Chapter 505: Destiny Is in Song

This jade seal.

Is it true?

Hearing Zhao Jun's words, everyone was stunned at first and then shocked.

I said it was false before, how come it became true again?

"Zhiyuan, didn't you say that it must be engraved with the "Destiny Stone Clan" to be authentic?"

Zeng Gongliang couldn't help but said: "Now there is only the "National Seal of Wei Shou Han". How can we distinguish the authenticity if it is missing a moment?"

Not only Zhao Zhen looked at Zhao Jun eagerly, waiting for the answer.

Others Yan Shu, Fan Zhongyan, Xia Song, Du Yan, Zheng Jian, Fu Bi, Wen Yanbo, Han Qi, Pang Ji, Zeng Gongliang, Song Xiang and others also looked at him.

Zhao Jun said before that the authentic jade seal passed down from the country has several characteristics. First, the inscription on it is "Ordered by heaven, you will live forever."

The second reason is that Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty and wanted to steal the jade seal from the Queen Mother. The angry Queen Mother smashed the jade seal to the ground, causing a corner of the chilong to be missing.

The third is that Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty. In order to prove that he was not a usurper of the Han Dynasty but accepted the abdication of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, he had someone engrave "Wei Shou Han's National Seal" on it.

Fourth, Shi Le snatched the jade seal from the former Zhao and carved the inscription "Destined Stone" on one side of the jade seal.

So in summary.

A real imperial jade seal should be about four inches in size, with a chipped upper corner, and engraved marks on the left and right sides.

However, there is only one mark on the jade seal in front of me, which is obviously wrong.

But Zhao Jun smiled and said: "Because the "Destiny Stone Clan" is just a rumor and has not been found in any historical records."

"rumor?"

"Speaking of which, I seem to remember seeing it somewhere."

"I remembered, it's "Taiping Yulan"!"

"Yes, it's "Taiping Yulan"!"

Song Xiang and Pang Ji immediately looked at each other. No wonder they felt that the words "Destiny Shi Family" sounded familiar.

It turned out that it was mentioned in the books they had read before.

"good."

Zhao Jun smiled and nodded: "It is "Taiping Yulan". Back then, a professor gave a public class and talked about this matter when talking about the imperial seal. The four words "Destiny Stone" are in "Taiping" There are no historical records or records before "Yu Lan".

"Including the important historical materials of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, "Sixteen Kingdoms Spring and Autumn", "Thirty Kingdoms Spring and Autumn", "Wei Shu" and the "Northern History" revised by the Tang Dynasty. As long as the historical materials of Later Zhao are recorded, there is no explanation in this regard."

He looked around at the crowd and continued: "It wasn't until the Zhao Guangyi period in the early Song Dynasty that the "Destiny Shi Clan" appeared in the "Taiping Yulan". It can be seen that this should be a rumor at that time or a certain unofficial history was revised by the author of "Taiping Yulan" Li Fang, Li Mu, Xu Xuan and others adopted it, but at least there is no source for it in other official histories."

"Then what about "Wei Shou Han's Imperial Seal"? Has it ever been recorded in historical materials?"

Fan Zhongyan asked.

They are politicians, not historians. Although they have read some history books before, how can they compare with historians who specialize in studying history?

Zhao Jun actually didn't know these things. His information came from the open class taught by the professor.

After all, for him, he is just a student in the history department. In terms of knowledge and ability, he is naturally incomparable to a professor.

So Zhao Jun said with a smile: "When I gave an open class before, Professor Li, an expert on the history of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, said that the source of the phrase "Wei Shou Han passed the imperial seal" is the "Book of Wei" written by Wei Shou. In "Book of Wei· "Emperor Chronicles Volume Four".

"Think about it, who is Wei Shou? He is from the Northern Wei Dynasty. After the fall of the Northern Wei Dynasty, he went through the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty. He wrote the "Book of Wei" on the order of Gao Yang, Emperor Wenxuan of the Northern Qi Dynasty."

He looked at the jade seal and said: "The jade seal recorded in the "Book of Wei" was taken away by the Western Wei Dynasty at that time, and there was no such thing in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Given Gao Yang's habit of repeatedly intervening in the compilation of history, if this matter is false and this jade seal does not exist, how could it be possible? Will Wei Shou be allowed to write?"

"oh?"

Yan Shu was smart and understood the logic behind it with just a little thought. He nodded in agreement and said, "It's true."

"Yes, Wei Shou himself was a figure of the same period. He must be very familiar with this situation. In addition, the jade seal went to the Western Wei Dynasty. The Eastern Wei Dynasty usurped by the Northern Qi Dynasty did not have this jade seal at all. If it is a lie, Wei Shou will definitely have to modify it. ”

"It makes sense, so there is only one reason, and that is that Northern Qi also admitted that the jade seal passed down to the country does exist. This also indirectly proves the authenticity of Wei Shou's records."

"You see, the "Wei received the Han Dynasty's national seal" engraved on it is also genuine. With the words "Ordered by heaven, he will live forever" and other characteristics, this should be the one found in the temple in the Northern Wei Dynasty."

"But didn't Northern Qi also claim that its own seals were authentic? If that was the case, why did Northern Qi allow the jade seal that Wei accepted as the Northern Wei Dynasty to prove its authenticity? Doesn't this tell the world that the one in my hand is fake? ?”

Everyone felt that they were sure that the one unearthed now should be the jade seal of the Northern Wei Dynasty. However, the only question was that the Northern Qi Dynasty allowed Wei Shou to write this. Wouldn't that be a slap in their own face?

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "This is of course due to the time difference. It is estimated that Wei Shou compiled the history first, Hou Jing rebelled later, and the Jade Seal was obtained after the Northern Qi Dynasty, so it is naturally difficult to change."

"That's true."

"It seems that this jade seal was first obtained by the Northern Wei Dynasty, and then went to the Western Wei Dynasty. After that, the Northern Zhou Dynasty usurped the Western Wei Dynasty and returned it to the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Yang Jian usurped the Northern Zhou Dynasty and got the seal. At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the end of the Tang Dynasty, one was lost each, but the ones lost were the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Southern Chen Dynasty. The seal of the Northern Wei Dynasty has been preserved. "

"But if that's the case, then why is the jade seal of Nanchen so clear in the official history? It was circulated among many countries and passed down from generation to generation without ever being lost or damaged?"

Wen Yanbo objected.

Zhao Jun said: "Do you still remember where you found the one from the Northern Wei Dynasty?"

"Yecheng?"

"Yes, "Jin Yang Qiu" records that before the Ran Wei Dynasty, the seal was still normal, but after being deceived by the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the inscription on the seal changed to "By the destiny of heaven, the emperor is Shouchang"."

Zhao Jun looked around and said: "At that time, many courtiers in the Eastern Jin Dynasty also believed that this seal was fake because the inscription did not match the real "Jade Seal of the State of Qin". Therefore, it is speculated that the "Seal of the State of Qin" may have been lost. Now do you know why?"

"I see."

Zeng Gongliang suddenly realized: "Ran Wei was besieged by the Murong clan of the former Yan Dynasty, so he had to ask for help from the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The Eastern Jin Dynasty wanted to defraud Ran Wei of the jade seal, but Ran Wei was not stupid enough to hand over the real jade seal before the reinforcements of the Eastern Jin Dynasty arrived. , so he made a fake one. As a result, the Eastern Jin Dynasty did not send troops to help, and Ran Wei was in danger of destroying the country, so he hid the real jade seal in the clay sculpture of Yecheng Temple until the fall of Ran Wei and the former Yan Dynasty. Yan, the Later Qin and the Later Yan united to destroy the Former Qin, the Northern Wei defeated the Later Yan, and the city of Ye was returned to the Northern Wei, and only then did the Northern Wei obtain the real jade seal from the temple."

"Well, this is the only possibility."

"If you think about it this way, then the origin of this jade seal will be very clear."

"So the original one from the Northern Wei Dynasty should actually be the one from the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The historian didn't know it was a fake, so when writing history, he recorded that it fell from the Ran Wei Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and finally circulated in the Southern Dynasties, but they didn't know the real jade seal. Always in Yecheng.”

Everyone suddenly understood.

If this is the case, it can explain why the jade seals circulating in the Southern Dynasties are so detailed in the historical data, but in the end the inscriptions on them are completely different from what is recorded.

It turns out that before Ran Wei, this jade seal was still genuine.

That is to say, from Cao Pi usurping the Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty usurping the throne, and then the Western Jin Dynasty perishing, the jade seals were obtained by the former Zhao, later Zhao, and Ran Min respectively. During this period, they were all real jade seals.

As a result, something went wrong in Ran Wei. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yu Xi was deceived when he wanted to prostitute her for nothing, and eventually a fake story spread to the Southern Dynasties.

The real jade seal was hidden in Yecheng and was obtained by the Northern Wei Dynasty.

After that, the fake jade seal made by the Later Qin Dynasty went to the Northern Qi Dynasty, the fake jade seal made by Ran Wei went to the Southern Dynasty, and the real jade seal passed through the Northern Wei Dynasty, Western Wei Dynasty, and Northern Zhou Dynasty, and was finally obtained by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty.

When the Sui Dynasty fell, I don't know whether the Northern Qi or Nanchen jade seal was lost.

The Tang Dynasty fell and another piece of it was lost.

The real jade seal was very lucky to be passed to the hands of Li Congke, the late emperor of the late Tang Dynasty. Then Li Congke burned himself in Luoyang. The fire buried it in the ruins until it was dug out from the ground in Luoyang a few days ago.

It can be said that if it is really as everyone speculates, then this national jade seal is undoubtedly full of legend.

Even if Yuxi itself is a legend, it does not affect the fantasy of this experience at all.

This also made Zhao Jun couldn't help but say: "If my inference is correct, then the Song Dynasty was really lucky. The real jade seal was really handed down, and it was extremely lucky that it was not lost among the three choices, and was preserved in the Later Tang Dynasty. And we picked it up.”

"Does that mean it is 100% the authentic national jade seal?"

Zhao Zhen was excited again.

He even couldn't help but sniffle.

This ups and downs happened so fast that no one could react.

"I can only say that it is very likely."

Zhao Jun still held the jade seal in his hand. The window next to Zhao Zhen's desk in Chongzheng Hall was open, and a ray of sunset poured in, letting the jade seal shine brightly.

Zhao Jun pointed to the slightly swollen area around the jade seal with cracks inside and said, "Look, the gap on this dragon horn feels very smooth. It definitely doesn't look like it was punched out recently. Even if it is polished, it will not cause any damage." It’s so realistic, and it definitely has a sense of age. Then there are the cracks inside the jade seal.”

Zhao Jun shook his head regretfully and said: "This crack should be an expansion crack caused by high-temperature combustion, because the internal structure of Hetian jade is not stable. When it reaches a certain temperature, it will expand and crack. If you look through it, you will see The skin color inside is natural and stable, and it may have undergone decades of precipitation. If the jade seal is cracked after being calcined at high temperature, the cracks will not look as smooth as they do now, and the skin color will definitely be more vivid. "

Zhao Jun didn't know much about jade before traveling through time.

However, after time travel, there were many things made from Hetian jade at home, including rewards from Zhao Zhen, gifts from colleagues, and jade from his wife’s natal family.

After playing for a long time, you will naturally understand a little bit.

Including Zhao Zhen, there are actually many experts in this field.

At their position, in addition to national events, it is normal to collect some antiques, calligraphy, paintings, jade and jade in daily life.

In the past, it was because I was too obsessed with the main features of the national jade seal.

Now after Zhao Jun's guidance, I have indeed discovered that just as he said, the traces inside are full of history. The newly forged jade seal will never look as natural and smooth as it does now.

"If you say that, then you can be 100% sure that it is a real jade seal."

Everyone's eyes widened.

Zhao Jun placed the Imperial Jade Seal on the desk and said with a smile: "Before I saw the real thing, I thought it was 90% fake, and there was only 1% chance of it being genuine. But now, it's estimated to be 90% It’s true.”

"Why is it only 90%? Then what about 10%?"

Zhao Zhen was stunned.

"The remaining 10% is a top counterfeiting genius among the hundreds of millions of people in the Song Dynasty."

Zhao Jun thought for a while and said: "This person first keenly found the real eight-character inscription on the characteristics, and then determined the overall appearance of the jade seal from many historical books. After that, the theory of "Destiny Stone Clan" was eliminated. I adopted the record of "Wei Shou Han's Imperial Seal" and finally worked hard to create a jade seal with a sense of age. If there was such a person, I would not blame him, but would recruit him to the palace. In terms of cultural relic restoration work, such a being is simply a miraculous figure! ”

"If you think about it, it's true. It's really too difficult."

"Yes, it can be said that there are endless difficulties in it. Let's not talk about the real eight-character inscriptions, which can only be guessed. Just saying that this excludes the imprint of the "Destiny Stone" is very difficult to make. After all, "Taiping Yulan" is also popular in Normal people would think that the popular version of the Song Dynasty was copied from some historical material and choose to adopt it. At that time, there may be a situation where the left side is "Destiny Stone" and the right side is "Wei Shou Han Chuan Guo Xi". So that loopholes can be found.”

"Yes, it is the easiest to make old, because it is purely a technical job. The previous features relied entirely on guessing and making decisions. Among the countless history books that record the transmission of the national seal, there is no history book that has not been studied Once it’s in place, it’s all a waste.”

After Zhao Jun's layer-by-layer analysis, everyone realized the seriousness of the problem.

If there is such a person who can restore a clear jade seal's veins under such a complicated situation, and also copy and forge such a jade seal that completely conforms to the records, then it is really an exaggeration.

With such terrifying execution ability, what can't be done?

Therefore, there is a high probability that this jade seal is the real jade seal, but it was mixed up in the history books. Before Ran Wei, it was the real first jade seal. After Ran Wei, it was a fake jade seal. The real jade seal became the second one obtained by the Northern Wei Dynasty. Jade seal.

Afterwards, after various strange experiences, one of the three was chosen from the late Sui Dynasty to the late Tang Dynasty, and it was miraculously preserved until the Later Tang Dynasty. It was turned into a black stone due to fire and was buried under the ruins, escaping the search of the son-emperor Shi Jingtang.

"I have to say, this is a miracle."

Zhao Jun looked at Zhao Zhen and said superstitiously for a moment: "Perhaps it was destiny that the Song Dynasty found this artifact that was destined for the Song Dynasty!"

"Destiny is in Song Dynasty? Destiny is in Song Dynasty?"

Zhao Zhen murmured to himself, picked up the jade seal, raised it above his head and looked at it carefully, then laughed and said: "Hahahahahaha, I have a grandson, and I got the jade seal, it is really my destiny to be in Song Dynasty!"

"Congratulations to the official family, congratulations to the official family!"

"It just so happens that the imperial congratulations are about to be held again. This jade seal comes at the right time to comfort our ancestors."

"I think we should make it known to the world and let the world know that the Song Dynasty is upheld by heaven!"

"I second my opinion."

"I also second the proposal."

Everyone stood up one after another to announce the good news to the world.