Chapter Eighty-Six: Dead Bodies in the Great Hall

Seeing the large number of corpses, Yan Wenbin estimated that there were at least 5,000 people here who died in this place, and many of them were wearing ancient and shabby clothes.

"This is supposed to be the place where the laborers who built the mausoleum eat, and judging by the utensils on the table, perhaps after the completion of this place, all the laborers will have a feast here to celebrate the completion of the construction of this place."

"But the people who built it, in order to prevent the secret from leaking, poisoned the food, poisoned all the slaves, and if these people were killed en masse, there would definitely be signs of fighting."

"But you see these people, obviously they were drunk and poisoned to death, maybe they expected that they would be killed, so they were prepared for a long time, but they didn't expect that someone would poison the food, and everyone didn't have time to escape through the corridor, they all died here."

"More than 5,000 people died like this, and many of them were in charge of guarding the laborers, which is why such a huge mausoleum was built, but no one knew the secret, because all the people who knew the secret died here."

Seeing the scene of the bones piling up in front of him, Yan Wenbin couldn't help but feel a little lost, because he was also a poor person, if she was in it at that time, there would be a share of him among the many corpses on the ground.

"I think it was built at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and you can see the porcelain on the table, it is from that era," Leng Bingyan picked up the bowl on the table and said.

Although most of them are very rough, and even most of them are broken earthen bowls, it can be seen that they are utensils from the Ming Dynasty.

"According to what you say, this should be the mausoleum of Mrs. Xiangxiang of the Shuixi family, because Mrs. Xiangxiang is from the Ming Dynasty, and the era just coincides, but this is just a place for laborers to rest, and Mrs. Xiangxiang's mausoleum should be in front", Yan Wenbin looked at the stone gate in front of him and said.

"No wonder there is a prison down there, which is exactly the design of this place, these laborers are being held here, so we quietly built the escape route we just came out of."

"But before they started the mass escape, they were all poisoned on the wine table." Lao Hu finally understood why there were so many people's bones here.

"Don't look at it, although it is from the Ming Dynasty, but these things are not valuable, the laborers use the most coarse things, and valuable items will not appear here", Yan Wenbin closed his eyes, and could think of this feast of more than 5,000 people, how lively the scene was at that time.

But the wails of these people before they were poisoned, Yan Wenbin seemed to be able to hear them, which shows that the people who built this place at that time were so vicious.

"Did you see it, if you are caught by the warlords and rob the tomb, maybe these people will be your example", the Demoman looked at Hu and smiled.

After saying that, the demoman had already asked people to open the stone gate in front of them, and after opening the stone gate, they found that in front of them was an underground dark river, the river was very wide, and there was a tomb beast placed in front of the stone gate opposite, the same as what Lao Hu found in the Hujiazhai River.

"Lao Hu, this is the dark river that leads to the river, if you go along the dark river, the dark river goes out and the bottom is the exit, the exit is where we found the tomb beast, where the tomb beast and the stone gate in front of it should be a pair, it seems that your family's silver search trick does not refer to feng shui, but refers to this dark river channel."

Yan Wenbin looked up at the two huge Ying dragons on the opposite stone wall, yellow muddy water kept gushing out of the dragon's mouth, and it seemed that the water from the upper layers had gathered here and flowed out.

In particular, the two huge stone carvings Ying Long, I don't know how much manpower it took to build this place to create the scene they saw in front of them, and the souls of the five thousand people who died in the main hall were considered to have completely guarded this place, and finally became a sacrifice for burial.

"Let's go, go to the other side", Yan Wenbin walked across the stone bridge on the surface of the dark river and went to the bottom of the stone gate on the opposite side.

Xiao Gang, should we blow up the door", Lao Hu looked at the huge stone gate, and didn't know what to do, but the explosives blew up the stone door, and they could save a lot of time.

"No, the tap stone is still used here, we just open the tap stone, the stone is not used here, it is easy to open", after saying that, Yan Wenbin stretched the hook into it and quickly opened the stone door.

After opening the stone door, enter the tomb, above the tomb is the vault, the lighting fixtures on the vault are made of silver, and the hat worn by Miao women is very exquisite.

On both sides of the entrance door of the tomb, there are four statues of the four heavenly kings with a ten-meter-tall body and a strong body.

"Xiao Gang, isn't this the Four Heavenly Kings?".

"The Four Heavenly Kings are commonly known as the Four Great King Kongs, and their main duty is to guard the east, west, north, and south gates of the Heavenly Court, so they are also known as the Four Heavenly Kings of the Protector of the World.

"Specifically, the four heavenly kings are stationed in the four directions of east, west, south and north, the king who holds the pipa guards the East Heavenly Gate, the growth heavenly king who holds the sword guards the South Heavenly Gate, the wide-eyed Heavenly King who holds the red dragon guards the West Heavenly Gate, and the Duowen Heavenly King who holds the treasure umbrella guards the North Heavenly Gate."

"I have seen these four heavenly kings when I went to the temple, it seems that this is the real entrance, and the entrance to the gate of the temple is the statue of the four heavenly kings, known as the palace of the heavenly king."

Among them, "holding the country" has the meaning of compassion, protecting sentient beings, and protecting the land; "Growth" means to teach sentient beings, to increase good roots, and to uphold the Dharma.

"Wide-eyed" means to observe the world and protect the people with a pure heavenly eye; "Duowen" means to be extremely proficient in the Dharma and spread blessings and virtues to all places. Out of good wishes for the Four Heavenly Kings.

The Chinese have derived different meanings from the treasures of the Heavenly Kings: the sword of the Heavenly King of Growth is extremely sharp, which can be extended to "wind"; The pipa of the king of the kingdom can produce tones, which can be extended to "tune"; The umbrella in the hands of the king can be extended to "rain"; The red dragon in the hands of the wide-eyed king can be extended to "shun", so the four heavenly kings are also called "wind and rain".

"Of course, the status of the four heavenly kings is also respectful and humble, and the status of the Duowen Heavenly King is the most noble, it seems that I want to worship God today", Lao Hu immediately knelt down after speaking, and his head hit the ground three times in a row before standing up, which seemed to be full of respect.

After walking through the Tianwang Palace, they came to the Zhengzhen tomb, but after Yan Wenbin and they passed the Tianwang Palace, there were steps in front of them that continued to extend upwards and went up, and there were many steps, and Lao Hu couldn't count them.

"Xiao Gang, you said that there will be ninety-nine steps, Taoism, nine is the singular number, the number is here, it can't go up, meaning the most life, the nobility, there are ninety-nine eighty-one steps, in addition to eighteen, isn't it the number of making up the South Heavenly Gate",; Lao Hu said on the side.

"It can't be ninety-nine, but ninety-eight, according to yin and yang, one belongs to yang, two belong to yin, this is yin, naturally only ninety-eight can be used, ninety-nine is for the living", Shen Yin Yang looked at Lao Hu and said, it seems that this Lao Hu has begun to develop in this direction.

At the top of the stairs is a stone stele, and everything behind it is blocked by this huge stone stele, which does not have any words on it, but the patterns around the stone tablet are very delicately carved.

"This is a stele without an inscription, how can this be, other steles we have seen have words on them, why is there no here" Lao Hu didn't know the intention here.

"Mrs. Xiangxiang wants to emulate Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian also has a wordless heavenly monument, and Wu Zetian set up a "wordless monument" to boast of himself and express his high merit and virtue beyond words can express."

Wu Zetian began as empress in 655 A.D. and was forced to abdicate in 705 A.D., and participated in and held the supreme power for 50 years, including 21 years from the death of Tang Gaozong.

She is the only outstanding female emperor in Chinese history, she politically cracked down on the wealthy families, and through the development of the imperial examination system, a large number of talents entered the political arena and suppressed the monopoly of the wealthy.

She rewarded agriculture, built water conservancy, reduced forced labor, and rectified the equalization system, so that the social economy continued to rise, and the number of households continued to grow; She is good at her job, uses people exceptionally, encourages officials at all levels to recommend talents, and humbly accepts advice.

In short, Wu Zetian was a person with political ability and ideals, and during her reign, she did many things that were in line with the interests of the people, stabilized and developed the "rule of Zhenguan", advanced history by a big step, and played a role in the later "rule of Kaiyuan".

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Shuixi Xuanwei made Ai Cui marry Yongning Xuanfu Si and Yi Hengbu Pull Le Jun Chang Hao's daughter Xiangxiang as his wife, and soon Ai Cui died of illness, and Luxiang Fengzi took the regent.

Mrs. Xiangxiang resisted the suppression of corrupt officials and united the people of all ethnic groups, won the love of the people, and was appreciated by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and was named Mrs. Shunde.

Mrs. Luxiang and Zhu Hongwu contributed the water west horse, Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy, gave the water west horse the name "Feiyue Peak", the champion of the Ming Dynasty, Chengdu Yang Sheng's number with Xiuliu Yu Qianzhong, happy and inscription said: Dragon Horse first out of the dragon to raise the dragon, the name of the royal before the name of Feiyue Peak; The god Jun Ning in the world has no seeds, and Sun Yang in the sky is not easy to meet.

In the sixteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the Guizhou political secretary commanded Ma Ye, who was prejudiced by Han nationalism, and insulted the extravagant incense of the Guizhou political secretary for no reason.

Zhu Yuanzhang recalled Ma Ye and sentenced him to prison for the crime of "opening the border and insulting the woman", and rewarded him with gold, silver and silk fabrics.

In order to repay Zhu Yuanzhang's grace, he was willing to publish the mountain passage to give the post envoy to come and go, and after returning to Guizhou Buzheng Division, he preached the prestige of the imperial court and made people's hearts stable, while fulfilling his promise, personally leading the ministries and organizing huge manpower and material resources, overcoming thorns and thorns, and opening up two post roads centered on the partial bridge (now Shibing County):

one passed through Shuidong (now northeast of Guiyang) and passed through Wusa (now Weining) to Wumeng (now Zhaotong, Yunnan); One goes north through Caotang (now Xiuwen County), Liuguang (now Xiuwen Liuguang Town) to Qianxi, Dafang to Bijie Erpu more than 500 miles, known as "Longchang Nine Stations" in history.

"Longchang Jiuyi" is divided into Longchang Station, Liuguang Station, Guli Station, Shuixi Station, Xixi Station (also called Luxiang Station), Jinji Station, Geya Station, Naturalization Station and Bijie Station.

The other is the Ancient Tea Horse Road, which refers to the non-governmental international trade channel that exists in southwest China and uses horse gangs as the main means of transportation, and is a corridor for ethnic economic and cultural exchanges in southwest China.