Chapter 65

In the early morning, a middle-aged farmer was humming along the ridge.

He passed by his own field, only a glance at it, then his body was crooked, his feet mixed and he fell to the ground.

"Who is immoral and digs my field?"

He was lying on the ground and saw a big hole dug in his field!

This is too immoral, the field planted crops!

The farmer swears, looks around and stomps his feet in anger.

Not only this field, but also the surrounding fields were destroyed, and the crops were crushed by the piles of soil dug out.

The farmer wandered around the fields, and soon found inclined holes in several places.

Compared with the largest pit, those holes are only about four or five meters deep, which seems to be only exploratory excavation from various angles.

"Ah? It's not a tomb robbery, is it

Haven't you eaten pork? Haven't you seen a pig run? The farmer instantly thought that these were stealing holes. His first reaction was to rush into the hole and grope.

Toss up and down, but nothing.

He did not give up, and changed a hole, still did not have, then he went to the biggest pit, jumped down to look for, still found nothing.

"This piece of land has been farmland for generations. How could there be a tomb?" The farmer laughed at himself, climbed up again with great effort and went to report to the village head.

Soon all the people in the village gathered and talked about who had seen the stranger recently.

The village head jumped into the pit, but it was obvious that the earth around him was not the right color. It seemed that it was burnt kiln soil.

He asked people to take a shovel, and then planed a few times, even in a dry black mud, found a corner of jade.

"There's something!" Someone saw it on the top of their eyes and immediately made a cry.

They immediately gathered around the mouth of the cave and saw that the village head stripped the soil away. It was Yugui, a big hand in hand.

Of course, they didn't know it was Yugui. They only knew that it was a piece of jade with sharp upper part and straight lower end, with sharp and angular raindrop patterns on it.

"Is it antique?" Some people asked, "br >

the head of the village continued to dig downward, but changed his hands. Soon, a large number of pottery, stone tools, jade and bronze wares emerged from the soil.

As soon as he saw that there were so many, he stopped and asked others to pull himself up.

"Why not dig? Dig again Someone yelled.

"No one is allowed to go down!" "Lao Li, this is your field. Please call the Bureau of cultural relics."

He was not at ease with the village's small smart ghosts, so he had to watch the scene in person.

When the farmer heard this, he threw his hoe and ran home.

The people looked at him with joy. Some people envied him because if the underground was full of antiques, the government must take back the right to use this large area, and Lao Li would get a lot of compensation.

"Twenty years ago, didn't some professor come here to survey? Why didn't you find out! And let the grave robbers find out first. "

"My family's field is not far away from here, can it also have it?"

Some people watch the village head guard here, and they can't move their minds, so they can go and dig in their own fields and try their luck.

picked the land, pulled out the crops that had been planted, and began digging with the spade.

As a result, when the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau arrived, more than 20 deep pits with cultural relics were dug out by villagers in a few miles.

The staff of the Bureau of cultural relics immediately realized that this was not a cemetery, but a large area of ruins. They immediately informed more people to come and called on the villagers to stop digging any more.

Things have been tossing until that afternoon, a large number of staff control the scene, only to understand the situation.

"What? There were several holes here before you found out? "

There is no doubt that it was not the farmer who discovered the site first, but someone else. In the middle of the night, he dug several holes in the night and left at dawn.

In this way, the matter will be a big deal, tomb robbers may have known the distribution of cultural relics underground.

So they immediately hired local villagers to help guard the scene. Because the scope is too large, it is impossible to rely on a small number of staff.

"Preliminary judgment, it's the city site." A professor with glasses went deep into the pit and surveyed it.

"What? A city? I see. Lao Fang, the grave robbers found this place earlier than us. Because it was in someone else's field, they dug it at night. As a result, after digging things up, they quickly found that this was not a tomb, so they withdrew. " Said another expert above.

Professor Fang crawled out and said, "it is certainly impossible for grave robbers to dig a city. They can only try their best not to leave the city empty. Many precious cultural relics have been found on the scene. It can be imagined that they also took a lot of them. However, several of them have not been excavated to the site level. It is probably time that we can't continue digging. "

"It can be inferred that the group of tomb robbers had rich experience in surveying the place. Twenty years ago, Professor Wu took someone to investigate the place. At that time, he simply tried with Luoyang shovel and left." Another expert said.Professor Fang said with a smile, "what were the conditions 20 years ago? Luoyang shovel is not omnipotent. However, these grave robbers are really fierce. The soil moisture content under the farmland is so large that they can find out the remains? "

Everyone laughs. This is a typical case of tomb robbers stimulating archaeology, which was very common decades ago.

There are only three ways to find an archaeological site. The state has approved an archaeological project, and professionals will find it on their own initiative.

Farmers dig wells, or the construction team accidentally dig.

Finally, the tomb robbers, with their superb skills, dig once.

As they were talking, on the other side, a young doctor came running with a rusty square tripod in his hand.

Professor Fang took a look and was stunned: "Lao Chen, this is not an early Neolithic site?"

Professor Chen frowned and looked up. As soon as he arrived, he went to the local villagers to learn about the situation. He heard that there were a large number of stone tools and jades, so he first identified them as Neolithic sites. In fact, he had not had time to study the cultural relics carefully.

At the moment, I can see that something is wrong. Although the bronze ware in front of me is rusted into a lump, some parts of it are not copper-green, showing delicate lines. From the tip of the iceberg, it should have been very exquisite.

In other words, this is the late Shang Dynasty.

"Professor, all the cultural relics excavated by the local villagers have been recovered. There are a lot of jade and bronzes." Said the young doctor.

They quickly followed and saw hundreds of jade huang, jade wall, jade spade, copper tripod, bronze spear, bronze dagger, copper bell and Copper Pendant on the ground

Among them, the jade is extremely exquisite, and its artistic style is very different from that of Longshan culture and Erlitou culture of this generation, with different patterns.

"Get the urgent approval, we must make rescue excavation as soon as possible." Professor Chen called the director and said.

Director Leng said: "Lao Chen, what are you anxious about?"

Professor Chen said: "bronze ware has been found. Can I not be in a hurry? Judging from the degree of corrosion, the site should have been soaked in water for a long time. In addition, there are grave robbers staring at it. I don't think it's necessary to wait. "

"I see. The approval will come down soon." As soon as the director heard this, he knew that the site must be excavated as soon as possible.

That night, in order to prevent tomb robbers from digging holes nearby, all the staff stayed at the scene to guard, and hired local villagers to patrol.

One night later, everything went well. The next morning, the Provincial Institute of archaeology came to carry out preliminary exploration of the whole site.

Three days later, the land use right has been handed over, the approval has come down, and the site has been cleaned up.

The provincial professional archaeological team began the first phase of rescue excavation.

After working for four consecutive days, the pits grew larger and larger, and more and more cultural relics were unearthed. Every day, a large number of jade, pottery and bronze wares were excavated.

Among them, the number of pottery is the largest, and in a short time, it is as high as 200000 pieces!

Second, there are more than 16000 bronzes, most of which are weapons.

What makes people sad is that most of the bronzes are seriously damaged, not by man-made destruction, but by water erosion!

And from the geological point of view, the site is covered by flood and sand.

However, fortunately, it is also because of the instantaneous coverage, so the buildings are well preserved!

The whole city is under the pressure of sand, as long as careful excavation, we can restore the appearance of the whole city.

However, with the progress of excavation, people are confused again.

Because the site excavated pieces of copper casting, pottery workshop site group, has found 200000 square meters!.

The scale is rare in the world!

For a time, archaeologists doubted whether this was an ancient city site? If it is a city, why are all the buildings for smelting and production?

"This is very likely to be a city specializing in forging and production. It must not be the capital of a certain culture."

"Is this the industrial center of Xia Dynasty?"

"It may also be a military center, which can not be dated for the time being. Culturally, it does not belong to Erlitou or Longshan culture. It may be a vassal culture in the Central Plains..."

"Vassal? This is even more groundless. This is Xinzheng, located in the hinterland of the Central Plains. From the perspective of jade ware, it is very similar to Longshan culture. It must be a transitional culture between Yu and Xia. "

"Where is the transitional culture between Yu and Xia? Judging from such a strong bronze productivity, this should be the culture of the same period as the Xia Dynasty. "

Archaeologists argued until someone excavated a bronze tree from the site

"Ah? It can't be true? Does it belong to the same type as Sanxingdui culture? "

"This is a great discovery! Sanxingdui is no longer an independent and isolated culture. It has its branches and leaves scattered! "

"The central plains are far away from Shu, but they have extremely close exchanges. The people in this city are likely to share the culture of the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin at the same time, so that's why they are like this. ""So Is it Zhuanxu? "

All the people present were big men. They soon thought of Zhuanxu, because according to the literature, Zhuanxu was granted to Shu. After several generations of transmission, Zhuanxu became the leader of the Central Plains.

Therefore, during the pre Shang period, the Central Plains and Shu areas had the closest communication with each other in the era of Zhuanxu.

"Is this the capital of Zhuan Xu? If it is true, then bronze technology has advanced for at least 500 years. "

"It can't be the capital. Although it has not been excavated yet, there must be a corresponding division for workers to live in such a large-scale workshop site group. In this way, it will occupy an area of at least 300000-400000 square meters, which is obviously not a political center. The capital of this culture has not been discovered yet. We have only found this smelting city. "

"In addition to the undiscovered capital of the country, there are also large-scale, centralized cities specialized in smelting and production In Zhuanxu's time, it was even more advanced than Yaodu's technology? Did Yao and Shun belong to the retrogression of technology

The archaeologists were astonished. They speculated that the Taosi site was the capital of Yao, and there were bronzes, but in terms of productivity, it was far worse than this city.

If it is the era of Zhuanxu, it means that after Zhuanxu's death, culture has been interrupted and technology has been regressed.

In the Tang and Yu dynasties, the advanced bronze technology of Zhuanxu period was lost.

"Wait a minute, I know what this might be The ruins of zhurong! Right! According to ancient history, the ruins of zhurong were in Xinzheng

"Yes, yes. Since the ruins of zhurong are called ruins, they have been abandoned for a long time. Judging from the scene, the ruins were caused by floods and the whole city was covered with sand. Therefore, it was changed from the ruins of zhurong to the ruins of zhurong."

"Gonggong is in charge of water conservancy projects, and zhurong is in charge of" fire and profit "projects, that is, smelting and manufacturing!"

"Not only that, Zhu Rong is still a military officer, so Zhu Rongguo was the Ministry of defense in ancient times!"

"This place is specially responsible for the production of large quantities of ordnance, and it is also the industrial center of the Central Plains."

……

www.novelhold.com , the fastest update of the webnovel!