mountain, but they are lonely. They have no real relatives or real friends. Family ties and friendships have been erased invisibly. It is difficult for them to completely trust anyone, but...
There is a kind of person who is very popular among these emperors."
"who?"
"Alchemist." Jin Pingmei nodded to me: "Some emperors may not trust their own sons, but they trust Alchemists very much. This is understandable. What the alchemists of all ages have been pursuing is often what emperors long for most. Qin Shihuang
He has raised many alchemists, the most famous ones are Hou Sheng, Lu Sheng, and Xu Fu. You should know Xu Fu."
"Does this have something to do with the Great Wall?" Jin Pingmei told the story with great emotion. I listened with interest, but I was very confused in my heart. The two things seemed to be unrelated.
"Let me ask you a question." Jin Pingmei looked at me with a smile: "If you were an emperor, what would you care about most?"
This question stopped me, because it was so far away from me that I had never thought about it and could not think of it. What did the ancient emperors care about most? They ruled the world, were rich all over the world, and lacked nothing.
"Then let me tell you, there are two things they care about most, first, life span, and second, national destiny." Jin Pingmei clicked on the table and said: "They most long for immortality, and they also long for their own rule.
The country will last forever."
"I guess you're right." I thought about it and found that it was indeed the case.
"Qin Shihuang had great trust in the alchemists, a kind of mistrust. He believed that the alchemists could give him the results he wanted. Xu Fu was one of the alchemists he mistrusted. He led 500 boys and girls out to sea to search for the elixir of life, and he was gone forever.
return."
"There must be no result, immortality? We are all children who grew up under the red flag. Do you believe this?"
"Really? You don't believe it?"
"Do you believe it?" I couldn't help laughing, because Jin Ping Mei didn't look like a retard: "Do you believe there is such a thing as immortality in this world?"
"Don't you think so?" Jin Pingmei smiled meaningfully again: "There are so many things in this world that you don't know. What you don't know or don't understand doesn't mean they don't exist."
"Then give me an example. Don't talk nonsense here."
"Okay, okay, if we don't debate this issue, it has no practical significance for us, and it has nothing to do with the matter at hand." Jin Pingmei waved her hand and changed the subject: "Do you know Feng Shui?"
"I know, but I don't understand." I was completely confused by such a wide-ranging topic as Jin Ping Mei, and my brain couldn't react.
"You should know something about my profession. Our profession is inseparable from Feng Shui, and it can be used more or less. Of course, there are not many colleagues who really pay attention to these nowadays. They use other methods.
And methods have replaced Feng Shui, but after all, there are still people who study Feng Shui carefully. I know two of them, both are seniors. They have been practicing for many years, and their attainments and prestige are very high."
Jin Pingmei was concerned about this matter entirely because of Zhao Yingjun's previous instigation. However, he only speculated and analyzed theoretically and did not take practical actions. He used his personal connections to help Zhao Yingjun find information, and in the process, contacts were inevitable
When we came to some things behind the matter, these things made Jin Pingmei interested, and the more she got into it, the deeper she got.
Especially the photo that Jin Pingmei’s friend brought back from Tibet. The body of the photo should be a mural. Jin Pingmei couldn’t understand the true meaning of this mural at the beginning, but he had many people under his command, and the business itself was out of control.
Without any knowledge of history and geography, some of his subordinates could even be called semi-experts. So during the analysis, some people saw that this abstract mural followed the same direction as the Great Wall of Qin.
Jin Ping Mei went through countless comparisons before and after, and finally confirmed this statement, but the problem then arises. The time when this mural was produced was much earlier than the founding of the Qin Dynasty. There is a time gap between the two.
It is calculated in units of centuries. Everyone was confused about this problem at once. Could it be that on the Tibetan Plateau many years before the Qin Dynasty, some people knew that someone would build a line on this line in a few centuries.
Great Wall?
"Some people say that the Great Wall actually appeared earlier than Qin. In fact, Qin Shihuang was not the founder of the Great Wall. During the Warring States period before Qin, various countries had Great Walls of different sizes, but Qin Shihuang connected them through them." Jin Ping Mei.
He poured a cup of tea and said: "But even in the Warring States period before Qin, there is still a big gap between the time when the mural in Tibet appeared."
Zhao Yingjun was a shameless person, and no matter how difficult it was to collect and analyze the information, he asked Jin Pingmei to continue helping him. Jin Pingmei cared about her friends, and she was becoming more and more interested in this matter, so she continued to do it. He did
There is a lot of work involved, not only collecting information, but also sending people to various ancient Great Wall sites for on-site investigation.
The longer time passed, the more information he had. It was at this time, through some unknown information, that Jin Pingmei had doubts for the first time. He felt that the ancient Great Wall did not seem to be built just to defend against foreign enemies, especially
It is the Great Wall of Qin, and this trace is even more obvious.
Jin Pingmei had to continue working. Gradually, some of his subordinates saw some clues from these materials, but they were not knowledgeable enough and could not tell what the specific situation was. So someone suggested asking others to come and take a look. They invited
They are the two highly accomplished seniors Jin Pingmei mentioned earlier. Jin Pingmei doesn't know them, they are all old connections of his father-in-law, and he invited them here under the banner of his father-in-law.
All the information was placed in front of these two seniors. They took a brief look and were attracted. They volunteered to help Jin Pingmei research without any reward. The two old guys used their best efforts and locked themselves in a room.
, besides eating and sleeping, he just rummaged through a lot of information, and he was so tired that he almost vomited blood. Jin Pingmei was scared, fearing that the two seniors would die of exhaustion, so he had no choice but to tell the other party that if he really couldn't figure out anything
, there is no need to force it.
But the two seniors refused, as if the matter itself had a strong attraction, attracting them, and they must get to the bottom of it.
The two of them stayed in the room and studied for a long time. After finishing all the relevant information, they went out in person and spent half a month walking around.
In the end, the two seniors came up with a research result for Jin Pingmei.
"When they told me this result, they even sounded a little hesitant, because it seemed that way, but it was unbelievable. This is a contradictory result. It makes sense in theory, but it doesn't make sense in practice.
Very possible."
"Can you stop talking like that, like you're breathing heavily? It's so off-putting."
"I have to explain it to you bit by bit. I'm afraid you won't understand if I leave out the details." Jin Pingmei said: "The two seniors combined all the information, as well as on-site inspections, and also referred to some opinions put forward by my people.
.First of all, they told me that in Feng Shui, there is a saying of changing the trend. This is more complicated to talk about, and I don’t know much about it. To use a simple analogy, it is something that is not very good in the first place and is changed through human means.
, thereby turning it around."
"Then what?"
"Generally, the scale of changes will not be too large, subject to conditions." Jin Pingmei suddenly slowed down her speaking speed, as if she wanted me to hear every word clearly: "But the Great Wall of Qin is an exception. This magnificent ancient
The project is used to change the trend, because its appearance has changed the feng shui direction of some areas along the way."
"What are you doing this for?"
"Two old-timers said that building the Great Wall and changing the feng shui direction along the way should be to suppress some things underground."