Chapter 894: Searching for Sand
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In this world, it is often self-scaring to oneself, when he doesn't know the principle of the ever-bright lamp, Zhuang Rui is really scared in his heart, but now that he knows it, he looks at these spontaneously combusting bronze lamps, and the feeling in his heart is completely different. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Xiaozhuang, be careful, the corridor is the least peaceful, with the scale of this tomb, I'm afraid there will be a lot of ...... of organs"
Professor Meng saw Zhuang Rui and walked inside, and hurriedly reminded him in the back, in fact, he didn't say the principle of spontaneous combustion of the ever-bright lamp at first, just to test the courage of the two apprentices.
The result made Professor Meng quite satisfied, although Zhuang Rui was afraid, he did not drop the chain.
However, the knowledge of the two apprentices made Professor Meng a little dissatisfied, and the controversy of the ever-bright lantern had already been said in the world's academic circles, and the two apprentices did not pay attention to it.
"Teacher, I know ......"
Zhuang Rui agreed, I am afraid that no one knows the situation in this tomb better than him.
Although the aura in Zhuang Rui's eyes cannot see the real thing, through the aura emitted by different burial objects in the tomb, Zhuang Rui can still sense the situation in each tomb.
Even those arrow mechanisms, there is also a faint aura coming, and in the underground of this Yongdao, there is indeed some unevenness, Zhuang Rui has already sensed it.
Although the lights emitted by these ever-bright lamps in the tomb are dim, there are many lamps, and there are one every three meters, showing the situation of the entire tomb in front of everyone.
"Teacher, something is wrong ...... ahead"
When he walked around a corner, Zhuang Rui stopped, and a meter in front of him, there was a deep trap, due to the angle, the light on the wall could not shine into it, and he couldn't see the situation inside.
"Xiao Ren, bring a ladder, obediently, this trap is not small......"
After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Professor Meng stepped forward, took a strong flashlight and shone it inside, and suddenly let out a "huh" in his mouth.
"There's someone in there......"
With the help of Professor Meng's flashlight, Zhuang Rui also saw the situation inside the trap, which was two meters deep and four meters wide, and dozens of swords and spears were inserted upside down, although they were all rusty, but they were still standing at the bottom of the pit.
Zhuang Rui's words are half right, there are indeed people in it, but they are dead people.
In the middle of these sharp blades, a white skeleton was impressively included, and the dead man's skull and body had been completely separated.
The skull, with two empty eye sockets, was left alone at the bottom of the pit, and under the illumination of the light, it seemed to be so empty and deep, as if it was explaining his miserable experience to everyone.
"Another grave robber......"
Professor Meng's brows furrowed deeply, he picked up the flashlight and looked above the corridor, a small robbery hole appeared in front of everyone's eyes, it was obvious that the tomb robber's luck was not very good, after opening the robbery hole, he fell into the trap.
However, this makes the prospect of the tomb a little confusing, and no one knows whether there have been tomb robbers in the tomb in front of it.
"Teacher, let me put this ladder over......"
Zhuang Rui took the alloy ladder handed over by Dr. Ren, set it up on top of the trap, and then stretched out his foot and stepped on it, feeling quite stable.
"Huh?"
Zhuang Rui was about to pass up the ladder when his eyes swept into the deep pit that was used as a trap, and suddenly stopped.
"Teacher, there seems to be something in there......"
Zhuang Rui found that under the bones, there was a small copper plaque, which contained spiritual energy, and it was very thick.
"Where is it?" Professor Meng followed Zhuang Rui's finger and looked over, but he didn't see it.
"I'll go down and get it......"
Zhuang Rui handed the flashlight to Ren Chunqiang and prepared to go down, there is also a gap between these swords and spears in the trap, as long as he doesn't go down sideways and step on the gap, he won't enjoy the treatment of the tomb robber.
"Xiaozhuang, forget it, it's probably something left by the tomb robbers......"
Professor Meng didn't want Zhuang Rui to get into danger, this trap was dug too deep, and if he didn't pay attention, he would step on the blade.
"It's okay, teacher, I'll come up right ......"
Zhuang Rui spoke, propped his hands on the ground next to the trap, slowly put his body down, and touched those swords and spears with his feet, and these sharp blades that seemed to still have a role were suddenly broken into two and fell into the deep pit.
However, the sword below that was not yet decayed was still enough to penetrate the person who fell into the trap, Zhuang Rui did not dare to be careless at all, and did not let go until his feet were on the ground and the two hands supporting it were not released.
"Brother Ren, hand me the stick......"
Zhuang Rui stretched out his hand to Ren Chunqiang and asked for a wooden stick for pathfinding, and picked it on the bones, and the bones that fell apart except for the skull suddenly loosened up.
"Don't blame, don't blame ...... man"
Zhuang Rui was frightened, and hurriedly clasped his hands into fists and shook the bones, then stretched out a wooden stick and dialed a sign under the bones in his direction.
"Hey, it's not light......"
When his hand could reach, Zhuang Rui bent down and took the bronze medal the size of a baby's palm in his hand.
Due to the erosion of time, the bronze medal has lost its luster, and it is not satisfied with the patina, and there is a layer of dark black substance on it.
Zhuang Rui stood with the bones of the dead man, a little uncomfortable, and he didn't care about looking at it carefully, so he put the sign in his pocket at the moment, and crawled to the ground with both hands.
"What did you find?"
Professor Meng is also a little curious, for the ancient tomb robbers, there are also two factions, the north and the south, and there are also official thieves.
It can be said that the history of tomb robbers is completely developing at the same time as tombs, and in the field of archaeology, there is also a special study of tomb robbers.
The owner of the tomb tried his best to prevent theft, while the tomb robber tried his best to enter the ancient tomb, and the two have been fighting wits and courage for thousands of years, but judging from the tombs that have been unearthed, it seems that the tomb robbers still have the upper hand.
"It's a bronze medal, teacher, look at ......"
Zhuang Rui took the bronze medal out of his pocket and handed it to Professor Meng.
"Xiao Ren, take some clear water gauze and sandpaper to ......"
Professor Meng shone a flashlight on the sign, but he couldn't find anything, but when he stroked it with his thumb, he felt uneven and seemed to have embossed handwriting.
Taking the clean water handed over by Ren Chunqiang, Professor Meng first cleaned the bronze medal, and then carefully polished the surface of the bronze medal with fine sandpaper, and the layer of patina was quickly wiped off, revealing a touch of yellow.
After wiping off the patina, Professor Meng wiped it vigorously with gauze, and the color on it showed that it should be a brass brand.
Professor Meng spread the wiped bronze medal in the palm of his hand, and Zhuang Rui, who was standing aside, saw that on the surface of the bronze medal, there was a mist-shrouded mountain carved with a river running through it.
Professor Meng flipped his hand, and the other side of the bronze medal was presented, there should be two words on it, but Zhuang Rui stood at the wrong angle, and he couldn't see what was written.
"Rush to the sand!"
Before Zhuang Rui could ask, Professor Meng had already spoken.
"Teacher, what is this?"
Zhuang Rui originally thought that this was Cao Cao's token for touching the golden captain, but he didn't expect to hear two unfamiliar words.
"Hehe, this is also an official position, this trip is not worthwhile, the original historical record of the sand official, there really exists......"
Professor Meng laughed when he heard this, saw Zhuang Rui's puzzled look, and then said: "In ancient times, there were not only Cao Cao's official thieves, during the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty occupied the Central Plains and once supported a puppet emperor called Liu Yu, whose country name was Daqi......"
Including Dr. Ren and others in the back, they were all quietly listening to Professor Meng explain this period of history, it turned out that Liu Yuqi was originally a prefect of the Southern Song Dynasty, and after surrendering to the Jin people, he was established as the lord of the Great Qi State.
Although the Great Qi regime is a grass-roots team, it must also be used as the start-up capital for the operation of the fiscal and taxation, but unfortunately, the area under the jurisdiction of the puppet Qi has been plundered and ravaged by the Jin soldiers many times, and the agriculture and commerce have been greatly damaged, and the taxes cannot be collected much, and the puppet Qi regime has been poor for a while.
At the same time, the masters of the Jin State of the Puppet Qi also faced a problem: Is it also a problem that the Jin State is too rich? Indeed, whether the Jin State plundered the Northern Song Dynasty or demanded tribute from the Southern Song Dynasty to obtain New Year's coins, it was all gold and silver.
The problem lies in gold and silver, because China is not rich in silver and gold, and unlike the West, China has always used copper as its currency, that is, the copper standard monetary system.
Therefore, although the Jin Dynasty guarded the mountains of gold and silver, it could not exchange goods for trade with the Southern Song Dynasty.
And the pseudo-Qi Liu Yu not only has no copper coins, but also no gold, silver and precious metal currency, so this person, who has had a problem of stealing since he was a child, remembered that there was such a way out as tomb robbing.
As a result, Liu Yu set up an official tomb robbery agency called "Taosha Official", and first excavated the imperial tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty, taking this as an example, in order to alleviate the tension in military spending, Liu Yu's army also began to follow suit and dig ancient tombs on his own.
However, Liu Yu's scope of activities has always been in the current boundary of Shandong Province, and now he has also found a "sand official" in Henan Province, which also adds a detailed evidence to the study of the puppet Qi regime of the year.
It's just that Professor Meng is puzzled that official thieves have always been violent tomb robbers, why did this sand digger die here, and there are no traces of robbery around? Could it be that Liu Yu found out in his conscience and retreated?
There are too many mysteries left over from ancient times, and Professor Meng couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time, so he could only shake his head and put away the bronze medal.
This tomb is more than 20 meters long, after passing this trap, there is a trap in front, but the wooden planks laid on it have long been decayed, and the trap has lost its unexpected effect, so that everyone can easily escape it.
"Teacher, this ...... It should be the Broken Dragon Stone, right?"
At the end of the road, a huge horizontal stone stood in front of everyone.