Chapter 91: The Millennium Mystery (2)
Moreover, all the signs of that year were on the surface, the Shu army wanted to build some kind of building in the south, it could be a palace, it could be a canal to pump water to Chengdu for irrigation, it might be to build an imperial mausoleum, or even an unknown tomb.
However, did they return to Shuzhong back then?
Sanqian's cold face did not show a trace of emotion, "They didn't go back then." One sentence made Zhu Beichen's facial muscles twitch involuntarily.
If it is really to build the imperial mausoleum in southern Yunnan, according to the ancient practice, it is very likely that on the day when the imperial mausoleum was built, the troops blocked the craftsmen outside, activated the pre-set mechanisms in the mausoleum, and killed all the craftsmen who knew the location and internal composition of the mausoleum, so as to prevent future generations from being greedy and exploring the tomb and digging the tomb.
"In fact, every bluestone brick road in Heishui River was paved by the same group of craftsmen back then, although it has been renovated countless times by the Miao people in later generations." Three thousand looked up at a cloud in the distance, he was sure that what Hongliang had told him was the real history, and Hei Miao did have a deep relationship with the prime minister of Shu thousands of years ago.
10,000 Shu craftsmen marched into the valley of the Jiuqu River, and all the food and drink were supplied by the Miao people of that generation, and they worked intensively in the valley for ten years, until a year after Zhuge Liang's death.
A large amount of earthwork and gravel was transported out of the valley, and all kinds of steel building materials were transported into the valley for ten years.
This group of craftsmen received a death order to build day and night, and even in the year after Zhuge Liang's death, they still insisted on the seedling land until the overall construction was completed.
So what kind of project did they take over thousands of years ago, they need to leave their homeland for many years, far away from the Central Plains where the Three Kingdoms compete for power and wars are frequent, and travel long distances to Miaojiang, what is the secret construction?
Sanqian shook his head blankly, since it was a secret, there were not many people in the clan who really knew the inside story, and Hongliang concealed the most important main part when he explained to Sanqian.
After the ancestors of Heimiao retreated to the bank of the Heishui River, the valley where the fortifications were secretly built was blocked by the authorities of the Miao people, and the sound of digging mountain roads and splitting bricks and stones came from the valley for ten consecutive years.
After the death of the evil in battle, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, appointed a general in the army to guard the Miao Jiang, shock the Miao people on the banks of the Heishui River, and support the construction of fortifications in the valley of the Jiuqu River. When he was about to retire from the army, Zhuge Liang personally took his only widow, his fifteen-year-old daughter, and brought him back to Chengdu.
It was not until the ninth year that Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, died in Wuzhangyuan, and in the second year, the delusional daughter returned to Miaojiang and returned to the banks of the Heishui River under the escort of a thousand people from Shu. She is going to be frosty.
That is, in the year when the secret construction of the Jiuqu River Valley was completely completed, she had to inherit the position of the head of the Miao tribe on the banks of the Heishui River, and she herself was already a great witch, and Hei Miao was the first great witch since the ancient Jiuli Wu clan.
This year, she was only twenty-five years old.
Miao Jiang's secret story covers too many doubts in history, Zhu Beichen listened to the three thousand explanations with great interest along the way, but he didn't understand, did these have anything to do with him, why did Hongliang want three thousand to relay this story.
"You'll soon understand that today we're going to be able to meet the person you're going to meet, and she has something to do with this history."
Zhu Beichen thought secretly, you won't take me to dig a grave and dig a pit, the era in which Yaoshuang is located is almost two thousand years away from now, are you going to dig her out and scare me.
"Don't forget Lao Tzu's nonsense, you'd better respect our ancestors in Miaojiang, otherwise you will pull out your skin first and bury the priests in Wushan as tribute." Looking at Zhu Beichen's wandering eyes, Sanqian knew what this kid was thinking about uncertainly, and warned in a fierce voice.
"Do you believe in Feng Shui?" Sanqian's words turned quickly, and he glared at him righteously one second, but changed the topic the next second, Zhu Beichen couldn't keep up with his rhythm at all.
The construction project with the theme of 10,000 craftsmen in Shu was in the valley of the Jiuqu River, but 10,000 people came to the bank of the Heishui River.
They have hollowed out almost the entire interior of Wushan!
What the! Zhu Beichen was so shocked that his mouth grew big, and he looked at the three thousand in disbelief, don't tell me, in the past two days, we have been walking on a hollow mountain, and there is a possibility of landslides below at any time. Then the mountain strata sink and we all fall down and end up buried alive.
The power of the Jiuli clan has been refined and studied all their lives with witch Gu, and all parts of the body are contaminated with poison, and hundreds of generations of sacrificial clan witches have been passed down, and how many bones are not clear to the Black Miao people themselves. Heimiao has a special funeral custom, when the high priest of the clan or the powerful body of the clan witch has fallen, the body will not be buried or cremated as soon as possible, which is their cultural custom different from that of the Han people.
Their bodies are smeared with a special wax that is derived from animal fat, and most outrageously, the black seedlings are not made of ordinary animal fat.
At that time, the black seedlings would first seal the living people to block the air to death, and then use the ancient method to extract the oil a year later, this kind of oil is called corpse oil, and the black seedlings will use this characteristic corpse oil mixed with Gu worms rich in oil to refine together, with a specific proportion of powder to make corpse wax. During this period, the process is complicated and time-consuming.
Subsequently, whenever the high priest and above of the clan died, he would wrap himself in corpse wax to keep the corpse fresh and prevent corruption. Even if the Jiuli people have migrated several times for thousands of years, the wax bodies of these ancestors will be carried with them, and they will be changed to burial in each place. It means that the ancestors of Jiuli are with the clansmen.
In the eighth year, after a vast and complicated mountain crack, the interior of Wushan Mountain was basically hollowed out. From the ninth year, the Black Miao people took out the wax bodies of their ancestors from the soil and transferred them to the belly of Wushan one after another.
After the entire mountain was used as a coffin, the craftsmen closed the entrance to the mountainside, cultivated and transplanted trees, and completely closed the entrance to the coffin of Wushan. It is rumored that the largest wax corpse that migrated at that time was the headless corpse of Chiyou, which was regarded as an ancestor of the ancient Jiuli people.
After that, the Heimiao tribe was divided into five tribes, which were stationed in the mountains on the periphery of the Heishui River, protecting Wushan, and no foreign tribe was allowed to enter, which has become an iron law that has been passed down for many years.
In the thousands of years that followed, no one was able to find the entrance to Wushan's coffin, because as early as 235 AD, the passage to the outside of the mountain's belly had been completely closed, and a few decades later, Wushan was already lush with trees and flowers.
Except for that year, only the elders of each generation of the Black Miao clan passed on the secrets of Wushan and the entrance to the mysterious Wushan corpse coffin. What kind of agreement did Hei Miao reach with the Shu army at that time, and tens of thousands of craftsmen stayed in Miao Jiang for ten years.
Is there really the wax-sealed corpse of the ancient witch clan in the mountain of Wushan?