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Chapter 205 Architecture
The First Emperor smiled and said, "Empress Zetian is right. This mausoleum gathered the best craftsmen and designers in the world at that time. There are probably a thousand people in this team."

Ou Zhou sighed: "There is no second such a magnificent project in the world. The people involved, according to the current scientific community, include physicists, chemists, architects, astronomers, and geographers." Only by designing and building together can such a huge project be completed.”

Jiang Yang continued: "It took 300,000 civilians to build it for 39 years. It took only 30 years to build the Pyramid of Khufu, the landmark building on the earth. No more than [-] civilians are used every year."

The First Emperor smiled and said, "I don't know what kind of building the Pyramid of Khufu is, but if my mausoleum is built on the ground, I'm afraid it won't be called the Pyramid of Khufu?"

Ou Zhou nodded and said with a smile, "That's right. Regardless of the scale of the project or the technological content of the mausoleum, the underground palace of His Majesty the First Emperor is definitely the best in the world."

Empress Zetian seemed to have thought of a mystery at this moment: "Your Majesty the First Emperor, you said that this space is sealed, but when the door of the tomb is opened, aren't you afraid that the volatile gas of mercury will leak out?"

The First Emperor smiled and said: "This problem was thought of at the beginning of the design. The gas volatilized by mercury is much heavier than the air, so it will not be emitted outward. It can only exist in this confined space, and it can be released underground or Penetration through the walls."

Empress Zetian gave her a thumbs up and said in praise: "Emperor Shi is worthy of being the only one in the world. He even understands such scientific principles. No wonder I gave you a yin fruit, you don't want it!"

The First Emperor laughed and said, "If the yin fruit is stored in such a space, it will become a silver fruit. That is equivalent to letting me eat silver."

Her Majesty the Empress sighed: "The feeling of the pavilion floating in the air is amazing. His Majesty the First Emperor was No.1 in the yang world, but in the underworld, he can also be called the number one soul!"

The First Emperor laughed loudly: "We are already friends. If Her Majesty likes it, you can come and play often!"

The queen said happily: "Well, anyway, we are not far away. We were neighbors before, but now we are friends."

Ou Zhou and Jiang Yang looked around for a long time, and suddenly asked: "Your Majesty the First Emperor, it is rumored that Concubine Li was buried alive back then, where is the body now?"

The First Emperor was silent: "After Concubine Li was buried, the remaining oxygen was quickly used up when the tomb was closed, and she accidentally fell into the Mercury Lake, but her body was preserved intact. But I don't know the exact location."

The queen nodded and asked, "Where is her ghost?"

The First Emperor had a sad face: "Concubine Li hates me to the bone, her ghost haunts her body, and she still refuses to see me."

Ou Zhou and Jiang Yang couldn't help being stunned for a while, and asked after a while: "Your Majesty the First Emperor, where is your bedroom?"

The first emperor looked sad, and said: "After the end of the Taishan Zen ceremony, on the way back, I mistakenly swallowed golden erysipelas and died. It was so hot in autumn that I couldn't protect my body. How could it be as fresh and beautiful as the corpse of Her Majesty Empress Zetian?" , it doesn’t matter if you don’t look at it.”

"Well, Your Majesty the First Emperor, it is said that you have a huge number of funeral objects, including rare and rare treasures, where are they all placed?" Ou Zhou wondered.

The First Emperor waved his hands and smiled, "There are many things everywhere in the mausoleum. It's just that they are covered by mercury volatilization, so what you can see is silver."

"Your Majesty, the balsa wood you mentioned just now, as far as I know, is produced in the tropical rainforest of South America, and it does not grow in our country. How did your majesty obtain this high-quality wood?"

The First Emperor smiled and said: "This question is very good. Maybe I said it and you may think it is a fantasy. 2000 years ago, there was a place in the deep mountains of the Qinling Mountains that produced balsa wood. The craftsmen who built the mausoleum also traveled all over the country. I found this kind of wood. Since the balsa wood is very rare, after the mausoleum was built, in order not to prevent future generations from understanding the excellent qualities of this wood, I ordered the wood to be burned. From what I can see, the South American tropical rainforest you mentioned Basa wood, I’m afraid the tree seeds also flow out from here.”

"It shouldn't be possible. South America is thousands of miles away. How can the tree species survive?" Ou Zhou denied.

The First Emperor smiled and said: "People can't pass, but the birds in the sky can. Migratory birds migrate once a year. Since 2000 years, I have observed that there are no less than a hundred species of migratory birds from the southern hemisphere on the Qinling Mountains alone. They disappear every late autumn. Spring is flying over again."

Ou Zhou laughed and said, "I never thought that His Majesty the First Emperor observed so carefully. It is very possible that migratory birds bring tree species. The reproduction of many plants on earth is largely due to migratory birds."

Empress Zetian praised: "His Majesty the First Emperor is really wise, and he can analyze even such details clearly and logically. Your Majesty is truly worthy of being an emperor through the ages."

The First Emperor said humbly: "In the 2000 years since my death, apart from concentrating on confessing my sins every day, I saw many birds on the Qinling Mountains, chirping every day, flying up and down freely. That's all."

Empress Zetian praised: "I never imagined that His Majesty the First Emperor cared so much about nature. I'm afraid contemporary botanists may not be as knowledgeable in this area as you!"

His Majesty the First Emperor smiled and said, "Hahaha, I have nothing to do and am just enjoying myself."

Ou Zhou said curiously: "Your Majesty the First Emperor, it is said in the world that a lake was built in His Majesty's mausoleum with mercury as a carrier, and the inner and outer coffins were used as boats to travel on it, just like the sun running in the sky. It is in the east in the morning and west in the evening. Day and night rotate continuously. Tonight, the scene of the mausoleum is far greater than the legend. However, with the power of modern technology, it is not easy to prepare [-] tons of mercury. But I don’t know what method His Majesty used to prepare such a large amount of mercury. ?”

The First Emperor laughed loudly, and said: "You probably don't believe me, but I always encounter weird things in nature. Because of my delusional desire to live forever, I took too much cinnabar refining pills, and eventually died of mineral poisoning. And mercury comes from cinnabar. Back then, Danshi traveled all over the country in order to find rich cinnabar mines. Coincidentally, later, he found mercury mines under this lotus peak. The degree of enrichment of mercury content , and its grade actually reached 2.5%. As we all know, mercury is commonly found in cinnabar, thionite, thimerostimonite and other minerals, among which cinnabar is the most common. Mercury ore was formed in a new orogenic movement, and Lishan was formed in a It was formed during the new orogenic movement. After the cinnabar is heated in the flowing air, the mercury in it can be reduced, and when the temperature is lowered, the mercury condenses and becomes mercury. This is the most important way to produce mercury before 2000 years."

The First Emperor pointed to the Mercury Lake below and said with a smile: "This Mercury Lake is to dig cinnabar to make mercury. On the day the lake was completed, the pavilion was completed. After injecting [-] tons of mercury into the lake for a week, the volatilized gas will blow the pavilion into the water. Thrust into the air."

Ou Zhou and Jiang Yang looked at each other, and couldn't help laughing: "His Majesty the First Emperor is not only extraordinary in martial arts and martial arts, but also the various science and technology in his body are outstanding in today's world. No wonder he can create such a What a huge project!"

Jiang Yang said with a smile: "His Majesty the First Emperor is not only different from ordinary people in martial arts, martial arts, science and technology, but also in specialization and empathy."

Empress Zetian smiled and said, "How do you say that?"

Jiang Yang said with a smile: "It is said that His Majesty the First Emperor built the Afang Palace because he fell in love with a girl named Afang when he was a hostage in Zhao State. The opposition of the various ministers. The first emperor built Afang with great fanfare, which can be seen from the depth of his affection."

The First Emperor smiled and said: "In the years when I was a hostage in Zhao State, I was repeatedly bullied by Zhao people. Although Miss Afang is a Zhao person, she loves me very much. After I came to the throne, I missed that innocent feeling very much, and I wholeheartedly wanted to marry Miss Afang is the queen, who would have thought that Lu Buwei would intervene arbitrarily and try his best to prevent me from fulfilling my wish. To this day, that relationship still lingers in my heart."

Empress Zetian sighed: "It turns out that with the domineering spirit of the First Emperor, there are many unsatisfactory things. As expected, every family has a hard-to-recite scripture!"

The First Emperor smiled and said: "How can you be the Queen of Heaven, who has full of emotions throughout her life, outstanding achievements, multiplied children and grandchildren, and died in bed. You should be a model for the emperors of all ages."

Empress Zetian sighed: "Your Majesty the First Emperor only knows one thing, but not the other. When I was exiled to the White Horse Temple as a talented person of Emperor Taizong, I felt the dangers of the world and almost fell into a slump. If the timing didn't change and I soared to the sky, who would have given up my life?" Remember there was a talented Wu Meiniang back then?"

The First Emperor nodded, and just when he was about to say something, he suddenly paused and said with a smile: "There are a lot of young people outside, and they are planning on my mausoleum again. Let's go out and have a look?"

Ou Zhou and Jiang Yang said happily: "We just want to see what a tomb robber looks like?"

Empress Zetian laughed and said, "Over the past thousand years, I have seen this kind of thing a lot. I was a little worried at the beginning, but later I saw that the tomb robbers had no idea what to do. On the contrary, I found it very interesting. Let's go out Look, what are the skills of the tomb robbers tonight?"

With a wave of his sleeves, the First Emperor took the lead in flying upwards.

Ou Zhou and Jiang Yang followed, and Empress Zetian followed closely.

In this sealed space, the volatilized mercury gas is like still water, which not only produces resistance, but also has great buoyancy.

Just like a person in a swimming pool, if the body does not move, it will fall still, and if it moves slightly, the buoyancy will increase, and the body will naturally go up.

When approaching the top of Lianhua Peak, Emperor Shihuang murmured: "The gate of heaven opens, and the gate of earth closes. I bow myself to the gate and open it myself."

After speaking, the crack on the top of the peak suddenly opened up.

A group of four souls left the mausoleum, and under the guidance of the first emperor, they came to a place at the foot of the mountain.

At this moment, it looks like three o'clock in the morning, everything is silent, there is no breath in the wilderness, the crescent moon is setting in the west, and the breeze is blowing.

Under the guidance of the first emperor, only five or six sneaky tomb robbers were doing the same thing.

The First Emperor chuckled and said, "These tomb robbers have been coming here almost every night, and they have been wandering around Lianhua Peak for half a month. Now they are located no more than 50 meters away from the entrance of the tomb passage that people say. It is obviously a comparison." The kind of profession."

"Your Majesty the First Emperor, how did you know that the tomb robbers are coming?" Ou Zhou was puzzled.

"The ancients had the wisdom of the ancients. When building the mausoleum, various trigger devices were installed. This is very similar to contemporary monitoring equipment. If a tomb robber comes, a slightly professional one will definitely trigger those devices. But ordinary people or animals would not touch that device."

Ou Zhou became more and more puzzled: "Your Majesty the First Emperor, why is this?"

The First Emperor laughed and said, "Professional tomb robbers will use a compass to locate their positions, and then use tools such as shovels to conduct exploration. From this, those devices will inevitably be triggered. Ordinary people will not have those behaviors. As for beasts, even more There won't be any."

Ou Zhou and Jiang Yang looked at each other, nodded in praise and said, "It's really amazing skills. No wonder many technologies of the ancients can't be deciphered by today's scientific community. It's really extraordinary."

Empress Zetian smiled and asked: "When encountering such a thing, what would His Majesty the First Emperor usually do?"

"Sometimes I make fun of them, but most of the time, I dismiss them."

Empress Zetian smiled and said: "In my Qianling Mausoleum, when you meet more professional tomb robbers, they will encounter strange phenomena of sudden changes in the celestial phenomena. In fact, the principle is the same as the trigger device in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor. Once they trigger the setting device, abnormal The celestial phenomena will appear. It is not a coincidence that people guessed later."

Ou Zhou and Jiang Yang looked at each other, nodded, and said with a smile: "We have finally figured out the key point. The miraculous legend passed down by later generations turned out to be an accidental necessity. But if it weren't for the whimsy of the designer and builder , this kind of abnormal celestial phenomenon is impossible."

(End of this chapter)