Master Archaeologist

Chapter 252 A sad and lamentable life.

In the afternoon, the archaeologists who had been excavating for a whole morning gathered around the open-air canteen next to the construction site to eat.

Holding an iron plate full of three dishes and one soup, Chen Han sat next to Kong Jianwen, and asked while putting rice into his mouth:
"Teacher, the scholars in the base have researched that bronze vessel that looks like a still. Are you sure it's a still?"

Kong Jianwen, who was sipping seaweed and egg drop soup, shook his head: "Several experts agree with our guess that this may be a still."

"But there is a lack of actual proof."

"Now they plan to imitate an identical one based on the style of this utensil, and try to test whether it can be used for distillation."

"If it works, you should be sure it's the distiller."

"The history of the emergence of liquor in our country will also be advanced by more than a thousand years!"

Chen Han nodded. There was no rush for this kind of thing, he just asked casually.

This is a great discovery that can change the history of Huaxia Baijiu, and it cannot be overstated.

"Most of the lacquerware cleaned up in the kitchen utensils have the words "Nine Years of Changyi" and "Eleven Years of Changyi". It seems that Liu He's life experience is indeed divided into two parts. The period of the king, and the period after being deposed."

Chen Han sighed while eating.

On a large number of unearthed cultural relics, written records of the Changyi Year have been found.

This shows that most of the burial objects in this tomb were made by Liu He when he was king of Changyi.

Liu He was the king of Changyi for a total of 12 years. In the No. 12 year, he was proclaimed emperor, and then he was deposed after working for 27 days.

Among the cultural relics unearthed so far, the most recent ones are those made in the 11th year of Changyi.

After the year of Changyi, from 74 BC to 63 BC, during the period after Liu He was abolished, the title of king of Changyi was gone, and the Marquis of Haihun had not yet been conferred.

It was not until AD 63 that he was granted the title of Marquis of Haihun, and he died in 59 BC.

In fact, he only served as Haihunhou for four years.

In the tomb, basically no cultural relics with the word "Haihun" were unearthed.

Perhaps Liu He has seen through many things during the nine years of being relegated to the rank of common people.

After he regained the title of Marquis of Haihun, he never made any new utensils, and kept using the utensils he made when he was the king of Changyi.

From the unearthed cultural relics, it can be seen that his life is divided into two very different periods.

During the period of King Changyi, he inherited the throne at the age of four or five and became the king of princes.

The ministers under him are all humerus ministers left by his father. It can be said that during the 12 years he was king of Changyi, he was very happy, like soaking in a honeypot.

Life is luxurious, there is no shortage of material comforts, and various utensils are newly manufactured every year.

But at the same time, the ministers left by his father were still doing their duty, teaching Liu He how to be a qualified prince and king, guiding him to study poetry and books, and guiding him to like reading.

However, a big pie that fell from the sky suddenly hit him on the head.

Liu He, who had no relationship with the throne at all, was suddenly proclaimed emperor.

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, Liu He, who had never received an emperor's education and didn't know how to be an emperor, became the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty.

It is obviously unrealistic for Liu He, who can only be a vassal king, to use his experience as a vassal king to build his own Western Han Empire.

Then it encountered a heavy blow from reality and was abolished by Huo Guang at the speed of light.

Don't look at the difference between princes, kings and emperors, it seems that there is only one level difference, but the difference is thousands of miles away!

To be a vassal king in the Western Han Dynasty, you basically don't have to think about the struggle between the courtiers, the balance of power among the courtiers, and worry that the courtiers will make themselves empty.

Because there is an emperor on the head of the princes and kings, the emperor will not just watch his relatives of the Liu family being emptied by his courtiers.

Therefore, the courtiers of the princes and kings were very obedient and obedient, and even directly loyal to the Central Committee of the Western Han Dynasty, not the princes and kings themselves.

Therefore, in daily life, as long as the princes and kings refrain from such insane things as rebellion and incest, basically everything will go along with the princes and kings.

And Liu He, who was used to Shun, naturally thought that being an emperor was so easy, and that all his officials were very obedient and obeyed his own government orders.

So, in front of Huo Guang, he arranged all kinds of confidantes, intending to control the court and become the real emperor.

This behavior naturally angered Huo Guang.

After being abolished, Liu He thought about the first half of his life every day in the eight or nine years since he was abolished.

Seeing how Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, who was in the same situation as him and even had a worse start than him, took down the Huo family step by step and regained control of the ruling and opposition parties.

Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, who came from a folk background and did not have a minister of Changyi as a helper, undoubtedly taught Liu He a lesson by hand, letting him know how to play a perfect ending.

When Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty killed the Huo family and his throne was completely consolidated, Liu He, who was no longer threatened, also regained the title of Marquis of Haihun.

But at this time, after watching the cruel political struggle with cold eyes and understanding the cruelty of the competition for the throne, he has matured.

He no longer spends money on meaningless luxuries, as he did in his youth.

And more than once, he wrote to Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, wanting to contribute to the country and serve His Majesty.

But how could Liu He, who had been the emperor for 27 days, be accepted by Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.

Among the wooden tablets unearthed in the XZ room, many of them are memorials written by Haihunhou to work in the central government.

However, throughout his life, Liu He never stepped out of Haihun County.

It was also because Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty was unwilling to see Liu He again at all, so after only four years as Haihunhou in Haihun County, Liu He, who was only 33 years old, died of depression.

His life is undoubtedly sad and debatable.

He obviously did nothing wrong, but he was too naive and did not understand the cruelty of imperial power struggles and political struggles, so he was regarded as a typical example of a foolish emperor in history books, and has been misunderstood by the world for more than 2000 years.

Perhaps until his death, he would be indignant at the reason why he was abolished because of "faintness and immorality".

But after the dust settled, he had nowhere to turn back.

Even in the last few years of his life, he continued to express his loyalty to Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty. He wanted to become an official in the court, and he wanted to wash away the label of "faint and immoral" by his own efforts, and wanted to leave a legacy for future generations. Be clean.

But Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty obviously didn't want this "faint emperor" to stand up in the history books, nor did he want him to make any contribution to the Western Han Dynasty.

Even if he has grown into a qualified politician after more than ten years of precipitation, that won't work!
Because if the Hunjun is not the Hunjun, then he, the emperor who succeeds the Hunjun, will shake the rationality of imperial power!

Political struggle is so cruel!

Liu He is doomed, he can only carry the title of "faint lord" and end his sad and lamentable life in obscurity!
This is the greatest contribution he can make to Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.

It's just that this person probably has a grudge for thousands of years.

"Xiao Chen, we had a meeting and discussed it, and plan to officially start the excavation of the main tomb next week."

Kong Jianwen's words interrupted Chen Han who was deep in thought and sigh.

He froze for a moment, then came back to his senses: "The main tomb is going to be opened?!"

(End of this chapter)