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Chapter 50 Unlocking the Password (1)

"These iron chains extending from the bearings touch the message mechanism here. Only one iron chain is started correctly decoding, and the others represent errors." I counted and found that there were five iron chains extending from there.

I was very surprised because I never thought that there would be such a mature modular technology in ancient China. The most famous primitive module technology in China is movable type printing. Module technology can be used multiple times beyond geographical restrictions. Obviously, the mechanisms here can be used anywhere.

I immediately thought of the mangul bottle. The descendants of Zhangjialou set up such a clever mechanism. Sichuan and Guangxi have different geological conditions, weather and various factors on both sides. Therefore, we must ensure that the mechanisms set on both sides and connected with each other can be stable enough and will not be damaged after a thousand years.

Because the entire agency is for their own descendants, no matter where the part is first, it may cause the death of their descendants.

If you are an ordinary craftsman, you can only use clever techniques to design mechanisms suitable for both sides according to the conditions of the two places. However, it was impossible to use in ancient times, because the craftsmen at that time could not figure out what would happen hundreds of years later. Therefore, the mechanisms designed according to their respective geographical environments were two completely different things.

But modular things are different. They can ensure that in any environment, the same effect will be achieved wherever you put this thing. This is why KFC tastes the same, and movable type printing ensures high-quality use of a set of characters repeated many times.

"So what?" Xiaohua didn't understand very well.

I said: "The ancients had the habit of considering problems from the practical nature. For example, the previous printing technique had to be engraved a full version of a book, and it could not be used after use. An ancient publisher felt it was annoyed, so he invented movable type printing, so he could fire half of the carving craftsmen and leave only a few best spares. No one would modularize for the sake of modularity. The modularity of the ancients was adjusted by foreseeing a lot of repetitive labor."

If the craftsmen here use modules, then the reason I can think of is that they do not want to design mechanisms separately for all links. Then, it is very likely that all mechanisms here, like those in Guangxi, use such honeycombs. If the oil bottle knocks on those stones, he may see the same thing as mine.

Before the Zhangjialou designers chose the construction site of Zhangjialou, they designed everything and made these mechanisms. In this way, they just need to choose a good place, then smash a few holes and install these modules in.

"I know what you mean." Xiaohua obviously understands my thinking more than the fat man, "Damn, this is a bit awesome. You mean, Zhang Jialou is moving."

I nodded: "The biggest advantage of modularity is that it can be removed and taken away. Look at the style thunder and other traces, the iron chains here, but only this thing is bronze, which shows that in history, the coffins of the ancestors of the Zhang family have been replaced by more than one place. The so-called Zhang family building is definitely only the last time they have."

Xiaohua smiled meaningfully: "I discovered another reason why my mother-in-law asked me to take you with me. To some extent, you are also a little bit of a calf."

I grinned, and no matter how I heard these words, I didn't want me to be with him before.

I squatted down and shone the following things with a flashlight: "I think, Style Lei is just a contractor. They helped the so-called Zhang family build the Zhang family building to place the coffins, but they did not participate more."

"Lei Siqi's later years was in the era of Cixi. The gold and silver mountains of the Qing Dynasty had been spent. The Lei family was huge and had a vast range of friendships. Whether it was a friendly sponsorship or private work, they might be allowed to help the Zhang family build a new ancestral tomb."

"Yes, maybe every time the Zhang family builds ancestral tombs, because these ancient buildings are built in very strange and difficult to access, they have to look for the best craftsmen in the world."

"Then, if they had been in the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, they might have had connections with Wang Zanghai." Xiaohua said.

I nodded. It is very likely that as long as this family has such a profound history. And I believe that with the development of transportation, these two locations will become farther and farther away. Perhaps at the beginning, the cave where the "key" was placed was only one mountain away from the burial site of the Zhang family. Then it gradually became a province, and then the distance from Sichuan to Guangxi. If the descendants of the Zhang family are still there, they may have to move abroad next time.

This also explains another doubt I have never been able to determine what dynasty the things here are from. If so, then after years of renovation, some things will have the marks of several dynasties, which are basically impossible to judge.

"If you don't talk about these, you are so awesome. Can you guess which of these iron chains is correct?" Xiaohua asked me, "Or, we just need to try one by one to know. There are five iron chains here. If we pull them wrong, we will start the mechanism above, and the pig above will be shot into a hedgehog, or any possible mechanism, but we will not have any trouble here."

In theory, just pull all five chains and go out, but I don’t know what mechanism is set up above. If a huge rock falls down and seals us inside, it will be dead.

"Now, general passwords have error restrictions. Only if there is an error exceeding a certain number of times will there be a punishment procedure. However, the ancients were not so kind. This place was not used so frequently. So, if you make a mistake, it may be fatal. We must know which one is exactly to pull it."

"What's wrong, Xiao Sanye Ph.D.." Xiaohua looked at me, "I think I can open a class in Lao Jiumen called "Academic Tomb Raiders". Let you teach a few classes."

I feel funny in my heart. Sometimes I am really good at being a teacher. Especially when I figure out some things, I always want to say it out immediately and let others feel the same feeling. In the past, fat people often had sudden whims and no one accompanied me to analyze things, but Xiaohua can, so I said a little more. In the past, I thought this was quite out of control, but I felt that it was nothing if I had more times.

I looked at the entire hive and fell into deep thought. After thinking about it, I asked him, "How do you do your rules?"

"What did that say? Modularity? Just to you, I have never seen such things before. We usually see traps that have not been triggered and then destroy them. Our rule is to see how the message agency works. So, if it is our approach, we have to knock on this hornet's nest."

The entire bronze ball is completely cast-sealed and cannot be opened. Moreover, it is full of water. We don’t have so much time to take risks. Moreover, after opening it, we may completely destroy the operation here, just like when we were a child, we opened the alarm clock and found that the gears fell off the ground and could never recover.

I tried to soak myself in the water, and the little flower helped me illuminate it. I went to see the iron chains, they were exactly the same. I guess neither the mechanism nor the correct chain was used frequently.

"Do you think so? Look, the dead people we see above are all dead in the hands of those hairs, and we don't see any traces of the trap being activated. If so, either Lao Jiumen did nothing here and just stole those ancient books. Or, can we think so, there will be no very devastating traps here." Xiaohua said.
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