Chapter 896: Marco Polo's Travels

Laizi nodded and added: "Of course, it may be true that Genghis Khan begged for a beautiful woman, but the way of death is likely to be maliciously slandered by later generations." ”

Zhang Meng smiled slightly, this kind of historical slander has long been commonplace. Even Chen Shou can have a grudge against the Zhuge family, and ridicule Zhuge Liang in "Three Kingdoms", not to mention wild history.

"The second argument is even more nonsense." Lai Zi continued: "The second way of dying is that Genghis Khan was particularly afraid of thunder and lightning because he was angry with his mother and caused his mother to die, so he was particularly afraid of thunder and lightning, and in the summer of 1227, Genghis Khan strayed into a minefield and was struck by lightning and died. ”

"It's not out of the question." The pheasant looked at Zhang Meng's shocked expression and explained: "More than ten years ago, such lightning strikes often occurred in our northeastern countryside, and people didn't know much about lightning protection at that time. ”

"Oh." Zhang Meng nodded, the development of the times cannot be viewed according to his common sense in Hong Kong.

"The third theory is that he was trampled to death by a horse." Lai Zi said: "In the "Secret History of the Mongols" compiled by the Mongols, it is recorded that 'Genghis lived for the winter, hunted and rode a red sand horse, and was frightened by the wild horse, and Genghis Khan fell from his horse. After falling from his horse, he was trampled on by the horse behind him and died. But this statement, I don't believe it very much, although those who drown are water, but Genghis Khan is a battle-hardened general after all, and the probability of falling from a horse is as small as a thunderbolt, not to mention, he still has a pro-guard army by his side......"

"The fourth kind of middle arrow theory is more acceptable to Chinese and foreign people." Lai Zi said: "When Genghis Khan was just conquering Western Xia, he was hit with a poisoned arrow in the knee, and it was finally fatal. This statement is also mentioned in the book of the traveler Marco Polo. ”

"Then this is a war death, it should be a good death, right?" Zhang Meng asked: "Even our Han generals advocate the return of horse leather shrouds, and Mongolia is no exception, right?" ”

"Hmm." Laizi nodded: "The last theory is the conspiracy poisoning theory." Because Genghis Khan became more and more dissatisfied with his eldest son Ogedei, and wanted to change the establishment of Tuolei to the storage of Khan, Ogedai in order to maintain his khan position, when he drank with Genghis Khan, he poisoned Genghis Khan to death. This is a bit of a succession. However, these five ways of death are all related to Genghis Khan's last expedition to Western Xia! ”

"I think this Genghis Khan is really old and improper, and he would rather die than be romantic." The fat man rubbed his hands and laughed.

"That's why I'd rather die than die, and I'm also a ghost." Faced with the fat man's miserable statement, Zhao San shook his head and sighed again and again: "I said, what have you learned from Lai Zi for so many years?" ”

"What have you learned?" Seeing Zhao San mocking himself, the fat man's cheeks twitched: "You go to the tomb, which time is not my best contribution." ”

"Gotcha, gotcha." Zhao San hurriedly waved his hand and said helplessly: "Alas, that's all you have to do." ”

"Old bandit, it's uncomfortable for you not to run me for a day, isn't it?"

Seeing an old man and a young man fighting beside him, Zhang Meng and Lai Zi's nervous mood was relieved.

Zhang Meng thought about it even more, and asked: "Brother Laizi, then in this way, the Mongols hate this Western Xia Kingdom and the Western Xia princess to the core?" ”

"Of course." Lai Zi squinted his eyes and said, "Do you know why the party civilization in Western Xia perished? That is, after the Mongol iron cavalry broke the city, they obeyed the last orders of Genghis Khan and destroyed this qiē by slaughtering the city. No one knows exactly how many people died. ”

"How much is that?"

"There are 800,000 ...... to say the least"

"it." Hearing the numbers given by Laizi, Zhang Meng, who has always been very educated and doesn't swear much, couldn't help but scold.

"What is this?" The fat man looked accustomed to it: "When did the Mongol iron cavalry break the city and not a large-scale massacre?" This is a deterrent; The second is the reward. Even now, when Westerners mention the iron hooves of the Mongols, they still have lingering palpitations. Fortunately, we have a lot of Han people, so we can continue. ”

"They were so cruel in life, are they also extremely cruel after death?" Zhang Meng asked.

"Who knows!" The fat man replied, "However, I have heard that no tomb of the Yuanmeng Emperor has been unearthed until now. I think these guys knew that they had done too much evil in their lives, and they were uneasy after death, so they had to be buried secretly, and as for the funeral goods, they didn't ...... estimates."

Listening to the fat man's nagging, Zhang Meng realized that there were really no Mongolian treasures unearthed in his impression.

Seeing Zhang Meng looking at him, Lai Zi nodded: "What the fat man said is right, in Chinese history, China's royal mausoleums mainly include the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Lintong, Xi'an, the Han and Tang Tombs in Shaanxi, the Song Mausoleum in Henan, the Ming Filial Piety Mausoleum in Nanjing, the Ming Tombs in Beijing, and the Three Tombs outside the Guanwai in the Qing Dynasty. The only thing missing is this Yuanling that has been inherited for nearly a hundred years! ”

"Not a single Yuan tomb has been found?" Zhang Meng asked in surprise.

Lai Zi shook his head and said, "Recently, I found a tomb of a Yuanmeng nobleman. In Zhangjiakou, the owner of the tomb was Kublai Khan's son-in-law, Kolijis. ”

"This is also a relative of the imperial family." Zhao San nodded beside him.

Lady Na also said: "The discovery of this ancient tomb, as you know, fills the gap in my country's tombs in Yuanmeng. ”

"Blank?" Yoriko shook her head, seemingly disagreeing with Lady's statement.

"Why, doesn't that tomb have a reference value?" Zhang Meng asked.

"Hmm." Lai Zi nodded: "I once secretly went to see that tomb, although the scale of the tomb is grand, but in general, it is still the style of our Han tomb." The three coffins are juxtaposed, the seven-star layout, and some funerary goods, which is simply a Han tomb. ”

Regarding Raiko's response, Lady Na nodded without refuting.

"Isn't that any reference value?" Zhang Meng asked.

"It's not like nothing at all." Raiko added: "At that time, I found that the main coffin of the tomb was very strange, it was a coffin made of cutting open a giant tree, and it was not like the coffin we had specially built. Of course, the two concubines who accompanied the burial used artificial coffins. ”

"Is this a continuation of the prairie tree burial?" Zhang Meng remembered what Lai Zi had said before and asked in a low voice.

"It's possible."

"But it's very strange, according to the historical chronology, Yuanmeng has also been a hundred years old in the history of our country, plus the previous fifty years of Genghis Khan's father and son's reign, this time span has a history of one hundred and fifty years, how could it disappear out of thin air?" Zhang Meng asked.

"Damn, it's not going to be buried abroad, is it?" The fat man hurriedly said: "They are all over the Eurasian continent, and it is possible to bury them anywhere." ”

"Impossible." Without waiting for Lai Zi to open his mouth, he listened to Lady Na say: "Whether it is the history of the Mongol Empire in the early stage, or the history of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, changing the name of the era to the queen of the Yuan, the symbolic center of power of the entire Mongol Empire is in the capital of Yuan, which is today's Beijing. The emperors of the Yuan Dynasty were the nominal greatest khans of the Mongol Empire! ”

"But when Kublai Khan changed the name of the country to Yuan, the four khanates had already broken away from the rule of Yuan and Mongolia."

It can only be said that the lords of the four khanates may be buried elsewhere, but the central emperor of Yuan and Mongolia will only be buried here. Lady retorted, "They don't forget their roots, do they?" What's more, don't forget, Westerners hate Mongolian iron horses far more than we do. ”

"It's true, in terms of inclusiveness and cultural integration, they are really inferior to us." The fat man rarely agreed with Lady Na's opinion.

"Then there is no clue about Genghis Khan's tomb?" Zhang Meng said.

"There have been roughly four theories about the specific location of Genghis Khan's burial site over the years." Laizi said: "We take this route roughly with reference to the second statement. ”

"Oh?"

"One is Liupan Mountain in the six territories of Ningxia, which was near Liupan Mountain when Genghis Khan died during the attack on Western Xia. According to the custom that Mongolians should be disposed of within three days of their death, most archaeologists believe that this kind of burial in situ is the most likely. ”

"According to the character of the grassland people, this burial method is not impossible!" The fat man said, "Aren't we in the wrong place?" ”

"What you can guess, other Tufuzi can't guess?" Zhao San patted the fat man and said with a smile: "I look at this brain-using thing, so you should worry less about it." ”

"As the third uncle, I think so too." Lai Zi shrugged: "I have been to Liupan Mountain, where there are many robbery caves left by Tufuzi, and it is unlikely that there will be a tomb of Genghis Khan." ”

"What about the other three?"

The second tomb is recorded in the notes of the literati of the Southern Song Dynasty, after Genghis Khan died of illness in Western Xia, his body was transported to a place at the foot of Kent Mountain in Mobei and buried in a deep pit on the surface. His body was stored in a single wooden coffin. The so-called single-plank coffin is a section of the tree that is cut off and hollowed out in the middle to make a coffin. After the coffin is buried, the tomb soil is backfilled, and then 'ten thousand horses are flattened'. Laizi said: "Of course, this one is the least reliable. ”

"Hmm."

As for Laizi's conclusion, everyone agrees.

The secret burial of Yuan and Meng, the tomb that even the Yuan and Mongolian nobles did not know, how could the literati of the Southern Song Dynasty of the hostile forces know? There should be more slander in it.

"The third place is in the Altay Mountains in northern Xinjiang." Lai Zi continued: "At first, it was an archaeologist who discovered a man-made mountain near Xinjiang, and it was speculated that it was probably the burial tomb of Genghis Khan. ”

"That's, isn't it?" Fat man at a glance.

"The proof is 'The Travels of Marco Polo'." Lai Zi smiled: "Marco Polo recorded in his book that on the way to transport the monarch's coffin to Altay Mountain, the escort would take all the people he met along the way as martyrs. But to be honest, although it is rumored that the history of Yuanmeng martyrdom is very prevalent, among the known Yuanmeng tombs, no large-scale burials have been found, and most of them are the grassland stone people we met before. However, this does not mean that the Yuanmeng Emperor will not adopt the martyrdom system, after all, until now, we have not found a real tomb of the Yuanmeng Emperor......"

"Then we should go there! What the hell are you doing here? The fat man pouted.

"Huh."

Looking at Zhang Meng's smile, the fat man also knew that he was talking nonsense again, if there was really a tomb in that artificial mountain, the government would have protected it a long time ago, and the location of Genghis Khan's tomb had already been announced, how could there be no news until now?