Chapter 1361 Liu Qianmi

In real history, these documents were discovered after another thousand years, and due to poor transportation and storage, a large number of them were lost, resulting in a large number of surviving documents that were almost unreadable, resulting in the arduous restoration project.

But now there are no such problems, most of the documents are from the Middle Tang Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty, plus the space is closed, the water and soil are suitable, and they are almost intact.

Sima Guang is a historian, and the historical materials contained here are loaded, Su You is not worried that he will not be able to impress him, but he is only worried that the old man will come over in person after hearing the news.

After all, he is already sixty-three years old, and he has stayed up late for a long time without exercising, so I am afraid that I can't help but toss.

"Let's be stationed." Su You said to Tong Guan: "Send the things down tomorrow, and we will start looking for the baby." ”

Tong Guan didn't know what Su You was looking for, the treasure in his heart was gold and silver jewelry.

The story of Pu Shan's lobbying of the Sitong firm to find the Golden State of Daxi Prefecture caused a stir in the newspapers, which made him itch and feel unbearable.

The Dunhuang city guard is called Wei Chiyang, and this surname also explains his identity, a descendant of Li Shengtian of the Khotanese Buddhist Kingdom.

Khotan, who believed in Buddhism, fought a 50-year war with the Black Khan, who believed in Tianfang, and was finally destroyed 70 years ago.

Li Shengtian's real name is Wei Chi monk Wubo, and the Wei Chi family has always firmly believed that they are Chinese vassals and "Tang clansmen", so they also changed their names and united with the Guiyi Army of Gaochang and Han regimes who believed in Buddhism to fight against Black Khan and Tibet.

Now that the Song people have just arrived, they have no intention of acting rashly, and it will take many years to digest the fruits of the victory of Western Xia.

However, Shazhou must be garrisoned, the surrounding Han people must be accepted, and the caravans and envoys must be sent out.

The arrival of two new armies of 3,000 men each, and an old army of 10,000 men, will certainly change the military power balance and political pattern in the region.

However, it was too early to tell Wei Chiyang, and Su You only asked him to find a way to contact the clan in Khotan, and the Great Song Dynasty wanted to set up a pass in Shazhou, and friendly merchant groups could go to Suzhou and even Lanzhou in Hexi to trade.

At the same time, the news of the Great Song Dynasty's pacification of Western Xia and the establishment of the Hexi Road was told to the surrounding vassal states, and envoys could be sent to contact and discuss tribute.

Today's Khotan is still isolated outside the Gaochang Uighurs, the Yellow Uighurs, and the Caotou Tatars, and it is still a thousand miles away from Shazhou.

That night, Su You and Wei Chiyang had a night talk around the bonfire to learn about the political pattern of Shazhou, the surrounding political forces, and the history of the Li family in Khotan and the Cao family in Dunhuang.

As staunch defenders of Chinese civilization in the Western Regions, staunch supporters of the Central Plains Dynasty, and followers of Buddhism, the Zhang Cao family of the Shazhou Guiyi Army and the Li family of Khotan are the people that Su You is preparing to set up in the Western Regions.

But these are the last words, or that sentence, it will take time.

The next day, the army dispersed, and a small team of three or five people began to disperse to various caves for reconnaissance.

Nowadays, the caves are very exquisite, in addition to the colorful murals, many caves are also built with carved beams and painted pavilions, which are also exquisite.

The soldiers were busy, and Su You was in the mood for a pilgrimage to browse through the murals, sculptures and stone statues.

Tong Guan was the most excited, standing on the cart to distribute tools, and each team would hand out a wooden sign with a number written on it, a wooden hammer wrapped in cowhide, and a cowhide horn that could be folded.

Wooden plaques are used to indicate the number of the cave, a wooden hammer and a cowhide horn, which is a crude sonar device prepared by Su You, used to find the sealed secret room.

There are also two teams that began to survey the river valley and the mountain, and draw a map of the entire Dunhuang Buddha Caves.

The entire exit of the Daquan River valley has been sealed off by new military vans loaded with guns, fortifications have been built with sandbags, and barbed wire antlers have been pulled up at the entrances and exits.

Wei Chiyang, who sent the baggage over, was stunned: "Guogong, is there a mistake?" Shouldn't these things be placed around Shazhou City? ”

Su You laughed: "There will be, but a little later." ”

Yu Chiyang didn't think that there was anything valuable in the Buddha caves, at least these caves have existed here for dozens or hundreds of years, in addition to reaping the admiration of a wave of cattle and cattle from past merchants and pedestrians, they are just clay sculptures.

At this time, Tong Guan ran down from the mountain waving a horn: "University scholar! Bachelor's degree! There is a discovery! ”

Su You lifted the corners of his robe and said to Yu Chiyang: "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”

In a cave marked "Sixteen", soldiers are nailing a transparent piece of paper to the wall.

Yu Chiyang didn't know that it was konjac film.

Some soldiers have begun to reproduce murals on film.

Some of the murals in Dunhuang are top-notch, especially the murals created by the painting masters hired by the government from the Central Plains and the painters of the five dynasties of government-run painting academies, which are the best of the best.

Moreover, the paintings here are influenced by the Western Regions painting style, and the painting methods of color, halo, light and shadow, and space are different from the original painting methods of the Central Plains.

On the contrary, it has some similarities with the perspective painting method and color use that Zhang Dunli is currently studying.

Su You pressed a large horn to the wall, and a New Army soldier struck it with a wooden hammer in a nearby corner.

Su You then pasted it on the other wall with a bell, Tong Guan took the wooden hammer from the soldier's hand, and knocked it again: "Scholar, is the back of this wall empty?" ”

Su You asked a sergeant who was already studying the wall here, "What do you say?" ”

The sergeant was very eccentric, old, dressed in the uniform of the new army, but without any rank, and was thin, with an empty uniform on his body, two whiskers on his mouth, and a lewd look on his face.

Hearing Su You's question, the old man said, "Congratulations to Grandpa Guo, I found it." This kind of delicate work, the mountain viewing school is not good, and it depends on our wind to occupy a door. ”

Su You looked at him with ill will: "Liu Qianqi gave you face, right?" Is this still on the charts? ”

Liu Qianmian suddenly became honest, squatted down and pointed to a blank place in the mural: "Make a hole here, and the old man can go in and have a look." ”

After the rise of archaeology in the third dynasty of the Xia and Shang dynasties, Su You gave Sima Guang a suggestion, asking him to find out the tomb robbers among the criminals and use their expertise to excavate the ruins, which can be very convenient.

In his reply to Su You, Sima Guang said that the tomb robbers were also divided into professional factions, some looked at the general trend, and some looked at the details, and this gang also had a lot of research on the shape, specifications, and layout of the tomb, which was helpful for Sima Guang to study the changes in the tomb ritual system in the past dynasties.

However, their destructiveness is self-evident, China attaches great importance to respecting ancestors, and the crime of "hair graves" in the past dynasties is extremely severe, and those who open the coffin are generally sentenced to death, even if the coffin is not opened, it is more than three years in prison.

Liu Qianxi is a tomb robber who occupies a sect, that is, the detail faction, it is Su You who borrowed Sima Guang, this old man is still in the stage of meritorious service, Sima Guang invited Zhao Xu, and the hanging sentence was changed to 20 years of imprisonment.

However, the level of professionalism is nothing to say, and Su You also agreed with Liu Qianmi's plan, which is very destructive to the murals.

However, Su You was not in a hurry, and said to Tong Guan: "Then let the sergeants copy the painting first and open the cave, let's go, please eat fried noodles today." ”

Tong Guan said "ah": "This ...... The baby is inside, why don't you open it up and take a look? ”

Su You disagreed: "There must be rules to do things, step by step, can it still run on long legs?" ”

Tong Guan, who turned back one step at a time, walked out of the cave, Su You looked at the clear lake water and thought seriously: "What should I eat today?" ”

Tong Guan is so angry, one step away from the treasure, what is the bachelor thinking about eating: "Slurry water!" Big steamed buns! Add some haggis at most! ”

Su You shook his head: "It's boring, it's not difficult at all, or let's eat stewed cakes." ”

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The method of stewing cakes is very simple, that is, spread a good raw dough cake on top of the stewed vegetables, poke a few holes in the cake to breathe, cover the pot and simmer.

As for the dishes at the bottom, Su You used the fat sheep that was ready-made in the army.

A kind of dried yellow mushrooms and potatoes from Qilian Mountain, plus a sweet apricot jam from Shazhou, and now the ubiquitous shallots and ground ears, make a delicious and juicy mutton stewed cake, which finally gave Tong Guan no chance to speak.