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Chapter 540 Wu Zetian Mausoleum
This cave hall is sunken. The top of the hall is at the same level as where Yang Jing is standing now, but the bottom of the hall is seven or eight meters deep.

Obviously, it can be clearly judged from the location and depth that this cave hall is the core area of ​​the entire cave.This cave hall, together with the four sections of caves outside, form a "Hui"-shaped structure. The four sections of caves outside are full of traps are the outer circle of the word "Hui", and this cave hall is The small "mouth" in the word "hui".

Yang Jing approached the rock wall at the entrance of the cave hall, looked at it for a while, then reached out to touch the rock wall, and then shook his head in surprise.

If you read correctly, this cave hall was forcibly excavated from the mountain!

That is to say, if the four sections of the cave outside were formed naturally and then slightly modified artificially, then this cave hall is very likely to be completely carved out of the mountain!

By this time, Yang Jing was almost convinced that this cave was not built by Yuechengzi at all.He had just found this place at the beginning, and then took it for himself.

It's just that such a huge project was done by that awesome person?

Combined with what he guessed in the cave hall outside, Yang Jing estimated that this cave was most likely built by an emperor of the Tang Dynasty!
The emperors in ancient China often began to prepare for their own affairs from the moment they ascended the throne. Along with the glorious ascension of a generation of emperors, on the other hand, there was a huge construction project of the emperor's tomb.

An emperor's mausoleum often takes several years or even decades to build.There are many short-lived emperors who began to build their own tombs after they ascended the throne, but most of the tombs could not be repaired until their death.
If this cave is really an emperor's tomb, considering the construction level at that time, it would take at least ten years just to build this tomb!

With a slight breath, Yang Jing slowly stepped on the steps extending downward from the entrance, and walked to the bottom of the cave hall.

This step is close to the rock wall on one side. After going down and taking out the battery lights, the bottom that was a bit blurry from above was all lit up at once.

The entire hall is more than ten meters long and wide, about the same size as the first cave hall.At the very center of the bottom of the hall, there is a raised square stone platform. Next to the stone platform is a stone tablet more than one meter high. On the stone platform, a completely decayed skeleton sits there. Between the thigh bones, there is a jade box with a radius of less than one foot
The jade box should have been held in the lower abdomen of the skeleton before it was alive, but when the body rotted, the jade box naturally fell between the legs.

A complete skeleton holding a jade box in its hand, what does this represent?
it goes without saying!This jade box is definitely of extraordinary significance to this skeleton.

This situation made Yang Jing extremely excited. The scene in front of him obviously showed one thing, that is, the thing in that jade box was most likely the Jade Seal of Chuanguo!

Yang Jingqiang suppressed the excitement in his heart, and walked quickly to the skeleton, only to find that the skeleton was not only holding the jade box, but also had other things in the skeleton.

On the stone platform behind the skeleton, a jade hairpin fell, and one end of the jade hairpin was engraved with Tai Chi Yin Yang fish. This is obviously not a hairpin used by ordinary women, but a hairpin worn by a Taoist priest.

In addition to this jade hairpin, there is also a jade handle on the arm bones of this skeleton. As for the beast hair on the whisk, it has long since rotted away without a trace, leaving only this whisk. handle.Since the handle of this dust whisk is also made of jade, the handle has not rotted.

On the arm bone of the left arm of the skeleton, there is also a yin and yang ring made of jade.

Obviously, these remaining things all indicate the identity of this skeleton-this skeleton was a Taoist priest during his lifetime.

Because whether it is the jade hairpin with yin and yang fish engravings, the sick whisk without animal hair, or the yin and yang ring with two rings connected together, they are all ornaments worn by Taoist priests.

In other words, the identity of this skeleton during his lifetime can already be revealed - Yuechengzi.

If this skeleton was really Yuechengzi before his death, then the jade box between the skeleton's hands must contain the legendary Jade Seal of Chuanguo.

Although Yang Jing was very excited, he was not in a hurry to get the jade box. Instead, he calmed down and looked carefully at the stone tablet next to the stone platform.

This stone tablet, like the one outside, was carved in Executioner script. Yang Jing had to identify it for a long time before he translated the engraved content on this stone tablet.

These contents surprised Yang Jing.

The content on the stele is roughly like this.

In the first year of Tianyou, that is, AD 904, Yue Chengzi traveled around the world after he was taught from the Shangqing Temple in Wangwu Mountain. As a result, he accidentally got a secret scroll and learned the general location of a mausoleum built by Wu Zetian, Emperor Wu Zetian more than 200 years ago. So they searched according to the map, and it took six years to find the tomb suspected to be built by Wu Zetian, the empress of Wu Zhou, in the third year of Tiancheng, that is, in the park in 910.

This time point is consistent with the time stated on the previous stone tablet, but the previous stone tablet did not say so detailedly, but this stone tablet said in detail how Yue Chengzi discovered the Wu Zetian Mausoleum.

Seeing this, Yang Jing smiled.This cave is indeed a mausoleum of an emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and it is actually the mausoleum built by the legendary Wu Zetian for himself.

After all, Wu Zetian took over the Li family's world and set up the capital in Luoyang. This is obviously because Wu Zetian had ghosts or guilt in his heart at the time.Since Wu Zhou even changed his capital, it is very likely that Wu Zetian did not want to be buried with Li Zhi after he became a queen after he became the queen, so he built his own mausoleum under Daimei Mountain.

But in the end, Wu Zetian didn't use this mausoleum either.Although the empress had a change of dragon during her serious illness, Wu Zetian returned the imperial power to the Li family, but Li Xian, that is, Tang Zhongzong, was Wu Zetian's third son after all, so after Li Xian came to the throne, after the death of his mother Wu Zetian, he directly handed over the imperial power to the Li family. Wu Zetian was buried together with his father Li Zhi.

After Wu Zetian's death, he was buried in Qianling by his son and buried with her husband Li Zhi, so this tomb would naturally be useless.

According to the scale of this mausoleum, it is wrong that only a female emperor like Wu Zetian has the ability to build such a powerful mausoleum. I am afraid that no one else has such financial resources.Of course, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty after Wu Zetian had the ability and financial resources to build such tombs, but the tombs of the Li family were all built in the Eighteen Tombs of the Tang Dynasty.

In this way, Wu Zetian didn't know how much manpower and material resources were spent to build this mausoleum, but in the end he didn't use it, but it was cheaper for Yuechengzi.

The next thing on the inscription is how Yuechengzi met Li Congke, how he was valued by Li Congke, and how he was summoned by Li Congke to Beijing to become the official of Sitiantai after Li Congke ascended the throne and became the last emperor of Tang Dynasty.

It focuses on the process of how to obtain the Chuan Guoxie.

After drinking the poisoned wine given by Li Congke, Yue Chengzi secretly took the antidote he prepared, so he was not poisoned to death on the spot. Instead, he saw Li Congke bring his wife, children and old mother, holding the Jade Seal of the Kingdom in his hand. Sitting upright on the Xuanwu Tower, and then ordered the guards of the imperial guards to light the Xuanwu Tower, a generation of emperors hugged Yuxi and his family and burned themselves in the fire of the Xuanwu Tower.

Because Li Congke threw himself into the fire, the entire Luoyang Palace was in chaos. The maids and eunuchs in the palace took advantage of the chaos, looted many treasures and fled, but no one came to the Xuanwu Building because of the fire.

After the fire was extinguished, Yuechengzi secretly found the unburned Chuanguo Yuxi, then quietly slipped out of Luoyang Palace and returned to Yuecheng Temple.However, due to the lingering poison, Yuechengzi was not well-known for a long time, and finally moved all the precious things that Li Congke rewarded when he was an official in Sitiantai into this Mausoleum of Wu Zetian, and then left it in the cave hall outside. The stone tablet restarted these mechanisms, and finally came here alone. After carving this stone tablet, he held the Jade Seal of Chuanguo in his hand and waited for death to come.

There is no doubt that this skeleton was left by Yuechengzi, and the jade box contained the Jade Seal of Chuanguo that had been missing for more than 1000 years.

However, Yuechengzi also mentioned some other things in the inscription, such as if a descendant comes here, please properly dispose of his remains.Another very important piece of information is that Yue Chengzi knew that this tomb full of organs was prepared by Wu Zetian for himself, but he did not fully explore the tomb, and he did not enter the main tomb.And the rewards he got from Li Congke were placed in a burial room by him.

Seeing this, Yang Jing couldn't help sighing.

This Yuechengzi can be regarded as a hero of the generation. Before, he thought that such an insidious trap was arranged by him, but now it seems that he guessed wrong.These traps were set up by the Empress Wu Zetian.

But it's no wonder if you think about it.Although Wu Zetian was domineering, established the Wu Zhou Dynasty, and became the only empress in Chinese history, but she was a woman after all, and she was married to the Li family.So after she won the world, there must be ghosts in her heart.

Perhaps it was because of ghosts in his heart that Wu Zetian was worried about this and that when building his mausoleum, which made his mausoleum built so carefully.
Yuechengzi is nothing more than a poison occupying a magpie's nest.

However, Yuechengzi was able to persist in hiding the Jade Seal of Chuanguo after drinking the poisoned wine. No matter from which point of view, he owed Huaxia a lot.If it weren't for him, no one can tell what would have happened to Chuan Guo Yuxi.But with Yuechengzi, although the Chuanguo Yuxi had been missing for thousands of years, it finally returned to the hands of the Huaxia people!

(End of this chapter)