Chapter 65 Huizong's Luxurious Underground Palace Tang Feng Liuyue in Distress
The staff members who entered and exited the archaeological site were nervous. The staff member wearing chemical protective clothing immediately stopped after hearing this. He turned around with a little nervousness and asked Tang Feng: "What's wrong?"
"Don't step on your front foot." Tang Feng quickly walked into the tomb door and came to the chemical defense personnel. After that, he squatted down and began to carefully observe the stone slab under the man's feet. After observing, Tang Feng said to the man: "There is a problem with this stone slab, you can go back first."
Although everyone thought that Tang Feng was completely nepotism in the archaeological team, in such occasions, no one would think that Tang Feng would make a joke about such a thing. The chemical defense personnel withdrew their steps as they said. Tang Feng took out his hammer and began to knock on the stone slab. Sure enough, there was an empty sound from the ground, and there must be something underneath. As for whether it was a trap or a mechanism, it was unknown. Tang Feng turned around and asked Zhang Keming, "Professor Zhang, what should I do now?"
Archaeology is a serious discipline, and archaeologists certainly have no lack of rigor. Zhang Keming walked into the tomb door and came to Tang Feng. He looked at the surrounding situation and said, "It should not be a dark crossbow, but a trap." Although the ancient tomb is very strange, it is an artificial building after all, and it cannot violate the laws of nature. Since this huge underground palace is under a whole huge rock and the structure is very stable, there is no support column inside the entire underground palace and the field of view is very wide. If you want to install a dark crossbow, you must dig a pit on the stone wall of the underground palace. However, the stone wall of this underground palace is very smooth and there is no manual digging.
; and the height of the ground in the dome of the underground palace is ten meters, so it is very difficult to install a dark crossbow at the dome; in addition, only the installation inside the stone carving is basically impossible to achieve according to the technological level at that time; in addition, the installation of such a mechanism must be set up a traction system underground, which is equivalent to turning the underground to the sky and doubling the project volume. Considering that Song Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 and stepped down in 1125, and the chief designer Li Jie died suddenly in 1110, the construction time of this underground palace will not be too long, so its design cannot be so complicated.
Tang Feng smiled and said, "Maybe it's not a mechanism, but a place to hide treasures." This possibility is almost zero. Tang Feng is joking to liven up the atmosphere.
"Haha." Zhang Keming said with a smile: "For the sake of safety, let's try it with stones."
Then, the personnel evacuated, and the wheeled air compressor, to be precise, the gun tip of the wheeled air compressor was hung on the stone. Zhang Keming knocked on the windshield on the cab of the air compressor and said, "It should be no problem to order another wooden board." While believing in modern technology, we cannot underestimate ancient technology. Not to mention the recent, crossbows from the Qin Dynasty could penetrate the windshield within fifty steps to kill the driver.
After a while, the stone hanging from the wheeled air compressor drove to the suspected trap, and the spear head fell, and the stone fell to the ground. With a bang, the stone flipped in response and the stone fell down. Tang Feng came to the stone slab. It was a trap with an iron rod in the middle, which would flip once it bears the load. When he looked at it, there were all pointed thorns below. Although these metal spikes had already shown signs of corrosion, if someone fell down, it would probably become a living sacrifice for Song Huizong.
As the trap was discovered, the entire archaeological work was forced to stop. The staff began to clear mines. The staff holding the hazardous gas analyzer were like Tang Feng, using hammers to open the road and advance step by step. Although this was troublesome, it also brought a benefit, which was very beneficial to the cleaning of the tomb passage. Slow work was done, and four days later, more than 30 traps were found in the entire underground palace, with all key locations. Fortunately, it was national archaeology. If it was a gang robbery, the losses would be great.
On the afternoon of the fourth day, the lighting and ventilation system inside the underground palace was completed, and Zhang Keming immediately announced that he would officially enter the underground palace on the fifth day.
In the afternoon, Liu Yue and Tang Feng climbed the mountain on the huge rock together. Two people sat down facing the deep pool. Liu Yue pointed to the modern cemetery vaguely visible on Beimang Mountain opposite and said, "Born in Suzhou and Hangzhou, buried in Beimang, history has long proved how ridiculous this is, but modern people still can't see through it, and the act of spending a lot of money to sell a cemetery is a bit generous."
Tang Feng said: "The more generous people are, the more greedy they are. The reason why they are generous is that they get much more rewards than they pay, and there is even the element of being guilty. The so-called ghosts and gods are completely a psychological suggestion of human beings. Rather than saying that ghosts and gods are fooling the world, they are fooling gods and ghosts and themselves."
Liu Yue looked at Tang Feng and said, "What you say has changed from your mouth. There is no possibility of being a thief. These things that are unstoppable and dead people can't see, they are all for living people to see."
"To be honest, Liu Yue, every time I see you, I feel like I wish I had met too late." Tang Feng said this for no reason. Most men are greedy, and even if they understand it in their hearts, they will not forget to penetrate a few words. When facing Liu Yue, Tang Feng's stable line of defense in his heart was like the Great Wall now, becoming a tourist area that can be crossed.
There are no confidants in this world, but only men deceive themselves.
"Tang Feng, you have become bad." Liu Yue smiled and said to Tang Feng: "Maybe this is a good thing, otherwise there will be another
Aunt Qiong Yao's miserable and miserable bloody plot is staged, and the catastrophe on earth is like a catastrophe." The two of them already knew the current situation. If it weren't for Lin Muyu, Tang Feng and Liu Yue would have been able to get together. In that case, Tang Feng would face new troubles. It would be so easy for girls from a big family to dominate themselves.
Tang Feng sighed and said, "'If' is the most harmful word in the world. If there is no 'if', the world will be much quieter." From the big ones who steal the country, to the middle ones who take risks, to the thieves who take action, they all have "if" in their hearts, "if" and I became a ***...Facts have proved that "if" is a minority after all, and most people have been harmed by "if".
Liu Yue asked Tang Feng: "Man, what do you want to say?"
"Oh." If this topic continues, it will be unsure. Tang Feng had to change the topic. He said: "Let's talk about serious matters. What do you think is the difficulty of the ancients carrying out large-scale construction underground?"
Liu Yue wanted to kick Tang Feng out of the deep pool. This guy, for no reason, immediately ran away. Despite this, Liu Yue cooperated with Tang Feng to change the topic. She thought for a while and said, "Of course it's the problem of ventilation. I'm very surprised. How did Li Jie solve this problem? It's more than 300 meters underground." The emotional film between Tang Feng and Liu Yue is actually very fragile. All she lacks is an opportunity for an outbreak, which will be difficult for anyone to control.
Tang Feng said: "So I think there are secrets we have not discovered in this underground palace. With the technical conditions at that time, there is only one way to solve the ventilation problem. Work and excavation from this side of the cliff at the same time, and then block it after completion."
Liu Yue shook her head and said, "I don't think it's possible, but your inference just now reminded me that I think there is another possibility. There was a cave under this huge rock, and it was blocked after being dug in the other side. This is also the reason why the imperial tomb can be completed in just 10 years."
Tang Feng nodded and said, "I think your idea is more realistic. Song Huizong was qualified to build the imperial tomb only after he ascended the throne. Even if someone succeeded after Li Jie's death, the construction of this underground palace would not last more than 25 years. Song Huizong finally saw that the situation was hopeless and had to close the imperial tomb before the Jin soldiers attacked. This shows that there must be a large number of treasures inside the underground palace, but our preliminary investigations these days did not find valuable burial objects such as the five famous kiln porcelains of the Song Dynasty."
Liu Yue said: "Maybe it was because the treasury was empty at that time?"
Tang Feng shook his head with a big smile, and he said, "If Song Huizong could take these into consideration, he would not be the most cowardly emperor in history. The 'Flower Stone Gang' was actually the fuse that triggered the Fang La Uprising in the second year of Xuanhe. At the beginning of the Fang La Uprising, there were only more than a hundred people, and in just a few days it reached 200,000. In the Shunminister society in ancient China, if the rulers had not allowed the people to survive, who would have rebelled on the charge of beheading?"
Compared with the incompetence of Song Huizong, Emperor Chongzhen, who was hanged in Coal Mountain, could be regarded as a wise ruler. If it were in modern times, the resume of Song Huizong Zhao Ji would be very glamorous. In addition to the position of "emperor", he would probably also have to write "painter" and "calligrapher". Generally, a high-level emperor would do oil poems and write Yan style characters with fat heads and big ears, but if Zhao Ji's level of writing, painting, and poetry reaches an unprecedented level, it would undoubtedly be a great misfortune for the country. Look at who he appointed, Cai Jing, Wang Fu, Tong Guan, Gao Qiu, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Xie, and the emperor in just 25 years, it would be not an easy task to gather so many ancient "highest talents".
At that time, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty suddenly had a whim and wanted to build the largest garden project in the country, "Genyue", which is a modern artificial rockery. The rockery needed to be decorated with strange stones and rare flowers and trees. He set up Yingfeng Bureau in Suzhou, Hangzhou. Zhu Xie, a native of Suzhou recommended by Cai Jing, was the top leader, and specially collected strange flowers and stones in the southeast Jiangsu and Zhejiang. After searching for the flowers and stones, he was transported to the capital through waterways, and a group of ten ships was called a "gang", which is the "flower stone gang".
The flower stone gang lasted for more than 20 years. Later, not only the stones from Taihu Lake, bamboo from Zhejiang, but also the lychees from Fujian, coconuts from Hainan, and even the strange flowers and strange fruits from Guangdong, Guangxi and Sichuan were searched. In order to ensure the transportation of the flower stone gang, even the official and civilian canal transport at that time had to give way. Countless canal ships and merchant ships were forced to be requisitioned, and there were as many as one million civilians throughout the country.
The slogan of Fang La's uprising was to clear the emperor and kill Zhu Xie, saying that Song Huizong "was instructed" Zhu Xie and other villains, who were so lustful and decayed, and the outline of flowers and stones was exhausted and the people were damaged and wealth were damaged. The northern enemy lost power and humiliated the country.
After the matter was a big deal, Emperor Huizong had to make a pretentious act of slandering the self-criticism, abolish the Suhang Yingfeng Bureau, suspend the Huashigang, and dismiss Zhu Xie. At this time, Song Jiang believed his lies and launched a large-scale attack on Fang La. As a result, everyone knew that the rabbit was dead and the dog was cooked. As for Emperor Huizong, before Fang La's remaining troops were completely wiped out, he slapped himself in the face, re-launched Huashigang, and restored Zhu Xie's official position. In this way, the emperor deserved to suffer all his life.
All signs indicate that the imperial tomb of Emperor Huizong of Song would never be so humble, and there must be something that has not been discovered.
Liu Yue nodded and said, "After you say this, I really think we still have places that have not been discovered yet. Judging from the size of this underground palace, it is impossible to be a suspicious tomb." Suspicious tombs are also called virtual tombs, fake tombs, virtual tombs, etc., which are one of the most famous anti-theft methods. Cao Cao in historical records has seventy-two suspicious tombs. To put it bluntly, suspicious tombs means faked several tombs and concealing the burial place of the real corpse.
In short, Tang Feng thought that this underground palace still had treasures. Tang Feng was so excited at night that he didn't sleep well all night. If he discovered the secret treasure, should he tell Zhang Keming, or should he keep the secret first and then steal it himself? Of course, the latter is purely a fantasy and the loss is too great.
The next day, Tang Feng, Liu Yue and Zhang Keming bypassed the "land mines" they discovered and went straight to the coffin. The coffin storage in this underground palace was like the center stage for a concert by a big star, and the stone carving army was like a fascinating audience, all facing the coffin.
The central depression where the coffin is located is tilted downwards in four steps. Each step is 5 meters high. It is actually very wide and 10 meters long. The artist's characteristics of Song Huizong are fully demonstrated here. Each step has buildings. These buildings are like today's parks, pavilions, towers, small bridges and flowing water. Real people can walk in directly.
With the coffin as the center, four passages are connected in all directions. Tang Feng was not interested in opening the coffin, and there would definitely be no corpses inside. The ancient system of burial burial was similar. The thickness, number of layers of the coffin that the emperor died and buried, and the spatial layout of the burial objects placed around the coffin were regular. The burial objects in the coffin would definitely not be put in first. Although it was an empty coffin and there were no burial objects, archaeologists had to be careful about the mechanism. This was the place where the "main gate" of the mechanism was most likely to be set up. Fortunately, they had high-sensitivity instruments and did not have to worry about being caught.
After saying hello to Zhang Keming, Tang Feng and Liu Yue began to explore the future stair scenic spots together. The feeling of walking through the stair pavilions and towers was very wonderful. The only thing that was the only drawback was that there was no water under the small bridge. Tang Feng believed that if Song Huizong was finally buried here, there would be mercury under the small bridge.
Mercury is a liquid metal with a wide range of uses and is a corpse preservative commonly used by ancient people. In the Qin, Han and previous tombs, there were many records of using mercury, and a mercury pool was installed in the cemetery of Duke Huan of Qi. In addition, the evaporation of mercury will also form poisonous gas, which can also kill tomb robbers.
Among the tombs that use mercury to fight tomb robbery, the most famous one is the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian. The Annals of Qin Shihuang" records the following records that mercury is used as a river and sea, and is instilled with mechanical phenomena, including astronomy and geography.
Sima Qian described the scene inside the underground palace of Qin Shihuang Mausoleum, which has not yet been answered. One thing is certain, mercury is based on facts using rivers and seas. According to the identification, the mercury content in the soil of the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum is eight times that of other places nearby. Mercury has evaporated and penetrated into the soil, which is enough to show that there is a large amount of inside the underground palace.
The existence of mercury.
After the carpet-like knocks by archaeologists, Liu Yue and Tang Feng were no longer worried about the trap. After visiting for more than three hours, they came to the artificial building at the bottom. The theme here was to depict the street scene of Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty, giving people a feeling of entering "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". I wonder if Li Jie had referenced this national treasure-level painting when building this underground palace. However, no statues of people appeared in these landscapes. Fortunately, Song Huizong was not buried here. If he thought of performance art, many people would be in trouble.
"Oh, it turns out it's Mr. Tang. I haven't seen you for a long time. I'm destined to go in and have a glass of water and wine. What's the point?" Liu Yue said to Tang Feng in a sarcasm.
Tang Feng looked at the restaurant on the side and said in Liu Yue's tone: "Please, Miss Liu."
Liu Yue corrected him and said, "It should be Mr. Liu. How could women in the Northern Song Dynasty be so open?"
Tang Feng said, "You are still serious."
Liu Yue took out the map inside the archaeologist and said, "This restaurant has a wine cellar, which really has wine. The wine cellar has been inspected and there is no agency. We can go and smell the fragrance of the wine. If you drink, you will be exempted. If you have not been identified, you may be poisonous."
Tang Feng said: "What if it is identified? This is a cultural relic and cannot be drunk. Let's go and go to the wine cellar to take a look."
The two of them came to the wine cellar and Liu Yue said, "Young Master Tang, the things here cannot be moved randomly. Maybe turning a jar of wine will touch the mechanism."
Tang Feng reached out and touched a wine jar, and said with a smile: "Young Master Liu's words are bad. Life is not a martial arts novel. How can there be so many mechanisms?"
The shape of this wine cellar is a deformed "convex" shape, but the protruding part is relatively narrow, only two meters long and wide. Liu Yue was about to speak, but inadvertently saw a painting hanging at the bottom of the "convex" shape. She walked towards the painting and said, "Hey, there is a painting here. Which famous artist would it be?" The calligraphy and paintings that appear in such places must be original works of famous artists, and no one will make forgery.
Tang Feng said casually: "Young Master Liu, you'd better not go to such a small corner. The mechanisms in big places cannot be designed, small places..." Before Tang Feng finished speaking, he suddenly realized something was wrong. There was movement in the mouth of the protruding part. He hurriedly shouted: "Liu Yue, come out quickly!"
"Well, this painting is really good...ah, what's wrong?" Liu Yue turned around and it was too late. A stone slab fell down above the mouth of the protruding part. Liu Yue had no time to react. Tang Feng's reaction time was sufficient than Liu Yue and his skills were faster than Liu Yue. When the stone slab was about to be sealed, he leaned over and rolled in.
Chapter completed!