Chapter 967: Demining
Inside the Xianliang Gate is where the ruins of the Zhengda Guangming Hall are located, and when Tang Dou and the others rushed in, more than a dozen construction workers were running towards this end in a panic from the direction of the Zhengda Guangming Palace. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"What happened?" Wentai asked the construction workers in a loud voice.
"Mine, civilian, I dug up a mine while I was clearing the rubble." A construction worker shouted at Wentai with a pale face.
Hearing that it was a landmine, Wentai's face also changed.
The corners of Tang Dou's mouth twitched, he sent a large number of mines to the Old Summer Palace back then, those mines were naturally to deal with the British and French coalition forces and the later Eight-Nation Alliance, after so many years, there will be no mines that have not been detonated and retained, right?
Thinking that he and Yang Deng were busy carrying those big bags and small bags in the Zhengda Guangming Hall that night, Wen Feng was sweating and planting mines around the Zhengda Guangming Palace, Tang Dou's nose was sour again.
"I'll take a look." Tang Dou looked at Wen Tai and He Bin, who were stagnant, and said a word, and walked forward.
He Bin hurriedly grabbed Tang Dou: "What are you kidding, that's a landmine, what's there to see." ”
Tang Dou coughed and said curtly: "What, I'm just curious." ”
No one could tell anyone about the mines planted in the Old Summer Palace, and Tang Dou had no reason to see if the mines dug up by the workers were given to Wenfeng by himself, so he could only explain them with curiosity.
"Oh shit, what's so curious about the mines?" He Bin pulled Tang Dou and instructed Wentai: "Wengong, hurry up and call the police and let the police deal with it." ”
Wen Tai also pulled Tang Dou and said, "Yes, Mr. Tang, it's not fun if the mine explodes." ”
Tang Dou couldn't insist anymore, so he could only give up and check closely.
Forget it, even if it is the batch of mines that they gave to Wenfeng, no one can trace it to their heads, besides, from the War of Resistance against Japan to the War of Liberation, I don't know how many mines have been buried underground, and it is reasonable to occasionally have one or two that have not been found for so many years.
Wentai took out the phone and called the police, and the police came quickly, and set up a long cordon outside the area where the mine was found, blocking Tang Dou and the others outside the cordon.
Soon the SWAT also arrived, and the demining expert carefully questioned the worker who found the mine, and couldn't help frowning slightly.
According to the description of the worker, the mine he found turned out to be very similar to the M18 anti-infantry mine, how is this possible? The U.S. military was only equipped with M18 anti-infantry mines in 1960, and the Chinese imitation of the Type 66 was equipped even later, how could it appear in the ruins of the Old Summer Palace? Could it be that it was lost from the armed sector in times of turmoil?
No matter how many doubts there are in the minds of demining experts, they must always eliminate the danger first.
The demining experts began to wear protective suits and instructed other police officers to extend the cordon another 300 metres.
If the mine found by the workers is really an M18 anti-infantry mine, then a safe distance of 300 meters is possible.
Tang Dou and the others retreated to the three stone bridges of the moat of Xianliangmen, and He Bin said to Tang Dou with a smile: "I thought it was a treasure dug up, but it turned out to be a mine." ”
Tang Dou raised his eyebrows, turned to Wentai and asked, "Wengong, did the workers find any cultural relics left over from the Old Summer Palace during the construction process?" ”
Wentai said with a smile: "The workers think that the Old Summer Palace has been unmanaged for so many years, and for more than 100 years, it has experienced countless sweeps by the British and French Eight-Nation Alliance, and even the complete stones have been moved home by the peasants to build a pigsty on the wall, and I saw in a nearby village that the wall foundation of a house is made of carved stone beams, looking at the carving process of the stone beams, it is very likely that the peasants moved back from the Old Summer Palace." As for the higher-value cultural relics, even if they are found, I am afraid that they have been hidden and sold by the people who picked them up. ”
Tang Dou smiled bitterly, he asked this question just now, because he suddenly remembered that Wen Feng had told him that night, a few of them just picked up valuable treasures from all over the place and packed them up and piled them up in the Zhengda Guangming Palace, waiting for Tang Dou and Yang Deng to bring them back to the modern era, and there were many treasures that they couldn't all pack and send to the Zhengda Guangming Palace, so they could only choose the most convenient way to hide them.
According to Wenfeng, many treasures were thrown into the well in the lake, and a well in the Siyi Study House in the courtyard was filled with various treasures, and the well water overflowed.
Think about it, more than a hundred years have passed, and there have been several catastrophes, especially in those ten years, the Old Summer Palace was almost dug into the ground and broken, even if Wenfeng and they hid countless treasures back then, I am afraid that they have already been discovered and lost.
Tang Dou turned to He Bin and asked, "Mr. He proposed to establish a recovery team for the lost cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace, do you know about this matter?" ”
He Bin nodded: "I heard Miss Qian say it, Miss Qian said that you are the most leisurely, and I want to recommend you as the team leader, I agree, but when you go abroad to recover cultural relics, you have to count me as one." ”
Tang Dou touched his nose, Qian Qianqian said that he was recommended by He Gambling King to be the team leader, He Bin said that Qian Qianqian recommended him to be the team leader, it sounds like He Bin's words are more credible, but it doesn't matter, the question is whether he wants to be the team leader.
The cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace are lost all over the world, and it is not a simple matter to recover them, and it may be impossible to complete this work even if it takes a lifetime.
At that time, the British and French forces looted the three mountains and five gardens in the western suburbs, the Old Summer Palace was only one of them, even if they fought hard, they only rescued some of the most precious cultural relics in the Old Summer Palace, these cultural relics may not even be less than one percent of the cultural relics in the entire Three Mountains and Five Gardens, as far as Tang Dou knows, there are now at least hundreds of museums abroad that have collected all kinds of cultural relics lost from the Old Summer Palace, especially the British and French, they are the first robbers to loot the Old Summer Palace.
Hearing Tang Dou Hebin talk about the recovery of the lost cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace, Wentai said with regret: "The forty views of the Old Summer Palace are also rare cultural landscapes in the world, but unfortunately they were all destroyed in the war. Let's just say that the Zhengda Guangming Hall in front of us, the Zhengda Guangming Hall is completely copied according to the Taihe Hall in the Forbidden City, which is the first of the forty views of the Old Summer Palace, and is the place where the court will listen to the government and hold major celebrations. Since Qianlong, every year the emperor has to set up "Shangyuan three banquets" in the Old Summer Palace, the emperor's birthday banquet, Zhongyuan feast, Guanqing Dragon Dance, Da Kao Han Zhan, Sanguan Township test and re-examination are all here, but now it has become a pile of ruins, fortunately, the Zhengda Guangming Hall is copied according to the Taihe Palace, and there are photos provided by Mr. Tang as a basis, and the reconstruction is relatively simple. However, the information in our hands for the other thirty-nine scenes is too little, fortunately, Mr. Tang provided some photos, but after all, these photos are just a peek at the leopard, and there are many details that are not reflected at all, so I really don't know where to start. ”
Tang Dou stretched out his hand and patted Wentai's arm and said, "The clerk doesn't have to be too anxious, let's find the information slowly, there will always be a way to solve it." ”
Moon Tae sighed and stopped talking.
By this time, the demining experts had cleared the mines found by the workers, carefully placed the mines in an iron box, took them out and put them back on the car.
The alert has not yet been lifted, and the demining experts asked the person in charge of the reconstruction of the Old Summer Palace to come over.
Tang Dou and the three of them glanced at each other, bent down and walked across the cordon to the demining expert, Tang Dou kept staring curiously at the black iron box that was put on the car by the demining expert, guessing what kind of mine was in the box.
If it was an ordinary mine, it would have nothing to do with him, but from the worker's description, he felt that the mine that the worker found should be one of the mines he gave to Wenfeng at the beginning.