Why did Cixi not kill all the craftsmen who knew about it when she built the mausoleum for herself, and why did the surviving craftsman become Cixi's gravedigger?
Empress Dowager Cixi was very careful when building the mausoleum for herself, so as to prevent these people from knowing the entrance to the mausoleum and thus robbing the tomb, so the craftsmen who built the last barrier for the royal family would be killed and killed, but their families would also give a lot of money. However, one of the stonemasons surnamed Jiang not only did not die, but also finally followed Sun Dianying's army to dig up Cixi's mausoleum and take away all the gold and silver treasures inside. What is the secret of this stonemason? Why was he the only survivor?
Let's walk into the legendary life of Ginger Stonemason. In 1928, the survival of Sun Dianying's army, the commander-in-chief of the Nationalist army, became a big problem, at this time they were just stationed near the Cixi Mausoleum, and there were sergeants under the wheelchair who gave Sun Dianying an idea, if they took away all the funerary goods of Empress Dowager Cixi's life, not only could they solve the big trouble of the current army, but more importantly, they could make a small profit. Coupled with the fact that Empress Dowager Cixi was already a dead person and the Qing Dynasty had collapsed, this practice would not be attacked by anyone at all. Sun Dianying thought that this matter was reasonable, so he took his army to the vicinity of Empress Dowager Cixi's mausoleum, and originally wanted to dig up his mausoleum directly, but at this time, they encountered one of the biggest problems, that is, they did not know where the entrance to this mausoleum was.
When many ancient emperors built their own tombs, they often left a lot of organs, and if these people dug in the wrong direction, or there was something wrong in the middle, they might all be buried here. These soldiers are not fools, naturally it is impossible to ask Sun Dianying for no reason to sell his life, and then he lost his life. In order to be able to find the entrance, Sun Dianying sent people to arrest many ordinary people nearby, first threatening and inducing them to tell them the entrance to the mausoleum, but these old people made it clear that they really did not know. Then an old man pointed out a direction to Sun Dianying's army, that is, the Manchus or Mongols who had been related to Empress Dowager Cixi might know the trick. Sun Dianying felt that it was very reasonable when he heard it, so he let go of these old people, but grabbed some and handed them back. After these Eight Banners disciples fell into the hands of Sun Dianying, they were naturally reluctant to tell the secrets of Empress Dowager Cixi's tomb, in fact, they really did not know, after all, most of the people who could build a mausoleum for Empress Dowager Cixi had been killed by him in the end, and no one could survive successfully. At first, Sun Dianying was still more patient with these people and was willing to seduce them at 1.1 points, but after seeing that everyone's attitude was so firm, Sun Dianying was angry, and he immediately let his soldiers be attentive to these people. Those terrible criminal laws in the army, where these pampered eight flags disciples can carry over. It didn't take long for one of the Eight Banners to tell a little secret he knew, that is, a person who had been involved in the construction of cixi mausoleum might know where the entrance to Suzuki was. It just so happened that this man had been a stonemason, and he was one of them when he was building the mausoleum for Empress Dowager Cixi, and because of his good craftsmanship, he was put in the last process.
You must know that when Empress Dowager Cixi built her mausoleum, she had issued a strict order, that is, these craftsmen who knew the entrance to his mausoleum must all be wiped out. These craftsmen naturally also heard the old man talk about this rule, but most of them were old and young, and if they built a mausoleum for Cixi Taihou, they would not only get a lot of money, but also if they were unlucky enough to be assigned to the last process, even if they died, the family could get a large pension. It is with this idea that these people willingly stay in the end and become the substitute ghosts of others. However, the stonemason's luck was very good, at that time he did not want to stay in the last process, but he knew that the result of the distribution had come down, and he had no choice.
At this time, he listened to his fellow villagers say that his wife had given birth to a son in the village, and he did not want to die even more when he had just had an heir, after all, he had not even seen his own child, at this time he thought of all kinds of ways to escape from here, but in the end he all failed.
While working, the stonemason was also absent-minded, and at this moment a huge stone rolled down and directly pressed the stone statue underneath, and by the time the others found him, he had fainted there, and even his breathing became extremely weak. After the overseer discovered the situation of this stonemason, he also came to try his sniffles, and the stonemason was lying there like a dead man, and this overseer was afraid that the news that this stonemason had died in the underground palace of Empress Dowager Cixi would punish him, after all, The body of Empress Dowager Cixi had not yet been transported, and there were already dead people inside, which was already a kind of disrespect to Empress Dowager Cixi, and this crime of contempt for the royal family was something that this general could not afford. So he took advantage of the fact that others did not know it, and threw the body of the stonemason into the mass grave outside.
It was just that the stonemason's luck was better, and it wasn't long before he woke up again in the mass grave. At this moment, he remembered everything that had happened before, and he knew that those people were probably thinking that they were dead, so he secretly and silently returned home, and he had been living in seclusion here. He was the only one who knew the exit of Empress Dowager Cixi's mausoleum, so when Sun Dianying's men arrested him, he knew that his secret was probably exposed, after all, before he was sent to build a mausoleum for Empress Dowager Cixi, everyone knew about it, even if everyone intended to hide it for him, I was afraid that someone would accidentally tell this secret, so he did not torture at all, but directly asked Sun Dianying what he wanted him to do.
Sure enough, Sun Dianying's main purpose this time was not to kill the stonemason, but to find out from his mouth the entrance to Empress Dowager Cixi's mausoleum and other secrets. This stonemason participated in the construction of the whole city, although he did not personally complete the final process, but as a perennial tomb repairer, he naturally knew the key to it, and it did not take long to lead Sun Dianying's troops to completely open the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi.
Empress Dowager Cixi may not have thought that she would be careful all her life, but in the end she was secretly revealed by a stonemason. This stonemason not only became his gravedigger, but also directly joined Sun Dianying's troops after this, and the moment the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi was opened, everyone was completely stunned, not because Empress Dowager Cixi's body was not dead, on the contrary, his body came to life, as if the world was still alive. Even Sun Dianying was very curious, not knowing what kind of secret recipe Empress Dowager Cixi had used to keep her body from decaying. To the ecstasy of these soldiers, Empress Dowager Cixi had taken away many of these funerary items, and there were not only all kinds of treasures in them, but also countless things like gold and silver. It just so happened that Sun Dianying's army was relatively short of silver, so Sun Dianying had two large carts prepared in advance and loaded all the gold and silver treasures inside into the car and took them away.
The stonemason saw that he had revealed the secret of Empress Dowager Cixi, and was afraid that he would be hunted down and killed by the other Eight Banners disciples, so he told Sun Dianying that he also wanted to join the army. After hearing this stonemason's request, Sun Dianying was happy, so he immediately agreed to him and gave him the position of adjutant. The fact that a stonemason has inexplicably become an army general is really ridiculous. After these elite treasures were taken away by Sun Dianying's army, some of them were given to the generals who had made meritorious contributions to their own programs, while the other part was sold directly to the pawnshop, which was exchanged for silver as a military salary and sent to the sergeants at the bottom. When these soldiers got the money, they naturally died for Sun Dianying, and the body of Empress Dowager Cixi did not have a good ending, and Sun Dianying, after forcibly taking out the night pearl in his mouth, actually threw the body of Empress Dowager Cixi directly next to the stinky ditch.
More importantly, after being corroded by the air, the body of Empress Dowager Cixi quickly turned into white bones. This stonemason did not wear it for long in Sun Dianying's army, and when Sun Dianying's army was given the dominance by Lao Jiang, he inexplicably disappeared from the army. Some people said that Old Jiang was not accustomed to his betrayal of the Savior, so he ordered that he be assassinated. Some people say that this stonemason is very clever, and he knows that this army will be sent to the battlefield to fight in order to lead the heroine. He was originally a stonemason, able to do the adjutant, but also because he dug up the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi, such a lack of morality has been done, if his life is not guaranteed, no one will speak for him, in order to save his life, so he used the method of fake death to escape again, and his wife went outside to live happily.
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