Shonan Ghost Cub Shonan Ghost Cub Chapter 19: The Tomb Master

There was a feudal regime in Chinese history that was in the same period as the Han Dynasty, known as the Nanyue Kingdom, which was located in the southern region of Kyushu in the Han Dynasty.

In addition to the two strongest rebel armies led by Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, Zhao Tuo, the governor of Nanhai County, who was the Qin regime at the time, took advantage of the time when Qin was about to die, and sealed the land under his jurisdiction, and spent three years annexing Guilin County and Xiang County in Lingnan, and formally established the Nanyue Kingdom in 204 BC, calling himself "Nanyue Wuwang".

During its heyday, the territory of the Nanyue Kingdom included all of present-day Guangdong, most of Guangxi, part of Fujian, Hainan, Hong Kong, and north-central Vietnam. At that time, the Han Dynasty had just been established, and there were several internal rebellions, which were in ruins, and it was not suitable to launch large-scale wars, and the Nanyue Kingdom was willing to become a vassal state of the Han Dynasty, so it was able to stand at the same time as the Han.

It was not until 112 AD that the seventh emperor of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu Liu Che, sent 100,000 troops, and it took several months to destroy the regime.

In this way, the regime of Nanyue has gone through a total of five kings, from the first Zhao Tuo to the fifth Zhao Jiande, coexisting for 93 years.

And the most talked about by history buffs like me is their founding emperor, Zhao Tuo, who, according to historical records, reigned for more than 70 years and lived to be 103 years old! You must know that there were more than 400 emperors in ancient China, 7 of whom lived past the age of 70, and only 5 who survived the age of 80. Even in today's highly developed technology and medical care, it is very rare to live past a hundred years old, let alone in that era. In contrast, the economic policies of the regime at that time or the living conditions of the people were much less attractive to me.

After seeing the record of the stele, the reason why I will have an excited mood, even stronger than the fat man's slightly greedy excitement, is because the description of this stele has clearly revealed the owner of this tomb, he is the tomb of Zhao Tuo, one of the few unexcavated emperor-level tombs that has been remembered by archaeologists and tomb robbers for generations.

When I first read about the history of the South Vietnamese Kingdom, I was very interested and looked up a lot of information about it.

Zhao Tuo reigned for more than 70 years, and lived his own "small life" after the closure of the customs, and collected countless treasures in such a long time, which are said to be buried in his tomb after his death.

One of the most famous is a strange treasure he found during his lifetime, the "Yang Sui Pearl", a brilliant jewel, as long as it shines in the sun, no matter what it shines through, it will burn to ashes! Later generations speculated that Zhao Tuo's longevity must be related to this bead. Therefore, the search for his tomb has attracted many tomb robbers and famous people for thousands of years.

Strangely, after thousands of years, Zhao Tuo's tomb has still not been found, not only the tomb robbers are making unremitting efforts to find it, but even Emperor Sun Quan, who was in the Three Kingdoms period, is also worried about the treasures in his tomb. In order to find the treasure in Zhao Tuo's tomb to expand his strength, Sun Quan's special general Lu Yu took his soldiers to Guangzhou to dig treasures.

According to the tomb tradition of the Han Dynasty, whether it is a prince or the Yellow Emperor, the tomb will not leave the place where it is 100 miles away, otherwise he will become a slave of his enemies in the underworld after death. Therefore, Lu Yu, who was ordered to go to Guangzhou, circled a range of 100 miles around Panyu according to this tradition, and then "shaved his head" one by one according to this range, and only found the tomb of Zhao Yingqi, the third emperor of Nanyue, and Zhao Tuo's tomb is still completely gone.

After Sun Quan, there were many emperors who were keen on immortality who were also secretly looking for the whereabouts of the "Yang Sui Zhu", but the results were still in vain.

And the fat man entered here before, but after reading the words on the stele, he entered the world of illusion and found that the "Yang Sui Pearl" was in front of his eyes, so he excitedly stroked the stele and dug the bluestone ground with a sapper shovel, showing an uncomfortable smile while digging.

"Friend, this time you and I are developed! It seems that Aunt Ming, who makes you respect, is not thin on our brothers! Ha ha! ”

As I read the inscription, the fat man spoke to me in a tone of excitement that could not be concealed.

The text on the stele is chiseled from standard Han Dynasty official scripts, and there are no obscure fonts, and even for fat people who have not learned ancient characters, some complex characters can be understood only by relating them to context.

I didn't pay much attention to the fat man's words, although I was very excited to find the tomb of Zhao Tuo, the "Martial King of Nanyue", which I had always been interested in, but the huge pit behind the stele made me fall into contemplation again.

"I said friend, get excited! If you are happy, you have to release it, it's not good to hold it, it's easy to cause ...... not lifted."

The fat man saw that I had no emotions at all, and continued to use words to stir up my emotions. And my attention at the moment is entirely behind the stele.

"Look at what's in this pit......"

I said to him.

The fat man didn't look at the pit because he was excited, and I also accidentally caught a glimpse of the scene in the pit after reading the tombstone, and after my reminder, the fat man noticed the huge pit in front of him.

The first time he entered here, he was already hallucinating, where could he see the situation in the pit clearly, and this time he was completely immersed in the excitement of the treasures in his head, and he had no time to pay attention to the scenery in the pit.

The 10-meter pit is also repaired with the same bluestone as the palace, which is rectangular and extends to the wall in the house, the construction craftsmen of the ancients are really ingenious, completely in accordance with the "style thunder" without drawings to create a magnificent building, the "style thunder" of the building we are in must be more complicated, with this 10-meter giant pit, the foundation of this building can still be so stable, which is simply unimaginable for the modern urban building of reinforced concrete.

Under the flashlight of me and the fat man, the scene inside the pit appeared completely in front of our eyes. I saw that the pit was covered with countless white bones, and not all of them were human bones, but there were several huge skeletons, which were similar in size to the shape of the giant beasts in the coffins of the three cliff tombs that I found when I fell down the crack. In addition to the white bones and huge skeletons of these people, there were three well-preserved and decomposed corpses, and these three corpses were dressed in the same modern clothes as us!

And in the stomachs of the three corpses, a group of bewitching red flowers actually growed, and the red ones were a little crazy.

"Damn, Su Mo, this is our modern people! Did a grave robber get here before me? ”

This discovery made his emotions start to strain.

"Not good! My penis beads! ”

Then he shouted in frustration.

"Probably not a grave robber."

I said.

The purpose of saying this was not to comfort him, but to see in the pit something familiar to me.

At the focal point of our flashlight, a mass of yellow cloth wrapped in something scattered among a pile of white bones, and the outside of the cloth was written with a clear red pen "Zhenlong Sand".