Chapter 1185 – Golden Coffin

“Grandma, even a demolition team can’t demolish it so cleanly, right? This job.”

Came to once the golden chamber, the scene in front of the eyes of Zhuang Rui straight smack mouth, after a good half a day to save God, this fucking contrast is also too big a little bit.

Originally the golden glittering rich royal hall scene, at this moment has long disappeared, instead of all that dark dirt walls and floor, not to mention once paved with walls and floors of the gold bricks, and now it is estimated that even a gold toothpick will not be able to find.

Although it can’t be said to dig three feet into the ground, but the wall skin has definitely been scraped on more than three layers, Zhuang Rui can only pray that the relevant departments will not make the decision to melt and refine the gold, because these things as a collection of works of art, certainly far greater than the value of the gold itself.

A middle-aged man in his forties in the crypt, after hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, couldn’t help but smile slightly and spoke, “Chief Commander Zhuang, don’t worry, the organization has already adopted your and Professor Meng’s opinions, the items in this room, will be properly kept, and at the right time, it will even be opened up to the public.”

“Ahem, Director Yun, that’s good, that’s good ……”

Zhuang Rui sniffed with some embarrassment, this Director Yun was sent out by the relevant departments to cooperate with this excavation, originally such an archaeological team, there would be no security department to intervene, but the unearthing of the gold has made the country pay attention like never before as well.

From the founding of the country to the present, can alarm the national leaders and security departments of the archaeological excavation, there is only that one time.

That excavation was in the mid-1950s, when Guo Moruo and Wu Han proposed an archaeological plan to excavate the Thirteen Tombs, but in the end, only one mausoleum’s underground palace was successfully opened. This mausoleum is the Dingling Tomb, the first and so far the only imperial tomb in China that has been opened by archaeologists (not counting imperial tombs that have been robbed and excavated).

The excavation of the Dingling Tomb was carried out under the approval of Chairman Mao Zedong and the approval of Premier Zhou Enlai, the No. 1 person at that time, which can be said to be an act of state.

But that excavation in general, is a failure, due to the backwardness of the archaeological technology, the urgent repair of cultural relics of the experience is not enough, so led to a large number of priceless treasures can not be preserved, important cultural relics were destroyed.

At that time that era, naturally do not dare to put forward the criticism, but in the modern archaeological community, but the excavation is unanimous that “an irreparable mistake”.

The archaeological action in Inner Mongolia, once again alarmed the national high level, and specifications than the previous time is higher, not only sent a lot of security department officials to supervise, but also use the army for its escort, see the country on the archaeological work of the importance of.

Standing beside Zhuang Rui, is the national cultural relics department of Guo, see Zhuang Rui that look of embarrassment, can not help but flirt: “small Zhuang, is not unable to give up that piece of Yuan blue and white porcelain ah? You don’t want to be distressed, turn around and go to the Forbidden City’s treasury to pick a few objects, I do the Lord to rent to you.”

“Director Guo, how do you decide that this tomb is not Genghis Khan’s? If you lose in the future, don’t renege on the debt.”

Zhuang Rui didn’t have the good sense to look at Director Guo, if it wasn’t for his special status, Zhuang Rui really didn’t want this old man to come down, something was always reminding that the piece of Yuan Qinghua that belonged to his own self was about to belong to the state.

But today to open the chamber, and the front of the chamber is a little different, in front of the tomb door of those chambers, are not the existence of the tomb passage, but this and the gold chamber connected to the chamber, but there is a length of about six meters, wide in one meter two or so behind the tunnel.

After three days of debate and discussion among the experts, it was finally agreed that this chamber should be the main chamber where the owner was buried, so the number of people who went down to the chamber today was also several more than usual.

According to the provisions of the relevant documents, when the main chamber is opened, there must be the presence of the leaders of the relevant state departments.

Although Ouyang Zhenwu was a serious vertical leader, due to the special nature of the tomb’s geographic location, Minister Ouyang’s body could not withstand the dive and the miles-long dark river passage. In the end, after deliberation, the “younger” Director Guo, as the representative of the government supervisory officials, went down to the underground mausoleum.

The other person who didn’t belong to the archaeological team was naturally that Director Yun from the State Security Department, although this dude usually didn’t talk much, but with such a person following him around, Zhuang Rui was full of discomfort.

“How can I lose, Xiao Zhuang, Genghis Khan’s era, it is impossible to have so much gold, if replaced with the Wukodai who took down Western Xia is more or less the same, you kid don’t get carried away, today we will see the difference.”

Guo director of the Zhuang Rui words are scoffing, now almost no one in the archaeological team is optimistic about Zhuang Rui’s judgment, even Professor Meng is also inclined to this mausoleum belongs to the Wuguatai or Kublai, but also Zhuang Rui is dead set on not admitting defeat, has been in the fight with the director of the Guo war of words.

“Director Guo, you can’t say whether it is or not, find out the evidence and then say it!”

Zhuang Rui skimmed his lips, his face became serious, turned to look at the crowd and said, “Everyone check the supplies with them, now start breathing with oxygen, headset adjusted to channel 3, execute it!”

Although there were two high ranking government officials next to him, this excavation operation on the main chamber was still executed by Zhuang Rui, under Zhuang Rui’s order, a group of people were busy.

The supplies carried this time were relatively large, because the main chamber would definitely contain the coffins and bones of the owners of the tombs, so at Zhuang Rui’s insistence, the accompanying team members even brought a trolley with more than a hundred kilograms of the high-strength antiseptic formalin.

The opening of the tomb door was still carried out by Zhuang Rui alone, and the rest of the people were waiting in the previous chamber, except for his now royal photographer, Reporter Wang.

I don’t know whether it was out of confidence in the concealment of the tomb, all the tomb doors in this magnificent underground building, are using the ball method, that is, there is a slot under the tomb door, inside the slot there is a stone round ball, as long as you push the tomb door, you can easily open it.

Except for those stone doors that may have been slightly deformed due to millennia of geomorphological changes, the rest of the time in the opening of the door did not take much effort, of course, except for the golden door, push that door is definitely a piece of work of strength.

With the simultaneous force of the two crowbars in Zhuang Rui’s hands, this tomb door, which carried many people, slowly retreated inwards.

“Tian …… gosh, another …… another golden house?”

When the beam of light from the head of the camera shines into the tomb room, the strong golden reflection makes Wang reporter fall into petrification once again, it’s hard not to believe that this Mongolia’s gold is as worthless as Chinese cabbage, isn’t it?

I don’t know whether reporter Wang should feel lucky, other people’s life are rare to see the room piled up with gold, he actually saw twice, but the most saddening thing is that these gold even a small fingernail so big does not belong to him.

“Another room?”

A voice came out from the headset, Zhuang Rui turned around and looked, that Director Yun didn’t know when, but had already stood behind himself, although his facial expression couldn’t be seen, but it could be imagined that he was also shocked by this kind of scene.

It was estimated that apart from the staff guarding the national treasury, more than one billion people in the country, definitely came to be shocked by one, this kind of scene was something that could not be seen on TV or in a movie.

“Director Yun, please return to your position, you don’t think I can carry all this gold away, do you?”

Zhuang Rui was annoyed at Director Yun’s disobedient behavior, it was already eerie inside this tomb, so one could imagine what it would feel like to have a person appear silently behind you.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Zhuang, it was me who took the liberty.”

Director Yun wasn’t angry, and after apologizing to Zhuang Rui, he turned around and walked out, but after going to the outside crypts, he immediately pulled out a walkie-talkie, and set up a few of the outside crypts.

“Shit, I guess even the golden coffin won’t be protected this time.”

Zhuang Rui shook his head helplessly, his heart more or less regretted for unearthing this tomb, according to his idea, this golden house including all the things inside should be restored to its original appearance, so that the world can understand the truth of the history at that time through these items.

“Zhuang Rui, how is the camera crooked? Aim it at the center of the chamber!”

Suddenly, from the headset came Ouyang Zhenwu’s voice, as the nominal chief commander of this archaeology, although he couldn’t be physically present in the underground, he still had to sit in the command center, but what depressed Minister Ouyang’s heart was that within the image coming from the camera, he could only see a golden light.

“Right, quickly adjust it to see if there is a coffin inside?”

Prof. Meng’s voice followed suit, his voice was urgent, this excavation was the first time in the old man’s decades of archaeological career that he was unable to enter the site to investigate.

Now what Prof. Meng was most concerned about right now was whether or not there was a coffin in this chamber, and whether or not there were written records? For archaeologists, the value of these two objects is much greater than those burial goods.

This time, without waiting for Zhuang Rui to speak, the camera in Reporter Wang’s hand immediately aimed at the burial chamber, and the picture of that huge golden coffin placed in the middle of the burial chamber also appeared on the screen of the ground command.

“The coffin made of gold, this …… is the emperor’s coffin!”

“No, not being able to personally participate in the opening of the golden coffin, the old man just can’t close his eyes when he dies.”

“That’s right, go down, I must go down.”

The appearance of the golden coffin caused the ground command headquarters to be in chaos, even Professor Meng couldn’t sit still, his eyes filled with the general fervor of a young man.

Opening the coffin of an emperor with their own hands, for these old experts who had dedicated their lives to archaeological research, it was a supreme honor, an affirmation of their lifelong achievements.