Chapter 48 Chapter 48: Diancang Mountain Scripture Cave

In the dark, Zhang Yicheng felt as if he had been tied tightly with a rope, and he didn't know where he was carried when he was lifted up and down.I don't know how long it has passed, and it feels like someone is pricking myself with a needle again. "Who!?" Zhang Yicheng opened his eyes suddenly, only to see a grimace dangling in front of his eyes, "Why aren't you dead yet!?" Perhaps it was a conditioned reflex, Zhang Yicheng bit the tip of his tongue and salivated. Squirted out. "Yicheng! It's me!" Tong Guohu took out a handkerchief and wiped his face vigorously, "Don't get excited, it's me, Tong Guohu!"

"Brother Tong?" Zhang Yicheng took a closer look, and it really was Tong Guohu. "How did you get in there?" Tong Guohu looked puzzled, "Where did you get in?" "Of course?" Zhang Yicheng didn't even bother to answer Tong Guohu's question, he gritted his teeth and sat up, "Of course! Zhou Yunran!" "I'm here! I'm here" Zhou Yunran was actually next to Zhang Yicheng, seeing Zhang Yicheng's first words when he woke up was calling himself, her eyes immediately turned red. "Oh, I'll wipe it." Seeing that Zhou Yunran was fine, Zhang Yicheng heaved a sigh of relief and lay back on his back, "You unlucky boy, you want to scare me to death, you... Brother Tong, thank you..."

"Don't thank me! I should thank you!" Tong Guohu said, "We met by chance, and you would take such a risk for me. I really don't know how to thank you." "You little bastard, you didn't even ask me when you woke up..." Zhang Guozhong also approached Zhang Yicheng with a cup of hot water, "Do you know that the pot is made of iron this time?" "Dad, I'm really not arguing with you. Fortunately, I came to save you..." Zhang Yicheng pouted, "You have to go in that hole first. I'm an orphan now..." "I'll kill you, big or small..." In front of so many people, Zhang Guozhong seemed a little uneasy, "It's hard for you to get in, can't I?"

"Brother Tong, can you tell me what's going on?" At this moment, what Zhang Yicheng wants to understand most is the logic of what is happening now, why Tong Guohu returned empty-handed, and why he was hit by a car and fell into a coma If she didn't wake up, why did she suddenly come back to life, and was able to appear on the cliff in time to catch Zhou Yunran? What was in the cave, who was digging this cave, and what was it for?All of this, what is it for? "At first, I found a lot of important clues about the treasure from my father's suicide note, Du Wenxiu's former residence and other places. According to these clues, I found the cave. But I didn't go in, because I could see inside There seems to be something. And I didn’t find a real fairy at the time, so I was not in a hurry to get the crown..." Tong Guohu said, "After seeing you, I wanted to get the crown as soon as possible, so I came back here again. But I found There's nothing in the cave..."

"It's called nothing?" Zhang Yicheng collapsed, thinking that you, an alien uncle, are too calm, right? "Nothing. Where did my body injury come from? What the hell did that African monster do?" "Actually..." Tong Guohu hesitated to speak, "It's all my fault..." "Blame you?" Zhang Yicheng was taken aback, "What do you mean..." "Actually, that thing is the evil spirit on me..." Tong Guohu sighed, almost ashamed to look into Zhang Yicheng's eyes... According to Tong Guohu's words, after finding this cave again, he entered the cave excitedly and scanned the entire secret room, but was greatly disappointed. But it was empty.After being disappointed, Tong Guohu also conducted a more detailed investigation and analysis of the secret room itself.In the end, although he failed to get the crown, he learned some terrible secrets. "First of all, based on my research, the secret room in the cave should be a scripture cave built in the late Song Dynasty."

"The scripture cave?" Zhang Yicheng was taken aback, "No wonder there are such Buddha-like messages..." Since ancient times, Dali has been known as the country of Buddhism. For this small foreign country, the popularity of Buddhism even exceeds that of traditional Southeast Asian Buddhist countries such as Thailand and India.From the founding of Dali in the first year of Taizu Wende (937) to the incorporation of Mongolia in the fourth year of Daolong (1254), during the more than 300 years, Dali experienced a total of 22 emperors, and ten of them became monks. Monk. Nearly half of the total, besides, when the emperor of Dali became a monk, the emperor himself was shaved and ordained to go to the temple to chant scriptures, not like Wei Xiaobao in the martial arts novel, the emperor believed in Buddhism and then sent a substitute to become a monk instead, similar to this kind of emperor who took the lead The glorious tradition of being a monk is extremely rare in history, and the Dali royal family's fanatical pursuit of Buddhism can be seen from this.

According to the stone inscriptions found by Tong Guohu from the Sutra Cave, the builder of the Sutra Cave should be Duan Xiangxing, the penultimate emperor of Dali Kingdom. Under the influence of his father, the emperor, Duan Xiangxing was also obsessed with Buddhism to a certain extent. Although he himself did not become a monk like his father, Lin Zunfo's religious standpoint of emphasizing Buddhism was not much inferior to that of his father Duan Zhixiang. In the fourth year of Daolong (1244), Wo Kuotai inherited the throne of Mongolian Khan.The first thing he did when he came to power was to think about eradicating Dali, and then use it as a base for the Northern Expedition to destroy the Song Dynasty.In June of the same year, Wo Kuotai mobilized 200,000 elite iron cavalry from the Mongolian army conquering Shu to enter the pass.It is an attempt to get rid of the Dali Kingdom at once as quickly as possible, in order to speed up the overall progress of the cause of destroying the Song Dynasty.

To be honest, Duan Xiangxing had no hope of winning against the menacing Mongolian army. He was a vassal state of the Song Dynasty. Two times, they are three levels behind Mongolia. With such a gap in strength, how can we fight this battle?In view of this, at the beginning of the Mongolian army's invasion.Duan Yangxing began to order the construction of the Buddhist scripture cave to preserve the Buddhist veins of Dali.The Mongolian army has always been famous for massacring cities and setting fire to them.In Duan Xiangxing's view, if one day Dali is really captured by the Mongolian army, carpet-like burning, killing and looting will be inevitable. If this is the case, wouldn't Dali's 300-year-old Buddhist lineage be wiped out?

However, history has proved that the actual situation is not as pessimistic as Duan Yangxing imagined. After rejecting the lobbyists of the Mongolian army, there was indeed a head-to-head contest between Dali and Mongolia.Duan Xiangxing even sent Gao Taihe, a Dali pillar-level general, to fight. Although the main force of the Dali army was wiped out in the end and Gao Taihe died in battle, the Hao army suddenly withdrew due to the sudden death of Wo Kuotai Khan, leaving Dali a respite.In the eleventh year of Daolong (1251), Duan Xiangxing died, and his son Duan Xingzhi came to the throne. At the same time, the newly appointed Mengge Khan ordered his younger brother Kublai Khan to lead troops to attack Dali again.Although Duan Xingzhi didn't get as lucky as his father this time, and caught up with the dead leader of the opponent after half a battle, but after the defeat.Dali did not encounter the expected massacre and burning. On the contrary, Kublai Khan, who was deeply influenced by Confucianism and Taoism, not only ordered to treat the Dali royal family well, but also appointed Duan Xingzhi as the general manager of Dali to continue ruling in Dali.After confirming the safety, Duan Xingzhi ordered to take back the scriptures and Buddhist treasures collected by his father Duan Xiangxing.

"Boss Dong has already told me about Du Wenxiu's suicide note!" Tong Guohu sighed and nodded at Zhou Yunran, "I didn't expect this little sister to be so sensitive. If I can be as careful as her , I'm afraid I don't have to look for it for more than ten years..." "You mean, Du Wenxiu discovered that cave and hid the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom there?" Zhang Yicheng said, "But there is everything in that cave! Could it be that the treasures were all killed by those Du Wenxiu sent?" Shi' swallowed it all?" "No! It's not Du Wenxiu who took away the treasure!" Tong Guohu said decisively, "Do you remember that I told you that my grandfather once had an apprentice named Miao who disappeared?"

"Miao Zhigu!" Qin Ge appeared out of nowhere, and took over Tong Guohu's words before Zhang Yicheng could speak. One of the early members of the KMT's top-secret secret service organization "China Taiping Analysis Committee" was ordered in February 1944 to go to western Yunnan with Song Chunjiang, another apprentice of Yuan Shaoyi, to perform a special mission. The mission code was "Juaner" and disappeared during the mission... " "Mr. Qin...you...how do you know this!?" Hearing what Qin Ge said, Tong Guohu was shocked. "Yicheng's father and I started dealing with this 'China Taiping Prayer Committee' a long time ago! In 1944, Dali was the most important rear base for the Sino-Japanese Battle of Western Yunnan. Presumably the so-called 'Juan Er' mission also It is related to the Battle of West Yunnan, but unfortunately, the information I got did not record the specific content of the mission." Qin Ge smiled, "And there are very few records about Miao Zhigu in the information, we just know that there is such a person It just exists." "Shangxian, what you say is not authentic..." Old Liu couldn't listen to it... "Actually, the thing that fought with you in the cave was Miao Zhigu's corpse," Tong Guohu straightened his glasses.He said every word. "Wh-what!?" Zhang Yicheng almost lost his temper again, "Don't you say that's the evil spirit on your body? Why did you become that Miao again?" "Evil is on me but the body is his!" Tong Guohu seemed a little embarrassed, "It's all my fault. I wanted to be opportunistic. I didn't expect to cause so much trouble..." According to Tong Guohu, when he first entered the scripture cave, he was also taken aback. Although there were no treasures in the cave, there were four corpses. Judging from the clothes and the degree of decay of the corpses, they were obviously not ancient people. Three of the corpses were placed artificially. Together.The other body was lying alone in another place.From this single corpse, Tong Guohu also found some last words carved on the ground temporarily with a dagger, which probably means that he is an agent of the national army, and when he was performing a special mission, he accidentally found a group of people pretending to be Chinese. The behavior of the Japanese spies was extremely suspicious, so Zhang and his companions followed the Japanese spies so far. After discovering that the target of the Japanese spies turned out to be a Chinese national treasure, they fought fiercely with them. However, he was seriously injured in the battle, so he asked his companions to retreat with the national treasure. You can only stay in the hole and wait to die. "Although in his last words, he only revealed his identity but did not reveal his name and mission. But the relics on his body let me guess that he is Miao Zhi Zhanshang." Tong Guohu said, "I found the truth in him." The dagger that grandpa often mentions is one of grandpa's favorite weapons and was later passed on to his favorite apprentice. It is Miao Zhigu!" "Let your companion go with the national treasure first!?" Qin Ge was stunned, "Mr. Tong, don't you think there is a problem with this?" "What's the problem?" Tong Guohu was taken aback. "According to the information I have, the person who carried out the mission with Miao Zhigu at that time was called Song Chunjiang, who was also an apprentice of Yuan Zhangjiao. Since Miao Zhigu said that his companion should go first with the national treasure, it means that Song Chunjiang survived in the end. It also shows that Song Chunjiang was still alive until the last mission with Yuan Zhangjiao, but Yuan Zhangjiao did not know the whereabouts of Miao Zhigu from the beginning to the end, which shows that Song Chunjiang finally concealed the national treasure!" Qin Gedao frowned. "Well... yes, I have considered this issue too..." Tong Guohu was silent for a few seconds, "But what can I do? It is difficult to know the heart if you know the face!" "Dagger?" Zhang Yicheng suddenly remembered that when he first arrived in the second secret room, the buddy lying on the ground seemed to have a dagger stuck in his mouth, "Is it the one that stuck in his mouth?" "Exactly!" Tong Guohu said, "I wondered when I first entered the cave. There were four corpses in the cave, but there was only one soul. Only after I found the last words and found his dagger did I realize that this person was probably Miao. So far, and from the analysis of the traces in the cave, it is very likely that before his own death, he also rescued the other three Japanese agents who were killed by him, but he was unable to rescue himself, so the soul left in the cave is probably the Miao Zhigu's. Because of the special structure of the cave, his soul can't get out of the cave, so he can't be reincarnated!" According to Tong Guohu's analysis, if Miao Zhigu really died to protect the national treasure, and the national treasure was saved in the end.So for him, it means that death has fulfilled his great wish. Such a soul should be easily rescued. Even if it is not superseded, it will not take long to be reincarnated on its own. However, due to the special structural restrictions of the cave, Miao Zhigu's soul was hidden in After entering the cave, although the initial grievances were not great, it was not easy to deal with being trapped for too long. "He overcame the enemy?" Zhang Yicheng was taken aback, "The prime minister can hold a boat in his stomach..." "His suicide note said that there is no hatred between people. Enmity is the hatred of the country, and hatred is also the hatred of the country. It is already a sin of treason and treason to harm others. It can be regarded as fulfilling the duty of practicing the Tao..." Tong Guohu sighed, "After that, I used the name of Miao Zhigu to recruit his soul, and sure enough, it came immediately, which means that the person who died was Miao Zhizhan. my beloved disciple, I will save him..." "Isn't that good..." Zhang Yicheng frowned, "Then why did the thing on your body get on him? Didn't it mean that Hong Xiuquan's crown is necessary to perform this job?"