genius divination

Chapter 1408 New Directions
"But these publications are clearly written, the description of the cultural relic is very clear, and there are photos. The process of obtaining this cultural relic is also very detailed." The young man asked with a frown.

Fan Jiannan smiled, "Do you believe these things? Hetu Luoshu exists in legends, and no one can tell the age. According to the Cultural Relics Law, it is doubtful whether objects that cannot be dated are cultural relics.

Moreover, whether a thing is a cultural relic or not needs to be identified by cultural relics.If the age of this object is unknown, and its authenticity cannot be distinguished, there is no way to determine whether it has cultural relic value, so it is not called a cultural relic.Since you have never even seen the real thing, let alone passed the appraisal.So your accusation itself is a joke. "

"You...but we have evidence." The young man from the Bureau of Cultural Relics looked at Fan Jiannan and said.

"Just relying on these magazines? To put it bluntly, people in these magazines often claim to have seen UFOs, and some even witnessed the existence of aliens. If you think these are credible, then I have nothing to say. I heard ancient books The picture of going up the river is a decoration on the body of a creature called a dragon horse. Do you want me to help you find a dragon horse?" Fan Jiannan said with a smile.

"Mr. Fan, we came to see you today just to talk to you. My colleague is young and energetic, and his words may be inappropriate. I apologize to you." One of the middle-aged people explained to Fan Jiannan, "It's actually not It’s not that we want to pursue any responsibility, but we want to see this thing with our own eyes.”

Fan Jiannan smiled and said, "It's easy to say, easy to say. But it's not a coincidence that you came here, this thing has been returned to the factory for repair."

"Return to the factory for repair?" The middle-aged man was taken aback for a moment, and asked strangely, "What do you mean?"

"It's mainly the processing side, which didn't meet my requirements." Fan Jiannan pointed to the photo and said, "Look, this is the real thing, and I'll show you my design draft. Look, here is a very subtle The difference. The manufacturer made some mistakes in the process of laser engraving. So I think this river map is a defective product. According to the contract between me and them, I have the right to ask to return to the factory for redoing, or even a full refund payment."

The middle-aged man looked at him dumbfoundedly, and said for a long time, "Mr. Fan, you mean, this so-called river map is a handicraft made by the factory you hired?"

"Otherwise, what do you think?" Fan Jiannan turned his head helplessly and said, "Fatty, show them the processing contract we signed with the manufacturer. By the way, there is also an invoice. In case they think that the manufacturer is evading taxes, the Cultural Relics Bureau is gone. The IRS is here again."

"This..." The middle-aged man couldn't laugh or cry as he held the contract document that Fatty Zhang handed him and the formal invoice issued by the manufacturer.This joke was too big. This so-called precious cultural relic turned out to be a handicraft that just left the factory not long ago.The above ingredients are also clearly marked.Pure iron doped with a small amount of nickel is not meteoric iron at all, it is completely modern processing.

"Then you are...why is this?" the young man said in amazement.

Fan Jiannan said eloquently, "To be honest, my big publicity and campaign is completely a performance art. It aims to explore the relationship between Chinese traditional civilization and modern media communication. It calls on modern people to pay more attention to our traditional culture. Do you have to notify your cultural relics protection unit?"

"This... I'm sorry, we misunderstood." The middle-aged man said awkwardly.

"I'm afraid it's not enough to just say sorry." Fan Jiannan shrugged and said, "Anyway, I am also a public figure who often appears on TV magazines. You have no evidence, no serious investigation, and you directly came to accuse me of breaking the law. .It's doing a lot of damage to my reputation."

The young man from the cultural relics bureau muttered in a low voice, "You are just a fortune teller."

"What's wrong with a fortune-teller? Even if you're a beggar on the street, don't you have a clean reputation? I don't steal or rob, and I make a living by fortune-telling and collecting money from fortune-telling. Should I be framed as a criminal for nothing? If you don’t make this clear today, I’ll ask our legal counsel to talk to you.” Fan Jiannan sneered slightly and turned his head, “Fatty, call Lawyer Zhao.”

"Shut up, what are you talking about?" The middle-aged man turned around and scolded the young man, then turned to Fan Jiannan and said, "This matter is indeed our fault, and we are willing to make a public apology to Mr. Fan."

"It's not necessary, you're enough." Fan Jiannan waved his hand and said, "I'm not an unforgiving master. Please go with it, I won't give it away."

The staff from the Bureau of Cultural Relics walked out with a smile.The young man said unwillingly, "Director, why are you being so polite to him?"

"What do you know? What do you think this Tianji Hall is?" The middle-aged man sneered, "It's a small place, but which of the celebrities and dignitaries have never been here? The backgrounds of charlatans like them are extremely complicated. We If you're not careful, you don't know who you will offend. Besides, this time we made mistakes first, and talked nonsense without evidence, you teach me this lesson."

After Fan Jiannan watched them leave, he sneered and said, "Needless to say, this must have been caused by Su Xuanshui again."

"Brother Fan, how do you know?" Fatty Zhang asked strangely.

"Think about it, Su Xuanshui just replaced the fake river map. The people from the Bureau of Cultural Relics will come right away. They just want to take the opportunity to pester us so that we can't hand over the real river map. They will cause us a lot of trouble and leave me with no time. Take him into consideration." Fan Jiannan said flatly, "Unfortunately, he made a wrong calculation."

Fatty Zhang nodded and said, "This person is indeed sinister."

"Let's see, he won't end like this." Fan Jiannan smiled slightly, "But even if he has all the skills, he probably can't figure out whether the thing we replaced by him is real or not."

"Why? Can't they tell the truth after taking it away?" Fatty Zhang asked strangely.

"I have already done some tricks on that fake. As soon as this thing comes off the glass cover, it will quickly oxidize and rust, and it will rust out of shape within a few days. It is too late to distinguish the real from the fake, and they can only do it with all their skills. Stare." Fan Jiannan smiled slightly.

"Admiration. Brother Fan is far-sighted, I'm right with the boss." Fatty Zhang had a sly look on his face.

"Putting ass won't raise your salary, so just go ahead and do it, and I'll benefit from it." Fan Jiannan patted him on the shoulder and said.

Back upstairs in the Tianji Pavilion, Wu Nanming was still staring at the piece of meteorite in a daze.Seeing Fan Jiannan walk in, he came back to his senses and said, "What happened just now?"

"It's nothing serious, it's just that someone deliberately troubled us, but it has been resolved." Fan Jiannan said, "Where did we just talk, you said there is a way to unlock the meaning of these ancient patterns?"

Wu Nanming nodded and said, "Yes. I think these decorations may be related to another legend - "Golden Seal and Jade Letter."

"Golden Seal and Jade Letter?" Fatty Zhang was taken aback, "Isn't that the legend of the Talisman Sect?"

"Oh, this little friend actually knows about gold seals and jade letters?" Wu Nanming frowned.

"I've heard of it a little bit, but it's just some unspeakable country legend." Fatty Zhang said shyly. "It is said that this is the secret text of the heavenly book that was handed down from ancient times. Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang both mentioned this classic in the Tang Dynasty. After the Anshi Rebellion, it is said that it was permanently sealed, and a six-character curse was written in ancient seal script. Watching Blind, the winner perishes. Since then, the golden seal and jade letters have been lost."

Wu Nanming nodded, "Actually, it also has a name called Wordless Book of Heaven. According to legend, it is an ancient man who studied the divination of the Book of Changes. It is a wonderful calligraphy and painting scroll that is used to disrupt the world, and uses pictures instead of words to make future generations comprehend. There are no words in the whole text, only the graphic decorations similar to this river map."

"Yes, I heard people say that Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang, the masters of Taoism in the Tang Dynasty, both studied this wordless scripture, but they didn't get the essentials, so they could only look at it and sigh. After that, Taoism began to gradually decline." Fatty Zhang said.

"It seems that you are indeed a Taoist, and you still know a lot about it. But it is not comprehensive. In fact, in the early Tang Dynasty, Taoism was unprecedentedly prosperous. Take the Eight Immortals of the Tang Dynasty as an example. At that time, there were many people seeking immortality and Taoism. , Among the scholar-bureaucrats, Huang-Lao's study was also admired. Many of them actually got some benefits. A lot of evidence shows that the secret of longevity was also passed down at that time." Wu Nanming said slowly.

"Is there really a secret to longevity?" Fatty Zhang said in shock.

Wu Nanming smiled and said nothing at first, and then said slowly, "Baiyujing in the sky, the twelfth floor and five cities. The immortal caressed my top, and tied my hair for longevity."

Fan Jiannan thought for a while and said, "This seems to be a poem written by Li Bai? You don't want to say that he is also a magician?"

"No, he just accepted Taoist thought. It is said that Li Bai used to go to Daitian Mountain to find Taoist priests to talk about Taoism since he was a boy. Later, he lived in seclusion in Minshan with a hermit named Dongyanzi. Concentrate on studying. They raised many exotic birds in the mountains and forests where they lived. These birds, because they were used to feeding them, flew regularly to beg for food, as if they could understand human language, and they came from everywhere with a call. Before flying down the steps, he can even peck grains in human hands without being afraid at all.

This incident was rumored as an anecdote for a while, and finally the governor of Mianzhou went to the mountains to watch the birds eating.Seeing that they could direct the actions of birds, the governor believed that they had Taoism skills, and even wanted to recommend them to take the Taoism exam.But he gave up. "Wu Nanming said slowly, "But he has been exposed to the longevity technique on the gold seal and jade letter, but he is not that material.That's why he wrote in his poems: Immortals caress my top, tie my hair and enjoy longevity. "

"How come?" Fan Jiannan asked strangely, "In various historical materials, it is only recorded that he is a poet, but no one has ever mentioned that he is a magician."

"Think about it, he once claimed to be an exiled immortal. What's more, what the world doesn't know is that he is also a swordsman." Wu Nanming said slowly, "Li Bai's poems, Pei Min's swordsmanship, and Zhang Xu's cursive script are collectively called the Three Kingdoms of the Tang Dynasty. Jue. Although Li Bai's swordsmanship is not among the three, some people think that his swordsmanship is only inferior to Pei Min's, ranking second in the Tang Dynasty."

"That doesn't mean he has been exposed to magic arts?" Fan Jiannan frowned.

"Do you know where Li Bai was born?" Wu Nanming said slowly, "There are two official explanations, one is in Mianzhou, Jiannan Province, and the other is in Suiye City in the Western Regions."

Fan Jiannan was taken aback, "Western Region?"

"Kunlun in the Western Regions, the place where the secret of longevity originated." Wu Nanming said slowly. "The countless Taoist legends about longevity are all related to Kunlun Mountain. In the opening lines of the two poems I just mentioned, the sky is Baiyujing, the twelfth floor and five cities, what Li Bai alludes to is Kunlun Mountain. It is there that he came into contact with the golden seal. The jade letter and the secret of longevity. This is also the origin of the last two lines of the poem - Immortal caresses my top, knotting hair to receive longevity."

Fan Jiannan said in astonishment, "I've heard of these two poems before, but I never thought they would be like this. I always thought it was an exaggeration made by this alcoholic after drinking too much."

Wu Nanming said slowly, "If you have as much time as I do for research and research, then you can find the truth of many hidden things in this world."

"Then you mean we want to find the Kunlun Mountain that Li Bai mentioned?" Fan Jiannan asked strangely.

"The place name of Kunlun has many explanations in history. According to my research, Kunlun Mountain should refer to the XJXZ, which is connected to the Pamirs in the west and extends into Qinghai in the east. The situation is extremely high, with many snowy peaks and glaciers. According to ancient myths and legends, there are fairylands such as Yaochi, Langyuan, Zengcheng, and Xianpu on Kunlun Mountain, which should be related to the ice and snow climate." Wu Nanming explained.

"So there really is Kunlun Mountain?" Fatty Zhang excitedly said, "There is also the Queen Mother of the West and the elixir of life?"

"Kunlun Mountain has it, and the secret of longevity should also exist. But Yaochi, Queen Mother of the West, etc. are legends." Wu Nanming shook his head and said.

"Then how do we find the legendary golden seal and jade letter? To Kunlun or Suiye City?" Fan Jiannan frowned, "Even if we go there, we won't find anything, right?"

"There are no absolutes in everything. Many things in ancient times are symbolic. Just like the river map is not a picture, but the golden seal and jade letter may not really be a book." Wu Nanming explained, "Before Li Bai was 15 years old, Get in touch with Taoism and receive Taoism in Kunlun. This gives us a general scope. Because the scope of activities of the ancients was not as large as ours now. For example, we can go abroad on the same day by taking an airplane. The transportation in that era was far from It may be as developed as it is now, and many people have never traveled within a hundred miles of where they live in their entire lives."

"This means that Li Bai was unlikely to travel far when he was young, so the Kunlun Mountain should not be far from Suiye City." Fan Jiannan followed Wu Nanming's train of thought.

"That's right." Wu Nanming said with a smile. "So I want to find the legendary Kunlun, and start with Suiye City first. Look for possible mountains around Suiye City."

"Then where is Suiye City?" Fan Jiannan frowned and said, "Where exactly is the Western Region at that time?"

(End of this chapter)