Chapter 1179 – Status

The several chambers close to the secret passage are all animal martyrdom chambers that don’t attract much attention, perhaps it is also because of this that the craftsmen who built the mausoleum could easily open up an escape passage, right?

But the human plan is not as good as heaven’s plan, these craftsmen have dug out such a hidden escape route, but did not realize that they have no chance to enter it, the day the mausoleum is completed, that is, when they die.

The research value of these animal burial chambers is not very large, but it is quite difficult to clean up, due to the terrain limitations, it is necessary to transport them out in batches, which also slows down the process of the archaeological team’s work.

And in the process of transportation, but also try to ensure the integrity of the bones, because this underground mausoleum, in the future is very likely to be built into an underground palace, become a tourist attraction like the Ming Tombs.

As part of the mausoleum, these have been turned into dry bones of cattle and horses, in the future, but also here to restore, in order to bring people a real historical imprint.

With further archaeological excavation, the people found that in this underground tomb, the distance between the chamber and the chamber, are next to each other, and not like some other big tomb, in the two chamber between the long tunnel, which is to the excavation work to bring a lot of convenience.

For two whole weeks, the archaeological work is stagnant in the finishing and excavation of the secret passage around the chamber, a total of eight martyrdom pits, only one chamber filled with ceramics, has a relatively high research value.

The archaeological team found ceramic burial pits, in fact, is also Zhuang Rui before the focus on the placement of the chamber full of Song Dynasty ceramics, those dazzling array of Song Dynasty official kiln porcelains, so that many archaeological experts, almost think that this is a Song Dynasty emperor’s tomb.

Porcelain fragile, can not be treated like those cattle and horse bones, and porcelain in the sealed chamber see air, will be due to changes in oxygen and produce color fading, must be given at the first time to timely maintenance.

So Zhuang Rui and other people in these two weeks in most of the time, but in this chamber spent, a piece of exquisite Song Dynasty porcelain unearthed, but also let people’s hearts for this tomb, given a higher expectation.

“Zhuang Rui, why did you go to walk the horses again! The teachers are waiting for you, hurry up, just waiting for you alone.”

Zhuang Rui rode Chasing Wind, galloping from afar, coldly Ren Chunqiang appeared on the side of the road, causing Zhuang Rui to pull on the reins of his horse, causing Chasing Wind to stand up.

“Brother Ren, I work sixteen or seventeen hours a day here, and only now can I relax, you guys aren’t unaware of that.”

As the deputy commander of this archaeological working group and the leader of the on-site archaeology, Zhuang Rui’s responsibilities were much greater than the average staff.

Often other people work for eight hours, but he has to stay inside for a full sixteen hours before he becomes, and some of the site’s clinical decision-making power, are also delegated to Zhuang Rui, which makes Zhuang Rui students are very bitter, and his management of his own business has never been so uptight ah!

As Zhuang Rui said, in addition to four or five hours of sleep every day, he is also riding the wind chasing relaxation, two weeks down, dozens of kilometers around the duty of the soldiers are very familiar with this one person and a horse.

Zhuang Rui jumped down from the horse, patted the chasing wind’s buttocks, extremely humane chasing wind sneezed, walked to the front of the wooden house where Zhuang Rui lived, bent down the body and closed his eyes to rest up.

Due to the special geographic conditions of this archaeological operation, it is highly likely that it will be carried out for a very long period of time, if we count the planning of some architectural experts who have recently arrived, the projects derived from this operation may have to be sustained for as long as three to five years.

So in this short period of two weeks, the original empty riverside, is already set up two rows of cabins for experts to rest, after all, not everyone can live in the habit of tents.

As the deputy commander-in-chief of the archaeological operation, Zhuang Rui naturally also got such a wooden house, to be honest, these are really solid wood built wooden house, living is indeed more comfortable than the damp and narrow tent.

The meeting is still held in the tent, after Zhuang Rui went in, the large tent has been filled with people, in addition to the archaeological team of several of the commander, there are a few professors from the Architecture School of Beijing University and the National Tourism Administration of the two leaders.

When Zhuang Rui went in, Prof. Wu from Beijing University was saying something, Prof. Meng who was sitting at the first place saw Zhuang Rui, he hastily beckoned and said, “Xiao Zhuang, come, sit down first, listen to Prof. Wu’s opinion about this mausoleum.”

Zhuang Rui’s work in the past two weeks, the crowd is in the eyes of the people, not to mention the hard work, alone Zhuang Rui a few times on the spot decision, so that the archaeological work to avoid major losses, and the richness of its experience, compared to some of the old scientific research experts is no less than the same.

That is in the opening of the ceramic burial chamber, due to the stone door under the slot problem, how can not push, and the thickness of the stone door reached 50 centimeters, even if the use of tools to chisel also need to spend a lot of time.

So one of the staff of the underground archaeology team proposed to blast the stone door to shatter and then open.

Because of the previous successive several chambers are animal burials, if the next one is also, blasting is not infeasible, some experts on the ground after discussion, there are several agreed to this program.

However, at that time in the underground Zhuang Rui, expressed serious objections, and with their own deputy commander-in-chief of the identity of the veto of this program, to the end of the hard to pry open the floor of the lapis lazuli boards, through the stone door slot will be pushed open.

After opening this stone door, full of exquisite ceramics of the Song Dynasty in the room in the crowd marveled at, are also palpitating, if it is really blasting, I’m afraid that the stone door was shattered, which is full of precious porcelain can not keep a few pieces of the complete.

As the saying goes, learning is not the first to reach the teacher, these top figures in the domestic scientific and technological community gathered in the place, the academic atmosphere is still relatively pure, Zhuang Rui’s persistence makes the archaeological team to avoid a major accident, this is a real achievement.

So after this incident, those old experts on Zhuang Rui is another eye, in the work of the meeting, are Zhuang Rui as a peer to communicate.

And the original archaeological team some age than Zhuang Rui, seniority than Zhuang Rui old, and also once in the relevant archaeological departments around the world made some achievements of the staff, but also put away their seniority, from the bottom of the heart to recognize the identity of Zhuang Rui deputy commander-in-chief.

So although now a tent of people are waiting for Zhuang Rui, no one to Zhuang Rui’s late criticism, if replaced by another young man, I am afraid that early by these old men scolded the body.

Professor Wu, who was giving a lecture, nodded to Zhuang Rui later, and continued: “Underneath this grassland, it is composed of Xilingol heterogeneous rock, which is a strongly deformed metamorphic geological body with a large area in the Central Asian orogenic belt, and the age of sedimentary diagenesis of this rock is later than the Late Ordovician period, and the possibility of crustal change is extremely small. So this place is possible to imitate the underground palace of the Ming Thirteen Tombs in Beijing as to open a passageway and build a building group that is connected to the ground and underground.”

This Professor Wu’s words, Zhuang Rui most did not understand, but the last few sentences to understand, dare to meet to discuss the Genghis Khan Mausoleum’s tourism planning.

Zhuang Rui could not help but skim his mouth, these people present even the identity of the tomb owner is not clear, thinking about the back of the tourism prospects, typical bureaucracy.

“Prof. Wu, the terrain here is rather complicated, not only are there rock layers present, but there are also dark rivers interspersed in it, isn’t it too difficult to break through directly from above?”

A relevant leader of the tourism department put forward his opinion, it would be a big project to break out a passageway up to a hundred meters long on the ground.

And this money, of course, is the relevant departments to come out, this leader is afraid that when the time comes don’t even the investment can’t be recovered, of course, he will not say so directly, after all, from the present point of view, the political significance of this archaeological excavation, is far greater than the excavation itself.

“These are not problems, down to play such a channel, to be much easier than the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, only the time span to be a little longer, in addition to the identity of the owner of this tomb, to develop relevant plans.”

Prof. Wu is a very pragmatic person, his words sort of got to the point, if this tomb is Genghis Khan or Kublai’s, then naturally it should be greatly repaired, at the very least, it should be constructed at the ground level to build up a complex that is not inferior to the underground one.

However, if this tomb is just some emperor’s mausoleum in the late Yuan Dynasty, and the unearthed artifacts are very general, then there is no need to pay too much attention to it, or it is possible to close it up again.

That leader thought deeply of Prof. Wu’s words, turned his face to Prof. Meng, and opened his mouth to ask, “Prof. Wu is right, may I ask Mr. Meng, has the identity of the owner of this tomb been found out?”

“Xiao Zhuang, you tell us!”

Prof. Meng didn’t directly answer that leader’s words, but looked at Zhuang Rui, Prof. Meng will resign from the teaching job of Beijing University return next year, which is considered to be completely retired, so now any chance to come out of the gate is for Zhuang Rui to come out.

Zhuang Rui understands the teacher’s bitterness, and at that moment did not excuse himself, coughed and cleared his throat, said: “I’m afraid that it will take some time before we can identify the identity of the owner of the tomb, but from the burial objects that have now been unearthed within the tomb, the owner of this tomb is most likely the Mongolian Khanate’s Khan, or the first three emperors after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty. ”

The objects unearthed in that ceramics chamber are almost all some official kiln porcelains from the Song Dynasty, and the so-called Yuan blue and white and Yuan Dynasty style ceramics are not found in a single piece, which also indicates that the time of construction of this tomb must have been at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty or earlier.