Chapter 1177 – Preparation Before Entering

After the press conference ended, within a short period of two or three days, countless people poured into the calm prairie, there were archaeological experts from various countries, there were also many businessmen who took the opportunity to invest in investigating the environment, and there were even many tourists who had the excuse of traveling but actually wanted to witness the archaeological excavation with their own eyes.

However, no matter what kind of purpose these people came to the grassland, they were not able to approach the archaeological area because it was already under military control.

Although Zhuang Rui is convinced that the general public is unable to underground this Genghis Khan Mausoleum excavation, but those tomb raiders means many, Zhuang Rui is also do some preventive work.

The day of the press conference, in Zhuang Rui’s proposal, Alzhai Grottoes in the name of dilapidated repair stopped opening, and in this 50-mile radius, are also listed as a military exclusion zone, visitors are strictly prohibited from entering.

Originally Inner Mongolia prairie is often used as a satellite recovery base and military exercises, and Al Zhai grottoes around, there is no herdsman gathering place, in the archaeological team report submitted up, a troop immediately this area surrounded.

However, so that many countries want to enter the archaeological sites of scientists, but the opinion is quite big, have to the relevant departments have protested.

But this time the Chinese side attitude is very resolute, publicity, archaeological work is completed, can provide relevant film and television information to the countries, but the entire excavation process, will be carried out by the Chinese scientific experts alone.

Of course, the so-called movie and television information provided to the countries will be cut before opening to the public.

This opinion, in fact, is also put forward by Zhuang Rui, after all, in the underground Genghis Khan Mausoleum, but there are countless treasures, especially as hard currency gold, will make any country feel red.

In China’s territory, those foreign experts and scholars, even if they are unwilling, are helpless and can only stay in the nearby cities, expecting more news to break.

As for those guys with evil intentions, is also like a beast that stares at the prey, quietly stationed all over the grassland, they still hold a trace of fantasy, want to pick up some of the archaeological team left behind the leak.

At this time, Zhuang Rui, but do not know what happened outside the hair, he has been busy these days, is now for the next step of the survey and excavation work and many scientists to carry out consultations.

After three days of research and investigation, the dark river leading to the tomb of the secret passage, has been confirmed that there is no organ, that is to say, now has the conditions to enter the tomb.

From the bottom of the lake to the mausoleum secret passage of the cave within the dark river, some narrow sections, these days have also been opened up and widened a lot, as for that piece of place full of “slugs”, the strong acid secretion is all destroyed, in the face of such a major discovery, the protection of the underground topography has become not so important.

A lot of excavation equipment and tools used in the chamber have also been transported to the entrance of the secret passage.

Within that spacious dark river, which was brightly lit at the moment, Dr. Ren was leading several young scientific researchers to transport the last batch of supplies to the designated location.

Unlike the previous archaeology, this time, although the archaeology was also manned by old scientific experts, those working on the front line were all young staff.

There was a reason for this situation, in yesterday’s time, there was an old expert who was nearly seventy years old and must go down to survey the site himself.

The old man’s age, in the archaeological community is also a respected figure, no one can not persuade, no way, give him to wear a good diving equipment so that he went down to the lake.

Who knows just dive to six or seven meters deep, the old man could not stand the pressure fainted, if not the next person to see the opportunity early, it is estimated that the old man will be dedicated to the cause of scientific research.

Out of such a thing, far away in Beijing, Ouyang Minister also made instructions, underground archaeology by the deputy commander-in-chief Zhuang Rui is responsible for, the old experts can only be commanded above, forbidden to go down to the archaeological site to go, such an order in the history of Chinese archaeology, it is estimated to be the first time that appeared.

Some people have also proposed to open a channel from the ground, so that all people can enter the underground dark river, but also to speed up the process of tomb excavation, at that time this proposal was supported by many people.

However, after a simple survey, the people found that in their feet four or five meters, all the rock layer, the thickness of up to more than twenty-thirty meters, want to open a channel on this, is not impossible, but must be used to large-scale machinery and blasting technology.

Overnight to road and bridge construction experts so a consultation, the conclusion came out, in the case of not affecting the underground dark river, the opening of this channel, at least need more than four months of time.

Because of the distance from the swan lake close, will lead to lake water backwater, distance away, then, the rock layer is too thick, the use of explosives is very likely to collapse the underground dark river, can only use the water to work slowly.

At this time, the actual depth of the underground tomb, was also measured out, a hundred and twenty-one meters, when the results were announced, this number, also let all the people present were dumbfounded.

It should be known that the existing tombs already known in the country, the deepest is only one or twenty meters, even the Han Dynasty built in the mountains of the tomb, the depth is only twenty or thirty meters.

Including the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, which could not be excavated because of technical reasons, after the judgment of modern instruments, it was only thirty to forty meters deep, and this hundreds of meters of tombs in front of us, even these experienced archaeologists had never heard of it.

The suggestion of playing the passage from the ground was completely rejected, at least before entering the tomb, this suggestion does not have practicality.

Because even if the people have the patience to wait for a few months, this channel from the entrance to the tomb is still three or four miles away, if you want to make a passage at the secret passage, where the depth of hundreds of meters, enough to let the road and bridge construction experts also blind.

This conclusion although let many experts some frustration, but at the same time, also brought them endless reverie, in ancient times, can have such strength to build this scale of the tomb of the people, its identity has been called out, in addition to the emperor and then no one else.

Even some experts have concluded that the tomb is the legendary Genghis Khan Mausoleum, the least is also the first three emperors of the Yuan Dynasty, these conjectures make Zhuang Rui sweating, buddies work hard to give the tomb owner breaks the generation, not as good as a sentence of these experts guessed accurate it!

However, archaeological work, is always to be based on facts, Professor Meng stopped these discussions, will focus on the work into the tomb before the advance preparations.

So the archaeological work returned to the original track, all the preparatory measures in the headquarters of an order sent out, and methodically carried out, can not personally go down to the old experts, as far as possible to the various difficulties and problems that will be encountered, are envisioned more thorough.

At Zhuang Rui’s insistence, hundreds of pounds of formalin were also urgently called in from hundreds of kilometers away, his reasoning being that he couldn’t rule out the possibility of preparing some powerful antiseptics due to the fact that due to the good sealing of the tomb, the body of the tomb’s owner was able to be preserved, and that this was a precautionary measure.

“Teacher, I think the time is ripe to consider entering the tomb passage.”

For Zhuang Rui, the mysterious tomb underground was almost completely undefended.

If it wasn’t for the fact that the origin of the Heirloom Jade Seal really couldn’t be accounted for, and that the traces of his own entry couldn’t be wiped out, Zhuang Rui had even had the idea of sneaking into the tomb to pocket the Heirloom Jade Seal before.

There was once a rich man abroad, specializing in the collection of tombs around the world in the most valuable funerary objects, which in the decades, directly leading to the countries of grave robbers rampant, up to the noble emperor, down to the plain people, countless tombs have been poisoned.

Zhuang Rui would be very unimpressed by this tycoon’s behavior, but now he somewhat understands his mentality, the treasures in these tombs are indeed unique, if possible, Zhuang Rui would also like to take these treasures for himself and play with them slowly.

“Xiao Zhuang is right, only by entering the tomb and surveying its structure can we decide how the next step of the work will be carried out, let’s all talk about it!”

Prof. Meng thought deeply about Zhuang Rui’s words, if he didn’t enter the tomb, everything would be empty talk, without identifying the identity of the tomb’s owner, and being unable to survey the entrance of the tomb when it was constructed, the subsequent work would be all but impossible to carry out.

“I agree to enter the tomb.”

“I also agree.”

“I agree, but comrades going in should be careful.”

“Please ask the comrades from CCTV to enter together, and be ready to do the camera work at all times.”

As soon as Prof. Meng’s words fell, the several deputy general commanders present expressed their positions, for them, not being able to personally enter the tomb right now made them even more eager to learn the identity of the tomb’s owner as soon as possible.

After a short meeting, the list of the first batch of personnel to enter the tomb for archaeology was finalized, led by Deputy General Director Zhuang Rui himself, leading five young archaeologists, among which was Ren Chunqiang.

In addition, in the first batch of people into the tomb, there are two CCTV’s best photojournalists, they will follow the archaeological team, will be a major excavation site, faithfully and completely to record the situation.

And these film and television materials, will also become the most valuable historical documents in the history of Chinese archaeology, but also the factual basis for the production of related documentaries.

The secret passage within the underground dark river has been cleaned up in the past few days, ensuring that there are no poisonous insects, mosquitoes or snakes within the narrow secret passage, and Zhuang Rui, a group of eight people, is standing at the entrance of the secret passage at this moment.

“I’m in the first, Wang Ji follows me, Dr. Ren is in the third place, behind ……”

Since the secret passage was very narrow and could only accommodate one person creeping forward, before entering, Zhuang Rui made arrangements for the order of the people entering according to the previous program.