Live appraising treasures, I became a national treasure expert?

Chapter 347: Building a porcelain kiln on a cliff?

The moonlight was cold, there was a bit of wind, and the leaves rustled.

There was a bonfire burning by the lake, and the lamb legs on the rack were sizzling with oil, and the aroma of charcoal fire and grease spread everywhere.

Next to it is the grape corridor, which is tightly covered by vines. There are long tables under the shelves, and there are twenty or thirty men and women, laughing and chatting.

Aren't you saying that you are very busy, so busy that you don't even have time to eat?

But look at this moment, it’s quite pleasant, isn’t it?

Zuo Peng asked the driver to stop the car.

"Hey, left game?"

"Is the left bureau coming?"

"Director Zuo..."

"Teacher Li, Ma Suo, Team Leader Yao... sit down... don't get up..."

To put it another way: there is almost no progress compared to when we first moved in.

There are still experiments to be done tomorrow, and the researchers don't dare to drink too much. The three groups have to continue going out into the field. At almost ten o'clock, the party breaks up.

"That was not what I meant……"

We set off from the city at five o'clock and drove to the resort where the project team was stationed at the foot of Qinglong Mountain. It was already nine o'clock and we didn't stop in the middle, let alone eat.

This is a resort, with highways on both sides, and it's not in the mountains. Why do we need to send supplies?

"Will someone file a complaint?"

Zuo Peng paused.

After taking a few bites, I touched it with Ma Xianming. In a short time, four or five pieces of lamb chops and two tall glasses of white wine were consumed.

"Then what should we do... They have cooperated enough!" Li Ding'an smiled, "Even if they are all evacuated now, we have to be grateful!"

"Not yet!" Li Ding'an shook his head, "But soon!"

"Who told you that I did it blindly?"

Ma Xianming shook his head.

"They are all very nice and cooperative!"

Ma Xianming poured half of the cup in vain, "Have a cup first!"

"Okay, just tell me how long it will take?"

Ma Xianming hesitated for a long time and sighed sadly: "I think I can't mess around like this anymore, and I'm exhausted... If it doesn't work, why don't we stop for two days?"

"Maybe."

"He said he was here to deliver supplies!"

Li Ding'an stayed by his side, sipping bit by bit.

Ma Xianming persuaded him to drink, and Zuo Peng drank another glass, saying that he had something to do tomorrow and did not dare to drink too much.

"Just cooperate...how is the progress?"

After settling down, Li Ding'an and Ma Xianming returned to the room.

"Director Zuo came quite suddenly?"

Zuo Peng caught the wine glass and paused again: What does "one night's rest" mean?

Does that mean you don’t usually rest at night?

"Xiaotian, get a set of utensils!"

A little hungry indeed.

Zuo Peng thought for a while, "Teacher Li, everyone below still obeys the command, right?"

"Why is it so late in the left game?"

"Thank you Ma Suo... Teacher Li, did you do a good job?"

It was already very late, Zuo Peng said he would stay here and leave tomorrow morning.

Why is it different from what I heard?

Half of the team members were from the capital, and the remaining half were transferred from the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau to assist Zuo Peng. Therefore, Zuo Peng knew very well: We had been investigating for more than half a month, and even the scope of the suspicion had not been determined.

While he was stunned, Li Dingan pulled him to sit down again.

After running around for more than half a month without seeing anything, anyone would have an idea: being treated like a donkey every day? Okay, then you can give me some hope?

"Zuo Bureau, what a coincidence?"

"No...don't you be so indifferent?"

Zuo Peng was not polite, picked up a piece of mutton chop and started to chew on it.

Send supplies?

Li Ding'an smiled: "Thank you!"

"I went to Qili to do some errands, so I stopped by to take a look and send you some supplies!"

Zuo Peng sighed secretly: Doesn't it mean there is no progress?

It was not easy to ask in detail, so he changed the subject, thinking that he would ask the people below him later.

Li Ding'an said it was too soon?

Is it because the people below can't bear the hardship, so they are exaggerating, or is Li Ding'an young and thin-skinned, and is embarrassed to admit it?

He tested it: "Have you found the general range of the kiln site?"

"It should!"

"I've been busy for more than two weeks and take a night off!"

"almost!"

"Don't worry, it's coming soon... just keep holding on!"

Ma Xianming bared his teeth: This sentence again?

……

Four or five people sat in a circle around the sofa.

There is Director Xiao in charge of logistics, Captain Wan in charge of field investigations, Deputy Director Bu in charge of data collection, and Master Yu in charge of transportation.

They were all support personnel transferred by Zuo Peng from the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

"I think Teacher Li seems to...well, he doesn't have any goals: he first asked the field team to drill the ancient river banks on the east and west sides, then the mountains in the southern and northern sections, and then the sunny and shady slopes at the top and bottom of the mountains...and now... He said he wanted to explore the mountainside..."

Zuo Peng just took a sip of tea and almost spit out: Looking for a porcelain kiln halfway up the mountain?

Let me ask you, how do you transport the water for mixing, aging, and retting the mud?

It goes against both common sense and common sense...

"What's the result of the investigation?"

"Nothing matches it, it's all useless!"

"what?"

"Leader, you will understand as soon as I tell you: in the first week, three field groups drilled around the mountain and ancient river channels in units of 100 meters on both sides. The depth was one meter in the early stage, and deepened to two meters in the later stage...Second This week there are mountains in the north and south, and this week there are shady slopes...

But no matter which area it is, no matter how deep it is drilled, no matter whether it is the cultural layer, intermittent layer, or inversion layer, no traces related to porcelain making are found..."

"Later, electrical and magnetic methods were conducted, and the results were still the same: no kilns, pits, or pools under the surface were detected in any area, whether it was georesistance, geoelectric sections, electromagnetic sounding, or geomagnetic induction. Relics of this kind... quite a few ancient tombs from the Qing Dynasty have been found..."

Zuo Peng was stunned for a moment: "What else?"

"At the same time, geochemical analysis was done, but the soil quality, soil color and specimen data were not consistent. What's more, no traces related to the old mud and burnt soil layers were found in the soil and organic residues sampled from each layer... …”

"You didn't even find any cinders or charcoal?"

"No."

How can it be?

Not mentioning other things, if you don’t use firewood or coal, then what kind of porcelain do you use to make it?

Even the human sites of the Neolithic Age will at least leave some charcoal chips and bone fragments. How old are the Mongolian porcelain kilns?

The key thing is that the soil quality and soil color don't match?

In other words: it was not burned with the soil here. So no matter how you look at it, it looks like Li Ding'an has found the wrong place?

"any left?"

"Have!"

Captain Wan leaned back and it was Deputy Director Bu's turn.

"I am responsible for collecting information, including historical materials and physical objects... Let me talk about historical materials first: the city museum, library, our bureau, as well as relevant district units, flag records, old county records, etc., have not found any kilns built around Qinglong Mountain. There are records related to porcelain. However, during the Anti-Japanese War, all banner and county government offices were damaged and moved several times, so they may have been lost..."

"But this is only the second step. The important point is that according to the scope defined by Teacher Li, we conducted on-site visits, collections, and field surveys, and found no relics or physical data related to porcelain burning, including porcelain shards, kiln bricks, kiln tiles, and embryos. Cars, sinter..."

Zuo Peng was stunned for a moment.

Let’s not talk about the big ones, nor the distant ones, such as Laodao Mountain, the main peak of Qinglong Mountain, where there is a temple ruins about 6,000 years ago, probably built during the Hongshan Culture period, and there are still many pottery remains in it. piece.

Li Ding'an was looking for a kiln site that specialized in firing porcelain, but he couldn't find any porcelain pieces nearby?

This doesn’t make sense at all…

Before, he only thought it was possible, but now, Zuo Peng was more than 90% sure: Li Ding'an was looking in the wrong place...

He sighed: "Is it hard?"

"It's okay and understandable: after all, Teacher Li works harder than us and only sleeps four or five hours a day!"

Zuo Peng was startled: "Is he so busy?"

"Yes, very busy...but..."

Captain Wan paused for a moment, then let out a long sigh, "If you continue to be like this now, without a goal, and just bumping around like a headless fly every day, wouldn't it be meaningless to be busy?"

This is indeed the truth.

Zuo Peng nodded: "I'll talk to Teacher Li tomorrow!"

……

After chatting for a long time and comforting each other group by group, it was around one o'clock. Afraid of oversleeping, Zuo Peng set an alarm for half past seven.

But just as he was sleeping soundly, the sound of getting up came from the rooms on the left and right. After a while, he heard someone leaving the room. He kicked on his pants and hurriedly chased after her.

It was Captain Wan and two groups of team members who went out into the field.

Jacket, cold hat, army green cotton coat, holding a thermos cup in hand...

Several people stopped and said hello: "Director!"

Zuo Peng looked at his watch again: It was still five minutes away from six o'clock.

Looking outside, it is dark and midwinter, and the fish belly has just turned white in the east.

"Leave now?"

"No, let's eat first and leave the car at half past six..."

"Why so early?"

"It takes nearly an hour on the road, and when we get to the exploration location, the sun is just rising!"

"What time will you be back in the afternoon?"

"We'll finish work after the sun goes down. We'll finish cleaning up and arrive at the villa at about half past eight!"

Zuo Peng was startled for a moment: The sun rises to start work and the sun sets to finish work. Are you unwilling to waste even a second?

"Does this happen every day?"

Captain Wan smiled: "Every day!"

"Where's Lao Bu?"

"The same thing...including the laboratory team, they also meet on time at 6:30 every day!"

Good guy, you have been working fourteen hours a day for nearly twenty days?

No wonder some people come to him to complain...

"Okay, be careful on the road!"

He sighed, entered the room, tidied up, and left the room again after about ten minutes.

There were more people in the aisle, some were running to the restaurant in a hurry, and some were slowly leaving the hotel. Outside the window was the parking lot, with more than a dozen cars turning on their headlights, as bright as day.

"Ma Suo, have you eaten?"

"Is it so early in the left game?"

"It's okay...Where's Teacher Li?"

"He'll eat it later."

Later, you mean you haven't gotten up yet?

"Zuo Bureau, it's almost time, I'll go and order it first..."

"Huh? Good..."

You are the director. You have the highest rank here. It doesn't matter if you go late, right?

Ma Xianming left in a hurry, and Director Xiao came over again, holding two lunch boxes in his hand.

"Left game!"

"Whose is this?"

"Teacher Li's... He gets up early every day and enters the laboratory before five o'clock. He can't stop once he does experiments. I usually send them to him..."

Before five o'clock?

I separated from myself last night, what time would it be again?

"What time does he usually arrive at night?"

"It won't be until twelve o'clock at the earliest."

"Why are you so busy so late?"

"All the exploration and laboratory data of the day must be analyzed and compared by him...especially the laboratory tests, which often have errors. He usually retests them the next morning..."

"Experiment in the morning, analyze in the evening...What does he do during the day?"

"Going out into the wild?"

Zuo Peng didn't know what to say.

Going to bed after twelve o'clock and getting up before five o'clock, apart from the time for eating and going to the toilet, he has to work at least seventeen hours a day?

No wonder he said yesterday: Take a night off?

No wonder the people below only complain to themselves instead of complaining?

The benchmark is set here, how can we complain?

But even an Iron Man can't stand this?

"I'll go..."

"Oh, thank you Zuo Bureau... I just happened to have to arrange the lunch menu and food delivery..."

Director Xiao was not polite at all and turned around and entered the kitchen.

Zuo Peng looked at the lunch box in his hand and was stunned for a long time.

How could she be as crisp and agile as she is now?

Shaking his head, he carried the lunch box to the conference room.

The villa was temporarily vacated and now serves as a laboratory.

The corridor was very quiet, and it was still quiet after entering. After entering the protective door, I could faintly hear voices.

Zuo Peng put down his lunch box and took a look through the glass.

Eighty-nine men and women: including three team leaders, Ma Xianming, Cheng Yongquan, two data clerks, and three experimenters he transferred from the bureau, stood neatly in two rows.

On the experimental table, Li Ding'an was experimenting, and Shu Jing was very helpful, talking while doing it:

“I emphasize again: soil samples must be collected and tested immediately, and must not be left overnight. Otherwise, they will be affected by temperature, causing changes in microbial activity, cytoplasm flow, and organic matter decomposition, which will affect the test results...

Secondly, we must pay attention to the order: first measure the pH, then the soil viscosity, then the silicon-aluminum rate, and finally the percentage of heavy metals... The first three items cannot be measured accurately. Even if the heavy metals are accurate to ten decimal places, it has no meaning..."

Zuo Peng seemed to understand, but the nine people in the audience nodded frequently.

After a few more minutes, Li Ding'an straightened up and took off his gloves: "Compare!"

舒静好忙报数据：“土色7.5YR 6/6，PH值4.3、粘粒硅铝率为1.7、细土游离氧化铁为1.5%、1mm以上砾石含量16%，成份为高岭石、伊利石、蒙脱石……”

Ma Xianming was stunned for a moment, then a look of joy appeared on his face: "How many nights of freezing did the soil data become closer to the porcelain sample?"

Yao Chuan shook his head: "It's just close, but not consistent... Whether it's the acidity value, viscosity, or alumination data, it's still far behind... If you can't burn porcelain, you can only burn some bricks and tiles!"

"But it's the closest!"

"No matter how close it is, it's impossible to use it to make porcelain, not even pottery!"

"Don't argue yet!" Li Ding'an waved his hand: "Where do the soil samples come from?"

"It was sent by Captain Xing..." Fang Zhijie flipped through the records, "Taken from the ravine between the Wabanyaozi Formation and the Ganniuyingzi Formation in Qiaojiazhanzi Village..."

"Tile basin kiln group!" Yao Chuan clapped his hands: "Look, we have indeed burned tiles!"

Ma Xianming suddenly sighed: You guessed it right!

Li Ding'an thought for a while: "What about the surrounding environment?"

"Both the north and south are gorges, named Donggou, with a length of 2.6 kilometers. There are village groups on both sides. 1.5 kilometers west of the Xicun Group is Laodao Mountain, the main peak of Qinglong Mountain, with an altitude of 740 meters..."

"What's the difference between the peak and the ground?"

"105 meters!"

"Isn't it just a cliff?"

Li Ding'an muttered, "What about the terrain under the cliff?"

Fang Zhijie typed on the keyboard a few times and called up the photo: "There are three depressions, namely Xiayi, Donggouyi, and Xiyi... They are all irregular circular shapes, with an area of ​​6500 square meters, 4200 square meters, and 2800 square meters..."

"What's the interval?"

"The narrowest is 80 meters, the widest is 210 meters..."

Li Ding'an frowned: From a stratigraphic point of view, what is the difference between these three depressions and the connected ones?

"What's the vegetation situation under the cliff and in the depressions?"

"It is a meadow vegetation type, and the plant species are mainly grasses, sedges, and legumes."

With so much grass and legumes growing, it shouldn't be the case.

But looking at the soil quality and terrain, this is the closest...

"Do you know the reason why the depression is formed?"

"Ah?" Fang Zhijie was stunned for a moment, "There is no record in the information!"

Li Ding'an slapped his forehead and said, "That's right."

The area is only about 10,000 square meters, and it is only a village group. It is impossible to record such a small geographical unit in any geographical data.

He thought for a while: "Inform Team Leader Xing that there is no need to go to Qinglong Mountain Wa, go to Laodao Mountain!"

Ma Xianming took out his mobile phone: "Continue to explore the east ditch, or the three depressions?"

"No, Tanlaodao Mountain!" Li Ding'an shook his head, "Take a soil sample from the peak first!"

Ma Xianming was stunned, and the others were also confused.

The peak of Tanlaodao Mountain?

There is the main peak of Qinglong Mountain, which is also a fault cliff landform, and the height difference between the peak and the ground is more than 100 meters.

To put it another way: a cliff within a cliff.

I just can’t figure out how to build a porcelain kiln here?

(End of this chapter)