The Omniscient

Early in the morning, a middle-aged farmer was walking on the field ridge humming a song.

He passed by his own field, and just glanced at it, his body was stunned, his feet stumbled, and he fell to the ground.

Which immoral digs my homeland!

He lay on the ground and saw a big hole dug in his field!

This is too immoral, there are crops grown in the ground!

The farmer cursed, looked around, and stomped his feet in anger.

Not only this field, but the surrounding fields were also destroyed, and the crops were crushed by the excavated mounds.

The farmer roamed the surrounding fields, and soon found sloping earth holes in several places.

Compared with the largest deep pits, those earth caves are only about four or five meters deep, and it seems that they are only tentative excavations from various angles.

Ah? Isn't this a tomb robbery?

Haven't eaten pork and never seen a pig run? The farmer immediately thought that these were robbery holes. His first reaction was to get into the hole and grope.

The tossed and disgraced face, but nothing was found.

He didn't give up, changed another hole, still nothing, then he went to the biggest deep hole, jumped down and looked for it, but still found nothing.

This piece of farmland has been farmland for generations, so how could there be a tomb? The farmer laughed at himself, climbed up with great effort, and hurriedly reported to the village chief.

Soon all the people in the village gathered, and there was a lot of discussion about who had seen a foreigner recently.

The village chief jumped into the pit, but it was obvious that the surrounding soil was wrong, and it seemed to be kiln soil that had been burned.

He asked someone to bring a shovel and dug it a few more times. In a piece of dry black mud, he found a piece of jade showing a corner.

There's something! Someone saw it at the tip of the eye, and immediately shouted.

Everyone immediately gathered around the entrance of the cave to watch, and saw that the village chief had peeled off the piece of soil, and it was the jade Gui Gui with the size of a palm.

Of course, they didn't know it was a jade jade, but they only knew that it was a piece of jade with a sharp upper part and a straight lower part, and there were angular raindrop patterns on it.

Is it an antique? Someone above asked

The village chief continued to dig and plan down, but switched to his hands, and soon a large number of pottery, stone, jade, and bronze wares protruded from the soil.

When he saw that there were so many, he quickly stopped and asked someone to pull him up.

Why don't you dig? Let's dig and see! Someone shouted.

No one is allowed to go down! the village chief shouted: Old Li, this is your farmland, please call the Cultural Relics Bureau.

He was worried about the few clever ghosts in the village, so he could only guard the scene himself.

When the farmer heard it, he threw the hoe, and Sa Yazi ran to the house.

Everyone looked at him with joy, and some people were envious, because if the ground was really full of antiques, the government would have to take back the right to use this large area, and Lao Li would get a lot of compensation.

Didn't that professor come to investigate 20 years ago? Why didn't they find it! The tomb robbers found it first.

My field is not far from here, will there be one too?

When someone saw the village chief guarding here, they couldn't possibly move their minds, so they immediately dispersed and went to their own fields to dig and try their luck.

Choose a plot of land, pull out the crops that have been planted, pick up the shovel and start digging.

As a result, when the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau arrived, more than 20 deep pits where cultural relics were found were dug out by villagers in a radius of several miles.

The staff of the Cultural Relics Bureau immediately realized that this was by no means a cemetery, but a large site. They immediately notified more people to come, and urgently stopped the villagers to stop digging.

The matter continued until the afternoon of the same day, when a large number of staff took control of the scene before they understood the situation.

What? How many holes did you find here before?

There is no doubt that it was not the farmer who first discovered the ruins, but someone else,

In the middle of the night, I dug several robbery holes all night, and only left at dawn.

In this way, things will be big, and the tomb robbers are likely to have learned about the distribution of cultural relics underground.

So they immediately hired local villagers to help guard the site. Because the scope is too large, it is impossible to rely on a small number of staff.

The preliminary judgment is that it is a city ruins. A professor wearing glasses went deep into the pit and said after surveying.

What? There is a city? I understand, Lao Fang, the tomb robbers discovered this place earlier than us, because it was in someone else's field, so they dug at night. After digging up something, they quickly found out that it was not a tomb, so they removed it. . said another expert above.

Professor Fang climbed out and said, The grave robbers will definitely not be able to dig a city. They can only try their best not to go empty. Many precious cultural relics were found at the scene, and it is conceivable that they must have taken away a lot of them. However, several of them It's a robbery hole, and the ruins layer has not been dug at all, probably because time does not allow for further excavation.

It can be speculated that the tomb robbers have rich experience in surveying. Professor Wu led someone to survey this place 20 years ago. At that time, he simply tried it with a Luoyang shovel and left. Another expert said.

Professor Fang smiled and said, What were the conditions 20 years ago? Luoyang shovels are not omnipotent. But these tomb robbers are indeed powerful. The soil under the farmland has such a large moisture content that they can even find ruins?

Everyone laughed, this is a typical tomb robber stimulating archaeological situation, which was common decades ago.

There are basically only three ways to discover the archaeological site. The state instructs a certain archaeological project, and professionals find it on their own initiative.

Farmers dig wells, or engineering teams unintentionally dug them.

Finally, there are tomb robbers, who use their superb skills to dig it first.

As they were talking, on the other side, a young doctor rushed over, holding a rusted Fang Ding in his hand.

Professor Fang took a look and was stunned: Old Chen, isn't this an early Neolithic site?

Professor Chen frowned and went to look at it. When he first came, he went to the local villagers to learn about the situation. He heard that there were a lot of stone tools and jade tools, so he first judged it as a Neolithic site. In fact, he didn't have time to study it carefully. artifacts found.

At this moment, I can see that something is wrong. Although the bronze ware in front of me is rusted into a lump, there is no patina in some parts, showing delicate lines. From the tip of the iceberg, it can be seen that it should have been very beautiful.

That is to say, this is a pre-Shang site where both copper and stone were used, and it was also in the Xia Dynasty at the latest.

Professor, all the cultural relics dug up by the local villagers have been recovered, and there are a large number of jade and bronze wares, said the young doctor.

The two hurriedly followed to look, and saw hundreds of pieces of jade, jade walls, jade shovels, copper tripods, copper shovels, copper ge, copper bells, copper ornaments scattered on the ground...

Among them, the jade wares are extremely exquisite, and the artistic style is very different from the Longshan culture and Erlitou culture of this generation, and the decoration is very different.

Hurry up and get the emergency approval. We must make rescue excavations as soon as possible. Professor Chen hurriedly called the director and said.

The director said: Old Chen, what are you anxious about?

Professor Chen said: The bronze ware has been found, can I not be in a hurry? Judging from the degree of rust, the site should have been soaked in water for a long time, and there are tomb robbers eyeing it, I think there is no need to wait.

I see, the approval will be down soon. The director knew that the site must be excavated as soon as possible.

That night, in order to prevent tomb robbers from digging holes nearby, all the staff stayed at the scene to guard, and also hired local villagers to patrol.

The night passed without incident, and the next morning, the Provincial Institute of Archaeology came to conduct preliminary exploration of the entire site.

Three days later, the land use rights have been handed over, the approval has been issued, and the site has been cleaned up.

The provincial professional archaeological team started the first rescue excavation.

After four days of continuous work, the pits became bigger and bigger, and more and more cultural relics were found. Every day, a large number of jade, pottery, and bronze wares were excavated.

Among them, the number of pottery is the largest. In a short period of time, it has reached 200,000 pieces!

Secondly, there are more than 16,000 bronze wares, and most of them are weapons.

Sadly, the vast majority of bronzes are badly damaged, not by man-made damage, but by water erosion!

And from a geological point of view, the ruins were covered by floods and silt.

But fortunately, it was precisely because it was instantly covered that the building complex was well preserved!

The whole city was pressed under the sand as a whole. As long as it was carefully excavated, the appearance of the whole city could be restored.

However, as the excavation progressed, everyone was confused again.

Because the site excavated pieces of copper and pottery workshop sites, 200,000 square meters have been discovered! .

The scale is so large that it is rare in the world!

For a time, archaeologists wondered if this was the ruins of an ancient city? If it is a city, why are all smelting and production buildings?

This is most likely a city specialized in forging and production, and it must not be the capital of a certain culture.

Is this the industrial center of the Xia Dynasty?

It may also be a military center, which cannot be dated for the time being. From a cultural point of view, it belongs to neither Erlitou nor Longshan culture. This may be a vassal culture in the Central Plains...

Vocal? You have no basis for this. This is Xinzheng, located in the hinterland of the Central Plains. Judging from the jade articles, it is very similar to the Longshan culture. It must be a transitional culture between Yu and Xia.

How can there be a transitional culture between Yu and Xia? Judging from such a strong productivity of bronzes, this should be a culture of the same period as the Xia Dynasty.

The archaeologists debated, until someone excavated a bronze sacred tree from the ruins...

Ah? No way? It actually belongs to the same type as Sanxingdui culture?

This is a major discovery! Sanxingdui is no longer an independent, isolated culture, it has branches and leaves!

The Central Plains and Shu are far apart, but they have extremely close exchanges. People in this city are very likely to have the culture of the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin at the same time, which is why this is the case.

So...is it Zhuanxu?

All those present were big bosses, and they quickly thought of Zhuanxu. Because of the records in the literature, Zhuanxu's ancestor was sealed in the land of Shu. After several generations, Zhuanxu became the master of the Central Plains again.

Therefore, in the pre-Shang period, the Central Plains and Shu were most likely to communicate with each other, and most likely it was the era of Zhuanxu.

Is this Zhuanxu's capital Diqiu? If it is true, then the emergence of bronze technology has advanced at least five hundred years.

It can't be the capital city. Although it has not been excavated, such a large-scale workshop site group will inevitably have corresponding divisions for workers to live in. As a result, it will occupy an area of ​​at least 300,000 to 400,000 square meters. , this is obviously not a political center. The capital of this culture can only be said to have not been discovered yet, we have only discovered this smelting city.”

In addition to the undiscovered capital, there are actually large-scale, centralized cities and towns specializing in smelting and production... Zhuanxu period was even more advanced than Yaodu's technology? Yao and Shun periods belonged to technological regression?

The archaeologists were inexplicably horrified. They guessed that the Taosi site was the capital of Yao and also had bronze wares, but in terms of productivity, it was far worse than this city.

If it is the era of Zhuanxu, it means that after the death of Zhuanxu, the culture has been interrupted and the technology has gone backwards.

During the Tang Yu period, the advanced bronze technology of the Zhuanxu period was lost.

Wait a minute, I know what this might be... The Ruins of Zhurong! Right! According to ancient history, the Ruins of Zhurong are in Xinzheng.

Yes, yes, the Ruins of Zhurong, since it is called Ruins, it means that it has long been abandoned. From the scene, it is caused by floods. The entire city is covered under the sand, so it was renamed the Ruins of Zhurong from the Kingdom of Zhurong.

Gonggong is in charge of the water conservancy project, and Zhu Rong is in charge of the 'fire benefit' project, that is, smelting and manufacturing!

Not only that, Zhu Rong is also a military chief, so Zhu Rong is the Ministry of Defense in ancient times!

This place is responsible for the production of a large number of ordnance, and it is also the industrial center of the Central Plains.

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