On the 12th day of the twelfth lunar month, at noon, the Anlu County jailer Xi arrived with several county soldiers transferred to him by the county captain. He found that his trip was in vain. Six tomb robbers were killed and five were captured. Even the one
The Lijianmen who was guarding the thief was also caught and taken to Huyang Pavilion.
Heifu's net was not only cast in time, but also beautifully, and all the criminals were caught in one catch.
The jailers who were gearing up to solve the major case were a little annoyed, but Xi was not unhappy at all. He praised Heifu, saying that although the Huyang Pavilion Chief had just taken office, he acted decisively and made the right judgment.
As the chief of a pavilion, he was responsible for managing the public security of a place. When and how to catch thieves, he had to have a strong balance in his mind. Although Heifu did not wait for the order from the county and went out overnight, this was within the freedom of his authority as the chief of the pavilion.
Although one of the tomb robbers died during the arrest, he was violently resisting arrest with a knife and deserved to die - but if he deliberately stabbed a minor criminal to death, he would also be held criminally responsible.
Be a Cheng Dan.
Xi finally said: "I should report your merits to the county magistrate and the county magistrate. With this meritorious service, you, the trial chief of the pavilion, will soon become the real chief of the pavilion."
In the Qin State, all officials have a probation period, usually one year. If they perform well, they can be promoted to regular positions in advance. After becoming regular, they can add the word "true" in front of their official positions. Xi said that if everything goes well, the period will start from January
From now on, Hei Fu is no longer the "trial pavilion chief" but the "real pavilion chief".
"So, after spring starts, Jing will be able to join the county school as a disciple?"
Hei Fu felt happy and quickly thanked the jailer.
After briefly praising Hei Fu, Xi began to inspect the stolen goods brought back by Hei Fu and others without stopping.
"Yes, this is indeed Dou Xin's tomb artifact."
He repeatedly checked the tripod and Gui that the tomb robbers had taken out, washed away the soil, and observed the inscriptions on them, which confirmed Li Xian's statement that this tomb was indeed the burial place of Douxin, the Ruo'ao family.
"Where are all the stolen goods?" Xi put down the tripod and glanced at Heifu, Li Xian, Dongmen Bao and others, trying to see the flaws in their faces.
Heifu said: "I have reported to the superior, many things, and they are all here!"
Qin law has extremely severe penalties for hiding stolen goods, which is equivalent to the crime of theft. Even if Heifu and the others secretly hide a piece of lacquerware, once they are found out, they will be dismissed immediately. If the stolen goods are worth more than 110 yuan
, it’s not a matter of losing one’s official position and being fined, but it’s a matter of being punished as a city dan...
Therefore, Hei Fu looked down upon his subordinates very seriously and told them not to spoil the big thing just because of their greed for money.
At the end, Hei Fu curiously asked Xi: "May I ask the jailer how to deal with these stolen goods?"
After capturing several tomb robbers, Heifu had already conducted a rough interrogation. It turned out that the tomb robberies in Nan County were the most serious on the Yidao side where the tomb of the First King of Chu was located, followed by Jiangling, and were rare on the Anlu side...
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But in recent years, these tomb robbers have begun to collude with each other. In Nanjun, Hubei and Jiangnan regions of Chu State, there has also been a market that specializes in purchasing bronze artifacts and lacquerware for burials, and openly trades dead people's artifacts, which is extremely rampant.
He was immediately curious, is there already an antique trade these days?
The answer of the tomb robbers surprised Heifu. It turned out that these people were not robbing the tombs to dig up antiques. The lacquerware was not easy to rot and could be sold as new after being treated casually, while the bronze wares could be melted down in the furnace to make new ones.
of copperware to be sold.
Heifu couldn't help but feel a slight toothache. Seeing the exquisite workmanship of the tripod in the tomb, even the tomb-suppressing beast would be a treasure that attracts everyone's attention in future generations and museums.
As a result, tomb robbers in this era actually sold them as copper materials and living utensils.
"Sure enough, no matter what era the tomb robbers are, they are actually short-sighted. Such people have no effect except destroying tombs and destroying cultural relics."
Heifu remembered that in his previous life, many people read some tomb-robbing novels and began to talk shamelessly, confusing archeology and tomb robbing, saying that "archeology is tomb robbing allowed by law" and so on.
This is the biggest slander against archaeologists!
It is true that some archeology before and after the Cultural Revolution did have a great negative impact due to the special reasons of the times.
But real archeology is completely opposite to tomb robbing. Nowadays, active excavations are very rare. Most of them are rescue excavations of ancient tombs exposed due to engineering and tomb robbing. Therefore, archaeologists always
One step behind the tomb robbers, looking at the tombs and the tombs in a mess, I sighed. I could only bow down and clean up the evil deeds of the tomb robbers, but I still have to suffer the unjust injustice of some Internet trolls.
The purpose of tomb robbing is to steal burial objects and resell them for money. Grave robbers will use any means to destroy the tombs. The cultural relics taken out will only be selected according to the market value scale, and a large number of cultural relics with important historical value will be destroyed.
Heifu heard in his previous life that after some tomb robbers took out the gorgeous silks from Chu tombs, they didn't know how to protect them. As a result, in just a few days, Chu silk clothes that could have become treasures and were carefully cared for by researchers were carbonized.
It became a pile of black garbage and was thrown into the smelly ditch.
Imagine again, what would happen if the Yunmeng Qin Slips, which recorded the happy, black husband, shocking stories, and many laws and regulations of the Qin Dynasty, were handled by tomb robbers?
Bamboo slips buried underground for two thousand years are easily destroyed and without good protection, the writing will be blurred and disappear, the bamboo slips will be carbonized and turn black, and the Qin laws of more than a thousand slips will return to dust and will not be known to the world.
It's like they have never appeared in this world.
However, if it is a formal rescue archaeological excavation, the bamboo slips can be best protected and collected in museums, becoming a window for us to understand the lives of our ancestors. They will become knowledge that everyone in the country can understand, rather than just one person.
If historians want to study the private collections of foreign wealthy people, they have to humbly beg their new "owners" for permission.
It is true that the owner of the tomb certainly does not want to be disturbed by anyone, but after thousands of years of vicissitudes, most of the tombs have long stopped eating blood, and their descendants have also moved around and forgotten their existence. By this time, the tombs no longer belong to one person.
The burial place is not a private sacrifice for each family, but has become the common wealth of this nation and this country!
Confusing tomb robbing with archeology is like confusing violent rape with seeing a doctor for gynecological problems.
So Heifu is very curious, how did Qin in this era deal with the loot from tomb robberies?
Xi stroked his beard and said: "Although Douxin's tomb has been left with manpower to guard it, there are many burial utensils. I am afraid that word will soon spread and attract the attention of the surrounding people. Rather than leaving it alone and tempting crime, it is better to take out all the lacquerware."
, the gold vessels were sent to Jiangling, where they would be disposed of by the county guard, and then the coffins were buried where they were. Without the burial objects, Dou Xin might be able to remain undisturbed..."
As for the fate of the bronzes sent to Jiangling City? Xi said, they were probably melted down to make weapons and farm tools.
Heifu was silent for a moment. It seemed that the methods of the Qin government and the tomb robbers were not much different in dealing with tomb robbers' loot. After all, it was ancient times. Museums didn't exist, unless they entered Xianyang and became the palace of King Qin.
decoration.
These funerary objects have not caught up with the good times. In this world, the gorgeous and exquisite tripods are no longer valuable just like the noble blood of their owners...
From bells and cauldrons to swords and plows, perhaps this is the biggest difference between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period! Troubled times are like a copper furnace. Heroes and common people work together to load carbon and recast everything. The fire of war tempers and burns away all the sorrows.
Wenzai's decoration shattered the old era that Confucius longed for, but also forged a new form of civilization.
Seven heroes and nine tripods, hundreds of schools of thought, are slowly merging into one from the limbs to the core. Now the King of Qin is eyeing Shandong, the fire is burning more and more fiercely, the six regions and eight wastelands are about to be unified, and the huge form of the first Chinese empire is ready to emerge!
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When Xi asked people to load the stolen goods onto the carriages and horses and prepare to transport them to the county, the warden Le also ended the first interrogation of the tomb robbers, and asked them about their place of origin and identity one by one, and recorded them on the slips.
Overjoyed.
"Prisoner, the young man Xing claimed to be from Hubei, Chu State. He was from the same hometown as the dead tomb robber and was deceived. The other four are Qin people with their native places all over Nanjun, including one from Anlu and two from Xinshi.
Jingling is alone..."
Xi glanced at the love letter, and then went to check with the thieves one by one. When he asked "Chang", the leader of the thieves who claimed to live in Xinshi and was Shiwu, Xi seemed to notice something was wrong. His thick eyebrows raised slightly.
Wrinkled, he began to carefully observe Chang's appearance, and his suspicions deepened.
Xi did not immediately interrupt Chang's statement, but pretended that nothing had happened. He walked to the backyard and said to Heifu: "Chief of Huyang Pavilion, is there a wanted order issued by the county in your pavilion?"
Heifu hurriedly said: "Yes."
"Go and get it quickly!"
Not long after, Heifu took the wanted wooden slips from the office hall that he had only read once.
After receiving it, Xi reviewed each piece one by one. Finally, his eyes narrowed and he pinched a piece in his hand!
He asked Heifu and others to keep silent, and followed him slowly to the front yard, standing behind the group of tomb robbers.
Xirangle continued to ask the tomb robber some insignificant questions, while he put his hands behind his back, holding the wanted poster, and suddenly shouted: "Gongshi gorilla!"
Subconsciously, the leader of the tomb robbers who called himself "Chang" turned his head blankly and looked...
But in just a moment, he realized that he had been tricked, his expression changed drastically, and he quickly lowered his head!
But Xi's face was already filled with the smile of a civet cat catching a cunning mouse.
As for Heifu, he only secretly saw that the reward for the habitual tomb robber wanted on the warrant, Jiangling County Gongshi Orang, was...