The rumbling gunfire of the Wuchang Uprising enabled China to finally break free from the heavy shackles of feudal monarchy and enter an era of fierce conflict between various cutting-edge ideological trends and legacy and bad habits.
The social situation in the early years of the Republic of China was particularly chaotic.
Not only were wars between various warlords frequent, but there was also a "drought in the north and floods in the south" that had never happened in a century.
Many provinces had no harvests and thousands of people became victims.
In order to In order to have food to eat, many people even took risks and became bandits and thieves, or engaged in such unscrupulous activities as reselling people, smuggling cigarettes, and trafficking arms.
This is exactly what "Ten years of fighting will last forever, and people all over the world will weep bitterly."
As the saying goes: "Antiques in prosperous times are gold in troubled times."
In the years of war and chaos, only yellow croaker gold bars were the hard currency.
But in the eyes of tomb robbers, under such current circumstances, the country's laws have become ineffective, and it is a great opportunity to rob ancient tombs and steal secret weapons.
An experienced tomb robber would certainly not miss this opportunity.
When the political situation stabilizes one day, the price of antiques will surely rise.
Then, by selling the stolen items, you can easily make a fortune.
The tomb robber "Master Ma" and his two old associates, Lao Beifeng and Fei Wuji, saw the opportunity at hand and planned to take advantage of the warlords fighting near the Silt River and the common people in nearby villages and counties to escape. , began to rob an unknown ancient tomb by the river.
Lord Ma's real name is Ma Liancheng.
He has rich experience in tomb robbing, has done many large-scale deeds, and has extremely good eyesight.
Some people even say that he had three eyes.
No matter what ancient tombs are underground, no matter how deep they are hidden, He could tell the clues just by looking at it, so he got such a nickname.
However, those who are more familiar with Lord Ma's abilities naturally know that he is not born with three eyes, and they only respectfully call him "Master Ma from Guanshan".
Prince Ma has been eyeing this ancient tomb by the Silt River for more than a day or two.
It is located in a dense forest not far from the river.
Time has passed and things have changed, and the hills have gradually leveled off.
The earth sealing mounds and stone tablets on the ground of the ancient tomb have disappeared for many years, and it is impossible for even an expert to discover them.
If you push aside the withered and yellow grass, you can see huge tomb bricks under the odd-colored mud that is more than half a foot thick.
The gaps between the tomb bricks are reinforced with molten iron.
If you want to dig a robbery hole in a short time, , it is necessary to use earthen artillery to blow out the gap.
It's just that this area is not far from the official road.
Although the geographical location is remote, it is the only way to go to the market.
In the past, it was difficult to have a chance to attack with people and cars.
Even if you use earth cannons to blow up the tomb wall at night, you may alert the militia.
Or the security team.
Therefore, although Lord Ma had already stepped on it several times, he still did not dare to act rashly.
The current war made this place suddenly inaccessible.
This was a God-given opportunity for Lord Ma and others.
He immediately joined two other veteran tomb robbers, "Old Beifeng", who was good at using gunpowder.
The coffin-opener "Fei Wuji" was a good person.
In order to hide from others, the three of them pretended to be Taoists.
They brought a bunch of practical equipment and a few mules and horses for carrying things, and walked day and night to the bank of the Silt River.
The name "Silt River" comes from the fact that the river is half water and half mud.
No matter whether it is flood or drought, there is always so much mud in this river.
In recent years, the flow of the river has gradually decreased.
The river, which was originally several feet wide, has been divided into several sections by the silt.
It only occasionally connects into one piece when the rain is heaviest.
The river bed is full of clumps of tangled grass several feet high.
Some outsiders who don’t know what’s going on want to drink water or wash their faces by the river when passing by.
Without preparation, if they step on When they reach the quagmire under the grass, they often get stuck in the mud and lose their lives.
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No one can tell how many people have died in this muddy river.
However, due to the death of too many people in this river, except for the very narrow section in the middle of the river, the water quality is still acceptable.
Most of the rivers are filled with black water all year round, exuding a strong putrid odor.
When Prince Ma and the others arrived at the Silt River, it was already sunset and dusk.
Since they had seen the terrain many times in advance, Lord Ma, Old Beifeng and others dug out the copper-iron-filled brick walls of the ancient tomb with little effort.
Old Beifeng took the lead, tapping his fingers on the huge tomb bricks to survey the starting position.
Prince Ma and Fei Wuji were both squatting aside and waiting.
Prince Ma was smoking his pipe leisurely, while Fei Wuji was staring intently at the change of expression on Old Beifeng's face, a little worried about the earthen gunpowder he was carrying.
Not enough.
Old Beifeng calmly ascertained the thickness of the brick layer, and said to Prince Ma and Fei Wuji: "Two brothers, this longevity cave is built with a stone coffin and iron walls.
It is as strong as ever.
Although we I don’t have much gunpowder, but I estimate that if I hit its weakest point with a cannon, it won’t be able to break apart.”
After hearing this, Lord Ma calmly nodded and ordered: "Everyone near the mud river has already fled.
It doesn't matter no matter how loud the noise is.
You just need to calculate the amount of medicine just right so as not to damage the longevity point."
That’s the most valuable thing.”
Lord Ma was the leader of this group of people.
After he spoke, Old Beifeng dared to take action.
He installed the primer of the cannon in three strokes, five divided by two, and the cannon exploded loudly.
Even though it was homemade explosives, But the ratio was clever, and the explosion was really powerful, sending earth and rocks flying and thick smoke rising.
Old Beifeng worked as a gunpowder engineer in the Beiyang Firearms Bureau in his early years.
He followed Lord Ma to rob many ancient tombs over the years.
Breaking through walls with earthen cannons was his specialty.
After the smoke cleared, this unknown ancient tomb was seen.
There has been a big blow-out, and a big gap has been created in the collapse.
The gap made by the earthen cannon was located just at the top of the bronze gate of the tomb passage, bypassing the strongest iron wall of the bronze gate.
However, the gap exposed in the tomb wall was not the tomb passage.
There was a green-striped stone tombstone inside.
The three of them could not help but feel a little agitated.
It’s strange that after having stolen the tomb for so many years, I haven’t seen anyone’s tombstone placed inside the tomb.
What kind of drama is this song about?
So we walked side by side and took a closer look.
We couldn’t help but want to take a look at this unknown ancient tomb.
What is written on the stone tablet hidden in the tomb?
The tombstone is flat and long, and is very strangely made.
The stone is an ordinary big bluestone, with a ghost head carved on the top, and a line of large characters slantedly carved in the middle.
The strokes are weird and scrawled, exuding evil aura.
Among the three of them, only Fei Wuji was an illiterate roughneck.
Although Old Beifeng could recognize some common characters, including the white characters he had mistakenly recognized, he could only recognize a few hundred characters at most, and he could not recognize slightly more complicated characters.
He knows nothing about stone tablets and seal carvings.
The two of them looked at the stone tablet in the tomb as if they were reading a book from heaven.
They couldn't read even half a word, so they had to ask Lord Ma what words were written on the tablet.
Lord Ma is knowledgeable about the past and present, so he cannot be troubled.
Although the line of writing on the bluestone is strange, it is not a complicated and difficult inscription like ancient seal script.
It can be read with a little recognition, and he recited it silently in his heart.
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It doesn't matter if you don't look at it.
After looking at it, Lord Ma felt a sudden chill in his heart.
The words engraved on the bluestone were: "Anyone who dares to attack my hill will be cursed and fall to a place where they will never recover."
It turns out that this is a curse stone used by ancient tomb owners to intimidate tomb robbers.
That is, the tomb owner issued a poisonous curse.
If anyone dares to dig this tomb, the tomb owner will curse the tomb robbers even if he is in the underworld for thousands of years after his death.
Those who enter a state of eternal catastrophe and see this stone tablet will die.
Since ancient times, since the beginning of the trend of thick burials, there have been many tombs in the world.
However, the concept of "death is like life" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the ancients, and few nobles are willing to wear coffins made of paper and tiles.
Since we can't have a thin burial, we have to find ways to fight against tomb robbery.
In addition to setting up tombs, curses and shocks are also a common method.
Lord Ma had seen similar ones before, but since the tomb robber dared to do this business of traveling between the Yin and Yang worlds, he had already ignored the curses of ghosts and gods.
He had long been accustomed to such curses and didn't care at all.
However, this time I don't know why, but I feel flustered.
Maybe there is something weird in this unknown tomb
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