Do you know the mausoleum of the world's richest man? The money in it can count for several years, vividly confirming what it means to count money to hand cramps. There are also countless other gold and silver objects in the burial chamber. So who is the owner of this tomb of a local tycoon? How was this mausoleum excavated?
It goes back a few years, in mid-February 2011, when a villager was on his way home from work when he encountered a group of strangely snucky, sneaky people, dressed in coats and hats, trying to cover their faces. Because the villager at that time, Xiong Jusheng, was a single shadow, he did not dare to be too deadlocked with this gang, they just said that they had come to catch rabbits to sell, but such a ridiculous reason was really hard to believe. After returning home, Xiong Jusheng fidgeted, and the next morning he led a few villagers to the mound mountain that the gang had climbed. After exploring the hill, they found a very obvious tomb robbery hole. At this time, Xiong Jusheng was a little restless, because there were many precious Han Dynasty tombs in this place, so that if the tomb was stolen, it would not be a great loss, so he reported the matter to the local cultural relics bureau. The Bureau of Cultural Relics also sent relevant archaeologists here to explore the situation.
Archaeologists went to the scene to take a brief look, there was a feeling that something was not good, and then he used the heavy machine to aggravate it, tied one end of the rope to himself, and went to the depths of the cave to see, the damage in the cave was more serious, and some things were immersed in muddy water. As soon as the archaeologists emerged from the cave, they applied to the bureau for a rescue excavation of the tomb. After receiving state approval, rescue excavations officially began on April 15, 2011, and after observing the structure of the surrounding environment, it was found that this was a cemetery with the tomb of Hai Xiahou as the core. Liu He, the Marquis of Haixia, was a emperor who reigned for less than a month, but he did all kinds of bad things, and was later forcibly overthrown and deposed, but his wealth and power were indeed amazing. The reason why he was able to become the emperor and his mother Lady Li was inseparable, Lady Li was a very beloved concubine, and Liu He was a son of his mother. The Tomb of the Marquis of Haidian is also the most completely preserved and the most clearly functional tomb of the Han Dynasty. Archaeologists spent two years excavating the other burial chambers of the cemetery and finding some precious funerary items, but not many, porcelain pottery preferred. Archaeologists have focused their rescue excavations on the tomb of the Marquis of Haixia.
There are some thick rammed soil layers in the tomb of Hai Di Hou, after the soil of the rammed earth layer is cleaned up, a "A" shaped burial chamber structure comes into view, more obviously the charcoal-stained black rafter board, in the middle of the rafter board, that is, there is a robbery hole corresponding to the location of the main burial chamber, which makes archaeologists very nervous, afraid that the tomb robbers have already robbed the precious funerary goods inside. However, when the lid of the coffin was completely opened, what was found was a pool of muddy water, which could obviously be mixed with dense funerary goods. In order to get the muddy water out of the burial chamber, the archaeologists dug a well next to the burial chamber and took several days to empty the muddy water. The muddy water was gone, and the "Hui" shaped burial chamber corridor was also revealed. This burial chamber has four Tibetan pavilions, east, west, south and north, the most attractive of which is the North Tibetan Pavilion, because there is a money vault here, and there is a mountain of five-baht coins. Sloppy estimation, the stack of money is more than two meters high, the money in this money bank someone spent half a year to count, about 10 tons, with tons of this unit of measurement to calculate the weight of money, I can't believe it. There are many silk fabrics in the other cabinets, as well as gold and silver, jade and so on, which are also more precious.
The relevant personnel decided to clean up the zigzag corridor from the northwest corner, but found a robbery hole in the northwest corner, and the first thing to see inside was the Song Dynasty lamp left by the tomb robber, and the rafters near the robbery cave were also damaged, but the things inside were not removed, and the ability of the tomb robbers was also limited, which was also muddy water, and the ability to rob tombs underwater was still unsound at that time. In addition, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the tomb suffered an earthquake, and during the Southern Dynasty, it suffered from floods, which made the inside of the tomb more water, and it was precisely for this reason that the tomb robbers failed to succeed, and the tomb was also a blessing in disguise. Protective excavations were carried out here, and some bronzes were found, and the lacquer box contained the precious medicinal herb Cordyceps. Not only that, they also found 258 gold cakes in the lacquer box in the northwest corner, and some gold, adding up to 60,000 grams, in addition to these gold and silver products, there are many funerary items with cultural connotations, such as the screen used by Confucius, even the chandelier and so on. Archaeologists have found some bronze dins and chimes in the southeast corner of the Zigzag-shaped promenade.
Archaeologists opened the inner coffin in 2015, this process was originally intended to be broadcast live by CCTV, but it was temporarily cancelled, and later learned that archaeologists found that the inner coffin preservation is very complete, for the protection of cultural relics, can not be so hastily to live cleanup, but transported to a special laboratory, low oxygen environment is also in order not to let the things inside rot. But when the coffin lid was opened, there was no body inside, and the original body had long disappeared in the soaking of water, but the word "Liu He" engraved on a jade pendant in the coffin directly confirmed the previous speculation, and this burial chamber was Liu He's Tomb of the Marquis of Hai.
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