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The car drove straight to the ruins of a building and parked in the shade.
He looked around and said," Qin Shi, you'd better listen to me. We'll set up camp here from tonight onwards. It's not far away anyway, so we'll have to clean up in the morning.”
It had been more than 1800 years, but the ruins were still relatively well preserved. Although the roofs of some houses were gone, the walls and wooden pillars were still there.
The one near their parking spot was not bad. The wall was high enough to block the wind and sand. The two of them even put up a small tarp over their heads to shade themselves.
He didn't wash his face or save water. He just sat there enjoying the cool.
The temperature was already 35 - 36 degrees. It would not be good to roast it under the sun.
"Next month, if we're not careful, the temperature here will reach more than 40 degrees.”
They rested, chatted, or took out a bottle of water to drink. When the sun was over their heads, they immediately changed directions to build a shelter.
There wasn't much sweat. It was too dry, and the sweat evaporated as soon as it came out.
Long Zhixi had enough rest and could not stay idle. He walked around the ruins of a few houses nearby and came back with something in his hand.
"What is it?"
"Mai Zi."
As she spoke, she handed it to Qin Shi.
The extremely dry wheat grains actually had a golden luster!
"There's a jar in the sand of the house over there. It's full of wheat.”
Upon hearing Brother Long's words, he stood up and the two of them went to check.
The roof of the earthen house was gone, and the sand inside was more than half a meter thick. In the corner of the sand pile, a complete clay pot was revealed. The mouth was open.
"There's a wooden cover on top of the book, so I took it.”
As he spoke, he pointed at a round wooden board on top of the sand.
"This might be a warehouse. Brother Guan, bring me the detector."
"Oh."
In a short while, the two of them had checked all the houses in the vicinity. There was only one place that had a metal reaction.
Using a military shovel to dig, a small empty copper box quickly appeared.
It was a box. The craftsmanship was a little crude. Brother Long had dug it out from a corner of the earthen wall. It seemed to have been embedded there more than a thousand years ago.
"When was it?"
"It's hard to say. It might be something from the third or fourth century.”
It wasn't strange that there were still people using copper boxes in Southern Border, although iron weapons had already appeared.”
He threw the box into his pocket and planned to leave.
"There are wheat and arrowheads here. Do you think the people here fled because of the war?”The two of them talked as they walked.
"It's hard to say. After the initial investigation, some people thought it was a natural disaster, while others said it was a war. However, the disappearance of this small oasis country was actually caused by the indigenous people themselves.”
The two of them returned to the shade. From there, they could see the well-preserved houses and barns in the quicksand of Niya's ruins.
"Some people say that the decline of Jingjue Country is directly related to the changes of the Niya River. At that time, the Taklamakan Desert had not turned this place into a desert.
The Niya River originated from the Kunlun Mountains. There were 60 glaciers upstream, and the meltwater of the glaciers was the main source of the Niya River.
During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Niya River was quite abundant, and the flow was relatively long. Its tail end could reach the Niya Ruins here. At that time, this place should have been an oasis with very good conditions.
However, due to climate change, the Niya River had shrunk in the past 2,000 years. The flow of the river had been continuously shortened, and it had been shrinking from the lower reaches to the middle reaches. Compared to the Niya River 2,000 years ago, the current Niya River was at least 70 kilometers shorter.
Due to the shrinking of the river, the original land of Jingjue Country had lost its water source. The residents could not farm or live, so they had to leave the place.”
After hearing Qin Shi's words, she felt that something was amiss.
"If it was a planned migration, it would be impossible to not have these very good wheat.”
"Haha, who knows."
Nowadays, when farmers moved, they had to move everything. It was impossible for all the people from 1800 years ago to be rich. They were forced to move by the desert. It was good enough that they were not poor.
"Unlike the people of Loulan in the northeast, the people there destroyed their own living environment. The people of Jingjue should have paid more attention to protecting the environment in the later stages of the country. Lou Lan had many Sun Tombs, which were surrounded by rings of wood to form the pattern of the sun. A tomb would require a large number of precious trees, and even the largest oasis could not withstand such a torment.
Moreover, the Little Ice Age, which began at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, probably also affected this place. The climate in the Central Plains was unpredictable, let alone Jingjue Country, which was close to the desert.”
As he spoke, he pointed at the tree trunks that had been standing nearby for thousands of years and said,"Look, most of these mansions are surrounded by large trees. Just now, we passed by a dead forest. It was obviously man-made. I couldn't tell what kind of tree it was, but it could be a fruit tree or a mulberry.
There was still wheat in the storeroom. It was also possible that the owner had left in a hurry and did not bring these important living supplies. It was also possible that the owner had died in an invasion. It was very likely.
Such a situation could not be reconciled with the abandonment of the ruins due to the lack of water, and the gradual evacuation of the ruins in an organized and prepared manner.”
"If we leave without water, the food will definitely be taken away!”
"That's right," Qin Shi said after hearing Brother Long's words.
Didn't Stein steal a lot of Kalur wooden documents? Now, he had already deciphered that the later period of the Jingjue Kingdom was under the serious threat of the desert, and the ecological environment was dangerous.
The rulers of Jingjue had specific and strict regulations on the use of water and the management of trees in the oasis. The law forbids the felling of living trees, and it is not allowed to cut down trees by the roots. The use of water was also paid for, and there was someone responsible for it.”
As he spoke, Zhang also explained to Brother Long what Kalur was. Kalur originated from the ancient Gandhara. It was written in the Ashoka period of the Indian Peacock Dynasty in the 3rd century B.C. The full name was "Kalur Shidi". It was first used in northwest India and present-day Pakistan. It was widely spread in Central Asia in the 1st-2nd century B.C.
In the middle of the 4th century, with the fall of the Kushan Dynasty, the Kaluwen language also disappeared. By the end of the 18th century, the Kaluwen language had already become a dead language that no one could recognize. It was not until 1837 that the Ying country scholar Prinshep discovered the mysteries of the Kaluwen language.
"We can understand from the translated Kalur script that the rulers of Jingjue were still in a state of panic because of the attack from the southeast. It was possible that they were the Supi people in northern Tibet at that time.
There was a record in the wooden slip,"There is danger from the Subei people. You must not be negligent. Other border guards should be sent here quickly."
It was said that these people suddenly attacked Qiemo in May, and there were people who brought important news about these people's attacks, etc., all related to the war.
Didn't they say that the Jingjue Kingdom only had four to five hundred soldiers? In the middle and late stages of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the country's strength was weak. After the Eastern Han army gradually withdrew from the Western Regions, a small country like the Jingjue Kingdom lost the protection of the central dynasty of the Central Plains. It was only a matter of time before it perished.
Before the oasis of the Jingjue Kingdom was abandoned, the invasion of these people should have been a dark cloud hanging over their heads.
Coupled with the influence of the Little Ice Age, the abandonment of the Kingdom of Exquisite might be a combination of natural problems and war.
At the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, a batch of ancient oases had also been destroyed around the same time as the Jingjue Oasis.
Kaladun in the Keriya River basin and the Andier Ancient City in the lower reaches of the Andier River, the abandonment of these ancient cities showed similar characteristics to the extinction of the Jingjue Kingdom. Perhaps these ancient cities had also faced the same threat back then, and they might have suffered a fatal blow during the invasion of these people.”
Seeing that Brother Long was listening carefully,
"Don't even think about it. The disappearance of Jingjue is similar to Goldbach's conjecture. Perhaps the final conclusion will never be made!”
With that, he looked down at the sun.
"Alright, it's time to get to work."
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