Chapter 403: Epitaph
Zhao Ming carefully scraped off the soil layer above, revealing the corner of a large boulder, and the top of the large stone was dotted with colorful colors.
"Holy, there's something down there. Lu Ming hurriedly screamed, and everyone gathered around.
"Wait a minute, be careful, don't cut your hand. Zhao Ming carefully instructed Lu Ming, and gently swept away the soil layer on the stone with his hand.
Gradually, the stone gradually emerged, and when more than half of it appeared, Zhao Ming was shocked, this was not an ordinary stone, but an epitaph.
"What is an epitaph?" Niu Dazhuang said excitedly when he saw that this was painted with colorful pictures and different characters holding different animal patterns.
Gu Yuexi also wiped the portraits of the people on it, and the epitaph is the thing that the ancients recorded their lives after their deaths, and this piece of epitaph is carved through colorful reliefs.
The characters are extremely complex and exquisite, which is still relatively rare in our country.
The general epitaph structure is divided into upper and lower structures, and the upper layer is a picture, which is the picture of these officials who have made their own pilgrimage to the pilgrimage as we see today.
Inside are some epitaphs, which record the great achievements of the tomb owner's life, or life experiences.
Zhao Ming stroked the lid on the epitaph and found that the lid on it was carved with many seal characters of different sizes, and each word was also inlaid with a small amount of gold.
Extraordinarily luxurious, when Lu Ming saw this large piece of thing, he gradually put down his bronze tripod, stroked it, and asked in surprise, "How much can this thing be worth?"
Zhao Ming didn't answer, but carefully admired this huge epitaph.
Lu Ming was anxious to die on the side, watching Zhao Ming look at the seal characters carved by the epitaph on it so seriously. I couldn't help but say, "What's written on that? Tell me about it." ”
Zhao Ming patted the dust on his hands, "What is written on this is that Lord Qin Liao gave Zhang Taibao an epitaph." ”
"What the hell? I don't understand!" Lu Ming shook his head, glanced at Niu Dazhuang again, and Niu Dazhuang also waved his hand, "I don't understand either." ”
Ye Shuang also frowned, and Gu Yuexi on the side explained, "This means that there was a Liao Lord in the Qin Dynasty, and after he died, he was buried in this ancient tomb with Zhang Taibao. ”
"Oh, that's what it means, I thought it was this Lord Liao who gave it to him because Zhang Taibao died. ”
Lu Ming said happily, hurriedly trying to move a huge epitaph, but couldn't move it.
The epitaph was stuck like an iron nail, and it couldn't be moved.
"What are you moving this thing for? It's not easy to sell this thing when you move it home. ”
Zhao Ming looked at Lu Ming suspiciously, Lu Ming was already sweating profusely, "Oh, you guys will take a hand together, since this thing is so important, let's move him out." ”
"You're doing what a tomb robber does, can you have some ethics in the tomb robbing world.
You also want to move home with other people's epitaphs, I tell you this thing is made of stone, what's the use of you moving home?" Ye Shuang said sarcastically.
"Hey, I said you man's wife, you're still strong, right? You can't help, you don't help me move by myself. Lu Ming still wanted to continue moving.
At this time, Zhao Ming scraped off the soil layer on it directly from behind, and said to Lu Ming, "You move it, this thing is as big as a person, as long as you can move it." ”
"Damn, this thing has to weigh a few hundred pounds? How can I move it, forget it. ”
"Don't worry, since it says that it is a joint burial tomb, there must be another tomb, maybe the antiques hidden in the latter one have not been stolen.
When the time comes, if you really want it, you can pick a smaller one, and we can act, this one is too big. ”
Zhao Ming comforted Lu Ming, Lu Ming looked at the huge epitaph, although he was a little reluctant, but he still had no choice.
had to follow Zhao Ming into this corridor, and sure enough, in the corridor of this tomb, Zhao Ming and they soon found another epitaph.
And this epitaph is much smaller than the previous one, and there are no colorful reliefs or the like, let alone complex characters.
Just simply wrote a few words on the stone, Lu Ming said disappointedly, "It's better than the one just now, oops, I starved to death after running for most of the day." ”
Lu Ming grabbed a few packets of compressed biscuits from his backpack and stuffed them into his mouth, Zhao Ming carefully observed an epitaph, how could this be?
It stands to reason that the epitaph inside this corridor is not as good as the one outside, and the owner of this tomb should be richer, but why has he become poor......er?
Zhao Ming couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and at this time, Lu Ming vigorously opened the upper cover of this epitaph name, and a thought-provoking text record appeared below.
Zhao Ming hurriedly lay on the epitaph, which wrote the cause of death of the owner of the tomb and the identity of the owner of the tomb.
Zhao Ming couldn't help but recall that historical records recorded in history, "There was indeed an official called Liao Jian in the Qin Dynasty, and this person was called the existence of the God of War at that time."
At that time, after the unification of the Qin Dynasty, there were still many ethnic minorities in the frontier invaders, and Qin Shi Huang not only built the Great Wall of Qin, but also sent many officials to station in the border areas of ethnic minorities.
And this official called Liaojian is one of them, and he has made a lot of great achievements.
During a campaign against the Qiang ethnic minority, Liao Jian was over half a hundred years old at that time, and he had two sons, of which the eldest son was called Liao Yuan, and the second son was called Liaokuo.
This epitaph is written about Liao Jian, because in the process of the war, unfortunately suffered from wind disease and died.
And what is recorded in the real history is that the second son is vast, and in order to compete for the military power in his father's hands, he did not hesitate to poison Liaojian.
This also conformed to Zhao Ming's doubts at the beginning, why many places in this tomb are simple, and this tomb is extremely grand.
This may also be the reason why his second son was able to build such a grand tomb in order to cover up the fact that he killed his father and to show his filial piety.
At that time, the tombs had a clear hierarchical plan, and except for the crown prince of the Qin Dynasty, only the emperor could have such a grand tomb.
And this tomb completely subverted the hierarchy of the previous dynasty, as we all know, the central hierarchy of the Qin Dynasty is extremely strict.
And the reason why this son of a pawn official dared to do such a thing that usurped the imperial power was also because he had a heavy army, and Zhao Ming couldn't help but think hard in his mind.
The ancient book I had read before had a mystery about the tomb written on it, and as for the tomb in Liaojian, no one had ever known where it was.
But he was inadvertently found in the Dragon Whisker Cave today, and although this tomb is extremely grand, the key point is so simple.
Especially in some places where there should be colored reliefs, there is no epitaph such as the one I saw just now, but when it comes to the epitaph of Liaojian, the epitaph seems so simple, and there is not even a colored relief.
At one end of the burial chamber, there are still a lot of ink lines bouncing the many wooden lines that are carved, and there is such a plan in the burial chamber.
Even where the ink lines were depicted, they needed to be made with painted reliefs, but this official's son Guangguang completed his father's tomb in only four months.
In these short four months, under the labor ability of manual digging time and heavy burdens, there is no way to complete all these heavy tasks.
Therefore, this vastness has moved a crooked brain, and many places in the tomb that should be built are directly replaced by only a few wooden wires.
He didn't build any splendid buildings at all, and it can be said that his father's tomb was extremely simple, even though it covered an extremely large area. ”
"What about the other one, what does this Zhang Taibao say?" Gu Yuexi looked at the epitaph that she had just passed by, and Zhao Ming smiled bitterly, "I also saw it from the history books."
That Zhang Taibao is the wife of Zhao Ming in this tomb, that is, his second son, Haokuan's mother, it is said that two years after Liao Jian's death, his son Guangkuo successfully forced his brother to death.
Inheriting his father's power, he was in a panic when he was clenching his fists, and he couldn't sleep well every day.
He couldn't let go of the fact that he killed his own father and forced his brother to death, and finally let his mother know, and her mother was angry and depressed.
The second son is vast, and in order to make up for the lack of his conscience, he continued to build such a magnificent tomb for his mother.
That's why you can see such a luxurious place in the first place, some of the precious bronzes are so messy, and some of the goddess statues, which are finally unraveled.
That is the stone statue of the owner of this tomb, that is, the mother of the second son. ”
Lu Ming nodded, "This story is good, then this brother, where did his second son go in the end?"
Zhao Ming shook his head gloomily, "Where else can I go, it is said that after his mother died, he became uncomfortable, and then resigned from the imperial court."
But then he disappeared from the world, and since there is no record in the historical materials, there is no way to know about him. ”
"It turns out that there is so much knowledge in one tomb. Niu Dazhuang nodded, he has gained a lot of knowledge today.
"Then there shouldn't be any antiques here, you can find it, and the boss, do your brother's traces have anything to do with here?" Niu Dazhuang said calmly,
"There doesn't seem to be any clue to your brother's whereabouts. Ye Shuang shook his head and gently moved his pink lips.
"Since there is no trace of my brother here, forget it. Let's go out early, after all, if we stay in the tomb for a long time, the oxygen supply will be insufficient. ”
"Do you want to climb up that thief hole?" Lu Ming pointed to the tomb opposite, and Zhao Ming stood up and patted the dust on his body.
"That's right, climb up on this, maybe it's already an exit, and the mystery called the Dragon's Whisker Cave is completely solved, but it's ......"
"But what?" Lu Ming asked Zhao Ming suspiciously, "But if you take this antique out, you will become a tomb robber completely."
"When the time comes, how can you escape from the crime of stealing cultural relics?" Zhao Ming looked at Lu Ming with some weirdness.
Lu Ming defended, "What do you say, I don't have it, I just took it in my hand, maybe I'll come back when I die, besides, this tomb has not been developed at all."
You think I'm stupid, there is no development country and no regulations, then I will take it out. After saying that, Lu Ming ran out of the tomb willfully.
Since the diameter of the tomb robbery cave is only 90 centimeters, this centimeter is reasonable for Lu Ming, Lu Ming can plunge into it with one head, and he walks very smoothly.
There is no need for any bone shrinking skills, but it is a little uncomfortable for Niu Dazhuang behind him, he can't get in, his body is too huge, what can I do?
Zhao Ming glanced at Lu Ming, "Then what else can we do?" Let's make a hole." ”
As soon as he heard that he was going to make a hole, Lu Ming was stunned, to be precise, he was going to be petrified.
Because when I walked over this cave just now, I knew how grand this tomb was, and if I made a hole and widened it again, I would not have to fight for a few months!