Chapter Four Hundred and Twenty Four: The Great Merchant Family
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Fat Wei was right. When Chen Zhi's searchlight hit the wall here, the thick metallic feeling was instantly reflected from the light.
In an instant, the sense of solemnity of this 5,000-year-old ancient nation instantly infected every blood cell in their lives.
Perhaps due to the unique sense of blood connection of Chinese descendants, everyone's emotions at this time became very heavy.
This is the place where Chinese civilization originated. Everything they touch comes from the origin of their blood.
This is... the real royal power of the Chinese people!
This palace is different from the buildings of gods. This building is not perfect, and it is not as delicate and luxurious as the tomb of gods.
But it was solid and thick. The walls he saw now were all made of heavy stones, and the gaps in the stones were all spliced with bronze plates, and patterns were cast with gold and copper water. They looked rough.
Bold and bold, magnificent and broad.
Demonstrating the unique character of human kingship.
The place where they landed should be the entrance to a corridor. It was an eight-diamond-shaped room with atmospheric floor tiles on the ground and almost all of them surrounded by bronze statues.
Those statues all have animal heads and human bodies, but they are all strong and muscular, holding ancient stone hammers. They look very rough and silently tell their own stories in the darkness.
Chen Zhi remembered reading some ancient materials. Due to the restrictions imposed after King Wu successfully conquered Zhou, there were very few true descriptions of the Zhou Dynasty.
But the information Chen Zhi remembered everywhere described the characteristics of the people of the Shang Dynasty who were good at conquest and hunting. The merchants were good at hunting and preferred nomadic life.
Hunt their prey, but revere their prey!
Their philosophy is very similar to that of some Indian sects. While hunting prey, they thank the prey for providing meat and bones as food, allowing them to survive.
The fur of the prey is then hung up in a special way to be displayed to future generations.
These statues with animal heads and human bodies were the images of people worshiping prey at that time.
Fat Wei is naturally relatively familiar with this kind of ancient building...
After determining the route, he began to lead the way, and everyone followed her.
Their footsteps were very light, but when the metal-coated soles stepped on the floor tiles, they could still make a crisp sound of "clang~~".
But they were not nervous at this time, because they could clearly feel intuitively that the Nuoda palace was completely empty.
Everything is a trace of the past.
This is a true ruin, a vast and awe-inspiring ruin.
They moved forward and saw many things that later historians wanted to see.
But there are many more... that are miracles that later generations of historians cannot even imagine.
For example, they passed by a small hall-like hall, and the floor of that room was filled with golden ivory.
It was real golden ivory, and the color on it was even brighter than today's gold.
Chen Zhi once heard a legend that after the extinction of the mammoths during the Ice Age, a golden-tusked elephant once appeared.
This kind of elephant inherits the huge size of the Mengma elephant, but is highly aggressive.
It is very ferocious and likes to feed on animals that are smarter than itself. It is difficult to catch in ordinary traps.
This ferocious beast is very bloodthirsty, but the teeth soaked in blood are the same color as gold.
Many human warriors hunted them and placed their teeth in the room to show their bravery. This kind of ivory was very precious, and the meat of this kind of elephant could feed the entire tribe for a whole day.
Chen Zhi was once very interested in these fragmentary ancient legends and wanted to see with his own eyes what this huge creature with golden tusks looked like.
But now, these ancient creatures have truly appeared in front of them.
The rows of huge ivory were tied with pure gold chains and placed on the ground.
There is also the huge elephant skeleton, which fills one room after another and looks very shocking.
They continued walking down, and all the stone chambers after that were very large, and basically everything related to hunting was placed in them.
The bronze walls were covered with large pieces of gold and brass, and some had huge bows and arrows hanging on them.
That strong bow was extremely heavy, and its strings were pure gold and sparkling. I wonder what kind of warrior the hunter who used it was in the past!
There are also many half-moon-shaped white jade pieces hanging on the wall, which are engraved with scenes of ancient merchants hunting.
They are very good at hunting. They form groups of ten or hundreds to attack mountains of large prey collectively, using various types of traps to trap these large beasts inside.
They hunted giant elephants, giant beasts, giant birds, and large sea fish.
Chen Zhi saw a golden leopard skin, which was incredibly big.
You can feel its golden fur from below, but when you look up, you can't see where the leopard's head is at the top.
They also saw bronze pillars on the ground, with giant birds with their heads cut off hanging on them, which were about ten times larger than today's eagles.
Walking among these specimens is very shocking.
Each of these living prey vividly illustrates the vibrant Shang Dynasty, as well as the ancient ethnic merchants who advocated hunting.
However, after passing through these attractive prey exhibition halls, they entered an extremely narrow corridor.
This corridor is incredibly narrow, with the distance between the two sides less than one meter.
But from the ground to the walls, they were all dark purple. Chen Zhi touched them and found that they were all painted on the stones with purple paint...
Chen Zhi remembered that there was a saying from a long time ago.
Purple is the color of the monarch, and the road the monarch takes can only be a one-person road. No one is qualified to walk beside the monarch.
Beneath the gods and above all men, the power of kingship is granted by God and no one can control it.
This is also the original form of human kingship.
As Chen Zhi walked forward, he looked at the ground under his feet. He didn't know what kind of production process it was. After the purple stone bricks were stepped on, thin golden flowers gradually grew.
The purple corridor looks very noble.
After walking forward for a while, the corridor finally reached the end.
They reached their destination, and there was a binaural guest room connected in front of them.
The so-called binaural guest room is a very distinctive guest room in ancient times.
Before the Western Zhou Dynasty, rituals and music had not yet collapsed, and the ancients at that time paid great attention to the etiquette of their residences.
Who lives in which house and who walks through which door are all very particular.
The so-called binaural room means that it has a large front entrance.
Distinguished hosts and guests enter through the main entrance and are distinguished people.
There are two small doors with the same shape as ears next to them. They are very small, only big enough for one person to go in and out.
It was for slaves and servants, and those who came in and out from there were the lower classes.
Although it is just an entrance, it clearly identifies the three, six, and nine levels, showing the noble status, so it is called a binaural room.
This kind of room usually entertains distinguished guests that the owner attaches great importance to.
But now in this hall, the double-eared door is open, and all the curtains inside are floating out.