In the previous two or three days, the archaeological team found all kinds of stone tools and pottery. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time, it is not possible to do carbon-14 testing, so it is impossible to determine the exact age of the Longshan site. You can only guess from the exquisiteness of the pottery and stone tools that this is a relic of the late Neolithic period.

At this time, the discovery of the city wall further verified the guesses of the archaeological team.

After several days of hard excavation, the scale of the ancient city wall surprised everyone, the thickness of the wall is 8-13 meters, and the length and width of the excavation of more than 300 meters have not yet reached the end.

Li Ji hurriedly asked a student to return to Tsinghua University to apply for additional funding from the principal, Luo Jialun, and at the same time hired more than 30 local farmers to work overtime to excavate the ancient city wall.

A week later, the general outline of the ancient city wall began to appear, with a length of 530 meters from north to south and 430 meters from east to west. The eastern, southern, and western walls are relatively straight, and the north bank walls are curved outward, and the corners of the walls are arc-shaped.

Zhou Hexuan originally wanted to go back after watching the excitement for a few days, but the discovery of the city wall made him quite excited, and he continued to stay to help excavate cultural relics.

After a few more days, the archaeological team members found a densely populated area of cultural relics, which contained various pottery and stone tools, not to mention various pottery and stone tools, as well as bones used for divination, and even ......

"Yujue! This is Yujue! He Shiji shouted with a hollow disc.

Soon, the archaeological team members found some jade, jade and other objects scattered together, which made people even more excited.

Jade Zhang and Jade Huang are both ritual vessels of Chinese civilization, indicating that this site has a direct connection with the current Chinese civilization, and is even likely to be the ancestor of Chinese civilization.

And there are inscriptions on the jade, and the lines are similar to words, but they are different from the known oracle bone inscriptions and Jinding inscriptions.

Li Ji looked at the original characters suspiciously and excitedly, and guessed, "Could this be the Dongyi script of the Xia and Shang periods?" ”

Hell knows!

Until Zhou Hexuan's crossing, Chinese archaeologists were unable to decipher the text of the Longshan site. Because the stock is too small, and there is not much inheritance with Chinese characters, it is a book of heaven for archaeologists.

Zhou Hexuan estimated the time and prepared to flash back to Tianjin. But just as he was about to leave and wander around the archaeological site, he suddenly found a bronze statue.

The archaeological team members were collectively confused......

What about the Neolithic Age, what the hell is bronze?

Li Ji looked at the bronze statue stupidly, and his thinking was completely confused. Because this bronze is exquisitely made, it shows that the bronze production technology at that time was relatively mature, and it was completely impossible to appear in the Neolithic Age.

In the evening, the archaeological team members gnawed on the heads of the miscellaneous grains and sat around to discuss.

But there is no result in the fight, because this bronze statue is too bizarre, like discovering a laptop in the Republic of China era.

Zhou Hexuan suddenly said: "Is it possible that our current excavation site is not an ancient ruin, but two overlapping ruins?" ”

Li Ji's eyes lit up, and he said happily: "It is very likely, and there is only this one reasonable explanation, that is, the Neolithic ruins and the Bronze Age ruins coincide!" ”

Zhou Hexuan studied history before crossing over, and did not graduate from the Department of Archaeology. He only has a general understanding of Longshan culture, but he doesn't know that the Chengziya ruins in Longshan Town are actually the overlap of three ancient ruins.

There are three ancient cities here.

The lowest layer belongs to the Neolithic city wall, the middle is the Bronze Age city wall, and the top is a Zhou Dynasty city wall.

In the era when there was no carbon-14 measurement technology, such a complex situation was incomprehensible for archaeologists, and only a rough judgment could be made by artifacts. Moreover, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the discovery of this half month alone can allow Li Ji and others to study for twenty or thirty years.

When the "Ta Kung Pao" reporter received the news and came to the archaeological site to take pictures and interview, Zhou Hexuan finally decided to leave, and took a broken black pottery cup - anyway, there are many similar pottery cups unearthed, enough for them to do archaeological research, it doesn't matter if there is less of this one.

The whole cup is smooth and rounded, with a jet-black metallic sheen on the surface. The rim is larger than an adult's palm, and the walls are as thin as an eggshell, only 0.2 mm at the thinnest part and 0.5 mm at the thickest point.

Li Ji and other archaeological team members temporarily named this black pottery "eggshell pottery" because it is as thin as an eggshell.

Zhou Hexuan carefully kept it along the way, and bought boxes and cotton in the town, for fear of damaging this extremely fragile item. He is not greedy for money, but wants to keep it as a souvenir, and it is okay to donate it to the archaeological community for research decades later.

Two days after Zhou Hexuan returned to Tianjin, the news of Ta Kung Pao also came out. At the beginning of the second edition, two archaeological photographs were published, one of eggshell pottery and the other of jade, which was more than 20 centimeters long.

"The archaeological team led by Mr. Li Ji, a professor at Tsinghua University, recently discovered prehistoric relics in Longshan Town, Licheng (later assigned to Zhangqiu), Shandong...... After archaeological excavations, a large number of black pottery, jade, stone tools and divination artifacts were unearthed, and an ancient city wall with a length and width of hundreds of meters was excavated...... It is reported that among the pottery, divination and jade, there is also a prehistoric script carved with a very different from the oracle bone inscription...... From the types of jade, it can be preliminarily inferred that this Neolithic relic is directly related to the Chinese civilization, or that it is the ancient ancestor of the Chinese......"

The article also details eggshell pottery, which is so thin that modern pottery craftsmen simply can't burn such fine pottery.

As soon as the report came out, it immediately shocked the entire Chinese archaeological community, and even some archaeological experts in the south spontaneously came to help.

The Academia Sinica, presided over by Cai Yuanpei, was planning to set up a historical research institute at this time. When he heard the news, he immediately organized people and went to the site with archaeological funds.

……

At this moment, far away in Mukden, in the northeast, the British historian Toynbee is conducting field investigations.

This gentleman often runs around the world, and from his footprints, it can be called a trip around the world. He was in Japan some time ago, then went to Korea, and then arrived in Northeast China through Korea, and his next plan was to visit Beiping and Tianjin.

Zhang Xueliang, who served as the president of Northeastern University, personally met with Toynbee, including scholars including Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, and accompanied Toynbee everywhere these days.

Toynbee was not only a historian, but also an expert on international affairs, and was well-known in the world and even in Chinese politics. His work, An Overview of International Affairs, has been widely praised by Chinese academics, and even the Beiyang government and now the Nanjing Nationalist government have referred to Toynbee's academic views in their diplomatic activities.

When Chinese diplomats encounter difficult problems, they also take out Toynbee's works and flip them over. Because behind his books or papers, there are important documents such as international conventions and diplomatic correspondence of various countries, as well as various international maps and charts of the international situation, which cannot be found in the library.

"General Zhang, thank you for your doubts, I think it's time for me to leave the Northeast." Toynbee smiled and shook hands with Zhang Xueliang.

Zhang Xueliang said half-jokingly: "It would be good if Mr. Toynbee could stay in Mukden and be my international diplomatic adviser." ”

"Haha, maybe there will be a chance in the future." Toynbee was the British Royal Adviser on International Affairs, how could he stay in the Northeast?

In fact, Toynbee set the first stop of his trip to China in Mukden because he was very interested in the international situation in Northeast China, which involved the Soviet Union, Japan, and China. To put it bluntly, he came to do academic investigations, and he has obtained a lot of first-hand information from Zhang Xueliang these days.

After a few jokes, Toynbee suddenly asked, "General Zhang, do you know a Chinese scholar named Zhou Hexuan?" ”

Zhang Xueliang smiled with some surprise: "He has been my secretary." ”

"That's great," Toynbee asked happily, "do you know where he is at the moment?" I want to visit in person. ”

Zhang Xueliang knew that Zhou Hexuan was very famous academically, and even in American political circles. But he didn't expect that even the British royal adviser would attach so much importance to Zhou Hexuan.

Zhang Xueliang immediately said: "Mr. Zhou lives in Tianjin at the moment, you can go to the Tianjin Ta Kung Pao Museum to find him." ”

"Thank you very much," Toynbee said as he shook hands with Zhang Xueliang, "General Zhang, if you need an advisor on international affairs, Mr. Zhou Hexuan is the best candidate, and I am also a loyal reader of his scholarly works." ”

Zhang Xueliang was reminded by Toynbee like this, and immediately came to his senses: Yes, although Mingcheng does not want to enter politics, he can ask him to be my adviser!