Chapter 286 Mohist Underground Palace
Heading west from Daiding, bypassing the valley entrance, Yingfei penetrated deep into the uninhabited land of the back mountain.
He was accompanied by a middle-aged bald man. The two of them had good foot strength and climbed mountains and ridges in no-man's land. They used yellow powder to repel insects and medicinal wine to avoid snakes. They walked intermittently for two days and one night.
That afternoon, Ying Fei was filling water by a mountain stream, took a sip and said, "Brother Ma, that's all my information, the rest is up to you."
"There won't be a big tomb here, are you mistaken? The good location of Mount Tai and the water has long been taken up, and now it's all protected by the state. There won't be a good tomb in the place you brought me here. ." Brother Ma frowned.
Yingfei was not surprised but overjoyed when he heard this. He nodded and said: "Yes, this will not be a big tomb, nor will it be a good tomb. This is the tomb of the Mo family."
"Mo family? Are you kidding me? The Moh family advocates frugal burials. Where did the tomb come from?" Only then did Brother Ma know what kind of Moh family tomb Yingfei had led him to find, and he blew his beard and stared.
Yingfei hurriedly smiled and said: "Don't worry, the Mohist funeral festival advocates not wasting social wealth on the dead, but it doesn't mean there will be no tombs. Didn't we agree that we will give you five hundred thousand in this 'pot'? Just help me find the tomb, and leave it to me whether you make a profit or not."
"Then observing Feng Shui is useless. We can only analyze it geologically." Brother Ma said, carefully observing the trend of nearby mountains.
Now that we know that the tomb we are looking for is not in a geomantic treasure land, we can only analyze it bit by bit from the texture of the underground soil.
Not all places are suitable for building tombs. Some places have too rich groundwater, some places have soft soil, and some places have too deep roots of vegetation.
The two of them cooperated and slowly dug in the soil within a radius of twenty miles to verify and analyze the search.
It took two more days before the two finally locked onto a mountain stream.
Brother Ma pointed to the valley in front of him and said: "In the shadow of Mount Tai, to the west of the Naihe River is the ghost world. The valley here happens to be deep and steep, and there is no sunlight. The stream in the valley is constantly flowing, and the sound of the water is whimpering. It has flowed through the ages, pointing towards the Naihe River in the Yinting Courtyard. Mountain The power is high in the east and low in the west, with the sea on its back and swallowing up the Song Dynasty, negative yang and rejection of yin, and no vegetation can grow..."
"Didn't we agree to only look at geology? Why are we talking about Feng Shui again?" Ying Fei said in confusion.
"I'm not saying that this place is good, but that no groundbreaking is allowed here." Brother Ma said.
Ying Fei curled his lips and said: "Whatever, let's test the soil layer first."
With abundant funds, he prepared a lot of detection instruments. The two of them not only used scientific methods to measure first, but also spread out their shovels and entered the deep valley to start digging.
They used both methods at the same time and struggled for three hours. Suddenly Yingfei said with great joy: "This is it. The soil layer thirty meters underground is vague, and the traces of mixing the two kinds of soil are obvious. They are all caused by the traces of deep excavation." Soil layer.”
"This place is not suitable for groundbreaking. Even the Mohist is buried on the Ghost Festival. How could he build a tomb here?" Brother Ma asked strangely.
Yingfei didn't care. After confirming a few points, he started digging the hole.
This guy is a professional tomb robber. He is very skilled at digging holes. After a while, he dug into the ground as if he had escaped.
Brother Ma stood by the extremely narrow robbery cave and thought, and suddenly said: "Wait a minute, are you looking for the ancient tomb of the Pre-Qin Dynasty?"
"Of course, if you don't want to help dig, you can leave on your own and ask Old Man Liu to get the balance." Yingfei shouted in the robbery hole.
"Let me tell you, there shouldn't be a tomb here at all, but since the rammed earth layer common in the pre-Qin period has been found, it means there is indeed a mound of sealed earth underneath." Brother Ma said.
"That's it! This is what I'm looking for." Yingfei said.
"No, listen to me. The earth seal is not necessarily a tomb. There is another possibility, and that is an underground palace!" Brother Ma said.
Yingfei was silent for a while, then suddenly crawled out of the thief's cave and said, "Underground palace?"
The underground palace is part of the mausoleum, but the difference is that most of the remains of the dead are buried in the underground palace.
Like the Qin Mausoleum Underground Palace, Qin Shihuang's own coffin is not inside, but in a deeper tomb.
In other words, the tomb chamber is to the underground palace what the Forbidden City is to the capital.
There will be zenith grottoes, city walls and canals, densely packed houses with distinct houses, and even bridges and mountains.
There are so many burial sites in this kind of place that I can't even count them. He dug them without authorization, and the blue and white society held him accountable.
"The Mohist family advocates festival burial, so how can they build an underground palace?" Yingfei said depressedly.
"I told you, this is not a tomb. This may be an underground palace that is not a mausoleum, that is, a dungeon for living people!" Brother Ma said solemnly.
"hiss!"
Yingfei was shocked at first, and then overjoyed!
The Mohists advocated frugal burial and advocated giving social wealth to the living rather than to the dead.
Building an underground palace is a contradiction! Unless...this underground palace is for living people.
On the other hand, if there is an underground palace, it is very likely that it belongs to the Mohist family, because whoever builds an underground palace must be an emperor, and he will never choose to build an underground palace in a place like this where no groundbreaking is allowed.
If there is an underground palace in this place, then after thinking about it, the only ones who dare to do this are really the Mo family!
"Mo Family Underground Palace...Mo Family Underground Palace..." Yingfei was about to cry. He had been looking for it for ten years and never thought that there would be a Moh Family Underground Palace.
After all, it was impossible for the Mohist family to have a large tomb for festival burials. He had always thought that at most he would be satisfied if he found clues that there was wooden armor in the tomb of a certain Han Dynasty prince or pre-Qin prince.
Because that would prove that his ancestor did not lie, and his suspicion all along was also correct.
Who would have known that there is most likely an underground palace for living people under the feet now. If this really belongs to the Mo family, it must contain shocking secrets that the Mo family has buried for thousands of years.
"Xiao Fei, this is what you are looking for, right? You have been looking for the ancient tombs of the pre-Qin period, but are you actually looking for this Mohist underground palace?" asked Brother Ma.
Ying Fei hurriedly calmed down and said, "I only knew that there would be something here, but I only thought it was an ancient tomb. After all, underground projects are all mausoleums, and I never thought it would be an underground city where living people live."
He found this place based on the painting on a silk map found in a Han Dynasty Mohist tomb. He studied it for a long time, repeatedly compared it with the rivers and mountains in China, and finally found that the painting was the terrain somewhere on the western foot of Mount Tai.
"This is all your guess. Maybe this is just a small tomb for a simple burial." Ying Fei said.
"Don't say anything, I'll help you dig." Brother Ma picked up his tool and ran to another point to dig.
Ying Fei frowned slightly, knowing that Brother Ma was also concerned about the underground palace. Underground palaces often have many cultural relics. One or two people can carry a few pieces with them, and it will take more than ten years to move them all.
However, he was young and strong, so he was not afraid of Brother Ma's greed on the spot, and he was even less afraid afterwards... If he really found the underground palace, he would contact and report it directly to his superiors, asking the Blue and White Society to send people to protect it and then hand it over to the country.
Both of them were veterans, and they tried their best to dig deep holes. If they couldn't dig at one point, they would change to another point.
Because Mo Qiong sponsored sufficient funds, Yingfei brought enough supplies. The two of them ate, drank, defecated and urinated in this deep valley for another two days, and finally confirmed the existence of the underground palace, and dug a hole directly to the stone wall on the side.
"Take out the explosives!" Brother Ma hit the stone wall a few times and found that the stone wall seemed to be poured with copper water, so he said.
Yingfei shook his head and said, "Don't destroy it. If oxygen is poured in, everything inside will be destroyed."
"There must be a lot of good things inside. If you can take one or two, you will be rich. What are you afraid of?" Brother Ma didn't know that Yingfei was an outsider of the Blue and White Society, so he said indifferently.
Yingfei took out a mask and gas cylinder from his bag, and even a protective suit, and said, "Let it be lacking in oxygen. Anyway, there must be poisonous gas. You are a senior, you must know why no one dares to steal Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum, right?"
Brother Ma said, "It's because it's full of mercury. Mercury is highly toxic. It can not only enter through the mouth and nose, but also penetrate the skin. The older generation will die one by one, and it is impossible to steal."
"There is no problem with my equipment. It wraps the whole body tightly and sticks to the skin. Even if I soak in poisonous gas, I will be fine." Yingfei said with a smile.
"Xiaofei, give me a set too." Brother Ma said with a smile.
"Sorry, there is only this set. I have prepared more masks and gas cylinders, but this can't prevent the poison from penetrating the skin." Yingfei said.
Brother Ma looked ugly, but he was unwilling to leave, so he had to say, "Let's blow it up first."
Seeing that he was not giving up, Yingfei went up and put on his equipment first, then went down to the depths of the theft hole, opened the airbag, and blocked the theft hole, so that there would be no air circulation.
Then use the top of the explosive to blast the stone wall, and the flame will consume the last bit of oxygen.
"Boom!" A small hole was blown in the stone wall.
Yingfei stopped and listened for a while, and saw the echo inside was agitated and continued for a long time, and he couldn't help but get excited.
Throw the fluorescent lamp in first, and find that the small hole is at a high place, and the fluorescent lamp falls directly to a depth of more than ten meters.
"How is it!" Brother Ma heard the explosion and immediately shouted on the airbag.
Yingfei said: "This stone wall seems to be a city wall. We dug a shallow hole, in the upper half of the city wall."
"Is there any poisonous gas!" Brother Ma asked.
Yingfei took out the instrument to test it and found that there were indeed many harmful gases, but there was no poisonous gas that penetrated the skin, so it would be fine to wear a mask.
But he didn't tell Brother Ma, but said: "It's poisonous! Don't come down."
As he said, he nailed the rope in the hole, climbed down along the rope, and soon landed.
Holding the electric light high, he was shocked at a glance.
He really climbed down from the city wall. In front of him was a huge city with bluestone roads, stone houses on both sides, and neat drainage ditches.
Every ten meters, there was a tall wooden water mercury, which even had water stored inside.
Every twenty meters, there was a bronze pillar, which led directly to the dome, with spiral stairs connecting many two-story wooden houses.
Looking up, there were interlaced wooden beams across the entire city. These beams were wrapped in bronze, like tracks, supported by countless bronze pillars, and connected all the two-story wooden houses.
There were also many carriage-like vehicles scattered on it, but horses could not walk on these tracks suspended in the air.
Out of curiosity, Yingfei walked up along a bronze pillar and came to a carriage.
He suddenly found that the carriage had a tight mechanism and many pedals, which could be ridden like a bicycle.
But at the pedal position, Yingfei suddenly saw what he had dreamed of.
A wooden armored man with hands and feet and a head like a square stele.
"Found it... I found it! I found it!" Ying Fei burst into tears.
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