Chapter 1261: The Blocked Secret Passage

After sitting down at the table, Ye Tian and the others quickly ordered a few signature dishes from Swan Restaurant! plus a bottle of top red wine from Bordeaux, France.

Next, they began to look around and admire the famous restaurant, the former home of a famous person who sparked a revolutionary frenzy.

Of course, Ye Tian once again took on the role of a docent, and whispered to Betty and the others about the story of the Swan Restaurant.

"It's a Renaissance building, like the Hugo house we just visited, and it's a little bit older than the Brussels town hall on the other side.

Before the forties of the nineteenth century, although many celebrities lived in this building, it was not famous for itself, and was only an ordinary building around the Grand Place in Brussels.

It was not until February 1845, when Marx moved from Paris to Brussels, that the building had its most glorious and important history, and in April of the same year, Engels moved it from Bamen.

For a long time after that, it became the birthplace of the working-class revolution in Europe and the world, attracting countless attention and leaving a strong mark on history.

It was in this Renaissance-style building that Marx and Engels co-founded the Communist Communications Committee and the German Workers' Association, which led the workers' movement throughout Europe.

It was also here that Marx wrote a series of famous works, such as "The Poverty of Philosophy", and more importantly, the revolutionary program of the communist movement, the Communist Manifesto.

After the birth of the Communist Manifesto, it quickly spread and swept the whole world in Europe, Asia, and around the world.

You were born in the United States, you were raised in the United States, and you were educated in the service of capitalism from the beginning, and you may not understand the importance of the Communist Manifesto.

But in China, in all other socialist countries, as long as you have a minimum education, you understand very well what the Communist Manifesto means and understands its importance,......"

When giving this explanation, Ye Tian tried his best to make his tone appear calmer, so as not to show himself too excited, just like expounding an academic point of view, without personal emotional factors.

The reason for this, of course, he has his own considerations.

For the time being, I am still living in the evil of US imperialism and in the dire straits of capitalism, and I should not leave in the short term.

Therefore, in order to avoid giving people a handle, in order to avoid being used to play against himself, Ye Tian must always pay attention to his words and deeds, and some things are indeed not suitable for touching.

Although it is no longer the Cold War period, and the ideological antagonism and struggle are not so serious, who can guarantee that no one will make a fuss in this regard?

While explaining to Betty, Ye Tian also looked around, visited and admired the furnishings and decorations of the Swan Restaurant, and looked very carefully.

Of course, he didn't miss the opportunity to see through either!

This is the place where the two great mentors of Marx and Engels worked, lived, and even fought, and perhaps there will be surprising discoveries.

Everywhere he looked, the dining area on the first floor of the Swan Restaurant, the basement, and several rooms adjacent to the dining area were all presented in Ye Tian's eyes, without the slightest secret.

In the dining area on the first floor, except for a few antique relics related to Marne covered by bulletproof glass, as well as a few other antique artworks of average value, Ye Tian did not find any treasures.

For this situation, Ye Tian had already expected it, and it couldn't be more normal.

From 1845 to the present, one hundred and seventy or eighty years have passed, which is quite a long time.

During this time, the building's purpose has changed several times, it has been used as the residence of the two great teachers of the Marne, as a café, as a hotel, and now as a restaurant.

Every change in the nature of use basically means a renovation on a larger or smaller scale, and there is simply no secret to such an important area as the dining area on the first floor.

Although Ye Tian also found something, in a room adjacent to the dining area, he found a hidden grid behind an oil painting, which was very hidden and could not be easily noticed.

But the dark compartment was empty, not even a scrap of paper, let alone a document related to the Communist Manifesto from the hands of the two great teachers of Marne.

In just three or five seconds, Ye Tian had seen through the dining area on the first floor of the restaurant, as well as several adjacent rooms, and found nothing.

Then, pretending to be inadvertent, he looked down at the floor of the dining area, and began to look through the floor and begin to probe the basement and beyond.

The basement of this building has only one floor, which is basically the same as the floor area of the first floor, and the layout is slightly different, divided into several rooms, large and small.

Restaurateurs use the basement as a warehouse, stocked with food such as rice, flour, grain, oil, and other miscellaneous items, as well as a cold storage for meat and seafood.

Two of the rooms near the plaza have been converted into staff lounges, where beds, desks, computers, clothes, and everything else are placed.

The entire basement is crammed to the brim, making it look cluttered, not as solemn and elegant as the façade and the first floor of this building show, with an artistic atmosphere.

Seeing the mess in the basement, Ye Tian knew that he didn't expect to find anything in this basement.

God knows how many times this basement has been renovated and redecorated by previous owners, and even if there are secrets, others have already discovered them.

In fact, as he expected, in this basement, Ye Tian did not have any surprising discoveries, nor did he find any valuable antique artworks.

Then, his gaze continued downward, penetrating the basement floor and looking deeper underground.

When his gaze went about a meter underground, a surprise finally appeared, and it was what Ye Tian had been waiting for for a long time, which almost made him cheer.

It was a deep and damp arched passageway, about one meter seven or eight high and about one meter wide, and the interior space was relatively spacious enough for an adult to pass through.

Its location, just over a meter below the basement of the Swan Restaurant, slopes down and extends deeper into the ground.

One end of the passage leads to the basement of the Swan Restaurant, and the other end is not yet known where it leads, and it needs to be explored to find out.

But judging from the part that Ye Tian can see through the perspective, the direction it leads to is the east of the Brussels City Hall.

It might be possible to get to the town hall not far away, and if that were the case, it would be a lot of fun!

Perhaps for security reasons, or something else, the passage that connects the entrance to the basement of the Swan Restaurant has been sealed with bricks and earth!

In order to cover up the traces of the existence of this secret passage, the person who sealed the secret passage filled more than a meter thick of masonry and mud at the entrance and exit of the secret passage, and made enough camouflage.

If he didn't have the perspective ability, even if he put Ye Tian at the location of the entrance and exit of the secret passage, and gave him a shovel to dig at will, it would be impossible to discover this secret passage!

This secret passage has been treated and buried so perfectly that with the naked eye, almost no one can find any traces of its existence, and no one knows that there is a deep secret passage underneath here.

Fortunately, Ye Tian has the ability to see through, and this hidden passage, which has long been artificially buried, cannot be hidden, and it is clearly presented in his eyes.

Ye Tian had no way of knowing who had dug this secret passage, so he could only secretly guess the usefulness of this secret passage, but he was very sure of the age when this secret passage was excavated and blocked.

When filling and burying the secret passage connecting the entrance and exit of the basement of the Swan Restaurant, the person or several people were buried by hand, and an arched iron door was erected in the ground more than one meter deep from the entrance and exit of the secret passage.

There was a big lock hanging on the reverse side of the iron door, although the rust was very serious, but from the dazzling red light emitted by the big lock, Ye Tian could accurately judge the age of its production.

Looking through the iron door, Ye Tian saw several candlesticks on the walls on both sides of the secret passage, and from the dazzling red light emitted from these candlesticks, he could also judge the approximate year of the excavation of the secret passage.

This secret passage was excavated in the mid-forties of the nineteenth century, and it was closed and buried, that is, when the iron door was erected and the large lock was hung up, in the early fifties of the nineteenth century.

It was the period when Marx and Engels lived here, the period when Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto, and the most glorious part of the building's history.

After confirming this, a trace of ecstasy immediately flashed in Ye Tian's eyes.

Although he still hadn't found any valuable antique artwork or important documents in that secret passage until this point, he was sure that he would find something in the secret passage!

Even if nothing is found in the end, the secret passage has already been cleaned up, and the secret passage itself alone is a very significant discovery, enough to cause quite a stir!

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