Several tomb chambers near the secret passage are animal burial chambers that receive little attention. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the craftsmen who built the tomb could easily open up a secret escape passage?
It's just that God is not as good as man. These craftsmen worked hard to dig out such a hidden escape passage, but they never thought that they and others would have no chance to enter it. The day the mausoleum was completed was the day they died.
The research value of these animal burial chambers is not very great, but they are quite difficult to clean. Due to terrain restrictions, they have to be transported out in batches, which also slows down the work of the archaeological team.
And during the transportation process, we must try to ensure the integrity of the bones, because this underground mausoleum will most likely be built into an underground palace in the future and become a tourist attraction like the Ming Tombs.
As part of the mausoleum, these bones of cattle and horses that have turned into withered bones will be restored here in the future to give people a real historical mark.
With further archaeological excavations, everyone discovered that in this underground mausoleum, the distance between the tomb chambers is close to each other. Unlike some other large tombs, there is a long distance between the two tomb chambers.
The corridor has brought a lot of convenience to the excavation work.
For two whole weeks, the archaeological work was stuck in organizing and excavating the tombs around the secret passage. There were eight burial pits in total, but only one tomb filled with ceramics, which has a relatively high research value.
The ceramic burial pit discovered by the archaeological team was actually the tomb filled with Song Dynasty ceramics that Zhuang Rui had previously focused on. The dazzling array of Song Dynasty official kiln porcelain made many archaeological experts almost think that it was a Song Dynasty emperor's tomb.
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Porcelain is fragile and cannot be treated like the bones of cattle and horses. Moreover, when porcelain is exposed to air in a sealed tomb, it will fade due to changes in oxygen, so it must be cared for in a timely manner.
Therefore, Zhuang Rui and others spent most of the past two weeks in this tomb. The unearthing of pieces of exquisite Song Dynasty porcelain also raised people's expectations for this tomb.
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"Zhuang Rui, why did you go walking your horse again? The teachers are waiting for you. Come on, I'm just waiting for you alone..."
Zhuang Rui rode Zhui Feng, galloping from a distance. Ren Chunqiang unexpectedly appeared on the side of the road. Zhuang Rui pulled the reins of the horse, causing Chai Feng to stand up.
"Brother Ren, I've been working sixteen or seventeen hours a day, so I can just relax now. It's not like you don't know..."
As the deputy commander-in-chief of this archaeological working group and the leader of the on-site archaeological team, Zhuang Rui has much greater responsibilities than ordinary staff members.
Often others would work for eight hours, but he had to stay in there for sixteen hours. Moreover, some of the on-site decision-making power was also delegated to Zhuang Rui. This made Zhuang Rui miserable. He
I have never been so concerned about running my own business.
As Zhuang Rui said, in addition to four or five hours of sleep every day, he just rides Chai Feng to relax. After two weeks, the soldiers on duty within a radius of dozens of kilometers are all very familiar with this person and horse.
Already.
Zhuang Rui jumped off the horse and patted Zhui Feng's butt. After Zhui Feng sneezed, he walked to the wooden house where Zhuang Rui lived, leaned down and closed his eyes to rest.
Due to the special geographical conditions of this archaeological operation, it is very likely that it will last for a long time. If we include the planning of some architectural experts who have arrived recently, the projects derived from this operation may last three to five years.
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So in just two weeks, two rows of cabins have been erected on the originally empty riverside for experts to rest. After all, not everyone can live in tents.
As the deputy commander-in-chief of this archaeological operation, Zhuang Rui was naturally assigned such a wooden house. To be honest, these wooden houses made of real wood are indeed much more comfortable to live in than damp and narrow tents.
The meeting was still held in the tent. After Zhuang Rui entered, the huge tent was already full of people. In addition to the chief and deputy commanders of the archaeological team, there were also several professors from the School of Architecture of Peking University and two people from the National Tourism Administration.
A leader.
When Zhuang Rui entered, Professor Wu from Beijing University was talking about something. After seeing Zhuang Rui, Professor Meng who was sitting at the front quickly waved his hand and said: "Xiao Zhuang, come, sit down first and listen to what Professor Wu said.
The view from this mausoleum…”
Zhuang Rui's work in the past two weeks has been seen by everyone, and he has worked hard without complaining. Zhuang Rui's several sudden decisions alone have prevented heavy losses in the archaeological work. His rich experience is better than that of some veterans.
Scientific research experts are no less generous.
That was when opening the tomb for ceramic funerary objects. There was a problem with the slot under the stone door and it could not be pushed open. Moreover, the stone door was 50 centimeters thick, so it would take a lot of time to cut it open even with tools.
So a staff member of the underground archaeological team at that time proposed blasting, shattering the stone door and opening it.
Since several tombs in succession were filled with animal sacrifices, blasting is not unfeasible if the next one is the same. After discussion with some experts on the ground, several agreed to this plan.
However, Zhuang Rui, who was underground at the time, expressed serious opposition and used his status as deputy commander to veto the plan. In the end, he just pried open the bluestone slab on the ground, opened the stone door slot and pushed it open.
After opening the stone door, everyone was amazed by the exquisite porcelain from the Song Dynasty that filled the room, but they were also frightened. If it had been blasted, I am afraid that the stone door would have been shattered and not many pieces of precious porcelain would be preserved in the room.
Complete.
As the saying goes, those who learn first are the teachers. In places where top figures in the scientific research community gather in China, the academic atmosphere is relatively pure. Zhuang Rui's persistence allowed the archaeological team to avoid a major accident. This is true.
score.
So after this incident happened, those old experts looked at Zhuang Rui in a different light, and during work meetings, they treated Zhuang Rui as an equal.
Some staff members in the original archaeological team who were older than Zhuang Rui and had more seniority than Zhuang Rui, and who had made some achievements in relevant archaeological departments in various places, also put away their seniority and recognized Zhuang Rui from the bottom of their hearts.
Rui’s identity as deputy commander-in-chief.
Therefore, although everyone in the tent was waiting for Zhuang Rui, no one criticized Zhuang Rui for being late. If it were another young man, he would have been scolded by these old men.
Professor Wu, who was giving a speech, nodded to Zhuang Rui who was following him, and continued: "The underground of this grassland is composed of the Xilingol Complex, which is a large-scale strongly deformed metamorphic geological body in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt.
, the sedimentary diagenetic age of this rock is later than the Late Ordovician, and the possibility of crustal changes is extremely small.
So here we can imitate the underground palace of the Ming Tombs in Beijing, open a passage, and build a building group connecting the ground and the underground..."
Zhuang Rui didn't understand most of what Professor Wu said, but he understood the last few sentences. He was in a meeting to discuss the tourism plan for Genghis Khan's Mausoleum.
Zhuang Rui couldn't help but curl his lips. These people present didn't even know the identity of the owner of the tomb, they were just thinking about the future tourism prospects. It was typical bureaucracy.
"Professor Wu, the terrain here is relatively complex. Not only are there rock layers, but there are also underground rivers running through it. Isn't it too difficult to get through directly from above?"
A relevant leader of the tourism department put forward his own opinion. It is necessary to build a channel up to 100 meters long on the ground, which is a huge project.
Of course, the money came from the relevant departments. This leader was afraid that he would not be able to get back the investment by then. Of course, he would not say so directly. After all, from the current point of view, the politics of this archaeological excavation are
The significance is far greater than the excavation itself.
"These are not problems. Building such a passage downwards is much easier than opening the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, but the time span is longer. In addition, relevant plans must be formulated based on the identity of the owner of the tomb...
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Professor Wu is a very pragmatic person, and what he said is to the point. If this tomb belongs to Genghis Khan or Kublai Khan, then it will naturally need to be overhauled. At the very least, a tomb on the ground that is not inferior to the underground one should be built.
of buildings.
However, if these tombs are just some imperial tombs from the late Yuan Dynasty and the unearthed cultural relics are ordinary, then there is no need to pay too much attention to them, or it is possible to seal them again.
The leader was convinced by Professor Wu's words. He turned to Professor Meng and asked, "What Professor Wu said is, Teacher Meng, has the identity of the owner of this tomb been found out?"
"Xiao Zhuang, please tell me..."
Professor Meng did not directly answer the leader's words, but looked at Zhuang Rui. Professor Meng will resign from his teaching job at Peking University next year, which can be regarded as complete retirement. Therefore, any chance to get ahead now will be given to Zhuang Rui.
Came forward.
Zhuang Rui understood the teacher's painstaking efforts and did not refuse immediately. He cleared his throat with a cough and said, "I'm afraid it will take some time to find out the identity of the owner of the tomb, but judging from the funerary objects that have been unearthed in the tomb,
The owner of this tomb is most likely the Great Khan of the Mongol Khanate, or the first three emperors after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty..."
The objects unearthed from the ceramic tomb are almost all official kiln porcelain from the Song Dynasty. There are no so-called Yuan blue and white and Yuan Dynasty style ceramics. This also shows that the construction time of this tomb must be in the Yuan Dynasty.
