Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 797 Meridians (4000)

"theory……"

Bailiji's words made Wu Liang feel a little bit disappointed.

He felt that Bailiji would not lie to himself. After all, to some extent, he could be called their family's benefactor. Bailiji didn't look at the monk's face or the Buddha's face, so he had to give him a little face .

And since the Warring States period, there has indeed never been any record about "Yanshi" and "Mujia" in the historical documents of the Celestial Dynasty.

This can also be used as one of the evidences of the loss of "Wooden Armor".

What's more, if Bailiji really doesn't want to say anything, there is no need to admit that he is a descendant of Yanshi. Why bother to say it first and then hide something about "Mujia"?
Thinking of this, Wu Liang sighed regretfully: "It's really a pity... To tell the truth, Mr. Baili, I have been fascinated by ancient mechanism skills since I was a child, and the one I yearn for the most is the legendary Unexpectedly, such miraculous skills such as the wood armor technique that can make the wooden man dance, blink, see and speak like a real person are really lost. This is not only a loss for Mr. Baili's family, but also a great loss for the people of the world. .”

Hearing this, Bailiji took the initiative to say: "When the ancestor Yanshi presented the wooden armor to King Mu of Zhou, King Mu of Zhou was overjoyed, so he brought the ancestor and the wooden armor back to Dazhou, and sealed the ancestor in Haojing. Served and continued to produce fine carpentry for the court."

"In this way, our family has indeed lived a relatively stable life in Haojing. We have experienced three dynasties of King Mu of Zhou, King Gong of Zhou and King Zhou Yi."

"The good days of our family came to an abrupt end during the time of King Zhou Yi. At that time, a Qi king named Lu Buchen came to Haojing. Although this Qi king came to pay homage to the emperor in name, in fact The idea of ​​making wooden armor, so after coming to Haojing, I met the ancestor privately, and asked the ancestor for the secret of making wooden armor."

"How could the ancestors be willing to give him the secrets? It's unbelievable that this person would use all means to order people to tie up the ancestors and his family members and send them to Qi State secretly."

"Fortunately, there was a descendant of the family who was working in the palace at that time, so he was spared from this catastrophe. This person was the ancestor of our Baili clan. After the ancestor of Baili came back, he learned about this and immediately asked King Zhou Yi to report the matter. Our clan As the royal craftsman of the Zhou family, he was taken away by the king of Qi. How could King Zhou Yi endure such an outrageous thing? The ancestors and all the family members sent out Haojing."

"However, King Zhou Yi didn't care about his ancestors and wooden armor. He didn't ask about the whereabouts of his ancestors and his family members. The purpose of arresting Lu Buchen was to punish him for his crime of disobedience. In the end, King Zhou Yi charged Lu Buchen with the crime of disobedience. Sin boiled and killed, but the ancestors and a kind of family members have not been whereabouts since then."

"The ancestors of Baili were disheartened, so they left Haojing and changed their surname to Baili. While secretly searching for the whereabouts of their ancestors, they lived a life of seclusion. This is the origin of our family's surname."

"It's a pity that Baili's ancestor was still young at that time, he hadn't fully grasped the essence of wooden armor, and he never found out the whereabouts of his ancestor, so this skill was completely lost. Now we descendants only inherit it from Baili. Some of the theories left by our ancestors, it is difficult to reproduce the wooden armor that our family is most proud of."

Speaking of this, Bailiji sighed regretfully. Obviously, he also yearned for the legendary wooden armor of his ancestors, but it is a pity that the inheritance has long since been cut off.

"This……"

And hearing this history, Wu Liang was also shocked.

Connected!

The past of the Bailiji family actually connected all the incredible things he found in the Qiai cemetery before!
No wonder there are so many wooden figures in the Qi Ai cemetery, and Qi Ai Gong's own coffin also has a broken wooden armor, and even when Wu Liang went to investigate, the arm of the wooden armor was still able to move!
At that time, Wu Liang was thinking, could it be possible that the Jiang surnamed Lu also mastered the wood armor technique?

It turned out that it wasn't that they had mastered the wooden armor technique, but that Duke Ai of Qi secretly took Yanshi and his family to the state of Qi!
As for Qi Aigong Lu Buchen being cooked and killed by King Zhou Yi.

This period of history only appeared in the "Historical Records", which was not written until hundreds of years later, and the record is quite brief. It only said that after Lu Buchen succeeded to the throne, the monarch of Ji State slandered King Zhou Yi, so King Zhou Yi followed suit. He ordered someone to cook him to death, and made his half-brother Lu Jing succeed him as Duke Hu of Qi.

This period of history is actually quite controversial in the archaeological world of later generations.

After all, King Zhou Yi and Duke Ai of Qi both lived when the Zhou Dynasty was established for a hundred years. There should be a relatively close relationship between the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty and the Lu family with the Jiang surname, and the Kingdom of Ji is a small country, and it is not even mentioned in the history books. There are too many records left, can the monarch of such a small country really have such a great influence on King Zhou Yi, so that he can directly execute Duke Ai of Qi?

Even if it is execution, there are many ways.

If it was only because of slander, would it be necessary for King Zhou Yi to use the extremely cruel method of "cooking and killing" to kill him in surprise? His descendants are actually slapping the Zhou Dynasty royal family in the face.

Also.

Can the "Historical Records" that was written hundreds of years later really be able to restore the truth at that time? If so, why did Sima Qian mention it all in just one sentence?
Is it impossible to say, or he doesn't know what happened at that time, so he can only briefly mention it...

Bailiji's words gave Wu Liang the answer.

And many of the details are consistent with what Wu Liang found in the Qiai Cemetery, which undoubtedly proves the authenticity of these words.

Simultaneously.

King Mu of Zhou, King Gong of Zhou, and King Zhou Yi lasted for three dynasties, but according to the historical calendar known to Wu Liang, the shortest timeline between the three dynasties should be only [-] years. After all, only King Mu of Zhou lived longer. Both King Gong and King Zhou Yi were short-lived, so if it is entirely possible for Yanshi to survive three generations of dynasties, this is not a problem at all.

As for the fate of Yanshi and his family...

Since then, they have not been whereabouts, and the wooden armor has no inheritance at all. The wooden armor left in Qi Aigong's coffin may be the last wooden armor in the world.

If it is speculated in this way, Yanshi and those family members may have been killed long ago.

Wu Liang suddenly thought of the terracotta figures in the Qi Ai Cemetery that raised worms.

When mausoleums were built in ancient times, in order to prevent the leakage of the burial and structural drawings of the mausoleum, craftsmen were often killed and buried together. After all, only the dead can keep secrets forever.

Therefore, Yanshi and those family members are very likely to be "sourced locally" by Qi Aigong's family members and younger brothers...

"Mr. Baili, if I can find you a broken wooden armor that is still movable, do you have the confidence to further research on this basis, so as to deduce the manufacturing method of the wooden armor?"

After recovering, Wu Liang suddenly asked.

Regarding the guesses about Yanshi and those family members, Wu Liang would not tell Bailiji to listen, lest he would have emotional fluctuations after hearing it, and have redundant and useless thoughts.

"General Wu actually has such a thing?"

Bailiji was taken aback for a moment, obviously this was something he had never thought of even after thinking about it.

"It was obtained by accident in a secret place."

Wu Liang nodded slightly, and said lightly, "I dismantled the wooden armor and checked it, and found internal organs made of mysterious powder in its chest cavity. In addition, the limbs of the wooden armor were filled with some unknown things. It's a pity. I'm not very learned, so I can't understand the mystery, but what is certain is that when I found this wooden armor, the arm of this wooden armor can still move, and the fingers can also make grasping movements, but it seems to be unconscious. mechanical action."

"If General Wu can trust me, I'm willing to give it a try!"

Bailiji showed yearning, and said a little excitedly.

"But I'm still very curious."

But Wu Liang went on to say, "Historical records show that the wooden armor is only made of some common leather, wood, glue, lacquer, white, black, dan, green, etc., and there is no mechanism such as an organic spring. Motivation, why can I act like a living person, since Mr. Baili has inherited some theories, if it doesn’t get in the way, can I ask Mr. Baili to solve this doubt for me?”

"The real mystery of wooden armor lies in the meridians."

Bailiji suddenly lowered his voice, and said with a very serious expression, "General Wu must know what the meridians are. This is not only the greatest mystery of the human body, but also the greatest mystery of the wooden armor. The ancestors understood part of the subtleties of the meridians." Therefore, it is possible to manufacture wooden armor, so that it can move without any spring mechanism."

"Meridians?"

Wu Liang frowned slightly.

He naturally knows what meridians are. This thing is well known even in the later celestial dynasties, and it affects every aspect of people's lives. Acupuncture, massage, moxibustion... In short, there are almost no people in the celestial dynasty who don't know what meridians are. Things, even many people can casually name many important acupuncture points of the human body.

But what many people don't know is.

In fact, until 1998, the scientific and medical circles had not been able to prove the existence of meridians.

Before that, many scientific and medical workers continued to try to understand the meridians through dissection, and in the process of dissection, they kept comparing the meridian and acupoint maps handed down from ancient times in China, but they never found human tissues similar to meridians and acupoints in the corresponding positions. .

This naturally confuses everyone.

Since there are no corresponding human tissues similar to meridians and acupoints, why have thousands of Chinese medicines, especially acupuncture, massage and other treatment methods, been able to exert immediate effects in dealing with certain diseases and injuries?
In this case, the question once became metaphysical.

Until March 1998, a professor of Fudan University finally confirmed the existence of meridians and acupuncture points with modern scientific theory and experimental means.

He found that all the meridians and acupuncture points are in a complex system based on connective tissue and intertwined with blood vessels, nerve plexuses and lymphatic vessels, thus forming a special physiological system with comprehensive and complex physiological functions. structure……

It's a mouthful to pronounce, isn't it?

In fact, to put it simply, meridians are another channel in the human body besides blood vessels, and acupoints are the transfer stations of these channels, but the composition of meridians and acupoints is not as simple as blood vessels, it is quite complicated The integrated system is different from any organ of the human body.

But is this the truth about meridians and acupuncture points?
In fact, there is still controversy in later generations.

After all, before this, medical workers have not found meridians and acupuncture points through countless human anatomy experiments and many years of history, which is enough to explain the mysterious characteristics of this "invisible human tissue".

And the discovery of the Fudan University professor is actually just to analyze the difference between the meridians and acupuncture points of the human body and other places through reverse deduction. Reverse deduction is indeed a research method, and it is a shortcut. But is the conclusion drawn in this way necessarily the truth?
Wu Liang put a question mark in his heart.

He knew that as a layman, he was not qualified to question the research results of later generations of medical workers, which was disrespectful to their efforts.

But as an archaeologist, he can ask some historical questions.

As far as he knows, "meridians and acupoints" first appeared in the "Lingshu" chapter of "The Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine", and there have been many debates about the time when the "Huangdi's Canon of Internal Medicine" was completed since ancient times.

Scholars in the Jin and Song Dynasties believed that the reason why the "Huangdi Neijing" was so named must have originated in the ancient Huangdi period, not to mention that such a great scientific masterpiece of ancient and modern times cannot be written without the wisdom of sages and sages, so it must be written by the Yellow Emperor... ...This kind of statement is very unscientific in Wu Liang's view;

The second theory is that the "Huangdi Neijing" was written in the Warring States period, because the style and thought of the "Huangdi Neijing" have a lot of similarities with the "Zhou Li" in the Warring States period, and some people combined some ancient books before and after the Warring States period. In contrast, it was found that the comprehensive level of all aspects of "Huangdi Neijing" should also belong to this time... This is a relatively mainstream statement, and the "Siku Quanshu" of the Qing Dynasty even backed up this statement;

The third argument is that the "Huangdi Neijing" was written in the Western Han Dynasty, because some historical books and events recorded in the Western Han Dynasty seem to have set an exact time for the "Huangdi Neijing";

The fourth argument holds that the "Huangdi Neijing" was not completed by one author in a short period of time, but was assembled by multiple authors over a longer period of time. The epic-level masterpieces that came out, so many of them do not seem to belong to the same era, so there will be those debates about "the public is right and the woman is right".

In short.

Even at the latest, people believe that the "Huangdi Neijing" was written at least before the Western Han Dynasty.

So Wu Liang couldn't help asking a question:
Now that he is in the Eastern Han Dynasty, he thinks he has some understanding of the medical level of this period.

How did the ancients before the Western Han Dynasty discover the meridians and acupoints that have been studied for decades by later generations and cannot be found using advanced medical methods?
(End of this chapter)