"The Great Tomb of the Monarch of South Vietnam?"

In the conference room of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

All leaders gathered together.

Professor Li, who was in charge of the Qin and Han Research Laboratory, said with some excitement: "There are a total of five monarchs of the Nanyue Kingdom!" ”

"Get rid of the last monarch, and then remove the penultimate monarch Zhao Xing who was killed because of civil strife."

"This tomb of the King of Nanyue can only be one of King Wu, King Wen, and King Ming!"

"No matter who it is, it is very meaningful to Chinese archaeology!"

"Before this, we had never found the tomb of a single South Vietnamese monarch!"

The country of Nanyue has experienced a total of five kings, enjoying ninety-three countries.

However, Zhao Tuo, the founder of the South Vietnamese Kingdom, is not an ordinary person who can live.

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, when the medical level was very underdeveloped, several emperors in the early Western Han Dynasty were not considered to have a long life, and they died at the age of forty or fifty.

But Zhao Tuo, the martial king of South Vietnam, lived for more than a hundred years.

In the ninety-third year of the Nanyue Kingdom, Zhao Tuo reigned for sixty-seven years...

In the remaining 26 years, it is the next four kings.

And the last two kings, the combined reign of only three years, and it was during this period that the Nanyue Kingdom was destroyed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

In other words, these two kings should not have very good tombs.

Especially the penultimate king of mourning, his nickname is "mourning", and he was killed by the prime minister's rebellion, and I am afraid that he will not be properly buried.

Only Zhao Tuo, the martial king of Nanyue, Zhao Hu, the king of Wen, and Zhao Yingqi, the king of Ming, can have a large tomb of the formation.

And these three are also the more famous kings of Nanyue in the history books.

The latter two were both protons in Chang'an, and they received brainwashing and beauty tricks from the Chang'an court, and basically obeyed Chang'an's words when they were in power, so they were able to die a good death.

"Although some tombs of the Nanyue Kingdom have been found in the Lingnan area before, those tombs are relatively low-level tombs."

"It's hard for us to understand the system, culture and productivity level of South Vietnam!"

Professor Li was very excited, dancing and saying: "During the heyday of the South Vietnamese Kingdom, it spanned Liangguang and Fujian, and also occupied the northern and central parts of Vietnam, which can be regarded as a big country!" ”

"However, at present, the research on the South Vietnamese Kingdom in the archaeological and historical circles is one-sided."

"Most of them can only rely on the records of the Nanyue Kingdom in the Book of Han."

"It's just that from the perspective of the Han Dynasty, Nanyue is just a remote vassal state, and there will be no detailed records at all."

"In the end, what was the situation of the South Vietnamese Kingdom in history, the degree of social development and productivity, as well as the level of science and technology, all need to be traced through archaeological discoveries."

"Now that there is a tomb of the monarch of Nanyue, it is a great opportunity to understand and contact Nanyue in an all-round way!"

If you want to understand the standard of living and productivity of a country, and even the degree of social development, it is obviously easiest to find the answer in the tomb of the king.

In fact, some tombs of the South Yue Kingdom have also been found in the Lingnan area before.

However, these tombs are all buried middle and low-level nobles, and most of them may still be the Qin army of the Southern Expedition of the year, and some bronze weapons made by the Qin State have been unearthed.

Bamboo slips, wooden slips and the like have not been unearthed.

Not to mention a stone chamber tomb like this, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources to build.

It is completely the first case in Lingnan!

When the news of the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology was transmitted in detail to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, the two units immediately held an internal meeting.

An hour later.

The Cultural Relics Bureau and the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences jointly reported to the head and requested approval to excavate the tomb of the monarch of Nanyue in Xianggang!

And the response from above is also very fast.

In less than half an hour, the approval was given.

"Agree to excavate!"

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"This time, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences will form a joint archaeological team with the Guangdong Institute of Archaeology and the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology to carry out archaeological excavation work on the "Tomb of the Emperor of Nanyue in Xianggang"! ”

"Everyone has been off for more than half a year, and it's time to get back to the intense work."

"Guangzhou is located in the south, and although it is already October, the local temperature is not too low, so it will not affect our excavation work."

"And according to a colleague from the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology, this time the tomb of the monarch of Nanyue is a stone chamber tomb."

"After three days of investigation, the Guangzhou Archaeological Institute basically figured out the structure and scale of this tomb."

"It's a tomb made entirely of stone stacks!"

"From the observation of the platform and the surrounding rock of the burial chamber, most of the rock of the gang body has been weathered into sandy clay, and the strength has been completely reduced to the soil, which can be excavated with ordinary pickaxes and shovels, and only a small part of the original rock is maintained."

"The structure of the tomb pit is a combination of vertical pit and digging hole, and the plane of the vertical pit is in the shape of "convex". The perimeter is not very straight, based on the current surface, it is 10.85 meters long from north to south and 12.5 meters wide from east to west! ”

"Colleagues from the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology have cleared out the stepped tomb passage, which is more than ten meters long, and at the end of the tomb there is a tomb door made of double stone doors!"

"However, it is not known who the owner of the tomb is or whether the tomb was stolen."

"For the sake of safety, the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology arranged for personnel to be stationed, dismissed the construction workers, and blocked the news of the discovery of the cemetery."

"Wait for us and the people from the Guangdong Archaeological Institute to arrive, and then carry out a protective excavation of the tomb!"

On the bullet train to Guangzhou.

Kong Jianwen is chattering and mobilizing the archaeologists of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Chen Han sat in the corner of the carriage with a very emotional expression.

The scene in front of me is somewhat familiar.

When he first followed the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to Qinghai to participate in the excavation of the Lajia ruins, it seemed like this.

At that time, he felt that everything was new, but now he has become much calmer.

"The tomb of the king of Nanyue..."

Chen Han raised his head and looked at the roof of the carriage, falling into deep thought.

Lin Ya, who was sitting next to him, poked Chen Han's arm and asked with some curiosity: "Chen Han, who do you think the owner of this tomb of the king of Nanyue will be?" ”

Chen Han came back to his senses and looked at Lin Ya.

In other words, compared to a year ago, it has changed a lot.

At least it was Su Sa who was sitting next to him at that time, but now Su Sa has graduated with a doctorate and left the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

She did not delay the completion like Zhuang Yunpeng, but completed the doctoral defense smoothly, and graduated when she returned to Beijing in July.

Now I have returned to my hometown Shaanxi Local Archaeology Institute to work.

Shaanxi is also a major archaeological province, presumably Su Sa will not be idle there.

"Chen Han, why are you stunned?" Lin Ya shook his arm and pulled Chen Han's wandering thoughts back again.

"Tomb owner..."

Chen Han said without thinking: "It's not Zhao Tuo, it's Zhao Hu." ”

"Why can't it be Zhao Yingqi?" Lin Ya asked with some curiosity.

Chen Han smiled and said suddenly: "According to the Song Dynasty Fang Xinru's "Hundred Swims in the South China Sea", quoted in the "Guangzhou Chronicles" by Shen Huaiyuan, a Liu Song man in the 5th century. ”

"When Sun Quan, Wen Tuo's tomb was martyred with strange treasures, but thousands of people were sent to dig up his grave, but they couldn't get it."

"The second digging of the tomb of the infant Qi will get the jade seal, the gold seal, and the bronze sword."

"And the tomb of Tu, who died without knowing, and Tu died at the beginning of Emperor Wu, to Sun Quan's time three hundred years of strange things, has been found and unobtainable, so far thousands of years, the benefit can not be examined."

"If this information is indeed credible, then the tomb of Zhao Yingqi, the third lord of Nanyue, has been excavated by Sun Quan."

"Among the five lords of South Vietnam, except for the latter two lords, they have no time to prepare tombs for themselves, and only the two monarchs Zhao Tuo and Zhao Hu are left."

"The tomb of the king of Nanyue found in Xianggang can only be the tomb of one of the two of them."

Lin Ya's eyes widened and she looked at Chen Han with a confused expression.

What is "Hundred Swims in the South China Sea" and what is "The Story of Guangzhou"?

Hasn't she heard of it?

opened her mouth, Lin Ya, who originally wanted to say something, thought about it for a long time, and finally only spit out two words in her mouth.

"Awesome."