Chapter 1355 Luoyang Shovel

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"No! We can't sit here anymore! If you go late and the ruins are stolen by local villagers, the damage will be too great! After listening to Liu Dong's words, Qiu Lao stood up from the chair with a 'Teng'.

As a paleographer, Qiu Xigui has also participated in many archaeological excavations, and knows very well that the Chinese people 'what is in their own land is their own' and the degree of 'industriousness' in order to make money.

If, there is such a local digging underground treasure to make money, then after the news spreads, the old and young masters of the whole village will go together, thinking that the excavation of the ancient tomb site of Lijiashan in Jiangchuan County, Yunnan * Nanjiangchuan County is like this, the villagers' illegal excavation, so that the original two national treasures 'Niuhu Copper Case' are only the big one left.

This result is unbearable for anyone engaged in archaeological excavations and the study of artifacts.

And this time it is likely to be a major relic to solve the mystery of the Xia Dynasty's writing, and Qiu Xigui naturally does not want it to be damaged in the slightest.

"That's what Lao Qiu said! We can't wait here any longer! Li Renfang, who understood the importance of the matter, also stood up.

"Why don't we set off now, even if we haven't gotten the country's development approval yet, we can go and protect the ruins first!" It's just a day, and it's going by quickly! ”

Qi Lao's words immediately won the approval of everyone.

At this time, Liu Dong, as a junior, naturally didn't say much. However, as a junior, after several old men decided to leave early, things like booking air tickets and hotels naturally fell on him.

Fortunately, Liu Dong has a four-person plane, and the hotel can be handled with a phone call. Therefore, it didn't cause much trouble to Liu Dong.

Before leaving. After telling Qi Hongjun about the situation, Liu Dong, who had just come back for less than a day, flew back to Zhengzhou again without stopping!

Because Yanshi doesn't have an airport, I used to have to take a bus!

After returning to Yanshi after more than two hours of bumpy journey, it was already evening! Originally, according to Qi Lao's meaning, everyone went directly to the location of the ruins. But Liu Dong took into account that several elders were not young, and they had been bumpy for so long. Need a good rest. Therefore, let the accompanying bodyguards go to Zhangjiatan Village to watch first, and everyone will go over together tomorrow.

"Boss, someone is looking for you outside!"

As soon as Liu Dong got up in the morning, Shen Ning, the bodyguard who was still with him, came up to report.

"Looking for me?" Liu Dong was stunned, "Do you know?" ”

"I don't know! The other party is armed police! ”

"Armed police?" After thinking for a while, Liu Dong continued, "Let's go, go out and have a look!" ”

Because there is no living room in the hotel room in the county where Liu Dong lives. So if you want to talk, you can only go to the special reception area on the first floor. Therefore, people who want to see Liu Dong are also waiting here.

"Hello, I'm Liu Dong!"

Two young soldiers with ensign epaulettes on their shoulders, sturdy and straight, stood up, and after a brief glance at him, the slightly slender soldier on the left stretched out his right hand to him, "Hello." I am Wu Tao, the squadron leader of the second squadron of the Yanshi City Armed Police Brigade. ”

"Hello!"

"I am Li Ziqiang, political commissar of the Second Squadron of the Yanshi City Armed Police!"

"Hello!"

After the three of them greeted each other, Liu Dong said, "...... are you two here today?" ”

"We got orders. Starting from today, 65 members of the Second Squadron of the Armed Police Force will cooperate with all the work of Mr. Liu in Yanshi! ”

Although Wu Tao didn't understand why his superiors asked them to obey the dispatch of the young man in front of him who seemed to have just walked out of college. But in the barracks, orders are orders and must be carried out unconditionally.

"Then thank you both for your cooperation!"

Liu Dong understood that this was most likely the masterpiece of his uncle-in-law Qi Hongjun. But this also happened to solve a little trouble he encountered.

Although he came over this time to bring enough bodyguards, no matter how many bodyguards he brings, the deterrence brought by them is not as good as ******** machine.

"Xiaodong, who are these two comrades, ......?"

That's when it happened. After Qi Lao and Li Renfang went downstairs, they noticed the situation here and walked over together.

"Oh, these two belong to the Yanshi Armed Police Force, and they will cooperate with our work next!"

"That's good, now I have the bottom in my heart! …… Thank you both! ”

"You're welcome!" After shaking hands with Qi Lao and Li Renfang, Wu Tao turned to Liu Dongdao. "Mr. Liu, how do you want us to cooperate next, can you please give an order?"

"An hour, an hour later, we will gather at the garrison of the armed police force, and then everyone will set off together!" Liu Dong unceremoniously gave the order.

Hearing this, after the two saluted together, they briefly discussed. Li Ziqiang, as the political commissar, stayed behind as a liaison, and Wu Tao went back to gather the troops.

And, in order to leave on time within an hour, Liu Dong also immediately went upstairs and called all the passers-by to get up for dinner.

An hour is long or short, and it passes quietly when you are not aware of it.

An hour later, in a rented bus and three military vehicles full of soldiers, the group drove towards Zhangjiatan Village, Lianfeng Town, amid the concerned eyes and speculations of everyone around.

This time is not like last time, Liu Dong, who was a great teacher, and as soon as they entered the village, they unexpectedly attracted the attention of a large number of villagers.

Coming to the field he had just visited the day before yesterday again, Liu Dong was relieved by the calm situation.

"Political Commissar Li, let the soldiers be on guard around, and then we will do some field surveys here!" Liu Dongdao.

"Okay, leave it to us!"

Li Ziqiang, who agreed, called all the more than 60 armed police soldiers under his command, leaving eight people to guard the vehicle, and the rest of them all faintly formed a circle under Liu Dong's command, surrounding Liu Dong and Qi Lao in the middle.

"Xiaodong, the place you said is here?"

After getting out of the car, Qi Lao asked after looking at his surroundings.

"Hmmm! This was the place I was last time around. You see, those jade plates were dug out of this well in the first place. ”

Following the direction pointed by Liu Dong, everyone saw an earthen well covered with a cement cover on the ground!

Qi Lao circled around the doi, and then beckoned Qiu Lao to them, and a group of old men in their seventies and eighties actually assembled a sharp Luoyang shovel and came out.

Luoyang shovel is not only an archaeological tool, but also a professional tomb robbery tool. Its presence has led to a sharp increase in the frequency of thefts of ancient tombs in China in the last century. And with the Luoyang shovel, it also provides the most practical tool for archaeological excavation. Up to now, this simple tool, which was invented because of tomb robbing, has become an internationally renowned essential archaeological tool and is popular in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Luoyang shovel has also become the city card of Luoyang. Even though there are some smudges on this business card!

With Liu Dong, a young and strong man, naturally he can't let the old men use the Luoyang shovel.

Old Man Qiu, who had more archaeological expertise among the crowd, naturally became the first person to direct the excavation on the spot, and under his command, Liu Dong laid the first shovel three meters north of the doi.

Yanshi is bordered by the Yellow River in the north, and in ancient times, because of the flooding of the Yellow River, the soil here was thick and fertile, and when Liu Dong hit it three meters deep, the probe shovel still brought out the brown soil.

Wait until you are four meters old before the sand appears.

But none of this soil was what Qiu Lao wanted.

"Would you like to take a look at another place?" Seeing that it was almost 7 meters down, and the rammed earth layer was not found, Qi Lao couldn't help but suggest.

"One more meter! If you can't see the rammed earth yet, let's change places! Old Qiu hesitated slightly.

"It's ......!"

"Wait!"

Qiu Lao's sudden excitement almost frightened Qi Lao to pull out his beard, and before the old man could understand what was going on, he saw Qiu Xigui, who was originally standing beside him, rushing to Liu Dong just took out a shovel that was only twenty centimeters on the surface of the ground at a speed that was not inferior to that of a young man. Then, despite the fact that the shovel was covered with dirt, he grabbed it.

"Rammed earth, this is rammed earth!" Looking at the middle of the shovel, about two centimeters thick of cyan soil, Old Man Qiu said loudly with excitement on his face.

And his voice also successfully attracted the eyes of the old man who was watching around.

The so-called rammed earth is a material used in ancient construction as a strong, dense and less crewed pressed mixed mud block, which is used for house construction.

China has been using this technology for a long time, from the Neolithic Age to the fifties and sixties of the last century, it has been used on a large scale, and even now there are some remote areas that still use this method.

The general method of rammed earth is to use dry base to tamp the soil layer in layers, which is a kind of high-intensity manual labor that requires a large number of laborers. From thousands to tens of thousands, only the government and the princes and nobles were the organizations or individuals that could gather such a large number of laborers in ancient China. So the ancient buildings we see now, such as the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Mawangdui Han Tomb, and the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, their foundations are all rammed earth.

Therefore, if it is archaeology, if you want to know whether there are really ancient buildings below, you just need to see if the shovel can hit the rammed earth layer.

"Quick, try another place!" Old Man Qiu said excitedly.

Under the guidance of the old man, Liu Dong hit again ten meters away from the first place where he hit the rammed earth layer.

When the probe shovel hit about 8 meters again, the rammed earth layer was found again.

Old Man Qiu, who looked more excited and expectant, once again asked Liu Dong to step back 50 meters and hit the Luoyang shovel again. This time, the shovel was only 6 meters down, and the rammed earth layer was explored again.

Subsequently, Old Man Qiu once again looked for a place 100 meters away from the third exploration point in a straight line, and shoveled again, and still found the rammed earth layer without accident.

200 meters, 400 meters, 600 meters, or even 1000 meters, when the eleven exploration points are hit in a straight line in a row, the rammed earth layer really disappears.

But at this time, Old Man Qiu's face, eyebrows, and beard were all full of excitement.

Through these eleven exploration points, he found that the scale of this ruin, which was at his feet, was unbelievable. (To be continued.) )