Ying Laodao may have noticed Jiang Wen's doubts, so he slowly explained the reason.

"The book records a strange incident. In the eleventh month of Wuwu in the Jiajing period, there was a big banyan tree five feet behind the Chenghuang Temple in Guangzhou, which had been decayed for a long time. There was more than ten feet of soil under its roots, and there was a hole. Taoist priests dug it, and the sound hole was

Dongran said: There must be something hidden in it."

"When I found out, I got dozens of wooden planks, all facing each other, too many to count. They were close to the statue of the god, so I sealed them. This is the complete repair of the planks since the Tang and Song Dynasties."

Ying Laodao spoke in great detail, almost knowing the content of the book by heart, and then added, "The 'wooden boards' recorded for the first time in ancient books are arranged opposite each other, and the number is 'uncountable', so Huang Zuo inferred that this

There is nothing wrong with the "oar board stem". People at that time thought it was magical and did not continue to explore, but they made mistakes in the most important place..."

Ying Laodao paused for a moment and finally gave the answer he had been holding in his heart for a long time.

"This place is not a legacy of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Since the Tang Dynasty, sea sand has accumulated and the sea has changed. The South China Sea has long retreated to the position of the Fuxu Ancient Ferry. Even the Zhangqiugang Village, which has been living in seclusion for a long time, will not stop here anyway.

This place should be the remains of a slipway between the Qin and Han Dynasties!"

Ying Laodao's words spread endlessly, and the people in the martial arts world began to whisper. No matter what, it was hard to believe that what they saw in front of them was a pre-Qin monument from a thousand years ago!

But of course Jiang Wen knew about this. He also knew that later generations would excavate the remains of a Qin Dynasty slipway of unprecedented scale under the Chenghuang Temple in Guangzhou. It was eventually considered to be a huge shipyard. The excavated parts were long from east to west.

It is a rectangle of about 30 meters and 11 meters wide from north to south. There are three parallel shipbuilding platforms and even wood processing sites in this area.

This archaeological discovery shocked the country. The excavated "Shipyard Site" is located 5 meters below the surface. The shipyard is covered with accumulation layers since the early Western Han Dynasty, and underneath is gray-black sedimentary clay. Sampling analysis shows that it contains

A large number of marine organisms are preliminarily inferred to belong to marine strata, indicating that this place was once a shallow sea, so it became a sedimentary mudflat when the shipyard was built here in the Qin Dynasty.

The three slipways discovered are arranged horizontally in parallel, and a possible slope-type water slide has been found in the west. Regarding the construction method of the slipway, based on the unclear understanding of pre-Qin shipbuilding technology, the excavators speculated that the slipway was combined with the slipway.

, shaped like a modern railway track, consisting of sleepers, skateboards and wooden piers.

During the excavation work that I know, copper coins from the Qin to Han dynasties were found in the slipway ruins. The latest one is the four and a half taels of copper coins of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. The conclusion is that this shipyard was finally abandoned and filled up in the Wenjing period of the early Han Dynasty.

The possibility that the shipyard was built in the early Han Dynasty cannot be ruled out.

However, Jiang Wen remembered clearly that the age of the shipbuilding workshop was still a vague matter, and no absolute dating data was found during the test excavation. He only relied on the radioactive carbon dating of No. 1 slipway to determine that the age was 240 BC.

±90 years.

Furthermore, based on the superimposition relationship of the strata and the age characteristics of the unearthed artifacts, as well as relevant historical documents, the excavators analyzed the origin of the shipyard, the age of its abandonment and filling, and the relationship between the construction of the shipyard and the major historical events that occurred in Guangzhou at that time.

correlation and made preliminary inferences.

But the biggest doubt about this ruins arises here.

We must know that if we assume that the shipyard was built in the early Han Dynasty, this was the time when Zhao Tuo separatized Lingnan. However, during Zhao Tuo’s reign, there are no records of water activities. And judging from archaeological discoveries, there were also people in the early Han Dynasty.

A large palace had been built near the shipyard, and it was large in scale and very elaborate in its construction. The shipyard site was also filled up because it was within the construction land.

Therefore, the function of this slipway is somewhat ambiguous. It can also be considered that the excavated section of the walkway is an accessory part of the large palace built by Zhao Tuo after he became emperor.

To put it another way, assuming that Zhao Tuo created such a large-scale shipbuilding yard for the needs of military or water transportation and trade, and then abandoned it and filled it up before Wenjing arrived, there is no reason and impossibility. However, at that time

There were no fierce and cruel water wars in South Vietnam, nor did they build such an "arsenal" near the palace.

Therefore, judging from this perspective, some people believe that this slipway was originally built as a shipbuilding base for the Qin army that arrived in Panyu, mainly to build urgently needed ships for the unification war that lasted for many years. This is a natural thing.

Therefore, this shipbuilding workshop was first built during the Qin Dynasty's unification of Lingnan; by the Wenjing period in the early Western Han Dynasty, that is, after Zhao Tuo of South Vietnam was separated and became emperor, it was no longer needed and was gradually abandoned and filled up.

However, the above conclusion that the ruins were built in the Qin Dynasty is mostly based on conjecture. No more precise clues have been found, nor can it prove the necessity of building a slipway on land where a palace can be built. This

This laid the groundwork for subsequent speculation and debate. It seems that one day, the original discoverers who had made conclusive claims began to spare no effort to overturn the previous research conclusions for some reason. And the more senior and professional archaeological experts, they will all find out after in-depth research.

Come to a surprisingly unified counterargument!

According to later accounts, at the site appraisal meeting held at the excavation site in March 1976, an old professor from the South China Institute of Technology who was responsible for the excavation spoke on behalf of the site, strongly stating that this was an architectural site of the Nanyue Kingdom and should be the Nanyue King's Terrace or Nanyue Wangtai.

Leaving the palace, and asking geologists to confirm whether this is Panyu Mountain or a beach, to avoid deep damage to the five-meter-underground ruins and try to ensure the integrity of the ancient ruins.

The trend of public opinion changed quickly, and the uproar about the archeology of the slipway gradually turned into a dispute between the slipway and the palace, and the archaeological work was forced to stop.

In 1980, a senior professor from the Geography Department of South China Normal University further raised strong doubts in an article on the historical geography of Guangzhou.

He pointed out that the terrain around the "shipbuilding yard" was relatively high. "The question of how it changed from a 'shipbuilding yard' to a corner of the 'Yue King's Palace' has not yet been answered." Furthermore, "it is suspected that it is not the site of the shipbuilding yard, but something more

It may be architectural ruins related to ancient Panyu City or ancient Guangzhou City."

In 1997, a researcher from the Guangdong Provincial Museum also published an article "Guangzhou's "Shipbuilding Yard" Is Actually an Architectural Relic" after many years of research. He believed that the "slipway theory" was not consistent with historical facts and should be a building with stilts. Further excavations revealed nothing.

Meaning, it will only destroy the original precious relics.

However, the theory of slipway still exists, and the application for excavation has fallen into the hands of the cultural relics department like snowflakes. From April to May 2000, a researcher and architectural archaeologist from the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences serialized "The Palace of the King of Nanyue" in the "China Cultural Relics News"

The article "Discussion with the "Slipway Theory"" lists 22 reasons in detail to refute the "Slipway Theory" and believes that this site cannot be a slipway, but the wooden building foundation of the palace site.

In response to the opponents' refutation article, Professor Yang published another reply article in August, arguing that the Nanyue Palace Site should be named the Palace Site, and that the slipway site is actually the remains of a large palace with both viewing and living functions. All objections were raised

Anyone who intends to damage cultural relics "should bear all the responsibilities!"

A series of weird clues took shape in Jiang Wen's mind, and his heartbeat that was pounding because he was close to the truth finally slowed down. He felt that what Ying Laodao said was not the truth that Kuang Gu Shuojin had never discovered.

It's just a fact that many people try their best to hide. What's missing is a child who doesn't know the heights of the world and dares to say that the emperor has no clothes.

"Senior Ying, you said this is a pre-Qin monument...is there any other evidence?"

Jiang Wen didn't know whether to refute or appreciate his truth-seeking. He had no choice but to suppress the thoughts swirling in his mind and wait for the other party to give an answer.

Ying Laodao, who had a slender face, was unwavering and told Jiang Wen a little-known history.

"Master Jiang, in the past, Emperor Qin Shihuang sent the imperial officer Tu Sui to form five armies with 500,000 soldiers. One army fortified the ridge of Tancheng, the other guarded the fortress of Jiuyi, the other army was at the capital of Panyu, and the other army was for killing Nanye.

The first army had a surplus of Qianzhi water. The other four armies were all fighting on foot, but the capital of Panyu was the water capital of the Yue people. Its people had broken hair and tattoos, and the boats were as dense as rain. They suddenly gathered and dispersed, and it was difficult to predict. The Qin people could not

He was good at building ships, but he failed to make any achievements in three years, and he was trapped in the water city of Panyu, unable to move."

"Tu Sui was a good warrior. He did not disarm his armor and gallop his crossbow for three years, so that his prison salary could not be transferred to pay. He also used his soldiers to dig canals to open up grain roads. He also used a strange trick to build water boats and rushed out of the city. He fought with the Yue people and then killed the Westerners.

Ou Jun translated it into the Song Dynasty. But the Yue people were all put into the collection, among the beasts, and no one was willing to become a Qin prisoner."

Ying Laodao pointed to the desolate and broken caves and lakes in front of him, as well as the desolate scene full of piles and excavations, and sighed, "Tu Sui's clever plan is to build a ship underground here, waiting for an opportunity to attack the Yue people.

, so long before the Chenghuang Temple was built, long before there was no trace in Guangzhou Prefecture, long before this was still called Tusui City, there was already this ancient Qin boat platform!"

This period of history is unheard of, but Jiang Wen, the man who slaughtered Sui, has heard of it. When he was a lieutenant, the later South Vietnamese king Zhao Tuo was only a deputy general. Unfortunately, he was ultimately killed because he neglected to guard against Vietnamese attacks. In "

This earth-shattering battle is recorded in "Huainanzi". The Yue people "attacked the Qin people at night, defeated them greatly, killed the generals and massacred Sui, and laid down their corpses with hundreds of thousands of bloodshed."

But this ancient slipway buried in an underground cave still seems to be telling a story unique to him. The huge Bingyi statue in front of him also carries the Qin people who grew up in the Yellow River Basin and relied on the power of the Yellow River water god to defeat the enemy.

Infinite expectations, forever rooted in this land.

"Senior Ying, I still don't quite understand what you mean. Even if we can build a giant boat here that can crush a human canoe, how can we transport the boat out of the ground?"

Jiang Wen expressed his doubts, but suddenly found that some of the martial arts people in front of him seemed to be missing, as if they had evaporated silently from the underground with nowhere to escape. Even Yuan Ziyi, Yan Yongchun, and Luo Shuang'er didn't know when.

Disappeared.

Jiang Wen opened his mouth to ask, but Ying Laodao's expression was particularly mysterious, and his wrinkled face showed an indescribable look.

"Headmaster Jiang, Shang Kexi has coveted this secret passage of the Luo family for many years. The mystery within it cannot be explained clearly in a few words, nor can it be seen through at a glance."

After saying that, he pointed to the dark stone wall above his head, "In three more moments, look there..."

As the words slowly dissipated, everyone was surprised to find that the originally dark cave dome was emitting traces of crystal light, as if the stone walls were being melted by the warm sun, turning into pieces of translucent jade, with countless raindrops dripping from the top.

, also scattered on people’s faces.

The light became clearer and clearer, and the cave dome became more unfathomable. Everyone was finally surprised to find that the top of their heads did not turn into some jade, but turned into a large water curtain connecting the sky and the earth, and their shadows fluttered like green water plants under the water.

, staggered.

"Isn't this under the Capital City God's Temple? Why do you see the underground river hanging upside down?!"

Some people exclaimed, fearing that tens of thousands of tons of seawater would break through the fragile zenith at some point and pour into the cave, turning the place into an inescapable lake.

However, Ying Laodao reminded him at the right time, "There is a secret passage ahead that has been opened. Leave it quickly. If it is too late, you will be completely trapped underground and will never be able to stand up!"

Needless to say, Jiang Wen saw the martial arts people hurriedly followed the instructions, filed in through the belly of the huge Fengyi stone statue, pushed aside the bronze figures on the ground, and broke into a cave where they had no idea where to go.

"Senior Ying, why don't you leave?"

Jiang Wen looked at Ying Laodao and noticed something was wrong in his expression.

After Ying Laodao watched the martial arts people leave one after another, he mysteriously said to Jiang Wen: "Don't worry, this is not where we are going. Since Master Jiang, you want to go with me, follow me to another place."

Let’s go…”

"Aren't you going with them?" Jiang Wen asked deliberately.

Ying Laodao replied ominously: "If we really want to join forces, why bother getting together?"

The Qin Dynasty slipway was illuminated by the swaying light in the water, but in the light there was a particularly conspicuous shadow slowly coming in, projecting into the vague and uncertain cave, like a dark cloud that made people feel particularly uneasy.

Symbolizes an ominous arrival.

At this time, there were only two of them left in the slipway cave, and the sound of water from the lake, sea, and river above them became clearer and clearer, and it seemed that it would turn into a disaster at any time. Ying Laodao took Jiang Wen to the location where the Fingyi Stone Statue was squinting, and walked towards them

Where he should be, Jiang Wen couldn't help but look back at the sky one last time.

It was an indescribably huge copper boat, floating wantonly in the dark and cold water. The intertwined rust and patterns, and the shape of aquatic plants and calcium carbonate had made it lose its original identity over the long years.

It looks like water flowing slowly in the upside-down river, like a pale old man who is silent.

But at the moment before his sight disappeared, Jiang Wencai discovered from an angle that he should not have observed originally that the copper ship did not seem to be walking alone, but was attached to a darker, more mottled, and more difficult to describe.
Chapter completed!