Chapter 264: Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang
The terracotta warriors and horses are already so weird, hiding many unknown secrets, accompanied by fear and death. The Terracotta Warriors and Horses are just the burial mausoleum of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, so how weird and mysterious will the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang be? For 2,000 years, no one has really discovered the secrets of the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, because they dare not explore it because of fear? Definitely not so, it is conceivable that for thousands of years, countless tomb robbers have been there, and in the face of huge interests or challenges, most people cannot control their restless hearts.
There are many historical records that prove this, the overlord of Western Chu entered the customs and excavated the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, but he returned in vain, and burned the ground building of the imperial mausoleum in a fit of anger. The Red Mei Rebel Army at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Shi Le and Shi Jilong, the rulers of the Later Zhao Dynasty of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the Huangchao Rebel Army at the end of the Tang Dynasty were all stolen and excavated, but they all returned in vain, and no one could enter the underground palace. Until now, there has been no exact news about the underground palace of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum, and what is circulating now is basically a fantasy story, and only what has been passed down from the big tomb robbers or archaeologists has a certain credibility, because only they can have personally touched it. But there is an exception, that is, the official historical record, even if there are false elements, but it will not be all false, especially depending on who is the person who recorded it, we can be more sure of how true the official historical record is.
The most famous record of the underground palace of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is Sima Qian's historical records, with Sima Qian's personality and rigorous attitude towards history, what he recorded is the most credible. The mysterious Qinling Underground Palace only left a very brief record under Sima Qian's pen: "Wear three springs, go down to the copper and cause the coffin, and the palace view, hundreds of officials, and strange artifacts are full of treasures." Let the craftsman make a crossbow arrow, and shoot those who are close. With mercury as a hundred rivers, rivers and seas, the machine is instilled, with astronomy and geography. With mermaid paste as a candle, the one who will not be extinguished will last for a long time. ”
Roughly means that the underground palace of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, excavated underground, has been digging through the aquifer, diving layer, confined water layer, according to the geological conditions of the Qinling Mountains, the underground palace is at least a thousand meters below the ground, because the concept of wearing three springs is very vague, how deep is the specific, can not be prepared to judge. Regarding the depth of the underground palace, in the historical book "Old Han Yi", it is said that "it has been extremely deep", indicating that the depth is dug to the point where it can no longer be dug, but it is also a vague concept, how deep is the deepest underground palace? No one knows how deep it is, but one thing is certain, it is far beyond the ordinary mausoleum, otherwise after Qin Shi Huang was buried, how could it take a whole year to backfill the underground palace.
After digging to the deepest point in the underground palace, the bottom is poured with copper juice as the foundation platform. The size of the underground palace of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has always been a highly controversial topic, and there is no accurate conclusion so far about how big it is. The mausoleum alone covers an area of 56 square kilometers on the ground, so how big would the larger underground palace be? How much copper is needed to pour the bottom with copper juice is just incalculable, and where does so much copper come from? It is said that after Qin unified the six countries, he nationalized the weapons of the world, and even the bronze tools necessary for life, and cast them into twelve golden people. The weapons in the whole world can only be cast into twelve golden figures, so how big is this golden man? Why have I never seen it? I am afraid that the collected bronze ware is used as the foundation of the underground palace, so the source of a large amount of copper juice has the most reasonable source.
With the completion of the foundation of the underground palace, the construction of a huge underground palace began, referring to the capital Xianyang City, which is even more huge and spectacular than Xianyang City, and many palaces in it are following the mythological things. Qin Wangzheng is known as the first emperor, and he thinks that he is the first person from ancient times to the present, so the palace he owns is naturally the first in the world, even if it is compared to the ethereal fairy world, it is not far behind. At the same time, as the first emperor of the ages, he naturally needed to have hundreds of civil and military officials and subjects of the world, so he built a hundred official residences in the underground palace and a large number of private houses. The project of this underground palace, with the strength of the whole country, took nearly 40 years to complete in a hurry, and from the perspective of the length of time, it also reflects the vastness of the project from the side.
Every time the dungeon palace is completed, a large number of rare treasures are transported in, these treasures are collected from various countries after the unification of the six countries, it can be said that the most precious things in the world at that time are in the dungeon. Among them, the most famous is the golden goose, "The Story of Sanfu" records that after Xiang Yu entered the customs, he once excavated the Qin Tomb with 300,000 people. During the excavation, suddenly a golden goose flew out of the tomb, and this magical flying goose flew all the way south until it disappeared without a trace. Hundreds of years have passed, to the Three Kingdoms period (the first year of Baoding), an official Zhang Shan, who was a Taishou in Japan, one day, someone sent him a golden goose, and he immediately judged from the words on the golden goose that this thing was from the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, but at this time the golden goose could not fly.
Perhaps it was because the golden goose flew for hundreds of years and lost its special strength that it fell back into the world. Can Golden Geese Really Fly? Reject historical records, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the famous craftsman Lu Ban has been able to make a wooden goose, flying in the sky, the Qin Dynasty is only more than a hundred years away from the Spring and Autumn Period, and the origin of the golden goose is a mystery, it is very likely to be handed down from that era, so it is very likely to fly. From ancient times to the present, there are many magical man-made things that have disappeared in the long river of history, such as wooden birds, such as wooden oxen and flowing horses, etc., maybe in the underground palace, there are still these magical things, if they can be cracked, can they make the lost technology and history show in front of the world again?
There are countless treasures in the dungeon, naturally to prevent others from stealing, Qin Shi Huang recruited the world's skilled craftsmen, and made a dark crossbow that can be automatically launched once touched, these dark crossbows are all over every passage in the dungeon, once someone breaks in, there is no place to hide. Historically, the Qin Dynasty had produced a bow and crossbow with three arrows in a row, the power was amazing, and several layers of cowhide armor could not resist, and there have been such cultural relics unearthed, which confirmed this, so it is not impossible to install this kind of dark crossbow in the underground palace. The traps that work with the crossbow are also traps, which are filled with sharp objects that grave robbers can fall into if they don't get shot.
In addition to the protection of crossbows and traps, there is also a large amount of mercury in the dungeon, which surrounds the entire dungeon, like a river flowing into the sea. First, mercury symbolizes the geography of mountains and rivers, implying that it has the four seas; Second, the evaporated gas of mercury is poisonous, and it can also smoke tomb robbers to death, which is more terrible than a dark crossbow, and mercury gas can also keep the buried corpses and burial goods from decomposing for a long time. There is a lot of evidence on whether mercury really exists in the underground palace, and a group of geologists, after repeated tests, found that there is a "mercury anomaly" in the soil samples of the sealed soil of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, on the contrary, there is almost no mercury content in the soil samples from other places outside the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.
In order to make the dungeon brightly lit and never fall into darkness, the mermaid was specially caught from the East China Sea and made a candle with its ointment, which can be burned for thousands of years. For the existence of the merman, I believe that it is just a mythological story, but the candle that is not extinguished for thousands of years, this is a kind of eternal lamp in the legend, and the record of burning the eternal lamp for thousands of years has been found all over the world, but none of them are well preserved, whether it is true or false, it has long been difficult to verify. So far, there are different opinions about the existence of the lantern, whether it exists or not, only history knows, maybe one day a sudden discovery, will reveal the mystery for us.
The most difficult thing to understand in the historical records is that there is astronomy at the top and geography at the bottom. Now the most common understanding is that the top of the tomb is painted or engraved with lines of the sun, moon, and stars, and the walls on both sides are painted or carved with murals of mountains and rivers. But Han Wei knew that it was not so simple, and in the sacrificial tower built by Cixi, he found a nebula map, which was the key to connecting to a mysterious passage. If it weren't for the encounter on the roof of the hotel, Han Wei wouldn't have known about this mysterious existence, even if he experienced it himself, he still couldn't fully believe it, just because it was too incredible.
The white jade ring is inextricably linked with Qin Shi Huang, the white jade ring is part of the jade seal, and the jade seal was ordered by Qin Shi Huang to create, which is a symbol of his supreme power. Now there is also a nebula map in the underground palace of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, which is definitely deliberate, perhaps the road to the heavenly realm. This kind of speculation is amazing, but it can't be denied that it really exists, the white jade ring is already so magical, how powerful will the complete heirloom jade seal be? What else is impossible under unspeakable power? Now the question is why Qin Shi Huang did not succeed and later died on the way to inspect the territory. Is it that the jade seal of the country does not have the power of imagination at all, or has there been some kind of change in it, or is there a secret hidden that is not known to the world?
The only way to solve these mysteries is to enter the dungeon, which should reveal many secrets. Now if you want to enter the underground palace, it is impossible to enter from the known Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, even if you have spiritual power to control people's minds, but there are too many people who come and go every day, can you control so many people? And there is monitoring everywhere, even if the monitoring can be temporarily destroyed, but the excavation channel can not be completed in a short time, in terms of the hardness of the sealed soil, the artificial day is at most a few meters deep, it is expected that there is a depth of about 30 meters from the mausoleum tomb road, it will take at least ten days, such a long time, what to do will be discovered. Then, you can only start from another unknown underground palace, and it will be very hidden to enter from there.
Han Wei and the others wanted to enter the underground palace, but it was not as difficult as imagined, because the world only knew the existence of a mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, except for the four of them, no one else must know that there was an underground palace dozens of miles away. In fact, many discoveries vaguely told the world clues, but no one paid attention to it, just like from the pictures taken by satellites: from Jiaoshan to Huashan is like a dragon, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is exactly located in the position of the dragon's head eyes, feng shui pattern, the finishing touch is the most noble place, but there are usually two eyes, why can't it be composed of two large underground palaces?