Generally speaking, the statues in the mausoleum are to protect the owner of the tomb, so the statues are mostly gods or beasts, but in the holy palace are thirteen full-man generals wearing armor and holding murder weapons.

"You are a descendant of the Eight Banners, do you know the origin of these statues?" I looked at Turjan.

Turzhan shook his head and replied that there are very strict regulations on the regulation of the imperial mausoleums of the Qing Dynasty, including a book dedicated to regulating mausoleums, called the case of the Great Qing Huidian, which stipulates that although the mausoleum system of the Great Qing Dynasty basically follows the Ming Mausoleum system, it combines the characteristics of the Manchus, but when the Yongling Tomb was built, this set of systems and regulations did not come out.

Compared with the Ming Tomb system, the biggest difference is that there are stone statues in the imperial tombs, Wenchen and samurai are Manchu costumes and hairstyles, and all plaques and inscriptions are Manchu, Han or Manchu, Mongolian, and Chinese characters.

The original Yongling was very simple, and the columbarium was only enshrined in the hall of enjoyment, and it was not until the Qing Dynasty won the Central Plains that the emperors of later generations began to build again.

"Qing Taizu was a man of Rong Ma for decades, busy with the unification of Northeast Manchuria and the war with the Ming Dynasty, and had no time to take care of the planning and construction of the mausoleum system, although there was a Yongling at that time, but its scale was only three huts, far from the current regulations compared, and it could not be called a mausoleum, so it was not a mausoleum system." Ye Zhiqiu said.

"That is to say, these thirteen statues in the Holy Palace are not the characteristics of the Manchu Mausoleum, and the Qing Taizu intends to stay here." Ye Jiuqing looked at the stone statue carefully again. "It stands to reason that if it is for decoration, these stone statues should all look the same, but these thirteen stone statues have different expressions, as if they represent thirteen different people."

"Thirteen ......" Turzhan suddenly raised his head and looked up at the stone statue with a somewhat surprised expression. Could it be that these statues represent that thing! ”

"What's that?" I hurriedly asked.

"Thirteen pairs of armor."

"yes, why didn't I think of that." Ye Zhiqiu suddenly realized.

"What are the thirteen sets of armor?" Tian Ji asked.

"After the whole family of Qing Taizu was exterminated, in order to take revenge, he later raised troops with the thirteen pieces of armor left by his father, thus starting the journey of creating the imperial industry, although the Qing Taizu relied on the help of Bai Gu to unify the Jurchen tribes, but the original Qing Taizu was only thirteen people, because he wore the armor left by the tribe, so it was called the thirteen relics." Ye Zhiqiu said to us unhurriedly. "Qing Taizu and these thirteen people laid the foundation for the next three hundred years of the Qing Dynasty."

"These thirteen sets of armor have extraordinary significance for the Manchus, but the strange thing is that later the Taizu unified the Jurchens and won the Central Plains, but the whereabouts of these thirteen sets of armor are unknown." Turzhan said, looking at the statue. "Grandpa Tai left thirteen statues here, maybe he is alluding to the thirteen sets of armor."

"It makes sense, the thirteen relics represent the rise of the Qing Dynasty, and its significance is as important as the Dragon Vein Temple, and the Qing Taizu should have left the secret of the Dragon Vein Temple on the thirteen relics." Ye Jiuqing said.

"But you don't see any armor here?" Tian Ji said.

"Since there is no one in the Holy Palace, it only means that there are places here that we have not discovered." I said intently as I gazed at the statue.

"But I've searched all the places I need to look for, and I haven't found anything." Xue Xinrou said.

Ye Jiuqing touched his chin, stared at the stone statues from a few angles, and turned back to me, "Have you seen the chest guards on the chests of these stone statues." ”

I looked up and vaguely found that in the firelight, the position of the stone statue chest protector seemed to be brighter than other places: "No, the stone statue is built on the mountain, carved directly on the mountain, why is that place so bright." ”

"I guess the goggles are made of other materials." Ye Jiuqing said.

"I'll go up and have a look." Tian Ji said.

I nodded and told Tian Ji to be careful, he quickly climbed up the stone statue, and when he reached the position of the chest guard, I saw Tian Ji tap lightly with his hand, and I heard a crisp echo, Tian Ji wiped a handful on the heart guard, and a light shone in front of our eyes.

"It's a bronze mirror!" Tian Ji said to us above. "The rest of the statue is full of stone, except for the heart guard, which is inlaid with a bronze mirror."

Only then did I react, because it had been silent for too long, and the dust fell on the heart guards: "Why do you use bronze mirrors alone to decorate the stone statues?" ”

"Speaking of bronze mirrors, I have seen one at the entrance of the Holy Palace before, but in the burial system of the Manchurians, there is a custom of leaving bronze mirrors in the mausoleum, so I didn't care." Ye Zhiqiu said.

"The custom of the Manchu people to put bronze mirrors in the mausoleum has a long history, because the Manchu people believe that the mirror can pass through yin and yang, and it can illuminate the way to the afterlife when placed in the palace." Turzhan said.

I asked Ye Zhiqiu to take us to the place where she saw the bronze mirror, which was a mirror embedded in the gate of the Holy Palace, and the dust on it was still shining brightly.

Ye Jiuqing looked at it for a moment, then raised his head and asked the field chicken who was still on the stone statue loudly: "The perimeter of the heart guard is a single-line engraved beast pattern?" ”

"I don't know if it's a single line engraving, but it's indeed a beast pattern around it." Tian Ji said seriously on it.

"The bronze mirror on the gate of the Holy Palace and the heart guard on the stone statue are the same except for the difference in size, the ornamentation and craftsmanship are the same." Ye Jiuqing pointed to the bronze mirror in front of us and said. "It seems that Qing Taizu left a bronze mirror on the stone statue for the heart guard, which should have other intentions."

"But what's the connection between these bronze mirrors?" Bai Jin asked.

"What is the bronze mirror used for?" I frowned and muttered to myself.

"What can the mirror be for, of course, looking in the mirror is to see yourself in the mirror." Ye Zhiqiu said.

The palace lord walked to the gate and looked back and forth between the bronze mirror and the stone statue's heart guard without saying a word.

"See yourself in the mirror......" Gong Jue muttered to himself, repeating what Ye Zhiqiu had just said, and then pointed to the bronze mirror on the door. Does it mean that you want to see the stone statue in the holy palace in this bronze mirror? ”

"It's impossible." Ye Jiuqing shook his head and said. "The bronze mirror is inlaid on the outside of the gate, and the stone statue is inside the holy palace, and these two bronze mirrors cannot shine on the stone statue under any circumstances."

"The gate of the holy palace is pushed from the outside to the inside, and then the two doors are opposed, and the bronze mirror embedded in the gate can only shine on the opposite side of the bronze mirror, and this angle cannot see the stone statue from the mirror." Xue Xinrou looked back and forth.

"Then why is the bronze mirror on the gate movable?" Gong Jue's hand touched the bronze mirror, and we were surprised to find that the bronze mirror could swing from side to side.

Suddenly, a ray of light hit my eyes, too dazzling I subconsciously reached out to cover it, it was the fire reflected by the copper mirror, through the fingers at the moment I was suddenly startled, and quickly reached out to touch the mirror surface of the copper mirror.

"The mirror is not flat, but concave downwards, so that the light can be concentrated." I say.

"Reflective!" Gong Jue's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly. "The purpose of these two bronze mirrors is to reflect light, and if I guess correctly, the heart guards on the stone statues should also be sunken."

I hurriedly asked Tian Ji loudly, and he touched it and nodded to us.

"That's the connection between the bronze mirror and the heart goggles, by reflecting the light." Gong Jue said.

Tian Ji and I immediately climbed onto the other stone statues, cleaned the dust off the heart guards respectively, and after getting down from the stone statues, the palace lord stood at the gate of the holy palace and began to adjust the angle of the bronze mirror, until a beam of light was adjusted to the heart guards of the first stone statue.

In an instant, the beam of light was reflected onto the mirror of the other statue, the position and height of which coincided, apparently the position of the statue had been calculated before the carving, and the beams of light reflected each other on the mirror between the statues until it hit the chest of the last statue, and the reflected beam hit a place in the stone wall of the Holy Palace.

We immediately walked to the stone wall, the stone wall of the holy palace is decorated with dragon patterns, we have checked before, and there is no problem, and the light beam is not abnormal here, and the other stone wall decorations are not abnormal.

"What do these dots on the stone wall mean?" Tian Ji asked, pointing around the dragon pattern.

The dots are inlaid with silver beads, symbolizing the stars in the sky and implying that the dragon is in the sky.

Ye Jiuqing stared at it for a long time and said, "These silver beads are of different sizes. ”

"Since it's a star, of course there are big and small." Tian Ji said disapprovingly.

"Can you talk with a longer brain, these silver beads represent the stars, and in ancient times, the stars were not divided into sizes." Xue Xinrou glanced at Tian Ji.

"Then why are they not the same?" Tian Ji shrugged and asked.

"What do you look at these big silver beads like when you look at them alone?" Bai Jin said thoughtfully next to him.

I took a few steps back and frowned for a long time: "I look like a spoon." ”

"Spoon ......" Gong Jue was stunned and retreated to my side. The silver bead symbolizes the stars, and the stars resemble spoons......"

"Big Dipper!" Ye Zhiqiu blurted out.

"Yes, the distribution of these silver beads is inlaid according to the position of the Big Dipper, but what does it mean?" Xue Xinrou asked at a loss.

"The Big Dipper is very common, but with the dragon, the feng shui is in the middle of the public opinion, and this is called the Dragon Pan Beidou, because the Beidou Lord died, and the emperor was sleeping in the tomb of the true dragon Tianzi, which means that the stars in the world protect the real dragon Antai." Ye Jiuqing scratched his head as he spoke. "However, there seems to be something wrong with this stone dragon."

"Dad, what's wrong?"

"The dragon pan Beidou is a unique decoration of the emperor's mausoleum, which means that the true dragon will return to the sky and enjoy the throne forever, therefore, when the stone dragon roars for nine days, the dragon head should be facing east just against the Ziwei Emperor Star." Ye Jiuqing pointed to the stone wall and said. "There are countless dragon patterns inscribed on the stone wall of the holy palace, of course you can't see it when you mix them together, it doesn't matter where the dragon's head is heading, but since it is the dragon pan Beidou, the dragon's head must be to the east, but this stone dragon is just the opposite, and the dragon's head is to the west."

"There shouldn't be such a mistake in the Holy Palace, and the beam reflected by the heart guard just happened to shine here, indicating that Qing Taizu intended to let the people who came here find out about this mistake." After I finished speaking, I put my hand on the stone dragon and moved it gently, this stone dragon was really active, I twisted it hard to the east, and suddenly there was a roar behind me.

We looked back and were surprised to find that the ground in the middle of the sacred palace was slowly parting, and a huge round pit appeared in front of us.