Chapter 521 Chuan Guoxi
When I returned to Upper Manhattan, it was already past late at night.
As early as when he was buying an office location for KY Investment Fund, Yang Jing also bought an apartment, which was a high-end apartment with an area of more than 500 square meters, and the price was 8.9 million US dollars at that time.
Although investing in real estate in the United States is not as suitable as investing in three years, since KY Investment Fund is about to stand up, as the boss of KY Investment Fund, Yang Jing also needs to have a high-end apartment in Manhattan, so he bought such an apartment at the beginning of the year.
If you leave such an apartment in thirty years, you can't buy it without $15 million. Although the rate of house prices in the United States is far less than the rate of depreciation of the US dollar, such high-end apartments in Manhattan are scarce resources after thirty years. Many times, if you have money, you may not be able to buy such a good apartment.
After returning to the apartment, Yang Jing took a shower and took out the other half of the Luban box found from the treasure of the last Tsar from the space.
If you don’t put them together, you can immediately see that this is definitely a set of things once these two and a half Luban boxes are put together.
However, compared with the half Luban box found in the treasures of the last Tsar, the half Luban box preserved by the Mellon family is better in appearance. I believe that this half Luban box has not been taken care of in the Mellon family over the years.
At the auction, people from the Mellon family also said that the Luban box was made of silver doped with other metals, which is different from the Luban box commonly used in Chinese history. In China, most of the Luban boxes made by ancient people were made of hardwood.
Maybe it is doped with many other metals and after so many years of oxidation, these two boxes are now completely gone from the silver-white like silver, and are so gray that they are inconspicuous.
But Yang Jing was extremely excited at this time. These two half boxes cost him more than 100 million US dollars to get them. It can be said that they are the most expensive things in all Yang Jing's collections. However, if there are clues about that treasure in it, it would be really worth it.
The two Luban boxes are about the same size and have a very different appearance. However, Yang Jing has seen these two boxes with perspective skills and knows that although the appearance of these two boxes is not much different, the inside is very different.
The half Luban box found in the treasure of the last Tsar was densely packed with mechanisms. If you want these mechanisms to operate, the only bulge is the key.
As for the half of the Luban box taken from the Mellon family, there is something hidden inside, but this box is not opened by a mechanism, but by a "key". In the past, the Mellon family had not opened this box for a long time because it lacked the most critical "key". But now, the "key" is in Yang Jing's hand.
Yang Jing aimed the two and a half pieces of Luban box at the perspective skill, and then aimed the bulge of the left hand box at the depression on the right hand box. He slowly but forcefully pushed in, and the two and a half pieces of Luban box immediately got together seamlessly.
Under the observation of perspective skills, Yang Jing saw that the small bulge was inserted into the depression and touched the part. Then the half-luban box immediately made a slight "click" sound, and the originally dense mechanisms began to run quickly, and the metal strips were either raised or dropped or rotated. Anyway, with the movement of the mechanisms inside the half-box, the bulge, which was originally less than one centimeter long, began to extend magically...
As the protrusion continues to extend inward, some mechanisms in the depression are also touched, and the other half of the Luban box also begins to move.
Finally, with a straightforward "click" sound, the two boxes were closely combined, but the box was still not open.
Yang Jing thought about it slightly, then reached out and twisted it. As a result, with a "pop", the top cover of the half-piece box containing the silk immediately bounced to one side, revealing the silk inside.
Yang Jing suddenly remembered that this box was probably something very sealed. The silk inside had not been in contact with the air outside for a long time, so Yang Jing almost subconsciously stretched out his hand and put the silk into the storage space.
Sure enough, not long after the silk was put in, the metal inside the box exposed to the air began to change color quickly...
Yang Jing was startled, then let out a long breath and muttered in a low voice: "Fortunately, my hands are fast, otherwise this piece of silk would be hanging!"
Sinking consciousness into the storage space, fortunately, the silk has not changed at all in the storage space without any air.
He gently opened the silk with his consciousness, and the things revealed inside immediately made Yang Jing ecstatic.
This is a painting, or to be precise, a map.
The most conspicuous thing on the map is the eight words - "Accepting the command of heaven, one will live forever."
The appearance of these eight words made Yang Jing completely relieved. At least the 100 million US dollars was not in vain. This map was indeed as he imagined, a map involving the legendary imperial seal, or a clue related to the imperial seal that had been lost for more than a thousand years.
The status of the imperial seal in China is beyond doubt. No matter from any aspect, the imperial seal is well-deserved first. Since the First Emperor, this jade seal has been regarded by the Chinese as a symbol of virtue in the world, otherwise this jade seal would not have been called the "universal jade seal".
The name alone can tell the preciousness and importance of this jade seal.
It’s a pity that the imperial seal disappeared after being burned by Li Congke, the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty. No matter how the emperors of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties mobilized the world to find this jade seal, it was a pity that they never found it.
The Ming Dynasty, known as the most authentic one in the world in Chinese history, had three major regrets in his life, and the first one was that he had never found the imperial seal in his life. It can be seen how high the imperial seal is in the eyes of the descendants of Yan and Huang!
Of course, there are countless rumors about the imperial seal, but they are all fake. But the real imperial seal has never appeared since Li Congke, which is true!
Before, when Yang Jing obtained the treasure of the last Tsar from Siberia, he discovered this strange half-piece Luban box, but he did not think about the imperial seal at that time. After all, there were too many treasures passed down by the ancestors of China, and more treasures floating overseas were all snatched away by those bandits.
Back then, Russia was a member of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and polar bears caused many disasters to Yanjing, and they also stole the treasures of China.
So when Yang Jing discovered this strange half-piece Luban box, he really didn't think about the imperial seal.
Even when he saw another half of the Luban box at Mellon Manor today, Yang Jing thought it was just a whole set of Luban boxes. At the beginning, even though he found something hidden in the box, he did not consider the imperial seal.
Until Harper Lawrence malicious bidding, when Yang Jing used his perspective skills to observe the silk, he vaguely saw the word "其", and then suddenly remembered the imperial seal...
Sure enough, there was no wasted spending 100 million at that time. This picture is indeed a picture about the clues of the imperial seal.
The silk silk is not big, about the same size as a piece of 16-fold paper. At the top of this silk silk, there are eight running script fonts written: "I am responsible for the heaven. I will live forever."
Then below these eight characters, there is an arrow pointing directly to a place called "Yuecheng Temple" in the picture. Obviously, this Yuecheng Temple should be the old nest of the Taoist priest named Yuechengzi.
If it weren't for the three words Yuechengguan, Yang Jing would not be sure that Yuechengzi was a Taoist priest, but now it seems that Yuechengzi is very likely to be a Taoist priest.
The Tang Dynasty respected Taoism as the national religion, but the Later Tang Dynasty was established under the name of the heir of the Tang Dynasty, so it naturally respected Taoism. Moreover, historical rumors also said that the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, Li Congke, believed in Taoism very much.
I just don’t know what the relationship between Yuechengzi and the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, Li Congke.
In this painting, except for those eight characters, the Yuecheng Temple and Yuecheng Temple, the rest are all landscapes.
Although this picture is painted on silk, it is extremely exquisite, and it can be seen that Yue Chengzi's painting skills are still extremely clever.
Below the painting is a mountain peak. These peaks are very strange. Yang Jing counted carefully and found that there were a total of sixteen peaks. Judging from the locations of these peaks, it was obviously not far from this Yuecheng Temple.
Yuecheng Temple is located at the foot of the mountain north of this mountain peak. It is a Taoist temple that does not look very big. In front of the Taoist temple is a surging river that crosses the mountains and ridges and disappears into the distance.
This painting is very simple, just a few words, a mountain, a Taoist temple and a big river, and there is nothing else. Although there are many trees on the mountain in the painting, it is probably useless.
The most important thing is this Taoist temple!
Yang Jing even wondered whether the imperial seal, which had been missing for thousands of years, was hidden in this Taoist temple? After all, Li Congke, the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, held the imperial seal and threw himself into fire and burned himself. This is well-known. But fire can burn people to death, but it cannot burn them.
It is very likely that the imperial seal was found by someone after extinguishing the fire and then hid it. The biggest possibility of the person who found the imperial seal was this Yuechengzi.
Otherwise, why did Yuechengzi work so hard to make this Luban box? Why do you need to hide such a ball of silk in the Luban box? Why do you have to write the eight big words "After being ordered by heaven, you will live forever" in the silk?
I’m not sure about anything else, but I can definitely be sure that Yuechengzi should have had direct contact with the imperial seal!
I just don’t know where the Yuecheng Temple drawn in the picture is...
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Chapter completed!