Chapter 15: Lafayette's Underground Palace (1)
In the first year of Xuantong, in the tenth month of the lunar calendar, on November 15, 1909, the Empress Dowager Cixi was officially buried in the underground palace.
Less than twenty years later, catastrophe was on the horizon.
Early the next morning, a large group of men and horses had gathered in front of the Longen Hall in the Cixi Mausoleum, half of them carrying bright bayonets, and the other half carrying shovels and hoes.
Sun Dianying slapped his officers twice: "Damn!" actually let Qi Yuanshan escape! ”
Ah Hai whispered: "Sun Dashuai, there are people in front of the mountain and behind the mountain, I'm afraid he won't be able to escape far." ”
"Do it today?"
"Without further ado, don't make any more moths."
Sun Dianying stood in front of the main hall, straightened his clothes, cleared his throat, and made a mobilization speech-
"Brothers, fellow brothers! Please listen to a few words from my grandson. Some people say that our action today is tomb robbery! Is it a tomb robbery? Be! Lao Tzu is a tomb robber! But in addition to robbing tombs, Lao Tzu is still a revolution! The Manchus killed three generations of my ancestors and had to take revenge on the revolution. Sun Yat-sen had an alliance and revolutionized the Manchu Dynasty; Feng Huanzhang forced the palace with a gun and drove the last emperor out of the Forbidden City. My Sun Dianying didn't have a few guns, only the lives of the dead...... Excavation of the Manchu Dongling, there are three major benefits, first, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the literary prison was greatly revitalized, and the soldiers were killed in vain, such as Lu Liuliang, etc., were opened to kill the corpse, although I am not talented, but also know that the way of the other is to give back to the other. Second, the Manchu Qing Dynasty ruled for 300 years, and the looted wealth is not much, and today I sent a mausoleum to collect the world's wealth and goods, collect the profits of operation, and enrich the Chinese treasury. Third, the people of Tanglin complained to this seat, and for many years, there were often corpses in the vicinity. My grandson fought zombies in his hometown in Henan, and knew that the root of the corpse change was in the grave. The Qing court raised the corpse with gold and jade jewelry, and it was a long-term victim of the people, and today the excavation of Donglin is to eliminate harm for the people, and to eliminate harm for China, which is a great righteous act, comparable to Li Ji cutting the snake, and Hou Yi shooting the sun! ”
The speech seemed to be a high-sounding sound, and the officers and men raised their arms and shouted revolutionary slogans. The corners of Ah Hai's mouth are also connected to the scar.
Zhongshan opened a large wooden box and took out a pile of small houses like toy blocks, but it was the appearance of the entire mausoleum of the Empress Dowager Cixi.
"This is the 'hot sample' of Style Lei." Style Lei's family was a Qing Dynasty imperial architect. This 'hot sample' is a small sample presented to the Empress Dowager Cixi. A few days ago, I took a lot of trouble to get it from the descendants of 'Style Lei'. ”
Ah Hai didn't say he stole it. He dragged the tomb robber Xiao Mu and the old eunuch He Chang over and asked, "You two take a look, where should the tomb entrance be?" ”
Sure enough, looking at the "hot sample" is clear at a glance, saving the pain of going around the mausoleum and the treasure top. Xiao Mu didn't dare to speak. The old eunuch hung his throat and said: "This 'hot sample' is indeed made by 'Style Lei', but if you want the old man to say where is the entrance to the tomb?" It is still clear that Fang Chengming is downstairs. ”
Sun Dianying, Ah Hai, and Zhongshan, with Xiao Mu and He Changzai, as well as hundreds of carefully selected soldiers, passed through the three-hole glazed door behind the Longen Palace, and saw the Ming Tower and Fangcheng of the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Fangcheng is a square city wall in front of the mausoleum mound, and there is a wooden city tower on it that is the Ming Tower. There are also five stone offerings in front of it for sacrifice. Passing through the doorway under the square city, it is the treasure top, commonly known as the crescent moon city.
Although it is the height of summer, it is gloomy. Facing a piece of glazed wall, usually the tomb entrance is under the wall. Ah Hai turned around and asked Xiao Mu, "Based on your experience, should you dig from here?" ”
Xiao Mu replied tremblingly: "This is only a nominal entrance, if you don't believe it, you can dig down." ”
Ah Hai asked the old eunuch again: "Father-in-law He, do you remember?" ”
He Changzai kowtowed to the Empress Dowager Cixi as usual, and recited the words: "Lafayette is above, and the small sin deserves death......"
Several soldiers went up and stripped the old eunuch of his clothes, revealing his bare lower body, and everyone laughed. He Chang suffered such humiliation at this age, crying a handful of snot and tears.
This scene made Xiao Mu's heart tremble, and he was afraid that it would be his turn next.
Ah Hai sank his face, helped the old eunuch put the clothes back on, and said to his ear: "Grandpa He, do you remember this time?" ”
He Chang was wailing and said, "What's the family...... No...... Minion...... Minion...... I remembered......"
Ah Hai and Zhongshan took the old eunuch's arm and circled the top of the treasure several times. They walked in a daze, followed by hundreds of soldiers, shovels and rifles constantly collided with each other to make a metallic sound, and Sun Dianying scolded again.
Suddenly, the old eunuch pointed to a brick wall on the side of the treasure dome and said, "Okay...... It seems like...... It's here......"
Ah Hai dragged Xiao Mu over again and said, "Take a look, aren't you?" ”
Back then, in Taibai Mountain, Lao Jin was a good hand at "underground palace road", good at digging tombs and catching tomb beasts. And Ah Hai is a master of the "Assassin Dao", who loves to turn the living into the dead. But he has no interest in the world after death, and the kung fu of the "Underground Palace Dao" has long been wasted. Now that Lao Jin has died in the avalanche of Taibai Mountain, except for Qin Beiyang, the only person in the world who can help him is Xiao Mu, the king of tomb robbers.
Xiao Mu carefully checked the direction of the treasure top, combined with the location of the mausoleum and the hillside, as well as the angle between this place and the Minglou Fangcheng, lifted the Luoyang shovel to explore the depth, nodded and said, "It should be here." ”
Ah Hai pressed his cheek and said, "You have lied to me many times, and this time, I believe you for the time being." ”
Sun Dianying was also not polite, and ordered the engineer battalion to dig on the spot. Fortunately, in broad daylight, there were still hundreds of brave men, and many soldiers took off their shirts, shirtless, and sweated like rain. Sun Dianying lit a cigarette and lit another for Ah Hai with his own hands. The match was struck several times and was extinguished, but in fact, the hand was shaking, but it was embarrassingly said that it was the yin wind blowing underground.
But this wall is extremely strong, I don't know what special material seeped into it? Maybe it's iron and copper. The sapper battalion dug for two hours before digging out the bricks of the diamond wall. The old eunuch He Chang's face changed, and he knelt down and kowtowed again. Xiao Mu tapped his knuckles, put his ear against the King Kong wall, nodded and said, "This is it." ”
The sappers continued to dig, but the wall was as its name suggested, and no matter how the shovel flew, it only smashed a few white pits, and there were no cracks to be seen. This unit already lacks food and salary, has inferior weapons and equipment, and will not have construction machinery. Ah Hai shook his head again and again, thinking to himself that these useless guys would be if there was an alliance of craftsmen to help dig the grave.
Sun Dianying was anxious and said: "Damn! If you dig like this, the next change of dynasty will drag the Empress Dowager Cixi out, just use explosives! ”
Everyone immediately retreated to the outside of Fang City, and the engineer battalion buried explosives under the King Kong Wall and pressed the detonator far away. Suddenly, the sky and the earth cracked under the top of the treasure, and the loud noise shook the entire Qing Dongling, and Ah Hai felt as if someone was scratching the soles of his feet......
The smoke and dust gradually dissipated, and Sun Dianying approached the top again. The originally impregnable Vajra Wall was blasted open like the mouth of some kind of monster, and the bricks around it were like teeth and tongues.
Ah Hai threw the two torches into it, and then let Xiao Mu and the old eunuch identify it, revealing a deep corridor, like a fake tomb entrance, a cloud of smoke with a rotting smell drifting into the nostrils......