Everyone knows that imperial tombs are dangerous.
In ancient times, emperors ruled the world alone. Their tombs were of the highest standard, and hundreds of thousands of people were often involved in the construction. In order to ensure peace after death and not be disturbed by tomb robbers, they also tried their best in anti-theft measures.
Cao Cao's 72 suspicious tombs.
There is also the mercury river of Qin Shihuang that even modern technology cannot crack...
And the Qianling Mausoleum where Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Empress Wu Zetian were buried together, which could not be opened by the army...
From ancient times to the present, the legendary tombs created by emperors with the manpower and material resources of skilled craftsmen in the world really left too many shocks for future generations! ! !
Generally speaking, the imperial tombs are not something that can be stolen by one or two people!
For example, the Yangling Mausoleum of Emperor Jing of Han was dug up by tomb robbers at the end of the last century, but the tomb robbers only robbed four burial pits. I guess no one with a little bit of brains would rob the real main tomb, because it is too dangerous. If you don't have some ability, you can't get out. My ancestor who was the General of the Central Army of the Fa Qiu had robbed several imperial tombs. He robbed the tomb of the emperor of Zhou. How did they do it at that time? It is said that Cao Cao directly ordered 10,000 troops to dig up the tomb of the emperor of Zhou. There were 70 or 80 tomb robbers under his command. In the end, nearly 1,000 people died before the tomb was emptied. It's not that the emperor of Zhou turned into an old zongzi and killed more than 1,000 people. With my ancestor in charge, unless the emperor of Zhou turned into a big zongzi like a flying corpse drought demon, he would be qualified to make trouble. Otherwise, it wouldn't work. What really took those people's lives was the trap. The most dangerous thing in the imperial mausoleum is the trap. The trap that the emperor made with all the skilled craftsmen in the world is really no joke!! (The so-called secondary burial pit is generally a kind of funeral pattern that the emperors of the Han Dynasty like to use the most. It is a burial pit placed on all sides of the main tomb for the emperors to be buried with. This kind of burial pit is called secondary burial pit.)
If what we see is really the imperial mausoleum of Wusun King Lie Jiaomi, then we were really too smooth before, so smooth that we can't believe that we robbed an imperial mausoleum!
It can be said that it is not... Then the specifications of this tomb are really too high! !
In ancient times, whether it was the Han Dynasty or the nomadic people, they could not be careless in the funeral specifications. Even the vassal knew the priority. For example, the grassland people, the golden tent can only be lived in by the Khan. If you, a small herdsman, took the entire golden tent, how would the Khan feel? It is the same with tombs. The specifications of the tombs are determined by the status. If the specifications of the tombs are too high, it is an act of usurpation, which is the same as treason. Not only will the dead be dug out and the tombs destroyed, but even the living relatives will suffer. If they meet a benevolent king, they may be exiled, and if they meet a cruel king, their entire clan will be killed!
Is it worth it?
Definitely not worth it! !
So most people will not exceed the specifications of tombs, and unless they are emperors or those ruthless people who can be granted land and territory, ordinary princes and nobles cannot afford to build an imperial tomb!
And the terracotta warriors and horses are indeed the funeral specifications of the imperial tombs.
Because the terracotta warriors and horses buried with the emperor have a strong symbolic meaning - that is, leading the troops into the underworld! !
The emperor is the emperor. Even if I die, I will take the soldiers with me to the underworld. No one can afford to offend the lonely ghosts! !
This is a symbol of status! !
In ancient times, it was said that "All under heaven belongs to the emperor, and all the people are his subjects", which means that everything in the world belongs to the emperor, and no one can touch it, especially the army. Therefore, the etiquette of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses guarding the tomb and leading the troops into the underworld can only belong to the emperor. If others do it, it is a provocation to the emperor! !
In short, this tomb reveals too many extraordinary atmospheres.
There are the specifications of an imperial tomb, but there are no organs and anti-theft measures that an imperial tomb should have. It was too easy for us to get in. This is the first.
Second, we are now in Lop Nur, which used to be the territory of foreign races. The tomb we are in is likely to be the tomb of Wusun King Liejiaomi. Liejiaomi is not a Han Chinese, but his funeral specifications are exactly the same as those of the Han people except for the bone and wood structure. This is fucking weird.
Because pottery figurines are a custom used by Han people. Han people are an agricultural nation, worshipping the power of the land and believing that the land is life-giving. This is why there is the legend of Nuwa creating people from clay. Therefore, Han people believe that pottery figurines made from clay have life. If used as burial objects, they will become people in the underworld and guard the tomb owner forever.
Minorities do not believe in this, especially nomadic peoples, who believe in the law of wolf nature! ! !
This is the difference! !
A king of a nomadic nation used the specifications of the imperial tomb of the Han terracotta warriors and horses for burial. Isn't this strange?
In particular, this pottery figurine is fired too well, better than the terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shihuang, it's simply against the sky!
I don't know about others, anyway, I am full of curiosity about this tomb and raised my own questions.
"It's not surprising."
Cao Yuan said slowly: "Don't forget, if this tomb is really the tomb of Lie Jiaomi, then all this is reasonable. Don't forget that Lie Jiaomi was a ruler of a minority who was deeply influenced by Han culture, because he once married the first princess of the Han Dynasty to go out of the border to marry - Princess Jiangdu! Moreover, he doted on Princess Jiangdu, and Princess Jiangdu did have a huge impact on his later years!! However, I am very curious about the firing methods of these terracotta warriors and horses."
After saying that, Cao Yuan took the lead in running over to study a pottery figurine. After looking at it for a long time, he finally couldn't help but reach out and knock on a pottery figurine, as if he wanted to see whether these pottery figurines were solid or hollow.
Who knew that when she knocked on it with her finger, there was a "click" sound, and the skin of a pottery figurine was broken.
The pottery skin that fell off was less than one millimeter thick at most. Such pottery pieces are really unheard of.
Cao Yuan was probably curious, so she leaned over to the broken pottery figurine and took a look through the black hole. The next moment, she screamed "Ah", then her face changed drastically, and she took several steps back, and then sat down on the ground, frightened. Her pretty face turned pale.
Qingyi was close, so she went over to help Cao Yuan up, frowned and asked: "What happened?"
"This... this is not a pottery figurine at all!"
Cao Yuan started to cry as she spoke: "There's a person inside... inside!!! And it hasn't rotted yet, it seems to have turned into a mummy. When I looked at it just now, it seemed to smile at me!!!"
Living pottery figurines?
I gasped after hearing this. This kind of thing really did appear in history. It was to wrap a living person in clay and then throw him in to burn it into ceramics. The fired pottery figurines were lifelike and exactly like real people. To put it bluntly, it was almost like making beggar's chicken. It is said that there are such pottery figurines in the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum that has not been excavated yet, but the tomb has never been excavated, so it is unknown whether there are any.
I didn't expect that there would be living pottery figurines here, and... they can laugh?
This is clearly a corpse!
Oh, no!
This thing has been dead for so many years, it should have turned into a zongzi. When Cao Yuan went over to see it just now, he took a breath of the yang energy of a living person, and then woke up! !
Qingyi obviously knew the severity of the matter. After hearing what Cao Yuan said, his face changed immediately. Without saying a word, he drew out the Quexie sword and walked over, then swung the Quexie sword and slashed at the pottery figurine fiercely!
Bang!
The terracotta figurine was smashed to pieces, with pieces flying everywhere. A purple corpse with flesh and blood flew out and fell to the ground, along with horse bones scattered all over the ground.
It seems that these horse statues were originally made of live horses, but the horses were not preserved, but the human bodies were preserved, and the flesh and blood were not dried up. In addition to showing a strange purple color, the skin looked very elastic, almost like a living person!
"Oh my God!"
Zhang Jinya screamed as soon as he saw the corpse on the ground: "This is a blood corpse!!"