Chapter 1067 – The Gambling Club

“Hosting an archaeological excavation alone?”

Zhuang Rui froze for a moment when he heard this, but he wasn’t a newcomer who had just dabbled in the archaeology world a few years ago, and after thinking for a moment, he said, “Teacher, can I personally go and look for the excavated tombs?”

Zhuang Rui is now also considered a professional in the archaeological field, he knows that the country still has many ancient tombs that have been surveyed, but due to a variety of reasons and did not carry out excavation, like the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin Shi Huang is because of the technical reasons of underground mercury, and there are also for the protection of cultural relics, many ancient tombs will be protected, and has not been on the schedule of excavation.

Since Prof. Meng had made this suggestion to himself, he thought that he would find a representative tomb for himself to excavate, but Zhuang Rui also had his own ideas, he didn’t have too much interest in the tombs that were known to exist now, but rather he wanted to find out an unprecedented tomb through his own surveys.

“Searching personally?”

Professor Meng didn’t expect Zhuang Rui to make this request, his brows slightly furrowed, then he said with a smile, “Xiao Zhuang, you’re not a Mr. Geomancy and Feng Shui, do you know about this searching for dragons and acupoints?”

Although Professor Meng’s words were meant to be a joke, they also illustrated his point of view, although this archaeology was also carrying out the process of searching and excavating tombs, and there were also courses in ancient geomancy and geomancy, but professionally speaking, archaeologists might not necessarily be seen as feng shui masters, and this searching for tombs wasn’t an easy task.

Ancient royal family burials, often after the geomancer geomancy, the ancients said: three years to find the dragon, ten years to point points, learn to find the dragon takes a long time, but to know the point of the point, and point to the guidelines is much more difficult, and even have to use the “ten years” or “a hundred years! The time of “ten years” or “one hundred years” is needed.

Even Prof. Meng, who is quite accomplished in Feng Shui and geomancy, now when he is looking for tombs in the field archaeology, he still often points the wrong points to the wrong side, so he doesn’t think that Zhuang Rui will be able to find any big tombs on his own.

“Teacher, I still want to try it myself, I learned a little something in school, I want to see if I can apply it in practice?”

Zhuang Rui laughed, or insisted on his own words just now, what a joke, as long as he wants, the world is not estimated to have a tomb that Zhuang Rui can not survey, Zhuang Rui once looked at the internal literature of the Beijing University, which is only a suspected Cao Cao’s tomb, so that he is so a little bit of interest, but according to Zhuang Rui’s speculation, the possibility of being a real tomb is extremely low.

There is also that Zhuang Rui stayed at home for half a year, static, he also wants to go outside to go around, see more of the motherland’s great mountains and rivers.

“You kid, this is giving me a problem!”

Professor Meng shook his head with a bitter smile, this excavation of the tomb is required a very cumbersome set of procedures, even if Zhuang Rui can find the ancient tomb, that is not to say that digging can be dug, it must be evaluated by the experts of the relevant departments before deciding whether or not to carry out a protective excavation, of course, if Professor Meng insisted on promoting the excavation, basically not a big problem.

“All right! But I’ll tell you first, field archaeology searching for ancient tombs, that’s a very boring and grueling job, you kid don’t give up halfway when the time comes!”

Professor Meng looked at Zhuang Rui’s appraising look and finally agreed, this disciple in front of him had given him many surprises before, and Professor Meng also wanted to see what kind of tomb Zhuang Rui could eventually find?

“Hehehe, thank you teacher, you drink tea ……”

Zhuang Rui smiled at his words, the reason why he invited his teacher to his home was that he wanted to use his teacher’s reputation in the archaeological world to promote the excavation of the tomb he had found.

“This tea of yours is hard to swallow!”

Professor Meng pointed down at Zhuang Rui and then asked, “It seems like your kid has been planning this for a long time, where is the first stop going to be placed?”

Zhuang Rui honestly said, “Teacher, I want to go to Shaanxi first, where there are many ancient tombs of Spring and Autumn, Qin and Han, and perhaps some imperial tombs that have not yet been discovered.”

In fact, Zhuang Rui’s goal was mainly placed on the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, according to his idea, if he didn’t dig it, then it would be a world-shattering discovery since he wanted to excavate it.

Although according to the survey of the relevant departments, the underground mercury content within the scope of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is extremely high, it is suspected that the periphery is poured by mercury, so it has not been able to be unearthed, but Zhuang Rui believes that there must be a place that has not been covered by mercury, and with his own eyes, he may be able to find a breakthrough point.

“You’re not hitting on the idea of Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum, are you? Teacher isn’t that capable, that imperial tomb, it won’t be excavated within fifty years.”

Prof. Meng knew that this disciple of his appeared to be modest, but in reality, he was still very arrogant, and after hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, he immediately guessed what he had in mind, but even with his position in the archaeological world, without informative data, he would not be able to push forward with the excavation of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.

To know, if you can not properly solve the problem of mercury coverage, not only in the excavation process personnel will be in danger, to the underground cultural relics that will also be a disaster, like the last century in the sixties and seventies, for some political reasons excavated the Ming Thirteen Mausoleums, at that time, I do not know how many precious cultural relics were destroyed, which makes the old generation of science and technology scientists are pained.

“If you ask me, you can pay more attention to the tombs in Gansu, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia in these regions, there might be some unexpected gains there.”

The meaning of Professor Meng’s words Zhuang Rui also understood, due to geographic factors, these places are dry and less rain, the preservation of cultural relics in the underground tombs, often better than the tombs in the Jiangnan Central Plains, like several unearthed and better preserved ancient paintings of the Song Dynasty, all of which came from Gansu and other places.

“Teacher, I will seriously consider it.”

Zhuang Rui knew that he was a bit taken for granted, things like excavating the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, it was estimated that it would have to be submitted to the motion of the national leaders, and it was far beyond his ability to decide, but after hearing Prof. Meng’s words, Zhuang Rui suddenly remembered a character who had once reigned supreme in Chinese history.

Just this is a little bit too unreliable, Zhuang Rui is not sure to find the person’s tomb, at the moment did not say much, will lead the topic to other places, and Professor Meng chatted up, at noon to stay in the home of Professor Meng ate dinner, Zhuang Rui afternoon personally drove Professor Meng grandparents and grandchildren back to the residence of the Beijing University.

Just as Zhuang Rui thought about whether to go to Panjiayuan to take a turn, his cell phone suddenly rang, Zhuang Rui looked at it, it was an unfamiliar Beijing number.

“Hello, this is Zhuang Rui.” Not many people knew his cell phone number, so Zhuang Rui picked up the phone.

“Xiao Zhuang, still remember old man me?” A hearty laugh came from the phone.

“Aigoo, Tang Lao you say this, you are …… in Beijing?”

Zhuang Rui didn’t think that this phone call was actually from Tang Lao, and quickly said, “Tang Lao, I must host you when you come to Beijing, let’s go to the Houhai side at night! I know there is a restaurant with good Yunnan cuisine.”

For the famous “Jade King” in the jade line, Zhuang Rui is still very respect, the senior not only appreciate the jadeite skill is high, character is the line of unanimous respect, Zhuang Rui now hangs on the “Jade Research Promotion Association” president of the position Zhuang Rui now hangs on the “Jade Research Promotion Association” president of the position, can be this old man let out.

But to be honest, Zhuang Rui this president when not very competent, so far in the promotion of the Association has shown once, many other meetings are attended by Qin Haoran on behalf of Zhuang Rui is thinking about is not to resign from the position of president!

“Hehe, dinner is even, I have to meet some old friends at night.”

Tang Lao smiled at his words, he also knows that Zhuang Rui is not very interested in the promotion of the things of the Association, but this itself is a research institution, the daily affairs of a specialized person in charge of, the president is actually just hanging a name, so the old man is also not very concerned about.

“Elder Tang, then tomorrow! You’re coming to Beijing, the late generation must do the landlord’s honor.” Zhuang Rui does want to sit down and exchange with Tang Lao, for the knowledge of jadeite, he can’t catch up with this old master, every time he can learn a lot of knowledge from Tang Lao.

“Xiao Zhuang, let’s put dinner on hold first, are you free tomorrow? Looking for you for something else.” Tang Lao interrupted Zhuang Rui with a smile.

“Free ah! There is something you can say.” Zhuang Rui was a bit strange, could it be that this old man pulled out to get some good goods and wanted to find himself to show off?

“It’s like this, some people in Beijing organized a gambling club, this time specially invited me to participate in the club’s activities, if you’re free, go with me tomorrow!”

“Gambling club? Hey, I know about this.” Zhuang Rui suddenly remembered something after hearing Tang Lao’s words.

During the last week, someone had asked Fatty Ma, who was far away in Africa, to make a phone call to allow himself to participate in some kind of activity related to gambling stones, but it was shrugged off by Zhuang Rui, ever since he had officially been crowned king in the jadeite line, there had been numerous invitations like this, and most of them would not have been attended by Zhuang Rui.

Just Zhuang Rui did not expect these people can actually persuade Tang Lao to participate, but there is a little bit of interest, at the same time, the car will find a roadside stop, said: “Master, what is this club? You tell me about it!”

“It’s actually nothing, the person who organized this activity, is actually not quite in the business, but it’s one of my old clients, the relationship is deeper, it’s okay if you don’t have time, Xiao Zhuang.”

Hearing Tang Lao’s explanation, Zhuang Rui realized that, dare I say, this gambling club is actually not organized by people in the circle, but a group of businessmen with strong assets, in order to pursue the excitement of gambling on stones, spontaneously formed a club.

These people are mostly well-known domestic entrepreneurs, they spend a lot of money from Burma or the domestic public disk after the purchase of jadeite, will be in the internal deciphering, to put it bluntly, is a group of rich people in a different way to gamble only.