Yang Fan stood in front of Dingling, looking at this building that was the only one to be opened in later generations, and was very emotional.
He had been to Dingling, and at that time many of the wooden buildings he saw on the ground had been destroyed. Now the buildings in the Ming Tombs are all original.
Of course, it is not called the Ming Tombs now, because the construction of Chongzhen's Siling Tombs has not yet begun.
Yang Fan stood on the bright tower of Dingling, stroking the huge stone tablet with his hand, thoughtfully. The last time he came here, he was working on a construction site and took over a job from the Ming Tombs, so he stopped by to take a look.
"Emperor Shenzong Xian, alas, Shenzong's life has been terrible enough." Reading the posthumous title on the stone tablet, Yang Fan felt quite emotional in his heart. It was from Shenzong's reign that the Ming Dynasty suddenly collapsed.
The Ming Tombs are located in Tianshou Mountain in the north of Changping County, an inverted V-shaped valley.
At the innermost tip of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the founder of Ming Dynasty, the remaining emperors' tombs are arranged on the left and right. The emperors of later generations were more outward-looking. Chongzhen's Siling basically used up this valley. Maybe some things have their own destiny.
Yang Fan led a thousand men and fought a battle with the Changping Guards. The Changping Guards only pulled out less than 2,000 men, and these guards soldiers were all in rags, just like old farmers.
When the two formations faced each other, Yang Fan fired a burst of firecrackers, and the Changping guards fled in all directions. Yang Fan immediately opened the big red door on the wall of the Ming Tombs and entered the Ming Tombs from the main entrance.
There are two acropolises in the Ming Tombs. The two cities are Yongan City and Gonghua City.
Yong'an City (now Changping City) was built in the first year of Jingtai (1450). The purpose of the construction was to station the mausoleum guards. After the number of mausoleum guards increased, a new city, Gonghua City, was built in the south of the city.
There are 4,000 troops stationed in Yong'an camp, led by a deputy general. At this time, there were no troops stationed in Gonghua City, only craftsmen and their families responsible for maintenance. Seven years after Chongzhen, because slaves frequently entered the pass, in order to protect the Ming Tombs, Gonghua City began to garrison 3,000 troops and added a deputy general soldier.
Judging from the topography of the Ming Tombs, the Ming Tombs area is surrounded by mountains on three sides in the east, north and west, and in the south there are "small mountains and flat ground" ("Illustration of the Imperial Tombs").
In order to protect the dragon's veins, resist foreign invaders, and prevent miscellaneous things, the Ming government built a continuous mausoleum wall in the south, which runs from Dongshankou in the east to Xishankou in the west. The northeast and west sides are all mountains, which are enough to act as a natural barrier, but only for the entrance and exit between valleys. Set up cards and build walls. In this way, the mausoleum wall in the south and the intermittent mausoleum walls built between the mountains and valleys on the east, west and north sides embrace the entire Ming Tombs.
"Master, we have few people. Do you think we should divide our troops to defend each mountain pass?" Zhang Geda came in to ask for instructions.
Yang Fan looked at the map of the Ming Tombs. The Ming Tombs were completely closed. There are two gates and ten openings on the outer side wall, all of which are equipped with city gates or gates. Except for the guards at Dahongmen and Xiaohongmen who escaped, there are still Ming troops stationed here. The mausoleum area is too large.
The two gates refer to the Dahongmen and Xiaohongmen (i.e., the Dagongmen and the Xiaogongmen); the large and small palace gates are located directly south of the mausoleum area, and are connected by a palace wall in the middle. The gate of the Grand Palace is the way in and out for the emperor, his relatives, princes and ministers to pay homage and perform sacrifices, which is the path of the famous "Going out of the police and entering into the sky". Xiaogongmen is located at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain in the east of Xishankou, and is the access road for the administrators of the mausoleum area.
"Ten mouths", counting from Dahongmen to the east, refer to Zhongshankou, Dongshankou, Laojuntangkou, Huilingkou, Xianzhuangkou, Zuishikou, Yanzikou, Deshengkou, Xishankou and Zhaizikou , return to Dahongmen.
Yang Fan frowned as he looked at it. He had traveled thirty or forty kilometers this time, and he was not enough to fill the gap between his teeth.
"It's just this small group of people. When they come after us, we'll retreat. What's the point of guarding? If we don't have the time, let's all have a good sleep. We'll have extra meals and cans of luncheon meat. Let's run to Nanyuan after eating and drinking." Yang Fan said. .
"Sir, is it fireproof?" Zhang Geda asked expectantly.
"Shit, do you know how to protect cultural relics? You know how to set fires. Look at this place. It's windy. Is it a good place? After dinner, go to the Dahongmen. When the pursuers arrive, let's leave quickly."
Yang Fan frowned and said.
However, when Yang Fan said this, Taozi's whole body became excited. It turned out that the trees here were dense and the cool breeze was blowing, which made me feel very comfortable. I was sweating all the way. I was feeling very comfortable at this time, but suddenly I felt that this place was a little scary.
After all, this is the emperor's tomb.
"Hey! Master, when you say that, I feel that this place is a bit cold." Lin Yueru also felt that something was wrong here.
"If Mr. Wu is here, you can ask him how the feng shui is here." Yang Fan said thoughtfully.
In future generations, no one who touches this place will end well. When Yang Fan came here for construction, his leader specifically told him not to do anything unrelated to work, and to try to finish the work early and leave early. This is not a nice place.
Zhang Geda, a veteran, was so good at setting fires that he actually dared to set fires here.
Later generations dug here and lost more than ten lives.
The leader told these workers at that time, don't come here if you have nothing to do. There is evil here.
At that time, Mr. Guo was the number one scholar, with all the power in the government and the public, and he liked to excavate ancient tombs. I don't understand why he has a special liking for mausoleums. At one time, he even wanted to dig up Shangguan Wan'er's grave. He is probably a big fan of Miss Shangguan. He also wanted to dig up Wu Zetian’s grave. Due to various reasons, I couldn't follow his wish.
The excavation of the tomb of Emperor Wanli originated from a conversation between Guo Moruo and Professor Wu Han when they went out to visit the Ming Tombs. Wu Han was an expert on Ming history and the deputy governor of Shuntian Prefecture at the time. Guo Moruo needs no introduction, everyone knows him.
They proposed that Changling should be excavated in order to find the whereabouts of the "Yongle Dadian" and for the needs of historical research in the Ming Dynasty. Finally permission was given to excavate.
Originally, their goal was to build the most splendid, largest and oldest Changling. Changling was the tomb of Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty. After a long period of early exploration, we were unable to find the tomb passage and finally had to give up.
Just in time, the outer wall of Dingling Mausoleum collapsed, revealing a corner of the tomb passage. So they decided to excavate the Dingling Tomb of Emperor Wanli instead. Because Dingling is smaller than Changling and is easy to excavate.
But just after construction started, workers moved in and fell after Dingling. Strange things kept happening. It was around October, which was about to enter winter, and winter is the dry season of the year. But strangely, there was abnormal weather on the first day of digging.
There was lightning and thunder that day, and it lasted for several days. On a sunny day, the lightning and thunder were followed by strong winds and heavy rain. Faced with this situation, the local people were very frightened. They spread rumors that Emperor Wanli was angry and prevented these people from disturbing him by digging Dingling.
Local people even came to stop the continued excavation of Dingling. For a while, even the migrant workers involved in the excavation became afraid. None of them were willing to enter the underground palace of Dingling, or even be the first to demolish the brick walls of the underground palace. In the end, the archaeological team had no choice but to draw lots, and finally the workers reluctantly agreed.
As a result, just after making these arrangements, the archaeological team was struck by lightning. Two workers and a large stone lion were struck by lightning. The worker died on the spot and the stone lion was damaged.
"Cheating Kangxi"
After the underground palace was opened, the technology at the time could not protect these cultural relics from the long-term oxygen-free environment. Most of the cultural relics were damaged or even completely destroyed. This incident became the biggest failure in the history of archaeology.
However, Dingling was dug and the dust seemed to have settled. It's not over yet. Curses stalk those involved like maggots in their bones. After that, many people involved in this matter had various accidents inexplicably.
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