Xianggang is a large flat area with a bunch of excavating machines parked haphazardly, but no one is working on it.

Nearly a hundred construction workers all gathered on a piece of land that had just been leveled.

After the leveling work, the sand, gravel and soil on this piece of land have disappeared, replaced by regular-shaped stone slabs.

The gaps between these stone slabs are narrow and they are placed in an orderly manner. At first glance, they are artificial and cannot be "the miraculous workmanship of nature."

This also made the workers on site very curious.

A few workers who were quite curious stretched out their T-shaped picks and pried them to both sides along one of the gaps in the stone slabs.

The two stone slabs, which were originally tightly joined together, were soon lifted apart, revealing a bottomless dark hole under the stone slabs.

"We're not going to dig up the military's defenses, are we?"

"I heard that in the 1950s and 1960s, the military built a large number of air-raid shelters, which were dug out of hills, hillsides, and even mountains!"

Several workers in their forties were discussing with some uncertainty.

Some people even think that this may be a secret base left by aliens, which is used by aliens to monitor people on earth, and was dug up by them unintentionally.

Just when these construction workers were talking about it.

Several cars drove in from the gate of the construction site in a hurry. Before they could stop, the director, deputy director, and senior researchers of the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology hurriedly got out of the car and ran towards the construction direction.

While running, they shouted: "Don't move! Don't destroy the tomb site!"

Don't blame them for being anxious.

The staff of the archaeological institute who receive the report from the construction site cannot take it too seriously.

For this elephant hillock, 17 meters of soil were cut in advance and construction started only after that.

In other words, this tomb was buried 20 meters deep!

I have visited many tombs from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, but basically none of them are so deep.

Only high-standard noble tombs in the Han and Jin dynasties, that is, those at the level of princes and kings, would have such deep tombs.

For Guangzhou archeology, the discovery of tombs from the Han and Jin dynasties is already a very, very important discovery!

After all, at that time, the Guangdong region had just begun to be taken seriously by the Central Plains dynasty.

It was not until the middle of the Western Han Dynasty that Guangdong was developed by the Central Plains dynasty for the first time, and then it was not until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty that Lingnan experienced its first major development.

Previous archaeological discoveries in the Lingnan area basically contained no tombs before the Han Dynasty. Although some tombs from the Han Dynasty were discovered, most of them were not tombs of high-ranking nobles.

Only some small tombs have been unearthed, and a small number of military weapons, pottery, and a few bronzes in the style of Chu, Qin, and Han Dynasties have been unearthed.

It can only be regarded as the tombs of some "scholar" class.

As for large-scale noble tombs, the unearthed record is 0!

Now a large tomb with a tomb buried 20 meters underground and a stone roof has appeared. How can the people of the Guangzhou Archaeological Institute not be excited?

Yes, they were almost certain it was a tomb.

Holding a flashlight, Fu Pu, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology, rushed to the deep black hole that had been opened by workers. He didn't mind the dirt on the ground, so he lay down on the ground and shined the flashlight into the hole.

Following the light of the flashlight, I leaned over and looked inside.

I saw that the space inside the cave was huge, the stone walls were rough in shape, and a huge bronze tripod was placed in the visible corner.

Fu Pu's heart immediately began to beat uncontrollably.

The appearance of this bronze tripod directly proves that this is no ordinary tomb from the Jin Dynasty or later!

tripod!

Bronze tripod!

This is at least an artifact that can only be unearthed from tombs before the Han Dynasty!

And it has to be at the level of a prince!

It is a burial artifact that can only be owned by the princes and kings of the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties!

"There is a bronze tripod!"

"This is a big tomb!"

Fu Pu shouted excitedly.

Other staff members of the Guangzhou Archaeological Institute also came over and looked at the area illuminated by flashlights.

"Bronze?"

"The Kingdom of Fulou? The Kingdom of Yangyu? Or the Kingdom of Huandou?"

"Or Xiou, Luo Yue?"

"What are you thinking about? How could those ancient countries have such productivity and build stone tombs?"

"It must be from South Vietnam!"

Others were also discussing in a flurry of excitement, their faces full of excitement.

Although Lingnan was developed by the Central Plains Dynasty after the Han Dynasty.

But this does not mean that there is no local civilization in Lingnan.

During the Shang and Western Zhou dynasties, Guangdong had economic and cultural exchanges with the Central Plains.

About 4900-4700 years ago, the ancient country of Cangwu was born here.

In its heyday, Cangwu was a very large tribe in Baiyue. According to historical records, the Cangwu Kingdom was formed as early as the Shun and Yao periods. It was an ancient country that existed at the same time as the Yao and Shun tribes in the Central Plains.

In the east and northeast of Guangdong, there were also ancient kingdoms founded by the Minyue and Wuyue tribes, who were the ancestors of the later Ou and Luo tribes.

Not to mention, in addition to these large tribes, the Lingnan area was also known as the "Baiyue", and countless Yue tribes lived here.

These Yue tribes also established many Fang states during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and were recorded by the Central Plains Dynasty.

Especially the Chu State. The Chu State destroyed the country for fifty miles. Half of them were vassal states of the Zhou royal family, and the other half were the Yue Fang Kingdom to the south of the Chu State.

Otherwise, how could the Chu people who had lived in the lower reaches of the Huai River, that is, in the south of AH, expand their territory to the land of Jingchu.

Some of the small Yue tribes that were exterminated by the Chu State continued to migrate to the lower reaches of the Huaihe River and became the later Yue State.

Of course, Chu's expansion to the south is also limited. Further south, in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions of Lingnan, there are still some small Baiyue countries, such as Fulou and Yangyu, which are the Fang countries in the Pearl River Delta region.

"Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" says: "Fulou, Yangyu, and Huandou are all without kings." This means that these countries are still in the tribal era, which is very primitive.

However, in 2013, the Guangzhou Archaeological Institute discovered more than 300 tombs from the Pre-Qin period in the Pearl River Delta water network area.

Bronze wares such as bronze tripods and bells were unearthed, as well as a large number of pottery, primitive celadon wares, jade wares, and iron wares.

Most academics believe that this is the cultural relic of the ancient Fulou Kingdom. Judging from the unearthed relics, the Fulou Kingdom had entered the social form of Fang Kingdom at that time and was not a primitive clan society with "no king".

It can also be inferred from this that the Huandou Kingdom in Guangdong or other countries in Guangdong are generally in the same situation.

However, these tombs from the Pre-Qin period were all primitive pit tombs with vertical pits, and bricks had not yet appeared in Lingnan at that time.

Even if there were, it would not be luxurious enough to build a tomb.

But the large tomb in front of Xianggang is a typical stone chamber tomb!

This kind of huge tomb is usually built with stones as a tomb chamber, and the tomb chamber is buried deep underground. People must pass through a long and narrow vertical passage to enter the tomb chamber.

This is obviously not a large tomb that these backward Baiyue Fang Kingdom can build.

Each of the excavated roof stones must weigh one or two tons!

Only the princes of the Han Dynasty had this financial and material resources, as well as the most important productivity!

Therefore, all the archaeologists present knew who was buried in this tomb.

During the Han Dynasty, whether it was the Eastern Han Dynasty or the Western Han Dynasty, there were no princes and kings surnamed Liu who were granted titles in the Lingnan counties.

However, in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, there was a separatist force in Lingnan, a country established by the Qin Empire's army!

It was the first complete dynastic regime in the history of Lingnan, the Nanyue Kingdom!

At the end of Qin Dynasty, Zhao Tuo, the captain of Nanhai County, took advantage of the fall of Qin to seal off the pass and annex Guilin County and Xiang County in Lingnan.

In the third year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (204 BC), the Nanyue Kingdom was formally established and its capital was Panyu.

In the eleventh year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Nanyue became a vassal state of the Han Dynasty.

In the autumn of the fifth year of Yuanding (112 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che launched a war against the South Vietnam Kingdom.

In the winter of the sixth year of Yuanding (111 BC), the Nanyue Kingdom was destroyed.

From the founder of the country, Zhao Tuo, to the founder of the country, Zhao Jiande, the Nanyue Kingdom had a total of five kings and lived for ninety-three years.

There is no doubt that this Xianggang Tomb is located in the center of modern Guangzhou and was originally part of the ancient Panyu City.

Buried there is a South Vietnamese monarch!

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Chapter completed!