Soon the expert team organized by Zhang Mei judged that this newly discovered ancient city was probably the mysterious Zhubin City in history, and their subsequent excavation research also proved this.
After Zhang Mei left, Wei Changqing and others also dispersed, and walked into such a large ancient city. Everyone was a little curious and very excited.
This is an ancient city, and no one knows what is buried in this ruins, so after entering here, everyone dispersed immediately.
Han Kongque took Huangshan and Qianmingyuan to find an unexcavated place and walked in.
This is obviously a residential area. The residential area is mainly a "wooden bone and mud wall" style building with red willow branches arranged on a wooden column frame and covered with grass and mud.
These buildings have been severely damaged by nature, and most of the ruins are half-buried under the desert.
In a place like this, Han Peacock's magical power is very powerful. Although there is not much water here, he can feel it as long as there is a little bit.
And the underground here, even in the desert, still has some moisture, but it is very rare.
When Han Peacock let go of his supernatural power, Han Peacock sensed the surrounding environment. This was the southern ancient city. The ruins of the southern ancient city were rectangular in plan. The east wall was 163 meters long, the south wall was 82 meters long, the west wall was 160 meters long, and the north wall was 163 meters long. It is 87.5 meters long and covers an area of about 20,000 square meters.
Within this range, Han Kongque's magical perception can be easily covered, so when hunting for treasure in this environment, Han Kongque has a much higher advantage than Zhang Mei's expedition team.
Through perception, Han Kongque discovered that most of the buildings buried under the sand and gravel were rammed earth buildings, and some were wooden buildings.
The city wall here is damaged, generally about 3 to 5.4 meters in height. The remaining width at the top is 1.5 to 6.5 meters, and the thickness of the wall base is about 7 meters. The northern section of the east wall is partially built with earth blocks, and the size of the earth blocks is 44x25x10 cm.
The city gate is opened at the south end of the east city wall. The door is 2.3 meters wide. There are wooden foundations at the bottom of both sides of the doorway. There are 9 pillars on each side. There are two crossbars on one side of the door connected with the wooden foundation to form the door frame. The door frame is made of 27x20 cm It is composed of square logs connected with mortise and tenon. The square logs are processed flat and well preserved. However, it is difficult to see the entire structure of the door due to the quicksand cover.
The city gate has collapsed, and the wood is scattered inside and outside the city gate.
Among the weathered earth mounds about 300 meters southwest of the ancient city, there is a building platform. The platform is about 20 meters long, 8 to 10 meters wide, and about 2 meters high. There are many timbers with mortise and tenon structures scattered on the platform.
For example: intact column foundations, octagonal columns, etc., and pottery shards, copper arrowheads, smelting slag, etc. can be seen on the surface.
The northeast and southeast corners and even the entire east wall have been covered by quicksand; under the south wall is a depression 40 meters long, 20 meters wide, and about 2 meters deep.
The buildings are mainly preserved in the southern half of the city, and most of them were covered by quicksand, but the houses are still vaguely identifiable.
It is mainly a group of houses that are 46 meters long from east to west and 13.5 meters wide from north to south. There are two more rooms on the north side, which are 7 meters long and 3.5 meters wide.
There is a large room on the north side of the city gate in the south. It is rectangular and has a size of 5.7x5.5 meters.
The houses are made of wooden frames with reeds sandwiched between them. The walls are coated with grass and mud. Most of the frames have collapsed, but there are still individual pillars connected to the bottom crossbar and standing. Among them, well-preserved column foundations, brackets, etc. were also found.
Looking northwest from the north wall of the city, the outline of the city is vaguely visible among the sand dunes and Yadan terrain.
The ancient city is rectangular in plan. Except for the remaining gaps in the northwest corner and the northern section of the east wall, the city walls are basically intact.
The city wall was built in the same way as the ancient city of Loulan. Because the southern half of the city is covered by quicksand, the specific structure and layout of the houses are difficult to determine with the naked eye.
There is also a pile of sand under the north wall of the city. However, from the northwest corner to the remaining gap in the east wall, there are no architectural remains due to wind erosion and not buried by quicksand.
Han Peacock walked very fast, and every time he stopped, he always gained something.
After Han Kongque had a clear view of the entire ancient city, the two of them started digging with a military shovel each.
"Boss, what's down here?" Huangshan was sweating profusely, and a large amount of sand and gravel quickly piled up around him.
As long as Han Peacock stopped just now, they always gained something, such as various ceramic shards, but at that time it was just a simple dig, but this time, they dug a huge pit.
Han Peacock threw the collapsed sand around him into the distance with a military shovel, and said: "This is a smelting site, it seems to be a copper smelting site, but there seems to be an interesting warehouse not far from here.
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"Warehouse? This is a smelting warehouse, gold ore?" Huangshan said with his eyes shining.
Han Peacock smiled and said: "How can there be so many gold mines? This seems to be an armory."
The military shovels used by the two men were authentic engineering shovels. Not to mention digging sand, even stones could be shoveled easily, so they were very fast.
"Be careful." Just when Huangshan shoveled down the engineer's shovel again, Han Kongque called him.
"Is there something good down there?" Huangshan was very careful in his movements, and soon he dug out a stick-shaped object.
After cleaning it out, Han Peacock took the stick-shaped object and examined it carefully. It seemed to be a special-shaped arrowhead, with a mushroom-shaped forward tip, followed by a plum vase-shaped arrowhead body. The arrowhead body was carved with zigzag patterns, string patterns, etc. in a subtractive manner.
And fill it with white mud-like substance.
The collar has a square cross-section, is covered with black patent leather, and is also filled with a white mud-like substance in the middle.
"What is this?" Huangshan asked curiously, seeing Han Peacock looking over and over again, as if he valued this thing very much.
Han Peacock looked at it and said, "It looks like a copper arrowhead."
"Same clan?" Huang Shan asked doubtfully.
"Bronze arrowheads, in layman's terms, are arrows. Bronze arrowheads are used with long-range weapons, crossbows. Bronze arrowheads can be divided into two types: large and small. The head is triangular in shape, and the cross-section of the blade is triangular in shape, with nine sides at the bottom.
The collar is round or triangular in shape. The head and the collar are cast together. The collar is wrapped with flax wire and inserted into the collar. The lengths of the three ridges are almost exactly the same. Casting this requires high precision and level of craftsmanship.
OK."
"This is a bronze arrow? It sounds very complicated." Huangshan wiped his sweat and said.
Han Peacock chuckled and said: "It's really not that simple. The arrowhead appeared in the late Warring States Period, with a total length of 5.3cm. The cross section of the arrowhead is triangular, with a narrow blade, and is very sharp. The bronze arrowhead is installed on the sharp edge of the front end of the arrow shaft, and is used with the bowstring.
The projectile can be fired far away.
Bronze arrowheads have appeared in the Erlitou Culture period and are one of the earliest bronze weapons. They come in many shapes, mainly double-winged, three-winged and three-sided, and have changed with the development of the times.
But during the Warring States Period, the long-range three-sided arrowheads were changed to iron collars. If this ancient city really dates from the Northern Wei Dynasty, then it would make sense to have such exquisite bronze arrowhead casting technology."
During the Northern Wei Dynasty, bronze arrowheads must have ceased to be used in the Central Plains, so at that time, it was normal for such bronze arrowheads, which had been eliminated in the Central Plains, to appear in this ancient city in the Western Regions.
"Is this an arrow? It doesn't look like it!" Huangshan finally understood what Han Kongque said and knew what it was.
Han Kongque said: "So this should be a special-shaped arrow. There are a lot of arrows like you mentioned below. That one is relatively simple."
As he spoke, Han Peacock scooped up some sand and gravel, poured it beside his house, and quickly rummaged through it to find a few bronze arrowheads.
Looking at the sharp edge of the arrow, Huang Shan said: "This can be considered an antique, right? I don't know if it is worth anything?"
Han Kongque said: "It is not valuable. After all, it is a large-scale equipment for the army. Too many have been unearthed, so it is not valuable."
"You can always sell it for some money, right?" Huangshan is not interested in worthless things.
"A small arrowhead like this is only worth about 300 yuan, but the price of a special-shaped arrowhead like this is hard to say. I know that the only collection of special-shaped arrowheads like this is in the Anqing Museum. That's
More than ten items of the same type were unearthed from the Spring and Autumn Tombs of Dafeng, Xianghuang, and Huacun in Anqing City," Han Kongque said.
When he heard that this was collected by a museum, and there were only a dozen of them, Huangshan's eyes immediately lit up. Rare things are more valuable. After following Han Peacock for a long time, he naturally knew what things were valuable.
"I wonder if there are any special-shaped arrowheads like this down there?" Huangshan immediately became motivated and started digging hard again.
Han Kongque said with a smile: "This is a smelting factory, and there must be a lot of these special-shaped arrows down there. Even if there are not many of these, there are a lot of those kinds of arrows. Even if one sells for three hundred, more can be sold.
A lot of money."
"Then why are we wasting our time? Hurry up and dig. If others find out, our harvest will be reduced." Huang Shan said.
Han Kongque was speechless. When he was looking for jade in the Kunlun Mountains, he didn't see Huangshan being so active. And as long as he found one piece of jade there, he would gain more than all the gains here.
Of course, this is not because Huangshan is stupid, but because Huangshan is pragmatic. No matter how valuable those jade stones are, Huangshan doesn't have much knowledge of their value. However, Huangshan can clearly calculate how much he can get for such clearly priced antiques.
bonus.
Following Han Kongque, the harvest is definitely not small, but the price of a piece of jade is higher than his salary in decades, which makes Huangshan feel a bit unreal, so he doesn't have extravagant hopes. If he is serious about sharing profits with Han Kongque, then
It seems too greedy. After all, he plays a very small role in this kind of treasure hunt.
Han Peacock is so smart. From Huangshan's performance, Han Peacock knows Huangshan's thoughts.
"I eat meat and you drink soup. Now money is just a number for us, so we don't have to worry about it." Han Peacock said with a smile and lowered his head to shovel the soil again.
Huangshan's movements paused, but then he started working again, and even faster than before.
When did money become a dispensable figure for him?
Because Han Peacock was talking about us, it also included Huangshan. Of course, Huangshan knew that we must not only belong to the two of them.
Thinking that since he followed Han Kongque, he no longer had to worry about money. Although this made him feel a little unreal, it felt really good.
Han Kongque stopped talking, and Huangshan stopped asking. Soon, the two of them dug into a wall. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!