Live appraising treasures, I became a national treasure expert?

Chapter 352 Pointer?

What is the concept of three thousand square meters?

More than seven basketball courts and nearly half a football field.

If it was just a star observatory, Li Ding'an would have to wonder whether any emperor from the Liao, Jin, Yuan, and Manchu dynasties built it, and whether he led the Manchu dynasty's civil and military officials to hold large-scale heaven-sacrifice ceremonies here.

If it's a compass... ha, are you kidding me?

In addition to exploring dragon veins, Kanyu geography, mountains and rivers, this thing only has some acupuncture points.

Either way, the compass must be removable.

If you use stone slabs to build it on the top of a mountain, how can you tolerate it?

And so big?

Are you burying God?

It's not an exaggeration at all: nothing has surprised him so much since he grew up, except for the day when his mobile phone became a sperm.

Whatever you say, do your research.

He stood up suddenly and walked towards the center of the stage.

If it were a compass, there should be a pointer in the center. Based on a radius of thirty meters, the length of this pointer should be at least six meters.

After talking casually, Xing Feng also led people up the mountain.

The drop is not low, more than two meters from the highest to the lowest, but based on a radius of thirty meters, it is almost negligible.

"Teacher Li, please speak!"

Including center and hands...

In fact, there is only one technical group (canvassing, surveying and mapping) and two clean-up groups (migrant workers).

Li Ding'an didn't know what to say: Director Zuo, Director Zuo, you always complain that you can't get a big project, why don't you think about the underlying reasons?

"With me as the center, radiate outward in concentric circles. The concentric equidistant distance is tentatively set as two meters, and the radiation radius is thirty...oh no, forty meters..."

If it is a compass, except for the center of the compass, the rest of the place can only be as flat as it needs to be. Such terrain is absolutely impossible.

Slate, what does this have to do with a porcelain kiln?

Just muttering in his heart, Xing Feng moved quickly and assigned the task in a few sentences.

It is indeed difficult to draw a conclusion regarding the twenty-eight constellations and three engraved stone slabs.

He sighed and held the walkie-talkie: "Captain Xing, Captain Xing, I'm Li Ding'an!"

"I'm talking about the top platform, that is, this altar... Why is it convex?"

"OK, got it!"

He just wanted to see, if this thing really existed, what would it be made of?

A six-meter-long magnet?

There was such a big group of Hulala, there were about thirty of them.

"I'll take a look again!"

The parameters were all set and there was no need to adjust. The technician pressed the radar close to the ground. Li Ding'an clicked the screen a few times, and the machine launched magnetic waves into the ground.

Li Ding'an tapped the keyboard again: nearly twenty stone slabs actually formed a circle?

After exploring below two meters, the magnetic waves fed back and found regular rock formations. Li Ding'an typed on the keyboard a few times, and a three-dimensional image was synthesized on the screen.

"So advanced?"

Everyone knew how to do it, and Li Ding'an didn't bother to speak in professional terms. He pointed to the stone slab not far away: "Where is the specimen...first explore, then dig, then clean..."

Li Ding'an operated it himself and first explored the center of the circle.

Zuo Peng was startled, and then his eyes widened: there were more than a dozen geometric-shaped rocks, with smooth surfaces and uniform thickness. The key thing was... there were many of them, and the outer edges were all curved?

"Oh... Didn't I say it before? Someone planted land on the top of the mountain. They were afraid that the summer rain would be too heavy and waterlogging would cause disasters, so they flattened the top of the mountain into a convex surface..."

"Zuo Bureau, have you ever done terrain surveying before?"

"Never found it again."

The key is that Zuo Peng dares to think too much. If you show him an eye as big as a pinhead, he will dare to blow the wind as big as the mouth of a bowl.

Just say why there are no ridges?

Almost simultaneously, the screen displays scanned images layer by layer, just like a person doing a color ultrasound in a hospital. As the fan-shaped ripples go deeper, various data are displayed one by one: soil layer, sand layer, mixed layer, gravel, rock...volume , shape, size...

It was another stone plate, measuring six meters in diameter.

Stop talking nonsense... Where did that technology come from in ancient times?

But as he walked, he stopped again.

"Zuo Bureau, have you found any hand-carved stone slabs, whether they are square or round?"

"Have you tried digging?"

What if it turns out it’s not the compass?

I guess Zuo Peng will cry...

If many high-value physical objects are discovered at once, can they still be left to you at the city level?

Just like the Warring States Tomb at the foot of the mountain, as soon as the news was received, the National Museum and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage rushed over, while the provincial cultural relics department had no choice but to stand aside.

"Ah?" Zuo Peng was stunned, "There are too few real objects and I feel they are worthless. I just did a brief inspection!"

"Draw a group of people... Forget it, you bring a group of people up personally, bring all the instruments, including surveying and mapping, geoelectricity, geoacoustics, geomagnetism... Then ask two groups of masters and eldest sisters (villagers) to bring excavation and cleaning tools …”

And in this way, even if there is a similar stone platform, is it already buried underneath?

And on the contrary, the center of the disk is concave inward...

I was walking too fast before, so I didn't pay attention, but now I look at it. The entire top platform, which is the big circle that seems to be a compass, seems to be a convex surface?

Slowly rise from the edge to the center.

"Teacher Li, do you mean Qinglong Mountain?"

"Tian", Zuo Peng's eyes lit up, "Teacher Li, have you found anything?"

What is this thing for?

As he was thinking about it, Li Ding'an picked up the geomagnetic instrument: "Cleaning team, dig to a depth of two meters!"

"okay……"

In response, five or six villagers gathered around and opened the impact hammer: "Dong dong dong dong dong..."

Xing Feng was sounding the ground more than ten meters away. He was about to curse when he saw Li Ding'an directing from the side and quickly shut his mouth.

"Change geomagnetism or geoelectricity!"

After explaining, Xing Feng closed the computer and ran over: "Teacher Li, what did you find?"

"More than twenty stone slabs, which together form a stone plate about six meters in diameter...carved by hand!"

"Six meters... ruins?"

Li Ding'an glared at him: Are you infected by Zuo Peng... No, you dare to think even more than Zuo Peng.

If we only look at the existing physical objects, we can only look at a few stone slabs from the Jin and Liao dynasties. What kind of relics are they?

It would be nice to call it a "site".

Of course, don’t talk about it after you dig it out…

"Teacher Li, I have discovered something here!"

Li Ding'an raised his head: about twenty meters away from him, it was the circle of the twenty-four mountain directions he had guessed before.

"Depth, shape, size?"

"Seventy centimeters deep, close to a perfect circle, one meter in diameter..."

Is it exactly the same as the stone slab with "Gen" and "Kun" engraved on it?

Li Ding'an said simply and concisely: "Dig..."

"Teacher Li, I also have one here...the depth is one meter, and the shape is rectangular..."

"dig……"

"Teacher Li, this is Yuanpan..."

"Dig too..."

"I have it here too... I have it here too..."

"Dig, dig them all, I'll recruit people for you..."

Li Ding'an held the walkie-talkie: "Old Ma, call me four more cleaning teams... all of them are men. Remember to bring tools?"

"No...I'm exploring the area?"

"If you don't have enough manpower, ask Director Zuo to transfer... Oh, Director Zuo is here with me. I'll ask him to transfer. You send me the people first..."

No matter how late Zuo Peng reacted, he knew that this place was not "worthless" as he said.

Maybe the value is still very high, otherwise Li Ding'an would not randomly transfer people from the project team.

His eyes flashed: "Teacher Li...is it a ruins?"

Again?

I just said that Xing Feng was infected by you...

"Don't be impatient. You have to dig out the things. You will know after you look at them... first arrange someone for me!" "Okay, okay... adjust, adjust, adjust..."

Zuo Peng ran to the side to make a call, and Xing Feng came over: "Teacher Li, I have seen the outer stone slabs before. They look like a rooftop offering platform and a star observatory. But inside... why are there so many stone slabs?"

We've only dug out a few pieces, do you think that's too much?

If the altar was in the shape of a compass, it would have at least twenty-four directions. Looking at the equal distances, there would be at least nine to ten levels, which equals at least two hundred stone slabs buried underground.

Only then one-tenth was dug out...

Li Ding'an looked down the mountain: "It looks like we need to build a road and transport the machine up!"

"what?"

"Otherwise, you won't be able to finish digging until next year just by relying on manpower..."

Just halfway through speaking, a voice came from the intercom: "Teacher Li, did I dig out a millstone?"

God's millstone?

Li Ding'an pressed the call button: "Go there right now!"

Xing Feng followed closely: "Teacher Li, where are there so many stone plates on the mountain?"

"I guess it's the compass!"

What the hell?

Xing Feng paused suddenly. Li Dingan had no time to wait for him and arrived at the group he had just called.

Two scouts and four aunties from the village were each holding a spade. A large hole was dug in the ground, but it was not deep, only forty or fifty centimeters. There was a round stone plate lying in the hole.

It's one meter in size, 20 centimeters thick, and has a spade-sized hole in the middle. It looks a bit like a millstone.

Let’s look at the distance and orientation: it’s more than fifty meters away from the center of the circle, and it’s the same size as the round stone plate with the word “Gen” engraved on it. It can be roughly judged that the two stone plates are just at an angle of 45 degrees.

One of the twenty-four mountain directions...

Then what is engraved on this piece should be "Xun"!

But there are no words on this side, so it’s on the reverse side!

"Here, give me a hand and turn it over."

Li Ding'an put on his gloves and jumped into the pit. Xing Feng and the two detectives also jumped down.

The aunt came to help, but Li Ding'an said no, and then the four of them worked together and with a shout, the stone plate was turned over.

My feet rubbed off the soil around the hole. What is the word "Xun" if it's not "Xun"?

Ha... What is the top of this platform if it's not a compass?

"Xun, one of the gossips!"

Xing Feng cleaned up the surrounding soil: "But there is no hexagram?"

See, it’s no wonder Zuo Peng didn’t pay attention to it. Even Xing Feng thought it was just a stone plate with gossip engraved on it.

"Captain Xing, this is not a hexagram, it is the twenty-four mountain directions."

Li Ding'an pointed to the distance, "That, that, that, I also found three pieces of the same size, namely 'Gen', 'Kun', and 'Shen'... So I guess it's a compass!"

"The stone compass is still built on the mountain?"

Xing Feng muttered something and jumped out of the pit in one step, but then he suddenly paused: "This is one of the twenty-four directions, so where was the place we were standing just now?"

"Center of the circle!"

"You just said that it radiates outward with a radius of forty meters?"

"Correct!"

Xing Feng was completely frozen and said in a daze: "Doesn't that mean that... this compass is only eighty meters in diameter?"

Li Ding'an was so happy: I finally saw someone who was more shocked than me...

"Don't worry, it's not a whole piece, but more than two hundred stone slabs, or more... They are not closely connected to each other, but there is a large blank area, the area is many times the total area of ​​​​the stone slabs... …”

"If it were one piece, then the people who built this thing were aliens..."

"Ha ha……"

"No...Teacher Li, please don't laugh."

Xing Feng gasped, "I can't even imagine: How to use this thing?"

Li Ding'an scratched his forehead: Yes, how to use it?

The important thing is, what's the use?

To say that it is just an altar... to worship the sky, you can carve the celestial phenomena, the sun, the moon, and the stars. What are you going to do with the compass?

I just can’t figure it out.

Li Ding'an suddenly sighed: "Dig it out and look at it again!"

"Yes, dig it out and take a look..."

Xing Feng pointed forward, "Teacher Li, the cleanup team sent by Ma is also here!"

"Dig the center of the circle first!"

……

With the strength of the people, not long after, all twenty stone slabs were dug out and hoisted up from the pit.

After a little cleaning, it came back together.

Seeing the complete picture of the stone plate, Li Ding'an was stunned for a moment: Why is it different from what he imagined?

He previously estimated that if it were a compass, it would have a pointer and a center. The needle would be five to six meters long, and the center would be slightly larger, with an estimated diameter of about six to seven meters.

The machine detected the stone disk, and the diameter of the synthesized three-dimensional image was only six meters. He thought that maybe his calculations were wrong. It would not be a big problem if the center of the disk was slightly smaller and the pointer was slightly shorter.

But I will look again: It is just a stone plate with quite a lot of carved lines: from the inside to the outside, there are ten layers of concentric circles, divided into twenty-four equal parts.

But where is the heart, where is the pointer?

It's clearly another compass, and it's one that hasn't been engraved yet: except for the engraved lines, there's not a single symbol on it, including a star map represented by dots and pits.

There is a wheel center in the middle, but it is flat, but the shadow of the pointer is not visible...

Li Ding'an lowered his head and pondered, and Xing Feng gently waved his hand to let everyone around him disperse.

After a while, he circled the stone plate a few times and looked around again.

More and more stone slabs were dug out, and they were basically the same as what he had guessed before: there were ten floors inside and outside, divided into twenty-four equal parts, with mountain directions, Bagua, and star maps.

At first glance, the piece in front of me is a miniature version of the large compass on the top of the platform, but there is no time to engrave words, symbols, and star maps.

Likewise, there are no center and hands.

But without these two things, what would you call a compass?

Even a compass cannot explain it: a compass inside a compass?

Even opening the system is useless: for example, the one in front of me has two or four words: stone compass.

When measuring other things, whatever is engraved on it will show what it is: if the stars are engraved, the stars will be shown, if the directions are engraved, the directions will be shown...

It’s not like I can’t recognize him, so how can I take a hair test?

To be honest, it was the first time I saw such a strange thing, and it was also the first time I felt helpless.

Just as I was scratching my head, the intercom rang again: "Teacher Li, Teacher Li?"

"Roger that!"

"I dug out the beams, purlins and rafters under the cliff!"

"Lao Ma, you can also tell me such things, I'm busy!"

"Teacher Li, please wait a minute. Some of the rafters are a little weird: there are scales on them...and tenons and tenons?"

Li Ding'an didn't want to talk anymore: "It's strange that the rafters don't have mortise and tenon joints. Otherwise, how could they be connected with the purlins and beams? Let alone the scales. When building houses before, there were also the 'Men Gong Ba Zi' (the eight characters on the Luban ruler). , representing good or bad luck) "engraved on the beam..."

"No...it's my fault. I didn't make it clear: the two ends of the rafters are not connected to the purlins and beams with mortise and tenon joints, but to each other...The scales on the rafters are according to the sizes: there are feet, feet, and guides. …”

Connected to each other...chi, zhang, yin...

Ten feet equals one zhang, ten feet equals one yin, and one yin is about thirty meters...meaning that one rafter in this house is thirty meters long?

Does this mean that the structural distance of this room is also 30 meters, and there are no load-bearing walls or columns in the middle?

What nonsense?

Not to mention ancient times, even modern times... Oh no, even aliens can't create it.

Therefore, this is definitely not a rafter, nor can it be a crossbar on some building, because it cannot bear it.

Speaking of pillars, it's somewhat possible.

But where should the thirty-meter pillar be erected, and what can be done once it is erected?

I just can’t figure it out…

Well, no...

Stand up?

Is this a pointer?

The compass needle...

(End of this chapter)