About five kilometers away from the north of Jingzhou City, in the southeast corner of Ji Nancheng, the old capital of Chu, there was a lot of construction work going on at this time.

Jingzhou is a city with a long history.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it had become an important capital of the Chu State.

Therefore, the local infrastructure department is unlikely to carry out large-scale construction outside the urban area, especially in this historically capital location.

I'm afraid that I might accidentally dig a grave.

You know, once an ancient tomb is excavated at a construction site and reported to the government by the supervisor, be prepared to stop work immediately.

And we have to stop work for at least half a year!

The government needs to send archaeologists to determine the age of the ancient tombs and conduct rescue excavations.

This is a half-year construction period!

Which construction company can afford to wait?

Therefore, in a project usually undertaken by a private company, if an excavator digs out an ancient tomb with a shovel, the person in charge of the project will immediately ask the cement truck to pour half a load of cement into the tomb without the supervisor paying attention, thus filling the tomb completely.

Leave traces.

But not every time an ancient tomb is excavated, it can be hidden from the supervisor.

Therefore, construction companies here in Jingzhou, except for state-owned infrastructure companies, are basically not willing to undertake development work in the wilderness.

There are not too many examples from Xi'an.

Not to mention the distant places, the Metro Line 8 under construction in Xi'an has already excavated dozens of ancient tombs one year after it started!

The tomb of Sima from the Han Dynasty has not yet been cleaned up here, but a Jiedu envoy from the Tang Dynasty has been dug up over there, and there are two princesses queuing up at the next stop.

The construction of Line 8 is basically at a shutdown stage. Archaeological cleanup work is done for 10 out of 12 months a year.

The locals in Xi'an are joking, saying that they didn't expect that the most busy people building a subway would be the Cultural Relics Bureau and the archaeological team.

The land in Xi'an is full of nobles and nobles. Any infrastructure company facing the land in Xi'an will be several times larger on the other side.

Although Jingzhou is not as good as Xi'an as the ancient capital of the 13th dynasty, as the capital of the Chu State during the Warring States Period, it is still a lot more troublesome.

None of the tombs of the Warring States Period are simple. No one is rushing to build a lot of buildings here!

However, some things have to be done.

The local garrison department, after conducting thorough research and considering the actual needs of the military, decided to build a radar station on Phoenix Mountain outside the city.

Repairing a radar station is not a simple matter.

Moreover, the local Phoenix Mountain is valued by the military because it has a good view and is the highest mountain nearby.

But to the ancients, this kind of place was usually regarded as a unique Feng Shui treasure!

There will definitely be no shortage of tombs in Fenghuang Mountain!

Therefore, before carrying out large-scale infrastructure construction, the local military hired the provincial archaeological institute to conduct on-site surveys.

The team currently carrying out construction projects in Fenghuang Mountain is a team led by archaeological experts from the Hubei Archaeological Institute, not the infrastructure department.

"Tsk, tsk, everyone guessed that Phoenix Mountain is a geomantic treasure land, and now it is indeed confirmed."

Rao Wenyi, a senior researcher and deputy director of the Hubei Institute of Archeology who led the archaeological team, sighed while cleaning a newly excavated Han tomb.

Rao Wenyi has long wanted to come to Fenghuang Mountain to dig soil. He even came here privately to explore several times and determined the locations of several tombs.

But none of the project reports he submitted to his superiors were approved.

Nowadays, Chinese archeology has long stopped advocating active excavations, and mainly focuses on protective excavations and rescue excavations.

Unless you go back to the 1960s, if you want to dig graves everywhere, forget it.

If it weren't for the fact that the military now had to build a radar station on Phoenix Mountain, this would have finally given Rao Wenyi a chance.

After receiving the news, he immediately led the team in person and rushed to the scene with the archaeological team formed by the institute.

Not to mention, this is indeed a geomantic treasure.

There are about ten archaeologists in the team, each with a Luoyang shovel, and they can bring out some five-color soil by inserting and pulling out the soil in the Phoenix Mountain area.

This shows that there are a lot of tombs buried under Phoenix Mountain!

The staff member next to Rao Wenyi also said excitedly: "Rao Suo, I checked some information about Phoenix Mountain before coming here."

"According to the local county annals in Jingzhou, after Qin general Baiqi captured Jinan City, the capital of the Chu state, it was reduced to ruins and became a noble cemetery during the Qin and Han Dynasties."

"In the past half month, we have found about a dozen tombs from the Western Han Dynasty. It seems that the county records are indeed true!"

Rao Wenyi glanced at him and hummed a few times: "I already knew this ten years ago."

"It's better for us in China. As big as the capital city or as small as a small village, we can all have detailed historical records of each."

"Prefecture records, county records, and village records clearly remember everything about a city from its founding to modern times, big and small."

"This saves us archaeologists a lot of effort."

"The group of archaeologists abroad who hold a few literary novels every day as historical materials, don't know how much they envy us."

There are tombs in Fenghuang Mountain. Basically, people from the Hubei Archaeological Institute don't need to think too hard about the tombs from what period.

As long as the local county chronicles are transferred from the city government and read through, the situation will basically be clear.

"It's just that the county records say that the land at Phoenix Mountain has been used as a cemetery for nobles since the Qin and Han Dynasties. It has been a public cemetery for three to four hundred years. I'm afraid there are many tombs here."

"That's for sure. There must be at least one Han Dynasty tomb group, but I don't know how big it will be."

"I hope it won't exceed a hundred, otherwise we will report it to our superiors."

Rao Wenyi looked like he was afraid that someone would snatch his food, which made his companions who were following him to clean up the place couldn't help but laugh.

Generally speaking, if there are less than 100 tombs, the local archaeological institute can basically digest them by integrating the archaeological forces in the province.

However, a group of more than 100 tombs must be reported for emotional and legal reasons, as well as for public and private reasons.

Once the report is reported, the group of guerrillas from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences will definitely rush to Jingzhou like a cat that smells a fishy smell.

Rao Wenyi has been coveting the tombs on Fenghuang Mountain for many years. Now that he is finally able to do it, how can he share such a large piece of meat with others?

However, the development of things often backfires.

The less you want something to happen, the more likely it is to happen.

It was the third month since the Hubei Archaeological Institute officially settled in Fenghuang Mountain to conduct exploration for subsequent construction.

Preliminary exploration results are out.

It is initially estimated that there are at least 150 ancient tombs in the entire Fenghuang Mountain within the area that needs to be built to build a radar station.

And according to the results of preliminary trial excavations, this tomb group should be a very large tomb group of Western Han nobles, with a small number of Eastern Han noble tombs mixed in.

This is undoubtedly one of the greatest discoveries in the field of Chinese Han Dynasty archeology, and is even the largest tomb group discovered so far by Chinese Han Dynasty archeology!

When he learned the news, Rao Wenyi's face immediately turned green.
Chapter completed!