Because of the current drought in the northwest, the money and food needed by the imperial court for disaster relief cannot be taken out, so they can only go to the clan tyrants to fight the autumn wind. At present, in order to raise money and food for disaster relief, the emperor is even more to gag the mouths of some people. After Taizong moved the capital, he buried the Gongyi Emperor's mausoleum area of the previous emperors of Daqi since Taizong, and the construction of his own longevity tomb project was stopped.

Originally, because of Huang Qiong's emperor Laozi, his body and bones have always been quite good, and the project of Shouling has not progressed fast. It was not until the beginning of the year that the queen was critically ill several times that the progress of construction was accelerated. The construction of the imperial mausoleum itself is a complicated project, even if the progress is being accelerated, but there is no one for a year and a half, and it can't even be completed.

At present, because of the temporary suspension of work, even one-third of the project in Shouling has not been completed. Therefore, although the underground palace has been completed, only half of the treasure top and the Ming Tower have been built. Therefore, Empress Daxing's Zi Palace, even if it is transported to the imperial tomb, cannot be buried in the underground palace for the time being.

It could only be temporarily placed outside the feng shui wall of the imperial mausoleum, because Emperor Duanzong died suddenly before he could build his own Shou Mausoleum. The enthroned Emperor Lizong could not bury his brother hastily because of the etiquette system. In order to store the azusa palace where there is nowhere to live in the emperor for the time being, the funeral palace was built.

According to the so-called ancestral system of this dynasty, the emperor and queen died in Beijing, all kings, princesses and horses, ministers and officials above the fifth grade, and tasteful concubines must be sent to the imperial tomb. As one of the kings in Beijing, Huang Qiong naturally cannot violate the ancestral system. Although it is impossible to be buried for the time being, it has to follow the send-off team and send it to the funeral palace outside the imperial mausoleum in Gongyi before returning.

Fortunately, Huang Qiong studied archaeology in college in her previous life, and her career after graduation, so she has always had an unusual interest in ancient Chinese imperial tombs. And since I found out that I came to this era inexplicably, I am extremely curious about the imperial tomb in this life.

After all, in his previous life, although China has a history of thousands of years, the emperor who is justified and unjustified has a sufficient number of reinforced battalions. The number of emperors is large, even if those who have no imperial tombs and are just hastily buried by the dead monarchs, the number of imperial tombs in the past dynasties is actually not much.

Because most dynasties in the past advocated thick burials, the king paid more attention to treating death as life. These imperial tombs were often built too ornately and were accompanied by large sums of priceless treasures. Therefore, after the fall of the dynasty, it became the first target of tomb robbers. Even when the world was in turmoil, it was organized and destroyed by the government.

These imperial tombs, not to mention that the above-ground buildings have long been wiped out, or the underground is intact, and there are very few that have not been stolen. Even if there are many anti-theft methods, they can't stop tomb robbers with the same many means. What's more, some imperial tombs were simply excavated directly by some warlords organized by the army.

Huang Qiong did this in his previous life, and he knew that almost all of China's imperial tombs were already ten tombs and nine empty, except for a few ones. In addition to the Ming and Qing Dynasty emperors' tombs are still largely preserved, the Ming Dynasty emperors' tombs that are too close to the big cities, as well as those that are either too strong to dig, or because the secret burial does not make any marks on the ground, can escape the catastrophe, basically have not been stolen.

Among the remaining imperial tombs, there are only stone statues that are too bulky and ignored, and tall tombs, which are accompanied by the imperial tomb, which is actually empty. And these organized tomb robbers, in addition to excavating the emperor's tomb, often set fire to cover up the evidence of the crime, and burned down the equally magnificent buildings on the ground.

Being able to see the imperial tombs of this era, especially the imperial tombs that are different from the Ming and Qing emperors' tombs that I saw in my previous life, what it looks like is still very attractive to Huang Qiong. Therefore, because he was a concubine along the way, he was not allowed to ride a horse or a sedan chair, and he could only follow the team on foot, although it was a little harder, but Huang Qiong's spirit was far more spiritual than when he was keeping.

In my previous life, I studied archaeology when I was in college. After graduating, and engaged in underground work for many years, Huang Qiong still has some understanding of the general structure of the tombs of Chinese emperors. Of course, all he knew in his previous life was something that he guessed based on archaeological excavations. The real thing, at least in a previous life, could never have been seen.

After returning to this life, he looked forward to seeing the whole picture of the Tang Tomb, the most magnificent imperial mausoleum in Chinese history. It's just that although the Tang Tombs are in Chang'an, in the northwest, he can't go for the time being. But Huang Qiong thought that since this dynasty inherited the Tang Dynasty, then the mausoleum system should also be copied from the former Tang Dynasty.

After all, although the imperial mausoleum system has changed according to its own situation, the inheritance between each other is still very large. As he knew, at this time, the imperial mausoleum of the Northern Song Dynasty should have appeared, although the scale was far inferior to the Tang Tomb, but the general architectural situation still did not change greatly, basically continuing the imperial mausoleum building regulations of the former Tang Dynasty.

Since the imperial tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty, which were supposed to appear in this time and space, have not changed much according to the considerations, the imperial tombs of this dynasty should also be in accordance with the Tang system. It was only when he came to the imperial mausoleum in Gongyi that Huang Qiong discovered that the mausoleum system of this dynasty was fundamentally different from the former Tang Dynasty described in the books of his previous life in his memory.

Originally, in the ground building of the Han and Tang Dynasty imperial tombs, the large-scale lower palace has long been canceled, and only the upper palace building of worship and worship has been retained and expanded. The entire Gongyi Mausoleum area is centered on the Taizong Mausoleum, and the rest of the imperial mausoleums are distributed on both sides of the Taizong Mausoleum according to the position of Zhaomu. The entire mausoleum complex, although the momentum is equally magnificent, is almost no different from the Ming and Qing emperors' tombs that I saw in my previous life.

Even the architectural structure, there is not much difference. The layout of each mausoleum is circular in front and back. In front of each mausoleum is a stone memorial arch, behind which are three stone hole bridges, and behind the bridge are the stele pavilion of divine merit and sainthood and the mausoleum gate. There is a platform in front of the mausoleum, and there are five rooms for the kitchen and the library. In the back is the gate of Qi'en and the temple of Qi'en, and behind the palace of Qi'en is the square city and the treasure top.

And the top of the treasure is not covered with buckets in the Han and Tang dynasties, and it is the same as the Ming and Qing imperial tombs I saw in my previous life, all of which are round.

It's too similar, except for a slight difference in architectural style, the customization and specifications are almost exactly the same as the Ming Tombs in the previous life. It's just that there are no stone five offerings, whether there are light walls and dumb courtyards and Lingxing Gates under the treasure roof, these buildings that can't be seen from the outside, Huang Qiong doesn't know.

Because these imperial tombs are his ancestors for Huang Qiong in this life. Don't look at him as a prince, but you can't enter without following the holy decree. Even if it is an annual memorial, it can only be the emperor. If the emperor is not in good health, or if he can't come because of other things, he will at least send the crown prince.

If there is no crown prince, then the emperor sent that prince to worship the tomb, which is basically equivalent to actually establishing a prince. It is precisely because of the importance of entering the imperial tomb that the consequences of entering without a holy decree will be very serious. Even if he, the prince, entered the imperial tomb without authorization, even if the emperor did not pursue the others, at least one crime of transgression could not be escaped.

Therefore, what Huang Qiong can see is only the appearance, and he can't see the real details. But just the appearance of these imperial tombs is enough to make Huang Qiong not ordinary shocked. As for the mausoleum building, whether there are stone five offerings, dumb courtyards, and Lingxing Gate are no longer important to him.

Looking at Huang Qiong, when he saw these magnificent and huge imperial tombs, he showed an expression like a fool entering the city and seeing something new for the first time. King Yong walked up to him and told him that these imperial tombs were all built in imitation of Emperor Taizu's imperial tomb in Chang'an. It's just that in terms of specifications, it's just a slight reduction.

From the mausoleum gate to the square city behind, the height and width have been reduced by half, and the Ming Tower has also been changed from three holes to one hole in the mausoleum of Taizu, and the regulation of the treasure top has also been reduced by three percent. In addition to the Taizong Mausoleum, the rest of the tombs have also been reduced from nine rooms to seven. From five rooms deep, it was reduced to three. The number of gargoyles has been reduced from sixteen to twelve.

At that time, the mausoleum of Emperor Taizu was built by the king of Guilin. Therefore, the king of Guilin not only became the first of the founding heroes, but also the founder of the mausoleum of the emperors of the Great Qi Dynasty. It's just that when the imperial tomb was built, the remnants of the former Tang Dynasty were still entrenched in Xishu, and there was nowhere to cut down Nanmu, so the Nanmu pillars and beams in the imperial tomb were changed to stone.

After listening to King Yong's words, Huang Qiong's brows furrowed deeply. He never thought that the imperial tombs of this dynasty did not copy the Han and Tang Dynasty customizations. Instead, the Ming and Qing imperial tombs hundreds of years later, to be precise, the imperial tombs of the Ming Dynasty, were almost copied intact. Even with the Shouling Shinto, as the only Shinto in the Imperial Mausoleum area, the feng shui wall built outside the mausoleum area has not changed.

The only difference is that after the imperial tombs of the Ming Dynasty, the first mausoleum was set up with stone statues, and the rest of the imperial tombs did not set up stone statues. The imperial tombs of this dynasty have their own stone statues. Moreover, the architectural situation of the Qi'en Hall and the Qi'en Gate is more in line with the current architectural style.

These are almost the only differences. If you don't understand the difference between the architecture of the late Tang Dynasty and the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty, it is easy for people to have a sense of time confusion when they first see these imperial tombs. It is thought that the Ming and Qing imperial tombs distributed in northern China also traveled to the Central Plains hundreds of years ago.

Before thinking of it, my mother told me that the reason why the king of Guilin was able to win the battle of Tongzhou was by collecting copper coins to cast cannons. As well as the various styles of the king of Guilin who successively launched the method of roasting tea and drying salt, and united a group of founding nobles to set up Wuwei Qianzhuang, Huang Qiong's heart couldn't help but move.

It is important to know that the tradition of building imperial tombs in ancient times is very important. Since Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, the upper and lower palaces continued until the founding emperor who herded cattle and became a monk ascended the throne, and there were large-scale revisions. Before the great change of the monk emperor, the Yuan Dynasty had always adopted the traditional secret burial method, and did not build the imperial tomb at all.

Of course, there were also several dynasties during the period, not so much to pay attention to thin burials, but to ensure that their imperial tombs were complete and not to be peeped at by those tomb robbers with great powers. Even the top of the treasure is unwilling to rise, and instead adopts a system of not sealing or trees. But it didn't last long, and the construction of lavish mountains was still the mainstream. The upper and lower palace system has always been a traditional system for the construction of imperial tombs in China.

If there are no changes in the period of more than 100 years, the secret burial system of the rulers born outside the Cypriot will change the traditional culture. Even the emperor who has changed China for almost thousands of years, and the political tradition of abolishing the consul general and prime minister, may not change. You must know that the system of the upper and lower palaces of the imperial tombs is another copy of the ancient Chinese palace system of facing and sleeping in the back. Treating death as life is the first priority of Chinese dynasties in building imperial tombs.