History can't bear to look at the complete collection

Chapter 62
A mausoleum that 40 people cannot dig

Because there are always many valuable funeral objects in the emperor's tomb, many tomb robbers are greedy for the treasure inside, and have repeatedly excavated and destroyed the emperor's tomb.Many magnificent imperial tombs in history were destroyed by the excavation of tomb robbers and could not be completely preserved.There is only one imperial mausoleum, which has been intact for thousands of years. This is Wu Zetian's "ten thousand years of longevity" - Qianling.Her mausoleum has been hacked by swords and shot by cannons and machine guns, but none of them have been opened.

Thousands of years have passed, the Maoling Mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was evacuated, the Zhaoling Mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty was opened, and the bones of Emperor Kangxi were all missing, but Wu Zetian's Qianling Mausoleum was alone.The Qianling Mausoleum was built in 684 AD on Mount Liang, 6 kilometers north of Qianxian County, Shaanxi Province. The project took 23 years to complete.

Liangshan is like a woman's body lying on the ground. Mr. Feng Shui believes that this place is very beneficial to the heroine.Therefore, Empress Wu Zetian chose Liangshan as the "Wannian Shouyu" for herself and her husband Tang Gaozong a hundred years later.When the Qianling Mausoleum was built on Liangshan, it was in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the national power was strong. Therefore, Wu Zetian spared no expense in the construction of the Qianling Mausoleum. .

This mausoleum imitates the layout of Chang'an City at that time, dividing it into a north-south main axis of 4 and 9 kilometers, and the layout is divided into the imperial city, the palace city and the outer city.Moreover, it has been further developed and perfected on the basis of the mausoleum of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of Tang Dynasty "Dragon Pan Phoenix".According to the detection and research of cultural relics workers later, it is believed that in the Qianling Mausoleum of Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian, there were at least [-] tons of treasures buried with them.

On both sides of the front and rear passages of Qianling Mausoleum, there are four stone caves, which are filled with the most valuable rare treasures of the Tang Dynasty at that time, not only filled with various gold and silver sacrificial vessels, but also treasured A top-level national treasure "Preface to the Lanting Pavilion", Wu Zetian let this treasure be buried underground with her for thousands of years.There are such rich treasures in this Qianling Mausoleum, which naturally attracted countless tomb robbers, bandit troops, and even rebels.They tried their best to pry open the Qianling Mausoleum. It can be said that from the moment Wu Zetian lay down in the mausoleum, there was no more peaceful day on Liangshan.

The first person who came to attack Qianling was Huang Chao, the leader of the rebel army at the end of Tang Dynasty. After Huang Chao led 60 troops into Chang'an, he first burned, killed and looted, and then went to the west side of Liangshan, because someone told him , There is a large amount of gravel buried under the loess on the west side of Liangshan. This news undoubtedly reveals that the entrance to the Qianling Mausoleum is probably there.Huang Chao led an army of 40 to the west of Liangshan and started digging.

They used tools such as shovels and hoes to level almost half of Liangshan, but they couldn't find the entrance to Qianling. Finally, the Tang army counterattacked. Under pressure, Huang Chao had to evacuate Liangshan, but left a 40-meter-deep hole. "Huangchaogou".Huang Chao didn't know that he was actually digging in the wrong direction. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty deliberately placed the gravel from the construction of the tomb away from the entrance of the tomb, in order to protect his imperial tomb from being stolen by later generations.

During the Five Dynasties, Wen Tao, the governor of Yaozhou, also had the idea of ​​Qianling. He led tens of thousands of people to dig, but encountered wind and rain during several excavations. Under the influence of superstition at that time, he I had to give up.Then until the period of the Republic of China, the Kuomintang general Sun Lianzhong also took a fancy to this mausoleum. He led a modern reorganization division and went to Liangshan with machine guns and cannons. .But what he didn't expect was that when the tomb passage was blasted a little bit, the weather suddenly changed, a strong wind blew up, flying sand and rocks, several soldiers were hit by the stones, and immediately vomited blood and died.

In this way, the Qianling Mausoleum has remained intact throughout thousands of years of history. Hundreds of thousands of troops have come to dig the tomb, but in vain. The entrance of the Qianling Mausoleum has become a mystery. Until 1960, several A farmer inadvertently discovered the real entrance of Qianling Mausoleum. Later, Shaanxi Province established the Qianling Mausoleum Excavation Committee, which officially began excavating Qianling Mausoleum on April 4 of that year.

The entire excavation records show that the passage of Qianling is actually halfway up the mountain in the southeast of the main peak of Liangshan, and is composed of two parts: a trench and a cave.The entire trench is 17 meters deep, and the tomb passages in the cemetery are slope-shaped, with twists and turns. According to rough statistics, the tomb passages used a total of about 8000 stones.Moreover, the stone strips are tightened with iron bolts, and then poured with tin and iron juice to make them blend with the stone strips.

According to the situation in the tomb passage and the "Old Tang Book?Compared with the documents recorded in Yan Shansi Biography, "the gate of Qianling Xuanque was blocked by stones, and the gaps in the stones were fixed by cast iron", and found to be consistent, it was concluded that Qianling had never been robbed.

The Qianling Mausoleum has become the only tomb of an emperor of the Tang Dynasty that has not been robbed. Is the mausoleum chosen by Wu Zetian good Fengshui, or is there something else hidden?The well-preserved Qianling Mausoleum has become a deadlock in history, and the authenticity has not been discovered by later generations.

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