The rocky beach that Brother Yaozi mentioned is about four or five miles away in a straight line from where we are now.

Compared with similar tombs that have appeared in the past, this distance is far away. If the real entrance of the tomb is there, it means that craftsmen have to dig underground a tunnel that is far longer than the straight line distance. This length is no less than

There are some super-long tunnels in modern times. In ancient times, with the relatively backward tools and labor efficiency, such tunnels were amazing and would only appear in some large tombs. However, the environment of Hecha Mountain is not a place where emperors and generals can be buried.

Earth, most of the tombs here are because military strategists must fight for it, and people died here, so they had no choice but to bury them on the spot...

Based on this situation, the person buried under the military stronghold must not be the kind with a special reputation. If he is really a powerful person, such as a general, even if he died here, his family will try their best to collect the bones and rebuild them.

Find a place to bury them, after all, their status is their right, and their treatment will always be different.

Therefore, Lao Bai and the others felt that the real entrance to the tomb was not in the rocky beach. The passage to the tomb was too long, and the scale of the tomb was inconsistent with the Feng Shui environment of Hecha Mountain.

But I was determined to go take a look, not only because Brother Yaozi said that the feng shui there was very bad, but also because gold and silver appeared inexplicably there. I felt that gold and silver were not washed down from the upstream by Lingshui at all, but

It flowed directly from that tomb due to geological changes or human factors.

The old god is the owner of the tomb. Strictly speaking, whether it is silver ingots or gold nuggets, they are his private property. Ghosts and gods always have an inexplicable feeling about their burial objects. This is why many people take them from the tomb.

The reason why the bright weapon was entangled by the owner of the tomb after traveling thousands of miles away is explained in this way. It is not surprising that the old god can guide Uncle Erpian and the others to find the nugget gold accurately.

Our line of ritual officers are experts in tombs, so I made up my mind that Lao Bai and the others would stop talking, eat some solid food, slow down their strength, and set off while sharing the heavy luggage on their backs.

The sun gradually rises from the east, and the thick fog in the mountains seems to respond to it, swaying upwards, forming a strange scene like a dragon sucking water, and finally it becomes dense on the top of the head, gathering and never dispersing. The most bizarre thing

Yes, the temperature is constantly rising, which is like getting into a steamer. The humid air makes those of us accustomed to the dryness of the Loess Plateau feel like we have difficulty breathing.

Lao Bai couldn't stand the heat the most, so he took off his shirt and tied it around his waist. The fat all over his body was white and tender, and he looked like a Maitreya Buddha. When he touched him with his hands, a cool layer of sweat came out from his hands.

Seems like.

“It’s so hard!”

Lao Bai gasped and said: "This is more deadly than a hundred thousand mountains!"

Stopping and going, we walked through the eight or nine miles of mountainous terrain for three or four hours. Near noon, when we followed a ravine created by the rain, a mountain river jumped into view, and we followed the river all the way down.

In a corner of the undulating mountains, the kite brother leading the way stopped.

"That's it."

Brother Yaozi pointed to a huge rocky beach at the bend of the river ahead and said: "In the early years, there were a lot of people here. Many people dug out treasures from the mud under the rocky beach, and some people dug out Dead people's bones, but it's too dangerous. The weather on Hecha Mountain is changeable, and it rains heavily at any time. The rocky beach is surrounded by mountains. One year, there was a mudslide. All ten people at the bottom of the mountain were trapped, and none of them survived. OK, no one will come after that."

The terrain of Hecha Mountain is very unique. In a word, there are rocks on the mountain and earth below. This is why I refused to find a way to directly enter the tomb from the military camp. The thickness of the rock layer has reached an appalling level. A mudslide occurred here. , it was the soil on the mountain mixed with the rain that swept the stones and rolled them down. It was not so much a mudslide, but a rain of stones. Once it was covered, there was really no way to survive. I could even imagine dying. Most of those people have become meat sauce.

As for the rocky beach, it is a depression squeezed between the mountains. The rocks on the mountain rolled down, and the Lingshui below flowed through it. It rushed out of such a place. The river was trapped by the rocks, and the living water became The feng shui of this stagnant water couldn't be worse. If I were a native, I probably wouldn't give this place a second glance. Even if I dug something out, I would follow the river to find it instead of wasting time here.

Getting a little closer, a towering stench hit my face. A thick layer of green algae floated on the water trapped in the middle of the boulders. Toads covered in pustules jumped back and forth. There were many shriveled dead tadpoles hanging on the protruding boulders, some with tails. Legs grew on both sides, but because the water level dropped, they were hung on rocks and dried in the shade to become dried tadpoles. The smell... Anyone who has smelled it will never forget it, just like the old rice dumplings that have been fermenting for a thousand years with their mouths closed. Sitting up and breathing heavily into his face, Zhang Xinya retched twice and covered his mouth and nose to avoid it.

I suppressed my nausea and walked around among the rocks. I didn't see anything interesting and then left. I took out the compass to confirm the direction of the military camp and walked straight towards the mountain to the north.

If the real entrance to the tomb is here, then the entrance must be on this mountain. Only this mountain is suitable for digging. The other mountains are either in the wrong direction and require a big circle, or they are full of rocks.

It was a joke to build a four- to five-mile-long corridor on the rocky mountain. Even the emperor did not do this. The amount of work was more terrifying than opening a mountain to build a tomb. The construction of a mountain to build a tomb was only a flash in the pan when the Tang Dynasty was at its most powerful, and the follow-up was It's too weak to be successful, let alone other dynasties.

Wushuang followed me with a huge backpack on his back. When he saw me squatting at the foot of the mountain, grabbing soil and rubbing it to see the quality of the soil, he immediately knew what I was going to do. He took out a cloth bag from the backpack and shook it gently. , "Crash!" A lot of Luoyang shovel heads fell out, including sand shovels, brick shovels, and sand shovels.

The soil here is very delicate due to the moisture of the humid environment, so I picked up a soil shovel, added a white wax pole, and gestured towards the foot of the mountain: "In this area, let's work together, there is no way to get around it. You can only use brute force, the pole doesn’t need to be too long, just hit it two meters down and change places!”

The military camp above this tomb borrowed the name of Li Zicheng, indicating that the tomb was at least the same era as Li Zicheng. It was only about 400 years ago. The traces left by the construction of the tomb at that time will not be buried too deep.

, so the shovel does not need to be deep. I estimated based on experience that two meters is enough!

Zhang Xinya was most worried about Bai Lin. Without saying anything, she picked a shovel head, added a white wax pole, and started working directly.

Except for the fact that Xiao Zhi is unable to do such heavy work, five people started working together, and the soil was soft after the rain. It was not difficult to dig out this area.

At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, Wushuang shouted, pulled out the Luoyang shovel covered with mud, knocked it gently on the ground, and poured out a round pillar of soil, which was mixed with black, yellow and white soil.

Three colors, layered on top of each other, look like thousand-layer cakes, but aren’t they just five-flowered soil?!

"Found it!"

Wushuang wiped the sweat from his forehead and raised his chin at Lao Bai: "What do you mean? You have to listen to Brother Jingzhe for this kind of thing. If he said it is in this place, then it must be in this place."

Lao Bai thrust a sapper's shovel into Wu Shuang's feet: "Work hard, you are young, why do you talk so much nonsense? You have to have your own mind, you can't open your mouth and shut up because it's you Brother Jingzhe. Is it possible that in the future?"

When you were having sex with that girl Ling Ying, your brother Jingzhe had to squat next to you so that you had the courage to take off your pants? You're so embarrassed, I'm afraid that your brother Jingzhe couldn't help it!"

Wushuang was not afraid of anything, but he was afraid that others would make fun of Ling Ying, and his face turned red.

I kicked Lao Bai on the butt, laughed and cursed: "If you don't control your bad mouth, you will be in trouble sooner or later!"

After saying that, I squatted down and stared at the hole made by the Luoyang shovel. I saw that it was at least a meter and a half deep. I glanced at the sky and said, "Hurry up and dig. The soil is a bit loose. Brother Kitao, please."

Come with me!"

While I was busy working, something came to my mind and I turned around and asked Brother Yao Zi if there was anything special about the gold and silver that those people picked up.

"The pay of the Ming army!"

Brother Yaozi said: "It's square, like a bowl, with words printed on it. On the left is pure silver, in the middle is the name of the place, and then is the word "soldier's pay". Many people dug it up.

The money that comes out is different, some is military pay, some is official silver, and there is also loose silver from the people. It is said that military pay comes out in several places."

I said "Oh", secretly wondering about the true identity of the tomb owner.

Since it was paid by the Ming army, then this tomb belongs to the late Ming Dynasty, not the Qing Dynasty.

Zhang Xinya interrupted and asked whether the tomb belonged to Liu Guangzuo. After all, it was known that Liu Guangzuo was the only Ming general who suffered a defeat on Hecha Mountain.

But I shook my head. It was the sixth year of Chongzhen when Liu Guangzuo was defeated here. He was only defeated, not killed in battle. If I remember correctly, this man should have survived until the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, and was ordered to defend Nanyang. The peasants

He died after his army captured Nanyang.

Therefore, this tomb definitely does not belong to Liu Guangzuo.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty was a guard system, which was similar to the Tang Dynasty's government army system. However, the Tang Dynasty's government army system was out of control, and it was too big to lose. Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid of following in the same footsteps, so he created a guard system, but he restricted it greatly.

The soldiers they produced were not as good as dogs, and they suppressed warriors even more than the Song Dynasty. Therefore, it collapsed in the later period, and the recruitment system was adopted. By the Chongzhen period, wars basically relied on servants. The so-called servants were actually private armies, which made them famous.

The Guan Ning Cavalry is essentially a private army. Whenever the generals go out to fight and fight against others, they basically rely on their own servants. Liu Guangzuo used his own servants to fight in Chashan, but these servants do not receive military pay.

, what they eat is the salary deducted by their master after drinking the blood of the soldiers. After stealing the soldiers' salary, who will directly hand out the money with the big characters of "soldier's salary" printed on it? They will definitely get it back!

Therefore, it is a bit strange that Ming army pay and wages appear here, but... in the end of the Ming Dynasty, only Liu Guangzuo fought on Hecha Mountain, and no one else came.

Where did the Ming Dynasty salary money in the tomb come from?

"Damn it, isn't the co-author a peasant army leader?"

I rubbed my nose, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought this was what happened.

Only one Ming Dynasty general, Liu Guangzuo, came to Hecha Mountain, but there were quite a few peasant troops who came!!

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, war smoke was everywhere. Thirteen families and seventy-two battalions of people's revolt teams were no better than the smoke and dust of the Eighteenth Route and the Sixty-fourth Route in the late Sui Dynasty. Various kings and leaders were like crucian carp crossing the river.

Countless.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if one was buried in this place.

Browsing through history books, whenever mentioning civil uprisings and rebellions, there is an indispensable comment - limitations!

The so-called limitations are just a polite way of saying it. To put it in a bad way, they are just a group of bandits!

Let’s not talk about other things. Let’s talk about the 108 heroes in Shuibo Liangshan. Take a closer look at what these people do. Which one is not a gangster? Those who sell human flesh, eat people, and kill without batting an eye. These people are called

Heroes are called rebels!

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the 13 families and 72 battalions of the rioters also had the same composition. When these people conquered the city, they were sometimes more ruthless than foreign invaders. They killed people at will and robbed everywhere. There were countless of them.

Only this group of people will have all kinds of military pay and official silver in their hands!

In the eyes of these people, Li Zicheng was considered a hero of his generation, so it would make sense to use Li Zicheng's name to build a military camp as a gimmick!

In the evening, the nearby covering soil had been cleared away. Brother Kite crawled at the front and poked it with a shovel. There was a clanging sound in front of it. It was a brick wall, but it had been buried under the soil for hundreds of years.

After it was soaked, I used a chisel to cut it a few times, pushed it forward slightly, and with a "bang", it all collapsed.

I shined a flashlight from behind, and there was so much smoke ahead that I couldn't see anything clearly. It was all the evil smell from the tomb.

"Come out first and let it dry out!"

I said something and backed out.

Not long after, Brother Yaozi also came out, shook the dirt from his hair, and said: "The seal is still very good, otherwise the bad breath would not be so strong. I don't know where that bastard brought Bai Lin in?

"

"The grandson ran out a long time ago and went to the Yinren Inn. I think there may be another way!"

I said casually: "It's just that the road was made by itself. We can't find it without a trace. Let's just start from the tomb level!"

After a whole day of work, my back and legs were sore at the moment. I stepped back a little, found a place with the wind in my arms, and fell asleep for a while while holding the Tianguan Ren.

At midnight, Lao Bai shouted, saying that the evil miasma was almost gone. I rubbed my sore eyes, and when I got up and went over, Lao Bai had already crawled in through the robbery hole, leaving only his buttocks.

Outside.

I know this grandson is wondering if there are any treasures inside. The rebels in the late Ming Dynasty robbed countless properties. The famous Jiangkou Shenyin was made by Zhang Xianzhong after he was defeated by the Qing army. This shows how many good things these rebels got and dug up.

The tombs of these people are more profitable than digging up the honors of those generals and ministers.

"Okay, we won't take it this time!"
To be continued...