Since then mokkans have been continuously discovered one after another, and as a result of the research conducted over the following year 1931, approximately 10,000 mokkans were found; this is an unprecedented number for those which belonged only to the Han period.
ここから芋づる式に木簡の発見が相次ぎ、翌1931年にかけて調査した結果、漢代のものだけ約1万枚という未曾有の量の木簡が出土するに至ったのである。