The Omniscient

In the early morning, a middle-aged farmer was walking on the field humming a song.

He passed his own field, only glanced at it, and his body tilted in surprise, his feet were stirred, and he fell to the ground.

“Which wicked person digs my field!”

He was lying on the ground, and saw a big hole dug in his field!

This is too wicked, there are crops in the field!

The farmer is foul-mouthed, glanced around, and stomped with anger.

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

The farmer wandered around the surrounding fields and soon found sloping dirt holes in several places.

Compared with the biggest deep pits, those soil holes are only about four five meters deep, which seems to be tentative excavation from all angles.

“Ah? This is not a tomb robber, right?”

Have you never seen a pig run without eating pork? The farmer instantly thought that these were robbing holes. His first reaction was to get into the hole and explore.

Tossing covered in dirt, but nothing was caught.

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

“This piece of farmland has been used for generations, how can there be a tomb?” The farmer laughed at himself, then climbed up with great effort, and hurriedly reported to Village Head.

Soon people from the village gathered, discuss spiritedly, and talk about who has seen a foreigner recently.

Village Head jumped into the pit, but it was obvious that the surrounding soil was not in the right color. It seemed to be burnt kiln soil.

He asked someone to bring a shovel and plan a few more times, and unexpectedly found a corner of jade in a piece of dried black mud.

“There is something!” Someone yelled immediately after seeing it sharply.

Everyone immediately gathered around the entrance of the cave and saw that Village Head peeled off that piece of soil. It was a jade tablet with a big palm.

Of course, they didn’t know that this was a jade tablet, they only knew that it was a piece of jade with a sharp upper part and a flat lower end with sharp raindrop patterns on it.

“Is it an antique?” Someone asked above

Village Head continued to dig down, but switched to hands. Soon there were a lot of pottery, stoneware, jade, and bronze. A sharp point emerged from the soil.

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

“Why didn’t you dig it? Dig and see!” someone booed.

“No one is allowed to go down!” Village Head shouted: “Old Li, this is your field, you can call the Cultural Heritage Bureau.”

He is not worried about the village. The few clever ghosts in the country can only guard the scene personally.

The farmer listened and threw the hoe, and Sa Yazi ran home.

Everyone looked at him happily, some people were envious, because if the underground is really antique, the government must take back the right to use this large area, and Old Li will get it Expensive compensation.

“Didn’t that professor come to survey 20 years ago? Why didn’t I find it! I let the tomb thief find it first.”

“My field is not far from here. , Will there be one too?”

Someone saw the Village Head staying here, and they were also impossible to move their minds, so they immediately dispersed, went digging in their own fields, and tried one’s 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, the villagers dug out more than 20 deep pits where cultural relics were found.

The staff of the Cultural Relics Bureau immediately realized that this was not a cemetery, but a large site, and immediately notified more people to come over, and urgently stopped the villagers to stop digging.

Things have been tossing until the afternoon when a large number of staff members took control of the scene before they learned about the situation.

“What? There were several holes here before you found it?”

Undoubtedly, it was not the farmer who discovered the site first, but someone else. In the middle of the night , Dug a few thief holes overnight, and left before dawn.

In this way, things will be big, and the tomb thief may already know the distribution of cultural relics underground.

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

“Preliminary judgment, it is a city ruin.” A professor wearing glasses went deep into the pit and said after some investigation.

“What? There is a city? I understand, Lao Fang, the tomb thief discovered this place earlier than us. Because it was in someone else’s field, he digged at night. After digging something, I quickly discovered that this is not The tomb was removed,” said another expert above.

Professor Fang crawled out and said: “It’s definitely impossible for tomb robbers to dig a city. They can only try their best not to go as far as possible. Many precious cultural relics were found on the scene, and you can imagine that they will also take them away. A lot of it. However, many of the burglars have not been dug to the site level at all, probably because time does not allow to continue digging.”

“It can be speculated that the group of tomb robbers has rich surveying experience. Professor Wu led a survey of this place 20 years ago. At that time, he simply tried a Luoyang shovel and left.” Another expert said.

Professor Fang said with a smile: “What are the conditions 20 years ago? Luoyang shovel is not omnipotent. However, this group of tomb thieves is indeed powerful. The soil under this farmland has such a high water content that it can be explored. Are there any ruins?”

Everyone laughed. This is a typical situation where tomb thieves stimulate archaeology. This situation was common several decades ago.

There are basically only three ways to discover an archaeological site. The state has approved a certain archaeological project, and professionals take the initiative to find it.

Farmers dig wells, or engineering teams unintentionally dug them.

In the end, the tomb robbers, using their superb technique, dig it first.

They were talking, on the other side, a young Court Academecian hurriedly ran up, holding a rusty square tripod in his hand.

Professor Fang took a look, and he was taken aback: “Old Chen, this is not an early Neolithic site?”

Professor Chen frowned, also looked up, he just When I came, I went to the local villagers to find out the situation. I heard that there were a lot of stone and jade artifacts, so I first judged it as a Neolithic site. In fact, I haven’t had time to carefully study the cultural relics discovered.

At this moment, I can see that something is wrong. Although the bronze ware in front of me is rusted into a pile, there is no patina in some places, showing delicate lines. From this tip of the iceberg, you can also see that it was originally It should be very beautiful.

In other words, this is a pre-shang site using both bronze and stone, 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. There are a large number of jade and bronze wares,” said the young Court Academecian.

The two hurriedly followed and saw hundreds of jade ornaments, jade walls, jade shovel, bronze tripods, bronze scorpions, bronze bells, bronze ornaments scattered on the ground…

Among them, the jadeware is extremely exquisite, and the artistic style is very different from this generation of Longshan culture and Erlitou culture, with very different patterns.

“Hurry up to get the emergency approval, we must make rescue excavations as soon as possible.” Professor Chen quickly called the director and said.

The director dumbfounded: “Old Chen, what are you anxious for?”

Professor Chen said: “I have found bronzes, can I not be anxious? Judging from the degree of corrosion, the site should be I’ve been soaking in water for a long time, and there are tomb robbers watching, I don’t think there is any need to wait.”

“I see, the approval will come down soon.” The director knew the site as soon as he heard it. Must dig as soon as possible.

That night, in order to prevent tomb robbers from digging a hole nearby, all the staff stayed on site to guard, and local villagers were also hired to patrol.

One night passed, to live together in harmony, and early in the morning of the 2nd day, the Provincial Archaeological Research Institute came to conduct preliminary exploration of the entire site.

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

The professional archaeological team in the province started the first phase of rescue excavation.

After working for four days in a row, the pit grew bigger and bigger, and there were more and more cultural relics. Everyday, 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.

The most distressing thing is that the overwhelming majority bronzes are badly damaged, not man-made damage, but water erosion!

And from a geological point of view, the site was covered by mud and sand wrapped in floodwater.

But fortunately, it was precisely because it was covered in an instant that the building complex was kept intact!

The entire city is under the mud and sand. As long as you carefully excavate, you can restore the entire city.

But as the excavation progressed, everyone was confused again.

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

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

At one time, archaeologists wondered whether this was an ancient city site? If it is a city, why are all smelting and production buildings?

“This is most likely a city specializing in forging and production. It must not be the capital of a certain culture.”

“Is this the industrial center of the Xia Dynasty?”

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“It may also be a military center, which cannot be dated for the time being. From a cultural point of view, it does not belong to Erlitou nor Longshan culture. This may be a vassal culture of the Central Plains…”

“Subsidiary? You have no basis. This is Henan, located in the hinterland of the Central Plains. Judging from the jade, it is very similar to the Longshan culture. It must be a transitional culture between Yu and Xia.”

“Where can there be a transitional culture between Yu and Xia? From the perspective of such a strong bronze production, this should be the same culture as the Xia Dynasty.”

Archaeologists debated endlessly until some , Unearthed a bronze Divine Tree……

“Huh? No way? It is of the same type as the Sanxingdui culture?”

“This is a major discovery! Sanxingdui is not independent and isolated The culture of this city has its branches and leaves!”

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

“So…is it Zhuanxu?”

All the big guys at the scene soon thought of Zhuanxu, Because of the documentary records, Zhuan Xu’s ancestor was sealed to the Shu area. After several generations, Zhuan Xu became the master of the Central Plains.

Therefore, during the pre-shang period and the most close exchange between the Central Plains and the Shu region, there is a high probability that it was the era of Zhuan Xu.

“This is the capital of Zhuanxu, Emperor Qiu? If it is true, then the emergence of bronze technology has advanced for at least 500 years.”

“I said impossible is the capital, Although the excavation has not been completed yet, such a large-scale workshop site group will inevitably have corresponding divisions for workers to live in. In this way, it will occupy at least an area of ​​30 to 400,000 square meters, which is obviously not a political center. The capital of this culture, it can only be said that it has not been discovered yet. We only discovered this smelting city.”

“In addition to the undiscovered capital, this culture has a huge scale. Concentrated, specialized smelting city… In the Zhuanxu era, was the technology more advanced than the Yaodu? During the Yao and Shun era, was the technology retrogressive?”

The archaeologists were shocked and inexplicably surprised at the Taosi site. The guess is that Yaodu also has bronzes, but in terms of productivity, it is far worse than this city.

If it is really the era of Zhuanxu, it means that after Zhuanxu’s death, culture has been interrupted and technology has regressed.

At the time of Tang Yu, the advanced bronze technique of 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 is located in Henan.”

“Yes. Yes, the Ruins of Zhurong, since it is called Ruins, it means that it has long been abandoned. Judging from the scene, it was caused by floods. The entire city was covered by mud and sand, so it was changed from Zhurong to the Ruins of Zhurong.”

“Gonggong is in charge of water conservancy projects, and Zhurong is in charge of the’fire benefit’ project, which is smelting and manufacturing!”

“Not only that, Zhurong is also a military chief, so Zhurong country is the Ministry of Defense of Ancient Era!”

“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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