There are no roads on the prairie, but there are some wheel prints, Ba Etu remembers the general direction, and the mountains in the distance can also be used as a reference.

After walking for a while, several people got out of the car and saw that there were not high ridges on either side. It is said that it is a mountain ridge, but it is actually relative to those endless flat grasslands just now. If it is left in the southern hilly area, it can only be regarded as flat land. The height of the ridge is about 200 meters, there is no grass on it, it is all black and brown weathered pebbles, the distance between the two ridges is about 1,500 meters, the length of the valley, all the way to the bottom of the high mountain, it is impossible to detect by eye, it should be more than 10 kilometers. The valley is earthy and covered with grass.

Huang Jiming said: "Boss, this is a rare place to repair a reservoir. Although the mountains on both sides are not high, we need soil to build the embankment, and we can take it from the embankment, which should have a storage capacity of several hundred million cubic meters. It is higher than the desert below, and even higher than the grasslands beyond, and the water can be irrigated by artesian water. ”

Wuyang calculated the storage capacity of the reservoir, which is 1,500 meters wide and 10,000 meters long, and as long as it stores 30 meters, it can store 450 million cubic meters of water. To build a dam, the upper bottom is 5 meters wide, the lower bottom is 12 meters wide, 50 meters high, and 1,500 meters long, it will need 640,000 cubic meters of earth and stone, and these soil and stones will be taken from the embankment, and the storage capacity will increase by 640,000 cubic meters, which is not a small reservoir.

"Doctor, there is no sign of flowing water here, after the reservoir is built, can it be filled with water?" Wuyang asked.

Baetu said, "Don't worry about this. The precipitation here is mainly due to snow. When the snow melts in spring, it comes slowly. The snow water does not form a stream. Rather, there was flowing water everywhere. When it flows into the desert, it is absorbed. If a reservoir is built and a canal is built so that the water can flow through the canal, it can flow to the land that needs to be irrigated as needed, and grass can be planted in the desert. Grassland irrigation does not have to be done like crops, and this reservoir irrigates dozens of square kilometers. Not a problem at all. There are also a few such places where reservoirs can be repaired, and after they are all repaired, the entire desert can be turned into an oasis, and the original grassland and grass will grow better. ”

Although Ba Etu said this, Wuyang was still skeptical in his heart. The situation here is blinded, and he can't refute it.

Looking at the geological conditions underground, the soil layer under the valley is relatively thick, which should be more than 30 meters. Suddenly. At the bottom, near the rocks, a wisp of purple gas appeared. Although it was weak, it did not escape the detection of the true qi of the afternoon sun.

The object is very small, no more than 10 centimeters long, 3 centimeters in diameter, it should be an iron rod, how can there be iron tools in this remote place, and in such a deep underground? Could it be a meteorite? Detect the mountain next to it, it turned out to be a very steep stone wall, the stone wall is not a whole, there is a place 5 meters high, 3 meters wide, the stone was chiseled, and then it was sealed, is there any content inside?

True Qi went inside the stone wall, and after about 30 meters, there was a hole. The four walls in the cave, only the bottom is very flat, as if it has been chiseled by artificiality, it should be a natural karst cave, and the ground has been repaired by people for some purpose. As the True Qi deepened, the space inside became larger and larger. Wuyang has seen underground karst caves, in the cemetery of his grandfather, and in the oil depot of Chenggang City, there are caves.

The cave here is larger than the cave in the grandfather's cemetery, but much smaller than the cave in the oil depot. The caves were empty, but they had been used by our ancestors, and they were filled with gas, just like the hammam, but not steam, purple. With such a rich purple qi and a certain treasure, could it be the mausoleum of the Great Khan of the Great Khanate? Legend has it that the burial items of Genghis Khan's Mausoleum are comparable to the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, is it true?

In order not to let Huang Jiming and Ba Etu see anything, he quickly put away his true anger and said with a smile: "Jiming, it's really good to repair the reservoir here, but I don't know the situation of the water source." There is no water source, and it is useless to build a reservoir. ”

Huang Jiming said: "As far as I know, it does not rain much here, and it is concentrated in late summer and early autumn. However, there is still a lot of snow in winter, and every year when the cold snap of the Arctic Ocean comes, it will bring snowfall, which is knee-deep, and there are always several times a year. If all the water from the melting snow is collected, it should be able to fill the reservoir. ”

"Will it affect the irrigation of the grasslands in the lower places?"

Ba Etu smiled: "Rain, snowfall, and not only this one. ”

"Jiming, please help me go to the meteorological department to ask for some information, if there is indeed enough precipitation, you can make up your mind."

Huang Jiming said: "Okay, I'll get the information as soon as possible." Boss, the difficulty of this project is not high, and the amount of work is not very large, is it up to me to do it? Several state-owned construction enterprises in our city are not in a good mood and need to be engineered. ”

Wuyang smiled and said: "Jiming, it's not me who refutes your face, such a water conservancy project must be handed over to a professional team like the Water and Power Bureau, and I don't feel at ease with others." In addition, I plan to install a few small hydroelectric generators when the dam is built, so that most of the domestic electricity consumption of the reserve can be solved, and the cost of management can also be reduced. ”

Huang Jiming smiled and said: "The boss is thoughtful, it's okay if you don't do it." ”

"By the way, doctor, Jiming, I want to build a museum in your city, and I can ask your company to build it."

Ba Etu asked: "Secretary Li, what kind of cultural relics are displayed in the museum?" ”

"The main thing is to display the cultural relics of your nation, the objects of the Great Khanate and the Yuan Dynasty. Of course, our Chinese nation is a big family, and the cultural relics of the Han nationality and some other ethnic groups can also be displayed in several exhibition rooms. ”

Ba Etu smiled and said: "Secretary Li, it's really exciting to hear this news, can I have a sneak peek?" ”

Wuyang smiled and said, "I'm afraid this is going to disappoint you." I recently got the news that our family company is in the mine of Mongolia, and in the process of mining, it is said that a suspected Yuan Dynasty tomb has been found, and I have sent experts to go there. Whether it is a tomb or not, whether it can be brought back after excavation is still unknown. ”

When Ba Etu heard this, he was immediately discouraged, "Secretary Li." You've got the experts in place. Dare to love nothing to do with me. Bai is happy. ”

"Doctor, if there are really cultural relics, can you be missing? They don't know anything about the writing of your nation, they also have hearsay about funeral customs, and they are even more blind to the use, evolution and changes of cultural relics and utensils. I'm afraid they won't be able to produce results. ”

Baetu said, "Don't you want to leave me? ”

"I want to leave you alone, will I tell you? However, if there are really cultural relics, you must co-sign them when you come out with your research results, is that okay? ”

Ba Etu smiled and said: "Don't say it's a joint signature, or don't sign my name, I'm willing." ”

"That's not going to happen, people are also serious professors and researchers, so they have to sign together. It's just doing things and not letting people be unsung heroes. ”

"Good, good. It's all up to you. Secretary Li, when will this matter be clear? ”

Wuyang smiled: "Don't worry. I've arranged for you to build a museum, it's just a museum made of paper, and it costs a lot, and there is no cultural relics on display, isn't it ridiculous to laugh at the world? ”

"Yes, yes, you won't be out of focus. Secretary Li, what are your requirements for museums? ”

"Doctor, my requirements for the museum are, first of all, that it must be built in the capital of the autonomous region, not in other cities; Secondly, to borrow a popular phrase, this museum is national, Chinese, and global, do you understand the meaning? ”

"Understood. The design should have national characteristics, the scale should be large, the momentum should be magnificent, and the facilities should be modern. It is not only to make the Mongolian people feel that this is their own museum, but also to make the brothers and sisters of the Tibetan, Hui, Manchu, Uygur, Kazakh and other ethnic groups who are closely related to the grassland feel that the source of their ethnic group can be found from the museum, and it is best to provide detailed historical materials and research places for experts and scholars who study the history and writing of the Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms. Am I right to do that? ”

Huang Jiming smiled and said, "Doctor, you don't have much contact with Secretary Li, and you know him very well." ”

"Just kidding, 20 years of books are read in vain? From the fact that Secretary Li sent wild horses from so far away, and did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to build a protected area, he has already seen his bearing and strength. If you want to build a museum, you must build a first-class one, and you must provide convenience for researchers, so you can't let experts and scholars find historical materials in the museum, and you have to go back to the research institute to study, running back and forth, delaying time, not to mention, other people's research institutes don't have so many materials. ”

Wuyang said: "Without further ado, the heavy responsibility of buying land and building a museum falls on the shoulders of the two of you." Jiming, I want to enjoy the scenery of the prairie, can you arrange a helicopter? ”

Huang Jiming said: "There are no helicopters in our city. By the way, the army aviation brigade of the garrison has helicopters, and I am very familiar with the heads of their group armies, so I don't know if I can borrow them. Is there anything else you need besides a helicopter? ”

"Can you borrow a helicopter, it's best to get me a theodolite, I can let Qiu Xiaomu transfer the helicopter myself, just to delay more time."

Huang Jiming said: "There is no mobile phone signal here, let's contact later." Boss, I'm ashamed to say it, I've been working in the grassland for many years, and it's the first time I've taken a car like today, and my body has fallen apart, so I have to take a break. ”

Ba Etu said: "Secretary Huang, don't say it's you, it's me, on weekends, I always have to ride to the grassland, but today I can't stand it." Secretary Li is a southerner, but it's like nothing. ”

Huang Jiming lay down on the grass and said with a smile: "Secretary Li is really made of special materials, I have never seen him sick, nor have I heard him say that he is tired." His martial arts practice since he was a child is one aspect, and the spirit of not being afraid of hardship and tiredness is more important. ”

Huang Jiming slapped Wuyang on the back, and Wuyang was quite useful in his heart, so he was embarrassed to drive them up. "Jiming, you and the doctor are resting on this soft grass, and I will take a look at the geography around here to provide reference for the future construction of the reservoir. There is water and dry food in the bag in the car, which is in your own hands. ”

A group of horses came running in the distance, and without waiting for their answer, they went to greet them. The leader of the herd of horses is the white dragon. The white dragon's big head rubbed against him, and the afternoon sun injected true qi into it, and then he turned over the back of the bare horse and walked towards the ridge. After participating in the competition in Hong Kong, the white dragon was transported for a long time, and he did not lose weight, but he was still like that. The mares were familiar with him, and they wanted him to sort it out, but he didn't have it. Those foals were all born in the grassland, and they had never seen him, and they were far away. Wuyang thought, I still have to sort them out later, increase my feelings, and I still have to arrest some in the future. Sell some. The reserve here is definitely also going to have a horse racing program. Except for the mustang, the others will definitely not be able to run at speed.

I walked to the place where I had just detected a door in the stone wall, and sat down on the grass. It's already autumn, the grass grows very tall, and the grass tips are a little yellow, if it weren't for Huang Jiming and Ba Etu to buy it, I'm afraid the herdsmen would have started mowing the grass. The white dragon was grazing not far away, and the afternoon sun was running true qi. Begin to probe the subsurface.

The 30-meter-thick stone wall to the underground cave is not natural, because there are extremely small gaps between the large stones, which are filled with some kind of substance. The space of the cave is extremely irregular, 5 or 60 meters wide and 3 or 5 meters narrow, which is obviously not artificially excavated. There are still a lot of places that have been dug manually. It's all on the ground, the places that emit purple energy. It was carved into one platform after another.

The height of the platform varies, the height is more than one meter, the low one is only 20 centimeters, and the difference in area is even greater, the small one is 3 or 4 square meters, and the large one is the size of a basketball court. It's just that without exception, they are all full of all kinds of objects.

The large ones are placed with saddles, weapons, and ceramic vessels, and the small ones are placed with jade, stoneware, gold and silver utensils, gold and silver coins, gold cakes and gold ingots, silver cakes and silver ingots, and two high small platforms on them, what is placed is not clear, judging from its shape and the purple gas it emits, it should be a parchment.

The saddles are all made of leather, and I don't see gold saddles, silver saddles, from what different purple gas, guess is that they are inlaid with rubies, emeralds, and turquoise, such saddles, as long as one, is shocking enough, but there are as many as 55 on the platform.

There are many types of weapons, including the eighteen kinds of weapons used by the Han people, as well as the scimitars of the Mongolian people, and more bows and arrows. In addition to various wooden bows, there was also a large gold and silver bow and several iron bows. Wu Yang thought that this metal bow should have more meaning than the symbolism of its power and status, and if it could be practical, it would definitely have to be mixed with other metal ingredients. If you knew how to mix other ingredients, then the level of metal craftsmanship at that time was much higher than now, because gold is a soft metal, cast into a long flat bow, as long as it is forced, it will break. On this point, Wuyang is skeptical. What can't be done now, it is not necessarily impossible to do in ancient times. Those bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties can't be made now.

There are a lot of pottery, a lot of pots and jars, the kind of pottery horses that are exactly the same as Tang Sancai, the height is nearly 1 meter, and they are as tall as the golden lion king in their own family, and there are 55 of them. There is also a smaller one, which is more like Liao Wucai, which is also 55.

Porcelain is a variety of vases are a little more numerous, and particularly large, the largest, almost two meters high, is also 55. Some small ones, the number is not fixed, more like the Han people fired, and there are many kinds of porcelain, which are very rough and simple, which Wuyang has never seen before.

There is nothing special about jade and stone tools, they are similar to those I have seen before, but they are all 55 pieces, and they are neatly placed on the platform. When I saw so many 55 pieces, I felt that this number must have some connection with the owner of the tomb. There are 55 years old alive in the Great Khan, and there is only Ogedei, could it be his mausoleum? It seems impossible. Ba Etu once said that their people would be buried three days after their death, and Ogedai had been fighting during his lifetime, and he was not very old, so he would definitely not build a mausoleum in advance and prepare so many burial goods. Besides, many of those gold and silver utensils, gold and silver coins were exotic, and at that time, it seemed that his army was still fighting against the Western Xia Kingdom, and had not yet reached Europe. Looking at those parchments, I feel that it will not be the tomb of Genghis Khan, and the Mongolian people did not have a written language at that time.

True Qi continued to probe, and finally reached the end of the cave, but did not find the kind of mausoleum erected by big wood, nor did he see the coffin, let alone the burial tomb, this is absolutely impossible, is it a treasure cave? It's not right, what are the treasure caves doing with so many weapons, and a lot of things have to be made up of 55 pieces.

There is a limit to the ability of true qi, even if it is an atomic bomb, its shock wave is limited. Now that the True Qi has stretched forward two thousand meters, it will definitely not work. Get up and ride the white dragon to a high place, and when you reach the end of the cave, you really find an abnormality, and there is more than one place.

One is to the north, and the not wide karst cave is tightly plugged, but the details are really not visible. The other is to the east, that is, the opposite ridge, which is not a karst cave, but a tunnel that has been dug out artificially, with a cross-section of two meters square, but after being excavated, it is tightly plugged for a while.

Exploration to the north first, after 5 or 60 meters, it is a big karst cave, and sure enough, you will see a mausoleum built of big wood, and the coffin is placed under the wooden frame. There are not a lot of burial goods here, most of them are some small objects, scimitars, bows and arrows, quivers, saddles, etc., the most important objects are the jade placed in the coffin, in addition to the seven orifices and the jade in the hand, there is also a jade Chen, a jade seal next to the jade Chen. Wuyang has seen a lot of jade Chen and jade seals, the purity of the jade here, the size of the volume, is incomparable to what I have seen before.

If you find the mausoleum, you can explain the reason why those relics just now do not match the owner of the tomb. After the owner of the tomb ascended to heaven, he first carried out a burial, and then he may have had the conditions, or he may have felt that the burial was too hasty, and then added burial goods.

Further probing along the tunnel to the east, the tunnel was only blocked by 5 meters, and then went straight to the east. Wuyang rode along the tunnel, and when he reached the side of the ridge, he saw an extremely rich purple qi again.

The burial chamber here is smaller than the one on the west, but it is very regular, and when you enter through the entrance at the bottom of the ridge, you will find a straight passage. On both sides of the passage, 8 stone chambers were excavated, each with an area of about 200 square meters, and 6 of them were filled with burial goods, which were more and more exquisite than those in the cave in the west, and the proportion of exotic objects was larger. For example, in the saddle, you can see the gold saddle and the silver saddle. There was a room full of golden horses and carriages the same size as real horses and carriages, and more than 70 horses, even if the belly was empty, the weight of the gold used should not be underestimated.

Inside the two stone chambers, all of them are human bones, stacked very high, almost to the top of the stone chamber, and it is estimated that there will be no less than 2,000 pairs of human bones. Wuyang guessed that these should be the craftsmen who built the mausoleum. For the sake of the secrecy of the mausoleum, it is necessary to execute craftsmen, not to mention that these craftsmen are all slaves of the Han people. The social status of the Han people in the Yuan Dynasty was extremely low, and extremely strict restrictions were imposed on wealth, freedom, production tools, and even daily necessities. There is a Yuan generation, but in a hundred years, the population of the Han nationality has dropped sharply from more than 80 million to more than 30 million, which can be seen. The Manchus entered the Central Plains, and they also had a large killing ring, and the tragedy of slaughtering the city occurred more than one or two, but the study of Sinology and the use of Han officials promoted the integration of various ethnic groups and contributed to the prosperity of the Kangqian Dynasty. Of course, after corruption and incompetence, dynasties changed, and the Manchus now have very few people who even recognize and speak Manchu. The Mongolian people are different, although they were defeated from the Central Plains and returned to the grassland, but their national characteristics are still retained, and in the middle of the last century, with the support of the Soviet Union, an independent state was established. This also shows that their nation is more cohesive, their character is stronger, and the legacy of Genghis Khan is still there.

The slaves who built the mausoleum were killed, but what about the officers and soldiers who oversaw the work? Keep them, the secret of the mausoleum will not be kept. (To be continued......)