"Your Majesty's imperial mausoleum?"
Hu Bafeng was momentarily stunned, but quickly responded, "Your Majesty, regarding the matter of the imperial mausoleum, I wish to deliberate at length."
"Oh? Why?"
"I consulted the Ministry of Industry's records. That imperial mausoleum is incredibly vast, and the construction techniques and mechanisms from that time are entirely different from those of today."
Hu Bafeng hesitated and said, "Just the construction time alone took thirty-nine years, employing more than 1.2 million laborers. The scale of the project was enormous."
"Back in the day, the blueprints for this mausoleum were already turned to ash, and the last of the workers who wrapped up construction were buried with it. The Ministry of Industry couldn't find a single piece of intelligence about the mausoleum."
"We, the ministers, find it very difficult—extremely difficult—to open this mausoleum."
