It's never smooth sailing for a person. When it's time to take care of yourself, it's no use burning incense and worshiping Buddha. Drinking cold water will also clog your teeth.
That year, Pan Cao was unlucky. When he was making a deal with a foreigner, he was seized by the Qing soldiers. The foreigner was a fearful master, so he immediately revealed Pan Cao. It was not a big deal at first, but the thing Pan Cao gave to the foreigner was a gold-plated item.
The Tang Dao is an old tool made from a plate, and is not worth much.
After being caught in prison, the Qing soldiers began to interrogate Pan Cao Xingshi. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Lafayette hated the things in the ancient tombs for sale to foreigners and ordered a strict investigation of smuggling.
The gold-plated Tang Dao is an extremely precious thing. The blade is under the gilding layer and will not rot or break. The handle is made of extinct black jade. The scabbard is made of Ili wood in northern Xinjiang. It is a special tribute item from the Tang Dynasty. This gold-plated Tang Dao
No matter from which angle you look at it, it looks like something that was just unearthed.
Although Pan Cao repeatedly explained that the knife was really made by himself and that everything inside was fake and was completely used to defraud the foreigner of his money, he also said that they had arrested the wrong person and claimed that he was collecting money for the Qing Dynasty.
Those foreigners' taxes.
But unfortunately, Cao's skill in making the dish was so good that no one believed him when he made it look real. He even invited someone who knew something about antiques to take a look at it, but he couldn't find any flaws at all. He insisted that the thing was genuine.
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Pan Cao didn't know whether to cry or laugh for a moment. The value of the gold-plated Tang knife was too high. In terms of crime, he would probably be beheaded.
Later, someone came up with a plan for Pan Cao, asking him to refuse to plead guilty and delay it for as long as possible. What he did was waiting for the death of the emperor Tongzhi outside. When the new emperor ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world, Pan Cao's death penalty would be eliminated.
escape.
Pan Cao was a hard-core man who suffered in prison every day. When the jailer's interest in him ran out, he was considered to have survived.
After half a year passed, news came from outside that Emperor Tongzhi passed away, giving hope to Pancao Pan. In the same year, Emperor Guangxu ascended the throne, and on the day of the amnesty, Pancao Pan was released from prison.
He never thought that one day he would come out again. Sometimes, life needs to be reborn in desperate situations.
The person who bailed out Pan Cao came from a mysterious organization. He needed to do another thing to save Pan Cao.
After Pan Cao was released from prison, he was blindfolded and taken all the way to a place where he has not been found until now. On the way, he was given a draught medicine. The dose was so strong that he slept in darkness until he woke up.
The time has arrived.
In Pan Cao's own words, the place he went to was a place where tomb robbers gathered, and they were looking for something here.
Pan Cao also said that it was an unprecedented tomb robbing act. People from all walks of life came, including robbers, soldiers, and many unnamed people in the world, each with unique skills.
There are thousands of people.
Zhang Xiuxian really didn’t believe it, she always thought it was
The old man was confused and remembered wrongly, "Mr. Cao, are you sure you remember correctly? Thousands of people? One division? What the hell are you looking for?"
Pan Cao said deeply: "You may not believe it, and I didn't believe it either at that time. I thought I was in a prison and lost my mind. However, these people are indeed robbing people. Because of their status, they are robbing people."
I knew nothing about the content, and then I was taken to a tent and repeated the exact same job every day."
Feng Yu was very surprised by Pan Cao's words. Some things are not accidental. They are historical inevitability. There will always be an inevitability behind a big conspiracy. Feng Yu always felt that this unprecedented tomb robbery that Pan Cao mentioned was...
It's definitely not a coincidence.
Pan Cao is a man who has a thorough understanding of antiquities. His knowledge is well-known in the antique circles in Beijing. He learned from his master the skills of appreciating the eight major works of calligraphy, painting, jade, copper, embroidery, wood, and porcelain, plus many years of experience.
, it only took him half a lifetime to reach a state of unity with antiques, heaven and man. If he looked at an authentic item for half an hour, he could make an exact replica.
It was inevitable that Pan Cao was brought there, because there was no one else in the world who could do what he did.
Pan Cao copied various things in his tent every day. Those objects looked like they had just been unearthed. Most of the objects Pan Cao copied were a very strange document. He had never seen the writing on it, and it was probably not used by the Han people.
The writing, on the contrary, looked like the writing of ethnic minorities in the northwest. From these things, Pancao speculated that he might be somewhere in the northwest.
His life is basically one of being under house arrest. People outside are not allowed to leave that place, and they say that when things here are over, they will give him a large reward that he will not be able to spend in the rest of his life.
Pan Cao came out of prison and was really a pauper. Someone protected him and gave him money, so he no longer had any suspicion. He was good at copying things, but he would inevitably become a little irritated after a long time.
Time passed by more than half a year ago, and Pan Cao didn't know how many things he had copied. After finishing each day, someone would pack and number them, and then send them to who knows where.
One time when Pan Cao came out to urinate, he saw some people outside that he had never seen before, such as the leader of these people. There were four of them. Two Pan Cao had visited Beijing after returning to Beijing.
He had seen them before, they were from the Feng family and the Bai family. He had never seen the other two. One of them had only heard others call him "Governor", and he was from the imperial court.
This made Pan Cao very curious, what kind of tomb could bring together people from the imperial court and a bunch of people from all walks of life?
In the first year of Guangxu, there were only a few people who could be called governors. At that time, Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili, was a very popular figure in the Qing court. Pan Cao was not sure whether the governor he heard was Li Hongzhang himself. Someone like him
It is very rare for people to see President Zhili
Governor's.
Later, Pan Cao worked there cautiously for another half a year. He almost never left that place for a year, and many things were delivered every now and then. Most of them were documents and bamboo slips, and occasionally there were some other things.
, he made an exact copy of them.
Where did these things come from? Pan Cao never dared to ask. He could only speculate on some things from the objects.
He felt that there must be a large ancient tomb, or even a group of ancient tombs, in this place. From what was sent, he could be sure that there were ancient books, letters, and documents from ethnic minorities, everything included. This place was probably
This is a very huge group of ancient tombs, and what they are looking for is right here.
Judging from the majority of the things he copied, it is very likely that the information these people are looking for is hidden in documents or ancient books.
Pan Cao could never have imagined that he would have seen more ancient books in one year here than he had seen in twenty or thirty years of studying. He kept copying strange ancient texts every day, inferring their meanings and uses, and trying to
I have translated the content inside, but to no avail.
He hardly saw outsiders, was under great pressure at work, was under extreme anxiety for a long time, and his physical fitness was getting worse and worse.
Until one day, things stopped being delivered, and someone came over and told him, you can go back to the capital. The moment this depressing life was suddenly interrupted, Pan Cao didn't expect it, and he even felt a little uncomfortable waiting for him.
After his anxiety subsided, he tried to get out of the tent.
This is the first time he has seen the outside in a year since he came here. There are steep mountains and towering trees. This place is far away from people. Looking at the distant mountains, he can see clouds, mountains and mist, with green vegetation crisscrossing the mountains.
That kind of green is different from the light green in the south, and different from the lush green in the north, but a just right dark green, just a tiny bit worse than the deep green. The whole area shows extremely tenacious and vigorous vitality.
The air among the mountains was extremely fresh, and he felt like he was about to be reborn.
However, Pan Cao had a bigger problem in his mind. He initially thought that this place was in the northwest, but it is difficult for such a mountain to be found in the northwest, so it cannot be in the northwest, and it is also unlikely to be in the north, because this place
There has been basically no snow in this place during the year. From this point of view, it seems to be in the area south of the Qinling Mountains.
So during the last few days of his stay, Pan Cao made a detailed analysis and judged based on the rising and setting times of the sun in a year. It was most likely that this place was in the Sichuan and Hunan area. Because there was no time and date, Pan Cao didn't know.
I can only make a rough guess as to the specific month and time.
Pan Cao is a veteran in the antique world and has a very good understanding of ancient tombs. He found that there were no traces of excavation in any place around him. If there were indeed ancient tombs, they would not be in a place like this.
The chance of a large group of ancient tombs appearing on the mountainous terrain is almost non-existent.
