After all, Wu Zetian seized the throne of Li's family and set up the capital in Luoyang. It was obvious that Wu Zetian had something to hide or felt guilty. Since Wu Zetian even changed the capital, it is very likely that Wu Zetian did not want to be buried with Li Zhi after she ascended the throne and became the empress, so she built her own mausoleum at the foot of Daimei Mountain.
But in the end, Wu Zetian did not use this mausoleum. Although the Shenlong Change occurred during the empress's serious illness, Wu Zetian returned the imperial power to the Li family, but Li Xian, also known as Tang Zhongzong, was Wu Zetian's third son after all. So after Li Xian ascended the throne, after his mother Wu Zetian passed away, he directly buried Wu Zetian and his father Emperor Li Zhi together.
After Wu Ze's death, she was buried in Qianling Mausoleum by her son, together with her husband Li Zhi, so this mausoleum naturally became useless.
Judging from the scale of this mausoleum, only a female emperor like Wu Zetian could have the ability to build such a magnificent mausoleum. I am afraid that no one else would have the financial resources to do so. Of course, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty after Wu Zetian had the ability and financial resources to build such a mausoleum, but the mausoleums of the Li family were all built in the Eighteen Tombs of the Tang Dynasty. It is impossible for these emperors to leave their ancestral tombs untouched and build mausoleums at the foot of Daimei Mountain.
In this way, Wu Zetian spent countless manpower and material resources to build this mausoleum, but in the end she did not use it, and it became a bargain for Yue Chengzi.
The next part of the inscription is about how Yue Chengzi got to know Li Congke, how he was valued by Li Congke, and how he was summoned to Beijing to become the official of the Si Tai Zhong after Li Congke ascended the throne and became the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty.
It focuses on the process of obtaining the imperial seal.
After Yue Chengzi drank the poisoned wine given by Li Congke, he secretly took the antidote he prepared, so he was not poisoned to death on the spot. Instead, he watched Li Congke, his wife, children and mother, sitting on the Xuanwu Tower with the imperial seal in their hands, and then ordered the imperial guards to set the Xuanwu Tower on fire. The emperor burned himself in the Xuanwu Tower holding the imperial seal and his family.
Because Li Congke set the fire, the entire Luoyang Palace was in chaos. The palace maids and eunuchs took advantage of the chaos to loot many treasures and fled, but no one came to the Xuanwu Tower because of the fire.
After the fire was extinguished, Yue Chengzi secretly found the imperial seal that had not been burned, and then quietly slipped out of Luoyang Palace and returned to Yuecheng Temple. However, because the poison was not cleared, Yue Chengzi knew that his fame would not last long, so he moved all the precious things that Li Congke had rewarded him when he was the official in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs into the tomb of Wu Zetian, and then left a stone tablet in the cave hall outside, restarted the mechanisms, and finally came here alone. After carving the stone tablet, he held the imperial seal in his hand and waited for death to come.
There is no doubt that this skeleton was left behind by Yuechengzi, and the jade box contains the imperial seal that has been missing for more than a thousand years.
However, Yue Chengzi also mentioned some other things in the inscription, such as if any descendants come here, please properly handle his remains. Another very important information is that Yue Chengzi knew that this mausoleum full of traps was prepared by Wu Zetian for himself, but he did not explore the tomb completely, and he did not enter the main tomb chamber. And the rewards he received from Li Congke were placed in a tomb for the burial of Zheng.
Seeing this, Yang Jing couldn't help but sigh.
This Yuechengzi is also a great hero. I thought he was the one who set up the insidious traps. Now it seems that I was wrong. These traps were set up by Empress Wu Zetian.
But it's no wonder. Although Wu Zetian was domineering and established the Wu Zhou Dynasty, becoming the only empress in Chinese history, she was a woman after all, and a woman who married into the Li family. So after she took over, she must have had something fishy in her heart.
Perhaps it was because of something she had in mind that Wu Zetian was so worried about this and that when she was building her own mausoleum, and that’s why she built her own mausoleum with so many traps…
Yuechengzi is nothing more than a poisonous insect occupying a magpie's nest.
However, Yue Chengzi was able to persist in hiding the imperial seal after drinking the poisoned wine. No matter from which aspect, he has made contributions to China. If it were not for him, no one knows what would happen to the imperial seal. But with Yue Chengzi, although the imperial seal was missing for thousands of years, it finally returned to the hands of China!
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