gluttonous adventure king

Chapter 214 Coffin System
This huge structure is a tomb?
Impossible!

The scale of this underground palace has surpassed any known tombs of the Shang Dynasty. If this is really the tomb of a great figure in the ancient Shu Kingdom, then at least it should follow certain rituals!

If this is a tomb, it would be too weird.

First, it was above ground, after endless ages it went underground, and it wasn't fully covered up.

Secondly, this sarcophagus can be regarded as a one-story coffin, and a civil construction two-story coffin. This sarcophagus is so high on the ground that it was not buried, which shows that there was once a raised layer outside it, which was the third floor, and the sarcophagus was the fourth floor.

In other words, a four-story coffin!

Everyone knows what this means in ancient China.

In the earliest era, the Paleolithic Age, people died when they died. Gradually, people became awed by death, and perhaps because of the cholera bacteria of the dead, they began to have burials.

At the beginning, the corpses were put directly into the pit and filled with crushed stones. Later, in the Shaoshan era, wooden coffins appeared, which were only used for tribal leaders.

From then on, it was not until Zhou Tianzi Dingding Central Plains that there were four-story coffins, and the four-story coffin was equivalent to the lord of a country.

First of all, the age here is far earlier than Zhou, and secondly, why does this place appear here!
Even in the Shang Dynasty or even earlier, four-story coffins had already become the ritual system for kings. Will there be a king here?

Zhang Shuqiao shivered: "Here, do you want to go in?"

"Go in, why don't you go in." Fang Hong stepped into the tomb, feeling that the temperature of the air had dropped a lot.

Only after entering the room can we see the whole picture of the sarcophagus clearly.

There are still some patterns on the sarcophagus, which look very similar to the sunbird, but there are differences.

The lower half of the entire sarcophagus was completely taken out of a huge stone, but it was impossible to tell what material it was made of.

The climate here is too humid, coupled with this dull environment, the stones are somewhat blackened, and the original appearance cannot be seen clearly.

"Dong Zhongshu commented that burials are divided into Xuanmian, Fuwei, Guilu, and Tianzhai in life, and coffins, hanging quilts, and raids in death." It seems that people are unwilling to become a pile of yellow earth after death. , The underground world is dark, even if the tomb is built on the ground, it will eventually be buried."

"Brother Gun, I don't think this is a tomb. How can such a large building be a tomb? If it's just an empty hall here? What if someone who is about to die wants to celebrate with a sarcophagus, but it turns out to be useless up."

Faced with the thoughts of the water friends, Fang Hong was powerless to complain, God TM was overjoyed...

"You have to know that that era was an era of slavery. Even if a high-ranking person wanted to be buried in a city where the government is located, it was not impossible. Moreover, the etiquette system was not perfect in that era. Maybe someone It is also possible for a rich master to use the standard tomb that only a king can have, who said that this place depends on the kingdom of abundance."

Liu Chao turned around: "Do you want to open the coffin?"

"Can't open the coffin!" Fang Hong shook his head: "If there is really a corpse, such a good sarcophagus may have preserved his body. If the coffin is opened, it will oxidize rapidly, and it will be scrapped within a few hours. It is also unclear whether there are any deadly bacteria and viruses in it."

"Although the bacterial virus is small, it is really deadly. Let's take the two largest epidemics in human history. For the first time, the Black Death stayed in Europe, bloodbathed Europe, which was already backward and poor at that time, and became It has become a living hell."

"Then the Europeans came to America and brought the viruses and bacteria from the European continent to the Americas, and the Indians died crazily in the bacterial invasion."

"Brother Gun, isn't it right, didn't the Indians die because of the massacre by the whites?
"They died because of the whites, but it wasn't a massacre of hundreds of people. When Europeans went to America to plant a small flag, it belonged to them? If you read the textbook carefully, there was at least a hundred years between the time they landed in America and the establishment of a semi-colonial colony. What happened? The answer is that the Indians were killed by bacteria and viruses."

"At that time, there were two super empires in the Americas. If they fought together, Europe multiplied by three would not be able to defeat any of them."

The Indians were not soft on the whites at all. When Europe came to the Americas in the form of organizing companies, [-]% of the number of people they sent each year would die. It took many years to gain a firm foothold.

For example, it took Virginia Company 80 years to gain a firm foothold in the Americas, and it took more than a hundred years to make a profit. Those who invested back then, not to mention themselves, had almost died of their grandchildren.

This kind of sarcophagus is like Pandora's box. What is released may be the root of the epidemic. Without professionals, opening it is tantamount to suicide.

Of course, the coffins of many large tombs have been opened, which is the temptation of Pandora's box. Everyone knows that the most valuable things in each tomb are placed in the coffin with the corpse.

While the three were observing the coffin, Liu Chao raised his head: "The sound of water."

"Huh?" Fang Hong raised his head: "It seems to be, it's quite close."

Zhang Shuqiao swayed: "Don't scare me, you two, I didn't hear anything!"

Among the three, Zhang Shuqiao is the oldest, but he has no experience in this area, and his acuity is also low.

Fang Hong looked to the south: "If this is really a tomb, then it should be lowered to the south."

It is the lowering of the terrain, because even if it is underground, the status of the king should be higher than other people.It is impossible for the slaves buried with him to sleep on top of the king!
"In other words, if this is an above-ground building at the very beginning, then wouldn't the tower be more than 30 meters!" Zhang Shuqiao was surprised: "This is the height of a ten-story building, and it may be even higher? This is really Ancient buildings?"

Fang Hong turned his head back: "The tallest building in ancient times was more than 30 meters, so it is impossible to be more than [-] meters. Towers are relatively easy to build and strong, let alone stone towers."

Liu Chao tilted his head: "Go and have a look?"

"Okay, I also want to know why there is water here."

Zhang Shuqiao was stunned for a moment: "This environment is scary at first glance, especially the tomb robbery novels that are popular recently, and the radio broadcasts every day. We are really in a big tomb."

"What are you afraid of? Like you said, it doesn't have to be a tomb. Maybe it's nothing. Maybe it's really an empty coffin."

Walking to the door, Liu Chao suddenly turned his head to look at Fang Hong: "Tell me, there is a legend in ancient times. An emperor compared himself to the sun. Which dynasty did it belong to?"

"It's not the emperor, it's the king. Xia Jie will definitely be the sun..." Fang Hong was stunned at this point.

The sun, sunbird, Xia Jie, four-story coffin, 500 years ago.

In [-] BC, Xia Jie was defeated by Cheng Tang.

(End of this chapter)