On October 18th, early in the morning, there was a busy scene on the Xianggang construction site.

Two hydraulic stone drills have cut through the original rock on the top of the east ear chamber of the tomb of the Nanyue king.

"One, two, three, chisel!"

"One, two, three, chisel!"

With the help of machines, what could have taken more than ten days to do by manpower was completed in just one morning.

A hole 2 meters long from east to west and 2 meters wide from north to south was carved out of the roof of the chamber and led to the east chamber below.

The east transept is rectangular in shape, with an aisle and a direct access to the antechamber.

After the entrance of the cave was excavated, the construction personnel on the site did not take the aisle, but directly tied a protective belt on their bodies, and descended directly from the hole above.

Fortunately, because it is more difficult to build a tomb underground, the height of the tomb of the Nanyue King is not high, it is between one meter and eight to two meters.

The Frontrooms are the highest in height, with a point of more than two meters.

The east ear room is only 1.83 meters high, and a tall person like Chen Han needs to bend slightly to pass smoothly when he walks in.

Such a height is not dangerous.

After the engineering team drilled into the east ear chamber, they quickly tied the top cover stone that collapsed in the ear chamber to the big hook of the crane, and the broken stones were quickly lifted and transferred to the open space of the construction site.

The top stone, which was broken in half, only took about ten minutes before it was hoisted away.

At this point, the indoor cleaning work can begin.

After Professor Li gave an order, Chen Han, Lin Ya, and Zhuang Yunpeng immediately walked into the east ear room through the corridor from the front room.

With the help of the light brought by the large hole, the situation in the east ear room immediately caught their eyes.

"There are tubes, bells, and chimes!"

", there are copper, stone, lacquer, and musical instruments of various materials!"

"The east ear room should be specially designed for banqueting utensils!"

As far as the eye can see, it's simply dazzling!

The small east ear room is filled with all kinds of musical instruments, although many of them are wooden, which are seriously decayed.

However, it can also be seen that it was supposed to be a musical instrument such as a seer and a qin.

In addition, the most conspicuous thing is the row of button clocks that are still neatly arranged under the north wall.

Chen Han quickly counted them, a total of 14 button clocks, from small to large, from left to right, placed in an orderly manner.

The shape of the 14 pieces of button bells is the same, the square ring button, the mouth is arc-shaped, the cross-section of the bell body is round, there is a vortex pattern on the piece, and there is no decoration in the cymbal.

On the whole, it looks like a relatively simple and solemn style, without bells and whistles.

It has the solemn and serious feeling of Qin State, full of Qin Feng!

Chen Han couldn't help but pass over some of the funeral goods, cautiously walked in front of this set of button clocks, reached out and stroked it gently, and even tapped it a few times with a slight force.

The crisp and heavy chiming of the bell resounded in the small ear chambers, and even reached the ground.

Overhead, Kong Jianwen and Professor Li's heads immediately poked through the big round hole with a diameter of two meters, and shouted eagerly: "There is a chime?!" ”

Chen Han nodded happily, leaned out and shouted, "Just under the north wall, there is a set of button clocks!" ”

"Under the button clock, I also saw the Yong clock!"

"In addition, the east ear room is full of various musical instruments!"

"On the back wall of the ear chamber, there is also a set of diào (hooks) neatly placed! It's so rare! ”

"There are a bunch of other instruments, many of which I don't recognize!"

Button clocks and Yong clocks are relatively common, and Chen Han can be considered to be able to maintain stability.

But when he saw the hook, he couldn't settle it at all.

Goujin is an ancient Wuyue musical instrument, which prevailed from the late Spring and Autumn period to the Warring States period.

Although the Gou Yan looks a little similar to the Yong Bell, the way it is played is completely different from the bell.

Unlike the Yong bell, it is hung on a wooden frame and struck and played.

Instead, it is inserted upside down on a wooden stand with the mouth facing up, and then percussion.

Moreover, the hook is generally very smooth on the body, unlike the clock, there will be a lot of decorative buttons, lines and the like.

It is usually smooth and flat in one piece, and it is slippery to the touch.

What's more, it's so rare!

This is a traditional musical instrument of the Wu and Yue countries, and it will not be used by the Central Plains countries, or even the Chu countries.

Only in the Wuyue area of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, some have been unearthed occasionally.

Even if there are unearthed, they are all sporadic one or two, and a complete set has never been unearthed!

Now in the tomb of the South Vietnamese Kingdom, there is actually a complete set of hooks!

It seems that the word "Yue" in the name of their country is really not wrong.

Moreover, the history books about Lingnan Baiyue are the relevant historical records of the remnants and branches of the Yue Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period, which can be regarded as the unearthed evidence on the side!

The significance of this set of discoveries is not ordinary!

At the same time as the existence of the Nanyue Kingdom, there were two vassal states to the east of Nanyue, Minyue and Donou, which also accepted the canonization of the Central Dynasty of the Western Han Dynasty.

The monarchs of these two countries both claim to be the descendants of the last monarch of the Yue Kingdom during the Warring States Period, and they are the continuation of the orthodox Yue Kingdom!

Later, these two countries and the South Vietnamese State can be said to have always loved and killed each other, sometimes uniting together against the central government, and sometimes attacking each other.

In the end, they were all destroyed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and became part of the martial arts of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

In the country of Nanyue, there are also a lot of descendants of the Yue people, or in other words, the Yue country and the Wu country are the two best developed tribes among the Baiyue people, and the country was established.

Now, Gou Yan was unearthed in the tomb of the monarch of Nanyue, which provides a favorable proof for it, the Baiyue ethnic groups in Lingnan, and the ethnic groups of Wu and Yue are probably the same family!

"There are too many, the southeast corner is also full of all kinds of bronze containers, some are stacked and pressed together, some are scattered all over the ground, just I can recognize, there are tubes, pots, urns, smokers, copper mirrors, copper ge, belt hooks, and so on."

"Teacher, Professor Li, come down and have a look!"

Chen Han shouted excitedly, which made Professor Li and Kong Jianwen's hearts burn.

The two of them didn't even bother to leave the front room, and jumped directly from the hole above the east ear room.

The height difference of 1.8 meters is a little dangerous, but now no one can control this stubble.

After the two jumped down and stumbled for a while, they immediately rushed to the two rows of button clocks and Yong bells leaning against the north wall.

"It's rare, it's so rare!"

"A set of button clocks, a set of Ningbo clocks!"

"This is also very rare in the Han tombs unearthed across the country!"

"It's very well preserved!"

"I have to send a message to the Art Research Institute of the Ministry of Culture, and let their music and vocal laboratory send some people to measure the sound of these two sets of chimes."

"There is also a hook, which also needs sound measurement, in this regard, after the unearthed bell of Zeng Hou Yi, everyone has rich experience!"

"By the way, look for it again, the chimes and hooks are there, and it is estimated that there will also be "Duo"! ”

Professor Li kept looking around excitedly.

The duo is also a musical instrument that looks similar to the chime, but it is smaller than the bell, and there is a "tongue" in the body.

Shake the "tongue" behind the impactor, and a crisp sound will be made.

In fact, it was a big bell, which later evolved into a common bell in later generations.

This thing is a wartime instrument, and it is used to give orders.

The main nobles of the Nanyue Kingdom are all from the Southern Expeditionary Corps of the Qin Army, and they should not be without this kind of wartime instrument.

However, when Chen Han and the others followed Professor Li's request, they searched around.

No duo was found, but many other instruments were found.

That's a pity.

Just when everyone was sorry, Chen Han, who had been looking at the hook, couldn't help but reach out and turn one of the hooks over.

He wanted to take a closer look at the differences between this very rare Wu Yue characteristic musical instrument and the common chimes in the Central Plains.

"Damn, there's an inscription!"

Before he had time to recognize the difference, Chen Han saw two lines of eight-character inscriptions on the back of this hook.

After a quick glance, he immediately laughed excitedly and shouted, "I know who the owner of the tomb is!" ”

"Emperor Wen has been working in Yuefu for nine years!"

"This is the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue!"

"Unexpectedly, it wasn't just Zhao Tuo who disregarded the face of the Central Committee of the Western Han Dynasty and privately claimed to be the emperor."

"In the history books, Zhao Hu, who has been loyal to the Central Committee of the Western Han Dynasty for many years, has been in Chang'an for many years, and after returning to China to succeed to the throne, he actually followed the emperor's name!"

"I thought Zhao Hu was loyal to the Western Han court."

"Sure enough, politicians are a group of face-changing masters who have one thing on the surface and one thing behind their backs!"