During the Three Kingdoms period, the "Yuwen for Yuan Shaoyu Prefecture" mentions that "Cao You specially placed the general Of Qiu Zhonglang and the lieutenant of touching gold, and the guards who passed through the turmoil, and there was no skeleton to be revealed", which means that Cao Cao set up the posts of lieutenant of touching gold, specializing in excavating the graves of the ancients, and excavating the gold and silver treasures excavated to fill the military salaries. As for why Cao Cao wanted to excavate ancient tombs? You know, during the Han Dynasty, the ancients, especially the royal nobility, prevailed in thick burials, and the burial items in the tomb were either gold and silver jewelry or rare things at that time, and even the tomb owner had to wear an extremely expensive "jade box" when he was buried, which is what the world called the golden jade coat. According to historical records, the most glorious and magnificent tomb in the Han Dynasty period is not the tomb of the Tianzi of all dynasties, but the tomb of Liu Wu, the "quasi-heavenly son" of Liang Xiaowang.
According to historical records, Liu Wu repeatedly built qigong during the Han Jing Emperor period, and was highly valued by the imperial court at that time, so he often received rewards. Empress Dowager Dou wanted Liu Wu to be the successor of Emperor Jing of Han, but after finally receiving opposition from her ministers, she stopped mentioning it. In the winter of the sixth year of the Han Jing Emperor, Liu Wu fell ill with fever and died after six days, and was subsequently buried in the southern foothills of Bao'an Mountain in Mangzhong Mountain. You know, Mangzhong Mountain is one of the best places in China's feng shui, and there are many rare treasures buried in ancient tombs with Liu Wu, as for how many? According to the historical records, there were more than 400,000 jin, and Cao Cao took a fancy to the gold in Liu Wu's tomb before he began to form a lieutenant.
In the 1980s, after archaeologists discovered a Han Dynasty "terracotta warrior" in Mount Mangzhong, they suspected that this one contained a large Han Dynasty emperor-level tomb. By 1994, archaeologists had officially discovered the tomb of King Xiao of Liang in this area and began rescue excavations of it. Although the tomb has long been stolen, it does not surprise archaeologists at all, because the history books record that the tomb was stolen and excavated by Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period. Is there 400,000 catties of gold in the tomb? Despite careful excavations, not so many gold artifacts have been found in the tombs. However, a lot of gold was unearthed in the burial tomb, and in a way, the records in the history books are accurate, and as for the 400,000 kilograms of gold, it must have been used as a military salary by Cao Cao.
The tomb has not unearthed a large amount of gold, but also unearthed a lot of precious cultural relics, a large number of precious Han Dynasty jade is one of the representatives, and now considered to be one of the 9 treasures of the Henan Museum, the four gods cloud gas map is also excavated from the tomb. What puzzles archaeologists the most is the "Big Dipper Seven Stars" excavated from the tomb. The tomb of Liu Wuzhi and the tomb of his queen are not on a mountain bag, but the two are through a V-shaped tunnel, the so-called "Acacia Road", and there are seven circular ornaments chiseled on the ground of the Acacia Road, which is the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper. After the excavation of the Big Dipper, it led to 3 historical mysteries.
The first is that this "Big Dipper Seven Stars" is not the same as what modern people see, whether this is because of the change of celestial bodies after two thousand years or has another meaning, it is still a mystery. Secondly, the mystery of the grandeur of the tomb project, to know that this ancient tomb is a tomb carved into the rock of the mountain, it is no exaggeration to say that "cutting the mountain as a silhouette, wearing the stone for hiding". In such a large project, modern people cannot understand where the millions of stones excavated went, and where the more than 3,000 stone strips weighing almost 2 tons used for anti-theft in the ancient tomb came from. Perhaps many people say that it is made of local materials, but in fact, the material of this stone is not produced in the area of MangzhongShan, but Taishan in the land of Qilu. It is hard to imagine how the ancients transported these thousands of stones weighing several tons from Mount Tai to Mount Mangzhong, thousands of miles away, and this is an unsolved mystery.
The last unsolved mystery is more interesting than the other two. In the Queen's Mausoleum Underground Palace, there is a "glimmer of heaven" spectacle, from the tomb door to the main chamber of the West Palace span of 150 meters, the first rays of dawn of the day can shine through the main door of the tomb to the walls of the West Palace, as to why there is this spectacle, in fact, because the ancients built the tomb when very fine, after the measurement of modern technology, found that its error is only 1 cm, as for the ancients in the construction of such a large tomb what tools to measure, is still an unsolved mystery.