RPAGF Chapter 358: The Underground Palace Appears
Chapter 358: The Underground Palace Appears
After making them familiar with the underground palace and after they had no more questions, Wang Ze led his men to evacuate and directly returned to the new city by airship.
On the fourth day after Wang Ze returned to Xincheng, the discovery of the underground palace was finally reported by Xincheng TV station and newspapers.
Television stations in particular directly shot a large number of images from inside the underground palace.
This also explains why the Batak people's technology has degenerated to this level today.
It turns out that this underground tomb was the tomb of the leader of the ancient Dian tribe when they evacuated the Western Han Dynasty.
After the death of this leader, a large number of craftsmen who built the tomb were also sealed inside.
In fact, this is not surprising. For the Western Han Dynasty at that time, building royal tombs was a very risky task, because these craftsmen knew tombs very well.
If we let them out, it is very likely that the tomb will be robbed in no time.
But this became a fatal matter for the ancient Dian people.
Because they do not have as many craftsmen as the mainland. After this group of craftsmen died, the inheritance of skills here was completely cut off.
Naturally, the skills of subsequent craftsmen were inferior to those of the previous generation.
After entering the tomb, everyone found that the accessories and utensils inside were dazzling, beautiful and mouth-watering.
After careful counting, the total weight of the gold was as high as 237 kilograms!
In addition, there are a large number of exquisite bronze artifacts scattered throughout the tomb. The most eye-catching one is the huge bronze coffin in the main tomb chamber, which is unique and unparalleled in the world.
What is puzzling is that at the entrance of the tomb there stands a stone tablet carried by a bixi. This special structure is usually only found in the Ming Dynasty.
Especially for experts from the mainland, this bronze bixi is really incredible.
How did it end up in this Han Dynasty tomb? If such a thing existed in the Han Dynasty, why was it not found in subsequent dynasties, but only began to appear in large numbers in the Ming and Qing Dynasties?
For a time, this question became an unsolved mystery.
However, the doubts they raised seemed pale in comparison to the ancient tomb that had obviously been eroded by many years.
After all, the traces of rust on these bronze artifacts are clearly visible, proving that they have indeed gone through vicissitudes of life.
This mysterious tomb quickly became a hot topic of discussion in South China and the mainland.
Compared with the Chinese, Westerners focus more on the huge wealth in the tomb.
Especially countries such as the United States, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, which once had direct rule over this land, were filled with regret when they learned the news.
They realized they had missed a huge treasure.
When the tomb was made public, the female leader of the Batak tribe came to visit in person and carefully cleaned each skeleton according to their traditional customs.
It shows respect for the ancestors, but also reveals a deep ambivalence.
With Yu Xuan's explanation, the matriarch finally understood the story behind this underground palace.
Her heart was in confusion and entanglement:
The leader who brought them here was also the culprit who caused the interruption of their civilization.
Faced with this historical truth, every Batak member who knows this history can't help but feel complicated and indescribable emotions.
After discussion, Yu Xuan and the female clan leader finally reached a consensus.
Some of the items in the mausoleum were selected and exhibited in the museum.
The rest of the precious cultural relics and large artifacts will be left in their original locations in the underground palace.
This mysterious underground palace will be open to the public in the future, allowing people to get close to these ancient cultural heritages.
The female leader stated firmly that the remains of the ancestors should not be placed here for people to visit.
Apart from this, she did not raise any other objections.
However, the female leader later made a request to the Nanhua government, hoping that the name "Batak" would no longer be used in official documents, but would be corrected to "Ancient Dian".
They believed that now that they knew their true identity, they would rather inherit the ancient name rather than use the name given by the colonizers.
The South China government immediately agreed to this request and quickly revised the official materials.
Wang Jixin was very satisfied with this, but he also understood that this method could only be used once.
How wonderful it would be if we could find similar historical origins for every nation.
Wang Ze laughed when he learned about this. He pointed out that if one continues to dig out such stories from other ethnic groups, it would seem too fake.
"I know, I'm just thinking about it. Your action this time has played a great role in stabilizing the situation in Sumatra!" Wang Jixin said with emotion.
After the ancient Dian people learned that they were an ancient ethnic group separated from the mainland, their attitude towards Nanhua changed drastically.
Instead of viewing Nanhua as new colonizers, they began to accept and integrate into it.
The ancient Dian people were numerous, accounting for one-third of the population of Sumatra, and had close ties with other ethnic groups on the island.
With the discovery of ruins and underground palaces, many small ethnic groups have claimed that they were also separated from the ancient Dian people, and they also consider themselves part of the mainland people.
However, this argument has not received clear official support.
The primary reason is that these small ethnic groups are relatively small in number and cannot have a decisive impact.
Secondly, if all ethnic groups who claim to be mainlanders are directly accepted, it may give people the illusion that the Chinese are not precious.
Of course, the most critical reason why Nanhua did not accept it is that the first factor is more important.
The cleaning work of the underground palace has been ongoing, and Yu Xuan and others understand the truth behind it.
Therefore, they did not excavate the underground palace as carefully as ordinary archaeological excavations.
After all, everything here was designed by them.
Although they had no idea why their design could be realized so quickly, they had signed and been trained on the confidentiality clause, so they had to keep any questions to themselves.
After counting the items inside, they immediately ordered a large amount of bulletproof glass from the New Town Industrial Zone.
In the future, the entire underground palace will be surrounded by this special bulletproof glass to ensure that tourists cannot directly touch the items inside.
Inside the underground palace, the bones that once existed had long been taken away and enshrined by the matriarch according to tradition.
Therefore, Yu Xuan had to use plaster to carefully create models that were exactly the same as the original skeletons and place them in the underground palace.
Not only that, even the remains of the craftsmen near Fengshikou have been carefully restored.
Everyone who witnessed this scene could deeply feel the despair and unwillingness of those craftsmen at that time.
Although they had no choice but to be trapped here and wait for death, it can be seen from their expressions and postures that they have not given up hope of survival.
This underground palace is filled with various deadly traps.
Once started, even the craftsmen who built these mechanisms themselves cannot stop their operation.
Near the entrance, some mechanisms had been triggered, and more than a dozen remains were found at these mechanisms.
According to speculation from scholars from the mainland and other countries, these craftsmen may have attempted to break into the tomb chamber of the underground palace and cause damage out of anger or dissatisfaction.
However, they died before they even got through the main passage.