Chapter 225 Tomb Robber God Shovel

After resting in the woods for about half an hour, a large truck drove up, covered with canvas, all watermelons.

The car stopped on the road next to the grove, and then Xu Gang jumped down from the front and beckoned everyone to move the watermelons.

I have to say that eating watermelon in this summer is really a pleasure, sweet and refreshing, and everyone is very happy to eat it.

At the beginning, Li Mingguang also said that he bought too much watermelon and couldn't eat it all, but when he saw the ability of the people in the village to eat watermelon, he didn't say so, basically the basketball-sized watermelon, those men are one person, and even women, they can eat more than one-third, and three people can eat one watermelon.

There are hundreds of people who help, and dozens of watermelons go down in an instant, and they can't eat them a few times.

"Gangzi, unload the rest of the watermelons into my cellar, give you the key, I'm busy here, so I'll go." ”

"Okay. ”

Xu Gang took the key, and drove the car to Zhang Tianyuan's three-story small western-style building with the driver, almost every house in their village has a cellar, which is standard, and there will be when a new house is built, that is, some are big and some are small.

After eating the watermelon, the watermelon rind was cleaned up by the villagers, and it was very good to take it back to feed the sheep and pigs.

"Professor Li, you continue to rest, I'm going to play with Luo Yang Shovel, I've never seen this thing before. Zhang Tianyuan has been resting, he feels quite bored, anyway, he is not afraid of the heat, so he wants to learn from the people in the novel to play with Luo Yang shovel, which can be regarded as a kind of internship.

The original Lo Yang shovel was just an ordinary shovel. It is neither used for tomb robbing nor for archaeology. Later, after the transformation of some people, it had the effect of tomb robbing.

The Luoyang shovel is said to have been invented in the early 20th century by Li Yazi in the countryside near Luoyang, Henan, China.

Around 1923. Li Yazi, a villager from Mapo Village, came to a place near his house called Mengjin to catch a market, and after a while, he squatted on the side of the road to rest.

Li Yazi usually robs tombs for a living, so he often thinks about tomb robbing. At this time, he saw a steamed bun shop not far from him, and the seller of steamed buns was preparing to make a small hole in the ground, and his tool for making a hole in the ground aroused Li Yazi's interest. Because he saw that every time this thing poked into the ground, it could bring up a lot of dirt.

Li Yazi, who is experienced in tomb robbing, immediately realized. It was easier to find the tomb than the shovel he usually used, so he was inspired to make a paper pattern according to the tool, and found a blacksmith to make a real object according to the paper pattern, and the first Luo Yang shovel was born.

According to research, the blacksmith who built the first Luo Yang shovel was called Chen Yinwa, who is now deceased.

Because the shovel is to be used for digging caverns and collecting and exploring, the shovel body is not flat but semi-cylindrical, similar to the tile cylinder. It's very similar to a common murder weapon in the seventies and eighties.

The common Luo Yang shovel shovel clamp is only 2 inches wide, wide into a U-shaped semicircle, and the upper part of the shovel is equipped with a long handle Luo Yang shovel Although it seems to be semicircular, in fact, the shape is not round or flat. The most important thing is to create the curvature during molding. 20 to 40 cm long, 5 to 20 cm in diameter, with a tough wooden pole. It can be driven into the ground for more than ten meters, and the soil structure, color and inclusions brought out by the shovel head can be distinguished. It is possible to determine the quality of the excavation and the presence or absence of ancient tombs underground.

The Luo Yang shovel was gradually improved for future generations. The earliest widespread use was naturally tomb robbing, but now it is an archaeological tool.

The famous archaeologist Wei Juxian witnessed the use of a shovel by tomb robbers in 1928. It was used in archaeological drilling and played an important role in the excavation of ancient city sites such as Yinxu and Yanshi Mall in China. Nowadays, learning to use the Luo Yang shovel to identify the soil quality is the basic skill of every archaeologist.

In the 50s of the 20th century, Luoyang became a key construction city. The factory site often encounters ancient tombs, and it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to drill and sample by machine, so the engineering construction personnel use this concave probe shovel to accurately detect more than 1,000 ancient tombs. Later, this concave probe shovel was popularized throughout the country, and soon spread to Eastern Europe and Asian and African countries, and Luo Yang shovel has been well-known at home and abroad since then.

The "Luo Yang Shovel" is not only a tool for tomb robbery, but also an archaeological tool. "Luoyang shovel" has been officially used as a special tool for field archaeologists, drawing a graphic in the textbook to introduce its use, and promoting its use to the whole country, and thus forming China's unique archaeological drilling technology, but also become a symbol of China's archaeological drilling tools. It can be said that the "Luo Yang shovel" is also one of the best archaeological tools in the world.

This thing is introduced in the novels "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "Notes on Tomb Robbery", and it is said to be miraculous and has become a necessary artifact for tomb robbers.

"Do you think you haven't found anything good, so you're wondering?" Others thought that Zhang Tianyuan was just playful, but Li Mingguang saw Zhang Tianyuan's true thoughts.

"Hehe, there is such a meaning, if this is really the tomb of Zhongzong Li Xian, even if it has been stolen, there will be some traces, not to mention that the death row prisoner didn't dig some treasures here? This means that this place has not been destroyed in history, we have not found anything, it is likely that we have found the wrong place." Zhang Tianyuan said with a smile.

"What you say makes a lot of sense, but you can't be wrong with Dingling here, but it may be a burial tomb. The burial chamber of the Tang Tomb is in the half waist of the south of the mountain, the wall is built around it, and a door is opened on each side, and the south side is the main gate, and the door is set up outside the Shinto. There is an outer city outside the inner city, and there are three gates in its south, and the stone carving group is placed between the second and third gates from south to north. Outside the first gate, there are burial tombs of the royal family and civil and military ministers. The dedication hall was built in the south gate of the inner city. Looking at the location of our excavation site and the entire Phoenix Mountain and Dingling, this is likely to be the burial tomb outside the first gate. Li Mingguang explained.

"Oh, that's the case, then I'll take a look around, maybe I can get the result, the death row prisoner excavation, it's probably the burial tomb, but this burial tomb may not be small, let's dig the wrong place if we can't get it." Zhang Tianyuan said.

"Well, that's possible. You know, in fact, the best way to excavate is to go down from the location of the ancestral tomb of Liu Haiyang's family. It would be more accurate, now we are more than 100 meters away from there. There will definitely be some errors, or even mistakes, so try to expand the range a little, Feixue, Donghong, Jihong, you go with Tian Yuan, put on a straw hat, it's not so hot. Li Mingguang was embarrassed to let Zhang Tianyuan go alone, so he sent his grandson and the granddaughter of his old comrade-in-arms.

In fact, the Luoyang shovel used by the archaeological team is not only the traditional Luoyang shovel. There is also an electric lo yang shovel.

The electric Luo Yang shovel is the electrification and mechanization of the manual Luo Yang shovel. For different underground conditions. It is divided into soil type electric Luo Yang shovel and time-delay electric Luo Yang shovel. The efficiency of the electric shovel is as much as 15 times that of ordinary workers.

Of course, the electric Luo Yang shovel is larger, which is more laborious than the ordinary Luo Yang shovel, if it is only exploration and survey work, it is more convenient to still have an ordinary Luo Yang shovel, but if you really want to excavate, this electric Luo Yang shovel will save a lot of effort.

It's like a small drilling rig.

Seeing several Luo Yang shovels on the ground, Zhang Tianyuan was a little stunned, he had just heard that Luo Yang shovels could be used to visit tombs. But that's all, the rest are very little known, and these Luo Yang shovels have subtle changes in shape, and the estimated effect is also different.

"Look stupid, Brother Tianyuan. Li Jihong said a little proudly.

"It's a little dumbfounded. What's the use of these shovels? I'm really blinded. Zhang Tianyuan sighed and said, although he studied archaeology, he was not a tomb robber after all. Therefore, the opportunity to come into contact with the Luo Yang shovel is equal to nothing, and there is not much research on this thing.

"I'll tell you. Today's Luo Yang shovel has been made more perfect by shrewd merchants and is easy to carry. The shovel can be basically divided into several parts: shovel head, counterweight bar, extension rod, eye, safety rope and carrying bag. The rings are connected by threads, and there are several shovel heads alone. Li Jihong finally found a place to show off his knowledge, he looked very proud, wearing a straw hat, and he was not afraid of the heat.

"Oh, tell me about it. ”

"In fact, the most important thing is the shovel head, and the different shovel heads have different functions. The shovel head is generally divided into four categories: soil shovel head, brick breaking shovel, sediment shovel head and cylinder shovel, and there are also special sand shovels. That's five kinds. ”

"Well, you go on. Zhang Tianyuan listened intently while fiddling with those Luo Yang shovels.

"Shovel: Like the name, it is mainly used to dig up soil made of soil.

Brick breaking shovel: a specially designed shovel head because the general shovel head can not continue to excavate and detect when encountering strong stones, which is used to break stones, bricks and tiles.

Sediment shovel: ordinary shovel head can not bring out the sediment, on the basis of the soil shovel to increase the shovel head out of both sides of the wings so that Luo Yang shovel in the soil, sandy soil can also grow fast work.

Shovel: an emerging product, its role is mainly to deal with silt, in other shovel heads seem almost impossible to bring out the water-like sediment, but it can be easily brought out, but also by the detection personnel praised the shovel head.

Sand shovel: generally used in the Gobi, sandy beaches, river beaches, sandy lands, etc. The soil in these places is soft and difficult to bring out, and the unique design of the sand shovel solves this problem and can bring out the soil smoothly. ”

"There's a lot of knowledge here. ”

"Of course, I'll tell you, Brother Tianyuan, this ordinary Luo Yang shovel, don't look at it as simple, in fact, it's very troublesome to make zuò, I won't talk about the specific method of making zuò, you can slowly understand it yourself in the future." But you need to know a little bit about how to use it. Although Li Jihong said it like spittle, she didn't feel thirsty, probably because she felt that she could finally get a sè in front of Zhang Tianyuan.

Zhang Tianyuan handed him a bottle of mineral water, let him drink it, and then said slowly.

Li Jihong took a sip and continued: "If a good Luoyang shovel is finished, and then installed with a tough wax pole and connected to a special rope, it can be driven into the ground more than ten meters, or even dozens of meters deep, after the shovel is lifted, the inside of the shovel head will bring out a tube of soil.

In this way, the grave robbers continuously drill deep into the ground, and the tomb robbers analyze the soil structure, color, density, and various inclusions of the different soil layers extracted, and if it is cooked soil that has been touched by later generations, there may be tombs or ancient buildings underground.

If ceramics, iron, copper, gold, and wood are found in the inclusions, the nature and layout of the underground collection can be inferred. Experienced tomb robbers can judge the situation underground by the different sounds made by the shovel and the sensation of their hands, such as the tamped walls and the hollow burial chamber and tomb passage. (To be continued......)