Chapter 418 Treasures (Part 1)

At around 8 o'clock the next morning, Yang Yiwei followed the bus from the Palace Museum to the Old Summer Palace. Because the park was closed today, there was no tourist here. The excavation site was obviously confirmed yesterday. At this time, it had been surrounded by a circle of yellow cloth strips. This place used to be a pavilion, but the pavilion had become a ruin. Now there are only stones nearby.

"We have confirmed that the starting point of the passage should be below this pavilion, but we are going to start digging from this place this time." Xiao Shikai pointed to Yang Yiwei at a place less than 40 meters away from the Wanquan River next to him.

"The water depth of Wanquan River in this area is about 3 meters. In order to prevent seepage, the passage must be dug to a depth of at least 10 meters. Although I don't know how these people did it, excavation in this area should be the easiest. The source is a pavilion site with a foundation there, so it is difficult to confirm whether there is a passage, and the above requires that no damage to any ruins should be done." Xiao Shikai explained to Yang Yiwei.

Yang Yiwei nodded and looked over there. The wind was quite strong here today, so Yang Yiwei brought his glasses. The reason why he followed him was actually to see the progress of these people's excavation work. If he digs the wrong place, Yang Yiwei still has a chance to correct it. If he is not here, he will give up this excavation directly. Then it will be too difficult to do it again next time.

However, looking at the place where Mr. Xiao pointed, Yang Yiwei couldn't help but smile bitterly. He deviated at least about ten meters from the stone passage. The width of the passage was only more than three meters wide. Including the anti-seepage stone walls on both sides, it was 4 meters wide. If you deviate from more than ten meters, you would have a ghost. But Yang Yiwei didn't know what to say for a while. After thinking for a long time, Yang Yiwei asked, "Old Xiao, how did you confirm your position?"

The treasure map given by Yang Yiwei is naturally a reduced map, and it is impossible to have a map of the same size as a real object. Although it is only part of the Old Summer Palace, the scale is about 1 to 100 or larger. Yang Yiwei and his team don’t know how Mr. Xiao and the others confirmed it.

When he heard Yang Yiwei ask, Mr. Xiao smiled bitterly and said, "What do you think we have done nothing these days? We have been trying to find information these days. The treasure map you gave... can be said to be a simple picture. I just marked it roughly. Now I hope the treasure map you gave is accurate, because it doesn't even have the exact scale. Do you see that those technicians are measuring the width and narrowness of the river, then comparing it with your map, measuring a few more places, and then calculating the scale in large quantities, and then comparing it."

So that's it... Yang Yiwei was speechless. But the treasure map given by Xiaoxi must not be fake. It depends on whether the calculation of the scale is accurate. Yang Yiwei can't interrupt now, so he can only wait a while and think of a way before talking. "Old Xiao." An old professor there shouted, and Xiao Shikai immediately greeted Yang Yiwei and walked over.

No one cares about Yang Yiwei now, and the old professors on the entire bus were familiar with each other. Except for the two who came here today, the deans of the Palace Museum, not experts in archaeology. The remaining eight or nine old professors were experts in archaeology and ancient gardens. After getting off the bus, these experts shouted to Yang Yiwei and went to work. Even the two deans went to help, so Yang Yiwei naturally had nothing to do.

"How did your treasure map come from?" Yang Yiwei found a corner where no one paid attention to him, and then asked secretly. "In order to strive for truth, I found a map of Beijing from 1860, and then marked it according to that map." Xiaoxi also reached quickly. Yang Yiwei nodded. If this is the case, there would be no problem. The map drawing of that era was definitely not as accurate as modern, so it is understandable that there is an error. What Yang Yiwei is thinking now is how to move the places confirmed by these professors to the correct position.

"It's here. Everyone gets out of the way and lets the machine start construction." However, Yang Yiwei hasn't figured out a solution yet. Two large excavators have already started working. Yang Yiwei hesitated for a moment but still didn't interrupt. The main reason is that he has not found a suitable excuse to interrupt like this? Could you tell me that I feel that the passage is not there, more than ten meters away?

According to Xiao Shikai and their calculations, the depth of the channel at this excavation position is at most between 4 meters and 7 meters. This calculation is very accurate. With Xiaoxi's scan, Yang Yiwei naturally knew that the depth of the channel at this position was only 5.32 meters from the ground. However, the premise is that the right place must be dug!

The depth of five or six meters is only twenty minutes for modern large excavators. After about twenty minutes, a large pit about five meters square appeared in front of Yang Yiwei, and the bottom of the depth had reached nearly 10 meters, and water had already emerged from the bottom, which means that there was unlikely to be a passage in this place.

"Look, I know there is nothing. This treasure map is obviously fake." Yang Yiwei walked to several old professors, and they had already started to argue. The drawing in front of them was the drawing that was enlarged year-on-year with the treasure map provided by Yang Yiwei.

"Then you can't just stop like this, right? Anyway, the park is closed for a day, otherwise we will dig a few more places?" Xiao Shikai hesitated for a moment and asked.

"How to dig? This is the ruins of the Old Summer Palace. If it is digging on a large scale, it would be fine if there is any, but what if there is no one? Moreover, according to our calculations, this place is definitely not likely to have problems based on the scale enlarged year-on-year based on the treasure map. Even if there is an error, the error will not be too large." Another professor argued.

"Or else, the left and right expansion three meters?" Ji Zhenggang thought for a while and said, "Anyway, this is the wasteland that can be easily restored to its original state. Even if it is dug, it is nothing. Just restore it to its original state. If it is not widened by three meters, we will discuss it again." Ji Zhenggang's words made several professors who were arguing for a while and agreed. After all, the scale cannot be determined, so there is an error. The left and right expansion three meters, which means a total width of 11 meters. If you can touch the passage, you should have it even if you touch the edge.

Yang Yiwei smiled bitterly in his heart. There was still a dozen meters away from this pit, and it was impossible to dig three meters. "Little Yang, don't care, they just talk about the matter, either your treasure map is fake." After confirming it, President Shan of the Palace Museum came over and patted Yang Yiwei on the shoulder and said.

"Director Dan, you are too worried. I don't know whether this treasure map is true or false, so I gave it to you to confirm. It is already very important for you to verify that it is believed by me. If you can't find it, I will pay the fee for restoring it as it is here." Yang Yiwei hurriedly said, of course he would not argue with those old professors. It is not wrong to argue with others. Except for Yang Yiwei knowing that it is true, who knows whether it is true or false?

"Haha, you don't have to worry about this, Xiao Yang. This is our job, and it doesn't cost much to restore the same job. Xiao Yang, you have donated a lot of money to the Palace Museum. Of course, you don't have to pay for this money, but the country." President Shan smiled heartily.

The results of the next excavation were obvious. There was no possibility of anything, except for soil or soil. The quarrel started again. "Well, I'll go over and see their solution. Xiao Yang, take a look around first." Dean Shan saw that there was a fight again and hurriedly said to Yang Yiwei.

Yang Yiwei nodded without saying anything. He argued for more than ten minutes and there was no result. Yang Yiwei didn't think about how to indicate the real location for these old professors. "Wait!" Just as Yang Yiwei was frowning, a loud shout suddenly came from the other side, and everyone stopped suddenly. Yang Yiwei also forgot to go over with the sound, and what he called out was Ji Zhenggang.

"Wait, I suddenly remembered that if Xiao Yang took this treasure map directly according to the treasure map he bought, the treasure map should be an antique from the Ming Dynasty. However, after the Old Summer Palace was burned down, a lot of repairs were carried out here after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Do you still remember that Wanquan River was not in its current location at that time?" Professor Ji Zhenggang spoke loudly at the seven or eight professors.

As soon as Ji Zhenggang said, the professors' eyes lit up immediately. One of them quickly patted his head and said, "From our memory, I said, the book that Li Xiangye has recorded should be almost the same as the book, so we restored the scale according to the original location of Wanquan River. Xiao Liu immediately found the specific location of Wanquan River before the restoration of the Old Summer Palace in 1976."

Yang Yiwei was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that there would be such a thing, but thinking about it, the later repairs, some slightly unreasonable places must be directly modified, and there are river channels, changing the position of a few meters is not a problem at all, but for the scale, the error of a few meters may be very large.

Seeing that things had turned around, Yang Yiwei was not in a hurry. It took more than three hours to do it. It was not until almost noon that several old professors calculated the new location. According to their marks, Yang Yiwei immediately smiled. Although the entire passage has not been included, it is already within half the scope. As long as a large number of stones can be dug, it proves that the passage exists.
Chapter completed!