Having casually made up a bit of wild history, the Tiga Clone continued explaining as he wrote out the check:
"And this gold-threaded jade burial suit dates to before the Han dynasty..."
Only then did Wu Xie realize it. Right—the Seven Star Lu King Palace was Lu Shangwang's tomb. Why would someone from the Warring States Period have burial goods that only began to be used during the Western Han?
Wasn't that as bizarre as digging Tang sancai pottery out of a Han tomb?
"To be precise, this gold-threaded jade burial suit is from the Western Zhou dynasty."
Wu Xie: ???
Why was it from the Western Zhou again? Wasn't Lu Shangwang a man of the Warring States Period? Still, parts of the Lu Wang Palace did seem to bear traces of Zhou dynasty architectural styles...
And without bothering about Wu Xie, whose CPU was practically overheating, the Tiga Clone continued:
"Only this one is a genuine gold-threaded jade burial suit—a Jade Coffin. As for those from the Western Han, they were merely burial garments made from jade pieces and gold thread in imitation of gold-threaded jade burial suits. They were useless."
The princes and nobles of the Wen and Jing eras had probably also heard that Jade Coffins could grant Longevity and Agelessness and resurrection. But unable to find a genuine Jade Coffin, they could only make imitations according to its descriptions and hope they would work.
But clearly, they did not. Otherwise, Lu Shangwang could afford gold and jade perfectly well. He could have made himself a gold-threaded jade burial suit. Why would he need to dig up King Mu of Zhou's tomb, turn it into his own, and steal King Mu of Zhou's coffin to lie in himself?
As for why this genuine gold-threaded jade burial suit