After walking these two steps, he walked away with his arms on his shoulders.

In later generations, the most famous tomb robbery tool is the Luoyang shovel, this tool has been rumored to be godlike, quite distorted, but since it is so godly, it must have its ability.

But Luoyang shovel is the Republic of China, the earliest was also invented at the end of the Qing Dynasty, at this time, during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, naturally there is no such equipment.

But if you don't have that kind of equipment, it doesn't mean that you can't rob the tomb. In fact, among the four doors of tomb robbery at this time, there are also quite a lot of various utensils, which are very easy to use and are widely used by insiders. This time, among the people brought by Zeng Wenxin, they all made big bags on the backs of mules and horses, and they actually contained these utensils.

Among them, the three most used are three.

Iron cones, shovels, hoes.

The iron cone is to the tomb robbers before the Republic of China, just like the Luoyang shovel is to the tomb robbers after the Republic of China, which is also of great significance.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the iron cone can be understood as a tool that replaced the function of the Luoyang shovel before the emergence of the Luoyang shovel.

At the latest, among the tomb robbers in the Ming Dynasty, the iron cone has begun to be used, and the Ming Wang Shixing remembered: the robbers can still enter with the iron cone, which is to reveal this.

In fact, the iron cone was originally a widely used professional production tool, and it was not only used for tomb robbing, or in other words, it was used for tomb robbery after it was invented for a long time. In the Ming Dynasty, iron cones were used to dig salt wells in Sichuan for well salt mining. Song Yingxing once mentioned in "Tiangong Kaiwu", which is recorded in great detail in "Tiangong Kaiwu", and even said how to use it - "Those who are not far from the stone mountain in Shu can build wells to get salt." The circumference of the salt well is only a few inches, and the upper mouth of it is covered by a small bowl, and the depth must be ten zhang away, but it is to be brine, so it is very difficult to build a well. Its smelting iron cone, such as the shape of the mouth, its tip makes it extremely rigid, and it is chiseled into a hole to the stone mountain. Its body is broken with a bamboo rope and hangs this cone. Each of them is a few feet deep, and then it is connected with bamboo to make it grow. At the beginning of the zhang, or with the foot on the cone, such as the shape of the rice. If it is too deep, hold it with your hand and pause. The stone is broken into powder, and then the long bamboo is connected, and the hanging iron cup is dug up. The deep ones are half a year, and the shallow ones are more than a month, and they have to be a well achievement. ”

Digging salt wells and robbing tombs, in terms of products, are completely different, but in terms of methods, there are great similarities, many tomb robbers will rob the hole as a well, and tomb robbery is actually "digging a well". In the book "Heavenly Creation", there is also a "well sinking map", which is amazing that the method of using the iron cone of the time is very similar to the action of the tomb robbers of the Republic of China when they use the "Luoyang shovel"; What's even more amazing is that its cone head is also strikingly similar to the "Luoyang shovel" shovel head of later generations, all of which are round and have a large arc. It can be seen that even if the iron cone cannot completely replace the Luoyang shovel, it also has a considerable part of the functions of the Luoyang shovel.

Even in the Republic of China period, when the Luoyang shovel was just invented, scholars at that time called the Luoyang shovel an iron cone.

"Luoyang is the old capital of our country, the historical sites are very rich, the north of the city and the east of the city, especially the ancient tombs. In the past ten years, antiquities have been unearthed, with bronze as the main item. The natives took great profits, and privately robbed diggers, almost into a profession, and invented an iron cone, which was specially used for mining and testing strata. Along the north of the city, there are countless traces of theft and excavation. …… There were more than 20 people in total, each holding an iron cone, and they were divided into surveys, and they cheered wildly if they occasionally got something. ”

The "iron cone" in the hands of the tomb robbers mentioned in the record at that time was the "Luoyang shovel" that had just been invented for about ten years.

It can be roughly understood that Luoyang shovel is a kind of iron cone and a form of development.

Zeng Wenxin's men threw the big bags on the back of the mules and horses on the steps in a pile, and there were twenty or thirty tools in them, many of which were iron cones.

Beneath this iron cone is a shovel, the tip of which has a casing about three inches long, but the blade is very interesting, not flat but semi-cylindrical, similar to the common tile barrel at this time. The part of the shovel is about half a foot long and about two inches thick, and the casing on it is connected to a three-foot-long wooden pole.

Three or four six-foot-long ash rods were thrown aside.

There is no doubt that the role of the iron cone in tomb robbery is undoubted, and its biggest role, to put it bluntly, is to explore the soil, because of the style and characteristics of the iron cone, after smashing deep into the ground, it is easy to bring out the soil in the ground - and once the soil is brought out, experienced tomb robbers can judge whether there is a tomb underneath, and if so, what is the depth of its burial.

The sealing soil used on the top of the tomb is completely different from ordinary soil.

It's great for this thing to be used for soil and judgment, but it can't really dig a hole, dig a hole, and you can't do it with this thing. Therefore, the most used tool in tomb robbery is not an iron cone, but an iron shovel.

That's right, it's an iron shovel, the same as the kind of shovel that ordinary people often have at home to dig the soil.

Actually, it's one of a kind.

The five-foot-long wooden handle has an iron shovel fixed in front of it, but it is slightly different from ordinary shovels. One is that the body wall of the shovel head is much thicker than the shovel used in the bill, which is almost twice the effect, which is very thick. The second is that the blade around the shovel is specially made, and it is quenched with a special process when beating, which is very tough and the quality is far more than that of ordinary shovels. And these guys also cut the shovels, and the edges around them were sharpened so sharply that they were like thick-backed machetes.

In this way, this kind of shovel is far more durable and wear-resistant than ordinary iron tools, and it is not easy to break, and it is much easier to use. And digging with this shovel is much faster than an ordinary shovel.

These two points are particularly important.

Generally speaking, tomb robbers go out to do work, there are no supplies, and there is nothing to replace, and often in order to dig a large tomb and nest in one place for ten days and half a month, some for a long time, in order to calculate an ancient tomb, even to buy the surrounding land, plant green gauze tents, and then use crops as a cover to dig tunnels, leading to the tomb. In this case, it will be a long time, half a year is possible, and three or five years is not an exaggeration. During this period of time, in order not to reveal one's identity, it is naturally impossible to replenish the tool at any time, so the durability of the tool is very important.

In the other case, it is the opposite of the above. Often, the tomb robbers have locked a tomb, and then use the night time to dig a hole very quickly, steal the Ming weapon inside, and quickly escape before dawn. This has a very high requirement for speed, because these tomb robbers are not doing water grinding work, but also quite rough in their means, and the soil made out of the robbery hole is directly left everywhere. If you can't finish it overnight, it will be easy to be discovered the next day.

And this special shovel excavation speed is very fast, which also meets this requirement. Almost all tomb robbers use this kind of shovel, and the iron cone is not as popular as this. The third type is the short-handled hoe, because the shape is like a crane's beak, so it is also called the "crane's beak hoe", which is actually invented and extended from the hoe used for cultivating the land. A considerable number of the tomb robbers were actually local farmers, and they were very numerous. Especially in those feng shui treasures with many tombs, such as Luoyang and Guanzhong, many local farmers farm during the day and secretly rob tombs at night. This situation is now in the Ming Dynasty, before the Ming Dynasty, and in the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China after the Ming Dynasty.

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