Chapter 123: Li Zhuo's Tomb
Looking at the exquisitely carved huge sarcophagus in front of him, Chen Ziyang was deeply shocked. So far, he has been in two tombs and seen many coffins, but this coffin can be said to be the first main coffin he has seen.
In addition to the coffins of the two corpse demons, most of the other coffins that Chen Ziyang has seen are thin coffins of wood, and the coffins of the two corpse demons are not so much coffins as organs, although the price of jade is not low in this era, but in terms of craftsmanship, those coffins have no value at all.
And the coffin in front of Chen Ziyang is full of carved patterns, almost not even a blank place, in addition to various patterns, there are even carved pictures on it, it is estimated that it is the life of the emperor. Seeing this, Chen Ziyang thought in his heart that it was no wonder that these coffins were national treasures, and the information contained on them was too rich, not only to see the various manufacturing processes at that time, but also to know some major events experienced by the tomb owner in his life, which is of great significance for filling the gaps in history.
But what made Chen Ziyang feel the most strange was the three rows of large characters carved in Chinese characters in the center of the front of this huge sarcophagus coffin. Although these characters are in traditional Chinese, Chen Ziyang can read most of them, although they are engraved with Chinese characters, but he is not surprised, he knows a little about the history of the Eastern Dynasty, during the Qing Dynasty, Chinese was even the official language of the Eastern Dynasty, so there is nothing strange about the Chinese characters engraved on the sarcophagus.
"Xianyi, Guanglun Rui, Shengying, Yu Mo, Yongyun, Hong Renjunde, Tianhedao, Qixiu, Duqing, Zhengzhongxie, Extreme Shenyi, Great Medal, Wenxian, Wu Jingming, Yuanxiao, King! My good boy, this is a personal name, or something, how can there be such a long name! Yang Lei also noticed the rows of words engraved on the coffin, and exclaimed and read them out.
"I know whose tomb this is, Li Yu's, it's Li Suzong's tomb! These are not names, but his nicknames. That is, the title given to him by others after the death of the emperor. Wang Lele said.
"Li Yan was an emperor of the Li family in the Eastern Dynasty, and his reign coincided with the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. This man was good at power tricks, and during his reign, he constantly changed the ruling faction and strengthened the royal power by supporting the weak and suppressing the strong, which made the partisan struggle unprecedentedly fierce and consumed a lot of national strength.
Li Zhuo is most mentioned not for his royal politics, but for his court life. The love story between him and Zhang Yuzhen, the concubine known as the demon woman of the Eastern Dynasty, and the Min family, the queen of Renxian, has been interpreted again and again, and has also filmed a lot of TV series.
Li Zhuo obeyed the wishes of his mother, Queen Myeongseong, and appointed Min Weizhong, the daughter of the minister, Min Weizhong, as the princess, that is, Queen Inhyun. But Su Zong was very fond of the harem Zhang Xi, that is, the Zhang family, who was called the demon concubine in later generations, plus the Zhang family gave birth to the heir he had been looking forward to for a long time, and the Min family, who was the princess, entered the palace for a long time but never gave birth to an heir. So he once deprived the Min family of his status.
However, five years later, the repentant Suzong reinstated the Min family and demoted the Zhang family to a concubine. A few years later, the princess Min died, and at that time Li Zhuo found that the unwilling Zhang had asked the wizard to curse the Min family and wanted to return to the position of the princess, so he issued an order to give Zhang the death of the family, and issued a decree that the future monarch should not use concubines to ascend to the concubine. In the end, Zhang drank poisoned wine and died of hatred.
Historical records record that Li Zhuo died in 1720, and the Qing Dynasty gave him the title of King Shun and was buried in the Ming Mausoleum in Gaoyang. Unexpectedly, his tomb was found here, it seems that the tomb of Gaoyang Ming Mausoleum should be a suspicious tomb, but the real joint burial tomb is here. Wang Lele explained.
After listening to Wang Lele's introduction, Chen Ziyang sighed, it is worthy of being an archaeologist, this person can memorize the history book with his mouth closed, and it is really difficult for Wang Lele's little head, how can he memorize so much knowledge. But then Chen Ziyang thought carefully about Wang Lele's words and nodded, this is right, this is the pattern of two phoenixes seeking phoenixes. The time is also right, no wonder there will be traces of the Kangxi period here, the same jade coffin as Cardinal Wang, it is estimated that this tomb was built by Kangxi with the help of people.
But the company commander who led the team obviously did not put his mind on the identity of the owner of this tomb, but hurriedly beckoned the surrounding soldiers to come over, wanting to open the coffin, at this time, those soldiers of the Eastern Dynasty were attracted by the funeral items in the four burial pits around, and everyone was full of them, although they couldn't get these things out of their hands, but it was okay to live a short time here to addict the rich.
Chen Ziyang didn't understand the company commander's actions, according to the normal scientific research procedures, since the scientific expedition team had arrived here safely, they should hand over the rest of the matter to the follow-up personnel, so as to slowly excavate these historical relics, but the company commander obviously didn't care about these, but wanted to open the coffin as soon as possible.
The soldiers threw down their jewels and gold utensils and gathered around. The lid of the nearly 100-square-meter stone coffin was very heavy, and everyone exerted their strength, and even some people used crowbars, not caring if these tools would destroy the integrity of the coffin.
After all, there are many people with great strength, coupled with the full pattern carved on the coffin lid, which also reduces the weight of the coffin lid a lot, more than 20 people carry the coffin lid, slowly pushing in the direction of the door, and then "bang", the coffin lid fell under the action of gravity and fell into two.
Looking at the tragic appearance of this historical relic, the corners of Wang Lele's eyes jumped obviously, and then half of the coffin lid was also pushed down, and inside the entire sarcophagus coffin, it was still a slightly smaller wooden coffin. This did not surprise Chen Ziyang. All coffins of this level have seven or eight layers. But what surprised him the most was that the wooden coffin on the second floor inside seemed to be carved from a single piece of wood. A coffin lid with a diameter of nearly 10 meters, which requires a thick tree to make!
According to the same method, everyone is opening the wooden coffin on the second floor, there is some distance between the gap between the wooden coffin and the edge of the sarcophagus coffin, and those crowbars and other tools can also be stretched into, don't look at this is the lid of the wooden coffin, and at the same time it is smaller than the lid of the stone coffin just now, and the density of the wood is not as dense as that of the stone, but the weight of this coffin lid is no less than the stone coffin lid just now. It took a lot of effort for everyone to open the lid of the wooden coffin on the second floor.
After the second coffin was opened, all these people were shocked by what was exposed inside, there were no imaginary funeral jewelry, no imaginary coffins, and what was revealed under the lid of the second coffin was a piece of golden yellow.