"I think the secret is the gilding process. The surface is covered with colored glaze. As long as the outer glaze is not broken, water vapor will be isolated for thousands of years and the color will not be corroded."
Yue Guanchao was not afraid of the brass statue at all. Before Song Siyuan could finish speaking, he had already walked up to the high platform and looked at the two large coffins where the kneeling slaves were bowing in obeisance!
As the old saying goes, a house when you are alive is a coffin when you die!
Whether a person lives or dies, he must have something to house him. When he is alive, he has no house to live in and is a wanderer. When he dies, he is buried without a coffin. He is a wandering soul. It is precisely with a coffin that he will not become a lonely ghost.
Yue Guanchao looked at the two coffins in front of him. They were as wide as a carriage, as high as half the body, and as long as a door panel. Their surfaces were oily and shiny, with a shining iridescence. There were many water droplets, waves, clouds, silk cocoons, gentians, phoenix eyes, and phoenixes on the surface. The tail bird wings and tiger cat patterns are like thousands of gold threads, wrapped and entwined to create various gorgeous and delicate patterns.
The golden light of the jade dragon ball shines on it, like a pure gold outer coffin, strange, extravagant and priceless!
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, in the past I have only seen golden nan used for coffins, but this time Zun Da Yin really went out of his way to use golden nan even for the outer coffin."
He may not know about other things, but when Mr. Cat saw this wood that was as bright as gold, he immediately knew that it was the precious wood golden nan.
Golden nanmu is also known as the "imperial wood". It has long been said that every inch of nanmu is golden. It can be said to be the most precious wood in China. It has the reputation of being "incorruptible for thousands of years and immortal for ten thousand years".
An old tree must go through decades of growth to become a talent. It takes even longer for golden nanmu to become a talent. It can take as little as a hundred years or more than a thousand years. It takes a lot of accumulation to become a blockbuster.
After hundreds of years of growth, extremely gorgeous golden patterns will appear on the surface of the wood. At the same time, hundreds of years of accumulation have also made the wood structure compact, strong and durable. If used properly, it can support thousands of beams and pillars, with ornamental value, practical value, and economic value. They are all full and have always been regarded as top building materials by the ancients.
From ancient times to the present, most of the things related to yellow and gold are exclusive to the royal family. This kind of golden nanmu is no exception. It has been monopolized by the royal family since the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties. It is exclusively owned by the royal family and used to build heavenly palaces. The altar of earth, the Sheji ancestral temple, the palace garden, the mausoleum and tombs.
For thousands of years, emperors have taken turns, and every emperor is proud to carry golden nanmu for burial. The royal family's desire for golden nanmu has caused the few golden nanmu to be cut down, and the few golden nanmu have been exhausted, which not only makes golden nanmu more expensive than Gold also makes Jinsunan increasingly difficult to find!
So much so that in the Republic of China, gold for an inch of nanmu changed from ten gold for an inch of nan. Even if you were given this money, it might not be possible for anyone to get real golden nanmu.
Now, Mr. Cat saw the golden nan outer coffin, which was as big as a carriage. His eyes were wet and oily. He didn't know whether he was crying or drooling!
"Master Cat, do you want to take the golden nan coffin out?"
After Yue Guanchao finished speaking, Mr. Cat stopped thinking and looked at him:
"The golden nanmu is indeed rare, but once this thing was born, I became the target of public criticism. Not to mention how many warlords coveted it, even the one in the palace had to worry about it. I, Mao Chunyan, still want to plant my three acres. The land is divided, if you have the life to take it, you probably won’t have the life to spend it.”
When Master Mao retreated, Yue Guanchao and his strong men took out hammers and axes, pulled out all the gold nails on the outer coffin, and shouted loudly to push open the lid of the outer coffin!
The coffin in the outer coffin is obviously one size smaller, but compared with the coffins of ordinary people, it is still large and imposing. The top is high and the bottom is low, the pictures are complex, the wood color is purple and dark, and all the patterns are outlined with gold paint. Countless Yin officials and generals stood on the coffin with solemn faces.
Mr. Cat knocked on the coffin lid, and the sound that should have been dull was like the clanging of a bell or a cauldron.
He considered the wood carefully, and a gleam flashed in his eyes: "This is red sandalwood gloomy wood. It is thick and strong, as heavy as black iron, and has a sound like a tile cauldron. The wood is rare in thousands of years. No wonder golden nanmu can only be used for outer coffins, and red sandalwood gloomy wood can only be used for outer coffins." The wood is indeed worthy of the title of thousand-year-old sacred tree!"
Master Cat's words made all the strong men even more curious about the Emperor Haidong in the coffin!
They all still remembered how many brothers had been killed by this bird emperor's mechanism. Once the coffin was opened, they would have to be skinned and cramped, their livers and hearts cut open, and their intestines and bones broken.
Even if they thought this way, they would not dare to act rashly because of Wengcheng's experience. As long as Yue Guanchao did not give orders, no one would dare to act without permission.
Yue Guanchao looked at the steward and asked the remaining men to hold copper shields in front of them. After everyone hid in the bunker, he ordered the strong men to open the coffin.
There was a loud thud and the coffin lid fell to the ground.
These people squatted down quickly. Yue Guanchao waited for nearly a stick of incense, and he was relieved when he was sure that no mechanism had been touched.
Robbing the tomb of Confucius in court has its own rules and regulations, just like those who touched the golden hair Qiu, there are also rules and regulations such as "don't touch the gold when the rooster crows and the lantern is out".
"Don't offend anyone by looking at each other around the coffin, just pay respect to the soul with a stick of incense."
He picked up the cinnabar incense that warded off evil spirits and purified dirt, lit it with a fire stick, and placed it on the corner of the jade platform. After making sure that the incense burned normally, there were no breaks, and there were no extinguishing stars, he officially looked into the two coffins!
