The mysterious brick chamber tomb that appeared in the hinterland of the Tengger Desert turned out to be an early Ming Dynasty tomb!
The commander of Beidu is a border military officer, a senior official of the third rank!
How come there are tombs buried here! This place is very close to Blackwater City!
The hole in the bridge door is so small that I, being so skinny, can barely fit in, let alone Brother Yu.
He asked me if I had any questions and if he could go in and have a look.
I had a weird look on my face, and I really couldn't figure out why a Ming Dynasty tomb suddenly appeared here. However, according to my inference, this kind of brick tomb for the family members of local officials would not be too big. A hundred or ten square meters would be considered luxurious.
I tried digging with my hands to enlarge the hole, but it didn't work. It was probably made of Sanhe soil bricks.
"Step aside."
Brother Yu yelled at me to get out of the way. He took a step back, took a deep breath, raised his foot and kicked me!
Brother Yu was so strong that he smashed the bridge door with one kick. A large number of bricks collapsed and the hole more than doubled in size.
Brother Yu and I went through the bridge door and entered the tomb.
"Don't tell me, this is the first time I've seen something like this in my life," Brother Yu waved around with his flashlight.
He was talking about the carved stone carvings on the walls. Those in the industry don’t like to see the tombs from the early Ming Dynasty because they don’t have anything. Most of them are brick carvings, stone carvings, and pottery figurines. These things are not popular on the black market and no one wants them. After all,
The reason is still because Zhu Yuanzhang severely punished corrupt officials. No one dared to corrupt, and there would naturally be fewer funeral objects.
If a great tomb robber like Mr. Yao comes across the tombs of civilians in the early Ming Dynasty, they will basically not touch them, because judging from past experience, the income and risk are not proportional, and it is not worth it.
The place where we are standing now is called the tomb court. In front is the main tomb chamber, with solid brick walls on both sides and no ear chambers.
The bridge gate is about two or three meters away from the tomb court. I visually inspected it and found that the distance from the tomb court to the main tomb chamber is about 13 steps. The layout of this type of tomb is just in line with the rank of a third-rank official in the Ming Dynasty.
If the official position is higher, reaching the first and second ranks, you can use two stone figures, one each of a tiger, an ox, a sheep, a horse, a stone statue, and a pair of pillars.
You must know that this is a first- and second-rank official, which shows how stingy Zhu Yuanzhang is with his officials.
The tomb was empty, and I didn't see anything valuable. I wonder if something had been taken away.
Brother Yu pointed to the main tomb chamber and said to go in and take a look.
The main tomb chamber is where the tomb owner’s coffin and funerary objects are stored. The first thing you see after entering is a stone coffin.
The sarcophagus is suspended in the air and padded with bricks. It is divided into upper and lower layers, covered with a lid, and is about two meters and three meters long.
There were some scattered clay pots and dishes on the ground around. I knelt down and took a look. The bowls and dishes were all civilian porcelain fired at the mouth of a local kiln. They were worth two to three hundred yuan at most and were useless. They must have been rejected by people who came in before.
, stayed on purpose.
This brick tomb is so big. If you have anything valuable, you can only place your hope on the stone coffin in front of you. The stone coffin is definitely higher than the ordinary wooden coffin.
Although I know there is not much hope of finding burial objects.
If the second brother is here, in his words, Brother Yu and I are just picking up tattered shoes.
"Brother Yu, try harder, you won't even move."
"How can you see that I didn't exert any force? The coffin is heavy, it is estimated to be more than four hundred kilograms." Brother Yu spit on his hands, rubbed his hands and said, "Come on, I will count to three and use my strength together."
I said yes.
"one."
"two."
"three."
"Push!" Veins popped up on the back of Brother Yu's hand, and I pushed hard.
There were sounds of stones rubbing against each other, and we slowly pushed the sarcophagus away.
After opening the sarcophagus, I shined a light into the coffin and was stunned.
"This...what is this?"
"Where are the bones of the tomb owner...where are the burial objects...?"
There are no bones of the dead in the sarcophagus, and there are no burial objects.
There was a pillow and a quilt, with a small amount of hay placed under the quilt. They were neatly packed and spotless, and there were writings on the quilt cover.
