There is a purple coffin in the tomb with four town tomb beads. It is clear that the tomb is well sealed, but the coffin has traces of self-movement.
When people opened his coffin, they were suddenly surprised and even scared to death. Their doubts were uncertain.
What the hell is going on here?
About two miles west of Balizhuang outside Fuchengmen, Beijing, there is a place called Enjizhuang, which used to be a quiet and humble place, because more than 2,700 eunuchs of the Qing Dynasty were buried here, and this humble place has gained a lot of fame in the local area.
The eunuch's tomb in Enjizhuang can be divided into three parts, one of which is the eunuch's burial place. Most of these eunuchs were hastily buried, and the tombs were rather shabby.
In addition, there are some "Guandi Temple", which are more common in ancient cemeteries. The rest is Gong Li's tomb and the ancestral temple that supports this Gong Li.
As more than 2,700 eunuchs were buried here, this "Gong Li Tomb" obviously belongs to a "Gong Li Palace". And this "Li Gonggong" is the famous Li in the past.
As the favorite eunuch of Cixi before her death, Li served as the general manager of imperial eunuchs in Tongzhi and Guangxu dynasties, witnessing the ups and downs from Xianfeng to four dynasties, and once became the most powerful eunuch in the late Qing Dynasty.
However, after Li's death, there have been many different opinions about his burial place.
In addition to the "Li Cemetery" hosted by eunuchs in Enjizhuang, Beijing, many people think that Li was buried with Cixi after his death, that is, the Qing Dongling Mausoleum in Zunhua, Hebei Province, and some people think that Li was buried in Dahongmen outside Yongdingmen, Beijing.
There are many speculations about Li's burial bones among the people, and one of the most important reasons is that Li died in a strange way.
According to legend, after the death of Empress Dowager Cixi in 1908, Li left the palace after mourning for his master, and was assassinated only three years later. The reason is unknown, but it is said that he was beheaded when he died, and the person who assassinated Li was the enemy he provoked in the palace.
Not only did he die strangely in the end, but he actually lived a "bad life" when he was still young.
First of all, his knee is injured and can't be cured. When his father took him to Beijing to see a doctor, he met a fortune teller. As a result, he learned from the other side that he had a special life and would "kill" the whole family in the future. There is only one way, and that is to let him enter the palace.
His father was frightened, so he quickly cured him and sent him to the internal affairs office to "lead an honest and clean life" and enter the palace. Li is only seven years old this year. At that time his name was Li Yingtai. He is very clever and wise. He was arranged with Cixi and became a little eunuch who combed his hair.
Cixi is a very picky person. Unexpectedly, the little eunuch was literate, smart and sensible, and soon won her favor.
When Cixi believed in Buddhism, she renamed Li Yingtai "Lotus Ying", which means the petals of a lotus flower. As long as Lian Ying is around to serve her, she is a living bodhisattva.
Li stayed in the palace for 53 years and was only 39 when he became "nine thousand years old". When he was 40 years old, Cixi personally hosted a birthday party for him. At that time, court ministers and government officials attended the celebration. They sang for three days after the stage was set at the banquet.
Not everyone has the opportunity to enjoy this kind of love, unless he can be as alert and cunning as Li, be good at reading and sensing, and find out all the habits and preferences of Cixi.
When he first entered the palace, he was just a poor shoemaker's child and worthless. Everyone in the palace looked down on him. No one expected that this humble little eunuch would become a powerful minister under one person and above ten thousand people in the future.
With superhuman agility and cleverness, Li became a powerful minister whose position no one could shake, but he didn't show too much arrogance.
He is still very modest. He always realized that he was just a slave, and it was because of his master's love that he could have today's status. He is more grateful to Cixi. What Cixi likes is what he likes, and what Cixi hates is doubly annoying.
In other dynasties in the past, capable eunuchs were often appointed as imperial envoys and sent to inspect various places. However, such a situation was unique in the Qing Dynasty, and it only happened to Li.
At that time, Beiyang Navy was established, and the court spent a lot of money on it. Cixi sent the most trusted person around him, Prince Li Hechun, to inspect the Navy.
With the order of Cixi, Li is a well-deserved imperial envoy. Even if he acts arrogantly, the alcohol prince will not take it too seriously.
But Li still didn't put on airs, and all kinds of local officials tried to curry favor with him on the way to inspect the navy. Li didn't even see him, as if he was just a servant sent by Cixi to take care of Prince Alcohol, taking care of everything around him, and even personally washing his feet at night.
When the errand ends smoothly, Prince Chun will naturally put in a few words for Li Mei when he returns to the palace. This made Cixi feel brighter and more satisfied with Li.
At that time, there were two "Buddha smiles" in the palace, one was a pear favored by Cixi and the other was Li's.
It is said that Cixi also ordered to give money to help Li build a mausoleum, and also built the Li family ancestral hall. However, when Li died after Cixi, people thought that he was old and gradually weakened his power. Li is a little worried that his enemies who were rejected in the past may be ready to punish him.
Before leaving the palace, he dedicated all seven boxes of treasures he had collected for many years to Yulong, hoping to get her protection.
But just three years after Li left the palace, he died suddenly. His family claimed that he died of a sudden illness, but there was a rumor among the people that he was ambushed by the enemy and beheaded on his way home to visit relatives. The servant who followed him only had time to take his head away, and his body disappeared.
When Li was buried, his family was afraid that his enemies would not give up and that they would be missed by grave robbers. So on the day of mourning, four coffins were carried out from the Li family and placed in different directions. No one knows which one is true.
This is probably why there are all kinds of legends about the location of Li's cemetery.
1In the summer of 966, a Liuyi Primary School was built in the former Enjizhuang. In the southwest corner of the campus, five or six people waved hoes and dug up a tomb that looked like a eunuch's hat, finally revealing the secret of Li's tomb.
This small garden in the southwest corner of the campus doesn't have much scenery. Many students and teachers often come here for a walk.
It is hard for them to imagine that this extremely quiet little garden was once a grand cemetery.
The local old people still have some impressions of this, saying that the people of the palace built it here in those days. It took a lot of time to build the outer layer of the mausoleum, and after it was completed, there was a special person to guard the mausoleum.
It is said that the outer layer of the tomb is mixed with egg white and glutinous rice soup, then mixed with lime and yellow sand, and then grouted with glutinous rice porridge.
In order to find enough egg white, the builder searched all the eggs in the local village, leaving only the egg white, eggshell and yolk lying on the ground at will, which made the local villagers feel sick after watching the eggs for a long time. This tomb is also called the "Egg Tomb".
/kloc-in the summer of 0/966, a group of people heard that this tomb was the tomb of eunuch Li, so they came running with hoes, hammers and steel bars, ready to tear down the tomb of the old eunuch.
Who knows, Li's tomb is far stronger than they thought, and the hammer and steel can't shake it at all. This mausoleum doesn't look as luxurious as the imperial mausoleum, but it's as strong as those white marble tombs.
The gang smashed it here every day and spent a whole week smashing the top of the tomb like eunuch hats. But you can't go in immediately after smashing, because there is a soil layer organ under the top of the tomb, and there is a huge white feldspar hidden under the soil, which can't be carried in at all.
The gang were at a loss when defending the entrance. Just then, someone found a round hole on each side of the white feldspar, and suddenly their eyes lit up. They went to find a thick iron wire, passed through a round hole, tied a wooden stick at the other end, and used the "lever theorem" to pry out the white feldspar.
The tunnel of the tomb is presented to everyone. After they went in carefully, they looked around and found that the tomb was quite well preserved and did not seem to have been stolen. The construction of the tomb is extremely exquisite, and the coffin in it is purple, but it does not stay on the proper coffin bed, but is closer to the tomb door.
This makes everyone a little confused, because this tomb was not stolen. Who moved the coffin when it was completely sealed?
These people suddenly felt a chill in their backs, but judging from the damp situation in the tomb, the tomb should be in underground water, and there was too much water, so they lifted the coffin away from the coffin bed.
This makes sense, but what scares them more is yet to come.
When they opened the coffin, they found four coffin beads the size of table tennis in the four corners of the outer coffin, as well as Opal's diamond-encrusted ring, jade finger pull, jade snuff bottle, gold enamel pocket watch, large diamonds with a diameter of 1.6 and beads symbolizing the identity of the palace people. I actually took out more than 50 treasures, big and small.
When the gang reached out to the man lying in the coffin, the first thing they touched was something wet, cold and sticky. It turns out that the quilt in the coffin has been rotten and broken. When I opened the quilt, the scene before me was creepy.
There is only one head left in the coffin, with a three-foot braid dragged on it, but there is nothing under the head, lying quietly in a pile of dirty and wet cotton, how terrible.
Maybe, like folklore, Li Zhen was beheaded by an enemy and died?
What is intriguing is that the ancestral graves in the hometown of Dacheng County have also been dug up. Strangely, all the graves are two coffins, except one grave with only one coffin. There is no bone in it, only a one-foot-long silver man.
According to the analysis of archaeological experts, this little silver man is Li's "Hall of Fame", because according to the custom, he has no wife and is a eunuch, so he can't enter the ancestral grave, so he was replaced by the little silver man.
That is to say, in the end, we still can't find the whereabouts of Li's body, and his specific cause of death and place of death are unknown, which seems to be an eternal mystery.