The heavy snow fell again.
Fu Xiaoguan, who had been handling state affairs in the Imperial Study for a day, took Liu Jin and Zhao Hou out of the Imperial Study and came to Guanyuntai.
Tianji Pavilion is just on the side of Guanyuntai. It is an eight-story tower building. However, the door of this place is almost never opened, and no one has ever been seen entering or leaving. It is too low-key, so Fu Xiaoguan has never been in it until now.
Ji Yungui was waiting for him at Pavilion Tianji.
On this day, the door of Tianji Pavilion opened. Fu Xiaoguan left Liu Jin and Zhao Hou behind, and went upstairs with Ji Yungui. The Tianji Pavilion was very dark. On this day, the lights in the pavilion were lit.
"According to the rules of the Tianji Pavilion, the Tianji Pavilion's spies' office is not located here."
As the Emperor of Daxia, he actually didn't know where the Tianji Pavilion's office was, so Fu Xiaoguan asked curiously. Ji Yungui's answer surprised Fu Xiaoguan: "Under the sea of clouds."
Under the sea of clouds - Guanyuntai is the place to see the sea of clouds, which is in the abyss!
Fu Xiaoguan turned around and looked at Ji Yungui, "Is there an office down there?"
"It's just a courtyard house, but that's the office of Tianji Pavilion."
It was indeed mysterious. Even the emperor himself didn't know what was hidden underneath. Of course, he had never asked.
"Your Majesty has appointed me to take charge of the Tianji Pavilion. The Pavilion's motto is on the first floor of the Pavilion. I just learned that this place is a forbidden area, and that the headquarters of the Tianji Pavilion lies beneath the sea of clouds."
This is a forbidden area. "Why is this place a forbidden area?"
"According to the secret files of the Tianji Pavilion, this place was used by successive emperors to store secrets... Since it is a secret of successive emperors, it cannot be known to outsiders, so it is a forbidden area."
"There's no one guarding the door. If a real expert comes, wouldn't it be easy for them to break in?"
"The secret isn't in the Tianji Pavilion, but below. If you forcibly break it without the Imperial Seal, you'll trigger the mechanism and alert those beneath the Sea of Clouds."
The two came to the rooftop, where there was a tea table, two futons, and a desk next to it. Everything was covered with dust, and it seemed that no one had come to clean it for a long time.
"The exquisite design of the Tianji Pavilion is simply unimaginable. Under Your Majesty's orders, I have consulted numerous books about it. The only thing I know is... that its history is even older than Guanyun City!"
After a pause, Ji Yungui looked at the shocked Fu Xiaoguan and added, "According to historical records, it was probably because of the existence of the Tianji Pavilion here that Guanyun City came into being."
A city was built because of a pavilion!
This pavilion...what is the origin of it?
"Historical records state that 1,300 years ago, the Dali Emperor Yu Ying... at that time, there was no Dali Dynasty. Yu Ying was the son of a tribal leader. He came here for unknown reasons. He is the first person in recorded history to enter the Tianji Pavilion."
"Then, over the course of ten years, he campaigned throughout the country, establishing the Dali Empire and making Guanyun City his capital... Guanyun City was built under his orders."
"It took more than thirty years, until the day Yu Ying passed away, for Guanyun City to begin to take shape, but it was much smaller than it is today."
"When Yu Ying passed away, the Imperial Seal was left to Crown Prince Yu Hua. In the millennia that followed, five dynasties passed, and Guanyun City expanded to its present form. Many of the artifacts from past dynasties disappeared in the long river of time, but only the Imperial Seal survived until today."
"But the strange thing is that, regardless of which dynasty, there are no records of what is inside the Tianji Pavilion. Therefore... I can't find anything substantial. The only way is to use the imperial seal to open the door under the Tianji Pavilion."
"But I do not recommend that Your Majesty do so."
"Why?" asked Fu Xiaoguan.
"Because the unknown is the most terrifying. Since emperors of all generations have never opened it, can we assume that they didn't dare to do so? I think that's very likely, so Your Majesty, please don't be curious."
What Ji Yungui said was not entirely true, because Xu Yunqing once told Fu Xiaoguan that Emperor Wen might have placed the poem "A Farewell to Cambridge" on the eighteenth floor of the Tianji Pavilion!
If this is true, it means that Emperor Wen at least went to that place.
After that, Emperor Wen continued to rule the country for more than ten years, and he was safe and sound, which means that there was no major danger.
However, Xu Yunqing was not with Emperor Wen at that time. She did not see it with her own eyes, so it was difficult for her to determine whether Emperor Wen had really been to the eighteenth floor.
Fu Xiaoguan reached out and touched the tea table, leaving an obvious trace of dust on it.
"Let's go and take a look on the first floor."
He and Ji Yungui went down to the first floor, which was a rather spacious hall. There was a stele standing in front of it with only one line of words on it: The way of heaven cannot be peeped into!
This is a bit mysterious. Fu Xiaoguan doesn't believe in the laws of nature.
Right in front of this stone tablet, there is an exquisite jade stone. In the center of the jade stone is a square groove, which looks like it can be embedded with the imperial seal...or perhaps the imperial seal was taken from this jade stone - how did the ancients at that time do it?
Fu Xiaoguan looked at this thing for a long time and even reached out to touch it. The walls were smooth and the cutting was perfect, showing excellent craftsmanship!
He reached out and touched the imperial seal in his sleeve pocket, feeling a little disturbed, but he finally suppressed his curiosity. He had to wait a few more years before he could take Daxia to a higher level.
He released the hand holding the imperial seal and left Tianji Pavilion with Ji Yungui.
The lights on the eighth floor of Tianji Pavilion went out again, and only the tea table on the top floor had a mark of Fu Xiaoguan's touch.
"Prepare for me a copy of all the information about Tianji Pavilion."
"I obey your command."
"Daxia is growing larger and larger. The spies of the Tianji Pavilion need to be carefully selected. In addition, more carrier pigeons should be trained, otherwise the transmission of information will be too slow."
"Well... Your Majesty, would you like to sit downstairs?"
"...I'm not going for now. You go ahead. I'll stay here quietly."
Ji Yungui left Guanyuntai, and Fu Xiaoguan came to the old pine tree and sat at the chess table.
He touched the chess table and was suddenly shocked - the wood of this chess table was exactly the same as the tea table on the top of Tianji Pavilion!
In other words, this chess table and even this stool have existed for more than a thousand years!
So who built the Tianji Pavilion here more than a thousand years ago when this place was still desolate?
The secret of Tianji Pavilion is underground. There is hard rock here, and no one knows how many layers there are underground. How did that person dig down?
Not to mention more than a thousand years ago, even now it would be a very difficult project to dig three feet into the ground here.
There is no point in thinking about these things. The only way to understand is to open the underground passage and take a look.
Thinking of this, Fu Xiaoguan made a pot of tea and looked at the sea of clouds in the heavy snow.
That person, no, at least two people, after they built the Tianji Pavilion, did they also sit here like me, brewing tea, playing chess, or just looking at the sea of clouds out of boredom?
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