The first thousand one hundred and eighty chapters do not suffer
Chapter 1,180: No loss at all
"Yuan blue and white porcelain jar? Is it the one that Guiguzi came down from the mountain?"
After Director Guo heard Zhuang Rui's words, his eyes suddenly widened behind his glasses. Zhuang Rui's words were so lethal that Director Guo had no intention of bargaining for a while.
You know, as the National Palace Museum has the largest collection of national collections and the most complete first-class cultural relics of each dynasty, it lacks blue and white porcelain from the Yuan Dynasty.
Especially in the past two years when the Yuan blue and white porcelain has been so brilliant, the Palace Museum without the Yuan blue and white porcelain seems to be less confident. After all, a private museum like Zhuang Rui has several pieces of Yuan blue and white porcelain, which has always been billed as a domestic museum.
Why is the boss's situation in the Palace Museum so embarrassing?
But they wanted to buy from abroad, but they couldn't afford that much money, so they borrowed Yuan blue and white flowers from Zhuang Rui's private museum. For the leaders of the museum and the Cultural Relics Bureau, it was a face-saving thing.
A dull thing.
"That's right, it's the Yuan blue and white porcelain..."
Zhuang Rui was startled when he saw Director Guo, who had always been gentle and elegant, actually showing a look like a hungry wolf, and then said: "Director Guo, please listen clearly, I mean if you beat me, then
I will donate porcelain to the country..."
Zhuang Rui was afraid that the old man would default on his debt, so he lent a few items to the Dingguang Museum regardless of whether he won or lost, and then blackmailed his Guiguzi Down Mountain porcelain jar away. This would be a huge loss in the deal, and the Chuanguo Jade Seal was not his after all.
Yes.
"Listen clearly, listen clearly. Why are you so young and so wordy..."
Compared with Director Liu sitting aside, Director Guo looked more like a businessman than a bureaucrat at the moment. How could he look like a deputy ministerial official with his smiling face? He looked like an old fox who had taken advantage of him.
"Hey, hey, I said, you have all heard it. You all can bear witness. If Xiaozhuang wins, I will let him choose three cultural relics from the tombs and put them on display in his museum for three months.
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However, if Xiaozhuang loses, his blue and white porcelain jar of Guiguzi from the Yuan Dynasty will be donated to the country. In addition, 20 million RMB will be donated to the Palace Museum free of charge for the repair and maintenance of cultural relics.
By the way, regardless of winning or losing, Xiaozhuang will donate the 20 million..." Director Guo was a mature man and was unwilling to suffer any losses, he added at the end.
As if he was afraid that Zhuang Rui would regret it, after the two finalized the relevant matters, Director Guo immediately started shouting loudly, causing some experts who were discussing the situation of the tomb in low voices to turn their heads and look over.
Director Guo was the deputy dean of archeology at Peking University before he took office, and was very familiar with Professor Meng. After hearing Director Guo's words, Professor Meng said in a dumbfounded voice: "Old Guo, you are almost sixty, so sorry.
To take advantage of the younger generation?"
According to Professor Meng's analysis, the owner of this tomb is more likely to be Ogedai or Kublai Khan, because when they were in power, Mongolia was at its strongest, and the time to build such a large-scale tomb was not
Also more mature.
Moreover, based on the analysis of clues in various historical materials, the possibility of Genghis Khan's mausoleum in Outer Mongolia is greater. Although it has not been determined, this is also the consensus of domestic Mongolian history research experts.
The experts in the tent now, even if they agree that this tomb is from the early Yuan Dynasty, most of them agree with Professor Meng. No one is optimistic that this is the tomb of Genghis Khan. It is Professor Meng who has Director Guo to take advantage of Zhuang Rui.
statement.
Director Guo was more than ten years younger than Professor Meng, and he also respected Professor Meng. He smiled and said: "Teacher Meng, there is nothing I can do about it. The country is poor. A piece of Yuan blue and white porcelain costs hundreds of millions. We
I can’t afford the money, so I can only beat the local tycoons..."
In this bet with Zhuang Rui, no matter whether he wins or loses, Director Guo will not suffer any loss. If he wins, it goes without saying that it can help the National Museum fill the gap of the Yuan blue and white collection of cultural relics.
Even if he loses, it doesn't matter. It's just a temporary loan of three cultural relics. What's more, Zhuang Rui still has to pay the 20 million, so Director Guo doesn't need to ask the leaders of the Ministry of Culture for instructions at all.
That's when the decision was made.
Zhuang Rui saw Director Guo's smug look and couldn't help but smile and said: "Director Guo, we still don't know who will win and who will lose. Just don't regret it then..."
The reason why Zhuang Rui added a clause of donating 20 million yuan at the end is mainly because he doesn't want to take advantage of the country, and the deeper the background, the better to be more careful. If he takes advantage now, it will be troublesome to settle with you in the future.
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The 20 million spent is regarded as the cost of renting the Chuanguo Jade Seal. Although it is not necessarily possible to earn back 20 million in three months, the sensational effect of the Chuanguo Jade Seal appearing in the Dingguang Museum is definitely 2,000
Absolutely impossible to buy.
"I don't regret it, I definitely don't regret it..."
Director Guo and Zhuang Rui were each thinking about their thoughts, with smiles on their faces. However, it is estimated that the bright smile on Director Guo's face will turn into a bitter smile before long.
This meeting was originally to discuss the development of tombs, but it ended with a bet between Zhuang Rui and Director Guo. Everyone in the tent was laughing and laughing. The old and the young didn't take this serious work meeting seriously.
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However, Director Guo was not out for personal gain, and everyone understood Zhuang Rui's little thoughts, and everyone regarded it as a good story.
After the meeting, Zhuang Rui immediately entered the underground tomb.
Now the entire working group is divided into two shifts, each working twelve hours to clean up below. As the deputy commander-in-chief of this archaeological operation, Zhuang Rui often has to stay in the tomb for fifteen or sixteen hours.
The cleaning work of the underground tombs was all arranged by Zhuang Rui. The tomb that will be opened today is filled with Xixia funerary objects. Since there are many porcelains in it, it needs to be carefully sorted, so Zhuang Rui personally led people to open the tomb.
"Zoom the camera closer and focus on the jar. Yes, it's the wine vessel..."
"Teacher Meng, the shape of these utensils is rare in China..."
"It's not surprising. The owner of this tomb should have robbed it from Xixia. Old Zhao, you are an expert in Xixia culture. Let's see if there are any valuable written records then?"
The thirty to forty square meter tomb was filled with various ceramics, gold and silverware, and the shapes of the Western Xia vessels had some Western flavor, so the experts on the ground could see them at a glance.
"These should be objects that can only be owned by Xixia nobles or the royal family. Xiaozhuang, you must...be careful. No matter how careful you are, anything that looks like writing must be properly protected..."
The shapes of these cultural relics are very unique. Teacher Zhao, who studies Xixia culture, has almost glued his eyes to the monitor in the tent at this moment, almost shouting to communicate with Zhuang Rui in the underground mausoleum.
In the eyes of these archaeologists, no matter how precious the cultural relics are, they are not as important as written records, because those records can make the truth that has been lost in the long history of history reappear before people's eyes.
There was a lot of discussion above, and the mausoleum was very busy. More than a dozen students urgently transferred from Beijing University were wearing oxygen suits, holding buckets of special potions in their hands, and were painting the colorful ceramic pavilions.
With.
By applying this special potion, these cultural relics that have been placed in ancient tombs for thousands of years will not change color due to exposure to outdoor oxygen.
In addition, some wooden and bronze gold, silver and iron vessels have a layer of underground soil evenly spread on them. This is only a temporary protection method. After they are taken out, there are still many protection processes to be done, otherwise these wooden vessels
, I'm afraid it will be damaged in all likelihood.
This is not alarmist, many archaeologists have experienced it personally, and this is also the experience they have gained through many lessons.
In some tombs dating back thousands of years, the utensils that were intact and colorful when they were first entered suddenly became old and decayed in front of everyone’s eyes in just a few minutes, and many wooden products and textiles
Objects, even directly turned into fly ash.
That feeling of thousands of years in an instant is like history evolving in front of you. After losing many precious cultural relics, archaeologists also found the reason and made some anti-corrosion materials accordingly.
Every time an item is painted, it will be numbered and sent to the tomb that has been cleaned. In addition, staff will sort it out, then seal and package it and send it to the ground.
Due to the unique geographical environment of the tomb, the manpower and material resources used for this excavation were unprecedented. Hundreds of archaeological staff from various provinces in China were recruited, and there were also more than 200 archeology departments from major universities.
student.
Although this tomb containing Xixia funerary objects is not the largest, it contains tens of thousands of precious cultural relics. After more than a week of cleaning work, most of the cultural relics were protected.
Of course, during this process, some cultural relics were exposed to outside oxygen and were partially damaged.
The unearthed cultural relics of the Western Xia Dynasty also made the expert team's speculation on the identity of the tomb owner more inclined to Wokuotai and Kublai Khan.
The reason is very simple. Genghis Khan died during the conquest of Xixia. In other words, he did not conquer Xixia, so naturally there would be no objects in his tomb that should belong to the Xixia royal family.
"Xiao Zhuang, what do you think? I'm willing to admit defeat. When will I hand over the blue and white flowers? I will hold a donation ceremony for you then..."
Director Guo has not caught Zhuang Rui in the past few days. When he saw Zhuang Rui coming out of the lake just now, he quickly grabbed him with a proud look on his face.
