After chatting with the teacher, Chen Han turned his head and came to the cultural relics storage room.

As soon as he entered, he heard Professor Li's exclamation.

"And said: Yu Ji's great-great-grandson, Mu Shan Dunmin, fearing the destiny of the sky, will be all once the earth!"

This inscription once again provides new direct evidence for Zeng Guo's family name to be "Ji"! ”

Hearing this, Chen Han hurriedly walked quickly to Professor Li's side and stretched out his head to look at the inscription tray in his hand.

Ji, that is, post-Ji.

Ji's surname, his name is abandoned, he is the great-great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor and the eldest son of the emperor.

In "Historical Records of Zhou Benji", Hou Ji's birth is also metaphysical, and the legend is that Jiang Yan, the daughter of the Tai family, stepped on the footprints of giants and abandoned her.

Perhaps it was because Liu Bang's "White Snake Uprising" and "The Son of the Red Emperor" and "His Mother Conceived by Friendship with God" in order to maintain the rationality of his rule, he wantonly used metaphysics to paste gold for himself.

"The First Evolution"

Therefore, in the "Historical Records", the kings of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties recorded by Taishi Gong are also full of metaphysics.

But putting aside these metaphysical colors, in the eyes of the Zhou royal family itself, Houji is their ancestor.

Since Zeng Hou and he claimed to be the great-great-grandson of Ji, it undoubtedly proved once again that Zeng Hou was surnamed Ji.

And the latter paragraph is the words of Zeng Hou and his boast, saying that he Mu Shan Dunmin, according to the order of God, ruled Zeng State.

On the No. 1 chime, there is also a sentence "

The inscription of "Restore Zeng Jiang", these two sentences are the great achievements engraved by Zeng Houyu for himself.

"Xiao Chen? I'm looking for you! ”

Seeing that Chen Han was back, Professor Li hurriedly pulled him and walked to the corner and sat down.

"I thought about it for a long time, and I felt that the "Nangong" written on the No. 1 bell may not be Nangong Shi, but his eldest son. ”

Hey, Chen Han smiled.

Sure enough, the wise are easy to coincide!

Chen Han smiled and asked, "Professor Li, what do you think?" ”

He wanted to hear Professor Li's thoughts and see if the two of them thought of going together.

Professor Li didn't continue, but asked rhetorically, "Xiao Chen, do you remember Da Mengding?" ”

Chen Han nodded in sudden realization.

The famous Da Meng Ding, how could he not know.

Da Yu Ding, is a bronze tripod of the Western Zhou Dynasty unearthed in Li Village, Yixian County, Shaanxi Province during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, and was sold to the cultural relics market after being unearthed.

Later, in 1952, it was stored in the Magic City Museum, and then it was borrowed by the National Museum, and it is still on display at the National Museum.

The reason why this tripod is called Da Meng Ding is because the maker is the minister of King Kang.

There is also a small Mengding unearthed together with the big Mengding.

However, after Xiao Mengding was unearthed, it was bought and sold several times, and then it was lost.

As soon as Professor Li mentioned Da Mengding, Chen Han vaguely guessed what he was going to say.

Before the bell of the M1 tomb of Wenfeng Pagoda was unearthed, it was not without bronze inscriptions mentioning "Nangong", the most well-known of which was Da Mengding.

On the Great Mengding, there is such an inscription.

The king said: Ling Ruyu type is the heir of the ancestor Nangong!

"The king said, Meng, you must learn from your ancestor Nangong!"

There is another inscription.

Yi Ru Zu Nangong Banner (a kind of flag), used in battle. Yi Rubang Si four people.

"Give you the banner of your ancestor Nangong for hunting, and give you four officials of the state."

The "Nangong" here refers to Nangong Shi, an idea that has long been put forward in the academic community.

However, before the bell of the M1 tomb of Wenfeng Pagoda was unearthed, this sentence on Da Meng Ding would not have any connection with Zeng Guo.

But now it's different!

Da Mengding can be determined to have been composed in the twenty-third year of King Kang.

And the "Nangong" recorded in the bell of Zeng Hou and was the assistant to the left Guowen and the king of Wu.

Extrapolating from the timeline, it is obviously in line with the ancestor of this minister named Meng during the reign of King Kang!

In other words, Meng and Zeng Houhe, like each other, are both descendants of Nangong.

"I think it's just like Zhao Gong was sealed in Yan, but it was his son Ke Zhiyan, and Zhou Gong was sealed in Lu, but his son Bo Bird was in Lu."

"Nangong, as a minister whose status was close to that of Zhao Gong and Zhou Gong at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, was not sealed by himself when he was sealed in Zengdi, but by his descendants."

Because the development of the southern soil was very important to the Zong Zhou at that time, the Nangong Shiwen, who was appointed as the "Southern Duke", also reflected the importance of the south. ”

But "Nangong" was supposed to be a hereditary position left in the Zhou royal family to serve, similar to "Taishi". ”

"So Nangong Shi sent his eldest son to be crowned, and he himself continued to stay in the central auxiliary to become the king."

Professor Li opened the "Book of Shang" in his hand, turned to the chapter of Gu Ming, pointed to the sentence on it and said to Chen Han:

"It was mentioned in the book that there was a minister named Nangong Mao, who led the tiger to welcome Prince Zhao after the death of King Cheng."

"Combined with Nangong Shi, he once assisted the young Chengwang."

"Then, it can be guessed that Nangong Mao should be Nangong Shi's second son, and after Nangong Shi's death, he inherited Nangong Shi's position in the central government and served in the imperial court."

"It is known from Da Yu Ding that Nangong Mao, the father of Yu, died at an early age of King Kang, and his son-in-law Yu was still young at that time."

"That's why there is this passage that King Kang taught Meng in the Great Meng Ding."

Meng is also a famous minister in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and his famous name is not left in the historical records, but only known by unearthed inscriptions.

On the small Yu Ding that has been lost, it is recorded that King Kang ordered the Yu to defeat the ghosts and win a complete victory, capturing a large number of people and livestock.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, six bronzes were found in Anzhou, that is, on the later famous Anzhou Six Vessels, such an inscription was also recorded.

"The year of the king's order to fight against the tiger in Nangong"

The six weapons of Anzhou are all Zhaowang time instruments, which means that this passage records the events of the Zhaowang period.

And the "Nangong" here refers to Nangong Meng.

Judging from Da Yu Ding, King Kang's father died in his early years, and he was still young, so King Zhao was still in his prime, and King Zhao ordered him to go to the tiger side.

From these hand-me-down inscriptions, it can be seen that Nangong Meng is a Mengman, and he is a Mengnan who spanned the Kangzhao period and made great achievements for the Zhou royal family.

It is equivalent to Qin Zhibai Qi, Han Zhi Wei Qing, and Tang Zhi Guo Ziyi, all of whom are the generals of the country.

"The later Nangong clan, tracing the source, should be in the Nangong Meng lineage."

Professor Li shook his head and said with some sighs: "This vein that was sealed in Zeng Guo should have been based on Zeng as his name later, and finally changed to his surname. ”

"This is also why historians have never linked the Nangong clan and Zeng Guo before."

"No one would have imagined that Nangong Shi's bloodline was so strong, and the eldest son was named Zeng Guo and became the head of the Eastern Han Kingdoms, dominating the south, and being the ancestor of the world."

"The second son inherited the central official position of Nangong Shi, and his descendants made great achievements for the Zhou family, becoming the great sect of the Nangong clan and the ancestor of Nangong in the world."

Chen Han opened his mouth half-open, and quickly digested Professor Li's remarks in his mind.

I have to say that Professor Li's argument is indeed very convincing!

The exquisiteness he made was far more complete and credible than Chen Han's judgment of "Nangong Shi was sealed if he didn't have it" based on intuition and speculation.

Combined with the Great Mengding, the Little Mengding, the Anzhou Six Instruments and the "Book of Shang", that is, there are hand-me-down documents and archaeological evidence, and the double evidence can prove that this statement is reasonable and the most likely!

The Nangong family was divided into two in the early days of becoming kings, and each developed very well, and each developed very well.

Only then will there be the phenomenon that Da Mengding and Zeng Hou and Chime will worship "Zu Nangong" together.

The situation of one vein and two branches was also very common in that clan-centric era.

The old winners, isn't it also divided into two teams, one established the Qin State and the other established the Zhao State.

The vassal states with the surname Ji were also separated from the members of the Zhou royal family.

And the high-ranking nobles, secretaries and doctors in the princely countries were separated from the princes' clans.

The entire history of the Zhou Dynasty is actually a process of continuous internal differentiation of various families, with large sects divided into small sects, small sects divided into small sects, and then re-annexed.

Nan Gongshi has two descendants, which is really normal.

It's just that the tomb of Zeng Houhe did not appear before, so modern people don't know about this top nobleman of the Western Zhou Dynasty three thousand years ago!

Chen Han exclaimed: "Professor Li, your inference is enough to start a paper on the study of the lineage of the Nangong family. ”

"It's not a problem to invest in core journals!"

Professor Li smiled implicitly: "It's just a guess, it's not perfect enough, and there is still some key evidence missing." ”

"It would be nice if more inscriptions could be unearthed in the future."

"It's best to involve inscriptions from the early Zeng Kingdom, or the early Western Zhou Dynasty."

"By the way, didn't you go to the Yejiashan cemetery today to inquire about the news?"

"Did they make any important discoveries over there?"

As soon as he mentioned this stubble, Chen Han sighed.

"They haven't dug up the tomb of Marquis Zeng, but they have determined that Yejiashan is an early purpose of the Zeng Kingdom, and the early monarchs of the Zeng Kingdom are buried."

"There is a high probability that there are tombs of the first three generations of monarchs of the Zeng Kingdom."

"Just wait for the next excavation."

Professor Li's eyes lit up, and he could be sure that Ye Jiashan's purpose was the cemetery of the early Marquis of Zeng Guo!

As for the tomb of Marquis Zeng, the tombs on the side of Yejiashan basically have traces of theft, and only a few tombs have escaped theft.

In other words, most of them need to be salvage-excavated.

Sooner or later, the tomb of Marquis Zeng will be dug up.

Pray now that the tomb robbers did not steal the bronzes in the tomb of Marquis Zeng, Yejiashan, and left some artifacts with research value.

"I don't know how the excavation is going in the jujube grove." Professor Li said with some expectation:

"It was excavated by the Institute of Archaeology and Museums of Peking University and the Hubei Institute of Archaeology, and the action should be faster than ours."

"Why hasn't there been any movement?"

"After we found the bell with the inscription in the tomb of Marquis Zeng, we sent them an inscription tray diagram as soon as possible!"

The cemetery of the nobles of the Zeng Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Jujube Forest.

This is really next door to the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery, both of which belong to the Yidi Gang Tomb Group, and the two are very close to each other, with a straight-line distance of less than 2 kilometers.

Walking from Wenfeng Tower, you can reach the jujube grove cemetery in more than ten minutes at most.

Geographically, the two cemeteries are located almost next to each other.

Chen Han's eyes grunted.

In other words, he knew more people in the Institute of Archaeology and Museums of Peking University, and several seniors came to participate in the excavation work.

Why don't you go to the jujube grove cemetery next door tomorrow?

“duang！”

A strange sound interrupted Chen Han's contemplation.

The door to the artifact storage room was violently slammed open from the outside.

Kong Jianwen walked in with excitement on his face.

"Lao Li, Xiao Chen!"

"In the jujube grove cemetery next door, the tomb of Marquis Zeng has been dug up!"

"The names are all set! Called Zeng Hou begging! ”

Chen Hanmeng raised his head, his face was surprised and happy.

This is really Cao Cao, Cao Cao has arrived!