Dad looked puzzled and asked me: "Xiaoxiang, is this thing important?"
After coming back to my senses, I hurriedly said: "Uncle, this thing is not simple anyway. There are some things I haven't figured out yet. Let's go eat first."
When I returned to the dinner table, I was gnawing on the pig's trotters on the surface, but in fact my mind was already far away.
A cigarette after a meal is better than a living god.
I leaned on the sofa in the living room and asked, "Do you have a computer at home?"
"Yes, it's in my brother's room. Do you want to use it?"
I nodded.
I went to his brother's room. After turning on the computer, I fiddled with it for a while. Then I stood up and moved my seat. I asked for help and said, "I'm not very good at doing this. Please help me search for something."
"Search for what?"
"Just search Tiansheng Law Order."
I quickly found it, but I only had photocopies of the pictures, and there was no way to enlarge the pictures.
I sat down and stared at the screen seriously.
"No way, brother Xiang? The characters are so small, you can see them clearly?"
I said yes, go and get me a glass of water, I want to take a look.
Tiansheng Lingling is the Western Xia code. It was originally the Western Xia Dynasty. It was excavated in Heishui City and is now stored in the Ural Museum. I read the vernacular version published by Science Press in 1994.
After reading one page, click the mouse to turn the page.
I kept scrolling until after eleven o'clock, and finally found what I wanted.
Baldness order!
It was promulgated by the founding emperor Yuan Hao and was included in the criminal law chapter of Tiansheng Law Order.
"Xia old customs", these three words mean to restore the old habits of Dangxiang people, that is, baldness.
At that time, the Han people tied their hair, the Xiongnu wholesaled it, the Mongolian people had their hair braided, and the Donghu people had bald hair. This Donghu people were the predecessors of the Dangxiang people!
Yuan Hao was ambitious and wanted to revive his clan and become an emperor for eternity. This can be seen from his invention of Xixia. The words on the human head jar describe the baldness order, "Anyone who does not shave his hair for three days will be killed."
amnesty."
But after careful study, I discovered another problem.
The time written on the human head jar is "the fourth year of Yanzuo's reign of heaven's gift of rituals", which is 1041 AD.
Yuan Hao had already founded the country at this time, but according to the description of Tiansheng Ling Ling, the Bald Hair Order occurred in 1032 AD, with a gap of nine years.
So what is this jar for?
In order to understand it, we must characterize it, whether it is commemorative or practical!
I thought about it and thought it was both, and an idea suddenly came to my mind.
From the first year of Tianshu Lifa to the fifth year of Tianshu, the Song army was defeated by Xixia in recent years. The Song army in the northwest was almost completely damaged. At the same time, the Liao Kingdom was also beaten into dogs by Xixia.
As a result, Yuan Hao's domestic prestige reached its peak for a while.
Throughout history, when an emperor won a great victory, what was the one thing he must do?
Sacrifice to heaven and ancestors!
Before the baldness order was issued, Yuan Hao set an example and was the first to shave his head and restore the Donghu hairstyle.
This strand of hair is of extraordinary significance. Who dares to throw the emperor's hair around? It may have been preserved. Later, after a great victory, such a jar was burned during ancestor worship to put Yuan Hao's hair and the human head in the jar.
, placed on the tribute table in the Imperial Ancestral Temple of Xixia.
Another point is to try to restore Yuan Hao's psychology at that time from the few words that have been preserved.
Sitting in front of the computer, closing my eyes, I imagined a scene in my mind.
The scene is in a luxurious building. A young man and an elder are talking. The young man is Yuan Hao and the elder is his father Li Deming.
Li Deming was seriously ill. He lay in bed and sighed: "Son, after I die, you must not rely on strength to establish a country. Although we have strong soldiers and horses, the Song Dynasty will be as powerful as a behemoth. If you don't listen to my advice and hastily establish a country, I'm afraid that our party will not be able to establish a country."
The whole clan will face a disaster!"
Yuan Hao said coldly: "Dad, our party, Xiang Erlang, is not afraid of anyone in the world. You don't need to tell me, I am determined to found the country."
Li Deming stared at Yuan Hao for a long time, then kicked his legs and returned to the west.
Although this is a scene I imagined in my head, it most likely happened.
Yuan Hao was arrogant by nature, and the purpose of burning human heads was to tell his ancestors, "All your worries at the beginning were wrong! I did it today!"
The reason why it is made in the shape of a human head may also be an allusion to the Song Army.
Because in ancient times, heads were a way of expressing military merit. Whoever cut off more heads would get more rewards.
After opening my eyes and thinking about it all, I hurriedly looked at the human head jar, hoping that there was still some hair left in it, even just one!
Unfortunately, no, the jar was empty.
Back in front of the computer, I stared at the screen in a daze, and then came in.
"What are you thinking about? You are so lost in thought."
"I didn't think anything of it. By the way, isn't your Alto broken? How about I help you buy a new one? What kind of car do you want?"
"Ah, help me buy a car?"
He whispered: "Brother Xiang, this... seems inappropriate..."
I smiled and said, "I want this can of human heads from your family, but I said it's not suitable. If you convince your dad to give it to me, I will buy you a car, a BMW and a Mercedes-Benz. It's up to you to choose."
"Brother Xiang, are you serious? I don't want a BMW and Mercedes-Benz, I want a red Beetle, which costs more than 300,000!"
I said of course I'm serious, I'm not kidding, you can have any kind of insect you want.
After thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, deal, give me two days! When I convince my dad, you can come and get the jar!"
I repeatedly told him to get it done quickly.
At present, I am the only one in the world who knows the value of this human head jar. If I don't get it, I will be sorry for myself.
At midnight, I left home and hailed a passing taxi.
"Where to go?"
"Master, please go to the building materials community."
According to the news I learned during the day, the old bear from the antique market lived in Building 3 of the Building Materials Community, but I didn’t know which floor and which door it was on. So when I arrived, I asked the taxi to wait, and I ran to the carport to talk to the gatekeeper.
After asking around and chatting, I found out the house number of Lao Xiong's house.
"Who is it? It's so late and you're knocking on the door."
I shouted: "Brother Xiong, it's me, we met during the day! I'm Lao Wang's friend! If I need anything, I'll see you!"
"You can't talk about anything during the day, I'm already asleep!"
I shouted again: "It's urgent, you open the door first! Let's have an interview."
After waiting for five minutes, Old Bear yawned and opened the door sleepily.
Before he could say anything, I handed over five hundred yuan in cash.
"Brother, what are you...?"
"Brother Xiong, I'll buy some news with this money. I want to know the address of the descendant of the pot dealer who sold you the human head jar."
"Oh...I see...Brother, you want to take something from him, right?"
Lao Xiong was not polite. He took my cash and said with a smile: "Brother, you are a friend of Lao Wang. Let me tell you straight. Their family is very poor now. I guess they have nothing to sell. They should have sold it long ago."
It’s all gone! But you can try your luck if you want.”
Lao Xiong told me an address, which was very remote, in the Paoma Mountain area in the suburbs. I went downstairs and told the taxi driver the address and asked him to take me there.
After hearing this, the driver waved his hands repeatedly and said he would not go there.
Did I say it was a long way or something?
The driver argued with a grimace: "It's not just the distance! That place used to be the old Guozhuang house. It has been abandoned for many years. There's not even a single person in the area. I heard it's really haunted!"
"Don't talk about this, just tell me how much money you can go."
The driver thought for a long time, gritted his teeth and said: "Two hundred"!
After charging two hundred, the driver still didn't want to go, so he asked for another five hundred, and I gave him the money again. Now he had nothing to say.
After starting the car, the driver made a cross on his chest and said Amen.
Then he stepped on the accelerator and pulled me straight down the mountain.