"No wonder people almost took you for a thief."

Liu Yuhao turned around and saw that Shi Bao had also entered the courtyard with the help of Yao Si'er, so he said with a low smile.

"What do you mean by almost, the two of them were thieves in the first place."

Teng Yi naturally didn't have a good face for Shi Bao and Yao Si'er, and quickly added his own supplements.

"Hey, hey, the rednecks don't know."

Yao Si'er didn't dare to do anything to Teng Yi, but he was sensitive to the word thief, so he had to rub his hands and laugh at himself and put the blame on the residents here.

Shi Bao seemed very indifferent, with a flat face manipulating his wheelchair to open the door forward, maybe it had been leaking for a long time, the wooden beams on the roof had gradually rotted, and the top had collapsed to varying degrees, and it was not difficult to find that there were even cracks on the roof, and it seemed to be a little bright in the dark.

"Liu Shao, Teng, Teng Shao, you sit!"

Yao Si'er ran in front of Liu Yuhao first, turned on the light, and wiped it a few times flatteringly on a wooden board with his clothes.

Liu Yuhao didn't say anything about Yao Si'er's pretentiousness, but looked around and looked at the furnishings in the house.

The ceiling of the house is full of traces left by rainwater leakage, the tables and chairs are also broken out of shape, a table placed in the corner of the wall is only supported by two feet, the stool is there, but there are no feet, the so-called stool that Yao Si'er wiped just now just put the stool surface on a pile of scattered bricks, it is a complete stool.

But in contrast to the bleak interior scene, the tools placed in a corner of the house were an eye-opener for Liu Yuhao.

In that corner, there is no Luoyang shovel that Liu Yuhao is familiar with, but neatly displayed military compasses, detectors, detonators, explosives, chainsaws, night vision devices and other modern tools that can no longer be modern.

"Hey, Brother Shi, your tools are really modern enough."

Suddenly, Liu Yuhao felt that all the knowledge he had learned in school had become antiques, and he shook his head with a wry smile.

Those who dare to rob tombs have carried forward the power of tools to the extreme, while their teachers are still studying the heavy shovels and shovels transformed from Luoyang shovels, so it is no wonder why archaeological experts can't catch up with the skills of professional tomb robbers.

"If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools."

Ordinary amateur thieves will invade hell with a hoe, and professional thieves often have a complete set of tomb robbery tools: pickaxes, hoes, shovels, ropes, wheels, baskets, axes, candles, incense, torches, wind lanterns, mouse clothes, etc.

Pickaxes and hoes are used to dig the earth, ropes and baskets are used to hang the soil with wheels, axes are used to destroy coffins, incense and candles are superstitious items, wind lamps are lighting tools, and modern tomb robbers have developed to use miners' headlamps.

The mouse suit is the "work clothes" of ancient tomb robbers, with many pockets on it, which can be stuffed with tools and treasures, as for walkie-talkies and night vision devices, they are used by thieves who let the wind blow.

On the one hand, the excavation of ancient tombs depends on human technology and experience; On the one hand, it relies on tools to operate, and the tools used by the folk in the old society are shovels, pickaxes, shovels, axes, torches, candles, etc. Before the Ming Dynasty, tomb robbers did not have special tools to detect them, and the Ming Dynasty began to use iron cones, which made the looters only target tombs with obvious marks on the ground.

Tomb robbers use special iron cones to explore the unmarked underground on the ground, and once they find the ancient tomb, according to the metal smell brought by the cone, they can choose the direction and dig directly to steal the hole.

Wang Shixing of the Ming Dynasty said in "Guangzhi Interpretation": "Luoyang has deep water and soil resources, and the burial is four or five zhang but not the spring. "But though the burial is as promised, the thief can still enter and smell it, and if there is gold, silver, brass, and iron, it will be released."

From the iron cone to the "Luoyang shovel", it is a leap forward in the use of underground detection tools by northern tomb robbers. The north, especially Luoyang, Guanzhong is located in the loess plateau area, the water depth and soil are thick, the shovel clamp of "Luoyang shovel" is only 2 inches wide, wide into a U-shaped semicircle, the upper part of the shovel is equipped with a long handle, the shovel is drilled into the ground every time, you can go into the depth of three or four inches, and mention it up, you can put the ground stuck in the semi-circular mouth of the soil intact and come up.

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 Luoyang shovel hitting the ground and the feeling in their hands, such as the rammed walls and the hollow tomb and tomb passage.

But the traditional tools have been abandoned by Shi Bao, and most of them are now electric tools, which makes Liu Yuhao always have an indescribable nondescript taste.

Shi Bao rarely blusheed, but this time his expression was indeed a little embarrassed, rubbing his hands and laughing: "Shi Cheng, that kid said that these tools are easy to use and fast. ”

Liu Yuhao smiled lightly and no longer dwelled on this issue.

Grave robbing is becoming more and more rampant, largely driven by profiteering. Since Shi Cheng chose to use the house as a cover for tomb robbery, it is understandable to use these tools in places where there is electricity.

At present, the price of ancient artworks in the domestic and foreign markets continues to rise, and the domestic cultural relics collection and investment fever continue to heat up, which are all important reasons for the rampant crime of tomb robbery.

The latest amendment to the Criminal Law has abolished the death penalty for the crime of stealing and excavating ancient tombs, and driven by the factor of profiteering, Mr. Qi foresees that in the coming period, the illegal and criminal activities of stealing and excavating ancient tombs, stealing, and smuggling cultural relics will become more prominent.

Fuji Yi rummaged through the tools on the ground with some curiosity, and said, "Then who, you must have a place to sell this kind of thing, right?" ”

"I've never done any of these things before."

Shi Bao's voice was cold, but for Liu Yuhao's sake, he still replied.

Liu Yuhao smiled and said, "What do you kid think so many people in the Pan family are doing, such a stupid question is up to you." ”

"Didn't I just say it casually!" Fuji Yi smiled.

Shi Bao sneered and said, "What is in the Pan family, the museum is not still accepting it." ”

This statement attracted Fuji Yi's strange gaze, "The museum also collects things from tomb robbers?" Impossible! ”

"Humph!" Shi Bao sneered.

Liu Yuhao's old face turned red, waved his hand and said, "Don't fight, we're not here to hold a seminar today." ”

In fact, Shi Bao is telling the truth, but as an archaeological person, Liu Yuhao is unwilling to make an in-depth discussion in this regard.

The ultimate goal of tomb robbers is the smuggling of cultural relics, which is the "external cause" that induces tomb robbing.

What is even more serious is that the reason for "domestic demand" is often overlooked, and that is the strong demand for collections in museums around the world, so that tomb robbers can see the opportunity to make a fortune. The situation is now encouraging the opening of museums in all their forms.

However, the reality is that there is a large gap in the collection, and the number of cultural relics is limited.

Where did the collection come from?

Most of them come out of the tomb.

What comes out of the ancient tombs, except for legal archaeological findings, is tomb robbery. Including national museums, they allocate a large amount of money every year for the acquisition of cultural relics within the museum.

Due to the irregularities in the acquisition of collections, various museums are competing for collections. Even if you know that there are cultural relics that come from the wrong way, you still turn a blind eye.

A former teacher of Liu Yuhao said that everything underground is owned by the state, and it is said that the stolen goods must be confiscated. But if you report the crime, the person will not send you the "collection" again.

Even if you don't accept it, there will be other museums that will collect it.

For example, museums in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, especially private ones, have a lot of money, and it is better to accept them than to let the treasures slip out of their eyes. "Nowadays, many of the museum's 'treasures' were dug up by tomb robbers.

Of course, these treasures are not necessarily unearthed by tomb robberies at the moment, but it cannot be ruled out that it is the rise of these private museums that has triggered the enthusiasm of "some people" even more, which is also an important reason why Liu Yuhao has a large collection, but has never planned to open a private museum.

"Brother Liu, please help move these things, Yao Si'er, you can do it too."

Shi Bao pointed to a corner of the house full of debris to indicate that he needed Liu Yuhao's help, he couldn't "command" Fuji Yi, so he had to turn to Liu Yuhao for help, which was also a kind of flexibility.

How could Teng Yi not hear the meaning of Shi Bao's words, naturally he would not really wait for Liu Yuhao to do it, but fortunately, there were not a lot of debris in that pile, and with the help of Yao Si'er, it was cleaned up in ten minutes.

"Brother Fujiyi, please open the iron lid."

With Yao Si'er's small physique, it was probably impossible to move the iron lid weighing three hundred catties on the ground, so this time Shi Bao was not polite, but directly began to give orders.

"This, this is a rat hole?"

Lifting the iron lid, Fuji Yi was the first to exclaim in surprise.

Liu Yuhao also stepped forward curiously to take a look, only to see that there was a cave with a diameter of about thirty centimeters under the iron cover, the hole was perpendicular to the ground, and the cave wall was round, which at first glance really looked similar to the appearance of a mouse hole.

Shi Bao's face showed a little smugness, and said: "This main cave is a right-angled structure underneath, from here it first goes down about fifteen meters, and then extends horizontally to the southeast for about fifty meters, and you can walk freely through the hole. ”

"This, such a small hole is enough for Shi Cheng's guy to go back and forth in it?"

Fuji Yi was stunned, opened his mouth wide and looked at Shi Bao's eyes with a stunned face, in his opinion, what Shi Bao said just now was either deliberately exaggerated, or he was teasing himself and Brother Liu.

Can a cave with a diameter of 30 centimeters be entered?

No kidding! Not to mention Shi Cheng's tiger-backed big man, even Teng Yi himself was not sure that he would be able to enter the cave smoothly.