Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 116 Other people's territory and buying land
As a subsidiary service area of ​​the Anthony Great Wall travel point, the entire service area is not large.Because compared with Hadrian's Great Wall in the south, not only are there not many tourists in this tourist area, but most of them are people who drop by to visit.

The reason for this situation is also very simple, because the city wall took 12 years to build and was abandoned by the Romans after only 20 years of use. Then the Romans shrunk the front back to Hadrian's Great Wall further south.

Therefore, compared with Hadrian's Great Wall in the south, this Great Wall is not only less famous, but also has a more serious degree of damage due to the short use time and the long abandonment time.

For example, Hadrian's Great Wall in the south can still see large areas of the ground, but most of the artificial traces of the Anthony Great Wall have completely disappeared, leaving only an open space that is not much different from the surrounding environment.

In this case, not many people are willing to travel locally.But fortunately, the place Liang En and the others came to is one of the most important scenic spots on the entire Anthony Great Wall, so the number of tourists is still enough to support several restaurants.

After searching online, the two found that there was a restaurant with a good rating around the parking lot.At least the comments below agree that the various Scottish specialties cooked in this store are very authentic and can give people a taste of the local style.

When it comes to Scottish specialties, the first thing many people think of is the legendary haggis.The dish consists of minced lamb offal and fat mixed with toasted oats, then stewed in a lamb stomach with spices.

According to tradition, this dish is more suitable to eat with mashed potatoes, kohlrabi and Scottish local specialty whiskey, preferably accompanied by a reading of "To Haggis" by Scottish national poet Robert Burns.

But in fact, this dish is very small in the UK. Few people in the whole country often eat this dish, and even most Scots don't like this local specialty very much.

And because of the slightly complicated cooking method of this dish, relatively unpopular raw materials and not a wide audience, ordinary restaurants will not prepare such a dish.

Of course, this is not bad news, although as a Chinese and a person of Chinese descent.Liang En and Fan Meng didn't have Westerners' rejection of animal offal.But Haggis' cooking method is not very suitable for their appetite.

Compared with haggis, the Scottish fresh fish soup and Scottish pie on the menu of this store are the food that really suits their appetite. At least eating some hot meat pie and seafood soup after being blown by the cold wind outside does make people feel happy. People warm up.

After the soup was full, Liang En and the others spent a little tip to ask the waiter about the surrounding situation.Soon, they asked a series of specific information about the target.

"According to what the waiter said just now, the hill we are looking for is located in a small hill to the south-west of this place." After the waiter left with the tip, Fan Meng immediately took out the electronic map of his mobile phone to compare.

"According to the information I just found, this place is located on the south side of the Anthony Great Wall. And I also found news from a place very close to this place."

After finishing speaking, Fan Meng turned the phone around, and the screen displayed a report from a local newspaper five years ago, which was about the excavation of an ancient Roman town.

What's interesting is that the distance between this town and Liang En's final goal is no more than 3 kilometers in a straight line, which means that there was probably some kind of connection between the two ruins.

But when they finished their meal and rode their motorcycles along a simple road to the ruins of the ancient Roman town, they learned from a group of teachers and students of Durham University who were doing archaeological work here that the ownership of the land in the mountainous area was very confusing.

"Mr. Liang, if you want to dig, you'd better go to the nearby small town to confirm the ownership of the land, otherwise it will be very easy to cause various disputes."

After learning that Liang En and the others wanted to excavate a possible ruin, the middle-aged professor named Brown seriously reminded Liang En.

As a professional who has been conducting archaeological work in the UK all year round, Professor Brown often creates various problems in his work because of land ownership issues.Therefore, after hearing Liang En's plan, they immediately made a reminder.

After realizing that his previous plan had gone wrong, Liang Enxie passed the professor and went straight to the nearby town, and then checked the information on the land where his target was located.

The problem this time was mainly because Liang En had too little experience in this field. After all, he had never faced the problem of private land archaeology before, so he naturally didn't realize that this aspect was different from all his previous search work. difference.

"Found it." Because the town itself is not big, Liang En quickly found out the ownership of the land where the target is located from the few documents.

According to public information, this piece of land belongs to a local businessman who owns many pieces of land, and the other party has put this piece of land on the market for two consecutive years in the hope of selling it.

For owners of private land in the UK, they need to bear expensive land taxes after owning their own private land.Therefore, for some land that has not been profitable for a long time, it is also a very good choice for the landlord to transfer the land.

For example, the current owner of this piece of land is like this. After driving for more than an hour to Edinburgh and meeting the businessman in the other party's office, the two sides immediately discussed the issue of excavation permits.

And when the businessman learned of Liang En's request, he immediately said that Liang En and the others could either buy the land and then dig as much as they wanted, or please leave here.

Even if Liang En revealed his identity as an archaeologist and what benefits would be brought if the treasure was actually discovered, the rancher still insisted on his request and refused to change.

According to him, here is the Antonine Great Wall and an ancient Roman town, but what was dug out was either dirt, rocks or scrap copper and iron. Occasionally, a few copper plates and silver coins could not even fill the pit of workers' wages.

So the rancher felt that the treasure Liang En mentioned was like a castle in the air, extremely ethereal.Why not take this opportunity to ask Liang En to buy the land with money.

On the other hand, Liang En felt that the category of pagan relics in the clues was too big, and there was a high probability that they might be a few stakes with bull skulls hanging on them or stones engraved with some kind of runes.

The historical value of these things may not be low, but economically they are pure money-losing goods.Considering the property tax in the UK, he is more willing to pay a sum of money to obtain the permission of the landlord, and then dig up the relics and pat his ass and leave.

It's a pity that Liang En made a mistake in the negotiation today. He shouldn't have shown his academic status.So much so that the other party thought he had enough money to buy the land.

After negotiating for more than two hours, Liang En was finally ready to pay the bill helplessly.Because he found that the attitude of the other party was clearly to sell the land, and he did not intend to compromise.

Fortunately, the other party just hoped that he could get rid of this unprofitable land, and did not intend to take this opportunity to blackmail Liang En, so Liang En only needed to pay 23000 pounds including tax to solve these problems .

According to the contract, the other party sold the 9.2 hectares of land, including all the resources on the land and under the ground, to Liang En at a price of 23000 pounds including tax, which naturally included the underground relics.

Because Liang En paid the land purchase price in one lump sum, all the procedures were very simple.In the afternoon, the two parties completed the procedures and completed the transfer of the land.

　Today is May 5th, the 29th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople. Let's commemorate it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)