Xiao Mu's words made the soldiers behind Qi Yuanshan look at each other, some wanted to hit him with the butt of their guns, and some trembled, no longer the courage of outlaws.

Ah Hai and the ten-cornered seven-headed tomb beast walked in front, only to see that behind the martyred Tang army array, there were hundreds of white porcelain urns. Each urn jar was filled with scroll books, and thread-bound books were only available in the Song Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty was a long scroll. Zhongshan admired as if he had stepped into the Heavenly Library.

"There is a samurai army in front and a collection of 10,000 books in the back, and the Tang Dynasty is really an empire with both civil and military skills."

Qi Yuanshan grabbed a scroll in an urn and slowly unfolded it under the horse lamp, but it was a timeless and beautiful Wang Xizhi body book, looking at the pen as if it was written by a woman, but the momentum overwhelmed the bearded man. He carefully read his Chinese characters and found that all the accounts were about the daily life of the court, including the life of the harem and the banquet of the emperor, and the details were far from being comparable to the old and new Tang books. Ah Hai also came over to take a look, only to find that the title had the words "Vertical Arch Collection".

"Do you mean...... This is the handwriting of Wu Zetian himself? ”

Ah Hai's brows jumped slightly, and he unfolded the scrolls in the white porcelain urns around him, and sure enough, they were all "Vertical Arch Scrolls" - some of them recounted the old affairs of Tang Taizong Li Shimin, some were Tang Gaozong Li Zhi's war against Goguryeo, and some were all kinds of thrilling struggles of Wu Zetian as emperor. He saw between the lines that Li Tao, the eldest grandson Wuji, Chu Suiliang, Di Renjie, Xue Rengui and other famous ministers and good generals, as well as traitorous ministers such as Lai Junchen, and Xu Jianye and other chaotic ministers and thieves, as well as Luo Bingwang, who wrote an article against Wu Zetian and other geniuses, and even picked out the inscription "A handful of soil is not dry, and six feet of solitude is safe......

A hundred volumes, all the fonts are from the same person's hand, Ah Hai nodded and said: "One hundred volumes of the "Vertical Arch Collection", it is rumored that Wu Zetian wrote it himself, describing the whole process of her entering the palace from a young girl to serve Tang Taizong Li Shimin, and later marrying Gaozong Li Zhi, becoming the Empress of the Tang Dynasty, and finally becoming the Emperor of the Great Zhou. Wu Zetian will accompany the burial of this "Vertical Arch Collection", does he like his own calligraphy? Or do you want to hide the secrets of the real history? ”

Everyone walked through the dense urn jar, and a high platform suddenly rose in front of them. The layers of steps are piled up, like the majestic Hanyuan Hall in the Daming Palace of Chang'an, or the Ming Hall of the Ziwei Palace in Luoyang, the divine capital.

The ten-horned seven-headed tomb beast was the first to climb up, followed by Ah Hai and Zhongshan, and finally Qi Yuanshan and Xiaomu.

He had been walking for three days and three nights, and Qi Yuanshan had climbed endless steps, and his calf and stomach were almost cramping. He looked up at the high platform, there was only a black void, and then looked back at the vast underground palace, countless urns and jars were neatly arranged, and at the farther end was the Tang Sancai military array.

The scale of the Qianling Tomb is far beyond imagination, and it is also beyond the scope of the Qianling Tomb and Nitou Mountain on the ground, and perhaps the entire Qianxian County is Wu Zetian's mausoleum underground......

Qi Yuan Mountain climbed to the top of the high platform. There are no imaginary pavilions, no strange and ingenious objects, and no mountains of gold and silver, only a square bronze coffin.

Whose coffin? It was shaped like a small house, and there must have been several layers of coffins in it. Ah Hai and Zhongshan carefully circled around and observed the situation around the high platform.

The ten horns and seven heads also looked around the seven heads, wondering where the tomb beast was? It itself is the tomb beast of An Lushan, a rebellious minister and thief, why is there no tomb beast in the mausoleum where the two emperors of the Tang Dynasty are buried? In other words, the highest-ranking tomb emperor in the past three thousand years.

On the stone offering table in front of the coffin, there is a rectangular box made of Lantian jade. Ah Hai held his breath and carefully opened the jade box, which contained a jade mourning book and a long scroll covered with silk.

Let's look at the jade mourning book first, which is direct evidence to determine the identity of the tomb's owner.

"The Emperor."

Ah Hai read out the four words on the jade mourning book in a loud voice, Qi Yuanshan was very puzzled, isn't "Emperor" the title of the Japanese monarch?

"The Emperor is the nickname of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi." Qi Zhongshan explained, "In this coffin is buried the male owner of Qianling, the third emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the son of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the husband of Empress Wu Zetian, and the grandfather of Li Longqi, the king of Zhongnan County. ”

"Nicknamed domineering!" Qi Yuanshan stared at the bronze coffin again, "Tang Gaozong Li Zhi's coffin is already in front of you, isn't this a joint burial tomb?" Where is Empress Wu Zetian's coffin? ”

"Where is the Son of Heaven?"

Ah Hai muttered to himself, and no one could answer. He reached into the Lantian jade box and gently opened the long scroll.

A folded "butterfly suit" is a piece of white paper or silk folded inward along the middle seam. Looking at the paper material again, the ancient silkworm cocoon paper, the surface fiber is like silk, rich in luster, "the paper is like a cocoon and Ze". A strange ink fragrance came to the face, and after 1,200 years without decay, I am afraid that some kind of protective treatment has already been done.

From right to left, there are two vermilion seals at the beginning, one word is "Zhen", the other word is "Guan", and the top and bottom are connected to "Zhenguan" - the year name of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

"This is Tang Taizong's 'Zhenguan' bead seal!"

Qi Zhongshan blurted out, and covered his mouth with his hand to prevent spit from splashing on the paper.

The so-called bead seal is made of the same material to make two seals, which can be used separately or at the same time. During the Qin and Han dynasties, seals only had practical functions, such as the jade seal of the country and the seal of the government. Tang Taizong loved to collect calligraphy and paintings of the past dynasties, and after identifying the authenticity, he used this 'Zhenguan' bead seal to stamp. Since then, Chinese literati have had the tradition of stamping seals on calligraphy and paintings, and the dense stamps on paintings and calligraphy collected by the Manchu royal family will not exceed the Tang Dynasty at the earliest.

Ah Hai made a gesture of silence, just look, don't speak. After Tang Taizong Li Shimin's "Zhenguan" was printed, the first column of text, from top to bottom-

Yonghe is nine years old at the beginning of the twilight of spring

No one dared to pronounce this line of words, Ah Hai, Qi Yuanshan and Zhongshan, and even Xiaomu behind, the four of them clearly knew what this line of words meant.

The second column, from top to bottom -

In the Lanting of Huiji Shanyin

The sixth character "zhi" is almost a flattened glyph, tight at the top and loose at the bottom, with a light brush, unique and wonderful. This point is a horizontal stroke, and the "zhi" of only three strokes is an artistic conception that no calligraphy master can reach. Although Qi Yuanshan is a soldier, he usually loves the posts of the second king, and when he saw this "zhi", his lips trembled, and he almost exclaimed, but he was blocked by Ah Hai.

The third column, from top to bottom -

Also the sages are at least long and salty here

Zhongshan's face also turned pale, and the ten-horned seven-headed tomb beast leaned over with three heads, wanting to see what moths were on this piece of paper.

Fourth column, top to bottom -

There are lofty mountains, dense forests, and bamboos, and clear streams

This column is different, "Chongshan" is two small characters, between "have" and "Junling", which is obviously omitted when writing, and then filled in this position, just like primary school students often insert two words in their writing essays. "Jun Ling" is actually "Jun Ling", and the word "collar" omits the prefix "mountain......

There are 24 columns of text at the end, for a total of 28 columns. Qi Yuanshan's eyes are like cameras, and they have scanned from the first word "Yong" to the last word "Wen", a total of 324 words.

The ancients wrote, of course, without punctuation. Qi Yuanshan made punctuation in his heart and recited it silently. Reading the first sentence, those four words had already surfaced in Qi Yuanshan's mind. But he wondered in his heart, why was this priceless treasure in front of the coffin of Li Zhi of Tang Gaozong in Qianling? Isn't it buried in the Zhaoling Mausoleum of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty?

Looking at the whole article again, there are still traces of many alterations, but this is the proof of the casual writing of the "book saint". There are 21 "zhi" in the whole text, and each penmanship is different. Some seem to be out of the customs, some are like Confucius on the Tao, some are like Zhuang Zhou Mengdie, some are like Sun Tzu's Art of War, and even like the Buddha and the Buddha under the Bodhi tree to enlighten the Tao.

All 324 words, like 324 souls, are also independent of each other, each lonely, each splendid. Qi Yuanshan rubbed his eyes, as if these words stood up from the cocoon paper, stretched his limbs and five bodies, or stood with his head held high, or bowed his head and chanted, or danced with long sleeves, or hit the water in the middle stream......

It is not only a work of calligraphy, but also a masterpiece that is unparalleled in ancient and modern times.

Qi Yuanshan and Ah Hai glanced at each other, and their hearts were clear, facing this cocoon paper, even breathing was guilty.

Together, they put the scroll back in the Lantian jade box as it was, but left Tang Gaozong Li Zhi's jade mourning book outside.

"Lanting Collection Order!"

Zhongshan gasped and said these four words tremblingly.

Tomb robber Xiao Mu also saw the clue: "This is the authentic work of Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Collection Preface"! ”

"The ninth year of Yonghe is the name of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. On the third day of the first month of March, the sage Wang Xizhi, Xie An, Sun Sui and other 42 literati and scholars, dignitaries and dignitaries, gathered in the Shanyin Lanting to 'repair'. The ancients popularized 'Qushui Liuzhen', put the wine in the stream, go with the flow, and stop in front of whoever wants to improvise poems and drink. On that day, there were eleven people who wrote two poems each, and fifteen people who each wrote a poem, and the collection was the "Lanting Collection". Wang Xizhi made a preface, using a mouse whisker pen to make a preface on silkworm cocoon paper, and the first line of books in the world was born. ”

Ah Hai talked at length, and Qi Yuanshan remembered Ah Hai's father, Jin Yujun, but he was a Korean Go player and a master of calligraphy and painting, and he had his own family history.

"The appearance of people is the same, and the pitch is a lifetime!" Ah Hai has a good sentence for "Lanting Collection Preface", "My generation suffers from fame and fortune in the red dust, one for the world, the other for revenge, but 'I don't know that old age is coming', 'Shortening and following, and the end is at the end'." ”

"Life and death are all the same!" Qi Yuanshan inexplicably felt a certain emotion of Wang Xizhi, "The future looks at the present, and the present looks at the past." ”

Ah Hai dragged Qi Yuanshan to kneel down and kowtowed: "The book saint is above, please let me wait for a while!" Trespassing on the Qianling underground palace is a great crime. However, when the time is not with me, the world is in turmoil, when there are heroes in large numbers, competing in the Central Plains, winning the world. ”

Qi Zhongshan frowned and said: "There is only a copy of the surviving "Lanting Collection Preface", the most famous is the facsimile of the court calligrapher Feng Chengsu during the Tang Taizong period, the hard yellow paper is spread on the real handwriting, the double hook outline is filled, there is almost no difference, just like the photography of later generations, also known as the "Shenlong Ben" Lanting Collection Preface "", which is now stored in the Forbidden City. ”

"Legend has it that Tang Taizong left a will, asking Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Collection Preface" to be included in the jade box for burial." Qi Yuanshan followed his younger brother and said, "I didn't expect it, but this baby was brought here by his son Tang Gaozong Li Zhi!" ”

"Later, Liang Yaozhou Jiedu made Wen Tao, dug up the Zhaoling of Tang Taizong, and found an iron box on the stone bed of the east and west compartments of Li Shimin's coffin, hiding countless precious paintings and calligraphy, but did not find the "Lanting Collection Preface".

Qi Yuanshan looked at the Lantian jade box and said, "Could it be that Li Zhi violated Li Shimin's will and left the "Lanting Collection Preface"? Didn't accompany the burial to the Zhaoling underground palace? ”

Legend has it that when Wu Zetian entered the palace to serve Tang Taizong, he was influenced by the emperor to practice Wang Xizhi's calligraphy. Tang Taizong asked the prince Li Zhi about the calligraphy points of the "Lanting Collection Preface", Li Zhi opened his mouth, Wu Zetian secretly prompted, Li Shimin was furious, he said to ask three questions, if Wu Zetian could not answer, he would be dragged out and killed. Who would have thought that Wu Zetian would answer like a fluent and draw inferences from one another, which impressed Tang Taizong. Perhaps this incident also planted the seeds for Wu Zetian to remarry Li Zhi after the death of Tang Taizong. ”

"Li Zhi left the "Lanting Collection Preface", maybe that is what Wu Zetian meant? When Li Zhi died, he enshrined this treasure in front of the emperor's coffin along with the jade mourning book. ”

Qi Zhongshan touched one of the heads of the ten-horned seven-headed tomb beast and said, "Is it possible that the "Lanting Collection Preface" is not only for the martyrdom of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, but also for the martyrdom of Wu Zetian?" ”

"And where is the Empress's coffin?"