Chapter 649: Forehead, Your Majesty Made a Mistake!
Before entering the Holy Patriarch's bedroom, Queenie ordered people to set up an incense table in the passage according to the procedure, then picked up a decree and recited it into the air.
This edict was not a pretentious edict from Fu Zhongtang, it was really written by Qianlong, his grandson.
In the decree, Qianlong first touted his grandfather's life achievements, and then said something about the unfilial piety of his children and grandchildren. The general idea was that the Qing Dynasty was now encountering serious difficulties. According to the opinions of the expert team, your old residence must be renovated, otherwise
I am afraid that the Qing Dynasty will not be able to escape the fate of the Zhu Ming Dynasty.
The words used are quite sincere and touching. Most of them were written by Qianlong based on his own situation.
The old guy Xu also pointed out that repairing the tomb of the Holy Patriarch could help him turn over.
From a superstitious perspective, it is not impossible.
Only Jia Liu knew of no fewer than five officials who had risen to high positions by building ancestral tombs for their families.
Kuang repaired the imperial mausoleum.
From a scientific point of view, it is simply impossible.
Because it was impossible for Jia Liu to let the Holy Ancestor continue to sleep in the underground palace.
The ancestral tombs have been occupied by different people, and Aixinjueluo's feng shui can still improve. Jia Liu was so angry that he might strangle himself to death and lie in Kangxi's coffin himself.
"kneel!"
After reading the imperial edict, Queenie subconsciously shouted.
"Um?"
Jia Liu reacted, immediately put his feet together, made a splashing sound, and bowed vertically at 90 degrees to the dark passage.
Enming and Jin Jian saw this and hurriedly pulled up their bent knees, imitating Master Jia Jia's style.
After bowing, Jia Liu waved his hand: "Let's fire off the cannons."
"嗻!"
Two of Sauron's personal guards stepped forward and lit two strings of firecrackers hanging on spears, and suddenly there was a "thunderbolt" sound in the tomb passage.
This is Jia Liu's feelings towards the Holy Ancestor.
The traditional Chinese concept is that whether a house is being built or renovated, whips must be set off to show celebration.
"superior!"
Baozhu gave an order, and dozens of guards filed in holding torches. The true situation of the tomb passage was immediately clear.
Unfortunately, all the various murals on the walls on both sides of the tomb passage were soaked by the water, some completely rotted and fell off, and some even lost half of them.
It's completely incomparable to the one in Tailing.
This made Jia Liu and Enming anxious. Judging from the situation, not to mention the antiques, calligraphy and paintings that the Holy Patriarch brought into the underground palace, the coffins and coffins were probably not in place, which would have damaged the body of the Holy Patriarch.
It's really soaking in the water.
Fortunately, the gold bricks in the underground palace are well preserved.
Real gold is not afraid of fire or water.
According to the relevant records of Jingling of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the golden slip reported good news to Master Jia Jia. It was that the regulations of the underground palace of the Holy Ancestor were higher than those of King Sejong Yongzheng. Therefore, the number of solid gold bricks alone reached 680 per hundred kilograms, which was more than that of Thailand.
The mausoleum side is a full 180 yuan more.
The shape, area, and amount of gold are all the same, and each piece weighs a hundred catties.
That is to say, there are 68,000 kilograms of gold hidden in the tomb passage in front of Jia Liu. One ton is 2,000 kilograms, which is a total of 34 tons of gold.
In later generations, this would be the size of the gold reserves of a small country.
The official price of one tael of gold is worth more than sixty taels of silver, and one pound of sixteen taels can be exchanged for more than ninety taels. These more than 60,000 kilograms of gold alone earned Jia Liu more than six million taels of silver in one go, which was a real help in times of need.
I'm afraid it was also the greatest contribution that the Holy Ancestor made to the Qing Dynasty.
In Jia Liu's previous life, one gram of gold cost about 400, one pound was 200,000, and more than 60,000 gold was worth more than 13 billion.
If there are other people, he has to be tempted!
Satisfied, after tapping the gold bricks that were still a little waterlogged with a Jatling gun, Jia Liu ordered the people around him: "Pry them all up and transport them out, and replace them with small gold-coated bricks later."
After hearing this, Enming's mind started to move. If he remembered correctly, Master Jia Jia had allowed them to pick ten items from the underground palace, so don't pick anything else and just get ten gold bricks.
No matter how you calculate it, it's nearly one hundred thousand taels of silver.
Although I am tempted by the gold slips, I think about the countless treasures buried with the Holy Ancestor. A few good things may be sold for a hundred thousand taels, so it is not cost-effective to just get the gold bricks.
So I decided to take another look. If the treasure was seriously damaged, it wouldn't be too late to get the gold bricks.
This is called stability.
The guards who were scouting the road ahead reported that everything was normal, the air was flowing, and there was no danger.
Jia Liu immediately led the team straight to Kangxi's three bedrooms and two living rooms.
What he saw shocked him. It was no different from a garbage dump.
The house was full of water-soaked gold and silver jewelry, many famous calligraphy and paintings were soaked in water, and a large number of ancient books were washed everywhere.
The level of damage was beyond repair.
Most of the bookshelves used to store funerary objects also collapsed, and many porcelains were damaged to varying degrees, including treasures from the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties.
Any piece you take out is worth more than Jia Liujia's handed down Chenghua big rooster bowl.
It is not an exaggeration to describe the damage in Kangxi's tomb as a disaster for Chinese culture.
"oops!"
Queenie picked up a bad painting from the ground and couldn't stop stamping his feet, sighing and hissing, as if his wife had been robbed.
Jia Liu didn't understand calligraphy and painting, so he asked Queenie who painted the painting in his hand.
"Sir, this is a painting by the painting sage Wu Daozi! It's a priceless treasure. If you sell it, let alone 100,000 taels, there will be people asking for even 300,000 taels!"
Looking at Wu Daozi's original work that had been completely soaked, the pain on Queenie's face came from the bottom of his heart. Even Enming and Jin Jian, who were searching for it, came to take a closer look and were heartbroken.
What a bastard!
Jia Liu was also annoyed that a genuine work by a famous person was soaked in blisters. Who could explain it to him?
No wonder not many good things from ancient times were passed down to later generations. In addition to the factors of war and human fire, a large number of good things were brought to the tomb by the Dog Emperor.
Generations of people have succeeded, generations have destroyed, and future generations will still inherit, watch, and learn.
To put it bluntly, the civilian archaeological team has played a protective role in Chinese culture, because at least they have brought things out so that future generations can have a chance to see the true appearance.
Without buying and selling, there is no protection.
If it is all stored in a dark underground palace, what value will it have to future generations?
A situation like the Kangxi Underground Palace cannot be repaired no matter how many generations it takes.
Rescue work for Chinese classical art and treasures began immediately.
The first step is to immediately clean up gold, silver, jade and other non-damageable items from the garbage dump, put them aside and sort them into categories.
Afterwards, the calligraphy and paintings that were not damaged or seriously damaged were found and stored separately, followed by other various treasures.
Jia Liu, who was distressed by the damage to the national treasure, devoted himself to the rescue work. He took out six authentic paintings of Tang and Song Dynasties, two of which were completely worthless, three of which could be repaired, and only one of which was still intact, which was still Taoist.
The picture of a chicken pecking rice (a picture of a pheasant) by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.
After working for nearly an hour, it was basically cleaned up.
The person in charge of the registration was Jin Jian, the Minister of Internal Affairs. He held a list of the items buried with Jingling Tomb in his hand, and marked off anything that was damaged with a pen.
What is not scratched out with a pen is naturally intact.
". 3 gilt velvet crowns, 2 gold crowns with pearls, 4 golden silk inlaid with colored pearls and nine phoenix mother-of-pearls, inlaid with Taisheng pearls, 35 Eastern beads each, various jade and diamond-set, 135 gemstones
."
"40 pairs of rings with rubies on gold-plated emerald green, 6 jade melon cups, 4 pleated gold dragons, and 138 jade rings of various colors."
"Jade, 108 bead-inlaid poles, 80 gold enamel cups and saucers, 65 gold-plated silver pools, gold-plated silver bowls, more than 100 gold-plated silver cups, 60 dragon-shaped jade ornaments, 18 boxwood carved Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea bonsai
pieces.”
"In addition, there are more than 30 calligraphy and paintings that are not damaged, more than 40 ancient bronzes, dozens of various jewelry, jade orbs, and ancient books that need to be taken out before the extent of damage can be assessed."
Everything on the gold slips is detailed and reported one by one.
Jia Liu indicated that there was no need to go into details and just asked how many gold slips there were in total.
There was really no accurate figure for these gold slips, so he quickly asked someone to add them up with him. It took him half an hour to report the number of pieces, and a total of 846 pieces had been rescued.
"846 pieces?"
Jia Liu frowned, and then looked at Jin Jian meaningfully.
Jin Jian understood and said hurriedly: "My official remembered it wrong, it was 646."
"Is the loss so small?"
Jia Liu looked at Jin Jian meaningfully again, feeling that the Minister of the Interior's ability to understand the spirit of his superiors needed to be strengthened.
"ah?"
Jin Jian was startled for a moment, and then he understood the meaning of the forehead consort. He quickly gritted his teeth and changed his words: "The forehead consort, there are 346 pieces."
As soon as he finished speaking, the prince-in-law reached for his waist and shouted anxiously: "No, it's not 146 pieces. It's 46 pieces, 46 pieces!"