Chapter 1085 – Hua Qing Pond

Cao Cao was suspicious by nature, and in order to raise money for his army, he set up the first army that specialized in grave robbing, and the post of the gold inspector spread from then on. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao’s army robbed almost all the tombs in the dynasties before the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was also the earliest official thief in history.

As the saying goes, if you don’t do anything wrong, you’re not afraid of ghosts knocking on your door, but the Three Kingdoms kingpin is just the opposite, he did too much wrongdoing in his lifetime, and naturally he was afraid of other people robbing his own tomb after he died, so before Cao Cao’s burial, a total of seventy-two suspicious graves were arranged, seventy-two suspicious graves of allusion from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present day has been widely rumored, and historians and archaeologists through the ages are not sure about it, and there is no final conclusion even now.

However, in the Henan region of grave robbing into the wind, Zhuang Rui in the vicinity of Anyang probed a lot of underground with antiquities of the tomb, found that all have been robbed, from the point of view of robbing holes, close to the last few years of the thing, far estimates can be traced back to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there is no much need to excavate.

According to this situation, Zhuang Rui deduced, not to mention Cao Cao laid seventy-two suspicious mounds, that is, laid seven hundred and twenty suspicious mounds, I’m afraid that it is difficult to escape the madness of the grave robbers excavation, so he was looking for Cao Cao’s tomb completely lost interest in the Henan province after a week, or left.

Zhuang Rui’s this field archaeology, not only want to excavate a large archaeological value of the tomb, but also want to Henan and Shaanxi, including Gansu and Xinjiang, as well as Inner Mongolia and other provinces of the distribution of the tomb well examined, and will be included in his doctoral dissertation.

Especially Gansu Xinjiang and other places, due to the drought and little rain, the martyrdom of the underground tombs has always been the best preserved, China’s knitting has been unearthed in recent decades of calligraphy and painting antiques, almost all of them are found within the tombs of these regions, it can be said that as long as the tomb has not been destroyed by grave robbers, the excavation of which will be able to shock both Chinese and foreign scientific research community.

“Zhuang Rui, you …… you won t be trying to excavate the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, right? Let me tell you, not to mention you, even the teacher doesn’t have this ability.”

And Zhuang Rui said gossip, Dr. Ren suddenly stared wide-eyed, after a few days of searching for tombs, he knew that his little brother is more ambitious, this time out is to find a large tomb has not been excavated to excavate, just this China up and down the five thousand years, has not been a large-scale excavation of the tombs are really only a handful of fewer than pathetic, the closest, that is, that the thousand-year-old emperor died after the place of habitation.

In fact is the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin, in history is also more ordeal, like the king of Chu Xiang Yu after entering the customs, there have been 300,000 people to excavate the mausoleum of Qin, the back in the warring dynasties, there are also many warlord forces coveted.

However, due to the first emperor mausoleum project is huge deep underground, has not been completely excavated, in more than ten years ago, Professor Meng had presided over the first emperor of Qin mausoleum of the survey, the results show that the first emperor of the mausoleum of the soil underground in the mercury content is very high, and its concentration is enough to let a person die of poisoning.

As we all know, mercury is mercury, is a very easy to volatile liquid metal, air flow evaporates more, will form a harmful gas, can lead to mercury poisoning and death in serious cases, so if the tomb of the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang Tomb was patronized by tomb robbers, then more than two thousand years, the mercury should have been volatilized, and will not still remain in the ground.

In the surrounding area of Qin Shi Huang’s tomb, several terracotta pits have been developed, but the reason why the core part of Qin Shi Huang’s tomb has not been excavated is because there are still technical difficulties, and there is no way for the researchers to ensure that after the tomb is dug open, the martyrs in the tomb will be preserved intact.

As we all know, the ancient Egyptian pyramids are the largest above-ground royal tombs in the world, and the mausoleum of China’s Qin Shi Huang is the largest underground imperial tomb in the world. As the first emperor of China’s feudal dynasty, Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum focused on the highest achievements of the Qin civilization, and Qin Shi Huang brought all the glory and wealth of his life into the ground.

The Records of the Grand Historian recorded that the tomb was dug all the way down to the underground springs, the base was reinforced with copper, and the coffins were placed on top……. Inside the chamber were filled with exotic treasures, and the main organs inside the chamber were equipped with bows and crossbows with sharp arrows, so that grave robbers would be shot to death as soon as they approached, and the chamber was also filled with mercury to symbolize the rivers, lakes, and oceans, and the top of the tomb was encrusted with evening pearls to symbolize the sun, moon, and stars; the tomb was decorated with night jewels, symbolizing the Sun, moon and stars; the tomb with fish oil burning lamps, in order to be long and bright ……

So from the beginning of the founding of the country has been proposed to excavate the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang, which more than sixty years in the past, has not been able to put into action, is to put the hasty excavation, will be the tomb of those precious cultural relics destroyed, perhaps …… will be left in the ground forever, in order to really make it intact preservation.

“Senior brother, I would like to excavate the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, is it possible?”

Zhuang Rui slightly opened a little car window, lit a cigarette, if he can see the excavation of the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang in his lifetime, Zhuang Rui will be very satisfied, as for now, basically no possibility.

When the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang was built, poor a country, the most time there are 720,000 prisoners in the construction, lasted thirty-nine years have not been completed the imperial mausoleum dungeon, want to let it now in the world, that is not overnight can do things.

“Brother Zhuang, where to go? Hey, we can’t live in a tent in the center of the city today, right?”

After the car to the center of Xi’an City, Peng Fei from the reverse mirror to Zhuang Rui, at this time the sky has been dark, the night under the lights of Xi’an ancient city is very quiet, sitting in the car through the glass can be seen in the distance that is up to more than ten meters of the ancient city wall, in the night is so majestic and solemn.

Since entering the Central Plains, almost everywhere can feel the heavy historical atmosphere, whether it is the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, or the ancient city wall of Xi’an in front of us, have been standing for thousands of years, in silence to tell people about this thousand years of great changes in the history of the mountains and rivers of the vicissitudes of history.

“Go and stay in the Lintong District! It is closer to Mount Li there, where did your boy’s hardworking and simple style in the army go?”

Zhuang Rui knows what Peng Fei means, this kid with self a few years, the appetite has become a little tricky, yesterday also complained to himself all day to sleep in a tent!

Zhuang Rui is not the kind of money is not willing to spend people, the key is a few days ago in Henan region, especially near the burial place, very few hotels, even the guest house can not be seen, borrowed to live in a farmhouse is not as comfortable as sleeping in a tent, of course, now there are conditions, Zhuang Rui naturally want to find a hotel to live down.

Lintong was originally a county, later transferred into a district of Xi’an, is the ancient capital of Xi’an’s eastern gate, from the city of Xi’an is about thirty kilometers away, Peng Fei does not give Zhuang Rui to save money, more than half an hour later, the three cars were driven into the parking lot of Lintong’s only five-star hotel.

“Hey, Brother Zhuang, I’m in your good graces!”

The other two cars came down with three students, one woman and two men, these three people were all graduate students from the archaeology department of Beijing University, and all of them were going to graduate this year, they also had another status, that is, after graduation, all of them would be working as managers in Zhuang Rui’s Lighting Museum.

“Yeah! Brother Zhuang, this is the first time I’ve stayed in a five-star hotel, but I think it’s a bit more exciting to stay in the wilderness.”

The girl who spoke was called Xiaolei, grew up in Xinjiang, her character is very straightforward, especially bold, like the first few days to Henan, camping, there are two times are not far from the side of the ancient tomb, the two male students are too scared to sleep at night, and Xiaolei simply do not care, and even one day was also excited in the middle of the night and Zhuang Rui went to look for the bones of the dead, saying that he wanted to see what a ghost fire is like.

Dr. Ren once privately laughed and said to Zhuang Rui, this Xiaolei is born to do archaeology material, by Zhuang Rui that museum dig away, it is really a waste of talent.

Since the opening of the Definitive Light Museum, Huangfu Yun has already dug a lot of talent from the museum majors and archaeology majors of Beijing University, but these three people don’t know that the Zhuang brother in front of them is their future big boss, Zhuang Rui is the owner of the Definitive Light Museum, although many people in the circle know about it, but these students in the ivory tower don’t know about it.

“Hehe, when entering into Gansu Inner Mongolia, you guys just want to live five-star are hard to find, these days hard work everyone, today have a good rest!”

Zhuang Rui smiled and waved his hand, after a week of getting along, he is still very satisfied with these students, several people’s enthusiasm for the work makes Zhuang Rui a little sweaty, when he is as big as them, it seems that he is still mingling in that pawnshop!

“Right, tomorrow let’s go to Huaqing Pond to soak in the hot springs.” After handling the formalities to get the room card, Zhuang Rui said with a smile to a few people, these days are indeed quite hard, and the spirit is taut, Zhuang Rui also want to take everyone to relax.

“Haha, long live Brother Zhuang.”

A few people playfully cheered loudly, face overflowing with the kind of pleasant smile and heartfelt happiness, let Zhuang Rui look a little lost in thought, once upon a time, he was also like them, and the boss and other brothers playful play, this is a turn of the eye is seven or eight years in the past, the innocence of the student era is gone.

Mount Li hot springs is known as one of the best, its long history, any vicissitudes of life, is still inexhaustible, known as “the world’s first spring”, Huaqingchi hot springs formed in two or three million years ago, 6,000 years ago for the Jiangzhai forefathers to use.

Since the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, emperors have built hot springs here to bathe, making it gradually become a royal hot spring, and it is a gift for ministers to bathe here.

And one of the most famous when the Huaqing Pond, “spring cold give bath Huaqing Pond, hot spring water slippery wash grease, the servant child help up Jiao weak, is the time of the new grace”, this popular ancient famous lines, is the Tang Dynasty great poet Bai Juyi, on the Princess in the Huaqing Palace in the gift of the real portrayal of the bath.

Huaqing Pond Hot Spring is also famous for this, for the world to aspire to, and become and the ancient Roman Carioca baths and Britain’s Bath Hot Springs, the “Oriental Divine Spring”.