Chapter 65: The Ruins of Zhu Rong

　　 Early in the morning, a middle-aged farmer walked on the ridge humming a song.
　　 He passed by his own field, only glanced at it, and his body tilted in surprise, his feet tumbling, and he fell to the ground.
　　 "Which wicked digging my field!"
　　 He was lying on the ground and saw a big hole dug in his field!
　　 This is too wicked, there are crops in the field!
　　 The farmer scolded and looked around, stamping his feet with anger.
　　 Not only this field, but the surrounding fields were also destroyed, and the crops were crushed by the excavated mound.
　　 The farmer wandered around the surrounding fields and soon found slanting dirt holes in several places.
　　 Compared with the biggest deep pits, those earth holes are only about four or five meters deep, and they seem to be tentative excavations from all angles.
　　 "Huh? This is not a tomb robber, right?"
　　 Haven't you eaten pork or seen a pig running? The farmer instantly thought that these were robbing holes. His first reaction was to get into the hole and explore.
　　The tossing humiliated face, but he didn't catch anything.
　　 He didn't give up, changed another hole, but still nothing, then he went to the biggest pit, jumped down and looked for it, but still found nothing.
　　 "This piece of farmland has been farmed for generations, how can there be a tomb?" The farmer laughed at himself, then climbed up with great effort, and quickly reported to the village chief.
　　 Soon all the people in the village gathered and talked a lot about who had seen a foreigner recently.
　　 The village chief jumped into the pit, but it was obvious that the surrounding soil was not in the right color. It seemed to be burnt and forged kiln soil.
　　 He asked someone to bring a shovel and planed a few more times, and he found a piece of jade exposed in a piece of dry black mud.
　　 "There is something!" Someone yelled immediately after seeing it sharply.
　　 Everyone immediately gathered around the entrance of the cave and saw that the village chief had peeled off that piece of soil. It was Yugui with a big palm.
　　 Of course, they didn't know that it was Yugui, they only knew that it was a piece of jade with a sharp upper part and a straight lower end, with sharp raindrop patterns on it.
　　 "Is it an antique?" Someone asked above
　　 The head of the village continued to dig down, but switched to his hands, and soon a large number of pottery, stone, jade, and bronze ware emerged from the soil.
　　 When he saw that there were so many, he stopped quickly and asked someone to pull himself up.
　　 "Why don't you dig it? Dig and see!" someone booed.
　　 "No one is allowed to go down!" The village chief shouted: "Old Li, this is your field, you can call the Cultural Relics Bureau."
　　 He was not worried about the few clever ghosts in the village, so he could only watch the scene himself.
　　 The farmer listened and threw the hoe, and Sa Yazi ran home.
　　 Everyone looked at him happily, and some people were envious, because if the underground were all antiques, the government would have to take back the right to use this large plot of land, and Lao Li would get expensive compensation.
　　 "Didn't that professor come to survey twenty years ago? Why didn't you find it! Let the tomb thief find it first."
　　 "My field is not far from here, will there be one?"
　　 Someone sees the village chief staying here, and they can't be distracted, so they spread out immediately and dig in their own fields to try their luck.
　　 Select a piece of land, pull out the crops that have been planted, and start digging with a shovel.
　　 When the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau arrived, the villagers had dug out more than 20 deep pits where cultural relics were found.
　　The staff of the Cultural Relics Bureau immediately realized that this was definitely not a cemetery, but a large site. They immediately notified more people to come over, and urgently stopped the villagers to stop digging.
　　 Things continued to be tossed until the afternoon when a large number of staff members took control of the scene and learned about the situation.
　　 "What? There were several holes here before you found out?"
　　 There is no doubt that the first person who discovered the site was not the farmer, but someone else. In the middle of the night, he dug several thief holes overnight and left before dawn.
　　 In this way, things are getting bigger, and the tomb thief probably already knows the distribution of cultural relics underground.
　　 So they immediately hired local villagers to help guard the scene. Because the scope was too large, it was impossible to rely on a small number of staff.
　　 "Preliminary judgment, it is a city ruins." A professor wearing glasses went deep into the pit and said after some investigation.
"What? There is a city? I see, Lao Fang, the tomb thief discovered this place earlier than we did. Because it was in someone else’s field, he digged it out at night. After digging, he quickly discovered that this is not a tomb, so he evacuated it. "The other expert above said.
Professor Fang climbed out and said: "It is definitely impossible for the tomb robbers to dig a city. They can only try their best not to go as far as possible. Many precious cultural relics were found on the scene. It is conceivable that they must have taken a lot. But many of them. A robbery hole was not dug to the site level at all, probably because time does not allow to continue digging.
　　 "It can be speculated that the group of tomb robbers have rich surveying experience. Professor Wu led a survey of this place twenty years ago. At that time, he simply tried with a Luoyang shovel and left." Another expert said.
　　Professor Fang smiled and said: "What conditions were there twenty years ago? Luoyang shovel is not omnipotent. However, this group of tomb robbers are indeed powerful. The soil under this farmland has such a high moisture content that there are ruins that can be discovered?"
　　 Everyone laughed. This is a typical situation where tomb thieves stimulate archaeology. This situation was common decades ago.
　　 There are basically only three ways to discover an archaeological site. The state has approved a certain archaeological project, and professionals take the initiative to find it.
　　 Farmers dig wells, or engineering teams dug them unintentionally.
　　 In the end, the tomb thieves, using their superb technique, dig it first.
　　 As they were talking, on the other side, a young doctor rushed hurriedly, holding a rusty square tripod in his hand.
　　Professor Fang took a look and was taken aback: "Lao Chen, this is not an early Neolithic site?"
Professor Chen frowned and looked up. When he first arrived, he went to the local villagers to learn about the situation. He heard that there were a large number of stone and jade artifacts, and he first judged it as a Neolithic site. In fact, he didn't have time to study carefully. Over the cultural relics found.
　　 At this moment, I knew something was wrong. Although the bronze ware in front of me was rusted into a tuft, there was no patina in some parts, revealing delicate lines. From the tip of the iceberg, it can be seen that it should have been very exquisite.
　　 In other words, this is a pre-shang site that used both bronze and stone, and it was also in the Xia Dynasty at the latest.
　　 "Professor, all the cultural relics dug up by the local villagers have been recovered, and there are a large number of jade and bronze wares." The young doctor said.
　　 The two hurriedly followed and saw hundreds of jade ornaments, jade walls, jade shovel, bronze tripods, bronze temples, bronze bells, bronze ornaments scattered on the ground...
　　 Among them, the jade is very exquisite, and the artistic style is very different from the Longshan culture and Erlitou culture of this generation, with very different patterns.
　　 "Hurry up to get the emergency approval, we must make rescue excavations as soon as possible." Professor Chen quickly called the director and said.
　　 Director shocked: "Old Chen, what are you anxious for?"
　　Professor Chen said: "I have found the bronzes, can I not be in a hurry? Judging from the degree of corrosion, the site should have been soaked in water for a long time, and there are tomb robbers eyeing it. I don't think there is any need to wait."
　　 "I see, the approval will come down soon." Upon hearing this, the director knew that the site must be excavated as soon as possible.
　　 That night, in order to prevent tomb robbers from digging a hole nearby, all the staff stayed at the scene to guard, and local villagers were also hired to patrol.
　　 One night passed and there was nothing wrong with each other. Early the next morning, the Provincial Archaeological Research Institute rushed to conduct preliminary exploration of the entire site.
　　 Three days later, the land use rights have been handed over, the approval has been down, and the site has been cleaned up.
　　The professional archaeological team in the province started the first phase of rescue excavation.
　　 worked continuously for four days, the pit expanded and expanded, and there were more and more cultural relics. Every day, a large number of jade, pottery, and bronze were excavated.
　　 Among them, the number of pottery is the largest. In a short period of time, there are as many as 200,000 pieces!
　　 Bronze ware is followed by more than 16,000 pieces, and most of them are weapons.
　　 The sad thing is that most of the bronzes are badly damaged, not man-made damage, but water erosion!
　　 And from a geological point of view, the site was covered by mud and sand in the flood.
　　 But fortunately, it was precisely because it was covered in an instant that the building complex was kept intact!
　　 The whole city is under the mud and sand. As long as you carefully excavate, you can restore the entire city.
　　 But as the excavation progressed, everyone was confused again.
　　 Because pieces of copper casting and pottery workshop sites have been excavated on site, 200,000 square meters have been discovered! .
　　The scale is so large that it is rare in the world!
　　 At one time, archaeologists wondered whether this was the ruins of the ancient city? If it is a city, why are all smelting and production buildings?
　　 "This is most likely a city specializing in forging and production. It must not be the capital of a certain culture."
　　 "Is this the industrial center of Xia Dynasty?"
　　 "It may also be a military center. It cannot be dated for the time being. From a cultural point of view, it does not belong to Erlitou nor Longshan Culture. This may be a vassal culture of the Central Plains..."
　　 "Subsidiary? You have no basis. This is Xinzheng, located in the hinterland of the Central Plains. Judging from the jade, it is very similar to the Longshan culture. It must be a transitional culture between Yu and Xia."
　　 "Where can there be a transitional culture between Yu and Xia? Judging from such a strong bronze production, this should be the same culture as the Xia Dynasty."
　　 Archaeologists argued endlessly until someone unearthed a bronze sacred tree from the site...
　　 "Huh? No? It belongs to the same type as the Sanxingdui culture?"
　　 "This is a major discovery! Sanxingdui is not an independent and isolated culture, it has its branches and leaves!"
　　 "Central Plains and Shu are far apart, but they have extremely close exchanges. People in this city are most likely to be part of the culture of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River valley at the same time, so this is the reason."
　　 "So...is it Zhuan Xu?"
　　All the big guys at the scene quickly thought of Zhuan Xu. Because of the documentary records, Zhuan Xu's ancestor was sealed to the Shu area. After several generations, Zhuan Xu became the master of the Central Plains.
　　 So the Central Plains and the Shu area were in the pre-shang period, and UU reading www.uukanshu.com had the most close exchanges, and there was a high probability that it was the era of Zhuan Xu.
　　 "Is this Emperor Qiu, the capital of Zhuan Xu? If it is true, then the emergence of bronze technology has advanced for at least 500 years."
"I said it cannot be the capital city. Although the excavation has not been completed yet, such a large-scale workshop site group will inevitably have corresponding divisions for workers to live in. In this way, it will occupy at least 300 to 400,000 square meters of area. This is obviously not a political center. The capital of this culture has not been discovered yet. We only discovered this city of smelting."
　　 "In addition to the undiscovered capitals, this culture also has large-scale, concentrated, specialized smelting and production cities... In the Zhuanxu era, it was even more advanced than the Yaodu technology? Was it a technological retrogression in the Yao and Shun era?"
　　 The archaeologists were inexplicably horrified. They guessed that the Taosi site was Yaodu, and there were also bronzes, but in terms of productivity, it was far worse than this city.
　　 If it is really the era of Zhuan Xu, it means that after Zhuan Xu's death, culture has been interrupted and technology has regressed.
　　 During the Tang Yu period, the advanced bronze technology of the Zhuan Xu period was lost.
　　 "Wait a minute, I know what this might be... Zhu Rong's Ruins! Right! Ancient history records that Zhu Rong's Ruins are in Xinzheng."
　　 "Right, right, Zhurong Ruins, since it is called Ruins, it means that it has long been abandoned. From the scene, it was caused by floods. The entire city was covered by mud and sand, so the name was changed from Zhurong State to Zhurong Ruins.

　　 "Together work on water conservancy projects, Zhu Rongzhang "fire benefits" project, that is, smelting and manufacturing!"
　　 "Not only that, Zhu Rong is also a military officer, so Zhu Rongguo is the Ministry of National Defense in ancient times!"
　　 "This place is responsible for the production of a large number of ordnance, and it is also the industrial center of the Central Plains."
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