Yang Fan stood in front of Dingling, looking at this building that was the only one that was opened in later generations, and felt very emotional.
He had been to Dingling, and at that time many of the wooden buildings he saw on the ground had been destroyed. But now the buildings in the Ming Tombs are all original.
Of course, it is not called the Ming Tombs now because the construction of Siling Tombs in Chongzhen has not yet begun.
Yang Fan stood on the bright floor of Dingling, stroking the huge stone tablet with his hand, thinking deeply. The last time he came here, he was working on a construction site and took over a job from the Ming Tombs, so he came to take a look.
"Emperor Shenzong Xian, alas, Shenzong's life has been quite miserable." Reading the posthumous title on the stone tablet, Yang Fan felt quite emotional in his heart. It was during the reign of Shenzong 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 Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, the remaining imperial tombs are arranged on the left and right. The emperors of later generations are farther outward. The Siling Mausoleum of Chongzhen has basically used up this valley. Maybe there is something wrong with it.
There is God's will in the dark.
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 guardsmen 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 then 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 Yong'an 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 mausoleum guards were installed more and more, a new city, Gonghua City, was built in the south of the city.
There were 4,000 troops stationed in the Yong'an camp, led by a deputy general. At this time, there were no troops stationed in Gonghua City. They were all 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 "the mountains are small and the ground is flat" ("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. There are mountains on the northeast and west sides, which are enough to act as a natural barrier, but only for the entrance and exit between valleys.
Set up a wall and build a wall. In this way, the southern mausoleum wall 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 were two gates and ten entrances on the outer side wall, all with city gates or city gates. Except for the guards at Dahongmen and Xiaohongmen who had escaped, the rest of the people here were still there.
There are Ming troops stationed again. The area of the mausoleum is too large.
The two gates refer to the Dahongmen and the Xiaohongmen (i.e., the Grand Palace Gate and the Small Palace Gate); the Big Palace Gate is located directly south of the mausoleum area, and is connected by the palace wall in the middle. The Grand Palace Gate is for the emperor, his relatives, and the princes.
The road used by ministers to pay homage and worship, is the path taken by the famous "Going out and entering the police". The Xiaogongmen is located at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain in the east of Xishankou, and is the way in and out 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. Eat extra meals. We'll distribute canned luncheon meat. Let's run to Nanyuan after eating and drinking." Yang Fan said.
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"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, we go to Dahongmen. When the pursuers arrive, let's leave quickly."
Yang Fan frowned and said.
But when Yang Fan said this, Taozi got excited all over. Originally, the trees here were dense and the cool breeze was blowing, so she felt very comfortable. She was sweating all the way, and she was very comfortable at this time, but suddenly she felt that this place was a bit scary.
People.
After all, this is the emperor's tomb.
"Eh! 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 gets involved here will end up 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 good 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 it's okay, it's evil here.
At that time, Mr. Guo was the most powerful man of letters. He had great power and loved to excavate ancient tombs. I don’t understand why he was so fond of tombs. He even wanted to dig Shangguan Wan’er’s grave at one time. I guess he was a big fan of Miss Shangguan.
. He also wanted to dig Wu Zetian’s grave. Due to various reasons, he could not 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 the Changling Tomb should be excavated in order to find the whereabouts of "Yongle Dadian" and for the needs of historical research of the Ming Dynasty. Finally, they were allowed to excavate.
Originally, their goal was to build the most splendid, largest and oldest Changling Mausoleum. Changling Mausoleum is the tomb of Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty. After a long period of exploration in the early stage, they were unable to find the tomb passage and finally had to give up.
Just in time, the outer wall of Dingling Mausoleum collapsed, exposing a corner of the tomb passage. So, they decided to excavate Emperor Wanli's Dingling Tomb instead. Because Dingling Tomb is smaller than Changling Tomb, and it is easier to excavate.
But as soon as the construction started, after the workers settled in 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 the strange thing was that on the first day of digging,
Abnormal weather conditions occurred.
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. They were also unwilling to enter the underground palace of Dingling, and were even unwilling to be the first to demolish the brick walls of the underground palace. In the end, the archaeological team
There was really no other way, so we decided 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 workers died on the spot and the stone lion was damaged.
After the underground palace was opened, the technology at that time could not protect these cultural relics from the long-term oxygen-free environment. Most of the cultural relics were damaged or even completely disappeared. This became the biggest failure in the history of archaeology.
However, Dingling was dug and the dust seemed to have settled. The matter was not over yet. The curse was chasing the people involved like maggots attached to the bones. After that, many people involved in this matter had various accidents inexplicably.