Chapter 687: Zhoukoudian's Bones [Second Update]

Yang Bo felt that Cao Yuande might have something to find him when he came over this time, but he was not sure.

Soon after returning home, Yang Bo received a call from Cao Yuande, who invited him to meet at a teahouse.

Yang Bo was very surprised, but he also knew that Cao Yuande must have something to do when he found himself in such a secret at this time, so he didn't hesitate too much, settled Yue Junyao, and went to the teahouse.

Yang Bo met Cao Yuande in the lobby, and when he saw him, he was holding a teacup and drinking tea intently.

Yang Bo sat down, didn't speak, and picked up the teacup.

After a while, Cao Yuande said, "Have you been busy lately?"

"It's okay. Yang Bodao.

Cao Yuande paused slightly, and his voice was much lower, "Do you know the bones of the ape-man in Zhoukoudian?"

Yang Bo was stunned, "You know, isn't this written in the middle school history book?

Cao Yuande nodded, "But you don't know, the bones of Zhoukoudian are missing, and there are some bones in the Ruins Museum, which were made later." ”

Yang Bo was a little surprised, he really didn't know about this matter, and couldn't help but look up at Cao Yuande, "You don't want me to get the bones back, right?"

Cao Yuande laughed, "Smart!"

Yang Bo put the teacup directly on the table, "Yes, this is the end of today's conversation, I'm leaving, go to bed early and get up early!"

Cao Yuande looked at Yang Bo, "Don't you want to continue listening?"

Yang Bo shook his head, "I don't want to at all, let's see you again!"

"If I say that if I find the bones of Zhoukoudian, I will find a lot of gold, I don't know what you will think?" Cao Yuande said.

Yang Bo still shook his head, "My biggest advantage is that I am not greedy for money!"

"6,000 tons!" Cao Yuande said.

Yang Bo had already walked out, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but pause, and looked up at Cao Yuande, "How much do you say?"

Cao Yuande lowered his head, looked at the desktop, and pretended to be stupid: "What I just said, I forgot it myself, do you want to remind me?"

Yang Bo sat down again, according to the current price of gold of 300 yuan per gram, one ton of gold is worth 300 million, 6,000 tons of gold, and the total value is more than 1.8 trillion yuan!

That's a lot of money!

A huge sum of money that can even drive a country crazy!

Yang Bo looked at Cao Yuande, "If you have something, just tell me!"

Cao Yuande couldn't help laughing, "You're really a money fan, I don't talk about money, so you won't let go, right?"

Yang Bo laughed and didn't say anything.

"Do you know the Golden Lily Project?" Cao Yuande asked again.

Yang Bo nodded, "Understand a little." ”

Cao Yuande nodded, "That's fine, I'll help you introduce the whole thing about the disappearance of Zhoukoudian's bones!"

Cao Yuande told the whole story in detail.

On December 2, 1928, Pei Wenzhong of Peking University excavated a complete ape-man skull in Zhoukoudian, and before the Lugou Bridge Incident in July 1937, after 11 years of excavation in Zhoukoudian, more than 40 human bone fossils and a large number of stone tools were found.

The Zhoukoudian ape-man fossils are a group of priceless treasures, which were collected in the safe of the Imperial Union Medical College Hospital, and were kept and studied by the famous American anthropologist Wei Dunrui.

At the beginning of 1941, relations between Japan and the United States became tense. Wei Dunrui suggested that it was unsafe for the precious fossils of the Emperor Ape Man to remain in Beiping under the Japanese rule, and suggested that the fossils should be temporarily transferred to the Natural History Museum in New York for preservation before being transported to China after the war. After many negotiations, China and the United States reached an agreement on this matter. In mid-November, the U.S. Embassy in China called from Chongqing and instructed the U.S. Legation in Dijing to take charge of the transshipment.

On November 20, the Imperial Union Hospital was ordered to secretly pack the fossils of the Imperial Ape Man. The fossils in the box are: 5 skulls, 15 skull fragments, 14 mandibles, 147 collarbones, thigh bones, upper arm bones, teeth, etc. All the fossils were packed in two large wooden boxes and transported by the U.S. Legation to the U.S. Marine Corps headquarters, where U.S. Colonel Ashurst was instructed to escort them.

Colonel Ashurst ordered the soldiers to convert the two wooden crates into a special standard box for the U.S. Army and await loading on board. According to the original plan, on December 11, a steamship "President Harrison" will arrive in Qinhuangdao from Shanghai, and then sail from Qinhuangdao to the United States. At the behest of Colonel, the U.S. Marine Corps medic Fry, escorted 24 boxes of standardized boxes including his personal luggage from Dijing to the U.S. military barracks in Holcamp, Qinhuangdao, where Fryer was to escort the fossils to the United States safely.

Something unexpected happened. On December 7, Pearl Harbor broke out. Camp Holcamper in Qinhuangdao was occupied by the Japanese army, and all the U.S. Marines became prisoners. Soon after, the captives were escorted to the Tianjin prisoner of war camp. After more than ten days, the luggage of the American prisoners of war was transferred from Qinhuangdao to Tianjin, and most of Dr. Fry's luggage was still there, including the standardized box for the US military containing the fossils of the Emperor Ape Man.

Dr. Fry's rest of his luggage, including standard suitcases, was evacuated on the spot in Tianjin: part of it was stored in a warehouse built by a Swiss businessman in Tianjin, part of it was stored at the Institut Pasteur in the French Concession, and part of it was stored in the home of a Chinese friend. Prior to the evacuation, Dr. Fryer had not opened the standardized box.

After the end of the war, the whereabouts of the standardized box containing the fossils of the Teikyo ape-man were unknown. China's priceless treasure passed through the hands of the U.S. Marine Corps, from Dijing to Qinhuangdao, from Qinhuangdao to Tianjin, and finally disappeared in Tianjin.

One theory is that the standardized box was loaded onto the steamship "President Harrison" in Qinhuangdao, but unfortunately sank on the way to the United States. The fossil of the Emperor ape-man sank to the bottom of the sea. Some people say that the ship did not sink, but was intercepted by the Japanese army on the way, and the fossil fell into the hands of the Japanese army, and its whereabouts are unknown.

Another theory is that the Dijing ape-man fossil did not leave Beiping City at all, and it was buried in the backyard of the U.S. Legation in Beijing. A guard who served as a guard at the entrance of the U.S. Marine Corps headquarters recalled that on the eve of Pearl Harbor, he saw two people secretly burying a box of items in the yard, which he estimated could be a fossil of the Imperial Ape Man.

Hearing this, Yang Bo frowned slightly, he looked at Cao Yuande, "That's all, since you want me to find the bones, there should be more definite news!"

Cao Yuande said with a smile: "Don't worry, I haven't talked about it yet, recently, our special department, in the confrontation with the Wa Kingdom, found some undeclassified evidence, took over the translation, and found the whereabouts of the bones of the ape man in Zhoukoudian!"

"Where?" Yang Bo was a little surprised.