Chapter 461 Luxurious Imperial Tomb (1)(2/2)
Liu Chan was stunned. The city wall in front of him was about one foot high. Although it was slightly shorter than the city wall outside, it still looked very majestic. There were three arches in the middle of the city wall, and the middle arch continued to extend.
Outside the square, there are shrines paved with marble.
Above the three arches, there is also an arrow tower, which is slightly smaller in scale.
Nine steps in front of the arch, there is a river about five steps wide, which should be the moat of a common city.
Three stone arch bridges span the river.
When everyone walked through the arch, the first thing they saw were rockeries, lakes, rivers, and surrounding mounds shaped like hills.
There are small paths around rockeries, lakes, rivers, and hills.
My god.
Is this my future grave?
Liu Chan was completely shocked by the scene in front of him. When he read history in his previous life, he always talked about how luxurious and luxurious the imperial mausoleum of Qin Shihuang was. But now when he walked into his own mausoleum, he suddenly discovered how luxurious his mausoleum was.
, which is no less than what is recorded in history.
"Second brother!"
Suddenly, Zhang Yang pointed to the mounds with curiosity and asked Zhang Shao: "What are those mounds used for?"
She could understand these rockery lakes, but she couldn't understand the mounds of earth. Why were there so many mounds of earth that looked so uncoordinated?
Zhang Shao heard this and said with a smile: "Back to the Queen, those are not mounds of earth, but miniature versions of the Three Mountains and Five Sacred Mountains."
"Three mountains and five mountains?" Zhang Yang was stunned.
"Who means this?" Liu Chan was obviously a little angry, and he asked: "When did I ask the imperial mausoleum to be designed like this?"
Everyone was a little panicked. They thought that when the emperor saw the imperial mausoleum, he would be shocked by these facilities and maybe even praise them.
But——
There was no joy at all on the emperor's face.
"Your Majesty!"
Zhang Shao said hurriedly: "This is what the Prime Minister meant..." He paused and then explained: "Your Majesty, please rest assured. The Prime Minister has explained that Your Majesty advocates frugality, so when designing this underground palace, there was no
It is too extravagant and wasteful. Even if the entire imperial mausoleum is completed, the cost will not be too much."
"Nonsense!"
After listening, Liu Chan pointed to the city wall behind him, the square outside, and the surrounding rockeries, lakes, and the so-called three mountains and five mountains, and asked: "Doesn't it cost money to build these?"
Everyone can see what a huge project this is.
Liu Chan suddenly regretted not coming to supervise from time to time, such as coming to see how the imperial mausoleum was being built.
It’s just that in these years, he has been busy fighting in the north and south.
Moreover, he did not want people to think that he was an extravagant emperor who was too greedy for glory and wealth, and would go to his own imperial mausoleum to inspect it whenever he had nothing to do.
If he had come to see it before, he would never have agreed to build such a large underground city.
But what to do now?
Did you push it?
According to what Zhang Shao said before, this imperial mausoleum has reached the final stage, and the capping project will begin next year at the latest. Compared with the construction of this underground city, the capping project will not actually take long.
According to Zhang Shao's report, the underground of the Imperial Tomb is paved with a five-meter-thick concrete layer. In other words, the underground city in front of us is built on a five-meter-thick concrete layer.
As a time traveler, Liu Chan had read many tomb-robbing novels and movies and TV series in his previous life. Those tomb robbers used various methods to pry open the tombs of ancient people.
Now he has become the emperor of the Han Dynasty. When he first built the imperial mausoleum, Liu Chan proposed that all sides of the imperial mausoleum, that is, the top, bottom, front, left, and right, should be protected with concrete.
For example, if the ground is covered with a thick layer of concrete, and the outside of the wall is also poured with concrete, making it three to five meters thick, in the future, those tomb robbers who want to enter the underground palace will have to cut through the concrete a few meters away.
Five meters of concrete.
Haha——
I'm afraid that even if I try to blow it through with explosives, I still have to waste some energy.
According to Zhang Shao's report, when the underground building is completed by the end of the year, the tomb wall will be built while concrete will be poured outside, all the way to the dome, where a large amount of concrete will also be poured.
According to estimates, it is estimated that it will take three to five years to complete the entire imperial mausoleum. By then, the imperial mausoleum will be wrapped in huge concrete.
Seeing Liu Chan's anger, Zhang Shao hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, the prime minister only allocates one-tenth of the annual tax revenue for the construction of imperial mausoleums."
One-tenth?
Hum!
Liu Chan felt very distressed, even one tenth was not a lot.
Chapter completed!