Chapter 24: Officials and Thieves
At this point Tom shouted, and I thought he was making the last big words, and when I looked up, I was happy. www.biquge.info I don't know if God loves to joke at this critical time, a door-shaped robbery hole appeared on the tomb wall behind him. The door-shaped thief hole is about two meters high and about one meter wide, and it is dark inside, and it is very deep at a glance.
The third uncle yelled, and the three foreigners stood up and went out stupidly, shooting the killer above in front, and a few of us immediately fled into the thief cave under their cover. As soon as we walked on the front foot, there was a fierce bombardment behind us, and the third uncle didn't even think about it, so he told everyone to hurry up to the depths of the robbery hole, not worrying about the life and death of the three righteous buddies behind him, which made me feel the cold-blooded and decisive of the third uncle again.
This thief hole is very deep, and it stretches upwards, Chen Sheng is very strange, and asks the third uncle: "Third uncle, how can there be a thief hole behind that wall?" And this robbery hole is not ordinarily large, it doesn't look like a tomb robber's method at all, what's going on? ”
The third uncle carefully touched the soil on the left and right sides of the robbery hole, thought for a while, and said: "I don't know, but this robbery cave has existed for at least five hundred years, and looking at this posture, it is the work of a real master." Could anyone really be here before us? The last sentence of the third uncle was obviously asking himself, probably thinking of the disappearance of the jade plate in the golden coffin.
As he was walking, the grizzled Tom squeezed over from behind, and he said with some worry: "Third uncle, the entrance behind has been blown up by the other party with a grenade, and we can only go one way to the dark now." ”
The third uncle waved his hand, indicating that he knew that he was still thinking about the problem of stealing the hole, and then thought of something, and said to Chen Sheng: "This thief hole has been extending upward, and it is estimated that the person who dug this thief hole is in the same situation as we are now, and he can't go back to the original passage, so he will fight the thief hole from here." In this way, our previous guess was completely wrong, it seems that someone really entered here before us, and these people were able to avoid the eyes and ears of the eight bronze warriors, open the golden coffin and take the jade plate, they were not simple tomb robbers, maybe they were the long-lost Faqiu Zhonglang General. ”
As soon as the third uncle finished his guess, he replied: "You are really right this time, you all come here to have a look, this hole in the wasteland is really famous, and it is definitely an expert." ”
When I went to the front, there was a huge cave, at least several times larger than the wasteland cave that the third uncle and they fought, and it was not much worse than a basketball court. Chen Sheng exclaimed: "These people's hands are really big, digging such a big wasteland hole, and they are not afraid that the soil and rocks on it will collapse down?" ”
Looking at the oval thief hole full of wasteland, the third uncle frowned, looked around, and the third uncle seemed to have found something, jumped on a wasteland pile, looked for it inside, and had an extra token in his hand. The token was made of pure gold, and it was only written on it
There are two big characters of "secret order", and there is a dragon-shaped carving behind it.
The third uncle was amazed, jumped off the mound and said to us: "This is a thing of the Ming Dynasty, it is the identity symbol gold medal of the Ming Dynasty Taizu with a sword guard, which was personally awarded by the emperor of the current dynasty, and he only obeyed the orders of the emperor alone. ”
I felt that something was wrong, so I said: "If your guess is correct, it means that it is a certain official of Dongchang who robbed the tomb, isn't this a veritable "official thief"?" I heard that the system of the Ming Dynasty was very strict, and the crime of robbing the tomb was not small at that time. Since the other party is a small leader with a guard with a knife, he is naturally prosperous and wealthy, and he has no worries about food and clothing, can he rob the tomb again? It's really unreasonable. ”
The third uncle shook his head: "Naturally, these people will not risk the crime of killing their heads for the sake of gold, silver and jewelry, I think there is a good chance that they are like us, and they are here for the jade plate in the golden coffin." If that's the case, I'm afraid this gold-medal official is just an errand runner, the real mastermind behind the scenes, must be a great figure, who will he be? ”
With a gold medal alone, we can only roughly guess the origin of the other party, and there is no conclusion as to whether the governor with the gold medal came to rob the tomb by himself or was instructed by someone. Chen Sheng knew the history of the Ming Dynasty very well, and after thinking about it, he said: "This kind of secret order began to appear in the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang, and it was not abolished until Ming Chengzu usurped the throne, so that gold medal could only be issued by Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhu Yunwen himself, and it happened in that era." ”
The third uncle nodded, feeling very reasonable, but he still had many questions that had not been answered, and he was silent for a while.
Biaozi and I don't care who dug the hole, it's the key to getting us to escape, but then again, the guard who dug the hole is not simple. Along the way, we also saw that the entire burial chamber was intact, and there were no bones or anything like that found in all the mechanisms.
In other words, the group basically entered the tomb unharmed, and no one died here until they got out, which is very surprising, and it is not just a matter of luck. It can only prove one thing, this group of people is definitely 100% familiar with the various mechanisms in the ancient tomb, and what is even more surprising is that even monsters such as zombies and snakes have countermeasures, and they can completely avoid the past without using knives and guns.
Biao Zi sneered: "This group of people must be the real captain of the gold school, or the armor unloader, not comparable to ordinary officials and thieves." It seems that the rumors are true, the four major tomb robberies in the world are all real masters, even in today's high-tech era, we still can't compare with them, it's a miracle of tomb robbing. ”
In fact, before the tomb robbery, Biaozi told me that there are four factions of tomb robbers in the world, which were established by a generation of heroes Cao Cao himself, and at that time he was a veritable official thief, specially for Cao Cao to steal the gold and silver in the ancient tomb for the army's food. After Cao Cao's death, the people of the four factions were scattered among the people, and each of them established a faction and became the head of the outer eight elements in addition to the seventy-two elements.
Without the constraints of the imperial court, these four major factions no longer have any scruples, and at night, they will enter and exit the ancient tomb land, and for a time, the world's tombs are ten rooms and nine empty, and countless gold, silver and jewelry have been stolen. Later, there were fewer and fewer ancient tombs, but there were more and more disciples of the four major factions.
There is no impermeable wall, this matter finally let the court know, the emperor Lao'er was bearded at that time, and his heart said that this is okay, you dare to start the tomb of the ancestors, after Ming'er Laozi died, don't you have to end up like this? So he used a trick to coax all the people of the four major factions to the capital, and on the surface it was to recruit An Naxian, but secretly sent an army to secretly surround this group of people.
When the ceremony began, the gates of entry and exit were closed, and the sword and axe man shouted and killed him. Those tomb robbers are enjoying delicious food and wine, dreaming of becoming an official and becoming a knight, who knows that this is a Hongmen banquet. In an unguarded situation, most of the tomb robbers were killed and injured at once, hundreds of people, and only a few powerful characters escaped from the capital.
Since then, the four major factions have largely disappeared, and the trend of tomb robbing has faded away. But after all, the four major factions have been inherited for thousands of years, and it is impossible to say that they will be destroyed at one time. However, with the lesson of the last time, these people learned wisely, and when they had no goals, they scattered in various villages to do farm work just like ordinary people.
Only after receiving the news of the tomb robbery did the gang drop their hoes and gather on the hill, waiting for an order from the helm to set off towards their destination with their faces covered. Often overnight, the yamen received reports from several rich landowners, saying that the ancestral tomb had been robbed by tomb thieves, and the bones of the ancestors had been thrown away in the barren mountains and mountains, and had already been taken away by wild dogs.
Since he is a rich man, he naturally has a background in the local area, and those county lords did not dare to slack off, so they immediately called someone to investigate. But when I checked and checked, I had no clue at all, because no one knew the whereabouts of those tomb robbers. When I went to the nearby village to inquire, the villagers all said that we are all civilized towns here, not to mention tomb robbers, not even thieves who steal chickens and dogs.
The officials returned in vain, and the county magistrate had no choice but to postpone the matter, and then the matter was over.
Later, all dynasties imitated the previous dynasty, and as soon as the world settled down, the emperor Lao'er was afraid of a resurgence, so he began to suppress tomb robbers. As time passed, the descendants of the four major factions became fewer and fewer, and after liberation, they basically disappeared from the name. At the same time, it is precisely because of the rampant tomb robbers that the organs of the imperial tomb are more powerful than the other, in order to prevent theft.
Biaozi knows a lot of things, and what he says is also colorful, even people like the third uncle listen to it with relish, and even ask Biaozi for advice where he doesn't understand. Biao Zile said: "Actually! The so-called official thieves and civil thieves are well understood, and those who are allowed by the organization are called official thieves, and those who are opposed by the organization are the civil thieves. And now it's the same, but the name of the official thief has changed, and it's called the archaeological team. ”
The third uncle was interested, so he said to the target: "Fatty, I see that you have good kung fu and know a lot, since you are very short of money to spend, otherwise, let's make a deal, you do things for us, and I will give you a lot of dollars to spend." Moreover, we can help you immigrate to any country, do you want to think about it? ”
Biaozi immediately shook his head: "I received the kindness of the third uncle, a big man like you, there are many opponents, I don't want to die in the hands of others without knowing it." As if he had thought of something, Biaozi asked curiously: "By the way, third uncle, who is the pockmark who chased and killed us just now?" How is it similar to your outfit? ”
The third uncle shook his head thoughtfully: "Actually, so far, I don't know the details of the other party. ”
The mark was surprised: "Are you mistaken, you don't even know who your opponent is?" Could it be that there are too many enemies, and you are forgetful? ”