After unraveling the secret in Luban's box, Yang Jing could no longer hold back.

Although Yang Jing is more than 90% sure that the clues recorded in the silk in the box are pointed to the jade seal of the country, the question is where is the "Yuecheng Temple" marked in this picture?

The only thing Yang Jing can confirm now is that the location of the picture is definitely in China, but China is getting bigger, where can I find this Yuecheng Temple?

Not to mention that this picture was painted more than a thousand years ago. At that time, there was the Taoist temple in Yuecheng Temple, but what about now?

At present, there are only a handful of Taoist temples in China that can preserve the previous year, and those are all extremely large Taoist temples. For example, the Taoist temple in the painting, which looks not much larger than ordinary houses, will definitely not be preserved for thousands of years.

To find such a small Taoist temple in the long river of thousands of years of history, it is no less difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.

The temptation and temptation of the imperial seal is beyond doubt. Even if it is just a clue, it is enough to make Yang Jing unable to sleep.

Through the identification skills, Yang Jing already knew that this picture was also written by Yue Chengzi, and it was drawn three years later than the Lu Ban box. This picture was drawn on silk in 936 AD. This year happened to be the year when Li Congke, the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, held the imperial seal and threw himself into fire and burned himself.

What does this time difference mean?

Yang Jing, who couldn't sleep, sat up from the bed and pushed open the bedroom window. The cold night wind suddenly rushed in from outside, causing Yang Jing to shiver involuntarily.

A cigarette was lit, and Yang Jing looked at the dimly lit Manhattan below, but his vision did not stay on any building for even a second. Perhaps it was the stimulation of tobacco or the cold wind blowing his face, Yang Jing's originally a little impatient mood gradually stabilized, and his mind began to gradually become clear.

"This Yuechengzi must have something to do with Li Congke!" Yang Jing said to himself, "Li Congke respects Taoism, while Yuechengzi is a Taoist priest. There is a great possibility that there is a direct connection between the two."

Yang Jing returned to the desk, picked up a piece of paper and a pen from the table, wrote down the names of "Li Congke" and "Yue Chengzi", and then wrote down a "Lu Ban Box" under the two names.

"According to the making process of this Luban box, it is enough to show that Yuechengzi is a very powerful Taoist priest. Such a complex Luban box mechanism would probably not be made without two brushes. The most important thing is that the materials used to make this box are mainly silver. In that era, ordinary Taoist priests probably could not afford such expensive silver, right?"

Yang Jing knew that before the Ming Dynasty, China was short of silver. Silver was a very expensive precious metal. Although it was not as valuable as gold, its value was far exceeding the exchange ratio between copper coins and silver at that time.

During the Later Tang Dynasty, China also lacked silver, and the Luban box in hand weighed about 3.5 kilograms. According to the Later Tang Dynasty one tael of silver for one liang of silver, that is, one thousand copper coins, one jin of sixteen liang, the weight of this Luban box is about five jin (one jin of the Tang Dynasty was 680 grams), which means that this box alone can be exchanged for eighty taels of silver and eighty thousand copper coins. In the Later Tang Dynasty, the proportion of silver to copper coins was higher, so the silver used to make this Luban box alone can be exchanged for almost 100,000 copper coins.

An ordinary Taoist priest probably couldn't come up with so many copper coins in that era, let alone use it to make a Luban box.

"This Yuechengzi should be highly valued by Li Congke, otherwise he would not have used silver to create this Luban box in luxury! Even this Yuechengzi is likely to have served as a senior official of Li Congke during the Qingtai period!"

This was not something Yang Jing guessed. Taoist priests were highly valued in the Tang Dynasty. For example, Yuan Tiangang once served as Li Shimin's think tank, and later was sent to the county magistrate. Li Congke worshipped Taoism, and perhaps he met Yuechengzi somewhere. In addition, this Yuechengzi was indeed a little skilled, so he was valued by Li Congke. It was not impossible for Li Congke to be entrusted with important tasks after he became the Emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty.

"Only this Yuechengzi had a certain status during the Qingtai period of the Later Tang Dynasty, he would use silver mixed with other metals to create this Luban box." Yang Jing said to himself, while using a pen to write the four words "Qingtai Senior Official" next to the name of "Yuechengzi" on the paper.

Qingtai was the reign of Li Congke, the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty.

"The box was made three years ago, but why do you have to write those eight words on this silk?" Yang Jing rubbed his brows in distress. He could not figure out why Yue Chengzi wrote those eight words on this picture.

"Is it possible that Yue Chengzi found the imperial seal after Li Congke burned and put out the fire? Then he hid it secretly? Well! This is not impossible, and it seems that the possibility is still very high!" After thinking for a long time, Yang Jing could only use this reason to explain.

But if you go around, you will eventually have to go around where the "Yuecheng Temple" is.

Yang Jing looked at the piece of paper that was painted in a mess, and could only helplessly roll the piece of paper into a ball and throw it into the wastebasket.

After thinking about it, Yang Jing could only sink his consciousness into the storage space again and open the picture to observe carefully.

"Don't worry about Yuecheng Temple. The most obvious mark of this picture is the sixteen peaks and the big river!" Yang Jing imprinted the picture deeply in his mind, then he left the storage space, and then drew the picture from a piece of paper.

Yang Jing wanted to search the Internet for information about the "Sixteen Peaks", but in this era, where was the Internet? Even if there was, there was no geographical information about China in the United States today.

In desperation, Yang Jing tore the paper apart and threw it into the trash can...

Early the next morning, Yang Jing came to the office of KY Investment Fund and convened a group of executives for a meeting. At the meeting, Yang Jing focused on explaining his investment intention next year and the acquisition of two banks, Hartford German Min Company and Arlington Trust, and then the meeting ended. Then, after saying goodbye to Mike Aller, Yang Jing walked out of the office building and found a place where no one was there and traveled back to the original time and space.

After returning to Tianqu, Yang Jing immediately returned home, then turned on the computer and started to query.

In Du Niang's search bar, he entered some keywords such as "Sixteen Peaks", and Du Niang immediately showed many entries about "Sixteen Peaks". Among them, the most common one was Changbai Mountain.

After clicking on an entry and entering, sure enough, the most famous Changbai Mountain is the sixteen peaks surrounding the outside of Tianchi.

Whether it is an introduction or a picture, it clearly shows that the sixteen peaks surrounding Tianchi are one of the most famous attractions in Changbai Mountain.

It’s a pity that Yang Jing directly rejected Changbai Mountain.

The era when Yuechengzi appeared was in the Later Tang Dynasty, and in the Later Tang Dynasty, Changbai Mountain was still a wilderness. The most important thing is that when Li Congke became the emperor, the capital was in Luoyang.

At that time, the Later Tang Dynasty was not as good as now. It took more than two hours to fly from Luoyang to Changbai Mountain, and even by train, it only took dozens of hours. In the Later Tang Dynasty, if you want to go from Changbai Mountain to Luoyang in less than two or three months, you would never have to come.

Li Congke obviously would not find a Taoist priest from Changbai Mountain to serve as his senior official.

In other words, the Taoist priest Yuechengzi should be a Taoist priest who was born near Luoyang. This also proves that the area where Taoism was prosperous at that time was prosperous.

Whether it is Wangwu Mountain or Zhongtiao Mountain around Luoyang, it is an area with extremely prosperous Taoism. Even before Li Congke became emperor, he was the Lu Wang who stayed in Xijing (Chang'an), and the Qinling Mountains near Chang'an were also an area with extremely prosperous Taoism.

In other words, there is a great possibility that this Yuechengzi is from the mountainous areas around Chang'an or Luoyang!

But there are too many mountains in this area, such as Luoyang, where there are Wangwu Mountain in the north, Zhongtiao Mountain in the south, Songshan in the west, Wushan in the west, Wushan in the east, and Xionger Mountain in the east, which is completely in the embrace of the mountains.

As for Chang'an, there are more mountains around it, and just one Qinling Mountain is enough!

With so many mountains, where can I find sixteen peaks to go?

Yang Jing opened Google Map, facing a green area representing the mountains, his face was full of pain, and his right hand unconsciously controlled the mouse wheel, making the idea map on the screen expand and shrink, and then constantly convert from satellites and topographic maps.

Suddenly, Yang Jing's vision was attracted by a big river on the map - it was the mother river of China and the Yellow River.

"Yes, isn't there a big river in that picture?" Yang Jing was so excited that he almost gave himself a slap. Why did he forget such an important clue just now?

With sixteen peaks and the big river in the valley, it is obviously impossible to be near Chang'an. Although there is the Wei River to the north of the Qinling Mountains, the Wei River is still a little distance from the Qinling Mountains. It is impossible that the big river roars and shuttles through the valley as shown in the painting.

Then the only ones that meet the conditions will be around Luoyang.

After the Yellow River in the north of Luoyang turned east from the natural precipitous Tongguan, it has been traveling among the mountains and ridges? After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government has built two large water conservancy hub projects in this section of the river, the Sanmenxia Reservoir and Xiaolangdi Project.

Yang Jing immediately expanded the electronic map again, and looked at this section of the Yellow River, and the more he looked, the more interesting he felt.
Chapter completed!