Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 435 Winged Angel (4000)

"Devil, Demon King..."

King Shanshan just believed that Wu Liang was a general under Boss Cao's command, believed that he might, should, probably be an individual, and immediately vetoed this guess.

Definitely a top-ranked demon king in Buddhism.

It is impossible for mere mid-level demons and low-level witches to be as evil as Wu Liang!

As for the power of these two small bronze pots, King Shanshan already had a very clear understanding. Wu Liang did not deceive him, and these things could smash him to pieces in an instant. The mage is a lesson from the past.

Especially Master Pushan, who has already attained Arhatship, didn't even leave a relic that should have existed...

Shanshan King did not dare to resist before, but now that these two small bronze pots that can destroy the world are tied, Shanshan King is even more unable to resist, even his movements are much stiffer, and he tries to avoid touching with his arms When he got to the small bronze jar, he saluted Wu Liang with a smile on his face and said, "Thank you for your gift, but this gift is too expensive, Xiao Wang really can't bear it."

"It doesn't matter. If Your Majesty really doesn't want it, I certainly won't force it. We will take it with us when we leave."

Wu Liang said with a smile.

"That……"

King Shanshan moved his lips immediately and wanted to speak. Wu Liang had already understood his thoughts, and then said with a smile: "The next time the black dragon storm on Camelback hits, it will be when we leave. Before that, I'm afraid If you want to bother His Majesty for a while, Your Majesty won't welcome it, right?"

"Hehe, Your Excellency has come from a long way, and Xiao Wang wants to show his kindness as a landlord, how dare... how can he not welcome you?"

The face of King Shanshan vividly deduced what is called "forced business" expression, obviously duplicity.

"Since His Majesty is so hospitable, I'd rather be respectful than obedient, please."

While talking, Wu Liang made a gesture of invitation.

King Shanshan was forced to go ahead.

Wu Liang and his party followed behind, and entered the palace openly in front of hundreds of guards and forbidden soldiers.

This palace is neither big nor small.

The total area should be about the same as a sports field of later generations. From the outside, it looks like the palace is built with adobe like the houses in the city.

But when we got inside, we found out that this is actually a stronger masonry castle, and traces of masonry can be seen on the walls.

And the layer of adobe wrapped outside the castle is actually just a thick layer of thermal insulation.

In addition, the decoration of the palace is indeed magnificent.

Because the waistline of this palace is very high, the height of the first floor is also very impressive, about four or five meters high, and on this very high masonry wall, there are many colorful murals .

The style of the murals is also very unique.

Some parts are obviously radiated by the influence of Han culture, not only using the popular cloud patterns of the Han Dynasty, but also drawing some pictures of dragons, phoenixes, gods and animals that are quite characteristic of the court culture of the Han Dynasty.

In some parts, there are still documentary murals of maids playing music and riding and archery parade, which are quite characteristic of the Western Regions.

The other part is a picture of the banquet of guests. From the clothes of the characters in the murals, especially the crowns worn by the characters, it can be clearly seen that many of these people are authentic Han people, and they are also officials of the Han Dynasty.

This type of mural should commemorate the "friendship" between the Han Dynasty and the Shanshan Kingdom.

After all, the name of "Loulan Kingdom" was changed to "Shanshan Kingdom" thanks to the great Han, and the establishment of Xuni City is also inseparable from the great Han.

Historical records: In 92 BC, King Angui of Loulan ascended the throne, killed the Han envoys, and surrendered to the Xiongnu.In 77 BC, Fu Jiezi, an envoy of the Han Dynasty, was ordered by Emperor Zhaodi Liu Fuling to assassinate King Angui of Loulan, and changed his younger brother Wei Tuqi, who was pro-Han, as king, and changed the name of the country to Shanshan.

Such a profound "friendship", the king of Shanshan naturally had to express it.

At the very least, when the envoys of the Han Dynasty and the officials of the Protectorate of the Western Regions came to inspect, they had to have an attitude to be able to justify it.

Among these murals, the one that instantly attracts countless attentions is the circle diagram at the top composed of nine fans.

A total of 9 portraits are drawn in these 9 fan shapes, and what is different from ordinary portraits is that the backs of these 9 portraits are all painted with a pair of small white wings...

"Winged Angel Picture"?
Wu Liang was pleasantly surprised, because later generations also discovered the "Winged Angel Picture", but it was in the "Yi Xun City" which was still some distance away from here.

In the late Qing Dynasty when power was humiliated and the country was humiliated, Stein, a British-Hungarian, came here in the name of an expedition to do robbery. When he found the "Winged Angel Picture" in the ruins of the West Temple Corridor in Yixun City, he immediately took these pictures. The treasures belonging to the Chinese civilization were uncovered and brought overseas.

The "Winged Angel Map" is currently stored in the British Museum.

Wu Liang had only seen the picture of "Angel with Wings" in some books. It was a man dressed in red, with thick eyebrows, big eyes and a slightly fat body. The top of his head was bald with only a small piece of hair left in the middle, which was a bit Similar to the hairstyle of the Khitan people.

Later, when domestic archaeologists inspected Lop Nur, they also discovered some murals of "Winged Angels". Unfortunately, these murals have been severely damaged and eroded, and their integrity cannot be compared with the one stolen by Stein. Murals on a par.

In addition, Stein also used many disgraceful methods to steal a large number of precious cultural relics from Niya, the Loulan site, and Dunhuang. There are many cultural relics, including a large number of precious ancient books and documents in the Mogao Grottoes.

Moreover, because of Stein's extensive excavation and theft, the cultural relics and relics destroyed are too numerous to record.

therefore.

Although Stein has a very high status in Western academic circles, in Wu Liang's eyes, he is above all an out-and-out robber and aggressor.

This kind of evaluation may not be objective enough, does not conform to the dialectical scientific attitude advocated by Marxism, nor does it conform to the neutral attitude that archaeologists should hold when evaluating historical figures, but Wu Liang still insists on this view, and accepting rebuttals will never correct.

Because archaeologists are first and foremost citizens, citizens have national boundaries.

It got a little farther, Wu Liang let out a long breath to evacuate the depression in his heart, and then continued to carefully observe the 9 pictures of "winged angels".

It is different from the "Winged Angel Picture" he has seen in later generations.

The images of these 9 "winged angel pictures" are the images of female human beings...

In fact, Wu Liang knew that in the vast majority of religious theology that appeared in the West and Central Asia, the "angel" is actually genderless. He is a pure spiritual body with outstanding intelligence and great power. It needs to be transformed into any material form.

And after Stein stole the "Winged Angel Picture", he claimed in his own work with great excitement: "This is really a great discovery! The earliest angels in the world were found here, and they were probably in the They flew to China 2000 years ago, and the murals in the ancient city of Milan are one of the oldest preserved murals in China, and the 'winged angels' here can be said to be the farthest point where ancient Roman art spread to the east!"

However, as far as Wu Liang knows, in the religions that appeared in ancient Rome, "angels" also have no gender.

However, the "winged angels" that appear in the murals of the ancient Loulan country have a very significant gender distinction, which is already somewhat unreasonable.

And now the female "winged angel" mural is in front of him, combined with the male "winged angel" mural discovered later, he can be regarded as having some evidence.

Except Wu Liang thought so.

Mr. Yan Wenru, a well-known scholar in the later Chinese dynasty, also publicly refuted Stein's argument, believing that he had serious Western "arrogance and prejudice" in his archaeological work, and forced the ancient Western mythology into the Buddhist culture and culture of the Chinese dynasty. In the traditional culture, therefore, such hasty and unfounded conclusions are given.

This move was not only far-fetched, but also confused many concepts, which had a negative impact on the archaeological work of the ancient Loulan Kingdom.

Also.

Wu Liang's trip has been confirmed, and the current state religion of the ancient Loulan country is Theravada Buddhism.

The royal family and most of the residents believe in Theravada Buddhism, but how can the royal family who believe in Theravada Buddhism paint things from other sects in the palace, and also paint it on the top of the palace, which is obviously treated differently from other murals?

This is obviously even more inexplicable...

"Your Majesty, these portraits of women with wings are so strange, do they have any unusual meaning?"

Thinking of this, Wu Liang deliberately asked Shanshan King with a confused expression.

"Your Excellency does not know, this is the portrait of the ancestor of Loulan."

King Shanshan looked up at the mural of "Angel with Wings" on it, and immediately gave a chest salute, and said quite reverently.

"Loulan ancestor?"

Wu Liang was taken aback for a moment, this statement was obviously far from what he had known before.

"Exactly."

King Shanshan frowned slightly, and said seriously, "To be honest, more than 360 years ago, our ancestors led the people to flee here to avoid the disaster of war. After the sandstorm, most of the clansmen were killed or injured. When our ancestors were desperate, they found that they had unknowingly come to a ruined ancient ruins. The ancestors led the remaining clansmen into the ruins to avoid the sandstorm. How do you know that after entering, you suddenly find that there are still people in this ruins!"

"Ouch!"

The king of Shanshan suddenly raised his tone when he said this, and the atmosphere was so well controlled that Yu Ji was so frightened that he unconsciously uttered a scream. As a result, Yu Ji's scream shocked everyone who was listening to the story attentively. They all looked over with disgust.

"You can't blame the old man..."

Yu Ji showed embarrassment on his face, and then complained to King Shanshan in dissatisfaction, "You are also the king of a country, you can speak as you want, and you are not afraid of humiliating your status if you are surprised?"

However, Wu Liang felt that the King of Shanshan was quite to his liking.

It’s storytelling, especially if it sounds like it’s a rather mysterious story. If you don’t stir up the atmosphere with a surprise, wouldn’t it make the original wonderful story lose some flavor?
"Don't pay attention to him, Your Majesty, please continue."

Wu Liang smiled and said to Shanshan King, who dared not speak out, then glanced at Yu Ji, and kindly reminded, "Mr., if you keep hugging Yang Wanli's arm, I guess he will I'm going to hit you..."

"Uh?"

Only then did Yu Ji come to his senses, and immediately met Yang Wanli's stinky face that was both disgusted and twitching slightly due to anger, and quickly let go of his hands and jumped behind Wu Liang, pretending nothing happened.

Everyone laughed and said nothing.

"..."

King Shanshan also found people like Wu Liang quite interesting, but at this moment he could only bear it down and continued, "There is more than one person in the ruins, it seems that there must be at least dozens or hundreds of people. The ancestors of my family thought that these were all living people. , in order to avoid conflicts, I had to shout to them from a long distance, but these people ignored them and didn't even move."

"The late king was puzzled, so he led his people closer to check, only to find that these people were lifelike stone statues, no matter in posture or appearance, they looked almost the same as living people, so the late king would only admit his mistake when he looked at it from a distance. "

"The clansmen were also amazed. They never imagined that there is such a superb carving skill in the world. They are simply amazed."

"After seeing these stone statues, the former king of our clan speculated that this might be a place where a powerful ethnic group once lived, so he led the clansmen to inspect it, and finally felt relieved, and temporarily found a place that can block the sun. place, and continue migrating after avoiding the hottest time.”

"After such a short time, the ancestor king of our family and the people of our family all fell into a coma as if possessed by an evil spirit."

"Then the late king had a strange dream. In the dream, there was a group of winged people, both men and women. They came to the late king and shook him awake. They pointed to the stone statues in the ruins and told him that these things were extremely dangerous. He led the people to leave quickly, otherwise they would die here."

"One of the beautiful women also pointed out a place for the former king, and told him to lead the tribe to dig down there. Once dug in that place, water can be dug out. This water can be used for drinking by the tribe and can be used for breeding. And irrigation, if the former king wanted to lead the people to live a prosperous and stable life, he could build a city here and settle down, which can ensure the prosperity of the family for hundreds of years."

"When the dream came to this point, the ancestor king of our clan suddenly woke up. Although he knew that it was just a dream, he couldn't look directly at the lifelike stone statues, so he quickly woke up the clansmen."

"I didn't know that the clansmen also looked panicked after waking up. After asking, they found out that everyone had such an identical dream!"

"The former king of our family and the people of our family were terrified. They concluded that there was a big problem with this ruin, so they didn't dare to stay for a long time, so they got up and prepared to leave together."

"At this moment... suddenly!"

(End of this chapter)