Early in the morning, a middle-aged farmer walks on the ridge of a field humming a song.

He passed by his own field, and after only one glance, he was so shocked that his body was crooked, his feet were mixed, and he fell to the ground.

"Which one lacks virtue to dig my field!"

He lay on the ground, only to see that a big hole had been dug in his field!

This is also too lacking in virtue, and crops are planted in the field!

The farmer scolded, looked around, and stamped his feet in anger.

Not only this field, but also the surrounding fields were destroyed, and the crops were crushed by the mound of earth that had been dug up.

The farmer scoured the surrounding fields and soon found sloping holes in several places.

Compared to the largest pits, the earth caverns are only about four or five meters deep, and they seem to be only tentative excavations from all angles.

"Huh, this can't be a tomb robbery, right?"

Haven't you ever eaten pork and never seen a pig run? The farmer instantly thought that these were stealing holes, and his first reaction was to hurriedly burrow into the holes and grope for them.

Tossed and dusty, but didn't catch anything.

He didn't give up, and changed the hole again, but there was still nothing, and then he went to the biggest pit, jumped down and looked for it, but still found nothing.

"This land has been farmland for generations, how can there be a grave?" the farmer laughed at himself, and climbed up again with great difficulty, and hurried to report it to the village chief.

Soon the people of the village gathered and talked about who had seen the stranger recently.

The village chief jumped into the pit, but it was obvious that the surrounding soil was not the right color, and it seemed to be forged kiln soil.

He asked people to bring a shovel, and after a few more gouging, he found a corner of jade in a piece of dry black mud.

"There's something!" someone saw it and immediately shouted.

Everyone immediately gathered around the entrance of the cave to look, and saw that the village chief had peeled off the piece of soil, and it was a palm-sized Yugui.

Of course, they didn't know that this was Yugui, only that it was a piece of jade with a sharp upper part and a straight lower end, and there were angular raindrop patterns on it.

"Is it an antique?" someone asked

The village chief continued to dig downward, but used his hands instead, and soon a large number of pottery, stoneware, jade, and bronze tools emerged from the soil.

When he saw that there were so many, he quickly stopped and asked someone to pull him up.

"Why don't you dig it up, dig it again!" someone coaxed.

"No one is allowed to go down!" the village chief shouted: "Lao Li, this is your family's field, you can call the Cultural Relics Bureau." ”

He didn't worry about a few little clever ghosts in the village, so he could only watch the scene himself.

When the farmer heard this, he threw away his hoe, and the girl ran to his house.

Everyone looked at him happily, and some people were envious, because if it was really full of antiques underground, the government would inevitably take back the right to use this large piece of land, and Lao Li would receive a lot of compensation.

"Didn't that professor come and investigate twenty years ago? Why didn't he find out? ”

"My field is not far from here, will there be one?"

Seeing that the village chief was here, it was impossible for them to move their minds, so they immediately dispersed and went to dig in their fields to try their luck.

Pick a piece of land, pull out the crops that have been planted, pick up the shovel and start digging.

As a result, when the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau arrived, more than 20 deep pits with cultural relics were dug out by the villagers in a radius of several miles.

The staff of the Cultural Relics Bureau immediately realized that this was not a cemetery, but a large ruin, and immediately notified more people to come and urgently stopped the villagers to stop digging anymore.

Things were tossed until the afternoon of the same day, when a large number of staff took control of the scene, and then learned about the situation.

"What? There were several holes in here before you found out?"

There is no doubt that the first person to discover the ruins was not a farmer, but someone else, who dug several robbery holes overnight in the middle of the night and left at dawn.

In this way, the matter is a big deal, and it is likely that the tomb robbers have learned about the distribution of artifacts underground.

So they immediately hired local villagers to help guard the site, because the area was too large, so it was impossible to rely on a small number of staff.

"Preliminary judgment, it is the ruins of the city. A bespectacled professor went deep into the pit and surveyed it.

"What? I see, old man, the tomb robbers discovered this place earlier than us, and because it was in someone else's field, they dug at night. As a result, after digging something, it was quickly realized that it was not a tomb, so it was withdrawn. Said another expert above.

Professor Fang crawled out and said: "Tomb robbers must not be able to dig a city, they can only try their best to steal as much as possible, there are many precious cultural relics found at the scene, it is conceivable that they must have taken a lot of them." However, several of the robbery holes have not been dug up to the ruins layer at all, probably because time does not allow for further excavation. ”

"It can be speculated that the group of tomb robbers has rich experience in surveying, and Professor Wu led people to survey this place twenty years ago, and at that time he simply tried it with a Luoyang shovel and left. Another expert said.

Professor Fang said with a smile: "What conditions were there twenty years ago? The Luoyang shovel is not omnipotent. But this group of tomb robbers is really powerful, and the soil and moisture content under this farmland are so large, they can even find ruins?"

Everyone laughed at the fact that this was a typical case of tomb robbers stimulating archaeology, which was common decades ago.

There are basically only three ways to find the archaeological site, and the state has given instructions for a certain archaeological project, and professionals take the initiative to find it.

Farmers dig wells, or engineering teams inadvertently dig them.

Finally, there are the tomb robbers, who use their exquisite skills to dig up first.

As they spoke, a young doctor came running on the other side, holding a rusted square tripod in his hand.

Professor Fang took a look and was stunned: "Old Chen, isn't this a site from the early Neolithic Age?"

Professor Chen frowned, and also went up to see, as soon as he came, he went to the local villagers to learn about the situation, and heard that there were a large number of stone tools and jade, so he took the first step to judge that it was a Neolithic site, in fact, he had not had time to carefully study the cultural relics found.

At this moment, I knew that something was wrong, although the bronze in front of me was rusted into a lump, but there was no patina in some places, revealing delicate lines, and it could be seen from the tip of this iceberg that it should have been very exquisite.

In other words, this is a pre-Shang site with copper and stone, and it is also from the Xia Dynasty at the latest.

"Professor, all the cultural relics dug up by the local villagers have been recovered, and there are a large number of jade and bronze objects. The young doctor said.

The two hurriedly followed and looked, and saw hundreds of jade huang, jade walls, jade shovels, copper tripods, copper mustaches, copper ge, copper bells, and copper ornaments scattered on the ground......

Among them, the jade is extremely exquisite, and the artistic style is very different from the Longshan culture and Erlitou culture of this generation, and the ornamentation is very different.

"Hurry up and get the emergency approval, we have to make a rescue excavation as soon as possible. Professor Chen hurriedly called the director and said.

Director Leng said: "Lao Chen, what are you anxious about?"

Professor Chen said: "The bronze has been discovered, can I not be in a hurry? Judging from the degree of corrosion, the site should have been soaked in water for a long time, and there are tomb robbers eyeing it, so I don't think there is any need to wait." ”

"I see, the approval will come down soon. As soon as the director heard this, he knew that the site had to be excavated as soon as possible.

That night, in order to prevent tomb robbers from digging holes nearby, all the staff stayed at the scene to guard, and local villagers were also hired to patrol.

The next morning, the Provincial Institute of Archaeology arrived to conduct a preliminary exploration of the entire site.

Three days later, the land use rights have been handed over, the approvals have been handed down, and the site has been cleaned up.

A professional archaeological team from the province began the first phase of salvage excavations.

After four days of continuous work, the pit expanded larger and larger, more and more cultural relics, and a large number of jade, pottery, and bronze objects were excavated every day.

Among them, the number of pottery is the largest, and in a short period of time, it is as high as 200,000 pieces!

Bronzes followed, with more than 16,000 pieces, and most of them were weapons.

Sadly, the vast majority of bronzes are badly damaged, not by man-made, but by water!

And geologically, the site was covered by floods and sediment.

Thankfully, the complex is well preserved!

The whole city is pressed under the sediment as a whole, and as long as it is carefully excavated, the appearance of the whole city can be restored.

However, as the excavation progressed, everyone was confused again.

Because the site excavated pieces of copper casting, pottery workshop ruins, has been found 200,000 square meters!

The scale is rare in the world!

For a time, archaeologists wondered if this was the ruins of an ancient city, and if it was a city, why were all the buildings of smelting and production?

"It's very likely that this is a city dedicated to forging and production, and it must not be the capital of a certain culture. ”

"Could this be the industrial center of the Xia Dynasty?"

"It may also be a military center, which cannot be broken for the time being, from a cultural point of view, it does not belong to Erlitou or Longshan culture, which may be a vassal culture of the Central Plains......"

"Vassal, you have no basis for this, this is Xinzheng, located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, from the jade point of view, it is very similar to the Longshan culture, it must be a transitional culture between Yu and Xia. ”

Judging from such a strong bronze productivity, this should be the same culture as the Xia Dynasty. ”

Archaeologists debated until someone excavated a bronze sacred tree from the ruins......

"Huh, wouldn't it? It actually belongs to the same type as Sanxingdui culture?"

Sanxingdui is no longer an independent and isolated culture, it has branches and leaves!"

"The Central Plains and Shu are far apart, but they have extremely close exchanges. It is very likely that the people of this city have both the culture of the Yangtze River basin and the Yellow River basin, which is why this is the case. ”

"So...... Is it a 颛顼?"

The people present were all bigwigs, and they quickly thought of Zhuan, because the literature records that the ancestors of Zhuan were sealed to Shu, and after several generations, Zhuan became the lord of the Central Plains.

Therefore, the Central Plains and Shu were in the pre-Shang period, and the era of the closest exchanges was most likely the era of Zhuan.

If this is true, then the emergence of bronze technology has advanced at least five hundred years. ”

"It can't be the capital, although it hasn't been excavated yet, but such a large-scale group of workshop ruins will inevitably have a corresponding division for workers to live in, so it will occupy at least 300,000 to 400,000 square meters, which is obviously not a political center. The capital of this culture can only be said to have not been discovered, and we have only discovered this smelting city. ”

"In addition to the undiscovered national capital, there were large-scale, centralized, and specialized smelting and production cities...... In the Zhuan era, the technology was even more advanced than that of Yaodu? The Yaoshun period was a technological regression?"

Archaeologists were shocked and inexplicable, and they guessed that the site of the Tao Temple was Yaodu, and there were also bronzes, but from the perspective of productivity, it was far worse than this city.

If it is really the era of Zhuan, it means that after the death of Zhuan, there was a cultural interruption and a regression in technology.

At the time of Tang Yu, the advanced bronze technology of the Zhuan period was lost.

"Wait a minute, I know what that might be...... The ruins of Zhurong are right! Ancient history records that the ruins of Zhurong are in Xinzheng. ”

"Yes, yes, the ruins of Zhurong, since they are called ruins, it means that they have long been abandoned, judging from the scene, it was caused by floods, and the whole city was covered under sediment, so it was renamed Zhurong Ruins from Zhurong country. ”

"Gonggong is in charge of the water conservancy project, and I wish Rongrong to take charge of the 'Huoli' project, that is, smelting and manufacturing!"

"Not only that, Zhu Rong is also a military commander, so Zhu Rongguo is the Ministry of Defense in ancient times!"

"This place is responsible for the production of large quantities of ordnance, and it is also the industrial center of the Central Plains. ”

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