Chapter 232 Explode with gunpowder!

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

Chapter 232 Explode with gunpowder!

After a long silence, Emperor Hongzhi's lips moved for a while, and finally he agreed to the matter.

He didn't know why he agreed. Maybe he believed the words, or maybe he wanted an answer or an explanation.

With all kinds of emotions in his heart, after giving the order to open the underground palace, Zhu Youtang pretended to be an ostrich again and said with a solemn face: "Open the underground palace, just to see if there are coffins. If there are, then the matter ends here.

, don’t open the coffin.”

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Opening an underground palace is not an easy task, especially opening an underground palace in the Ming Dynasty is even more difficult. As the Zhengshuo dynasty of China, it is naturally different from the later Tatar dynasty that was dominated by foreign races. The imperial mausoleums of the Qing Dynasty were built like small

The kids are playing house.

Not to mention sending out the army, even a few farmers with hoes can dig out the tomb for you.

The tomb is shallow, only about ten meters long. It doesn't matter the size at all. The tomb passage and Sima Road are completely in a straight line. As long as you are not cross-eyed, you can clearly see the direction of the entrance to the underground palace at a glance.

Otherwise, it would not be stolen repeatedly. Entering the underground palace would feel like going home. A certain person named Sun led his men to visit it. The farmers who were digging in the fields also visited the underground palace and helped ventilate it.

The imperial tombs of the Ming Dynasty, first of all the Huaxia Zhengshuo, were not invaded by foreigners like the Qing Dynasty. The tomb robbers almost all robbed the tombs under the slogan of expelling the Tartars and avenging the Han people. They inherently stood on the high ground of morality.

Secondly, the Ming Tomb pays attention to Feng Shui, the site selection is in line with Kanyu theory, and it is buried deep underground. The structure of the underground palace is also very complex, and the tomb passages are twists and turns. Without the help of modern instruments, it is difficult to find the entrance to the underground palace.

The group of people who opened Dingling originally wanted to dig Zhu Di's Changling Tomb, but they couldn't find the entrance to the underground palace, so they settled for the next best thing and opened Dingling.

Of course, these problems were not a problem at this time. Ten years later, the general location of the tomb was still clear. At least Emperor Hongzhi remembered clearly that he personally supported his daughter's coffin into the burial.

More than a hundred meters southwest of Baoding, a dozen thick bluestone bricks were dug out and put aside. Hundreds of guards were digging at this place. Of course, it was impossible for all five or six hundred people to be present. Those who actually participated in the excavation were

There were only more than a hundred people, and the rest carried the excavated rammed earth to other places.

At this time, a large pit several feet deep had been dug.

Xia Yuan squatted by the pit and watched. Speaking of which, this was his first time on the front line of archeology, and he was digging his wife's grave.

There is an indescribable feeling.

I really should call Xiaoqiuzi over and let her squat here to watch. Her feelings will definitely be more wonderful.

Gradually, the head and shovel made a crisp sound, as if they had touched something hard. Everyone present knew that this was the Shinto tunnel dug into the underground palace, and the lapis lazuli bricks laid underground could still be faintly seen.

, and the door to the underground palace was finally revealed.

There are relief carvings on the door, like patterns of cloud patterns, which look quite nice.

But when it was their turn to open the stone door, the guards below were in trouble. There was a stone tablet behind the tomb door, and it used the principle of wooden bolts to hold the door open, which could not be pushed open by human power.

After all, the original intention of building this underground palace was not to allow people to visit it in the future, let alone how strong it would be to make it visible again.

There were more than a dozen imperial guards who pressed against the stone gate with their bodies, pushing and pushing against it.

At this moment, Zhu Houzhao, who was squatting by the pit, made a voice, with an expression that said he hated iron and said, "What are you trying to push? Can you push open such a thick stone door? Use gunpowder to blow it up and make it a big one."

Let it explode with firecrackers."

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Emperor Hongzhi was standing a little further away. When he heard this, his face suddenly darkened. You actually want to blow up your sister's underground palace with gunpowder. Are you still a human being?

Xia Yuan also looked at him with some confusion. If this unlucky child had been born a few hundred years later, Dongling Bandit would have appointed someone else.

"You can't blow it up. There is an underground river underneath this place. Once the gunpowder explodes, the ground will be shaken and it will probably collapse."

"Then what do you think we should do?"

"Is there a wide gap in the middle of the stone door? I looked like it was filled with bricks and stones. I took out the bricks, then found some iron rods, wooden boards, etc. and stuffed them along the gap to close the top door inside.

The top of the stone is open."

Xia Yuan pointed at the middle of the stone door. It looked like there was a gap about ten centimeters wide. The middle was filled with bricks and stones, poured with mud mixed with glutinous rice juice, and painted. It was almost the same color as the stone door, but

If you look carefully, you can still see small differences.

He remembered that when Dingling was excavated hundreds of years later, the bricklayers could not open the stone door, so they finally used wooden cubes to push in and pry open the top stone, so that the stone door could be opened.

Of course, there will be a gap in the middle of the stone door. After all, the top door stone is not electric. The gap is left so that after the stone door is closed, the corner key can be inserted into the gap and the top door stone can be hooked to hold up the tomb door.

Finally, use stone bricks to seal the gap. This is the correct process. It is impossible to design several mechanisms and press the wrong one, which will result in quicksand and crossbow arrows. When the correct mechanism is found, the tomb door will open automatically.

When you think about it, you know that this kind of thing is impossible. Even if there is a mechanism, it will kill people. There is absolutely no mechanism that can automatically open the tomb door.

So a group of people started to take chisels again and began to knock on the cracks in the middle of the bricks. This would be a very time-consuming task. The masonry of the Ming Dynasty was by no means a shoddy project, but was quite strong.

After another long day of busy work, a dozen bricks and stones were finally opened, and then a long wooden square was pushed in. With the combined efforts of dozens of people, there was a muffled bang, which was the sound of the top door stone being pushed down.

Smoke and dust filled the gap, and the stone door that had been sealed in dust for ten years was finally opened.

But there are three more doors in this tomb, which means there are four heavy stone doors in the princess's tomb.

Fortunately, with the previous experience, the remaining stone gates were relatively easy to deal with, and one by one the stone gates were opened one after another.

I came here in the morning, and now it is already sunset. After nearly a day of work, I finally opened this underground palace.

Xia Yuan really wanted to go in with him and see what the underground palace of the Ming Dynasty princess looked like, but after thinking about it, he decided against it. There was a high probability that it would be in a collapsed state. It would not be a joke if he slipped and fell.

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After waiting for the air to circulate, a dozen guards boldly walked in holding torches.

Another long wait followed. Emperor Hongzhi still stood a little further away with a solemn face, but the fists in his sleeves were already clenched tightly.

I don’t know how much time passed, but there seemed to be faint footsteps in the underground palace. Soon, the guards who had just entered all filed out along the stone gate, walking in a hurry, with some fear and trembling on their faces.

look.

Zhu Houzhao squatted beside the pit and asked impatiently: "How is it? Is the inside really collapsed?"

More than a dozen guards at the bottom of the pit prostrated one after another, "Your Highness, several places in the underground palace have collapsed. The apse where the coffins are stored has collapsed into a deep pit. The coffin bed has overturned, and the coffins are missing. There is something faintly hidden in the pit.

The sound of the river was so loud that I and the others did not dare to take a closer look, so they had to come back quickly to recover."

"This place is dangerous. Your Majesty and His Royal Highness, please move quickly!"

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The air seemed to be silent for a moment, then Xiao Jing's sharp and harsh cry suddenly sounded, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"
Chapter completed!