Chapter 1095: The Underground Palace

The weather in May was just cool enough that early in the morning of the second day, Zhuang Rui and the others checked out of their rooms and went to their last destination in Xi’an: Mount Li.

Mount Li, a branch of the northern side of the Qinling Mountains, stretches more than 20 kilometers from east to west, with a maximum elevation of 1,256 meters, winding mountains, lush trees, and looks like a horse in pale white color from afar, hence the name Mount Li.

Since the Zhou Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, this place has been a tourist attraction, and many villas have been built here, attracting visitors from all generations. There are the “Evening Illumination of Mt. There are also the “Beacon Terrace” which is known as one of the “Eight Scenes of Guanzhong”, the “Military Admonition Pavilion” which commemorates the Xi’an Incident, and the Hall of the Old Mother in honor of Nuwa.

Of course, Mount Li is most famous for the underground chambers of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, which were originally divided into two floors above and below ground, and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit at the foot of Mount Li, which has been called the “Eighth Wonder of the World”.

Although known for a long time, but Zhuang Rui is also the first time to visit the Terracotta Warriors, that rows of vivid face, just like a real person in general terracotta warriors, so that Zhuang Rui heart shocked, especially those terracotta warriors flow with the silk of the aura, so that Zhuang Rui feel released into a huge treasure.

Dr. Ren found an acquaintance in the museum, to Zhuang Rui and other people to do the documents, so that several people can enter the commission pit, close observation of those who represent the peak of the artifacts more than two thousand years ago.

Whether it is the terracotta warriors and horses or those fine and subtle production of bronze instruments, each and every nuance of the ancient craftsmen’s heart and soul, almost flawless to say.

Especially the second bronze carriage that stirred up the whole world, the complexity of its technology, the sophistication of the work, the excellence of the technology is amazing, the moped exposure to the beauty of the painted soft cushions, copper plate surface painted with a variety of brightly colored geometric patterns, the following corners and the middle of the eight 3-centimetre-high copper pegs to support the function of the modern day, “soft sleeper car! “.

Copper carriage consists of a total of 3462 castings, including copper castings 1742 pieces, gold castings 737 pieces, silver castings 983 pieces, a total weight of 1241 kilograms, people applauded all the parts here are all casting molding, the thousands of castings, whether it is as large as 2 square meters of the canopy, umbrella and car marshes, copper horses, copper figurines, etc., or less than 0.2 square meters of the little Yule tube are One casting molding.

These exquisite gold, silver, copper and iron castings, not to mention the Qin Dynasty 2200 years ago, is in the technologically advanced, well-equipped today is not easy, imagine that there is no lathe, not to mention the modern metallurgical casting equipment, can cast such a beautiful gold, silver, copper size specifications of the car and horse parts, is really a great initiative.

Due to the scarcity of the number of generals and not on display, Zhuang Rui also got to see, this kind of Qin terracotta terracotta unearthed less than ten pieces, divided into robed generals terracotta warriors and armor generals terracotta two categories, head crossbill, tall and sturdy, temperament outstanding superb, with a general’s demeanor. War robe general figurines dressed in plain, but the chest has a flower knot decoration, and armor general figurines of the chest, back and shoulders, decorated with a total of eight colorful flower knots, gorgeous and colorful, flowing extraordinary, set off its rank, identity, and the majesty of the army.

Zhuang Rui know, perhaps these generals figurines, is to those who have been passed down through the ages of the Qin generals prototype burned out, standing in the middle of the terracotta figurines and their own height, Zhuang Rui put himself in the Mengtian, Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wang Ben and others in the midst.

Heavy vicissitudes of history came, Zhuang Rui feel that they are silent in the era of more than two thousand years ago, and around a specific type of tall terracotta warriors and horses seem to have come to life, in the story of the era of the rise and fall of the dynastic turnover.

More than two children, Zhuang Rui and other talents from the terracotta warriors pit out, everyone’s heart, seems to be given a heavy feeling of history, until out of the museum, came to the Lishan Mausoleum, that kind of suppression in the heart of the feeling only lightened some.

The original mausoleum, according to the death of Qin Shi Huang also enjoy the principle of glory and wealth, modeled on the layout of the Qin capital city of Xianyang construction, largely back to the zigzag shape, the mausoleum around the construction of internal and external two-fold city wall, mausoleum within the city wall perimeter of 3,870 meters, outside the city wall perimeter of 6,210 meters, is almost a city state, but the ground that the magnificent building through the wind and rain of more than 2,000 years, has been destroyed by the war in the scourge of chaos.

Now the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin, was built after the founding of the state, has become a beautiful tourist attractions, in order to allow visitors to immerse themselves in the feeling of the king’s honor, the king’s majesty, the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin was staged with a large-scale “re-enactment of the honor guard – the first emperor of Qin’s mausoleum guarding troops changing of the guard ceremony “Performance, Zhuang Rui and others have changed clothes, went up to do a thousand ancient emperor addiction.

“There’s no one in front of us, and there’s no one behind us.”

Standing at the foot of Mount Li, looking at the mountains, Zhuang Rui issued a sigh of relief, only in the special period of the feudal dynasty, it is possible to pour the whole country to serve the emperor, which also makes the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang known as the “eighth wonder of the world”.

In fact, the entire northern foothills of Mount Li corner, are considered to be the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum mound, tall mound in the towering peaks surrounded by and Mount Li in a seamless integration, beautiful scenery, sealing the soil only high to reach hundreds of meters, the mausoleum covers a total area of more than 50 square kilometers, imagine that underneath the huge chambers, Zhuang Rui can not help but a little surging heart.

Standing beside Zhuang Rui Dr. Ren saw Zhuang Rui face red, also thought that his little brother wanted to play a few shovels here, and quickly said: “Zhuang Rui, what do you think? This place does not allow shovels to hit the hole ah! Otherwise it’s Xiao Peng that documents can’t save us.”

As a national key protection of the scientific research department, in the mausoleum around but there are troops guarded, want to carry out scientific investigation in the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang, must be reported for approval a few months in advance, and to be approved by the leaders specializing in the management of the national science, education and culture can only be carried out after the approval of the leaders, if Zhuang Rui dares to go down the luoyang city here to survey, will certainly be arrested.

“Brother Ren, it won’t be, come on, let’s go up and take a look.”

Zhuang Rui shook his head, if he wanted to survey the underground, why would he need to use this stupid method of lowering the shovel? Zhuang Rui only needed to find the bearings of the underground chambers, so that the colorful underground world could be shown in front of him.

Climbed as high as more than seventy meters after the mound of sealing soil, look around, around the terracotta warrior pits put Buddha guards general, this sealing soil where the place is surrounded, these living Qin warriors, in death also guarded their own emperor, it seems that the underground of this thousand years of the emperor to raise their arms, these terracotta warriors will be able to live and turn, and continue to open up the frontier for its general.

Zhuang Rui looked around for a while, on the mound of sealed earth, there are still quite a lot of fast weathered remains of the city wall exists, he did not want others to disturb his action of surveying the underground chambers, so he opened his mouth and said, “Elder brother, Peng Fei, let’s turn around individually, let’s all feel what it feels like to stand on the head of the First Emperor of Qin.”

In October 2006, the state united various departments, the location of the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang, carried out one of the largest exploration actions ever, this survey mainly uses remote sensing and geophysical detection technology, will not produce damage to the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang, especially hyperspectral remote sensing archaeological technology, in the international are second time to use, and in the country or the first time.

In fact, as early as March 1986 in the implementation of the 863 program, the exact location of the tomb of the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang bedchamber of the survey and positioning work has been carried out, after many scientific and research experts up to more than 20 years of unremitting efforts under the ground, the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang mausoleum of the ground palace has been confirmed as, at this moment Zhuang Rui standing underground.

Zhuang Rui walked alone to the top of a hill one, greeted the sun to look at, took out a pair of sunglasses to wear on the face, after seeing no one to disturb, took a deep breath, calmed down the excitement, the eyes of the aura gushed out, along the foot to the underground seepage.

At a distance of about twenty meters, Zhuang Rui can clearly see that the color of this sealing soil and ordinary soil is different, these sealing soil, are made of multiple layers of fine soil tamping and become, especially connecting the underground palace wall, in the construction of the construction, in order to detect the use of soil tamping the palace wall whether the hardness of the wall, the construction staff will stand at a distance with a bow and arrow to shoot at the wall, if the arrow can be inserted into the wall, the repaired wall must be pushed down and rebuilt.

The Guanzhong region has suffered major earthquakes of more than 8 magnitude in its history, but the tomb chamber of Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum is intact, which shows the strict process and sturdiness at that time.

“Ten meters, twenty meters, forty meters, shit, this is equivalent to a ten-story building.”

The aura in Zhuang Rui’s eyes continued to extend downwards like tentacles, but after exceeding twenty meters, he could only use the strength of the underground aura to determine the distribution of the presence of objects underneath.

“Huh, what is this?”

In the front forty meters, Zhuang Rui’s vision had been colorless darkness, but when the aura penetrated forty meters away, Zhuang Rui’s eyes suddenly lit up, and colors formed by various auras filled Zhuang Rui’s eyes.

All kinds of strong and weak aura condensed color, filled in every inch of underground space, which makes Zhuang Rui simply can not go one by one to identify the shape of these objects, also can not go to feel the so-called underground “sun, moon, mountains and rivers”, because there, every place is the cohesion of the previous person’s efforts of priceless treasures.

This is the first time that Zhuang Rui has encountered such a situation, and he has no choice but to expand the scope of his aura, he wants to accurately sense how big the underground dungeon, which has been closed for more than two thousand years, is.

Forty meters deep underground, an east-west length of nearly 200 meters, north-south width of more than 150 meters of the chamber, in the aura feedback information, the image appeared in Zhuang Rui’s mind, the underground body and the chamber are rectangular, height of about 15 meters, equivalent to a standard soccer field.