"Dig out the tomb of King Kang, Shandong will not be poor" This is a proverb that spreads in the Jiaodong region of Shandong, which means that as long as the tomb of King Kang is dug up, the huge treasure inside can feed the people of shandong. So who is this Kang King? Why is there so much treasure in his tomb? Why did Guo Moruo always remember this tomb of King Kang?
Late one night in 2000, on the Liuqu Mountain in Pingdu City, Qingdao, there were several black shadows holding Luoyang shovels, iron balls, and ropes, sneaking into a crop field, occasionally looking around, and not long after entering the ground, they began to dig up against an inconspicuous place, just at this time, the plainclothes policemen who had been ambushed for a long time came out from the side, pushed several people to the ground, and after being brought to the police station, the police interrogated them overnight. It turned out that these people were the extraordinarily large tomb robbery gang that the police had been wanting, and it should be known that what they were stubborn about was not anywhere else, but the famous Liuqu Mountain Ancient Tomb Group. There are about 360 tombs on the mountain, most of which are the cemeteries of some princes and nobles, and the most famous one is the tomb of King Kang, and the local villagers firmly believe that there is a huge treasure inside the tomb of King Kang, so much that the people of Shandong can become rich. It is not difficult to see from here that the treasures in King Kang's tomb are numerous and varied.
In ancient times, "mausoleum" is mostly used to refer to the burial place of the emperor and the general, and "tomb" is used to refer to the burial place of ordinary people, although the tomb of King Kang is called a tomb, but it is really a mausoleum, because the mountain where the tomb is buried is tomb-shaped, so it is called "King Kang Tomb" by the locals. In that distant era, status determined wealth, but who was this Kang King? Why is there wealth that rivals the wealth of a country?
The real identity of King Kang is Liu Ji, the King of Jiaodong, also known as the King of Jiaodong Kang, in the fourteen sons of Liu Qi, the Han Jing Emperor, ranked twelfth, and his tenth child is the famous Liu Che, the so-called princes will have all the dynasties, but will be very different from the princes of the Western Han Dynasty, in the early days of the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Han Gaozu Liu Bang believed that the reason for the rapid demise of the Qin Dynasty was because the power of the royal family was too small, and the power in the hands of foreign heroes was too large, so Liu Bang learned a lesson after coming to power and slaughtered the foreign surname heroes. The land is divided among the descendants of Liu surnamed Liu, and the princes of other dynasties are basically the earth emperors who are provided by the state, but the princes of the Western Han Dynasty, the state will not give you money, so the princes in the fiefdom have huge rights in their hands, and they can loot money and rare treasures from the people and nobles, so that the money in their hands is naturally too much to spend, and after death they will take their own treasures with them to bury together.
In 1968, in the Mancheng District of Baoding, Hebei Province, the joint burial tomb of Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan Jing, was found with his wife, who was the ninth son of Liu Qi, the Emperor of Han Jing, the brother of Liu Che and Liu Ji the King of Kang, and Liu Bei in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the most mentioned sentence was "I am liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan Jing..." Liu Sheng's tomb unearthed more than 10,000 pieces of various treasures, there are more than 4,000 pieces of guangguo treasure, on the scale of the emperor whose number and luxury are far beyond the degree of luxury, the most representative four national treasure-level cultural relics are Changxin Palace lamp, dragon pattern copper pot, Wrong Jin Bo mountain furnace, Suzaku ring cup, casually take out a piece can shock the world, as well as Liu Sheng and his wife and wife wear a golden jade coat, each piece has more than two thousand pieces of high-grade jade pieces made of gold thread, but also the top of the national treasure, and this golden jade robe is the exclusive burial product of the Han Dynasty royal family, its value is far from being measured by money.
There is also in 1994, Jiangsu Xuzhou Lion Mountain found the tomb of the three generations of Chu king Liu Peng, the scale is also amazing, the structure of the cemetery is very special, the layout is symmetrical in the north-south axis, luxurious royal facilities have everything, although the discovery has been patronized many times by tomb robbers, but still unearthed more than two thousand precious cultural relics, each piece of jade is ingenious, valuable. Among them, there are more than 4,000 lifelike pottery figurines, 170,000 Western Han copper coins, and more than 200 funeral seals. It can be said that the tombs of each of the princes of the Western Han Dynasty are a huge cornucopia. But there is a new question that haunts everyone. During the Western Han Dynasty, there were dozens of princes and kings in Shandong, so why did they only circulate the proverb "Dig out the tomb of King Kang, and Shandong will not be poor"?
Among the fourteen sons of The Han Jing Emperor Liu Qi, King Kang had a different place from other sons, during the reign of Emperor Jing of Han, the power in the hands of the princes was frightening, and the minister of the court Chao Mistakenly proposed to weaken the power of the princes, and the other kings thought that they would not agree, so the seven princes surnamed Liu joined forces to rebel, and after the rebellion was put down, the original Jiaodong king Liu Xiongqu was defeated and committed suicide, the position was vacated, and naturally someone had to go up to make up for it, and the best candidate in the heart of Emperor Han Jing was Liu Che, but Liu Che was only four years old at the time and could not take office. Three years later Liu Che became the crown prince again, The Han Jing Emperor sealed this position to Liu Shu, it seems that this is only a small thing, but in fact it shows a big problem, Jiaodong is a rich and economically developed area by the sea, and it is also the best place in the fiefdom, the reason why the Han Jing Emperor planned to divide him to Liu Che and Liu Ji showed his love for the two children, Liu Che was clever and clever since childhood, and he was deeply liked by the Han Jing Emperor, Liu Che's position in his heart was the first, then the second was naturally Liu Qi, Liu Che's mother is the shy and closed moon empress Wang Jiao, Liu Ji's mother is Wang Jiao's sister Wang Erjie, the blood relationship between Liu Che and Liu Che is closer, the two also because their mother is a sister, they are very close, and their feelings are very good from childhood, which is incomparable to several other brothers. After growing up, Liu Che became the emperor, Liu Ji was the prince with the best relationship with the emperor, in this case, Liu Ji was the king of Jiaodong for 28 years, the first thing he did when he took office was to build his own mausoleum, using more than 60,000 migrant workers, which was built for more than ten years, so people suspected that his tomb contained treasures that were rich and invincible.
But some people are skeptical about the matter of hiding treasures, because in the last year of Liu Ji's tenure as king of Jiaodong, there were big events, the book "Huainanzi" believes that everyone has heard about it, and the idioms that we are familiar with, such as Sai Weng's loss of horses, Jingwei reclamation, and Nüwa's patching of heaven, all come from the book "Huainanzi", which was written by Liu An together with his protégés, Liu An was the most famous and accomplished among the princes, and even the tofu we eat now was invented by him, and the young Liu An was a little impulsive in doing things in the early days of the Han Wudi Emperor Liu Che's ascension to the throne Under the sway of the villain, Liu An felt that the position of emperor should be taken by him, and then purchased weapons, trained the army, let his daughter win over the ministers in the middle of the dynasty, the rebel team was very prepared, naturally it was detected by Liu Che, and under the fright, Liu An took poison and committed suicide, and more than 100,000 troops were quickly extinguished, implicating more than 10,000 people who were killed, and the "Records of History" recorded that: "When the king of Huainan plotted a rebellion, he sent a small message to hear about it, privately made a building and a car, prepared for war, and waited for the south to rise", that is, when Liu An plotted to rebel, Liu Ji knew about it. However, he did not report to Liu Che, but secretly built weapons to help him rebel. This incident was discovered by the officials in the letters of the two men when they raided Liu An's home, and after Liu Che learned that they had conspired to rebel together, his heart was painful, and he did not expect that his brother, who was close to him, would actually collude with others to conspire to rebel for a little benefit, and before he could be guilty, Liu Ji contracted the disease and died in shame, and the suspected rebellion could not help but make people suspect that there was no endless treasure in his mausoleum.
In 1995, in the Shuangniu Mountain in Jinan, Shandong Province, the tomb of Liu Kuan, the king of Jibei, was found, which was much larger than the tomb of Liu Sheng, the king of Jingjing in Zhongshan, and the preservation was very complete, and the experts present agreed that there would definitely be golden jade clothes, but when the tomb was cleaned up to the end, only a small number of cultural relics and a pair of jade coverings were unearthed, and the value was very far from the national treasure-level cultural relics, not to mention the comparison with the golden jade clothes, and the reason was that the relationship between Liu Kuan, the king of Jibei, and Liu An was quite good. However, he did not participate in the rebellion, after Liu An's death, his attitude towards Liu Che became bad, and he also got a puppet with Liu Che's name written on it, and used a needle to pierce this puppet every day, cursing Liu Che for not dying well, because of the informant of his subordinates, Liu Kuan committed suicide in advance, but Emperor Wu of Han did not intend to let him go, and ordered the cancellation of Liu Kuan's golden jade clothes, and everything buried was from Jane. This is also the reason why although the scale of the Tomb of the King of Jibei is large, the value of funerary products is not high.
Liu Kuan committed suicide and buried Congjian because of cursing Emperor Wu of Han, so what would happen to Liu Ji, the king of Jiaodong, who was suspected of being more guilty of rebellion? Will there be treasures in king Kang's tomb that are rich and invincible? Where would Liu Ji be buried in the Liuqu Mountains? Liuqu Mountain is called a mountain, in fact, it is an endless mountain range, there are more than 360 ancient tombs on it, one of which is the tomb of Liu Ji, experts have gone through ancient books, and have not found any records about the burial of King Kang, after all, more than two thousand years have passed, the majestic mausoleum built in that year, after the baptism of the years, has now become a similar earth bag, but the local villagers are very convinced that the tomb of King Kang Liu Ji is buried here, because the older generation of people are saying so. Experts have found that this kind of word-of-mouth claim is not empty.
The ancient tombs of Liuqu Mountain are often patronized by tomb robbers, including 18 tomb robbers and village names between 1998 and 2001, and the cumulative value of cultural relics resold has reached tens of millions. Among them, the cultural relics that have been recovered include monkey holding trees with branches, gilded urs, gilded phoenix birds, goose-stepping turtle lamps, etc., all of which are funerary products of the Western Han Royal Family, and it is unknown whether they were stolen from Liu Ji's tomb. But all of them prove that there are indeed tombs of the princes of the Western Han Dynasty on the Liuqu Mountain. In the following investigation, experts also found that the possibility of Liu Ji being buried here is very large. The name of the local village attracted their attention, when the funeral procession of King Kang was huge, the spiritual shed built for the funeral alone was twenty or thirty kilometers long, and those many craftsmen who set up the spiritual shed simply settled down in the place where they rested, the name of the village was called the spiritual shed, after a long time, the village name felt that the two words of the spiritual shed were not very auspicious, so they changed it to Penglai Qian Village, and this place is now the PenglaiQian Village in Pingdu City, Shandong Province, and similar to Li Dao Village, the name comes from the spiritual path of the road offering, And Li Dao is the transliteration of the Spiritual Path.
At present, there is still a question that needs to be answered, that is, how did Emperor Wudi of Han deal with Liu Ji, the king of Huainan, Liu An and other family members were all killed, the means can be described as resolute and decisive, but for his brother who has more than forty years of feelings, Emperor Wu of Han still softened his heart, after Liu Ji committed suicide, he did not investigate his family in depth, and also named Liu Ji's younger son as the King of Lu'an, which means "six places are safe, never rebel." And the truth is indeed as he expected, Liu Ji's descendants have never been in trouble since then. In addition to the reasons for the deep feelings, I am afraid that I still want to make an account to Liu Qi, the Emperor of HanJing, their father absolutely does not want to see that his two most beloved sons are cannibalistic, so the possibility of Liu Ji being buried is very large, and those amazing treasures are naturally still in the tomb of King Kang. In other words, the rumor that King Kang's treasure is rich and invincible may really exist.
Regarding the excavation of King Kang's tomb, there is another person who is particularly interested in it, that is, the famous writer and archaeologist Guo Moruo. In 1968, the mausoleum of Liu Sheng, the King of Jing of Zhongshan, was excavated by Guo Moruo, and a large number of precious cultural relics inside not only shocked the world, but also deeply touched his heart, especially the two golden jade robes, which made Guo Moruo remember it, for this reason, he firmly believed that in the tomb of King Kang on the Liuqu Mountain, the treasure must be richer than in Liu Sheng's tomb, and the priceless treasure of the golden jade robe is naturally a natural thing, but because he previously excavated the Dingling Tomb where the Wanli Emperor was located, the protection measures were not in place. Resulting in a large number of precious cultural relics serious oxidation, the location of King Kang's tomb can not be determined, the amount of soil must be very large, and the archaeological conditions at that time were limited, can not effectively store a large number of precious cultural relics, Kang King's tomb or sealed underground is more appropriate, so Guo Moruo's wish has not been realized, we have not had the opportunity to witness, the true face of the huge treasure.
Of the more than 360 ancient tombs, which one will be the mausoleum of Liu Ji, the King of Kang? What is the mystery of the location of the mausoleum? There is a hill on Liuqu Mountain called the Jiaodong King's Tomb, which is what we call the Tomb of King Kang, and there is also a non-conspicuous Lingtai site, connected to a group of funerary tombs nearby, all of which are funerary tombs around the tomb of King Kang, although the hill is not the highest on Liuqu Mountain, but it is the most magnificent of the mountains, there is only a small platform in front of the tomb, surrounded by a circle of nameless small tombs, like the stars arching the moon, setting off the extraordinary momentum of the Kang King's tomb, but some people have questioned why Liu Ji, who enjoyed half his life' wealth, Not buried on the largest mountain, but buried on the slightly shorter mountain, according to this bizarre question, experts expressed their opinions, originally the main cemetery of King Kang tomb is indeed the largest, but because the mountain soil is relatively soft, hundreds of years of rain washed away, so that the original tall mountain continues to shrink, which makes the original largest mountain, into the current look.
As for whether it is the tomb of King Kang or not, whether the endless treasure that can make the entire people of Shandong rich is really here. The experts couldn't give the answer we wanted for a while. Later, because the tomb robbers were in the area of Liuqu Mountain, they frequently looted the surrounding ancient tombs. Therefore, it has been highly valued by the relevant departments, and in 2001, the United National Bureau of Cultural Relics set up Liuqu Mountain as a national key cultural protection unit, directly eliminating the opportunity to give illegal tomb robbers, even archaeologists without approval, can not go to excavate Liu Ji's mausoleum, perhaps only until later, the progress of archaeological excavation technology, and the continuous improvement of cultural relics protection work, we have the opportunity to know, "dig out the tomb of King Kang, Shandong is not poor" The proverb is true or false.