Chapter 53 A Deeper Conversation Christmas for Book Friends
"I simply can't believe what the dean said. I can't believe that the books brought back from Blackwater City alarmed His Majesty the Tsar. I know that the Chinese in the East have created many miracles, but the miracles from Xixia that the dean mentioned are too
It's unbelievable. I always thought that even God couldn't do this. It's buried in China, buried in Blackwater City. His Majesty the Tsar needs it, and Russia also needs it. If all this is true, I think I will
I'm so lucky, as if in a dream, Mr. Dean relayed His Majesty the Tsar's promise that as long as I can find it, His Majesty the Tsar will grant me one-third of the land in Siberia..."
This passage really shocked me. How big is Siberia? To reward one-third of the land to a half-hearted soldier and a failed explorer?
And when I saw this, I had a vague feeling that the thing mentioned in the notes seemed to be what Lei Yingxiong and Xiaohu and the others had been looking for.
I held the translation and continued to read. After Kozlov had a secret conversation with Lokislovitch, he received a formal mission and returned to Blackwater City to further dig at all costs, manpower and material resources. It made me feel
Surprisingly, Kozlov recorded that if the Turghuts and Chinese officials encountered obstruction during this excavation, Russia would consider sending troops to China to use strong armed forces to safeguard the excavation work.
To be honest, it is difficult for people to understand the notes recorded at this point. The Tsar not only promised to grant Kozlov a vast territory, but also prepared to go to war with China. At that time, the war atmosphere in Europe was getting stronger and stronger, and the great powers were expanding their armies.
In preparation for war, Russia has always been the weakest link in imperialism. It is very poor. It is very difficult to cope with the armaments on the Western Front. It also has to assemble troops to fight China. The purpose is to ensure that Kozlov's excavation work in Blackwater City proceeds smoothly.
?This formation is a bit abnormal.
The content at the end of the note is almost all related to the excavation work in Blackwater City. Because of the support of the Russian royal family, Kozlov was more courageous than the previous two times. He hired locals with huge sums of money to serve as workers and traveled throughout the Blackwater City ruins.
Looking for what he wanted, and Kozlov seemed to understand something as the digging went deeper. He recorded this in his notes: I think I seem to have understood that Potanin did not lie.
It's just that he misled me. There has never been a lord called General Black in Blackwater City. His eighty carts of treasure cannot exist, but it must be in the dry well. I want to find the dry well.
The excavations under the command of Kozlov continued, and another batch of astonishing cultural relics were unearthed, but these cultural relics could no longer satisfy him, because the ultimate goal of this operation was: it.
The entire Blackwater City was almost plowed, and the hard work paid off, and the people actually dug the dry well. Kozlov was so happy that he immediately dismissed all the people, and the dry well was cleared and further excavation was carried out.
His trusted entourage did it himself.
The whole notebook is almost over. I don’t know why, but after the dry well was dug out, the contents of the notebook were very brief and general. When I turned to the last page, this paragraph appeared: It is undeniable that I am about to be
What happened in Dry Well today scared me crazy. That Dry Well... was like the entrance to hell. Unbelievable! Unbelievable! Dry Well! Dry Well! I think I should lead the camel team while I am still alive.
It was too scary to leave Blackwater City. I believe that any explorer in the world who witnessed a dry well would definitely make the wisest choice like me, that is, leave Blackwater City and leave forever!
I closed the translation and rubbed my sour eyes. Mustache said that Kozlov never set foot in the Danba Jilin Desert again after finishing his expedition to Blackwater City. There was also a description of the dry well in his memoirs, but it was different from this one.
The description in this note is completely different. The autobiography says that he dug a dry well and sent two followers into the dry well, but both of them fainted inexplicably. Then, two large and scary snakes emerged from the dry well, one with a mouth
Breathing yellow smoke and black smoke from one mouth.
This is obviously a deceptive plot.
"What Kozlov is looking for is what you are looking for?" I closed the notebook, and the hunch in my heart became stronger. Mustache will not do unnecessary things. Since he showed me this notebook, he will
The description is directly related to what we are going to do now.
"There is no explanation in the notes, but it can be analyzed that there were some books and scriptures among the Western Xia cultural relics that Kozlov shipped back to China for the first time. The notes also clearly stated that it was the books that alarmed the tsar, and the Royal Society was there
After sorting out these things, I ordered him to return to China to accept the mission, and then reorganized the team to go to Blackwater City."
"You mean that the Russians learned about the existence of this thing from the ancient Tangut books unearthed in Blackwater City, so they sent Kozlov to find it?"
"That's right. Kozlov dug up the palm beads from Blackwater City when the Tibetan and Han Dynasties came together. The Russians relied on the palm beads to decipher some ancient Xixia books and found clues."
"As you can see, this notebook is just like a parchment. It has no beginning or end. Is there any important content that has been missed?"
"No, Kozlov dare not write it down. This kind of thing is very secretive. If he leaks it, he will be killed. But one thing is certain, the ancient Xixia books are still in the hands of the Russians, whether it is Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union
, even after the disintegration of Russia, these ancient Xixia books were very strictly controlled. China negotiated with them several times and wanted to return the documents unearthed in Heishui City, but the Russian side refused. Later, the written materials were finally returned.
After compilation, eleven Russian-Tibetan Blackwater City documents were published, and I have read them all. However, the historical materials returned by the Russians are incomplete. At least, the ancient Xixia books mentioned in Kozlov’s notes are not among them.”
I sat on the sofa and thought for a while. Although many situations are still vague, I already had a rough guess in my mind.
The first one, the manuscript left by Lu Xiuhuang and the Xixia bronze medal, seem to have nothing to do with each other, but based on the clues I can know now, I think that by interpreting part of the contents of Lu Xiuhuang's manuscript, I can get it based on these contents.
Xixia Bronze Medal. As for whether there are other things recorded in the manuscript, it is temporarily unknown.
Secondly, what Kozlov is looking for is probably the same thing as what Xiaozhu and the others are looking for. And thinking about it again, I doubt that even Lu Xiuhuang and the man named Shi Pan were involved.
This is what people are looking for.
But so far, everyone has failed.
"Can you tell me?" I looked at my mustache and said, "What is the Xixia bronze medal for?"
"Since you want to talk, take this opportunity to have a good talk." Mustache habitually put a cigarette under his nose and smelled it: "I know you are very curious and there are many things you want to know.
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"Are you willing to say it?"
"I remember telling you that the Xixia Bronze Medal has a wide range of implications. There are many things that happened around the Bronze Medal, and it is also very complicated. As long as those involved are involved, there is no way to escape. Frankly speaking, I am the same as Wei Changkong and Lei Yingxiong.
, are all looking for this kind of Xixia bronze medal.”
"What is the specific use of the Xixia Bronze Medal?"
"The reason why I got involved in this matter is because of a compelling reason. This is my **. I can't tell you, and you'd better not ask. When I first came into contact with the bronze medal, I, like you, was concerned about the whole thing.
We know very little about this matter, and there is nothing we can do about it. We can only rely on ourselves to find clues and information bit by bit. Those involved in this matter are all scheming people. There is no way to extract from the mouths of such people.
When it comes to substantive clues, the clues I collected are very vague and scattered. I can't put them together into a complete line, so I have to infer many situations by myself. The time span of this matter is very large, and it can be
It’s completely beyond your imagination. There’s no point in going too far. If you want to know more about it, let’s start with Kozlov.”
"Didn't you read his notes just now?"
"The search for the Xixia bronze medal has never stopped, but due to various reasons and lack of actual clues, many people are looking for it privately. It was only after the ancient Tangut books were excavated from Kozlov that things turned around. The Royal Society of Russia
When they first obtained the Xixia ancient book, they did not know what it was or its importance. It was not until the ancient book was completely deciphered that they realized that they could no longer let anyone gain insight into the contents of the ancient book. However, the person responsible for deciphering the ancient book at that time
There are not just two people. Although Russia strictly blocked all information about the ancient Xixia books afterwards, the news still leaked out, but the scope of dissemination was very narrow."
"Someone must have come to Blackwater City again."
"Yes, I said that anyone who comes into contact with this matter will be like a demon. They can't help but go further and further away, unable to escape. Kozlov encountered an unknown situation in Blackwater City and refused to participate in related actions.
, very strangely, for some unknown reason, Russia also stopped excavation of Blackwater City. Maybe they are still looking, but the operations are carried out in secret. Then, a group of British, American, German, Swedish, and
The Chinese came to Blackwater City several times, trying to find what Kozlov had not found, but to no avail."
"Then what?"
"We are only talking about the group of Chinese people here. You should know that at that time, the Chinese government did not have the energy to participate in this matter, so..." Mustache showed an incomprehensible smile: "