Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but he was no longer a newcomer who had just entered the archaeological world a few years ago. After thinking for a while, he said: "Teacher, can I personally search for the excavated tombs?"
Zhuang Rui is now considered a professional in the archaeological field. He knows that there are still many ancient tombs that have been surveyed in the country, but they have not been excavated due to various reasons. For example, the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang was due to technical reasons of underground silver.
Due to the protection of cultural relics, many ancient tombs have been protected and have not been put on the agenda for excavation.
Since Professor Meng made this suggestion to himself, he would probably find a representative ancient tomb for him to excavate. However, Zhuang Rui also had his own ideas. He was not too interested in the currently known tombs, but wanted to excavate them through
Conduct your own survey and find an unprecedentedly large tomb.
"Search for yourself?"
Professor Meng did not expect that Zhuang Rui would make this request. He frowned slightly and then said with a smile: "Xiao Zhuang, you are not a gentleman who knows Feng Shui. Do you also understand this matter of finding the dragon's acupoints?"
Although Professor Meng was joking in his words, it also illustrated his point of view. Although archeology is also in the process of searching for and excavating tombs, and there are also courses on ancient Feng Shui and Kanyu, professionally speaking, archaeologists may not necessarily
It's obvious that he is a Feng Shui master, so finding a tomb is not an easy task.
The tombs of ancient royal nobles were often inspected by Feng Shui masters. The ancients said: Three years to search for the dragon and ten years to tap the acupoints. It takes a long time to learn to find the dragon, but you must know how to tap the acupoints, and the criteria for tapping are difficult to add.
It is difficult, and may even take "ten years" or "hundred years" of time.
Even Professor Meng, who is quite accomplished in Feng Shui and Kanyu, often makes mistakes when looking for tombs in field archeology, so he is not optimistic about Zhuang Rui's ability to find any big tombs.
"Teacher, I still want to try it myself. I learned something in school and I want to see if it can be applied in practice?"
Zhuang Rui smiled, but insisted on what he just said. Are you kidding me? If he thought about it, there would probably be no tombs in the world that Zhuang Rui could not detect. Zhuang Rui had read the internal documents of Beijing University, and there was only one in it.
The suspected tomb of Cao Cao made him slightly interested, but according to Zhuang Rui's speculation, the possibility of it being a real tomb was extremely low.
In addition, Zhuang Rui has been at home for more than half a year and is very quiet. He also wants to go out for a walk and see more of the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.
"You kid, are you posing a problem for me..."
Professor Meng smiled bitterly and shook his head. The excavation of tombs requires a very complicated set of procedures. Even if Zhuang Rui can find the ancient tomb, it does not mean that it can be dug. It must be evaluated by experts from relevant departments before deciding whether to
Carry out protective excavation, of course, if Professor Meng insists on promoting excavation, there will basically be no problem.
"Okay, but let me tell you first, field archeology and searching for ancient tombs is a very boring and hard work. Don't give up halfway when the time comes..."
Professor Meng looked at Zhuang Rui's appraisal expression and finally agreed. The disciple in front of him had given him many surprises before. Professor Meng also wanted to see what kind of tomb Zhuang Rui could finally find.
"Hey, thank you teacher, you have tea..."
Zhuang Rui laughed when he heard this. The reason why he invited the teacher to his home was because he wanted to use the teacher's reputation in the archaeological community to promote the excavation of the tombs he was looking for.
"This tea of yours is hard to swallow..."
Professor Meng pointed at Zhuang Rui and then asked: "It seems that you have been planning for a long time. Where are you planning to put your first stop?"
Zhuang Rui said honestly: "Teacher, I want to go to Shaanxi first. There are many ancient tombs in the Spring, Autumn, Qin and Han Dynasties there, and there may be some emperor tombs that have not yet been discovered..."
In fact, Zhuang Rui's goal is mainly to locate the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. According to his idea, it is enough not to dig. Since he wants to excavate, he will make a discovery that shocks the world.
Although according to surveys by relevant departments, the underground mercury content within the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang is extremely high, and it is suspected that the surrounding area is watered by mercury, so it has not been excavated. However, Zhuang Rui believes that there must be places not covered by mercury.
, you may be able to find the breakthrough point with your own eyes.
"You are not interested in the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, are you? The teacher is not that capable. That Imperial Mausoleum will not be excavated within fifty years..."
Professor Meng knew that his disciple looked modest but was actually very arrogant. After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, he immediately guessed what Zhuang Rui had in mind. However, even with his status in the archaeological community, there was no such thing as
Detailed data cannot promote the excavation of the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang.
You must know that if the problem of mercury coverage cannot be properly solved, not only will the personnel be in danger during the excavation process, but it will also be a disaster for underground cultural relics, just like in the 1960s and 1970s, due to some kind of
The Ming Tombs were excavated for political reasons, and no one knew how many precious cultural relics were destroyed at that time, which made the older generation of scientific researchers extremely sad.
"If you ask me, you can pay more attention to the tombs in Gansu, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. There may be some unexpected gains there..."
Zhuang Rui also understood the meaning of Professor Meng's words. Due to geographical factors, these places are dry and rainless, and the cultural relics in underground tombs are often better preserved than those in the central plains of Jiangnan. For example, several ancient paintings from the Song Dynasty were unearthed and well preserved.
, all from Gansu and other places.
"Teacher, I will seriously consider it..."
Zhuang Rui knew that he had taken it for granted. Things like the excavation of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum would probably be submitted to the agenda of national leaders, which was far beyond his ability to decide. However, after hearing Professor Meng's words, Zhuang Rui suddenly remembered something.
A once all-powerful figure in Chinese history.
It's just that this thing is a bit unreliable. Zhuang Rui is not sure that he can find the person's tomb. He doesn't say much at the moment and leads the topic to other places. He chats with Professor Meng and leaves Professor Meng to have dinner at home at noon.
Later, Zhuang Rui personally drove Professor Meng's grandson back to his residence at Peking University in the afternoon.
Just when Zhuang Rui was thinking about whether to go to Panjiayuan for a walk, his cell phone suddenly rang. Zhuang Rui looked at it and saw that it was an unfamiliar Beijing number.
"Hello, this is Zhuang Rui..." Not many people knew his mobile phone number, so Zhuang Rui answered the phone.
"Xiaozhuang, do you still remember me, old man?" A hearty laughter came from the phone.
"Oh, what you said, Mr. Tang, are you...in Beijing?"
Zhuang Rui didn't expect that the call was actually from Mr. Tang, and he quickly said: "Mr. Tang, when you come to Beijing, I must make a host. Let's go to Houhai in the evening. I know a restaurant that cooks good Yunnan cuisine...
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Zhuang Rui still has great respect for this "Emerald King" who is famous in the jade industry. This senior not only has superb skills in appreciating jade, but his character is also highly praised by the industry. The "Emerald King" Zhuang Rui is wearing now
The position of president of the "Research Promotion Association" was given up by this old man.
But to be honest, Zhuang Rui is not very competent as the president. So far, he has only appeared once in the promotion association. Qin Haoran attended many other meetings on his behalf. Zhuang Rui was thinking about whether
I want to resign as president.
"Haha, forget about eating, I have to meet some old friends tonight..."
Mr. Tang laughed when he heard this. He also knew that Zhuang Rui didn't pay much attention to the affairs of the Promotion Association. However, this is a research institution in itself. There are dedicated people responsible for daily affairs. The president is actually just a name.
So the old man didn't care much.
"Mr. Tang, let's go tomorrow. When you come to Beijing, I will do my best to be a landlord..." Zhuang Rui really wanted to sit down and communicate with Mr. Tang. Regarding the knowledge of jade, he couldn't catch up with this old man.
Every time I learned a lot of knowledge from Mr. Tang.
"Xiao Zhuang, let's take a break before eating. Are you free tomorrow? I have something else to do with you..." Mr. Tang interrupted Zhuang Rui with a smile.
"I'm free. You can talk to me if you have anything to say..." Zhuang Rui was a little surprised. Could it be that this old man had got some good stuff and wanted to show it off to himself?
"It's like this. Some people in Beijing have organized a stone gambling club. They specially invited me to participate in the club's activities this time. If you are free, come with me tomorrow..."
"Stone Gambling Club? Hey, I know about this..." Zhuang Rui suddenly remembered something after hearing what Mr. Tang said.
Last week, someone asked Fatty Ma, who was far away in Africa, to make a call and ask him to participate in some activity related to stone gambling. However, Zhuang Rui turned him down. Since he was officially banned from the Jade Shop,
Queen Wang, there are countless such invitations, most of which Zhuang Rui will not attend.
It's just that Zhuang Rui didn't expect that these people could persuade Mr. Tang to come to participate, so he was a little interested. He found a roadside and stopped the car, saying: "Old man, what is going on with this club? Tell me.
Tell me..."
"Actually, it's nothing. The person who organized this event is not actually an expert in the industry, but he is an old client of mine with a relatively deep relationship. It doesn't matter if you don't have time, Xiaozhuang..."
After hearing Mr. Tang's explanation, Zhuang Rui realized that Ganqing's stone gambling club was not actually organized by people in the industry, but a club spontaneously formed by a group of businessmen with strong assets in order to pursue the excitement of stone gambling.
Most of these people are well-known entrepreneurs in China. After they spend a lot of money to buy jadeite from Myanmar or major public markets in China, they will analyze the stone internally. To put it bluntly, they are just a group of rich people who use other methods to gamble.
