Chapter 1368: Imperial Tomb on the Outskirts of the City

Jiang Ling flipped through the records in the book and sketched a clear record that on November 15, 1908, the Empress Dowager Cixi, who had just passed her 73rd birthday, died of illness. Cixi's rule over the Qing Dynasty lasted nearly half a century, and this was almost the darkest and most turbulent half century in the history of the last century.

Although the Qing Dynasty was already in a situation of division and protracted existence, Cixi's funeral was not affected, and she was still preparing unhurriedly, and every detail was carved in gold and luxurious. Regarding the specifications of the funeral and the items to accompany the funeral, the Queen Mother had already issued many orders before her death.

It is rumored that placing the Night Pearl in the mouth of the deceased can guarantee the immortality of the body for 10,000 years. For this reason, Cixi sent many people to find the best quality pearl of the night. According to historical records, the night pearl contained in Cixi's mouth when she was buried weighed four taels and two coins and seven cents, worth one thousand and eighty taels.

And the queen mother's coffin, also very particular, her coffin is made of golden silk nanmu, which is the most precious wood in the world. There is a sphere made of pure gold inside the coffin, weighing more than 30 catties. The outside of the coffin was wrapped in silk, and the silk was embroidered with gold silk representing the royal dragon and phoenix.

As for the gold, silver, jewelry, and jade ornaments that accompany the funeral, there are countless of them. In order to carry Cixi and her funeral goods to the mausoleum for burial, the funeral procession was so vast that the soup was full of soup, and the beginning was not seen.

In such a grand funeral, several extremely strange things happened.

According to legend, on the day of the Queen Mother's funeral, there were even more strange things, her body was even more stinky, and Cixi's funeral was held ceremoniously. Carrying the coffin from Shangshangjing to the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty, the honor guard walked for a full 5 days. On the first day, the sky was clear, but in the evening the wind was howling and the wind was gusting. Looking closely at the paper figures accompanying Cixi's funeral, it seemed that they were all alive, shaking in the cold wind, and a hideous smile appeared on their pale faces.

According to legend, when the Queen Mother was buried, Li Lianying summoned all the barmen in Beijing, a total of more than 7,900 people, who were either responsible for carrying the coffin, or responsible for carrying the paper and the funeral goods, and the scene was extremely huge. There were 218 people who were specifically responsible for carrying the coffin, and in the process of carrying the coffin, they found that Cixi's coffin was very heavy. Although there was a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry inside, it did not make more than 200 people out of breath, and they also saw that Cixi's coffin was dripping blood all the way, and the scene was strange and terrifying. Blood stains continued to flow out along the cracks of the coffin, ticking and ticking, very terrifying.

Such a scene frightened the great eunuch Li Lianying, who was sent to the funeral by his entourage, but he did not dare to speak out about it, and did not dare to open the coffin until the coffin was sent to the mausoleum.

The scene in the coffin made everyone present break out in a cold sweat.

As soon as the Queen Mother's coffin was opened, a heavy smell of spices mixed with a foul smell came to her nostrils. When Li Lianying pinched her nose and stepped forward to check, she found that there were dozens of huge rats lying in different postures in the coffin, bleeding and dead.

Even though Li Lianying has been with the Empress Dowager Cixi for many years and has seen countless scenes that ordinary people can't deal with, she is still frightened by the scene in front of her. He knew that this matter should not be made public, otherwise his life might be in danger, so he pretended to calmly order his subordinates to clean up the mouse corpse in the coffin, and then bury Cixi's coffin as if nothing happened.

In order to find out the cause of death of the rat in the coffin, Li Lianying secretly left a few rats and secretly found a foreign doctor to examine the rats.

After testing the rats' carcasses, the foreign doctor explicitly told Li Lianying that the rats had died of rat poison. After hearing this name, Li Lianying suddenly realized.

It turned out that Cixi began to build her own mausoleum when she was still alive, and sent people to collect treasures for the burial. However, before the treasures could be collected, Cixi died. In order to meet Cixi's many requirements for the funeral during her lifetime, everyone had to postpone the burial for a year.

Not long after the corpse was parked, it emitted an unpleasant stench, which must not have been allowed. Therefore, at the time of the funeral, in order to hide the smell, Li Lianying had to place the spice poisonous rat incense with a strong aroma in the coffin.

In the process of decaying Cixi's body, many rats were invited, and they quietly crawled into the coffin. After the coffin was covered, they gradually lost their air, inhaled a large amount of poisonous rat incense and had nowhere to escape, and finally had to die in Cixi's coffin

Blood.

Letting a rat get into the coffin and letting the rat's blood seep out of the coffin, either of these two crimes is enough for Li Lianying to be held accountable. At this time, Cixi had died, and he was helpless in the palace, so he simply resigned and returned to his hometown.

It wasn't until three years later, when Li Lianying's life was about to come to an end, that he told others about this thing that had been hidden in his heart, so that the bleeding from the coffin after Cixi's death would not become a terrifying unsolved case.

To sum up, it is all empirical evidence that can be checked by history... At first glance, there is nothing out of the ordinary!

However, when the book is turned to the back.

Jiang Ling took out a pen and circled the remarks...... Thinking about Li Lianying's description, she can hide it from the world, but she can't deceive the people in the Xuanmen!

Jin Si Nanmu is the coffin of the unjust soul, and a queen mother, why should she give the life of a Yellow Emperor before she dies.

Since then, it has also ruined a generation of courts..... The most questionable thing is why Cixi brought in a feng shui master from outside.

Could it be that there was no Qin Tianjian in the DPRK at that time?

Sure enough, after flipping through it...... In the book, there is even a search for verification.

is also a record in history, the queen mother, as the last person in power in the late Qing Dynasty, she has also lost power and humiliated the country all her life, and she has also tried to innovate and change the law, and finally left a bunch of messes and died, why did she take Emperor Guangxu away before she died.

On November 15, 1908, the Queen Mother, who had been beautiful for half her life, died in the Yiluan Palace.

She was buried in the Eastern Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty after her death, but what is surprising is that the time of the Queen Mother's burial was not shortly after her death, but in October 1909, which has been nearly 1 year since the death of the Queen Mother.

It is reported that on November 14, 1908, Cixi also knew that her life was short, and she found Li Lianying before she died, and told him to find the best fortune teller and choose an auspicious day for the zodiac to let herself be buried in peace. So Li Lianying found all the fortune tellers in Quan Yanjing and asked them to deduce the best date together.

Two of the best days were calculated, one on December 7, 1908, and the other on October 9, 1909.

But at that time, he did not choose to be buried in 1908! Because at that time, the tomb of Cixi in Putuoyu, Dongling of the Qing Dynasty, had not yet been completed. Moreover, the craftsman replied that it was estimated that it would not be completed until December 7, so Li Lianying gritted her teeth and simply left it for a year and buried it in 1909.

In this way, the bones of the Empress Dowager were stored in the palace for a whole year, which also led to the extremely strange scene when Cixi was buried in 1909.

But all kinds of signs make people inevitably wonder why the royal family, the selfish and luxurious queen mother, has so many abnormal signs before she dies.

The garden was built in advance, but the coffin of golden silk nanmu was temporarily chosen?

Jiang Ling sharply wrote her doubts on the book, this is her reading habit, and Chen Anran is inconvenient to spit out in this regard, after all, this is the Jiang family's library library, how others like to mark, and it is inconvenient for her to express too much.

Just looking at Jiang Ling's annotations and questions, her heart was also full of doubts, as a person from a horse family, how could she not know the most basic taboos of Xuanmen.

Golden silk nanmu, that is the coffin of the former wealthy family, buried... But in the Xuanmen, the golden silk nanmu is also used to restrain the unjust souls of vain death and horizontal death.

In history, there is no record that the Queen Mother died violently... Chen Anran also speculated on the side: "Could it be that the death of the Queen Mother is strange!"

"And at the end of the Qing Dynasty," Chen Anran remembered, "The Empress Dowager Cixi used the Qin Tianjian to look for *** capable people everywhere, and on the pretext of exploring the dragon veins of feng shui, she once found many people in the Xuanmen. And what happened to her after death has also been changed several times. It seems that it is someone from the Nalan family, who is cleaning up the aftermath!"

"That's right," Jiang Ling was sure, "It's the Nalan family!"

The two daughters did not forget that Old Man Jiang had mentioned just now that this was a disaster left by the predecessors of the Nalan family. Then this matter must be related to the Nalan family.

As for why Cixi attaches so much importance to the afterlife, after her death, the mausoleum is not

It has not been repaired for a long time.

Soon, the second daughter found the answer in the book, because at first, Qin Tianjian had helped him choose the tomb, but Cixi in her later years actually made a temporary decision and changed it again.

In order to confirm this, Jiang Ling began to look up all the records about Cixi's mausoleum in the study.

There is a targeted search, and soon ... It was in the study that I found the relevant records.

I saw that the book clearly included the situation at that time, and it is reported that... In 1873, at the age of 38, Cixi began to have her tomb built.

During the Qingming Festival of this year, the imperial court began to be busy selecting a site for the tomb of the empress dowager of the two palaces, and Emperor Tongzhi personally went up the mountain to survey the feng shui.

On March 15, after discussion, everyone designated Puxiangyu as the tomb of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, and Putuoyu as the tomb of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

In August 1873, the construction of the tomb of the Empress Dowager Ci'an and the tomb of the Empress Dowager Cixi began at the same time.

In 1880, the two mausoleums were completed at the same time, a total of more than 6 years, and the two mausoleums cost a total of more than 2 million taels of silver.

Originally, at that time, the Empress Dowager Ci'an was the queen of the main palace of Emperor Xianfeng, and in terms of rank, it was higher than the Empress Dowager Cixi, and the scale of construction in the mausoleum was definitely higher than that of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

However, Cixi was also a noble concubine during the reign of Emperor Xianfeng, and now she is the biological mother of Emperor Tongzhi, and her identity is relatively special, so the scale and quality of her mausoleum are the same as that of the Empress Dowager Ci'an.

Soon after the construction of the two tombs, the Empress Dowager Ci'an died, and her body was buried in the Eastern Tomb of Puxiangyu Qing.

After the death of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, Cixi became the real ruler of the entire Qing Dynasty, and from then on, she became more unscrupulous.

She was the supreme figure of the entire Qing Dynasty, and the architecture and decoration of her mausoleum were naturally derived from Ci'an's mausoleum.

She often went to Putuoyu to observe her own mausoleum, and found many problems in the process of observation.

In 1895, Cixi sent people to Putuoyu to check whether her mausoleum was well protected, and those who went there found that the walls of Cixi's mausoleum were falling off.

This angered Cixi, and she demanded that the princes and ministers of the court renovate her mausoleum, and she demanded that her grave be ...... Barren.

That's right, it's the last record, Jiang Ling and Chen Anran's eyes changed: "Not a single inch of grass grows!?"

How can they not be shocked?

As a family of Xuanmen and horses, they are also familiar with the principles of feng shui.

It's just that for thousands of years, the horse has only been for peace... Everyone respects cause and effect, so if you don't do it for peace, you won't be rashly contaminated with feng shui problems.

But as the inheritance of the horse family, the second daughter also has a deep study of the feng shui array.

Right now, it's unimaginable to see the words "no grass"... What kind of feng shui will pay attention to this?

The so-called feng shui feng shui, even the grass and trees are not yet born, how can feng shui be derived?

The second daughter is unbelievable about this historical record...... Because throughout the ages, who doesn't want grass to grow on their graves after they die? According to Feng Shui, the more lush the grass grows on the head of the tomb, the better the feng shui of that tomb and the more prosperous it will be for future generations.

If there is no grass on the grave, it means that the feng shui in that place is not good, and it will affect future generations......