On the twelfth day of the lunar month, at noon, Anlu County Prison Peng Xi arrived with several county guards transferred to him by the county lieutenant, and found that he had actually run for nothing, and six tomb robbers were killed and captured, and even the prison gate that guarded and stole himself was also caught in the Huyang Pavilion.

Heifu's net was not only cast in time, but also beautifully, and the criminals were all caught in the net.

The prison officials who were gearing up to crack the big case were a little stupid, but Xi did not have any unhappiness, he praised Heifu, saying that although the head of the Huyang Pavilion had just taken office, he acted decisively and made the right judgment.

As the pavilion chief, manage the security of one party, when to catch thieves, how to catch thieves, you must have a scale in your heart. Although Heifu did not wait for the order of the county and attacked overnight, this was his freedom within the authority of the pavilion chief.

Although one of the tomb robbers was killed during the arrest, that person violently resisted arrest with a blade and died innocently - but if the pavilion chief and the thief deliberately stabbed him to death for a minor crime, he would also be held criminally responsible and would be a city dan.

Xi finally said: "I should report to the county order and the county for your merits, with this merit, you, the pavilion chief, will soon be able to become a real pavilion chief." ”

In the Qin State, there is a probationary period for officials, generally one year, and if there is a good performance, they can be turned into a regular in advance, and after being regularized, they can add a "true" word in front of the official position. Xi said, if it goes well, from January, Heifu will not be a "trial pavilion chief" but a "real pavilion chief".

"So, after the beginning of spring, I will be able to enter the county school as a disciple?"

Heifu was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him.

After a few words of praise from Heifu, Xi began to check the stolen goods that Heifu and they had brought back.

"Yes, this is indeed Dou Xin's burial vessel."

He repeatedly inspected the tripods and guis taken out by the tomb thieves, washed away the soil, and observed the inscriptions on them, confirming Lixian's statement that this tomb was indeed the burial place of Ruo Ao Douxin.

"Where are the stolen goods?" Xi put down Ding Gui and glanced at Heifu, Lixian, Dongmen Leopard and others, wanting to see the flaws on their faces.

Heifu said: "Official, there are a lot of things, all here!" ”

Qin Luli has extremely harsh penalties for possession of stolen goods, which is equivalent to the crime of theft. Even if they secretly hid a piece of lacquerware, once they were discovered, they would be immediately dismissed. If the value of the stolen goods exceeds 110 yuan, it is not a matter of losing the official and fining, but will be fined......

So Heifu looked at his subordinates very badly, and asked them not to spoil big things because of their greed for money.

At the end, Heifu asked curiously: "Dare to ask Prison Peng, what should I do with these stolen goods?" ”

After capturing several tomb robbers, Heifu had already roughly interrogated him, and it turned out that the tomb robbery case in Nanjun was the most serious on the Yidao side where the tomb of King Chu Xian was located, followed by Jiangling, and the Anlu side was rare......

However, in recent years, these tomb robbers have begun to collude with each other, and in Nanjun, Chu, and Jiangnan, there has also been a market specializing in the purchase of bronze Ming ware and funerary lacquerware, and the open buying and selling of dead people's utensils is extremely rampant.

He was immediately curious, has there been an antique trade in these years?

The answer of the tomb robbers surprised Heifu, it turned out that these people did not rob the tomb to dig up antiques. The lacquerware is not perishable and can be sold as new if disposed of, while the bronze ware can be melted back into the furnace to make new bronze ware to sell.

Heifu couldn't help but feel a toothache, looking at the exquisite workmanship of the Ding Gui in this tomb, even if it was the tomb beast, put it in the future and put it in the museum, it was also a treasure that attracted everyone's attention.

As a result, the treatment of tomb robbers in this era is to sell them as copper materials and household utensils.

"Sure enough, no matter what era the tomb robbers are, they are actually short-sighted guys, and this kind of person has no role except for destroying the mausoleum and destroying cultural relics."

Heifu remembers that in his previous life, many people began to talk about it after reading a little bit of tomb robbery novels, confusing archaeology with tomb robbing, saying that "archaeology is tomb robbery permitted by law".

This is the greatest slander against archaeologists!

It is true that some archaeology before and after the Cultural and Revolution did have a great negative impact due to the special reasons of the times.

But real archaeology is the complete opposite of tomb robbing. Nowadays, active excavations are rare, and most of the ancient tombs exposed because of engineering and tomb robbery are rescued excavations. Therefore, archaeologists are always one step behind the tomb robbers, looking at the robbers everywhere and the messy tombs, sighing for a long time, they can only bow down and clean up the evil deeds of the tomb robbers, but they also have to suffer the injustice of some Internet trolls.

Tomb robbers are used to steal burial goods and resell them for money, and tomb robbers will use any means to destroy tombs. For the cultural relics that are taken out, they will only be selected according to the market value scale, and a large number of cultural relics with important historical value will be destroyed and discarded.

Heifu had heard in his previous life that some tomb robbers took out the gorgeous silk silk in the Chu tomb, but they didn't know how to protect it, and in just a few days, the Chu silk clothes that could have become treasures and were carefully cared for by the researchers were carbonized into a pile of black garbage and thrown into a stinky ditch.

Think about it again, what would happen if Yunmeng Qin Jian, who recorded the stories of Xi, Heifu, and Surprise, as well as many Qin Dynasty decrees, was handled by tomb robbers?

Buried in the ground for 2,000 years, the slips are easily destroyed, without good protection, the text is blurred and disappears, the bamboo slips carbonize and turn black, and the Qin law of more than 1,000 slips will be returned to dust and will not be known to the world.

It's like they've never been in this world.

However, if it is a formal rescue archaeological excavation, it can be best preserved and treasured in the museum, becoming a window for us to understand the life of our ancestors. They would become knowledge accessible to everyone in the country, not the private collection of some wealthy foreigner, and historians would have to whisper and beg their new "owners" to allow them.

It is true that the owner of the tomb certainly does not want to be disturbed by anyone, but after thousands of years, most of the tombs have long been cut off from blood food, and their descendants have migrated and forgotten their existence. At this time, the tomb is no longer a burial place for a person, nor is it a private sacrifice for a family with one surname, but has become the common wealth of this nation and this country!

Confusing tomb robbing with archaeology is like confusing violence, rape with seeking a doctor for a gynaecological disease.

So Heifu is very curious, how did Qin deal with tomb robbery stolen goods in this era?

Xi stroked his beard and said: "Although the tomb of Douxin has been left to be guarded, there are a lot of burial utensils, and I am afraid that it will spread in a short time, attracting the covetousness of the surrounding people." Rather than letting it go and tempting people to commit crimes, it is better to take them all out, send the lacquerware and gold ware to Gangneung, and dispose of them by the county guard, and then bury the coffin in situ......

As for the fate of those bronzes sent to Gangneung City? Xi said, probably because the furnace melted the casting weapons and farm tools.

Heifu was silent for a moment, it seems that in the treatment of tomb robbers, the methods of the Qin State government and tomb robbers are not much different, after all, it is ancient, museum? does not exist, unless it enters Xianyang and becomes a decoration in the palace of King Qin.

These funeral goods still haven't caught up with the good time, in this world, the gorgeous and exquisite Dinggui is like their owner's bloodline nobles, and they are no longer valuable......

From Zhong Ding to Sword Plough, perhaps this is the biggest difference between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period! In troubled times, like a copper furnace, the heroes and commoners are all ready to recast everything into the furnace. The war tempered and burned out the gloomy decoration, so that the old era that Confucius longed for was shattered, but a new form of civilization was forged.

Seven males and nine tripods, hundreds of schools, from the body to the core, slowly merge into one. Now the King of Qin is looking at Shandong, the furnace is burning more and more, the Liuhe and Eight Desolations are about to be unified, and the behemoth of the First Chinese Empire is about to come out!

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When the stolen goods were loaded onto the carriage and prepared to be transported to the county, the jailer Le also ended the first interrogation of the tomb robbers, and asked them about their origins and identities one by one, and wrote them down on a slip and presented them to Xiguomu.

"Prison Peng, that little man claimed to be from the country of Chu, and he was a fellow villager with the dead tomb robber, and he was deceived. The other four are Qin people, whose origins are all over Nanjun, including one person in Anlu, two people in Xinshi, and one person in Jingling......"

Xi glanced at the book, and then went to the thieves one by one to confirm, and when asked about the thief leader "Chang", who claimed to live in Xinshi and was a soldier, Xi seemed to sense that something was wrong. His thick eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he began to take a closer look at Chang's face, his suspicion deepening.

Xi didn't immediately interrupt Chang's statement, but pretended to be fine, and walked to the backyard before saying to Heifu: "Huyang Pavilion Chief, do you have a wanted warrant issued by the county in your pavilion?" ”

Heifu hurriedly said, "Yes." ”

"Get it now!"

After a short time, Hefu took the wanted pieces of wood from the hall where he had only seen once.

After receiving it, I reviewed it one by one, and finally my eyes froze and I pinched a piece in my hand!

He told Heifu and the others not to be silent, and followed him slowly to the front yard, standing behind the group of tomb robbers.

As he continued to ask the tomb robbers some inconsequential questions, he held the wanted warrant behind his back with his hands behind his back, and suddenly shouted, "Gongshi! ”

Subconsciously, the leader of the tomb robbers, who claimed to be "open", turned his head blankly to look at ......

But just for a moment, he realized that he had been tricked, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly lowered his head!

But Xi's face was already filled with the smile of a tanuki catching a cunning mouse.

As for Heifu, he only peeked at the reward for the wanted grave robber, the Jiangling County Gongshi Orang......

"Twenty taels of gold!"