Chapter 267: National Treasure! Heavy weapon!
"Please, this is the Hawkson Secret Room, there are less than a hundred pieces in total, and each of them is a national treasure!"
Wu Tianyuan followed Jack and finally had the opportunity to enter the legendary second treasure room, and the scene in front of him surprised him.
"Tang Tianlong Temple is like a statue!"
"Northern Qi Shakyamuni statue!"
"Tang gilt seven-story pagoda!"
"Relic!"
Wu Tianyuan saw several Buddhist treasures at first sight, all of which were looted in the war that year, and each of them was a national treasure.
"It's not just Chinese cultural relics, but also Egypt and India, which were devastated by war at that time, and only by coming here can they be protected and inherited to the greatest extent!"
David is very proud, as one of the five major museums in the world, the British Museum has the longest history and the richest collection, and the other four are all small characters and look down on them at all.
"These are all spiritual treasures that belong to the entire human race, and there should be no national prejudice, don't you say?"
Wu Tianyuan nodded, he couldn't refute this, although these treasures came from the wrong way, it was undeniable that they were well protected here. Many have been restored to the best and can be enjoyed by more people.
Museums are the ultimate destination for cultural relics, there's no doubt about that! As for the origin of the collection, Wu Tianyuan can't control too much, and war is indeed the fastest way. He can only use his own way to return the treasures belonging to the Chinese nation to his hometown as much as possible.
"Dear Wu, this is the last chamber of the British Museum, Victoria's Secret!"
A few people came to the last small room, Wu Tianyuan was looking forward to it, what would be the treasure of the town that could be regarded by the British Museum?
"Nine Dragons Sword!"
"Cixi Nine Linglong Pagoda!"
"Another jade watermelon!"
"Coral Treasure Tree!"
"Jade Lotus!"
"Eighteen Mussel Buddhas!"
Wu Tianyuan immediately saw several treasures in a huge display case, all of which were Cixi's funeral goods, except for the night pearl in his hand, there was also a jade watermelon, and the other ten treasures were here!
Jade lotus, ancient China was very particular about the delicate relationship between power and size. For example, "seal" is a symbol of the emperor, so the homonym of "tourmaline" is precisely "to ward off evil", which means auspicious. In fact, tourmaline was also the treasure of the Empress Dowager Cixi's pillow. Among the funeral goods of the Empress Dowager Cixi, there is a lotus flower carved from tourmaline, weighing about 5,092 grams, which is a pillow made of watermelon tourmaline. It is said that the market value at that time was 750,000 taels of silver.
The Empress Dowager Cixi especially liked a bright and magnificent large coral tree, this coral tree, the whole body is covered with a series of cherry trees, green stems, green leaves, red fruits, delicate and bright. In addition, on a cherry tree, there is also a pair of pearl-inlaid kingfishers, and this burial object is also here.
The so-called "Mussel Buddha", the folk legend of the god is like its god, in fact, it is just made of the shell of the freshwater river Ga "Buddha-like bead nucleus", placed in the body of the peony calendar, stimulated by foreign foreign objects in the peony calendar, the pearl pearl nucleus surrounds, the pearl covering layer gradually thickened, the formation of the pearl luster of the mussel Buddha, but each mussel Buddha is a priceless treasure, there is a set of eighteen here!
"Lantian is warm and jade!"
It is rumored that among the treasures buried with Cixi, there is a nine-exquisite pagoda carved from white jade, which is known as the "smoke and clouds flowing" around the body, and is the most precious treasure of Cixi.
Wu Tianyuan carefully studied, this tower octagonal thirteen layers, divided into three parts of the tower base, the tower body, the tower stop, the tower base has upper and lower layers, the lower layer is a three-layer platform, the upper layer is a double-layer Sumeru seat, carved with a lotus seat, and the upper part is carved out of the sheng flute and other musical instruments.
There are doors, windows, plaques on all sides of the tower body, the two sides of the doors and windows are carved with Vajra Lux, each floor can also see the clear Buddha shrine inside from the doors and windows 24, 312 Buddhas, everywhere is full of reliefs and figures. The whole piece is carved from the best Hetian sheep fat jade, which is ingenious and rare treasure!
"This is Qianlong's Nine Dragons Sword!"
Nine Dragons Sword, Emperor Qianlong's funeral sword. In Chinese history, the biggest player and collector of antiques was the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. He reigned for 60 years, and served as the emperor for 4 years, and in 64 years, he collected famous paintings and ancient posts and rare antiques. After his death, these rare treasures were buried in the underground palace of Yuling. The most legendary is the Nine Dragons Sword that is placed beside him.
At that time, Sun Dianying believed that he was the last blow to the Manchus after Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai Revolution and Feng Yuxiang's expulsion of Puyi, so he did not shy away from talking about the stolen treasures.
He was drunk and lost his words, Qianlong's tomb was very magnificent, and there were countless burial treasures in the coffin, the most precious of which was a string of pearls around Qianlong's neck and a nine-dragon sword beside him. This sword is a total of 5 feet, the hilt is extraordinarily long, and 9 golden dragons are carved on it, symbolizing "ninety-nine to one". The scabbard is made of precious shark skin and set with ruby sapphires and diamonds, making it a priceless scabbard.
In 1939, in order to quell the tomb robbery incident, Sun Dianying could only hand over the most precious Nine Dragon Sword to Dai Li, and ask him to transfer it to Lao Jiang. At that time, it was the Anti-Japanese War, and Dai Li's sword was temporarily kept in the custody of Ma Hansan, a special agent of his military command.
Who knew that Ma Han was greedy for treasure and secretly hid the sword. In early 1940, he was captured by the Japanese and sacrificed his sword to save his life. The sword fell into the hands of Yoshiko Kawashima, a female Japanese spy.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Yoshiko Kawashima was captured by the military commanders, and Dai Li went to the No. 1 Prison in Peking to interrogate the female Yoshiko Kawashima. Kawashima Yoshiko in prison told a secret that shocked Dai Li: it turned out that Ma Hansan, the head of the Beiping Station of the Military Command, had been arrested and betrayed during the Anti-Japanese War, and not long ago, Ma Hansan also searched from Kawashima Yoshiko's home a Nine Dragons sword that was sacrificed during the mutiny.
After Dai Li received this unexpected news from Yoshiko Kawashima, he immediately conducted a further secret investigation of Ma Hansan. After Ma Hansan found out that the matter was revealed, he took the initiative to hand over the sword, and he also gave Dai Li a lot of gold and silver treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and the Nine Dragon Sword fell into Dai Li's hands again.
On March 17, 1946, Dai Li, with the Nine Dragon Sword, set off from Qingdao and flew directly to Nanjing to face Chiang. Unexpectedly, the weather was bad, and the plane crashed headlong into the Daishan Mountain in Jiangning, destroying the plane and killing people, and the fire burned for several hours. The military commander sent himself to collect the funeral. When the officer Shen Zui retrieved the Nine Dragons Sword from the peasants of Jiangning, it was claimed that its scabbard and hilt had already burned to the ground.
So Shen Zui put it in a coffin with Dai Li's remains and transported it back to the Zhigong Hall of Linggu Temple for temporary storage. A few months later, Lao Jiang personally chose a slope with a small pond on the west side of the beamless hall and buried Dai Li. Shen Zui personally supervised the construction of the tomb, because Dai Li had killed many ** people and progressives, and was afraid of reprisals, so after placing the coffin, he specially poured cement slag into the tomb to reinforce. (To be continued.) )