When it comes to the excavation of the underground palace, it is far from as simple as Yu Fei imagined. Especially what Ye Jianjun said when discussing the excavation plan shocked the well-informed experts.
The guy said carelessly: "What's so difficult about this? I'll ask the Second Builder to pick a few skilled workers and bring them over, and we can open the underground palace in one afternoon."
Seeing his triumphant expression, the experts were dumbfounded.
Luan Minggui was silent for a long time and said: Where did this contractor come from? Ye Jianjun's face turned red with embarrassment.
Yu Fei secretly laughed in his heart, why should this guy not know how to pretend to understand and still like to show off.
After listening to Luan Minggui's explanation, Yu Fei understood that excavation is actually a very complicated task.
Excavation itself is a damaging process, and unearthing is a very dangerous moment. Fragile unearthed cultural relics may be completely destroyed when placed in a rapidly changing environment. Newly unearthed cultural relics are very fragile and will not be unearthed until the first three years.
Only then can the internal state of cultural relics be initially stabilized.
.Because after more than a thousand years, the internal physical and chemical structure of the lotus root slices has undergone major changes. Once it is returned to normal temperature, it will not be able to maintain its original appearance.
Therefore, before excavation, you must make complete preparations. From excavation to extraction to transportation, you must take into account various aspects such as moisture, mold, shock, and theft. Fortunately, the temperature in Kyoto is very low in winter, which is very important for cultural relics.
The preservation is still very helpful. But that's it. Freezers still need to be prepared on site, and refrigerated trucks are also needed for transportation.
Judging from the current situation, the outer edge of the underground palace is well preserved. However, after hundreds of years, the shape of its interior has always been a mystery. I am very worried whether there will be water accumulation in the underground palace, or some fine water may flow into it.
Mud, these will have a bad impact on the cultural relics inside, and plans must be fully prepared. Luan Minggui said with a frown.
Excavating the underground palace is to better protect the cultural relics, but improper operation may cause unimaginable damage to the cultural relics.
In fact, Yu Fei could clearly see the situation in the underground palace, and the accumulation of water or the flow of fine sand that Luan Guiming was worried about did not appear.
But he had no choice but to say it.
Otherwise, if someone asks him how do you know what his answer will be, it might not work if you guess it or just say I can see it.
In the end, Luan Minggui came forward to find a German archaeological excavation team. This archaeological excavation team had successfully excavated and preserved the Egyptian pyramids and had very rich experience.
Regarding this, Yu Fei felt a little uncomfortable. Unfortunately, China's technology was indeed inferior in this aspect. Of course there would be no problem if it was forced, but it would very likely cause immeasurable damage to the cultural relics in the underground palace.
Luan Minggui could only persuade Yu Fei: We are not cooperating with the German archaeological team this time. It is just a simple employment relationship. Strictly speaking, they are just our associates.
Yu Fei could only acquiesce in Luan Minggui's self-deceptive remarks.
Only Ye Jianjun kept shouting that he would go to the second construction to find some skilled workers. Of course, no one would pay attention to him.
The official excavation of the underground palace started on the third day. Of course, Ye Jianjun took charge of all the procedures beforehand.
Because he was worried that the German archaeological team might damage the original Yongle Dian on purpose or through negligence, Yu Fei insisted on participating in the excavation together.
After some negotiation and bargaining, the price of two million in labor fees was finally settled.
In response, Yu Fei jumped up again.
Why don't you grab two million? Yu Fei shouted: Two million is enough for me to build two villas. This foreign devil is too dark.
It's not that Yu Fei can't afford such a large amount of money. He was already very unhappy about letting the Germans do the excavation. Now that he had to pay such a large sum of money, he was even more angry.
Moreover, we people also have to help from beginning to end. How can we not count even a little salary? Yu Fei exclaimed.
In fact, it is because of your joining that we ask for two million. Otherwise, 1.8 million would be enough. Daniel, the captain of the German archaeological team, said.
This time Yu Fei was dumbfounded. It turned out that he was a burden in the eyes of the Germans. Seeing this, the extra 200,000 seemed to be just tuition fees. However, Yu Fei was not at ease if he did not participate. These foreign devils
The technology is passable, but who knows if they will do their best?
If you can spend two million yuan to ensure that the original copy of the Yongle Dian can be unearthed, then the price is worth it. It also saves you a lot of worry.
Qin Xiaojin also participated in the entire excavation, but in front of so many people, the two could not communicate too much.
The underground palace is the most common form of vertical pit. Different from ordinary underground palaces, this underground palace is located nearly 10 meters below the surface. If detection had not revealed the location of the underground palace, the foreign devils would have almost given up. They have also discovered it before
You can pass through the underground palace, but it usually does not exceed five meters. It is indeed very rare to dig ten meters and still not reach the entrance.
The sturdiness of the Main Hall is also beyond everyone's expectations. The foundation is composed of the outermost foundation trough and the inner ring of original mountain soil layers. The stone rammed layer is a sandwich type of one layer of rammed earth and one layer of stone.
, there are actually 36 floors
The archaeological team dug out a vertical pit with a diameter of about 2.2 meters in the soil. 9.2 meters above the ground, the archaeologists finally discovered a bluestone slab. The slab was about 0.9 meters long and 0.25 meters thick, with another layer on the outside.
The blue bricks tightly bound it, and it looked like a cover covering the entrance to the underground palace.
Seeing the bluestone slab, Ye Jianjun and others were very excited, thinking that this was the door of the underground palace.
But Luan Minggui poured cold water on him: This shouldn't be the last door. Under the bluestone, there should be at least 50 centimeters of multiple layers of rammed earth and stone. This bluestone has no actual architectural function.
, but a reminder: this place is not far from the door.
Hey, this is the trailer before the movie is officially released, right? Ye Jianjun said.
Luan Minggui had long been accustomed to Ye Jianjun's layman attitude, so he ignored him.
During the subsequent excavation, the foreign devils were obviously much more careful. Yu Fei and others were also ordered not to do it again, otherwise, they would be fully responsible for any damage to the cultural relics. In this regard, Yu Fei could only stop reluctantly.
Although he could clearly see everything in the underground palace, it did not mean that he could safely take out the cultural relics in the underground palace. After all, he was just a layman.
The archaeological team first cleaned and lifted out the bluestone slabs and cladding bricks, and continued digging to clean up the rammed earth and accumulated stones until they finally discovered the underground palace cover.
After discovering the cover of the underground palace, the archaeological team did not immediately remove the cover, but first reinforced the underground palace. Because the underground palace is a vertical pit structure, it is extremely easy to collapse, so the walls of the underground palace must be reinforced and protected. In the end, the archaeological team
The caisson technical team was used to reinforce the underground palace, that is, a cylindrical steel frame was placed on the underground palace wall to prevent the underground palace from collapsing.
Before opening the door, the archaeological team used remote sensing equipment to measure the general shape, volume and location of items in the underground palace. Such caution made Yu Fei very impatient, because in his opinion, all this was redundant. In his eyes, the underground palace was little
There were no secrets, but the archaeological team was so careful that it was hard for him to say anything. After all, this reflected the responsibility of the foreign devils.
On the third day of excavation, the archaeological team finally decided to open the door to the underground palace. With a heavy sound, the underground palace was finally exposed to everyone. Facing the dark entrance to the underground palace, Yu Fei took a flashlight and wanted to look inside, but was stopped by the door.
The archaeological captain stopped it because the flashlight beam was likely to have a negative impact on the cultural relics in the underground palace.
Then they measured the temperature and humidity of the ambient gas and the pH of the liquid in the underground palace one by one, and then came the main event.
If the excavation of the underground palace is compared to a dish, then it was just a pre-dinner dessert, and the main meal has not yet begun. For excavation, the final thing is to formulate a plan for extracting cultural relics. If this step is not done well, then all the previous ones will be
It is a waste of effort. The original Yongle Dadian extracted this time are all ancient books that have been preserved for hundreds of years. It is most troublesome to extract them. Can the German archaeological team complete this arduous task? You know that the loss of any one may be