Although Guangzhou is a little worse than the cities in the Central Plains, its historical background is a little worse.

However, because of the good historical habits of the Chinese people, there are also many official or private collection of historical books in Guangzhou.

Among the historical documents of Guangzhou, the Southern Song Dynasty Fang Xinru wrote "The Hundred Songs of the South China Sea", Ming Zhang Xie wrote "The Miscellaneous Songs of the South China Sea", and Qing Fan Feng wrote the "Continuation of the Hundred Songs of the South China Sea", which are the most famous.

When Chen Han received a notice that the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences was going to Guangzhou to cooperate with the excavation of the tomb of the local Nanyue King, he immediately found these three books to read.

Since you are going to archaeology in Guangzhou, the first thing to do is to understand the city of Guangzhou.

It was also in "Hundred Songs of the South China Sea" that Chen Han saw the record of Sun Quan's excavation of the tomb of the king of Nanyue.

In fact, the tomb of the Nanyue King, in this place of Guangzhou, has always been a legend.

The founding monarch Zhao Tuo struggled for more than 70 years to create the great cause of Nanyue, and he shook the southern country and died at the age of more than 100.

Throughout his long life, he was constantly preparing for his posthumous burial.

After all, people have followed Qin Shi Huang, and they are no strangers to the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.

In the last decades of his life, he had been carefully planning for what would happen after his death.

In order to prevent the tomb from being stolen after death, he sent important ministers to dig dozens of doubtful graves in the vast mountains outside the capital city of Panyu.

And after his death, Zhao Hu, who succeeded to the throne, also held a secret and powerful state funeral for him.

But where exactly he was buried, and where he was buried, has always been a mystery for the ages.

Because Zhao Hu arranged 4 funeral teams to hold high flags and escort the identical Quartet coffins at the time of the funeral, starting from the four gates of Panyu City and arriving at different burial sites.

In addition, Zhao Tuo himself had excavated dozens of doubtful graves during his lifetime, which made it even more difficult to find the location of his real tomb.

Later, Cao Cao's so-called seventy-two doubtful graves were all learned from Zhao Tuo.

Of course, because Zhao Tuo acted like this, and because he had been in power for so long, he must have collected a lot of precious treasures to accompany the funeral.

Therefore, in the following 2,000 years, the tomb of the Nanyue King has been one of the focuses of attention of private tomb robbers.

Not to mention the civilian tomb robbers, even the regular army once had thoughts about Zhao Tuo's tomb.

After Sun Quan took Lingnan that year, because he had to resist Cao Wei, military spending has been tight, and legend has it that Cao Cao also robbed official tombs in the Central Plains.

So Sun Quan was also moved and set his sights on the tomb of Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue.

In order to seek the legendary huge funeral treasure, he once ordered the general Lü Yu to lead an army of 5,000 people to search all over the Lingnan area, and the target was the tomb of King Yue.

It's just that the 5,000-strong army searched for half a year over the mountains and mountains, but did not find the tomb of Zhao Tuo, but found the tombs of some ordinary South Vietnamese nobles.

In the end, he dug three feet into the ground, and only found the tomb of Zhao Yingqi, the third monarch of South Vietnam.

And Zhao Yingqi's tomb did not unearth any shocking treasures.

At least for Sun Quan, who has to raise 200,000 troops, it is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket.

After that, he also extinguished his thoughts and continued to look for Zhao Tuo's tomb.

However, in the following dynasties, there are still many tomb robbers looking for Zhao Tuo's tomb.

There were even doubts that Zhao Tuo was not buried in Panyu, but was secretly buried in a remote place in Nanyue at that time.

However, in 1916, when Lingnan farmers were building houses in Guigang, outside Guangzhou, they accidentally discovered an ancient mound in Nanyue.

There are many precious treasures in the ancient mound, and the burial goods are abundant, but the coffin is empty.

This is a bit in line with Zhao Tuo's "doubtful grave", but it makes archaeologists have a little more confidence that Zhao Tuo's tomb is in Guangzhou.

The real tomb of the Nanyue royal family should be hidden in the vast mountains of Guangzhou, but it has not yet been discovered.

Now, this is not the only one to be found.

Chen Han carefully combed through the information he had searched in his mind, and breathed a long sigh of relief.

In any case, even if the tomb of Zhao Tuo was not discovered this time, it can already be determined that the tomb of the king of Nanyue was not created out of nothing, and it is undoubtedly in Lingnan.

That's the good news.

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On the afternoon of October 7, 2019.

On the last day of the National Day holiday, archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences arrived in Guangzhou by plane.

The holiday was temporarily canceled, and everyone was used to it, and they didn't feel anything.

Instead, I took a three-month break, which made everyone look forward to the next archaeological project.

After arriving at Baiyun International Airport, under the leadership of Kong Jianwen, the group took a bus directly, and after putting down their luggage at the hotel, they went straight to the excavation site.

The archaeological excavation site is in the center of Guangzhou, surrounded by a bustling downtown area, so there is no need to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, and there is no need to live in mobile board houses.

Xianggang is actually not big, the length from north to south is 360 meters, and the width from east to west is about 200 meters.

The original roof was about 50 meters high, but due to construction, it has been lowered by 20 meters.

And the tomb of the king of Nanyue is under the peak of this elephant gang.

When Kong Jianwen and his entourage arrived at Xianggang, what they saw was a piece of blue iron sheet, which surrounded the entire Xianggang area.

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After showing the work permit, a group of more than 10 people entered the construction area of Xianggang and walked to the top of the post.

This time, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences did not dispatch most of the personnel, but only sent about a dozen archaeologists from the Qin and Han Research Laboratories and the Xia Shang Zhou Research Laboratory.

And strictly speaking, the leader of the team this time is Professor Li, not Kong Jianwen.

Because Professor Li is an authority on the archaeology of the Qin and Han dynasties of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

He and Kong Jianwen are also old partners.

Because the age of the two research is relatively close, they are basically joint ventures.

The project was the archaeology of Xia Shangzhou, Kong Jianwen was the person in charge, and Professor Li started.

When the project was archaeology in the Qin and Han dynasties, Professor Li was the person in charge, and Kong Jianwen was the leader.

Do you have a specialization in the art industry!

There was only a steep slope of less than 30 meters above sea level, but after a minute or two of climbing, everyone reached the top of the hill.

"Ouch, I'm looking forward to you!"

"The comrades of the Central Committee are here, and we dare to start work!"

"Do the math, we have to have twenty or thirty years in Guangzhou, and there is no place for the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences!"

Several persons in charge of the Guangzhou Archaeological Institute and the Guangdong Archaeological Institute who had been waiting for a long time welcomed Chen Han and them with a smile.

The tone is not very good.

Chen Han, who was mixed in the team, understood this very well.

If he were from the local archaeological institute in Guangzhou, he would not be in a good mood.

The Guangzhou Archaeological Institute, which lacks large-scale and heavyweight archaeological projects, finally appeared a tomb of the Nanyue Kingdom.

The Guangdong Institute of Archaeology above came to get a piece of the pie, but people from the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences also came.

For the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology, it is really not easy for them to encounter a big project.

In the face of their complaints, Kong Jianwen and Professor Li didn't understand at all, shook hands with a smile on their faces, and said:

"As soon as I heard your report, we, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, immediately jointly submitted a report to apply for excavation."

"But I don't dare to delay for a moment."

As soon as Kong Jianwen said this, several leaders of the local archaeological institute in Guangdong looked unnatural.

Grass!

There are departments that have the right to apply for archaeological excavations, and the waist pole is hard.

Without the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, they really can't apply to the top to take the initiative to excavate this Nanyue tomb!

"Since we're all here, let's go to the cemetery first to see what the situation is."

is still a leader of the Guangdong Archaeological Institute, who is relatively sleek, and skips this topic without leaving a trace, and takes Chen Han and them to the excavation site.

Kong Jianwen, who took advantage of his mouth, did not chase after him, and came to Guangzhou to work, not to talk about it.

Everyone followed behind the leaders of the Guangdong and Guangzhou archaeological institutes in an orderly manner, and after walking for about 100 meters, a tomb with a diameter of about two meters appeared in front of everyone.

Dark, deep, bottomless.