When Zhu Yuanzhang was dying, he left an edict to the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen, which was about his funeral after his death, and Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but marvel at Zhu Yuanzhang's cleverness when he opened the edict.
After a set of procedures, it left an eternal mystery for future generations, which gave future generations a headache for 600 years, and there is still no solution.
Since ancient times, emperors have attached great importance to their burial places after death, and most emperors will choose a cemetery when they are alive, as well as burial items, and Zhu Yuanzhang is no exception.
Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a peasant family, in order to have something to eat, he worked as a cattle herder, a beggar, and a monk, and later defected to the rebel army, starting from the bottom of the soldiers, and after countless bloody battles, he sat on the throne of the emperor.
Along the way, he experienced countless blank eyes and ridicule, which also created his suspicious and brutal character later. He was a murderer, slaughtering almost all the heroes who followed him. But this cannot erase his prestige as an emperor through the ages.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang is eloquent and strategic, he cannot escape the limitations of the times. In his later years, he visited the world's famous mountain warlocks to seek the way to immortality, and at the same time built a mausoleum for himself to find a place to live after his death.
In order to find the best location of the mausoleum, Zhu Yuanzhang specially invited Mr. Feng Shui, who was very powerful at that time, to come to the suburbs with the important ministers of the imperial court to search.
Later, I finally found a feng shui place that amazed everyone, the Purple Mountain.
On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang, Xu Da, Liu Ji and Tang He came to the Purple Mountain, and Zhu Yuanzhang asked the three of them to choose a location, write this place on paper, hide it in their sleeves, and then take it out at the same time to view.
As a result, the addresses chosen by Xu, Liu, and Tang were exactly the same, all of them were Dulongfu to play Mount Everest, so Zhu Yuanzhang set the mausoleum here.
Construction of the Imperial Tomb began in earnest in 1381, when Empress Ma was already unwell and died the following year.
After that, Zhu Yuanzhang buried Queen Ma in the imperial mausoleum, because her nickname is "filial piety", this imperial mausoleum is also called "filial piety".
But whether Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in the "Filial Piety Tomb", later generations have doubts, why is this?
It turned out that the peasant uprising led by Zhu Yuanzhang posed a very big threat to the rule of the Yuan Dynasty. The rulers of the Yuan Dynasty hated Zhu Yuanzhang to the core, so they wanted to dig up the graves of Zhu Yuanzhang's deceased parents and whip them to vent their hatred.
However, the Yuan Dynasty used soldiers and horses for several months and did not find the grave of Zhu Yuanzhang's parents.
It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang's family was surrounded by walls when he was a child, and his parents died of famine one after another, but his family was a tenant farmer and had no land.
was ruthlessly rejected by Liu De. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was desperate, had to carry the remains of his parents with his second brother with the door panel to beg for help.
begged one after another, but no one wanted to help him. Later, a landowner named Liu Jizu showed kindness and agreed that Zhu Yuanzhang would bury his parents at the foot of one of his mountains.
Zhu Yuanzhang was grateful, and quickly dug a pit at the foot of the mountain to bury his parents, but because he had no money, he didn't even have a coffin.
A few years later, the place where Zhu Yuanzhang's parents were buried was overgrown with weeds and unrecognizable, and it was impossible to find where they were.
The soldiers and horses of the Yuan Dynasty ran to the foot of the mountain where Zhu Yuanzhang's parents were buried, and searched for several months, but found nothing, and found nothing.
Later, the Yuan army had to abandon the plan to whip the corpse. Zhu Yuanzhang's parents escaped.
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't stop crying every time he thought of his parents' bodies and nowhere to find them, but he was also inspired by this and decided to make his burial place impossible for future generations to find. He racked his brains and finally came up with a solution.
Before Zhu Yuanzhang died, he left a testament to the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen and made detailed arrangements for the aftermath. and told Zhu Yunwen to be in accordance with the edict.
Only six days after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Yunwen ordered the funeral, and did not give the vassal king time to mourn at all, even if Zhu Di came to the city gate, he was turned away.
The purpose of this move is still unknown, which also gave Zhu Di, the king of Yan, an excuse to rebel.
On the day of the funeral, all 13 gates of Nanjing City were opened, and thirteen identical funeral teams set off at the same time, all with coffins.
And Zhu Yuanzhang's body is in one of the teams, but as for which team, only Zhu Yunwen knows, and there is no record in the historical materials.
More than 600 years later, it is still a mystery and a headache for Chinese experts. Now many people think that Zhu Yuanzhang was not buried in the Ming Tomb, because the buildings there are very intact.
But now the technology is limited, and it is not suitable to dig it up to find out, so for hundreds of years, no one knows where the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was buried after his death.