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Chapter 996: Kangju Ancient Country

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Perhaps not many people are familiar with Kangju in modern times, but in the Han Dynasty, it was once one of the Western Regions countries called the 'Thirty-six Kingdoms of the Western Regions' together with Loulan, and compared with Loulan, Kangju's national strength was more powerful.

This nomadic people of ancient Central Asia was nomadic in southern Kazakhstan and in the middle and lower reaches of the Syr Darya River. In the Han Dynasty, it was located in the northwest of Dawan, north of Dayueshi, west of Wusun, east of Xiancai, south of Dingling and Jiankun.

In the 2nd century B.C., there were 80,000 or 90,000 people (the cavalry was a cavalry capable of fighting on horseback). By the end of the first century B.C., Kangju's population had reached 600,000 and 120,000 victories, forming a large tribal alliance in Central Asia.

It can be said that in its heyday, Kangju was a powerful force on the Eurasian continent after the four great powers of the Han Dynasty, Rome, Kushan and Anxi.

However, in the nearly 500-year history of the Kangju Kingdom, there has never been a king who has made great achievements, and there has not even been a name of any Kangju king in history.

From the early days of the Western Han Dynasty, the Kangju people belonged to the Dayue clan who moved westward, and later they were ravaged by the Huns who moved westward, and finally submitted to the westward migration. Even in the strongest period in the history of Kangju Kingdom, you have to look at the face of the Yue Clan King.

These Central Asian nomads, who had cut off the head of the ancient Persian king Cyrus, who had caused the defeat of the Persian king Darius's expedition, and who had forced Alexander to wear Central Asian clothes and adopt a policy of gentleness, seemed vulnerable to the nomads from the East, and were willing to submit. The political talent of the Kangju people is not even as good as the surname Zhaowujiu, and the connotation is intriguing.

Of course. Now, 1600 years have passed. What is the specific history. Because there are too few historical materials related to Kangju that have been handed down, they cannot be verified!

Therefore, Liu Dong is now more concerned about what good things are buried in this Kangju royal tomb!

You must know that in historical records, the Kangju people are famous for being good at business, and often go to various places to trade, traveling back and forth to the whole territory of Central Asia. Coupled with the fact that it is located on the Silk Road, the wealth accumulated in the hands must be extremely amazing.

In addition, Kangju is the same as Loulan. It also mysteriously disappeared in the long river of history, no one knows how the Kangju people disappeared, but they also left a lot of wealth like the Loulan people waiting for future generations to discover.

Moreover, compared with Loulan, the rule of Kangju has lasted for more than 500 years, and the scope of its rule is even wider than the current new * Xinjiang, plus Central Asia has been rich in gold since ancient times, so Liu Dong can already imagine that if nothing else, the unexpected discovery of Kangju royal tombs will allow him to obtain extremely rich returns.

Bypass the stele from the left side and come to the back of the stele. It is still depicted in dense ancient Lu scripts, and these ancient Lu scripts record the origin of the Kangju people. And the major events that have happened in the history of Kangju people!

It is less than a thousand words, but it covers the history of the Kangju people for nearly 500 years, and it is obvious that this Kangju royal tomb will be opened often during the hundreds of years of Kangju's existence!

Opposite the back of the stele are two white marble doors with a width of four meters and a height of two and a half meters, the pattern on the stone door, Liu Dong is no stranger at all, and the five-clawed dragon pattern of the relief is completely a symbol of imperial power in Chinese culture.

Obviously, Kangju's culture has also been influenced by Chinese culture.

Walking forward to push the stone gate, as expected, although the stone gate is so heavy that no one person can push it, it is not like in Chinese tombs There are still running stones behind the door!

The reason for this is obviously also to allow future generations to enter it.

Of course, this descendant is not a tomb robber, but a descendant of the Kangju royal family!

"Squeak, squeak......!"

With a piercing grinding sound, Liu Dong forcefully pushed open half of the two heavy stone doors with a thickness of nearly 10 centimeters.

Not surprisingly, another wide passage appeared in front of me.

Compared with the passage that Liu Dong came in from the gargoyle before, this passage is even wider, at least four meters, and the polishing is smoother and smoother.

After walking forward for about 20 meters in the silent stone path, an even larger stone cave appeared under the strong flashlight, but Liu Dong did not think that this was still a stone cave, this was a gorgeous palace, the difference was only that it was located underground.

The palace, which is about 6 meters high, is topped with elaborate reliefs and surrounded by brightly colored frescoes on the walls.

But what is more eye-catching than the mural is that this underground stone hall covering an area of more than 1,000 square meters can almost be said to be a mountain of gold and jade, gold and jade, which is the most famous specialty of Central Asia, and today it has been best interpreted here, all kinds of gold jewelry, gold collars, gold ornaments, and even gold nuggets, as well as various shapes of Hetian jade and Afghan jade made of jade are stacked around the main hall.

Originally, they should have been stored in the wooden box, but now after the wooden box decays, scattered gold and silver jewelry, tooth and horn bone carvings, jade corals, bronze faience and other dazzling precious things cover most of the stone hall!

Of course, in addition to gold and jade, there are fewer other precious things!

However, in addition to the eye-catching gold jewelry, the most conspicuous thing in the aisle when Liu Dong came in was the white marble spirit tent placed in the center of the main hall, which was completely shaped like the Han Buddhist spirit tent, but the height reached the top of the cave, no less than six meters.

And in this six-meter-high, five-meter-long, and three-meter-wide spiritual tent, the dense spiritual position was slowed down.

Liu Dong simply counted, no more, no less, exactly fifty-eight! That is to say, in the 500-year history of Kangju Kingdom, there have been fifty-eight kings!

On the left and right sides of the spiritual tent, above the main hall, there are two huge golden lions with powerful shapes, although most of the ancient gold is impure, but these two golden lions are twice as large as African male lions, each weighing no less than 10 tons!

The worship of lions is clearly influenced by Greco-Roman culture, and it is not surprising that Kangju is located at the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures.

At the beginning of Alexander's crusade, Greek culture also influenced Central Asia!

Therefore, next to the two golden lions, the two three-meter-tall golden warriors holding spears also wore the common cuirasses of Greek warriors, but without the ridiculous helmets like cockscombs!

In addition to these four golden statues, there is also a huge gold case about 150 centimeters high, 80 centimeters wide, and the same length as the spiritual tent in front of the huge white marble spirit tent.

On the long gold table are three gold trays with a diameter of more than 60 centimeters, which are delicately shaped and surrounded by relief animal motifs, inlaid with various ruby sapphires, tortoiseshells and emeralds, and on these three trays are white bones that have almost decayed to ashes.

Of course, it is not a human bone, but a bone like a cow, a horse or a sheep, and a skull.

Seeing the furnishings in front of him, after looking at the contents of the surrounding murals, Liu Dong seemed to have traveled through a thousand years to see the Kangju people who put down three animals when they sacrificed their ancestors, and then put the gold, silver and jade and other tributes they brought aside, and then withdrew from the tomb after holding a grand sacrifice ceremony!

And as time went on, the gold and jewelry in this hall also accumulated more and more, so that it reached the mountain of scenes that Liu Dong saw now.

It is easy to get rich in business, and the amount of gold and silver in the treasure house of the Kangju people, who have guarded the Silk Road for more than 500 years, is no less than the amount of gold and silver for the burial of Qianlong and Cixi that Liu Dong obtained in the dragon vein of the capital last time, and even more!

It's just that compared with the latter, there are more gold ingots and silver ingots, and in this Kangju royal tomb, there are the most various gold and silver objects. The gold coins after BC, including ancient Greek gold coins, ancient Roman gold coins, and gold cakes in the Han Dynasty, are less horseshoe gold!

Even less gold and silver, which can only be used as a general equivalent.

But even if it is less, Liu Dong estimated that it would not be less than fifty tons!

This estimate frightened Liu Dong himself, the wealth monopolized by the Kangju royal family on the Silk Road for more than 500 years is too strong!

But after the surprise is a great satisfaction, these things will be his!

Fortunately, the ancient tomb shipwrecks excavated by Liu Dong are not few, and the concentration is stronger than before. So after the joy, the mood gradually calmed down.

It was only after wandering in the underground palace of Nuoda for a quarter of an hour, and receiving these gold and silver treasures into his mustard seed space, that he looked at the empty hall with satisfaction, bypassed the white marble spirit tent, and entered the passage leading to the deeper part of the tomb at the back.

However, before entering the passage, there is a huge white marble stone gate, the stone door is embossed with exquisite three-headed lion ornaments, and there are two bronze statues of human heads and lions with a height of nearly 3 meters on both sides of the stone gate, arching and guarding the stone gate!

Liu Dong was amazed by the brilliant civilization of the Kangju people more than 1,600 years ago, and even more sighed at the fact that the information handed down by the Kangju country, which has a history of more than 500 years, is really pitiful today!

The civilization created in more than 500 years has almost completely disappeared in the dust of history, so that not even the name of a single king has been handed down in history.

After sighing in his heart, Liu Dong pushed the stone door hard, and with the hoarse friction sound, a stone road four meters wide and three meters high appeared in front of Liu Dong's eyes.

Then the light of the strong flashlight in his hand, you can clearly see the bull's head-style bronze lamps inlaid on the surrounding walls, and the lamps and lanterns are neatly extending into the tunnel that stretches for an unknown length in the dark.

Liu Dong didn't mean to light these bull head lamps, and the visibility of the strong flashlight in his hand was obviously better than that of these ancient bull head lamps.

This time, the stone road was extraordinarily long, and Liu Dong walked nearly thirty meters before a new portal appeared, but it was not the kind of stone cave like the previous sacrificial hall, but more like the ear chamber in the tomb, which was carved into the cave wall on the side of the tomb.

Liu Dong first chose the ear chamber on the left hand, moved the boulder blocking the ear chamber, looked at the black hole, the stone cave with a width of two meters and a height of 3 meters, and strode in. (To be continued......)