"Come, come, a few experts from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, come to visit."

Fu Pu smiled all over his face, and led Professor Li, Kong Jianwen, and Chen Han into the West Ear Room.

After ten days of cleaning, the original 60-centimeter-thick burial goods in the West Ear Room were basically emptied.

The rudimentary set of floating work tools was also dismantled.

Fu Pu conveniently invited them into the West Ear Chamber.

"I'm really bothering you, making you wait a few more days."

"There's no way, there are really too many burial goods in this West Ear room, and we have done our best to clean it up, so that it can be cleaned up in ten days."

Fu Pu smiled and greeted Professor Li.

He invited a group of people from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences this time, mainly in the hope that a few experienced experts would help some unrecognizable cultural relics.

It is all too common for archaeological excavations to be unrecognizable.

It's just that the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology is, after all, a local archaeological institute, and in terms of vision, it is indeed not as good as the experts of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Fu Pu thought that some items they couldn't recognize, maybe Professor Li and others could recognize what they were.

In addition, the Guangzhou Institute also found some things related to the tomb and may be related to the identity of the tomb's owner, and Fu Pu also hopes to communicate with his colleagues at the Academy of Social Sciences.

After all, everyone will have to open the main tomb together.

"In addition to the common gold, silver, bronze, jade, and lacquered wood wares, we also found some artifacts of other materials in the west ear room."

"Most of it is ivory."

"There were bundles of five raw ivory, but they had rotted into small pieces."

"There are also three depictions of ivory, ivory counting, and residual ivory withered paint."

"In addition to this, there are some minerals of unknown significance, medicinal materials that are not easy to distinguish, and some important sealing mud."

Listening to Fu Pu's introduction, Chen Han kept nodding on the side.

It is not uncommon to find teeth in the tomb of the king of Nanyue.

The Chinese people, in B.C., were no strangers to elephants.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Shixie, who had Jiaozhou, also sent elephants to Sun Quan, and later Sun Quan sent elephants to Cao Cao.

Count further.

In the era of the Yellow Emperor Yandi, elephants were still running in the Yellow River Valley of the Central Plains.

By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, elephants had retreated to the Yangtze River basin for a generation, and elephants were still running in Chu and Lingnan.

By the Han and Han dynasties, elephant habitats gradually shrank to parts of Lingnan and southwest.

At this time, Lingnan became an ivory distribution center.

These ivory were sold to the two counties of Ba and Shu in the Western Han Dynasty, and traded with various primitive tribes in Southeast Asia.

Bao Buqi was also brought to the Middle East by foreign maritime merchants.

It shouldn't be sold to India, because there are more elephants in India.

Therefore, it is very normal for the king of Nanyue to be able to use some ivory products.

These ivory products are not the point.

Fu Pu just led everyone to take a few looks, then skipped these decents and came to the root of the south wall on the west side of the ear chamber.

"Look, gentlemen."

Fu Pu pointed to the five piles of "ores" of different colors that were obviously artificially separated underground, and said with some puzzlement: "These five piles of ores are placed under the root of the south wall in an orderly manner. ”

"All we can tell is that this pile of green should be turquoise."

"There is also this pile of purple ones, it should be amethyst, it is very recognizable."

"The other three ores, I don't know what they are."

"And the strangest thing is, why did the owner of the tomb put five kinds of ores in the burial goods?"

"I have the impression that the Western Han people don't have the custom of burying ores, right?"

There are five piles of ore, which are yellow, dark yellow, red, green, and purple.

Among them, the purple is amethyst, which is the most recognizable.

The green is turquoise, which is also common in tombs, but most of it is made into ornaments, not such primitive minerals.

There are three minerals left, which are relatively difficult to identify.

I'm mainly engaged in archaeology, and I haven't studied mineral research, so I can recognize what these are by color.

In fact, Fu Pu has a better way to identify these minerals.

Just take the sample directly to the Mineral Research Institute for identification.

However, he has a little bit in his heart, and he has the heart to compete with the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

After all, the tomb of the Nanyue King is a project in Guangzhou, and the people from the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences have been parachuted in like this, and Fu Pu is a little resentful in his heart.

So he took advantage of the question to play a role or two, and invited Professor Li and a few people on the grounds that he didn't understand, hoping that they could help answer the answer.

In fact, he simply meant to give Professor Li and Chen Han a little bit of power.

Everyone is engaged in archaeology, and there is no reason why we don't know minerals, and people from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences know about them.

If the people from the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences can't recognize it, doesn't that mean that the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences is nothing remarkable!

It's a pity that Fu Pu's abacus can be said to be wrong.

Professor Li squatted down, randomly selected a pile of yellow ore from the five piles of ore, selected a small one at random, pinched it with his index finger and thumb, and observed it carefully.

"Yellow..."

"Could this be brimstone?"

Without much thought, he picked up the crimson ore again and said affirmatively: "This is ochre, I have seen it in the School of Minerals of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences." ”

"Then the last one, I guess it should be realgar."

"Orange-red minerals are still quite rare, and in this period of the Western Han Dynasty, only realgar can be paid attention to."

"Realgar can be used to make arsenic, this thing is the first poison in ancient times!"

Sulfur, ochre, realgar, these three minerals, were used in Chinese civilization for a long time.

Hearing Professor Li distinguish like this, Chen Han frowned slightly, and said with some uncertainty: "Professor Li, is this a five-color medicinal stone?" ”

"No, Shi Hanzhong said that the "five stones" refer to five kinds of purple stone, white stone, red stone grease, stalactite and sulfur. ”

"There's only brimstone in there."

Five stones are one of the categories of ancient immortals.

In fact, it is a scam made by the Qin and Han alchemists, the famous "elixir".

In ancient times, the search for elixir of life began with Qin Shi Huang, reached its peak during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and continued to be popular until the Wei and Jin dynasties.

During the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he believed in Fangshi Li Shaojun, Luan Da, etc., and smelted minerals such as gold and stone, which was called stone medicine, and also called Wushi San.

The upper class of aristocrats also took it one after another, and it became a trend for a while.

After all, what the emperor believes, can the nobles not believe it?

It was also from the Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin dynasties that the monks and Taoist priests flourished and vigorously developed the "stone medicine technique", and finally formed the so-called Taoist alchemy and the art of outer dan.

These Taoist "alchemy" is not like cultivating immortals, they use precious medicinal materials to make alchemy, they are all "stone medicines" made of colorful minerals!

The most amazing thing is that these monks did not go to the pit to deceive the emperor.

Oh, maybe the Taoist priests invited by Emperor Jiajing later were specially intended to pit the emperor.

However, the alchemists of the Qin and Han dynasties really thought that they could refine the elixir of life!

Not only did they practice by themselves, but they also tried the medicine by themselves, and they ate happily!

I don't know how many monks and Taoist priests have been taking the "stone medicine" made of these minerals for a long time, and then the heavy metal content in the body exceeds the standard and hangs up.

Of course, people will definitely not think that this is an excessive amount of heavy metals, but that after taking too much medicine, they finally abandoned their flesh and became immortals!

However, everything is good and bad, and the chemistry of ancient China was studied by these monks and Taoist priests.

Including the later gunpowder, it was also when the Taoist priest used sulfur to make alchemy, and the fryer exploded a lot, so the gunpowder was developed.

Strictly speaking, gunpowder, one of the four great inventions of China, is actually just an accessory produced when refining the "elixir of life".

And this trend of taking "Wushi San" in order to live forever developed to its peak during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

From Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty himself, down to the princes, princes, princes, Guannei marquis and other nobles at all levels, they ate "Wushi San" at home if they had nothing to do.

The bones of many Western Han nobles have been buried underground for 2,000 years, and the heavy metal content is still seriously exceeded.

It can be seen how widespread the trend of eating Wushi San was at that time.

Zhao Hu happened to be the monarch of Nanyue during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and it was very normal for him to imitate Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, or to accept the social atmosphere of seeking immortality in the Western Han Dynasty.

What monarch doesn't want to be immortal, forever in power, and rule over his country?

What, five stones can be eaten to live forever?

Eat! Eat it in a big bite!