Emperor Guangxu's tomb beast has entered the fifth house of the construction process: the soul.

Qin Customs father and son waited for more than half a year before they waited for a large wooden box sent from the Forbidden City, containing a sandalwood bracelet. Emperor Guangxu's favorite commonly used thing, it is said that Emperor Guangxu still held it in the palm of his hand when he died. There are also the hair and fingernails that the emperor cut off during his lifetime, which are said to contain the soul of the owner and cannot be discarded at will. The so-called "soul planting" is to plant the soul of the tomb owner in the body of the tomb beast to ensure that the tomb beast will be loyal to the tomb owner for thousands of generations.

Qin Customs personally held the bracelet, hair, and fingernails, and wrapped them in silk and satin to stuff the "heart" of the tomb beast, that is, under the spirit stone. This step must be taken step by step, and it must not be reversed in a chaotic manner.

The Sixth House of the Tomb Beast: Carved and polished.

This may seem like an easy step, but it's actually the most dangerous. Because after the "soul planting", the tomb beast is no longer bronze and stone, it has a soul similar to that of a living body. It cannot be explained by the knowledge that Qin Beiyang got from school. In short, if the Tomb Beast has a soul, it can trigger the machine at any time, and once it gets out of control, it will have serious consequences. After the burial, the underground is absolutely quiet, and even an earthquake will not be easily triggered, but the craftsman beats it on it completely different, and must be careful, just like a doctor doing surgery.

One day, Qin Beiyang carved the eyes of the grave beast archer, and suddenly the two eyes of the tomb beast opened in unison, and the "heart" made a sound of turning and boiling. He was so frightened that his father rushed over and covered the tomb beast's heart with both hands, chanting words to make it gradually calm down. In this way, the father and son tiptoed for a month to complete the sixth house.

At this point, the Tomb Beast has been fully formed. The new bronze glows golden, and is almost life-size in size. The lower body is a four-legged beast with an elongated tail. The human figure on the upper body has the face of a young warrior, implying the untimely death of Emperor Guangxu. Demonic red hair, protruding fangs, and a pair of crooked goat horns—a vicious appearance is a must for the Tomb Beast.

The Tomb Beast wields a Mongolian horned bow, the most powerful projection weapon in the Middle World, and Genghis Khan's tool for bending the bow to shoot eagle owls. The bow is specially processed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, covered with a layer of whale fat, which can be preserved underground for thousands of years, and the bowstring is also made of steel wire. The back is equipped with forty carved arrows, and the golden eagle feathers are used to ensure the stability of the arrow trajectory.

The seventh house is the control of the tomb beast.

This can basically be regarded as a process of taming beasts, and it is also very dangerous, and if you are not careful, the tomb beast will back. In ancient times, many craftsmen who were not skilled in learning died at the hands of the tomb beasts they made.

In this process, we must learn to use "qi", Lao Qin said: "Qi is an extremely subtle substance that runs endlessly in the human body. Qi sustains human life, and when qi stops, people die. Qi is not only in the human body, but also in the rise and fall of qi, gathering and dispersing, all of which promote the change and development of all things in the universe. And the strongest qi in the earth is the golden well qi of this dragon's lair. ”

In the deep underground palace of the imperial mausoleum, Qin Beiyang followed his father to practice qi, starting with the qi sinking dantian. He spent a whole year in underground confinement, sleeping day and night near the golden well, and his body was already filled with "earth qi". A person's qi will continue to move throughout his life, some people will gradually regress, and some people will become more and more sophisticated, so that they can see the mountains at a glance. Qin Beiyang's understanding of qi also includes human thoughts, although it is close to metaphysics, but it is also something that Westerners are studying. If your mind is weak, your qi will be weak, and if you act on others or tomb beasts, it will also be weak; If your mind is strong, you will be angry, and the other party will be afraid of you.

Controlling the Tomb Beast, one is qi, and the other is sound.

The Grave Beast is also audible, but must be expressed in words that it can understand. Each Tomb Beast can accept a different language, because the soul of the Tomb Beast is related to the tomb owner, and each tomb owner lives in a different era, and the dialect of the words it speaks is also different. For example, the official dialect of the past dynasties, the Qing Dynasty is the Beijing sound, the Ming Dynasty is the Nanjing sound, the Yuan Dynasty is the Mongolian language, the Song Dynasty is the Kaifeng sound, the Tang Dynasty and above are the Luoyang sound, and then the Qin and Han dynasties are changed. Confucius's record of "Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the River Island" is very different from today's Chinese pronunciation.

Finally, Emperor Guangxu's tomb beast became obedient. As long as Qin Customs glared at it or roared loudly, it would obediently return to its original place, folding its four legs like an animal.

After the seventh house, as long as Qin Beiyang was close to the tomb beast, he would feel something strange in his body, lose his appetite, stay awake all night, and even want to vomit.

"Beiyang, this tomb beast, you still have less contact." Qin Customs walked out of the underground palace and admitted under the starry sky of the imperial tomb, "Let me tell you a secret, the Qin clan who made the tomb beast is very short-lived. Even if he had not died in an accident, he would have died at the age of forty, and there are very few people like me who have lived to be over fifty years old, according to genealogical records, and there is no one who has lived to be sixty years old. ”

"Is this the price we paid for stealing spirit stones, leaking heavenly secrets, and going deep into the golden well of the dragon's lair?"

"When I die, you have to take care of yourself, but don't slack off on the craftsmanship of craftsmen, and even more so, keep the tradition of making tomb beasts alive until your children and grandchildren."

Qin Beiyang looked at the treasure city of Emperor Guangxu's mausoleum and said, "What if there is no emperor in the future?" ”

"There is absolutely no way that China can be without an emperor! Even if there is no emperor wearing a crown in the Forbidden City, there will be an emperor outside the Forbidden City who does not wear a crown! ”

The next day, Emperor Guangxu's Chongling suddenly stopped. In the following months, the Qin father and son were idle again, but according to the rules of the ancestors, the tomb beast was not accepted, and the craftsman must not leave, so as not to waste his previous efforts.

If the Qin family loses its heir and cuts off the heir of the incense fire sect, I am afraid that the two-thousand-year-old emperor system will also be shaken - this is the secret that Qin Customs told his son, and it can never be said.

Xiling, two hundred miles away from the capital, has not yet felt the strong wind before the mountain rain is about to come - the emperor of China is really about to die.

This is the third year of Xuantong, the year of Xinhai, October 10, 1911 in the Western calendar. Qingchuan calendar Hanyang tree, fragrant grass and parrot island. Under the Yellow Crane Tower, the two mountains of turtles and snakes, the first righteousness of Wuchang. In the blink of an eye, the flames of revolution burned all over China, and the provinces declared their independence one after another.

On January 1, 1912, Sun Yat-sen issued the "Declaration of the Provisional President of the Republic of China" in Nanjing——

The foundation of the country lies in the people, and the Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, and Tibetan lands are one country, that is, the Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, and Tibetan ethnic groups are one person, which is the unity of the nation. Wuhan Shouyi, more than a dozen provinces have become independent, the so-called independence, for the Qing court for the separation, for the provinces for the union, Mongolia, Tibet is the same, the action is the same, there is no divergence, the cardinal is in the center, the longitude and latitude are in the four solstice, is said to be the unification of the territory.

On February 12, the Empress Dowager Longyu (her husband was still lying in the coffin of Xiling Palace waiting to be buried) and the six-year-old Emperor Puyi issued an edict of abdication in the Yangxin Palace - less than three years after Qin Beiyang's first night in the Guangxu Emperor's Mausoleum and the prophecy of meeting the old eunuch in the underground secret room.

The Republic of China promulgated the "Regulations on the Preferential Treatment of the Qing Dynasty", the fifth paragraph of which stipulates that "if the unfinished project of the Chongling Tomb of Dezong is completed, its enshrinement ceremony shall remain the same as the old system, and all practical expenses shall be paid by the Republic of China".

As a result, Yuan Shikai sent someone to send funds, and the project of Chongling was continued.

The eighth house of the "Nine Houses of Beast Making": Acceptance - Divided into three parts, the first is solid, the second is control, and the third is cannibalism.

Let's talk about the first part first, it's very simple, use swords, swords, halberds and various cold weapons to attack the armored surface of the tomb beast. Qin Customs controlled the tomb beast very well, and there was no damage to the bronze and stone slabs. The mausoleum overseer sighed in his heart, if this guy was dragged to the battlefield with the revolutionaries, the Qing Dynasty might not die, at least not collapse in such an embarrassing instant.

Then there was the manipulation, Qin Customs turned on the switch of the tomb beast, and the four legs of the monster moved, and the momentum was like a tiger descending the mountain, and the ground shook the mountain, scaring the tomb superintendent like dust. When the tomb beast walked in front of the overseer, Qin Customs shouted at it, like a circus animal trainer, and told the tomb beast to retreat obediently. After that, the tomb beast was like a marionette, following the password of Qin Customs, walking in a queue left and right, which looked like the European-style drill of the new army, but it was also cute.

Finally, "cannibalism", it is said that in the Han and Tang dynasties, when the emperor tomb beast was accepted, he had to throw a death row prisoner into it, and if he could be killed by the tomb beast quickly, it would show that he did have the ability to deter tomb robbers. Now using beasts instead of living people, the soldiers pushed into a wooden cage that contained a large, white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes. Everyone retreated and isolated the horses with rejection, and released the tigers. However, as soon as the tiger roared, before it could get close, the Tomb Beast pulled out a carved arrow. Qin Beiyang heard the vibration sound of the bowstring being released, and this pull force was more than seven hundred catties, reaching the limit of the most brave generals in ancient times, and the sharp arrow pierced straight into the tiger's left eye. The poor beast monster screamed, and wanted to pounce again, but the tomb beast shot a second arrow, one arrow pierced the heart, and blood splattered five steps.

The overseer of the mausoleum applauded and ordered the tiger to be carried out and rewarded with tiger meat that night. Of course, the tiger whip must be left for him to soak in wine, which is said to have the miraculous effect of aphrodisiac.

The remaining ninth house: the finishing touch.

In fact, this is the naming ceremony of the tomb beast, just like the idiom "finishing touch".

With the approval of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Emperor Guangxu's tomb beast was named "Dayi" - the marksman of the Emperor Yao era, Chang'e's husband, who shot down the nine-moon Houyi.

As a craftsman, Qin Customs personally put the finishing touches on "Dayi", and the brush was dipped in vermilion paint and painted with the eyes of the tomb beast.

Finally, it is to store power for the Tomb Beast. Qin's father and son went into battle together, and the two of them took turns to spin the clockwork, and they continued to turn for seven days and seven nights, this kinetic energy was strengthened by the "heart" spirit stone, and the power of the golden well in the underground palace was enough to make the tomb beast run for a hundred miles, more than a thousand years without exhaustion.

That's it.

In November 1913, Emperor Guangxu, who had been parked in the Xiling Liang Zhuang Palace for four years and eight months, was finally buried in the Chongling Underground Palace. The Empress Dowager Longyu, who died in February of this year, was also in time, and the coffins of the emperor and queen were buried together. Concubine Zhen was buried in the concubine cemetery next door. The national anthem promulgated before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, "Gong Jinou" composed by Yan Fu and arranged by Fu Tong, was played for the last time-

GONG Jinou,

Cheng Tianwei,

Folk Objects Xinzhu Algae,

Joy comrades,

Qing Shi was lucky.

Zhen Xihao,

Imperial Firmament,

The sky is high,

The sea is surging.

Qin Beiyang spent four years and six months in the Chongling Underground Palace, which was about the same time as the days when Emperor Guangxu was mortuary in the Xiling Palace. He stayed in the dungeon until the end, and said goodbye to the "Dayi" who was guarding the corner, watching the tomb doors being closed by the top door stones. Whether these can be preserved for thousands of years, God knows.