Chapter 1090: Ancient Letters
Zhang Tianyuan is looking forward to it now, looking forward to seeing some good things that have never been announced before.
Everyone knows that a large number of treasures were looted in the disaster of the Old Summer Palace, and many people have counted them. But in fact, the statistics are just a drop in the bucket, real treasures, a lot of things actually don't know where they are got.
For example, there are about 50,000 or 60,000 treasures in the British Museum that are not recorded, and very few people even know what is in them.
Even if Zhang Tianyuan went in and saw it this time, he couldn't make the world believe his words, because no photos were allowed inside, and he had no evidence to prove his claim, and the British Museum could not know anything about it.
So Zhang Tianyuan doesn't plan to publish it, after he reads it, he will find a way to get these things back to China in his lifetime, as for what kind of method to get through, then I will talk about it later, in short, now, he really wants to see the catalog of these things urgently, and wants to see what interests him in it.
How many national treasure-level cultural relics will there be?
"Yelena, could you please bring me the tablet I put on the table?" After speaking, Amer Sloan looked at Zhang Tianyuan again and said: "The catalog of things is in the computer, you can look carefully, rest assured, of course, there are some things we don't know the name, so we just took a photo......"
The female secretary named Elena carefully took the tablet and placed it on the table.
"Let's start, Mr. Zhang, it's not me bragging. There's a lot of stuff in here that you can't even imagine. You'll be absolutely satisfied, you won't have to trade with Helis at all. We at the British Museum can meet your requirements. Amer Sloan looked very proud, although the director of the British Museum and his ancestors had not gone to China to loot, but this proud appearance still made Zhang Tianyuan want to smash it with the tablet in his hand.
What do you have to sè, this is our country's thing, you use it to pretend to be so sè.
In fact, a lot of the information in this computer is improvised and cobbled, as John Lampard said before, most of the things in the warehouse. Even the museum itself doesn't know, and even if it is lost, no one knows, it is simply left there waiting for it to become moldy and rotten, and then it will be cleaned up as garbage in the future.
If this is really the case, then Zhang Tianyuan really has to use his brain, rather than letting so many good things be put here to rot or even destroyed, it is better to get it back to China through abnormal means. At the very least, it can be put out for the Chinese to visit and study by themselves.
There is a text on the computer desktop, and the name on it is "Catalogue of Chinese Cultural Relics of the British Museum".
When Zhang Tianyuan opened this text, he felt that his hands were trembling, at that moment. He seemed to feel the sound of shouting and killing, as if he saw countless foreign soldiers burning, killing and looting in the Old Summer Palace, and a large number of precious cultural relics were burned in that flame. A large number of things were transported back to Europe by laughing foreign robbers.
This is like a key to open the mind travel, so that his thinking instantly returns to the old Old Summer Palace.
The wind is howling!
The fire is burning!
The relics are crying!
History is mourning!
Because the Old Summer Palace has been looted twice. It has been basically burned to the ground, so there are many things in history as long as these foreign robbers do not talk about it. Most people have no way of knowing, even historical data cannot be verified, and we can only find clues from some clues.
However, how much was lost there remains a mystery to this day.
Some say 100,000 pieces.
Some say 200,000 pieces.
Some say it's millions!
There is no evidence of how much, no one is speculating, but the only thing that is certain is that those things that are now known are only the tip of the iceberg, and even so, the foreign robbers still refuse to admit that these things were robbed, according to them, they were given to them by the Chinese.
Shameless!
Although the article opened by Zhang Tianyuan is only a part of it, after all, there are many things that domestic experts may not be able to see in their lifetime. This will have a more far-reaching impact on understanding that history and understanding the whereabouts of those cultural relics.
Zhang Tianyuan had to rejoice that he had the transformation of the earth's qi, and his memory had reached the ability to never forget, even if he would automatically destroy it after reading this article, it didn't matter, because everything would be put into his brain, and after he went back, he could completely remake these things with his memory.
Perhaps the value of such a catalogue is not much worse than that of those cultural relics.
After clicking on the article, Zhang Tianyuan first saw a few photos.
The photographs are not artifacts, but texts written in English, French, German, Japanese, and even Russian.
There are many signatures on these texts, and because there are annotations in English below, Zhang Tianyuan can understand them - Churchill, Elizabeth I, Hitler, de Gaulle, Stalin, the Emperor of Japan, Helis, Stein, Birch, and!
There are even many names that Zhang Tianyuan has never heard of at all.
Because the text is only a photo, it is not clear, the text on it is very blurry, only the signature is very clear. But Zhang Tianyuan's ability to check micro helped him, and as can be seen from the above, most of these texts are donation agreements.
The British Museum has received donations or exchanges from France, Germany, Japan, Russia and other countries, and these are all exchanged for Chinese cultural relics.
Zhang Tianyuan had heard the saying that in order to get Britain to surrender, Hitler did not hesitate to donate a large number of Chinese cultural relics and cultural relics from other countries to the British Museum, saying that he would not bomb London again.
However, Churchill did not agree, and of course Hitler did not stop bombing.
Such a thing, Zhang Tianyuan thought it was just a joke on the Internet. It's not worth believing at all.
But today, he felt that it was very likely to be true.
In Zhang Tianyuan's opinion. Even if it's just these texts, they can already be regarded as antiques. What's more, these texts are evidence of history, which is invaluable to anyone who studies European and Chinese history.
For example, many historical documents or letters will gradually become precious materials with the development of history, and even the essays or diaries written by some literati in history may become very precious materials to support history.
"Hmph. ”
Zhang Tianyuan heard a low cold snort from the nose of Wang Lao on the side. He knew the old man's feelings very well, because he was also very angry now.
This is the same reason that the Russo-Japanese War had to be fought on China's territory, and the dirty transactions between the European powers were actually mortgaged by Chinese antiques, which is simply a great shame for China. Those bastards in the late Qing Dynasty really lost the face of their ancestors.
Even if they don't go back in time, they are sorry for Kangxi!
No wonder the people call that Cixi an old witch, this woman is not a witch, she has lost the face of her ancestors.
"These are letters, right?" asked Zhang Tianyuan.
"Yes. True, these are the epistolary records of the exchange and donation of artifacts at that time. You shouldn't be able to read it, though, so don't worry about it, just look down. Amer Sloan said.
He said this. It's really not that I look down on Zhang Tianyuan, mainly because these letters are in English, except for French, Russian, Japanese, and German. But it's old English, and a lot of grammar is no longer used today.
Let's take an analogy. A foreigner knows Chinese very well, but you ask him to read ancient Chinese. He may not be able to understand it, and he definitely wants to be covered by clouds and mountains.
Not to mention foreigners, many Chinese have a headache when they read ancient texts.
So Amer Sloan felt that Zhang Tianyuan definitely couldn't understand this, so he didn't care too much.
But he didn't know that Zhang Tianyuan had seen a lot of artworks in London in the past few days, especially Picasso's 28 oil paintings, as well as those Egyptian, Greek, and Chinese antiques in the British Museum, which made Zhang Tianyuan's atmosphere enter a new realm.
Now, he has another ability in his word appreciation - translation.
As this ability continues to increase, Zhang Tianyuan will be able to translate more and more words, and one day, he will be able to understand even those ancient cuneiform characters lightly, and the words on the oracle bone inscriptions will not need to be translated by others, and he will be able to understand what it means.
Today, of course, he can read the letters.
Zhang Tianyuan did not read these words, he was afraid that Amer Sloan would take things back, after all, there were many things on them, and it was estimated that they were unwilling to let outsiders know.
One passage is from Hellis's letter to the Queen of England: "We have come to the land of gold that Marco Polo spoke of, and although we have not seen so much gold, we have seen a great deal of beautiful works of art!" The Emperor of China is very hospitable, by the way, there is a woman here, she actually tried to rule a kingdom like the Queen Xià You, but when we arrived here, she was nowhere to be seen, but generously left us a large number of treasures, all these things, I will give to the Great Queen Xià You......"
There is also a letter written by the emperor of Japan to Churchill himself, Zhang Tianyuan only saw one line of words, and his lungs were about to explode: "The people of China are incompetent, only our great Japanese empire can protect these cultural relics, and now they are presented to your country, hoping to ease the ......tension between the two countries."
There are many letters, and Zhang Tianyuan also saw the calmness and even coldness from the beginning to the end.
He understood what the great man said: "If you fall behind, you will be beaten."
You can scold the robbers, but if your country is strong enough, what right do the robbers have to rob you......?