In 1700, the ruins of this building are still relatively well preserved. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Some of the houses have no roofs, but the walls and wooden pillars are still there.

The one near the parking location for the two is good, with a high wall to keep out the wind and sand - and the two of them also put a small tarpaulin on their heads to shade them.

I don't wash my face, I don't save water, I just sit there and enjoy the shade.

The temperature is already 356 degrees, and it is not good to bake in the sun.

"Wait for next month, if you are not careful, it will reach more than 40 degrees here, and you will not be able to stay. ”

Leaning on a break, make small talk when you think of it, or take out a water bottle and take a sip or two. As soon as the sun overhead, immediately change directions and build a shed.

I didn't sweat anything, it was so dry that the sweat evaporated as soon as it came out.

Guan Xingquan rested enough and couldn't stay idle, so he walked around the ruins of several nearby houses, and came back with something in his hand.

"What's that?"

"Wheat. ”

As he spoke, he handed it to Zhang Nan.

The wheat grains are extremely dry, and they still have a bit of golden luster!

"There was a jar in the sand of the house over there, and there was wheat in it. ”

As soon as he heard Guan Xingquan's words, Zhang Nan got up, and the two went to check again.

The roof of the earthen embryo house is gone, and the sand in it is more than half a meter thick. A complete clay pot emerges from the sand pile in the corner, with its mouth open.

"There's a wooden lid on top of the book, so I'll take it. He gestured to a log on top of the sand beside him.

"It's probably a storeroom. Brother Guan, bring the detector. ”

"Oh. ”

After a while, the two of them checked several houses in the vicinity, and only one place had a metal reaction.

The sapper shovel dug in, and soon a small copper arrow appeared.

It's a triangular arrowhead, crudely made, cut out of a corner of an earthen wall that Guan Xingquan had carved out of more than a thousand years ago.

"When?"

"It's hard to say, maybe it's the third or fourth century AD. ”

It is not surprising that there are still people using copper arrowheads on this side of southern Xinjiang, although iron tools have long appeared. ”

Throwing the arrow in his pocket, he was about to leave.

"There are wheat and arrows here, and you say that it is not because of the war that people fled here. The two talked as they walked.

Zhang Nan scratched his scalp and was a little itchy.

"It's hard to say, but after the preliminary investigation, some people think it's a natural disaster, and some people say it's a war. However, many of the disappearance of such small oasis countries is actually caused by the indigenous peoples themselves. ”

The two of them returned to the shade, where they could see the well-preserved dwellings and barns in the quicksand of the ruins of Niya in the distance.

"Some people say that the decline of the Elite Kingdom is directly related to the changes of the Niya River, and that the Taklamakan Desert has not yet turned this place into a desert Gobi.

The Niya River originates in the Kunlun Mountains, and there are 60 glaciers in its upper reaches, and glacial meltwater is the main source of water for the Niya River.

In the Qin and Han dynasties, the Niya River was quite abundant, and the flow was relatively far, and its tail could reach the area of the Niya ruins here. It would have been a very good oasis.

However, due to climate change, the Niya River has retreated over the past 2,000 years, and the flow has been shortening, from the downstream to the midstream. The current tail of the Niya River is at least 70 kilometers shorter than the Niya River 2,000 years ago.

Due to the retreat of the river, the original land of the Essence lost its water source, and the inhabitants were unable to cultivate and live, so they had to leave the area and migrate. ”

After listening to Zhang Nan's words, Guan Xingquan felt that something was wrong, "If it is a planned migration, it is impossible not to have these very good wheat." ”

"Hehe, who knows. ”

Nowadays, farmers have to move everything when they move, and it is impossible for all the elite people of 1700 years ago to be local tyrants: they are all forced to move by the desert, and it is not bad if they are not poor ghosts.

"Unlike the people of Loulan in the northeast, the people there can be said to have destroyed their own living environment, and the people of Jingjue should pay more attention to protecting the environment in the later stage of the country. There are many sun tombs in Loulan, with a circle of wood to form a pattern of the sun, a tomb will use up a large number of precious trees, no matter how big the oasis can not withstand such a toss.

Moreover, the Xiaoice period from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty is estimated to have affected here, and the Central Plains has an unpredictable climate, not to mention the exquisite country close to the great desert. ”

Saying that, Zhang Nan pointed to the trunks of the trees that were still erected after a thousand years of death nearby, and said, "You see that most of these mansions are planted with big trees, and just now we passed through a dead forest, which was obviously planted by hand. I don't recognize the species, but it could be a fruit tree or a mulberry tree.

There is still wheat in the storeroom, and it seems that the owner is in too much of a hurry and does not bring these important daily necessities at all, and it may also be that the owner's family died in an invasion, very similar.

This situation is not reconciled with the abandonment of sites due to lack of water and the gradual evacuation of sites in an organized and prepared manner. ”

"If you leave without water, the food will definitely be taken away!"

After listening to Guan Xingquan's words, Zhang Nan said: "That's the truth.

Didn't that Stein steal a lot of Lu Wenmu documents, and now he has deciphered it: the late stage of the Elite Kingdom was under serious threat from the desert, and the ecological environment was treacherous.

The Elite Rulers had specific and strict rules on the use of water and the management of trees in the oasis. The decree prohibits the felling of living trees and the cutting of trees by their roots. The use of water is also paid and there is a person in charge. ”

Saying that, Zhang Nan also explained to Guan Xingquan what is Lu Wen: Lu Wen first originated in ancient Gandhara, and was the text of the Ashoka period of the Mauryan Dynasty in India in the 3rd century BC, the full name of which was "Lu Lice Diwen", which was first used in northwest India and present-day Pakistan, and was widely spread in Central Asia in the L-2 centuries AD.

In the middle of the 4th century, with the fall of the Kushan Dynasty, the Luwen also disappeared, and by the end of the 18th century, the Luwen had already become a kind of dead script that no one could recognize, and it was not until 1837 that the British scholar Prinshepp discovered the mystery of the Luwen.

"We can understand from the translated Hulu text that the elite ruler of the time was still in fear because of the attack of the Supis people from the southeast, who may have been the Supis in northern Tibet at that time.

It is written in the slab that 'there is a danger from the Supis, you must not be negligent, and other border guards should be sent here quickly'.

"I've heard that the SupiS people suddenly attacked the end of the country in April" and "the current people are bringing important news about the attack of the SupiS people", etc., all of which have something to do with the war.

Didn't it say in "The Legend of the Western Regions" that there were only 500 soldiers in the Jingjue Kingdom, the national strength weakened in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, and after the Eastern Han army gradually withdrew from the Western Regions, a small country like the Jingjue Kingdom lost the protection of the Central Dynasty of the Central Plains, and it was only a matter of time before it perished.

Before the Oasis of the Absolute Kingdom was abandoned, the invasion of the Supis should have been a dark cloud hanging over their heads.

Coupled with the effects of the Xiaoice Age, the abandoned Essence Kingdom may be a combination of natural problems and war.

Moreover, on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, at about the same time as the Exquisite Oasis was abandoned, a number of ancient oases were also destroyed.

The abandonment of Karadun in the Keriya River basin and the ancient city of Andil in the lower reaches of the Andil River all show similar characteristics to the demise of the Elite Kingdom. Perhaps these ancient cities also faced the same threat from the SUpiS back then, and may have been fatally hit by the SupiS invasion. ”

Seeing Guan Xingquan listening carefully, "Don't think about it, the disappearance of the Elite Kingdom is similar to that Goldbach conjecture, maybe the final conclusion will never be made!"

After saying that, it looked like the sun was falling, "Alright, it's time to work." (To be continued.) )