When Zhang Fatzi heard this, he felt a little confused: "What do you mean by this? Isn't this the underground palace of the Qin Emperor's mausoleum? Isn't this the mausoleum that the First Emperor used 800,000 people to build for himself in 40 years?"

"Look at the underground imperial city outside, look at the thousands of terracotta warriors and military formations, and look at the magnificent underground palace in front of us, the first emperor almost moved the entire Xianyang Imperial Palace to the underground, which is completely in line with the principle that death is like life. If this is not the mausoleum of the First Emperor, then what is this place?"

After this journey, the grandeur of this underground palace has deeply shocked his heart, and he has no doubt in his heart that this is the mysterious tomb of the Qin Emperor recorded in the history books, so in the face of Sun Laoer's denial, Zhang Fatzi looks a little excited.

Not only him, but the other people present were also extremely puzzled by Sun Laoer's words, but Ye Feng noticed that in addition to Sun Laoer, the expressions of the other two people present did not change, as if they were not surprised by Sun Laoer's words at all.

One of them was the old man Mei, who had been standing in a daze with his hands folded since he finished speaking, as if he didn't care at all about the conversation of the people around him.

And the other person is Ye Feng's brother-in-law, the second brother Xie Zhenliang.

Since he set out to explore the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum this time, Ye Feng has always felt that his second brother has something strange, although he can't say why he feels this way, but now, this strange feeling in his heart is getting stronger and stronger.

Sun Lao Er looked at the somewhat excited Zhang Fatzi, smiled disapprovingly, and just asked very calmly: "You are right, the underground palace in front of us is indeed very majestic and magnificent, rare in ancient and modern times, but to build such an underground palace, does it take 800,000 people to build it for a full forty years?"

Zhang Fatzi was a little dumbfounded, the First Emperor used so much manpower and gathered skilled craftsmen from all over the country, even if he built another Xianyang City underground, I am afraid it would not take so long.

This is indeed a bit strange.

Sun Lao Er looked at Zhang Fatzi's expression and asked slowly: "Do you remember what Taishi Gong recorded about the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum in the historical records?"

This fat man naturally remembers that Tai Shi Gong is one of the historians he admires the most, and with his talent for unforgettable, he can almost memorize the records in the historical records.

The original text in the "Records of the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty" is recorded as follows: The first emperor ascended the throne at the beginning of the year and wore the Lishan Mountain. And the world, the world sent more than 700,000 people, wear three springs, under the copper and to the coffin, the palace view of the hundred officials and strange artifacts are full of strange migration. Let the craftsman make a machine and shoot it, and those who are close will shoot it. With mercury as the rivers and seas, the machine is instilled, with astronomy and geography. With mermaid paste as a candle, the one who will not be extinguished will last for a long time. The second said: "If the first emperor and the harem do not have children, it is not appropriate to go out." All were ordered to die, and the dead were many. The burial has been down, or the craftsman is the machine, Zang knows it, and Zang is heavy. After the big event is over, it has been Zang, closed in the envy, under the outside envy door, closed craftsmen Zang, no comeback. Trees, grass, and trees are like mountains.

To put it simply, this first sentence is about the first emperor who began to excavate and govern Lishan since he first ascended the throne.

Li Daoyuan, who later generations, said in the "Notes on the Book of Water" that because the first emperor ordered people to smash Lishan to build a mausoleum, dig the mountain to extract soil, and build a dam, the flow of the river was changed, thus forming the later fish pond water. This account also undoubtedly confirms the statement in the historical records.

Later, after the unification of the world, more than 700,000 apprentices and skilled craftsmen were selected from all over the country, dug very deep, passed through the triple underground spring, and built it

own mausoleum.

The base was cast with copper, and the coffin was placed on it, and the underground palace was built in imitation of the imperial palace, and the rank of a hundred officials was set up, and all the rare treasures, treasures and strange stones collected from the world were moved into it, and they were full.

He then ordered the craftsman to make a bow and arrow controlled by a mechanism, and if someone stole the treasure and stole it, he could shoot him if he approached. However, in terms of the technology that could build such a magnificent underground palace at that time, these bow and arrow mechanisms were inevitably too pediatric, and I was afraid that those terrible life-killing mechanisms pre-arranged in the imperial tomb were not even known to Taishi Gong, so they were not described in the historical records.

Then, in the mausoleum, mercury is used to make the appearance of hundreds of rivers and seas, and the complex machine system is used to pour and transport it in phases, and the flow does not stop. The top wall of the mausoleum is decorated with images of astronomical stars, and the geographical figures of the whole country are modeled on the mountains and rivers below. Many later scholars believed that the stars were set with pearls of the night and precious stones, and that the mountains of the earth were made of gold and silver.

Finally, in the mausoleum, the oil of the legendary mermaid is used to make a long lamp, which can burn for many, many years without extinguishing.

His son Qin II Hu Hai said: "Even if these concubines in the harem of the first emperor have no children, they will always belong to the first emperor, and since the first emperor is gone, it is not appropriate to leave them outside." So he ordered all these people to be buried, including those courtiers who served the First Emperor during their lifetime, and many of them were finally killed and buried in the tomb.

When the burial was completed, some people said that these craftsmen built the mausoleum and made the mechanism, and they all knew the treasures and locations hidden in the tomb, but they were afraid that they would inevitably become greedy or leak out.

So when the funeral of the First Emperor was over, and the treasures had been hidden, he ordered the middle door of the mausoleum to be closed, and the outermost door of the mausoleum was put down, and all the craftsmen who participated in the design and construction of the mausoleum were sealed in the mausoleum, and none of them could come out alive.

In the end, the ground outside the mausoleum was planted with grass and trees, and from the outside, the whole mausoleum looked like a mountain, and no one knew that this was the mausoleum of the first emperor of the Great Qin Empire.

This is the end of the historical record.

Listening to Zhang Fatzi's recitation of this record in the historical records, Sun Lao Er nodded approvingly, and seemed to be very satisfied with Zhang Fatzi's excellent memory.

With a smile in his eyes, he asked, "It is such a record, but it leaks the heavenly secret, which shows that the place where we are standing is not the mausoleum of the First Emperor at all. Don't you feel strange in your heart when you recite it?"

Zhang Fatzi was stunned and asked, "What's strange?"

Sun Lao Er said: "First of all, it is mentioned in the record that mercury is used as a hundred rivers and seas, and the machine is instilled, with astronomy at the top and geography at the bottom. However, the place where we are standing now is clearly a replica of a dormitory in life, where are the so-called rivers and seas filled with mercury, the sun, moon and stars inlaid with precious stones, and the geography of the mountains and mountains piled up with gold and silver?"

Zhang Fatzi couldn't answer.

Everyone looked around and felt strange, speaking of which, there are actually no particularly rare treasures here, and those so-called rare treasures collected by the First Emperor from all over the world have not even seen a single one.

It's just that the purpose of everyone coming to visit the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum this time was not to steal treasures, so no one noticed.

Zhang Fatzi said with some hesitation: "Perhaps, maybe these treasures are collected in some other secret room, and the historical records do not mention that these are together with the coffin." ”

Sun Lao Er snorted, and gave Zhang Fatzi's far-fetched explanation

sneered, in fact, even Zhang Fatzi himself didn't believe this explanation.

Sun Lao Er said slowly: "Even if what you just said can be regarded as an explanation, then there is a second question, it is mentioned in the historical records that Qin II once killed many people around the First Emperor before his death to be buried, so where are the bones of these people?"

According to the record, in the end, Qin II ordered the door to be closed and the door to be closed, and all the craftsmen who participated in the design and construction of the mausoleum were sealed alive in the tomb. In other words, there are at least three gates in this mausoleum. But we had just marched all the way to this place, unobstructed, and had never seen any closed doors, and where were the bones of the craftsmen who had been buried alive in the doors?"

A series of questions made Zhang Fatzi dumbfounded and speechless.

In fact, at this time, not only him, but everyone had already understood in their hearts that what Sun Lao Er said was true, and the place where they were standing now was not the real burial place of the First Emperor at all, perhaps, it was just a suspicious coffin of the First Emperor.

Zhang Fatzi couldn't help but ask: "If this is not the real mausoleum, then where is the mausoleum of the First Emperor?"

Sun Lao Er smiled mysteriously and said, "Little fat man, since you can never forget it and read a lot of books, do you know a record of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum in the Eastern Han Dynasty's "Old Han Yi"?"

Zhang Fatzi thought for a while and said, "Didn't the predecessor talk about the record of three hundred zhang or even stop?"

Originally, Zhang Fatzi didn't have a good impression of the somewhat cold and arrogant Sun Lao Er, and called him an "old boy" behind his back. However, after getting along along the way, as well as the conversation just now, he already felt sincere admiration for Sun Laoer's profound knowledge in his heart, so he unconsciously blurted out the title to "senior".

Sun Lao Er nodded and said: "It is recorded in the book that Prime Minister Li Si was ordered to lead 720,000 people to be responsible for digging and building the mausoleum, digging to a very deep place, sealing all the underground water and springs around, but he could no longer dig it. ”

Li Si was afraid in his heart and didn't dare to dig any more, so he replied to the First Emperor, who had already dug into the ground and couldn't continue to go down. After hearing this, the first emperor ordered that since he could no longer dig deeper, he should stop by walking three hundred zhang. ”

"The Old Yi of the Han Dynasty was compiled in the Eastern Han Dynasty, not long before the Qin Dynasty and even the Taishi Gong wrote the historical records, so it is also very credible. As for what the first emperor's sentence of three hundred zhang on the side means, there are different opinions. ”

Some people believe that this sentence means that since it is impossible to dig deeper, the scope of the mausoleum underground palace will be simply expanded by another 300 zhang. Some people also believe that this 300 zhang walk refers to letting Li Si dig another 300 zhang to the side to hide the location of his real mausoleum. ”

Ye Feng looked at Sun Lao Er with a confident look, and asked, "What does the senior think this means?"

Sun Lao Er smiled proudly and said, "Think about it first, what is the place above the three hundred zhang from here?"

Zhang Fatzi lowered his head and calculated silently for a long time before he replied: "It should be Lishan Mountain." ”

Suddenly, his face changed, and he lost his voice: "Could it be that the mausoleum of the real First Emperor is hidden under Lishan Mountain?"

(The original texts of the relevant records in the "Historical Records", "Notes on the Water Classic" and the "Old Han Yi" mentioned in this article are all true and are by no means fabricated by the author, so we hereby declare.) ）