Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Treasure of the Nation

Ivanka was completely defeated in front of Zheng Xudong, lost her position five times in a row within an hour, and was defeated by him, and collapsed directly in his arms.

Zheng Xudong finally used his strong arms to hold her and rinse it with himself, dry his body and walked out of the bathroom, he hugged her and put her on the bed, "Have you experienced the happiness of a woman?"

"If you realize it, you are going to become an immortal!"

"Are you still coming?"

"Honey, I'm really not going to be able to do it tonight, let me go, let me rest, tomorrow okay?"

Zheng Xudong saw that she was really soft, and kissed her cheek, which was still a little red, "Sleep well, everything will be fine when you wake up tomorrow!"

Seeing her nod happily, her tired eyes could no longer support it, she slowly closed it, and fell asleep in a moment.

Zheng Xudong came to the viewing platform outside the living room, the viewing platform of the presidential suite was really bigger than the one he lived in these days, took out a bottle of red wine and poured it, took out a cigar and lit it for himself, and nested in the big sofa on the platform to watch the lights in the distance.

Suddenly thinking that he hadn't called Liu Yifei yet, he took out the phone and dialed it, and picked it up as soon as it rang, "Yifei, I've already arrived in China!

I heard her say a little tiredly: "It's already here, and I just got off the plane and came home to force myself to sleep in broad daylight, which is also just waking up." Are you okay over there?"

"I don't have anything here, I came to Philadelphia after seeing you off, I walked around here for a day today, and I will call you when I get back to the hotel, nothing is wrong. If you want to start a company, I will contact you here to set up an offshore investment company in the past two days, and we will be able to open the company after we go back. ”

"Okay, you have some fun over there, but be careful. Okay, mom greeted me, I have to hang up, miss you, kiss one!" and hung up.

Zheng Xudong heard a woman calling Yifei's name on the other side of the phone, thinking that her mother was calling her.

Put the phone on the table, thinking that I will attend Han Min'er's party tomorrow, it seems that my trip to the United States is really busy!

He suddenly remembered that during the day, he saw a red light in the wall of the Independence Palace, and then he received it into the space, and he didn't know what it was?

Thinking of this, he took the thing out of the space, it turned out to be a slender wooden box 80 centimeters long, 20 centimeters wide, and 10 centimeters high, and the material should be golden silk nanmu, because his father had a pen holder with the same material as this material, but it was definitely not as good as this wood.

I feel that the weight of this box is not light, at least three or four kilograms, and the strangest thing is that the box has four Chinese characters written in the direction of the length, and it is a traditional Chinese character, and it is still in block letters. From top to bottom, it is written "Imperial Gift of the Emperor". This made him confused. In the United States, an "emperor's gift" was found in the United States' Independence Palace, which emperor has never been said to be an emperor since the founding of the United States, at most serfdom was practiced in the South, and was later overthrown by Lincoln through the Civil War.

Where did this emperor come from?

Zheng Xudong thought that those were redundant, and he would know when he opened it.

There is clearly a lid on the top of the box, which is long, with a small recessed pit on the lower edge of the lid. This pit is obviously not used to lift up, the function of this pit can only be to slide.

Zheng Xudong put his right index finger in this pit, don't say that he just put it in, it seems to be specially designed to put his fingers, he first pushed it up with his fingers, but he didn't move, and with a little effort, he still didn't move. He pushed to the left, to the right, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't push it. It seems that it can only be pushed down, and if it doesn't work down, then there is no way.

Zheng Xudong pushed down a little hard this time, and suddenly he felt the lid of the box move, and thought to himself, "There is a door!".

He kept the strength he had just now and continued to go down, downward, and slowly the box revealed a crack, and there were no hidden weapons and poisonous fog and other things described in the film and television works spraying out of it, it was just quietly placed on the table.

Zheng Xudong directly pulled out the lid of the box, the box opened, and the internal space of the box presented in front of him was divided into two parts, one large and one small, separated by a thin baffle in the middle, the material of the baffle Zheng Xudong did not know, he only knew that this baffle was definitely not golden silk nanmu. There are two spaces, one large and one small, and the small part occupies a quarter, and inside is a yellowed paper tube, the outside of which is tied with a thread made of gold wire. On the other side of the baffle is a blue and white porcelain vase with a thin neck and a picture on the vase, if Zheng Xudong is not mistaken, this picture should be a picture of Qianlong's hunting, and he saw a copy of this picture in his father's study. The mouth of the bottle is sealed, made of clay, and the two block letters "Queen" are engraved on it.

He first picked up the porcelain bottle gently with his hands, felt that there was liquid in the bottle shaking, he turned the bottle one hundred and eighty degrees, and there was a small part of the Qianlong hunting map on the back, in addition to the picture, there were three columns of small characters, also written in traditional block letters, these words were fired together with the bottle.

Zheng Xudong took a closer look at these words, "Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty congratulated the United States of America on its independence. Ji Xiaolan scrivened. Qianlong forty-one years. ”

It turned out that the Qing Emperor Qianlong gave a bottle of imperial wine in order to congratulate the independence of the United States, because Zheng Xudong smelled a trace of wine, he estimated that Qianlong may not know, but after the foreign affairs department of the Qing Dynasty knew, he used a box to send a bottle of wine to congratulate him. But who would have thought that the Qing Dynasty would not take it seriously, but these founding fathers of the United States felt precious and abnormal, because this was a kind of recognition of them by the international community. Most likely, it will be the first country to recognize them.

Put the Qianlong Imperial Wine back into the box, picked up the yellowed paper tube on the left, untied the gold wire back into the box, slowly unfolded the paper tube, and after passing the blank five or six centimeters above, a line of English appeared in front of his eyes, "THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE".

"I'M JO!FUCK!OH MY GOD!" Zheng Xudong was stunned when the above line of English appeared in front of him. If he is not mistaken, this line means "Declaration of Independence" in English. He couldn't believe his eyes, he couldn't believe it was real.

But when he continued to look down, he thought that he had found a treasure, and it was a "treasure of the country".

The next words appear in the paper tube are "In Congress, July 4, 1776" (Continental Congress, July 4, 1776), and the next line is "THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."

He could have determined that this was the Declaration of Independence of the United States, which was finalized after several days of bickering among fifty-six delegates and presidents and secretaries from thirteen states, including fifty-eight secretaries, at the sacred site of the Independence Palace, which was visited today. The Declaration of Independence consists of four parts: the first part is the preface, which sets out the purpose of the declaration, the second part expounds the idea of the political system, that is, the doctrine of natural rights and the idea of sovereignty in the people, the third part lists the various crimes of British oppression of the people of the North American colonies, showing that the colonial people were forced to take up arms under unbearable circumstances and strive for the legitimacy and justice of independence, and the fourth part, which is the last part of the declaration, the United States solemnly declares its independence.

The Declaration of Independence was drafted independently by Thomas Jefferson and presented to Franklin and Adams, who alone revised at least 48 of them. Jefferson later transcribed a revised version of the text, which was then discussed verbatim at the two Continental Congresses. The final draft, which can now be seen on the Internet, is the one in the existential National Archives of the United States.

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted this manifesto, the first handwritten draft, signed by John Hancock, its president, and Charles Thomson, its secretary, and signed by fifty-six representatives of the thirteen states at the time, and sent to the John Dunlap printing house a few blocks away. Between 150 and 200 copies were produced that night, now known as Dunlap broadside. One copy was delivered to General George Shington on 6 July, who read it to his troops stationed in New York on 9 July. The 25 surviving single-sided copies of the Manifesto are the oldest surviving copies of this manifesto, and the original handwritten manuscript no longer exists.

And Zheng Xudong believes that the one in his hand is the original manuscript of the Declaration of Independence signed by 58 people that year, and there is a difference between printing and handwriting, and the ink they use is also different.

At the end of the Declaration of Independence, this idea was strengthened, and after the signature, it was left blank for five or six centimeters, dictated by the chairman of the parliament, John Hancock, and the secretary Charles Townsend wrote a passage on his behalf, which roughly meant that the War of Independence had begun, and that the cruelty of the war had exceeded all expectations, and in order to preserve the Declaration of Independence, which had been drafted by everyone, they decided to hide it in one place and take it out after the war was won. Finally it is written below that this place is known only to four people, and then the signatures of four people. They were John Hancock, the chairman of the council, Charles Townsend, the secretary, Thomas Jefferson, the drafter, and Benjamin Franklin, the reviser.

At this point, the whole paper tube was over, and Zheng Xudong solemnly rolled it up again, wrapped it with gold thread and put it back in the box. In order to prevent the two things from colliding with the box, he took out some broken sponge and desiccant from the entry where the weapon was stored in the space and put it in, then carefully picked up the lid of the box from the table, and pushed the lid in along the chute on the inside of the box.

After everything was sorted out, the whole box was put into the space.

What should be done with this box made Zheng Xudong difficult, "Return it to the U.S. government!"