I was silent for a long time before I said: "According to folklore, Jiuding did not recognize the rule of Qin and regarded Qin as a tyrant. On the way to Qin, one of the tripods flew away and fell into the Surabaya River, and the other eight tripods were plundered. Qin. I think this is a statement made by later generations to belittle Qin, and it has no credibility."
I paused and said again: "The legend about Jiuding came to an abrupt end after the Qin Dynasty. Later generations have nothing more than two guesses about the whereabouts of Jiuding."
"The first theory is often said that after Qin destroyed Zhou Dynasty, he sent people to bring the Jiuding to the Xianyang Palace of Qin State. Then Qin Shihuang smelted the Jiuding and cast it into the Twelve Golden Figures. People who insist on this theory think that Qin Shihuang pursued unification for all generations and one tripod as the most respected one. He would not allow nine tripods to stand side by side, so he melted down the nine tripods. Of course, there is also a theory that the nine tripods were buried with Qin Shihuang’s mausoleum.”
"The second theory is that when the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Zhou Dynasty, the Jiuding placed on the Taiqiu altar in the Song Dynasty was transported by the Song Dynasty to Surabaya by ship, sank to the bottom of the river, and then was salvaged and taken away by a mysterious force. This is what Qin Shihuang sent The reason why thousands of people entered the water and couldn’t find the Nine Cauldrons.”
Ye Xun frowned and said: "Isn't Jiuding in Zhou Dynasty? How come it is Shen Ding from Song Dynasty again?"
I explained: "The Zhou Dynasty was a feudal state, and the Song State was a vassal state of the Zhou Dynasty. The King of Zhou placed the Nine Cauldrons in the Song State, which was actually no different from placing it in his own country. When the country was broken, the Song people wanted to prevent the enshrinement of the Nine Tripods. The eight hundred-year-old Jiuding fell into the hands of the Qin people, and they were secretly sunk into the Surabaya River."
Ye Xun frowned and said: "Don't you think this statement is a bit strange? Jiuding is an important weapon of the country. King Zhou does not enshrine Jiuding himself, but gives Jiuding to his ministers?"
I scratched my head: "I don't understand this either."
Yu Feng answered for me: "According to historical records, after King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, he built a community and an altar in the old place of the Shang capital, warning future generations to learn from the lessons of the Shang Dynasty. The reason why the Taiqiu community altar was located in the Song Dynasty was because Zhou Feng Wei Ziqi, the brother-in-law of King Zhou of Shang Dynasty, established the Song Dynasty in Shangqiu, the old capital of the Shang Dynasty, to settle the royal family of the Shang Dynasty. Shangqiu originally had nine tripods. After the death of the Shang Dynasty, the nine tripods were left behind and became an important tool of the Taiqiu Society of the Song Dynasty established later. .”
Yu Feng continued: "I have heard a legend that King Wu of Zhou never obtained the Jiuding, or that the Jiuding was a lie from the beginning. It was impossible to cast the Jiuding in the era when Dayu lived, so the Jiuding was used by the Xia Dynasty Lies to deceive the people.”
"After the Shang Dynasty replaced the Xia Dynasty, they found that there was no Jiuding. In order to stabilize the people, they forged the Jiuding themselves. This secret was known to King Wu of Zhou, and he abandoned the Jiuding in Taiqiu."
Yu Feng only added at this point: "Jiuding went from Xia to Shang, from Shang to Zhou, and then disappeared in the Qin Dynasty. No one can verify what happened in the middle. It is not true that the detective hand listed Jiuding as a heaven-level mission. It doesn’t make sense.”
I also said: "Let's not think about the Jiuding thing. How can we investigate something without any clues? Can you dig up Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum? If we really dare to touch Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, we won't wait. Do you believe that if you enter, you will be caught and shot?"
Ye Xun still didn't give up: "Isn't there a legend that Jiuding sank into Surabaya?"
"That legend is not reliable!" I said while lying on the sofa. "Think about it for yourself, how big is the Houmuwu Dafang Ding, the largest bronze tripod unearthed so far? Including the tripod ears, it is 1.3 meters high and weighs more than 830 meters. Kilogram. Houmuwu is the temple name of Fuhui, Queen Wuding of the Shang Dynasty, and the Houmuwu tripod is a ritual vessel cast by Fuuuu's own son to worship her."
As I spoke, I sat up from the sofa: "The ancients paid attention to the clear hierarchy, and nothing could be exceeded casually. Think about it for yourself, can the cauldron used to worship concubines be made larger than the Jiuding? If the Jiuding is real To exist, at least it weighs a thousand kilograms.”
"If two thousand kilograms of something is thrown into the water, can it be easily washed away by the water? Even if it can be washed away, how far can it be washed away by the Surabaya River? Qin Shihuang sent more than a thousand people to dive into the water I haven't found it anywhere, so I don't think it's reliable at all."
I added at this point: "There is also a legend that the people who went into the water to salvage the Jiuding saw a big dragon in the water and were so frightened that they did not dare to go down. That's when Qin Shihuang finally gave up the idea of salvaging the Jiuding. I told you this You are even more unreliable."
After I finished speaking, I lay back on the sofa: "So, let's stop thinking about it and think about what to eat tonight. Hey, Yu Feng, what should we eat tonight? ?”
Yu Feng narrowed his eyes and said, "You should be cooking tonight, right? If you don't do it reliably, I'll kill you."
I calculated that it was really me who was cooking today, so I reluctantly stood up and went out to buy groceries.
When I came back with a bag of vegetables, I happened to see Ren Tianqing grabbing a big orange and stuffing it into a rotating cage: "What are you doing?"
"Lose weight for Daju." Ren Tianqing stuffed Daju into the cage and shouted "Run". She quickly ran towards the sofa and lay down on the sofa comfortably.
Daju's rotating wheel soon drove the two massage hammers hanging above the sofa, beating up and down on Ren Tianqing's legs. Ren Tianqing moved her body: "Run faster, the beating is a bit light."
I was stunned: "You are really good at playing! Can you teach Daju to sing a little song for you?"
Ren Tianqing took out a lollipop: "I did this so as not to waste the calories consumed by Daju, otherwise Daju would be sad."
I pointed at the big orange and said, "If you play with it like this, it will be sad, right?"
The big orange in the cage couldn't help but "meow" and agreed with me. Walking down from upstairs, Yu Feng hung two more massage hammers on the linkage shaft: "Daju, run faster, otherwise you will have nothing to eat all day and you will have to eat mice."
"Meow--" Daju ran like crazy in the cage. Daju is a monster. He will eat roast duck, chicken legs, and pork knuckles, but not mice. Yu Feng threatens it with eating mice. Will it not go crazy
I was watching intently when Yu Feng looked towards me with an unkind expression: "Why don't you go cook and wait for the food to cook by itself?"
"I'm going, I'm going... I owe you everything." I could only carry the dishes and walk to the kitchen.
Before I could finish washing the dishes, Ye Xun slipped in. I suddenly became happy: "Ye Xun, are you here to help me cook? Hurry up and kill the fish for me."
Ye Xun ignored the fish at all: "You just said that there is a legend that a mysterious force quietly fished out the Jiuding and moved it elsewhere, right?"
"Yes!" I nodded, "That's a legend, maybe it's a far-fetched reason made up by later generations. Think about it, given the situation at that time, how many people did they have to mobilize to fish out Jiuding? So many people Can no one see people working by the river? Can they hide it from Qin Chao’s spies? Don’t be ridiculous. That thing is definitely not reliable. "
Ye Xun said with a serious expression: "What if there are only a few of them?"
Without thinking, I said, "Unless they have a crane."
Ye Xundao: "You have forgotten that there was a lost secret technique in ancient times, the mechanism technique. If there were secret mechanism masters at that time, they might not be able to fish out the Jiuding without anyone noticing."
I was stunned: "Mechanism technique?"
Organism is one of the ancient Chinese secret arts, full of mysteries. Some people think that the art of mechanism is a representative of ancient scientific and technological civilization, while others think that the art of mechanism is just the result of being mythologized. However, no one can deny the existence of mechanism technology.
Ye Xun glanced at the door: "I didn't expect it at first, but then I saw the gadget that Ren Tianqing and the others made, and then I thought of the mechanism technique. The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were the heyday of the Mohist family. If a Mohist giant takes action, say Maybe we can take Jiuding away. Besides... "
Ye Xun paused slightly and said: "The Mohists advocate universal love and non-aggression. Jiuding is just like the jade seal passed down to the country. If it is left in the world, every time it is fought for, it will cause a bloody storm. The King of Chu aspires to win the throne, the King of Qin seizes the tripod, and the Song Dynasty Shen Ding, when has it not heralded the coming of war? So I think that the mysterious force in the legend is the Mohist family who is good at using mechanisms."
I was dumbfounded: "What you said makes sense."
Ye Xun pulled the stool and rushed in front of me, saying: "If our inference is true, then if we find the Mohist inheritance, will we be able to find the whereabouts of Jiuding?"
"Where are you going to find the inheritance of the Mohist family? This is unrealistic." I said disapprovingly, "Even if you find the descendants of the Mohist family, are you sure that they must have books about the secret techniques of the Mohist family? If that thing really existed, the Mohist family would have returned to its heyday long ago No. I advise you to stop thinking about it and help me cook."
I'm not talking nonsense. The Mohist family did reach its peak during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. After Mozi's death, the Mohist family began to gradually decline.
According to the records of "Han Fei Zixian Xue": After Mozi's death, the Mohist family was divided into three, the Mohism of Xiangli family, the Mohism of Xiangfu family and the Mohism of Dengling family. They each believed it was authentic, and they refused to accept the other's. They even fought against each other and fought openly and secretly, which caused the Mohist family's vitality to be severely damaged.
No matter what sect it is, the most taboo thing is internal fighting. The consumption of internal fighting is often more terrible than external enemies. However, the Mohist family experienced a split and a fusion.
In the late Warring States period, the three Mohist sects merged into two branches: one became the knight-errant in Qin and Han society; the other continued to study Mohist logic, optics, mechanics and other theories, and was called the late Mohist.
In the later period, Mohism should have reached its peak again, but in the more than two thousand years from Qin Shihuang's unification of the six kingdoms to the early Qing Dynasty, Mohism entered its lowest ebb. Mohism is basically in a state of stagnation, and there are only a handful of people who can master Mohism. There are only a few people who can be found in history, such as Lu Sheng in the Jin Dynasty, Le Tai in the Tang Dynasty, He Wu in the Song Dynasty and Lu You in the Yuan Dynasty. However, there are no records of mechanism skills. In other words, the Mohist organ technique has long been lost.