Around the stele is a vacant lot of about 100 square meters, which is prepared in advance and paved with stone bricks to prevent the growth of trees, and in the center of the open space is the stone monument that looks very grand. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's finally time to get there. ”

Arriving at the destination safely, Meng Zitao relaxed a little, he looked around, and found that not far away, there was a stone house covering an area of seventy or eighty square meters, on the left and right sides of the door of the stone house, there was a stone carving Qiqi, the image was vivid, as if it was real.

The army looked at the stunning stone tablet in front of him and asked, "What kind of writing is written on this, it looks a bit like an oracle bone inscription." ”

Meng Zitao shined a flashlight on the stele and said: "There is a difference between it and the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription found now, it is likely to be an earlier text, combined with the previous judgment, this is likely to be the Xia Dynasty text, if it can be confirmed, it is a major discovery in archaeology." ”

Up to now, whether the Xia Dynasty existed or not, if the Xia Dynasty existed, whether the Xia Dynasty had writing or not, has always been a debate in the academic community, Mencius Tao and his master have always agreed that the Xia Dynasty existed, and there is also a point of writing, but unfortunately there has been no evidence to prove it.

If the text on this stele can indeed prove to be the script of the Xia Dynasty, and there are also records of the Xia Dynasty on it, it is undoubtedly a discovery that can shake the archaeological community around the world.

Meng Zitao perked up, and then said: "When I identify it, maybe I will be able to know whose tomb it is." ”

Meng Zitao's memory is amazing now, and it is of course easier to learn words, and he can recognize most of the ancient characters in China.

Therefore, even if he hadn't learned the words on the stone tablet in front of him before, he could basically guess the meaning of the words even if he guessed them.

The text on this stele mainly talks about the two things of "Taikang lost the country" and "Shaokang Zhongxing", of which "Shaokang Zhongxing" accounts for most of the space.

In the later years of the Xia Dynasty, life became increasingly corrupt. He liked to drink, hunt, sing and dance, and neglected the government. Qi died, and his son Taikang succeeded to the throne, but he also indulged in the sound of wine and food, and did not repair political affairs, which promoted the internal contradictions to become more and more acute, and the external Siyi betrayed.

Hou Yi, the leader of the poor clan of the Dongyi tribe, saw that there were many internal contradictions in the Xia Dynasty, and took the opportunity to seize the power of Xia when Taikang went out hunting for several months and did not return. After Taikang's death, his younger brother Zhongkang succeeded to the throne, Zhongkang was weak and became a puppet. After Zhongkang's death, his son succeeded him. Hou Yi drove the concubine away and became the king himself, which is the story called "Taikang lost the country" and "Hou Yi Dynasty Xia" in the history books.

And "Shaokang Zhongxing" is the first era in the history of our country to appear named after the word "Zhongxing". Shaokang was the sixth generation of the Xia Dynasty's Son of Heaven, and his father, Xiang Xiang, was killed by the hostile Han Xun faction.

Shaokang is a posthumous son, he has lived in the Youyou tribe since he was a child, and when he grew up, Shao Kang obtained an official position in charge of livestock. The son of Han Xun sent people to arrest him, and he fled to the Youyu clan and became the kitchen officer of the Youyu clan.

Yu is a descendant of Shun, and its tribal leader Yu Si felt the merits of Dayu, and couldn't bear to see Yu's descendants unsustainable, so he married his two daughters to Shaokang as his wife, and assigned Lun to Shaokang as a fief, and Shaokang has only since stood on his feet.

As a result, Shaokang accumulated strength, implemented virtuous governance, won the hearts and minds of the people, recruited Xia's remnants, and began to restore Xia's rule. At this time, Han Xun indulged in lust, and his son was in harmony with evil, frequently using troops, and the people were full of complaints.

As a result, Shaokang was determined to rejuvenate the country. He sent Nu Ai to Han Xun's son to pour it as an internal response, and sent his son Ji Shu to trap Han Xun's other son, and soon Han Xun's father and son were attacked and killed one after another.

Shaokang built the capital in the old capital of Yangzhai. He reorganized the society, hanged the wounded, and appeased the people, and had the style of Wang Yu.

At this point, the Xia Dynasty seized power after Taikang Shihouyi, and after about 100 years of hard struggle for three generations, the descendants of the Xia Dynasty regained power and restored the rule of the Xia Hou slave-owning aristocratic class. Later historians called the history of Shaokang's reconstruction of the Xia Dynasty as "Shaokang Zhongxing", and Shaokang was the "Anyi" on the north bank of the Yellow River.

Later, the world called the place of Taikang's exile and death as the southern capital of the Xia Dynasty, and because it was in the south of Anyi, it was also called "Yangxia" to show that it corresponded to the northern capital of the Xia Dynasty.

According to historical records, when Shaokang sacrificed to the ancestor King Taikang in Gedi, he died of illness here and was buried on the side of the Taikang mausoleum. Shaokang died after reigning for 20 years, and his son Yu succeeded to the throne as the seventh king of the Xia Dynasty. According to legend, Yu Zeng sent people to guard the tombs of Taikang and Shaokang, and the tomb keepers were passed down from generation to generation, and the residence gradually became a village.

However, the changes of current affairs, to the present, there is only Taikang Mausoleum, and Shaokang Mausoleum has been stolen and dug many times, after years of erosion, there is no sealed soil, the mausoleum has also been destroyed, and it has been destroyed many times during that period of the last century, now only a sign marked "Shaokang Mausoleum" in front of the mausoleum, some fragments of the mausoleum are scattered on the mausoleum, in addition, the mausoleum has no ground mark.

According to the records on the stele, the current cemetery is just Shaokang's clothes, and this is Shaokang's real mausoleum.

However, this space was not excavated and built in the first place, but was formed naturally, and the wizards and craftsmen of the time only slightly built it, adding alien beasts, formations, and mechanisms.

As for the real tomb is still one layer below, this is Meng Zitao's guess, there is no relevant record on the stone tablet, so what is the mechanism in the real tomb, what is it like, what is the beast, he is not clear, but it is already so dangerous here, God knows what is in the real tomb?

Anyway, Meng Zitao had already made up his mind, and he would not ask for trouble and go down to the third layer, otherwise he would be joking with his own life and that of the army.

Listening to Meng Zitao's interpretation of the content on the stele, the army couldn't help but be amazed, never expected that this was the real Shaokang tomb.

Dajun said: "No wonder, if this is the tomb of Shaokang, it can be explained that those living people were willing to burn them into terracotta figurines." ”

"Definitely. Meng Zitao nodded, turned around and had no other useful clues, and then said: "Let's go, let's go to the stone house and see if there is anything we want in it." ”

With that, he led the army towards the stone house.

When he arrived at the stone gate, Meng Zitao first looked around, and found that there was a key-shaped groove on the wall next to the stone gate.

When he got the jade key but it didn't come in handy in the cave, Mencius always suspected that it was used for other purposes, and it seems that it was used here.

In addition, the jade pendant and bronze key (chapter 293) that Meng Zitao got from Ma Mian at the beginning were also asked by him from his senior brother, maybe this time it can also come in handy.

Meng Zitao took out the jade key and pressed it into the groove, but nothing happened, which made him feel a little inexplicable, but he immediately remembered that maybe this was not the medium to open the stone door, so he went to push the stone gate, and the stone gate was easily pushed open.

Considering that this might be a closed stone room, the two of them stayed outside for a while before entering the stone room.

I saw that there was only a lonely wooden box in the stone room, which was obviously very different from the gold alone written on the drawing, and there was a very big difference between the records of silver and countless treasures.

You have to say if you are in the wrong place, but there is already a prominent place around the stele, unless the gold and silver treasures are buried in the ground, but this is also very unlikely.

Therefore, Meng Zitao believed that the parchment drawings he obtained were problematic, and the result of believing it was to enter the ancient tomb and almost die.

In fact, there are 100,000 taels of gold and the like, based on the total encounter after entering the ancient tomb, Meng Zitao knew that the possibility was very small, how much time it would take for such a heavy gold light to be brought into the ancient tomb, and how many dangers would be encountered during the period.

Because of this, whether he could find a way out of this big wooden box, Meng Zitao was skeptical, but no matter what, he had to take a look, and he couldn't waste every clue.

Meng Zitao walked to the wooden box and found that the wooden box was locked by a copper lock, in addition, this is not a simple copper lock, the lock handle is also connected to a metal rod that penetrates deep into the wooden box, and it is likely that it is also a mechanism, in order to prevent someone from using violent means to open the wooden box.

Meng Zitao took out a copper key, and when he tried it, it was really the key on it, and he couldn't help laughing: "I also want to thank that horse face at the beginning, if it weren't for him, I would probably only be able to run in vain this time." ”

"Which horse face?"

"Did you forget that time in Taihang Mountain?"

The army was suddenly a little surprised: "There is actually a connection between the two?"

Meng Zitao laughed and said: "The original master really took great pains to hide things. ”

Due to the age, the copper lock was rusty, and it took Meng Zitao a long time to open the copper lock, and then opened the wooden box.

The large wooden box is divided into several areas, and the first thing that catches your eye is the gold bars placed on the left.

Meng Zitao picked one up casually and found that it was actually a fifty-tael gold bar cut, with stamps such as "official charge of the service field", "righteous inspection", "burning inspection", etc., which should be in the Southern Song Dynasty according to his experience.

Since gold and silver are precious metal weighing currencies, they need to be used to check and weigh the color, and sometimes the name of the person who verifies the fineness will be written, such as "burn the inspection of Kang Duanyi inspection", "burn the inspection of the leaf master Wu inspection" and so on.

If it is for official purposes, the use and the name of the official are also applied, such as "Clerk". But this kind of gold collar with an official inscription is very rare. When used, sometimes it is divided according to the amount used, and there are traces of being cut, or half, or missing corners, etc., which is a true reflection of the use of gold and silver by ancient people. (To be continued.) )