Although Zhu Yuanzhang was inspiring, he was also a cruel emperor, and he did not dare to be buried in the Xiao Mausoleum he built after his death. Some people may ask, aren’t Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma buried in Ming Xiaoling ? But some people raised questions about this, saying that only Empress Ma was buried in Xiaoling Ma, and Zhu Yuanzhang was not in it at all. The best solution to such a question is to dig a tomb. As long as the Xiaoling Mausoleum is opened, it is natural to know how many people are buried inside. However, the country has clear regulations that the imperial tomb cannot be excavated. At this point, the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum is full of mysteries.
So why didn’t Zhu Yuanzhang dare to be buried in Xiaoling Mausoleum? It's because of his cruelty. Everyone knows that the first major thing the emperor had to do after ascending the throne was to find a Feng Shui treasure land for himself, so the place where he buried him after his death was not a secret. However, when Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, he was too strict and cruel and killed countless people, which made him uneasy when he finally left, for fear that someone would steal the tomb and whip the body after his death.
So Zhu Yuanzhang issued the last imperial edict before his death, saying that after his death, he would arrange thirteen identical funeral teams to be funeralized from the thirteen gates of Nanjing City at the same time. In this way, where Zhu Yuanzhang was buried became a mystery.
Zhu Yuanzhang was born in poverty. He knew that the people's money was hard to come by, so he was not allowed to embezzle officials in the court. As long as officials embezzled more than 50 taels of silver, they would be convicted. Once discovered, the consequences of beheading the head and scouting the house. What is more serious is the implementation of "skinning the skin".
Peeling solid grass was a torture invented by Zhu Yuanzhang at that time, which was to peel off the human skin alive and completely, then stuff straw and lime into the human skin, re-seal it into a human appearance, and then hang it in the place where the corrupt official worked during his lifetime, thereby warning the successor officials. It is hard to imagine that such a cruel method was made by the emperor, but fortunately, during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, there were indeed fewer corrupt officials, and thus the lives of the people also improved. However, Zhu Yuanzhang was as cruel as the people and never ruthless as the people.
Perhaps when Zhu Yuanzhang was young, he only thought that these people should be killed and would not think too much about it. However, when he was old and prepared for his funeral, he would feel uneasy, afraid that those unjust souls who died in vain would come to him. So in order to seek peace, Zhu Yuanzhang followed the example of Cao Cao and made many suspicious tombs after his death.
If the above statement is correct, then Zhu Yuanzhang will not be in the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum. However, experts believe that such statements are unreliable. Zhu Yuanzhang was still buried in the Xiaoling Mausoleum. However, after reading historical books, he could not find any information about the underground palace. It can be said that no one knew when Zhu Yuanzhang's underground palace was built, and what the structure was built, and even how big it was built was not known. This made the experts feel unsure. Is there no underground palace in the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, and Empress Ma is not here.
If you want to know whether there is an underground palace in Xiaoling, this is not a problem for modern archaeologists. They can detect situations of dozens of meters underground by using the nuclear detection equipment, and use the magnetic field principle of objects to find underground cultural relics. Any artificial building, gold, silver, copper, iron, bricks and tiles can be detected. Therefore, archaeologists used advanced equipment to conduct detection.
is on the central axis of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum. After the instruments explore it, it really shows that there is a channel about eight meters wide underground. However, after the downward detection, nothing was detected. Does this prove that there is no underground palace underground of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum. However, according to the strict protection measures of the Ming Xiaomao, experts believe that there must be a huge underground imperial tomb underground, but it is buried below 50 meters underground, because this exceeds the detection range of the instrument, so it cannot be detected.
No one can tell the situation that the depth of dozens of meters underground is tens of meters. In addition, the state stipulates that excavation is not allowed, which makes various mysteries appear in undiscovered tombs. Whether it is records in history books or statements in unofficial history, it seems to make sense, just look at the ones that can stand until the end.
