() "This box is good." When Ye Kai saw the rosewood box, he couldn't help but praise it.

Ye Kai’s praise is not without reason. As the saying goes, nine out of ten sandalwood are empty. Only the little flesh between the hollow and the skin can be used, so there has been a saying that there is a saying that every inch of sandalwood is gold.

Europeans and Americans had never seen large materials for rosewood at first, so they believed that there was no large materials for rosewood, so they could only make some small objects with redwood. Legend has it that there was a five-inch-long redwood coffin model in front of Napoleon's tomb, which surprised the visitors and thought it was rare.

Rosewood was valued by the royal family and began in the Ming Dynasty. Due to the sparse number of rosewood, the country's sandalwood was quickly gleaned. Then officials were sent to Nanyang to purchase, and continued until the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Not all the wood purchased at that time was used for use, and many of them were stored for spare.

This kind of procurement has a plundering quality to a certain extent. Therefore, the good wood produced in the Nanyang Islands has been almost completely cut down, among which red sandalwood is the most important. All those who can become artifacts are tied away.

The rosewood used in the Qing Dynasty was mainly collected in the Ming Dynasty. Although new materials were purchased in Nanyang in the Qing Dynasty, most of them were thick and not full, and the joints were not straight. This is because the rosewood grew slowly and could not be made into a material for hundreds of years.

The rosewood box held by Nangong Jinghong is actually about a foot in a circle, and from the perspective of carving and production technology, it is carved from complete wood, which is surprising.

"Haha, the box is good, but the things inside will definitely not disappoint." Nangong Jinghong smiled discontently.

Ye Kai nodded and thought to himself that the box should be the inheritance of the Nangong family mentioned by Nangong Jinghong. No matter how precious the box is, it is not as meaningful as the thing inside. He was a little curious. What exactly is it in it?

Seeing Nangong Jinghong's appearance of being respectful, Ye Kai was somewhat looking forward to it.

"The inherited things of the Nangong family have always been preserved by only the head of the family, and the third person cannot know the inside story..." Nangong Jinghong did not open the red sandalwood box directly, but held the box and said to Ye Kai with a serious and serious manner, "Now even Nangong Shouzhuo and Nangong Yun don't know what the inherited things of our family are."

"Since that's the case, it's not convenient for me to see it?" Although Ye Kai also wanted to know what was contained in the box. But since he said that, even the former head of the family, Nangong Shouzhuo and the current head of the family, Nangong Yun, had never seen this thing. He was an outsider, so he was really embarrassed to see other people's inheritance.

"This thing has a great relationship and should not leave China. If not, I wouldn't be able to take it away back then." Nangong Jinghong said solemnly, "But now I think it would be better to hand over this thing to you than to Nangong Yun to save it."

"Oh?" Ye Kai was stunned when he heard this.

Although he does have a special relationship with Nangong Yun, Nangong Yun cannot marry anyone else. However, Ye Kai can only be considered an outsider, but Nangong Jinghong's words made him feel a little strange. He treated him as the de facto head of the Nangong family.

What exactly contains the box? What makes big names like Nangong Jinghong attach so much importance to it?

Ye Kai's eyes fell on the rosewood box. At this time, the box was shining with golden lights under the light. Just like the morning stars in the night sky, it was actually a rare golden red sandalwood box.

Purple se also has a very special status in traditional culture. The purple air comes from the east and turns purple. These words can all illustrate one thing, that is, purple se is a very noble beauty. Compared with the bright yellow se and regular yellow se that were only used by the royal family, purple se is also very noble. This is also one of the reasons why the Ming and Qing dynasties attached great importance to purple sandalwood.

With a "click", Nangong Jinghong opened the buckle lock on the rosewood box and lifted the lid.

Ye Kai's eyes looked at him and saw a piece of precious light surging from the box. In this closed room, it looked very dazzling.

Looking from above, you can see the silk fabric lined with bright yellow se, probably to prevent bumps. In it, there is a dragon-shaped carved jade carving, intertwined, and the carvings are complex and vivid, and it is indeed a good thing.

However, Ye Kai also felt a little strange. If it were just a ball of jade carvings, Nangong Jinghong would not have cherished it so much. Just when he was full of doubt, Nangong Jinghong reached out and slowly lifted the ball of jade carvings out of the box.

"This thing...this thing..." After Ye Kai saw the whole picture of the object, he couldn't help but stutter, his eyes widening.

Ye Kai looked at the thing that Nangong Jinghong raised. The inheritance of the Nangong family turned out to be a treasure seal.

Look at the square seal, about four inches in a radius, all over the body is green and soft. Even under the light, you can see it flashing with a faint white and cold light.

The seal is engraved with patterns of five dragons intersecting, but there is a corner below it, but it is inlaid with gold.

Nangong Jinghong raised the bottom of the jade seal and let Ye Kai watch it. He saw eight large characters in small seal script, such as "Receive the order from heaven, and live forever" engraved on it.

"Is this the imperial seal?! Is it true or false?" Ye Kai couldn't help asking at this time.

It’s not that Ye Kai’s calmness is not enough. It’s because this thing is too important in the history of China. Every time it appears, it will cause a bloody storm and he must be taken seriously.

"I don't know whether it is true or not, but it should take thousands of years for this thing to fall into our hands..." Nangong Jinghong's expression was a little aroused. He held the Fang Baoxi and said, "It is said that our family is a descendant of Li Congke, the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty. In order to avoid disaster, he later changed his surname to Nangong."

"As you say that, this thing may be the real thing." Ye Kai finally calmed down a lot, and he guessed by touching his chin.

The imperial jade seal is actually an evolutionary version of the Heshi Bi. More than 60 years after the jade was returned to Zhao, the Zhao State was still annexed by the powerful Qin State, and the Heshi Bi was in the hands of King Ying Zheng of Qin.

The King of Qin unified China and claimed to be the First Emperor. He ordered the jade worker to take the order to write Prime Minister Li Si from heaven, and even the eight bird-shaped seal characters such as Yongchang were carved on the Heshi Bi as the emperor's jade seal. In this way, the Heshi Bi became the national seal.

Later, Qin lost his deer and the whole world chased it. Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, led his troops to attack Xianyang. Qin Prince Ziying killed Zhao Gao and presented the jade to Liu Bang. After Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, he used the jade seal as the national seal of the Han Dynasty and passed it down from generation to generation. From then on, the Heshi Bi became the national seal, and a total of nine generations of emperors were passed down.

Later, Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty. At that time, because the young emperor Liu Ying was young, the imperial seal was managed by the empress dowager. Wang Mang asked his younger brother to go to Changle Palace to ask for the jade seal. The empress dowager angrily threw the imperial seal to the ground, so the imperial seal was thrown into pieces. Later, Wang Mang used gold to inlay it, but it was useless and eventually left a scar.

After the fall of the Wang Mang regime, the Heshi Bi was passed down through Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms period, Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian, Emperor Gaozu of Tang Li Yuan, etc.

When Li Congke, the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, was trapped in Luoyang, he climbed to the Xuanwu Tower with the imperial seal, and the whereabouts of Heshi Bi were unknown from then on.

As a token of "the imperial power is granted, orthodox and legal", emperors of all dynasties have regarded this seal as a talisman, and regarded it as a rare treasure, which is a valuable tool for the country. If it is obtained, it symbolizes that it is "received from heaven", and if it is lost, it shows that its "energy has been exhausted."

Anyone who ascended the throne without this seal was ridiculed as the "Baiban Emperor", which seemed to be lacking in confidence and was contemptuous by the world. This prompted those who were planning to fight for each other, resulting in the jade seal of the kingdom being changed repeatedly.

Although the imperial seals were leaked after the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, they were basically confirmed to be fakes. However, they did not expect that Nangong Jinghong would hold this imperial seal and have a thousand years of inheritance.

"I didn't expect that your family was the holder of the imperial seal..." Ye Kai couldn't help but sigh when he heard Nangong Jinghong's explanation.

Although they have been destroyed in history as the Li Tang royal family, the Nangong family is still rich and can match the country. Especially this imperial seal is enough to prove that their bloodline is indeed long and extremely noble.

"This jade seal in the country should be the authentic one." Nangong Jinghong said, "The Nangong family has been passed down for thousands of years, and each generation of heads has passed it on word of mouth, and has left behind a certificate of seals to ensure the continuous inheritance. When I arrived at me, it has been thirty-four generations and has never been cut off. At this time, I will hand it over to you to deal with it."

"Ah?!" Ye Kai was shocked when he heard this.

He didn't expect that Nangong Jinghong would hand the imperial seal to his hand so easily. Holding the heavy imperial seal and feeling the warm touch and cold breath from above, Ye Kai couldn't help but feel a little cautious in his heart.

It is indeed not easy to estimate how high the actual value of this thing is, but it is of great significance to not suppress political significance. If it were not for this, since the Northern Song Dynasty, there would not be any emperors of all dynasties who have been working hard, but it is just to prove their orthodox identities.

But now, the imperial seal has disappeared, and the most important symbolic meaning has been lost.

But no matter what, as a national jade seal with a history of more than two thousand years, the supreme holy object that has undergone the change of the entire feudal dynasty, the important historical value and political significance of the national jade seal are still very powerful.

Ye Kai had no doubt that as long as a piece of news was released, countless people would swarm in, trying to put the imperial seal in his pocket. Thinking of this, he remembered something. It seemed that Hou Laosan from Haidong had taken over the seal of the Qing emperor later, and he was very interested in winning the title.

It was not until he failed later that the matter was exposed.

If the imperial seal suddenly appears at this time, how many ambitious people will be excited?
Chapter completed!