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Chapter 359 It’s just weird

"Tu tu tu tu tu tu tu..."

The drill bit penetrates the sand layer and goes straight into the ground.

After connecting the drill pipe nine times, one meter at a time, the drill bit penetrated the top of the tomb and entered the tomb chamber.

Unload the drilling rig and lift the drill pipe, leaving only a stainless steel pipe about two centimeters in diameter.

"Collect gas samples!"

"Teacher Li, the oxygen content is 6%!"

"Team Leader Yao, make sure it is sealed and oxygen-proof. Team Xing, get on camera!"

Xing Feng nodded and inserted the endoscope along the steel tube.

Li Ding'an opened his laptop and huffed, and a crowd gathered behind him.

No one spoke, they all stared at Ping Tomb.

"Nine times out of ten..."

The pattern is very clear and the colors are very bright: the red sun is high in the sky, the green grass is like a blanket, and a strong horse gallops with its hooves raised.

But Li Ding'an found it a bit strange: first, the chin hair.

A bunch of people were excited. Li Dingan clicked the mouse and slowly turned the camera.

The lens is very small, about one centimeter, but the resolution is very high. The outer ring is covered with dot-like laser lamp heads, including the lamp heads connected to the optical fibers. Reflecting the stainless steel pipe wall, the computer screen is dazzlingly bright.

From this we can see the structure of the tomb wall: it is made of blue bricks, wrapped in two layers of yellow mud, then wrapped in white ash, and then painted.

"Haha... look, there are stone tools..."

In the middle is a false door with murals on the left and right. It is well preserved, with only the exposed blue bricks at the corners.

"There are also murals...80% of them are the main tomb chamber!"

There are still followers around, but most of them are blurred. From this, it can be inferred that these are most likely the owner of the tomb.

This was an ornament only worn by the early Khitan nobles, and could only be worn by the Jiuzhang Khan of the Yaonian clan.

The lens zooms in to see where the mural is peeling off: yellow mud is smeared under the white ash, there is a partition in the middle of the yellow mud, and there are blue bricks underneath.

"Look, there's a wall?"

Second, there are golden flowers on the braids.

"The camera entered the curtain room?"

The general on horseback is wearing a fur robe from the left, his hair is combed (the top of his head and back are shaved, leaving only the top of his eyebrows and the side of his ears, which are then braided), his upper body is half-crouched, and he is ready to shoot with his bow.

Ma Xianming explained in a low voice: "This is because the lens entered a dark environment and the light suddenly spread!"

But not long after, the screen suddenly went dark:

Zuo Peng's eyelids twitched: "Disconnected?"

After Taizong of the Liao Dynasty (son of Abaoji) became Chinese, the Khitan people both men and women wore their hair long, so this hairstyle only existed in the Abaoji period or earlier.

The tomb wall is very high, about five meters, and built directly to the top of the tomb. It is very long, at least ten or twenty meters.

"It's not a disconnection!"

Roughly speaking, it was the nine tribal alliances of Khitan before Abaoji founded the country. The Xiao family was also one of the nine tribes, but at that time Abaoji had not yet given the surname Xiao and called it the Bali clan.

If inferred from this, this tomb should have been built before Abaoji founded the country.

Of course, maybe it was painted like this to commemorate the ancestors...

After thinking about it, Li Ding'an zoomed out a little further, and suddenly, two big horses broke into the frame!

Not the one in the mural, but the stone horses standing on both sides of the tomb door. Judging from the body shape, it is completely carved to imitate the size of a real horse.

Tomb-suppressing beasts are very common. From the War to the Republic of China, most of them were tigers, lions, leopards, or mythical beasts. However, this is the first time I have seen a stone horse tomb-suppressing beast.

The key is that the horse equipment is too complete, including a saddle, stirrups, bridle, kentao (package gear), and even bits, biao (pronounced biao, the outside of the bit), mud (leather covering the soil at the bottom of the saddle), Chest straps, chest straps, etc. I feel like anything that can be worn on a horse is fine. There are many ornaments in various shapes: peach-shaped, wishful-shaped, rings, circles, and animal shapes such as tiger, leopard and brave.

It is covered with dust and the specific material cannot be seen, but it can be inferred that it has been there for a thousand years and has not decayed or rusted at all, so it must not be wood, iron, or copper.

If it wasn't gold and silver, it could only be jade... A rough count showed that there were at least hundreds of ornaments on the two horses.

Li Ding'an changed the angle of the camera again: There were exposed utensils under the tomb wall. The shapes of the utensils were very complex, including bowls, lamps, bottles, pots and cans, and they were also covered with dust.

Texture cannot escape copper, iron and porcelain.

When the camera is raised and rotated left and right, it can be seen that the tomb is very large: but there are only burial objects underground, but no coffins.

There is a tomb passage in the distance, with murals on both walls.

Roughly, you can only see so much. At first glance, it seems normal, but the more Li Dingan looked at it, the more incongruous he felt:

One is the Kunfa, the second is the gold ornaments, and the third is the Zuo Zhen fur robe, all of which belong to the Abaoji period or earlier.

However, the ornaments on the stone horses and the bright vessels in the front room are all products of the sinicization of Taizong of the Liao Dynasty (son of Yelu Abaoji).

Especially the thin-necked vases and cockscomb kettles. This is Liao porcelain created after the Liao Dynasty annexed the Jin Dynasty. Craftsmen from the Ding kiln in Hebei combined the white porcelain craftsmanship with the Khitan culture. It was not until the period of Xiao Yanyan, the grandson of Emperor Taizong of the Liao Dynasty, that they took shape.

There is a hundreds of years difference between the two...

After thinking about it for a while, without any clue, Li Dingan closed the computer:

"This is the front room. The coffin or bones should be in the back room, and there may be a middle room... Team Xing, go three meters east and miss the hole drilled in the tomb wall. The depth is still nine meters. Pay attention to sealing..."

"understand!"

Immediately, the drilling machine started making a buzzing sound again. About half an hour later, the looking glass went down into the tomb chamber again.

Suddenly, everyone's eyes widened: nearly four hundred square meters, how could it be so tightly packed?

There are many funeral objects: bottles and jars, stone sheep, stone tigers, Suan Ni and unicorns... but they are all placed on the four sides.

If you look at the middle, you will be blinded: hundreds of stone bottles and stone horses, all life-size. The key is: both men and horses?

Although it is rusty, the exquisite workmanship can still be seen.

Zuo Peng smiled so hard that his teeth stuck out: The Qin family's imperial mausoleum was just for pottery servants, but here it was actually carved in stone?

It's just carved on stone, but also wearing armor?

armor!

Not to mention seeing it, not even hearing it.

If I had known there was such a rare thing, why would I have dug stone piles...

He rubbed his hands excitedly and pricked his ears:

"Old Ma, this tomb is very strange!"

"It's indeed a bit strange. It feels like time and space are separated? And it's the first time I've seen someone buried with so many armors?"

One armor carries three crossbows, and three armors enter the underworld.

This is a jingle on the Internet, but it is not made up by netizens casually: From the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, anyone who secretly hid more than three sets of armor would be punished as treason.

Also includes the Liao Dynasty.

What's more, there are hundreds of pairs, and there are all men and horses?

To say that this was not preparation for rebellion, Li Ding'an would not believe it to death: Li Shimin captured the Xuanwu Gate with a hundred armors, Nurhachi started his career with thirteen pairs of armors... There are not too many similar examples.

This is not the first case of burying armor in a tomb and waiting for an opportunity to rebel: the famous Western Han Dynasty general Zhou Yafu and his son did this. As a result, he was reported and Zhou Yafu was starved to death by Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty...

But this is not the strangest place, but in the middle of the tomb, between the hundred soldiers: a high brick platform with a huge stone coffin placed on it.

"Khitan burials never use coffins, including emperors...but here, there is such a big coffin? How strange..."

Zuo Peng was even more excited: That's right, it's strange...

(End of this chapter)