Chapter 27: The Conspiracy
Old Hu sighed, put up a smile on his face again, filled my glass and said in a serious tone: "Brother, we have been friends for life, brother I do not say polite words. We also want to change our livelihood, but you also know that we have no other skills, and our store sells fake goods, there are not so many fools to let us cheat ah. So if we don't go grave robbing, we'll really starve to death."
Seeing him say this, I can't persuade anymore, after all, we are just friends, can't go to impose their own attitude towards life on others.
Old Hu then I: "brother, a few brothers can not take you as an outsider ah, sitting here a few are brothers, today we had a thing to find you to discuss, I hope that the brother can never be outside ah."
"Brother Hu have something to say, as long as I can use me, I will definitely not excuse myself." I could tell that they had something to say, but they hadn't found a chance to say it yet. But looking at them, it's very likely that they are again in which who's ancestor's idea.
Old Hu was very happy, took out a pack of Chinese cigarettes to distribute to everyone, and then he patted me on the shoulder, turned his head and said to the big guys, "You see, old brother is righteous, you guys will learn from it."
Once I heard this, I knew that he was intentionally elevating me, trying to make it hard for me to refuse next.
Accepted the cigarette, the old Hu took out the lighter also deliberately help me point on, engaged in half a day this only to receive "a ~ this" read "novel xstxt said: "I want to touch a big tomb, if you touch a few brothers will be able to wash their hands to do nothing to do a new person, I do not know if the brother can help brothers a hand to take us out of the sea of bitterness?"
As I expected, this master could not say anything other than talking about digging up other people's ancestors. It's just that he wants me to help robbing tombs on robbing tombs, but also have to make the whole thing as if it's a good deed, but also out of the sea of suffering, maybe it's pulling me into the sea of suffering.
I did not immediately answer them, but looked at the other two, and found that both of them were staring at me, obviously the three of them had planned to dig up the ancestors of whoever's family, and now they were waiting for me to nod my head and start digging.
To be honest, I do not want to agree to this matter, we must know that digging other people's graves is a loss of virtue, although it can not be said that the future son will not have an asshole, but sooner or later retribution is very likely. Moreover, I have already committed the fate of the shortcomings, I have to do more good deeds, in order to be able to avoid a year after the robbery, pulling me with them to do this kind of lack of morality and yin grave robbing, really will kill me.
However, seeing everyone's expectant expression, coupled with the fact that I was extremely young, if I didn't accept their words, I felt that I was not righteous enough, so I only nodded my head and agreed with them.
I also have their own considerations, one is that we are all life brothers, I'm not good to refute everyone's face; two is that even if I follow together to go grave robbing, than the three of them alone to go good, after all, I am in, may be able to help them, to save some of the dangers, and at that time can also persuade them to take a couple of valuable things to see the good thing to take it back, don't play too much over the cause of too much Yin damage.
We see I agreed, suddenly three happy smile, fat man stood up, rushed outside the room waiter asked for a bottle of white wine, directly to my eyes. Will open the bottle cap, a bottle of white wine on the four people to the even, pushing the cup to drink up.
Just when the four people are drinking almost to the head, this meal is considered to be the end of the wine. Back to the store that night, the three of them got together to start planning.
To be honest, hearing Old Hu tell me the chosen tomb owner, my entire body froze in shock. I thought they must have been drinking too much, or they must have lost their minds, they were going to steal Cao Cao's tomb!
Who is Cao Cao? He is the ancestor of grave robbers. First of all, Cao Cao was a grave robber, and in the diatribe made by Chen Lin during Yuan Shao's crusade against Cao Cao, he said, "King Liang Xiaowang, the mother and brother of the late Emperor, has a distinguished tomb, and the pines, cypresses and zebras should be kept in a respectful manner. Cao Cao's campaign against Cao Cao, Chen Lin said: "Liang Xiao Wang, the mother and brother of the late Emperor, the tomb is honored, the pines and cypresses, should be respectful. Also signed by the hair of the Lieutenant General, touching the whole school captain, the destruction of the sudden, no skeleton is not exposed".
Historical records show that Cao Cao, during his lifetime, had set up dozens of "Fachu Zhonglanggong" and "Jinshu Lieutenants" to dig up the world's tombs and graves. Throughout the generations of princes and generals who robbed tombs are not a few, such as Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, the Han dynasty Guangchuan Wang Liu go fast, but like Cao Cao set up a special organization and official position to dig tombs for gold, but counted as unprecedented.
When I think of Old Hu and his men digging up the graves of their ancestors in their own line of work, I feel instantly thunderstruck by their feat.
Cao Cao was such a tomb raider in Chinese history that his tomb could be easily stolen? You have to know that he was suspicious by nature, and in order to lie big and deceive the world in order to have peace underground, he also set up seventy-two suspicious graves to prevent his descendants from robbing the tombs. There is a legend that Cao Cao, in order to prevent his descendants from digging his grave, made careful arrangements during his lifetime, and on the day of his funeral, all the gates in Yecheng were opened at the same time, and seventy-two coffins were lifted out from the southeast, west, north, and west directions at the same time, and were buried into the pre-prepared chambers. As a result, future generations could no longer tell which one was Cao Cao's real grave and which ones were confusing graves.
The more I think about it, the more I feel that the three of them are really crazy, but I don't want to say more, I think let them go. Anyway, Cao Cao's tomb is not so good to find, two thousand years has not been able to find his tomb, let them use this to kill some time or good, so as not to focus on other people's ancestors to go.
The night of the conspiracy, although I participated in it, but may be the original reason for drinking too much wine it, woke up the next day do not remember anything, only remembered that they said two days after the start of departure, to Handan.
To be honest, I am not optimistic about this grave-robbing journey, thousands of years want to steal Cao Cao's tomb of many people to go, have not heard of anyone can find it out. So I didn't take this mission seriously at all, and thought of it as a sightseeing trip.
However, I had my doubts, because I had read in the newspaper that Cao Cao's tomb had been excavated. But Old Hu and the others were adamant that it was just a suspicious grave, not the real Cao Cao's tomb.
I was surprised, so many experts had decided that it was Cao Cao's tomb, there was no way they could have been wrong. But Old Hu patted me on the shoulder, "Don't believe me? If you don't believe me, then I'll take you to see the tomb they excavated and you'll agree with me."
Afterwards, Old Hu and Fatty went out and started to prepare all kinds of equipment, leaving me alone in the store.
The next day, we embarked on the starting train and headed straight to Gao Yang Gao Ling. Located in the south of Xigao Cave Village in Anfeng Township, Anyang City, Henan Province, it has been recognized by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage as Cao Cao's Tomb, and the main reason why Old Hu took me there was to show me whether or not what had been uncovered was the real Cao Cao's Tomb.
Cao Cao's mausoleum is a large brick tomb with multiple chambers. Tomb plane is A-shaped, the tomb sits in the west to the east, the tomb is nearly 60 meters long. Tomb room Xieng Khouang plane is a trapezoidal shape in front of wide and narrow, by the tomb road, tomb door, sealing door wall, Fu Road, before and after the main room and four side rooms, complex structure, grand scale.
However, when I went to the area to take a look, I instantly understood what Old Hu and the others had said, that this was most likely not the real Cao Cao's tomb, because the breakage was in the feng shui.
Because the ancient Chinese on the selection of the tomb site, is very concerned about the right to have the money and status of the people, died hoping to be buried in the "feng shui land", especially the emperor level characters, but also require the burial place is "dragon vein", so the groundbreaking to build a mausoleum before the Feng Shui masters must be sent out to phase the ground, that is, the so-called "Feng Shui". Out of the phase of the ground, that is, the so-called "dragon point". Although the feng shui cause and effect is nothing, but even ordinary people, in the burial of Mr. Yin and Yang before the occupation, so far, hoping to find a piece of prosperous son Wang grandchildren of the auspicious land, and even worse can not be buried to the evil ground.
The so-called "Cao Cao's Tomb" in Gaoling, the excavation site, there is no hope to speak of, feng shui can be said to be mediocre. Cao Cao at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not the emperor, but more than the emperor also emperor, his grave can not be hastily selected after his death, so the feng shui must not be so this place.
From the historical records of Cao Cao's burial, it can also be inferred that the Cao family attached great importance to feng shui and divination. After Cao Cao's coffin was escorted from Luoyang to Yecheng by Sima Yi's officials, the date of his burial was on the agenda. At that time, the Cao family invited a magician to perform divination to project a specific burial date for good luck. This is what is known in the book of burials as "Even if you don't have a real dragon, you should be rich and wealthy".
When Cao Cao was buried, Cao Pi's "Ceremony for the Mourning of Emperor Wu" described the entire funeral process in detail. The text also reveals a secret of divination: "Divine the burial from both, the big tunnel already passes." That is to say, after the Feng Shui master (the magician) projected and divined on the spot, he chose the time and said that it was ready for burial, and only then opened the hole leading to the tomb. Visible, Cao family not only in Cao Cao buried to choose an auspicious day, but also to choose a good hour. Would the Cao family, who believed in the superstition of feng shui, have chosen an ordinary place?
And history records that Cao Cao also knows Feng Shui well, so when choosing his own burial site, he requires "high for the base", and secondly, a good cemetery should be open, the situation is vast, the back of the reliance, the face of the case, but also to give the meritocracy, the relatives of the accompanying graves to leave enough space, the entrance should not be narrow, so Cao Cao asked for "a wide area for the megabase".
From the field, the so-called "Cao Cao's Tomb" in Anyang does not see any feng shui momentum: "high for the foundation" is not obvious, "wide for the trillion area" is not; get the water of the Zhanghe River, but from the Zhanghe River is too close. too close. Even the general feng shui "front has to rely on, after the light", "backed by the peaks, facing the plains" requirements are not, feng shui treasure must have "dragon", "sand" is nowhere to be found. Sand" is nowhere to be seen, so this is really likely to be a fake tomb, the purpose is to confuse people, which is also consistent with Cao Cao's treacherous style of action.
After deducing that the "Tomb of Cao Cao" in Anyang, Henan was not the real Cao Cao's tomb, we set off again for Handan, Hebei. Fatty said that through his years of research, the tomb was probably in Yecheng. Yecheng.
