Chapter 1165 Entering (II)

According to Zhuang Rui’s previous estimation, this large tomb might have the possibility of intersecting with the dark river only after one or two hundred meters, only now at a depth of more than thirty meters, there is a dark river, which makes Zhuang Rui’s heart somewhat surprised.

This can only mean one thing, is that this whole chamber, is not parallel construction, but the terrain slowly upward, so that caused the chamber if continue to develop to the depth, there is the possibility of intersecting with the dark river.

What makes Zhuang Rui feel odd is not here, but he found a secret door in the corner of the last chamber on the green stone wall.

This secret door was only one meter square in size, it was made of a whole piece of lapis lazuli, its specification and shape was exactly the same as the one next to it, the reason why it was said to be a secret door was because after this piece of lapis lazuli, there was a tunnel that was more than thirty meters long.

“Could it be a robber’s hole?”

The first thing that appeared in Zhuang Rui’s mind was the word “cave”, the reason why he had this reaction was because the ancient people’s skills in grave robbing were so brilliant that there were almost no tombs that they couldn’t get into.

Zhuang Rui traveled all the way this time, have seen almost all the tombs have been excavated, less than one or two holes, more even reached dozens of.

This Genghis Khan Mausoleum is also a lot of organs, almost every chamber of the tomb are hidden killings, so the entire tomb although there is no trace of being excavated, but does not guarantee that no tomb robbers have entered here, perhaps to open the hole of the tomb robbers have died in the tomb?

“It doesn’t look like a robbing hole ……”

Zhuang Rui then overturned his own assumptions, because not to mention that those organs do not have any traces of launching, those grave robbers would not have such a gentle means to open the hole and then also get a green stone plate to cover it.

“It was left behind by the craftsmen who built the tomb.”

Looking at how seamlessly the lapis lazuli plate matched the surrounding walls, Zhuang Rui guessed the origin of the tunnel after this lapis lazuli, to be able to dig such a tunnel that was more than 30 meters long in a place that was hundreds of meters below the ground, only the craftsmen who constructed the mausoleum at that time, had the ability to do so.

And they also have enough reasons to secretly leave the tunnel, as we all know, the general emperor’s tomb in order to its hidden, will build the mausoleum craftsmen will be silenced, not to mention always like secret burial of the Mongols, mausoleum after the construction of those craftsmen categorically have no hope of survival.

These craftsmen from the Central Plains and the Western Xia and other countries of the slaves, must also be very aware of the situation, so in the construction of the time, secretly left for their own so a tunnel, is to wait for the emperor’s coffin into the tomb, fell after the dragon stone escape used by their own and other people.

Such a situation, in the ancient tomb has been unearthed, is also seen from time to time, and there are examples of craftsmen successfully escaped.

In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, an emperor died, then presided over the design of the emperor’s mausoleum of a few key people, were left in the mausoleum as a burial staff, but more than ten years later, the people suddenly out of a large number of the emperor’s martyrdom.

At this time the Tang Dynasty has not been subverted, the Imperial Tombs are guarded by the army, almost impossible to be excavated, and these burial goods are how to flow out? The emperor at that time immediately made people strictly investigate.

Later, the emperor was shocked by the results of the investigation, because a person who should have been dead for more than ten years suddenly appeared in the eyes of the world.

After some torture interrogation, it was learned that the original construction of the tomb, secretly left a secret door, when the mausoleum’s broken dragon stone was put down after the ghosts and people, these people from the secret door quietly slipped out of the mausoleum.

However, these people know, they can only live in anonymity, so each from the tomb brought out a lot of gold and silver jewelry, enough for them to live a lifetime of security.

Just this one smith, nature like gambling, after a few years of patience, began to gamble again, will not have the seal of the gold and silver output to go, out of the time in accordance with the specifications of the emperor’s tomb made by the burial goods, which reveals the trace, was caught by the people along the way.

When this matter came out, the dynasty and the countryside shook, some literati attacked the emperor’s brutality, using the living as martyrs, and made a big fuss.

Although the craftsman was executed, but then the Tang Dynasty to the emperor to build the tomb of these craftsmen, but were all the royal captive, not only their own, their children and grandchildren are used as the construction of imperial tombs, generation after generation continued.

Obviously, Zhuang Rui found the dark door, should be to Genghis Khan to build the tomb of the craftsmen stayed, just they thought of their own will be left in the tomb, but did not think that the Mongols are so brutal, and even these craftsmen will be directly after the execution as a human martyrdom, so that stay out of the dark door, has not been able to play out its function to.

Look at this dark door, Zhuang Rui slightly shook his head, although the Yuan dynasty territory is vast, but undeniably, for the Han people, that hundred years of rule, but the darkness, the degree of misery, and even far more than the Qing soldiers into the disaster brought about by the customs.

The Mongol Yuan was a conquering dynasty, the Mongols were the conquerors of the Han Chinese and the various minorities of China’s interior, in the reign of the Mongol Yuan, the Mongols divided the whole of China into three classes, the Han Chinese is the third class, at the bottom of the social hierarchy.

Han people, the South in the Mongolian butchery, living is not as good as cattle and horses, the Mongols prohibited the Han people, the South to practice martial arts and have metal knives, the Mongolian system provides for ten households as a bail, by the Mongols or color people as the head of the bail.

The property and women of these ten families could be used at will by the Mongols, ten families shared a chopper, and the first night of each family’s new wife must be given to the head of the Mongolian bailiff, which is the so-called first-night right of possession system.

Because of the humiliation of the first night of the right, so the Han people at that time after the marriage is the first child drop dead, this is the drop dead the origin of the first child, our ancestors are so helpless, but resolute method to maintain the purity of the bloodline.

The most direct manifestation of this brutality was that the Yuan Dynasty ruled for 98 years, and the Han population dropped from 80 million to 30 million, the lowest point in China’s population after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Although Zhuang Rui study the history of the Mongol Yuan, but for that ruling class is not half a good feeling, is to speak with Peng Fei, are implicitly Genghis Khan called Mongolia old ghost.

So the Mongols killed the construction of the mausoleum craftsmen, which for them is simply a trivial matter, but it is a pity that these craftsmen do enough to escape the accurate, but ultimately did not escape the fate of death.

Although there was no way to verify what happened a thousand years ago, Zhuang Rui believed that the truth and what he had guessed must not be far from each other.

“All this wealth was looted, I must bring them back to the world.”

Zhuang Rui really can’t be considered as a qualified archaeologist, he can’t look at history with the attitude of staying out of it, after figuring out this joint, Zhuang Rui secretly made a decision in his heart.

“God bless, the river must have an entrance and exit.”

Now Zhuang Rui put all his hopes on that secret passage, which could lead to the ground, without alarming Peng Fei, Zhuang Rui took a deep breath and cast his eyes on the dark river after the secret passage.

Underground river is a collection of underground water, or surface water along the underground rock fissures seepage into the ground, through the rock erosion, collapse, and water transportation and the formation of underground river, most of the dark river often have an exit but no entrance, that is to say, the underground dark river water flow out, but people are unable to enter.

Zhuang Rui’s eyes, with the underground that meandering river stretching forward, the river in three hundred meters after the flow of the terrain gradually increased up.

This discovery made Zhuang Rui’s heart rejoice, as long as this flow direction remained the same, then there would definitely be an exit to the ground.

“Grandma, so long ah?”

Zhuang Rui did not expect, the length of this dark river is far beyond his imagination, has been chasing along the direction of the dark river nearly four or five miles away, at this time the dark river from the ground, only more than ten meters in height.

“This is …… a big lake?”

When Zhuang Rui’s eyes came to the exit of the dark river, couldn’t help but be a little dumbfounded, because the exit of this dark river, actually at the bottom of a lake, the entrance is flooded by the lake, need to dive inwards more than twenty meters, in order to arrive at the dark river is not completely submerged by the lake’s high point.

But compared to the layers of broken dragon stone under the Alzai grotto, this entrance, has been blessed, more than twenty meters in length, for many people is nothing, if those craftsmen did not die under the Mongolian butcher’s knife, perhaps they really have a chance to escape out.

“Ruler ……”

Just when Zhuang Rui was thinking of what excuse to go to this lake to take a look, a familiar horse neigh suddenly came to his ears, the sound that resounded through the prairie made Zhuang Rui a little surprised, and he hurriedly sat up.

Just drilling out of the tent, Zhuang Rui saw Chasing Wind running towards himself from dozens of meters away, that robust body in the morning light, showing a faint golden aura, after seeing Zhuang Rui, the running Chasing Wind happily tilted up to the sky again and gave a long neigh.

“Hey, good buddy, why are you here?” Zhuang Rui ran a few steps to meet Chasing Wind, and wrapped the large head of Chasing Wind, which was running close to him, in his arms.

Peng Fei who was on the side saw how divine Chasing Wind was, especially his White Rabbit Horse looked pleasing after seeing Chasing Wind, he couldn’t help but have a taste in his heart, angrily nuzzled his mouth and said, “Brother Zhuang, not only is this tart fellow here, but Old Ba and the others are here as well.”

Zhuang Rui raised his head at the words and looked towards the path where the chasing wind was coming from, sure enough, Bartel and Timur and Dr. Ren, were riding on their horses and coming this way, even that little girl Uyun Qiqiqiqi didn’t fall behind.

“Zhuangrui Anta, I’ve brought you your Wind Chaser.”

More than ten meters away, Timur’s bright laughter reached Zhuang Rui’s ears, and the four people in the group halted their horses, all stopping in front of Zhuang Rui’s tent.