The Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang was born, and my immortal identity was exposed

Chapter 121 Speculation (Please recommend tickets, thank you!!!)
In the next few days, the archaeological team dug almost three feet into the ground, and carried out detailed inspections around the stele.

Xu Jialiang even took Chen Chuchu around, hoping to discover some new relics.

Unfortunately, still nothing.

"Teacher, it's not a problem to go on like this?" Back at the camp, Chen Chuchu sat down, hammered her long legs that felt sore after walking for a day, and complained:

"It's just such a stone tablet, nothing else, I'm beginning to think that what Professor Wang said makes sense."

Professor Wang was standing next to him, and he couldn't help laughing and said, "What did I say, the possibility of this stele being a prank is indeed greater."

Xu Jialiang was also a little depressed, and sighed: "This stele, purely from the degree of weathering, does not seem to be man-made."

"It can only be said that maybe those ruins have been covered up."

"Or, after the Huns made a comeback later, maybe they rebuilt the original site."

Professor Wang nodded, then shook his head again: "Professor Xu is not unreasonable, but it is too strange. When the Huns saw this stele, they would definitely destroy it."

"This stele was washed out after the heavy rain, maybe it was buried early in the morning?" Xu Jialiang still did not give up.

The teacher is too afraid of death, right?
Chen Chuchu was muttering in her heart, but she didn't say it out of her mouth.

She looked up at the blue sky, which had been dyed orange by the setting sun, which was truly beautiful.

"Teacher, Professor Wang." Chen Chuchu stared at the sky, and said slowly, "What do you think is the identity of this immortal master? He can't be a real immortal, right?"

Xu Jialiang said in a bad mood: "Chuchu, we are archaeologists, but we don't like this kind of thing. If there are really some gods and monsters, you dare to go down to the grave?"

"Teacher, watch your mouth. Don't meet Zongzi when I go to the grave with you." Chen Chuchu whispered.

A few black lines appeared on Xu Jialiang's forehead, and he was a little speechless towards this eccentric student.

"Hahaha!" Professor Wang saw this scene and couldn't help laughing: "Chuchu, you are so interesting."

"However, I still say that, we have to talk about science in everything."

"Let's just start from the beginning. The first unearthed cultural relic related to this 'immortal master' is the metal ball, right?"

Chen Chuchu nodded: "I said at the time that it was a globe, which caused me a lot of embarrassment."

"Not bad." Xu Jialiang said to save the student's face: "But according to the latest news, there is a high probability that that thing is really a globe."

Professor Wang frowned: "But we all know that Magellan was the first person to circumnavigate the world, but the Qin Dynasty was almost 2000 years earlier than that!"

"It's more than 700 years." Xu Jialiang joked.

"Don't argue with me!" Professor Wang curled his lips and said, "Do you think that the Qin Dynasty has the technology to build such a strong ship to sail around the world?"

Chen Chuchu was thoughtful: "But the first person to put forward this point of view was Aristotle, a figure from more than 300 BC, even earlier than the Qin Dynasty!"

"Chuchu makes sense. Maybe this fairy teacher is a person similar to Aristotle, an outstanding scientist?"

"You know, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought contended, maybe there was such a school of research on natural science?"

"The founder of Mohism, Mo Di, isn't some of his viewpoints similar to the current scientific truth?"

Xu Jialiang continued to explain following Chen Chuchu's train of thought.

"Oh, you mean, this person is a scientist?" Professor Wang wanted to refute, but he didn't know where to start.

Xu Jialiang's explanation is not unreasonable. The globe has not been fully restored so far.

The experts spent a lot of energy, but they only restored a small part of it, and some traces like the dividing line between the sea and the land can be vaguely seen.

And it just so happens that this part basically matches the map of the Qin Dynasty, and there are no more outside.

If they could fully recover and see the detailed annotations for each continental plate, Xu Jialiang would not have said that.

"That's right!" Xu Jialiang nodded, "The movable type printing technique discovered later, and the present stele, cannot prove that this person is an 'immortal'."

"I always think that Qin Shihuang can be regarded as a fairy only because he has mastered advanced scientific theories and methods."

"You all know that the ancients often blamed the gods for the phenomena they couldn't explain."

"No, no, no!" Professor Wang shook his head again and again, "Let's put the globe aside first, how to explain movable type printing, and papermaking was only popularized after being improved by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty."

"The Qin Dynasty didn't even have paper, so what's the use of printing?"

Chen Chuchu obviously began to believe Xu Jialiang's statement, and said seriously: "Papermaking can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty. The Western Han Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty were successively connected. Maybe it was passed down from the Qin Dynasty?"

"But there are neither historical materials nor cultural relics that can prove that there was papermaking technology in the Qin Dynasty." Professor Wang still insisted.

"Extraordinary goods to live in?" Xu Jialiang rubbed his chin, "Paper was not something that everyone could afford in the early days, maybe it was only for the emperor?"

"Besides, paper is not easy to preserve, and the end of the Qin Dynasty experienced chaos in the world. Maybe the related cultural relics were destroyed?"

"Where are the historical materials?!" Professor Wang blew his beard and stared, "There are no relevant historical records at all, and movable type printing is such a good technology, why did it start to be popularized after the Song Dynasty?"

"If you want to talk about historical data, there is no historical data about the Northern Expedition to the Huns?" Xu Jialiang was not to be outdone, "That means that this 'immortal master' doesn't want to expose himself!"

"The small hermit hides in the wild, the middle hermit hides in the city, and the great hermit hides in the court. This 'immortal teacher' likes to pick himself out, so there is no relevant historical record, isn't it normal?"

"That's why movable type printing has not been popularized. This immortal master and his descendants didn't want to spread this technology at all! It was only in the Song Dynasty that it was spread for some reason."

Professor Wang stretched out a finger and pointed at Xu Jialiang's nose tremblingly: "You, you, you, you have such a hard mouth!"

"Old Wang, you are not polite." Xu Jialiang dodged his fingers, "I just put forward the closest guess to the facts."

"Okay, okay, okay!" Professor Wang withdrew his fingers and stomped his feet, "How do you explain the murals in the Tang Dynasty tomb?"

Xu Jialiang shook his head: "We still can't confirm that the immortal on the mural is the same person as this 'immortal teacher'."

"Maybe he's a descendant, maybe he's a descendant of his school."

(End of this chapter)