"Hah! Then I'll guess! ”

Seeing that the seventh master asked me to guess, I couldn't shirk it, remembering what the second uncle told me yesterday, I guessed: "No, it's the tomb of the Northern Wei Dynasty, right?" ”

The seventh master nodded: "What about the specifics?" ”

Naturally, I wouldn't tell me about the turtle I saw yesterday, so I thought about it and shook my head: "I don't know the specifics......"

"The royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty especially admired Buddhism." When the Seventh Master said this, he glanced at the Budai monk: "Needless to say, the Longmen Grottoes and Yungang Grottoes are world-famous." But the greatest Buddhist buildings of the Northern Wei Dynasty were not these two grottoes, but another. ”

The Seventh Master stopped at this point, and I was stunned: "Seventh Master, you are not a storyteller, why are you digging a pit for me!" ”

"Haha!" The seventh master laughed: "I just see if you know it." You don't know it, and this building isn't written into your history books. After Emperor Ming of the Northern Wei Dynasty ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Hu was autocratic and autocratic, and built temples and grottoes on a large scale, and built two temples at that time, one named Xixuan Temple and the other called Yongning Temple. These two temples are large in scale and lavishly decorated, and Yongning Temple is known as the greatest temple tower in ancient China. ”

I asked, "Yongning Temple?" I haven't heard of it, I've only heard of the Dali Temple where confessions were extorted by torture. ”

"Because this temple is long gone." The Seventh Master explained: "Yongning Temple was built in 516, and was destroyed by fire in 534 eighteen years later, this temple tower was about 140 meters high at that time, you can imagine how great it was. ”

The 140-meter-high temple tower built in 516 made me wonder, "Not to mention anything else, how much did it cost to spend such a tall temple with luxurious decoration......

"This temple tower is in Luoyang." The seventh master smiled: "At that time, it was a royal temple, so there is no need to say how much it cost." ”

"So, where the hell are we going?" I smiled bitterly and said, "The temple tower is gone, where can we find it?" ”

"What the world doesn't know is that this temple tower took more than ten years to build, and because it was built in the middle of a royal garden, ordinary people can't see what is being built inside. Although the Empress Dowager Hu was authoritarian and autocratic at that time, she was still loyal to the Northern Wei regime and did not intend to replace her Hu family. But until something happened that made her change her mind. ”

"Someone is going to kill her?" I guessed.

"That's right, Emperor Ming of the Northern Wei Dynasty was still young when he ascended the throne, and if I remember correctly, he was only five or six years old, and he was too young to know anything. But when he grew up more than ten years later, he was very dissatisfied with his biological mother's arbitrary power, so he issued a secret edict to let Er Zhurong come to kill his biological mother, Empress Dowager Hu, and regain imperial power. The Seventh Master really seems to be a storyteller: "I didn't expect that this secret edict was intercepted by the Empress Dowager Hu's people before it was issued, so the Empress Dowager Hu was furious and directly poisoned her own son, and also moved the mind of letting the Hu family replace the Yuan family in the Northern Wei Dynasty." ”

"Empress Dowager Hu, do you have Han Jia in your hand?" I frowned: "The first successful tomb robber in the Cliff Beach of Forgetfulness is this Empress Dowager Hu?" ”

"Did you find a problem?" The Seventh Master asked rhetorically: "Whether it is Empress Lu, or Cao Mengde, or Empress Dowager Hu, these people have a lot in common. ”

"Not an orthodox royal family." I slowly and methodically put together my thoughts: "Empress Lu and Empress Dowager Hu are both relatives, and Cao Mengde is even coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes; Moreover, these three people were the ones who were really in charge of the world at that time, and they could use all the resources that the royal family could mobilize, but they didn't have to take responsibility for the so-called royal family at that time! ”

"That's right, that's a lot of resources." The seventh master smiled: "Therefore, the more such a person, the stronger the desire for power in his heart." Imagine, the real emperor around me is getting weaker and weaker, and he is getting stronger and stronger, but he can't be called the emperor, what should I do? Either usurp the throne immediately, or add an insurance policy to your descendants to secure the throne. ”

"That's why they have the strength and time to look for Hanjia." I concluded.

"Yes!" The seventh master said: "According to the news we have now, when the Empress Dowager Hu was building the above-ground Yongning Temple, she built an underground Yongning Temple by the way, which is now the Yongning Tower Tomb. However, this tomb is not recorded in either the official history or the wild history, and they even think that this tomb does not exist, in fact, Empress Dowager Hu has already made plans. ”

"What is the situation of Yongning Temple now?" I asked.

"Now?" The seventh master waved his hand: "There is only one piece of foundation left." ”

"No wonder ......" I seemed to understand: "No wonder the fire didn't burn the base of the tower back then, and more than a thousand years later, this base still exists, it turns out that there is a same Yongning Temple underground, it is too strong!" ”

The seventh master smiled: "So to speak. ”

At noon, we stopped at a small town for lunch, and then quickly passed through Zhengzhou and came to a small town called Shouyang Mountain.

"Let's take a break today, and we'll go when we have the opportunity these days. Because the site is open-air, it is protected, but we need to find a time when no one is around. After Liang Ruoyi finished talking to everyone, he went back to his room to rest.

The cloth bag monk ignored us and went back to his house.

"Xiao Gu, go back to your room and take a rest." The seventh master said to me: "Liang Ruoyi is right, we have to find an opportunity, it is estimated that time is tight, it is better to rest first." ”

I glanced at the time: "At three o'clock in the afternoon, I don't have the habit of taking a nap, Seventh Master, you go to rest with the old clam, I'll go out for a walk." ”

The seventh master frowned slightly: "Hmm, you are alone? ”

I nodded: "Ahem, it's okay, no one robbed in broad daylight!" ”

"I mean, be careful...... Forget it, maybe I'm too distracted. The seventh master smiled: "Then you go, just remember to come back at dinner time." ”

I answered, handed the backpack to the old clam and asked him to carry it upstairs for me, and turned around and walked out of the hotel door.

The town is not big, but it is very clean, probably because it is relatively close to Luoyang, and it is on the edge of the national highway, and the development is good. It was the first time I stopped in Henan, and I had a few buddies from Henan when I was in college, and I had a good relationship.

I walked along a small shopping street in the town, looking at some of the gadgets.

"Brother, you look like a foreigner! Do you want to have some souvenirs? ”

I walked into a small shop selling souvenirs, and I was looking at it, when I suddenly heard someone ask me, I thought it was the boss and didn't look back: "I'll take a look and say, do you have any recommendations?" I ......"

I didn't finish speaking, and suddenly I felt that this person's accent didn't look like Henan, and it was a little familiar, and when I turned my head to look, my little heart suddenly rose!