Chapter 1361 Liu Xun

In real history, it took thousands of years for these documents to be discovered. Coupled with poor transportation and storage, a large number of documents were lost, resulting in a large number of surviving documents that were almost decayed and unreadable, which led to the arduous restoration project.

But these problems do not exist now. Most of the documents are from the middle Tang Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty. In addition, the space is closed and the water and soil are suitable, so they are almost intact as before.

Sima Guang is a historian, and there are tons of historical data contained here. Su You is not worried that he will not be able to impress him. He is only worried that the old man will come over in person after hearing the news.

After all, I am already sixty-three years old, and I stay up late for a long time without exercising, so I am afraid I cannot help but suffer.

"Stay there." Su You said to Tong Guan, "Send the things tomorrow and we'll start looking for the treasure."

Tong Guan still didn't know what Su You was looking for. The treasure in his heart was gold, silver and jewelry.

The story of Pu Shan lobbying Sitong Company to find the Golden Kingdom of Daxizhou made a fuss in the newspapers and made him feel itchy.

The Dunhuang city guard's name was Yuchiyang. This surname also revealed his identity as a descendant of Li Shengtian from the Khotan Buddhist kingdom.

Yutian, who believed in Buddhism, and Hei Khan, who believed in Tianfang religion, fought for fifty years and were finally destroyed seventy years ago.

Li Shengtian's real name was Yuchi Monk Wubo. The Yuchi family had always firmly believed that he was a guardian of China and a "clan of the Tang Dynasty". For this reason, he changed his name and joined forces with the Buddhist Gaochang and the Guiyi Army of the Han regime to fight against the Black Khan and Tubo.

Now that the Song people have just arrived, they have no intention of acting rashly. It will take many years to digest the fruits of Xixia's victory.

However, troops must be stationed in Shazhou, the surrounding Han people must be accommodated, and caravans and envoys must be sent out.

Politics is like this. The arrival of two new armies of 3,000 people each and an old army of 10,000 people will definitely change the balance of military power and the political pattern in the region.

However, it was too early to tell Yuchiyang this. Su You only asked him to find a way to contact the clans in Khotan. The Song Dynasty wanted to set up a pass in Shazhou so that friendly business groups could go to Suzhou and even Lanzhou in Hexi for trade.

At the same time, he informed the surrounding vassal states of the news that the Song Dynasty had pacified Xixia and established the Hexi Road, so that they could send envoys to negotiate and pay tribute.

Today, Khotan is still isolated from the Gaochang Uighurs, Yellow-headed Uighurs and Grass-headed Tatars, and is still a thousand miles away from Shazhou.

That night, Su You and Yuchi Yang had another night chat by the campfire, learning about the political structure of Shazhou, surrounding political forces, and the history of the Li family in Khotan and the Zhang family and Cao family in Dunhuang.

As staunch defenders of Chinese civilization in the Western Regions, staunch supporters of the Central Plains dynasty, and Buddhist believers, the Zhang Cao family of the Shazhou rebel army and the Li family of Khotan were the people Su You planned to establish in the Western Regions.

But these are things for later, it’s still the same sentence, it takes time.

When they got up the next day, the army dispersed, and teams of three to five people began to disperse to various caves for reconnaissance.

Today's caves are very exquisite. In addition to the brightly colored murals, many caves also have pavilions with carved beams and paintings, which are equally exquisite.

While the soldiers were busy, Su You browsed the murals, sculptures and stone statues in a pilgrimage mood.

Tong Guan was the most excited, standing on the cart handing out tools. Each team would be given a wooden sign with a number on it, a wooden hammer wrapped in cowhide, and a foldable cowhide loudspeaker.

The wooden sign is used to mark the number of the cave. The wooden hammer and the big cowhide horn are crude sonar equipment prepared by Su You and are used to find the sealed chamber.

Two more teams began to survey river valleys and mountains, and draw a map of the entire Dunhuang Buddhist Caves.

The exits of the entire Daquan Valley have been sealed off by new military vans loaded with live ammunition, fortifications built with sandbags, and barbed wire antlers strung up at the entrances and exits.

Yuchi Yang, who was delivering the baggage, was stunned: "My lord, did you make a mistake? Shouldn't these things be placed around Shazhou City?"

Su You laughed loudly: "There will be, but it will be a little later."

Yuchiyang didn't think there was anything valuable in the Buddhist caves. At least these caves had existed here for tens or hundreds of years. Apart from receiving a lot of admiration from passing merchants and travelers, they were just clay sculptures and stone bodies.

At this time, Tong Guan ran down the mountain waving a trumpet: "Grand Bachelor! Grand Bachelor! We have discovered something!"

Su You lifted up the corner of his robe and said to Yuchi Yang, "Let's go and have a look together."

In a cave marked "Sixteen", soldiers were nailing a kind of transparent paper to the wall.

Yuchiyang didn't know that it was konjac glue film.

Some soldiers have begun copying murals on film.

Some of the murals in Dunhuang are top-notch, especially the murals created by painting masters hired by the government at that time from the Central Plains and painters from the Five Dynasties Government Painting Academy. They are the best of the best.

Moreover, the paintings here are influenced by the painting style of the Western Regions, and the painting methods of color, halo, light and shadow, and space are different from the original painting methods of the Central Plains.

On the contrary, it has some similarities with the perspective painting method and use of color that Zhang Dunli is currently studying.

Su You used a large loudspeaker with its open side attached to the wall, and a New Army soldier struck a nearby corner with a wooden hammer.

Su You used the horn to stick it to another wall. Tong Guan took the wooden hammer from the soldier's hand and knocked again: "Grand Bachelor, is the back of this wall empty?"

Su You asked a sergeant who was already studying the wall here: "What do you think?"

This sergeant was very strange, old, wearing the uniform of the new army, but without any military rank. He was thin and thin, with his military uniform empty on his body. There were still two whiskers on his mouth, and he had a wretched look on his face.

Hearing Su You's question, the old man exclaimed: "Congratulations, Lord, I have found it. The Guanshan sect cannot do such a delicate job, and we have to rely on our own skills."

Su You looked at him maliciously: "Liu Xunxi gave you face, didn't he? Is this a comparison?"

Liu Xun immediately became honest. He knelt down and pointed to a blank spot in the mural: "Punch a hole here so I can go in and take a look."

Liu Xunxi was a tomb robber. After the rise of archeology in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, Su You made a suggestion to Sima Guang, asking him to find the tomb robbers among the criminals and use their expertise to excavate the ruins, which would be very convenient.

In Sima Guang's reply to Su You, he said that the tomb robbers were divided into professional groups, some who looked at the general situation and some who looked at the details, and that this group of people knew the shape and specifications of the tomb, the way the burial objects were placed, and the layout.

There is also quite a bit of research on it, which is helpful to Sima Guang in studying the changes in tomb burial systems in the past dynasties.

However, their destructiveness is self-evident. China attaches great importance to respecting ancestors, and the crime of "uncovering graves" has been extremely severe in the past dynasties. Those who open graves and open coffins are usually sentenced to death, and even if they do not open coffins, they will be imprisoned for more than three years.

Liu Xunxu is a tomb robber from the Fengzhan sect, the Details Faction. He was borrowed by Su You from Sima Guang. This old man is still in the stage of making meritorious deeds. Sima Guang asked Zhao Xu to change the hanging to 20.

Years of apprenticeship.

However, the professional level is beyond words. Su You also agreed with Liu Xunxi's plan, which would cause very little damage to the murals.

However, Su You was not in a hurry and said to Tong Guan: "Then let the sergeants copy the paintings and dig a cave first. Come on, I'll treat you to fried noodles today."

Tong Guan said "Ah": "This... baby is inside, why don't you open it quickly and take a look?"

Su You disagreed: "You have to do things in a systematic and step-by-step manner. Is it possible that it can still run?"

Pulling Tong Guan, who turned back three times, out of the cave, Su You looked at the clear lake water and thought seriously: "What should I eat today?"

Tong Guan is so angry. He is one step away from the treasure. What does the bachelor want to eat: "Slurry water! Big steamed buns! At most add some haggis!"

Su You shook his head: "It's boring. It's not difficult at all. How about we eat braised pancakes."

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The method of making braised pancakes is very simple, just put a risen dough pancake on top of the stewed vegetables, poke a few holes in the pancake for ventilation, cover the pot and simmer until done.

As for the vegetables below, Su You used ready-made fat sheep from the army.

Dried yellow mushrooms and yam, a specialty of the Qilian Mountains, plus sweet apricot jam, a specialty of Shazhou, as well as the ubiquitous green onions and ground fungus, make braised mutton pancakes that are full of flavor and gravy.
Chapter completed!