"What a joke!" Chen Yan looked from afar and saw only the towering Great Wall located on the distant ridge. He said, "Even if this thing can be moved, there is no place to put it."

Tang Feng said: "I'm not talking about the Great Wall, I'm talking about the stone arch bridge in front of me, an absolute cultural relic." In front of the rural road they were walking, there was a not very high mountain, and there was a stone arch bridge at the foot of the mountain.

"It turns out that they are unowned, they just can't move." They are still twenty meters away from the small bridge. Chen Yan looked at the inconspicuous small bridge and asked, "Can you be sure that it is a cultural relic if you are so far away?"

Tang Feng pointed to the huge ginkgo tree crown beside the stone arch bridge and said to Chen Yan: "That tree can prove that this is a cultural relic." Ginkgo is one of the oldest tree species in the world. It first appeared 345 million years ago and is called a living fossil. This tree has a lifespan of thousands of years. The ginkgo that still survives in China has a history of more than 3,500 years.

Since the stone arch bridge is under this ginkgo tree, the root system of the ginkgo has penetrated into the cracks of the stone arch bridge. It is not difficult to imagine how long the history of this stone arch bridge is when you see the diameter of the thickest root.

The two of them walked to the side of the stone arch bridge and found that there was a stream with more water and less water under the bridge. There was no road in the shallow grass and flowing water. If the old tree stopped another crow that was croaking and screamed, the setting sun made the heartbroken feeling of the heartbreaking person being at the end of the world would come out.

But they did not see the crow, but saw a beautiful woman. Tang Feng and Chen Yan came to the stone bridge and found that it was very lively. Several people were sitting on the rocky beach beside the stream under the bridge.

"It's almost done, start work." A middle-aged man greeted his companions.

Tang Feng and Chen Yan's eyes were focused on a slim woman at the same time. The sneakers, jeans, jackets and ponytails were exposed outside the baseball cap. Girls could also be handsome (Chun Ge is a man, not of this type). Her facial features were delicate and impeccable. At this time, her cold eyes looked at Tang Feng. Tang Feng would rather meet a crow who was quacking and screaming than meet her.

She is Liu Yue. In fact, Tang Feng only glanced at her back a few times, but he just met her eyes. Liu Yue was stunned for a moment and suddenly covered her mouth and smiled, turning her head away.

Chen Yan immediately bumped into Tang Feng with his arm and said, "She smiled at me just now." Seeing this guy's appearance, I guess he had already begun to reevaluate his charm value in his heart.

Tang Feng guessed their identities as soon as he saw the measuring instruments in his hands. Before they were conducting archaeology, the cultural relics department would convene archaeological experts to conduct a carpet-style search of the demolition site to prevent any cultural relics from being destroyed.

Seven or eight archaeologists walked ashore from the rock beach by the stream, and then gathered around a stone tablet and talked about it one by one. Chen Yan said to Tang Feng, "Let's go and have a look." Anyway, they were idle, so Tang Feng and Chen Yan walked over together.

The ancients believed that building bridges facilitates pedestrians to accumulate virtues. Therefore, there are bridge monuments on the edge of the bridge to praise merits. This bridge monument is about half a meter high and about 30 cm wide. The three main characters "Jishan Bridge" are engraved in the middle of the front of the bridge monument, which are the name of the bridge. There are two rows of small regular characters under the bridge name, which are written in Hengshan County and the seventh year of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty. The former refers to the place name, and the latter refers to the time of the bridge repair.

Tang Feng was quite accurate. Miyun is located in the north, and the Song Dynasty above must refer to the Northern Song Dynasty. The emperor of Xuanhe Nian of the Northern Song Dynasty is also famous in Chinese history. It was his strong promotion of collection that led to the first collection fever in Chinese history. However, his reputation is not because of this, because he is one of the most cowardly emperors in history - Zhao Ji, the Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty. The seventh year of Xuanhe was 1125 AD, which is almost nine hundred years ago.

The back of the bridge monument is densely engraved with small characters, with the names of the people who donated money to build the bridge and some praises attached. Since Miyun is located in a remote place and no celebrities have appeared, there is nothing special about this bridge monument.

"This bridge is wrong." An archaeologist said: "How could the words Hengshan County appear in the seventh year of Xuanhe?"

In ancient times, Miyun belonged to Tanzhou. In the first year of Tianfu in the Later Jin Dynasty, in 936 AD, Shi Jingtang, a general of the Later Tang Dynasty who recognized the thief as his father, ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun to the Khitan, including Tanzhou. The resignation of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun completely lost the barriers to the northern part of ancient China. Several major passes of the Great Wall, Shanhaiguan, Xifengkou, Gubeikou, and Yanmen Pass were all at the hands of the enemy, and the long history of suffering of the Han people kicked off.

In the fifth year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty, in 1123 AD, the Jin Kingdom returned Tanzhou to the Song Dynasty, and Song Huizong changed Tanzhou to Hengshan County. In 1125 AD, in the seventh year of Xuanhe, the Jin Kingdom invaded Hengshan County and renamed Hengshan County to Tanzhou again.

The bridge was built in 1125, so the place name at that time should be called Tanzhou. Since it was Tanzhou, it belonged to the Jin Kingdom. Who is so bold and dares to stay in Hengshan County? The words "Seventh Year of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty" should be Tanzhou, the third year of the Dajin Tianhui.

"Yes." Another person also said: "This is not consistent."

"I think it's completely consistent with common sense." Tang Feng's old habit was re-defeated. Fortunately, this was not a cultural relics transaction. The middle-aged man in charge asked Tang Feng: "This gentleman has a basis."

Tang Feng said: "At that time, the traffic was blocked, and the notices of the central government were difficult to be conveyed to ordinary people in time. Although they had fallen, the people were not aware of it, so they thought they were citizens of the Song Dynasty. Another possibility is that this stone arch bridge was completed across the year. Before the bridge was built and erected, it was called Hengshan County. By the time the bridge was completed, it was already called Tanzhou. It happened to be built in 1125 and it happened to hit it." This is different from the rubbing of Master Meng's monument in front. At that time, Master Meng's monument was in Chang'an, and the people in Chang'an could get the news of the change of the year immediately, but the bridge was located on the frontier, and it was possible that the people did not know the situation was changed.

"Well, I think this should be the case." Liu Yue said, "The bridge monument that was erected should have been ordered to be rectified by the government, but because this place is too remote and the government has not paid attention to it, the people have to live a mediocre life." No matter which regime comes to power, they hope to live a good life the most and are most afraid of trouble.

Tang Feng felt strange. Liu Yue was from an auction house. How could she be qualified to enter the ranks of archaeology? He thought to himself, and his eyes couldn't help but look at her. There was a sign hanging on her chest, which read: Liu Yue, an intern researcher at the National Museum of China. Tsk tsk, I really can't tell. She is also an archaeologist.

"I can only explain this, alas," the middle-aged man sighed and said, "I guess this bridge can't be kept."

"Professor Zhang." Liu Yue said to the middle-aged man: "Can this ginkgo tree be removed? I am over 2,000 years old, what a pity I have cut it down."

"Yes." Professor Zhang nodded and said, "I'll go back and write a report and hand it to the forestry department."

When Chen Yan saw this situation, he didn't understand. He quickly pulled Tang Feng away and said to him softly: "Hey, we have to rush forward to them to the Taoist temple, otherwise there will be nothing good." Even a tree was about to be removed, so what else could they leave where they walked.
Chapter completed!