After finding the target, Zhao Chenxing stretched out his hand and wiped the mud off with his sleeve.
Then, Zhao Chenxing asked the migrant workers for a basin of water and wiped the words on the turtle's back.
After a moment, the additional mark on the white marble turtle's butt was completely revealed in front of Zhao Chenxing.
And Zhao Chenxing quickly told everyone the story of the monument by relying on his classical Chinese skills accumulated from reading the Luban Classic in the past.
Through those clear descriptions, Zhao Chenxing quickly understood the strange things that had happened here.
It turns out that this stele was erected during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and belonged to an ancient temple called "Peach Blossom Temple".
The beginning of the inscription briefly introduces the origin of Peach Blossom Temple.
It is said that this Peach Blossom Temple is located in the Peach Blossom Gorge of Fangzhong Mountain.
It has been in existence since the 13th year of Emperor Zhengzheng of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.
It used to be the altar of the black-headed Tantric sect that Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty believed in, and used the human heart and liver to refine elixirs.
Later, when General Xu Da of the Ming Dynasty went on a northern expedition to recapture the Sixteen Continents of Yanyun, the believers in the altar dispersed like birds and beasts.
Some fled north with Emperor Yuan Shun, while others returned to secular life with their demonic magic and lurked separately.
After Xu Da's Northern Expedition, Fang Zhongshan was granted to Zhu Yuanzhang's fourth son Zhu Di.
Later, Zhu Di was granted the title of King of Yan, and this place became the fief of King Yan Zhu Di.
After King Yan swept north and became the Yongle Emperor, this place became the It was King Yan's Longxing land that was protected, and civilians were prohibited from moving, hunting, and hunting.
Later, because Taohua Gorge was rich in fragrant pears and sweet peaches, it became the first batch of royal estates specially designated by Emperor Yongle.
It was managed by Jinyiwei and the Ministry of Households.
More than a hundred years later, during the Jiajing Dynasty, another area was added for the emperor.
Taoist temple for alchemy.
It is called "Feixian Temple", commonly known as Peach Blossom Temple.
The year when the inscription was erected in Huangzhuang coincided with the midsummer of the 60th year since Peach Blossom Temple was established.
In midsummer of that year, there was a severe drought.
Fangzhong Mountain, which was originally lush with vegetation, also lost its leaves early under the hot and poisonous sun.
The entire mountain range became bare since the end of July, and all the mountain springs dried up.
Under such circumstances, not to mention Peach Tree, even the Taoist temple on the mountain, the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the left-behind personnel of Jinyiwei found it difficult to drink water, and there were even tragedies of dehydration and heat death.
The government at that time had no way to solve this kind of thing, because the government could give you money and distribute famine food, but it could never give people money and give them water money.
Therefore, in August, the driest month, the people left behind in this imperial village launched a vigorous self-rescue campaign and began to find water on their own to solve their urgent needs.
Of course, digging a well to save yourself is definitely not as easy as modern people imagine.
In ancient times, there were no large-scale mechanical equipment or high-tech exploration methods.
Therefore, when digging wells to find water springs, you could usually only find shallow groundwater of a few to ten meters, and this required a specialist who could look at water veins and plants.
Only with the guidance of the people.
Therefore, finding underground water through surface plants is also a very difficult skill among craftsmen, and it is generally impossible to master it.
Because they couldn't play, the people who stayed behind in the imperial village dug three wells inside and outside the Peach Blossom Temple, but they couldn't get any water.
However, just when everyone was about to give up, a sudden phenomenon aroused everyone's thoughts.
In a mountain five miles away from Peach Blossom Temple, someone discovered a white light flickering at night.
In the darkness of the night, if you get close to the light, you can still see a white figure that looks like a woman sitting on a huge rock in the mountains and crying in the white halo.
However, during the day, you can't see anything.
But what's even more weird is that when people go to the top of the mountain to check during the day, they can always see a big rock here that is wet, as if it was wet by the tears of a female ghost.
In the year of severe drought, everyone talked about it when they encountered such a stone that was always wet.
Later, the Taoist priest of Huangzhuang who managed this Taoist temple discussed with several Jinyi guards and agreed that such a strange thing happening here should be some kind of hint from God.
As for the wet stone, there should be something like a spring.
At this time, everyone was trapped in the water source, and they were already hungry and thirsty.
So after they speculated on such a conclusion, without even thinking about it, they immediately led their men to blow up the huge boulders on the hillside with gunpowder and dig them open. , looking for possible water sources.
Human desires are the driving force that drives people to act.
Driven by hunger and thirst, it only took two days for everyone to dig out the big stone and dig it down to three feet.
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At first, hope was growing.
That year, although the land in Fangzhong Mountain was dry and smoking, the soil under the huge stone was unusually moist.
After those Jin Yiwei dug three feet into the ground, they found that the soil there was so moist that water could come out of it.
Soon, milky white warm spring water seeped out.
The occurrence of such a miracle made the people staying on the mountain extremely happy.
However, just when everyone was about to continue their efforts and was about to dig out a large spring, a sudden change occurred.
When the excavation was about nine feet deep, I don't know who knocked down the pickaxe, and the underground spring water spewed out like crazy.
The water column was more than one foot high, with white smoke emitting, and the water column was thick.
Like beef loin.
When the water column was dug out, the heaven and earth shook.
The place where the water column sprayed and fell was quickly covered by layers of milky white water mist.
Soon, people were horrified to discover that the water was poisonous When the fountain was just dug out, due to the huge pressure, the unlucky Jin Yiwei who dug out the fountain flew more than a foot high before falling heavily.
When he fell to the ground, his whole body was boiled by the high-temperature and high-pressure spring water until his "bones, flesh, and tendons were rotten, and his head and face were all gone."
The temperature of the spring water was extremely high.
Some of the soldiers and left-behind officers who were not directly boiled by the spring water were also caught off guard.
A layer of skin was scalded off by the hot spring water, or a pair of eyes were smoked.
In this way, on the day when the disaster struck, more than a dozen people were killed or injured because of this spring water.
Those who managed to escape later suffered from chronic diseases one after another due to the fright, and gradually died.
Moreover, the dead people will soon form white crystals on their bodies and flesh, like flowers blooming after death, which is puzzling.
Such a big thing happened in the Imperial Manor, and Ouchi was quickly alarmed.
At that time, people were generally quite superstitious.
After the emperor learned about this matter, he first blocked the news, and then ordered Dongchang to handle it with full authority.
But the way those dead eunuchs in Dongchang handle things is ridiculous.
They actually found an old Taoist priest with a good nose to chant sutras to suppress them.
Because he didn't understand geology or engineering, the result of the awesome old Taoist priest's suppression was understandable.
According to the inscription, the old Taoist "recited sutras for seventy-seven forty-nine days, spending ten thousand chickens, cattle, rice, firewood, and ten thousand grains, but made no progress."
Spending more than ten thousand taels of silver could not reduce the eruption of the scorching hot spring at all, which naturally made the emperor angry.
Later, the emperor scolded the eunuchs of Dongchang, threw the old Taoist priest into a prison, and ordered the people from the Ministry of Works to handle these matters secretly.
This time, the emperor finally found the right person.
The Ministry of Industry is a department that Zhao Chenxing is relatively familiar with.
In ancient times, these people specialized in managing the country's engineering technology.
Most of their subordinates were official craftsmen who were proficient in manufacturing and civil engineering.
They were also quite experienced in this type of engineering accidents.
Therefore, people from the Ministry of Industry sent the most elite team of experts to block this strange spring outside the imperial village
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