On the third day after the long vacation, it was finally time to officially visit Qianling Mausoleum. The Qianling Mausoleum Scenic Area Management Office closed the park for three days in the name of cleaning up garbage in accordance with the instructions of the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau.
Early in the morning, everyone brought their equipment and gathered at the entrance to the main tomb passage of Qianling Mausoleum on the southeast slope of the north peak of Liangshan Mountain. Professor Dong announced to everyone: "This time we enter Qianling Mausoleum, the nature is exploration, not excavation, so we have a few rules.
Must abide by. First, no cultural relics inside may be taken for any reason. Second, unless absolutely necessary,
Under such circumstances, no damage of any nature shall be made to any items inside, including walls, stone doors, floors, etc. Third, given that the Qianling Mausoleum has been closed for a long time, there is likely to be insufficient oxygen inside, but in order to prevent the cultural relics inside from oxidizing,
There will be no oxygen infusion inside, so everyone will have to carry oxygen supply equipment after entering."
After speaking, Professor Dong asked Li Su to distribute the oxygen bottles and miner's lamp caps placed aside to everyone.
Yu Fei and Luo Zi had already carried a caving bag, but now they had to carry the oxygen bottle. It was a bit inconvenient, so they had to put the caving bag on their chests and carry the oxygen bottle on their backs.
After everyone finished dressing, Professor Dong asked the staff guarding the entrance to the tomb passage to open the heavy iron door and lead everyone in.
Everyone wore long-range miner's lamps on their heads. Under the illumination of more than a dozen strong lights, the small tomb passage looked very bright.
Professor Dong introduced to everyone: "The entrance to the main tomb passage of Qianling Mausoleum is composed of two parts: a trench and a stone cave. The trench is nearly 20 meters deep and is filled with stone strips more than one meter long and one to two feet wide. The tomb passage is sloped.
Shape, with a total length of more than 60 meters, wide in the south and narrow in the north, with an average width of about four meters. The stone strips are stacked along the slope from south to north.
There are a total of thirty-nine floors of buckle masonry, with 410 stone strips exposed on the plane. There are more than 8,000 stones shared by the thirty-nine floors. These stone strips are tightened with dovetail-shaped thin-waisted iron bolt plates, and the upper and lower sides are
A hole was drilled in between and an iron rod was used to penetrate it, and molten tin and iron liquid was poured into it to fuse it with the stone strips. The entire tomb passage is very strong."
After hearing this, Yu Fei sighed: "There are so many stone strips used in just one tomb passage. I really don't know how grand this Qianling Mausoleum must be."
Professor Dong said with a smile: "This Qianling Mausoleum is the 'crown of the imperial mausoleums of all Chinese dynasties' and is known as the 'first mausoleum in the world'. The scale of the project is probably far greater than the Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt."
Luo Zi stuck out his tongue at the side: "How much manpower, financial and material resources will be consumed for such a big project."
"The Qianling Mausoleum was built in 684 AD. It took twenty-three years for the project to be basically completed. Hundreds of thousands of laborers were involved in building the Qianling Mausoleum. The treasures buried inside accounted for almost half of the national treasury during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty."
"Ah! Half of the treasury! Building an imperial mausoleum in ancient times was really a waste of money and people. No wonder the Tang Dynasty declined since then. It must have something to do with the construction of the Qianling Mausoleum." Yu Fei said in surprise.
Professor Dong nodded: "It does have something to do with it. In order to build the Qianling Mausoleum, the imperial court spent a lot of financial resources, which gradually weakened the imperial court's control over various places. This eventually led to the demise of the Tang Dynasty and the formation of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
situation."
Just as he was talking, everyone came to a stone brick wall.
"This is the diamond wall of Qianling Mausoleum. Passing through here is the inside of the Qianling Mausoleum Underground Palace?" Professor Dong said.
"What is this diamond wall?" Yu Fei asked curiously.
"Ah! You don't even know about the Diamond Wall!" Professor Dong was a little surprised. This young man who was called an expert by Mr. Ye and who had brought the secret map of the Qianling Underground Palace didn't even know the basic common sense about tombs. Wang Qihe
Lei Kun also cast a disdainful look from the side.
Mr. Ye explained at the side: "This Vajra Wall is a kind of reinforcement wall. The Vajra Wall is made of Vajra soil. Vajra soil is an ancient mixed soil, that is, glutinous rice is added to the unique loess of the luteum.
juice and several other flower juices. The characteristic of this soil is that it is extremely hard and invulnerable."
"Brother is right, but the outside of Qianling's diamond wall is made of reinforced stone strips, and the middle layer is diamond soil. We have used instruments to detect it before, and the wall is almost two meters thick."
Ding Laosan laughed after hearing this and said: "Hey, it's not easy to blow up such a thick diamond wall with explosives! Mr. Dong, you'd better tell me where the secret door is."
"According to the records, the secret door should be on the lower left side of the west side of the Vajra Wall. Let's go and have a look." After Professor Dong finished speaking, he led everyone to explore on the west side of the Vajra Wall.
Soon, Wang Qi found traces of a door that was as tall as a person on the wall. He shouted loudly: "Found it! The secret door is right here." Everyone quickly gathered around it.
Professor Dong said: "The mechanism to open the door should be on the left wall. Let's look for it."
Sure enough, there were three movable stone bricks not far from the secret door. It seemed to be the mechanism that opened the secret door.
"The method of opening the door recorded in the data is 461." Professor Dong said, playing with the three stone bricks.
He pressed four times on the first stone brick, six times on the second stone brick, and once on the third stone brick. Then he waited patiently for the secret door to open automatically.
However, after waiting for a long time, there was no movement at all.
"Huh? That's weird! I should have remembered it correctly! Li Su, show me the information."
After receiving the information handed over by Li Su, Professor Dong checked it for a while: "It is indeed correct. It is clearly recorded in the information. The method used to open the door was 461. Why can't it be opened now?"
"Is it possible that the mechanism that opens the secret door is broken?" Li Su said from the side.
"Hey, this Qianling mechanism has not broken down for more than 1,300 years. It has broken down just a few decades ago. It shouldn't be a problem. Why don't I, Ding Laosan, give it a try?"
"Okay, let's invite Brother Ding to come and give it a try." Professor Dong walked aside and asked Brother Ding to walk to the machine.
Ding Laosan walked to the mechanism and after a while of fiddling, the secret door slowly opened.
Professor Dong couldn't help but exclaimed: "Brother Ding is indeed an expert, and his reputation is well-deserved! But how did Brother Ding know the password of this mechanism?"
Ding Laosan chuckled: "Actually, it was you, Mr. Dong, who told me."
"You mean '461'? But I tried it just now and it couldn't be opened at all. Why did Brother Ding open it as soon as he tried it?" Professor Dong became even more confused.
"Mr. Dong doesn't know something. This lock is also known as the star-shifting lock. Every time it is opened, the password will be automatically changed. However, all changed passwords will not be randomly generated and must be set in advance. In the eyes of Taoists, it is very difficult to
Respect the number 'seven',
Since this Qianling Mausoleum was built by a Taoist master, the password must be related to seven. I tried to use seven to subtract each number of the previous password, and got another password "three one six". After one try,
Sure enough, it opened, it was just luck. Hehe!"
Professor Dong was filled with admiration for Ding Laosan’s words: “Ding Laosan is not only knowledgeable and courageous, but he is also so humble, which is really admirable.”
At this time, the old ghost standing by the door saw that the stone door had been opened, and was about to go inside, but was grabbed by Ding Laosan: "Why are you so anxious? This Lei Ye is a first-class member of the Heisha sect."
A master, he can only deal with a few zombies. Just ask Mr. Lei to go first." After saying that, Ding Laosan raised his hand and made a gesture of invitation to Lei Kun.
When Professor Dong heard that Lei Kun could actually deal with zombies, he immediately cast an admiring look at him. Lei Kun couldn't refuse anymore, so he had to bow his hands to everyone: "Since the third master is so complimentary to Lei, then Lei will go ahead."
It’s done.” After saying that, he strode into the stone door.
The others followed and walked in one after another. Ding Laosan was cautious before entering. He asked Lao Guitou to find a large stone slab to block the stone door to prevent it from closing automatically.
After walking into the secret door, there was a long corridor made of stone strips. The corridor was about one meter wide, about two meters high, and about ten or twenty meters long. The group quickly reached the end of the corridor and came to
In a square hall with an area of more than ten square meters and a ceiling height of four to five meters.
The hall is also entirely made of stone slabs, and the four walls are covered with colorful murals, which are very exquisite. Professor Dong's attention was completely attracted by these beautiful murals, and Li Su held a
The SLR camera was filming hard, but the two of them didn't notice at all that there were seven sarcophagi placed neatly on one side of the hall. Behind the sarcophagus was a gold-plated door nearly three meters high.