In fact, I have already had an idea in my mind. If this tomb is simply the owner of the tomb, he wants someone to be buried with him.
It may not be that so many people will be chosen, so it is very possible that a large number of people are buried with him to cover up something.
So who is the owner of this tomb? And for what reason do these people need to be buried with him?
Could it be that they wanted to hide the location of this tomb and killed so many people?
It is completely an act of silencing. If it is simply to protect the ancient tomb, there are some things that cannot be justified.
It seems that there are still some secrets hidden here. I have to look for them carefully.
Seeing so many dead people in the burial pit reminded me of the stone tablet at the entrance to the tomb.
The words "Those who are good at entering will die" are clearly written on it.
Could it be that the tombstone was left intentionally by the owner of the tomb?
Wei Fengjiao and others, who had been studying for a long time, also stopped to check.
He looked towards us and shouted to Liu Che: "Captain Liu, there are a total of 2,832 bones in this burial pit."
"And there are also a lot of female bones among them. The rest are all soldiers, and there are some ordinary people, who should be slaves or craftsmen."
Just after Wei Fengjiao finished speaking, the taciturn Professor Wang also stood up.
He jumped out of the burial pit and said to us: "The people in this burial pit are in various postures. They may have been immobilized before death."
"This reminds me of something we saw while excavating ancient tombs during archaeological work."
Professor Wang slowly dusted himself off, thought for a moment, and then said: "The tomb we discovered is that of King Guangchuan in the Western Han Dynasty."
"During archaeological excavations, it was discovered that this person had a great hobby. He often gathered gangsters and rogues to rob other people's tombs."
"And he likes to keep his tomb robbing process and record it in some ancient books."
"When our archaeological team excavated his tomb, we also found the identity of his tomb robber and obtained the tomb robbing notes."
"One of the passages talks about him robbing an ancient tomb. This is what happened."
"Once, when they were robbing an ancient tomb, the tomb was covered with stone slabs more than one foot thick and mica more than one foot deep."
"There were hundreds of corpses buried inside. When they were excavated, every corpse was well preserved. They were either sitting or lying down, but some were still standing."
"The shape and color of the clothes are no different from those of living people. What's even more strange is that except for the only man in the tomb, all the others are women."
"Later, after research by King Guangchuan, it turned out that this was the tomb of King Zhou You, the last monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty. These more than a hundred women were all concubines who died for King You."
Having said this, Professor Wang paused and glanced at a few of us.
After sorting out his thoughts, he continued: "Sacrificial burial is a very ancient custom."
"As early as in primitive society, people buried the tools they used and the daily necessities they loved during their lifetime with the deceased."
“But in slave society, slaves, as talking tools, were also killed or buried alive for burial purposes.”
"Let them continue to serve their master in the "underworld", and the number of people killed may range from dozens to thousands."
"For example, these burial pits in front of us, but this is the first time I have seen so many people sacrificed."
When Professor Wang finished speaking, he patted the dust on his hands and Wei Fengjiao also walked over.
He said to a few of us: "I would like to add something for Professor Wang, after entering class society"
"Women have been reduced to the playthings and vassals of noble men. These can also be used as a breakthrough for human sacrifice."
"Women account for a large proportion of the victims buried in any mausoleum."
"In the inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty, there are records of specifically killing female slaves for sacrifice."
"Of course, not all the victims are slaves, there are also wives, concubines and retainers of the tomb owner."
"You also saw that there were guards with swords in the burial pit, and they were also buried with him."
"Historically, it can be said that many emperors were buried with their victims, especially Qin II, who was the most serious."
"In order to obtain the elixir of immortality during his lifetime, Qin Shihuang sent thousands of boys and girls out to sea to search for immortals."
"At the same time, hundreds of thousands of people were also mobilized to build the huge Mausoleum of the First Emperor on Mount Li."
"But after Qin Shihuang died, Qin II officially announced that all the maids in the harem would be buried."
"After this time of burial of palace maids and the number of craftsmen who were killed and buried, the total number turned out to be tens of thousands."
Of course, I am familiar with the details of the cruelty of Qin Shihuang and Qin II mentioned by Wei Fengjiao.
However, I don’t understand why she mentioned this matter at this time?
Wei Fengjiao collected her thoughts and said immediately: "Let's talk about one more person, and that is the famous Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty."
"After his death, although he was buried with a large amount of gold and silver property, birds, animals, fish and turtles, cattle, horses, tigers and leopards."
"Originally they were going to be buried with him, but in the end all his thousands of concubines and maids saved their lives."
“With the people’s resistance and social progress, the burial system also evolved from the Han Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty.”
"Except for remote minority areas, forced burial of women as a system no longer exists."
"However, according to relevant historical data, there are other emperors who later started this bad habit."
"The issue of sacrificial burials came to the Ming Dynasty. Although the economy and science had made great progress, the practice of sacrificial burials of women was once again revived."
"Zhu Wuzhang was the first to set a bad example while he was still alive. In the 28th year of Hongwu's reign, after the death of his second son, King Qin, he ordered two princesses to be buried."
"After Zhu Yuanzhang himself died, forty-six concubines were buried in the Xiaoling Mausoleum, and the remaining dozen or so maids who served in the palace all died alive."
"After the death of Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, more than 30 concubines were buried in the palace. After that, Renzong and Xuanzong also buried five and ten concubines respectively."
"So, under the feudal system in history, there was no way around this situation."
Wei Fengjiao talked eloquently and told us many cases, including many famous monarchs.
For example, Qin Shihuang, Qin II, Zhu Yuanzhang and others, none of the emperors could find victims buried in their own tombs.
Liu Che also came back to his senses, and looked very interested as he listened, as if he still wanted Wei Fengjiao to talk.
Seeing his look, I immediately interrupted him and said first, "Professor Wei, did you see anything in the burial pit?"
Wei Fengjiao immediately replied: "I have done a careful analysis based on the bones that Sun Liang brought up just now."
"This skeleton is about 2,400 to 2,500 years old."
"We can roughly analyze it from this time period to further learn the identity of the tomb owner."
"Looking at the remaining clothes that are not rotten, the style is closer to the style of the Qin Dynasty."
"However, it is only close, there are still some differences, which requires further research."
I glanced at Wei Fengjiao, walked back and forth a few steps, and asked her.
"So, how long will Professor Wei's research take?"
