Chapter 277
Late at night, a place in Caoshan, Luzhou City.
There were many tents here, and a group of archaeologists, ranging in their twenties to fifties, sat around.
In front of it is a portable gas with boiling water on it, which is used for instant noodles.
While waiting for the water to boil, one of the men who was about fifty years old said: “It is basically certain that this is an ancient tomb from the Ming Dynasty.” ”
The others nodded, without any opinion.
Tombs from different periods are very different in terms of structure and materials.
Some of these people have very professional research in geology, and only through the excavated soil, they can preliminarily determine which period they belong to.
Of course, this judgment is only a rough estimate, not accurate.
However, after an afternoon and an evening of excavation, they were basically able to determine that there was an ancient tomb from the Ming Dynasty underneath.
Generally speaking, there is only one way for archaeological teams to excavate ancient tombs, and that is to report.
First of all, it must be clear that the archaeological team will not take the initiative to excavate an ancient tomb.
For them, the best place to go underground is the tomb.
The meaning of the existence of the archaeological team is not excavation, but protection.
They do not take the initiative to look for ancient tombs, and only when they receive a report, they will set out.
For example, when some real estate companies start construction, if they find an ancient tomb, they will go over.
For example, after the planning of some subway and high-speed rail lines, ancient tombs are found during the construction process and they will be notified.
One of the most famous is Chang’an.
You can dig up an ancient tomb as you dig as you like.
When Chang’an’s subway was built, almost all stations could dig into the subway, forcing us to replan the route.
After replanning, he dug the ancient tomb on horseback.
Then there are real estate companies, and Chang’an is probably the city that real estate companies are most reluctant to go to.
There are so many ancient tombs that people are desperate.
Most of the funds of real estate companies are bank loans, and the loan amount for those who do this line is sky-high.
One day’s interest alone is an astronomical amount.
Because the real estate company that dug into the ancient tomb and stopped working was bankrupt, a pair of hands could not be counted.
In addition to the above two, there are also reports from the public.
For example, some villagers went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, dig up medicinal herbs, and encountered ancient tombs, and some people reported them directly.
For example, a landslide after heavy rain, revealing the structure of an ancient tomb, will also be reported.
And the most common is that the villagers went up the mountain to find suspected robbery of the cave.
They came here today and received relevant reports.
Traces of suspected robbery were found nearby.
When they arrived here, they checked and determined that there were indeed traces of robbery of the cave.
However, the cave has traces of being backfilled, and it was a heavy rain recently, which washed away the dirt on the cave, which was only revealed by the villagers.
One afternoon, their main job was to dig along the vicinity of the cave.
They wanted to see how big the hole was.
If it is large enough, there is no need to find a place to dig again, and you can enter the ancient tomb directly along the robbery hole.
But at the end of the day, I dug several robbery holes in a row, but I didn’t get anything.
These robbery holes were dug for about half a meter, and they stopped digging when they touched the tomb bricks.
At this time, it was also dark, so they could only stop for a while and wait for the day tomorrow to look for any other robbery holes.
Time passed in the blink of an eye, and the next day.
In the morning, Lin Xiao and Liu Rose first had a cloud and rain, got up and ate breakfast, and went to the airport with the harvest of last night.
Over here, Cao Shan.
The archaeological team simply ate something and began today’s work.
At ten o’clock in the morning, they found four more robbery holes.
In teams of two, they began digging along the cave.
At eleven o’clock, two of the caves stopped digging.
These two robbery holes are exactly the same as the robbery holes found yesterday, and they have only been dug for less than half a meter.
So they pinned their hopes on the remaining two robbery holes.
On the one hand, they hoped that these two robbery caves would preferably lead directly to the ancient tomb.
On the other hand, I hope that these two robbery holes have also been dug for half a meter and have not moved.
The former can save them at least a few months.
After all, archaeology is archaeology, and the time to excavate an ancient tomb is often calculated in months.
The tomb robbers take Luoyang shovels, or directly dig with shovels.
They are holding small shovels, scraping layer by layer.
Because it is impossible to determine what exactly is under the soil.
It is not clear whether it is an imperial tomb or just an ordinary tomb.
If it was an ordinary tomb, then it was basically to dig a pit and bury people and burial goods.
If the movement is too large, it will easily destroy the funeral goods.
If it is an emperor-level tomb, it must be dug more carefully.
In this case, their digging efficiency, don’t want to improve.
Of course, even if it takes a few months to dig, they still hope that the other two caves are not directly connected to the ancient tomb.
As long as it is not direct, it means that the ancient tomb below is not visited by tomb thieves, and the burial goods inside are also safe.
Under everyone’s expectations, half an hour later, the two robberies also stopped.
These two robbery holes also stopped when the tomb bricks were dug.
Luo Xuejiang, the leader of the archaeological team, breathed a sigh of relief: “Fortunately, this ancient tomb is complete. ”
“Teacher Luo, are we digging along the robbery hole now?”
“Well, dig along the robbery hole!”
Luo Xuejiang said: “With so many robbery holes, it is not easy for these tomb robbers to fight, but don’t waste it.” ”
He was in a very good mood.
The ancient tomb is safe, not only that, but there are so many robbery holes.
Through the robbery hole, they can clearly determine where the depth of the tomb bricks is.
What they have to do is to expand the robbery hole until the ancient tomb is dug up.
In this way, the difficulty is greatly reduced and the time is greatly saved.
“Rest for half an hour and get to work.”
Luo Xuejiang shouted, grabbed a bottle of mineral water and sat on the ground and drank it.
A young man wearing glasses sat on the side and said, “Teacher Luo, can we broadcast live when you dig in a while?” ”
“Live?” Luo Xuejiang frowned and thought for a while, and said: “Live broadcast is okay, but there are questions related to archaeology, you need to ask us before talking.” You don’t understand this aspect, and unresearched nonsense can easily affect the outside world’s perception of us. ”
This young man, a reporter for Luzhou City News, came over yesterday evening.
He is aware of the urine nature of the media now, no matter what kind of news, is leaning on the gimmick.
Without a few words, he was really not at ease.
The young man said: “Teacher Luo, rest assured, we are just live broadcasting, briefly introducing what you are doing, and we will not say a word about other irrelevant things.” ”
“Hmm.” Luo Xuejiang nodded and didn’t say anything more.
Half an hour later, they got to work.
Directly on the shovel, it began to expand along the robbery hole.
Don’t worry about the places outside the robbery cave, because the robbery cave is the safest, this is the ancient tomb that can be seen, and there is no need to worry about damaging the ancient tomb structure.
And the ancient tomb is not deep, only about half a meter, if you want to dig out a width that can accommodate one person, one day is enough.
……
Meanwhile.
The Baozhou Institute of Archaeology also received a whistleblower call.
On the phone, the whistleblower said that traces of the cave robbery had been found in Lingshan.
The director of the Baozhou Institute of Archaeology immediately organized staff to go to Lingshan to investigate.
……
Lin Xiao returned to Jinling at eleven o’clock at noon, and he returned home with his things and exhibits.
After lunch, he called Tu Weimin and asked him to contact several experts.
After hanging up the phone, he called some experts in the capital.
Some things have to be come to experts in the capital, such as golden jade clothes.
However, the cultural relics purchased from the Luzhou Ghost Market last time, these experts in Jinling are enough to do it.
Experts in the capital received a call and directly booked a ticket for the afternoon.
And Lin Xiao and Tu Weimin said that the afternoon passed, and he planned to identify the batch of cultural relics purchased by the Luzhou Ghost Market first.
See when the experts in the capital will arrive, and if they come early, they may be able to catch up.
If it’s late, let’s talk about it tomorrow.
At half past one in the afternoon, Lin Xiao drove a cart of cultural relics to the Jinling Museum.
After arriving, he called Tu Weimin and asked him to call someone to come and move things.
While waiting, he turned on the live stream.
“Boss Lin is on the air again!”
“Boss Lin is quite diligent these days.” (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) )
“This is the Jinling Museum?”
“When did Boss Lin come back?”
“Where’s the ghost market last night?”
“It must be Jinling.”
“It’s not Jinling, there is no ghost market in Jinling these two days.”
Lin Xiao said: “I bought a batch of things in Luzhou Ghost Market two days ago, and today I invited a few experts to come over to help identify it, and also take everyone to see.” ”
“Luzhou Ghost City?”
“Two days ago? Not yesterday? ”
“Depend, Boss Lin, how many ghost markets have you been to these days?”
“So what exactly am I missing?”
“Pay attention, what Boss Lin said is a batch, a batch of !!!”
After waiting for about twenty minutes, a group of staff pushed the cart over, Lin Xiao opened the trunk, and the staff began to carefully carry things down.
After moving for ten minutes, everything was down, Lin Xiao closed the car door, and walked towards his museum with the staff.
After walking for a quarter of an hour or so, they entered the gate of the museum.
A long row of tables in front of which sat seven experts.
When the experts saw Lin Xiao arrive, they got up and walked over to greet him.
Their favorite now is Lin Xiao.
What is most important to an expert?
In addition to money, it is cultural relics!
Being able to identify some rare artifacts is not only their profession, but also their hobby.
Lin Xiao satisfied their hobby.
The point is, it’s also about making money.
Such a thing that has the best of both worlds, experts in other cities are the envy of the bottom of their hearts.
After chatting briefly for a while, Lin Xiao said: “Teachers, sit down, there are a lot of this things, you have appraisals.” ”
The expert smiled and said, “Take it out.” ”
They returned to their positions and sat down, and Lin Xiao also took out the things they would bring one by one.
He first took out the largest piece of Yuan dynasty blue and white porcelain and placed it on the table.
Lu Daishan was the first to take it, and after taking a preliminary look, he exclaimed: “You are a heavy weapon here!” ”
After reading it roughly, he already had a bottom in his heart, but he still looked at it carefully for a few more minutes before handing it over to the next person.
“What is this?”
“Vase, can’t you see this?”
“Nonsense, which dynasty I asked.”
“Looking at the ornaments and styles, it should be Yuan Qinghua.”
“I lost it, from the Yuan Dynasty?”
“Nima, Luzhou Ghost City still has this kind of good thing?”
“Such a big vase, you have a lot of money, right?”
“On billions.”
“Wipe, it’s another billion-level national treasure.”
Netizens are almost numb.
About twenty minutes later, the last expert finished reading.
Several people talked and discussed a few words in a low voice, and then said to Lin Xiao: “Our views are the same, this is a blue and white porcelain from the Yuan Dynasty, which is well preserved and not damaged.” ”
Lin Xiao snorted, picked up the porcelain from the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty behind and handed it over.
He knew these things in his own heart, and this time the cultural relics were almost no obstacles to identification.
Except for the strange things of the “Daming Kangxi Year”, normal porcelain is not difficult in terms of identification.
Whether it is true or false, you can determine it by touching your hand.
There are 14 porcelains in Ming Hongwu, all of which are large and small, and all of them are intact.
“This is only from the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty.”
“This one is also…”
Time passed, and at half past three in the afternoon, all the porcelain was identified.
A piece of Yuan blue flowers, porcelain from the Hongwu period of the 14th Ming Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, porcelain during the Hongwu period was definitely not the most expensive, but it was the least numerous.
And the porcelain of this period, whether it is shape or ornamentation, the overall beauty is not as good as that of the later dynasty.
But the average price is the highest in the Ming Dynasty.
“These 15 pieces of porcelain are worth hundreds of millions, right?”
“This Nima… If Boss Lin throws all these porcelains into the market, I feel that the price of porcelain in the Ming Dynasty will plunge. ”
“Diving a fart, this is all Ming Hongwu’s porcelain, there are not many porcelain boutiques in this period, come out one by one, and dive.”
Then, Lin Xiao took the figurine.
This is a figurine made of wood, as well as some beast figurines.
Experts were surprised to see this.
They have seen many terracotta figurines, but they have never seen many wooden figurines.
After looking at it, Lu Daishan said: “This thing should be a funeral product, which is similar to the nature of Tang Sancai.” ”
“This should be from the Ming Dynasty, and it is something from the early Ming Dynasty, and it is also taken for burial.”
“There are figurines, there are horse warriors, but there is no one right away, which means that the tomb owner is not an emperor. It may be Wang Ye, or a general, or a prince. ”
Lin Xiao secretly gave a thumbs up, these experts are familiar with the historical origin of each cultural relics, which shows how deep their relevant knowledge reserves are.
Then, Lin Xiao took out bronze, bronze and gold and silver jade.
“The craftsmanship of this golden bowl is really amazing, and if you restore it, it is a collection-level cultural relic.”
After the gold and silver were identified, they looked at the jade that Lin Xiao took out.
When he saw the jade cicada and some finger-sized jade, Lu Daishan silently took out the gloves from his pocket.
Apparently, he knew what these jade artifacts did…
“This (money) is a jade plug.”
Lu Daishan picked it up and took a brief look at it, then put it down.
One of them is an plug, and I don’t know which one.
Although this is something that was hundreds of years ago, there is no dirt or not, but the heart should be satisfied.
Lin Xiao was amused as he watched.
“This jade cicada is so beautiful, Wozhi, so delicate!”
“What is Yusai?”
“Four people stuffed with nine tips.”
“Speculation~ so disgusting!”
Netizens immediately got goosebumps.
Meanwhile.
Luzhou, Caoshan.
This ancient tomb of the Ming Dynasty has been dug along the robbery hole to a size that can be used by two people to enter and exit, and the bricks below have also been pried open.
Luo Xuejiang was already wearing goggles and a gas mask, holding a rope around his waist and holding a flashlight, ready to go to the tomb.
This professional equipment, I didn’t know, I thought it was an adventure.
“Teacher Luo, can you trouble bringing this.”
The reporter handed over an action camera.
Luo Xuejiang snorted, pinned the camera in front of him, and said, “Okay, let me go.” ”
A few young stick guys, grabbed the rope and lowered it little by little.
Luo Xuejiang fell towards the ancient tomb below little by little.
Two minutes later, Luo Xuejiang’s voice came from below: “I’m down, everything is safe.” ”
Then you start exploring freely.
At this moment, the live broadcast room of Luzhou Urban Channel is connected to the action camera in front of Luo Xuejiang, and the situation in the ancient tomb can be seen through his perspective.
The live broadcast room is not a small number of online people, there are more than 20,000 people.
Netizens, as well as the archaeologists outside the ancient tomb, are looking at the live broadcast room, their eyes are not blinking, for fear of missing the details of the ancient tomb.
Directly below the cave is the main chamber of this ancient tomb of the Ming Dynasty.
Luo Xuejiang walked very slowly, and the flashlight slowly shone on the tomb.
Suddenly, he stopped moving, and the light of a flashlight fell on a funeral object.
It was a vase about half a meter high, blue and white porcelain, double animal ears, and a lid.
When he saw this blue and white porcelain vase, a netizen in the live broadcast room suddenly said: “This vase is similar to the Yuan blue flower that Boss Lin just identified!” “。