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Chapter 788 The Emperor's Mausoleum Was Destroyed

The Ministry of Rites has formulated the posthumous title of Empress Dowager Sheng'an, and the funeral is scheduled to be held on the third day of September.

Because the Supreme Emperor is still there, Empress Dowager Sheng'an's coffin will be temporarily parked in the sacred road outside the Eastern Emperor's Tomb. We will only wait for the Supreme Emperor to die in the future and be buried together.

On the day of the funeral, Emperor Mingyuan was going to attend the funeral in person. However, he didn't know that the Supreme Emperor fell in the hall, and the fall was very serious. He was afraid of something, so he did not attend the funeral in person.

There was a crying sound in the capital, and there were more than a thousand royal descendants and officials who were attending the funeral. They wore mourning clothes and left the city.

There were 64 people who led the banner. There were also 64 people carrying the coffin. The coffin was surrounded by a group of filial sons and grandchildren. In the vast team, in addition to the people who were attending the funeral, there was also a carriage and dragon, all of which were transporting burial objects.

Yuwenhao and a group of princes were responsible for sending out spirits. In the carriage ahead were thirty-two monks, chanting scriptures all the way.

After arriving at the imperial tomb, the funeral attendant had to return. The princes and the burial personnel were left to wait until the auspicious time and sent them into the shrine of the underground palace of the imperial tomb.

The things that were buried with you must be put down first, so Yuwenhao, Wang An and others were guarding outside.

After waiting for about one stick of incense, someone quickly ran out of the tomb passage. He ran very fast, and when he was about to arrive, he almost crawled and rolled in front of Yu Wenhao, and lowered his voice and said in a trembling voice: "I have an urgent matter to report."

"Say!" Yu Wenhao felt panic when he saw him, and his heart sank.

"Please come forward to report!" The man was obviously scared.

Yuwenhao allowed, and the man trembled forward and said in Yuwenhao's ear: "The tomb door of the Western Emperor's Mausoleum has been deliberately destroyed. I don't know if there is any damage inside."

Yu Wenhao grabbed the man's collar and was furious, "What?"

"Please see with your priest!" The man was so scared that his legs kept trembling.

Yu Wenhao looked back and saw that the funeral team was ten steps away. He suppressed the fury in his heart and said to the person who reported: "If you don't have my king's order, don't reveal a single sentence."

"Yes!" The man was already limp on the ground.

He immediately told several brothers about this. When the princes heard this, they changed their faces. They hurriedly rode their horses to Xiling. After arriving at Xiling, the few people rolled off their horses and walked in quickly.

Xiling is the tomb of Emperor Huizong. The tomb door is closed and sealed. Originally, the empress dowager did not need to pass through Xiling. It was just because the empress dowager needed to come to worship and burn incense when he was buried. He reported to Emperor Huizong that the tomb door was damaged.

Yu Wen Hao went in with great enthusiasm and saw that there were signs of being chopped by a knife and an axe. There was a crack in the two doors where they were opposite. Although it was still far away from the underground palace, it might not be damaged inside. It is not ruled out that someone had entered.

"Are you a tomb robber?" King Qi asked in fear.

"Not like it!" Yu Wenhao looked at the traces of the swords and axes carefully and said in a deep voice: "Tomb robbers will not make such a big noise, and there are dedicated people guarding the imperial tombs. Tomb robbers will only dare to come after seeking death."

"Then why do we destroy the tomb gate? Also, how did this person come in?" asked King An.

Yuwen Hao felt strange. Destruction of the imperial tomb is a serious crime of raiding the family and extermination of the clan. Who dares to do this? Why do you do this?

King Sun also said suspiciously: "Since this person has come here, it is easy to get in. The tomb door can be opened, but it is not the sealed door in the underground palace. Why should it be destroyed? Can't you just open the door and go in?"

Yuwenhao's face changed, "This person may have been in."

King Qi was shocked, "Oh my God, why didn't the underground palace be destroyed?"

Everyone looked at Yu Wenhao with a very serious expression.

Yu Wenhao thought for a while and told the guards of the imperial tomb to come in, asking them to open the tomb door and go in along the shrine to see. If the gate of the underground palace was not destroyed, then this person should have never been in. The gate of the underground palace cannot be opened unless it is destroyed and enters.

When I opened the tomb door, it was pitch black inside. After the air dissipated for a while, the guards of the imperial tomb entered with torches.

Not long after, the guard ran out panting and knelt on the ground and reported: "Return to the crown prince, the three-fold gate of the underground palace has been destroyed. The villain dared not to explore it, so he asked the highness to decide."

Yu Wenhao was furious. As a descendant of the royal family, what a great humiliation it would be?

Everyone withdrew from the tomb. Yu Wenhao was furious and the commander guarding the imperial tomb came to his accountability.

There was a lot of kneeling in front of me, all in panic and confused.

The commander of the imperial tomb guards was Zhang Tian. He was a demoted general who fought with his personal grudges and struggled with his life in the army and was demoted to guard the imperial tomb. He has been the second year since then.

Zhang Tian was frightened and was scolded by Yuwen Hao for a few words before coming to his senses. He knelt on the ground and his body trembled, and cried and reported: "Go back to the crown prince, I have been stationed here for three years and dare not slack off. People patrol day and night. Except for worshiping every year, they have never let outsiders come in, and no one has ever stolen the imperial tombs."

Yuwen Hao said angrily: "No one has ever come in, so why are the tomb and the doors of the underground palace destroyed? If someone enters the underground palace and disrupts the peace of Emperor Huizong, you have no few of your heads that will fall out."

Zhang Tian collapsed on the ground, his face full of despair and miserableness. The three gates of the underground palace were destroyed. Can the underground palace not be destroyed?

Everyone retreated first and sent the King of Wei back to Beijing to report the matter. Whether they would enter the underground palace to investigate, and the father would have to issue an order.

The Empress Dowager's coffin entered the Dongling Tomb and was placed in a secret room in the Shinto. After the ceremony was completed, all the officials responsible for the burial retreated, leaving only a few princes here.

The destruction of Xiling cannot be made public, so as not to cause an uproar.

The brothers didn't dare to walk away, and just waited in the Xiangen Hall outside Xiling. Twilight had already arrived, and Zhang Tian asked someone to bring food, but the brothers didn't have the appetite to eat.

Everyone was furious, but they didn't dare to lose their temper here.

King An simply sat on the ground, looked at the moon rising outside, and said, "Lao Wu, how big is it that it is possible to be a tomb robber?"

Yu Wenhao had a tight face, his eyes were extremely cold and sharp, "The possibility is very low. As I said just now, if it was a tomb robber, it would be impossible to use a knife and an axe to chop the tomb door. Isn't this intentional attention?"

"What if those tomb robbers don't know that the tomb door can be opened? They might think that they had gone down the death gate and wanted to split it into the middle, there is also a possibility." Sun Wangdao.

Yu Wenhao shook his head, "This is even more impossible. How could he be an ignorant person who dared to steal the imperial tomb? He must have been a skilled tomb robbery method."

A flash of redness erupted from King Huai's white face, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Who is so bold that he even dares to destroy the gate of the underground palace of the Imperial Mausoleum."

Yuwen Hao's eyes were deep, "I'm afraid I'm not just destroying the gate of the underground palace. I might have entered the tomb. I just went in to investigate. I haven't reached the road of burial yet. Therefore, no one can predict what it was damaged inside."

There is a worst possibility that no one dares to say, everyone's face is very serious, and they are most worried that that may happen.

"Can you go in and see the Taoist burial path first? If the items in the Taoist burial path are gone, at least it can be proved that they were stolen." King An suggested.

After hearing King An's proposal, King Sun and King Huai looked at Yuwen Hao.

Yuwenhao did not make a decision for a moment and entered the burial path, which meant that he was close to Emperor Huizong's coffin.
Chapter completed!
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