"Stay here and don't let anyone in."
Yang Yizhong gave an order to his men, then tightened the rope around his waist and climbed down the well.
The well was not deep, but the sunlight could not penetrate, making it particularly dark. Yang Yizhong had a vague feeling that the bottom of the well seemed to lead to an unknown place, but he felt that this idea was too absurd, so he shook his head and took out the fire starter he had prepared and blew it.
The faint flames flickered, revealing a few metallic lights at the bottom of the well. Yang Yizhong fumbled around and found a few small discs.
Before he could take a closer look, Inoue's men had already poked their heads out to ask. Realizing that he had been down there for too long, Yang Yizhong responded while stuffing the things he had picked up into his pocket. He turned around again, making sure nothing was left out, and then signaled his men to pull him up.
"Why did you take so long? Did you find anything good?"
One of his men asked in jest, but Yang Yizhong was prepared. He took out two silver ingots from his purse and said with a smile, "Why? You want them?"
-Look, it was given by the emperor as a reward to all officials and officers when he ascended the throne. It is not worth much money, but it is not easy to sell. The subordinate who asked the question was unhappy, but he smiled flatteringly and said he dared not.
“Prosperity.”
After cursing, Yang Yizhong took out some change and let the others share it. Everyone cheered and thanked him, and then they dispersed.
Exhaling silently, Yang Yizhong squeezed his purse and returned to his tent. When there was no one around, he took out a dozen yellow or white small round pieces from his purse. He then found a cloth towel and wiped off the dirt one by one, revealing their true appearance.
Among them, three or five yellow ones were probably made of brass, and had some patina. One of them had a completely unclear pattern. But Yang Yizhong was a little unsure about the rest of the white ones. Judging from the hardness, they should not be silver. In fact, the luster reminded him of a precious sword he had in the past, which was made of the best steel and could cut iron like mud. But if it was steel, how could it always be as bright as new without maintenance? After all, the copper found with it was already rusted.
After thinking for a while and still unable to figure it out, Yang Yizhong simply found a magnet, put the metal sheet upwards, and it actually stuck.
It's really steel! I don't know what method it uses to resist rust. If it can be used to make weapons, it will be a rare magic weapon in the world!
After trying all the remaining ones, there were still a few pieces that could not be sucked in and felt light when weighed. Yang Yizhong had no idea what they were, so he had to put them aside.
Yang Yizhong picked up a disc, but found that it was a little unclear, so he quickly lit the oil lamp and looked at it carefully under the flame. When he wiped it before, he felt that the pattern on it was very delicate. The silver sachets made by the top craftsmen he saw in the palace were probably no more than this. The key point is that Yang Yizhong took another disc of the same style, and compared it with the original one, the two were almost exactly the same, without any difference.
-Is this really something that can be done by humans?
1. So, are the current officials gods, ghosts, or monsters?
Tap tap tap.....
The heavy footsteps awakened Yang Yizhong who was lost in thought. It turned out to be a patrolling soldier. After the footsteps faded away, he stood up, picked up the wick, and continued to look at the things.
Regardless of the material, just looking at the pattern, the discs can be divided into two categories.
One type includes all copper plates and the extremely light metal plates, as well as about half of the largest steel plates. On one side, in the middle and upper part, there is a complicated pattern, and below it are the words "X and Gongminren Xzhong". Two of the seven characters are unfamiliar and cannot be read smoothly. There is another circle of patterns around it. Perhaps because it is in the Mingdao Palace, Yang Yizhong associates it with the tadpole script mentioned by the Taoist priests. On the other side, in the middle of the upper part is a larger tadpole script, with the words "yuan" and "jiao" of unknown meaning and more tadpole script on the right; on the lower left, there are various flowers engraved.
The other type, including all the remaining steel sheets, had no complicated patterns, only flowers and tadpole characters engraved on one side, and tadpole characters with the words "yuan" and "jiao" on the other side. Yang Yizhong checked it carefully and found that it was exactly the same as the one on the other type. At the top was the six words "行银民人X中".
When comparing the tadpole script, Yang Yizhong realized that the direction of the text on this small disc might be reversed: the same symbols were arranged up and down on one side, and from left to right on the other side. He vaguely remembered that he seemed to have heard somewhere that everything in the underworld was the opposite of the world of the living. So he tried to read the words he knew in reverse, and it seemed to be more fluent. But this was "people" and "republic", which didn't look like the underworld at all.
Although he is not a learned scholar and cannot recite the related meanings of these two words by heart, Yang Yizhong still knows that these two uncommon words refer to the common people and the "republican rule" of Duke Zhou and Duke Zhao. The political sensitivity required by being at the center also made him realize the incongruity of the two words being put together.
How come the people are placed before the public?
But when I think of Mencius’ words “People are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least important”, it seems understandable.
If you just look at it this way, wouldn't the unknown character "国" at the end be...
After careful consideration, Yang Yizhong rejected this guess. After all, he knew most of the thirteen Chinese characters. The character "银" was basically the cursive script of "银"; the character "华" looked like a half-pronunciation and the other half-font shape.
I'm afraid it's not "Hua". Then there is no reason to have a completely unrelated word.
What does this character "国" mean? Yang Yizhong traced the character "口" with his fingers.
Words, "surround", "trapped", "imprisoned", "garden", "enclosed".... "country"!
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