Yu Ji is right, there is a high probability that the Guru text on this stone tablet was written by Lu Ban.

Because Gongshu Ban was originally from Lu, he was called "Lu Ban".

The Celestial Dynasty has always been about returning fallen leaves to their roots. Although Lu Ban did not send his body back to his hometown and was eventually buried in Yingcheng, Chu State, this did not prevent him from using Guru script on his tombstone to express his homesickness.

Wu Liang nodded, seeing that this time there was finally no strange movement to disturb them, and the matter had reached this point, no matter if there was something weird looking at him behind, or even if a knife was being struck from the sky at this moment, he would still

You have to turn it on and off to find out, so that you don't feel guilty.

"Dian Wei, start digging the grave."

Wu Liang checked around the tombstones and small graves and found nothing worthy of attention, so he decisively picked up an engineering shovel and walked forward, nodding to Dian Wei.

This small grave bag is made of a relatively common type of yellow soil.

It had not been compacted or had any other special treatment, so it was not difficult to dig out. With just a cup of tea, half of the small grave bag had been dug out by Wu Liang and Dian Wei.

And in this process.

The "footsteps" that made Wu Liang and others uneasy before did not appear again. Even the nearby vertical burial coffins were surprisingly quiet. It seemed that everything had returned to calm, and it seemed that the entire underground palace was facing Wu Liang.

A silent compromise he made when he was a "bold, careful, and thick-skinned tomb robber" like Liang.

But the more this happened, the more uneasy Wu felt in his conscience.

He hoped that the "footsteps" from unknown sources would react more strongly, so that it could at least prove that the other party had already fallen into a state of anxiety and madness when he saw them digging a grave.

Instead of like now, I always feel that the other party is not surprised by their actions, and is brewing something more terrifying.

The same goes for those vertical burial coffins.

If they still click every once in a while as before, even if they become more and more urgent and oppressive, then at least they are still the normal behavior of those "soulless people", and Wu Liang will feel relatively at ease.

Some.

It couldn't have been better than it was now, when suddenly there was no more movement.

This is not normal at all, more like the moment of calm before the storm...

Just when I was thinking about it.

"Qiang!"

There was a crisp sound.

Dian Wei's engineer shovel seemed to have hit something hard and could no longer dig down as smoothly as before.

"There is something down here. Don't continue digging. Clean the surrounding soil first and wait until I check it before making a decision."

Wu Liang became energetic and quickly said to Dian Wei.

In fact, he and Dian Wei did not dig too deep. Now they have only dug out most of the grave, to a depth of less than two inches below the ground.

It's obviously not normal to dig something out so quickly.

If the coffin is buried underground, it will usually not be buried so shallowly. If so, it would be better to just build a main tomb like other large tombs and place the coffin in it. It will look more advanced.

"promise!"

Dian Wei had been following Wu Liang for a while, so he understood what Wu Liang meant. When he continued digging, he deliberately reduced his strength to avoid accidentally shoveling the things underneath.

Wu Liang also became cautious.

Each shovel was lifted and placed gently, and the complete soil clods dug out were crushed with an engineering shovel, and the soil clods were carefully inspected to see if there was anything else worth noting.

Noticing this detail, Sun Ye was inevitably a little confused. He couldn't help but touched Yu Ji next to him and whispered: "The more I look at you, the less you look like ordinary tomb robbers. What I'm talking about is not your methods, but your

Technique."

"What's wrong with our technique? You, a one-eyed carpenter, don't know your stuff. I'm not bragging. Today, our group is second in tomb robbing, but no one dares to be first... Wait!"

Yu Ji frowned slightly, rolled his eyes and asked in displeasure. But halfway through the sentence, he realized that he had made a slight mistake, and then he immediately glared and said, "Who is the tomb robber? Don't accuse a good person unfairly."

Let me tell you, in the words of the young master, what we are doing is called archeology, a protective excavation to explore the historical truth. If you don’t understand, don’t talk nonsense. Be careful that my young master will not be happy after hearing this, and I will inevitably kill you and silence you!"

“Conservation excavation?”

This was the first time Sun Ye heard such words. He was stunned for a moment. He chewed for a moment before thinking about it. He nodded and said, "I see. No wonder the more I look at you, the less you look like ordinary tomb robbers. If you are ordinary thieves,

, in the eyes of ancient tombs, they only see valuable gold and jade treasures, and they would not hesitate to destroy the entire tomb for a piece of jade. How can you be so cautious and cautious as you, not willing to damage anything easily, and even try not to touch it?

, as if he was digging his own ancestral grave."

"Furthermore, since we entered the Gongshu Tomb and walked such a long way, although we haven't seen anything valuable yet, you are not disappointed. No one even mentioned this matter. It's like you."

People who don’t care much about money and jewelry are indeed extraordinary tomb robbers.”

"Especially your young master."

"All his actions are more like studying this ancient tomb and understanding all aspects of this ancient tomb. Otherwise, he would not have ordered me to draw the design drawings of the chariot. No matter how I look at him, he seems to be a scholar.

A bachelor, not a mercenary tomb robber."

After hearing these words, Yu Ji looked at Sun Ye up and down with some surprise, and said with a click of his tongue: "Although you are a carpenter who is blind in one eye, your heart is still very clear. You have been able to follow my young master for less than a day.

Seeing these things, your eyesight makes me have to look at you higher."

"The old gentleman is ridiculously complimentary. In fact, it's not that the villain has extraordinary eyesight, but that you are really different."

Sun Ye quickly said modestly.

"You're on to the point here."

Yu Ji laughed in a helpful way, straightened his chest and stroked his beard and said, "Why don't you look at me again? I actually have many extraordinary qualities. If you can say the same thing, the young master will be with you after we get out."

When we were cleaning up the affairs of the Huang family and your crime of concealing the facts just now, I would like to say a few nice words for you in front of the young master. You should have noticed that among us, the one whom the young master relies on the most is me.

Young Master is still willing to listen."

"this……"

Sun Ye was stunned, and after thinking hard for a long time, he finally choked out a sentence, "Old sir, don't embarrass the villain. The villain knows that he has done many unjust things, and it is really not worthy of the old gentleman to speak kindly to the villain."

"You one-eyed carpenter, you really don't know what to say!"

Yu Ji was also stunned. It took him a long time to figure out the chill in his words, and he immediately cursed angrily.

"Pfft!"

Huang Yueying, who was nervous and pale-faced next to her, couldn't help laughing when she heard the conversation between the two. She grabbed Zhuge Liang's sleeve and whispered, "Brother Zhuge, the most outstanding thing about this old gentleman should be his face, right?"

…

After a few cups of tea.

Wu Liang and Dian Wei finally leveled the entire small tomb, and Wu Liang carefully cleaned out the soil under the tomb. What finally appeared in front of everyone were two flat bronze plates.

The two bronze plates were merged together, and the gap in the middle was extremely clear, looking like a double door installed on the ground.

Next to the two bronze plates...at the very center of the small tomb just now, Wu Liang also dug out a metal wheel that was connected to the ground.

There are also many small handles extending radially outward on this metal roulette wheel. The small handles are only about ten centimeters long.

Such a shape looks somewhat similar to the rudders used by later modern ships.

"What is this?"

Yu Ji had long lost interest in chatting with Sun Ye and came over early. After seeing the "rudder", he asked strangely.

"Maybe it's a mechanism..."

Wu Liang was also looking at the "rudder" carefully. There was a bearing in the center of the rudder, and the bearing was connected to a metal column that extended to the ground.

Even a small part of the "rudder" is buried underground.

No matter how you turn it, at least two handles will rotate...

Wu Liang felt that on the one hand, the "rudder" might be a power input device, and on the other hand, it might also function as a gear. When it is turned, the handle should be able to catch something and drive it along.

"Mechanical seal! This must be the mechanical seal designed by the ancestor!"

Seeing this "rudder", Sun Ye suddenly became excited and shouted excitedly, "Although I have never seen a machine seal, I heard my father say that the most proud invention of my ancestor is '

Many of his inventions that shocked the world were made with the "turning mandrel" as the core. This thing is undoubtedly a "turning mandrel", and next to the tomb of the founder, this

It must be part of the machine seal!"

Sun Ye's words further confirmed Wu Liang's guess.

But when it comes to "rotating spindle", this thing actually has another name in later generations: Babao rotating screw.

As far as Wu Liang knows, the so-called eight-treasure turning screw was recognized by later archaeological circles as being invented by the ancient Greeks. It was not introduced to the Chinese until the Ming Dynasty, and it also received such a noble-sounding name.

So, what is the "Eight Treasures Turning Screw"?

To put it bluntly, it is a very common gear in later generations.

Gears are combined together to create many labor-saving levers. Of course, they may also be labor-saving levers. The purpose is to complete the transmission of power and form a set of linkage machinery. In ancient China, this kind of linkage mechanical equipment was also used.

It's called an "organ".

But can the "eight-treasure turning screw", which is what Sun Ye calls the "turning shaft", really have to be invented by the ancient Greeks? In the thousands of years of civilization in China, no one has ever thought about this.

research?
To be continued...