"The Great Khan and Emperors of the Mengyuan Empire, who robbed most of Eurasia, are they a bunch of poor ghosts underground?" Charlize Theron instantly looked confused!

She is not an ordinary Western girl who has only read American middle school history textbooks, and ordinary Westerners will only think that the original Mongols were barbarians and murderous, but she knows better: Genghis Khan's meeting was already amazing, not only unified the steppe and desert, but also made the Jin State and Western Xia in the traditional Chinese region almost unable to fight back.

Temujin also destroyed his opponents in the seven-year-long war against Khorezm, and along the way in the ancient Indus and Volga rivers, he fought with the Turkic-speaking Kipchak state and the Goras (Russian) principalities, destroying so many small states that history cannot remember completely!

The Mongols are barbaric, and these embryos like to destroy the country and slaughter the city all the way, but they don't have the habit of making historical records.

Not to mention the traditional war in the Eastern world, the wealth that the Mongol Empire looted from the Middle East and Central Asia was incomparable! The principalities of Khwarazm were not flowery, but Khorezm was a large country with a population of at least 20 million or more, or even 50 million, and it still controlled the trade routes between the East and the West for a long time, and it was so rich that the Mongols made a lot of money by destroying it.

The population is estimated to be two and a half times worse, and this is also "thanks to" the Mongols' method of warfare, slaughtering the city, slaughtering the city, and slaughtering the city! All the way to the destruction, there is no documentary record, and later generations do not know much about Khorezm, the original great power in the Western Regions.

In this way, it seems that Temujin, who died in Western Xia, could not be a poor bastard, how could he become a poor ghost when he went underground?

Charlie felt that Nong Bosheng's words were incredible, and after being blinded, she didn't believe it!

Seeing this situation, without Nong Bosheng to explain, Zhang Hongfu, who was sitting a little farther away, smiled and said: "Miss Charlie, what the old farmer said is right, the Mongolian Great Khan and the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty are helping the poor ghosts underground.

It's not that gold jewelry was not used for burial, but because of the special burial system of the Mongols, compared with the emperors of the Chinese dynasties, the Mongol Great Khans did not bring much wealth to the ground, and it was relatively monotonous, which was really shabby. ”

This is what Liu Chengjun added to Charlize Theron: "The West's knowledge of the number of burial goods accompanying the burial of the Mongol Yuan Emperor should come from the records of a Westerner who had seen the preparations for the high-ranking funerals of the Mongol nobles."

At the beginning, there were a large number of Westerners living in the eastern regions of the Mongol and Yuan Empire, such as the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, and most of them were prisoners of war, except for a few merchants, envoys, and scholars who traveled far away.

If they hadn't been killed, the Mongols liked to take the nobles of the entire country they had destroyed, or even all of them, to the East, and many of these people later became the second rank of the Mongol Yuan, which was part of the Semu people.

Some of these people stayed in China, and there were still a lot of people in Beijing in the early Ming Dynasty.

But they also returned to the West, the Middle East, and Central Asia, and brought back the story of wealth in the East.

If we combine Marco Polo's account, we can understand how much Europeans wanted the East, and medieval Europe was a bunch of poor people living by.

Dumbfounded by the fact that the Mongols were preparing to use some gold and silver objects as burial objects, coupled with the possible exaggeration in the records and hundreds of years of false rumors, most of the world believed that Genghis Khan and his descendants brought astronomical treasures into the ground, but in fact there were not so many at all. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Chengjun pointed to the northwest of the tent, "It's not much more than the wealth that the Xiongnu brought into the ground more than a thousand years ago, and the Mongolian emperors have special burials, not to mention the coffins, the bones are estimated to be rotten, it's really hard to find." ”

"Secret burial, I know this. ”

Charlie has such a brother as Zhang Nan, if she doesn't know this and doesn't have any interest in underground babies, then she can't stay here for this month.

From 1206, when Genghis Khan Temujin unified Mobei and established the Mongol Empire, in 1271, Kublai Khan changed the name of the country to "Great Yuan", to 1368, when Xu Da led the army to capture Yuan Dadu and destroy the Yuan, and then to 1402, when the Yuan minister Guilichi usurped power to establish Tatar and the Northern Yuan Dynasty perished, the Mengyuan Empire added up to less than 200 years.

Among them, there are a total of 15 emperors, from the founder of the Mongol Khanate Temujin to the fall of the Northern Yuan, the burial place of these emperors and Great Khans of the Yuan Dynasty is a mystery.

These emperors and Great Khans of the Yuan Dynasty were most worried that their bodies would be disturbed after the end of the day, and they would carry out secret burials, and the burial process and burial place were strictly confidential.

To this day, there are as many as five different burial places in the legend: Buerhan Heledun Mountain, Lugou Riverside, Da Etuoke, Babai Room and Qilin Valley.

At present, the mainstream research believes that every emperor of the Great Yuan Dynasty, starting with Temujin, was buried in Qilin Valley or Hangai Mountain, but later generations tried to find the mausoleum of the Mengyuan Empire, but the result was that not even a shadow was found.

Just hard to find?

Secret burial, the Mongolians almost made this secret burial to the extreme, and they didn't even want decency.

This will Nong Bosheng said: "How the Mengyuan Emperor was buried, the Mongols themselves actually have no records, and the first one that appeared in the literature was actually in the Ming Dynasty.

Ye Ziqi of the Ming Dynasty recorded in his "Grass and Muzi" that the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty drove a landslide, 'used two pieces of wood, chiseled out of it, and the human-like size was combined into a coffin, and the body was placed in it...... Add lacquer, finish, then take gold as the circle, three circles. '

This is to use a golden hoop to put the two ends and the middle of the coffin, and then dig a deep trench to bury it together.

'Peace with ten thousand horses. Kill the camels on them, and guard them with a thousand horses. In the coming year, when the grass is born, the tent will be moved and dispersed, and the hope will be peaceful, and people will not know it'.

This wood should be Nanmu, the coffin of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty will not be buried to a depth of ten meters, because the funeral team can not dig the tomb in advance, and the deep pit of more than ten meters can not be quickly dug by relying on more people alone.

It is estimated that the depth of four or five meters is at the end, and the average Mongolian tomb is only two or three meters.

The legend that the Ming people said that they used ten thousand horses to cover up the traces of the tomb, and then killed the baby camel in front of the mother camel, and then used the mother camel to find a burial place to sacrifice a year later, is nonsense, but I think it is very likely to be true.

Just wait for the female camel to die of old age, and no one will really find a place.

Moreover, once the grass on the grassland grows, the old herdsman can only determine the approximate location, and the Mongolian tomb robbery is at most the level of the tomb dug with the ground sealing soil.

In the absence of metal detectors and Luoyang shovels, the chances of finding a coffin in a large grassland are almost zero, not to mention that the people involved in the funeral are estimated to have been sent thousands of kilometers away after the ceremony. ”

Nong Bosheng said this, and Zhang Nan interjected: "I haven't seen the tombs of the Yuan Dynasty, but I have seen the tombs of the Ming Dynasty later on the construction site.

As long as it is a tomb that seeps water, but does not accumulate water all year round, let alone a coffin, even the human bones are rotten.

The Great Khan of Mengyuan didn't even build a tomb of masonry, and there would be no scum left of it. ”

Stagnant water is sometimes the equivalent of cutting off the air, because the water in the tomb is different from flowing water or surface water, and many of the low oxygen levels are close to zero.

Charlie's mind turned and she said, "Brother, I remember that the book said that the best nanmu is golden silk nanmu, and your name comes from here."

Nanmu can be the best beam in the wood structure building, and your single name is a Nan character, which means that you hope that the elders can be the pillars of the country. ”

Zhang Nan said with a smile: "I know this, who told you?"

The girl's family has not learned Chinese culture in vain over the years, and it is rare for her to be able to say these ways.

"I asked when my brother-in-law was chatting, what does this name mean, curious, Chinese people take names and Western habits are very different. ”

Zhang Nan has lived in the United States for several years, but he basically maintains the basic Chinese habits, and he will not become a banana man.

The people around him are consciously or unconsciously centered on him, and they will also learn some Chinese style and culture.

Even if you don't study, if you stay for a long time, you will naturally be infected.

"Well, it took a little thought to give it to the elders. ”

When Charlie heard this, she asked again: "Didn't you say that the golden silk nanmu will not rot for thousands of years, how can it rot?"

Zhang Nan did not answer directly, but said to Zhang Hongfu: "Lao Zhang, I heard that you are also an expert in ancient wooden buildings?"

When Zhang Hongfu heard this, he smiled and said to Chariz Theron: "That's right, the best golden silk nanmu can indeed be immortal for thousands of years, in addition to the oxidation resistance and corrosion resistance of nanmu, there is a more important prerequisite, that is, the environment and conditions of storage!"

I have seen some Ming Dynasty buildings with a lot of Nanmu as beams and columns, and a very small number of temple buildings preserved in the Tang and Song dynasties also have some Nanmu building materials, five or six hundred years, or even a thousand years of immortality is normal, because the environment is good, the dry humidity is suitable, and it will not be directly invaded by rain.

This is true on the ground, but it is preserved differently on the ground.

Although the environment is very humid, it is almost isolated from the air, and the soil layer where the gloomy wood is preserved is silt, like a sealing layer.

In the same way, if the ancients put the thick-walled coffin of Nanmu in the golden coupon of the underground palace, the Nanmu coffin can indeed be stored for a long time in an environment with constant temperature and humidity and no oxygen.

However, if the thin-skinned Nanmu coffin is buried directly in the ground, it is just like what the Ming people recorded: the coffin is made of fragrant Nanmu, which is divided into two, and the shape of Xiao Xiao is human-shaped, and its width and length are only enough to accommodate the body.

From the meaning of this passage, we can see that the coffins of the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty were actually simple human-shaped thin-walled coffins, which were chiseled from a tree, but it was still a thin-walled coffin, and there was not even a coffin.

The consequence of this burial is that the coffin has to face the gravity of the overlying soil, as well as the erosion of rainwater, and the invasion of rotting mold and underground insects.

Some people say that Nanmu 'can't be soaked in water, ants can't burrow, and it is immortal for thousands of years', which is actually a false rumor, and there is also a business method passed down by people who sell wood.

When this Nanmu is still a big tree, there are natural enemies such as Nanmu bored weevils and Nanmu gray hairy goldenrod insects, and some Nanmu old materials will also have insect eyes, Nanmu is only relatively moth-proof, not absolute.

When buried underground, in addition to gold, even the stone will be weathered, and the wood will not be able to withstand erosion.

At most, for more than a hundred years, the Nanmu thin coffins of the Mengyuan Emperors no longer existed.

Speaking of the unreliable coffin, let's talk about the white bones and burial goods in the coffin, the records say that the vank car Yan used a mink jacket and a leather hat for the funeral, and his boots and socks, waist ties, and box bowls were all made of white powder skin.

These white leather products such as leather jackets and leather boots are estimated to have a shorter lifespan than Nanmu coffins, and it is estimated that they will be wiped out in less than a few decades.

As for the human bones in the coffin, as Mr. Zhang said, in that environment, it would be so bad that there would be nothing left after four or five hundred years of hard work!

Gold products will not be rotten, the Ming people said that the coffin of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty was martyred with two gold pots and bottles, one cup, one dish and spoon tendon. Funeral, with gold as a hoop to bind it.

Just such a thing, medieval Western travelers who have never seen the market will think that it is a huge amount of wealth, but compared with the burial goods of the Han and Miao emperors in China, it is not only a little shabby, but can even be called uneducated.

The characteristics of gold are very stable and will not rot, but gold will walk in the soil, especially in the sandy soil environment of the Mongolian plateau, seven or eight hundred years, a careless can make gold fall several meters.

Depending on the object, the speed of the fall is also different, and some even produce translation at the same time.

The original burial posture is scattered, and it is no longer gathered together, and it becomes more difficult to find it!"

Well, the second half of this Chariz Theron feels like she's listening to a fantasy story!

"Gold walks in the dirt?"

The tone was a little surprised, more incredible.

This time, the answer for her was changed to Nong Bosheng, and the curator said: "Charlie, the soil under our feet is not static, we call it the soil vein movement.

Not to mention the six or seven hundred years of ancient tombs, as far as I know, the burial custom in many areas of China is not to build brick and stone tombs, but to bury coffins directly in earth pits and tombs.

Some of the old graves that are more than 100 years old have been relocated, and as a result, the skeletons have left the original grave site and moved more than one meter laterally.

I have heard of such a true thing: a family moved the grave of an ancestor, because the old people of the family lived a long life, and the word of mouth said that the old ancestor was buried with a golden hairpin pinned to his hair.

But when the grave was moved, it was found that the coffin was rotten, and the bones were not rotten, but the golden hairpin was gone!

However, the bone-picker they hired was very experienced, and he asked the workers to dig about 60 centimeters under the skull of the tomb owner before they found the golden hairpin in the sand underground.

The proportion of gold is large, because of its own weight, buried in the soil will produce a sinking force like water dripping into oil and people falling into quicksand.

Under the action of external forces such as earthquakes and groundwater, although the gold item moves and sinks in the soil very slowly, it just goes. ”

Chariz Theron has seen it this time, it turns out that gold will go underground!

Zhang Nan has known these for a long time, and a similar situation is that the rich man buried the silver dollar in an emergency, and did not wrap it in a container such as a clay pot, so he secretly dug a pit and poured it down.

As a result, after a few decades, I wanted to dig things out, and the original depth of burial was one meter, but I didn't see anything at all when I dug to the original depth!

Digging for a few tens of centimeters and finally finding them, these silver dollars slowly sank over the course of several decades.

Suddenly, Charlie raised her head and said, "No, I see that everyone has dug dozens or hundreds of earlier Xiongnu tombs, and there are a lot of gold products unearthed, but they are almost at the same level as those human bones." ”

It moves in a hundred years, and it is also sandy and soil, and it sinks in a hundred years, but it is okay in 2000, which doesn't make sense.

Zhang Nan smiled now, the experts didn't laugh much, the little girl was only 17 years old, not an expert, and it was not strange that she didn't see the fame.

This is still Zhang Nan who solved the question for her.

"Charlie, didn't you notice that all the tombs of Shan Yu and the tombs of the nobles were particularly strong?

The bottom is rammed layer by layer, of course, it will not sink, and the Xiongnu man-made tomb is more elaborate than the Mongols thousands of years later. ”