Chapter 126: Discovering the General's Tomb
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Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, papermaking technology has gradually begun to develop by learning the enlightenment ideas of foreigners. In order to keep paintings, some powerful and wealthy families would bring paintings to their graves. It's like this ancient tomb at the foot of Hutou Mountain, although this is an ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty, there are many ancient paintings left in the secret passage, although those paintings have been left over for thousands of years, even if they have decayed, but the three of them can still learn about a prosperous scene in the Tang Dynasty in those paintings.
In those paintings, almost every painting has scenes of ancient people's lives during the Tang Dynasty. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, the crowds of people coming and going on the streets, the buildings built in ancient Tang Dynasty, the luxurious palaces, the residential places where the people lived, the living of various animals, etc., can be fully expressed, in the Tang Dynasty, especially in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty in the first few hundred years, there was no war, people's lives, material sources, are very considerable.
However, these paintings in this secret passage are just records of the life scenes at that time, as for whether these paintings happened in reality, the three of them did not dare to rashly conclude that during the Tang Dynasty, after all, it was nearly a thousand years away from modern times, and they did not dare to guarantee that in the Tang Dynasty, these paintings could be proved. These paintings, except those found in this tunnel, are not found in the previous burial chambers. The paintings that appeared for no reason suddenly appeared in this deep secret passage, and everyone was very strange, and this secret passage, except for the paintings on the stone wall, there were no other things, and these paintings continued to appear in this secret passage, there were thousands of pairs.
After the three of them walked nearly a hundred meters in this secret passage, the paintings in the secret passage disappeared, and in their place, what appeared in front of the three of them was a huge ancient tomb chamber, which was a real ancient tomb chamber.
The ancient tomb room is divided into the front hall, the back room, the main tomb room, the left and right sides are all closed stone walls, at a glance, both sides of the stone wall are all some stone soldiers, holding a sharp sword, standing next to the ancient tomb room, it looks mighty, and does not lose the elegant body, people look at it and feel a sense of presumptuous fear. In the vestibule of the main burial chamber, two huge black coffins, each three meters long and two meters wide, are placed on either side of the vestibule. In front of the black coffin, there is a front desk, on which there are many precious ancient items such as gold and silver jewelry, jade, etc., which are as many as hundreds. The front desk is divided into three layers, the first layer is placed with antiquities such as jade, the second layer is placed with some clothes, similar to silk and other clothes, put five or six lines, it seems that there are at least seventy or eighty pieces, the last layer is at the bottom, the bottom layer is not like the first two layers, placed valuable antiquities, but put some fruits and other tributes, because of the age, those fruits have been completely decayed, only the residue of some fruits, and a few fruit melon seeds.
This major discovery really made the three of them happy, especially Yueshan, an extremely wealthy tomb thief, when he saw the gold and silver jewelry on the platform in the front hall of the ancient tomb, his eyes seemed to be sparkling, and he couldn't wait to rush forward immediately, all the gold and silver jewelry on the platform were packed into his chest, whether it was a broken hand or a foot, he would have to bite those gold and silver treasures in his mouth when he died.
Seeing that he was so anxious, Yuebao immediately took his hand when he wanted to walk to the antechamber of the ancient tomb, "Yueshan, don't act rashly first, this ancient tomb is a little strange, wait until we figure out the current situation, you go blindly like this, what if the gold and silver treasure on the platform in front of this antechamber is a trap, once you inadvertently trigger the mechanism in the ancient tomb, the consequences will be unimaginable." ''
At that time, Yueshan was lost by the gold and silver jewelry on the platform in front of him, and he was very eager to get a lot of gold and silver treasures, and he didn't care about the current situation at all. ''
As a result, Yueshan didn't dare to go to the front hall of the ancient tomb room, so the three of them had to stay in the front of the front hall of the ancient tomb room, looking at the situation around the ancient tomb room with their eyes.
This ancient tomb chamber is a regular Tang Dynasty tomb building structure, there is no tomb door, only one passage, and this passage is a front hall, and there are two large stone statues around the stone lion guard, it looks luxurious, this ancient tomb room is large enough, from the front, this ancient tomb room, there is a front hall, a back room, plus the main tomb room, it is more than 70 meters, and just looking at a front hall, there are ten meters long, like this ancient tomb, it is definitely not something that ordinary people can have.
The construction of large ancient tombs in the Tang Dynasty, whether the owner of the ancient tomb was alive or not, after death was in accordance with their official power at the time to determine the fate after death, for example, after the death of the Son of Heaven, the Manchu officials were to mourn, and then the body was secretly buried, the mausoleum of the Son of Heaven, according to the Tang Dynasty, at least a total of four halls and one room. It is divided into a hall on the front and back, and the middle is the main burial chamber, which is used to bury the coffin of the Son of Heaven. The rest of the four halls are used to place the burial of slaves or death row prisoners, under normal circumstances, in these four halls, there are almost no funeral goods, such as some gold and silver treasures and other antiquities, but occasionally some emperors prefer luxury during their lifetime, ** life, so they will bury some gold and silver treasures in the four halls before and after, or women like Kabuki are buried, so as not to feel lonely after their death. Although this method of burial of living people was very rare during the Tang Dynasty. The reason is that it is a very cruel thing to bury a living person, and this kind of moral corruption is detrimental to the majesty of the emperor's heart. However, there were still some emperors of the Tang Dynasty who would order their subordinates to secretly bury those Kabuki alive for the sake of their own enjoyment in life. Those lovely kabukis, no matter how much luxury and fame and fortune the emperor brought to him during his lifetime, and even the power and money in his hands, once he was selected by the emperor to become a funeral object after death, what a terrible thing it was. In order to resist, those kabuki even committed suicide, and some even committed suicide by biting their tongues on the way to the funeral before they even had time to be martyred. This kind of pain left him not only has no future, but only the preparation to return to the West. Even if you accumulate a lot during your lifetime, you will not be the same after death, and you will end up with a tragic death.
However, most Tang Dynasty emperors would not do this, and under normal circumstances, those ancient tombs usually buried some favorite playthings of the Son of Heaven during his lifetime, such as some lifetime supplies, such as tableware, bowls, chopsticks, and some easily carried antiquities that were placed in the ancient tombs at will. And in the center of the ancient tomb room, is the main burial place of the Son of Heaven, in the ancient tomb of the Son of Heaven, gold and silver treasures, can be described as everything, countless, those ancient objects are like fruit cabbage in the trading market, placed one by one, as long as it is the Son of Heaven's favorite things during his lifetime, in that ancient tomb room, there is everything, and the coffin of the Son of Heaven is naturally made of noble pure jade coffin, the value of the entire jade coffin, even incalculable. In the coffin of the Son of Heaven, beside his corpse, gold and silver treasures were piled up all over the coffin, densely packed like a marching army.
In addition to the ancient tombs of the Son of Heaven, like the cemetery of the princes and nobles, although it is not as luxurious and spectacular as the cemetery of the Son of Heaven, however, the cemetery of the princes and nobles will also have four halls and one room, however, those are very few, under normal circumstances, the cemetery of the princes and nobles is basically three halls and one room, if it is two halls and one room, it is basically the cemetery of officials with nine to one grade, but it may also be the cemetery of the general.
However, speaking of the general's cemetery, Yuebao found it hard to believe that the current ancient tomb room was the general's tomb, because on the platform of the antechamber of this ancient tomb room, some gold and silver treasures and other antiquities were placed. However, there is no such thing in the general's cemetery, because the general's cemetery, the owner of the ancient tomb was a general who fought horses all his life during his lifetime, and his tomb only had chariots, war horses, swords and other antiquities at most. Like this ancient tomb room, all of them are gold and silver treasures, and it is not difficult to see that this ancient tomb is definitely not a general's tomb, it is very likely to be just a cemetery of princes and nobles, and it may also be a cemetery of rich and noble people.
However, for the ancient tomb in front of him, no matter what kind of scene appears, as long as there are gold and silver treasures buried there, even if Yuebao fights for this life, he will get those gold and silver treasures.
Just when Yuebao wanted to enter the antechamber of this ancient tomb chamber, Leng Hua, who was standing aside and did not speak, suddenly smiled, and seemed to be very sure of his own statement, "This ancient tomb chamber, judging from the degree of its construction, as well as the luxury and magnificence, I guess that this is very likely to be the tomb of the general under Hutou Mountain." ''
As soon as he said this, Yuebao, who was walking in front, was stunned, so he turned around and smiled at Leng Hua, "Leng Hua, do you say that this ancient tomb room is the general's tomb." ''
''That's right, this ancient tomb is the general's tomb, during the Tang Dynasty, under normal circumstances, all the general's cemetery, there are some stone statues of soldiers standing around the ancient tomb room, this practice was widely spread in the Tang Dynasty, especially some generals who love military affairs and fought wars, after they died, they will build some stone statues of soldiers in their tombs, in order to show their power and status in life. Leng Hua said.