Chapter 110: Peking Man Skull I
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After Ouyang Lei left, Vice Minister Yu couldn't sit still, and left in a hurry after saying hello to Zhuang Rui and Professor Meng, presumably going back to the ministry to discuss how to solve the salvage incident. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Teacher, what do you think about this incident, and will the students participate or not?"
To be honest, Zhuang Rui is not very interested in cooperation with relevant state departments, and he might as well go to the Atlantic Ocean a few times with this effort, and all the objects salvaged there belong to Zhuang Rui.
And if he participates in this domestic salvage, the matter is obvious, if the gold and platinum and the 50,000 carats of rough diamonds are salvaged, and they are designated as belonging to the state, he will receive some commendation at most.
However, Professor Meng was a witness to the salvage of the Awa Maru, and Zhuang Rui wanted to listen to the old man's opinion, and he had a question in his heart, so he also wanted to ask the teacher.
"The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, Xiaozhuang, although many departments in the country have many problems, but you just need to do it according to your own heart, and you can be worthy of the more than one billion people......"
Professor Meng is a pure scholar and is not very accustomed to those bureaucratic styles, and today's incident made him particularly uncomfortable, because when he didn't know about it before he came, Dean Liu told him that a research grant of 2 million yuan applied for a few months ago had been approved.
Hearing the news, Professor Meng was originally very happy, but after coming here, he learned that the leader of the dare to approve the funds was afraid that he had been imprisoned for the "Awa Maru" salvage incident more than 30 years ago, and he was unwilling to participate in the compensation made by the salvage.
Art, science, and history, which cannot be compensated for by money, the practice of Dean Liu made the old professor feel as disgusting as if he had eaten a fly, and there was this guy among the people who fell into the well back then.
"But how to cooperate, you can discuss it carefully, Xiaozhuang, you don't lack those gold, silver and diamonds and other objects, just let them go, but your museum, it seems that there are still not many things, right?"
Professor Meng winked at Zhuang Rui as he spoke, his face full of smiles.
"Hehe, teacher, can they agree?"
Zhuang Rui understood what Professor Meng meant, since it was a cooperative salvage, his side naturally had to benefit, and the money was given to the country, so he could use his brains in the lost items on the ship.
However, according to the previous records and some of the objects salvaged out of the water last time, those lost items are likely to be the things lost from Manchukuo at that time, that is, Pu Yi brought them out of the Forbidden City back then.
"Don't you agree? Do you keep it for those bureaucrats to spoil it? Do you keep it in the Forbidden City and rot it?"
Hearing Zhuang Rui ask this question, Professor Meng's voice suddenly rose a few degrees, and there was some indignation on his face.
"Teacher, what's wrong?" Zhuang Rui was a little puzzled, not knowing which of his words caused the teacher's displeasure?
"This has nothing to do with you, some time ago, out of research needs, I wanted to transfer out a character clay pot unearthed from Liu Xiu's tomb some time ago from the Forbidden City, but ...... But it didn't work out, and the thing was destroyed......"
The more Professor Meng spoke, the more angry he became, how could the clay pot be regarded as a national second-class protected object, but after it was damaged, it was not reported, and second, it was not repaired, but it was concealed inside the Forbidden City.
If it weren't for Professor Meng's research needs, the accidental destruction of the clay pot, I am afraid that this matter would never have been known to the world, even people in the industry.
Professor Meng couldn't bear this kind of bureaucracy, so he didn't want to see the "Awa Maru" really have any precious things, and it would be ruined by those bureaucrats in the Forbidden City.
"Okay, teacher, I'll definitely stick to this point......
After Zhuang Rui heard this, he was also very angry, as a property supervision department, he could not properly preserve the precious historical objects left by his ancestors, and he also passed the buck to each other after being damaged, such a department really could not reassure Zhuang Rui.
"Damn, I'll never exchange exhibits with the Forbidden City in the future, it's too unreliable......"
After listening to Professor Meng's speech, Zhuang Rui was still a little afraid in his heart, the last time he promised Jin Fatzi to exchange exhibits with the Forbidden City Museum, fortunately there were no accidents, otherwise his baby bumps would have been damaged or lost, so he wouldn't have been distressed to death?
Professor Meng's face softened, he pointed at Zhuang Rui with his finger, and said, "Well, some people want political achievements, and they don't pay too much attention to these things that can't be eaten and drunk, so they should be able to talk about it, but it's cheaper for you......"
"Teacher, you participated in the first salvage, what is on the Awa Maru, tell the students? I heard that the "Peking Man Skull" was on the Awa Maru, what the hell is this...... Is it true or false?"
Since hearing the name of "Awa Maru" from the mouth of the deputy minister just now, Zhuang Rui has always had this question in his heart, and he has been holding it for most of the day.
"You kid, I knew you'd ask that......"
Professor Meng laughed when he heard this, and after pondering for a while, he said, "Xiao Zhuang, how much do you know about Peking Man skulls?"
Professor Meng didn't want to test Zhuang Rui, but the skull of the Peking people involved a very complicated history, and if you don't understand the situation at the time, you can't make an inference at all.
"Teacher, everything I know is from textbooks, and there are some gossip that I can't do accurately......"
Zhuang Rui scratched his head embarrassedly, the "Peking Man Skull" is more significant to anthropologists and historians than archaeologists, so when he saw the relevant reports, he only read them as stories.
However, out of professional sensitivity, Zhuang Rui still remembered the ins and outs of this matter, as early as the twenties of the last century, Chinese scientists in Zhoukoudian belonged to two teeth belonging to early humans, in the same year O month, the Beijing scientific community reported this important present, immediately caused a sensation at home and abroad.
Later, the National Geological Survey and Peking Union Medical College jointly carried out large-scale excavation work on the Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian.
In order to find out the reality, Fei entered the cave alone, unexpectedly there are many animal fossils in the cave now, after a day of excavation, the archaeological scene that shocked the world, finally appeared.
At that time, it was already dark, but Fei who insisted on digging with the lamp, appeared an ape-man skull, half of the skull was still in the soil at that time, and after careful and meticulous excavation, the first Peking Man skull was finally completely unearthed.
At that time, Pei personally took a car and escorted this rare treasure to the city with his own two quilts, mattresses, and felt.
In 96 years, Jia Lanpo successively appeared a "Beijing ape" skull fossil in the ape-man cave, and a total of 6 skulls, skull fragments, 5 mandibs, 57 teeth and broken femurs, bloody bones, etc., belonged to more than 4o men, women, old and young individuals.
The present Peking Man site and fossils is a major event in the history of paleoanthropological research in the world, and so far, there is no ancient human site like the Zhoukoudian Peking Man site with so many ancient humans, archaicization, ancient animal fossils and other materials.
Although it is not the earliest human, it is called "the most meaningful and moving present in the whole history of ancient mankind" as a representative of the link from ape to man, so the preciousness of the "Peking Man skull" can be imagined.
However, it is precisely because of this that it has also become the object of coveting by some speculators and imperialists, and the skulls of five Peking Man and a batch of fossils excavated by Pei and others were strangely "disappeared" during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
In '94, the relationship between Japan and the United States became increasingly tense, and in Beiping, which was occupied by the Japanese army at that time, the Japanese army began to occupy some of the American institutions in Beiping.
Although the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, where the Peking Man skull fossil was stored, was the property of the United States, it was not spared at that time. Under these circumstances, the Cenozoic Laboratory decided to find a safer place to store the Peking Man fossils.
Because the contract signed by the United States at the time of the joint excavation of fossils stipulated that all fossils excavated in Zhoukoudian were state property and were prohibited from being transported out of the country. So the people at the American Legation at that time refused to accept it.
Later, with the coordination of the Nationalist Government and the consent and authorization of the U.S. Ambassador to China in Chongqing, the U.S. Legation in Beiping received these precious ancient human fossils and prepared to safely transport them to the United States for preservation.
In the early morning of May 5, 94, a special train of the 6th Squadron of the US Navy sailed out of Beiping, and after the train arrived at Qinhuangdao as planned, the fossils were transported to the steamship "President Harrison", and then transported to the United States.
Unfortunately, just as the Navy 6 Squad was preparing to leave for the United States, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and the Pacific War broke out, and the Japanese army quickly occupied the US institutions in China, and the US Navy 6 Squadron's barracks in Qinhuangdao were also occupied by the Japanese army, and the Peking skull disappeared.
This incident became a theft case that shocked the world, and people have been searching for it for more than half a century.
In 998, Jia Lanpo, the father of the Pekingese, once united more than a dozen other academicians to launch a "great search at the end of the century", but in the end there were no valuable clues, and there is still no result
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