Nine hundred and ninetieth chapters Kangju ancient country
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Chapter 996 Kangju Ancient Country
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Maybe not many people are familiar with Kangju in modern times, but in the Han Dynasty, it was one of the countries in the Western Regions known as the "Thirty-six Kingdoms of the Western Regions" together with Loulan, and Kangju's national power was more powerful than Loulan.
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This nomadic people in ancient Central Asia had a nomadic range in southern Kazakhstan and the middle and lower reaches of the Syr Darya River. In the Han Dynasty, it was located in the northwest of Dayuan, north of Dayuezhi, west of Wusun, east of Yancai, south of Dingling and Jiankun
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In the 2nd century BC, there were 10,000 people in control of strings (controlling refers to cavalry that can fight on horseback). By the end of the 1st century BC, the population of Kangju had reached 600,000, with 120,000 soldiers, forming a large tribe in Central Asia.
alliance.
It can be said that at its peak, Kangju was a powerful force on the Eurasian continent second only to the four great powers of the Han Dynasty, Rome, Kushan and Parthia.
However, in the nearly 500 years of history of Kangju Kingdom, there has never been a very accomplished king, and there is not even a single name of Kangju king left in history.
From the early Western Han Dynasty, the people of Kangju belonged to the Yuezhi people who moved westward. Later, they were ravaged by the Huns who moved westward, and finally surrendered to the Xiongnu who moved westward. Even in the most prosperous period in the history of Kangju Kingdom, people had to watch the moon.
The king behaves according to his expression.
These Central Asian nomads who once cut off the head of the ancient Persian King Cyrus, who also caused the Persian King Darius' expedition to fail miserably, and forced Alexander to wear Central Asian clothes and adopt a tolerant policy, seemed to be vulnerable to the nomads from the east.
, and they are willing to surrender. The political talents of the Kangju people are not even as good as those of the nine surnames of Zhaowu, and their background is intriguing.
Of course, now that 1,600 years have passed, the specific history cannot be verified because there are too few historical materials related to Kangju that have been handed down!
Therefore, Liu Dong is now more concerned about what good things are buried in this Kangju royal tomb!
You must know that in historical records, the Kangju people were famous for being good at business. They often traveled to various places for trade, and traveled throughout Central Asia. In addition, they were located on a must-pass place on the Silk Road. They accumulated wealth in their hands.
It must be extremely amazing.
In addition, like the Loulan people, Kangju disappeared mysteriously in the long river of history. No one knows how the Kangju people disappeared, but like the Loulan people, they also left a lot of wealth waiting for future generations to discover.
And compared to Loulan, the rule of Kangju State lasted for more than five hundred years. At its peak, the scope of its rule was even wider than the current Xinjiang. In addition, Central Asia has been rich in gold since ancient times. So Liu Dong can already imagine
, if nothing else happens, the unexpected discovery of the royal tomb of Kangju will bring him extremely generous rewards.
Go around the stele from the left and come to the back of the stele. There are still dense ancient Qilin inscriptions on it, and these ancient Qilin inscriptions record the origin of the Kangju people and the major events that have happened in the history of the Kangju people.
event!
It is less than a thousand words long, but it covers nearly five hundred years of history of the Kangju people. It is obvious that this Kangju royal tomb will be opened frequently during the hundreds of years of Kangju's existence!
Directly opposite the back of the stele are two white marble stone doors four meters wide and two and a half meters high. The patterns on the stone doors are not unfamiliar to Liu Dong. The five-clawed dragon pattern in relief is completely a symbol of imperial power in Chinese culture.
Obviously, Kangju's culture has also been influenced by Chinese culture.
I walked forward and pushed the stone door. As expected, although the stone door was extremely heavy and could not be pushed by one person, there was no running stone behind the door like in Chinese tombs!
The reason for doing this is obviously to allow later people to enter it.
Of course, these later people are not tomb robbers, but descendants of the Kangju royal family!
"Creak, creak...!"
With a harsh friction sound, Liu Dong forcefully pushed open half of the two heavy stone doors, which were nearly 10 centimeters thick.
As expected, another wide passage appeared in front of us.
Compared with the passage Liu Dong came in from the stone statue soldiers before, this passage is wider, at least four meters long. It is also polished smoother and smoother.
After walking forward about 20 meters on the silent stone path, a larger stone cave appeared under the strong light of a flashlight. However, Liu Dong did not think that this was still a stone cave. This was completely a gorgeous palace. The only difference was that
It's just underground.
In this palace, which is about 6 meters high, there are exquisite reliefs all over the top and brightly colored murals on the surrounding walls.
But what is more eye-catching than the murals is the almost mountainous piles of gold and jade in this underground stone hall covering an area of more than 1,000 square meters. Gold and jade are the most famous specialties in Central Asia. Today, you can get them here.
To give the best interpretation, a variety of gold jewelry, gold necklaces, gold pendants, and even gold nuggets, as well as jade articles made of various shapes of Hetian jade and Afghan jade are piled up around the main hall.
Originally they were supposed to be stored in wooden boxes, but now that the wooden boxes have decayed, a dazzling array of precious objects such as scattered gold and silver jewelry, tooth and horn bone carvings, jades, corals, bronze painted pottery, etc. have covered most of the stone hall!
Of course, apart from gold and jade, there are fewer other precious things!
However, in addition to the eye-catching gold jewelry, the most eye-catching thing in the aisle when Liu Dong came in was the white marble spiritual tent placed in the center of the hall. Its shape is exactly that of the Han Buddhist spiritual tent, but its height reaches directly into the cave.
The top is no less than six meters.
Moreover, there are densely packed spiritual tablets in this six-meter-high, five-meter-long, and three-meter-wide spiritual tent.
Liu Dong simply counted, no more, no less, exactly fifty-eight! In other words, there have been fifty-eight kings in the five hundred years of Kangju Kingdom!
On the left and right sides of the spiritual tent and above the main hall, there are two huge golden lions with powerful shapes. Although gold in ancient times was mostly impure, these two golden lions are twice as big as African lions.
The weight is no less than 10 tons!
Worshiping lions is obviously influenced by Greek and Roman culture, and Kangju is located at the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, so it is not surprising that this cultural feature appears.
When Alexander conquered the East, Greek culture also affected Central Asia!
Therefore, next to the two golden lions, two three-meter-tall golden warrior statues holding spears also wore breastplates common among Greek warriors, but without the ridiculous helmets that looked like cockscombs!
In addition to these four golden statues, in front of the huge white marble tent, there is also a huge long golden case about 150 cm high, 80 cm wide, and the same length as the tent.
On the long gold table, there are three gold trays with a diameter of more than 60 centimeters, which are exquisitely shaped, embossed with patterns of exotic animals, inlaid with various red sapphires, tortoise shells and emeralds.
Gray bones.
Of course, they are not human bones, but bones of cattle, horses and sheep, and they are also skulls.
Seeing the furnishings in front of him, and after looking at the content on the surrounding murals, Liu Dong seemed to have traveled through thousands of years and saw the Kangju people laying down three animals when sacrificing their ancestors, and then placed the gold, silver, jade and other tributes they brought next to them, and held the ceremony.
The scene of exiting the tomb after a grand sacrificial ceremony!
As time went by, more and more gold and jewelry were accumulated in the hall, so much so that Liu Dong now saw a mountain of gold and jewelry.
It is easy to get rich by doing business. The amount of gold and silver in the treasure house of the Kangju people who have guarded the Silk Road for more than five hundred years is no less than the amount of gold and silver that Liu Dong obtained from the dragon veins of the capital last time. The amount of gold and silver buried with Qianlong and Cixi was even higher.
Give some more!
It’s just that compared to the latter, there are more gold and silver ingots. In this tomb of the Kangju royal family, there are the most gold and silver utensils. The gold coins from before and after BC include ancient Greek gold coins, ancient Roman gold coins, and gold cakes from the Han Dynasty.
, horseshoe gold is less!
There are even fewer gold and silver that can only be used as general equivalents.
But even if it is less, Liu Dong estimated that it would be no less than fifty tons!
This estimate shocked Liu Dong himself. The wealth that the Kangju royal family had monopolized on the Silk Road for more than five hundred years was really too huge!
But the surprise was followed by great satisfaction. After today, these things will all be his!
Fortunately, Liu Dong has excavated quite a few ancient tombs and sunken ships so far, and his determination is stronger than before. So after the joy, his mood gradually calmed down.
Only after wandering in the underground palace of Nuo Da for a quarter of an hour, and receiving these gold and silver treasures in his own mustard space, did he look at the empty hall with satisfaction, bypass the white marble tent, and enter the passage leading deeper into the tomb.
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However, before entering the passage, there is a huge white marble stone door. The stone door is embossed with exquisite three-headed lion decorations. On both sides of the stone door, there are two bronze statues with human heads and lion bodies nearly 3 meters high, guarding the stone door!
Liu Dong marveled at the splendid civilization of the Kangju people more than 1,600 years ago, and even lamented that the Kangju Kingdom, which has a history of more than 500 years, has very little information that has been handed down to this day!
Almost all the civilization created over more than five hundred years was wiped out in the dust of history, so much so that not even a single king's name has been passed down in history.
After sighing in his heart, Liu Dong pushed the stone door hard. With a hoarse friction sound, a stone path four meters wide and three meters high appeared in front of Liu Dong.
Then with the light of the strong flashlight in his hand, he could clearly see the bull-head-style bronze lamps inlaid on the surrounding walls. The lamps neatly extended towards the tunnel that stretched for unknown lengths in the darkness.
Liu Dong had no intention of lighting these bull-headed lanterns. The visibility of the strong flashlight in his hand was obviously better than that of these ancient bull-headed lanterns.
This time the stone path was extraordinarily long. Liu Dong walked nearly thirty meters before a new door appeared. However, it was not the kind of stone cave like the previous sacrificial hall, but more like an ear chamber in a tomb, dug on the side of the tomb path.
on the cave wall.
The two auricles were opposite each other, one on the left and the other on the right. Liu Dong first chose the auricle on the left, moved away the boulder blocking the auricle, looked at the black cave, which was two meters wide and three meters high, and strode in.