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Event of The Orient
Sung Tzu's Apprentice
January 29 , 2006 at 00:00 to February 5 , 2006 at 00:00 EST
It is the Song Dynasty and China is
flourishing.
It is the Song Dynasty and
China is
flourishing. All across the nation, cities are becoming centers of trade,
industry, and
maritime commerce, and a new group of wealthy commoners - the mercantile
class - is
increasing, as printing and education spreads, private trade grows, and a
market economy
begins to link the coastal provinces and the interior. Landholding and
government employment are no longer the only means of gaining wealth and prestige.
Citizens can now carry their wealth for the first time as paper money and
along with this, a unified tax system means the development of a true
nationwide market system. The arts are flourishing as well, with new developments in
painting, calligraphy, porcelain crafting and philosophy.
You are a newly appointed scholar-official, and you are a diligent student of law and medicine. You have just received your position in the government by passing a set of rigorous examinations in the "Six Arts" -- music, archery and horsemanship, arithmetic, writing, and knowledge of the rituals and ceremonies in both public and private life. You were also tested on the "Five Studies" -- military strategy, civil law, revenue and taxation, agriculture and geography, in addition to the Confucian Classics. You scored well and have become one of the many apprentices of the famous judge and master of forensic medicine, Sung Tzu. Under his tutelage, you have been learning the finer points of death investigation. One evening, when you are about to settle down to enjoy your dinner, a servant comes to your home and starts banging on your door. There has been a murder at the house of the local Magistrate. The Honorable Judge requests that you meet him at the house, post haste! You hurry there and began to investigate, but before you are able to get very far, a runner comes from the capital, Hangzhou. Calamity! It seems that the expertise of Sung Tzu is needed by none other than the Emperor, and a request from the ruler of the Song Dynasty is not to be taken lightly! Master Sung Tzu hurries off, leaving YOU in charge of investigating the Magistrate's death. Are you up to the challenge? Each day of the Lunar Festival, a clue will be posted in this thread. The clue leads to a location in Ancient Worlds where you will find a plaque. The plaque is linked to a page; it will give you information that will help you to solve the mystery. You must find all of the plaques and come up with the identity of the killer in order to win. No special knowledge of forensic science is required. Your keen intellect is all that you need - and a love of Oriental history! To win, find all of the plaques, and guess the correct identity of the killer. Send all of the URLs of the pages in Ancient Worlds where the plaques are located -- please don't post them in the thread unless you want to help the competition! -- AND the name of the killer to: ShiboriMurasaka@aol.com The first correct answer that is received by 1600 AW time on 5 Feb will be have the honor of being Sung Tzu's Number One Apprentice! For a sample of how the clues will work, see the example below!
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