"The Imperial Mausoleum of the Founding Emperor was a forbidden place in everyone's hearts."
"Only awe was appropriate."
"No one ever dared offend it."
"So when Emperor Xian Zong proposed investigating the Imperial Mausoleum of the Founding Emperor, all the great clans opposed it."
The old man continued.
Hmm.
The emperor wanted to dig up his own ancestral grave, while the great clans suppressed by that grave firmly opposed him. Some things in this world really were that absurd.
But did you think they were crazy?
Of course not.
It was just that when faced with an irresistible force, they would rather maintain a relatively stable balance than risk an accident by recklessly disturbing things.
It was perfectly normal.
As for this emperor...
He had little life left, so he was simply a foolish ruler desperately seeking a cure.
In an ordinary human world, such a horrifying act would have directly destroyed the legitimacy of his throne.
In ancient times,
grave robbing was fundamentally unacceptable to worldly values.
During the Peaceful Era, getting caught meant execution. Even if certain powerful figures had unusual tastes or coveted imperial tombs, most only dared to act in secret.
On the surface, even the current Imperial Court would protect the imperial mausoleums of previous dynasties.
After all, the one who begins the practice of burying people alive will have no descendants, will he?
Only when the realm fell into turmoil,
and order collapsed,
would warlords plunder imperial mausoleums without restraint.
But...
Even if someone wanted to rob a tomb, they would be digging up someone else's family grave, right? No one had ever heard of someone digging up their own ancestral grave.
What kind of move was that?
Moreover,
the person doing this was an emperor!
In the Normal World, such a person would