Chapter 109: Identity confirmed (please subscribe and vote monthly)
Zhu Yuanzhang's mood at this time was uneasy.
When people face results, they always have random thoughts.
He has tried his best to control his thoughts, but he still can't help but think about it.
If the coffin in the mausoleum really contained the bones of his great grandson, then he no longer knew how to face it.
From the palace to Xiaoling, you can go directly through the back door of the palace and you can arrive there in about an hour.
To Zhu Yuanzhang, this short hour was as long as a hundred years.
When the carriage stopped, Zhu Yuanzhang sighed softly and got off the carriage.
Next to it were hundreds of imperial guards. The entire road from the entrance of the Xiaoling Mausoleum to the tomb of King Yu was under martial law.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was preparing to set off, someone had already informed him to hurry up, and the Xiaoling Guards were also ready.
The careful Xiaoling Guards had even built a simple staircase on the edge of the ten-meter-deep pit.
Zhu Yuanzhang walked down, looked at the tiles above the mausoleum, and walked to the side of the cave entrance.
All the Xiaoling guards bowed their heads, knelt on one knee, and shouted long live the mountain.
After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he stood up.
"But someone went down to investigate."
After looking at the entrance of the cave, which was still dark under the sun, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Qianhu, the Xiaoling Guard next to him.
Your Majesty is here. The hundreds of households who were guarding the night before are obviously not qualified.
"Reporting to your majesty, except for a few detailed operations yesterday, no one has left yet." Xiaoling Guard Qianhu replied respectfully.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and ordered: "Now arrange for someone to go down and investigate."
"According to the decree."
Upon hearing this, Xiaoling Guard Qianhu immediately started arranging personnel preparations.
Liu Rixin was hesitant to speak at the side. He wanted to talk about Yang Qi, but when he saw His Majesty's anxious and expectant eyes, he stopped immediately.
After hesitating for a while, he persuaded me again: "Your Majesty, the Sanhetu here was damaged yesterday and may collapse. Please move on."
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly, looked at the ground, and said, "Let's wait here."
Hearing this, Liu He and Jiang Wei, who were following him, immediately became anxious.
"Your Majesty, this place is extremely dangerous. Please move to the top. The old slave will help your Majesty guard it." Liu He said anxiously.
There are already slight cracks on the ground where Zhu Yuanzhang is standing, and the bottom is bottomless. If this collapses, the consequences will be disastrous.
The surrounding officials such as Xiaolingwei, Liu Rixin, and Qintianjian all tried to persuade him.
"Your Majesty is the sky of the Ming Dynasty. If anything goes wrong, the sky will collapse. Please consider the people of the world and move up to watch."
Jiang Wei knelt down on one knee and persuaded.
Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated for a moment, did not insist, and walked up.
What he was thinking about at this moment was what would happen to his eldest grandson who was living in the wild if something went wrong with him.
Zhu Yuanzhang watched from the edge of the nearest pit.
Several elite soldiers from Xiaoling Guard tied ropes, carried torches, and began to descend into the cave.
Needless to say, the physical fitness of the soldiers who were able to go down was among the best in the army.
After half an hour, when Zhu Yuanzhang was looking forward to seeing what was going on, the Xiaoling guards who had gone down finally came up.
Zhu Yuanzhang summoned him directly and asked about the situation below.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the mausoleum below collapsed, a large hole was opened in the middle, and the main tomb chamber fell down."
"When we continue to look down, we will see a large crack tens of meters deep, and at the bottom is an underground river."
Xiaoling Wei reported.
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he immediately understood.
The mausoleum of my eldest grandson may have collapsed directly.
After pondering in his mind, Zhu Yuanzhang shouted: "Immediately mobilize twenty general cannons and blast open the mausoleum."
"I obey the decree."
Upon hearing this, Xiaoling Guard Qianhu immediately arranged for personnel to start mobilizing artillery.
This general cannon is the most powerful cannon among the Ming Dynasty cannons today.
Twenty artillery bombardment of the mausoleum can directly blast all the three-piece soil above the entire mausoleum into pieces.
Today's regular army of the Ming Dynasty has ten artillerymen and thirty fire commanders among one hundred people.
The firearms equipment rate reached 40%.
Xiaoling is a royal mausoleum, and the proportion of firearms owned by the army is as high as over 60%.
That's why I didn't use gunpowder to explode it earlier.
First of all, it is due to the power of gunpowder that it cannot directly explode the mountain and can easily cause collapse. The current powdered gunpowder is not too powerful in actual power.
Secondly, as a royal mausoleum, a large amount of gunpowder is used, which can easily affect the Feng Shui of Xiaoling Mausoleum.
At present, the roof of the mausoleum, which only has a layer of clay, can be blown open most quickly with gunpowder.
Moreover, the underground situation is rarely clear now, so that it will not cause a secondary collapse.
Soon twenty artillery pieces were mobilized.
After Xiaoling Wei Qianhu gave the order.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!...
Suddenly, the entire pit was filled with smoke, and a shocking sound filled the sky. It was the first time that Liu Rixin, as well as the Qin Tian Jian and other officials were seeing such power.
My legs and feet were so frightened that I almost sat down on the ground.
Zhu Yuanzhang's expression remained unchanged. After many years of fighting, he was already extremely familiar with the power of firearms.
As the thick smoke dissipated, the situation inside the mausoleum was revealed.
The middle of the entire pit sank nearly six meters again, and the conditions of each tomb inside were clearly visible.
As the king of Yu, Zhu Xiongying enjoyed the status of a prince. He could clearly see that there were several tombs, one of which contained a large number of dead bones.
Those were all the palace maids and eunuchs who were buried.
The most eye-catching thing is the location of the main tomb chamber. A huge pit appears, and the bottom is even deeper than the bottom.
Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and looked towards the deep pit. He could vaguely see something like a cliff.
"Search carefully to find out the whereabouts of King Yu's coffin."
After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he sat down again. For some reason, seeing this situation, he felt a little relaxed.
Perhaps finding no coffin would be the best outcome for him.
The large pits were all blown up by artillery, making it easier for Xiaoling Guards to perform. There were hundreds of Xiaoling Guards, with iron ropes or hemp ropes tied around their waists.
They formed a group, held torches, and began to explore downwards.
A large number of Xiaoling Guards were involved in the investigation, and the efficiency was very fast. The following situation would soon be reported in detail.
Affected by previous earthquakes, a large crack opened directly beneath the main chamber of King Yu's Mausoleum.
Below the crack is a wide underground river.
The Xiaoling guards began to carefully search for traces related to the coffin, and some scattered pieces of wood were found in the cracks.
"Your Majesty, these wooden blocks are all golden nanmu, needed to make wooden coffins. There are no trees growing on the steep cliff below. If they are not bad, then His Royal Highness the wooden coffin was left behind."
Liu He held the wooden block in his hand, looked at it carefully and said.
The tombs of members of the royal family all have wooden coffins within stone coffins.
Since fragments of the wooden coffin were found in the cracks, it means that the stone coffin must have been opened.
Such a picture began to appear in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind.
After the eldest grandson's coffin was buried.
The next night the stars moved, the earth dragon rolled, and beneath the invisible ground, the earth opened and swallowed the entire main tomb chamber.
During this process, the coffin suffered a strong impact and was squeezed by the rolling earth dragon, causing the entire coffin to shatter, and Da Sun's body fell into the underground river.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly remembered what Dasun told him that he was once picked up from the river.
He couldn't help but stand up and shouted: "Check, where does this underground river lead to?"
The Xiaoling Guard below immediately reported the direction of the river. Liu Rixin made some calculations and replied: "Your Majesty, the direction of the river should be passing through Xuanwu Lake and finally merging into the Yangtze River."
From the foot of the mountain northwest of Xiaoling Mausoleum on Zhongshan Mountain is Xuanwu Lake, with Pipa Lake and Baima Lake in the middle.
The lake water is all living water, not stagnant water, and the underground water channels are very obvious.
Hearing Liu Rixin's words, Zhu Yuanzhang's face flushed and his body was shaking with excitement.
"We get it! We get it!"
"It's right, it's all right. Da Sun's coffin fell from here, passed through the underground river, and went straight into the Yangtze River."
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but said, thinking about his grandson's situation at that time, he felt even sadder.
"I drank so much in this underground place that I don't know how much suffering my grandson endured. His clothes were completely torn. Only then, with the blessing of God, did he survive."
"It's all our fault. It's all because we listened to those quack doctors. Otherwise, the big girl wouldn't have walked so fast."
"I actually buried my eldest grandson alive with my own hands. If God hadn't blessed me, if this had gone underground, I would have had the face to face my eldest grandson and my eldest sister."
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but burst into tears and burst into tears.
Jiang Wei, Liu He and others who knew the situation immediately knelt down and persuaded His Majesty to take care of the dragon body.
Liu Rixin, who was standing aside, felt as if he was struck by thunder when he heard His Majesty's words.
Scenes about Zhu Ying in his mind suddenly emerged.
At this moment, all doubts disappeared.
Confirming the suspicion in my heart, the Zhu Ying I saw before was none other than the emperor's eldest grandson, His Royal Highness Prince Yu, Zhu Xiongying.
It took a long time for Zhu Yuanzhang to recover from his sadness, and then he suddenly became enlightened.
At this point, he no longer had any doubts about the identity of his eldest grandson.
Especially the piece of cloth that Dasun is about to send, it goes without saying that it is irrefutable proof.
After taking the handkerchief from Liu He and wiping it, Zhu Yuanzhang was in high spirits, and his originally cloudy eyes became much brighter.
At this moment, at exactly noon, the big sun hanging high in the sky burst into light.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, this great day was like the powerful Ming Empire today.
With the Great Sun on the throne, the Ming Empire will be even more prosperous and powerful in the future.
"Sister, have you seen it? He is our eldest grandson. He is our real eldest grandson. He is not dead. After ten years, he is finally back."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked towards the direction of Queen Ma's mausoleum and murmured.
Queen Ma's mausoleum and Zhu Xiongying's mausoleum are not far away.
From where Zhu Yuanzhang stood, he could see part of Queen Ma's mausoleum.
Gradually, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes became more determined.
He already had a deeper concern in his heart, and he wanted to remove all obstacles for his grandson to ascend the throne.