Chapter 565: Excavation

This world also has the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and of course, there is the official history of the Records of the Three Kingdoms, but the description in it is considered by later generations to be an exaggerated description by ancient scholars, like "Cao Gong ordered a million troops." It's nothing to be exaggerated in history books. Didn't you see that Westerners simply took the legend of Troy as official history? The so-called one-man-against-a-thousand in the Three Kingdoms era is mostly the beauty of historians.

In today's world, firearms are the priority, and martial arts with bare hands and cold weapons have long been just a hobby for some people. If Bai Lang came here, he would definitely exclaim why the heaven and earth energy in this ghost place leaked out—a thousand years of time made the spiritual energy dissipate, and the tide of spiritual energy has receded. I don't know when the next tide will rise.

The state's excavation of ancient tombs has always been the set of moving mountains and lifting warriors, uncovering them layer by layer from top to bottom. "It's a bit strange. Why is his grave in Luoyang? Isn't this Cao Wei's territory? Ji Han never fought here—they couldn't even get out of the pass." Some half-baked people said, "Go and see the Records of the Three Kingdoms. When you were in Cao Wei, you also opened the door of convenience. There were also subordinates of this ranger feudal lord in Cao Wei. It is rare for both sides to work together to build this grave on Beimang Mountain."

Many Ji Han soldiers and Zhuge Kongming probably stepped into Luoyang for the only time in their lives...

The mud mountain above was first cleared, "No wonder it was never discovered by tomb robbers of past dynasties. It turns out that the terrain has changed, so even the original tomb passage and tombstone were buried. If it weren't for the heavy rain that caused the mountain to collapse, I am afraid this ancient tomb would continue to be hidden." The professor of the archaeology department of the Imperial University who was responsible for the entire excavation work said so. The sealing soil above is just simple soil, so there will be no cultural relics in it, so it was cleared very quickly.

The change of terrain brings about more sealing soil than when it was just completed, and the scope is also larger. Now the country still has money, especially for this kind of ancient tomb that can be listed in the top ten archaeological discoveries of the year or the century. There is even ground-penetrating radar for seismic wave scanning—Luoyang shovel is not good, it can't be hit. The Records of the Three Kingdoms wrote that when Bai Lang was buried, it was mentioned that the person responsible for this matter was Zhuge Kongming, the first military advisor of the ages and the first prime minister of ancient and modern times.

It took two weeks to clear the earthwork of the sealing soil, which is the result of multiple excavators working at full capacity. The reason why we didn't start from the tomb passage is because it is too dangerous—according to the detection of ground-penetrating radar, there should be a large cavity below and the division seems to be quite a lot. Fourteen tomb robbers and tomb-robbing villagers went in from the tomb passage and had no news, and the two armed police soldiers who wore fully enclosed protective clothing and carried oxygen cylinders went in and never returned.

This is too dangerous. Legend has it that there are various mechanisms in the Qin Shi Huang tomb that will kill tomb robbers, but this is just a legendary story—all archaeological experts think so. What kind of mechanism can maintain for a thousand years? Only the simplest kind of rolling stones or traps is possible. The more exquisite the mechanism, the easier it is to be destroyed by the power of time. So now this situation is the possibility that the so-called "mechanism" in the tomb becomes true, which is extremely rare.

Think carefully about the supervision is Zhuge Liang, this is not impossible—until now, the Zhuge crossbow and the wooden ox and flowing horse are still controversial. Anyway, don't take risks, it is safest to uncover it layer by layer from above. The first layer is brick, but this brick is really too hard. After careful inspection by experts, it was found that it was not bonded, but through exquisite design and construction, so that these bricks were embedded with each other by gravity to form an arch.

Can support thousands of tons of sand and soil above... This is too exaggerated. The steel drill hit it and it was just a white dot. I am afraid this hardness is equivalent to reinforced concrete. Don't consider how Prime Minister Zhuge built these bricks in those years. Now it is a force analysis. Use a computer to deal with it—don't let the whole arch collapse after removing a brick.

After force calculation, everyone finally carefully placed the explosives at one point. After a small explosion, a brick was shattered. The next work is also very troublesome. First of all, nitrogen must be filled into the tomb to avoid oxidation. At the same time, the arch must be gradually dismantled in a certain order. Each brick must be numbered in preparation for restoration in the future. Before all these processes, a camera was directly put in from the breach to see the situation.

The spotlight and camera were put in, and everyone was quite happy to find that there was a floor under the arch, and the real tomb should be below. A week later, the arch was cleared, and the entire upper layer was completely exposed to the vision of the archaeological excavation team. TV reporters and leaders above also came. This is a very important thing to grasp—the "hometown" of the Three Kingdoms heroes and the tomb memorial temple have always been important goals for tourism development.

Bai Lang's origin is unknown. There is no record in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, so various places cannot grab the hometown of this fierce general, and he is buried on Beimang Mountain, which is clearly recorded in history, but the tomb has never been found and there is no temple for sacrifice—Bai Lang's place of sacrifice is still in Wuhou Shrine in Chengdu, the third person to accompany the military general. Now that his tomb has been discovered, the local area can do a lot of articles.

Because it has been buried underground, his tombstone is very well preserved, and the inscription is clearly visible. "It is the only Han eight-part official script." Everyone felt that this monument alone was enough to be a national treasure—because this is the true handwriting of Zhuge Kongming, the prime minister of Ji Han, and the only true handwriting in the world. There are funeral objects in the first layer, and according to the humidity in the air, the bottom is dry and not flooded by water. As for how deep it is, it is hard to say.

The first layer is mainly some bamboo slips, brocade books, and volumes. Because the air is isolated, the preservation is still good. This is a very, very precious discovery for archaeologists, which can greatly supplement the records in history books. There are stairs going down in a corner of a layer. The archaeological team members first sampled the air. What surprised them was that the air below was poisonous, mainly carbon monoxide.

Since it is dry below, it is simple to directly extract and change the gas, just be careful not to create sparks and cause an explosion.

Soon, the poisonous gas inside was changed, and the archaeological team members carefully put the remote-controlled robot down—since they knew that there were "mechanisms" in this tomb and swallowed more than a dozen people, it is naturally safest to use a robot to explore the way. This is probably something Zhuge Kongming didn't expect...

The robot has spotlights, sonar, and cameras. The archaeological team members outside controlled it for a day and didn't find a suitable road. This place is like a three-dimensional maze. Professors from Peking University watched for a long time, "Switch to automatic mode, but let them come up to change the battery first. Then put in a few more." They saw that the stairs and walkways are weird, and they should cause a kind of illusion. ===== CHAPTER 566 =====