Chapter Seventy-Nine: The First Step
Han Yu casually picked up the scattered jewels from the ground, looked around, the silver-covered platform was covered with thick dust, Han Yu squatted on the ground and gently blew the dust, and soon a pair of footprints were exposed in front of our eyes.
"Help clean up here."
Han Yu knelt on the ground and said with a focused expression.
We followed Han Yu's example and carefully cleared the ground, and it didn't take much time for dense footprints to appear in the area we cleared.
The crown prince and Nangong Yi also found countless footprints of different sizes when they cleaned up the area next to them, and Xiao Lianshan and Gu Xiaoxiao also found footprints left in another place.
"It's not the only one who came here before us!"
I frowned, a little surprised.
"Judging from these footprints, there are a large number of people who once opened the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan."
We only cleaned a small area and found so many footprints, you can imagine that this large platform should be covered with such footprints, Genghis Khan's coffin is placed here, from the gold, silver and jewelry scattered on the ground, it can be inferred that this platform is not only for the purpose of imagining the four poles, four elephants and seven monarchs, but also for storing the accumulation of wealth of unknown value.
Genghis Khan conquered countless countries in his lifetime, and the wealth he plundered was never mentioned in any literary history, and if I am not mistaken, the gold, silver and jewels that are difficult to describe in words must have been piled up here.
"Someone has opened the imperial tomb and emptied all the wealth here, even the remains of Genghis Khan."
I picked up the scattered jewelry from the ground and looked at the footprints around me that had been cleaned up, and said in shock.
"But this is not right, from the death of Genghis Khan to the discovery of the emperor's mausoleum by us, the location of Genghis Khan's mausoleum has been a mystery for hundreds of years."
Han Yu shook his head and said in surprise.
"If it weren't for the letter left by Hongxuzi by mistake, we wouldn't have been able to find this place anyway, who could have entered the Emperor's Tomb before us?"
"Judging from these footprints, they should be hundreds of years old, not something that happened in recent times."
Nangong Yi squatted on the ground and looked at it carefully for a long time, and said thoughtfully.
"There's something even more bizarre."
Gu Xiaoxiao stood up and said thoughtfully.
"There are people outside the world, and since we can find them, it's not surprising that other people have been here, but ......"
Gu Xiaoxin pointed to this spacious platform halfway through and said seriously, there is more than one person who can see from the footprints, the number is so large that we can't imagine, and this platform must have stored mountains of gold, silver and jewelry, but now it is empty, only the scattered treasures under our feet are left, and it takes a lot of people to empty so much wealth.
The so-called people die for money, birds die for food, but anyone who sees so much wealth will inevitably have two hearts, but it can be seen that these footprints advance and retreat in an orderly manner is not like a robbery at all, it is obvious that someone is organizing and ordering, and the division of labor is extremely orderly and clear in the carrying.
"There are so many people, so many people carry such a huge wealth, and there has not been a single rumor leaked out in the past few hundred years."
The prince said in understanding.
"Yes, that's what I mean, it stands to reason that such a large-scale movement involves so many people involved, why hasn't anyone leaked any information about this?"
Gu Xiaoxiao nodded and replied.
"Army!"
Xiao Lianshan's eyes lit up and looked up at us.
"Only the army can accomplish such a thing, because the army must obey orders and commands, and it will not be like a plate of scattered sand, and it is not a person who comes here, but an army!"
Army!
Nangong Yi repeated these two words in her mouth, walked back and forth several times before stopping in front of us, she was full of economic and well-founded told us that since the Yuan Taizu Genghis Khan unified Mongolia, established the country in Mobei, and set the name of the country as the Great Mongolia, to the Yuan ancestor Kublai Khan's capital of Han, the name of the country was changed to the Great Yuan, and finally until the death of Yuan Huizong, a total of 98 years.
In the past 98 years, in terms of the location of the emperor's mausoleum, there has never been a record in literature and history that any army has come here, even if there is an army, it should be the Mongolian army, but after all, this is the imperial tomb of Genghis Khan, in the hearts of the Mongols, Genghis Khan is not allowed to be desecrated and violated, I believe that any Mongolian, even if he knows that this is the emperor's mausoleum, will not dare to open it without authorization, let alone carry the treasures in the emperor's mausoleum and move the remains of Genghis Khan.
Even the most disciplined Mongol army, Genghis Khan was sacrosanct, and if someone instructed the army to open the imperial tomb, it would inevitably cause a mutiny.
"It doesn't have to be the Mongol army, it's okay with other armies."
Yun Duruo asked.
"Of course I thought about this problem, but in fact, in the end, Yuan Huizong fell and the Yuan Dynasty fell, followed by the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, and the footprints left on the platform have been hundreds of years, and they can be traced back to these two dynasties, but no army has penetrated here."
Nangong Yi replied in the affirmative.
"What do you see here?"
Han Yu was still on the ground looking for clues, and when he came back, he was holding a shabby piece of clothing in his hand, which should be very old, and the dust on it was bounced off to reveal a dark red color.
Nangong Yi frowned and said nothing, took it from Han Yu's hand and looked at it for a long time, slowly opened her mouth and said in shock.
"It's a military uniform, and it's a ......"
"Or what?"
Gu Xiaoxiao asked eagerly.
"It's still the uniform of the Ming army."
Nangong Yi said in surprise while looking at it.
"The military uniform of the Ming army is knee-length, narrow sleeves, the inner is made of cotton, the color is red, this kind of military uniform, the scientific name is the mandarin duck battle jacket, mostly for the placket in order to ride the horse, the shape of the armor piece made of copper and iron, mostly the mountain pattern, the production is precise and light."
Nangong Yi described the armor she held in her hand, and it seems that our speculation is correct, there was indeed an army that came here to carry away the mountains of gold and wealth, and this armor should have been left here at that time.
"Why is it the Ming Army?"
Nangong Yi frowned and muttered to herself in confusion.
"There is no record in literature and history that the Ming army went so far into Mobei."
"I think this can be explained, no matter who is in command of the Ming army here, it is already a secret that cannot be opened to the public to obtain so much wealth."
I walked back and forth a few steps and said thoughtfully.
"Why has there been no word about this matter for hundreds of years, presumably all the soldiers who participated in the transportation of this imperial tomb were slaughtered in order to preserve this shocking secret, since so many people can be slaughtered to keep a secret, how can it be recorded in literature and history."
"Then if that's the case, it's simple, the Ming Dynasty broke the Yuan Dynasty and once sent troops to encircle and suppress the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, as long as you figure out who led the troops to attack here, won't you be able to narrow the scope?"
Yun Duruo said with some excitement.
"The history of the Ming army's encirclement and suppression of the Yuan army is called the Northern Expedition, and there are a total of eight recorded in history, and the person who launched the Northern Expedition is Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty."
Nangong Yi didn't even think about blurting out.
Nangong Yi told us in great detail that the eight Northern Expeditions recorded in the literature and history were all from the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, although the Yuan Dynasty lost its rule over the Central Plains, but still ruled the northern grassland region of the vast map of the Ming Dynasty, many areas of the country, such as Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, etc., are still under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty always feels a major threat.
Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, decided to make a northern expedition against the remnants of Mongolia and stabilize the northern frontier, and successively made eight northern expeditions to the remnants of the Mongol and Yuan dynasties that escaped into Mobei.
The first Northern Expedition was a large-scale unification war carried out by the Ming Dynasty to eliminate the remnants of the Mongol Hu and Yuan forces.
Zhu Yuanzhang in view of the late Northern Song Dynasty Yanshan area in two years to recover the lost experience, decided to go north to eliminate the Northern Yuan, ordered the right prime minister Xu Da to capture the general to send troops to attack the Northern Yuan, the Ming army won a complete victory in the northern expedition, the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in the near Sai suffered a heavy blow.
The Second Northern Expedition of the Ming Army made the first northern expedition to the desert, but because of the light enemy's rash advance, the main force of the Middle Route Army was defeated, and the Northern Expedition ended in failure.
The third, fourth, and fifth Northern Expeditions all ended with the victory of the Ming army, and after the end of the Fifth Northern Expedition, the Ming Dynasty had included Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence.
The effect of the Sixth Northern Expedition was the most significant, Zhu Yuanzhang carried out the sixth offensive operation against the Saiwai Ancient Yuan, and ordered 150,000 people to conquer the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and the Northern Yuan was defeated and the foundation was shaken, and it was difficult to compete with the Ming Dynasty from then on.
In fact, the Seventh and Eighth Northern Expeditions had little strategic significance, only to sweep and crush the remnants of the Northern Yuan, and the Northern Yuan was no longer capable of competing with the Ming Dynasty, and these two Northern Expeditions had ended with great victories.
"The people who launched the eight Northern Expeditions were all Zhu Yuanzhang."
Han Yu muttered to himself for a long time, and said meaningfully.
"Although Zhu Yuanzhang of the Eighth Northern Expedition did not drive the expedition in person, he could lead the shore of the land to be none other than the king's ministers, and these generals who ordered the Northern Expedition were all under Zhu Yuanzhang's orders, would it ...... Could it be that when Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Northern Expedition, he discovered the tomb of Genghis Khan and ordered the army to carry and loot it. ”
"There is this possibility, all dynasties have been successful and defeated, the reason why there is no record in literature and history is that such a big action has to be hidden from people's eyes, who can do it except the king."
Yun Duruo nodded in agreement.
"If it is only the general who commands the army to get this treasure, it will inevitably reach Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, and these wealth will also be handed over to the public, not to mention who can order this secret to be blocked except Zhu Yuanzhang."
"So the person who got Genghis Khan's wealth is Zhu Yuanzhang?"
Gu Xiaoxiao said in astonishment.
I didn't speak, but turned my head to look at Xiao Lianshan, maybe among those of us, he is the only one who can answer this question the most.
"Dad, you once found the Ming Fourteen Tombs, and it is said that the wealth in them is also piled up, could it be that the wealth in the Ming Fourteen Tombs is Genghis Khan's?"
"Impossible!"
Xiao Lianshan categorically denied our idea.
"First of all, from the area of this platform, the wealth inside is completely more than several times more than the Ming Tombs, I found that there is not so much wealth in the Ming Tombs, and it can even be said that even the tip of the iceberg is more than that, and the gold, silver and jewelry in the Ming Tombs are accumulated in the Ming Dynasty, and the things in it are inherited in an orderly manner, and they are all artifacts that run through the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, and most of the wealth in the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan should be exotic, and there should be very few things in the Central Plains, and I did not see many exotic gold and silver jewelry in the Ming Tombs, so it is certain that the things in the 14th Tombs of the Ming Dynasty will definitely not be the treasures of the Tombs of Genghis Khan. ”