"The calculation of the height here is somewhat consistent with the seal of the Qin Mausoleum. We dug down nearly twenty meters. Here, it is about eight meters high. Adding a little error, it can barely be said to be thirty meters high.
"Bai Yi said: "When the Qin Mausoleum was sealed, it was only thirty meters long."
Boss Guan said: "Yes, I also checked relevant information before coming here. In order to prevent the tomb from being stolen, Qin Shihuang thought of many methods, including using a mountain as a tomb and sealing the earth for thirty meters."
This so-called earth seal is actually commonly known as a tomb. Tombs before the Eastern Zhou Dynasty did not have earth seals. Since the ancients became superstitious about souls, they had to pray to their ancestors before doing anything. Praying in the temple is not as good as praying directly in front of the tomb. In order to make it easier to identify
The location of their ancestors' tombs was marked by building soil or planting trees on top of the tombs, but later it became a symbol showing the status of the tomb owner.
For an imperial mausoleum, the sealing of soil is even more important. The sealing of soil seems to be a simple pile of soil on the tomb, but it is very particular. Especially for an imperial mausoleum, there are generally three methods of sealing.
The first type is to build a mausoleum with earth. It is a type of earth sealing for early emperors' tombs. It is called Fangshang. It is built with layers of rammed earth on top of the emperor's tomb, making it a square cone with a small top and a large bottom, like an inverted
A buckled bucket is called "Fangshang" because its upper part has a square flat top without a sharp end, and it is also called "overturned bucket".
The second type is to use a mountain as a mausoleum, which uses the hills of the mountain as the tomb of the mausoleum. The imperial mausoleums of the Tang Dynasty adopted this form from the beginning. The Zhaoling Mausoleum where Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was buried, Li Shimin, chose the northwest ritual of Chang'an.
Jiuwei Mountain, which is more than 1,000 meters above sea level in Quan County, was used as a tomb. It was built by carving out the mountain. It is said that this burial method was proposed by Empress Changsun. This was actually Li Shimin's own idea, and she proposed it in the name of Empress Changsun.
On the inscription written by the Queen
Said: "The king considers the world as his home, why should he keep things in the mausoleum and keep them as his own? Since Jiuji Mountain is the mausoleum, there is no gold and jade, people, horses, and utensils. They are all made of earth and wood. The thieves of the common people have no intention of stealing.
"I'm not tired." That's what I said,
In fact, Li Shimin was not buried sparingly, but was buried very thickly. Using a mountain as a mausoleum was just a way of making use of the majestic momentum of the mountains, which is difficult to create artificially, to reflect the grandeur of the emperor, and to prevent theft and excavation.
The third type is Baocheng Baoding. The square-top shape of the tombs that was popular in the Qin and Han Dynasties continued to the Song Dynasty. However, after the Tang Dynasty used mountains as mausoleums, the emperors had some differences in the form of facing the square and using mountains as mausoleums.
This is because the sharp edges of the square-shaped mounds are easily eroded by the wind and wind and become round and blunt, and the mountain shape is difficult to be square. Therefore, in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, many imperial mausoleum seals appeared round, and those that were inverted were called
It's in the shape of a steamed bun.
Bai Yi's discovery made everyone inexplicably excited, but they were a little confused for a while as to where the two tomb passages, one on the left and one on the right, were going. Wuyun let Hai Dongqing go to explore, but there was no trace of the one on the left.
Some agency was relatively safe. As soon as Hai Dongqing came back, everyone decided to go left.
Finally, we no longer had to bend down and arched our backs. Everyone suddenly felt a lot more energetic, especially Xiao Shan. He grew up in the world and disliked such long caves. Now he straightened up and looked much neater.
Just as he was about to run forward, Tang Sancheng grabbed him: "Where is this place? Don't run around!"
Xiaoshan pouted, but still listened to Luo Tian's words and followed Qixie honestly, while Bai Yi stayed beside Tang Sancheng. Lei Zi felt that his grandma didn't care, and his uncle didn't love him anymore. Tang Sancheng and Xiaoshan
There were people guarding them, but he was alone and helpless. He looked ahead and suddenly frowned. The smell coming from the front made him almost vomit. How many corpses had to be stacked together to emit such a smell?
Disgusting smell coming!
"There are no institutions here, and it's probably not an important tomb." Boss Guan said, "It seems we have come to the wrong place."
As we got closer, not only Lei Zi could smell the smell, but everyone could smell it. A strong smell hit our faces and couldn't wait to get into everyone's nose. Xiaoshan squatted down and said, "It stinks!"
It was more than just smelly, it just smelled like decay. Lei Zi touched the black donkey's hoof in the bag and said, "Damn, there can't be any rice dumplings, right? This smell is so unusual."
After walking about five or six miles further, I saw extremely narrow rectangular pits, which were arranged very densely. Each row was only half a meter to one meter apart. I counted them roughly.
, there were more than a hundred of them. Xiaoshan grasped Tang Sancheng's arm tightly: "What are these?"
Tang Sancheng didn't know either, so Bai Yi said in a deep voice: "There are as many tombs as there are pits in the tomb."
In other words, there are more than a hundred tombs here. If you look closely, you will see that they are all filled with thin coffins and there are no burial objects. There are one or two blue bricks on the coffins, and the name of the deceased and the execution name are engraved on the bricks.
, the name of the county jail, and the date of death, etc.
These pits are densely arranged here, which makes people's hair stand on end. They are like a beehive. The bees are crowded together and make a buzzing sound. What about these corpses? They are densely packed next to each other sleeping in this deep ground.
There was a strong stench underneath.
Bai Yi had an idea and looked at each other with Lei Zi. Without saying a word, the two opened one of the thin coffins. Lei Zi frowned at first, then turned his head to the side: "Damn, this smells too good."
A bit bigger.”
The corpse inside has no trace of skin and flesh, leaving only the skeleton. The skeleton has wounds caused by stabbing and slashing with instruments, mainly concentrated on the spine. The owner of this corpse must have suffered from cruelty during his lifetime, and was subjected to excessive stress.
Intense work.
Bai Yi and Lei Zi opened the lids of several coffins one after another. The conditions of the bones inside were all similar. The biggest similarity was the damage to the spine. As for the damage to other parts, it was slightly different. There were no stars buried in the coffin.
thing, this result
Everyone was a little disappointed, especially the monkey. He came here with all the treasures in the Qin Mausoleum, but now they were all empty coffins. He couldn't help but complain: "What, this
Aren’t there all kinds of gold, silver and jade in the ground?”
The second boss glared at him and said immediately: "I'm just worried for Boss Guan."
This guy looks like a loser at first glance. He will fall in whichever direction the wind blows. Although he is nominally the second boss's employee, he is always trying to flatter Guan Kai.
Boss Guan didn't appreciate this: "Why am I anxious?"
The flattery hit the horse's hooves, and the monkey no longer dared to talk nonsense.
At this time, Lei Zi glanced at Bai Yi: "It seems there is no suspense anymore."
"Yes, this is the prisoner's tomb, and these people are all prisoners."