Zeng Gongqiu's tomb was disturbed by theft, but it can still be preserved so well, and 320 burial goods have been unearthed, which can make Chen Han and them envious.

Compared with the lucky jujube grove cemetery, the M1 and M2 tombs excavated one after another on the side of Wenfeng Pagoda have been very seriously disturbed, and only dozens of cultural relics have been unearthed.

Among them, there are less than 20 bronzes.

This also made the comrades of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences all hold their breath in their chests.

The three archaeological excavation projects in Suizhou were carried out almost at the same time.

The units that carried out the excavation of the three projects naturally have a little bit of competition.

It has always been the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery that has been leading the way before, and first excavated the tomb of a generation of Zeng Hou, and found the inscription of Zeng Hou Yu boasting that he saved the King of Chu.

This made "Zeng Sui's mystery" once again mentioned by domestic scholars and widely discussed.

However, this heated discussion is no longer a controversy, but through the unearthing of Zeng Houyu's bell, everyone has abandoned speculations such as "Zeng extinguished", "Zeng" and "Zeng".

Most scholars agree that Zeng Sui was the same country, which is basically a certain fact.

From the perspective of the academic community, it is already a matter of undoubted that it has been a country.

After all, the bells of Zeng Houyu all recorded the story of King Chu Zhao being rescued.

It's just that the protagonist of the story recorded on the chime is Zeng Houyu, not Suihou.

In terms of the weight of evidence, the weight of the historical documents that have been handed down is not as heavy as the unearthed cultural relics.

Although the name of this vassal state recorded in the history books is "Sui", the prince who has personally experienced it and engraved it on the bell claims to be the Marquis of Zeng.

One is the history recorded by others after collecting and inquiring.

One is the self-statement of the parties.

Which is more credible, the answer is obviously self-evident.

It's just that why Zeng Guo is called "Sui" in the historical records is still a question that troubles domestic scholars and experts.

Of course, some historians have also put forward some conjectures.

Including what Chen Han thinks, perhaps this "Sui" refers to anywhere, Zeng Hou ruled anywhere, so it is called Sui, and it has also been proposed by many experts.

It's just that there will be no answer to this matter for the time being, and it is impossible to answer it in the foreseeable future.

After all, history is in the past tense, and it is impossible to find answers to some missing records and questions that have disappeared in the long river of history.

But it doesn't matter, as long as you make sure that Zeng Sui is a country.

Then, the relationship between "Boshi" and the ancestor of the Zeng Kingdom "Nangong" found on the inscription of the bell.

It has once again aroused heated discussions and discussions among major domestic scholars who study pre-Qin history.

During this time, they have been holding the inscription unearthed from the M1 tomb of Wenfeng Pagoda and constantly studying.

There have also been various speculations and inferences.

Some people think that "Bo Shi" is not Nangong Shi, they are actually two people.

It is also believed that "Nangong" is actually a hereditary title of Zeng Guo's lineage.

In short, all kinds of speculations about "Nangong Shi" and Zeng Guo and Zeng Guo's lineage are about to become a pot of porridge in the academic community.

It's just that when a large number of ritual utensils and musical instruments were unearthed in the jujube grove cemetery.

The eyes of the academic community all turned from the side of Wenfeng Pagoda to the jujube forest.

The inscription on the side of Wenfeng Pagoda is just a hundred words anyway, and it is not too late to slowly consider the information in it.

There is a new Zeng Gong begging for a man in the jujube grove!

And there are many more ritual vessels with inscriptions unearthed than in the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery!

Perhaps the inscription on a certain ritual vessel has solved the mystery of the identity of "Boshi".

Soon, the limelight of the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery was stolen by the jujube grove cemetery.

Chen Han doesn't care about this, archaeology is not an industry that competes for the limelight, so what is there to care about.

However, he has a lot of resentment against the system.

In the past week, from Peking University to Fudan University to Xi'an University, as well as historical research institutes in various places, they have basically given positive views on Zeng Sui as a country.

The inscription on the bell of Zeng Houyu, in the eyes of most scholars and experts, is enough to prove that Zeng Guo is Suiguo.

However, the system in Chen Han's mind has been quiet, and there is no reaction at all.

At first, Chen Han thought that he had not determined the research results in the form of a paper.

So he spent three days writing a paper on "Determining Suiguo from the Chimes of Zeng Houyu is Zeng Guo".

However, the paper was written.

The system is still not moving at all.

Chen Han, who did not believe in evil, immediately submitted his paper to "Archaeology of the Han River" after consulting Kong Jianwen.

The last time I wrote a paper related to the Lajia ruins, but after the paper was submitted, the achievement reward was immediately triggered.

As a result, after the paper was submitted, the system still did not respond.

This made Chen Han think that his system, which appeared inexplicably, was down?

Or is this just an inferior system, which doesn't work from time to time?

But when he carefully checked the system page, he found that in the achievements column, the only achievement he had achieved, "scientific research newcomer", with the suffix (1/3), had become (2/3).

In other words, this paper submitted to "Archaeology of the Han River" has been systematically recognized.

"And what about my mission reward?"

Looking at the system task that was still "in progress", Chen Han was stunned.

The argument that the paper of the previous country was accepted.

Isn't this the solution to the "mystery of Zeng Sui"?

Clenched his fists, Chen Han secretly guessed in his heart.

That's the last possibility.

In the cemetery of Wenfeng Tower, there may still be one buried, which can directly prove that Zeng Sui is a cultural relic of a country and has not yet appeared!

Maybe it's a tripod that records "Zeng Hou ruled in Sui", or maybe it's some other ritual vessel with the inscription of the word "Sui"!

Thinking of this, Chen Han didn't continue to toss his papers in the dormitory.

He grabbed his kit and immediately walked out of the dormitory and headed to the excavation site.

There are a total of 66 tombs that have been explored in the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery, including 54 pit tombs and 12 brick chamber tombs.

These are within the confines of the construction site, i.e. burials that require salvage excavation.

Needless to say, the 12 brick tombs are definitely not from the pre-Qin period.

Although it is said that the earliest brick chamber tomb can be traced back to the late Warring States period, it is only an isolated case, and it is far away in Shaanxi.

The brick chamber tombs in the Lianghu area were not widely popular until at least after the Eastern Han Dynasty.

So this brick tomb should have nothing to do with Zeng Guo.

But most of the remaining 42 pit tombs should be the tombs of the nobles of the Zeng State, and at most they may be mixed with some tombs of the Chu State or the Western Han Dynasty.

After completing the rescue excavation of tombs M1 and M2, Kong Jianwen led a team to excavate other tombs within the construction scope of the construction site.

Don't look at the tombs there are quite a lot, but not all of them are the tombs of Marquis Zeng.

In fact, most of them are small and medium-sized burials.

There are only five large burials, namely M1, M2, M4, M8 and M18.

Of the remaining tombs, a dozen or so are medium-sized tombs, and in the end they are all small tombs.

The excavation of small tombs is fast, and the cleaning is also fast.

In just a week's work, Zhuang Yunpeng and Su Sa had already cleaned up four or five small tombs.

Kong Jianwen also led a team to excavate the M4 tomb.

However, tomb M4 was also seriously stolen and damaged, and a lot of artifacts were lost, and only 26 burial goods remained.

Among them, only one bell and one bronze halberd have the inscription "Marquis Zeng" on them.

There is no value other than that the identity of the owner of the tomb can be determined to be the Marquis of Zeng.

But on the chime, there is an inscription that is quite interesting.

"Left and right King Chu, Fu is Xu."

It means that at this time, Zeng State has surrendered to Chu State and has become a vassal of Chu State.

The ancestor of Zeng State, as the same clan surnamed Ji, once assisted King Wen and King Wu to defeat Yin Shang, and was later sealed to the land of Handong to order the princes of Handong and became a hegemon in the south of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Repeatedly resisted the invasion of Chu, and even defeated the king of Chu many times, Zeng Guo, who can be called the enemy of Chu, finally became the younger brother of Chu.

is still the younger brother surnamed Ji.

It's a bit of dark humor.