Now watching the tomb robbery film and television drama, although, will follow the plot to mention the heart, but the heart is very clear, the protagonist will definitely be killed chengxiang, to ensure that nothing happens. In fact? The owner of a bunch of treasures buried will not think of the possibility of being stolen, so he will design some things such as hidden weapons, hoping to stop the attempts of the tomb robbers, which have proved to be effective, but the tomb robbers are more skilled.
The mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has always made people curious, especially Sima Qian also said: Qin Shi Huang let the craftsmen make a large number of crossbow arrows before his death, and if someone approaches, the device will automatically be targeted. Although no one knows what crossbow is placed in the tomb, through the bows and crossbows excavated from the Qin Figurine Pit, it can be seen that the lethality of this artifact is not low.
Some experts speculate that its range is not less than 800 meters, the tension is more than 700 pounds, and it is not an ordinary bow and arrow energy ratio. Of course, this crossbow can only be pulled by a Hercules unless it is a Hercules, so it is a foot pedal device that can easily shoot the target. If this crossbow is connected one by one, through some kind of maneuvering device, continuous fire or series of fire, even if no one operates, it can achieve the effect of deterrence and warning.
According to this description of Sima Qian, everyone will naturally think that Qin Shi Huang must have used it this way, and once the tomb robber touched a certain organ, the arrow was shot out in unison, but this was also limited to imagination. However, this practice of Qin Shi Huang did inspire future generations, and in the tombs of the Han and Tang Dynasties, there was a turbine in the coffin.
The principle of this mechanical device is not complicated, that is, one end of the rope is connected to the coffin cover, and the other end is connected to the bow and crossbow through the pulley, when the tomb robber opens the coffin, the rope will pull the pulley installed on the inner wall of the coffin, and then, start the bow and crossbow, and the arrow will shoot at the coffin opener in unison. However, looking at the extent to which these tombs have been destroyed in history, the tomb robbers must have come up with a "solution".
In the "Record of Idle Residence", it is said that there is an ancient tomb in Chenzhou, that is, the stolen tomb violated the organ, and the treasures in the tomb were stolen. In fact, think about it, craftsmen can design these "dark weapons", as long as they understand their operating principles, it should not be difficult to break it, and there is never a shortage of high people in the folk. This kind of bow and crossbow is either flawless, first of all, the number of arrows, which cannot be fired endlessly. As a result, the technology of anti-theft tombs has been upgraded, and devices such as chain flaps and iron cable hanging stones have appeared.
First of all, let's talk about this flap, which uses the principle of balance. Its shape is quite like a modern scale, on the surface it looks like a wooden board, with only one shaft support in the middle, if the unclear person dares to step on it, this end will immediately flip, and the person will fall into the pit below. The knowledge of this pit is great, and it is placed in a 10-centimeter-long knife, a cone or something, unless the tomb robber has a unique martial art, otherwise, it is waiting to be pierced into a thousand holes.
The serial flap, that is, the tomb will be continuously paved with this kind of overturnable wooden plank, and the pit below is 3 meters deep. In general, some camouflage is also covered on this kind of wooden board. Of course, those who can eat the meal of the tomb robbery generally have a few brushes, and they are not fully sure that they will not easily enter the tomb. This kind of flap is very easy to crack, during the Republic of China, there were farmers in Qingzhou, Shandong Province, found a large tomb in Yunmen Mountain, the tomb is designed with this kind of mechanism, and the pit below is covered with sharp tools.
It is true that some tomb robbers have fallen, but the tomb is also empty. When cleaning up, everyone found that there were two wooden ladders under this series of flaps, and they were still connected and V-shaped. Tomb robbers put a ladder down from this end of the tomb passage, and then through another ladder from the head of the tomb passage, no hidden weapon can hurt them. This, of course, is also the way to find it through practice.
The function and principle of the iron cable hanging stone are actually similar, and the principle of balance is also used, but the dark weapon is above the head. The top of the tomb and the hidden place of the burial chamber will be fixed with many metal pulleys, the rope chain will suspend the boulder high in the air through the pulley, and the other end is connected to the seesaw paved in the tomb passage, with a hook and a decoupling device in the middle, once it encounters external pressure, it will be decoupled and the boulder will be smashed.
This design allows three layers of boulders to be suspended without interfering with each other. Each seesaw corresponds to a different boulder. Cracking this device is not difficult, as long as you try to put some heavy objects on these seesaws, and when the boulders are finished, you can basically pass unimpeded. However, the owner of the tomb will not let the tomb robbers find these seesaws so easily, and will put on camouflage.
Look at these anti-theft hidden devices, they all use a very simple mechanical principle. Since ancient times, the ancients have attached great importance to how to control the operation of machinery to achieve a certain purpose they want. One of the reasons why people like Zhuge Liang is that he has many inventions, some of which are still puzzling.
In fact, even if so many methods are used, the most effective one is to guard the tomb, the rest? Or don't think about it.
Resources:
["Anti-theft and Theft of Thousand-Year-Old Tombs", "Helplessness" and Sorrow of Ancient Tombs, Investigation of Contemporary Tomb Robbery in China"