The Boy with The Dragon Tattoo

Chapter 59: The ancient city of Loulan

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Su Rui asked Zi Yang how much he knew about the history of Loulan Ancient City. Zi Yang modestly said that he doesn't know much about serious history, but he has heard a lot of folk rumors.

Su Rui said that many unconventional histories in history are often more valuable than official histories. Anyway, the journey is long, and storytelling can be regarded as a relief for everyone.

Seeing Su Rui's encouraging expression, Zi Yang bit his head and said: This Loulan is the ancient country name of the Western Regions, first seen in the "Historical Records" of the Han Dynasty. At that time, Loulan's regime was quite at odds with the Western Han Dynasty, and often attacked the caravans of the Han Dynasty. , Killed the envoy of the Han Dynasty.

The Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was not a good stubborn. After enduring it for a while, he decided to send troops to attack, and finally surrendered. However, the ruler of Loulan at that time was a standard wall grass. He would surrender to the Han and then surrender to the Huns. Both sides were also very skilled . As a result, both sides were unhappy, and they sent troops to attack many times. After you finished the fight, I came to fight. This Loulan couldn't fight any of them, so I could only get caught in the middle.

After the defeat, Loulan sent the two princes to the Xiongnu and Han dynasties as protons (that is, the "hostages" that you Americans often talk about), hoping to exchange for peace. Later, the Loulan King died, and the Loulan regime asked the Han Dynasty to send the protons back. However, the Loulan Prince was an unbelievable fellow. He had a bad temper. He often violated the criminal law in the Han Dynasty. In order to cure his temper, he was given treatment. Palace punishment is cut off (said to make gestures under Lao Wang's crotch).

This prince has no way to pass on to the throne. What can I do? The Loulan people have no choice but to re-establish the king. Later, the Loulan king has his braids again. This time the Xiongnu sent Loulan Proton back first and told Proton: I will send you back. As a king, Loulan the Hun will be better off in the future.

When the Han Dynasty heard the new king of Loulan, he ordered this new king to come to worship the mountain. How dare this new king, you even cut off our hostages, how can I go here? So I thought about various reasons to shirk, saying that I had just become a king and I had to deal with the family affairs, and I would come back later if I had a chance.

The Han Dynasty did not reluctantly, and ordered Loulan to be responsible for the food and drinking water of the Han envoys and the caravan passing through the Han Dynasty. This was originally the case, but the Loulan people started to toss again within a few days of being honest. Relying on the backing of the Huns, they sent troops to attack and kill Han envoys several times.

Loulan Kingdom's own family is not at peace either. King Loulan has a younger brother named Wei Tuqi, and he doesn't deal with this new king, but he is weak and can't help it. Later, he was bullied and surrendered to the Han Dynasty with a gritted teeth and a stomped foot, and reported all the mischievous incidents of the Xiongnu and Loulan collusion to the Hanting.

Loulan officials saw that in addition to the traitors, the team simply did nothing, and completely fell to the Huns, and continued to intercept and attack the Han envoys. At that time, the Western Han Dynasty was opening up the Silk Road. Loulan did this, resulting in a conflict between the Western Han Dynasty and the Western Regions. Traffic to and from is greatly hindered.

Later, there was a hero in this Han Dynasty, the great general Huo Guang. He sent a man named Fu Jiezi and brought two of his subordinates to Loulan, saying that the Hanting would reward him. The King Loulan was also a mindless person. I'm very happy when I hear that it's good, and I'll treat you to dinner. As a result, Fu Jiezi got the King Loulan drunk on the spot, and then killed him with two of his men—the guts are no one.

This Fu Jiezi is also a courageous figure. He has done the king and scared the people of Loulan by saying, "The King Loulan is guilty of the court, and the emperor sent me to punish him. He is now the younger brother of the Han Dynasty. Tu Qi is the new king. The army of the Han Dynasty will be there soon. If you act rashly, you will only incur the calamity of annihilation of the country!" The Loulan people actually believed it.

After Wei Tuqi was established as the new king, he became a puppet of the Han Dynasty and completely surrendered to the Han Dynasty. Later, the name of Loulan was changed to Shanshan, and the capital was moved to Hanni City, which is now near Ruoqiang, where we are going today. .

Zi Yang finished the unconventional history vividly, and everyone in the car, including Su Rui and Lao Wang, listened with gusto.

Su Rui said, "I have heard people say this about Loulan's history more or less, but this is the first time I heard such an interesting saying!!"

Zi Yang touched his head and smiled, "Many people say that history is boring. I think it's really not like that. The key depends on how you read history."

Su Rui nodded and continued to ask: "It stands to reason that after Loulan descended from the Han Dynasty, it had the geographical advantage of the Silk Road. It should be the prosperity of development, but why did it suddenly disappear?"

Zi Yang said, "It's not just Loulan. In fact, around 400 AD, many countries west of Loulan disappeared mysteriously, such as Niya, Karadun, Milan, Nepal, Khan, Tongwan, etc. The disappearance of these cities was very sudden and very strange."

Lao Wang was also interested at this time, "How did it disappear? Did the aliens do it? Talk, talk!" This guy also got into the bargain with the aliens, and throws a pot on the aliens whenever he has something to do with them. .

Zi Yangbai glanced at him: "Many historians define this large-scale disappearance as the location of Lop Nur, which led to the desertification of these areas and the migration of races. But I think there are many doubts, if it is racial migration. , How could it not leave a little historical records? Besides, where did the people who migrated go?"

Zi Yang coughed twice and continued: "According to historical records, in 1901,'Foreign Friend' Sven Heding excavated the ruins in Loulan City and obtained a large number of ancient Han, Wei and Roman coins, and architectural wood carvings in the Hellenistic style of Central Asia. Paper, bamboo slips and a few brushes with Chinese characters written on it... You must know that at that time Loulan was influenced by the Central Plains culture and already had a certain degree of civilization, as can be seen from the text and materials excavated at the Loulan site. At that time there was already a special one. Administrative agencies such as historians. If there are any changes such as migration, there should be more or less records in history, but in fact the records about this period of history are blank."

"The key point is that from the original Loulan ruins, this ancient city disappeared very suddenly, and it can even be described as a mess."

"The eminent monk in Chinese history, Fa Xian, traveled west to obtain the scriptures. He passed through this place. He said in the "Book of the Buddha" that this place is already'no birds on the top and no beasts on the bottom. The eyes are everywhere, but the dead bones are used to mark the ears.' Obviously, Loulan had already died at that time. From his records, it can be seen that this was a sudden affair, and many people died out inexplicably. The Chinese were dead, if it were not for a sudden change, they would not be allowed to die. The bones of relatives went wild in the wild. So, this is likely to be a collective emergency."

"In the past few years, there is another saying that Loulan's demise was caused by an unprecedented drought.

The main argument about drought is a record in "Shui Jing Zhu". At that time, the Loulan people built the ancient city of Loulan with more than 100,000 square meters on the edge of Lop Nor. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the diversion of Zhubin River in the middle reaches of the Tarim River at that time, the surface of Lop Nur Lake shrank and Loulan lacked water. Soler of Dunhuang led 1,000 soldiers to Loulan and gathered 3,000 soldiers from the three kingdoms of Shanshan, Yanqi, and Qiuci. They injected water from the riverside day and night to divert water into Loulan and alleviated the water shortage in Loulan. Later, Loulan also promulgated the world The first environmental protection code. "

"However, this statement is also very flawed. The ancient city of Loulan is right next to Lop Nur. It is reasonable to say that it will not run out of water and food. After all, Lop Nur in history is the largest lake in the arid area of northwest my country, with a lake area of up to 12,000 square kilometers. Even after many river diversions, the lake surface shrank, and it still reached 500 square kilometers at the beginning of the last century. It finally dried up in 1972. Obviously, the lack of water does not hold water."

"The aforementioned'foreign friend' Sven Heding believed that the disappearance of Loulan was related to the north-south migration of Lop Nur. The cycle of the north-south migration of Lop Nur was about 1500. There was a European tribe living in Loulan area more than 3000 years ago. More than 1500 years ago, Loulan entered the era of prosperity again, which is directly related to the movement of Lop Nur.

"However, a geologist later proved that judging from the location structure at the bottom of Lop Nur Lake, there is no such thing as a dissociation phenomenon."

"There are several theories about Loulan's demise. One is that it disappeared in the war. After the fifth century AD, the Loulan Kingdom began to weaken, the northern power invaded, and Loulan City was destroyed and then abandoned.

There is also a saying that Loulan was destroyed by the plague disease.

Even more bizarre is that it was defeated by biological invasion.

There are too many unexplainable secrets between the Loulan civilization and the Lop Nur civilization. The Sun Tomb, the Loulan Female Corpse, and the Xiaohe Cemetery have occurred in thousands of years. There are many historical records, novels, and rumors about this. There are countless scholars who have studied for more than one hundred years, but no one has enough evidence to uncover the secrets. "

The car was bumping forward, and Zi Yang also told everyone about Loulan's various histories, legends, and legends.

After listening to Zi Yang's words, Su Rui exclaimed, "So professional, I don't know much about archaeology than you."

On the surface, Zi Yang said modestly, "The textbooks are very rigorous, so sometimes the information on unofficial history and folklore is richer." But I thought in my heart, if it wasn't for the study of twelve pieces of paper, I would not spend so much. Work hard to study these. For your visit this time, I did a lot of homework in advance, so it is easy for me to memorize so many things!

At this time, Alexander, who had been sitting in the front row, also looked back at him, saying that I appreciate what you mean—it seems to have been listening just now.

Zi Yang was shocked, can this foreigner understand Chinese