In the first year of Kaiyuan, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered the Qiantang River to be rebuilt. Xie Pinyan, the former chief registrar of Dali Temple, was transferred to Hangzhou Sima. When he first arrived in Hangzhou to supervise a project, he accidentally obtained a gloomy wooden box from the construction site. After opening it with Wei Yitang, the governor of Hangzhou, he discovered that there was a tightly sealed jade box hidden inside, with the sound of water inside, and the words "First Emperor" engraved on the wall of the box. The matter was so important that they immediately reported it to the court.
Cui Yichen, a descendant of the Cui family in Boling, returned to Dingyou after Xuanzong lost his love and ordered him to rush to Hangzhou to retrieve the treasure. Cui Yichen rescued the troubled young girl Wang Xinnan in Huzhou on the way. Knowing that she wanted to go to Hangzhou to visit her relatives, he took her with him. At the time of Yuanzheng, he reunited with his old acquaintance Xie Pinyan, only to find a mummy that had been missing for many years in Xie's old house...
Who is this mummy and why it died? The dusty past ten years ago once again stirred up trouble.
Reading tips: In the Kaiyuan Mysteries series, each part has a treasure story as an open thread. The protagonist has experienced or solved a series of cases. The cases may be related to the cases. A large number of clues are drawn across chapters. The undercurrent of the entire series is the protagonist's own special background and emotional story.
Some of the real historical events and characters involved in the story are consistent or close to historical facts (for example, the first chapter of the article mentioned that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered the construction of the Qiantang River pond in Hangzhou in the first year of Kaiyuan, and that Qin Shihuang's southern tour had a cable boat at Baoshi Mountain in Hangzhou due to a storm, both are real historical events.)
Purpose: Taking the mystery of the First Emperor's Treasure Box as a guide, through a series of unsolved cases in the southeast of the Tang Dynasty, it shows the secrets of the history of the Tang Dynasty and the collision of Chinese and foreign civilizations.