Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 316 The End and the Harvest

"This makes sense, because Mingjiao was an absolute taboo in the entire Ming Dynasty." Fan Meng, who had also read a lot of information just now, deduced a lot of things after hearing Liang En's definition of this relic.

"After this Mingjiao temple was discovered, it immediately attracted the encirclement and suppression from the local officials. That's why this place left so many traces of war damage."

"But having said that, this temple is not a purely religious place." Joan of Arc went on to say, "Whether it is the surrounding layout or the traces left here, it shows one thing. This place has been a fortress since its construction. melted."

"In addition, there are a lot of traces of fighting in the local area, and this is obviously not caused by a unilateral massacre. In other words, this temple is actually a militarized existence."

"That's why the group of Ming Cultists chose to destroy and hide the most important Mani statue before the outside army broke through the defense and rushed in." Liang En finally added.

Being able to engrave the dragon and phoenix calendar on the stone tablet and build this temple like a bunker can only show that this group of Mingjiao believers are not law-abiding people, so it is reasonable to exterminate them after they are discovered.

As for the reason why it has not been discovered before, it is also very simple. Just like what Liang En and the others saw just now, the entire temple has been completely localized in terms of appearance and layout. Even the statues of gods are carved like Buddha statues.

In this case, if this place was not exposed by some accident, it is estimated that those people around will only regard this place as a Buddhist temple, and will never know the truth here.

The cultural relics management department is different from the firefighting and medical departments. Basically, there are not many emergencies that need to be dispatched, so they are not on night shift at night, so Liang En and the others decided to wait until the next morning to call during work hours.

There was no accident that night. After all, this valley is not a deep mountain, and the surrounding wild animals are naturally very vigilant towards people.

Although both Liang En and the others heard rustling sounds when they were on duty at night, and vaguely saw dark shadows moving in the distance, those guys did not approach in the end.

After breakfast the next morning, Liang En called the organizer of this event, and then got a call from the local cultural relics protection department from them.

An hour later, six people arrived in a van.Then he produced documents to prove his identity.Soon, they completed the handover work.

"Mr. Liang, our place may be different from when you were abroad. For example, you should report it as soon as you find it. Instead of digging it yourself." A gray-haired middle-aged man said to Liang En.

"Sorry, I only heard that this place is a bandit village, so I just planned to go for a simple hike. But I didn't expect that there are really strange things in this place." Liang En also apologized sincerely.

"We just found these things that weren't right and became interested all of a sudden. Then we looked around and found these things with words and patterns by accident."

Well, Liang En's previous record is very good, especially the record of cooperation with the local people in this kind of scientific expedition activities is perfect, so he was lightly dismissed after only a few words on this matter. let go.

"This place should be the latest known Mingjiao temple in China." Because they knew that Liang En was with him, and in addition to his previous discoveries, these local archaeologists also told Liang En some things he didn't know before. know information.

"Prior to this, we found that the nearest Mingjiao temple is also in this province. There is a Mingjiao nunnery ruins in Wanshan Peak, Sunei Village, Yudian."

"It's just that in that ruins, the latest written information we found was Ming Yingzong's orthodox ten years, more than half a century earlier than the ruins you found now." Speaking of this, the archaeologist paused one time.

"Different from the broken and damaged Mani statues here, the Mani statues in Cao'an Temple are well preserved. But both statues look very similar in terms of size and image."

"And this also verified our judgment, that is, because these statues resemble Buddha, these temples have been able to hide these secrets until today, but the believers in those days have completely disappeared now."

"That is to say, at least judging from the current archaeological data, it spread to many countries in Asia, Europe and Africa, and experienced many times of glory and tragedy. Thousands of Mingzun believers have stepped forward for the arrival of the Kingdom of Light. The great world Sexual religion, and thus ended in this small, dilapidated temple."

After listening to the explanations of these local archaeologists, Liang En sighed from the bottom of his heart for this period of history.The huge contrast between the strength of Manichaeism and the ruins of the ruins will naturally make people have various ideas.

"Yes, this is the last twilight of a once great religion." After hearing Liang En's comment, the archaeologist nodded. "It has been nearly 1400 years since Mani founded Manichaeism."

And just when Liang En received the news from these local archaeologists, three cards appeared in his mind, including two N cards [Detection (N)] and [Legend Power (N)] and an R card [Secret Law Huizong (R)]

[Secret Method Huizong (R): Human beings' understanding of the world often develops in a spiral, so only a few people in ancient times knew things that are common sense for modern people.

Therefore, in ancient times, many people used the knowledge they had mastered for all walks of life, especially for those preachers of folk religions.

For example, folk religions like Mingjiao use these magic techniques today to show their magic and absorb their followers, and they call it the secret method.

Enhancement card (one-time), consume this card, you can let yourself master all those so-called secret methods that Mingjiao mastered back then, which are actually magic skills. 】

So after saying goodbye to these archaeologists and returning to Hewan Village with Joan of Arc, Liang En quickly used the excuse of taking a break to stay alone in the house, and then used this card.

Soon, a stream of information entered Liang En's mind, and when these things were sorted out, he realized that although these things sounded like magic, they were actually closer to the tricks of street crooks in the past.

To give the simplest example, here is the fog-making technique of those scammers in the past who pretended to be gods and gods. To put it bluntly, they put Glauber's salt and Fei Luo powder together in a bag and put them in their sleeves.

When using it, sprinkle these powders on the dewy weeds while stepping on your feet, so that a layer of mist will form on the surface in just a few tens of seconds.

In fact, this little trick is to use Glauber's salt to enter the water to absorb heat, so that the moisture in the surrounding air gradually condenses into small water droplets, which look like fog, which is the same principle as the use of dry ice to create fog today.

But for the vast majority of ancient people, this method of generating fog out of thin air is like a miracle.Therefore, those folk religions can naturally use this method to attract new believers and make old believers firm in their beliefs.

(End of this chapter)