Other colleagues who moved a step slower did not have time to see clearly the contents of the bamboo slip in Su Sa's hand.

But Zhang Jianbo acted quickly and took a lot of photos before it oxidized.

Everyone immediately gathered around Zhang Jianbo, eager to find a magnifying glass to take a closer look at the photos he took.

"In the fifth month of the thirteenth year of the year of Gengchen, Jiangling Cheng dared to sue the underground Prime Minister."

"This sentence is quite easy to recognize."

Professor Li pushed up his lenses and said with a slightly excited expression: "Genchen in May of the Thirteenth Year!"

"The age of the tomb owner's life can be determined!"

"Only in the first year of Emperor Wu's founding of the Han Dynasty did China have a reign name."

"Before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the only emperor who reigned for more than thirteen years in the early Western Han Dynasty was Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty!"

"The owner of the tomb was buried on the 17th day of May in the 13th year of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty!"

More than a dozen colleagues at the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences were all excited.

This is a major discovery.

Professor Li waved his hand vigorously and turned to look at Kong Jianwen excitedly: "By the way, what is the land complaint letter? Is this a land complaint letter?"

Kong Jianwen nodded, with a bit of unconcealable shock in his expression.

"Xiao Chen, are you sure you didn't admit it wrong?" He asked Chen Han in disbelief.

The font on the bamboo slip is seal script.

The difference between this thing and modern simplified characters is not as similar as that between simplified characters and traditional Chinese characters.

Even a scholar who specializes in seal script would have difficulty distinguishing most of the characters in just a few dozen seconds.

Kong Jianwen had time to read the first sentence clearly, and this was thanks to the relatively simple seal script of the first sentence on the bamboo slip.

"In the fifth month of the thirteenth year of the year of Gengchen, Jiangling Cheng dared to sue the underground Prime Minister."

Kong Jianwen had just enough time to identify this sentence, and then the bamboo slips turned completely black.

It is also because of this that Kong Jianwen was shocked by Chen Han's behavior of reading out all the contents on the bamboo slip just now fluently and smoothly.

How could Chen Han, a Ph.D. student, be so proficient in seal script that he could recognize it at a glance?

This can only be accomplished by at least an experienced scholar who has specialized in seal script research for more than ten years!

However, despite being shocked, Kong Jianwen also felt in his heart that what Chen Han read might be right.

Because Kong Jianwen could probably tell from the sentence he recognized that this was indeed a "letter of complaint."

Jiang Lingcheng dared to sue the underground prime minister. Isn't this a lawsuit against the underground government, or what?

The notice of death is a kind of funeral utensil.

It is a document about the migration of the dead written by the ancients who handled the underground migration matters for the deceased during funeral activities, and imitated the migration documents related to real life.

Similar to the "road guide" used by living people!

To put it more simply, this is a letter of introduction issued by an official on the ground to the owner of the tomb, and the recipient of the letter is an official underground.

This thing was more popular in the Western Han Dynasty, but became increasingly rare after the Western Han Dynasty.

A letter of denunciation was unearthed here in Jingzhou, from Tomb No. 18 in Gaotai, Jingzhou.

"Xiao Chen, read the text you saw to Professor Li again."

"Let him check it with the text on the photo to see if you made a mistake."

Kong Jianwen quickly ordered Chen Han to read it again.

Professor Li is the head of the Qin and Han Research Laboratory of the Institute of Archeology, Academy of Social Sciences.

He specializes in the archaeological work of the Qin and Han Dynasties, and his research on seal script is very in-depth.

At this time, Chen Han himself was quite surprised.

He actually read it out subconsciously. He didn't expect that he could recognize the rest so smoothly except for two words in the entire sixty or seventy-word bamboo slip.

Immediately, Chen Han remembered the archaeological expertise points awarded by the system before.

Seal script definitely belongs to archaeological expertise!

Obviously these points are added to the recognition of seal script!

Not to mention, it’s very useful!

Chen Han quickly read the text he saw to Professor Li again based on his impression.

While listening to Chen Han's account, Professor Li took Zhang Jianbo's camera and compared it with the photos inside.

Some words that originally took Professor Li a little time to judge clearly became clear immediately under Chen Han's "prompts".

According to Chen Han, the content of this notice is roughly as follows: "On May 17, the 13th year of the lunar calendar, Jiang Lingcheng told the officials of the underworld that the owner of the tomb had brought a large number of chariots, horses, and servants to the underworld. He hoped that

The officials of the underworld can help him ask the master of the underworld for instructions and give him an official position."

While listening, Professor Li nodded excitedly and compared it with the photo on the bamboo slip. After confirming the two facts, he excitedly said: "Yes, this is the content of this notice!"

“This is a huge amount of information!”

"The exact time when the tomb owner was buried, the place of origin and identity of the tomb owner, and the number of main burial objects were all clearly recorded."

"The content is roughly similar to the wooden slip unearthed from Han Tomb No. 3 in Mawangdui."

"That last sentence is quite bold."

"If you can make officials work as officials, you dare to sue the Lord."

"This is asking for an official position from the underworld officials!"

Being able to make an official serve as an official and dare to sue the Lord, this sentence translated into vernacular means:

"The tomb owner who went to live underground is very capable and has the talent to be an official. The owner of the underworld can consider making him an official."

This is the meaning of "Jiang Ling Cheng" introducing talents to "Underground Prime Minister".

In other notices found in tombs of the Western Han Dynasty, there is no such situation where above-ground officials actively recommended people.

Most of them state clearly how many "servants" and "livestock" the tomb owner brought to the burial, and just give an introduction to his identity and background.

Professor Li sighed: "It can be seen that the tomb owner had very strong connections in Jiangling's official circles during his lifetime, otherwise Jiangling Cheng would not sell favors and recommendations like this."

After confirming that he had read it correctly and translated it correctly, Chen Han was also a little excited.

My ability to identify seal scripts has greatly improved!

In the past, when identifying seal characters, I had to think about each word for ten seconds before I was sure of it. It was so difficult that I might not be able to recognize it for a minute or two.

Now I can actually understand more than sixty characters in one minute!

However, there were two characters in this piece of bamboo slips that he didn't recognize.

Following the good habit of asking if you don't understand, Chen Han humbly asked Professor Li for advice: "Professor Li, there are two words in this confession that I didn't recognize."

"One is the word after "Shiyang Five Doctors", and the other is the two horses after "Four Horses"."

Following Chen Han's reminder, Professor Li immediately found these two words in the photo.

The first character is okay. The unclearness is not due to the quality of the seal script, but the handwriting on the bamboo slip is a bit blurry. It may be necessary to wait until the cultural relic restoration workers repair it before trying to decipher it.

But something embarrassing happened.

Professor Li did not recognize the second character even after carefully identifying it.

This character is next to the character horse, plus a pictographic character that looks a bit like non and a bit like a butterfly.

For a while, Professor Li didn't understand what this word meant.

At least this character is not a common seal script font. It is a very unconventional character that has not even been recorded.

"this...."

Facing Chen Han's eyes full of thirst for knowledge, Professor Li smiled awkwardly.
Chapter completed!