Chapter 458: The Imperial Tomb is empty, and there are many suspicions
In this stone room, the ground is still a little damp, which indicates that water has entered, and observing the stone tablet, it can be found that the water level is not too low, and it can reach more than half of the stone tablet.
At the same time, between the stele and the stele, there is a long "countertop", which feels slightly larger than the sword box that imitates the "startled salamander".
"Could this place be the place where the sword box was originally placed?" Yu Yao said secretly in his heart.
So how did this "startled salamander" leave its original position and sink to the bottom of the river?
The door of the tomb has been opened, indicating that the underwater tomb must have been discovered and stolen.
However, this "startled salamander" was not actually taken.
This stone chamber was once flooded, and if the water had been entered after the tomb door was opened, and the tomb robbers did not take the "startled salamander" at that time, it is also possible that the river water would have sunk to the bottom of the river.
However, Yu Yao analyzed from the perspective of a tomb robber, it is unlikely that he didn't take it, and it took so much effort to clean up the things in the tomb?
Then, it is possible that you took it at that time, but in the process of going out, you accidentally lost it in the river and sank to the bottom of the river.
At this time, He Wenguang had already stared at the stele carefully.
Because on this monument, there is an inscription!
The other two "divers" took out instruments to detect the air quality in the stone room. After probing, they temporarily removed their masks and motioned to Yu Yao and He Wenguang at the same time.
The air quality in this stone chamber is acceptable, and there must be a ventilation hole in the mountain.
While uncovering the mask, Yu Yao had another doubt, why should a mausoleum be set up with ventilation holes?
"This is actually an imperial mausoleum!" He Wenguang had already roughly finished reading the inscription at this time, and couldn't help blurting out!
When Yu Yao heard this, he immediately stepped up.
At the same time, doubts regenerate.
The imperial tombs of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, although most of them cannot find the specific mausoleum site, but a large range, according to historical data and archaeological research, is basically determined, just around the capital of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Jiankang. How can there be an extra underwater mausoleum?
After Yu Yao's eyes examined the inscription, he realized that although he was the emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he was not the emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty!
"Yes, he's an emperor, too. But in the end, he was beheaded in a different place and was regarded as a national thief, how could there be a mausoleum of such specifications?"
In Chinese history, from Qin Shi Huang to Puyi, there were nearly 500 so-called emperors. However, this number is a more "water" algorithm, as long as you are the emperor, it will be counted.
Judging from the inscription, this is "the Yongshi Emperor of Great Chu".
This person, named Huan Xuan, actually only served as the emperor for five months, and he came to power after forcing Emperor An of Jin to abdicate, and changed the name of the country to Chu, and the founding of the Yuan Dynasty was forever.
Huan Xuan is the son of Huan Wen.
In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the family control was extremely serious, and there were "four major families", the most famous of which were the Wang family and the Xie family, the so-called "Wang Xie Tang Qianyan in the old days, flew into the homes of ordinary people". The Wang family and the Xie family also produced many cultural celebrities, such as Wang Xizhi and Xie Lingyun.
The other two are the Huan family and the Yu family.
Huan Wen, a representative of the Huan family, has been in charge of the government for a long time, and although the three Northern Expeditions were not successful in the end, they can be regarded as "capital".
He also once abolished the puppet emperor Sima Yi, and one of the reasons is very funny, saying that Sima Yi is dysfunctional in some way, but in fact, Sima Yi has given birth to several children.
Huan Wen's heart is well known to passers-by, but for various reasons, he failed to ascend the throne.
In the end, it was his son Huan Xuan who forced Emperor Jin to abdicate and ascend to the throne, which is the so-called "Great Chu Yongshi Emperor", known as "Huan Chu" in history.
In 403 AD, Huan Xuan forced Emperor An of Jin to abdicate and established the Huan Chu regime in Jiankang.
But not long after Huan Xuan ascended the throne, Liu Yu (the founding emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, nicknamed Jinu) raised the Beifu soldiers to revolt, Huan Xuan was defeated, fled to Jiangling, and was defeated by the Western Rebellion Army. In the end, Huan Xuan wanted to avoid the limelight in Shudi, but was killed by Feng Qian, the governor of Yizhou, and his head was sent to Jiankang.
How can there be a mausoleum for such an emperor?
Yu Yao thought as he systematically read the inscription. The inscription is mainly a praise of merit, but in fact, there is nothing to see. However, there is a sentence in it, "Temporarily dress up, and wait for Longxing to revivelate".
At the same time, the person who erected the monument also had a "payment".
This person is Huan Shisui, Huan Xuan's younger brother.
After Huan Xuan was killed, Huan Shisui still took part of his troops and continued to resist the Eastern Jin Dynasty for several years before he was finally killed.
Through these, it is not difficult to deduce that this is Huan Xuan's clothed mound, because Huan Shisui can't get Huan Xuan's corpse head. It can also explain why the mausoleum was secretly built underwater, because it was also the territory of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Huan Shisui may have been temporarily stationed, but it cannot guarantee long-term protection.
If Huan Shisui can kill the Eastern Jin Dynasty regime, then it must be to rebuild the imperial tomb for Huan Xuan.
But he didn't. So, only this secret underwater mausoleum remains.
Huan Shisui is likely to have seen the real "startled salamander", but after Huan Xuan's death, he couldn't get it, in order to "set the tomb" and ensure the stability of the underwater imperial tomb, he imitated the "startled salamander" and placed it in the place of the stone stele.
"Let's go, go in and have a look!" At this time, He Wenguang spoke.
The four of them walked into the stone door that was open behind the stele.
Behind the door, there is another corridor.
The corridor runs parallelly, and it is very damp and smelly.
After walking twenty or thirty meters, it ended up on a square platform. One side of the platform is connected to the road, both sides are stone walls, and the innermost side, there is no obstruction, the searchlight looks down, it turns out to be a dark river!
The platform is wet.
Yu Yao understood! The water entering the stone chamber just now was not caused by the river outside, but by the water of this dark river!
"What kind of imperial mausoleum is this?!" He Wenguang frowned.
"At that time, the situation was not optimistic, and it was good to be able to dig such a place. Presumably, this platform was originally intended to build the main tomb, but it suddenly dug up the mountain wall, revealing the underground dark river, and it was impossible to continue. Yu Yao said.
After finishing speaking, Yu Yao began to sweep the stone walls on both sides with a searchlight, looking at one side first, but it was relatively neatly repaired, and he didn't find anything.
"Even if it is a well-dressed mound, there must be a coffin, how to put it in this place······" He Wenguang said as he swept the top with a searchlight.
"It turned out to be a hanging coffin!" He Wenguang shouted.
Yu Yao was about to look at the stone wall on the other side, but He Wenguang immediately looked up when he said this. Sure enough, there were four deep holes in the top, which were presumably originally fixed by something like an iron chain.
It's just that the chain and the coffin are gone, and they must have all been stolen!
Yu Yao sighed, and turned to use the searchlight to shine on the stone wall on the other side that he hadn't seen yet.
The stone wall on this side is also relatively neatly hewn, but under the stone wall, there is a square area that seems to be different.
Yu Yao stepped forward and squatted, "This stone slab seems to be able to open!"