Chapter 15 Wordless Monument

Qiu Nuo stayed in Qingyang to get together with her mother, listening to Jun's words is better than reading for ten years, and I finally have some clue after talking to Qingyang, and I took Yue Qianling and Gu Anqi back to Qianling early the next morning.

When I came before, I kept my attention on the feng shui of Qianling, and I didn't pay attention to other details.

Wu Zetian's wordless stele, is carved and chiseled with a complete boulder, gives people a dignified and thick, integrated beauty, the wordless stele is not inscribed with the name of the stele, only the stele head is carved with eight dragons, skillfully entwined together, the scales and armor are distinct, the muscles and bones are exposed, the stillness is moving, and it is full of vitality.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, emperors and generals have all hoped to be able to erect a stele after death, but the stele of the only female emperor in history has not engraved a word.

This stone monument that has been standing for thousands of years is not as dazzling as the magnificent imperial mausoleum behind it, and it stands quietly next to it to witness the changes and glitz of the past thousand years, as if it is quietly waiting for something.

I looked up at the wordless monument, having held this position for a long time.

I saw that there were no tourists around, and quickly climbed into the fence of the wordless monument, if there was a mechanism in the wordless monument, there should be a hollow place under the base.

I knocked the whole base over and over and didn't find anything, from the degree of closure below, the wordless tablet fit is quite complete, if according to Qingyang's statement, the secret of entering the Qianling is on the wordless tablet, my first thought, since there is no entrance to the Qianling, will the wordless tablet be the entrance of the Qianling.

But now it seems that this idea is wrong.

In the tomb organs, the setting of the secret passages is incompatible with the wordless stele, and the wordless stele is too far away from the Qianling Tomb, so there seems to be no connection between the two.

I suddenly recalled what Qing Yang talked to himself, Qing Yang repeatedly emphasized that if he wanted to enter the Qianling, he must first understand who was buried in the Qianling, and after talking to her, it seemed that Qingyang had interpreted to himself a completely different empress Wu Zetian from the history books

Qing Yang asked him to come to Qianling to comprehend the wordless stele, I suddenly realized that I was afraid that I had understood the wrong meaning of Qingyang, maybe the wordless stele had no organ at all, Qingyang asked me to come, so that I could understand the meaning of the wordless stele, or why Wu Zetian set up this strange stele.

I looked down and thought about it, and sat down on the bench next to me and said thoughtfully.

"Qianling, you are engaged in archaeology, do you have any origins and allusions to this wordless stele?"

"No, this wordless stele has always been a difficult problem that the archaeological community wants to solve, and many predecessors have been studying this stele all their lives, but each has its own statement." Yue Qianling smiled faintly and sat next to me and said. "As for the real reason, I'm afraid I can only go to the Qianling Tomb and ask the empress."

Gu Anqi bought a few bottles of water and came back, and said with a smile when she heard the topic of discussion.

"My dad also once mentioned to me about the wordless stele, I remember he said that many scholars speculated about Wu Zetian's intention to leave the wordless stele, but in his opinion, Wu Zetian is the first emperor of the ages, and I am afraid that only Qin Shihuang can be compared with her throughout history, and the wordless stele may be because even she herself does not know how to describe her achievements."

"This idea is actually very common, and even a few of the archaeologists I know have concluded that this is the case for the wordless monument." Yue Qianling nodded and said. "In fact, this statement is also very in line with Wu Zetian's character, she has participated in and held the highest power for fifty years, if you count from the time of Tang Gaozong's death, there are twenty-one years, she is the only outstanding female emperor in history."

"So, Wu Zetian's wordless monument is used to boast of himself, indicating that his merits and virtues cannot be expressed by words?" I thought about it and shook my head slowly, Wu Zetian and Wu Zetian interpreted by Qing Yang seem to be completely two people. "Wu Zetian is scheming, ruthless, and involved in literature and history, from a talented person to the queen will not be just because of good luck, it can be seen from the fact that she is the queen, how strong is this woman's ability to calculate people's hearts, since such a scheming empress, how can she leave a wordless tablet to show that she is highly meritorious, and judging from her location in Qianling, Wu Zetian is not a woman who loves power, so I don't think this statement is in line with Wu Zetian's character."

"Then there is another theory, and there are many people in the archaeological community who firmly believe in this possibility, that is, Wu Zetian set up a wordless tablet because he knew that he was guilty of great sins, and he felt that it was better not to write the inscription." Yue Qianling said seriously. "It was only a month after Wu Zetian's eldest daughter was born, after Queen Wang came to see her daughter, she strangled her daughter to death with her own hands, and blamed Queen Wang, Gaozong beat the queen into the cold palace in a fit of anger, and was later secretly killed by Wu Zetian."

"No, in order to be the queen, he killed his own daughter?" Gu Anqi said dumbfounded.

"The competition in the harem is far more tragic than imagined, the world does not rely on virtuous and virtuous virtues, in fact, this is just the beginning, after Wu Zetian became the queen, he then made a series of moves, brutally tortured and killed Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, and made his son Li Hong the crown prince, giving advice to Gaozong, using the strategy of first easy and then difficult, killing powerful ministers in the court, and consolidating his position."

"At that time, the Guanlong aristocracy controlled the government, if you want to have no move in the world, I am afraid that no one will send a queen to her in vain, although Wu Zetian killed decisively, but historically speaking, Gaozong basically realized the centralization of monarchy, which dealt a heavy blow to the Guanlong aristocracy, and the situation of the sluggish imperial power since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties has been changed, which has had a very great impact on history." I say it very pertinently.

"If it is said that this is to consolidate the imperial power, it seems to make sense, but Wu Zetian then cultivated party henchmen, established a court traitor group, and under the banner of the Li Tang court, eliminated dissidents, appointed cool officials, and implemented a terrorist policy of whistleblowing and indiscriminate punishment." Yue Qianling said seriously on the basis of reason. "What Wu Zetian did in the later period was completely from the perspective of selfishness and personal interests."

"At that time, Gaozong was alive, although Wu Zetian was the queen, but the real emperor was still Gaozong, do you think Gaozong was so mediocre that he would let the queen disrupt the government?" I asked rhetorically.

"You mean to say that although these things were done by Wu Zetian, in fact, Gaozong Li Zhi was planning behind them, and Wu Zetian was just an implementer?" Gu Anqi asked with some understanding.

I nodded and said seriously.

"In ancient times, Lu Pheasant killed Zhongliang in order not to dirty Liu Bang's hands, isn't it the same reason that Wu Zetian did this?"

"If this is not right, there is also a point of view, that Wu Zetian is a self-aware person, it is a smart move to erect a wordless monument, and let future generations comment on the merits and demerits, which is the best way."

"This point of view is very good, if I were Wu Zetian......" Gu Anqi said very seriously after listening to it next to him. In the end, it's really a dilemma, it's not good to write anything, it's better not to write. ”

I shook it anyway and said thoughtfully.

"Although this point of view is reliable, and it can be said in the past in all aspects, but if you think about it carefully, it is still far-fetched, and it is completely inconsistent with the characteristics of Wu Zetian."

"What's wrong with this, Wu Zetian's merits are too different to say, rather than letting herself write right and wrong, it's better to let others evaluate it, so that it can also show her generosity."

"An empress who can subvert thousands of years of tradition, Li Daitao's ascension to the throne of God, her life is extraordinary, I really care what others think, what others say, I'm afraid she can't be the emperor." I said calmly. "From any point of view, she is not a woman and the emperor who cares about other people's opinions, it can be said that she does her own thing, it is not difficult to find from her burial in Qianling, she has always been disdainful of rules and systems, and would rather let future generations say that she destroyed the dragon qi of the Tang Dynasty and reopened Qianling, so she is a very selfish person, and she doesn't care about other people's opinions at all."

"Brother Yan Hui also makes sense to say this, with Wu Zetian's realm, she is already the Ninth Five-Year Venerable, and she has done something that seemed impossible at the time, no matter how you look at her, she has no regrets in her life, so she doesn't have to care about the evaluation of herself by future generations." Gu Anqi nodded and said.

After thinking about it all day, I still had no clue about the wordless monument standing there, and I could see that Yue Qianling and Gu Anqi were a little disappointed.

"That's so easy to come up with, if the secret of Qianling is related to this wordless tablet, it's really so easy to think of, I'm afraid Qianling would have been stolen a long time ago." I said with a faint smile.

"You're still laughing, when have you been, if you can't enter the Qianling, you won't be able to open the secret room of the underground palace." Yue Qianling sighed a little irritably. "Why is a Ming Fourteenth Tomb so troublesome?"

I stood up from the bench, looked at the wordless monument in front of me, and said thoughtfully.

"An emperor who doesn't care what other people think, an unbeatable emperor, an emperor who shines through the ages...... What do you want to do with this wordless monument? ”

"Brother Yanhui, you are really here."

The girl's ethereal voice came from behind me, and I turned around to see Qiuno coming.

"Aren't you at home with your mother? How did you get here? ”

"Looks like you didn't have much to gain today!" Qiu Nuo said with a smile.

"My head is almost big, and I still don't have a clue, hey!" I replied with a wry smile.

"Since you're so tired, you might as well take a break." Qiu Nuo walked up to Yue Qianling and Gu Anqi and said with a smile. "Tomorrow is my mother's birthday, and I want to invite everyone to come and sit down and have a light meal."

"Ahh Auntie's Birthday! Sister Qiunuo, why didn't you say it earlier, I didn't even prepare a gift. Gu Anqi said apologetically.

"A family banquet, you don't have to break the bank, you can come, my mother likes to be quiet, she rarely sees her entertaining guests on weekdays, this time I specially asked you to come."

I nodded and agreed, I don't have a clue about the wordless monument, I may be able to get a little hint from her when I see Qingyang, and more importantly, I really want to meet Qiunuo's mother, and I want to know what kind of person will make a person like Qingyang submissive.