Chapter 50: Strange Bones
This road has a slight downward slope, that is, as Mo Sheng said, how deep it is still unknown.
However, as they went deeper and deeper, the number of skeletons began to decrease a lot. At least, there will be no more piles of them.
If you want to say that the walls of the Great Wall above are majestic, then the passage below is not ambiguous at all. Huge rectangular bluestone piles, it's hard to imagine how such a heavy stone was transported to here back then?
The place where Qin Zhen and the others came down happened to be the place where the "project ended". There was also rammed earth and gravel everywhere. But when they went deeper, they felt the ingenuity of the layout here, and the architectural style was extremely exquisite. The neat bluestone slab floor is nothing more than this with today's technology.
There were fewer and fewer bones, scattered on the ground in twos and threes. The skeletons of various shapes completely show the state of the deceased in the last moments of his life.
They could all see that the bones were all in a form of extreme pain, twisting, and struggling to survive. Being suffocated to death underground, slowly experiencing the fear and pain of death, the feeling is really unimaginable.
Lao Gu's temper really can't stand this kind of miserable scene. This undoubtedly aroused his heroic revolutionary complex full of righteous indignation. That is, he didn't catch up with that time, otherwise, judging from his current angry state, he didn't need Jing Ke at all, and this stunned young man might have assassinated Qin Shi Huang many times.
He scolded and followed everyone forward, like a peasant who was about to revolt. Rolling up his sleeves, he muttered: "Overthrowing the feudal dynasty is definitely the right thing to do, you look at this tragedy, the tyrant is really terrible!" Whatever you build, so many people will die! However, the wicked are not afraid of the sky, and he can't escape the number of lives given by God in the end, right? Damn it, you still have to die! β
Qin Zhen listened in front of him, and then said, "You don't need to be like this, in fact, there is not much difference between the past and the present." At that time, it was better to build it than to die, and now it is better to tear it down than to die. It's just that if you can't see it, you can't feel it. β
"How is it no difference? I just don't have much culture, and I also know about Ying Zheng's book burning and Confucianism! Such a domineering and cold-blooded behavior, and you still speak for him? Of course. I didn't say how good it would be now. Lao Gu said angrily.
Qin Zhen smiled bitterly. had to say a fact that he didn't really want to say: "Old Gu, you see, you call this prejudice." You see the white bones everywhere here, so you decide that every thing Qin Shi Huang did was the most tyrannical thing. But you haven't thought about it. The catastrophe of the modern era. How many people died in vain? That must have exceeded the countless times that Qin Shi Huang pit Confucianism. Moreover, Qin Shi Huang only pitted the magicians. And that time...... We don't need to say any more, do we? Despot? I think that people today have already evolved to the highest level of brutality. To be honest, on the aspect of tyranny and shamelessness. Qin Shi Huang may not be able to compare. β
Qin Zhen's words, although a little cold, had to admit that what he said was a reality. And this is not that Qin Zhen wants to speak for Qin Shi Huang, the crime of burning books and pit Confucianism is really not the only one who has committed it.
Regarding the killing of Confucian students, Qin Zhen has just said that a certain period of modern history is definitely more than that. As for book burning, it is not Qin Shi Huang's "original precedent". It can be said that he was neither the earliest nor the most ruthless.
Long before Qin Shi Huang, Qin Xiaogong obeyed Shang Ying's Jianyì and ordered the burning of "poems" and "books" to clarify the decree. To put it bluntly, it is a policy of fooling the people. Let people have no independent thoughts, and only look forward to the royal power and decrees.
But what they wanted to do at that time was nothing more than to make the people's minds blank and ignorant. At least not yet the means to be punctual every night.
Later, for example, Emperor Taiwu and Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty in the Northern Wei Dynasty, most of their books were Buddhist scriptures, mainly to destroy Buddhism.
Emperor Liang Yuan of the Southern Dynasty, the reason for burning books is even more ridiculous. At the beginning, the Western Wei Dynasty went south to attack Liang, and the Liang army was defeated and retreated. Emperor Liang Yuan was anxious, and said in his heart that I read 10,000 volumes and ended up in the end of a ruined country, so what is the use of reading? ! So in a fit of rage, he burned 140,000 volumes. How did such an IQ become an emperor really needs to be investigated.
In addition, most people may think that Qianlong's compilation of the "Siku Quanshu" is a great achievement, but as everyone knows, when Qianlong organized the compilation of the "Siku Quanshu", he burned as many as 71 volumes of classics. It was one of the largest book burnings in history. That's why Mr. Lu Xun said, 'The Qing people usurped the "Siku Quanshu" and the ancient books died'.
Therefore, it is indeed a bit unfair to put the big hat of book burning and Confucianism on Qin Shi Huang alone.
Qin Zhen and the others were discussing these things in a low voice, but Yudong in front of them suddenly stopped. And he crouched on the ground, as if he had found something.
Everyone gathered around him, not knowing what he had seen.
But when everyone shone the flashlight, they found that Yudong was just squatting next to a pile of white bones, and there was nothing special.
Lao Gu asked puzzledly, "Dong Shao?" What's the difference between this pile of bones and other bones? There is nothing else in this place, but there are bones! How did you get interested in this bunch?? β
Yu Dong pointed to the position of the pelvic bone of a white bone on the ground and said: "The shape of this pelvis is wider, the upper and lower mouths of the pelvis are also relatively wide, the pelvis is wide and shallow round, the angle of the pubic arch is nearly 100 degrees, the sacrum is short and wide, the acetabulum is small, and the obturator is like a triangle." β
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Everyone froze, no one spoke.
After a while, Lao Gu asked weakly: "So what about ......?" He really couldn't figure it out, what was the point of Yudong talking about such a bunch of mess about bones? Could it be that he saw so many skeletons and decided to give them all an anatomy lesson?
Yu Dong, who was squatting on the ground, raised his head and looked at all of them at this time, and said slowly with a serious expression: "So, this white bone is a woman." β
"......" was another tacit silence.
Qin Zhen looked at Yu Dong and felt speechless for a while. I really didn't expect him to have some research in this area! With more than 2,000 years of bones, he can still see men and women! Qin Zhen really wanted to know, was there anything else in this world that he Xia Yudong didn't know?
Lao Gu opened his mouth in a daze, blinked his eyes for a long time, and said as if he had come back to his senses: "No...... Dong Shao...... It doesn't matter if the skeleton is male or female, does ......? You are not interested in the living beauties who usually surround you, and you don't even take a look at them...... But look at the serious expression on your face now...... You, your taste is too heavy......"
Let Lao Gu say it, as if Yudong is a necrophilia. No, no, to be exact, it should be a bone fetish. Because there are only bones left here, and there is not even a "corpse".
But Yu Dong didn't care about Lao Gu's impropriety, but stood up and said to them very seriously: "If all the bones here are all hard labor back then, then how can there be women?" β
"......" This does seem to be a problem. It is absolutely impossible to recruit more than 100 girls to do this kind of thing of moving bricks and tiles. So what is this......
"This is a human sacrifice, there is something ...... here" Mo Sheng simply said something that made everyone feel creepy!
Looking at Qin Zhen's widening eyes, Yu Dong analyzed rationally: "The white bones that were piled up before were too large to be distinguished, but now when I look at these fewer bones, I find that they all die differently. And most of them are young women. No matter how violent and tyrannical Qin Shi Huang was, it was impossible for him to martyr so many women in a place where he only hid a treasure, which simply didn't make sense. So the only possibility is that there is something to be sacrificed here, and it is a large-scale human sacrifice. β
"Y-How do you know that they all die differently? It's, it's been dead for more than 2,000 years, and it's all piled up in a mess, and you can still tell how they died?? Qin Zhen looked at Yudong in disbelief.
Yu Dong looked around, then picked a suitable "example", beckoned Qin Zhen and said to him: "Look, this woman's skull is broken in the position of the Heavenly Spirit Cover, and the skull is black. Her death was painful, by cutting the scalp on the top of her head while she was alive and pouring mercury into it. β
Qin Zhen couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle when he heard this, and he felt uncomfortable all over! He couldn't imagine what a cruel pain it would be to cut his scalp and pour mercury into it while he was alive!
But when Yudong said this, it seemed very natural. is like an experienced forensic doctor, looking at any dead corpse, his face is still unchanged and calm.
At this time, Yu Dong pointed to a pile of "broken" bones in the corner and said: "It seems that this place was really like a hellish scene at the beginning, you see that pile of bones, judging from the twisting and scattering of the bone joints, it was divided into several pieces and thrown in. The way to die should be the legendary car split. β
Qin Zhen listened to goosebumps all over his body, and the word "five horses splitting the corpse" should be just a word in his consciousness, without specific pictures and impressions.
Before he could slow down, Yu Dong pointed to another long white bone and said, "This is a man whose lumbar vertebrae were neatly broken and died from a waist chop." Li Si, the prime minister of Great Qin, also died of this punishment. β
Qin Zhen had heard of Li Si's death, he was a great political family of the Qin Dynasty, and his political ideas had a profound impact on later generations. It's just that after the death of Qin Shi Huang, he conspired with Zhao Gao to force Fu Su, the eldest son of Qin Shi Huang Benli, to death, and helped the damned Hu Hai ascend to the throne. It can be seen that what about the first emperor through the ages? Once the person dies, the right to the right becomes a thing of the past. Even, it is not up to him to decide which son he wants to pass on the throne to.
Later, Zhao Gao beheaded Li Si in the downtown of Xianyang and killed his three clans. This is also called the evil man has his own evil man grinding. (To be continued......)