Chapter 1273: Amazing Wealth
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For the first time in thousands of years, the Golden City was revealed, and the veil of vines shrouded the castle was removed, and the whole castle looked magnificent. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The building in the middle of the castle is more than 20 meters high, and the huge stone pillars are carved with various exquisite and mysterious patterns, which is not so much a castle as a temple used to worship gods in ancient foreign countries.
Judging from the arch-shaped buildings, they look like European religious buildings, but why this kind of building appears in the primeval forests of Central Africa remains to be verified by Zhuang Rui in the future.
The Golden City, bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun, shimmers with brilliant golden light, as mysterious as a mirage, no one knows why it was built, all of which have been lost in the long river of history.
"I ...... I said, Brother Zhuang, this ...... That's what you mean by archaeological sites?"
Zhou Liang, who was standing beside Zhuang Rui, was shocked by this magnificent building, not to mention the golden city wall around the castle, even if it was all plated with a layer of copper, it was worth a lot.
"Ahem, Brother Zhou, I just discovered it, I haven't had time to explore it yet, wasn't it all blocked by vines before?"
There is still a big difference between observing the castle with aura and looking at it intuitively with the eyes now, and the visual shock goes straight to the heart, which is difficult to describe in words.
So Zhuang Rui didn't lie, this was indeed the first time he had seen the whole picture of this golden city, and like everyone else, he had just reveled in the face of the great architectural miracle created by the ancients.
"Brother Zhuang, this ...... If it's all gold, then it's ...... How much is it worth?"
Zhou Liang was still a little bit eye-catching, when he was clearing the vines, he had also carefully observed some objects in the castle, including the city wall, and he could see that this splendid building contained a lot of gold.
After hearing Zhou Liang's words, Zhuang Rui laughed and said, "Brother Zhou, vulgar...... You are cheesy, art is priceless, how can such a precious work of art be measured by money?"
Although it is half a joke, but the other half Zhuang Rui is very serious, the gold reserves in this castle are very amazing, even richer than the reserves of the golden house in the tomb of Genghis Khan.
However, the value of these golds is insignificant compared to the patterns engraved on the walls and gold and silver vessels, and the precious documents and patterns left by the predecessors are more worthy of attention and research.
"Yes, brother, I am a layman, I am acting on orders, no matter how valuable I am, I should not have seen it, brother, you say...... How do you arrange it?"
It stands to reason that Zhou Liang should report to his superiors when he discovers such a large amount of gold wealth, but Zhou Liang and Zhuang Rui have been together in Central Africa for more than a month, and the relationship is very good.
Second, he also knew that Li Shaohua sent helicopters and personnel, and also had the intention of compensating Zhuang Rui for handing over the first culprit of the American robbery, not to mention that this was discovered by Zhuang Rui's private expedition.
"Let's set up the lights first, let's work overnight, move all the items inside into the helicopter, and then wait until tomorrow to remove the murals on the wall......
The afterglow of the setting sun slowly fell, looking at the castle that still exuded endless golden light, Zhuang Rui's heart was extremely excited, he felt very strange now, as if he had gone back to Dunhuang more than a hundred years ago, and was watching those foreign adventurers who were crazy to plunder Dunhuang cultural relics.
Now Zhuang Rui doesn't seem to have much hatred for those people, everyone has different positions and angles of judging things on different occasions, and what Zhuang Rui is doing now is essentially no different from those people.
However, if Zhuang Rui wants to give up this golden city, it is also impossible, he will only maintain the integrity of these cultural relics as much as possible in the dismantling and transportation, and restore them to assembly in the future.
As long as the origin of this golden city can be discovered, it can be said that Zhuang Rui's Dingguang Museum can leap into the ranks of world-class museums, you know, such ancient architectural marvels, only the British Museum can collect.
"Okay, let's do it all and ......"
After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Zhou Liang commanded his subordinates to get busy, fortunately, the shelves had been set up when the vines were cleared before, and now they only needed to install lights on the shelves.
Such a project is really a piece of cake for the logistics support personnel who maintain the fleet all year round, and before the Central African sun completely sinks into the forest, the entire castle is already brightly lit.
Zhuang Rui didn't do anything to help, he called Peng Fei, Li Zhen and others, each took a camera, and filmed all the inside and outside of the castle, which are important information and basis for Zhuang Rui to rebuild the castle in the future.
Although the whole castle looks magnificent, in fact, there are only three large buildings, the first is the front hall, the scale is not very large, mainly where the lower people live, and the items inside are relatively rough.
The second is the temple in the middle, which is also the former residence of the giant python, the whole temple is a large room, more than 20 meters high, the most extensive space, on the walls and the top around the temple, are engraved with various mysterious and exquisite patterns.
Except for the few items left in the temple itself, there are animal bones all over the ground, and its fishy smell is disgusting, and it is also the most difficult place to clean up.
As for the third building, it is the apse, which is the most ornately decorated and has the most gold and silver items left.
According to Zhuang Rui's guess, this should be the person who built this city, there are more than 50 rooms, and there are special bathrooms, although I don't know how many years it has been sealed in the dust, but through those thick dust, you can still see the richness and luxury of the year.
After thousands of years, although a lot of things have been lost, the items in the castle are still far beyond everyone's imagination, and more than 20,000 pieces of gold, silver, wine and daily necessities have been cleaned up.
Unfortunately, many of the textiles inside have been destroyed, and the head of a god standing in the temple in the middle has also disappeared, and I wonder if it was kicked by the gorillas as a ball while playing.
Throughout the night, the four helicopters barely stopped, basically loaded and returned, shuttling between the "Xuanrui" and the Golden City all night.
Although there were only three buildings in the castle after it was completely cleared, the 100-odd people were busy all night, and only a small part of the items were cleared.
The lights outside the castle have been extinguished, and the African morning sun rises high, and if the surveillance satellites of various countries observe this image, they will find that in the depths of the forest, there is a good scene of ants moving.
"Damn, it's no wonder that there are so many explorers in the world for centuries, and this thing is the fastest way to make money......"
Looking at the artifacts being excavated, Zhuang Rui can now understand the behavior of those "explorers" before.
Just the cultural relics that have been cleaned up now, Zhuang Rui estimates that the value will be at least more than one billion dollars, and this is only one-third of the items that have been cleaned up, can you imagine how much wealth the entire castle contains?
"Brother Zhou, haven't you found any written records?"
Zhuang Rui has been busy in the past few days, although he is excited and sleepy, but his eyes are bloodshot at this time, but the question he is most concerned about now is to know if he has found relevant cultural relics related to written records.
Zhuang Rui is not very proficient in foreign history, and if there is no relevant written information, I am afraid that he will have to invite some foreign scientific researchers to participate in the dating of these cultural relics.
However, in this way, the secrets of the Golden City will definitely be revealed in advance, which is a little different from Zhuang Rui's previous plan.
He wanted to rebuild it in the country according to the specifications of this golden city, and then put the artifacts obtained from it back in their original form, just like the Roman and Greek pavilions in the British Museum.
According to Zhuang Rui's meaning, after all this is done, he will announce to the world the results of this expedition, it is conceivable that the birth of a golden city out of thin air will bring a big impact to the world exploration and scientific research community!
However, after Zhou Liang heard Zhuang Rui's words, he shook his head and said: "It's all ghost-like things, where can my soldiers know each other, brother, when you return to China, you can slowly clean it up yourself......"
There were some strange patterns engraved on some objects, but they were definitely not in English, and even Zhuang Rui was not sure of the words, let alone these many warriors who didn't even know English.
"Okay, hard comrades, I'll invite you to a big dinner when I go back......"
"Report to the chief, a secret room has been discovered......"
While Zhuang Rui and Zhou Liang were chatting, a soldier suddenly interrupted the conversation between the two.
"Secret room?"
Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment when he heard this, he had carefully surveyed the three buildings with his aura before, but he really didn't expect to go underground to investigate.
"Let's go, hurry up and take a look, tell the warriors, don't damage what's inside......"
By the time Zhuang Rui and Zhou Liang arrived at the apse, several soldiers had already taken out all the things in the secret room, and there were not many things, only three in total.
"This, this is what came out of the secret room?"
Although there are only three objects, it also makes Zhuang Rui look straight, for no other reason, I am afraid that the combined value of these three items will exceed the entire Golden City.