Master Archaeologist

Chapter 146 Arrival at the scene
Although compared with the cities in the Central Plains, Guangzhou has a poorer historical background.

However, because of the Chinese people's good habit of recording history, there are also many official or private history books in Guangzhou.

Among the Guangzhou historical documents handed down from generation to generation, the three most famous works are "Baiyongs of the South China Sea" written by Fang Xinru in the Southern Song Dynasty, "Miscellaneous Songs of the South China Sea" written by Zhang Xie in the Ming Dynasty, and "Sequel to Baiyongs of the South China Sea" written by Fan Feng of the Qing Dynasty.

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

Since we want to do archaeology in Guangzhou, the first thing to do is to understand the city of Guangzhou.

Also in "Baiyong of the South China Sea", Chen Han saw the record about Sun Quan excavating the tomb of the Nanyue king.

In fact, the tomb of the Nanyue king has always been a legend in Guangzhou.

Zhao Tuo, the founding monarch of the country, fought for more than 70 years to create the great cause of Nanyue Kingdom.

Throughout his long life, he was constantly preparing for his mausoleum after death.

After all, he has been with Qin Shihuang before, and he is no stranger to Qin Shihuang's mausoleum.

In the last few decades of his life, he has been carefully arranging the affairs of the afterlife.

In order to prevent the tomb from being stolen after death, he sent important officials to dig dozens of suspicious tombs in the vast mountains outside the capital Panyu.

After his death, Zhao Hu, who succeeded him, also held a secret and grand state funeral for him.

But where and where he was buried has always been an eternal mystery.

Because when Zhao Hu was at the funeral, he arranged for four funeral teams to hold high the flags and escort the identical coffins from all directions, starting from the four gates of Panyu City, and arriving at different burial places.

In addition, Zhao Tuo himself had dug dozens of suspicious tombs before his death, making it even more difficult to find his real tomb location.

Later, Cao Cao's so-called 72 suspected tombs 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 be buried with him.

Therefore, for more than 2000 years, the tomb of the Nanyue king has always been one of the focuses of folk tomb robbers.

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

After Sun Quan took Lingnan that year, because he had to resist Cao Wei, military expenditures have been tight. In addition, it is said 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 Nanyue King Zhao Tuo.

In order to seek the legendary huge funeral treasure, he once ordered the general Lu Yu to lead an army of 5000 people to search everywhere in the Lingnan area, and the goal was directly to the tomb of the king of Nanyue.

However, the [-] army searched across the mountains for half a year, but they did not find Zhao Tuo's tomb, but they did find the tombs of some ordinary South Vietnamese nobles.

In the end, after digging three feet, only the tomb of Zhao Yingqi, the third king of South Vietnam, was found.

Moreover, no shocking treasures were unearthed from Zhao Yingqi's tomb.

At least for Sun Quan, who has to support 20 troops, it is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket.

After that, he also stopped thinking about continuing to search for Zhao Tuo's tomb.

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

Some people even suspected that Zhao Tuo was not buried in Panyu, but secretly buried in a remote place in the Nanyue Kingdom at that time.

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

There are many precious treasures in the ancient tomb, and the burial objects are rich, but the inner and outer coffins are empty.

This is a bit in line with Zhao Tuo's "suspected tomb", but it makes archaeologists a little more confident that Zhao Tuo's tomb is in Guangzhou.

The real tombs of the Nanyue royal family should be hidden in the vast mountains of Guangzhou, but they have not been discovered yet.

Now, this is not the only one found.

After Chen Han sorted out the information he had searched carefully in his mind, he let out a long sigh of relief.

In any case, even if the tomb of Zhao Tuo was not discovered this time, it is already certain that the tomb of the King of Nanyue did not come out of nothing, and it is undoubtedly located in Lingnan.

That's good news.

In the afternoon of April 2019, 10.

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

Everyone has become accustomed to the temporary cancellation of the holiday, and they don't think it's a big deal.

Instead, they rested for three months, which made everyone look forward to the next archaeological project.

After arriving at Baiyun International Airport, a group of people, led by Kong Jianwen, took the bus directly, dropped off their luggage at the hotel, and went straight to the excavation site.

The archaeological excavation site this time is in the center of Guangzhou, surrounded by bustling downtown areas, so there is no need to worry about basic necessities of life, and no need to live in prefabricated houses.

Xianggang is actually not big, only 360 meters long from north to south and 200 meters wide from east to west.

The original hilltop is about 50 meters high, but it has been cut down by 20 meters due to construction.

And the Nanyue king's tomb is just below the peak of Xianggang.

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

After showing their work permits, a group of more than ten people entered the construction area of ​​Xianggang and walked to the top of the post.

This time, the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences did not dispatch most of its personnel, but only sent a dozen or so archaeologists from the Qin and Han Research Offices and the Xia, Shang and Zhou Research Offices.

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

Because Professor Li is the authority on Qin and Han archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences.

He and Kong Jianwen are also old partners.

Because the research period of the two is relatively recent, they are basically dispatched jointly.

When the project was archaeological in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, Kong Jianwen was in charge, and Professor Li helped.

When the project was archaeological in the Qin and Han Dynasties, Professor Li was in charge, and Kong Jianwen was in charge.

There is a specialization in the art industry!

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

"Oh, I'm looking forward to you guys!"

"Comrades from the Central Committee have come, so we dare to start work!"

"If you do the math, it will take us 30 years in Guangzhou without the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences coming!"

The heads of the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology and the Guangdong Institute of Archaeology who had been waiting on the post for a long time welcomed Chen Han and the others with a half-hearted smile.

The tone is not very good.

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

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

The Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology, which lacked large-scale and heavyweight archaeological projects, finally found a large tomb of the Nanyue Kingdom.

It was fine if the Guangdong Institute of Archaeology above came to share a piece of the pie, but people from the Institute of Archeology 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 also pretended not to understand, shook hands with them with smiles on their faces, and said:
"As soon as we heard your report, the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage immediately submitted a joint report and applied for excavation."

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

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

Grass!
Departments that apply for archaeological excavation rights are tough.

Without the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, they really couldn't apply to their superiors to take the initiative to excavate this tomb of the Nanyue Kingdom!
"Since we're all here, let's go to the tomb to see the situation first."

He was also the leader of the Guangdong Institute of Archaeology. He was more tactful and skipped the topic without leaving any traces. He took Chen Han and the others to the excavation site.

Kong Jianwen, who took advantage of his mouth, did not pursue it. He came to Guangzhou to work, not to talk.

Everyone followed the leaders of the Guangdong and Guangzhou Archaeological Institutes in a regular manner. After walking for about a hundred meters, a tomb passage with a diameter of about two meters appeared in front of everyone.

Dark, deep, bottomless.

(End of this chapter)