In 2012, Nanjing Forestry University was preparing to build a new campus, but while the construction team was working on it, they dug up a burial chamber underground. The construction team did not dare to be careless, and immediately contacted the school and the police, and the school contacted some archaeologists, and it was not long before a large group of people arrived at the scene.
After a period of research, they finally determined that this was the tomb of Xu Junxu, the Ming Dynasty Jinyi Weishi. In 1382, Zhu Yuanzhang set up the Jinyi Guard in order to further strengthen the imperial power. Jinyiwei only obeyed the emperor's orders and had the right to arrest and interrogate the emperor's relatives, and together with the later East Factory and West Factory, they were collectively known as the "Eagle Dogs" of the Imperial Court.
The official rank of the Jinyi guard is not complicated. The supreme leader of the Jinyi Wei was called the "Commander", and although he was only a Zhengsanpin official in terms of rank, he had the right to arrest the court ministers and even the princely generals. The commander has two main forces, named "Commander Tongzhi", which is an official position from Sanpin.
Under the command envoy, there were two commanding envoys, roughly equivalent to the official position of "deputy commander envoy", which was the official of Zheng Sipin, that is, Xu Junxu's identity in the court.
Although jinyiwei seems to have great power, it is only limited to before death, because Jinyiwei is essentially a secret service agency, so most of the jinyiwei's identity is secret from the imperial court, and the scale of funerals after death will not be much higher than that of ordinary people.
Therefore, even if Xu Junxu was the commander of the envoys, and even his father was Xu Da, the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, the king of Zhongshan, the scale of Xu Junxu's tomb was not very large, and when experts rushed to the scene to start the protective development and research of Xu Junxu's tomb, it was found that Xu Junxu's tomb had already been poisoned by tomb robbers.
The scale of the tomb itself is not large, coupled with the encounter with tomb robbers, so Xu Junxu's tomb is almost empty. The expert still deduced the owner of the tomb from some wall carvings and inscriptions, and just when everyone was disappointed, a sharp-eyed person vaguely saw a flash of blue light in the soil and immediately went to investigate.
Peeling open the soil, it turned out to be a "blue wine bottle", of course, saying that it was a wine bottle, just because it looked like it, not that her purpose was to hold wine.
It turned out that the tomb robbers also had a hundred dense and one time, and they left a precious national treasure in the tomb - Ming Jia Jing Ji blue glazed plum bottle!
The Ji blue glazed plum vase is the imperial porcelain inside the Ming Court, which has a history of 600 years. This bottle is quite well preserved, and the whole body of dark blue looks very elegant. The bottle body is large and small, the top bottle mouth is extremely narrow, and the shape of the whole bottle is round and natural, which is quite exquisite.
According to the valuation of experts, such a well-preserved Ji blue glazed plum bottle can be auctioned for more than 100 million yuan on the auction floor, and may even reach a sky-high price of more than one billion yuan!
It seems that Xu Da really loved his son Xu Junxu, so much so that after Xu Junxu's death, xu's family would disregard the regulations related to the funeral of Jinyiwei and bury Xu Junxu with Xu Junxu such porcelain as the Ji blue glazed plum bottle, which was also very valuable at that time.
Now, the Ji Blue Glazed Plum Bottle has been preserved in the Beijing Museum. And experts should also be quite "grateful" to the carelessness of the tomb robbers, so that the Ji blue glazed plum bottle can still be well preserved. But at the same time, experts should also worry that the appearance of the Ji blue glazed plum bottle shows that there must be more valuable cultural relics and national treasures in Xu Junxu's tomb, and it seems that the protection of cultural relics is still a long way to go.