Although in the dynasties of our country, there have been cases in which the harem mastered the imperial regime, only Wu Zetian dared to take the world by storm and sit in the dragon chair as the emperor. Moreover, Wu Zetian herself is very capable, knows people well, attaches importance to economic development, and has unique views on cultural undertakings and military development, so she has also been respected by future generations.
Wu Zetian became a female emperor, which also led to the only case in history in which two emperors were buried together in a mausoleum, that is, Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian were buried together in Ganling.
The excavation of Ganling began in 683 AD, and it took 23 years to build it until Tang Zhongzong Li Xian buried Wu Zetian in 706 AD.
Not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, that is, 1958, several local villagers in Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province accidentally blew up a tomb when they used explosives to take stones. After being buried 1000 years, Ganling finally appeared in front of people.
According to the preliminary exploration of Ganling by archaeologists, it is found that the structure in Ganling is still very complete, and there is no tomb door excavated by later generations. What is certain is that Ganling is the only tomb among the eighteen tombs in the Tang Dynasty that has not been entered by grave robbers. Did no one really find Ganling and dig it before this?
Actually, it's not. In the historical records that can be verified, there have been several large-scale grave robbing activities against Ganling, but these "grave robbers" all returned empty-handed.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the royal family went from bad to worse. Huang Chao rose up, and the Huang Chao Rebellion was extremely dark in history. Huang Chao's army reached several hundred thousand in a short time.
This man comes from a rough background and has little experience in running the army. Moreover, this man's reputation of burning, killing and looting along the way is very bad, resulting in no rich people willing to fund him at all.
In order to maintain the huge military expenditure, he couldn't help thinking of grave robbery. Huang Chao had hundreds of thousands of troops in his hand, and indeed dug up a lot of wealth, but he only went home when he got to Ganling.
At that time, Huang Chao came to the vicinity of Ganling with 400,000 troops and surrounded the location of the mausoleum. Huang Chao had people start digging from the west side of Liangshan, and it took several months to dig a 40-meter-deep long ditch.
This long ditch has almost hollowed out half of Liangshan, but there is still no sign of Ganling. In desperation, Huang Chao had to leave here with his troops. Now there is this long ditch near Ganling, which is called "Huang Chao ditch".
If Huang Chao didn't dig out Gan Ling because he didn't have perseverance and perseverance, then during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the biggest grave robber in Chinese history still failed in front of Gan Ling. Why?
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Wen Tao, minister of Chongzhou, Hou Liang, was very fond of grave robbery. Shortly after he took office, he directly ordered his men to search for the tombs of the Tang Dynasty in China. All the tombs were excavated and the gold and silver treasures in them were taken out for their own enjoyment.
With the issuance of this order, all the tombs of the Tang Dynasty in Shaanxi were looted, and even the strongest Zhaoling was not spared.
According to historical records, when excavating Zhaoling, Wen Tao went all the way down from the tunnel and finally came to the interior of Zhaoling. Everything in it is as magnificent as a palace, and it is also divided into several palaces, including the calligraphy and painting of ancient masters, which are extremely well preserved and look like new ones after unfolding.
However, among these tombs in the Tang Dynasty, only Ganling was protected by wind and rain and could not be excavated. As the most powerful grave robber in history, there is basically no tomb that he can't dig, but when digging Ganling, he was scared away by the vision of heaven and earth.
According to the archaeological compilation in Song Dynasty, when Wen Tao was preparing to dig Ganling, the situation changed as soon as he approached Ganling, and then the storm roared. That is to say, when Wen Tao was robbing the tomb, the weather was abnormal, while Wen Tao robbed the tomb too much in his life, owing countless bad debts, fearing punishment, so he dared not continue to dig Ganling.
In fact, the biggest threat to this mausoleum is not the above two, but in modern times, a reorganizer with modern weapons has excavated it for a long time.
In the early years of the Republic of China, a general named Sun Lianzhong came near the mausoleum. Before that, Sun Dianying had stolen the tomb of Cixi, so the general wanted to follow Sun Dianying's example and open the tomb to get the gold, silver and jewels inside.
He stationed his soldiers at the foot of the mountain and blasted the mausoleum for several days on the grounds of military demonstrations, but never found the entrance. Finally, because of the natural vision, the storm lasted for several days and the morale of the soldiers was greatly disturbed. Finally, Sun Lianzhong had to leave here with his troops.
In fact, these three are not the only "tourists" who have visited this mausoleum. In historical records, as many as 17 people can be elegant and well documented. However, the final results are all in vain. Finally, for various reasons, we had to stop the invasion of this mausoleum.
Throughout the ages, most tombs have been visited, but this mausoleum is still intact. Why?
Many people like to blame geomantic metaphysics, but it is too mysterious and unreasonable to say so. Isn't this land of geomantic omen discovered by "geomantic omen" before?
According to the continuous exploration of Ganling by archaeologists, it is found that the structure and entrance position of Ganling are completely different from other tombs, and it is difficult for so many people to find its real entrance in history.
Moreover, Ganling takes the mountain as the mausoleum, hollows out the interior of the mountain and exerts maximum pressure on the mountain, so the structure of the whole mausoleum is extremely solid, and the construction of Ganling takes 23 years, which makes the improvement of the interior and passages even greater.
Therefore, there were so many grave robbers in ancient times. First, there was a lack of judgment on the structure of Ganling. Second, there was not enough time for excavation. Third, they did a lot of bad things and felt that they were retribution when they encountered some storms, so they never succeeded.