"This..." I scratched my head and couldn't say anything.
He smiled and said: "Yunfeng, you have been busy these two days, and I have not been idle either. I have already solved the secret."
He took out a broken book from the drawer and threw it on the table.
I think this shabby book is an old photocopy of the "Newly Revised Chengdu Prefectural Chronicles" in the first year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty. To put it simply, it is the county chronicles.
There are two theories here, one is that there is no county chronicle in Chengdu, the other is that the earliest county chronicle in Chengdu is the one in the first year of Daoguang reign in Wanqing Dynasty.
Both of these statements are wrong. The earliest county chronicle is the one in the hand of the head. The original book is in the Sichuan Museum and was written by Li Min, a man from the Ming Dynasty.
He turned his head to open the torn book, and one of the pages was folded.
This part is the third volume, which includes two parts: customs records and construction records. The architectural records also record in detail the private schools, schools, city walls, offices, ancestral temples, palaces, Guanliang, temples, mausoleums, and historic sites in each region.
wait.
He pointed his head at two lines of records and asked me: "Look at these two sentences."
I muttered silently: "About 7 kilometers from the northern suburbs of Chengdu, at the southern foot of Mopan Mountain, there is a mausoleum, which should be the mausoleum of Meng Zhixiang."
I was immediately surprised and said: "Boss, this Meng Zhixiang is the King of Shu in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?!"
Could it be...that my face changed drastically!
He took a sip of tea and said, "Yunfeng, you are very smart. You can tell many things at once. Yesterday, I got news that the owner of the ancient tomb in the sarcophagus should be a "Shang Chaan Fengyu" during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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"What kind of official is this?" I asked.
The boss said: "The person in charge of horses is similar to our current Minister of Transportation."
I lowered my head and thought for a few minutes, and then I understood.
I did not fabricate this silver coin out of thin air. It has a great background, and only a very few people know about it and have seen it. You are unlikely to have seen it.
The Shatuo Kingdom was in the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and Chongzhou was included in the territory of the Later Shu Kingdom at that time.
The tomb of King Meng Zhixiang of Shu is located at the place recorded in the county annals. Now it has become a tourist attraction. The interior is not open to tourists because there is nothing in the tomb and it was stolen eight hundred years ago.
According to our common sense analysis, a person in power will not allow another small country to appear within his own territory, right?
But this situation does occur.
Chongzhou is only a few hours' drive from Chengdu. People in ancient times had fast legs and feet, and it took less than two days to walk there.
In my analysis, the main reason is that although Meng Zhixiang was a Han official in his early years, his ancestors were actually from the Shatuo tribe and were all descendants of the Turks.
It can be seen from his tomb that the roof of his tomb is a conical structure that is very rare in the Central Plains, just like the roof of a yurt on the grassland.
They are both descendants of Turks, so he did not have the heart to destroy the Chongzhou Shatuo Kingdom in his own territory at that time, because in the final analysis they were of the same blood and origin.
When the king of Shatuo Kingdom saw that his elder brother was not messing with him and allowed himself to be an independent king, he must be trying to please filial piety, so he minted a batch of silver coins and gave them to Meng Zhixiang, the king of Shu.
A lot of silver coins may have been minted at that time.
The owner of the sarcophagus tomb was Shangguan Fengyu of the Shatuo Kingdom, who was in charge of transportation, so he embezzled some of the silver coins and hid them in his own coffin. He took them into the tomb after his death.
We don’t need to study the meaning of the ancient Turkic characters on the front of the silver coin. We can’t figure out the meaning even if the characters are dead.
Just look at the pattern engraved on the back.
They are all flowers, including "hibiscus flowers".
What does this mean?
Official history records that Meng Zhixiang was particularly fond of flowers.
He once mobilized the whole country of Shu, young and old, to plant flowers all over Chengdu. When the flowers bloomed in September, Chengdu was covered with golden rust.
Therefore, the real reason why Chengdu is now nicknamed "Rongcheng" is this.
