"No! We can't continue to sit here! If we go too late and the ruins are excavated by local villagers, the damage will be too great!" After listening to Liu Dong's words, Qiu Lao Teng's voice
He suddenly stood up from the chair.
As a paleographist, Qiu Xigui has also participated in many archaeological excavations, and he understands very well that Chinese people believe that "things in their own fields belong to them" and how "hard-working" they are in order to make money.
If there is a local family that makes money digging underground treasures, then when the news spreads, all the young and old men in the village will come together. This is what happened when the ancient tombs of Lijiashan in Jiangchuan County, Yunnan were excavated. The villagers
Due to the looting and excavation, there were originally two national treasures, one large and one small, and only the large one remained.
This result is unbearable pain for anyone engaged in archaeological excavation and cultural relic research.
This time it is likely to be an important relic that solves the mystery of the Xia Dynasty writing, so Qiu Xigui naturally does not want it to be damaged in the slightest.
"What Lao Qiu said is true! We can't wait here any longer!" Li Renfang, who understood the importance of the matter, also stood up.
"Why don't we set off now? Even if we don't get the national development approval when we get there, we can still protect the ruins first! It's only one day and it goes by very quickly!"
Qi Lao's words immediately won everyone's approval.
At this time, Liu Dong, as a junior, naturally couldn't say much. However, as a junior, after several old men decided to leave early, things like booking flights and hotels naturally fell on him.
Fortunately, Liu Dong had a four-person plane, and the hotel affairs could be settled with just a phone call. Therefore, it did not cause Liu Dong much trouble.
Before leaving, after telling Qi Hongjun about the situation, Liu Dong, who had just returned less than a day ago, flew back to Zhengzhou again without stopping!
Because there is no airport in Yanshi, you have to take a bus there!
After more than two hours of bumpy journey and returning to Yanshi, it was already evening! Originally, according to Mr. Qi's wish, everyone went directly to the location of the ruins. However, Liu Dong considered that several elders were not young, and they were
It has been bumpy for such a long time. I need a good rest. So, let the accompanying bodyguards go to Zhangjiatan Village to watch, and we will go there together tomorrow.
"Boss, someone is looking for you outside!"
As soon as Liu Dong got up in the morning, the bodyguard Shen Ning who was still accompanying him came up and reported.
"Looking for me?" Liu Dong was stunned, "Do you know him?"
"I don't know! The other party is an armed policeman!"
"Armed police?" After thinking for a moment, Liu Dong continued, "Let's go out and take a look!"
Because there is no living room in the hotel room in the county town where Liu Dong lives, if you want to talk, you can only go to the special reception area on the first floor. Therefore, people who want to see Liu Dong also wait here.
"Hello, I am Liu Dong!"
Two strong, upright young soldiers with second lieutenant epaulettes on their shoulders stood up. After looking at him briefly, the taller soldier on the left stretched out his right hand and said, "Hello. I am Yanshi City.
Wu Tao, the squadron leader of the Second Squadron of the Armed Police Brigade."
"Hello!"
"I am Li Ziqiang, political commissar of the Second Squadron of the Yanshi Armed Police Force!"
"Hello!"
After the three of them greeted each other, Liu Dong said: "Are you two here today...?"
"We have received an order. From today on, 65 people from the Second Squadron of the Armed Police Force will cooperate with Mr. Liu in all his work in Yanshi!"
Although Wu Tao didn't understand why their superiors asked them to obey the orders of this young man who seemed to have just stepped out of college. But in the military camp, orders are orders and must be carried out unconditionally.
"Thank you both for your cooperation!"
Liu Dong understood that this was probably the work of his uncle Qi Hongjun. However, this also solved some of the troubles he encountered.
Although he came here with enough bodyguards this time, no matter how many bodyguards he brought, they would not be as intimidating as a ********* machine.
"Xiaodong, these two comrades are...?"
At this moment, Mr. Qi and Li Renfang came downstairs and noticed the situation here and walked over together.
"Oh, these two are from the Yanshi Armed Police Force. They will cooperate with our work next!"
"That's good, now I feel confident! ...Thank you both!"
"You're welcome!" After shaking hands with Mr. Qi and Li Renfang, Wu Tao turned to Liu Dong and said. "Mr. Liu, how do you want us to cooperate next? Can you please give us an order?"
"In one hour, we will gather at the armed police station in one hour, and then everyone will set off together!" Liu Dong gave the order unceremoniously.
After hearing this, the two saluted together and briefly discussed it. Li Ziqiang, as the political commissar, stayed as a liaison officer, while Wu Tao went back to assemble the troops.
However, in order to set off on time within an hour, Liu Dong also immediately went upstairs to wake up all the people passing by to eat.
An hour may be long, but short, it will pass by quietly when you don't expect it.
An hour later, in a rented bus and three military vehicles full of soldiers, a group of people drove towards Zhangjiatan Village, Lianfeng Town, amid the attention and speculation of everyone around them.
This time was not like last time. Liu Dong and the others, who had mobilized troops, unexpectedly attracted the attention of a large number of villagers as soon as they entered the village.
Returning to the fields he had just visited the day before yesterday, Liu Dong breathed a sigh of relief at the peaceful scene.
"Political Commissar Li, ask the soldiers to be on guard around the area. Next we have to do some field surveys here!" Liu Dong said.
"Okay, leave it to us!"
Li Ziqiang agreed, and summoned all the more than 60 armed police soldiers under him, leaving eight people to guard the vehicle. The rest all formed a faint circle under Liu Dong's command, surrounding Liu Dong and Qi Lao.
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"Xiaodong, is this the place you mentioned?"
After getting off the car, Qi Lao looked at the surrounding environment and asked.
"Well! This is the place I came to last time. You see, those jade slabs were dug out of this well."
Following the direction Liu Dong pointed, everyone saw an earthen well covered with a cement cover on the ground!
Mr. Qi walked around the well, and then called Mr. Qiu and the others. A group of old men in their seventies and eighties actually assembled a sharp Luoyang shovel and came out.
The Luoyang shovel is both an archaeological tool and a professional tomb robbing tool. Its existence has caused the frequency of Chinese ancient tombs to be stolen suddenly increased several times in the last century. The Luoyang shovel also provides the most practical tool for archaeological excavations.
Today, this simple tool invented for tomb robbing has become an internationally renowned and essential archaeological tool, popular in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Luoyang Shovel has also become Luoyang’s city card. Although there are some stains on this business card!
With a young and strong man like Liu Dong here, it is natural that the old men cannot be allowed to use the Luoyang shovel.
Mr. Qiu, who had the richest archaeological expertise among the crowd, naturally became the first person to direct the excavation on site. Under his command, Liu Dong laid the first shovel three meters north of the earth well.
Yanshi is adjacent to the Yellow River to the north. In ancient times, due to the flooding of the Yellow River, the soil here was thick and fertile. When Liu Dong dug down to a depth of three meters, the soil he brought out with his shovel was still the same brown soil.
Sand appears only when the height is four meters.
But these soil qualities are not what Mr. Qiu and the others want.
"Would you like to change another place and take a look?" Mr. Qi couldn't help but suggest after seeing that he had drilled down almost 7 meters and still couldn't find the rammed soil layer.
"Pill one more meter! If we still can't see the rammed earth, we will change the place!" Mr. Qiu hesitated and said.
"That's fine...!"
"etc!"
Mr. Qiu's sudden excited voice almost scared Mr. Qi to pull out his beard. Before the old man could understand what was going on, he saw Qiu Xigui, who was standing next to him, rushing to Liu Donggang with a speed that was not inferior to that of the young man.
He took out the shovel head, which was no more than twenty centimeters above the ground. Then he grabbed it regardless of the fact that the shovel was covered with soil.
"Rammed earth, this is rammed earth!" Mr. Qiu said loudly and excitedly, looking at the blue soil layer about two centimeters thick in the middle of the shovel.
And his voice also successfully attracted the eyes of all the old men watching around him.
The so-called rammed earth is a material used in ancient construction. It is a compact, mixed mud block that is strong, dense and has few gaps, and is used for house construction.
Our country has been using this technology for a very long time. It has been used on a large scale from the Neolithic Age to the 1950s and 1960s. Even now, some remote areas are still using this method.
The general method of rammed earth is to compact the soil layer by layer using dry mounds. It is a kind of high-intensity physical labor that requires a large number of laborers. It can range from thousands to tens of thousands of people. In ancient my country, such a large number of laborers could be gathered. Organizations or individuals are only the government and princes and nobles. So the ancient buildings we see now, such as the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Mawangdui Han Tomb, and the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, all have rammed earth foundations.
Therefore, if you are doing archeology and want to know whether there are really ancient buildings underneath, you only need to see if you can hit the rammed earth layer when digging with a shovel.
"Quick, try another place!" Mr. Qiu said excitedly.
Under the guidance of the old man, Liu Dong hit again ten meters away from the first place where he hit the rammed soil layer.
When the shovel reached about 8 meters again, the rammed soil layer was found again.
Mr. Qiu, who looked even more excited and expectant, once again asked Liu Dong to step back 50 meters and hit the Luoyang shovel again. This time, the shovel could only go down 6 meters, and the rammed soil layer was once again explored.
Afterwards, Mr. Qiu once again looked for a place a hundred meters away from the third detection point and shoveled again, and still found the rammed soil layer as expected.
200 meters, 400 meters, 600 meters, or even 1,000 meters. When eleven detection points are reached in a straight line, the rammed soil layer truly disappears.
But at this time, Mr. Qiu's face was full of excitement on his eyebrows and beard.
Through these eleven exploration points, he discovered that the scale of the ruins at his feet was unbelievable.