At the four corners of each coffin in the Yuling underground palace, there is a Longshan stone weighing hundreds of catties, which firmly fixes the coffin on the coffin bed. The quadrangular tenon sticking out of the lower part of Longshan stone has a thin root and a thick head. The tenon is inserted into the rectangular eye on the stone coffin bed, and pushes it to the square eye that communicates next to it, and because this square eye is small and large, the Longshan stone is firmly fixed on the coffin bed. Longshan stone is carved with longitudinal and transverse grooves. The vertical edge of the coffin is stuck in the longitudinal groove of Longshan stone, and the horizontal edge edge that stretches out at the bottom of the coffin is clamped by the horizontal groove of Longshan stone, so that the coffin can neither be raised, nor can it move back and forth, left and right. However, when Sun Dianying's bandits entered the Yuling underground palace, they found that Emperor Qianlong's coffin was not on the coffin bed, but against the fourth stone door. Since the four corners of the coffin are firmly pressed by the Longshan stone, how can it float? So far, it is incomprehensible.

The Mystery of the Stone Pillars

Now the first three stone gates of the Yuling underground palace are each supported by four huge quadrangular stone pillars, with a total of 12 stone pillars. At a glance, it is clear that these pillars did not exist originally, but were added later. If there were stone pillars, the huge coffin would not have been able to enter the underground palace at all.

Why are these pillars being topped, and when are they topped? If we look closely, we will find that the upper threshold and above of the first three stone doors have different degrees of cracks with door hairpins, and the first stone door is particularly serious. If the necessary measures are not taken, the consequences will be dire. Among the 12 stone pillars, the two inside the first stone gate and the eight of the second and third stone gates were all supported by the ancient construction team of the Qing Dongling Cultural Relics Management Office in 19**. And the two stone pillars on the outside of the first stone gate. The date of the summit is unknown.

In 1928, when Sun Dian's bandit army robbed the mausoleum, it would not support the stone pillars. Was it the Tanglin Aftermath Minister sent by Puyi? This is very unlikely. Because during the aftermath of Tanglin, everyone made a detailed diary, and even some trivial things were recorded, but they did not mention anything about the stone pillars. When the Yuling Underground Palace was opened in 1975, these two stone pillars already existed, and they were not supported by the Qing Dongling Cultural Relics Depository.

In this way, the two stone pillars can only be relics of the Qing Dynasty, and they can only be supported in the days after Qianlong was buried in the underground palace and before the tunnel was filled. Because in July of the fourth year of Jiaqing (1799) before Qianlong's burial, when building the slope ground in the tunnel of the Yuling Underground Palace, it was planned to build rammed earth, but the minister in charge of the project, Mianjiao, found that "there are two cracks and diagonal lines on the Heng'an stone sill above the first layer of stone gate". In order to avoid the earthquake, he asked the emperor to change the construction of rammed earth to brick paving, which formed the brick paving of the tunnel that we see today.

There are cracks on the sill of the stone gate, and Emperor Jiaqing will not ignore it. However, after the burial of Emperor Qianlong, Mianyi, Hongqian, Teqing, and Chenglin did not mention the stone pillars in their reports to Emperor Jiaqing on the "repair and filling of the Yuling Yuangong Gate Tunnel and the construction of the glazed shadow wall". Is there no support at all, or is it because of the small matter, there is no need to write into the fold? We don't know.

Exactly when these two stone pillars were supported is still a mystery.

The mystery of the coffin top door

In 1928, when Sun Dianying's bandit army was robbing and excavating the Yuling underground palace, they successfully opened the first three stone gates. But the fourth stone gate could not be opened in any way, so he angrily blew it open with explosives. After entering the gold ticket, it turned out that there was a huge coffin against the stone door. Later, the skull of Emperor Qianlong was found from this coffin, and I knew that the coffin at the top door was Emperor Qianlong's. When Puyi sent the aftermath minister to bury the remains of Yuling, he rearranged the inner coffin of Emperor Qianlong in the middle of the coffin bed in the front, and buried the bones of the first emperor and the three concubines into the coffin. But in 1975, when the Qing Dongling Cultural Relics Depository opened the underground palace, it was the inner coffin of Emperor Qianlong who resisted the stone door.

Why did Emperor Qianlong's coffin stand against the stone gate both times? The stagnant water in the underground palace mainly seeps out from the cracks in the stones. The gently rising water surface will not produce waves and currents, let alone the force of impact. Therefore, the stagnant water in the underground palace will not wash the coffin of Emperor Qianlong down the coffin. The mystery of the top door of Qianlong's coffin. It's incredible.

However, what is even more incredible is Qianlong's Nine Dragons Sword.

Cursed Sword!

The owner died unexpectedly.

Nine Dragons Sword, the sword is five feet long, the hilt is extraordinarily long, nine golden dragons are carved on it, the sword body is brilliant, extremely sharp, the hair can be broken, and the iron is sharpened like mud. The scabbard is made of precious shark skin and set with ruby sapphires and diamonds, making it a priceless scabbard. Emperor Qianlong couldn't put down the "Nine Dragons Sword", carried it with him, and before his death, he willed this sword to be buried and never separated.

In 1939, Sun Dianying handed over the "Nine Dragons Sword" to Dai Li, the chief of the Kuomintang military command, and handed it over to Chiang Kai-shek. Dai Li's sword was indeed a rare treasure, but because he still had to go to the Central Plains to inspect, he summoned Ma Hansan, the head of the Beiping spies, and ordered him to "hand over the sword to He Yingqin first, and personally present the chairman of the committee after he returned to Nanjing." ”

The following year, Ma Hansan was arrested by Japanese agents in Zhangjiakou, and he confessed information and sacrificed the "Nine Dragons Sword" in order to survive. The Japanese spy leader Takayoshi Tanaka obtained the "Nine Dragons Sword" and handed it over to Yoshiko Kawashima for safekeeping. Yoshiko Kawashima was the 14th princess of the late Qing Dynasty, grew up in Japan, and was known as the Asian super spy in World War II. When the Anti-Japanese War was won in 1945, Ma Hansan immediately led people to No. 34 Jiutiao, Dongsi Archway, Beijing, to arrest Yoshiko Kawashima and retrieve the "Nine Dragons Sword" from his cellar.

On March 9, 1946, when Dai Li went to Beijing on official business, Ma Hansan, then director of the Beiping Office of the Military Command Bureau, sent the "Nine Dragons Sword" and several large boxes of priceless ancient paintings, calligraphy, gold and silver antiques to Dai Li's accommodation, and Dai carried them with him. The Nine Dragons Sword fell into Dai Li's hands again.

On March 16, 1946, Dai Li took a special plane to Tianjin first, and then to Qingdao.On March 17, he flew from Qingdao to Shanghai Longhua Airport, and the plane could not land due to heavy rain in Shanghai, so it flew to Nanjing instead, and it also rained heavily in Nanjing, and the plane crashed in Daishan, Banqiao Town, Jiangning County, Xiaoxian County, Nanjing, and the downed plane burned for two hours in the heavy rain.

On March 21, when Shen Zui and others were assigned by Chiang Kai-shek to go to Daishan to investigate the scene of the plane crash, the county magistrate of Jiangning sent people to send the remnants of the plane after it was burned: a one-foot-high Song Dynasty mutton fat white jade nine-dragon cup and a five-foot nine-dragon sword.

So Shen Zui put it in a coffin with Dai Li's remains and transported it back to the Zhigong Hall of Linggu Temple for temporary storage. A few months later, Chiang Kai-shek personally chose a sloping land with a small pond on the west side of the Wuliang Hall and buried Dai Li. Shen Zui personally supervised the construction of the tomb, because Dai Li had killed many ** people and progressives, and was afraid of reprisals, so after placing the coffin, he specially poured cement slag into the tomb to reinforce.

Intoxicated concerns soon became a reality. In the spring of 1951, at the strong demand of all walks of life in Nanjing, Dai Li's tomb was razed to the ground. So where did the remnants of the Nine Dragons Sword go after this excavation? Liu Weicai, an old man who had been engaged in cultural preservation work at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum all his life, was working at the Linggu Temple Police Station at that time, and the leveling of Dai Li's tomb was completed under his supervision.

He told reporters that in 1951, several farmers in Dongshantou Village, Mausoleum District, spent half a month using iron pickaxes to open the tomb along the joint of the cement of Dai Li's tomb. "What appeared in front of me was a red lacquered wooden coffin." Liu Lao said that after opening the coffin, they found that in addition to Dai Li's remains, there was only a revolver that had been burned and deformed, a leather shoe heel, and the Nine Dragons Sword, "It was a narrow iron piece more than a foot long, rusted badly, and only vaguely saw the appearance of the sword's body." ”

Liu Lao recalled that these things were dumped into the pond in front of the tomb and landfilled, while Dai Li's coffin was transported back by farmers to be used in hoop buckets.

The vicissitudes of the world, when the mystery of the Nine Dragons Sword was revealed, everything was long gone.

Perhaps for this national treasure, turning into a spring mud in the Purple Mountain is also a good destination. (To be continued.) )