Chapter 493: Exploration (Two Chapters in One)

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Yongling is located in the east of the Ming Tombs Mausoleum District, at the southern foot of Yangcui Ridge (Eighteen Daoling), it is the joint burial mausoleum of the eleventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Shizong Zhu Houxi, and the Empress of Xiaojiesu Chen (Yuancheng), the Empress of Xiaolie Fang (from Jiangning), and the Empress Du of Xiaoke (Daxingren).

When approaching Yongling, the road surface is paved with bricks in the city, and after the baptism of wind and rain, the road surface looks a little mottled. The vermilion walls are old in color, and the wooden gates are broken.

Before this, Ye Jianjun had already called, but because he came in a hurry, he didn't know if the other party had arranged it.

After getting out of the car, Yu Fei and others saw that there were four or five local farmers sitting around playing cards in the shelter in the doorway, and the mausoleum of Emperor Jiajing had now become a place for farmers to frolic.

As soon as the three of them stepped through the gate, they heard a man shouting, "You can't enter!" Tours are not allowed here. ”

The person who spoke was sitting on the threshold, with his hands on his sleeves, probably in his fifties, with a majestic face, and it seemed that he should be the keeper of Yongling.

At this moment, a man in his thirties trotted over all the way, shouting as he ran: "Old Qi, these are the leaders of the inspection!" ”

was blocked by the mausoleum guards, Ye Jianjun was a little dissatisfied, and snorted coldly.

"Forget Brother Ye, it was originally too late for us to notice, no wonder others." Yu Fei persuaded.

The man ran to the front and first said to Ye Jianjun: "It's Mr. Ye, right?" I am Lu Shaoming of the Ming Tombs Management Committee, you can call me Xiao Lu. ”

Ye Jianjun's phone call was not to the Ming Tombs Management Committee, but to the State Cultural Relics Protection Committee, and it did take some time to press down layer by layer, so when the three of them arrived, the tomb keepers had not been notified.

Then Lu Shaoming raised his face at Lao Qi and said, "I said Lao Qi, it's such a cold day, why don't you stay in the communication room, what are you running out to catch up?" No one even answered the phone! If there's something urgent. Who is responsible? ”

Lu Shaoming is full of officialdom. Just now he called Lao Qi as soon as he received the notice, but what he didn't expect was that Lao Qi came out to watch someone play cards, but he didn't receive his call. In order not to miss something, Lu Shaoming had to rush here by himself.

"Xiao Lu forget it, Lao Qi is also serious and responsible, no wonder he." Ye Jianjun said lightly. He is older than Lu Shaoming, and he doesn't feel anything when he calls Xiao Lu. But seeing Lu Shaoming reprimanding an elderly man like this, Ye Jianjun felt uncomfortable, so he interrupted.

"Are you taking us to visit Yongling this time?" Ye Jianjun asked again.

In fact, according to Yu Fei's thoughts, he didn't want people to accompany him, but since Ye Jianjun's words had already been spoken, it would not look good to take them back and look bad with him. Fortunately, Yu Fei's chaotic qi couldn't be seen by the naked eye at all. Don't worry about anything.

The completion of Yongling cost a large amount of silver taels from the treasury. According to the record of Ming Shizong, there were 40,000 officers and soldiers of the three major battalions who participated in the construction of Yongling at that time, plus the construction of the new palace and the holy trace pavilion in the first month of the first month of Jiajing (1537), as well as the internal and external projects of the palace. The monthly fee is not less than 300,000 taels.

Therefore, the scale of Yongling is more grand than that of ordinary mausoleums, and it took hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilian workers to build it for more than ten years. Despite this, Sejong was not satisfied, believing that the tomb was too narrow. In order to cater to his psychology, the minister of Xiuling actually built another wall outside the treasure city, so that Yongling has two inner and outer Luo cities.

About the origin of the outer Luo wall. It's kind of funny. From the selection of the site of Yeolneung Mausoleum to its completion, Sejong visited the site 11 times in person, and repeatedly ordered additions and expansions. Yongling not only has a much larger scope than the mausoleums below the Xianling Mausoleum, but also the ground building is very exquisite and magnificent. When Yongling was basically completed, Ming Shizong came to inspect it again. This. He climbed Yangcui Ridge on a whim, and looked at it with his eyes, the grand mausoleum seemed very small in his eyes, and there was only one Ming Tower and Baocheng, so he was unwilling. He turned around and asked the minister who built the mausoleum, "Is my mausoleum finished in this way?" The ministers were very nimble-minded, and as soon as they heard the words, they knew that Sejong was dissatisfied with the mausoleum, and hurriedly replied, "It has not been repaired yet, and there is still an outer wall outside that has not been built." Since then, he has been working day and night to build the city of Wailuo. In this way, among all the mausoleum buildings of the Ming Tombs, only Yongling and later Dingling built Wailuo City, and other mausoleums did not have them.

Today, Wailuo City has completely collapsed, and scattered stones can be seen around Yongling.

From the point of view of the ground building, the shape of Yongling is roughly the same as that of Changling, only the number of rooms of Qi'en Gate and Qi'en Hall is two less than that of Changling. The Ming Tower of the mausoleum brick and stone structure, the holy name tablet with novel shape, the unique design of the Baocheng city platform, and the battlements built with the spotted stone of the treasure city wall, the royal road stone carving of the "dragon and phoenix playing with pearls" pattern of the Qien Hall and the Qien Gate are also not available in the previous tombs.

Most of the above-ground buildings are mostly destroyed today, but the intact Ming Tower remains, which is the most majestic and exquisite of the Ming Tombs. The forehead, cornices, bucket arches, etc. of the Ming building are all stone structures. The Ming floor is painted with color, and the ground is paved with aragonite, and the ice is clear and jade. On the remnant base of the Purification Palace, there is still a majestic stone left, there is a dragon and phoenix carved on it, it is clear and exquisite, it is the masterpiece of the stone carving of the mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty.

The overall building orientation of Yongling Mausoleum is 53 degrees south-west, sitting east and facing west. Wailuo City Gate is a single-eaves type palace gate shape, there are three red coupon gates in total, there are now the remains of the platform base and the ballast in front of the door, and the brick pavement of the middle royal road extends to the mausoleum gate.

The mausoleum gate also has three red coupon doors, the face is wide and shows five rooms, the single eaves rest on the top of the hill building, the gatehouse bucket arch, the forehead, the flying rafters are mixed with stone carving components and glazed components.

Qi'en Gate was originally a single-eaves hilltop building, with five wide faces, three doors, and a stone railing carved with dragon and phoenix patterns around it. There is still a pedestal of the Ming Dynasty Sumeru, and the four-cornered stone carving head is relatively well preserved, but the small mantle head on all sides has been damaged, or even wrapped in the pine and cypress.

There are three vertical stomps in front and back of the door, and all the railings are gone. On the pedestal, there are the pillar foundation stones of the Ming Dynasty and the small pedestal of the Qing Dynasty Shrinking Qienmen, and the pillar foundation stone and the door anvil stone on the small pedestal are intact.

Yongling Ming Lou city platform, a reversal of the previous generation of the shape system, under the city platform there is no coupon road straight through the front and back, but a solid body, change on the left and right sides of the city platform close to the outer wall of the treasure city, set up up to the city platform above the ballast road, and set up a stone gate tower in front of the road.

The shape of the Ming building is a heavy eaves type square pavilion building, and the internal structure adopts a brick coupon roof. Bucket arches, eaves rafters, eaves rafters, forehead and other components are carved with stone, and are covered with literary color. Hanging stone list between the two eaves under the roof of the building, the word "Yongling" is written on it.

The Yongling Ming Building, which is transparent on all sides, is open. It is still the old system of the Ming Dynasty, and the coupon door is opened on all sides, and the vertical belt stamping is set up. The wall is painted red inside and out, and occasionally touches it, and the hands are full of vermilion.

Yongling Holy Monument, the head of the stele is square, the front and back are embossed with two dragons playing with bead patterns, the two sides are moire, and the front seal is the word "Daming". The front of the stele body is written in large characters "Mausoleum of Emperor Sejongsu", and the surrounding column is decorated with a four-fold cloud pattern. The text is old-fashioned. And painted the stele with vermilion lacquer, which is still faintly visible today.

The wall of the treasure city wall is built with city bricks, and the battlements are set up outside, and the brick wall (low wall) is built with bricks in the inner ring. Between the battlements and the wall is a brick horse path. The inside of the city is filled with loess, forming a mound of sealed earth that rises above the top of the city. The loess is generally taken from a little closer outside the mausoleum area, such as the southwest of the mausoleum near the small red gate, there is the soil hall of the Ming Dynasty to take the soil, and the freight rate of the loess is also expensive, in the Wanli period of the "Ministry of Industry Factory Warehouse Instructions" in the collection of the recital, there is a record of "the loess is worth more than ten gold per side".

Treasure City. It refers to a ring of city walls built around the sealed soil of the tomb, which is generally circular or oval, and plays a protective role in the tomb. The treasure top refers to the piling up of another layer of sealed soil in the middle of the tomb sealing soil, so that it is significantly higher than the surface of the tomb, which is usually called the tomb head. Treasure City. It is organically unified with the square courtyard in front of the mausoleum, representing the architectural concept of "the sky is round and the place is round".

After Lu Shaoming's introduction, everyone knew that many infrared monitoring probes were installed in Yongling. There is one in about 20 steps, from the top of the treasure to the outside of the gate. There are also special supervisors inside. If there is a tomb robber who wants to make an idea in Yongling, as long as he moves the shovel, the supervisor will fluctuate. Don't worry about sleeping at night, there is an alarm next to his bed. Lao Qi proudly said that more than 20 years have passed, and the alarm has not sounded.

Because Yongling is not open to the public, most of the people who come here are experts or tourists with some background, and it seems very quiet. And Master Qi's work is actually very easy.

Because no one has visited Yongling for a long time, no one has cleaned it, and there are a lot of weeds growing in it, which have been withered by frost and snow, coupled with the swishing cold wind, it looks more and more depressed and dilapidated. It seems that you can see the back of the rise and fall of the dynasty.

"I said, Yu Fei, why do you have to come to this place? Look at the tattered here, what's so good about it? Ye Jianjun complained. I secretly wondered why I came with him with a fever in my brain, I knew that I should have made a phone call to arrange it, and I went to the Dongtian Club to blow the heat, accompanied by the chick, and drank foreign wine, how comfortable is this? Isn't it much stronger than the eerie cold wind blowing here?

"I said Brother Ye, how can you become a big collector with your attitude?" Yu Fei said with a smile: "Everything in this is the remains of predecessors, and in the eyes of archaeologists, they are all great treasures. ”

"Come less." Ye Jianjun is not so easy to fool: "On such a day, I haven't seen a few archaeological experts running here to blow the northwest wind, but I have seen a few unlucky guys!" What kind of wind did you think I smoked just now? Why did I want to accompany you? ”

Yu Fei and Ye Jianjun teased each other here, while Lu Shaoming and Qi Zhi from the Ming Tombs Management Office were secretly enjoying themselves.

In fact, Yu Fei's heart was very excited. He knew if the "Yongle Canon" was sleeping in Yongling, and it would soon come to fruition. If this set of national treasures can be seen again, it will be of great significance to the Chinese nation.

Yu Fei felt that what Luan Minggui said was very reasonable from beginning to end, and from all indications, it was very likely that the "Yongle Canon" existed in Yongling.

He didn't know why those experts and scholars were discussing and discussing, wouldn't it be enough to dig directly?

Of course, in his eyes, he will not understand that it is true that the "Yongle Grand Canon" is a national treasure, but Yongling itself is also a great national treasure. The excavation of Yongling will definitely cause damage, if the "Yongle Canon" is in the Yongling, it is good to say, if the "Yongle Canon" is not in the Yongling, then the excavation will not only not be rewarded, but will also destroy the Yongling, causing irreversible losses.

"What are you doing kid in a daze? Hurry. Ye Jianjun saw that Yu Fei slowed down, and couldn't help urging. Because he has been staying in the heated house, Ye Jianjun is wearing a little thin, and he can't help but feel a little cold when he is blown by the wind at this time, so he wants to finish the visit as soon as possible and go back.

"Okay, come on." Yu Fei agreed, and at the same time, the chaotic qi was sent to the limit. Suddenly, the entire Yongling Tomb was in Fei's eyes......

"Xiao Lu, is there really anyone in this hellish place?" Ye Jianjun asked Lu Shaoming. In his opinion, this place is really not attractive.

"Mr. Ye. You don't know that. There are many people who want to visit Yongling! Lu Shaoming said: "The Ming Tombs is a classic of Kyoto's scenic spots, tourists who come to Kyoto must come to the Ming Tombs, and now there are about 20,000 receptions every day." Because Yongling is not open to the public, there are many people looking for various relationships to come and see. In fact, in terms of layout, it is generally the same. It's just that some mausoleums are larger and some are smaller. ”

Ye Jianjun nodded, this may be the so-called starvation therapy.

"Mr. Ye, if you want to come to Yongling again next time, just come directly." Lu Shaoming said. The person who called him explained that Mr. Ye's identity is special, so he must be entertained.

"You place, you won't come next time you invite me." Ye Jianjun waved his hand and said.

The chaotic qi entered the Yongling underground palace under the urging of Fei, and soon, some funerary goods with a strong chaotic aura came into Yu Fei's eyes, many of which were rare national treasures. At this time. They all sleep in the dark dungeon.

The protection of the Ming Tombs is very tight, especially among the Yongling Tombs.

Of course, although these antiques made Yu Fei feel very sorry, what he cared about at that time was still the whereabouts of the "Yongle Canon".

In order not to miss something, Yu Fei probed very slowly. So as not to leave regrets.

Although Yongling was large, it was quickly completed under the ultra-efficient detection of Chaos Qi.

"No?!" Yu Fei was a little stupid.

I explored it, but where is the shadow of "Yongle Canon"?

Could it be that there is a problem with Luan Minggui's inference, and the "Yongle Canon" is not in Yongling at all?

Yu Fei was not reconciled, and used the chaotic qi to probe again, and then the third time!

But no matter how hard he tried, even the distance he probed had stretched to the limit. Far beyond the scope of Yongling, no trace of the original copy of the Yongle Grand Ceremony has been found!

Yu Fei was a little stupid. I thought that the investigation was nine out of ten, and it turned out to be such a result?!

The original copy of the "Yongle Canon" is not in Yongling, so where is it? Is it true that it has been completely destroyed as the legend says?

Yu Fei was very unwilling, but he was helpless.

"Dumbo? Dumbo? Ye Jianjun shouted twice, and Yu Fei came back to his senses.

"Huh?! Brother Ye, do you call me? Yu Fei said.

"What are you doing kid in a daze? I thought you were possessed by a demon, and your face was pale and pale. Ye Jianjun said angrily.

"How so?" Yu Fei smiled reluctantly,

"It's not going to be the best." Ye Jianjun said: "When are you going to go back?" ”

"Let's go now." Yu Fei said. Because the whereabouts of the original copy of the "Yongle Canon" have not been found. Yu Fei's mood was a little low.

"Okay!" As soon as he heard Yu Fei say that he would go back now, Ye Jianjun immediately became happy.

"Who, Xiao Lu, we'll go back now." Ye Jianjun turned around and walked outside.

Lu Shaoming immediately followed.

At this moment, a bell and drum sounded. A winter afternoon gives a sense of tranquility and stability.

"Is there a temple around here?" Yu Fei asked strangely.

"Oh, there is such a small temple, I heard that it has something to do with the royal family of the Ming Dynasty before." Lu Shaoming said, "But now it's not good, the incense is not prosperous, and it can't be done, so I can only close it down." ”

"Going out of business?" Yu Fei felt incredible, the first time he heard that the temple had also closed down.

"Is this temple far from here?" Yu Feiyou asked. I don't know why, he suddenly had a ** that wanted to find out about this temple.

"It's not far, it's only a twenty-minute drive from here." Lu Shaoming said: "But I heard that the temple will be demolished soon, and it is said that it is going to build supporting tourism facilities for the Ming Tombs." ”

Now tourism is hot, especially popular attractions such as the Ming Tombs, and corresponding supporting facilities will be established around it, such as hotels, restaurants, farmhouses and so on.

It is also normal to demolish a temple without incense.

"Brother Ye, let's go and have a look if we stop by." Yu Fei said lightly. Originally, he still had a lot of respect for Buddhism, but the temples in China had to collect money at every turn, what to ask for incense, what to make a wish, what to donate merit, one set of one, bluffing people stunned, so Yu Fei didn't have much feeling for most of the temples in China. I don't know what's wrong this time, but I want to take the initiative to take a look.

"What's so nice about a temple that is about to be demolished?" Ye Jianjun really couldn't figure out what Yu Fei thought, how could he be interested in these things like an old man?!

"Oh, Brother Ye, it's hard to come on such a trip, it's hard to say whether you will come in the future, how about going to take a look?" Yu Fei said with a smile.

"Alright, alright, whatever you want, anyway, I'm on your thief ship today. You have to hurry up, I have to go back early, or the old man will go crazy again. Ye Jianjun said slightly depressed.

Of course, Yu Fei understands that what Ye Jianjun said about the old man's madness is simply a pretext, he has been grounded at home for a long time, and he wants to go out and have fun. However, he smiled slightly, and did not debunk it.

The three of them left Yongling and drove to find the small temple under the guidance of Lu Shaoming.

Seeing this temple, Yu Fei and the others finally understood why they didn't find it when they came before.

The scale of this temple is indeed small. Looking at the rocks around the temple, you can guess that this temple may have been a very large temple before, at that time because of disrepair, many buildings have collapsed, and now there is a large hall left, and there are several monks' houses, no longer the original appearance.

"Look, look, you've seen it all. What's there to see here? Ye Jianjun said impatiently. The temples all over the country are roughly laid out, and there are so many Buddhas enshrined, I really don't know why Yu Fei wants to come here to go around such a circle.

"It's all here, just go in and say goodbye." Yu Fei said: "If you don't worship when you pass by the temple, the Buddha will blame." ”

Yu Fei walked in first, and Ye Jianjun and Qi Zhi had no choice but to follow in.

There were no people in the temple, let alone tourists, not even monks.

Seeing Yu Fei and others walking in, the monks turned a blind eye and no one came to receive them.

However, this situation made Yu Fei feel very comfortable, he hated to make the temple a profit-making place, and the monks in it were like promoters, talking in a way.