Master Archaeologist

Chapter 143
Xianggang, on the leveled ground, there are a bunch of excavators randomly parked, but no one is working.

Nearly a hundred construction workers gathered on a piece of land that had just been leveled.

After the leveling operation, the sand, gravel and soil layers on this land have disappeared, replaced by pieces of stone slabs with regular shapes.

The gaps between these stone slabs are narrow, and they are well placed. At first glance, they are artificially made, and cannot be "nature's uncanny workmanship".

This also made the workers on site very curious.

A few curious workers stretched out their pickaxes and pried them along a gap between one of the stone slabs.

The two stone slabs that were originally joined together were quickly lifted, revealing a bottomless dark hole under the stone slabs.

"We won't dig up the military's fortifications, will we?"

"I heard that in the 60s, the military built a large number of air-raid shelters, which were to dig hollows and build holes in hills, hillsides, and even mountains!"

A few workers in their forties were discussing with some uncertainty.

Some people even think that this may be a secret base left by aliens, which is used by aliens to monitor the people on earth, and they have unintentionally dug it up.

Just when these construction workers were talking about it.

Several cars drove in from the gate of the construction site in a hurry, and before they stopped, the director, deputy director, and senior researchers of the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology couldn't wait to get out of the car and ran towards the construction direction.

While running, they shouted: "Don't move! Don't destroy the tomb site!"

Don't blame them for being in a hurry.

The staff of the archaeological institute who received the report from the construction site cannot pay too much attention to it.

This Xianggang, but the soil layer was cut 17 meters in advance, and then the construction began.

In other words, this tomb was buried at a depth of 20 meters!
In the tombs of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, basically none of them were buried so deep.

Only the high-standard noble tombs of the Han and Jin dynasties, that is, those of the princes and kings, can have such deep tombs.

For Guangzhou archaeology, it is already a very, very important discovery to have tombs from the Han and Jin Dynasties!

After all, in that era, the Guangdong region had just begun to be valued by the Central Plains Dynasty.

It was not until the middle of the Western Han Dynasty that Guangdong was first developed by the Central Plains Dynasty, and then it was not until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty that Lingnan developed for the first time.

In the previous archaeological discoveries in the Lingnan area, there were basically no tombs before the Han Dynasty. Although some tombs from the Han Dynasty were discovered, most of them were not the tombs of high-ranking nobles.

There are only some small tombs, and a small number of weapons, pottery, and a few bronzes in the style of Chu, Qin, and Han dynasties have been unearthed.

It can only be regarded as the tombs of some "scholar" classes.

As for the large noble tombs, the unearthed records are 0!

Now a tomb is buried 20 meters deep in the ground, and a large tomb with a stone top appears. How can the people of the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology be kept from being excited.

Yes, they were almost sure it was a tomb.

Holding a flashlight, Fu Pu, the director of the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology, rushed to the side of the deep black hole opened by the workers. He didn't think the soil on the ground was dirty. He lay down on the ground and shone the flashlight into the hole.

Following the light of the flashlight, he leaned over and looked inside.

I saw a huge space inside the cave, rough stone walls, and a huge bronze tripod placed in the visible corner.

Fu Pu's heart immediately jumped uncontrollably.

The appearance of this bronze tripod directly shows that this is by no means an ordinary tomb of the Jin Dynasty or later!

tripod!
Copper tripod!

This is at least an artifact unearthed from tombs before the Han Dynasty!
And it has to be at the level of a prince!
It is a funerary artifact that can only be owned by the princes and kings of the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties!

"There is a copper tripod!"

"This is a big tomb!"

Fu Pu shouted excitedly.

The other staff members of the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology also leaned over and looked at the area illuminated by the flashlight.

"Bronze?"

"The country of Fulou? The country of Yangyu? Or the country of Huandou?"

"Or Xiou and Luo Yue?"

"What are you thinking? How could those ancient countries have such productivity and build stone tombs?"

"It must be from the South Vietnamese country!"

Others were also discussing in one go, with excitement on their faces.

Although Lingnan is said to have been developed by the Central Plains Dynasty after the Han Dynasty.

But this does not mean that there is no local civilization in Lingnan.

During the Shang and Western Zhou dynasties, the Guangdong region had economic and cultural exchanges with the Central Plains.

About 4900 to 4700 years ago, an ancient country of Cangwu was born here.

Cangwu was a very large tribe in Baiyue during its heyday. According to historical records, as early as the Shun Yao period, Cangwu Kingdom was formed, an ancient Fang Kingdom that existed at the same time as the Yao and Shun tribes in the Central Plains.

In the eastern and northeastern parts of Guangdong, there are also ancient kingdoms established by the Minyue and Wuyue tribes, who were the ancestors of the later Ou and Luo countries.

Not to mention, apart from these big tribes, the Lingnan area was also known as "Baiyue" back then, and countless Yue tribes survived here.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, these Yue tribes also established many Fang Kingdoms, which were recorded by the Central Plains Dynasty.

Especially the state of Chu, half of them were vassal states of the Zhou royal family, and half of them were the Fang State of Yue people to the south of Chu state.

Otherwise, how did the Chu people who lived in the lower reaches of the Huai River, that is, in the south of AH, expand their country to the land of Jingchu?

Some of the Yue people who were wiped out by the Chu State continued to migrate to the lower reaches of the Huai River and became the later Yue State.

Of course, Chu’s expansion to the south was also limited. Further south, in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions in the south of the Lingnan, there were still some small Baiyue countries, such as Fulou and Yangyu, which were Fang countries in the Pearl River Delta region.

"Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" says: "Fulou Kingdom, Yangyu Kingdom, and Huandou Kingdom all have no rulers", which means that these countries are still in the tribal age and are very primitive.

However, in 2013, the Guangzhou Archaeological Institute discovered more than 300 tombs in the pre-Qin period in the water network area of ​​the Pearl River Delta.

Bronze wares such as bronze tripods and bronze bells, as well as a large number of pottery, primitive celadon wares, jade wares and iron wares were unearthed.

The academic circles mostly believe that this is the cultural relic of the ancient Fulou state. Judging from the unearthed relics, the Fulou state had entered the social form of the Fang state at that time, and it was not a primitive clan society with "no king".

It can also be inferred from this that the situation in Huandou Kingdom in Guangdong, or other Fang countries, is roughly the same.

However, these tombs in the pre-Qin period were all primitive vertical pit tombs, and there were no such things as bricks in Lingnan at that time.

Even if there is, it is impossible to be extravagant enough to build a tomb.

But the tomb in front of Xianggang is a typical stone tomb!
This kind of huge tomb is usually built with stones to form a tomb, and the tomb is buried deep in the ground, and people must pass through a narrow vertical passage to enter the tomb.

This is obviously not a large tomb that these backward Baiyue Fangguo can build.

Each of the excavated roof stones must weigh one or two tons!
Only the princes who may be in the Han Dynasty have this financial and material resources, as well as the most important productivity!

Therefore, all the archaeologists present knew who was buried in this tomb.

In the Han Dynasty, no matter whether it was the Eastern Han Dynasty or the Western Han Dynasty, there were no princes and kings surnamed Liu who were enfeoffed in several counties in the south of the Five Ridges.

However, in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, there was a separatist force on the Lingnan side, a country established by the Qin Empire army!
It is the first complete dynastic regime in the history of Lingnan, Nanyue Kingdom!

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Zhao Tuo, the captain of Nanhai County, took advantage of the death of Qin Dynasty, sealed off Juedao, and annexed Guilin County and Xiang County in the south of Lingnan.

In the third year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (204 BC), the Nanyue Kingdom was formally established with Panyu as its capital.

In the 11th year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Nanyue Kingdom became a vassal state of the Han Dynasty.

In the autumn of the fifth year of Yuan Ding (112 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che launched a war against Nanyue.

In the winter of the sixth year of Yuanding (111 BC), the Nanyue Kingdom was destroyed.

From the founding monarch Zhao Tuo to the subjugated monarch Zhao Jiande, the Nanyue Kingdom has experienced a total of five kings, who have lived in the country for 93 years.

There is no doubt that this tomb is located in the center of modern Guangzhou and originally belonged to the Xianggang tomb of the ancient city of Panyu.

The buried one was a Nanyue monarch!
　I have something to do today, I wrote it late, maybe there will be two updates.

　　
　
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