Chapter 514 - 514: The Imperial Jade Seal Resurfaces! Zhuge Liang’s Extraordinary Military Tactics! (1)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“The tomb of the old traitor Sima Yi sure does look comfortable!”
“Indeed, even though we may not be fond of Sima Yi, his abode is surprisingly clean and tidy!”
“Let us see what the stone platform ahead holds. If it is placed in front of the coffin, it must contain something valuable. That is what I believe, at least.
What do you all think?”
Covering a few dozen meters, Luo Feng took nearly twenty to thirty minutes to arrive at the stone platform in front of the coffin.
The stone platform, approximately as tall as a seven to eight-year-old child, stood about sixty centimeters high.
On closer inspection, Luo Feng noticed clusters of something on either side.
However, his gaze quickly landed on a box that was placed on top.
The box rested on a slab of rosewood, square in shape, with each side half a meter in length.
Half a meter high as well.
Luo Feng hypothesized that anything positioned here had to be of high value.
It must be a precious item like a jade seal.
Swiftly, Luo Feng lifted the box with both hands and slowly opened it.
Upon lifting the lid, it indeed revealed a jade seal about twenty centimeters long. A dragon, looking lifelike and incredibly imposing, adorned the back of the seal.
“Holy moly, a jade seal! It’s really a jade seal! Old Luo’s hand is truly invincible.
Just a single blind box, and he manages to get such an extraordinary item?”
“What’s so surprising about that? Old Luo used to loot tombs daily, and jade seals were the most common finds. You, my friend, seem to lack worldly experience. Haven’t you watched his livestreams before?”
“Enough chatter, let’s see what characters are engraved under the jade seal. It could be the emperor’s seal! If that’s the case, then Sima Yi had planned to usurp the throne while he was still alive!”
“Do we even need confirmation? The Incident at Gaoping Tombs already proves how ambitious the Sima family was!”
Once Luo Feng picked up the jade seal, a system prompt appeared.
[ Ding! Jade seal, Han Dynasty, worth 2 billion! ] wow.
The value of this jade seal was unbelievably high.
Luo Feng was certain. Since he had found the original Imperial Jade Seal, this piece could not possibly be the one belonging to Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
But why was this jade seal so valuable?
Could it be…
The jade seal from the Han Dynasty?
After all, logically speaking, since the jade seal of Qin Shi Huang had appeared in Zhao Gao’s tomb, the one used by Emperor Liu Bang of the Han dynasty was not the Imperial Jade Seal of Qin Shi Huang, but rather, one he had forged himself.
Even so, it was the seal of the Han Dynasty that lasted four centuries.
It has been mentioned before, the Imperial Jade Seal was merely a symbol.
Whether Qin Shi Huang’s seal really ended up in Liu Bang’s hands is uncertain. It may have been lost during the reign of the second Qin emperor. But any emperor who obtained that seal would believe they held the legitimacy of the ancient emperors. Consequently, each emperor would forge their own, claiming it was Qin Shi Huang’s Imperial Jade Seal, proof of their divine mandate.
But since the true Imperial Jade Seal had been discovered in Zhao Gao’s tomb, the Imperial Jade Seals of later generations were not that of Qin Shi Huang’s. They were either self-made or used from previous dynasties.
Like the Song Dynasty using the Tang Dynasty’s.
The Tang Dynasty using the Han Dynasty’s.
But never Qin Shi Huang’s.
Luo Feng quickly turned the jade seal over.
And looked at the script.
It was some ancient seal script that was very hard to decipher at a glance.
After a few seconds of staring at the script, Luo Feng recognized the first character. His expression turned strange.
He thought his eyes were playing tricks on him. He blinked hard, but the text remained the same.
Unbelievable.
“What does it say?”
“Why do these characters look so familiar to me?”
“Heh, pretending to be a cultured man. If you can’t read it, just admit it. What do you mean ‘looks familiar’? I’m sure you think everyone looks familiar!” “No, really. It does look familiar, as if I’ve seen it somewhere before.”
‘What on earth is written there? Host, please share with us!”
With a faint cough, Luo Feng said in a peculiar tone, “The characters read ‘Shou
Ming Yu Tian Ji Shou Yong Chang.”
“Isn’t that the eight-character inscription on the Imperial Jade Seal?” Qin Rubing paused for a moment, recalling these eight characters. After all, she had personally auctioned the previous Imperial Jade Seal for Luo Feng, so the memory was fresh.
“There are indeed the same eight characters,” Luo Feng confirmed helplessly.
“What? Are you sure about these characters?”
“Host, did you misread? Those are the same eight characters on Qin Shi Huang’s Imperial Jade Seal!”
“Damn, does this mean the Imperial Jade Seal from Zhao Gao’s tomb was a fake?”
Luo Feng was so engrossed that he failed to notice that one corner of this jade seal appeared damaged and was mended with gold.
Looking at it as a whole, it seemed to be a single piece of jade, with a corner of the jade seal supplemented with gold.
“This must be one of the earlier examples of gold inlaid jade, right?” Luo Feng murmured, staring at the jade seal lost in thought.
Meanwhile, the livestream chatroom erupted into a frenzy.
A bunch of museum folks were here, throwing comments.
Especially Long Jianfei from the Forbidden City Museum, he was completely stunned. This item had been taken away by the government and given to their museum.
Now what?
Could the one they had on display be a fake?
Were the people who authenticated it not doing their jobs?
Although it wasn’t their museum’s money, if they had collected a counterfeit Imperial Jade Seal, and the old timers found out, they would undoubtedly ridicule him..
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