gluttonous adventure king

Chapter 219 A City in Three Days
On the first morning, Fang Hong was surprised to find that a large number of bulldozers and excavators were parked outside the undergrowth, and all the Zhuangzi who had been shoveled in the undergrowth were gone.

On the first noon, Fang Hong saw with his own eyes that Professor Wang organized a team to repair and strengthen all the underground stone pillars.

On the first night, the entire purple-black soil surface was gone and replaced by yellow dirt that had been dug up.

The next morning, Professor Wang clarified the scope of the entire site, and began to dig ditches around the periphery to create foundations.

This range is too large and it is impossible to build a building on the surface like Jinsha. We can only dig it out and restore it to the original appearance.

Piles of film were sent here, the steel frame was built, the film was torn off, and the top of the entire main site was erected, and the excavation began with the main building of the observatory.

The entire building was dug out quickly, and surprisingly, the scale of the main building far exceeded Fang Hong's original imagination.

This building is not a long building running from east to west, but a square building. The center is under the stargazing platform, and there is another floor below it!
The building on the upper floor is indeed a rectangular building. From the area where the observatory is located, four rooms spread to the south, seven rooms spread to the east, and there is another floor below, which is ten rooms in length and width. big building.

In the middle of the whole building is a cross-shaped road.

In other words, this should be a royal city of that era, not a tomb.

When Xia Jie died, he took Xia Chao to be buried with him, devoted all he had to build this place, and created an eternal kingdom for himself.

This building is very similar to the description of Shangwang City in history.

In other words, Xia Wangcheng is like this. After the Shang Dynasty moved the capital, a replica of this kind of Wangcheng was reproduced, and Xia Jie also built a similar Wangcheng here.

However, in the Central Plains, the materials used are all rammed earth, so what are excavated now are only foundations and no physical buildings. Here, huge stones are used, so they have been preserved.

After the overall measurement, the highest observatory of this building is 35 meters from the ground, and the tomb is 15 meters from the ground.

A six-meter-high platform was built with stones on the lower floor, and the first floor is nine meters in total on the six-meter-high platform. A building of this scale could be considered a tall building even in the late Qing Dynasty.

From the perspective of construction difficulty, civil architecture is definitely ten thousand times more difficult than stone buildings, but from the perspective of preservation, stone buildings are easier to preserve.

Among the earliest existing stone buildings in the world, the Mayan pyramid is the earliest and the largest. The scale of this building is infinitely close to that of the Mayan pyramid.

Of course, the functions are different. The Mayan pyramids were not built to be used as palaces, and the practicability here is higher.

As the main building was fully excavated, subsequent surrounding buildings were also excavated.

There is an underground river underground, or the moat that used to be. The moat outside the palace has been submerged, and the indoor river channel used as a drainage channel has been preserved.Now after digging, the moat has re-displayed its original appearance.

The moat surrounds the imperial city, with a total length of 800 meters. It is not square. It overlaps with the border of the imperial city on the southeast two sides. There are nine holes under the water channel connected with the indoor river channel.

What's even more frightening is that many crocodile bones were found here, that is to say, the moat was full of crocodiles called dragons in that era.

Xia Jie not only had many people and horses buried for him, but after his death, the crocodiles here could not climb the stone-built river bank, and had no source of food, and eventually killed each other until they all died.

The excavation of the outer periphery has also started, and it is indeed distributed in a circle, but the strange thing is that there are pottery and some discoveries in the stone buildings in the innermost circle, which prove that they have been inhabited by people, and no one lives in the outermost circle. And it is empty, some buildings have not been completed.

Until here, Fang Hong finally made his own judgment: "More than 500 years ago, Xia Jie was defeated and retreated to the only Fang Kingdom in the whole of China that was still under the rule of Xia Kingdom—the ancient Shu Kingdom. Some accidents happened to Xia Jie’s capital before the construction was completed, or Xia Jie’s health was declining and he was unable to continue ruling this land, or his followers rebelled, in short , the construction of Wangcheng was stopped before it was completed."

"Back then, this place should not have been a place where fog covered the sky, because according to experts' research, many of the trees here were not from this area, but were transplanted. If this was a rocky mountain, from the perspective of climate , without transpiration, there would be no cloud.”

"Back then, Xia Jie stood on the observatory overlooking the last area he ruled."

"Xia Jie died. The last people who were loyal to the Xia Dynasty let all the slaves who built the capital be buried with Xia Jie, and even they themselves were buried here. This royal city became a forbidden place for the people of the ancient Shu Kingdom."

"Times have changed over time, and the excavated rocky mountain has become more suitable for plant growth. A large number of plants have sealed it up. Coupled with ancient legends, this place has become a forbidden area for the descendants of the Xia people. In the end, Xia Jie and his Sun Palace Buried together in this dark place."

Facing Fang Hong's speculation, Shuiyou shouted: "Brother Gun, you shouldn't be exploring, you should be writing novels!"

In fact, it is not hypothetical. First of all, where are there so many stones?This is Xichuan, it is normal to have stones here, and it is not normal to have no stones. Xia Jie may have mined the entire stone mountain range here to build this king's capital. After the stones were collected, the exposed gravel and mud mixed area Of course, it becomes suitable for growing plants, because no plants grow on pure rocky cliffs, and a large number of rocky mountains in Xichuan are bare.

Afterwards, the mountain range was irregular, and the mountain ranged from east to west, north to south, formed an environment with very little wind. The transpiration effect caused this place to be permanently hidden, just like the Mayan civilization, even the people of the Inca Empire did not know the truth. .

I don’t know if it was Xia Jie himself who ordered everyone to be buried with him, or the ministers who followed him after his death voluntarily. In short, they think that they can still rule here after death, and rule this royal city built like the sun, but in the end people die Lights off.

"In that era, all the buildings should not be built around the so-called Xia Palace, but should be built around an ancient tree."

In China for thousands of years, an ancient tree can bring good Fengshui, and an ancient tree can form a palace, a temple, which has been preserved for thousands of years.

This tradition started from the tribal era, and they built tribes around towering ancient trees since the tribal era.

And Xia Jie, let the buildings be built around the palace.

Perhaps this is the final step from the tribal age to the dynastic age.

From then on, in the capital of any era, all buildings must be built around the palace.

Because they want to be the center of the people.

On the third day, a circle of foundations was dug, and the wall was erected. Outside the tent area, all the ancient buildings were excavated, and the collapsed small buildings were rebuilt.

It took three days for this city, which had been built for an unknown number of years, to see the light of day again.

(End of this chapter)