Don't pretend, anchor, I've seen you touch the golden talisman!

Chapter 101 High-end funeral experience project

Everyone present still failed to understand the meaning of Lin Yi's words.

Lin Yi just said it bluntly.

"In this hall, the coffins and remains of the queens of all ages should have been displayed. In fact, from what we observed just now, not only are there no queens here, but in that mezzanine, I saw a lot of irrelevant things. dead body of the person.

It can be seen from the contents of these reliefs that these coffins are actually 'props' used by the Jingjue Kingdom to control the countries in the Western Region and make money! "

"Comrade Xiaolin, how do you say this?"

Elder Lu asked puzzledly.

He is a first-class expert in the study of the culture of the ancient Western Regions, and the history of the 36 countries in the Western Regions can be said to be at his fingertips.

When the Jingjue Kingdom was strong and prosperous, it was indeed the overlord of the Western Regions.

Other small countries are just following the lead.

Of course, this is also based on the strong military power and abundant financial strength of Jingjue Country.

Lin Yi's interpretation just now was indeed beyond his expectation.

"Mr. Lu, have you ever heard of 'living in the coffin'?"

"Being buried alive?"

When Lu Laoshang was pondering, Abu took over the conversation.

"When I was a child, I heard from my grandfather that there used to be many tribes in the desert who still maintained the custom of burying living people. It was said that this way they could ascend directly to the sky."

"I remember!"

Mr. Lu also reacted immediately.

"It is recorded in "Records of the Western Regions" that the countries in the Western Regions once had the custom of burying alive people, especially those countries and races that were affiliated with the Jingjue Kingdom. They would bury people such as those who were seriously ill, who were about to die, and even some Those who live longer are placed in coffins, rituals are held and they are buried.

It is said that this will allow them to pass away and gain a chance to be reborn.Except that it was not until the 10th century AD that the burial system of the countries in the Western Regions slowly changed after the Tianfang Sect was introduced. "

"The 10th century AD, which was the period of war between the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in the Central Plains, was precisely the beginning of the erasure of the Jingjue Kingdom in history."

Professor Yu added in time.

Combined with the historical background, it seems that Lin Yi's assumption does have some truth.

"In the later period of the Jingjue Kingdom, in order to continue to consolidate its position among the countries in the Western Regions, they resorted to such a mysterious trick: they gave these small countries the burial methods that should have belonged to the previous queens of the Jingjue Kingdom. The royal family and nobles allowed them to ascend to the fairy world.

The Jingjue Kingdom takes the snake as its totem, and the snake has the characteristic of shedding its skin. In the thinking of the Jingjue people, once a snake sheds its skin, it is a chance for rebirth.

So they embellished so many jade pieces on the coffins to replace snake sloughs.

Of course, this set of expensive funeral clothes needs to be prepared by themselves.When the nobles and family members of the Western Region countries entered this coffin with the idea of ​​​​snake shedding feathers, what greeted them was either an illusion or death. "

Lin Yi walked up to the coffin, reached out and knocked on the coffin boards.

"The reason why this coffin is not sealed is to prove to others that those who entered the coffin have indeed disappeared."

Upon hearing this, Bai Lu reacted immediately.

"Actually, did these people fall into the dark space under the coffin? Under the light of fluorite, they will see the mysterious symbols on the coffin, and after being hit by the 'Dream Curse', they will sleep forever in the dark space , the family members outside thought they had turned into immortals and gone to the heaven! "

Lin Yi gave him a thumbs up.

"That's what I mean!!"

"Since they don't want people to come out, why do they design a mechanism inside for people to escape?"

Lin Yi shook his finger.

"This problem has been bothering me just now, until I saw the content of this relief, as well as the analysis and explanations of several experts before, I instantly understood that when encoffining, there were already people in this hidden compartment." gone."

"Someone?"

Everyone suddenly became nervous and all moved away from the coffin.

Lin Yi smiled helplessly and said:
"I mean there were people at the beginning, but now there is nothing but a mummy. I have been thinking about the purpose of this secret passage, and now I understand!

Let the people they arranged in advance go out.

This person has two functions in the hidden grid. One is to ensure that the person who falls into the hidden grid is caught by the 'Nightmare Curse' and is completely lost in the 'illusion' until he truly dies. If there is an accident, he will go up and touch up the damage to ensure that This secret will not get out.

The second: take away the priceless funeral clothes. "

When everyone heard this explanation, they couldn't help but start talking about it.

"Isn't Jingjue Country known as the 'Golden Country', do you still think highly of these three melons and dates?"

"That's right, didn't it mean that there are people's fat and people's anointing that Wang Wangmang scavenged from the Central Plains Dynasty? This can't stop them from screaming?"

"More than that? There are other small countries in the Western Regions that pay tribute every year. During the most powerful period in the history of Jingjue Country, the number of people was less than one million. Their national strength was more than enough to feed these people."

Professor Yu was the first to stand up and agree with Lin Yi's opinion.

"I think Comrade Xiaolin's speculation is very reasonable. If we want to analyze a historical event, we must put it in the context of the times. The Jingjue Kingdom was indeed strong for a while, but Comrade Xiaolin just said that the Jingjue Kingdom was They are using their "bottom of the box" stuff to appease the countries in the Western Regions. What does this mean?
It shows that their national strength is already declining.Xiao Song, we discussed before that the standard of these coffins is too simple, remember? "

Xiao Song nodded and immediately added.

"There are also these funeral clothes placed on the coffin board, the selection and use of materials are not very popular."

Professor Yu went on to say:

"That's right, we have an old saying called 'coffin book', which means the last possessions, the last savings. At this time, Jingjue Kingdom can't even get out the coffin book. The dignified overlord of the Western Regions needs to use this How much strength do you think they have left at this time?"

After Professor Yu's explanation, everyone finally understood.

The so-called "living people enshrined" and "snake sloughing into feathers" are just a funeral experience project that King Jingjue came up with for a lot of money.

Let you mortals experience the high-end funeral services of our Kunlun nobles. After death, you will become immortals on the spot and be sent directly to the heavens to meet the Queen Mother of the West.

One amount is collected from the living person, and another amount is collected from the dead person.

At this time, the Jingjue Kingdom was at the end of its strength. Apart from using "Snake Eyes Cistanche" to confuse people's hearts, it only had deception and abduction tactics to consolidate its position.

Then a new problem arises:

Jingjue Kingdom has been operating in the Western Region for many years, and with Wang Mang's support, they all know that war is a money-burning process.

However, during the more than ten years when the "New Dynasty" ruled the Central Plains, it increased corvee and taxes many times, and almost emptied the old Liu family's savings.

Otherwise, there would be no uprising of the Red Eyebrow Army and the Green Forest Army.

This money is more than enough to support the country's unification of the Western Regions and its dominance.

What's more, they themselves have the blessings of these nagging things. If other small countries want to rebel, they have to weigh their own strength first.

So what is the reason for this overlord of the Western Regions to squander all these family properties in less than 400 years?
Where is the money?Where did the money go?
(End of this chapter)