"Honorable Mongolian Khan, what we advocate is science."
Gu Qingqing heard her words echoing in the golden tent, as if there was an echo, and her shadow on the tent became darker and thicker with the echo.
The other darker and thicker shadows turned their heads to look at themselves. It was the first time they had heard of the brand-new sect of "Science".
Mongolian Khan did not speak, but made a gesture, which probably meant that Gu Qingqing, who advocates science, would explain his teachings in public.
Gu Qingqing was not in a hurry to say anything, all the language at this time was pale, not to mention that the missionaries he faced were eloquent and eloquent, and his words could not convince them.
Even today, when science leads the world, these sects still have absolutely loyal followers.
Gu Qingqing's eyes fell on a copper basin beside the table. This was probably a copper basin for people to clean their hands, and it contained clean water.
Gu Qingqing looked at the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table again: "Khan, as a believer in science, I can let this basin of water speak."
The disciples who were still whispering just now fell silent, their shadows sitting upright, as if they were waiting for something.
Mongolian Great Khan spoke, and the tone was like an ancient Mongolian ballad: "I also want to know what this basin of water is going to say."
As a result, Gu Qingqing decided to use a few existing things to show everyone a scientific experiment.
This experiment was done when Gu Qingqing was in elementary school, nothing complicated.
Gu Qingqing put the copper basin containing water on the table, dipped the ink in the inkstone with his fingers, and tapped on the water in the basin. The ink quickly expanded into a small circle of ink. Gu Qingqing was next to him Six or seven dots of ink.
Without waiting for the ink dots to spread, Gu Qingqing quickly took off the hair band on his head. This pure cotton hair band was tied to the front feet of the silver lion just now, but now it is used by the owner again. The end of the belt was rubbed by Gu Qingqing at the root of his hair a few times.
The shadows stared with bated breath, motionless.
Wu You watched from the side, already knowing which experiment Gu Qingqing was going to do.
Gu Qingqing put one end of the rubbed hairband on the ink marks on the water surface. Almost in an instant, the black solid ink ball turned into a circle. After a few clicks, five or six circles magically appeared on the water.
Gu Qingqing picked up the rice paper that had been cut on the side and gently covered it on the water surface. Seeing that the rice paper was soaked with ink marks, he slowly picked it up and saw that the same pattern as in the water basin appeared on this piece of paper. , are large and small irregular rings, some with traces of water marks.
But when displayed on paper, it becomes a magical painting.
The shadows on the tent all sat up straight and seemed to stare here, but unfortunately there was no expression in the black shadows.
"Honorable Khan, on this piece of paper is what the water wants to say."
"What did you say? Could the priest speak for a moment?"
"Khan, please forgive me, I have little knowledge, and the teachings of science do not need to be preached."
"Then how do you believers preach?"
"We are born with two hands and one mouth, that is, we have to do more and talk less. We who advocate science often understand the world through experimental practice." Gu Qingqing said with courage.
Some of the shadows began to whisper.
Wu You thought about it for a while, and then said boldly: "Khan, the teachings of many sects here cannot be directly stated, such as the Zen meditation in Buddhism, which is 'unspeakable'." Wu You picked up this piece covered with He took the rice paper with circular ink marks, and worshiped with both hands on the table in front of the throne of Mongolian Khan, "We just think that everyone can have their own beliefs, this copper basin, as an 'existence', has gathered A basin of water, this basin of water also acts as a 'existence', if we want to speak, we find a way to let it speak, our teaching is that simple."
As if someone had picked up the piece of rice paper, it floated into the air, as if to show everyone the pattern on it.
Mongolian Khan said: "I think the words of this basin of water are very interesting. The number of these circles is exactly the same as the number of the priests. They are round and self-contained, firm and self-preserving, and they are peaceful and independent of each other. intrusion."
Wu You secretly looked at Gu Qingqing: Did you design it that way? Too far-sighted too!
Gu Qingqing: No, when I was a child, my teacher led us to do this experiment. At that time, I also printed several circles. It seems that Teacher Sun, who taught us nature lessons, has a vision.
Some of the shadows remained silent, while others seemed to be sighing.
"This is the end of today's debate, everyone, go back and rest." Mongolian Khan said.
Is this the end? So fast.
The shadows stood up one after another and were led out by the guards, with Gu Qingqing and Wu You following behind.
After walking out of the golden tent, Wu You suddenly found that her shadow was particularly dark on the ground in the sun, and she turned to look at Gu Qingqing: "Qingqing, why can't I see you clearly!"
Gu Qingqing almost became the same translucent state as Wu You, she was also a little anxious, and the black shadow under her feet was uncertain.
It was already afternoon, and all the shadows were no longer the black origin at noon, but a group of short, fat people with heads and limbs.
A black shadow of a guard came over, pointed his finger in one direction, and after pointing for a while, the shadow turned and left.
"Can we go?" Wu You looked at the shadow of the guard who was leaving, and went away with the other shadows, "Is he showing us the way? Can you go out in that direction?"
"Try it." Gu Qingqing took Wu You's hand, but found that the other's hand was no longer real, and the two of them were slowly becoming nihilistic.
The two of them sped up their pace at the same time and trotted in that direction.
"I still don't understand, why do we want to enter this great Khan's palace, and what's the point of our trip?" Wu You said as he ran, "I looked at everything in the palace just now, and there wasn't a single one. Something shines that way."
That kind of light - when the two of them first saw the golden hourglass, there was that kind of dazzling light in an instant.
"I don't know either, maybe we're going the wrong way, but it seems that this is the place to go," Gu Qingqing trotted and was out of breath, "When we came to this world, we appeared under that silver tree. Yes, we are already in the Mongolian court and driven by the shadow guards, we must come here."
"What's the use in the end, can the experience just now be regarded as a clue?"
"I don't know what clues there will be, but I think this trip will not be useless, there is always a meaning in it." Gu Qingqing looked at Wu You, through Wu You's body, you can vaguely see the Mongolian court flowers and trees The delicacy of Fushu. At this time, the Mongolian Khan was the largest overlord on the grassland and even in the world. He could naturally make a Mongolian palace have the delicacy of a garden in the south of the Yangtze River, just like the silver tree that does not think of the world, it is not so much a dream , rather a symbol of power.
"Qingqing, what do you believe in the heart of Mengge Khan?"
"I don't know, Mongolia before the Yuan Dynasty believed in Shamanism, and some areas later believed in Buddhism."
"I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about the Great Khan himself, what does he believe in? It's not a sect, it's the energy in his heart." Wu Yourao was physically strong, and he was running at this moment, but he still insisted on talking. : "It's just like the song we sang in the Northeast: Live it out and show it to yourself! I think this is also a kind of belief..."
"If you say that, then what the big Khan believes in may be the sense of conquest of expanding the territory, but I have to admit that he has extraordinary wisdom and mind..." Gu Qingqing couldn't run anymore, and gradually slowed down. He breathed evenly and said, "So, the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty is not that simple. Besides the bravery and skill of Mongolian soldiers, it is even more important to have an excellent commander..."
Both of them stopped, too tired, and simply sat down on the ground.
"So, the Mongolian Khans thought more about expanding their territory, and then finding a fertile place for their people to live and work in peace and contentment, and then there was the Yuan Dynasty?" Wu You wiped the sweat from his forehead, and suddenly realized that his The "flesh" came back, and the touch of the back of his hand on his forehead was so familiar and real. Looking at his partner, Gu Qingqing did not know when he returned to his original appearance, "It seems that we didn't run in vain just now."
Gu Qingqing was thinking about Wu You's words: "The Yuan Dynasty was established... In fact, when I first came to this world, I once thought that we had found the golden hourglass before, and then we saw the silver tree, would it be that the cowhide sack needs it? What is gold and silver?"
"You're right, gold and silver, then why didn't we just pick a few leaves and go back?" Wu You regretted a little.
"Don't worry," Gu Qingqing took out a thin silver-carved leaf from his pocket, "I picked it up from under that tree, it was always in my hands, but after seeing those shadow guards, I had to secretly hidden."
Wu You looked at this exquisite and unparalleled silver leaf, opened the cowhide pocket on his chest, and tried to put the silver leaf in. Who knew that it was like a barrier, and the leaf could not be put into the pocket anyway. inside.
The place where the two were at this time was also covered with silver mist. When the mist gradually dissipated, they realized that they had left the Mongolian court at some point. The place where it is located turned out to be a lively market, and people dressed in ancient times, including Han and foreigners.
Gu Qingqing looked at it carefully for a while, before showing a look of surprise: "Here, it's already the Yuan Dynasty."
"I don't know much about history. Which emperor was that Mongolian Great Khan? Was he from before the Yuan Dynasty?"
"Yes, he is the grandson of Genghis Khan, the eldest son of Tuo Lei," Gu Qingqing said in a low voice, after all, there are many people here, so it's better not to attract attention when two people talk about the affairs of the court, "The founder of the Yuan Dynasty was Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, That is, the fourth brother of the Great Khan of Meng Ge. After Kublai Khan became emperor, he pursued Meng Ge as Emperor Xianzong, and assumed the posthumous title of Emperor Huansu."
"Oh, so that's the case," Wu You also wanted to exert some subjective initiative, so he thought about it and said, "Qingqing, I analyzed it like this. The first treasure we found was the gold sandglass, which is considered gold according to its characteristics. Why? To represent gold as an hourglass, does it mean that time is as precious as gold?"
Gu Qingqing thought that Wu You's words made sense, so she nodded and listened carefully.
Wu You continued: "The second treasure we are looking for is supposed to be silver, so the silver here must have a certain meaning, right? What does silver represent? In my heart, silver is silver, it is money! "
"What did you say?"
"Silver is money. This is not a modern saying. It was also said in ancient times. When watching ancient films, don't they all say 'silver and silver'? Those noble sons went to restaurants to have wine and took out a big silver coin. Put the ingot on the table and you can blind Xiao Er's eyes."
Gu Qingqing listened and looked at Wu You with bright eyes. Wu You was a little uncomfortable when he looked at him: "What's the matter with you, Qingqing, your eyes are brighter than silver."
Gu Qingqing's voice became slightly louder, and she said with excitement: "You are right, it is Yuanbao! It is very likely that we are looking for Yuanbao!"
"That's not necessarily true, you see, we just got that silver leaf..."
Before Wu You could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Gu Qingqing: "Wu You, do you know why Yuanbao is called Yuanbao? In the history of my country's currency, do you know when Yuanbao officially became a proxy for gold and silver?"
"How come the history of currency has been compiled..." Wu You felt that he was completely weak.
"It's the Yuan Dynasty! In the history of my country's currency, gold and silver money is officially called 'Yuanbao', which is the Yuan Dynasty!"
This is the first time Wu You heard this statement: "Because it is the Yuan Dynasty, it is called Yuanbao?"
"Yes, it also means 'the treasure of the Yuan Dynasty'!" Gu Qingqing explained further, "Actually, Yuanbao did not originate from the Yuan Dynasty at first, but from the Tang Dynasty..."
"Let's not go into history, anyway, it was in the Yuan Dynasty to officially call things like silver ingots 'Yuanbao', right?"
Gu Qingqing nodded affirmatively: "Yes."
"Then let's look for silver ingots, we'll find them first!"