Chapter 279 – The Whereabouts of the Nine Cauldrons
Update Time: 2013-05-05
The nine tripods represent the national weapon of China, in the present society they may just be a batch of valuable bronzes and represent some outdated significance, but in the era before Qin, they represent a kingship, the supreme kingship, but since the Zhou Dynasty completely fell, these nine tripods also disappeared without a trace, even Qin Shi Huang salvaged them in Pangcheng is nothing, which makes many people feel sorry, Kunlun What is the purpose of wanting the Nine Cauldrons? Qin Yang does not know, but he needs four jindan, so the nine tripods he is bound to get, as for the Regulus sword, many people have recorded that it is only in the myth of the sword, is not real, but Qin Yang believes that the thing does exist, but where? It’s even less than the Nine Cauldrons.
Qin Yang is fortunate to have people from the Qin and Han Dynasties, as well as Zuo Ci, an ancestor of Taoism, so he has great confidence in finding the Nine Cauldrons. Of course what Xiang Yu knows is not too much, but what is certain is that the Nine Cauldrons were indeed last seen near Pengcheng, naturally, it is just one of them, back then, when Dayu ruled over the water, there were three rivers and nine waters.
One of the nine rivers named: Tujiahe, Dashi River, Mahehe River, over the Kettle River, Husu River, Jane River, Jie River, Hook Pan River, Lijin River, the nine rivers is the ancient name of the nine tributaries of the lower reaches of the Yellow River, there was a major outbreak in ancient times, the world’s flooding rampant, the people of the people, the people are not happy, and after the nine rivers of the Dayu dredging and governance, the woe of the water to the east, flowing to the East China Sea, but also irrigated miles of rivers and mountains, in short, it is a good thing that the people everyone praised, and after the Afterwards, Dayu became the lord of the world, and divided the nine states into different water systems, and cast the nine tripods. Of course Qin Yang felt that that so-called flood was somewhat similar to the Noah legend mentioned in the West, a disaster of a world nature.
“Is it possible that the Nine Cauldrons are within the Nine Rivers, or are they spread out across the Nine States?” Qin Yang asked, “This Nine Rivers is a bit of a rip-off, isn’t it? They are all ancient names, now there is no way to investigate, and when Dayu ruled the water is not just nine water, nine in ancient times represents is the limit of the number, such as nine or five, etc., may be a world, I do think that the nine tripods are distributed in the Nine States is extremely likely. Just this nine states is also a little difficult to find, from the Qin and Han derivation to the three kingdoms, nine states has been in the Zhou before the ancient nine states is very different, it looks like we need a detailed map of the ancient nine states.”
“This is not difficult, the map preserved within the Shanhaijing is what you can refer to.” Zuo Ci said, “But that’s it, we also need to divide it in detail, the Nine States are different in different eras, the Nine States may also be an imaginary number in the historical records, it is not nine administrative regions, we need to try to unravel it bit by bit, it’s a big project.”
“It’s fine, we have a backup group, the historians of the whole of China.” Qin Yang said with a smile.
Have a goal, then the next is to start, Qin Yang first went to the Haitian city major bookstores enough to buy as many books, but also patronized the ghost market, the so-called ghost market is the day before the dawn of the antiquities market, because of the extreme conflict with the construction of the modern city, so they will choose to choose a relatively cool moment, was jokingly called the ghost market, in the Haitian city to buy enough information, Qin Yang and went straight to the Luo Yang and other historical Ancient capital, likewise purchased enough canonical books, when he came to a city in the northwest region, the various kinds of ancient books bought, maps enough to be able to fill a container, at the same time because of the discovery of numerous relics and the popularity of Li Changye from the mouth of Professor Guan to get the Qin Yang’s big move, the same is full of interest, after all, Qin Yang’s brain loaded with the ancient culture of China is really too unbelievable, Li Changye Wanting to get more historical lost information also needed to start from Qin Yang, so for this action, Li Changye came uninvited, and also brought along more than ten of his favorite disciples.
How significant was this operation? Once the map of the Great Yu Nine Prefecture was really finalized, then many, many undiscovered relics would be laid out in front of them, and that alone was enough to make him excited. This time, the engraving of the map of the nine states of Dayu was organized by Qin Yang, so it belonged to a relatively private organization, but it was strongly supported by the state, and in less than a week’s time, historians and archaeologists from all over the world had applied to join the team created by Qin Yang, maintaining a rather high level of interest in this biggest move in historiography. This is something that Qin Yang did not consider, he originally just wanted to use Li Changye to bring together the geniuses of history from the major universities in Yanjing, but what he did not expect was that it really touched the nerve line of historians in the whole of China, of course, Qin Yang would not have said that he was going to draw the map of Dayu and Kyushu just to look for the whereabouts of the Nine Cauldrons, and some hypocritical excuses were essential.
This is a feast in history, and will be a major action to change the history of China, it will change all the vacancies of the whole of China’s exploration of history, and it’s not just the nine states of Dayu that we’re perfecting, there’s the nine states of the Zhou Dynasty, the nine states of the Qin and Han Dynasties, the nine states of the three kingdoms, and so on, and it’s such a good and vast and long-term project, in short, a series of inspiring crap, and some ancient relics that can thrill them to the core! Anyway, from beginning to end, Qin Yang just didn’t talk about the Nine Cauldrons, that thing is definitely in his pocket. The team was formed, Qin Yang purchased a suitable office building for the whole team to operate, and also specially vacated three floors to store literary texts for them to read for reference, at the same time, he himself also racked his brain to look for many ancient undead, although they all knew very little, but it is not impossible to slowly reorganize them, coupled with Zuo Ci and other people’s devotion to help, so Qin Yang, after leaving behind a document that made all the historians After leaving behind a piece of information that made all the historians red in the eyes, he successfully flashed away.
His first stop in search of the Nine Cauldrons was the Pengcheng generation in Surabaya, which Bai Qi and others had confirmed. Legend has it that in Pengcheng Surabaya, Emperor Shi Huang traveled east and saw the tripod surfacing, he was so happy that he fished for the tripod, but a dragon head appeared inside the tripod and bit off the rope, then the tripod sank into the water, Emperor Shi Huang fished for it with thousands of people but to no avail, and did not find it, which is a relatively reasonable account except for the dragon head that bit off the rope, and Xiang Yu and Yu Ji, who both lived in that time, agreed with the statement. According to a crude map, coupled with Xiang Yu’s hints, as well as the memories of some low-level ancient undead, Qin Yang drove to a more dangerous area in Surabaya, which is surrounded by mountains, the terrain is more treacherous, and the river is also a bit swift, with white waves churning, and the depths are bottomless.
Taking out the diving equipment in the car, Zhang Ming asked: ”Do you really plan to go down? According to my observation this is indeed a feng shui treasure, gathering spiritual qi without dispersing, but the spiritual qi sees the water and stops, it doesn’t look like there is a treasure down there.”
“How would I know if I don’t go down to have a look?” Qin Yang laughed, “It’s only thirty meters deep, take a look.”
Said, he hooked up a steel rope in the back of the car fixed at one end of the diving suit, this rope is very thin, but a few tough, can bear hundreds of kilograms of weight, and more than a hundred meters long, enough for Qin Yang to be arrogant down there. Zhang Ming, on the other hand, parked his car at the edge of the river, and gave a thumbs up to Qin Yang, Qin Yang took a deep breath, and jumped down the cliff in one go, and as soon as he entered the water, he felt a burst of coldness, and turned on the searchlight, and was able to clearly see the fish swimming around. In order to prevent himself from being swept away by the turbulent current, so Qin Yang already had his own precious sword on his back, the weight of more than eighty pounds was enough for him to be composed in the water.
“What’s the discovery?” Through the wireless headset, Zhang Ming sat on the bank with a cup of drink, like an angler, and asked in a leisurely manner.
“En, nothing to discover.” Qin Yang said, “Fish, silt and whatnot are normal, there’s also a bit of household garbage, extremely in line with modernized waters, en, there are also a few water snakes, but there’s no water plants, it’s kind of cleaner.”
“You are now at a depth of but fifteen meters, in going down to see.” Zhang Ming looked at the value within the instrument and said, “But the dark tide below, you be more careful, you still have a load of more than eighty pounds on you, as soon as there is an abnormality immediately notify me, I will fish you up.”
“En, okay.” Qin Yang replied. Along the river bottom silt gradually deeper, but to the deepest depths there is really no new discovery, and in the underwater vision is not good, Qin Yang’s yin and yang eyes can observe the range is also greatly reduced, the turbulent water current also from time to time to him to create some trouble, Zhang Ming on the bank said: “It looks like there is no new discovery.”
“En, no, I found a hidden cave that was blocked by rocks.” Qin Yang said in surprise, “The cave seems to be very deep.”
“Come up first and we’ll discuss it in the long run, going in rashly is a bit troublesome.”
“No, I have never been afraid of trouble.”