Cross the Sea in the Red Chamber

This fantasy-like Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiwen lived to be 54 years old, leaving behind the title of Marquis of Cheng'an and passing away.The descendants of descendants are endless. Although there are no earth-shattering figures, there are still a few that are recorded in detail in the history books. Until the end of the Chu Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and Jiang Chen's descendants disappeared.

Very good, very good, it's easy to start if you don't know where to go.

It is very easy for Concubine Shu to pretend to be Jiang Chen's descendant. After carefully studying Jiang Chen's life, Jiang Yuan decided to create a military book to prove his identity.It is recorded in the history books that Jiang Chen wrote a military book called "General Book", but unfortunately this military book has been burned due to the war at the end of Chu, and it has been lost for hundreds of years, that is to say, no one in the whole world has seen this book. People who write books of war can't write whatever Jiang Yuan wants to write.If you say no, then take out the genuine one!

As a person who has been a soldier and likes history, it is a bit difficult for him to recite military books verbatim, but if he combines some fragments of many military books he remembers into one to create a military book, it will not be difficult. Disaster.

Jiang Chen was born after the Qin Dynasty, so the military books before Qin can no longer be used, and the military books after Qin remove firearms and other parts that do not fit the current situation, and write as many as you can remember, and treat it as if it is not coherent. fragments.Sun Tzu's Art of War is not complete yet, if you don't accept it, you can show the complete book.

The process of making it up was not time-consuming. Chu Chao still used bamboo slips at that time, and there were only a few words in a book, and he suppressed it after two days.This military book that gathered the opinions of various schools is definitely a cross-age existence, and he does not believe that with such a thing, it can't fool a few ancients.

In order to be a circumstantial evidence, Jiang Yuan bought a lot of things and made them alone at home.

A few pieces of paper, although made according to the ancient method of the previous dynasty, did not cost much money.Cut it into small pages, polished a piece of ancient ink from the previous dynasty, and carefully copied the military script in the official script style that was popular in the Yan Dynasty.After the ink is dry, make it old again.Jingchao also made fake ancient books and paintings, but the level is too low. He only knows how to dye yellow and doesn’t pay attention to details, so he can always leak flaws. How can the whole book be in the same color?Doesn't that mean you just wear it after seeing it?I don't know how to make some shades of color difference.After calling out the colors, put three or four album pages on the table, and use a pen dipped in paint to brush back and forth along the paper texture.Every page can't be the same, and the paints have to be changed.I also took some oil and sprinkled it on the still wet paper, so that after it dries, it can create the effect of insect erosion.This is not the end, after air-drying, it will be bound into a book, and the incisions, book corners, cover, and binding lines must be processed one by one.

I got some bamboo slips, these are real ancient relics from the previous dynasty, only the words on them were changed according to a special method, not to mention that there is no radioactive isotope to date, even if there is one, it must be said that these things are real.Made a broken appearance, intermittent appearance, and put it away only after ensuring that no flaws were exposed.

The most troublesome thing is the tripod of the Chu Dynasty.Casting Jiangyuan with Tao Fan is not that capable, so he chose the lost wax method.

Take a piece of yellow wax and make a model of the copper tripod one by one.The wax is soft and can be carved at will. The model is carved out according to the style of the tripod used by the nobles of the Chu Dynasty. After no modification, mud water is poured on the outside. After the layers are thickened to a certain extent, an external mud model is formed. .Heating this mud form for a period of time, the wax will melt when heated, and flow out along the previously prepared small holes, but the shell made of mud will not, so a hollow clay form is completed.Pour the prepared copper juice into it, and after the copper juice cools and condenses, break the soil and take out the copper tripod.

After polishing, it is to be old.Bronze wares have different rust colors due to different origins. They are divided into dry pits, water pits, and handed down. Since the tripod is made by the ancestors, it will naturally be handed down.Jiang Yuan ordered Qinglian to buy all kinds of things, including mercury and alum, so he almost didn't think he was going to make alchemy.One pass is old, steamed and boiled, and the patina is carefully made, so that the work is completed.It would be easy to make a bronze mirror, but there are many stories about making a tripod. If Jiang Yuan hadn't met a master counterfeiter when he was playing antiques in his previous life, he really wouldn't be able to make such a bronze tripod.

Jiang Yuan didn't let others interfere in all the affairs. Although Qing Lian bought things, he didn't know what they were for. After everything was finished, Jiang Yuan put all the things in a box and gave them to Situ Sheng.When Situ Sheng heard that there was absolutely nothing against the plan, as long as he colluded with Uncle Jiang Jiang Yan, this matter would be accomplished!

But on this day, Du Ruzhi, a doctor of the Ministry of War, went to play chess with Jiang Yan, who was then a doctor of the Ministry of Punishment.

While chatting, Du Ruzhi said with a smile: "Today we play chess, we need to win some money."

"What lottery?" Jiang Yan asked indifferently: "Brother Du, you also saw that when my son got married a few days ago, the dowry had to be paid by His Royal Highness to count on it. What a lucky start."

Du Ruzhi also knew about the situation in his friend's family. Normally, his family should be regarded as relatives of the emperor, but because Concubine Jiang Shu was not favored, Situ Sheng and Situ Yuehua were neglected. , In more than ten years, he has been promoted to a doctor, which is worse than ordinary people, let alone compared with the royal family?

"I'm not making things difficult for you, I just want to see what's in that box in your study." Du Ruzhi smiled.There was an untimely box in Jiang Yan's study, and no one was allowed to look at it, saying it was something left by his parents.Du Ruzhi has been interested in this matter for not a day or two, so he wanted to make a fortune with it.

"Then if you lose, what prize do you lose to me?" Jiang Yan asked.

Du Ruzhi took out a jade wrench and put it on the table, "You have already taken a fancy to my thing, if you win, this thing will belong to you."

The two came and went, set each other up, and then dug traps. They had to ponder for a long time on each move, and it took three hours to finish the game. In the end, the two sides had the same number of pieces and it was a draw.At this time, there is no difference in Go first and second. It is not about the number of eyes, but the number of pieces. If the number of pieces is the same, it is a draw. No one can do anything about it.Du Ruzhi had to pretend to look at the box, Jiang Yan glanced at the jade finger, hesitated for a long time before letting go, took out the key and unlocked the lock to open the box.

Du Ruzhi poked his head and saw that there was an ancient book, a bronze tripod, and some broken bamboo slips in the box.He reached out to take the ancient book and flipped through it casually, he didn't care at first, but he was fascinated by it. "To be wise, to be brave, to be greedy, to be stupid. Therefore, the wise are happy to make meritorious deeds, the brave are fond of pursuing their ambitions, the greedy are invited to pursue their own interests, and the foolish are not concerned with death..." He murmured out, his hands trembling , "Good book, good book!"

He turned his head abruptly, almost scaring Jiang Yan.Du Ruzhi grabbed the clothes on Jiang Yan's shoulders and asked repeatedly: "Brother Jiang, how did you get this book? Who wrote it? What's its name?"

Jiang Yan said hesitantly: "This book is left by my parents. They say that my ancestors copied it from the bamboo slips in the box. I only know that it was written by my ancestors. What's the name...it seems to be Call general... will... what will it be?"

Du Ruzhi hurriedly went to look at the bamboo slips in the box, only to see that the bamboo slips were all written in small seal characters, which he didn't recognize.Look at the tripod again, the decoration is fine and dense, the pan-boa pattern and the taotie pattern converge on it, and the tripod has a cover, on which three cows live on it, the cute and naive image is quite ancient, and it looks like an ancient relic from the previous dynasty.

"Do you know the name of the ancestor who wrote the book in your family?" Du Ruzhi asked quickly.

"I really can't remember..." Jiang Yan smiled embarrassingly, "Brother Du also knows that when I was young, there was a plague of locusts in my family, and my parents took my three brothers and sisters all the way to the capital. In order to reduce the burden, I didn’t take any utensils from home, except gold and silver. My mother died of illness on the way, and my father took me to the capital with all kinds of difficulties and dangers. When I arrived, I was robbed. Keeping these few things, I can't take care of the children, let my little sister be taken away by the gangsters, and I don't know where she is now. My father became seriously ill in a fit of anger, and he left in only three to five days, leaving only me and my elder sister. My sister and I depended on each other for life. I was only seven years old when my parents died. How could I know so many things? Even these few things are just a thought. In exchange for money, my eldest sister refused to give up, saying that it was a relic of the ancestors, and my younger sister was lost because of it, so how could I lose it, so I sold myself and entered the palace."

Jiang Yan sighed, "I put these things in the study just to see things and think about others. Because of them, my younger sister was taken into captivity, my father died, and my older sister sold herself, and even took all my relatives away. Even now I Even being a parent can hardly forget the pain of being separated from one another! If you can’t let go of it, what’s the use of keeping it!”

Seeing Jiang Yan like this, Du Ruzhi didn't dare to ask any more, put down his things and left.But two days later, he brought a middle-aged scholar to visit Jiang Yan again, and asked to see those ancient relics directly.Jiang Yan's complexion was not good, but he didn't stop him. He opened the box silently and let the scholar take out the broken slips and ancient books to read.

The scholar compared the bamboo slips and the words on the book one by one, until finally he pointed to the two characters on the bamboo slips and exclaimed: ""General Book", this book is actually "General Book"!"

The scholar turned to look at Jiang Yan, "Master Jiang really can't remember the names of ancestors at all?"

Jiang Yan pondered for a while, "When I was young, I used to worship my ancestors with my parents, but there were ancient seal scripts on the spiritual tablet, and I couldn't recognize any of them." He took out a piece of paper, and drew and traced on it. , and ticked out a few half-drawn and half-character figures, "I only remember these, and I don't know if the strokes are correct. My father once said that my ancestors lived in seclusion in the mountains of Chengdu in order to avoid the disaster of killing themselves. The descendants of Ji Guan don't know the name of their ancestors, they just worship the spiritual seat."

"The ancient big seal script, that's right, it's the same way in Chu Dynasty." The official script of the Chu Dynasty is Xiaozhuan, but the spirit slots are all written in Chu's original big seal script. The literati carefully read a few characters. , only distinguishing the three "Jiang", "Gong" and "Wen", and I didn't see the rest after looking for a while, but who else wrote the "Book of Generals", it must be Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiwen!

Taking out the treasure tripod, regardless of the material, shape, texture, texture, paste, rust and color, it can be proved that it was used by the nobles of the Chu Dynasty, and it is exactly the identity of Jiangxi Wenliehou.Carefully discerning that there was a line of inscriptions on the bottom of the tripod, which used ancient seal characters, it took him a long time to recognize it. It roughly meant that the emperor's tour in the year of Yizi was a reward for Cheng'an Houchen who accompanied him. Who could have it if it wasn't Jiang Chen? ? !

Among the three treasures, the handwritten military book is the most recent. It is presumably that the descendants of the Jiang family saw the broken bamboo slips and copied them for preservation in fear of losing them. But even so, the book is at least It's something from the Yan Dynasty.It seems that Mr. Jiang Yanjiang is really a descendant of Jiang Chengong Cheng'anhou!

Within a few days, gossip in the capital began to circulate.The scholar who went to Jiangfu that day was a well-known connoisseur of gold and stone antiques in the capital. He liked drinking the most, and he was an iconic figure who couldn't control his mouth when he drank.The fact that the Jiang family is the descendant of Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiwen has been widely known, and the long-lost "Book of Generals" has even led the trend in the gossip world.When the news spread to such an extent, the emperor of course knew about it. Instead of summoning Jiang Yan, he summoned Du Ruzhi for questioning.

Du Ruzhi was obsessed with it after reading the "Book of Generals" that day. Hearing today's question, he immediately explained the matter in detail. Such a book of war?Could it be that the Jiang family actually recited a passage from the book?The emperor also read some military books and war strategies, and when he heard what was said in the book, he really felt that every word was perfect. This Marquis of An, the descendant of thousands of households, is the queen of many generations?

In fact, the emperor already believed this in his heart, and the more he thought about it, the more it seemed.For example, Jiang Shupin and Jiang Yan are both good at playing chess, why Jiang Shupin's speech and behavior don't look like a commoner... The final conclusion is that I really know people with my eyes, and I can see things through the confusion of appearances Well, I have long felt that Concubine Jiang Shu has an extraordinary background, and she is definitely not as simple as a court lady. As expected, I guessed correctly how she is doing now!Mmmmmmmm, I really see every detail, my gaze is like a torch, hahahaha!

The emperor issued a decree, ordering Jiang Yan to copy the "Book of Generals" and present it.After looking through the book of war written by "Jiang Chen", the emperor felt very satisfied, apart from being happy, there was only one word - reward!