Chapter two hundred and seventy-two: Wei Youzi's manuscript
On that day, Zongwei Shen Yu and others brought a large basket of bamboo slips and a few pieces of sheepskin-like things from the Zongfu's warehouse.
Looking at those bamboo slips, Zhao Hongrun frowned. You must know that paper has become more common in the Wei Dynasty. Today's books are copied on paper. Even the Ministry of Industry has pioneered engraving printing, but it has not yet reached the level of movable type printing. .
However, the materials brought back by Shen Yu and the others were a basket of bamboo slips and sheepskin-style things.
How many years ago does this have to be?
Can we really find any clues about green Gu from this?
To be honest, it was difficult for Zhao Hongrun to convince himself to hold on to his expectations.
But having said that, without any clues at present, Zhao Hongrun can only honestly look for clues from these ancient documents.
He sat on the main seat in the front hall and picked up a piece of sheepskin on the table.
I saw a very abstract picture drawn on the sheepskin: a person and a pot.
Judging from the picture, this person seems to be refining something.
Are you refining voodoo? Refining voodoo requires the use of fire?
Zhao Hongrun inspected it carefully and discovered that on the lower left side of the sheepskin, among the dirt, its original owner had written a passage, to the effect of: "The witch of Ba Qian is good at witchcraft. A special yellow sand can be extracted from yellow mud, which can be taken and can prevent the disease of thick neck."
I'm going!
Zhao Hongrun almost spit out a mouthful of blood.
He casually threw the sheepskin into the bamboo basket, and at the same time he couldn't help but murmur in his mind: What did he think it was? It turned out to be the method of making salt from brine soil.
Shaking his head, Zhao Hongrun picked up another piece of sheepskin again.
I saw a very mighty-looking bear painted on this piece of sheepskin. The only regret is that the body of this tall and fat bear is composed of black and white, and there are two black eye circles in the position of the eyes.
"..."
Zhao Hongrun breathed out lightly, raised his hand to support his forehead, and at the same time glanced at the note on the lower left side of the itchy skin: There is a strange beast in the land of Bashu, the white scorpion, with a wide body, a fat body, white hair, and likes to eat tender bamboo.
"Crack."
Another sheepskin was thrown into the bamboo basket by Zhao Hongrun.
Is there nothing useful?
After a few cursory glances at the sheepskins, he found that the sheepskins described all these so-called "wonderful things and strange beasts". Zhao Hongrun inevitably became a little anxious. After thinking about it, he picked up a scroll of bamboo slips and started reading.
According to the record at the beginning, what Zhao Hongrun has in hand is a record of envoys visiting Ba, Qian, Shu and other places, written by a man named Wei Youzi.
There is no doubt that Wei Youzi is a pseudonym. After all, Wei is the name of the country of Wei. There is no surname Wei in the whole country of Wei. It is said that Han and Qi do have this surname. If nothing else, there should be dozens of people. People who fled from Wei to other countries years ago or hundreds of years ago.
Therefore, judging from the pseudonym Wei Youzi, Zhao Hongrun believed that it was most likely an ancestor of his Ji family, or even an ancestor of his clan. After all, literally speaking, Wei Youzi can be understood as a Wei person who traveled abroad, and generally There is no need for Wei people to conceal their true identity when visiting Bashu and Guizhou, unless that person is a member of the Ji family.
After all, Zhao Hongrun's father, Emperor Wei, once mentioned that the Ba people and the Wei people had an unforgettable hatred.
Zhao Hongrun found sufficient evidence for this in the description of this humanistic article: In the article, Wei Youzi mentioned Shu people and Qian people, but there was no word Ba people. There were quite a few barbarians. , refers to "Yi", so it is not difficult to guess that this Wei wanderer most likely hated the Ba people.
But despite this, Wei Youzi's in-depth understanding of the Ba people was by no means perfunctory. He not only noted the five largest ethnic groups of the Ba people, namely Ba, Fan, Muqin, Xiang, and Zheng in the article, but also detailed them in detail.
It records the small ethnic groups divided into these five large ethnic groups, as well as the information that the Ba people use the tiger as their totem, are good at hunting, fishing, and can even tame wild beasts, etc.
Then it was gone. This scroll of bamboo slips recorded the origin, culture and habits of the Ba people.
I think this thing has no use?
Reluctantly, Zhao Hongrun put the bamboo slips in his hands back into the bamboo basket and took another roll of bamboo slips.
Unfortunately, this bamboo slip did not record the knowledge he wanted to know, but it recorded the humanities of the Shu people.
Unlike the Ba people who were resented by Wei Youzi, Wei Youzi praised the culture of the Shu people at large in the article. When he mentioned that the Shu people raised a white "yarn worm" and used the silk it spun to weave slippery satin.
, Wei Youzi’s evaluation of this was astonishing, it’s really a worm.
Zhao Hongrun rolled his eyes, he finally understood why silkworms are called silkworms, aren't they, heavenly insects!
"Hey!"
He casually threw another roll of bamboo slips into the bamboo basket. This time Zhao Hongrun was not anxious because he felt that Wei Youzi's travel notes were indeed interesting. Of course, if this ancestor could get rid of some subjective prejudices, don't use any rudeness.
Zhao Hongrun believed that he could pronounce the words more fluently when referring to Ba people with pronouns such as ah yi ah.
Not to mention, in this era of lack of entertainment channels, he found it quite interesting to look at the records left by his ancestors when they traveled to other countries, even if some of the things in them were already known to him.
I have to admire that this Wei wanderer is definitely a master who knows how to "play". According to his travel records, Zhao Hongrun feels that this ancestor's footprints seem to be everywhere in Baqian and Shu. He "warned" the Wei people: Shu
Humans are not savages who feed on hair and drink blood as the Wei people once thought. In fact, Shu has a long history of humanities. They know how to farm, raise silkworms, and fish. They are hard-working people.
All in all, it praises the Shu people and belittles the Ba people. This is true throughout the article.
From this, Zhao Hongrun guessed that this may be related to the national policy of the Wei Dynasty at that time: to win over the Shu people and deal with the Ba people.
Compared with Bashu, Wei Youzi's evaluation of Guizhou is greatly discounted. The reason may be that he commented in his article that Guizhou is a barren land with poor mountains and rivers, and even emphasized in the article that the land cannot support people and the water cannot support fish.
Zhao Hongrun was really puzzled at first, wondering what the Qian Shui (black water) that Wei Youzi described in the article that could not keep fish alive was, until he saw the description of black (black), sticky, pungent smell, etc.
He almost vomited blood.
He suspected it was oil.
Can oil be used to raise fish? No!
Can crops be grown in areas where oil is produced? No!
Wei Youzi's evaluation of this land was correct, but he did not realize the true value of this land.
Natural and easily exploitable oil...
It has to be said that Zhao Hongrun is a little excited. After all, oil is one of the important energy sources. However, thinking about it carefully, it seems that the Wei Dynasty has no use for oil at present, so this excitement gradually subsided.
But it is undeniable that Zhao Hongrun still remembered it, just like he remembered the ash trees and ash insects in Bashu.
When there is an opportunity in the future, he does not mind collecting all these precious resources into their Wei Dynasty for the benefit of future generations.
As for the evaluation of the Guizhou people, Wei Youzi is much more objective than the Ba people. He speculated in the article that the Guizhou people may be prisoners who were exiled from some countries, or they may be migrants from Bashu and Bashu, but regardless of
Anyway, the number of Guizhou people will not be too many, because in his opinion, that land is really unsuitable for living.
It’s not that I gained nothing at all, at least I learned about a place that produces oil…
Comforting himself in his heart, Zhao Hongrun gradually put the scroll in his hand into the bamboo basket.
The reason is that there is only the last bamboo slip left on his desk. If there is no record of witchcraft in this bamboo slip, then he will either go to the clan house to rummage through the boxes to find it, or he can only find it.
Give up, change your strategy and think of other ways.
After letting out a slight breath, Zhao Hongrun unfolded the last scroll of bamboo slips. He had no longer held any expectations. He really didn't expect that the ancestor of Wei Youzi actually described things about witchcraft in this scroll of bamboo slips.
However, it was not Ba Gu as Zhao Hongrun thought, but Guizhou Gu.
...Ba, the land of Guizhou, has its tribes and Miao people, who fear the heaven and earth and all things...
According to the records of Wei Youzi in the bamboo slips, he overturned the speculation that he had mistakenly thought that the Guizhou people were Naiba, people who migrated from Shu, and he was more inclined to another theory: it is very likely that these people were the people who had been with various countries in the Central Plains.
Those who failed to compete for territory and were expelled, because Wei Youzi wrote an annotation in the article that he died in Guizhou. Based on the context, it is guessed that he meant fleeing to Guizhou.
Zhao Hongrun concluded that the predecessors of the Guizhou people were most likely an ethnic group that had failed to compete for territory with a large country in the Central Plains and was expelled. They fled to Guizhou, a barren land that was also popular among the large countries in the Central Plains, and stubbornly fought in the barren land.
The Miao people survived on this barren land and gradually evolved into a nature-reverent Miao people.
In the process of evolution, the Qian people had to come into contact with the Ba people because of the barrenness of the Guizhou land, and even intermarry. Over time, the culture of the Guizhou people and the culture of the Ba people merged together.
What made Zhao Hongrun happy was that Wei Youzi actually mentioned the Gui art of the Guizhou people.
Wei Youzi recorded in his article that because of the poor mountains and rivers in Guizhou, people in Guizhou often died of poisonous poisoning due to eating something by mistake or being bitten by poisonous insects or snakes.
At first, the Qian people who revere nature thought this was a punishment from God. It wasn't until a Qian man who was bitten by a poisonous snake gave up on himself and swallowed another poisonous weed, but luckily survived, that the Qian people learned to fight poison with poison.
Not to mention Zhao Hongrun, even Wei Youzi recorded this incident in an article with an exclamation tone: The Guizhou people cultivated gu to remove poison, and actually made the dead people alive.
Later, with the gradual convergence of the cultures of the Ba and Qian people, the witch culture of the Ba people and the voodoo culture of the Qian people gradually merged into a new culture, voodoo.
What made Zhao Hongrun even more ecstatic was that Wei Youzi's description of the method of inflicting a lovesickness poison in the article was very similar to the scene when he was poisoned by Mi Rui. It could be said that it was exactly the same.
What is incredible is Wei Youzi's evaluation of this kind of poisonous insect: It will not harm his life, but it will make it difficult for men to leave this woman. She is so magical and evil that no one can predict it. The secret may lie in the woman who feeds the poisonous insect.
Bloody?
"call……"
Although he failed to get a way to get rid of the green poison, Zhao Hongrun was already satisfied. After all, Wei Youzi stated in the bamboo slips that this green poison or lovesickness poison was not fatal, and this was enough.
However, Zhao Hongrun couldn't understand the sentence "It's hard to leave this girl", because he didn't think he would be able to leave Mi Jiang.
In other words, it has not reached that stage yet. (To be continued.)