"Where did you get it?"

My heart trembled, and I hurriedly asked Hao Minyuan.

"It's near an old pier on the edge of the city, and he shows up in the middle of the night...... Hao Minyuan said, pulling out a stack of photos from a drawer.

Here were screenshots of the surveillance footage, and I immediately recognized Fa Dian in a black suit with a torn hat. I flipped through a few photos, and when I turned to one of the photos, my eyes suddenly lit up.

This should have been captured by the surveillance at the toll booth opposite the pier, and in a stack of photos, only this one was daytime, and the name of the pier was clearly taken.

Xiguanqiao Pier?

Seeing the name - it's familiar! Then I remembered that when I received the task of salvaging and crushing the corpses, I came to the Yellow River stall near this wharf, and I thought the name of this wharf was very interesting.

It should not be a coincidence that Fa Dian frequently appears near the Xiguanqiao Wharf!

In fact, these days, I still have a bigger question in my heart - who Fa Dian is and what does it have to do with the Bai family.

"What is the progress of the Bai family?"

Thinking of this, I asked casually.

Hao Minyuan nodded: "A few have been controlled, and this matter has not yet been made public - this time the determination above is very great, and it will definitely uproot the Bai family's forces." ”

"My dad's business...... It's also the Bai family's doing, right? I asked.

"Yes! This one has been determined...... Investigation is now underway as to why the archaeological team was organized to enter the mountains of Shaanxi...... It's like I'm looking for someone's tomb. ”

"Tombs? Could it be that like the legend we heard before, there is an Imperial Valley in the mountain? ”

Hao Minyuan took a deep breath, finished the last puff of the cigarette, and pressed it on the ashtray vigorously before sighing: "According to the clues that have been mastered, the Bai family was looking for three weapons at that time, and they thought that these three weapons were brought into the tomb by the last person to use them. ”

"Weapons?" This was a big surprise to me.

"That's right! It is said that they are three unusual ancient divine weapons with the ability to move mountains and seas......"

Ancient Divine Soldiers? There are magical abilities...... Valley of the Kings?

My heart trembled, and suddenly I thought of something.

At that time, after my uncle asked Li Bo to pass a message to me, Wu Jinghan and I entered the Yuwang Temple in the Thirteen Caves of the Yellow River and saw the statue of Dayu, who was holding two weapons in his hands at that time, and Wu Jinghan also gave me a detailed introduction.

Of course, this can be said to be another version of Dayu's water control - a mythical version.

According to legend, Dayu relied on three artifacts to control the water, namely the water sword, the mountain axe and the Luo Shen map, which happened to be three ancient gods, and its owner happened to be the emperor, and in the legend, these three gods also have the magic of the artifact......

Could it be that in the Valley of the Kings in the deep mountains of Shanxi, it is Dayu who is buried?

The more I thought about it, the more likely it became.

The two of them were chatting very attentively, and suddenly there was a violent vibration sound on my mobile phone, which made both of them tremble at the same time.

When I picked it up, it was Wu Jinghan calling, and I remembered that when I talked before, she said that she would get off the highway in an hour, and it would take more than an hour to see the time. I'm really ashamed, how did I be my boyfriend, people care about me so much, but I forgot to pick me up.

"You picked me up? I was stuck in traffic just now, and I still have more than 20 minutes to get off the highway - will you pick me up? ”

On the phone, Wu Jinghan's voice was unusually gentle.

Hurriedly said hello to Hao Minyuan, I almost rushed out of the yard, stopped the car, and shouted at the driver: "Nancheng Expressway intersection!" Be quick! ”

Twenty minutes, at the intersection of Chengnan Expressway in Hekou District, I asked the security guard out of breath: "The car from Jinan, has it passed?" ”

The security guard had a cigarette in his mouth, looking like he was a hanger, and he liked to ignore it.

"What car?"

"Jinan runs the special line of the estuary!"

"Oh—you turn around!"

Turn around? When I turned around, I saw the blue bus coming down the highway ramp, and it was the car that Wu Jinghan was sitting in.

The ancients invented the phrase "not seen for a day, such as every three autumns", in fact, it was at this moment that I truly realized the meaning of this word.

Seeing Wu Jinghan getting off the car, I couldn't help but run over and come directly to a princess hug.

Wu Jinghan also smiled and kissed me on the forehead several times, although it was like a chicken pecking rice, but except for the two of them who couldn't help kissing me when they did that, this was the first time.

The two of them were not in a hurry to get in the car, and walked back along the road hand in hand, in fact, they were also aimless, just wanted to talk while walking. I feel like there's a lot to say to her.

After you and I talked about it, Wu Jinghan asked why she suddenly disappeared, and I simply told me about traveling back to four hundred years ago, and she opened her mouth wide in shock.

"Emperor Wanli is a legendary emperor, his reign is not short, before and after is like a change of person, diligent and capable in the early stage, and not in the early dynasty for decades in the later period, as for the reason, for hundreds of years, it is also a mystery! But the mystery may have been solved forty years ago. ”

I know it's an occupational disease again, but this time! I want to satisfy her. Changsha

"Oh? How did you crack it? ”

The best way to satisfy a person's occupational disease is to let her "vomit quickly".

"Late fifties! The tomb of Emperor Wanli was dug up in Hebei, and it turned out that his shoes were one thin and the other thick, with a difference of about three centimeters, so the bones were monitored. ”

"What does that mean?" I then asked.

"It shows that his legs are not the same length, which means that Emperor Wanli is a lame!"

This really aroused my curiosity: "What does the lame man have to do with ignoring the government?" ”

Wu Jinghan smiled slightly: "You don't understand this, do you?" Most people with disabilities are psychologically sensitive, even the emperor is no exception, which may be the reason for his later decadence......"

As the lord of a country, if he is lame, if he has a defective body, he will definitely be laughed at by others, Emperor Wanli has a shadow since he was a child, after becoming the emperor this time, the people of the whole country have to face this lame emperor, and the humility of his heart makes the Wanli Emperor not go to court for more than 20 years, and many people say that the reason why the dynasty will perish has a lot to do with Wanli's not going to the court.

Some people think that the reason why Wanli didn't go to court for 28 years was because of a leg disease.

When the Wanli Emperor first ruled, he was still more enthusiastic about the imperial court, often busy until late at night, he wanted the people to live a good life under his leadership, in the early days of his reign, there was Zhang Juzheng to share the business for him, there were many decisions that were implemented by Zhang Juzheng, after Zhang Juzheng died, Wanli began to decadent days, every day not to go to court, this situation lasted for about 30 years.

Thirty years of not going to court caused Wanli not to even know what the minister looked like, what was going on in the country, Wanli could not know it for the first time, important decisions were delayed again and again, Zhang Juzheng's death was a reason not to go to court, Wanli's own leg disease was also one of the reasons why he did not go to court, I didn't want to face this problem, and I ignored the government all year round, and I also had the title of the king of the country.

In 1958, archaeologists began to study the tomb of the Wanli Emperor, and after seeing his bones, they knew that the two legs of the Wanli Emperor were not the same length, one bone was short and the other was long.

"Oh! The ancient tomb of the Wanli Emperor was not visited by tomb thieves? I continued to ask with a feigned curiosity.

Wu Jinghan shook his head: "No......

The mausoleum of the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun and his two empresses, called Dingling, was built between 1584 and 1590 and covers an area of 180,000 square meters. The underground palace of Dingling is the only underground palace that has been developed in the Ming Tombs, but in fact, the archaeologists originally wanted to excavate the Changling Tomb of Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, and the excavation of the Dingling Tomb was just an accident, but this accident made the archaeologists still frightened when they thought about it.

Zhao Qichang, the 80-year-old veteran of the excavation team and the leader of the excavation team at that time, told reporters that when he was the leader of the archaeological team, he was only a 20-year-old graduate of archaeology from the Department of History of Peking University.

And in view of the fact that there were no clues in the exploration of Changling, he asked Wu Han, the deputy mayor of Beijing City at that time, to find a slightly smaller mausoleum to "test excavation". Considering that Dingling was built relatively late, the ground buildings are relatively intact, and it will be easier to restore them in the future.

And Wanli is the longest ruling one of the Ming Dynasty, and he has been the emperor for 48 years, so there may be more historical materials, so the excavation of Changling was changed to the excavation of Dingling.

After the team came to Dingling, they began to survey in front of Baocheng, and after several days of hard work, the team members all had wooden necks, sore backs and legs, and were exhausted, but they still got nothing in return.

One day, when the team members wandered to a corner of Baocheng, the captain Zhao Qichang suddenly found that above the city wall more than three meters above the ground, several city bricks collapsed, revealing a round hole with a diameter of about half a meter! Since there was no ladder, the team members took a ladder up to the entrance of the cave.

The hole was observed to resemble the upper end of a door, and traces of brickwork could be discerned in the bright spots. "This is the entrance to the dungeon!" The team cheered, putting aside their long-standing confusion.

Later, Xia Nai, deputy director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, visited the site for exploration, and according to his years of experience, it is also estimated that it is the entrance to the underground Xuangong.

Migrant workers accidentally found the "key" to Dingling

Due to the heavy workload of the excavation, the excavation committee hired more than 60 farmers from the villages around the Ming Tombs. On May 17, 1956, the first shovel of soil was shoveled on this day. The excavation work was to dig a deep trench 3.5 meters wide and 20 meters long outside the hole in Boseong to find out the situation.

Two hours later, the stone strips laid on the inside of Baocheng were exposed, and in front of a stone bar, a migrant worker suddenly shouted in surprise: "There are words on the stone bar!" Everyone followed the sound and surrounded the stone bar, only to see that the stone bar revealed the rough carved handwriting: "Tunnel door".

After hearing the news, Wu Han and Xia Nai drove to the construction site and unanimously concluded that "this is the entrance to the underground Xuangong Tunnel".

More than 10 days later, when the trench was dug to a depth of 4.2 meters above the ground, it was found that the brick walls were neatly tiled with city bricks on both sides. The distance between the two walls is 8 meters, like an arc-shaped alley that curves from south to north. This passage made of brick walls is the first tunnel leading to the imperial tomb recorded in the history books, the "brick tunnel".

In September 1956, the excavations, which had not been going well, took a major turn for the better. Luan Shihai, a migrant worker who participated in the excavation, accidentally found a small stone tablet engraved with handwriting in the soil, and the small stone tablet was engraved with such a passage - this stone is 16 zhang and 3 zhang and 5 feet deep in front of the diamond wall. This small stele was later called "the key to open the underground Xuangong of Dingling" by the archaeological team, and it still lies quietly in the glass case in the exhibition room of the Dingling Museum.

In the Ming Dynasty, people called the tomb wall of the underground palace "King Kong Wall", obviously, this small stone strip clearly put forward the specific location of the underground palace. Just in the direction leading to the center of the treasure dome, the archaeological team dug a third exploration trench.

Soon after the excavation of the third exploration ditch, two stone walls in the east-west direction were found, the two walls were separated by 8 meters from north to south, and were made of piebald stone strips, with a total length of 40 meters, which was the "stone tunnel". Finding the "Stone Tunnel" means that the underground palace is not far away.

Sure enough, at the end of the stone tunnel, there is a big wall that runs through the north and south, the wall is 8.8 meters high, 1.6 meters thick, the thick wall base is paved by 4 layers of stone strips, the stone base is made of 56 layers of city bricks and mortar, and there are yellow glazed tile eaves at the top, which is the "diamond wall" recorded by the small stone stele. Through the careful observation of the team members, it was found that the center of the diamond wall is a gui-shaped brick door, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and it is concave about two centimeters inward due to the lateral pressure of the mausoleum filling for many years. The brickwork on the Gui-shaped gate ticket was not mortared, but was built dry, which provided convenience for the excavators to demolish the wall.

It can be concluded that when you enter the Gui-shaped ticket, you will be buried in the underground Xuangong where the emperor is buried.

The day was May 17, 1957, and it was exactly one year from the time the team dug up the first spade of soil to find the seal of the diamond wall.

Go to the dungeon wearing a gas mask

Since the moment the King Kong Wall was found, various rumors have spread among the local people and the migrant workers involved in the excavation, some say that the mausoleum is full of poisonous arrows, flying knives, poisonous gas, and some say that a trap is set in front of the underground palace, and people will turn over when they step on it.

In order to ensure the safety of the team members, the archaeological team decided to wear gas masks and enter the King Kong Wall.

The excavation of Dingling unearthed a large number of precious cultural relics, so that archaeologists have a lot of first-hand information, however, due to many reasons, many cultural relics have not been completely preserved, and the relevant excavation report was not completed until more than 30 years later.

The most regrettable thing is that in 1966, the "ten-year catastrophe" swept the land of Hua'xia, and the three emperors and queens of Wanli, who had been sleeping for hundreds of years, were not spared. In the slogan of the little red soldier "hit the head of the landlord class, Wanli", the bones of the Wanli Emperor and Empress preserved in the Dingling cultural relics warehouse were pulled out.

On August 24, 1966, three corpses and a box of portraits of the emperor and queen, data photos, etc., were carried to the square in front of the museum's big red gate to be criticized. ”

It's more cumbersome than a history class, and I can't listen to it anymore.

"Teacher Wu, shall we rest after class?"

Wu Jinghan was talking energetically, and was obviously stunned for a moment: "What teacher?" What's in class? ...... you say?"

Before I finished speaking, I understood, and blushed and twisted my arm vigorously.