Master Archaeologist

Chapter 224 Whose Tomb Is This?
Rewind time a few days.

In the afternoon of April 2020, 4.

In Guanxi Village, Datangping Township, Xinjian District, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, a villager named Judeyu has nothing to do. He plans to take a walk up the mountain and buy some wild products to eat at home.

In April, it is the time when the delicacies are exposed to the soil. At this time, the delicacies are very tender and taste very delicious.

Carrying a hoe, Jude Yu went up the mountain wearing rain boots.

It's just that he hadn't picked many mountain treasures during his trip to pick wild goods, and he accidentally discovered a deep well on the mountain.

Next to the well head, there is also a tool with a cable wound around it.

How could someone come to dig a well in this wilderness?

Jude Yu leaned forward curiously to look, and the mouth of the "well" was so deep that he couldn't see anything.

Immediately, he felt something was wrong.

After thinking about it for a while, Jude Yu figured it out, this is not a well!
This is clearly a robbery hole!
After thinking about this, he immediately took out his mobile phone and contacted the city's Cultural Relics Bureau.

The cultural relics bureau in the city goes to the countryside every year to inform the villagers about the dangers of tomb robbery and how to contact them after discovering a robbery cave.

Jiangxi has been the long-term residence of Chinese people since Chu State, not to mention that there are many dynasties in history that have developed Jiangxi many times.

So there are a lot of ancient tombs in Jiangxi.

In addition to the mountains in Jiangxi, there are also many legends about the tombs of nobles.

Therefore, in the field of tomb robbery, Jiangxi is also a relatively popular place.

Every year, there are many gangs of tomb robbers, drilling around in the wild mountains of Jiangxi, trying to find some big tombs and get rich overnight.

Naturally, the local bureau of cultural relics has also done a good job in publicizing the protection of cultural relics and how to deal with the discovery of robbery caves.

After Judeyu made this phone call and reported it layer by layer, the Jiangxi Cultural Relics Bureau was soon alerted.

The Jiangxi Cultural Relics Bureau immediately dispatched an archaeological team from the Jiangxi Institute of Archaeology, together with the local police, to conduct an archaeological survey of the area around the robbery cave.

Sheng Yiding, a researcher from the Jiangxi Institute of Archaeology, arrived at the scene. After surveying, he quickly determined that this was a robbery cave with a depth of 15 meters.

And the digging of this robbery hole is very professional!

Looking at the dark hole in front of him, Sheng Yiding felt very complicated.

Looking at it this way, nine out of ten cultural relics have been stolen, or may have been seriously damaged, which is a huge loss to the country.

But things have happened, and no regrets will help.

Sheng Yiding had no choice but to report the situation immediately.

Soon, the director of the Jiangxi Institute of Archeology personally led the team, leading an archaeological team composed of more than 20 members of the Jiangxi Institute of Archaeology and the Nanchang Institute of Archaeology, they went up the mountain and began to explore the stolen tomb.

"According to the local villagers, it is said that some time ago, a group of outsiders in the village were sleeping during the day and wandering around the nearby Dundun Mountain with flashlights at night."

"This pier mountain is the ancestral grave of local villagers."

"However, because of the age, most of the tombs have been moved away, and now few villagers come here to worship their ancestors."

"It is probably because of this reason that tomb robbers have their eyes on the tombs on Mt. Dundun."

He Yang, the leader of the Nanchang Archaeological Institute, seriously told everyone in the archaeological team what he had heard from the villagers.

"No, this is definitely not an ordinary villager's ancestral grave!" Wen Yuangen, director of the Jiangxi Archaeological Institute, squatting next to the robbery cave, said with a frown: "It has been measured just now."

"This robbery hole is actually 15 meters deep!"

"15 meters! This is the standard above the royal tomb in all dynasties!"

The 15-meter-deep robbery hole is obviously not the ancestral grave of an ordinary villager.

Besides, the ancestral graves of ordinary villagers can't attract grave robbers.

Even if the villager's ancestors were some kind of landlord or tyrant in the village, it is far from possible to tempt the tomb robbers.

"Which princes and kings were enshrined here in the history of Nanchang?" Wen Yuangen rubbed his chin in thought.

"The vassal kings entrusted in Jiangxi in the Ming Dynasty are the Ning Fan royal line headed by Zhu Yuanzhang's No. 16 son Ning Xianwang Zhu Quan who founded the country in Nanchang!"

"No, Zhu Quan's tomb has been found, in Huangyuan Village, Shibu Town, next to Xinjian District!"

"What about the other royal tombs of the Ning dynasty?"

"I didn't find it."

Several archaeologists were whispering to each other about which princes and kings who lived in Nanchang in history would be the tomb of this 15-meter-deep king.

After discussing for a while, everyone roughly judged that this tomb should be the tomb of King Ning.

Before the Ming Dynasty, no princes and kings were granted the title of Nanchang.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a lineage of King Ning who was established in Nanchang.

Therefore, this tomb should probably be the tomb of King Ning of the Ming Dynasty.

I just don't know which King Ning it is.

Just after the initial confirmation, Wen Yuangen planned to apply to the higher authorities for rescue excavation of this tomb.

A researcher from the Nanchang Institute of Archeology raised his hand weakly and said, "Um, is it possible that this tomb is the tomb of Marquis Haihun?"

As soon as his question came out, all the archaeologists present were stunned.

Hou Haihun.

This is an unusual character.

The title of Marquis Haihun was conferred by the Western Han Dynasty, which was inherited by later generations and passed on for 4 generations until the Eastern Han Dynasty.The first Marquis of Haihun was the former king of Changyi, that is, Liu He, the deposed emperor of Han Dynasty.

Liu He, the deposed emperor of the Han Dynasty, is not generally famous.

Just because he is Huo Guang, the power minister of the Western Han Dynasty, the emperor who abolished himself!

His life was very tortuous. During his 33 years in the world, he experienced the transformation of the three identities of king, emperor and marquis.

He is the grandson of Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the son of Liu Wei, King Ai of Changyi, the ninth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, and the emperor with the shortest reign in the history of the Western Han Dynasty.

Even the emperor who was not officially recognized by the Western Han Dynasty.

In the first year of Houyuan (88 BC), King Ai Liu of Changyi died.

In the first year of Shiyuan (86 BC), Liu He became the second king of Changyi in the Western Han Dynasty at the age of four or five.

In the first year of Yuanping (74 BC), Emperor Zhaodi of the Han Dynasty died. Because he had no son, Liu He was conscripted into the court and made the crown prince.

On Bingyin day in June, Liu He accepted the emperor's seal and inherited the emperor's title.

However, more than ten days after Liu He ascended the throne, Huo Guang and Zhang Anshi planned to abolish him.

On Guisi day in June, that is, the 27th day of Liu He's reign, he was deposed as a common man because of his excessive debauchery and failure to protect the country. He was known as the deposed emperor of the Han Dynasty in history.

The emperor who succeeded him was Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty who later rejuvenated the Western Han Dynasty!

As for Liu He, after being deposed as the emperor, he was not granted death. Instead, he was renamed Haihunhou, and went to Haihun County, Yuzhang County to settle in the country.

In the fourth year after entering the country, Liu He ended his rough and tortuous life in his fief Haihun County.

This Marquis of Haihun is full of mystery and legend.

After all, his identity has undergone a transformation from king to emperor to lieutenant.

And in the center of the vortex, he personally experienced and witnessed how Huo Guang, who was in power, abolished the monarch.

Perhaps it is also because of this that he died young at the age of 33.

If this tomb is really the tomb of Marquis Haihun, it would be too extraordinary!

(End of this chapter)