Chapter 262: Rare Treasures
Zheng Xudong put the war knife aside first, picked up one of the six black flannel pockets, and after starting it, it obviously felt very heavy, at least twenty kilograms, and there was the sound of metals colliding with each other, he opened the pocket that was tied tightly with a rope made of gold wire, and a golden light came into view, he opened the pocket and widened it carefully, and looked at the pocket It turned out to be a gold coin, he grabbed a handful and put it in his hand and looked at it, he really recognized it, it was a gold mark, each weighing about an ounce (one ounce of gold =31.1 grams), if this pocket has twenty kilograms, then here is more than six hundred and forty German gold marks, judging by the size of this black velvet pocket, the number is about the same. He went to get another pocket, and when he opened it, it was also a gold coin, but this pocket was made of gold francs, and it weighed one ounce, and the number must be more than six hundred and forty pieces, and he did not have time to look it up, so he put this bag aside, and went to take down another bag, which contained gold pounds, the same one ounce, and more than six hundred and forty gold coins. Open the next one, this bag contains gold dollars, put the gold dollars aside, open another one, and it is gold dollars again. There is still one last bag left, this bag is obviously one size smaller than the other five, and Zheng Xudong feels that it is only about fifteen kilograms in his hand, which is five kilograms lighter than those five. He opened the bag, and oh my God, it was diamonds, shiny, each diamond was as small as a fingernail, and the big diamond was as big as an adult's thumb. Red, pink, blue, green, black, and most of them are colorless and transparent. There are rough stones, and there are also those that look hard cut from the ring, and most of them are processed diamonds, or more so, they are cut directly from the diamond ring. Zheng Xudong reached into his pocket and grabbed a large handful of diamonds, looked at the diamond rings of various colors in his palm, and didn't know what words to use to express his emotions at this time, this is a very small part of the items that Goering plundered from him, but how many people have to die to get this bag of diamonds here, this is just one of the bags of diamonds in Goering, the second Nazi person, and the third person, the fourth person, which one can return empty-handed and not make some war money, these diamonds may contain the souls of those dead Jews in Auschwitzใ These diamonds cannot reflect their value when sold individually, and it is better to set them in a ring and make a unique diamond ring to reflect its maximum value.
Putting the last bag of diamonds on the table, he picked up the war knife, the scabbard was a little cold, smooth to the touch, and he could know that this was an old object that was often played with and had a thick layer of pulp, although Zheng Xudong didn't know what material the scabbard was made of, he was sure that it was not metal, the scabbard was not completely black, but dark brown with black inside, and it was a little black and translucent, and he could see the thin blade inside. The material of the handle of the knife should be made of mutton fat and jade, and it is as warm as touching a piece of mutton fat in your hand. The important thing is that the handle of the knife is also engraved with a dragon moire, and if this is an old object, it must be the matching knife used by some emperor.
Then turn the knife to the other side, sure enough, five columns of small characters are engraved on the scabbard, one of the columns of Chinese characters is engraved on the scabbard in traditional regular script, and the top of the word is also sprayed with gold dust, which is engraved with "The saber of the Kangxi Emperor's expedition to Dzungar in the Qing Dynasty." โ
"I'm going to go, this is actually one of Kangxi's matching knives, and it's also the matching knife of the expedition to Dzungaria. Then the other four columns should be Manchu, Tibetan, Mongolian, and palindrome. This should be true, most likely snatched from the Forbidden City or the Old Summer Palace when the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing in 1900. Exiled overseas, he was looted by Goering, probably considering that he would be exiled to China in the future, so he brought a national treasure of China. โ
Zheng Xudong thought of this and pulled the knife out of the scabbard, of course, there was neither the cold air in the face and the cold light in the eyes described in the novel, nor the sound of the dragon roaring and tiger roaring in "Cang Langlang", it was all, it was just a knife. The blade of this knife is eighty centimeters long, not the traditional straight knife in China, but with a certain arc, a bit like the world-famous Damascus knife, it is likely to adapt to the curvature of the scabbard to do so. A soaring dragon is also carved on each side of the knife, and the dragon is portrayed with great ferocity. It is estimated that the craftsman at that time considered that this knife was used to kill the enemy in battle, so he carved the dragon like this. In order to test the sharpness of the knife, Zheng Xudong found a Xinhua dictionary published in the early years in the utility room, put the dictionary on the table, he chopped it down with a knife, and the entire dictionary was cut in half by a brush, and even the solid wood table below was cut out of a mark. "I didn't expect it to be so sharp after three hundred years!"
Zheng Xudong found that from the moment he opened the iron cabinet, one surprise after another appeared in front of him, and every thing placed in the cabinet was priceless, and it seemed that Goering had put a lot of thought into picking these things. He was now curious about the last big black stone that covered almost the entire bottom of the iron chest. "Why on earth did the Nazi number two think so much about this stupid, big, black, thick stone? What the hell is this?"
He squatted in front of the big stone and looked at its external features carefully, this is a black basalt pillar about 2.25 meters high, about 1.65 meters long in the last week, and 1.90 meters in circumference at the bottom, with statues of two people on it, which is very vividly depicted, and there are thousands of lines of text engraved under the stone pillar, which is an ancient text, Zheng Xudong does not know, he searched the color, size, pattern, and text of this stone on Google, and when the search results came out, Zheng Xudong was stupid!
All search results point to one piece of information, and that is the Code of Hammurabi. Moreover, the upper end of the stone pillar is engraved with a relief of King Hammurabi standing in front of Shamash, the god of the sun and justice, to symbolize the divine right of kingship and the inviolability of royal power, and the lower end is a code inscription in Akkadian cuneiform script, a total of 3,500 lines and 282 articles, and the entire code is carved from a black basalt pillar. It is a compilation of laws promulgated by the ancient Babylonian king Hammurabi (reigned from about 1792 BC to 1750 BC) in the Middle East, and is the most representative cuneiform code and the world's earliest relatively complete preserved written code.
These are not the most astonishing, but what surprised Zheng Xudong the most was that all the information said that this Code of Hammurabi is now in the Asian Pavilion of the Louvre Museum in France.
Then the question arises, would the Nazi Goering transport a worthless counterfeit to the magic capital of China thousands of miles away? I don't think so, and this big stone is at least a ton or more, and Goering is not a fool to transport a heavy big stone to China from thousands of miles away!
If this is the real code, what is the one on display in the Asian Pavilion of the Louvre?
"The Louvre is fake, this is real. At this time, Xiaoqiang said in his mind.
"Xiaoqiang, what the hell is going on?
In World War II, France was occupied by Germany, and a large number of cultural relics in the Louvre were transferred by the French government, but there were also some cultural relics that they thought were of little value or difficult to carry were looted by Germany before they could be transported away, including this code. Xiaoqiang explained to him.
"Then after the end of World War II, why didn't France seek Germany to recover this cultural relic?" asked Zheng Xudong with some puzzlement.
"The French government has secretly pursued them, but the cultural relics of many countries have disappeared, and some of them have even been left behind by their allies, such as American generals. Besides, this is not a glorious thing, so the French government simply made a fake position there to fool the masses, anyway, ordinary people can't get close to the front and can only watch from a distance through the bulletproof glass cover. This kind of thing exists in all countries, and in fact, Huaxia also has it, as long as the real cultural relics do not appear, who will prove that it is fake? Do you plan to return this true code to the French government?" Xiao Qiang asked rhetorically.
"What! Grandma! Why! Are there still few Chinese cultural relics in the Louvre? Ciao! Those who want to go back with red lips and white teeth, don't even think about it, don't take hundreds of millions of dollars out, want to take it back, dream! And this is also to save the face of the French government, if they don't want it, I will take it to the Middle East to auction, anyway, this is a treasure left by their ancestors, I think those local tyrants will be interested in this cultural relic from 4,000 years ago. Zheng Xudong said to Xiaoqiang.
After speaking, Zheng Xudong received all these things in the iron box into the space. In fact, he still has a few good things in his space, such as the American Declaration of Independence, a Japanese samurai sword, a painting bought at the airport in New York, USA, and the red wine and the ring and gold coin found on the bottom of the Baltic Sea two days ago.
It seems that he has to find a time to take a few things to the auction house to test them, such as the Declaration of Independence and the Code of Hammurabi, these two things are useless for him to keep at home, and it is impossible to leave them to his children and grandchildren as heirlooms.
He searched on the Internet for the more famous auction houses in China, and the results of the search disappointed him, the most famous in China is a Poly auction house in Beijing, and the rest of the results are Christie's and Sotheby's, both of which are old auction houses in the United Kingdom, and they are also the two most famous auction houses in the world, and there is no one who can surpass them in the auction house.
The most important thing is that these two have their own branches in the magic capital.,It seems that one day I'm going to meet them when I have nothing to do.ใใใ