Tomb Raider: I, at the beginning, took Fatty Lao Hu as my younger brother

After a few years like this, what Master Zhou of Kyoto left behind in the martial arts world became a legend and a reputation!

What's more, Zhou Xun is still the boss of the other party now, and the shopkeeper can stay in the Gujin Pavilion and appreciate the antiques from various dynasties inside.

"Good tea, Mr. Zhou, your craftsmanship is still as great as ever!" The shopkeeper flattered Zhou Xun without hesitation.

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Time passes slowly.

Two hours later.

During these two hours, Zhou Xun not only chatted, but also asked the shopkeeper about many recent business matters of Gujinge.

"Hello, do you accept antiques?"

A voice full of Lao Si's accent, mixed with some tension and uneasiness, reached the ears of the people who were drinking tea!

"Hello, we collect antiques here. Do you have any antiques to sell?" The shopkeeper was not at the door, so the waiter started to receive customers.

"Hmm? A customer is coming, right? Ask the waiter to bring it over. I can also see what it is!" Zhou Xun said to the shopkeeper.

"Xiao Si, bring people here!" the shopkeeper shouted outside.

"okay!"

After a while, the waiter Xiao Si came over with a man in his fifties wearing old-fashioned clothes and with dark skin.

Chapter 758: The Mysterious Jade Seal

Zhou Xun looked up and saw the customer wearing an old-fashioned executive suit, holding a package wrapped in gray cloth tightly in his arms, and walking towards him cautiously!

Zhou Xun has been in the antique industry for many years. He was a shopkeeper for many years and has some vision for customers.

Looking at the man's appearance, we can tell that he is an ordinary farmer or worker. Plus, he is so cautious and holds the package tightly. It must be an old item left by his ancestors!

Now, the old item should be gone, otherwise we wouldn't be so cautious about it.

Of course, whether he is an honest person or not remains to be determined...

At least, Zhou Xun has actually seen such an honest man, and that was Li Chunlai in the plot of Longling Mystery Cave.

Zhou Xun: ......

The same cadre suit, the same skin, the same dress, and seemingly the same identity, except that one is a leather bag and the other is a package wrapped in cloth!

If Li Chunlai had not been dead for many years, Zhou Xun would have suspected that this guy was Li Chunlai.

So similar...

After taking a look, Zhou Xun shook his head speechlessly.

"Come, sit down first!"

The shopkeeper pointed to an empty seat next to him and then poured the customer a cup of tea.

Fortunately, the Gujin Pavilion covers a large enough area, and the layout of the leisure area and the mahogany furniture are also large, otherwise there would not be enough space for so many people.

"Have a cup of tea. If you have something to sell, show it to me. If it's something suitable and the price is right, I'll buy it!"

Seeing the other party's simple and honest appearance, and feeling a little nervous, the shopkeeper took the initiative to start communicating.

"thanks, thanks!"

"Are you the boss of Gujin Pavilion? I heard that in the entire city of Sijiu, your Gujin Pavilion is the most powerful and the price you offer is the most fair!"

The guest sat down, but instead of drinking tea, he asked the shopkeeper with some restraint.

"Hahaha, you're right. In the entire Sijiu City, our Gujin Pavilion is indeed the most powerful. But I'm not the boss, I'm the shopkeeper!"

"If you have anything to sell, you can show it to me and I can make the decision!"

"How do i call you?"

The shopkeeper glanced at Zhou Xun calmly and continued communicating with the customer.

"You are the shopkeeper. Hello, hello. My last name is Sun, you can call me whatever you want!" Sun Dingguo carefully placed the package next to himself, then shook hands with the shopkeeper.

But the conversation was still full of vigilance.

"What do you have to sell? Take it out and show it to me. If the item is suitable and the price is right, I will buy it!" Seeing the other party's alert look, the shopkeeper decided to get straight to the point.

"Good! Good!"

Sun Dingguo gently placed the package on the long mahogany table, and then carefully opened the package.

The package was opened, revealing a square wooden box inside.

As soon as the wooden box came out, the shopkeeper, Zhou Xun, Shirley Yang, Yingzi and the four fierce beasts were all secretly surprised.

I didn’t expect that this honest man really had something. This wooden box was no ordinary thing. It was a very well-preserved golden nanmu wooden box!

The value of this wooden box alone is enough to buy a house and a car in Kyoto, making an ordinary person instantly become a wealthy and well-off person!

Phoebe nanmu is more expensive than gold in the market!

However, while others were in short supply of golden nanmu, Zhou Xun had plenty of it. From just one underwater tomb, Zhou Xun harvested dozens of giant golden nanmu pillars.

In addition, Zhou Xun also bought a lot from the public at low prices in his early years.

The quantity is extraordinary, more than enough to replace a batch of golden nanmu furniture for the entire palace!

But that was Zhou Xun. In the market, golden nanmu is really rare and very scarce!

The shopkeeper was not Zhou Xun. After confirming that it was golden nanmu, he was already excited. A big customer had come. If this deal was done, Gujinge would definitely make a fortune!

Sun Dingguo didn't pay attention to the crowd's reaction, nor did he focus on the golden nanmu box. Instead, he continued to open the box and showed the contents... 0

"Boss, take a look. This is something passed down from my ancestors. They said this is the emperor's seal, which is used by the emperor to stamp imperial edicts!"

"Look, how much is this worth?"

"I won't hide it from you. If I hadn't had to, my old partner would be sick and in the hospital and needed a lot of money. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to sell the things left by my ancestors."

"But now I have no choice. Look, this thing is absolutely real. I am not lying to you. If I lied to you, I would die!"

"This jade seal was passed down from my ancestors to my grandfather, who passed it to my father, and my father later passed it to me!"

"Take a look. If the price is right, I will sell it to you. Take a look!!!"

Sun Dingguo was a little excited, and spoke to the shopkeeper with a tearful tone.

Even after he finished speaking, he looked at the other person helplessly!

After listening to this, Zhou Xun knew that what this person said was true and this person was definitely not the 2.9nd or th Li Chunlai.

You can act out facial expressions and eye contact, but you can’t act out your heartbeat.

"Okay, okay, let me take a look first. Don't worry, have a cup of tea and calm down!"

After saying that, the shopkeeper put on gloves, took the seal in his hand and looked at it carefully with a magnifying glass.

After watching for a full minute.

"Is this jade seal passed down from your ancestors?" the shopkeeper shouted in surprise!

The shopkeeper's heart began to beat rapidly at this moment. After a minute of careful inspection, the shopkeeper could be sure that this jade was absolutely top-notch jade.

But when the shopkeeper looked at the seal itself, he was really dumbfounded!

How did this thing appear?

How did this baby appear here? ? .

Chapter 759: True and False Imperial Seal

This, this, this, for a moment, the shopkeeper was so shocked that he looked at Sun Dingguo blankly, as if he wanted to find some answers from him!

On the side, Zhou Xun and a few others who were drinking tea heard the shopkeeper's exclamation and turned to look over.

Among the few people, especially Zhou Xun, he was also shocked when he saw the jade seal.

The heartbeat in my chest couldn't help but start beating rapidly.

The national jade seal! ! !

How is that possible? Didn’t the imperial seal get lost and disappear in the long river of history?

Why are you here?

Is this fake???

Zhou Xun was not unfamiliar with the imperial seal of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. In fact, anyone who has studied history seriously would know its name.

The predecessor of the imperial seal was the Heshi Bi of the State of Zhao. When King Zhao of Qin heard that King Zhao had an exquisite jade bi (Heshi Bi), he proposed to exchange it for Heshi Bi with fifteen cities.

However, King Zhao of Qin did not intend to exchange it. He just wanted to trick the Heshi Bi into his own hands. Afterwards, a classic historical story happened, and the Heshi Bi was returned intact to Zhao!

In 235 BC, King Ying Zheng of Qin came to power and began 30 years of vigorous unification!

In 228 BC, the King of Qin conquered Zhao, and the King of Zhao personally presented the Heshi Bi to Ying Zheng in Handan. Finally, Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng conquered the six kingdoms, unified China, and established the Qin Dynasty. He then ordered Prime Minister Li Si to carve the Heshi Bi into a jade seal.

There are five dragons carved on it, and eight characters "Received the Mandate from Heaven, May You Live Long and Prosper" engraved below it, making the seal the Imperial Seal, so that it can be passed down from generation to generation forever!!!

From then on, China entered a feudal society!

According to the thoughts of Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng, the imperial seal should be passed down from generation to generation. As a result, events deviated greatly from the expectations of the first emperor. The imperial seal was only passed down for three generations before it was obtained by Liu Bang who invaded Xianyang!

After the Qin Dynasty, the imperial seal represented the emperor's identity card. If one obtained the seal, it meant that he was given the mandate of heaven; if one lost it, it meant that his luck was over!

From then on, the jade seal in Liu Bang's hands ushered in the Han Dynasty!

The jade seal was passed down in the hands of Liu's descendants until the end of the Western Han Dynasty. Later, Wang Mang, a relative of the emperor, usurped the Han Dynasty. Wang Mang, who held military power, forced Queen Mother Wang to hand over the jade seal.

The Queen Mother was so angry that she threw the jade seal to the ground, and one corner of the seal was broken. Wang Mang picked it up and ordered people to fill the missing corner with gold. After that, this imperial seal had the first "anti-counterfeiting mark" of the golden corner!

Finally, Wang Mang's regime was overthrown, and the jade seal went through many twists and turns and changed hands many times, and finally it was taken by Liu Xiu, who was known as the "Son of the Planes"!

After that, the imperial seal was passed down from generation to generation in the Eastern Han Dynasty until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Cao Pi forced Emperor Xian of Han to abdicate. Cao Pi firmly believed that the final destination of the imperial seal would be the Cao family, and then he had people engrave "The Great Wei Received the Imperial Seal from the Han Dynasty" on the left side of the imperial seal.

After that, the imperial seal had a second anti-counterfeiting mark!

Unexpectedly, after the jade seal had been passed down in the Cao family for three generations, the Sima family usurped the Wei Dynasty and the jade seal fell into the hands of the Sima family again.

In 311 AD, Liu Cong, the emperor of Former Zhao, captured Sima Chi, the emperor Huai of Jin, and the imperial seal returned to Former Zhao.

Nineteen years later, Shi Le, the emperor of Later Zhao, destroyed Former Zhao and the jade seal returned to Later Zhao. Shi Le may have felt guilty at this time, or perhaps in order to be unique, he engraved "Tianming Shishi" on the right side of the jade seal.

Thus, the imperial seal now has a third anti-counterfeiting mark!

Twenty years later, Ran Min proclaimed himself emperor and established the Great Wei, and the jade seal was back in his hands.

Later, when Ran Min was in crisis, he begged for help from the Eastern Jin army. The Jin Dynasty proposed to exchange the imperial seal for the seal. After the Jin people got the seal, they ordered 300 elite cavalry to deliver it to the capital Jiankang (now Nanjing!) overnight.

In this way, the imperial seal returned to the hands of the Sima family of the Jin Dynasty.

During the Southern Dynasties, the imperial seal passed through four generations of Song, Qi, Liang and Chen. The Sui Dynasty unified China, ending hundreds of years of division, and the imperial seal returned to the hands of the Sui Dynasty.

In 618 AD, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was killed in Jiangdu, the Sui Dynasty was destroyed, and the Li family established the Tang Dynasty. However, Empress Xiao fled to the Turks with the imperial seal.

As a result, when the Tang Dynasty was established, it was unable to obtain the imperial seal!

In the fourth year of Zhenguan, which was 630 AD, Li Jing led his army to attack the Turks. In the same year, Empress Xiao and Prince Yuande betrayed the Turks and returned to the Central Plains. The imperial seal finally fell into the hands of Li Tang, and Emperor Taizong was very pleased!

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos and heroes emerged everywhere!

In the fourth year of Tianyou in the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Quanzhong deposed Emperor Ai of Tang, seized the imperial seal, and established the Later Liang Dynasty!

Sixteen years later, Li Cunxu (xu, fourth tone) destroyed Later Liang and established Later Tang, and the imperial seal returned to the hands of Later Tang again.

Thirteen years later, Shi Jingtang led the Khitan army to attack Luoyang. Li Congke, the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, burned himself to death in the Xuanwu Tower while holding the imperial seal!

After the fire, the imperial seal disappeared. It was not until the time of Guo Wei, the first emperor of the Later Zhou Dynasty, that he had to use two seals, "Emperor's Divine Treasure", as he could not find the imperial seal.

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However, although the imperial seal was burned,207 many ancient "experts" claimed that the He Shi Bi on which the imperial seal was carved could withstand temperatures of more than degrees and could not be burned.

Later, the imperial seal was indeed discovered many times, but there was insufficient evidence to prove its authenticity. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were occasional rumors of the appearance of the imperial seal, but they were all fakes.

The real imperial seal has been missing till now, and no one knows where it is. But now, Zhou Xun never thought that the imperial seal would appear before his eyes! ! ! ! !

You know, it was precisely because Zhou Xun knew the whereabouts of the imperial seal and the time when it had disappeared for a long time that he did not go looking for the imperial seal.

But... Zhou Xun didn't expect that even though he didn't take the initiative to look for it, the imperial seal would come to him on its own!

(The author has searched for a lot of information. This is the true trace inheritance of the Imperial Seal. Please read it, readers!)

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