The most feared thing of ancient princes and nobles was to have their bodies exhumed from their tombs after death, and then tomb robbers would rip out their intestines and pry their mouths to steal pearls and jade.
There is probably nothing more unlucky than this, so ancient tombs are often preserved with their secrecy.
It is said that a popular practice in the Yuan Dynasty was that the tomb chamber deliberately deviated from the regular layout of the ancient tomb, making it difficult for tomb robbers to use the traditional "swan laying eggs" method.
If you directly lift off the top and go inside to retrieve the treasure, unless you are lucky, digging the entire mountain into a sieve may not reveal the location of the tomb.
The art of tomb robbing in the past dynasties not only involves identifying mountainous terrain, but also observing mud marks, soil quality, water flow, and grass color.
It also has the skills of smelling the soil, listening to the earth, and asking the sky to strike armor.
If you use this method, you will not lose anything. .
It turns out that since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the trend of tomb robbing has become more and more intense.
Tomb robbers passed down from generation to generation have gradually accumulated and perfected their experience in robbing tombs and digging tombs, and summarized many methods.
For example, using the technique of observing mud marks and grass color, if you see a certain crop in a crop field that is particularly different from the surrounding crops, or is denser or sparser, taller or shorter than the surrounding crops, then there must be an ancient tomb hidden underground.
The lush and dense ones are the tombs of the Han and Tang Dynasties, while the sparse and low ones are the tombs of the Song and Ming Dynasties.
This is why plaster was mostly used in the Han and Tang Dynasties, while tomb bricks were mostly used after the Song Dynasty.
This is a secret.
Some tomb robbers have used this method to find many giant tombs, dig out ancient secret weapons, and become rich overnight.
However, the ancient tombs of the Yuan Dynasty are unconventional, as most of the ancient corpses of the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty contain the highly poisonous substance "Zhuyan Powder", which is not seen in other dynasties and generations.
The burial customs of the Yuan Dynasty are also unique.
They are all buried deep without trees.
The technique of observing the mud marks and grass color is of no use here.
Moreover, without years of accumulated experience, there are no noticeable features.
Experienced tomb robbers, when encountering this kind of situation, do not use their eyes and noses, but listen with their ears.
They can often hear the specific location of the ancient tomb underground.
However, to use this method, they must take advantage of the strong wind and rain.
When thunder booms, it doesn't work the rest of the time.
Outsiders don't know the details and think that all ancient tombs must have visions, so this technique is said to be magical.
However, in fact, whether it is listening to rain or thunder, it is an extended use of changes in the natural environment.
For example, if you want to find an ancient tomb from the Yuan Dynasty, you will most likely find it under your feet, but the tomb robbers have no idea of its scale and layout.
If you want to break into the cave, it will be harder than climbing to the sky.
If the weather is favorable and there is a heavy thunderstorm at this time, then use a bamboo tube to listen to the ground, the thunder is transmitted from the underground, and listen to the priority, dullness, and height of the echo, and you can clearly hear the situation underground.
If there is no wind, rain or thunder after waiting for many days, no matter how experienced the bandit is, he can only worry in vain and not recite the mantra
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