Master Archaeologist

Chapter 31 What happened because of a radar station...

To the north of Jingzhou City, about five kilometers away, the southeast corner of Jinan City, the ancient capital of Chu, is currently under construction.

Jingzhou is a city with a long history.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it had already become an important capital of the Chu State.

Therefore, the local infrastructure department is not likely to make large-scale construction projects outside the urban area, especially in such a historically capital city.

Afraid of accidentally digging a grave.

You know, once the ancient tomb is dug up at the construction site and reported to the government by the supervisor, then you should immediately prepare to stop work.

And at least half a year must be shut down!

The government will send archaeologists to determine the age of the ancient tomb and carry out rescue excavations.

This is a half-year construction period!
What construction company can afford to wait?

Therefore, for projects undertaken by private companies, if an excavator digs out an ancient tomb with a shovel, the project leader of the chicken thief will immediately take advantage of the supervisor's inattention and let the cement truck directly fill half of the car with cement, so that the tomb will not be fully filled. leave traces.

It's just that not every time an ancient tomb is dug up, it can be hidden from the supervisor.

Therefore, the construction companies in Jingzhou, except for the state-owned infrastructure companies, are basically not willing to undertake some development work in the wilderness.

There are not too many examples in Xi'an.

Not to mention far away, the Metro Line 8 under construction in Xi'an has been under construction for a year, and dozens of ancient tombs have been excavated!
The tomb of Sima in the Han Dynasty has not been cleaned up here, and a Jiedu envoy from the Tang Dynasty has been dug out there, and there are still two princesses queuing up at the next stop.

The construction of Line 8 is basically at a standstill stage, and 12 months out of 10 months in a year are spent on archaeological cleanup.

The locals in Xi'an joked that they did not expect that the Bureau of Cultural Relics and the Archaeological Team would be the busiest to build a subway.

The ground in Xi'an is full of nobles and grandchildren. Any infrastructure company facing the land in Xi'an will be several circles larger at the other end.

Although Jingzhou is not the ancient capital of 13 dynasties compared to Xi'an, as the capital of the Chu State during the Warring States Period, it is also a lot of trouble.

There is no simple tomb in the Warring States period, no one dares to build a large building in this place!
However, some things have to be done.

The local garrison department decided to build a radar station on Phoenix Mountain outside the city after conducting a thorough investigation and considering the actual needs of the military.

Repairing a radar station is not an easy task.

Moreover, the reason why the local Phoenix Mountain is valued by the military is because it has a good view and is the highest mountain nearby.

It's just that for the ancients, this kind of place is usually regarded as a unique geomantic treasure!
There will definitely be no shortage of tombs in Phoenix Mountain!

Therefore, before carrying out large-scale infrastructure construction, the local military called in the provincial archaeological research institute to conduct on-the-spot investigations.

It is the team led by the archaeological experts from the Hubei Institute of Archaeology, not the infrastructure department, that is doing major construction work on Phoenix Mountain at this time.

"Tsk tsk, everyone guessed that Phoenix Mountain is a treasure land of geomantic omen, and now it is indeed confirmed."

Rao Wenyi, a senior researcher and deputy director of the Hubei Institute of Archaeology who led the archaeological work, sighed while cleaning a newly dug Han tomb.

Rao Wenyi has long wanted to come to Phoenix Mountain to dig soil. He even came here several times in private to investigate and confirmed the location of several tombs.

However, none of the project reports he submitted to his superiors were approved.

Now Huaxia archaeology has long stopped advocating active excavation, and it is mainly based on protective excavation and rescue excavation.

Unless you go back to the 60s, if you want to dig graves everywhere, then don't even think about it.

If it weren't for the fact that the military had to build a radar station on Phoenix Mountain, this would finally give Rao Wenyi a chance.

After receiving the news, he immediately led the team himself, and with the archaeological team formed in the institute, he hurried to the scene.

Not to mention, this is indeed a geomantic treasure.

There are a dozen or so archaeologists in the team, each with a Luoyang shovel, and they can randomly insert and pull out some five-color soil in the area of ​​Fenghuang Mountain.

This shows that under the Phoenix Mountain, there are a lot of tombs buried!

The staff next to Rao Wenyi said equally excitedly: "Rao Suo, I did some research on Phoenix Mountain before I came here."

"According to the local county annals of Jingzhou, after the Qin general Bai Qi captured Jinan City, the capital of Chu, it was reduced to ruins and became a noble cemetery during the Qin and Han Dynasties."

"In the past half a month, we have found more than a dozen tombs from the Western Han Dynasty. It seems that the records in the county records are true!"

Rao Wenyi glanced at him, hummed a few times and said, "I already knew about it ten years ago."

"It's better for us in Huaxia, as big as a capital city, as small as a small village, we can all have their own detailed historical records."

"The government annals, county annals, and village annals clearly remember everything about a city from its foundation to modern times, big and small."

"This saves a lot of effort for us archaeologists."

"The group of foreign archaeologists who hold a few literary novels as historical materials every day, don't know how much they envy us."

There are tombs in Fenghuang Mountain, and the people from Hubei Institute of Archaeology basically don't need to think about the tombs in what period.

As long as you read the local county annals from the city government, you can basically figure out the situation.

"It's just that the county annals say that the land of Fenghuang Mountain has been used as a cemetery for nobles since the Qin and Han Dynasties. It has been a public cemetery for three to four hundred years. I'm afraid there are many tombs here."

"That's for sure. There must be at least one Han Dynasty tomb group, but I don't know how big it will be."

"I hope there will be no more than a hundred, otherwise we will report to the higher authorities."

Rao Wenyi's expression of being afraid that someone would snatch the food made his companion who followed him to clean up the detective party couldn't help laughing.

Generally speaking, for the tombs with less than [-] tombs, the local archaeological institute can basically digest the archaeological forces in the province.

However, if there are more than [-] tombs, they must be reported for reasons of emotion and reason, public and private.

Once reported, the group of guerrillas from the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences, will definitely rush to Jingzhou like a cat that smells fishy.

Rao Wenyi has been coveting the tombs on the Phoenix Mountain for many years, and now that he is finally able to do it, how can he give such a large piece of meat to others.

However, the development of things often backfires.

The more things you don't want to see, the easier it is to happen.

It was the third month when the Hubei Institute of Archeology officially settled in Phoenix Mountain and carried out exploration for the follow-up construction.

Preliminary survey results came out.

The entire Phoenix Mountain needs to break ground to build a radar station, and it is estimated that there are at least 150 ancient tombs.

Moreover, according to the results of preliminary excavations, this tomb group should be a super-large tomb group of Western Han nobles, with a small number of Eastern Han noble tombs mixed in.

This is undoubtedly the largest discovery in the field of Huaxia Han Dynasty archaeology, and even the largest group of tombs discovered so far by Huaxia Han Dynasty archaeology!

After hearing the news, Rao Wenyi's face immediately turned green.

It's over, this news is destined to be unstoppable!
(End of this chapter)