In front of Qin Yu, the temple was filled with large luminous pearls of soft stone, and some gilded paintings were carved on the walls. Under the light of the luminous pearls, the murals shone with golden light, making the entire temple magnificent.
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The reason why Qin Yu was shocked was because what was enshrined in the middle of the temple was not the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the Buddhist family, but a person.
It was quite surprising that there was a statue of someone other than Buddha placed in a temple, and the person enshrined in it gave Qin Yu a familiar feeling. When Qin Yu saw the statue of the person enshrined on the altar, he immediately thought
A drought.
Except for the height, the temperament of this statue is almost exactly the same as that of Han Ba. Although Qin Yu could not see Han Ba's face clearly, Qin Yu was sure in his heart that this statue was definitely Han Ba's appearance during his lifetime. This temple was used to
Worship him.
"There is a statue of Han Bao in the temple, and there are soldiers waiting outside the temple gate." Qin Yu is now more and more curious about Han Bao's identity. If he had been reluctant to be coerced before, but at this point
, he also wanted to know the identity of this drought demon.
It is a pity that although there is a statue of Han Ba enshrined in the middle of the temple, there is no identification mark. After Qin Yu circled around the statue of Han Ba, and found nothing, he walked towards the wall again.
Qin Yu thought that there was no reason why the four walls of this temple were painted with murals. There were a total of twelve murals on the four walls. Qin Yu started looking at the left side of the door. This first painting made Qin Yu distracted.
With a start, he saw that it was an emperor, wearing a dragon robe and sitting on a high platform. Below him were hundreds of civil and military officials who were kneeling in worship. From the movements and expressions of these officials, Qin Yu could tell that these officials were shouting long live the mountain.
From some scenes in the picture, Qin Yu couldn't tell which dynasty they were from. The official uniforms of the officials were only vaguely represented by black gauze hats, which meant that these were civil and military officials.
The second scene also shows the emperor leading the civil and military officials, but the scene has changed. This time the emperor and the civil and military officials are standing together, performing some kind of ceremony. Qin Yu guessed that it was probably a ceremony to worship the heaven.
The third mural is completely different from the previous two. It is a battlefield painting. Countless soldiers are charging into battle throughout the painting. Among them is a general who is extremely brave, fighting in and out of thousands of troops with one gun and one horse.
I don’t know why Qin Yu thought of Han Ba inexplicably when he saw the general’s back. Could it be that this general was Han Ba’s life?
Qin Yu looked back at the statue in the middle, compared it with the general in the painting, and found that the two were really similar.
The fourth painting was one that Qin Yu couldn't understand at first. There were only three people in this painting, the emperor, the general and an old Taoist. The reason why Qin Yu couldn't understand it was because of the actions of these three people.
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From the portrait, the old Taoist has his back to the emperor and the general, with the floating dust in his hand pointing to the sky, while the emperor and the general are kneeling on the ground, with angry looks on their faces.
In ancient times, the emperor was the most powerful person, and it was almost impossible to kneel down, except for some ancestor worship and heaven worship ceremonies. But the situation in front of us is obviously not a grand ceremony. What on earth would make the emperor and generals willing to kneel down?
With this doubt, Qin Yu looked at the fifth painting again, and was stunned again. In the fifth painting, the general was kneeling on the ground, but his head fell to the ground, a bastard.
The machete in his hand was still dripping with bloody blood from the tip, but His Majesty the Emperor stood on the high platform without saying a word.
"Han Ba is dead? Impossible. If this general is Han Ba's identity during his lifetime, then he shouldn't be beheaded. Did I guess wrong before that Han Ba is not the general in the words?"
Qin Yu had no choice but to suppress his doubts and continue to look at the sixth painting, but the sixth painting immediately solved the doubts caused by the fifth painting.
On the sixth painting, the general appeared again, and this time the general was training the soldiers. In addition to the general, the old man appeared again, but I don’t know if the painter who painted the mural did it intentionally or what. This old man is always
Carrying it on his back, you can only see his long white hair and back.
The seventh picture was still about training soldiers, but this time Qin Yu could see something. The armors and weapons of these soldiers were covered with talismans, exuding a cold light, and there was a soldier on the picture.
A scene where a huge boulder was pierced by a single shot.
"This is training Tao soldiers, what a great effort." Qin Yu murmured softly. It was recorded in Zhuge Neijing that Mr. Wolong once wanted to train a group of Tao soldiers in order to defeat Wei. The so-called Tao soldiers were
Refers to soldiers who know Xuanmen Taoism.
It's just that Tao soldiers are not so easy to train. To become a Tao soldier, you must first have talent and be able to practice telekinesis, and Tao soldiers are all at the fourth level or above. Even though Mr. Wolong has talents in the world, it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
It is difficult to train a group of soldiers who have reached the level of fourth-grade fortune tellers in a short period of time.
As far as Qin Yu saw in the painting, this Taoist army had a size of five hundred people, five hundred soldiers who were equivalent to the level of a fourth-grade physiognomist or above. This power was terrifying to Qin Yu just thinking about it. He couldn't
You know, what does this general want to do by training such an army? Such an army of 500 people can fight against millions of ordinary soldiers. Of course, this refers to the era of cold weapons.
The power of five hundred fourth-grade fortune tellers is definitely not as simple as one plus one. If combined with some formations, to put it in a not exaggerated way, it is possible to kill gods and Buddhas.
The eighth and ninth paintings were both training Taoist soldiers. Qin Yu then looked at the tenth painting. There were two people in this painting, one looked like a eunuch, and the other was the emperor. The eunuch was wearing a dragon.
The robe was hung on a tree, and the emperor was looking at the eunuch under the tree and didn't know what he was thinking.
"The meaning of this painting is that an emperor asked the eunuch to pretend to be himself and hang himself on a tree, but the emperor himself escaped from the cicada shell."
An idea flashed in Qin Yu's mind. There was only one emperor who was hanged in history, and that was the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty: Chongzhen.
When Li Zicheng conquered the capital, Chongzhen led some concubines to commit suicide and hanged themselves in Meishan. According to the message expressed in this painting, Emperor Chongzhen did not hang himself, but used an old eunuch to cover himself, and he himself escaped.
Qin Yu stopped in front of the tenth mural. He began to sort out the messages conveyed by the previous ten paintings in his mind. There was no doubt that the emperor in the painting was Chongzhen, and the general was Qin Yu.
He also had some confidence in his heart. For some reason, Emperor Chongzhen asked Han Bao to help him train Taoist soldiers. In order not to reveal this secret, Emperor Chongzhen pretended to execute Han Bao. Qin Yu had some confidence in Han Bao's identity because of this.
reason.
The most famous general who was executed by Chongzhen was the most famous one. According to the message on the mural, Hanba and Emperor Chongzhen both faked their deaths. However, Hanba faked his death in order to prevent the secrets of training Taoist soldiers from being exposed. But why did Emperor Chongzhen choose to fake his death?
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Knowing that Emperor Chongzhen had 500 Dao soldiers, Qin Yu didn't think that the peasant soldiers of Chuang Wang Li Zicheng could really break through the capital. Thinking of this, Qin Yu had a doubt in his mind: Who has 500 Dao soldiers?
Why would Emperor Chongzhen prefer to watch his country be taken away by others, or even pretend to be dead and disappear in front of the world, rather than expose those five hundred soldiers?
Qin Yu recalled the records about Emperor Chongzhen in the history books. Emperor Chongzhen was a frugal life, diligent in political affairs, young and promising emperor. He eradicated the eunuch Wei Zhongxian as soon as he came to the throne, and then issued a criminal edict. It can be said that
Among the weird emperors of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen can definitely be ranked among the top five in terms of qualifications to be an emperor.
Many historians have studied the reasons for the demise of the Republic of China. One reason is recognized by everyone, and that is Emperor Chongzhen's bad luck. Since he took the throne, natural disasters have continued among the people.
"Hannan Xujun Chronicle" records: "In the first year of Chongzhen, the whole sky in Shaanxi was as red as blood. In the fifth year, there was a great famine, in the sixth year there were floods, in the seventh year there were locusts in autumn, there was a great famine, in the eighth year there was a drought in Xixiang in September, and in Lueyang
There were floods and all the houses were destroyed. In nine years there were droughts, and in ten years there were no autumn crops. In eleven years, locusts covered the sky in summer... In thirteen years there was a severe drought... In fourteen years there was a drought."
After fourteen consecutive years of drought, the common people had no hope of living, and then they revolted one after another. After the drought, there was a plague. The dead abandoned their children, the rivers blocked the roads, and there were dead people everywhere. It can be said that half of the reasons for the demise of the dynasty were these natural phenomena.
caused by disaster.
"Wait a minute!" Qin Yu suddenly interrupted his thoughts and muttered to himself: "Drought, drought demon, is there some connection between the two?"
“As soon as the drought scourge appeared, the land was thousands of miles away, but by chance, there were another fourteen consecutive years of severe drought during the reign of Emperor Chongzhen.”
This made him wonder if there was any relationship between the two. Qin Yu's eyes suddenly shrank sharply: "If there is really a connection, then Emperor Chongzhen's plot..."
Qin Yu believes in a saying that ambitious people will give up all their wealth in order to gain a greater net worth. As an emperor, especially a diligent emperor like Chongzhen, it is impossible to say that there is no ambition, so Chongzhen created
A severe drought, regardless of the life and death of the people, is willing to throw away the inheritance of the ancestors, then what he is plotting must be more important than the country in his own eyes.
In the eyes of the emperor, what is more important than the country? Qin Yu found the answer in the eleventh painting. In fact, thinking of this, Qin Yu already had a rough guess in his mind.
Qin Shihuang's achievements shook the world, and he was the only emperor through the ages. He gathered the soldiers of the world and cast them into twelve golden figures. But in the end he was still unwilling to give in. What did he seek, immortality? And Emperor Chongzhen, like Qin Shihuang, embarked on the road of seeking immortality.
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The blue stone gate appears in the eleventh painting. This is the third time Qin Yu has seen this blue stone gate. In the memory of the mountain god, the scene of the underworld, plus the current eleventh painting.
The blue stone door opened, and the old Taoist appeared again, standing in front of the stone door with his back to Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen walked into the blue stone door with five hundred soldiers. It can be seen from the expression in the painting,
Emperor Chongzhen had an excited and determined look on his face. Obviously, in order to seek immortality, he had no way out. The country had perished and only these five hundred Taoist soldiers were left. He had to find a way to achieve immortality. (Unfinished)