Chapter 1252 Archaeologist: Believe in Science (27)
Many collectors in China have somewhat unclear relationships with tomb robbers.
Xie Zhangxu, on the surface, is just a literate collector who is good at identifying cultural relics.
But privately, he was the leader of a tomb robbing gang. He was once famous in Guanzhong, and the chain hotels he opened were all for money laundering in the beginning.
But when he decided to wash his hands after finishing his last job, something happened.
He stole a sacrificial item from an ancient tomb full of curses and was stained with the curse on it. After that, he suffered from the curse every day.
Later, he found a master who said he could transfer the curse to his blood relatives.
Xie Zhangxu only had one daughter, Xie Nannan, at that time. In order to survive, of course he chose to sacrifice his daughter without hesitation.
But seeing his daughter being tortured, Xie Zhangxu felt guilty and began to ask around for ways to save his daughter.
Later, he read the legend about dragon bones in a book.
From then on, he stopped robbing tombs and became a prominent figure in the black market of cultural relics, specializing in purchasing cultural relics for resale.
As long as the cultural relic he is interested in, if the other party does not sell it to him, the cultural relic will never be sold.
He believes that reselling cultural relics overseas is safer than digging in the cemetery himself. He will not be easily discovered by the police and will not be contaminated by those curses. Maybe one day he can purchase the dragon bones.
But more than ten years have passed, and no news about the dragon bone has been found. It was only recently that he discovered from some unearthed slips that the dragon bone might still be buried in an ancient tomb of a prince king two thousand years ago.
He deliberately spread the news and attracted many people to rob the tomb. As a result, those people either went in but could not come out, or after going in, they swore never to go in again.
The young people were not as good as the previous ones, so Xie Zhangxu had to go out in person and gathered a group of people to find the dragon bones.
And this group of people, on the surface, are all bodyguards he hired, or hotel staff.
Some people followed Xie Zhangxu at first, thinking he was really a bodyguard.
In the end, they were taken into the ancient tomb and died in it. Only then did they realize that they were tomb robbers, and only then did they realize that Xie Zhangxu basically tricked them into entering and dying.
The original person actually only found out about the Flying Thief, and there were many news and newspapers about the Flying Thief at home.
From these news newspapers, it is difficult to connect an elegant middle-aged man like Xie Zhangxu with a flying tomb robber.
But if you look carefully, you can see that some of the methods of the Feitian Thief are very similar to Xie Zhangxu, so Gu Mo just made a bold guess and said it at this moment to deceive Xie Zhangxu.
Who knew that Xie Zhangxu directly admitted it.
"Xiao Mo, you are very smart. Uncle Xie has been thinking about how great it would be if you were my biological daughter. Then I don't have to hide anything from you, and I can even teach you all my skills."
Gu Mohehe.
Xie Zhangxu stood up, took a snuff bottle and rubbed it repeatedly in his hand.
"Xiao Mo, in fact, tomb robbing and cultural relic business are not as scary as you think. It can even be said to be a quite civilized industry."
Xie Zhangxu looked very proud.
"The reason why murder, arson, deception and kidnapping are considered crimes is because there are specific victims. But are there victims for tomb robbing? Those princes and generals have been dead for thousands of years, and the meaning of the dead is defined by the living.
Yes, there is no law in the world that protects the interests of the dead."
"Are there any victims of selling cultural relics? Will it cause harm to any citizen? No, even because of this industry, many unemployed vagrants have serious jobs, which has also reduced the increase in the country's crime rate and maintained the stability of social security. This is A great deed of immeasurable merit."
If Gu Mo hadn't been clear-headed enough, he would have been convinced by Xie Zhangxu.
"Whether tomb robbing or reselling cultural relics, the number of victims is more than any other case, because its victims are more than one billion Chinese people. The treasures buried underground in the country are not the private property of any one person, but belong to everyone. Citizens, if you take it for yourself or even resell it abroad, you are infringing on the common rights and interests of more than one billion Chinese people."
"I am also a citizen of the country! I also have the right to control these treasures!"
Xie Zhangxu sounded excited, "I discovered these underground treasures with my own wisdom, unearthed them, and let them see the light of day and be appreciated by others. Although I made some money from them, I deserve it. You You can’t say that I’m wrong or that I’m committing a crime, because there’s not a single living victim of what I’ve done!”
"Those who died in the ancient tombs don't count?"
"That's their fate. If they want to seek wealth and wealth, they have to take certain risks. This is the ideological awareness they should have, and..."
Xie Zhangxu looked proud.
"Do you know how backward archeology is in China? Count on them. We will never know some historical secrets in our lifetime. But by handing them over to overseas scholars, many difficult historical problems will be solved. This is also about protecting cultural relics and giving full play to cultural relics. A way of maximizing value.”
Xie Zhangxu opened his hand, "What belongs to the nation belongs to the world. We must generously share our country's charming treasures with the whole world! What's more, history is a thing of the past. What we should pay more attention to is the present and the future. ! If we can use those things that are not important to our country to catch up with developed countries and go to the moon and outer space, that will be a major event that benefits the country and the people!"
Gu Mo was stunned at Xie Zhangxu's sophistry.
This is even more nonsense than she is.
"Excavating ancient tombs, reselling cultural relics, causing countless treasures to be lost overseas, and causing countless histories that should have existed to disappear into the present, deceiving young people to search for dragon bones in ancient tombs for you, and it turned out to be the first good deed in the world when it came to you, thank you Zhang Xu, I have never seen anyone as good at sophistry as you."
No wonder he can describe his selfish desires as great fatherly love.
I'm afraid he really thinks deep down in his heart how philanthropic and selfless he is.
However, in essence, he does not think that the research value of cultural relics is important at all, nor does he think that the historical information behind those cultural relics has any role in the current materialistic society. What he values is only the economic value of cultural relics.
This is probably a view generally shared by many tomb robbers.
However, the impact of the weight of history is everywhere.
When he saw the suffering of the people, Zhang Yanghao lamented, "In prosperity, the people suffer; in death, the people suffer!"; Qu Yuan "took a long breath to cover his tears, lamenting the hardships of the people's livelihood"; Du Fu "had tens of thousands of buildings to protect the world." All poor men are happy"
