Chapter 562

And just at this moment, Fang Yang dug up yet another thing.

If one were not careful, it would really be very easy to mistake this for an ordinary wooden board and just throw it away.

【Ivory Hu Tablet for Ming Dynasty Court Use】

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"Brother, why are you staring blankly while holding a wooden board?"

"This is not some ordinary wooden board, but a Hu tablet, also known as a court tablet."

"Ah, what does that mean? I didn't understand." The cameraman was the person here who knew the least about cultural relics.

Lin Xia and Wu Yi, however, understood almost instantly.

"This was a tool for ancient officials when attending court. You've seen it in TV dramas, right? When they attend court, they are always holding a wooden board."

"Ah, yes, I even thought it was very strange at the time. That wooden board looked like just a decoration and had no use at all, so why did they have to carry it every day?"

Hearing Lin Xia's explanation, the cameraman immediately recalled the TV dramas he had seen and what kind of attire those officials attending court had.

He nodded, still somewhat confused.

With this explanation, he basically understood.

"Holding the Hu with both hands forward shows respect, and what is written on the Hu tablet is the content to be presented to the throne, to prevent forgetting. When necessary, imperial edicts can also be written on the Hu tablet."

Fang Yang felt that this should be a very easy thing to understand, so he just added a simple sentence and let Lin Xia and Wu Yi provide a detailed explanation of this aspect.

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——【If you don't see eye to eye while attending court, it can be used for fighting.】

——【There is a poem as proof: Or use the Hu to strike the thief, the rebel's head cracks open.】

——【Uh, is this to hit the Emperor?】

——【Extermination of the nine clans, ecstasy.】

——【You think it's like the Great Qing?】

——【The Great Qing really didn't have many exterminations of the nine clans, but the Great Ming did.】

——【Do civil officials and military officials fight?】

——【According to what you say, Wei Zhongxian might have been beaten to death like this.】

——【For civil officials, this is a teleprompter, but for military officials, it can be used as a weapon.】

——【Jokes aside, don't mislead people. This is used to answer the content of assigned work.】

——【It looks like a wooden board, but it's actually ivory.】

——【Ivory again, I feel like elephants are really pitiful.】

——【In the pre-Qin period, it was a practical tool; after the Han, it was a ceremonial tool and had no function.】

——【Just like the long-eared hats of the Song Dynasty that prevented whispering, holding this makes one look more composed; otherwise, in the court, you wouldn't know where to put your two hands, and it wouldn't be natural.】

——【The ancients were very smart; one can see these things from a single exam.】

——【Yes, the characters written in the whole article are just too beautiful.】

——【Haha, this suddenly reminds me of the previous cheating clothes.】

——【The font on the ancient exam papers is better-looking and neater than what is printed by printers today.】

——【Sigh, crib notes are also an old tradition; they have never been lacking from ancient times to the present.】

——【Yes, people write characters so well, yet they still cheat. You can see how competitive it was at that time. It's not like us now, where the characters on the exam paper look like chicken scratches, and you still have to guess.】

——【No matter how advanced technology is, it cannot solve the universal ultimate problems of humanity, yet the ancients' exploration of ultimate problems was very wise.】

——【The ancients had fewer desires and were closer to the Dao, which is nature.】

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——【Young man, have you heard of Fan Jin passing the exam? And you call this having fewer desires?】

——【Fan Jin didn't have real talent or learning; in the original text, the examiner's encouragement brainwashed him several times.】

——【Yes, it's not that they have fewer desires; in fact, they have no fewer at all. Just like Li Bai, who traveled around mountains and rivers every day, it looks like he returned to nature and enjoyed freedom, but in reality, he just couldn't become an official.】

——【Li Bai traveled around mountains and rivers because he couldn't become an official? He had a mission when he ran around everywhere; playing was just incidental. You go to a new place on a business trip, and then you just return?】

——【This Hu tablet seems to have disappeared by the time of the Qing Dynasty.】

——【The Ming Dynasty doesn't seem to have it either.】

——【Big brother, the Hu tablet that Fang Yang dug up has the two characters "Yan Song" on it. Do you know who Yan Song is? Yan Song is from the Ming Dynasty.】

——【Actually, some emperors didn't attend court at all, so holding this was of no use.】

——【There were indeed many emperors in the Ming Dynasty who didn't attend court, and the Jiajing Emperor was even addicted to Daoist immortality and rarely attended court.】

——【By the time of the Qing Dynasty, what was written was basically memorials, with a lot of nonsense, all just flattering the boss. Now it's piles and piles of documents without any substantive content. The boss must be very annoyed.】

——【Even if they didn't attend court, there were actually many grand rituals. Sacrificing to heaven and earth and sacrificing to the ancestral temple were all very grand rituals.】

——【My mind is full of: This was held by my ancestor, the Taichang official, during the Xuande period to attend court; in the future, you should use it...】

——【Using the Hu to strike a thief, in the "Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms," there is a person I like very much, Qiu Mu, who used it to hit Nangong Changwan.】

——【I always thought it was ivory or some kind of animal bone.】

——【There is a groove inside the ivory to put a wooden board with engraved characters, and the outside is wrapped in ivory, which is extremely luxurious.】

——【This is made of ivory.】

——【No, only high-ranking officials would use ones made of ivory.】

When handing this thing to Wu Yi, Wu Yi couldn't say whether he was satisfied or dissatisfied with today's excavation work.

He called someone to have the items sent back to the Cultural Relics Bureau.

"Today's work is actually okay."

The time was also very fulfilling.

The items also have a lot of research value.

Clearly, Fang Yang had already dug up several items, but he always felt that it was still not enough, and these were not problems for others, but his own problems; he was too greedy.

"What is that place over there?"

As they were walking back, they suddenly saw a reservoir not far away, and next to the reservoir was a very tall tower that looked like it was going to pierce the clouds.

"That is the Ruiguang Temple Pagoda. What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

Wu Yi spoke with some confusion, even looking in the direction Fang Yang was pointing.

He took a look and didn't think there was any problem there, so he didn't understand why Fang Yang suddenly pointed there.

However, Fang Yang's eyelids jumped twice violently.

He didn't care about anything else and walked and ran quickly towards that place.

Something fell directly from high in the sky and almost hit Fang Yang's head.

"Ah—"

Lin Xia couldn't help but let out a short scream, and then quickly covered her mouth.

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In their astonishment, Fang Yang grabbed the thing from high in the sky and hugged it into his arms.

His face was a bit ugly, and he didn't care about the others who came up to check, shouting directly at the top: "You kids upstairs, I see you. What kind of destruction are you doing up there?"

"Hurry up and come down for me. Don't touch anything randomly. Otherwise, if you continue to touch things, I will directly let the police send you home and then let them tell your parents about you causing trouble here."

Fang Yang's voice was not loud, but it all reached the ears of the children in the tower.

Several children were a little scared. On one hand, they wanted to come out, but on the other hand, they didn't dare to come out. Several people gathered together and discussed in a low voice.

"You'd better not stay inside for too long, otherwise I will go in and find you, and your situation will be even worse. If you come out now, I will pretend I didn't see you."

Fang Yang's voice was a bit cold, but when he said that he would pretend not to see them, the children calmed down all of a sudden.

They finally couldn't help but walk out from inside.

The oldest of the children was only twelve or thirteen years old. When they looked at Fang Yang and the others, their eyes were flashing with guilty looks.

If it were just one person, they would still have confidence, but the adults in front of them all looked like they were not to be trifled with.

Especially the man standing at the very front.

He looked the best, but he was also the fiercest.

The children felt that if they said two more words, the other party might rush over and hit them.

"Run!"

One of the children suddenly shouted loudly, and then they turned around and ran away quickly. The speed was very fast, just like a rabbit in the wild.

However, except for Fang Yang, the others didn't pay much attention to them.