Chapter 394: The Golden Lion of the Kingdom, the Mountain of Light and the Strange Third Treasure

Since Li Shimin said that, of course he understood the preciousness of this thing, but he was not wrong. This golden lion is indeed very precious - this is the most precious treasure of the Jie Ri Empire, named Zhen Guo Jin Lion, which was found by Liu Hongji from the Temple of Jie Ri Empire. When it was discovered, it was enshrined in the most noble place in the entire temple, and its status was second only to the statue. It can be seen how precious this lion is in the eyes of the Jie Ri Empire.

It is said that this was originally obtained by King Jie Ri when he was not ascended to the throne. King Jie Ri later became king and unified Northern India, achieving supreme great achievements. He firmly believed that it was because of the blessing of the Golden Lion of the Kingdom that he had all this today. It was precisely because of this idea that even though he regarded Brahmanism as the state religion under the influence of the nobles, he did not give up his support for Buddhism. He even presided over the unblocked meeting many times (Xuanzang had experienced this back then, so this was a compliment, and he took the initiative to face the wall if he thought wrongly). Even if he had never enjoyed this treatment, even the Brahmanism had never enjoyed it. Of course, his status was higher than King Jie Ri, so he probably didn't care about it.

"Your Majesty..." Just as everyone gathered together to watch the Golden Lion in the Kingdom, one of the disciples from Buddhism could not sit still: "Your Majesty, this Golden Lion in the Kingdom is so precious, but I don't know what to do with Your Majesty?"

"This... I don't have to worry about you." Li Shimin fooled him casually. A hint of mockery flashed in Li Zhen's eyes when he saw this - this eating look is too ugly, right? You want it when you see the benefits, and you are at this level.

"This..." The man wanted to say something else, but was pulled by the people next to him. Everyone could see Li Shimin's plan at this time - he obviously planned to put this treasure into the treasury. If you want to rob him at this time, are you tired of living?

Besides, why are you anxious? The golden lion is there, and you are afraid that it will be lost? When this news spreads, the Buddhist sect will naturally not allow this treasure to fall into the hands of the royal family. At that time, the entire Buddhist sect will put pressure on the emperor together, so I don’t believe that he dares Li Shimin to not compromise?

"It's indeed a treasure, so let's put it here for me first." After everyone finished watching, they put the golden lion on their table. Li Shimin was very happy. After looking at it for a while, he raised his eyes and said, "It's really hard for you to welcome such a treasure to the Tang Dynasty. I have any treasures left. Take them out quickly. I can't wait."

"Don't worry, your Majesty, the remaining three treasures are not inferior to the golden lion at all." Xue Wanche looked confident. These things were all passed by their hands. They knew very well what the value of these four treasures were. Even among all the treasures, this golden lion was not the best.

"Oh? Then I'll wait and see." Li Shimin was even more excited. His statement was not that he had never seen a treasure. In fact, if you really want to talk about treasures, of course, there are more of them in the Tang Dynasty, especially in the palace. I won't mention the jade seal of the country. It's fine if the dragon blood ring is a family treasure (the dragon blood ring has been mastered by the head of the Li family, and it is more blessed than the two emperors Li Yuan and Li Zhen, and of course it is also a treasure). Just say that in Li Shimin's own inner treasury

There are many treasures that are not inferior to the imperial edicts of this country - such as the Dingqin sword used by Qin Shihuang, the golden jade clothes of the Han Dynasty, the bronze bells and tripods of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the golden talismans and jade books of various countries in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties and imperial edicts (status equivalent to jade seals and imperial edicts) and so on. Even Li Zhen knew that in the inner treasury, there was one of the nine tripods that had been lost during the Warring States Period. If you really count them, no one is inferior to this golden lion, and it may be far beyond that.

But as the saying goes, home flowers are not as fragrant as wild flowers. Foreign monks are good at chanting scriptures. After all, the treasures of the Tang Dynasty are treasures of the Tang Dynasty. They are close to you. No matter how precious they are, they should have been tired of seeing them. However, this treasure of the Tianzhu is something that Li Shimin had never seen before. People have a curiosity. It is normal to have a chance to see them at this time, and it is not considered a loss of composure. At most, it is just impatient.

"Yes." Liu Hongji took over the second person, and it was Xue Wanche's deputy, the right guard general Xu Zilin, the box in the hand of the box, which was much smaller, only the size of two palms, but the value of the treasure was never calculated by volume. If Liu Hongji was treated so carefully, it was obvious that it was not a simple thing to put in it.

"Your Majesty, this is the treasure that I have obtained from the Quzheluo Treasury. It is also Quzheluo's treasure of Zhenguo, and it is known as the largest diamond in the world." The second treasure Liu Hongji took out also attracted everyone's attention. This is a very large diamond. If it were the unit of later generations, it would be 550 and 60 cubic centimeters, which is almost as big as two pieces of soap (a standard soap with a volume of 225 cubic centimeters).

"What a big diamond, so dazzling light, it is worthy of the title of Mountain of Light. It's really good." Li Shimin exclaimed. Of course he had seen diamonds, but he had never seen diamonds like this big one. Moreover, Mountain of Light is not only big, but also dazzling. It's just that the craftsmen do not understand the optical effect and have not perfectly displayed the best luster of this diamond. But even so, the whole hall still shines brightly, making everyone dazzled.

"Uh..." Liu Hongji was ashamed. He would not tell Li Shimin that this diamond was not called this name before. This name was only raised after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince saw it last night.

"..." Liu Hongji sacrificed his treasure and Li Zhen never spoke, but when he saw this diamond, he suddenly remembered the legend about it. It said that Mount Light was produced in the Kola Mine, which has a history of three thousand years (there are many statements about the historical issues of Mount Light. Now it is generally believed that it should have appeared in the 17th century, but it is calculated here for three thousand years). Its history is long and its inheritance is long. Moreover, the curse carried on it has rarely ended well. Its legendary nature is no less than that of another legendary diamond, "hope" (a diamond with a curse attribute, no one who gets it will have a good ending).

Of course, Li Zhen was not sure that this was the famous diamond from later generations, because he had never seen the original appearance of Mount Light (now the Mountain of Light was actually the product of English craftsmen in the 19th century, and no one knew what it originally looked like, but he only knew that it was a rose-shaped diamond, but no living person had seen it). No one knew what it looked like before.

The reason why I gave this diamond this name is not only the similar weight and shape of the two (both 800 carats), but more importantly, the names of the two are also very similar. Mountain of Light was originally called Coinor, and the diamond in front of me was originally called Coinor. Li Zhen believed that the two should be related. It may be that there was a mistake over time. In addition, the reputation of Mountain of Light in later generations is very famous, so Li Zhen simply gave it this name. Anyway, even if it was not the original Mountain of Light, this diamond must be an amazing treasure in history.

"Very good, I like this diamond very much." Li Shimin's attitude said everything - this diamond is back, so don't even think about it.

The Buddhist disciples didn't say anything about this diamond. Although they wanted to welcome the treasure back to the temple and inlaid it on the Buddha's body to increase their luster, seeing that Li Shimin even wanted to be greedy for the Golden Lion of the Buddha's treasure, he would be even more unlikely to let it go. Moreover, this thing has nothing to do with Buddhism, so they really have no reason to ask for it.

In fact, what they didn't know was that this mountain of light was indeed embedded on the Buddha statue at the beginning, and it was a Buddha statue cast in pure gold. Unfortunately, a group of the Huns invaded India hundreds of years ago and occupied the Buddha statue. They did not believe in Buddhism. When they saw such a large golden Buddha, they immediately melted the Buddha statue and snatched the mountain of light.

Later, the Huns' country was destroyed, and the diamond was lost. It was finally obtained by the first king of Qu Zheluo and sealed it in the treasury until the Tang Dynasty came here and snatched away the Mountain of Light again. Fortunately, these people did not know the origin of the Mountain of Light, otherwise they would not have thrown away their faces again and attempted to get the diamond back?

"Your Majesty, this third treasure... Actually, I don't know if it is considered a treasure of India..." Taking out the third narrow box, Liu Hongji suddenly felt embarrassed: "But this is indeed a treasure, but it is not considered from India. However, it has existed in India for thousands of years, so it is not particularly representative, and it seems that there is no special significance - of course, it may have a different meaning to Your Majesty, or it may not necessarily be."

"Oh? What is it?" Li Shimin became more interested. Liu Hongji's words were very contradictory, but he understood the meaning. That is, this thing may be a treasure left here from another extreme a long time ago. However, although this thing is precious, it is something from another country after all, and it does not represent much significance to India...

The only thing he didn't understand was how this thing was related to himself? He was very sure that he had never been to Tianzhu at all, and had not even sent an envoy to Tianzhu. How could he have something to do with Tianzhu? And it was related to things that had been around for more than a thousand years? This was simply impossible, right?

But what Liu Hongji said was so solemn, it didn't seem like he was nonsense, which made Li Shimin very curious...
Chapter completed!