Chapter 177 Guo Jia is not dead, Wolong is not gone
Continuing the previous article, Guo Jia is not dead, Wolong will not come out.
After Guo Jia's death, Zhuge Kongming began to shine. His life was like a cheat, and he had the help of ghosts and gods.
Even after death, it is impossible to investigate.
Zhuge Liang was an important figure in the Three Kingdoms period. His wisdom was unfathomable. There were many magical legends in him. The most strange thing was his last plan in life: "Release the coffin in the south, and the rope was broken and buried."
It is said that during Zhuge Liang's fifth Northern Expedition, he confronted his old rival Sima Yi for more than 100 days in Wuzhangyuan.
During this period, Zhuge Liang wanted to seize Beiyuan but failed and wanted to incite Sima Yi to fight. Sima Yi would rather accept the clothes given by Zhuge Liang than fight. He scolded and agitated generals and could not achieve his goal. The two armies had to continue in such a stalemate.
Sima Yi, who is in the hometown, can wait leisurely, but the Shu army, who came from afar, could not engage in long-term travel outside, so Zhuge Liang fell into extreme anxiety.
In addition, he was busy with work and the Shu Han regime had to ask about everything, big and small. Zhuge Liang's body finally couldn't stand it and fell ill in the army.
Seeing that the medicine stone was not cured, Zhuge Liang used the method of a half-immortal to light the seven-star lamp formation and prayed to prolong his life, and arranged for the most trusted Jiang to protect the lamp from the law, and to borrow another 10 years of life from heaven.
This spell takes 7 days, and the first 6 days passed safely. Jiang Wei was very happy and thought the Prime Minister could survive this disaster.
Unexpectedly, on the 7th day, Sima Yi suddenly brought troops to attack. The military situation was urgent, and general Wei Yan hurriedly came to report. When he entered the tent, he accidentally put out seven oil lamps. Jiang Wei was so angry that he drew his sword on the spot to chop Wei Yan!
Zhuge Liang was very open-minded and told him about his funeral that night, and died peacefully the next day.
The commander was gone, so the military operations of the Northern Expedition naturally could not continue. The Shu army set up suspicious formations along the way, and kept silently mourning, rectifying the army and horses to retreat calmly. Sima Yi suspected that he had cheated and dared not pursue him, and allowed the Shu army to leave. This was "Zhuge the dead and scared away Zhongda."
Zhuge Liang had a good time in the military deployment of his retreat, and as for his funeral arrangements, he actually made a mysterious secret.
According to Zhuge Liang's confession, everything behind him is simple and there is no need to be buried with a grand burial. When burying, you only need to dig a tomb, and the coffin can be placed in it. You are wearing ordinary clothes, so don't have other burial objects. Just put seven grains of rice into his mouth and a copper coin in his hand. You will not erect a tomb, and you will not plant trees in front of the tomb.
However, at the burial address, Zhuge Liang roughly designated a range, and in Dingjun Mountain, Hanzhong, he asked him to "lift the coffin south, and then he would be buried after the rope was broken."
The late Lord Liu Chan respected Zhuge Liang very much. After crying, he made a great reward according to the wishes of his father. He sent four people to carry the coffin to the south, and buried him wherever he broke the rope.
But he never expected that these four people carried the coffin and walked south for three days and three nights, and the coffin rope was not broken at all!
The four of them became impatient and gathered together to make up confessions. They cut the rope with a knife and buried Zhuge Liang's coffin on the ground. After that, they pretended to be holding the rope and came back to Liu Chan for reward.
Liu Chan didn't look closely, leaving a rope, and gave each of them hundreds of taels of silver to send them home. After a while, Jiang Wei came to Liu Chan to discuss the matter, and Liu Chan told him the matter casually. When Jiang Wei looked at the rope, he said that the broken mouth was neat, not broken, but cut with a knife.
This is amazing, I blatantly deceive the emperor!
Liu Chan was furious and ordered people to capture the four people. After torture, he found out that it was their fault. He killed all four people in anger. But the question came just after the killing, and he hadn't asked them where they buried the prime minister? How could he forget this most important thing? It's so angry that he makes people lose their minds!
From then on, Zhuge Liang became a mystery where he was buried. He only knew that he was Dingjun Mountain in Hanzhong. However, Dingjun Mountain was so big that Zhuge Liang told him not to erect tombs and not to plant trees in front of the tombs. Where to worship during festivals? He had to kowtow together on the entire mountain.
So, what is the intention of Zhuge Liang to give this last order?
Glitters believe that Zhuge Liang had already anticipated what happened later. He knew what the four coffin carryrs would do and how Liu Chan would treat them. The purpose was to prevent anyone from knowing where he was buried.
So another question arises, why did Zhuge Liang make his affairs so mysterious?
The answer is very simple, I was frightened by the tomb robbers.
The ancients died as if they were alive. It was popular for the Western Han Dynasty and Eastern Han Dynasty to bury the rich. No matter how poor the family was, they would try their best to bury their deceased relatives more so that they could live a comfortable life underground. For example, the tomb of Liu He, the Marquis of Haihun of the Western Han Dynasty, unearthed in the first few years, had the copper coins and gold inside. It was really a sea of beginning.
This trend of burial was obviously deviated during the Three Kingdoms period. Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, Cao Cao and other sensible figures all advocated burials and tried every means to keep confidentiality measures at the place where they were buried.
For a nation like us who respects our ancestors very much, this is actually not normal. If we don’t know where the tomb is, our descendants will not be able to worship in front of the tomb. In ancient times, many families were going to have a son to die. Isn’t it just to have an incense stick in front of the tomb after death? Why are they so advanced in consciousness that they are not interested?
The reason is not that they are open-minded, but that they are guarding against tomb robbers.
Tomb robbery was extremely rampant during the Three Kingdoms. Dong Zhuo and Sun Quan had done this unethical thing, and it was Cao Cao who turned tomb robbery into a group operation! For this reason, he also specially set up a position of lieutenant of the gold-touching school, Faqiu Zhonglang General, and tomb robbery and tomb raising troops.
When the news spread, Cao Cao was naturally scolded. The older people also thought secretly that for the sake of peace after death, they had to be buried secretly. Even Cao Cao himself could not guarantee that the tomb robbers thousands of years later gave him face and built a total of 72 suspicious tombs.
Once you understand these backgrounds, you will understand that Zhuge Liang has this last plan in order not to be disturbed after his death.
However, this mysterious and wonderful story, like many other myths in Zhuge Liang, is just an artistic processing of the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". In the official history, Zhuge Liang only expressed the meaning of burial and also designated Dingjun Mountain, but did not let someone "lift the coffin south, and then bury it if the rope was broken."
But the same as the Romance of Legend is that only Jiang Wei, who handled his funeral, knows where Zhuge Liang's tomb is, and no one knows it. The tomb of Wuhou in Shaanxi and Wuhou Temple in Sichuan are all memorial buildings.
In this book, Zhuge Kongming will also open up new paths.
Chapter completed!