After a few people came over, under the illumination of the light, the first coffin opened, and the corpses inside had rotted into a pile of white bones, and from the appearance of this pile of bones, there was an indescribable strangeness.

Then the second coffin was opened, and the same was true inside, but the placement of the bones was different. Feng Weiguo looked at it and asked puzzledly, "Professor Chen, this can't be the grave moved from somewhere else, right?" ”

"No, this is a burial, you see this skull, it is sideways, and that part of the body is in a normal position, I judge that it was put in with a broken neck, the coffin just now should have been forcibly put in by a living person, I see that there seem to be some small marks on the inner wall of the coffin, it should be the original scratch."

"Ahh Is there still a burial in the Eastern Han Dynasty? ”

"Yes, this method continued intermittently until the Qing Dynasty."

Feng Weiguo stopped talking, and arranged for Lao Ma and them to continue to open all the remaining coffins, and after carefully inspecting them, they fully agreed with Professor Chen's judgment: all the bones in the coffins were all kinds, and it was obvious that they were not put in after a normal death.

After returning to the main burial chamber, Chen Zhijun held back his vomit and asked Zhang Gong in a low voice: "Uncle, who are these people?" They were all sent alive to be buried here. ”

"They should all be prisoners, judging from the fragments of clothes, they are all coarse cloth, and if you combine the information of the fragments in all the coffins, you will conclude that the prison clothes are prisoners."

"Just forcibly put into the coffin, don't the captives resist?"

"There must be resistance, the second one should have been thrown into the coffin after breaking his neck after resisting, the third skull had a big crack and was inverted, it should have been thrown in after being hit to death by a blunt object, the fourth one was sideways, it should have been thrown in after being killed by a sword, and the others were basically sealed in the coffin alive."

"It's cruel! It's not like what you said the owner of the tomb did. ”

"This shouldn't be what he meant, it should be arranged by his descendants or something."

"In ancient times, would the emperor take care of such great generals and important ministers after their deaths?"

"In ancient times, there was a department dedicated to the funeral of officials."

"A department like the Shrine Priest?"

"The ancestral sacrifice of the Qing Officials Division is in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it belongs to the institutions under the Ministry of Rites, and every dynasty has similar institutions like this, you go back and read the book carefully, this needs to be digested slowly."

"By the way, I saw the iron birch just now, what does it do here? Is it really what my dad said was used to keep the water out? ”

"It should be that the gap in the mountain was opened when this backroom was excavated, and this gap happened to be connected to this dark river, so the iron birch was used as a water barrier."

"But the iron birch is so hard, can it be cut well with an axe?"

"Why can't you let Tie Hua obediently obey? During the construction, the top and bottom of the iron birch were sealed with concrete made of glutinous rice, and then the tiny cracks were brushed with tung paint many times, which ensured that the air in it was cut off and the things inside did not appear to rot. ”

Hearing Zhang Gong talking about the preservation conditions of the spiritual weapon here, everyone gathered around him again, Zhang Gong looked at the popularity around him, amplified the tone and continued: "If there is a well-preserved corpse unearthed, then there must be two basic conditions, one is the isolation of the air, and the other is the disposal of the corpse, not to mention the dried corpse, I think everyone understands the reason of dehydration, I won't say more; Let's focus on talking about here, the body of the tomb owner is not bad, and it maintains elasticity, it may have been treated with mercury sulfide, which may be the same as the treatment of the female corpse of Mawangdui, after all, it is the same period, and the coffin liquid is two concepts, the coffin of the female corpse of Mawangdui is naturally formed, not an artificial special embalming liquid, almost half of the coffin liquid in the coffin of this general Wu also has a strong herbal smell, so this point must be different, rushing these two points, this forms one of the basic conditions for the body not to be bad, In addition, after the ancient tomb was sealed at the entrance of the cave, there were no cracks in the mountain to let the outside air run in, so a vacuum was basically formed here, in a state of lack of oxygen, anaerobic bacteria began to multiply in large numbers, and almost all the organic burial goods in the tomb will slowly release biogas, biogas has two functions in this, one is to sterilize, and the other is to increase the pressure, in this environment, the bacteria are gone, and everything basically stops. ”

Chen Zhijun didn't understand why all the corpses in the coffins in the back room were decomposed, but the burial goods in the ear chamber were not damaged at all, so he asked: "Uncle, I wonder now, why did the corpses in the coffins I saw just now rot?" Some parts of the coffin there are also partially decomposed, so why is it that of the auricular chamber has no effect? ”

"As I just said, the conditions for the preservation of the corpse are not only vacuum, when the burial chamber has just been closed, there is still air in it, and these residual air is entrained with enough humidity to cause organic decay, when it comes to why the wood in the ear chamber and the main burial chamber have no effect and the difference between the coffin decay in the back room, it is actually very simple, the boxes containing the burial goods in the ear chamber and the main burial chamber have been painted with multiple layers, which can well ensure the invasion of air, moisture and bacteria, and the coffins in the back chamber are simply painted, Moreover, the bottom and inside of the coffin were not painted, so the coffin inside was equivalent to having a priority for decay, and it soon began to decay, and it was with that decay that more methane gas was formed, thus ensuring the safety of other artifacts in the entire burial chamber. ”

"That's not right, uncle, why didn't the wood on the organ rot?"

"Fool, who told you to look at the flowers and not pay attention to the details! The bows and crossbows were made of boiled bamboo, and the fixed bottom plates were inlaid with thin camphor wood and quicklime, which were insect-proof and moisture-absorbing, and of course they were well preserved, otherwise these organs would have been scrapped long ago; There is also this mechanism under the stone statue, which looks like a large wood, and it has all been soaked in tung oil repeatedly. ”

"But the entrance to this tomb can be completely sealed with gravel and earth?"

"Oh, you say you're not careful, you're still hard-mouthed! What is the distance from the first stone gate to the entrance of the cave? It seems that the gravel is piled up in a disorderly manner, but in fact it is not, the distance from the stone door to the entrance of the cave is less than two meters, and the cracks of the gravel are all filled with layers of red clay, and the thickness of two meters is enough to isolate the air, plus there are a lot of gravel and soil covering above and in front of the cave, and the guarantee of the relative vacuum environment in the tomb is still there. ”

"I haven't seen you work on the first day, and I'm still trying my best to avoid suspicion, for fear that people will say that the archaeologists are plotting something with me, who is engaged in engineering."

"Don't make excuses, archaeology must be careful, you ask your Lao Tzu, did he start paying attention to the details when he entered the tomb? He had been observing the mountain since the car had even arrived at your headquarters, otherwise why would he have judged where the tomb was so quickly? From the time he was about to find the tomb, he paid attention to the details around him and under his feet along the way, and he didn't ignore the details, you can see how detailed his discovery is when you look at the report written by your Lao Tzu at night. ”