"What you said makes some sense, but why would Taoist Wang hide these scriptures here? And was it before or after he sold the Dunhuang documents?"
Archeology is similar to how police solve crimes. After encountering some clues, they like to reason and analyze. After proving a piece of history through their own research, the sense of accomplishment is very strong.
After hearing Zhuang Rui's analysis just now, Dr. Ren temporarily forgot about the scroll in his hand and wanted to immediately uncover the historical truth and restore the scene at that time.
"Brother Ren, these are just my guesses. They can't be accurate. If you ask me, Zhongchuan must know something..."
The copy obtained from Nakagawa only showed the scene of the Main Hall and the library. As for the records written by Taoist Wang himself, Nakagawa did not bring them to China. Based on this copy, Zhuang Rui could only guess these.
"Damn, that little Japanese must know something. Why don't you turn around and ask Peng Fei to give him some tricks?"
Dr. Ren, who had always been gentle and gentle in front of others, couldn't help but use foul language at this moment.
Having touched the truth of history but not being able to get in, Dr. Ren felt itchy in his heart, just like after taking three Viagra pills in a row and knowing that his wife's aunt was here. The suffocating feeling made Dr. Ren want to kill Zhongchuan.
Grabbed him and beat him up.
"Hey, Brother Ren, hold that kid back for a day and see if he says anything..."
Zhuang Rui laughed when he heard this. He kicked Zhongchuan out. In fact, he was plotting against him. Now it is obvious that Zhongchuan traveled all the way to China to find these scriptures. He found them so that he could not see them.
, Zhuang Rui doesn’t believe that Zhongchuan can hold it in?
"You kid..."
Dr. Ren also reacted, but after thinking for a moment, he said: "What if Zhongchuan refuses to say it all the time?"
"That's easy to handle. Just let Peng Fei do something for him as you said. At worst, throw him into the quicksand when we go back..." Zhuang Rui said with a nonchalant expression.
"Don't, that's all I said, don't, this is terrible..."
Ren Chunqiang was shocked by Zhuang Rui. After getting along with him for so many days, he also knew that Peng Fei was not a good person, and he might actually be able to do such a thing of destroying corpses and eradicating traces.
"Come on, Brother Ren, I am a good citizen. I am joking with you. Let's clean up these things first, and then inform the teacher and the comrades of the Dunhuang Cultural Relics Bureau..."
Zhuang Rui smiled and shook his head. His senior brother was really a nerd. He couldn't tell the truth from lies, and his face turned pale with fear.
"You kid, don't take it seriously..." Dr. Ren glanced at Zhuang Rui suspiciously. He knew that Zhuang Rui had a strong background. If he really wanted Zhongchuan to disappear in the country, it would not necessarily be difficult.
"Of course it's true, Xiao Jia, what are you laughing at? Come over and help..."
Seeing that Dr. Ren was taking it seriously, Zhuang Rui changed the subject in confusion. Sure enough, Ren Chunqiang's expression immediately became serious when he heard that Dr. Ren was about to start moving the scriptures out.
Since the entrance of the cave is opened behind the Buddha statue, and there is a base more than one meter high, these scrolls can only be handed to Xiao Jia and others through Zhuang Rui one by one, and then placed on the ground.
There are almost more than two hundred scrolls of ancient books wrapped in oil paper. Taking them out one by one in this way is cumbersome and inefficient. After more than an hour, the first scroll inside the oil paper was opened.
It can be regarded as taking out the general.
"Brother Ren, this won't work, it's too inefficient..."
There are thirty or forty oil-paper boxes in this Buddha statue alone. It would probably take at least two days to take them out in this way. Not to mention that it would be very disadvantageous for storage after the scrolls are taken out of the oil-paper boxes.
"Then what should we do? We can't leave it here, right? If something goes wrong, no one can afford it..."
Dr. Ren stopped his hand, frowned, thought for a moment and said: "This road is too difficult to walk. If people from outside are notified to come in, there may be danger when passing through the quicksand area. We have a total of
There are sixteen or seventeen camels, let’s find a way to take them out..."
"You can't dismantle it and take it out. It will cause too much damage to the scroll..."
Zhuang Rui nodded and said: "Brother Ren, please come out and let's expand the hole a little more. I'll go in and move it directly..."
After Dr. Ren came out, the two of them pulled out a lot of the green bricks at the entrance of the cave, and the entire entrance was ready for Zhuang Rui to enter and exit upright.
"Slow down, be careful, don't let the oil paper open the package, don't drop it..."
After Zhuang Rui walked into the belly of the Buddha statue, he directly hugged an oil paper package with both hands and moved it up. Dr. Ren, who was standing outside, looked concerned, fearing that Zhuang Rui would drop...those scriptures.
Zhuang Rui held the oil-paper scroll wrapped in a square shape and carefully handed it to Xiao Jia and Xiao Jia who were standing under the pedestal. He joked to Dr. Ren: "Ahem, Brother Ren, are you afraid?"
Are you throwing me or these scriptures?"
Although these are all paper books, the shaft in the middle is made of good solid wood, and the weight is really not light. Such a package is estimated to weigh sixty or seventy pounds. Although Dr. Ren can hold it, he can't walk.
Starting off, he wasn't as sure-footed as Zhuang Rui.
With Zhuang Rui's tireless labor, the efficiency of taking out the scrolls from the Buddha statue was immediately accelerated. By noon, all the forty-three scrolls wrapped in oil paper were taken out from the Buddha statue.
Place them neatly on the ground in the middle of the hall.
Zhuang Rui had spiritual energy that could relieve physical fatigue, but Xiao Jia and the others couldn't. They would be too tired to sit on the ground and couldn't get up. Even Dr. Ren's arms were weak, so he went out and called Peng Fei to come over and change his shift.
Transported.
As for Nakagawa, he kept stretching his head to look into the temple all morning. Of course, standing at the bottom of the steps, he would not be able to see anything going on in the main hall.
…
"Zhuang Rui, I have called the teacher. The teacher has booked a flight for the afternoon and will contact the people from the Dunhuang Cultural Relics Department to come together..."
Dr. Ren took Zhuang Rui's satellite phone and ran into the hall excitedly. When he was on the phone with his tutor just now, he could feel that Professor Meng, who was always known for his calmness and rationality, was also excited.
"Brother Ren, it will be difficult for them to come in if no one leads the way. Let's think about how to take these things out first, right?" Zhuang Rui looked at the small mountain of scriptures in front of him and frowned.
This package of scriptures weighs about sixty or seventy kilograms, thirty packages weighs more than two thousand kilograms, and a camel can carry a load of two to three hundred kilograms without affecting its normal walking. This means that they
It is impossible to take all these scrolls and scriptures out at once.
Dr. Ren also discovered this problem and said: "That's right, not to mention there are not enough camels, even there are not many carrying baskets, so you can't put these scriptures on the humps, right?"
When we entered the desert this time, including the camels of Erdan and others, there were only six camels carrying supplies, each with two baskets on their sides. It was almost impossible to transport these scriptures out with just these six camels.
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After Zhuang Rui thought for a while, he said: "Let's do this, Brother Ren, let Brother Mengzi lead the way. You, Xiaolei and Peng Fei will go out, return to the town to meet the teacher, and then bring the camel team in...
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Dr. Ren shook his head and said: "You should lead the team out, and I will guard these scriptures..."
It's not that Ren Chunqiang is being pretentious or afraid of making this extra trip. The key is that when they leave the desert, there will be countless domestic and foreign media waiting to interview them. It is estimated that even CCTV will follow up and report. This is a big limelight.
Chance.
You must know that the emergence of this batch of Dunhuang documents was as sensational as dropping an atomic bomb on the domestic scientific research community, and its importance was even far greater than when Zhuang Rui found the fossils of Peking Man.
The documents in the Dunhuang Scripture Cave date from the Eastern Han Dynasty, through the Three Kingdoms, Two Jin Dynasties, Northern Wei, Western Wei, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Northern Song and other more than ten dynasties, spanning more than 700 years in time and space.
Its content covers dozens of subjects, including politics, economics, military, transportation, geography, calendar, contracts, household registration, medicine, mathematics, calligraphy, music, etc. It is a voluminous ancient library.
Although the exact number of these scriptures has not yet been accurately calculated, Zhuang Rui made a rough estimate that the total of all the documents in the three Buddha statues should not be less than 30,000 volumes, which is almost more than 100 years ago.
More than two-thirds of the Dunhuang documents unearthed in the Tibetan Scripture Cave.
Therefore, this archaeological discovery will become a milestone in the Chinese archaeological community and will definitely be remembered in the history of world archaeology. The names of these people in the archaeological team will also be recorded in relevant textbooks.
If the archaeological team is like this, then the first person to discover these documents and scriptures will of course have more honors. That's why Dr. Ren asked Zhuang Rui to lead the team out, because these scriptures were originally attributed to Zhuang Rui
discovered.
Zhuang Rui understood what Ren Chunqiang meant and smiled and said: "Brother Ren, I don't need these anymore. Just because I am the leader of this archaeological team, I will have everything I should have. But you should evaluate the researcher title immediately. You need these very much."
of……"
With Zhuang Rui's current net worth and reputation in the antiques and jade industry, he really doesn't need this gimmick of discovering Dunhuang documents to gain any benefits for himself.
And as Zhuang Rui said, as the leader of this archaeological team, he will share all the honors.
But this discovery, a purely unexpected gain, is not the main purpose of Zhuang Rui's trip. Zhuang Rui is actually brewing a more important discovery in his heart, but that idea would be too ridiculous in the eyes of others, Zhuang Rui still never
I haven’t told the other members of the archaeological team.
Zhuang Rui looked at Xiao Jia and others again and said: "By the way, as those of you who participated in this archaeological project, it will not be difficult for you to stay in school in the future. You can reconsider your assignment after graduation..."
