Chapter 155: The Emperor's Coffin
"Damn!" Liuzhang scolded again.
The others squatted down to check the situation of the big head, "Dead ......" The man took a breath of cool air, stood up and took a few steps back, "He ...... just now"
"What's all the fuss?" said Liuzhang disdainfully, "haven't you seen a dead person in the tomb?"
"No, Liuzhang, he was hit by you, and he should have died just now, but he was still chasing you and cutting ......" The man's eyes revealed horror, his eyes were in a trance, and he faintly wanted to retreat.
Liuzhang stepped forward and grabbed the man's front placket, "I tell you, when you come in, you can only follow me obediently!" He looked at the man, suddenly smiled, let go of the man, and helped him smooth his clothes, "Unless you want to stay with him!"
"Good ......" the man nodded in a panic, his legs trembling, and leaned against the post.
Liuzhang smiled even more disdainfully, and turned his head to walk in front of Brother Kui, "Brother Kui, how is it? Do you want to go over?" he asked with a chin raised to the sarcophagus in the middle.
Brother Kui smiled, "Isn't this what you're here for?
"Okay, let's go!" Rokujo also smiled, and after the two looked at each other for a while, they stepped onto the stone bridge and walked to the middle.
The subordinates behind him cautiously watched the stone statue pass through the stone bridge, standing behind Liuzhang and Kui Ge and looking at the sarcophagus in the middle.
As we all know, the coffin is a wooden burial utensil used to hold the body of the deceased, and the coffin is an outer coffin set outside the coffin, which shows the identity and status of the deceased.
The wooden coffin appeared in the Yangshao culture period of the Neolithic Age in China, and the wooden coffin has appeared in the Longshan culture and was used for the leader of the clan.
The coffin system is a coffin burial system that indicates the identity and rank of the deceased in ancient times.
In the tomb chamber of the Shang king in Yinxu, it is mostly used for the coffin chamber where large wooden strips are stacked into a square or sub-zigzag shape, in which the coffin of the Shang king is placed.
In the Zhou Dynasty, the coffin was institutionalized, stipulating: the coffin of the Son of Heaven is fourfold, the coffin of the person is called the coffin, which is covered with buffalo skin, the second is called the earth, made of basswood, the third is called the genus, and the fourth is called the big coffin.
The coffin outside the emperor and queen is double, mostly used for catalpa wood, so its coffin is also called "catalpa palace".
Shanggong, Hou Bo, Zinan, and Doctor, with equal differences, are three (with cowhide), two, and one heavy.
The stone is not heavy, but with a large coffin.
In addition, the coffin of the Son of Heaven is eight inches thick, the coffin of the doctor is six inches thick, and the coffin of the Shuren is only allowed to be four inches thick, and there is no coffin.
Later emperors, nobles, and scholars basically followed this system, but there were also those who exceeded the system.
There are detailed records in the "Book of Rites: Tan Gong Shang" and the "General Dictionary: Rites Four and Five".
The material of the coffin can be made of different materials, the most common is made of wood, but also copper, stone, etc.
And the huge sarcophagus in front of them can be seen to be one meter six high, nearly three meters long, and nearly one meter five wide, standing in front of it feels particularly shocking.
It is carved with exquisite patterns, as well as human landscapes, as well as some scenes, which should be the life records of the tomb owner.
"Oh...... It's so big, it must weigh several tons!" someone exclaimed.
"Hmph!" Liuzhang snorted disdainfully, "This is nearly 10,000 catties!"
"So heavy!?"
In fact, Liuzhang is right, the materials used by people in the past on the coffin are very particular, and even the outermost coffin is very likely to weigh 10,000 catties.
This is recorded in many history books.
Among them, the fourth section of the third chapter of the second part of the "General History of China" compiled by Fan Wenlan and Cai Meibiao is recorded as follows: "A set of coffins weighs about 10,000 catties, and it takes thousands of labor to create. ”
It can be seen that the ancient emperors were extravagant about their coffins.
They circled the huge sarcophagus several times, and they couldn't help but touch the patterns on the surface, even with excited expressions, but none of them noticed it, and everyone's face was covered with a faint layer of green.
"It's so big, there must be a lot of good stuff in it!"
"Then you still need to say?" someone asked rhetorically, and then turned around and asked Liuzhang, "Liuzhang, is it open?"
Liuzhang also sighed in his heart that the most luxurious ancient tomb coffin he had seen in his life.
It is like a small underground palace, and the owner of the tomb sleeps in countless gold and silver treasures, which are rediscovered when they are opened, and they are also priceless when they are taken out.
"Open!" said Liuzhang affirmatively.
Everyone was in good spirits and took out all the tools they had brought with them to start preparing.
Brother Kui retreated to a slightly farther position and watched, Liuzhang took this opportunity to circle around the sarcophagus again, and looked around carefully, he felt that there should be no mechanism in such a place, so he looked very carefully.
Brother Kui is also watching, he knows that the mechanism arranged in this kind of place must be the most secret and dangerous, so he has been observing where the door here is, don't when the coffin is opened, people can't get out!
Most of the ancient emperors' tombs are traditionally either in the Kan position or in the Gen position, of course, this is only the majority, and there are many people who do not play cards according to common sense when arranging, and the Shengmen may be any position.
Brother Kui is a master who has seen the Tao not playing cards according to common sense today.
He didn't find the location of Shengmen for a long time, and a thin layer of sweat gradually appeared on his forehead.
He thought it would be dangerous, but never thought he wouldn't be able to get out.
Liuzhang looked at the dome above, the pattern of gold and jade was extravagant and luxurious, extending from the semicircular various totems to the supporting pillars below, making people dizzy, and there was no trace of the mechanism at all.
Could it be that there is no mechanism here at all?
The owner of the tomb here is so confident in the mechanism outside?
Liuzhang didn't believe it, but the people who were prepared next to him couldn't wait.
"Liuzhang, ready!" the speaker had a crowbar in his hand, and the others were holding ropes, hammers and crowbars.
Liuzhang didn't have time to think about it, and his greed for the treasure in the coffin completely made him lose the vigilance he should have.
"Open!" he said again.
"Okay!" Hearing this, the men began to move.
Two or three people took crowbars to the joints of the sarcophagus, and the people behind them took hammers and beat them with all their strength, and for a while, the space was filled with the sound of "clanging".
The sarcophagus was pried open a crack and a crowbar got stuck inside, and they turned to the other side and did the same to get another crowbar stuck in the gap.
The sarcophagus was unusually heavy, and when they pried the lid open, several people immediately exerted force at the same time, cocking one end of the lid, and two other people quickly put the rope on it.
After that, they tied another rope to the other end of the sarcophagus.
After the two ropes are fixed, everyone divides into two teams and exerts force at the same time, "One-two, pull! one-two, pull!"
The sarcophagus lid rubbed against the coffin below, making a piercing "Caracalla" sound, and finally, with a "bang", the sarcophagus lid was pulled by them to a third of the way, lost its balance and fell to the ground, with a loud "boom", stirring up a thick layer of dust on the ground.
Everyone covered their mouths and noses and waited for the dust to fall.
But no one noticed that at the top of the pillars, the pattern that had originally fixed the pillars turned silently, revealing the openings of several black holes, and the sharp arrows were aimed at the people below with a faint cold light.
After the dust cleared, Liuzhang walked to the sarcophagus and looked inside with his feet crossed, and the others also stretched their necks and surrounded them.
Inside the sarcophagus, a two-story coffin made of more elaborate golden silk nanmu lay quietly inside, surrounded by countless gold and silver jewels, as well as a golden scepter, inlaid with an irregular gemstone the size of a goose egg, which shone brightly in the light.
"It's ......"
No one made a sound, and no one was in the same hurry to go down and touch the baby as usual.
Liuzhang, who was the first to react, suddenly laughed "haha", and patted the people around him vigorously, "Haha! Haha, brothers, we are rich!"
"Haha......" Everyone finally came back to their senses at this time, and with Liuzhang laughing excitedly, someone began to crawl into the sarcophagus.
"Don't worry, open the coffin inside first, maybe there's something better inside!" Liuzhang hurriedly stopped the person who wanted to take the contents of the sarcophagus out.
The man thought, yes, what's the hurry?
The sarcophagus is full of such good treasures, isn't the treasure in the coffin more valuable?
Two more people climbed in and opened the lid of the coffin of the golden silk nanmu together.
Immediately afterwards, they opened two more floors one after another, a total of four floors, the imperial system, a proper imperial tomb!
The moment it was opened, everyone was stunned again.
I saw that the corpse lying in the coffin turned out to be a lifelike man, dressed in luxurious gauze and wearing a golden hair crown, as if a living person was lying in it and asleep.
In this case, most Tufuzi will immediately cover the coffin, pay homage to the Quartet, and then go back the way with the words sorry to disturb.
Because they call this kind of corpse that does not decay for thousands of years a living corpse, which is blessed by the gods, they will immediately and respectfully leave the contents of the tomb without touching the contents of the tomb.
But Rokujo won't.
He believes that this situation is that ancient people did not know what methods were used to preserve the corpse from decay, so they did not take this kind of living corpse seriously at all.
Although Lao Jiu also told him before, this line, whether it is true or fake, or just a legend, must not break the rules.
Liuzhang's expression, from the initial shock, to slowly turn into surprise, is only a short time.
The others looked at Liuzhang with some uncertainty, waiting for him to come up with an idea, but Liuzhang just smiled and glanced at each of them, "What's wrong?"
"I'm afraid!" said one of them at once, "isn't it just a dead man? take the treasure and go out, and we will be rich, brothers, do it!"
Before the man's words fell, his body suddenly stopped, and a sharp arrow appeared silently in front of his chest.
He looked down, looked up at Liuzhang in a bit of a daze, and fell down next to the coffin.
"Ahh
After that, arrows rained down from all directions.
Brother Kui was shocked, it was too late to save Liuzhang, so he quickly hid behind a pillar, and resisted the "Duo Duo Duo" and nailed three arrows in a row.
Liuzhang's reaction was fast, one turned over and fell off the sarcophagus, squatting behind the sarcophagus, the arrows on that side dodged it, but the oncoming one couldn't dodge.
He flipped several times, and when he was about to run behind the pillar, an arrow shot into his arm.
The momentum was so great that he took Liuzhang's whole person forward a long way, and threw himself on the stone bridge, he didn't care to look at the injury on his arm, and rolled forward two times in succession, and turned behind the nearest pillar.
The rest of the people didn't have the skills of him, and they had been pierced like hedgehogs, and they died on top of the sarcophagus.
Brother Kui and Liuzhang watched from a stone bridge, and they both saw the posture of scolding the street from their eyes.
When I looked back, all the people they brought with me were not breathing.
"Fuck!" Liuzhang finally scolded, "What fucking bad luck!"
Brother Kui looked at it with a solemn face, and the arrows fired by the mechanism had almost covered the sarcophagus and the surroundings of the sarcophagus, and it was not enough to describe it as a rain of arrows.
It's just that, next, it's hard to say whether they can safely leave here to complete Huo Kunting's mission.
"Brother Kui!" Liuzhang suddenly called out to him, Brother Kui looked over, Liuzhang gasped, holding his arm with one hand, "It seems that we have to find a way to get out, we can't stay here for a long time!"
Brother Kui didn't say anything, turned his head to look at the sarcophagus, and his eyes fluctuated very much.