Mortise and tenon door, as the name suggests, is actually a mortise and tenon structure.

This structure is not a lost skill. Even now, it is still in use. Nine out of ten mahogany furniture have this structure. It is known as the soul of Hongju furniture. It is connected through the interlocking of tenons and mortises.

Those with superb skills can even make the furniture rock solid without a single nail or a drop of adhesive, and it will not fall apart for hundreds of years if properly maintained.

Of course, the mortise and tenon structure is not only used to make furniture, but also has many applications in building houses.

China is different from the West. Westerners like to use stones to build houses, while Chinese people play with wood and bricks. Mortise and tenon structures are common in many traditional buildings.

However, it is quite rare to use a mortise and tenon structure to build tomb doors like this, but it is not unheard of. The principle is probably similar to the jigsaw puzzles I played when I was a child. The pieces are pieced together into a whole, and they fit together perfectly.

It is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

The ability of such a tomb door to withstand a frontal blow is definitely not as good as that of a whole stone door. The joints of the mortise and tenon are very fragile. If it is hit hard by an external force, it will break in an instant.

The tomb designers certainly did not adopt this structure to make it easier for tomb robbers. They worked hard to create the mortise and tenon joints and then spliced ​​them into a tomb door. The result was that it would be easier for the tomb robbers to break through. This is something even a fool would not do.

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Would the person who could design such an exquisite tomb be a fool?

In fact, the mortise and tenon structure of the door does not rely on solidity to stop tomb robbers at all. The emergence of this kind of tomb door has a lot to do with the level of science and technology at that time. Its power is also based on the technology that appeared at that time.

Some "artifacts".

Tombs with this structure are basically from the middle and late Ming Dynasty. At that time, the sprouts of capitalism had already appeared in the Ming Dynasty, which was basically in sync with the West. Historical cases have shown that when the sprouts of capitalism appeared, what followed

The first is the industrial revolution, because traditional handicraft industry can no longer meet the expanding market demand and must promote production efficiency.

Under such a social background, many "artifacts" appeared at that time. These "artifacts" can already vaguely see the shadow of modern chemistry and physics. They were used in tombs and were extremely efficient in killing people.

There is a door with a mortise and tenon machine on the Jiangnan side. Several of the mortise and tenon bricks are hollow bricks with a kind of yellow fuel from the dyehouse stuffed in the bricks. Once the tomb door is destroyed by force, the hollow bricks will be shaken and broken, and a violent explosion will occur immediately.

, no one can survive within one or two feet.

There is no relevant documentary record of what the yellow fuel is exactly. We only know that it is an imported product and was brought back from the Lion Country by Zheng He during his voyage to the West. This Lion Country is probably the current Sri Lanka.

Some literate people here speculate that this fuel is most likely trinitrophenol, also known as picric acid, which is a powerful explosive!

However, with the advent of the Little Ice Age, coupled with the internal strife in the Donglin Party, and the Qing Dynasty watching covetously outside the customs, the Ming Dynasty finally collapsed. The Qing Dynasty did not have the vision to play the same tricks as the Ming Dynasty, whether it was capitalism or the industrial revolution.

No matter what, they were all nipped in the bud and continued to run happily on the road of feudalism until they plunged headlong into the abyss.

The regression of civilization and technological level made this kind of tomb door appear only briefly in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and never appeared again later.

I don’t dare to judge yet whether the door in front of us contains hollow bricks filled with picric acid, but this kind of door must not be broken. We must find the one that can be broken among the many interlocking mortise and tenon joints.

dismantle the place, and then dismantle the entire tomb door bit by bit.

This is a slow job. The first thing I have to do is to clean off the layer of loess that has condensed on the tomb door, so that I can intuitively observe the mortise and tenon structure on it and find the entry point.

I dare not leave this kind of work to Lao Bai and the others. They are careless and do not have a deep understanding of this kind of agency. They are careless and careless. If one accidentally touches the killing agency, the consequences will be disastrous!

To be on the safe side, I decided to take matters into my own hands to remove the mechanism door. I scraped the loess on it with a shovel, and then used a charcoal pen to mark the gaps at the mortise and tenon joints. Seeing that Lao Bai and the others were walking back and forth like ADHD patients.

, so he sent them an errand to clear away the Maha corpses lying scattered in front of the door, which was quite an obstruction.

This is a job of burial. The outside of those Maha corpses is covered with a finger-thick layer of corpse oil. Because of the protection of these corpse oils, the skin and flesh are still elastic, but the internal organs in the belly are all broken, like a soft body.

It was like a lying skin bag. If you squeeze it a little, a stench will immediately spit out from your mouth and nose. The smell is really hard to describe.

Zhang Xinya couldn't stand it after moving two things. She kept retching and rolled her eyes. She was about to vomit. She probably felt that the dry food she brought with her was precious. It would be a pity to throw it up. She would have to eat it when she was hungry later, so she held it back.

, the tearful look is really pitiful.

"Hey! There's something underneath this body!"

Lao Bai let out a soft cry and pulled away a Maha corpse near the foot of the door. He saw that the corpse was holding a small cloth bag in an extremely weird posture. Judging from the situation, when this person died, he should have died.

He was about to take out the cloth bag from his arms.

"Could it be some kind of treasure?"

Lao Bai's eyes lit up after this mouthful. In his opinion, this man was thinking about this thing before he died. It couldn't be said that it was something extraordinary. He immediately pulled the cloth bag out of his arms without leaving it.

After moving the body, I found a clean corner and opened the cloth bag. There were two thin booklets inside.

"It's actually a book?"

A flash of disappointment flashed in Lao Bai's eyes.

While I was cleaning the tomb door, I looked back and saw that the cloth was neatly folded and soaked with corpse oil. Two thin books were wrapped in it, which was equivalent to being sealed, so it was extremely well preserved.

Brother Yaozi threw away the last corpse, and regardless of whether Lao Bai Le was happy or not, he reached out and took out the two pamphlets. He just glanced at them and his expression gradually turned solemn.

"Zhao Jing, Journey to the West..."

Brother Yaozi sat down next to Lao Bai, lightly dusted the two pamphlets, and said: "You are really blind, these two things are the real treasures, for people like us

He said, gold, silver and jewelry can’t be exchanged for it!

It is said that this house scripture was written by Li Chunfeng. His life's skill lies in this. He is very accomplished in Feng Shui and Yin and Yang. It has always been a royal collection. In the first year of Tianyou, Zhu Wen took Tang Zhaozong hostage to Luoyang. Before leaving, , this man hanged all the people around the emperor. Some of them fled into the library, and were simply burned to death by the rebels. Countless classics were lost, including the house scriptures.

However, some people say that these books were not burned at that time, and some servants picked up some of the surviving ones and escaped among the people, including the house scriptures.

It seems that this rumor is true.

As for the Journey to the West, it is even more powerful. It is said that this book was written by Qiu Chuji.

During Genghis Khan's western expedition, countless cities were slaughtered wherever he went. In order to stop the killings, Qiu Chuji walked 35,000 miles westward to meet Genghis Khan in his later years. Everywhere he passed was devastated by the war, and corpses and demons were rampant. He The old man has suffered numerous defeats due to his old age.

In troubled times, human lives are like nothing, and under the extreme love, hatred and resentment, many strange and weird things are born, which are all recorded in this Journey to the West!!"

After saying this, Brother Yaozi looked at the Maha corpse with complicated eyes.

Most of Pu Tianhu's subordinates are green men from the market and farmers who have put down their hoes. These people like food and money, but they have no interest in books, let alone Taoist books like Zha Jing and Journey to the West.

There is probably only one person who regards this kind of book as a treasure—Zhao Banxian!

The real designer of this tomb has now become one of the many dead bodies. Before he died, he probably wanted to take out this book and read it, trying to find a solution.

"Let me tell you, how can a folk fortune teller have such great skills? He designed such a tomb, can communicate with Yin and Yang, and is good at Qimen Dunjia. It seems that the source is here."

Brother Yaozi said with a smile: "It seems that when they were making trouble in Yanqing Mansion, they accidentally found these two books. This Zhao Banxian can be considered a self-taught man. Relying on these two books, he has become a master in Taoism. people."

I stopped what I was doing and rested for a moment, then turned around and said, "Let's take these two books with us later. Last time I got a copy of Yanshi Machinery Technique, which benefited me a lot. I can't let go of these two books either." I'll go back and wait for you to go out, I have to observe and observe!"

Brother Yao Zi was having fun. Taking advantage of his free time, he simply flipped through the two booklets by the dim light of the torch.

I felt itchy, but I also knew that it would be wise to break open the tomb door quickly, so I had to suppress it and continue to clean the loess on the tomb door.

"Ha, there really is!"

Brother Yaozi suddenly shouted loudly and shouted at the sleepy Wushuang and others: "Come and take a look. It turns out that this thing is what attacked us. The one who killed Zhao Banxian and hundreds of people was the one we met. Things, according to what is said here, we are actually taking a huge advantage!!"

As he said that, he handed the side of Journey to the West forward.

This booklet is a surgical manual. It should be the manuscript written by Qiu Chuji back then. It is very detailed and has the flavor of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, with text on one side and patterns on the other.

On the page that Brother Kitale opened, the picture on the right side is a monster that looks like a spider and a mantis. Isn’t it the one we met?

I looked back and saw the two most eye-catching words on it - Luo Fu!!
Chapter completed!