The imperial tombs of the Qing Dynasty were divided into Dongling and Xiling. Emperor Yongzheng was buried in Xiling, Tailing in Yixian County, Hebei Province. Kangxi and Qianlong, including the Empress Dowager Cixi, are all buried in the Qingdong Tomb in Zunhua, Hebei.
Although we got the permit, we did not enter Tailing immediately. Instead, we climbed to Yongding Mountain near Tailing and stood on the top of the mountain overlooking Tailing.
When Sui Xin and Ye Xun took out their compasses and stood on the top of the mountain to locate their position, I stood on the side and chatted with Doudu without saying a word: "Tell me, why didn't Yongzheng enter the Qing Dong Tomb and had to move out by himself?"
Doudulu cleared his throat and said show off: "You really asked the right person about this! There are probably three ways to say that Yongzheng did not enter the Qing Dynasty Tomb. The first one is that he tampered with the imperial edict to succeed and was too embarrassed to see him. Dad, just go out and be single by yourself."
"The second theory is that Yongzheng felt that his achievements could surpass all the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, so he had to come out and start a new business."
"The third theory is that Yongzheng originally planned to go to Dongling Tomb of the Qing Dynasty, but when he found someone to check the feng shui, he found that the place with good feng shui in Dongling was gone, and the only place that was acceptable was not suitable for building a mausoleum, so he chose Xiling instead. "
After listening to this, I couldn't help but shake my head and said, "I don't think any of these statements are reliable. The matter of Yongzheng's succession has long been concluded, and tampering with the edict is pure fabrication. Moreover, Yongzheng was not a man who was overjoyed in his achievements and was arrogant. The second statement is basically acceptable. The third statement..."
I looked at Doudu: "The Feng Shui in Dongling Tomb is not good. Why didn't Qianlong be buried in Xiling to accompany his father? None of the later emperors of the Qing Dynasty entered Xiling. Among the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng was the only one who believed in Feng Shui?"
Doudu slapped his thigh: "I know! Isn't there a rule in the Northeast that people who die violently or violently don't enter the ancestral graves? If Yongzheng's head was picked off, wouldn't it be a violent death?"
This is indeed the case in some places in the Northeast. A sudden death means someone who dies due to a misfortune. People who die in car accidents or accidents can be considered a violent death. A violent death means someone who dies due to homicide or beheading. According to superstition, this person was too violent when he died and was prone to trouble in the grave, so he could not enter his ancestor's grave.
I looked at Doudu for a long time, and almost threw up in his face: "Yongzheng knew that he would definitely die a violent death from the moment he ascended the throne? Has your head been screwed up by Donkey?"
"That's wrong!" Ye Xun suddenly said, "There is something wrong with Yongzheng's tomb. There is a murderous atmosphere in the tomb."
Ye Xun is a disciple of the Taoist sect and has some research on Feng Shui, especially the art of looking at the Qi. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is very proficient in it. He said that Yongzheng's tomb has a murderous atmosphere, which is definitely true.
Suixin was shocked and said, "Are you sure you saw it correctly?"
Ye Xun said expressionlessly: "I never miss Feng Shui."
Suixin's expression changed slightly and she said: "Isn't the murderous spirit only found in ambush places? In that tomb..."
I hurriedly used the piercing fire to look in the direction of Tailing, but I didn't see anything.
The murderous aura that Ye Xun said can only appear where the army is. Even if thousands of troops are stationary, they will still have a formidable aura. Any place where the killing spirit is strong is either a military camp or an ambush.
Ye Xun shook his head and said: "I don't know about this either. I heard that the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty is the Baifeng Chaoyang Bureau, but I didn't see what kind of Feng Shui Bureau the Xiling is. The name of the mountain here is Yongding, and the name of the tomb is Tailing. It is quite a place. It means eternal. According to common sense, Yongzheng should choose a suitable Feng Shui bureau to match the place name and mausoleum. Why is there no Feng Shui bureau here?"
Ye Xun's words are not entirely correct. In fact, the imperial mausoleum building itself is a kind of Feng Shui bureau. What Ye Xun said is that there is no Feng Shui bureau in the sense of magic.
I frowned and said: "Not necessarily. Sun Dianying, the bandit of Dongling, has almost swept through the entire Dongling. Why did he give up on Xiling? Was it because he looked down on Xiling, or did he not have that many troops at the time? Don't forget, Tai There is a legend that the mausoleum is paved with gold bricks."
According to legend, when Yongzheng was building the Tailing Mausoleum, he considered the underground palace's waterproofing problem and wanted to use blue and white stone to build it. However, Marseille, a bachelor at the time, told Yongzheng: "The only immortal thing in the world is gold, and your Majesty is the master of the world." , why not build Tailing with gold?" So Yongzheng used 500 two-foot-square gold bricks to pave his tomb, and the rest was still bluestone bricks.
This legend once drove countless tomb robbers crazy. However, until Sun Dianying looted the tombs of Qianlong and Cixi, Yongzheng's tomb remained intact.
Is it because Sun Dianying didn't know the legend of Tailing's gold brick paving, or because he didn't dare to dig out Tailing
Only then did Doudu realize: "You mean, Sun Dianying was advised at that time and didn't dare to dig up Xiling?"
"I think so." I explained. "Most of the warlords at that time were very superstitious, and some even had Feng Shui warlocks. If Sun Dianying's warlocks also saw Tailing's murderous aura, he might not dare to go there. Touch Tai Ling.”
"Yes!" Ye Xun also said, "At that time, the war was raging, and masters of tomb robbers emerged one after another. Although there were still some old and young people in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they couldn't even get on the stage. How could they guard Tailing? Even if the tomb robbers were caught by the government, You can save your life by offering some money; maybe even the Eight Banners who guard the tomb have the idea of robbing the tomb. But look, who has touched Tailing?"
"That's right!" Doudu nodded repeatedly.
Ye Xun continued: "According to the information, in the 1980s, someone once discovered a robber cave in Tailing. The Cultural Relics Bureau also planned to conduct a rescue excavation of Tailing. In the end, it was found that the robber cave did not penetrate the soil sealing layer. Immediately He resealed the thief's cave and retreated. Does this explain it?"
Ye Xun asked himself and answered: "This can only show that from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, no one had ever thought about Tailing. It was the golden age of tomb robbing, and the level of tomb robbers was extremely high. Could it be that no one had ever thought about Tailing? Ling’s idea?”
Doudu nodded and said: "Except for the little thief who became a monk on the way and only knows how to try his luck, everyone will be angry at those tomb robbers. Some of them are even better than Feng Shui masters. Maybe they saw the secret of Tailing and didn't dare to do it. Are we still going down?"
I suddenly asked: "Xi Xin, do you know about the disappearance of the Ten Detectives? When did that happen?"
"I've heard of it more or less. It seems to have happened around 1980..." Suixin suddenly said, "You mean, someone from the Ten Detectives touched Tai Ling?"
"I'm just guessing. Let's go down and have a look!" After I walked into Tailing Pretending to be a tourist, I walked all the way to the Shinto stele pavilion and didn't find anything wrong. When I wanted to turn around, Suixin whispered: "There is a mechanism above the pavilion."
I subconsciously raised my head and glanced at the sky: "Where is the agency?"
"It's on the beam above the stele pavilion." Suixin calmly pointed to the beam in the middle of the Shinto stele pavilion.
"Come here in the evening!" After I came out of the stele pavilion, the first thing I did was go to the management office and show my ID. I waited until evening before returning to the Shinto stele pavilion.
I shined my flashlight on the beam: "As you wish, how do you activate that mechanism?"
Suixin raised his head and said, "If I read correctly, the entire beam is a mechanism, and that beam should be able to rotate."
I held one hand behind my back and said, "Then turn down and try."
Suixin took out the Flying Claw from his body and said, "You go out first and come in when there is no danger."
"No need, this mechanism is not dangerous." I waved my flashlight on the beam, "Don't you think that the beam should be where the plaque is hung?"
Sui Xin and Doudu both looked at me and said, "What do you mean?"
I explained: "When Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, there was no Kangxi edict, so he always felt that it was not so legitimate. He himself came up with a way to pass the throne, which was to hide the edict behind the 'Upright and Bright' plaque in the Qianqing Palace. After Yongzheng, This method was used to pass the throne to emperors in the Qing Dynasty. You see, the position of the beam is not exactly suitable for hanging a plaque."
"The Shinto stele pavilion, to put it more clearly, is a place dedicated to placing the emperor's tablet. The Shinto stele is engraved with Yongzheng's temple name and posthumous title in Chinese, Manchu and Mongolian characters. In other words, it is equivalent to Yongzheng himself sitting there. If you put it Wouldn’t it be more vivid if the Pixi under the Shinto monument were compared to a dragon chair?”
I said solemnly: "Since Yongzheng had the habit of leaving his last wishes behind the upright and bright plaque, let's see if he also left another plaque here. Let's do it as you like!"
Nodding casually, he threw out two flying claws and grabbed both ends of the beam at the same time. He and Doudu each pulled the rope behind a flying claw to test the direction of the beam. As expected, the beam slowly rotated.
After the beam rotated for a week, there was suddenly a sound like doors and windows opening above the Shinto stele pavilion. When I looked up, four skylights were opened above the Shinto stele pavilion at the same time, and there were several more bronze mirrors under the skylights.
After the silver-white moonlight fell on the stele pavilion from the skylight, it was reflected several times by the bronze mirror. After changing its direction, it fell towards the beam in the air and never moved again.
I said solemnly: "As you like, open the wood on the beam and take a look."
Suixin grabbed a handful of steel balls from his body and hit the beams on the pavilion with both hands in succession. As the wood chips on the beam continued to fly, I suddenly heard a sound like a metal collision.
"Hit that location!" I pointed to the place on the wooden beam where the sound was coming from, and Ye Xun also took out a handful of coins from his pocket and quickly took action. As the two people's hidden weapons collided in turn, a layer of wood on the beam was chipped away, finally revealing a piece of metal that was as smooth and shiny as a bronze mirror.
"Is that a bronze mirror?" I thought for a moment and said immediately, "Xi Xin, Doudu, you two pull the rope again to reflect the moonlight."
The two people slowly adjusted the position of the bronze mirror with flying claws. The moonlight reflected by the mirror began to slowly wander on the wall of the Shinto stele pavilion. It was not until it touched a mirror hidden above the door frame that it was reflected back to the Shinto stele again.
On the Shinto stele engraved with the name of Yongzheng Temple, three big characters appeared: I am waiting for you.