Eight hundred and ninetieth chapters wash the sand
Chapter 894: Washing the Sand
In this world, people often scare themselves. When he didn't know the principle of the ever-burning lamp, Zhuang Rui was really scared. But now that he knows about it, when he looks at these self-igniting bronze lamps, his feeling is completely different.
"Xiaozhuang, be careful. The corridor is the most unstable. With the size of this tomb, I'm afraid there will be many agencies..."
When Professor Meng saw Zhuang Rui walking inside rashly, he quickly reminded him that in fact, he did not tell the principle of spontaneous combustion of the ever-burning lamp at first, just to test the courage of the two apprentices.
The result made Professor Meng quite satisfied. Although Zhuang Rui was scared, he did not lose his temper.
However, the knowledge of the two apprentices made Professor Meng a little dissatisfied. The controversy over the Changming Lantern had already been discussed in the world's academic circles, but the two apprentices did not pay attention to it.
"Teacher, I understand..."
Zhuang Rui agreed. I am afraid that no one knows the situation in this tomb better than him.
Although the spiritual energy in Zhuang Rui's eyes cannot see the actual objects, Zhuang Rui can still sense the situation in each tomb through the spiritual energy emitted by different funerary objects in the tomb.
Even those arrow traps also have weak spiritual energy coming from them, and there is indeed some instability in the underground of this corridor. Zhuang Rui has already sensed it.
Although the light emitted by these ever-burning lamps in the tomb passage is dim, there are too many lights to support them. There is one every three meters, showing the entire tomb passage in front of everyone's eyes.
"Teacher, something is wrong up front..."
When walking around a corner, Zhuang Rui stopped. One meter in front of him, there was a deep trap. Due to the angle, the lights on the wall could not shine in, and the situation inside could not be clearly seen.
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"Xiao Ren, bring me the ladder, dear, this trap is not small..."
After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Professor Meng stepped forward, took a bright flashlight and shined inside, and suddenly said "Eh" in his mouth.
"There's someone inside..."
With the help of Professor Meng's flashlight, Zhuang Rui also saw clearly what was going on inside the trap. Inside the trap, which was two meters deep and four meters wide, there were dozens of swords and spears inserted upside down, although they were all rusty.
, but still stands at the bottom of the pit.
Zhuang Rui was half right, there was indeed someone inside, but he was just a dead person.
In the middle of these sharp knives, a white bone stood out, and the dead man's skull and body had been completely separated.
The skull with two empty eye sockets was left alone at the bottom of the pit. Under the light, it looked so hollow and deep, as if it was explaining its miserable experience to everyone.
"There is another tomb robber..."
Professor Meng frowned deeply. He picked up the flashlight and looked up the corridor. A small robbery hole appeared in front of everyone. It was obvious that the tomb robber was not very lucky. After opening the robbery hole, he fell into the
In the trap.
However, this makes the prospect of the tomb a bit confusing. No one knows whether tomb robbers have visited the tomb in front of it.
"Teacher, please let me put this ladder over..."
Zhuang Rui took the alloy ladder handed over by Dr. Ren, placed it above the trap, and then stretched out his feet to step on it. It felt that it was stable.
"Huh?"
When Zhuang Rui was about to go up the ladder, his eyes glanced at the deep pit used as a trap, and he suddenly paused.
"Teacher, there seems to be something inside there..."
Zhuang Rui discovered that there was a small copper sign under the bones, and there was spiritual energy in it, and it was very strong.
"Where is it?" Professor Meng followed Zhuang Rui's finger and looked over, but didn't see it.
"I'll go down and get it..."
Zhuang Rui handed the flashlight to Ren Chunqiang and prepared to go down. There were gaps between the swords and spears in the trap. As long as he didn't fall sideways and step on the gaps, he would not enjoy the treatment of the tomb robber.
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"Xiaozhuang, let's forget it. Those are probably things left by tomb robbers..."
Professor Meng didn't want Zhuang Rui to be in danger. The trap was dug too deep, and anyone who wasn't careful would step on the blade.
"It's okay, teacher, I'll be up right away..."
As Zhuang Rui spoke, he put his hands on the ground beside the trap, slowly lowered his body, and touched the swords and spears with his feet. The sharp blades, which seemed to be still useful, suddenly broke into two pieces and fell down.
In a deep pit.
However, the sword underneath was still intact and could still penetrate anyone who fell into the trap. Zhuang Rui did not dare to be careless at all. He did not let go of his two hands until his feet were firmly planted on the ground.
"Brother Ren, hand me the stick..."
Zhuang Rui reached out to Ren Chunqiang and asked for a wooden stick for exploring the path. He picked it up on the corpse, and the bones except the fallen skull suddenly fell apart.
"Don't blame me, brother, don't blame me..."
Zhuang Rui was frightened, and quickly made a bow to the corpse with his hands clasped in his fists, then stretched out a wooden stick and moved a sign under the corpse in his direction.
"Hey, it's not that light..."
When his hand could reach it, Zhuang Rui bent down and took the bronze medal, which was the size of a baby's palm, in his hand.
Due to the erosion of time, the bronze medal has lost its luster, is dissatisfied with the patina, and has a layer of dark black substance on it.
Zhuang Rui felt a little uncomfortable standing next to the dead man's bones, and he didn't care to take a closer look. He immediately put the sign in his pocket, used both hands to climb to the ground.
"What did you find?"
Professor Meng was also a little curious. Regarding ancient tomb robbers, they were also divided into two factions, the North and the South, and there were also various types of official robbers.
It can be said that the history of tomb robbers is developing at the same time as tombs. In the archaeological community, there is also special research on tomb robbers.
The owner of the tomb tried his best to prevent theft, while the tomb robbers tried their best to get into the tomb. The two had battled wits and courage for thousands of years, but judging from the tombs that have been unearthed, it seems that the tomb robbers have the upper hand.
"It's a bronze medal, teacher, look at it..."
Zhuang Rui took the bronze medal out of his pocket and handed it to Professor Meng's hand.
"Xiao Ren, get some clean water gauze and sandpaper..."
Professor Meng shined a flashlight on the sign and found nothing. However, when he ran his thumb over it, he felt it was uneven and seemed to have embossed writing.
Taking the water handed over by Ren Chunqiang, Professor Meng first cleaned the bronze medal, and then carefully polished the surface of the bronze medal with fine sandpaper. The layer of patina was quickly wiped off, revealing a touch of yellow.
After wiping off the patina, Professor Meng wiped it vigorously with gauze. The color on it showed that it should be a brand made of brass.
Professor Meng spread the polished bronze medal in his hand. Zhuang Rui, who was standing aside, saw that on the surface of the bronze medal, there was a mountain shrouded in mist, with a river running through it.
Professor Meng turned over his hand, and the other side of the bronze medal appeared. There should be two words on it, but Zhuang Rui was standing at the wrong angle and couldn't see what was written.
"Taosha!"
Before Zhuang Rui could ask, Professor Meng had already said it.
"Taosha? Teacher, what is this?"
Zhuang Rui originally thought this was Cao Cao's token to get the gold captain, but to his surprise, what he heard were two unfamiliar words.
"Haha, this is also an official position. This trip is worthwhile. It turns out that the Taosha official recorded in history really exists..."
Professor Meng laughed when he heard this. Seeing Zhuang Rui's confused look, he continued: "In ancient times, there were more than just Cao Cao's official thieves. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty occupied the Central Plains and supported a puppet emperor called
Liu Yu, whose country name is Daqi..."
Including Dr. Ren and others behind him, they were all listening quietly to Professor Meng's explanation of this period of history. It turned out that Liu Yu was originally a prefect of the Southern Song Dynasty. After surrendering to the Jin people, he was established as the leader of the Qi Kingdom.
Although the Daqi regime was a grass-roots team, it also relied on fiscal and tax revenues as start-up funds for its operation. Unfortunately, the areas under the jurisdiction of the Puppet Qi Dynasty had been plundered and ravaged many times by the Jin soldiers.
Due to the great destruction, taxes could no longer be collected, and the puppet Qi regime was temporarily impoverished.
At the same time, the master of the Jin Kingdom of the puppet Qi Dynasty also faced a problem. Is it a problem to be too rich if it is too rich? Indeed, whether the Jin Kingdom plundered the Northern Song Dynasty or demanded tribute from the Southern Song Dynasty, the coins obtained were gold and silver.
The problem lies in gold and silver, because China is not rich in silver and gold. Unlike the West, China has always used copper as its currency since the pre-Qin Dynasty, which is a copper-standard currency system.
Therefore, although the Jin Dynasty guarded the gold and silver mountains, it could not exchange goods in trade with the Southern Song Dynasty.
The pseudo-Qi Liu Yu not only did not have copper coins, but also did not have gold and silver precious metal currencies, so this man who had been stealing since he was a child thought of tomb robbing as a way out.
As a result, Liu Yu set up an official organization for tomb robbers, the "Taosha Official", and first robbed the tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty. Taking this as an example, in order to ease the shortage of military spending, Liu Yu's army also began to follow suit and rob ancient tombs on their own.
However, the scope of Liu Yu's activities has always been within the boundaries of present-day Shandong Province, and now "Taosha Officials" have also been found in Henan Province. This also adds a detailed evidence to the study of the puppet Qi regime at that time.
What puzzles Professor Meng is that official thieves always rob graves violently. Why did the Taosha officer die here without any traces of theft around him? Could it be that Liu Yu had a conscience and found out that he had retreated?
There were so many mysteries left over from ancient times that Professor Meng couldn't figure it out after thinking for a long time. In the end, he could only shake his head and put away the bronze medal.
This tomb passage is more than 20 meters long. After passing this trap, there is another trap in front. However, the wooden boards laid on it have long since decayed, and the trap has lost its ability to surprise, allowing everyone to easily escape.
"Teacher, this...should be the Dragon Breaking Stone, right?"
When they came to the end of the corridor, a huge stone stood in front of everyone.
