The first thousand one hundred and sixty-four chapters enter (2)
Chapter 1,164 Entering (2)
According to Zhuang Rui's previous estimation, the tomb may not intersect with the underground river until one or two hundred meters away. However, now there is an underground river at a depth of more than thirty meters, which makes Zhuang Rui's heart
Somewhat surprised.
This can only explain one thing, that is, the entire tomb was not built in parallel, but the terrain slowly upwards, which resulted in the possibility that if the tomb continued to develop in depth, it would intersect with the underground river.
What made Zhuang Rui feel weird was not that, but that he found a secret door on the bluestone wall in the corner of the last tomb chamber!
This secret door is only one meter square in size. It is made of a whole piece of bluestone. Its specifications and shape are exactly the same as those next to it. The reason why it is called a secret door is because behind this piece of bluestone, there is a strip that is more than thirty years long.
Rice corridor.
"Could it be a hole-in-the-door robbery?"
The first thing that came to Zhuang Rui's mind was the word "robbery cave". The reason why he had such a reaction was because the ancients were so skilled in robbing tombs that there were almost no tombs that they could not enter.
During Zhuang Rui's trip this time, almost all the tombs he saw had been robbed, ranging from one or two to dozens.
The Genghis Khan Mausoleum is also full of mechanisms, and almost every tomb chamber contains hidden murderous intent. Therefore, although there are no traces of being robbed in the entire mausoleum, there is no guarantee that no tomb robbers have entered here. Perhaps the tomb robber who got through the hole is already behind the scenes.
What about the dead in the tomb?
"It's not like a robbery..."
Zhuang Rui then overturned his idea, because not to mention that there were no signs of activation of those mechanisms, and those tomb robbers would not have such gentle means to open up the robbery hole and then build a bluestone to cover it.
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"It was left behind by the craftsmen who built the tomb..."
Seeing how the bluestone slab fit perfectly with the surrounding walls, Zhuang Rui guessed the origin of the tunnel behind the bluestone. Only the craftsmen who built the mausoleum at that time could dig such a tunnel more than thirty meters long hundreds of meters underground.
Only then can you do it.
And they also have enough reasons to leave tunnels secretly. As we all know, in order to keep the tombs of emperors hidden, the craftsmen who built the tombs will be silenced, not to mention the Mongolians who always like secret burials. After the tombs are built, those craftsmen
People have absolutely no hope of living.
These craftsmen and slaves from the Central Plains, Xixia and other countries must also know this situation very well, so during the construction, they secretly left such a tunnel for themselves, just to wait for the emperor's coffin to be placed in the tomb and the dragon-breaking stone to fall.
It was later used by myself and others to escape.
This kind of situation is also seen from time to time in large ancient tombs that have been unearthed, and there are cases of craftsmen successfully escaping.
In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, an emperor died. The main persons responsible for the design of the imperial mausoleum at that time were left in the imperial mausoleum as burial attendants. However, more than ten years later, a large number of people suddenly leaked out of the
The emperor's burial objects.
At this time, the Tang Dynasty had not yet been overthrown, and the imperial tombs were guarded by the army, making it almost impossible to be robbed. But how did these funerary objects escape? The emperor at that time immediately ordered a strict investigation.
The results of the subsequent investigation shocked the emperor, because a man who was supposed to have been dead for more than ten years suddenly appeared in the eyes of the world.
After some torture and interrogation, they learned that when they were building the tomb, they secretly left a secret door. After the dragon-breaking stone in the tomb was put down to make the journey between humans and ghosts, these people quietly slipped through the secret door.
Exited the mausoleum.
However, these people knew that they could only live anonymously in the future, so they each brought a lot of gold and silver jewelry from the tombs, enough for them to live a stable life.
It's just that there was a craftsman among them who liked gambling by nature. After enduring it for a few years, he started gambling again. After exporting the unmarked gold and silver, he took out the funerary objects that were made according to the specifications of the emperor's tomb.
His traces were revealed and he was caught following the clues.
As soon as this incident came out, the government and the public were shocked. Some scholars criticized the emperor for being cruel and burying people alive, which caused a great disturbance.
Although the craftsman was executed, the craftsmen who built the emperor's tomb in the Tang Dynasty were all kept in captivity by the royal family. Not only the craftsmen themselves, but also their descendants were used to build royal tombs, which continued from generation to generation.
Obviously, the secret door discovered by Zhuang Rui should have been left by the craftsmen who built Genghis Khan's tomb. However, they thought that they would be left in the tomb, but they did not expect that the Mongols would be so cruel and put these secret doors into the tomb.
The craftsmen immediately executed him as a human sacrifice, so that the secret door left behind never played its role.
Looking at this secret door, Zhuang Rui shook his head slightly. Although the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was vast, it was undeniable that for the Han people, those hundred years of rule were dark and miserable.
The disaster caused by the Qing Dynasty soldiers entering the pass.
The Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was a conquering dynasty. The Mongols were the conquerors of the Han people and various ethnic minorities in mainland China. During the Mongolian Yuan rule, the Mongols divided all Chinese people into three classes. The Han people were the third class and were at the bottom of society.
Bottom layer.
Under the butcher's knife of the Mongols, the Han people and the southerners lived a life inferior to that of cattle and horses. The Mongols prohibited the Han people and the southerners from practicing martial arts and owning metal knives. The Mongolian system stipulated that ten households were one protector, and Mongolians or Semu people served as protectors.
long.
Mongolians can use the property and women of these ten households at will, and all ten households share a kitchen knife. The first night of each household's new wife must be given to Mongolia, which is the so-called first-night ownership system.
Because of the humiliating first night, the Han people at that time would throw their first child to death after getting married. This is the origin of the death of the first child. Our ancestors used such a helpless but determined method to maintain their bloodline.
Pure.
The most direct manifestation of this cruelty is that during the 98 years of the Yuan Dynasty's rule, the Han population dropped from 80 million to 30 million, which was the lowest point in China's population after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Although Zhuang Rui studied the history of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, he had no favorable impression of the ruling class. Therefore, when talking to Peng Fei, he implicitly called Genghis Khan an old Mongolian ghost.
Therefore, it was a trivial matter for the Mongols to kill the craftsmen who built the tombs. It was a pity that these craftsmen tried their best to escape, but they could not escape the fate of death.
Although it is impossible to verify what happened thousands of years ago, Zhuang Rui believes that the truth must be not far from what he guessed.
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"These wealth are all looted, I must let them return to the world..."
Zhuang Rui is really not a qualified archaeologist. He cannot look at history with an attitude of staying aloof. After figuring this out, Zhuang Rui secretly made a decision in his heart.
"God bless, the river must have an entrance and exit..."
Zhuang Rui now placed all his hopes on the secret passage that could lead to the ground. Without disturbing Peng Fei, Zhuang Rui took a deep breath and turned his attention to the underground river behind the secret passage.
Underground rivers are underground rivers formed by underground water collection, or surface water seeping into the ground along underground rock cracks, through rock dissolution, collapse and water transport. Most underground rivers often have exits but no entrances. In other words, underground rivers
The water flows out, but people cannot enter.
Zhuang Rui's eyes followed the winding underground river extending forward. After three hundred meters, the terrain of this river gradually increased.
This discovery made Zhuang Rui very happy. As long as this flow direction remained unchanged, there would definitely be an exit to the ground.
"Grandma's, is it so long?"
Zhuang Rui did not expect that the length of this underground river was far beyond his imagination. When he had been chasing along the direction of the underground river for nearly four or five miles, at this time, the underground river was only more than ten meters above the ground.
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"This is...a big lake?"
When Zhuang Rui's eyes came to the exit of the underground river, he couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, because the exit of this underground river was actually at the bottom of a lake. The entrance was completely submerged by the lake water. He needed to sneak in for more than twenty meters to reach it.
Reach the high point where the underground river is not completely submerged by the lake.
However, compared to the layers of broken dragon stones under the Arzhai Grottoes, this entrance is already unique. The length of more than 20 meters is nothing to many people. If those craftsmen did not die from the Mongolian butcher's knife,
Well, maybe they really have a chance to escape.
"Lulu..."
Just when Zhuang Rui was thinking of finding an excuse to visit the lake, a familiar sound of a horse's neighing suddenly came to his ears. The sound that echoed through the prairie surprised Zhuang Rui, and he quickly sat up.
As soon as he got out of the tent, Zhuang Rui saw Zhui Feng running towards him from dozens of meters away. Under the morning light, his strong body showed a faint golden light. After seeing Zhuang Rui, Zhui Feng was happy while running.
He looked up to the sky and hissed loudly.
"Hey, good buddy, why are you here?" Zhuang Rui ran a few steps towards Zhui Feng and hugged Zhui Feng's big head as he ran closer.
Peng Fei on the side couldn't help but feel disgusted when he saw Zhui Feng being such a splendid horse, especially his white rabbit horse.
The guy who made the package is here, and so is Laoba and the others..."
Upon hearing this, Zhuang Rui raised his head and looked towards Zhuifeng's path. Sure enough, Bater, Timur and Dr. Ren were riding towards this side on horseback. Even the little girl Wu Yunqiqige was not left behind.
"Zhuang Ruian replied, I sent you your Zhui Feng..."
More than ten meters away, Timur's hearty laughter reached Zhuang Rui's ears. The four of them reined in their horses and stopped in front of Zhuang Rui's tent.
