Ye Zhiqiu recalled that the state of Yu was an important vassal state surnamed Ji in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it was the feudal state of the younger brother of King Wen of Zhou. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The history of the Kingdom of Yu lasted for three hundred years, during this period, the monarch of the Kingdom of Yu was the secretary of Zhou Tianzi for generations, and they had fought for Zhou Tianzi in the east and west, and fought in the south and the north, and made great achievements, and occupied a pivotal position in the Zhou room of the Ping Domain." Ye Zhiqiu continued to say as a few family treasures. "The national strength of the Kingdom of Yu once surpassed that of the Jin Kingdom, and how many times it attacked the Kingdom of Jin is enough to show the strength of the Kingdom of Qiu at that time, I guess that Zhou Tianzi should have relied on the Kingdom of Qiu, so he gave many rewards."

"I know all of these, but the gift of Jiuxi and the yellow intestine inscription are all ceremonial systems that can only be enjoyed by the Son of Heaven, even if the small kingdom of Yu is the same as Zhou Tianzi, but it is too unreasonable to get such a reward, you must know that the identity of the owner of the yellow intestine inscription unearthed today is not trivial."

Tian Wanqing said to us, it is not as good as the largest ancient tomb found so far, the No. 1 tomb of Qin Gong is the yellow intestine inscription, but the identity of the tomb owner is the monarch of the Qin State, according to the Zhou ceremony, the coffin burial method with the rafters sticking out from the north and south is called the yellow intestine inscription, which is the funeral specification of the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty.

As a vassal state of Qin, even if it is a monarch, there is no right to enjoy such funeral norms, and later an inscription was found in the ancient tomb, which recorded that the Qin State under the rule of the Duke of Qin became stronger and stronger, and the power began to push to the Central Plains, and at that time the Zhou Dynasty declined, the Qin people did not follow the Zhou ceremony, and boldly crossed the system to adopt the yellow intestine inscription.

It shows that it is not given by the Son of Heaven, coincidentally, the two Han tombs of Shenju Mountain and Dabaotai that were discovered later, although they are also yellow intestine inscriptions, and the tomb owners are also kings, but these two people died because of rebellion and suicide, and the yellow intestine inscriptions they used are not at all a legitimate gift from the Son of Heaven, but more like a provocation and dissatisfaction with the Son of Heaven.

"Aunt Tian, do you mean that the monarch of the Kingdom of Yu has the intention of rebellion?" The palace lord was taken aback.

"Judging from the documents and clues currently in hand, this is not the case, the yellow intestine inscription can be built by itself, but the gift of Jiuxi must be rewarded by the Son of Heaven, which shows that the monarch of the Kingdom of Qiu has the merit of the world, and it is on this that I am puzzled, what merits has the monarch of the Kingdom of Qiu made for the Son of Zhou, and can he get such a high standard of courtesy?"

"These questions can only wait for the owner of the tomb here, and maybe the answers can be found." I walked in front, listening to their conversation behind me, and in the firelight the tunnel had come to an end, and a thick stone wall blocked us.

"This is the nine-inch door, it is the unique tomb specific in the yellow intestine inscription, between the tomb door and the main burial chamber, there is a thick nine-inch stone door, because nine is the pole for the Son of Heaven to use, so it is called the nine-inch door." Tian Wanqing explained to us.

"Nine inches......" Gong Jue lowered his head and thought about it. Nine inches is converted, and this stone gate is thirty centimeters thick. ”

After Ye Zhiqiu heard this, he stretched out his hand to push the stone door, hesitated, his hand just leaned on it but did not exert force, slowly retracted, and looked back at me: "If this is the main tomb, do you say there will be a mechanism on the stone door?" ”

It is estimated that Ye Zhiqiu has followed us to many ruins, and every place is full of dangers, and now he has also grown his heart.

I smiled lightly and shook my head and replied very calmly: "When did you become so cautious, this is the main tomb, and the monarch of the Kingdom of Qiu will only be sent in after his death, he chose to build the mausoleum under the Yellow River Ancient Road, just because he doesn't want to be discovered, there are very few people who know about this mausoleum, why do you have to set up an organ." ”

"So...... There's no more trapping! Ye Zhiqiu nodded and waited for me to be sure.

"I usually see that you are very clever, but you still study archaeology, here is the yellow intestine problem, all of which are mausoleums built of wood, you get a mechanism to come out and show me." The palace lord taunted beside him.

Ye Zhiqiu didn't raise the bar with Gong Jue, nodded suddenly in understanding, and then pushed the door hard, but found that it didn't move, Gong Jue and I went up to help, according to the size of this stone gate, the weight should be able to be estimated, even if the strength of the three of us can't push away, it will definitely not move at all.

And there are clear grooves under the stone door that can be sliding, but no matter how hard we push, every time we push a little bit, it is like hitting a wall.

"It can't be forced, the tomb is all load-bearing by the wood around it, and the degree of decay soaked in water below is not clear, but the tomb has been tilted, and a slight shock may cause the tomb to collapse." Tian Wanqing hurriedly came up to stop it.

I found that the stone door was not complete, but closed by two doors, and there was a gap in the middle, and I pulled out the dagger from my body and looked inside, and found that there was nothing blocking it, which made me wonder why the stone door could not be pushed open.

The palace lord was silent for a moment, then took the dagger from my hand and probed inside as I did, but the place she chose was at the bottom of the stone door.

After the dagger entered, it was quickly blocked by something, and the palace lord stood up and turned his head with a solemn expression: "There is really a mechanism here." ”

"Didn't you say no?" Ye Zhiqiu asked.

"How did I know that there was a tap stone in this, we would never be able to push it away like this."

"Tap stone?!" Tian Wanqing, Xue Xinrou and Ye Zhiqiu were taken aback, looking at their reactions, they obviously knew what Gong Jue said, this time it was my turn to be confused, and I didn't know what a tap stone was.

"Has anyone ever told me what a tap stone is?" I asked, spreading my hands.

"The tap stone is actually a white marble strip that is artificially chiseled, although the length is less than two meters, but there is a stone when the pass, Wan Fu Mo Kaizhi said, this extremely vivid name, as for the ink pen inscription on the stone strip of Dingling." Ye Zhiqiu told me next to me. "This is the stone used in the Dingling Xuan Palace to seal the tomb door from the inside."

"The tap stone has only been found once in Dingling, archaeologists deduce that it is the Ming and Qing dynasties before the closed tomb method, I did not expect that there will be in the ancient tombs of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it has been seen that the stone has been around for a long time." Tian Wanqing said.

Tap stone is a mechanism, of course, no one knows better than the palace lord, she held a torch to tell me, this is a way to prevent theft of the imperial tomb, the process is not complicated, but mostly used in the royal mausoleum, is the secret of the imperial mausoleum construction, but where the imperial mausoleum is completed to complete this process of the conscription will die.

Perhaps it is for this reason, so there are very few people who know the secret of the stone, the so-called stone is actually the same as the name, the stone does not need manpower, the purpose is to block the door of the main tomb, but also the last barrier of the entire imperial tomb, when the main tomb door is closed, leaving a gap, the tap stone is generally erected and the door is separated by a designed distance.

Then use a hook to hook the tap stone from the crack in the door, let it fall down and lean on the main tomb door that has not been closed, the bottom of the tap stone is fixed, and the end of the tomb door will be slowly lowered with the closure of the door, and when the door is completely closed, the tap stone is just against the groove at the bottom of the door, just like the bolt inside the door, it is impossible to open the tomb door from the outside, unless someone opens it from the inside, but there are only buried dead people in the tomb, so it is difficult for someone to open the tomb door of such a mechanism.

"It's hard for anyone to open ......," I said, glancing at the palace lord, thoughtfully. You can't see the structure and principle of this tap stone from the outside, and you know it so clearly, which means that you have already come into contact with this kind of mechanism, and you know how to open it. ”

Gong Jue nodded very easily, I immediately came to my senses, and I wanted to know how Gong Jue opened this ingenious mechanism.

I saw that the palace lord took out a slender iron rod from the tool he brought, folded the front end of the handle into an upside-down shape, and asked us to push the door of the main tomb as hard as we could, and a small gap was exposed, which was the extent that we could push it open with all our might, but it seemed that the palace lord seemed to be very confident, and confidently looked inside by the light of the torch.

Then very carefully and slowly put the iron rod with the bent end of the front through the gap, we don't know what the iron rod in his hand is for, I curiously look through the gap to see what happened, the bend of the iron rod in the hand of the palace lord has touched the tap stone under the door of the tomb after a few attempts.

Gong Jue tried a few times and then retracted it, and re-twisted the width of the inverted turn, repeating it several times, until the width of the folded inverted turn was just enough to hold the tap stone, and when it was completely inlaid in, the palace lord began to gently deduce the iron rod in his hand.

I was surprised to find that the processed tool in her hand could slowly lift the tap stone against the door little by little, and when the tap stone rose to a certain height, she put another prepared iron rod into it, and pressed it against the raised tap stone, she let go of the inverted crutch on the tap stone, took a deep breath and pushed it out with her right hand.

Outside, we heard only a boom, dust scattered through the cracks in the main burial chamber, two stone doors opened, and we turned on the lights we had brought, only to find that in front of us was a deeper and more covered tomb, surrounded by wooden walls that stood upright, like cliffs.

At the foot of the steps leads to the main burial chamber, where the whole burial chamber looks like a large-scale, imposing, and beautifully structured underground palace with pure wood structure, and the proportions of the components are rigorous and breathtaking.

The majesty of the mausoleum fully embodies the majesty of a generation of monarchs, from the place where we stand, we can see at a glance the pattern of this yellow intestine inscription, the courtyard is high and open, the columns are simple, and every place is so simple and rough.

We were all shocked by the tomb in front of us with a lot of emotion, and when we turned our heads, we found Tian Wanqing squatting on the ground, the light in her hand illuminating the corridor under our feet, which was flooded before and did not notice, the stone gate blocked the water from pouring into the main tomb, and the mausoleum was still well preserved.

I saw that Tian Wanqing was so focused, I looked down and found that the corridor under my feet was actually cyan, and I carefully identified it as inlaid with green jade, and I was immediately surprised: "Shouldn't the tomb road here be cyan?!" ”