Chapter 974 Core Area
After passing the first hall after the Broken Dragon Stone, Mr. Wang and Liu Yue were stunned. Even Zhao Yong, who had no literary and artistic cells, was stunned after seeing the exquisite murals on the rock walls on all sides.
After a long time, Mr. Wang said tremblingly: "National Treasure! Absolute National Treasure Mural!"
Liu Yue also shook his head and said, "Teacher Wang, these murals are much better than those of the murals of Prince Zhanghuai's tomb, polo, hunting and traveling, Prince Yide's tomb, ceremonial pictures, and Prince Yongtai's tomb palace maids! I have never seen such exquisite tomb murals, and it is so large that it is the best in China. Especially after more than a thousand years, these murals can still be kept so complete and exquisite. This is very rare."
At this time, Mr. Wang had gradually recovered. He thought for a while before saying, "It seems that the excavation of this Wu Zetian Tomb needs to be suspended. This ancient tomb itself is in a sealed state, so it can still be preserved even after more than a thousand years. But if this ancient tomb is dug up, once these murals come into contact with the air from the outside, they will probably be completely destroyed in a few minutes."
Liu Yue picked up the camera and started shooting the murals on the four rock walls. The more he took pictures, the more he whispered.
Such exquisite murals are simply treasures given by God to archaeologists. To outsiders, these murals may just be more beautiful and valuable, but for them, archaeologists, through these murals, they can analyze the cultural characteristics of the Wuzhou period, and even combine other historical materials to analyze the folk ecology of the Wuzhou period.
For these archaeological scholars, graphics and fonts are the most precious treasures.
In addition to these exquisite murals, they also took photos of the mechanism power driven by the underground river.
Mr. Wang and Liu Yue were also amazed at this mechanism that could still exert their power in more than a thousand years. As for Zhao Yong, he wanted to go in and take a closer look at how these mechanisms were designed and built.
In fact, these mechanisms can still maintain sufficient power even after more than a thousand years, which has a great relationship with the constant sealing of the tomb. If this ancient tomb is excavated, it is hard to say how long these mechanisms can remain under oxidation.
It is not easy to come in once, especially after seeing these murals, Mr. Wang knew very well that it was almost impossible to dig out this Wu Zetian Tomb. Such precious murals will never be destroyed by the country. It would rather not dig out this ancient tomb than to destroy these exquisite murals. Therefore, Mr. Wang and Liu Yue both read them carefully and seriously here.
Even they were not sure when they would come in next time, so they might as well take this opportunity to enjoy it for a while.
If there weren't something more important waiting for them, they might have stayed here until there was no air in the compressed air bottle before leaving.
The equipment they used this time was provided by the military. It was like this air compression bottle that looked small, but it could provide an adult with nearly three hours of breathing time. Now it has been nearly an hour since they went to the water, so there is still up to two hours left for them.
Under Yang Jing's urging, Mr. Wang and his friends left here reluctantly, and then followed Yang Jing into the core area of Wu Zetianling.
The first thing I saw was naturally the stone platform where Yuechengzi was sitting in the past. However, when Yang Jing first came, he had already restrained all the remains of Yuechengzi and put them in a wooden box made of golden nanmu and gloomy wood. This box was the box that Yang Jing found in Mu Tianbo’s treasure to hold those gems. In the end, Yang Jing vacated a remains of Yuechengzi to hold.
"There are the remains of Yuechengzi in this box. The last time I came here, Yuechengzi's remains were sitting on this stone platform, and the imperial seal was in his arms. I took the imperial seal and finally took his remains into this box."
Mr. Wang and Liu Yue folded their hands in front of the box and bowed, then they focused on the stone tablet next to the stone platform.
This stone tablet is the second stele carved by Yuechengzi. Compared with the stele carved in front, the stele carved has a lot more content recorded on this stele, and the stele carved is still carved in vanish, so Yang Jing needs to translate the content on this stele to Mr. Wang and others.
Liu Yue took the camera while carefully photographing the inscription while listening to Yang Jing's translation.
In fact, the content recorded on this monument is nothing more than that after Yuechengzi traveled around the world after he started his journey from Wangwu Mountain, he accidentally obtained a secret scroll and learned about the general location of a tomb built by Wu Zetian. Then Yuechengzi took six years to find this place, and regarded it as one of his secret bases, and built a Yuecheng Temple outside the entrance.
Below are some of the things that recorded Yuechengzi, Yuechengzi, how did Yuechengzi meet Li Congke, and how did Li Congke pay attention to it, and how did Li Congke summon him to Beijing and become the official in Taichung of Sitian after Li Congke ascended the throne and became the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty.
It focuses on how to obtain the imperial seal.
After drinking the poison wine given by Li Congke, Yue Chengzi was not poisoned to death on the spot because he secretly accepted the antidote he configured. Instead, he watched Li Congke sit upright on the Xuanwu Tower with his wife, children and mother holding the imperial seal in his hand, and then ordered the imperial guards to light the Xuanwu Tower. A generation of emperor held the jade seal and the family in the grave of the Xuanwu Tower.
Because Li Congke threw fire, the entire Luoyang Palace was in chaos. The palace maids and eunuchs in the palace took advantage of the chaos and plundered many treasures and fled, but no one came to Xuanwu Tower because of the fire.
After the fire was extinguished, Yuechengzi secretly found the imperial seal that had not been burned, and then sneaked out of Luoyang Palace and returned to Yuecheng Temple. However, because the poison had not been clear, Yuechengzi had not been famous for a long time. He left a stone tablet in the cave hall outside, and restarted these mechanisms. Finally, he came here alone. After carving the stone tablet, he held the imperial seal in his hand and waited for the arrival of death.
The content recorded on this inscription clearly shows how Yuechengzi obtained the imperial seal back then. If these two inscriptions are true, then the authenticity of the imperial seal back then will be clear.
Although Mr. Wang didn't know much about the scattered text, he knew some scattered text, and he had no doubt that Yang Jing would make false translations. After all, these things have been recorded and photographed. After returning, he found an expert who was proficient in scattered text to translate them. You will know whether the content recorded on this stele is true or false.
Like the stone tablet in front, after Liu Yue finished taking pictures, he used his carry-on tools to remove a little powder from an inconspicuous place of the stone tablet, and then went back to do the carbon 14 identification.
Only by confirming in time that these two inscriptions were left by Yuechengzi more than a thousand years ago can the authenticity of the imperial seal be finally confirmed.
After finishing all this, Yang Jing led the three of them to the tombs where the burial objects should have been placed.
Some of these tombs have not been closed yet, while others simply do not even have the door. Obviously, the door has not been closed yet, so naturally there are no burial objects. If there is not even the door, it is probably not completed. The tombs that have not been completed will naturally be even more impossible to install burial objects.
These tombs are naturally empty, and the things inside have been plundered by Yang Jing long ago. The tombs without gates actually had gates, but those gates are real dragon-breaking stones that cannot be opened again once they fall. The burial objects have been placed in the tombs before, so the dragon-breaking stones have been put down long ago. Even Yuechengzi did not open the doors of these tombs back then.
However, when Yang Jing first came, he had a storage space, which was a killer weapon. The doors of these tombs could not stop him at all, so he took away all of these doors. This caused the illusion that these tombs had not even been repaired.
Of course, Yang Jing could not admit these things. He just said that this was the case when he first came in. Obviously, the reason why these tombs were empty was that there were originally burial objects inside, but they were taken away by Yue Chengzi; or Wu Zetian had no time to put burial objects inside and hung them.
Mr. Wang believes in the latter even more. After all, except for some important burial objects, most of them will be buried in the tomb with the emperor after the emperor's death.
As for Yang Jing taking away these burial objects, Mr. Wang never thought about it. He had just finished walking through this ancient tomb, and naturally knew that this ancient tomb was so complex and dangerous. If there were a large number of burial objects here, it would be impossible for Yang Jing to get these burial objects alone.
After all, the more precious Dayu Nine Cauldrons and the twelve Qin Jinmen are all here!
Yang Jing only brought the imperial seal out for the first time when he came, which was the most normal manifestation.
This situation in the burial tomb chamber was naturally photographed by Liu Yue without missing a word. One of his main tasks this time was to photograph everything he saw.
"Old Wang, there is another tomb chamber below, which should be the main tomb chamber, but it is all empty inside. The burial objects tomb chamber next to the main tomb chamber is also empty. We can go down to take a look later. Look, this tomb chamber is the last tomb chamber on this floor, and it is another important goal for us to come this time!" Yang Jing said, pointing to the tomb chamber that did not fall to the tomb door, and then walked in first.
Chapter completed!