The towering and majestic Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, which stands on Mount Li, attracts people from all walks of life like a magnet!
Li Daoyuan, a geographer in the Northern Wei Dynasty, wrote the story of Xiang Yu's 300,000-strong army stealing the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor!
Xiang Yu, known as the overlord of Chu, is resolute and detests evil. The fact that Qin Shihuang destroyed the six countries and unified the world has always been a hurdle in his heart. The hatred of destroying the country has formed a raging fire, which has burned to the liver and intestines of Xiang Yu!
Therefore, when he forced Liu Bang to quit Xianyang City and become a "winner", he eagerly ordered the soldiers to burn Epang Palace! Then, send 300,000 troops to Mount Li, pointing to the tomb of Ying Zheng, the enemy of Qin Shihuang!
It is said that the ground floor of the imperial tomb was not fully built at that time. As soon as the rebels arrived, they started burning and looting, burning all the shrines and temples, and all the gold and silver in them were robbed. It took 300,000 people to transport the treasures in the tomb, but it took 30 days to move them.
At that time, there was a kid who was herding sheep and accidentally strayed into chaos. His lamb was frightened and ran into the mausoleum underground palace.
In order to find the lost lamb, they entered the underground palace with torches, only to ignite the cloth. The burning meeting eventually swallowed up the whole underground palace, and Qin Shihuang's huge copper coffin was also submerged into ashes. ...
It has also been mentioned in some historical records that when Liu Bang fought against Xiang Yu, he also took stealing the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and taking the treasures from the Mausoleum without authorization as a big crime and made a verbal attack!
Since Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang personally told the story of Xiang Yu's grave robbery, can it be false?
Later generations gradually confirmed that Xiang Yu had stolen the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.
For thousands of years, this is one of the stains of Xiang Yu's hero's life.
So, has this giant imperial tomb been stolen? In other words, did Xiang Yu really enter the imperial tomb underground palace?
Let's take a look at the scale of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum and feel a few data:
The imperial tomb was built in 247 BC, in 208 BC, in the second year of Qin Ershi. It took 39 years and 720,000 people to build it. The total area of the mausoleum is 56 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the sum of the size of 78 Forbidden City!
The surrounding soil at the core of the mausoleum is barrel-shaped. After more than 2000 years of erosion, the existing height of the surrounding soil is still 5 1 m, about 15 stories high!
The chief designer of the imperial tomb is Li Si, the confidant prime minister of Qin Shihuang. With all his wisdom, he designed and supervised the imperial mausoleum with the largest scale, the most unique structure and the richest connotation in the world.
According to historical records, in order to fill the buried varieties in the underground palace, Qin continuously transported various rare treasures to the underground palace.
It is conceivable that it was not only the treasures of Qin itself that were razed to the ground, but also countless treasures seized by other six countries, which also became funerary objects with the first emperor!
To this day, there are many legends that Qin Shihuang buried three treasures in his grave: the Empress of Sui Dynasty, 12 Ren Jin and Dayu Jiuding!
All kinds of factors together, this imperial tomb, which is the best in the world, can't escape the fate of being stolen!
You know, the tombs of the Han Dynasty also have a high enclosure, and there are various sacrificial buildings on the ground. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Red Eyebrow Army made an insurrection and stole Liu Che's mausoleum.
Hundreds of thousands of people moved treasures from Maoling one after another, but they didn't finish moving for dozens of days!
It was not until the Western Jin Dynasty more than 300 years later that people stole countless funerary objects from the mausoleum. It can be seen that in this troubled times, the mausoleum of the former emperor is the target of public criticism, which is terrible!
Nearly two hundred years after the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, the mausoleum was still humiliated, not to mention the Qin Empire, which collapsed fifteen years after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Looking up ancient books and some unofficial history legends, there are also written records of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum being stolen and dug in the late Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and the rebellion at the end of the Song Dynasty.
Some anecdotes are so vivid that even the time and process of grave robbers digging the underground palace are clearly recorded, as if they had experienced it personally, which makes people have to believe it.
Is the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang really empty? This question, in the exploration of several generations of archaeologists in New China using various scientific means, has finally got the answer!
Of course, because of this research result, the incident of Chu overlord stealing the first imperial tomb has a new solution!
After two thousand years, Xiang finally turned over. ...
1974 northwest drought, farmland crops lack of water irrigation, food is about to be harvested! Villagers in xiyang village, Lishan Town, Lintong County, Shaanxi Province, are thinking of drilling several wells and pumping groundwater for emergency.
Subsequently, the villagers chose the location of drilling wells in a pomegranate forest on the edge of the village. This place is only 1.5km away from the giant earth-sealed mound of Qin Shihuang Mausoleum.
One evening in March, a group of villagers who lived for a few days soon never saw the shadow of groundwater again. Just when I was anxious, someone suddenly shouted, and several life-size figures were dug up in the soil!
That is, this time, there is no doubt that a "eighth wonder of the world" has been dug up-the terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shihuang reappeared in the world more than two thousand years later!
Subsequently, in 1980, archaeologists unearthed two well-made large bronze chariots and horses in a tomb pit 20 kilometers away from the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang!
Just like the appearance of life-size terracotta warriors and horses and perfectly made bronze chariots and horses, it directly illustrates a problem: the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor has not been seriously damaged!
Imagine, with Xiang Yu's explosive temper, how can these underground armies of Qin Shihuang be preserved intact?
Even if you can't take it away, you can't move it. I'm afraid you can't escape from destroying its fate under his orders!
Now these funerary objects are unearthed intact, which only shows that Xiang Yu did not carry out large-scale destruction in those days!
Of course, did Xiang Yu suddenly feel a pity? Certainly not!
The biggest possibility is that the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is so huge that even if the rebels wantonly destroy it, it will only hurt the surface fur, leaving the core bones and muscles untouched!
In the ancient society of China more than two thousand years ago, the productivity was still very low.
In the face of towering, iron-solid huge hills, Xiang Yu's army simply can't pry, and those hooligans in troubled times can't rely solely on Luoyang shovels and the like!
In Sima Qian's Historical Records, there is the earliest record about Qin Shihuang's underground palace: in the underground palace, a huge amount of mercury is used to imitate the trend of hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, and mermaid cream is used as a candlelight that lasts forever. ...
According to the record of "huge quantity" of Mercury, modern geological scientists have given the answer through data research!
There is "mercury anomaly" in soil chemical detection of sealed soil piles. And mercury is what the ancients called mercury!
This is the data obtained by using advanced scientific detection technology more than two thousand years after the mausoleum was built, and this discovery just shows that the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang was not stolen!
The reason is that mercury is a highly volatile substance. If the main tomb under the seal has been excavated and stolen, then mercury has disappeared in more than two thousand years because of its pervasive volatilization characteristics. How is it possible to detect a "mercury anomaly" with a large value?
The huge enclosure as high as 5 1 m still protects the underground palace of Qin Shihuang!
Such research results make archaeologists ecstatic.
In recent decades, a series of archaeological studies on the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang have never stopped. People have drilled more than 40,000 exploration holes in the sealed soil, thus making it clear that there is a wall with a diameter of 4 meters around the Forbidden City!
The outer layer of this wall is wrapped with bricks and stones, and the inner layer is solid clay. They are like a cement fortress, tightly surrounding this underground palace!
Don't say it's a grave robber who only had Luoyang shovel in ancient times. Even modern people can't shake it without using large-scale blasting equipment!
Of course, on the mound, archaeologists still found traces of stealing holes. There may still be many greedy people who didn't believe in evil and wanted to take a chance.
When the experts were exploring near the tunnel outside the mausoleum, they found two stolen holes 9 meters deep from the surface.
However, there are no signs of damage around the whole tunnel. In other words, these grave robbers didn't even find the location of the tunnel, let alone the entrance to the underground palace. ...
In the archaeological excavation outside the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, experts also found two bodies that were killed by several arrows! These arrows were shot by the legendary Qin crossbow machine.
Therefore, this also confirms the description in Historical Records that the underground palace is full of institutional traps: "If you can be a crossbow, the arrow will penetrate it, and if you are close, you will shoot it." And this position is just the periphery of the imperial tomb.
What kind of dangerous anti-theft design will the underground palace have? I feel cold at the thought!
It seems that Li Si, the prime minister who designed the imperial tomb in those days, was absolutely the best player in the world. His clever stab in the back hurt people, making all the arrows shoot at the slightest sign, thus killing the invaders!
In this way, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, didn't want to dig the underground palace of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum, but couldn't dig it!
Finally, I had to burn the ground building of the mausoleum and leave angrily!
Later generations, wave after wave of grave robbers, tried and tried but couldn't find a way to break through that steel defense line, so they could only look at the tomb and sigh!
Ying Zheng, the first emperor, worked miracles all his life, and even the place where he died has become an immortal legend that has amazed the world for more than two thousand years!
Who can match it through the ages? Qin Shihuang is the first person in the world!
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