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"Teacher, according to the analysis of the notes left by Daoist Wang, there should be nearly 20,000 volumes of Dunhuang documents in these two Buddha statues, so let them be careful when they break them......

Zhuang Rui looked at the hammers and chisels in the hands of several soldiers, and couldn't help but remind Professor Meng that if one accidentally damaged the cultural relics inside, it would be an immeasurable loss. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Yes, yes, you all be careful, these clay Buddha statues are likely to be blue brick structures, first scrape off the surface......"

Professor Meng nodded again and again after hearing this, and commanded the current staff, but then with a question on his face, he turned his face to look at Zhuang Rui and asked, "Daoist Wang once left a note, where is it? There is no one in the documents that were sent out before......

In the Dunhuang Museum, there are indeed some handwritten notes of Wang Daoshi, but these notes have been studied over and over again, Professor Meng clearly remembers that there is no news of these Dunhuang documents that are not known to the world in those notes, so Professor Meng thought that Wang Daoist left notes in the Buddha statue, which was discovered by Zhuang Rui.

"Teacher, didn't Senior Brother Ren tell you?"

Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and pointed to Zhongchuan, who was sitting in the corner of the main hall and was ignored, and said: "Teacher, that Japanese is a descendant of the Japanese explorer Yoshikawa, when he was sorting out the ancestral relics, he found the notes and pictures left by Wang Daoshi, and then he came to Dunhuang, and the senior brother also knows about it......"

"Uh, I haven't had time to ask ...... yet"

Professor Meng smiled a little embarrassedly when he heard this, he immediately focused his attention on the Dunhuang documents that Dr. Ren and Peng Fei brought out from the desert, especially the handwritten scriptures of the grass saint Zhang Zhi.

Later, as soon as the helicopter arrived, they were busy rushing here, and Professor Meng and the students did not communicate much, and naturally did not know the role played by Nakagawa in this archaeology.

Zhuang Rui shook his head with a smile, and told Professor Meng about Zhongchuan, of course, he promised Zhongchuan that he could send people to participate in the study of Dunhuang, as for whether the teacher agreed, it was none of Zhuang Rui's business.

"Is that what going on?"

After listening to this, Professor Meng pondered for a while and said: "Dunhuang culture has been developing for decades, and there are special scholars studying it in Western countries and Japan, and its influence is all over the world, and China is not the only one......

In this case, I agree to this matter in principle, but I still have to report it to the higher authorities, and if the Japanese side wants to join the study, they must show their sincerity in the name of official cultural exchange......

Professor Meng's sincerity is naturally to ask the Japanese side to come up with the more than 10,000 Dunhuang documents obtained from China, and these materials should be quite complementary to the study of Dunhuang culture in China.

What's more, Professor Meng is an open-minded person, he does not take the Japanese explorers from China at a low cost in the early part of the last century, and he does not have much ill will towards Yoshikawa himself.

Because if you change the environment and location, even if Professor Meng himself sees such a bargain, he will definitely take advantage of it, imagine if you have the opportunity not to break the law or commit a crime, and buy a batch of priceless cultural relics at a low price through legitimate means, will you do it?

Coupled with the fact that the country was weak and in troubled times at that time, as the saying goes, gold in the prosperous era of antiques and troubled times, these rare books were not valued by the Qing court and the warlords at that time, and it is no wonder that foreign explorers brought them out of China.

Some friends may not support this point of view, but this is indeed human nature, mainly because many friends see the loss of Chinese cultural relics, psychologically unacceptable, if replaced by Chinese plundering foreign antiques, it is estimated that we can find a balance psychologically.

"Thank you, old man, I will take out all the Dunhuang documents in the family and study them, and I can also persuade others to do the same......"

Zhongchuan on the side was overjoyed after hearing Yan Xiaowei's translated words, and stepped forward to bow deeply to Professor Meng.

Professor Meng waved his hand and said, "Well, these things will be negotiated with you by the relevant departments at that time, don't thank me, art knows no borders, and culture must also be exchanged......

"Why doesn't the British Museum communicate with us and return the things......" Zhuang Rui muttered in his heart.

"I opened the brick, and there was something ...... inside"

The archaeological staff on the base of the Buddha statue suddenly let out a cry of surprise, and Professor Meng couldn't care about Zhuang Rui, and immediately rushed over, and the one who stretched out his hand quickly did not look like an old man who was nearly seventy years old.

"Slow down, don't water, it's okay if there's dust......"

"Okay, two people go in, you put two boards on the pedestal......"

"Be careful, what's going on?" put the gloves on, and the two of them lifted them up and put them on the cart......

When the entrance of the cave was opened large enough, Professor Meng commanded continuously, and when he saw the neat Dunhuang documents wrapped in oiled paper, the old professor's face was full of excitement.

The equipment brought from the helicopter was much better than the facilities carried by Zhuang Rui and others, and soon two alloy plates were erected on the pedestal, and two small carts carried the scriptures in the belly of the Buddha statue back and forth.

Although the manpower is much more abundant than before, the more than 20,000 Dunhuang documents still keep everyone busy all day, until it is completely dark, and the cleaning is completed.

After transporting the scrolls to the helicopter, Professor Meng led people to carefully clean the inside of the Buddha statue, leaving not even a single piece of paper.

Due to the late day and the need for further research in this ancient temple, everyone rested in the ancient temple that day.

Of course, next to the three helicopters, there are soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition, these precious Dunhuang documents, it is not an exaggeration to compare the value of the city, the loss of a volume, will be a major loss.

The next day, Zhuang Rui and Dr. Ren accompanied Professor Meng and his group of experts to inspect this thousand-year-old temple, but just like Zhuang Rui and others surveyed before, all the valuable things in the ancient temple have been moved, and only these ancient buildings still have a little research value.

After determining that there were no Dunhuang documents in the ancient temple, everyone took a helicopter and flew in the direction of the town, and when they arrived in the town, the helicopter just put Erdan and the others down, and did not stay, and even Dunhuang did not return, but went directly to the huge military camp of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Base.

"Teacher, this is a bit exaggerated, isn't it? How did you get into the army?"

Originally, the helicopter landed in the barracks, Zhuang Rui thought that the other party would send a car to send his party to the hotel, but who knew that he was directly placed in the army's guest house, which made Zhuang Rui a little baffled.

"There will be a special plane to send us back to Beijing tomorrow, so let's stay here for one night today......

Professor Meng saw Zhuang Rui's puzzled look, although he had the heart to check the batch of Dunhuang documents first, but he was still patient, and said: "Your archaeological operation this time, I don't know how it was passed out, and now in the streets and alleys of Dunhuang, except for tourists, I am afraid that they are cultural relics smugglers, so it is safer to live here......."

Since the beginning of 2000, the boom in the world investment market has also led to the boom of Chinese antiques, coupled with the speculation of some behind-the-scenes masterminds, the price of these things that could have been bought for three or five yuan in the seventies and eighties has increased thousands of times.

However, the antiques circulated among the people are limited after all, so many people will focus on those tombs, and for a time there are ten tombs and nine empty tombs in the land of China, and the bold tomb robbers even dare to grab their teeth and wander around in front of some national archaeological teams.

Like the news of the unearthing of Dunhuang documents, it attracted a large number of domestic cultural relics dealers and tomb robbers, and after being reminded by the relevant departments, for the safety of these cultural relics, Professor Meng chose the military camp as a temporary place to live.

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After a short stay of one day, the day after Professor Meng returned to Beijing, the news of the major breakthrough in Dunhuang archaeology spread to the world through television, radio, newspapers, and the Internet, shaking the world scientific research community.

In the era of extremely underdeveloped communication a hundred years ago, the birth of Dunhuang documents has caused a sensation in the whole world, and now this batch of Dunhuang documents, in terms of quantity and quality, is not inferior to that year, and the sensation caused is naturally greater.

For a time, Dunhuang cultural research institutions from various countries have applied to relevant domestic departments to participate in the scientific expedition in the form of cultural exchanges, and put forward many cooperation and exchange plans.

Under these circumstances, the World Dunhuang Culture Symposium is also scheduled to be held in Beijing next month, and institutions and scholars from Western countries and Southeast Asia, including Japan, have submitted applications to participate in the conference.

The names of Zhuang Rui and others were also well known to the world's scientific research circles overnight, and a core leader in charge of culture, science and education in China also sent a congratulatory message to commend the archaeological team headed by Zhuang Rui and Ren Chunqiang.

The advent time of Dunhuang literature happened to be the annual college entrance examination time, and I don't know how many students because of this incident, resolutely applied for the relatively remote archaeology major, in previous years, even a class was not satisfied with the archaeology department, there was a situation of short supply, it can not but be said that there is an inevitable connection with this event.

CCTV has continuously broadcast large-scale science and education films that were tepid a few years ago: entering Dunhuang has made an archaeological boom rise in the land of China, and of course, in a certain aspect, it has also strengthened the team of tomb robbers.