At the reception dinner, Li Mingwen introduced the whole story of the discovery of this tomb.

The discovery of this tomb was an accident.

Shaanxi Province has been a major province of cultural relics since ancient times, because this land has produced a splendid civilization.

Today's Baoji City is the center of this civilization.

Fengxiang in Baoji, formerly known as Yongcheng in ancient times, before the Qin State moved its capital to Xianyang, Yongcheng was the capital of the Qin State for nearly three hundred years, so there are many cultural relics and monuments here. Moreover, in the Yongcheng area, there are many imperial tombs.

Of course, it is somewhat inaccurate to say that the emperor is still one of the vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the monarch can only be called king.

Of course, we will not discuss history here, only the discovery of the tomb.

Once, when the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau went to the countryside to conduct research, I heard that there was a piece of land in Lingshan, Fengxiang County. Whether it's rainy or dry, crops don't always grow well.

Just such a simple information, the Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics heard about it and attached great importance to it, and immediately sent someone to investigate.

The tool of probing is the Luoyang shovel.

This Luoyang shovel is still made according to the tools used by tomb robbers in the past, the wisdom of tomb robbers is infinite, it is no exaggeration to say that this Luoyang shovel is the first artifact to detect the underground soil layer.

According to the investigation, sure enough, five-colored rammed earth appeared under the ground where crops did not grow.

This five-color rammed earth is the most obvious feature of the tombs in the Qin and Han dynasties, the five-color rammed earth is made of loess, gray soil, glutinous rice juice and other materials, after tamping, it is the material of the city wall, because it is solid, and the tomb also uses it to prevent theft and moisture.

If it is a general five-color rammed earth, the city cannot excavate, then the province can also decide whether to excavate or not.

However, the matter was reported to the ministry.

This is not because the province wants to ask for credit, let alone to apply for funding, but because the scope of the five-color rammed earth they found is too large for ordinary people to imagine.

According to preliminary calculations, the range of the five-color rammed earth layer found in Lingshan in Fengxiang County was as long as 400 meters long and as wide as 300 meters.

Even researchers on the field couldn't tell whether it was a tomb or a castle.

Because the city and the tomb will use this five-color rammed earth wall.

However, in the end, the Luoyang shovel hit more than 30 meters below, and there was still a five-color rammed earth layer, and the researchers of the Cultural Administration Bureau determined that this was a tomb, and it was a super rare tomb.

This tomb is estimated according to the size of the five-colored rammed earth, and the size of this tomb is absolutely unique.

Because the tomb is so large, the province consulted the ministry and asked if it would be excavated.

No, Professor Zuo and his party were sent.

Zuo Qingming listened to Li Mingwen's introduction of the situation and asked, "Do you think that if we want to excavate now, what is the biggest difficulty?"

"I felt that the biggest difficulty was finding the entrance to the tomb. Li Mingwen said.

"Entrance? Why do we need to find an entrance? Can't we excavate from top to bottom?" The pre-Qin tombs that Zuo Qingming came into contact with were generally excavated from top to bottom, and there was no such thing as finding an entrance at all.

"This, this, according to the depth and breadth of this tomb that we have discovered, if it is excavated in a conventional way, the excavation time of this tomb may be very long, maybe ten years, or even longer. ”

Listening to Li Mingwen's words, Professor Zuo nodded, if it is really according to the conventional excavation, the situation is indeed the case, and the time will be delayed for a very long time, because this kind of excavation must not use modern construction machinery, and must be manually cleaned down little by little, recording and collecting the information obtained.

"In addition, we also found a layer of quicksand at a depth of nearly 30 meters, because this depth is already the maximum depth that our Luoyang shovel can detect, and the thickness of this quicksand layer is unknown, we have reason to suspect that this layer of quicksand is for anti-theft. As a rule of thumb, there should be a layer of rammed earth under the quicksand layer, and this quicksand layer is combined with the rammed earth layer, so the depth of this tomb may be more than fifty meters. ”

"Quicksand layer?

"Many of us have also expressed doubts about this discovery, if it can be confirmed that this tomb is indeed from the pre-Qin period, then the history of theft prevention in this quicksand layer will have to be pushed back hundreds of years. ”

Zuo Qingming didn't seem to hear Li Mingwen's words, he thought about the principle of the quicksand layer by himself: the quicksand layer is of course to prevent theft, and it also has the effect of absorbing water and moisture, and if this tomb is built on top of the quicksand layer, it will be dangerous, because once the digging is in the wrong direction, resulting in the flow of quicksand, the tomb will also sink with the quicksand.

Of course, this last case is rare and requires an extremely high level of technology.

If there is a layer of quicksand here, conventional excavation seems to be the best way to go. This minimizes the risk to archaeologists.

However, the biggest disadvantage of this is that it takes too long, and it is a time-consuming and laborious job to clean up the rammed earth by hand, ten years, which seems to be about this time.

Zuo Qingming is obviously unwilling to stay here for ten years, even if Zuo Qingming is willing, I'm afraid these students he brings are not willing either.

In fact, Zuo Qingming also nodded at Li Mingwen's proposal. Li Mingwen's proposal was modest, and he also hoped to find the entrance to the tomb, otherwise it would be too time-consuming and labor-intensive to excavate according to conventional methods.

However, it is undeniable that conventional excavation methods, although slow to progress, are the safest of the kind.

Zuo Qingming looked at Tang Ding, "Tang Ding, you also heard the situation just now, what do you think about excavating this tomb?"

As soon as Zuo Qingming asked Tang Ding, he was immediately surprised and jealous by the people present.

The people who are jealous are the graduate students brought by Professor Zuo, that is, several disciples of Professor Zuo, especially when they know that Tang Ding is only a sophomore who has not yet graduated, but they make Professor Zuo attach so much importance to it, and on such an important occasion Professor Zuo asks Tang Ding, how can they have no opinion? If Professor Zuo asked about himself just now, he basically does not have to worry about his work after graduation.

The people who were surprised were the leaders of the cultural relics departments at the provincial and municipal levels, who accompanied them, and they did not expect Professor Zuo, who was well-known in the academic world, to ask a young man who was not amazing and sat there without saying a word.

Although Professor Zuo asked, but Tang Ding did not support the university, not to mention that he did not have anything worth trusting, in ancient history, Tang Ding was already very proficient, but for archaeological excavations, Tang Ding was still a recruit.

Tang Ding's most knowledge of archaeological excavations comes from the words in the history books.

"The teacher doesn't need to ask me, I'm just studying, let's wait until we arrive at the scene!"

After dinner, everyone stayed in the guest house, and the next morning, Professor Zuo and others got up very early, and the students had already repaired for a day yesterday, and they were full of energy at the moment.

The person in charge of leading the way is still Li Mingwen.

Although Li Mingwen is a small official, in front of Professor Zuo, he is not enough to see this official at all.

After breakfast, Li Mingwen asked the driver to drive a minibus and went straight to the place where the tomb was found, Lingshan in Fengxiang County.

Arriving at Lingshan, Tang Ding noticed the feng shui here at first sight.

This has become a habit of Don Ding.

The feng shui of Lingshan is good, from a distance, Lingshan is like a lying tiger, Qin Wang Yingzheng can annex the six countries with the division of tigers and wolves, and complete the unification of hegemony, which is inseparable from the burial place of the ancestors.

The minibus can drive directly to the tomb of Lingshan, and Tang Ding can feel the rich aura coming from the tomb, and it seems that there are still a lot of good things in this tomb.

Looking at the location of the tomb alone, Tang Ding can see the feng shui of this tomb, which is in line with the four spirit mountain tips.

The head of the tiger is the back of the tomb, and the flat terrain facing south is the former Ming Hall. The two claws of the tiger in front of it are the green dragon and the white tiger on the left and right.

Good Feng Shui!

Tang Ding sighed from the bottom of his heart!

Good feng shui does not necessarily lead to the achievement of the emperor's great cause, and the achievement of hegemony is also related to personal character and whether you can meet the opportunity of noble people to help. But without good feng shui, you will definitely not be able to achieve the imperial industry.

"No sealing, no tree, really in line with the characteristics of pre-Qin tombs!" Zuo Qingming sighed.

The so-called no seal and no tree refers to the burial place of the tomb, which does not set up a sealed mound or set up a mark, and everything is concealed as the first priority.

"Professor Zuo, we may have to work here for several months, the bureau has prepared a tent, if Professor Zuo feels uncomfortable, we can also build a few simple rooms?"

Zuo Qingming heard Li Mingwen's words, and hurriedly shook his head, "There's no need, just live in a tent, let's do archaeology, it's not a good thing." ”

Li Mingwen nodded, "Okay, there is still the problem of food, I am going to communicate with the villagers in the village, and go back and ask them to cook and send it over, but the food can be simpler?

"No problem, we don't pay attention to this. Keeping it simple is best. ”

Professor Zuo is meticulous about his work and doesn't care about food and accommodation at all.

Since you will be working here for a long time, it is also necessary to choose a place to set up a tent first.

This job is done by Tang Ding. Although Tang Ding is not a professional traveler, he has a lot of experience in the wild and is very good at this kind of thing.

In addition, there are four armed police officers who are in charge of security work here, which is to prevent people from looting cultural relics during the excavation process, and also play the role of security guards.

The tent was set up, and everyone began to arrange the utensils, and Zuo Qingming called Tang Ding to watch and discuss the situation of the Lingshan Tomb together.

Zuo Qingming knew that Tang Ding's views were unique, but at the dinner, he could see that Tang Ding didn't say much, and now he wanted to talk to Tang Ding alone.

At this time, Professor Zuo asked, and Tang Ding naturally couldn't help but say, "Teacher, to be honest, I don't know anything about archaeology, all my knowledge is obtained from history books and miscellaneous records, and I also hope to find a technical way to enter the archaeology of this Lingshan tomb, instead of advancing from top to bottom." ”

"Then how do you want to find the entrance to this big tomb?" Zuo Qingming asked.