The discovery of Zhao Yuan's tomb was also an accident, when the General Office of the Guangdong Provincial Government was preparing to build several dormitory buildings on Jiefang North Road in the north of the old town of Yangcheng and on the Xianggang on the west side of Yuexiu Park.

While digging a pit in the foundation wall of the building, a migrant worker encountered a hard object while using an iron hoe, which shocked his mouth and turned out to be a large chunk.

From there, I looked down and found large stone slabs connected to each other - the tomb of Zhao Yuan was born after sleeping for 2,000 years.

The space of Zhao Yuan's tomb is huge, the pit is 10.85 meters long from north to south, and the width of the front part is 12-13 meters, which can be described as a giant cave, which is from the top of the hill, and 20 meters of vertical pit is drilled downward, and then excavated to the surrounding area.

There are four ladies buried in it, and there are murals and several tents in the giant cave, such a large mausoleum, with the understanding of the ancients about the ancients, they can completely guess where the mausoleum is.

In particular, the mausoleum on this elephant hill, with the means of digging three feet into the ground under Sun Quan, it is impossible not to find the entrance to the tomb that opens from the top.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Sun Quan's subordinates to have no discoveries, and the reason why they did not dig must be for a reason, and the only reason is what Han Peacock is most afraid of.

The discovery of this ancient tomb greatly inspired the Lingnan academic community, and also rekindled the hope of the Yangcheng archaeological team to find the tomb of Zhao Tuo, the first king of Nanyue.

In the spring of 1988, the Museum of the Tomb of the Nanyue King of the Western Han Dynasty was established, after the official opening of the museum, the door was like a city, and people could not help but sigh after carefully appreciating the treasures unearthed from the tomb of the Nanyue King.

"Lingnan is not barbaric!"

"First-class cultural relics!"

In addition to admiration, people have raised a question of considerable concern, the unearthed cultural relics of the mausoleum of the second generation of Nanyue kings have been very considerable, so what about the mausoleum of Zhao Tuo, the first generation of Nanyue kings?

There must be more treasures, but where is it?

Many people have asked about this matter like the museum staff, but no one can answer this answer, which is a difficult historical mystery in Yangcheng.

Han Peacock didn't say it explicitly just now. The things unearthed in the latter two ancient tombs are much worse than the legend of Zhao Tuo's tomb.

And Sun Quan still has a little gain, and when it comes to the triumphant modern people, it is a little chilling to accidentally discover Zhao Yuan's tomb.

Although more than a thousand cultural relics have been unearthed from the tomb of Zhao Yuan, there are not many really heavyweight things, because ancient and modern, the standards for excavating cultural relics are different, the Three Kingdoms period. The excavations are all precious cultural relics. And for modern people, even a piece of rags can be regarded as a cultural relic.

The two ancient tombs that have been discovered successively, it is even more clear who has gained more. At least something that modern people have discovered. Not as many as Sun Quan's men found.

An ancient tomb. The most important thing is to prove the belongings of the owner of the tomb, and at this point, not many have been found in the tomb of Zhao Yuan.

That's enough to tell. The two ancient tombs that were discovered later were both patronized by people, and even visited countless times.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to find such a thing in an emperor's mausoleum, and it would be too cold.

For thousands of years, the mysterious Zhao Tuo mausoleum has been the biggest historical mystery in Lingnan, everyone from the history books, only know that Zhao Tuo died, buried in Panyu, the capital of Nanyue ———, but its specific location is different opinions, inconsistency.

In the past, according to the clues of the tomb of the king of the Han Dynasty and more than 100 kilometers away from the capital Chang'an, the Yangcheng archaeological team put the vision of looking for Zhao Tuo's tomb on the suburban hill dozens of kilometers away from Yangcheng.

And under the nose of the archaeological team, the tomb of the second generation of Nanyue kings was found in Xianggang, which was only 1 km away from the ancient Panyu city of the Han Dynasty.

And the second tomb of the king of Nanyue was discovered, and the other mausoleums are really so difficult to find? This is obviously impossible.

Zhao Tuo is the first generation of Nanyue king, ruling Lingnan for nearly half a century, his power and influence is very great, from the Nanyue National Palace Administration, the palace and other ruins and he built the Han Dynasty, excavated Yue Wang Well and other historical sites, you can get a glimpse.

There are many legends about Zhao Tuo, and the most mysterious is his place of destination.

In the fourth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (137 BC), Zhao Tuo died in Guangzhou, and it is estimated that he lived more than 100 years old, which can be regarded as the longest-lived emperor in China.

This is because Zhao Tuo had built tombs in many places during his lifetime, and on the day of the funeral, he saw hearses going out of the city gate, which made it difficult to distinguish between true and false.

The more mysterious the tomb of Zhao Tuo, the greater people's interest in it, there is Ma'angang on Yuexiu Mountain, Qin Shi Huang had because Ma'angang has "Tianzi Qi", sent people to dig and cause "bleeding" in the ground, and then Zhao Tuo called the king.

Pei Yuan, a Jin person, said that Zhao Tuo's tomb is in Maangang, if it is said accordingly, then Zhao Tuo was born in Si and buried in Si.

Li Jifu of the Tang Dynasty said in the "Yuanhe County Atlas" that Zhao Tuo's tomb was in Yushan (now Zhongshan 4th Road, Zhongyou Street, Chenghuang Temple).

At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zheng Xiong's "Panyu Miscellaneous Records" of Zheng Xiong, the main book of the South China Sea, contained that Zhao Tuo's tomb was in the area of the calamus stream in Baiyun Mountain, and it was said that there was a stone horse in the calamus stream, and a poem was engraved on the horse's tongue: "The mountain covers the tomb of what year, and the river flows for several generations, far from the same as the golden bissy, similar to the stone unicorn." ”

Zheng Xiong read the ancient poem and thought that Zhao Tuo's tomb was nearby.

Cai Rusong, a Song person, believes that Zhao Tuo's tomb is in the Wuxing Temple (also known as Wanshan Temple, now Sanyuan Palace) at the foot of Yuexiu Mountain.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zhang Xu's "South China Sea Miscellaneous Songs" and Qu Dajun's "Guangdong New Language" both contained: "From Jilonggang (now Yantang) to Tianjing (that is, Yuewangtai, in Yuexiu Mountain), even the mountains and mountains, all of which are called the tombs. ”

According to this, the nearly 10-kilometer-long mountain range from Yuexiu Mountain to Baiyun Mountain is called Zhao Tuo's tomb, which shows that Zhao Tuo set up a maze array before his death, so that future generations have been puzzled.

Some of the above arguments have been largely denied based on the archaeological results that have been obtained.

For example, "Yushan said", in the former Yushan area, today has discovered the ruins of the Nanyue Palace Office (a Qin and Han shipbuilding platform) and the ruins of the Nanyue King's Palace, Zhao Tuo probably will not arrange himself to be buried in the palace and garden.

Another example is Jilonggang (near Yantang today), although there are many mounds here, but with the development of urban construction in recent years, the small hill has been bulldozed and there is no trace.

As for the "Baiyun Mountain Theory", the archaeologists of Yangcheng have inspected Baiyun Mountain many times, and have not found the ruins and tombs of the early Western Han Dynasty.

Where is Zhao Tuo's tomb most likely?

Yuexiu Mountain! Many archaeologists agree with the theory that Zhao Tuo may be buried in Yuexiu Mountain, which is also in line with the ancient "Maangang" and "Wuxing Temple", for two main reasons......

First, Yuexiu Mountain, also known as Yuewang Mountain, has "the spirit of the Son of Heaven", Zhao Tuo liked this mountain during his lifetime, often visited, and arranged for himself to sleep here after his death.

Second, the tomb of Zhao Yu has been found near Maangang, according to research shows that the South Vietnamese state has a system of "living together and burying the family", and his grandson occupies Xianggang Mountain, and Zhao Tuo is buried in Yuexiu Mountain, which is logical.

But speculation is speculation that before there are new archaeological discoveries, the tomb of Zhao Tuo is still a mystery, but one thing is certain, the tomb of Zhao Tuo must be larger than the tomb of the Nanyue King in Xianggang Mountain, and the cultural relics are more abundant.

The value of such an ancient tomb is naturally not something that can be bought for three or four billion yuan, but with the addition of some warships, it will definitely be able to exchange for Han Peacock's information.

Thinking of the importance of Zhao Tuo's tomb, Han Peacock sighed, such a big curtain, he must not go to the Yangcheng City Government to rob it.

Yangcheng and Pengcheng are completely different, Pengcheng has been a place of humanities since ancient times, where there is no shortage of historical celebrities, nor lack of cultural heritage, but Yangcheng is different.

Yangcheng finally produced an emperor, a very influential emperor, if Han Peacock dug up his tomb and transported things back to the magic capital, then the people of Yangcheng would definitely want to peel Han Peacock and cramp.

Xu Jiachen said: "You can give the exact location, but what about the entrance?" Yuexiu Mountain is not small. ”

Han Peacock said: "This is not good? In fact, many ancient documents have been said very clearly, not only Yuexiu Mountain, from Yuexiu Mountain to Baiyun Mountain, the nearly 10-kilometer-long mountain range is called Zhao Tuo's tomb, this sentence is not a joke, Zhao Tuo built mausoleums around Yangcheng back then, do you think he is really suspicious? ”

Xu Jiachen looked like Han Peacock: "You're not joking, are you?" ”

"What do you think?" Han Peacock said.

"If there is really such a big mausoleum, then Yangcheng will send it." Xu Jiachen said.

Han Peacock smiled bitterly: "Have you ever heard of Cui Wei?" ”

"Don't you? "Legend" records that Cui Wei saw several "splendid silk tents" in this tomb, which were extremely luxurious, and then he met four maids in ancient costumes, told him that this was "the emperor's palace", and gave him a jewel to let him go.

After Cui Wei came out of the cave, he went to the Persian merchant to quietly sell this jewel, and there was an 'old Hu man' who asked him: 'Lang Jun has to enter the tomb of Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue?' Otherwise, it is not in line with Despao. ’

Lao Hu told Cui Wei that this was the Persian national treasure Yang Suizhu, which flowed into Lingnan during the Nanyue Kingdom of the Western Han Dynasty, and was later buried by Zhao Tuo, and he gave Cui Wei a huge sum of money to buy the pearl and left by boat. Xu Jiachen said lightly.

Han Peacock stretched out his thumb and said: "We have been preparing for a long time, and we have found some clues, you have not done your homework, you can know so much, your generation has indeed learned things in college, and unlike those current college students, they are so unlearned." ”

"It's useless to pat yourself on the back, Zhao Tuo's role in history is too great, and his mausoleum is something you must never touch." Xu Jiachen said.

Han Peacock shook his head and said, "You didn't understand what I meant, in fact, I really wanted to get involved, but I didn't dare." ”

This record gave Han Peacock a lot of inspiration, and he had already guessed where Zhao Tuo's tomb was, but he didn't dare to dig it.

And Han Peacock also believes that over the ages, he must have guessed more than that, just like Sun Quan, he couldn't just send someone to dig Zhao Tuo's tomb based on legend alone.

If there is no purpose, then they are too accurate in finding the place.

In fact, some people have long speculated that Zhao Tuo's tomb was patronized by tomb thieves in the Tang Dynasty, which is actually quite reasonable, at least Cui Wei is half of it. (To be continued......)