Almighty Appraiser

560 Each has his own opinion
Qi Lao's "Mr. Shen" made Shen Yunfeng understand that what Teacher Chen told the two of them before leaving was not only that he hoped that the two experts from the Cultural Protection Bureau could take care of Shen Yunfeng, but also that Shen Yunfeng's achievements in the years since he left the school should be considered. Tell them everything.

On the way, Mr. Qi and Mr. Wang were curious about how, with Shen Yunfeng's current worth, he was still willing to dig into the dirt and endure the ridicule of others to do manual labor.

Shen Yunfeng would definitely not tell the two old foxes that he came to absorb the ancient spirituality in the cultural relics, but he would say that participating in an ancient tomb excavation was his ultimate dream as a student who graduated from the Department of Archeology.

The so-called, if you can't personally participate in an ancient tomb excavation, then the four-year university books will really be read in the stomach of a donkey.

After fooling the two old foxes, Shen Yunfeng went back to his room after dinner. As for arranging for himself to attend the opening of the coffin tomorrow, Mr. Qi and Mr. Wang patted their chests and made a promise that they would definitely be able to take Director Qiu out tonight. Down.

When I was about to fall asleep, there was an argument next door.

Shen Yunfeng didn't want to hear it, but the voice next door was too loud, and some content still reached his ears intermittently.

At the end of the hearing, Shen Yunfeng understood why the neighbors were arguing.

In the afternoon, the archaeological team had two different voices about the identity of the owner of the tomb.

At the beginning, because some ancient weapons were unearthed, everyone tended to believe that the owner of the tomb was a military commander in the early Ming Dynasty, that is, a military officer.However, with the increase in the number and types of cultural relics excavated, especially the discovery of the mirror box today, some people feel that, based on the character of the military commander, women's things should not be separated from their tombs, just It is believed that the owner of the tomb should be a civil servant, or at worst a rich man with a wealthy family and private soldiers.

Those who hold the view that the owner of the tomb is a civil official, or a local rich man, are mainly Professor Han Dayang.

His basis is that during the Ming and Hongwu dynasties, the feudal princes responsible for guarding the border had their own private armed forces, and they could also mobilize local armies.

And this ancient tomb, with the identification of a large number of unearthed cultural relics, has been confirmed to be a large tomb in the early Ming Dynasty. Combined with the support of the vassal king, Professor Yang insisted that the owner of the tomb had another identity.

Shen Yunfeng knew the military policies of the early Ming Dynasty. Take the Ming Dynasty's Dusi Weisuo system as an example. This was an initiative initiated by Zhu Chongba and his senior adviser Liu Bowen in the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

For well-known reasons, the military establishment in the early Ming Dynasty was relatively chaotic. There were the Red Scarf Army where Zhu Chongba made his fortune, there were landlord soldiers, there were newly recruited troops, there were also some surrendered troops, and the so-called benefactor troops who had committed crimes and were exiled.The consequence of this is that the formation of the troops is messy, the combat effectiveness is different, and the command and deployment is not very convenient. Zhu Chong was born in the Eighth Army, so he was naturally aware of the shortcomings, so he asked Liu Bowen, a senior counselor, to integrate these armies and emerge. A new form of military formation and organization, the collision of two brains that can be called extremely smart even now, cremation appeared, and based on various principles and considerations, the Dusi Guard System was born.

Some people in later generations described it as saying that the Dusi Weisuo system was actually the military region system in the future.The capital is like a large military area, and the garrison is like a small military area.The Dusi is in charge of the garrison, which is stationed in a local area and oversees thousands of households, hundreds of households, general banners, small banners, soldiers and other military households that combine military and civilians.

That is to say, the Weisuo is an institution that manages military households. The so-called military households refer to the military households that refer to the soldiers and officers of the army who became members of the army after their family members became members of the army.This kind of military household is passed down from generation to generation. During wartime, strong men are selected from the military household to go out to fight. In addition to farming, they also need to participate in military training.

In the late Ming Dynasty, soldiers had low status, low income, and low combat power.After the Dusi Weisuo system rotted, the Ming court began to adopt the recruitment system to supplement the source of troops.

Under the conditions at that time, it was inevitable for military commanders to select soldiers with better physiques as servants, that is, private soldiers, and to support their servants by deducting the military pay of ordinary soldiers.

The imperial court is also aware of the many disadvantages of military generals having private soldiers, but the country can't provide money, so it can only let it go, and it also allows military generals to take their family members with them when they are transferred out, so that it is easy to take over unfamiliar troops and achieve rapid integration. The effect of combat power.

The three most famous and powerful armies in history are the Guanning Iron Cavalry, the Qi Family Army, and the Daming Navy, which used to be the world's number one navy. Strictly speaking, they are all private armies.

However, the ancient tomb excavated now has been determined to be a large tomb in the early Ming Dynasty. If judged according to the above historical experience, it seems that Professor Yang and others believe that the tomb owner is a civil servant or a powerful landlord, which seems to hold water.

However, Mr. Qi and Mr. Wang of the Cultural Protection Bureau, including Mr. Chen who has gone to other tombs for archaeology, have determined from the beginning that the identity of the owner of the ancient tomb is a military general in the early Ming Dynasty. After removing the mirror box, Mr. Qi and Mr. Wang still insisted on their views.

As a result, the archaeological team, which was originally unified in thinking and understanding, formed factions holding two different views in just one afternoon.Moreover, since dinner, they have been arguing endlessly, neither giving in nor giving in.

At the end of the argument, Director Qiu, who was avoiding him, said he wanted Director Qiu to come to a conclusion.

Director Qiu is a man with two heads: one is an authority and veteran expert in his own unit for many years, and the other is a very authoritative professor of the Department of Archeology at Han University. He doesn't know whose point of view to agree with.

In the end, it was more than two o'clock in the middle of the night before they finally reached a consensus. The museum will open today. You can tell whether the owner of the tomb is a military general, a civil servant, or a powerful person just by looking at his clothes.

According to the point of view, it is actually the funeral custom of the ancient times with strict hierarchy. Civil servants make up clothes for birds and military generals and beasts. of.

When Shen Yunfeng heard the end, he was really sleepy. He didn't think about whether Mr. Qi and Mr. Wang took the time to ask Director Qiu to participate in the opening of the coffin, so he fell asleep amidst the gradually quietening arguments next door.

Early the next day, Shen Yunfeng went to the restaurant for dinner. He wanted to avoid other members of the archaeological team so as not to be disturbed.

What he didn't expect was that when he sat down with a plate and was about to start eating, he saw a group of people coming in from outside the restaurant door.

Headed by the tired-looking Director Qiu, Professor Yang, Mr. Qi, Mr. Wang and other archaeological team bosses followed closely behind, and then there were more than a dozen ordinary members of the archaeological team, most of whom were formal cadres of the Cultural Protection Bureau. .

(End of this chapter)