After everyone had filled their stomachs and fully recovered their strength, Deputy Director Qin and Professor Qian and Professor Pang discussed and decided where to start the groundbreaking, to put it bluntly, it was time to carry out official excavation.

Although the upper layer of frost heave soil is removed, the soil below is not difficult to dig, but most of the people in the Cultural Relics Bureau are sitting in the office, Zhang Zhe and Hu Ran are weak, and it is obviously unrealistic to expect them to "start work and break the ground".

"Don Jr. What do you think?"

The place where the excavation began, and finally chose a deeper place in the burial pit, and the shallower burial pit was directly excluded, after the armed police broke ground, Professor Pang looked at Tang Hao and asked Tang Hao's opinion.

"Professor Pang, I have the same idea as you, if the dead in these burial pits are buried with the tomb owner, then there must be a tomb, where to dig, it must be a deeper place to start, because in ancient times, when the burial was also exquisite, the martyrs were also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the martyrs with higher status would be deeper in the burial pit, and the deepest one must be the closest to the tomb owner. ”

Tang Hao knew that Professor Pang was studying himself, why he started with the deepest burial pit, after they discussed it at the beginning, they didn't explain, and when he asked his opinion at this moment, there was obviously an exquisite mind.

"Senior Brother Tang. You know a lot, these unpopular knowledge, there is also research. It seems that the theoretical knowledge is solid. ”

Hu Ran said with a smile.

"There's a discovery!"

At that moment, the professor's voice was heard below.

Tang Hao was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect to find out so soon, Tang Hao went over, and saw that half of the stone gate was dug out, Tang Hao saw the stone gate, jumped directly into the burial pit, picked up a shovel, and helped the armed police dig together.

After an hour of excavation, this stone door was completely dug out, exposed to everyone's eyes, the perimeter of the door is made of stone, impermeable, the thickness of the stone door is amazing, if you want to enter from here, it is undoubtedly very difficult, unless you use explosives, the stone door is directly blown up.

"This is the stone gate is too thick to be handled. ”

After seeing the guide, he shook his head again and again, and said, "If you want to enter from here, you can only use explosives to blow the door open." ”

"Xiang Gui, what are you kidding?"

After hearing this, Professor Qian's face changed, and he said: "You must not use explosives, unless you have to do it, there is no way, you have to dig now, you will consider using explosives, you must know that no matter how clever the blasting expert, using explosives to blast will also cause aftershock, which will cause immeasurable losses to the antique relics that have not been excavated in the tomb, what is the difference between this and a thief?"

The bootlegging that Professor Qian refers to is the activity of an unofficial tomb robbery gang.

"That's right, we will only consider using this strategy when we have to, and we must not consider using explosives now. ”

Professor Pang was resolute and, like Professor Qian, could not allow the use of explosives.

"We understand what you said, but how thick this stone gate is, you have also seen it, and the surrounding area is built with huge stones, completely sealed, airtight, where to enter?"

If they encounter this situation, they do not want to protect cultural relics and antiques, but out of professional instinct, the first thing that comes to mind is explosives.

"Don't be intimidated. ”

Professor Pang smiled: "Haven't we started digging above? There is a high possibility that the top is rammed earth, as long as it is rammed."

soil, there may be a thief hole, as long as we find the thief hole, we can go into the thief hole. ”

"Rammed earth?"

Xiang Gui heard it in a fog, this kind of professional term, he heard it for the first time, and he didn't know what Professor Pang meant by rammed earth.

"You explain it to the guide. ”

Professor Qian pointed to Tang Hao and asked him to explain to Xiang Gui, although they have a lot of manpower, but this season, their physical strength is greatly limited, if there is no help from these armed police, it is not easy to excavate the tomb found, naturally I don't want to have a gap with Xiang Gui, and I will naturally explain it one by one and let him understand.

"Xiang knows, when it comes to this rammed earth, I have to mention Shang Zhou......"

Tang Hao was about to explain, but before he could explain, the following words were interrupted by Xiang Gui.

"You kid, don't give me so many useless things, pick up the point. ”

Xiang said with a smile to the guide.

"You have to make me say it, I didn't say it, and you interrupted. ”

Tang Hao was speechless and said: "This tomb has many soil pits, all of them are like this in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, even if it is a soil pit, when you want to seal the tomb, the general soil can not be done, and it can't be sealed, and then it slowly developed, and the rammed earth appeared in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, this kind of rammed earth is made out by a special method, layer by layer of soil, and then tamped together with tools, it becomes solid, no matter how the form of the tomb changes in the later dynasties, the rammed earth is mostly used when the tomb is sealed, but it is far harder and heavier than the Shang and Zhou dynasties. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is invincible. ”

Tang Hao explained.

"So powerful?"

After listening to the guide, he was stunned, "You're exaggerating." How can it be so hard? What is the rammed earth made of? It can't be just loess, right?"

"There's lime, there's wood ash, there's rice juice...... Anyway, the ancients can think of things, may have been mixed in, and then with a special method, tamped together, many years are intact, when I and the professor of archaeology, I have seen the top of the tomb robbed by tomb thieves dug the robbery hole, but in addition to this robbery hole, there is some damage around the robbery hole, the whole rammed earth is still no problem, unless the dense robbery hole appears on the rammed earth of the cap, and the rammed earth cap is damaged. ”

Tang Hao said.

"It's hard enough. ”

Xiang Dao smiled and said: "I understand, then let's dig the soil above the stone gate to see if there is a hole in the rammed earth, if there is, follow the hole to enter, if not, it will be really tricky." ”

Tang Hao followed along, fortunately after the rammed earth was exposed, it didn't take long to find the thief hole, this thief hole can only accommodate one person, Tang Hao looked down the thief hole.

"What do you see?"

found the thief hole, and when Tang Hao looked down, his shoulder was pressed, and it was the professor who spoke.

"I can't see anything, it's pitch black. ”

Tang Hao was taken aback, of course it was impossible to tell the truth, so he could only prevaricate.

How could he not see it, inferring from the burial pits found that the people who accompanied the burial were likely to be people from the Sui and Tang dynasties, and then Tang Hao looked down from the robbery cave and found out the distance between the rammed earth cap and the below, which proved the previous inference that the tombs were likely to be from the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Because after Tang Hao's visual inspection, he found that the distance between the top and the bottom was about seven meters, and the tombs of the Sui and Tang dynasties had a typical feature, and the distance between the tombs and the ground was generally set to a distance of seven meters.

Tang Hao saw the corridor below from the thief cave.

"Tomb robbers have visited this tomb, and I don't know how much damage has been caused. ”

Deputy Director Qin, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke.

Before, he was very worried about seeing the robbery hole in the rammed earth layer of the cap, once he saw the robbery hole, it means that this tomb was patronized by tomb thieves, and even found the robbery hole, it is likely that there is more than one robbery hole, there is more than one group of tomb robbers, if it is patronized many times, the loss caused is immeasurable.

But then again, if there is no robbery hole in the rammed earth, they have to go in, and they can only choose from the two places of the capped rammed earth and the stone gate, which is also very tricky.

"The discovery of a large number of burial pits has already shown that this place has been visited by many tomb robbers. ”

Tang Hao said.

"Why do you say that?"

Xiang Gui is a layman, and he didn't understand Tang Hao's words at all.

"Although the rammed earth is hard, but also divided into three, six, nine and so on, the rammed earth after the Shang and Zhou dynasties, step by step upgraded, step by step, become extremely hard, but the production is very costly and labor-intensive, these large number of burial pits found when sealed, also used rammed earth, but the use of rammed earth is limited by the cost, naturally can not be compared with the tomb owner. After a long time, it was patronized by a large number of tomb robbers, robbed the cave, and over time it collapsed, and a large number of burial pits were discovered under this circumstance. ”

Tang Hao said.

"Yes, these pits are also made of rammed earth, and we found out when we explored them. ”

Professor Pang said with a smile: "Limited by manpower, material and financial resources is one reason, but there may be a reason, that is, there was a fluke psychology at that time, thinking that no one would patronize this wilderness, a remote place, the rammed earth of the tomb owner is used enough, but these burial companions are relatively shabby, the rammed earth used is very thin, once the number of robberies increases, it will not be able to hold on." ”

"Professor Pang, Professor Qian, who will go down?"

Deputy Director Qin saw their colleagues from the Cultural Relics Bureau, after discovering the robbery hole, they retreated one by one, and even worse, they climbed out of the burial pit directly and hid far away, as if they were afraid of being selected, which made Deputy Director Qin's old face hot and shameless.

"I'm coming!"

Wu Qinqin saw Deputy Director Qin scanning back and forth at them with an ugly face, and impulsively, she raised her hand directly.

As soon as she spoke, everyone's eyes turned to her.

"Little girl, what are you kidding?"

Professor Qin and Professor Pang glanced at each other, smiled, shook their heads again and again, and said, "You have no experience in going to the tomb, how can you let you go down? Besides, you have broken your foot before, so it is impossible to let you go down." ”

After Professor Pang finished speaking, he looked at Hu Ran and Zhang Zhe, and said, "You have followed me to excavate a lot of tombs, and you should have accumulated a lot of experience, which of you two is willing to go down?"

Hu Ran and Zhang Zhe glanced at each other, both nodded in unison, both were willing to go down, and did not flinch, although their strength is theoretical knowledge, but they can't retreat at this time.

"What are you kidding?"

Xiang Dao smiled and said, "Let my people go down, you are the ...... to guide on the side."

Xiang Gui didn't say what he said, because he saw that Tang Hao had already tied the rope and handed the rope to the armed police, so he climbed directly into the thief hole......

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