The snowfield was vast, and when the dim light of the flashlight passed by, at least more than one-third of the area shone brightly like dots of starlight.

If there is mercury all over such a large area, how much should it be?

It’s hard to say, but it must be an astronomical figure!

Lao Bai didn't bother to care about this problem. After confirming the location of the tomb, he knew that it would be time to shovel tomorrow. There was a lot of dirty work to do, so he got into his sleeping bag and went to sleep.

Anyway, in his opinion, there is mercury in the tomb, and the most terrifying thing is the toxicity of mercury evaporation. However, we are equipped with gas masks this time, so we are not worried about this at all. Since we were almost killed in the Donghu Ancient Tomb last time,

After being poisoned alive, we will definitely wear gas masks when we move now. It is a black technology product bought by a certain treasure, but it is not a fake. It is easy to escape. Brother Yaozi has modified it casually. It can be said that most of the ancient tombs

It can protect against poisonous gas.

Brother Yaozi and Zhang Xinya chatted with me for a few words, and then got into their sleeping bags and fell asleep. They were very tired after a long day's journey.

Unfortunately, I couldn't sleep, so I took out a pen and paper, and kept shining a flashlight on the snowfield below to confirm the area of ​​mercury, so as to determine the scale of the sea of ​​suffering in the tomb, and then judge the layout of the entire tomb.

After all, the location of the tomb has been confirmed, but the safest place to enter still requires a lot of calculations on my part!

There is no other reason than there is mercury in the tomb, which involves the specifications of the tomb!

When talking about this kind of mercury tomb, everyone's first thought will definitely be to think of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin. After countless surveys, archaeologists have long given the exact answer. The Mausoleum of the First Emperor does indeed contain countless amounts of mercury!!

Even those archaeologists carefully discussed the role of mercury in the tomb.

One is that it can be well insulated, forming a closed insulation layer in the underground palace, which can well ensure the color of the items in the underground palace. The other is that mercury can kill microorganisms and prevent corrosion. Finally, it can prevent theft.

This is a matter of killing three birds with one stone.

So, is this statement correct?

Right and wrong!!

It’s right because mercury appears in tombs and it can indeed play the above three functions. It’s wrong because the ancients didn’t know that mercury had these functions at all!!

Sixty-seven out of ten of the tombs of high-ranking officials in the world are made by ritual officials. What kind of materials are used in the tombs and what specifications are selected. The ritual officials are very knowledgeable. They even study the characteristics of each thing.

So, when I look at the manuscripts of ancestors from past dynasties, when did the ceremonial officials fully understand the characteristics of mercury?

Tang Dynasty!!

That’s right, it was only in the Tang Dynasty that Li officials fully understood mercury!

However, after the Tang Dynasty, there were no more mercury tombs!!

Each dynasty has its own tomb characteristics.

For example, in the Tang Dynasty, everyone knows that the tombs in the Tang Dynasty were the largest and they were built into mountains.

For example, in the Song Dynasty, there were many brick tombs, because the Song Dynasty banned the use of stone tombs. At that time, the north of the Yangtze River was the economic, political and cultural center of the country. Therefore, stone tombs from the Song Dynasty were rarely seen in the north. Later, in the Southern Song Dynasty, they were in chaos.

If you click, the tomb will be complicated.

As for the Yuan Dynasty...

Come on, tell me, who the hell has ever seen the tomb of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty?

There are secret burials in the Yuan Dynasty. No one knows where their royal tombs are. My ancestors who worked for the Yuan Dynasty royal family often died. One of the royal children died. Our family mourned for three years, because after participating in the construction of the tombs, there will definitely be

Being executed, or directly buried with him, were the darkest days for ritual officials. An ancestor of my family was forced to marry twenty wives and concubines. He struggled day and night for fear that the inheritance would be cut off!

Finally, when it comes to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is a mixed bag. Most of them are brick tombs with arched tops. The architectural structures are very complex.

The ancient tomb mechanisms of the two dynasties are the most terrifying...

In short, no matter how the funeral system changed from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there were no mercury tombs anymore. Such mercury tombs basically only appeared from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Qin Dynasty, and then stopped. Only one or two appeared occasionally in the Han Dynasty.

In other words, the emergence of mercury tombs has nothing to do with the role of mercury itself. It is because mercury was very valuable during that period. The presence of mercury in the tomb itself is a symbol of power and wealth.

Therefore, the amount of mercury in the tomb directly indicates the identity of the tomb owner!!

In addition, the mercury in the tomb also has another function.

Li Daoyuan, a famous geographer in the Northern Wei Dynasty, once said that using mercury as the rivers, lakes and seas is because mercury is used as the four rivers, hundreds of rivers, five mountains and nine states, which has geographical potential!

This involves the Xuanmen theory, which means that this thing symbolizes the geography of mountains and rivers, and is directly linked to the country of the tomb owner!

For example, although I have never been to the tomb of the First Emperor, the mercury rivers inside must be criss-crossing each other. If you sort it out carefully, there must be seven of them, symbolizing the unification of the seven kingdoms. The mercury rivers flow through the area. If you zoom in,

It must have the power of the Central Plains. To put it bluntly, it is like a small sand table of the country, telling future generations that this is my country!!

Behind these mercury galaxies is where the First Emperor truly slept!

The country is in front and the king is behind. This means that the country is greater than the king.

All mercury tomb layouts are nothing more than this!!

And what about this mercury tomb in front of me?

The use of such a large amount of mercury shows that the owner of this ruins has a very high status, at least he is a monarch of an ancient country.

In addition, I found that the land contaminated by mercury is connected together. This means that the mercury in the ruins is really like a sea. In other words, the land where the owner of the ruins lived was on the sea?

This inference makes me puzzled. Taiyue Mountain is inland. Why would the monarch of an overseas country be buried here?!

I couldn't figure it out, and I didn't think about it anymore. Fortunately, through the shape of the contaminated area, I could roughly guess the shape of the sea of ​​mercury below, and the approximate location of this sea of ​​mercury in the entire tomb, and then

, and add some possible tomb chambers.

In this way, the layout and size of the entire tomb can basically be seen on the paper.

After the drawing was completed, I looked at the tomb drawings in front of me and fell into deep thought...

"Hey, isn't this Luo Shu?"

Suddenly, a female voice came from my ears. I was concentrating on the drawing. The sudden sound shocked me. When I looked back, it was Zhang Xinya. This girl got up at some point.

, at this moment, his head passed through my shoulder, and he was looking at the drawing in my hand. The hot breath he exhaled blew on my neck, causing goosebumps all over my body. I couldn't help shrinking my head and moving away.

I asked her to sit down next to me, and then said angrily: "It's late at night, if you don't sleep well, why are you getting up to join in the fun?"

"Blame me?"

Zhang Xinya rolled her eyes. It was cold on the top of the mountain. She shrank and frowned: "You are right in front of me. You are like a lunatic. You keep muttering in your mouth that the Tang tomb is built on the mountain and the Song tomb is full of bricks. It's just like a ghost."

It sounds like you are chanting sutras, but the place we live in is not peaceful, and I was scared awake by you!"

I was also a little embarrassed, probably because I was too involved, so I made some noise, smiled, and said nothing again.

Zhang Xinya poked me with her elbow and said, "Hey, you haven't made it clear yet. Isn't this Luo Shu?"

"This is the layout of this tomb. The various tomb chambers are stacked together. It really looks like Luoshu."

I nodded, looked at the tomb layout I drew, and got in again.

The river produces pictures, and Luo produces books.

Everyone in China must know this. In ancient times, dragons and horses appeared in the Yellow River, carrying river maps on their backs and dedicating them to Fuxi. Fuxi used this to evolve the Innate Bagua, which was later the source of the "Book of Changes", which has imaged China for thousands of years.

, if you must ask where the roots of Chinese people are, it is right here. The roots of civilization are here, which will invisibly affect social rules and everyone's behavior in life, regardless of whether you admit it or not, as long as a Chinese

Everything a person does cannot escape the influence of Confucianism and Taoism!

As for the book published by Luo, it was during the period of Dayu's flood control. A divine turtle emerged from the Luo River, carried the book of Luo on its back, and dedicated it to Dayu. Dayu relied on this to successfully control the flood and divided the world into nine states.

Therefore, Luoshu, also known as Guishu, is the source of Yin-Yang and Five Elements magic numbers.

Zhang Xinya was speechless after hearing this: "You look so awesome. You are not bad either. Just by shining a flashlight in the snow, the layout of the entire tomb was revealed."

"I'm not great. What's great is this tomb."

I said quietly: "You still don't understand what it means to build a tomb into the Luoshu? Dayu obtained the Luoshu and divided the world into nine states. This Luoshu contains the changes in the world, and the mountains and rivers are all included in it. A simple picture

The picture talks about the largest and most complex truth in the world. If the emperor's residence is designed like this, there is no problem. But... if it is built as a tomb and you are stuffed inside, will you be comfortable? This is

I picked up the whole world and smashed it on your head. This tomb is used to suppress others!!

As for the mercury sea in the tomb, this is not to tell future generations how awesome the owner of the tomb is, but to tell the owner of the tomb that no matter how high your status is, I will have high methods. Even if you are the king of heaven, I will

There are also corresponding regulations to bury you, and you will never be able to stand up after being suppressed!"

Zhang Xinya was dumbfounded after hearing this, and after a while she said: "I suddenly understand why you can tell what the layout of the tomb is like at just a glance. To be honest, does it feel very familiar to you now?"

I nodded silently.

"Then he didn't run away."

Zhang Xinya sighed: "This tomb is most likely used by your ritual officers to bury people. This style of doing things is just like the urine of your ritual officers. If you disagree, you will bury people even if they die."
Chapter completed!