Doujin 30: What did Yang Yizhong discover - LiaWind
"Just stay here and don't let anyone else come over."
Yang Yizhong gave instructions to his men, then tightened the rope around his waist and climbed down from the wellhead.
The well was not deep, but there was no light from the sky, making it particularly dark. Yang Yizhong felt in a daze that the bottom of the well seemed to lead to an unknown place, and felt that this idea was too ridiculous. He shook his head and took out the well that he had already prepared.
The fire blows and burns.
The weak firelight flickered, reflecting several metallic lights at the bottom of the well. Yang Yizhong fumbled around and got a few small discs.
Before he could take a closer look, Inoue's men were already asking questions. Realizing that he had been down for too long, Yang Yizhong responded while stuffing the things he picked up into his purse. He turned around again to confirm that nothing was missing before signaling.
The men pulled him up.
"Why did I stay there for so long? But what good things did I find?"
One of his subordinates asked in a joking manner, but Yang Yizhong was already prepared. He took out two silver coins from his purse and laughed and cursed: "What? Do you want it?"
-Look, it was given as a reward to hundreds of officials and generals when the official ascended the throne. It was not worth a few dollars, but it was difficult to take action. The subordinate who asked the question felt unhappy, but he said with a flattering smile on his face that he did not dare.
"Progress."
After scolding, Yang Yizhong took out some broken silver and divided it among several people. Everyone cheered and thanked him, and then dispersed.
Exhaling silently, Yang Yizhong squeezed his purse and returned to his tent. When there was no one else around, he poured out a dozen small yellow or white discs from his purse. He also found a cloth towel.
Wipe away the contaminated soil one by one, revealing its true appearance.
Three or five of them are yellow, probably made of brass, with some patina, and the pattern on one of them is completely invisible. But for the rest of the white ones, Yang Yizhong is a little unsure. Judging from the hardness, they should not be silver.
In fact, the luster reminded him of a sword from the past. It was made of fine steel and was as sharp as iron. But if it is steel, how can it always be as bright as new without maintenance? After all,
The copper found together was completely rusted.
After thinking for a while and unable to figure it out, Yang Yizhong simply found a magnet, put the metal piece up, and it was attracted to it.
It's really steel! I don't know what method was used, but it is not afraid of rust. If it can be used to make weapons, I am afraid it will be a rare magic weapon in the world!
After trying all the rest, there were still a few pieces that couldn't be sucked and were light when weighed. Yang Yizhong couldn't tell what they were, so he had to put them aside first.
Yang Yizhong picked up a disc, but found that it was somewhat unclear. He hurriedly lit the oil lamp and looked at it carefully under the firelight. When he wiped it before, he felt that the pattern on it was very fine. He saw it in the palace.
The silver sachets made by top craftsmen were probably nothing more than that. The key is that Yang Yizhong took another disc of the same style. Compared with the original one, they were almost identical, with no difference at all.
-Is this really humanly possible?
1. Are the current officials gods, ghosts, or monsters?
Tap tap tap tap....
The heavy footsteps woke up Yang Yizhong, who was deep in thought. It turned out to be soldiers on patrol. When the footsteps were far away, he stood up, picked up the wick, and continued to look at the objects.
Regardless of the material, looking at the pattern alone, the discs can be divided into two categories.
One category includes all copper sheets and extremely light metal sheets, as well as about half of the largest steel sheets. In the upper middle of one side is a complicated pattern, below which is "
"", two of the seven characters are unknown and cannot be read smoothly; there is a circle of patterns around it, probably because it was in the Mingdao Palace, but Yang Yizhong unreasonably reminded him of the Taoist tadpole script. On the other side
In the center of the upper part is a larger tadpole inscription, with the words "Yuan" and "Jiao" of unknown meaning on the right side and more tadpole inscriptions; on the lower left are engraved with various flowers.
The other type, including all the remaining steel sheets, has lost the complicated patterns, and is only engraved with flowers and tadpole characters on one side, and tadpole characters with the words "Yuan" and "Jiao" on the other side - Yang Yizhong carefully
After checking, it was exactly the same as the other one - at the top were the words "Bank of China People's Bank of China".
When comparing the tadpole text, Yang Yizhong realized that the direction of the text on this small disc might be reversed: the same symbols were arranged up and down on one side, but from left to right on the other side. He vaguely remembered where
I have heard that everything in the underworld comes from the reverse of the world. So I tried to read the words I knew in reverse, and it seemed to make it easier. But it is "people" and "republic". What do you think?
It's not like a ghost land either.
Although he was not a great Confucian scholar and could not recite the meanings of these two words, Yang Yizhong still knew that these two uncommon words referred to the "republican rule" of the common people and Duke Zhou and Zhao Gong.
The political sensitivity required to be in the center also made him aware of the inconsistency in the juxtaposition of these two words.
How come the common people are put before the “public”?
But when I think of Mencius’s sentence “The people are the most important thing, the country is the second most important thing, and the king is the least important thing”, it seems that it is not incomprehensible.
If you just look at it this way, wouldn't the unfamiliar word "国" at the back...
After thinking carefully, Yang Yizhong still rejected this guess. After all, he knew most of the thirteen Chinese characters. The word "Yin" is basically the word "Yin" in running script; the word "华", see
Half pronunciation, half font,
I'm afraid it's not "hua". Then there is no reason to have a completely irrelevant word.
So what does the word "国" mean? Yang Yizhong traced the words next to "口" with his fingers.
The words, "siege", "trap", "prison", "garden", "confinement"... "country"!
In this world, what other country can be called "China" or "China"? Could it be that these are not from ghosts and gods, but relics of a certain ancient dynasty? But if such exquisite things can be made, how come they have not been recorded in history books?
Leave your name on it?
Yang Yizhong didn't dare to think too much, but he did have a guess about the word "bank". Although it would be four to five hundred years later, with the influx of American silver, that silver would become legal tender, precious metals are naturally currency after all. Think again.
The size of the disc is indeed suitable for use as coins. Then the "bank" is most likely the yamen responsible for minting coins.
But if the coins are actually used in daily use and are minted in large quantities instead of produced in small quantities, then the technical capabilities reflected in the exquisite patterns on them will be even more amazing!
Several kinds of flowers are common, including peonies, orchids, etc. The patterns on the national-character coins are more complicated and delicate.
In the center is a tall tower with five gates. Generally speaking, the more gates there are, the greater the defensive pressure. It would be a joke for any city to build it like this. However, if it were not for city defense, how could it be built so toweringly?
If a tower with five gates can only be an imperial city, right? And it is incomparable to the "small" imperial city of Kaifeng. The sky above the tower is not the sun and moon, but five stars, one big, four small and five small.
The five-pointed star has a big star in the middle and small stars surrounding it. When you think of the word "republic", does it mean one king and four assistants? If you use stars to refer to it, the possibility of originating from the star wall and the heavenly palace seems to be higher.
Further outside, it surrounds the wheat, and below it is a serrated disk, connected by cloth. Wheat is relatively easy to understand, and it is the same as the "ji" in Sheji. That disk, Yang Yizhong is not
Got it. After thinking hard, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Maybe I had seen something similar in the Qintian Prison?
He was refreshed by this idea and felt that he had finally discovered the secret.
Are the stars in the sky coming to help me conquer the Song Dynasty?