Chapter 231 I still say the same thing

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

Chapter 231 I still say the same thing

Open the underground palace

That's right, if you open the underground palace, everything will be known.

As long as you take a look at the coffin and see if it has been opened, and see if there are any corpses in the coffin, the truth will be revealed.

As long as there are no corpses, it means that the people inside are really resurrected from the dead.

There may be some mentally retarded people in this world, but Emperor Hongzhi is definitely not. It's not that he didn't expect this, but he didn't dare.

He was afraid that when he opened the underground palace, there would be a corpse inside the coffin. This corpse was small and was wearing the same robe as when he was buried ten years ago. The three words Zhu Xiurong were embroidered on the fold of the robe, indicating that this was his daughter.

At the same time, it also made it clear that his daughter really died, and she did not come back from the dead.

Thinking of this, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but tremble in his hands and feet. He just wanted to find a hole in the ground and an explanation that didn't need to be too reasonable.

In order to calmly accept this bizarre, even bizarre and almost impossible resurrection from the dead, let him be like an ostrich and bury his head deeply in the sand.

"Your guess is that there is no body in this coffin?"

His voice was trembling, perhaps because he couldn't control his emotions.

Zhu Houzhao immediately said: "Definitely not. If the girl is alive, why would there be any body left?"

Xia Yuan shook his head calmly, "It's not that there are no bodies. I guess there may not even be coffins in the underground palace."

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There is no doubt that when he spoke these words, he immediately shocked the entire audience and swept everyone away.

Among all the people present, Zhu Houzhao stayed with him all day long. Perhaps he was the only one who could barely keep up with his thinking. But at this time, they were shocked. There was no coffin?

Tomb robbers these days even steal coffins?

After a long silence, no one commented, and no one asked where the coffin had gone or why there was no coffin.

Xia Yuan could only ask and answer himself, "I speculate that the coffin probably fell underground, or it may have fallen into the underground river."

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There was another moment of silence. Zhu Houzhao was the first to react, tugging on his sleeves and reminding him in a low voice: "Master, don't go too far. How could the coffin fall into the ground? There is no underground river.

Shut up, if you keep talking, my father will definitely get angry. Look, his hands are shaking. According to me, he wants to hit someone."

Listen to people's advice and eat enough.

But Xia Yuan is not the one to listen to advice. Besides, shaking hands does not necessarily mean he wants to hit someone. It could also be Parkinson's disease.

"Of course it's impossible if it's anywhere else, but this is Haidian."

"Haidian?"

"Yes, Haidian."

After thinking for a moment, Xia Yuan said slowly: "This place should have been called Haizi before. It seems that it was called like this in the Tang and Song Dynasties."

Emperor Hongzhi's hands were indeed shaking, but he didn't mean to hit anyone. Then he glanced at Xiao Jing and asked, "Xiao Banban, was this place called Haizi before?"

"This slave doesn't know much about this either."

Xiao Jing's face twitched, our hometown is Yanping Prefecture, how could we know the culture and customs of this capital city?

At this time, a guard suddenly said: "Your Majesty, I seem to have heard from the elders at home that this place was indeed called Haizi."

With such a sentence, the credibility of this matter suddenly became extremely high, although Xia Yuan really did not make nonsense.

He shook off the thoughts in his mind and continued: "But Haizi here does not mean the sea, but there are many lakes and rivers, and even more than a thousand springs."

"Even now, there are many water veins."

As he said that, Xia Yuan pointed to the river in the distance, "Your Majesty, you see, there is a big river there. If I remember correctly, there are not ten, but eight, large and small rivers near Xijin Mountain."

"." After hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi nodded slightly. He certainly knew this. There were indeed many water flows around the Xijin Mountains. From a historical perspective, such places with developed water veins were the most suitable for burying women.

Water is originally yin, and the water veins here are almost all in the south of Xijin Mountain. The south of the mountain is yang water, which is Ren water. Women represent yin water, which is Gui water. The two are most suitable.

Therefore, almost all the princesses and princesses of the Ming Dynasty are buried here.

In Cuiwei Mountain in the distance, at least six or seven people are buried.

"There are many rivers now, but the water veins were more developed in the past. However, as time goes by, these lakes have sedimented and almost all have reached the ground."

Now this area does not have an exact name, it is just under the jurisdiction of Changping County, but in later generations it was called Haidian.

Haidian, Haidian, literally means that the sea has settled underground and has become an underground river.

This is of course an exaggeration, but there are indeed an absurd number of underground rivers in Haidian.

According to statistics, the area covered by groundwater is approximately more than 360 square kilometers.

As for the size of Haidian in later generations, it was just over four hundred square kilometers.

What a horrific contrast.

Almost all of Haidian is covered with underground rivers.

"You said there are underground rivers underneath this place?"

"Um."

Xia Yuan nodded repeatedly and asked: "Your Majesty, I would like to ask, how many meters underground is this underground palace, and how many feet underground is it?"

Upon hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi immediately turned around and asked, "Xiao Banban, according to the regulations of the country, how deep should the princess's underground palace be?"

Although all the buildings on this ground are of the prince's specifications, the underground palace was originally snatched from the princess of Gu'an, so it only conforms to the princess's specifications.

Xiao Jing counted on his fingers, "The emperor's mausoleum should be nine feet deep, the royal mausoleum should be seven feet deep, and the princess's mausoleum is the negative number, it should be six feet deep."

Six feet.

That's eighteen meters.

After converting this number, Xia Yuan couldn't help but grin. After digging to a depth of eighteen meters, the underground palace has not collapsed yet. These craftsmen are really lucky.

I remember a later report that groundwater in the Haidian area was almost less than a hundred meters underground due to its relatively short formation time.

And now in the Ming Dynasty, the formation of this underground river took three to five hundred years, and it is estimated that it would be thirty or forty meters high enough to reach the sky.

Fortunately, the imperial mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty was not located in this area, otherwise, according to the depth of nine feet and twenty-seven meters, each one would have collapsed.

"The location is 18 meters. Another reason is that this place is very prone to earthquakes, but they seem to be small earthquakes."

Xia Yuan muttered to himself, then raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, this is roughly what I conjectured. The underground palace is very close to the underground water. After an earthquake, the earthquake does not even need to be too big to cause the bottom of the underground palace to collapse, and then the coffin will collapse."

It fell into the underground river, and then the wooden coffin followed the underground river to the surface river."

This conjecture is the most reasonable and logical that Xia Yuan can think of. It seems a bit ridiculous, but in fact it is not ridiculous at all, because all the conditions he mentioned are just met.

The boundary of Shuntian Prefecture in the capital is very important from a strategic point of view, but its geographical location is exactly at the intersection of several major fault zones in the North China Plain. This kind of terrain is the easiest for earthquakes to form.

It is always said that earthquakes occur frequently in Sichuan and Chongqing, but earthquakes around the capital are actually the most common, but they are not large in scale.

In more than a thousand years, more than 200 earthquakes of magnitude 4 or above have occurred.

It happens almost once every five or six years. This is still recorded, but there are many more that are not recorded.

Small earthquakes of magnitude one or two occur dozens or hundreds of times a year.

Such small-scale earthquakes cannot be felt above the surface, but the coffins of the underground palace coffins are made of stone, are inherently heavy, and are very close to the groundwater. A small earthquake will collapse the place where the coffins are parked, thus causing the coffins to collapse.

The coffin fell into the underground river.

Later, if Xiaoqiezi is in a state of suspended animation and the earthquake occurs within a few days of being buried, it is very likely that she will come back to life after being choked by water.

After the collapse, the center of gravity shifted, and the wooden coffin fell out of the stone coffin. The wood is buoyant, and the underground river in Haidian is connected to many surrounding waters. God knows where it will float out.

Then she was picked up by her mother

A thread gradually formed in Xia Yuan's head and became clearer and clearer.

"Your Majesty, I still said what I said, open the underground palace and everything will be revealed."
Chapter completed!