Chapter 31: The Great Forbidden Land

"The blue wolf is the blue wolf, and the white deer, this just corresponds to the wood wolf chasing the deer......" Han Yu shook his head halfway through speaking. Why timberwolves? ”

Nangong Yi waved his hand to Han Yu and said that the timber wolf chasing the deer should not be understood in this way, literally it is a pack of wolves chasing deer, but in Mongolia the wolf and the deer are national totems, just like our Chinese worship of dragons.

The Mongolian man is the embodiment of the blue wolf, the woman is the incarnation of the white deer, in the wild northern steppe, the Mongolian people gather like wolves in groups, whether it is to hunt or deal with the invading enemy, they all fight together, fierce and spiritual, and the white deer who gave birth to this group of wolves, the two are interdependent, not the relationship of chasing and hunting.

"If you want to say that, I can't literally understand what this sentence left by Qiu Chuji means." Yun Duruo said anxiously.

Han Yu dipped a drop of water in the water cup with his fingers, wrote the word timber wolf on the table, and hovered his fingers on the table just halfway through writing, and then looked at the words he had just written in shock, and suddenly erased them, and wrote a cross on the table with some water again.

We all gathered around, Han Yu looked at the cross for a long time, and Yun Duruo suddenly excitedly followed Han Yu's example and wrote a character with his fingers dipped in water next to him.

"That's right! That's what timber wolves mean! Han Yu looked at me and Nangong Yi happily and said. The wooden character is eighteen, and the wolf refers to the blue wolf, and the blue wolf in Mongolia is a sign of a man, and together it is ......"

"Eighteen Mongol men!" Yun Duruo had already thought of going with Han Yu.

Eighteen blue wolves! Eighteen Mongolian men!

I thought of Xie Tong and the other four people who had been killed before, their ancestors were all Mongols, and the Fusang people had always used the criminal law of the eighteen layers of hell to kill people, that is, there were a total of eighteen people to be killed...... Could it be that the Fuso people are going to kill these eighteen Mongols!

Nangong Yi thought for a long time and nodded slowly, what the wood wolf meant Han Yu should have said was right, and the rest was to chase the deer.

"The deer in Mongolia refers to a woman, is it a hint that the deer is related to women?" Nangong Yi racked her brains and muttered to herself.

"To put it another way, Qiu Chuji is not a Mongol, and his use of chasing deer in this sentence may mean something else." Yun Duruo said.

"The word "chasing deer" first came from historical records. The Marquis of Huaiyin is biography, Qin lost his deer, and the world chased it. "Xiao Lianshan's favorite thing is everything related to the Qin Dynasty, so I have heard him mention this.

"Competing for the throne is often a metaphor for the imperial regime, which refers to the meaning of the heroes rising together and competing for the world." Nangong Yi added next to him.

"Then there is a problem again, it is linked to the previous meaning, does it mean that these eighteen Mongolian men want to fight for the world?" Han Yu looked at us suspiciously.

It seems that our understanding is indeed wrong, Nangong Yi walked back and forth in the room for a long time and said thoughtfully, Xie Tong and the other four people who were killed were obviously Mongolians, but the ancestors moved out of Mongolia, and the words left by Qiu Chuji pointed out that there were a total of eighteen Mongolians, presumably among them were Xie Tong's ancestors.

"Wait a minute, chasing deer is generally rarely used alone, and it is used to chase deer in the Central Plains." Yun Duruo suddenly looked up at us and said. "The Central Plains originally referred to the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the birthplace of the Chinese nation, and came to refer to the whole of China."

"I see." Nangong Yi's eyes lit up and said excitedly. "The meaning of chasing deer here is not to fight for the world, it refers to the world, and the world is actually the meaning of Huaxia, and the previous words are connected together to say that eighteen Mongolian men came to China."

I nodded, Nangong Yi is right, this just coincides with the migration of the ancestors of Xie Tong and others from Mongolia, presumably these eighteen people secretly left Mongolia with Genghis Khan's mausoleum, as for the reason and purpose, we are not clear for the time being.

Nangong Yi said that everything is related to the tomb of Genghis Khan, these eighteen Mongols suddenly left Mongolia and scattered to various parts of China, there must be some secrets, although so far no one has really explored the imperial tomb that can be called a treasure of the world, but in some historical documents and archaeological research to some extent.

Nangong Yi took us to meet the authoritative scholars who studied the history of Genghis Khan, hoping to learn more clues, and we were received by an old professor named Batu, who was a Mongol who had studied Genghis Khan all his life.

After we explained our intentions, Batu invited us to sit down and told us that Genghis Khan could also see the supreme glory in Batu's face, and he proudly told us that in the autumn of 1225 A.D., the whole world shuddered at the mention of his name at that time, and led the invincible Mongol iron cavalry to conquer all the world, and Genghis Khan, who was invincible and swept across the Eurasian continent, died of illness on the way to conquer Western Xia.

In order to prevent the morale of the army from being scattered, Genghis Khan ordered a secret mourning before his death, which is one of Genghis Khan's famous three testaments that later generations said, Genghis Khan's coffin was sent back to the grassland overnight by the guards, in order to prevent the leakage of secrets, there was no grass and no armor left everywhere he went, and the people he met, regardless of men, women, and children, were all killed on the spot.

"That was the last record of Genghis Khan, and no one has seen a generation of Tianjiao since." Batu said as he poured us water.

"At that time, Genghis Khan personally conquered Western Xia, and was seriously ill in the Qingshui Xijiang in the Liupan Mountains, and did not mourn for the time being after his death. Nangong Yi picked up the water cup and asked suspiciously. "At that time, it was understandable for Genghis Khan to think about marching and fighting to stabilize the army, but with his achievements and status, why didn't Genghis Khan be given a grand funeral or even a mausoleum after pacifying Western Xia?"

Batu sat down and took off the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose and told us calmly that Genghis Khan was a Mongolian, and at that time the Mongolians believed in shamanism, and the teachings preached by shamanism believed that life was the process of life and death to rebirth, and that people would eventually return to nature after death, so Mongolians sacrificed their ancestors to the soul rather than the bones.

In order to avoid the interference of descendants with the bones of ancestors, people must carry out secret burials after death, generally the coffin is transported to the burial place, and a deep hole is opened to bury, but the way of burial in Mongolia is different from that of the Han people, the mausoleum of the Han people is dug out of the soil first, and then buried with soil after the coffin is put in.

But the Mongols are in the opening of the cave, the mausoleum soil to take out piece by piece, in turn piece by piece arrangement, after the coffin is buried, and then in order to cover the piece, in this way, even today's archaeologists use the Luoyang shovel to explore, it is difficult to see what is unusual about the earth.

"Then they will kill a young camel at the tomb, and then level the nearby ground with ten thousand horses, and then assign a thousand horsemen to garrison it, and wait until the grass grows in the spring of the following year, and its traces are difficult to identify, and then move the tent and disperse." Batu took a sip of water and continued. "If you want to sacrifice, take the female camel who killed the young camel as a guide and seek the old place, but when you see the female camel screaming and hesitating, you know that it is the place where the young camel was killed, and the place where the tomb is located."

After listening to this, I couldn't help but take a breath in my heart, it is unimaginable that such a mausoleum wants to be explored, no wonder there are so few royal tombs unearthed in the Yuan Dynasty, presumably for this reason.

"It's not about Genghis Khan, the later emperors of the Yuan Dynasty and the Mongolian nobles all used secret burials after their deaths, and did not build tall mausoleum buildings. Batu explained to us slowly.

"So no one really knows where Genghis Khan's Mausoleum is?" Han Yu asked in surprise.

"Of course, no one knows that more than 800 years later, the people who explored Genghis Khan's tomb never gave up the greatest treasure in the world, but the result was in vain." Batu shook his head and said.

"Is there no clue at all?" Yun Duruo asked if he refused to give up.

"Anything that is secret has ever existed will leave a trail." Batu smiled heartily and said to us. "Exploring Genghis Khan's Mausoleum is a lifelong dream of countless archaeologists, and after digging through the vast amount of historical materials and archives, we have indeed found a few very valuable clues."

"There's a clue!" I came to my senses, rubbed my eyes, looked at Batu, and asked eagerly. "What kind of clues?"

Batu said that in a document written by a Persian historian, Genghis Khan was chased by the enemy when he was young and fled to a mountain, where Genghis Khan swore to heaven that he would unify Mongolia with his enemies.

It is mentioned in the literature that after the death of Genghis Khan, his subordinates followed his last wishes, buried Genghis Khan in the mountains, and circled a forbidden land, and the so-called forbidden land is the way the Mongols were buried before, and this word is often seen in the history books of the Yuan Dynasty, which is actually the way the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty dealt with after the secret burial.

However, as a generation of Tianjiao, his forbidden land is even more grand, and it is recorded in the literature that after the guards buried Genghis Khan, they used tens of thousands of horses to trample on the ground for seven days and seven nights until the entire ground was flattened, and then planted vegetation on the ground, and then sent heavy troops to surround this place, and waited until these trees were lush and there were no traces of the tomb before retreating, and these soldiers who stayed to guard this place would be executed in order to keep the secret.

"This fenced-off place is called forbidden land." Batu picked up the glass of water and said calmly.

"Since there are records, as long as you find this forbidden land, won't you be able to find the approximate location of Genghis Khan's mausoleum?" I asked curiously.

"Yes, it's not that almost all of you who are engaged in Genghis Khan's research think so, many people have spent their lives looking for this mysterious forbidden place, and after we looked through all the documents, we really found a place that may be related to the forbidden place of Genghis Khan's mausoleum." Batu said with a faint smile and nodded.

"Found out! In what place? Yun Duruo asked excitedly.

"We found a place called Bhuerhan Halton in the Kent Mountains, east of Ulaanbaatar." Batu said to us unhurriedly. "And this Burhan Haldun means forbidden land in Mongolian."