The "Perak Surveying and Mapping Team" only officially started on the third day.
Although the tasks are different, I still live in an elementary school. The principal of this elementary school was built against a hillside. Three rooms on the east and west sides were used as teacher offices and dormitories, and more than a dozen classrooms were built on the north and south sides.
Ye Xianzhang couldn't leave for the time being. The health center and the headquarters next to where he originally lived were converted into a temporary canteen, and he ended up moving again.
We moved Professor Wen and Teacher Chang Gaofeng out and moved them to the classroom below, freeing up the room at the end. However, it would be inconvenient for a girl to live with Ye Pianxiang. As the godmother, Dong Pianfang's wife was worried and was surprised to arrange Cuilan to stay with her for a few days.
In order to connect the north and south diversion canals of Nanshao Village, Wang Ke's "Perak Surveying and Mapping Team", led by Section Chief Chang, first began to help survey and map the water canal dam planned to be built in the west of Nanshao Village to the north and south gates. Especially from the north side to the river mouth, a road was taken on the spot according to the terrain, and a canal and a canal dam were built into the river.
The original reference point was lost in the flood. Have to start over. As soon as he started measuring, Wang Ke discovered an interesting phenomenon.
The first is the hillside at the foot of the elementary school where I live now.
If it is a hillside, there is a thick layer of soil on the slope; if it is a soil slope, the foot of the North Mountain is clearly made of rocks. Like a layered cake, or a dirt hat on a rocky mountain.
And this hillside is very interesting. It is parallel to the east side of the village, high in the north and low in the south, like a boot. Between the north side of the hillside and the mountains to the west of the village, there is another saddle-shaped gully ridge higher than the village. The outlet of the water canal on the north side can pass right through the ravine and run directly to Qian. meters away in the river downstream.
It is precisely because of the hillside that stretches across the east side of the primary school that Nanshao Village seems to be lying in the embrace of the mountains, and this hillside is like an arm, hugging Nanshao Village, or in other words, Nanshao Village's pillow. Sleeping on this hillside.
Now think about it, the ancestors of Nanshao Village at that time chose this place to build the village, which could block the cold wind in the wilderness to the north. Let yourself hide in a dustpan with mountains to the east, north and west, and a flat plain to the south.
This was not the only interesting phenomenon. Wang Ke soon discovered the second interesting thing.
During the measurement process of finding the reference point, it is indispensable to climb the mountain on the left side of the west side of Nanshao Village. There is a tripod there, which is the standard coordinate point. Standing under the tripod on the top of the mountain, looking west, south, east, and then north, Wang Ke suddenly made a discovery. The geography here is somewhat unusual.
To the southwest, less than a few miles away is the Xushui River. After it separates from the Yishui River, it winds all the way west and then south. The river water is actually more than the Yishui River. However, the Yishui River came sideways to the east and could not travel more than a hundred meters. Instead of continuing to flow eastward, the river turned around and headed north, turning directly between the two mountains to the west of Nanshao Village, where it almost stopped flowing. There is only a thin stream of water, gurgling down the cliff, flowing directly from the gully on the north side of the village to the river downstream.
Wang Ke carefully identified it, only to find that as the Yishui River came sideways to the east, there was a faint dry river channel that was higher in the east and lower in the west. This means that the current Yishui River is equivalent to a shortcut to the west of Nanshao Village. , directly leaving aside the ancient river channels in Shannan.
Why is there a ravine that looks like a river there?
Wang Ke was thinking that if the ravine was the old path of the Yishui River, then more than a thousand years ago, the water should have come from the southwest corner of the village, and should have flowed quietly along the south bank of the village. On the other side of the village is a fertile and boundless land. A curved arch bridge is built across the river. The clear river water is under the bridge. Finally, along the hillside of the primary school, it suddenly turns a corner and turns back from there to the northeast. On the north side of the hillside, there is most likely a large natural harbor with many masts and smoke from the boats. What a harmonious and beautiful picture it is.
Maybe nature is too jealous of Nanshao Village's sense of superiority that it can't be blown by wind or flooded by water. I don't know when the earth's crust began to change. The river in the southwest of the village arched upward from bottom to top, and the river broke. The river no longer flows slowly from the southwest, but after separating from Xushui, it turns directly to the north, and then discharges towards the village from between the two mountains directly west of the village. Therefore, when the flood season comes, heavy rain will flood Nanshao Village. The method passed down from our ancestors is to pad, pad, pad each family's house and courtyard into a bun-shaped bunker, forming this unique "road if there is no water, and river if there is water" in front of the door. landscape.
In order to confirm his judgment, Wang Ke deliberately led the whole class on the third day of construction, along the current seasonal river between the two mountains, all the way back to the southwest corner of Nanshao Village where the two rivers bifurcate, and took a closer look at the place where the two rivers bifurcated. A gully that looks like a river. It turned out to be true. The gully that looked like a river was now more than one meter high above the river surface, and the deepest part of the changed river channel was only more than a foot deep.
After Wang Ke came back, he immediately went to Professor Wen and wanted to tell him his two discoveries.
Professor Wen was also in distress these days. He hired 10 migrant workers from Nanshao Village. According to the map Wang Ke gave him, they dug around and found that there was sand underneath. And the deeper we dig, the more we dig, and there seems to be no bottom. He asked the local migrant workers and found that there were sand pits everywhere on the east side of the village, and no one had ever dug to the bottom. Generally speaking, you only need to dig down five or six meters, and the water will basically fill it up once the flood passes. But someone dug out the rotten wooden boards. When this happens, everyone avoids it. The main reason is to dig wherever the sand is clean and easy to dig. As for whether there are sunken ships below, I really don’t know yet.
From this point of view, construction machinery was necessary, so he sent Ye Qianqian to contact the army to see if he could rent an excavator.
Moreover, after Professor Wen used the "Luoyang Shovel" for field exploration in just a few days, he also discovered that there is sand under the formation nearly a kilometer from the hillside all the way to the east. He couldn't believe how wide the river had been in the past. The north side of the hillside is even more exaggerated, almost two thousand meters wide and two thousand meters long, with sand underneath.
When Wang Ke told him this, he hesitated. "Squad leader Xiao Wang, what is the connection between the terrain you mentioned and my current excavation?"
"Teacher Wen, you know that philosophy has a point of view, which is to observe and analyze problems dialectically." This is what Wang Ke gained from reading the "Dictionary of Philosophy". "This kind of dialectics is to put some issues under specific conditions and analyze them comprehensively, systematically and coherently."
When Professor Wen heard this, he found it interesting, and he changed his mind again. "Monitor Wang, tell me, what did you find?"
"First of all, the original river channel, with abundant water, bypassed Nanshao Village from south to north, but the current river channel takes the road between the two mountains, or overflows from Nanshao Village, and goes directly from the mountain depression on the north side. .The river breaks here." Wang Ke talked eloquently.
"good."
"There is also the slope of the primary school where we live. Is it a soil slope or a hillside? It is worth defining its nature. Maybe it is a prince's tomb, maybe it is an artificial dock! Otherwise, the thick soil layer on this slope cannot be explained. It also cannot explain the underground sand layers on the east and north sides of the slope.”
"Keep talking!" Professor Wen suppressed the turmoil in his heart at this time. Wang Ke's idea was too bold and too alternative. It would be a pity for him not to come to the Institute of Archeology. His own doctoral students may not be as insightful as him.
"Teacher Wen, I think you should first understand the ins and outs of this ancient river based on the map I gave you, and then I suggest you start from the south of the village, starting from the slope of the primary school at your feet."
Professor Wen nodded. Yes, Wang Ke's suggestion was very constructive. It cannot be said that his thinking was unreasonable. We have lived in the primary school for so long, and we only thought we would avoid floods here. Who would have thought that the slope at our feet was a hillside or a dirt slope? Everyone's eyes are on the river that looks like a child's urine in the northwest of Nanshao Village. Who would associate the wide and round battlefield with the ancient river in the south of the village.
I am ashamed to say that I even went to Lettuce Village to find out what was going on.
As soon as Wang Ke finished speaking, he handed another picture he drew to Professor Wen.
Professor Wen took it and began to study, his brows furrowed and relaxed. After a long time, Professor Wen raised his eyes and stared at Wang Ke blankly. "These two findings of yours seem to have verified my findings. Shannan, Shannan, south of the hillside, this bend is too big, and it is easier for the boat to capsize. And you are right, why is there a slope here? What role did Tupo play in this river back then?"
Going to Nanshao Village was the first turning point for Dingxian archeology. Starting from Shannan and this slope, it may be the second turning point. Don't be afraid of messy ropes like hemp, the key is to find the end of the rope.
At present, it is very likely that a large number of sunken ships will be found in Nanshao Village. It seems that only excavators and "Luoyang shovels" are not enough. We also need to add a German underground metal detector and infrared hyperspectral/hyperspectral that the university has just introduced. Imaging detector.
These two instruments and technologies, using liquid chromatography, GC-MS, LC-MS and other technologies, can easily detect pottery, jade, bones, bronze alloys, etc. 30 meters underground, and can also quickly solve the problem of "Luoyang The depth and range that cannot be discovered by "shovel" can greatly reduce the burden of archaeology and speed up the progress of archaeology.
Thinking of this, Professor Wen's brows gradually softened, and his mind at work immediately became much clearer.
It’s just that there are too few people who have good hands, are comfortable with it, and can use it. If Wang Ke could be poached, hehe... Professor Wen suddenly had a malicious thought. I have to go back. In addition to organizing another group of graduate students, I also need to persuade Professor Ye Rongguang to work with me to dig out Ye Xianqian first, and then attract the little greedy Wang Ke's collection and archeology.
Thinking of this, there is another problem. Apart from the two pictures drawn by Wang Ke and the two soldiers who swore they had seen the sunken ship, there is almost no convincing physical evidence in hand.
It's better to wait for the excavator to come, and start digging downward from under the tree Wang Ke mentioned. We must find a sunken ship.
Get a broken ship plank, it will be easier to talk about when you go back.
