Fit, with Yu Yao's eyesight, he can see that the color of paper and ink is fine. And judging from the charm of calligraphy, Yu Yao also thinks it's no problem!

In the short period of time that everyone went from seeing "Orchid Pavilion Preface", to being immersed in it, and then to returning to their senses, Yu Yao's mind quickly went through the analysis.

If the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" hidden by the water character mouth of the Ghost Eye Gate is genuine, then either the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" was not brought into Li Shimin's mausoleum, or it was indeed brought into the mausoleum, but it was stolen by tomb thieves.

Li Shimin's mausoleum, known as Zhaoling, is the joint burial tomb of him and the eldest grandson empress, located in Xianyang Jiuzhi Mountain (Zhiyinzong), known as "the world's famous mausoleum", and now it is also a famous tourist attraction.

The tomb has not yet been excavated by the archaeological department, but there is a theory that it has been stolen in history.

In the Tang Dynasty, the mausoleum area of Zhaoling was strictly forbidden for unrelated people to enter and exit, but after the death of the Tang Dynasty, it was not guaranteed.

One of the most typical and famous tomb robbers is involved, named Wen Tao.

During the Five Dynasties, Wen Tao, a native of Liang, once served as the envoy of Yaozhou, who was convenient for the geographical location and did not play petty fights, and was known as the tomb robber who robbed the emperor's tomb the most.

The key is that Wen Tao stole and excavated the Zhaoling Tomb, and the official history is clearly recorded.

"The History of the New Five Dynasties: The Biography of Wen Tao" has these sentences: In the seven years of the town, the Tang Tomb was in its territory and took the gold treasures it hid. And Zhaoling is the most solid, Tao from the road, see the palace system Hong Li is not different from the world, the middle is the main bed, the east and west compartments row stone bed, the stone letter on the bed, the iron box in the middle, the book of the previous life, the handwriting of King Zhong, the paper and ink are as new, Tao Xi takes it, and then passes it on to the world. However, Qianling, wind and rain can not occur.

The "handwriting of King Zhong" here, Zhong refers to Zhong Xuan, and Wang refers to Wang Xizhi. It can be inferred from this that if "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is one of the "handwriting of King Zhong" that Li Shimin accompanied the funeral, then it was stolen by Wen Tao and "passed on to the world".

Among them, the Qianling Tomb is the joint tomb of Wu Zetian and Li Zhi; that is to say, in addition to the Qianling, Wen Tao stole the tombs of the Tang Dynasty emperors within his jurisdiction!

"The History of the New Five Dynasties" was compiled by Ouyang Xiu, and if you want to talk about credibility, it should still be okay. Moreover, according to the record of "Song Huiyao", it is said that Zhao Kuangyin once investigated the imperial tombs of the previous dynasties and prepared to repair them, but it was also found that a large number of imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty had been stolen, including the Zhaoling Tomb.

Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, has taken the lead in a major event, and since the Song Dynasty, the edicts to protect the tombs of the emperors of previous dynasties have gradually become a "tradition". In fact, to protect others is to protect yourself, you protect the first, and the future ones protect you.

Therefore, after the Song Dynasty, at least there was no record of the theft of Zhaoling in the official history.

However, if "Orchid Pavilion Preface" was really stolen by Wen Tao, why was there no news for more than a thousand years after that? With the status of "Orchid Pavilion Preface", how could it be like a mud cow entering the sea? Aren't there even famous wild history rumors?

This is a very big doubt.

The official history, although it has a high degree of credibility, may not be completely accurate. Therefore, there are also opponents of this statement in the academic circles, and some other historical evidence has also been put forward.

However, although from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there is no record of the theft and excavation of Zhaoling, but in the Republic of China period, Zhaoling was stolen again with real evidence!

The six bluestone horse reliefs on the east and west sides of the altar in the north of Zhaoling were smashed into blocks by tomb thieves and stolen from Zhaoling!

This is the famous "Zhaoling Six Horses".

The six horses of Zhaoling were stolen, and the mastermind was a foreign tomb robber, and there were many twists and turns in the process;

"Zhaoling Six Horses" stone carving, is a high relief, quite realistic sense of war horse image, respectively: fist hair, sa Lu purple, Shivachi, white hoof, Telle Biao, green horse.

The name sounds a bit strange because of the Turkic language of the time.

The "Six Horses of Zhaoling" is of a very high artistic standard and was jointly created by two brothers, Yan Lide and Yan Liben, who were originally masters of painting and Yan Lide who was a master craftsman.

If such a stone sculpture wants to be stolen, it can only be smashed down. Foreign tomb robbers also hired people in Huaxia to smash the stone carvings of the six horses of Zhaoling into stones and transport them down the mountain. Fortunately, in the process, the tomb robbers were blocked by the villagers who heard the news and did not succeed.

Although the foreign tomb robbers returned empty-handed, the villagers only saved four horses, because the "two horses" - Fist Maoda and Sa Luzi were pushed off the cliff in the process!

The fist Mao and Sa Lu Zi who pushed down the cliff were later obtained by Lu Jianzhang, the overseer of Shaanxi. After he got it, he happened to hear that the then president Yuan Shikai was going to build a private garden, and immediately decided to use it for sycophancy.

As a result, when it was transported to the capital, Yuan Shikai hung up. Yuan Shikai's son saw that it was a fragment, and he didn't leave it.

The punch Mao Wei and Sa Lu Zi were not shipped out of the capital again, but were sold to an antique dealer surnamed Lu.

At this time, Xie Liuzhai, who happened to be in the capital, got the news!

At that time, Xie Liuzhai was very young, only in his twenties, but he had already begun to mix in the antique shop. It was at that time that he met Yasujiro Nakatani, a Japanese man who had just begun to collect antiques in China.

Xie Liuzhai was short of funds at the time, so he wanted to be a middleman for pulling fiber, and asked an antique dealer surnamed Lu to sell Fist Mao and Sa Lu Zi to Yasujiro Nakatani.

However, Yasujiro Nakatani's bid was too low, and the antique dealer surnamed Lu was very dissatisfied. It was also at this time that someone from the United States also made a bid.

The deal dragged on for a long time, and Xie Liuzhai tried his best to make it unsuccessful. In 1920, the matter came to an end, and the two horses were sold to the Penn Museum in the United States for $125,000.

As a matter of fact, after the other four horses were kept by the villagers, some Americans came to steal them again, and after they succeeded this time, they were smashed even more to pieces; however, they were intercepted by the people in the process of transportation! Later, they were not transported back to their original places, and were sent to the Shaanxi Library for preservation.

Therefore, in the "Zhaoling Six Horses" exhibited in the museum in China today, only four horses are made of original stones, and the two horses, that is, the fist hair and the sa Lu Zi, are high-imitation replicas. And the real two horses are still in museums in the United States.

Although during the period of the Republic of China, there was no exact statement of stealing the burial goods of the Zhaoling underground palace, but the "Zhaoling Six Horses" were stolen, it is not possible to say whether the underground palace had been stolen; even if there were no traces of large-scale excavation, but through the hidden robbery hole, it was not completely impossible.

If the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" in Zhaoling was not stolen by Wen Tao, then there is still the possibility of being stolen during the Republic of China!

Of course, all this is analyzed on the basis of the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" being brought into the Zhaoling Tomb for burial.

Yu Yao's thoughts came to an abrupt end after "Orchid Pavilion Preface" was re-packed and boxed.

At this time, everyone also looked at Cai Pengxi.

Cai Pengxi took a deep breath and opened the small square wooden box of the last golden silk nan's gloomy wood.