Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Huang Ziran turned and walked out of the village.

It seemed like he wasn't worried at all that we would take the opportunity to run away.

Cui Hao mouthed to me silently: He knows we're tomb raiding! Will he catch us?

I shook my head slowly.

If he wanted to catch him, he wouldn't have come into the village alone to see me.

He also made it clear that it was both public and private.

Since personal matters are involved, the possibility of arresting us is even lower.

"Don't think too much, just follow and see what's going on."

I raised my legs and followed Huang Ziran.

Cui Hao stamped his feet, shook his head and sighed as he followed.

Soon we left the village and walked into the farmland.

From a distance, I could see the villagers busy in the fields.

More than 300 people, men, women, young and old, stood in neat rows.

Each person stood half a meter apart in a line that was more than 200 meters long.

Everyone was holding a long pole in their hands and was constantly pounding the pole into the soil.

There were two elderly men walking back and forth beside the team.

Instruct the villagers how to exert force to ram down.

Sometimes he would squat down to check the soil he brought out.

This is definitely mobilizing the villagers to dig holes!

This is too blatant in broad daylight!

wrong!

The villagers were hired by Huang Ziran in the name of a geological survey team.

This should be considered as a fair and open exploration of the cave...

In fact, large-scale archaeological sites are basically like this.

Because the archaeological team has limited manpower, when they encounter large-scale ruins or tombs, they will temporarily hire local villagers to do the work.

The work they do ranges from digging holes and excavating earth to patrolling and guarding the site at night.

On the one hand, this is done to temporarily expand manpower.

On the other hand, it is also to establish good relations with local villagers.

Giving villagers a temporary job so they can earn extra money is the quickest way to build good relationships.

Because of Huang Ziran's operation, the villagers of Yagou Village have widely mastered the cave digging technology.

following.

It was Yagou Village that started to get rich by robbing tombs and became the number one tomb-robbing village on the Xianyang Plateau.

When our Yagou Village was at its peak, its influence radiated throughout the northwest.

It has become an important distribution center for the smuggling of cultural relics in Northwest China.

Cui Hao exclaimed, "Brother, those long poles everyone's holding look familiar!"

"Looks like a piercing rod?"

Cui Hao was right.

The villagers were indeed holding poles!

They're caving!

Huang Ziran smiled and turned around and said, "It's a piercing rod."

"I originally wanted to use a Luoyang shovel."

"But we came too hastily and were not fully prepared, so we had to make do with the tying pole."

He pointed at the two old men who kept instructing the villagers on how to use the poles.

"Those two were seconded from the provincial archaeological team."

"In the early years, they were all good tomb robbers."

"I'll introduce you guys later."

"Let you learn some technical experience from the seniors."

I feel like Huang Ziran is just empty talk.

Throw out two recruited tomb robbers as bargaining chips to lure me.

Cui Hao was surprised and asked, "A tomb robber can join the archaeological team?"

"Isn't this like eating the emperor's food?!"

In those days, the temptation of eating imperial food was enormous for the villagers.

If there were an opportunity to get a stable job in a state-owned enterprise and earn a living, the villagers would definitely fight for it.

Even around 2000, many people still spent money to buy state-owned enterprise worker status for their children.

They just hope that their children can have a stable job and be well-paid.

From now on, I will no longer face the earth and back to the sky.

Huang Ziran narrowed his eyes and said, "Of course tomb robbers can join the archaeological team."

"This is called recruiting talents regardless of their background."

"As long as they are of great use to the country, no matter what they have done in the past, they will be given the opportunity to reform themselves and make meritorious contributions."

"As long as you demonstrate your strength, I can help you recruit them."

Huang Ziran stared at me with a meaningful look.

It seemed as if these words were directed specifically at me.

Cui Hao tugged at the corner of my clothes and said excitedly, "Brother!"

"A chance to eat the emperor's food!"

But I shook my head and smiled bitterly.

The imperial food is not that delicious.

This was just another bait thrown by Huang Ziran.

Besides, the cause and effect of Blackwater City has not been resolved yet, so there is no time to think about eating the emperor's food.

I changed the subject and said, "Captain Huang, I can tell you the location of the tomb."

"There's no need to bother digging a hole."

Huang Ziran waved his hand calmly.

"I've been down to the big tomb you dug."

"We asked them to dig holes in a net-like manner, just to see if there are any other large tombs nearby."

"In the past, it was basically a family tomb for princes and nobles."

"Around a large tomb, there should be tombs of other family members."

I was slightly stunned.

If Huang Ziran hadn't introduced himself as being from Bureau 749, I would have suspected he was from the same department.

Since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, princes, nobles and aristocratic families have indeed used family cemeteries as the main form of burial.

Usually, the main figures in a family are buried in the same mausoleum area.

Therefore, in the tomb-robbing circle, as long as the news of a large tomb being dug up comes out somewhere, countless colleagues will rush there in a short time.

Colleagues will search around the excavated tomb.

For example, later I unearthed the tomb of the king of Rui State in Liangdai Village, Hancheng.

After the news spread, nearly a thousand tomb robbers came from all over the country. They dug holes around the tombs I had robbed all night long.

There were so many gangs that it was inevitable that they would bump into each other while working at night.

After meeting, they exchanged a few words and divided the territory, and then each of them dug a hole in the territory.

Because there were so many people and the noise was loud, it quickly attracted the attention of the relevant departments.

After a large-scale roundup operation, more than 400 people from more than 30 tomb-robbing gangs were arrested.

The armed police were then responsible for guarding and protecting the archaeological team as they carried out rescue excavations.

Even so, there were still some people who were not giving up. They dug a hole dozens of meters away from the archaeological team, intending to dig the hole overnight to carry out the looting.

As a result, he successfully got himself in.

Of course, this is considered to be relatively restrained among peers.

In the 1980s, when the tomb of the Marquis of Jin was unearthed in Beizhao Village, Qucun Town, Quwo County, Jin Province, many colleagues rushed there after hearing the news to get a piece of the pie.

As a result, the local tomb-robbing gangs were very domineering.

The organizers carried guns and would open fire when they saw their colleagues working outside at night.

Several gun battles broke out over this matter.

They monopolized the Jinhou family tombs and dug them for several years.

It was not until 92 that a professor of archaeology at Peking University heard the news, verified it and reported it, and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage organized an archaeological team to carry out rescue excavations.

During this period, local tomb-robbing gangs also organized and beat archaeologists.

Finally, the iron fist strikes...

The reason why the local tomb-robbing gangs are so cruel is that there are too many large tombs in the Jinhou family cemetery and the burial objects are too rich.

Later, the archaeological team excavated from 92 to 2000.

Six large-scale excavations were organized, and nine tombs of Jin marquises and ten tombs of Jin marquises' wives were discovered.

Why is there an extra tomb for the wife of the Marquis of Jin?

Because one of the Dukes of Jin had two wives.

The other eight Dukes of Jin each had one wife.

Let’s get back to the present.

When I heard Huang Ziran talking about the tombs of family members, I knew that this guy definitely knew something!

So I asked curiously, "Have you ever been a tomb robber before?"

"Hahaha." Huang Ziran laughed, "How is that possible?"

“I only came into contact with these things after joining the 749th Bureau.”

"My main responsibility is to explore ancient tombs and ruins related to the supernatural and supernatural powers."

"Local forces can be mobilized to coordinate when necessary."

"Our confidentiality level is very high and our authority is very broad."

"By the way, the bureau has a special agent in Hong Kong Island. I specially commissioned the special agent to investigate your affairs in Hong Kong Island."

Huang Ziran's gaze suddenly turned to my dantian.

He said with great interest: "The thing hidden in your Dantian."

"Did you come out of the Sun and Moon Well in Blackwater City?"

“I think we can cooperate deeply!”