The opening of the Three Kingdoms inherits the bravery of the overlord of Chu

Chapter 177

Continuing from the previous article, Guo Jia will not die, and Crouching Dragon will not come out.

After Guo Jia's death, Zhuge Kongming began to shine, and his life was like a dead end, with the help of ghosts and gods.

Even after death, it is impossible to trace.

Zhuge Liang was an important figure in the Three Kingdoms period, and his wisdom was unfathomable. There are many magical legends about him, the most strange of which is his last plan in life: "The coffin is carried south, and the rope is broken and then buried."

It is said that during Zhuge Liang's fifth Northern Expedition, he confronted his old opponent Sima Yi in Wuzhangyuan for more than 100 days.

During the period, Zhuge Liang failed to seize Beiyuan and wanted to provoke Sima Yi to fight. Sima Yi would rather accept the women's clothes from Zhuge Liang than fight.

Sima Yi, who is native to his hometown, can wait leisurely, but the Shu army who came from afar to fight away can't engage in long-term travel outside, so Zhuge Liang fell into extreme anxiety.

In addition, he was busy with work, and he had to take care of everything in the Shu Han regime, big and small. Finally, Zhuge Liang's body couldn't stand it, and he fell ill in the army.

Seeing that there is no cure for the medicine and stone, Zhuge Liang used the method of a half-immortal to light the seven-star lamp array to pray for continued life, and arranged for the most trusted Jiang to protect the law to keep the lamp alive. He wanted to borrow another 10 years of life from heaven.

This kind of spell takes 7 days, and the first 6 days have passed safely. Jiang Wei is very happy, thinking that the prime minister can survive this calamity.

Unexpectedly, on the seventh day, Sima Yi suddenly raised troops to attack.The military situation was urgent, General Wei Yan came to report in a hurry, and accidentally extinguished seven oil lamps when he entered the tent, Jiang Wei was so angry that he drew his sword on the spot and wanted to cut Wei Yan!

On the contrary, Zhuge Liang was very open-minded, confessed his funeral that night, and passed away peacefully the next day.

With the commander in chief gone, the military operations of the Northern Expedition could not continue.The Shu army set up suspicious formations along the way, kept secret, and rectified the army and horses to retreat calmly.Sima Yi suspected fraud and did not dare to pursue, and let the Shu army leave all the way. This is "dead Zhuge scaring away living Zhongda".

Zhuge Liang played beautifully with the military deployment for the retreat, but as for his funeral arrangements, he also played it mysteriously.

According to Zhuge Liang's account, everything behind him was kept simple, and there was no need for a heavy burial. When he was buried, he only needed to dig a grave, and it was enough for the coffin to fit in.He was also wearing ordinary clothes, no other funeral objects, just put seven grains of rice in his mouth and a copper coin in his hand.And there is no tombstone, and no trees are planted in front of the tomb.

It's just that Zhuge Liang probably designated a range for the burial site, which is Dingjun Mountain in Hanzhong, which makes people "lift the coffin to the south and bury it when the rope is broken."

The queen master Liu Chan respected Zhuge Liang very much. After crying bitterly, he promised a great reward according to Xiangfu's wish, and sent four people to carry the coffin to the south. Wherever the rope was broken, he would be buried there.

But he never imagined that these four people carried the coffin and walked south for three days and three nights, and the coffin rope didn't seem to be broken at all!
The four of them got impatient, got together to string up the confession, cut the rope with a knife, and buried Zhuge Liang's coffin in the ground.After they were done, they pretended to hold the rope and came back to ask Liu Chan for a reward.

Liu Chan didn't look carefully, left the rope, gave them several hundred taels of silver each, and sent them home.After a while, Jiang Wei came to Liu Chan to discuss the matter, and Liu Chan told him the matter casually. Jiang Wei looked at the rope and said that the cut was neat, not worn off, but cut with a knife.

This is not bad, a blatant bully!
Liu Chan was furious, and ordered people to arrest the four people. After being tortured, he found out that they were responsible, and killed them all in a fit of anger.But the question came right after the killing, where did they bury the prime minister before they asked?Why did you forget the most important thing, it's so angry that you lose your mind!

From then on, where Zhuge Liang was buried has become a mystery, and the only known place is Dingjun Mountain in Hanzhong.But Dingjun Mountain is so big, and Zhuge Liang confessed that he would not erect a tombstone and plant no trees in front of the tomb.The whole mountain had to kowtow together.

So, what is Zhuge Liang's intention in making this will?
Bright fans believe that Zhuge Liang had already anticipated what happened later. He knew what the four coffin bearers would do and how Liu Chan would treat them.The purpose is to prevent anyone from knowing where he is buried.

So another question arose, why did Zhuge Liang make his affairs so mysterious?

The answer is simple, being frightened by tomb robbers.

In ancient times, death was the same as life, and thick burials were popular in the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties. No matter how poor people were, they would try their best to bury their dead relatives with them, so that they could live more comfortably underground.For example, in the tomb of Liu He, Haihunhou of the Western Han Dynasty unearthed in the first few years, the copper coins and gold inside were really gone.

This trend of thick burials had an obvious deflection during the Three Kingdoms period. Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, Cao Cao and other influential figures all respected thin burials, and they did everything possible to keep the place of burials secret.

For a nation like ours that respects our ancestors very much, this is actually not normal. If we don't know where the tomb is, future generations will have no way to worship at the tomb.In ancient times, many families desperately wanted to have a son, wasn't it just to have a stick of incense in front of the grave after death?Why is it that they are so advanced in consciousness that they don't care about it?
The reason is not that they are open-minded, but that they are preventing tomb robbers.

During the Three Kingdoms period, tomb robbery was extremely rampant. Both Dong Zhuo and Sun Quan had done such immoral things, and it was Cao Cao who turned tomb robbery into a group operation!For this reason, he also specially set up the positions of Lieutenant Mojin and General Faqiu Zhonglang, who robbed tombs to support the army.

When the news spread, Cao Cao was naturally scolded, and the elderly people also thought to themselves that for the sake of peace after death, they must be buried lightly, and the address of the burial must be kept secret.Even Cao Cao himself could not guarantee that the tomb robbers thousands of years later would give him face, and built a total of 72 suspicious tombs.

After figuring out these backgrounds, I also understand that Zhuge Liang also made this last plan in order not to be disturbed after his death.

However, this mysterious and wonderful story, like many other myths about Zhuge Liang, is just an artistic processing of the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".In the official history, Zhuge Liang only expressed the meaning of thin burial, and also designated Dingjun Mountain, but did not let people "lift the coffin to the south, and bury it when the rope is broken."

But similar to the Romance, only Jiang Wei, who was in charge of his funeral, knows where Zhuge Liang's tomb is. Jiang Wei didn't leave any relevant information, so no one knows.The Wuhou Tomb in Shaanxi and the Wuhou Temple in Sichuan are only commemorative buildings.

In this book, Zhuge Kongming will also open up a new path.

(End of this chapter)