Chapter 865: Please Take Over 13
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This is an ugly struggle between Japan and the puppet. As early as 1926, the Japanese government set up the "Oriental History Museum" to collect precious cultural relics from Asian countries, and the famous Chinese Ming Dynasty painter Tang Yin's famous work "Jinshan Scenic Traces" was numbered as "Authentic Monument 008", which became one of the important cultural relics that the Japanese invaders urgently needed to grab.
After the outbreak of the war of aggression against China, many Japanese cultural spies infiltrated China and searched around to find out the whereabouts of "Authentic 008". Finally, they learned that the painting was in the hands of Chen Bijun, the wife of Wang Jingwei, the chairman of the puppet government in Nanjing, and they were ready to wait for an opportunity to plunder.
Chen Bijun, who was aware of this, hurried to Jinmen and prepared to take the "Jinshan Scenic Spots" to take the "Seagull" yacht bound for Daoqing back to Nanjing.
The "Seagull" that Chen Bijun was scheduled to take was intercepted by dozens of Japanese led by Shitaro Yamamoto on the surface of the Bohai Sea, and all five Chinese employees and 19 merchants on board were thrown into the sea. But the Japanese searched the whole ship, but they didn't find Chen Bijun and "Jinshan Victory Map". It turned out that Chen Bijun, who had learned the news in advance, had secretly changed to take the "Fuji Maru" and sneaked back to Nanjing from Tanggu. Chen Bijun, who escaped the catastrophe, secretly transferred the famous painting to an underground secret room with a steel-bone iron door structure in the house of the great traitor Zhou Fohai.
Soon, the pervasive Japanese spies inquired about the news again. And took advantage of the opportunity of Wang Jingwei, Chen Bijun, Zhou Fohai and other traitor leaders to meet Japanese officials, sneaked into Zhou Fohai's house, used a cutting machine to open the iron door of the basement, stole the "Jinshan Victory Map", and then set fire to Zhou's house to destroy the evidence of the crime.
However, after the "Jinshan Scenic Map" was shipped to Japan, it was identified as a high-quality fake by the experts of the "Oriental History Museum".
For this mystery, some people speculate that the paintings shipped to Japan are indeed genuine, but the cunning Japanese deliberately used a trick to distinguish the truth from the false; Some people also think that Chen Bijun's hiding in Zhou Fohai's house was originally a fake painting.
But Cao Juren gave another statement in this article, this painting was preempted by the "13" gang that made and sold fake cultural relics at that time, and replaced the real painting with a package adjustment scheme, thus leaving this valuable work in China!
"What about staying in Huaxia? Isn't it ready to be used as a counterfeiting version to make more profits? β
This is the end of the article, but Li Yi guessed that Cao Juren should not know the fate of this painting later, or his purpose in writing this article was originally to hope that through his praise, he could stimulate the sense of national responsibility and justice of some people in the "13" organization, so that they could not use this painting to make fake profits!
Li Yi looked at the other pages and found that they were all other contents, all of which had nothing to do with cultural relics, so he put the newspaper aside for the time being. These other contents are also very valuable for research, but they are not considered at this time.
Immediately after, he picked up a second newspaper. This is still a "Ta Kung Pao", but the publication date is much later, in 1948, and looking at the date and the content of the front page, it should be a newspaper published by Chiang Ching-kuo during the period of fighting tigers in Shanghai.
On the second page of the paper, an attachΓ© of Chiang Ching-kuo said in an interview: "Long before the fall of Shanghai to the Japanese invaders, a group of righteous men realized the crisis, and through their arduous struggle against the Japanese puppet agents, they replaced a total of 273 precious cultural relics in the Shanghai Museum with fakes, and later handed over the cultural relics to the Nationalist Government." Because similar actions will be carried out in the future, it has not been disclosed. β
Although this report does not say who these righteous men are, judging from the intention of 13 to give this newspaper to Li Yi, it should have been done by their predecessors. And the exchange of fake for real in the text just proves this.
"This time it was a good job, but in the end it was handed over to the national government, and it is probably better to keep the things in your own hands! Alas......"
The next few newspapers were published in the liberated areas during the Anti-Japanese War, with different periods, but the content of the reports was not much different, and there were patriots who were unwilling to disclose their names to donate a large number of precious cultural relics as military funds to support the anti-Japanese resistance.
"I actually have connections with both the Kuomintang and the CCP at the same time, so what about the follow-up?"
It's a pity that there are so many newspapers in total, and there are two notebooks and some scattered materials up and down.
Li Yi first picked up a notebook on it, the handwriting in it was very sloppy, but the things recorded were amazing.
At the beginning of this notebook, the specific action plan of the Shanghai Museum in 1936 and the participants were recorded. It's just that all the personnel replaced their names with code names, which made Li Yi regret it.
"It turns out that the Japanese had already infiltrated the museum at that time, so they really put a lot of effort into it......
Li Yi watched slowly, thinking about what the purpose of 13 mailing these things to him was.
These things, for the 13 who have been inherited in the same vein, should also be very precious and even irreplaceable treasures, why did the other party send it to him, and what are the intentions?
Soon, the first page was finished, and the second page came up, recording the results of the operation and the disposal plan for the stolen cultural relics.
"Seven people were sacrificed!"
At the back of the notebook, there are similar actions, some successful and some unsuccessful, a total of 13 operations, involving 13 provinces and cities, and the final casualties are as high as 178 people!
The person in charge of writing this note wrote sadly at the end that after so many years of fighting, the entire 13 organizations were almost destroyed, and they had no choice but to go into hibernation, but fortunately they had seen the dawn of victory in the War of Resistance at this time.
Seeing this, Li Yi felt that the notebook in his hand was heavy, what a magnificent era it was, and even a group of "bad guys" who made huge profits by making counterfeit prices on weekdays threw themselves into the War of Resistance without hesitation!
"It seems that Master is not wrong, this is really a group of people who can sing and cry! But why have they not chosen to publish this information for so many years, but have embarked on the old road of counterfeiting? Is it because of 13 substitutions? β
Li Yi was really a little confused, so he shook his head, didn't think about it anymore, and reached out to pick up the second notebook.
In this second notebook, there are dense records of the treasures they stole from those museums, and each treasure is marked behind.
Linking the meaning of the context, Li Yi found that this mark should represent the whereabouts of these cultural relics, and he couldn't help but study it carefully.
"There are three different styles of this mark, if one representative was handed over to the Kuomintang, and one representative donated to the CCP at that time, then the remaining one should represent the cultural relics that are still in the hands of 13 people......
After studying for a while, Li Yi guessed the general meaning of the mark.
"Daming Chenghua blue and white entwined branches lotus tuo eight auspicious pattern drum nail three-legged smoker, blue and white longevity stone camellia picture bowl, doucai seawater Tianma figure "day" word jar...... It's such a precious thing. β
Li Yi browsed page by page, and found a few familiar names in it, these things are now either in Taipei or in the Forbidden City, all of them are national treasures!
It's just that this time, he is even more confused, what does this 13 want to do? Is it to use his channels to make these things public, so as to wash away their stigma for so many years?
"But why did you choose me? Do I know this person? β
13 The people in the organization usually have another identity, and everyone is engaged in this, so it is normal to know each other.
"If this is really the plan, then it doesn't hurt to make it public, after all, they have made so many sacrifices, and they should not be silently buried in history."
Putting down the notebook, he looked through the scattered materials again, and found that the contents of these records were relatively messy, including a certain day in a certain month, successfully copied the antique, and recorded all the experiences. Others are directives that require a member to copy an artifact. There are also some transaction records.
After reading these things one by one, Li Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head, Wait, since this guy handed over so much valuable information to him, there must be follow-ups. And all he can do now is wait.
It seems that the other party is also calculating how long it will take him to look at these things, so he didn't let him wait long, and the call came in just now.
"Okay, I'll admit that I may have had some misunderstandings about your organization before, but I don't understand what you mean by sending these things to me, do you want me to help you make them public?"
Li Yi was too lazy to go around in circles politely, and directly asked the other party's plan.
"No, Mr. Li, these valuable information, if we were willing to make it public, we would have made it public a long time ago, but 13 organizations have had a rule since their inception that all information in the organization must not be leaked, otherwise they will be hunted down and killed by the organization."
"Oh? There is actually this rule, Mr. 13, do you want me to be hunted down by your organization with you? β
The other end of the phone was silent for a while, and finally as if he had made up his mind, he said an earth-shattering sentence: "No, I want you, Mr. Li Yi, to succeed me as the next 13!" β
"Poof!" Li Yi sprayed directly, this was really surprising to him, the purpose of the other party sending these materials to him was to let him take over 13?
The idea of having a guy with a private museum and countless precious artifacts at the head of a counterfeiting syndicate is really whimsical enough!
But the other party simply sent everything over, and it was obvious that this was a deliberate result. But why? Why is it him?