Chapter 185: Seal
Kinoshita Ieyasu is a senior researcher at Keiseikan, a private museum in Komoto.
The great-grandfather of the owner of the Keisei Museum, Suzuki Keisei, was an officer during the Eight-Nation Alliance, and his grandfather was an officer during the War of Aggression against China, and he did not know how many sins he committed in China, plundering a large number of Chinese cultural relics, these precious cultural relics, naturally became the family treasure of the Suzuki family, and after Suzuki Keisei inherited, he opened a museum, or exhibited, or re-sold, and China's cultural relics became a tool for their profits.
When Kinoshita Ieyasu was sorting out the ancient books in the cultural relics, he found clues to the treasures of Nanzhao, and immediately reported to the museum owner, and Suzuki Keisei immediately arranged for Kinoshita to come to Fuxian Lake to investigate in the name of tourism. Kinoshita Ieyasu completed the preliminary exploration and found that the treasure needed to be dived and explored, and Suzuki Keisei contacted a professional piracy team, invited two diving and fishing masters, and sent two museum security guards, which was not only to assist, but also to guard against the theft of the masters.
Through these days of investigation, they have roughly locked down the location of the treasure, who knew that something would happen tonight! The moment he woke up, Kinoshita Ieyasu had already thought quickly, who was dealing with them? I didn't see anyone when I was knocked unconscious just now, but now my eyes are covered with cloth, and I can't hear the voices of my four companions, and I can't help but feel a chill in my heart, could it be that my companions have been killed? After listening to Ao Tang's threatening words, Kinoshita Ieyasu was even more frightened, and his mouth kept whining.
"Uh...... Depend on! Ao Tang realized that he hadn't taken the cloth stuffed in his mouth, and immediately stepped forward to remove it.
Kinoshita Ieyasu gasped a few times and croaked.
Ao Tang kicked over and scolded: "Speaking Chinese, you obviously spoke Chinese just now." ”
Kinoshita groaned a few times, struggled to sit up, and shouted: "I am a citizen of Yumoto, who are you who dare to attack and beat me, I will report to the embassy and complain to your political axe!" ”
"Look for death!" Ao Tang was furious, kicked it hard, and suddenly there was a click, Kinoshita Ieyasu's left arm was broken, and he was about to scream, but he had already been gagged by Ao Tang with a cloth again.
Ao Tang leaned over and said in a cold voice: "To be honest, we are also a criminal gang in China, so you don't use a political axe to suppress us." You haven't seen our faces yet, so as long as we explain honestly and let us get the treasure, then we don't have to kill it, but if we don't cooperate, hmph, Fuxian Lake is 100 meters deep, tie up a stone and drown five people, and the waves won't turn over a single flower. Hmph, if you are willing to cooperate, nod, otherwise I will kill you directly, and then wake up the second person for questioning. ”
Kinoshita Ieyasu was terrified, and when he heard that his companion was still alive, he was relieved and began to ponder the credibility of Oyu's words. Indeed, they didn't see "them", so as long as they cooperated, there was really no need for this Chinese criminal gang to exterminate, Kinoshita Ieyasu knew something about China, and knew that if five foreigners died or disappeared at once, the Chinese political axe would definitely be treated as a major matter, maybe it would closely investigate this area, and this Chinese criminal gang didn't want to see this, right?
Moreover, Kinoshita Ieyasu is only a researcher at Keiseikan, just an employee who works for the boss, and he can't risk his life for a treasure that he hasn't seen yet!
Kinoshita Ieyasu endured the severe pain and nodded desperately, Ao Tang pulled away the cloth head of the gag again, Kinoshita moaned a few times, and said in a low voice: "Hey, I will cooperate completely." ”
"That's good." Ao Tang laughed, in order to let this person confess completely and not hide it, he said, "You first explain your origin, identity, and name clearly, and then tell all the treasure clues you have." When you finish speaking, I will wake up the second person and ask again, and the five of them will be interrogated separately, and if they don't match, hmph, don't blame us for being ruthless! ”
Kinoshita Ieyasu thought about it, there seemed to be only one person on the other side? Otherwise, why interrogate them one by one, just interrogate them separately. But even if there is only one person on the other side, he doesn't have the heart to resist at this time, his life is the most precious, there is no need to take risks!
"Hi, hi, I'm Kinoshita Ieyasu from Keiseikan, oh, Keiseikan is a private museum. The other four people, the one with thick eyebrows is Yanagi Musashi from the security department of our museum, and the tall one is also from our Keisei Museum security department, called Miyamoto Soyan, these two are masters of kendo and karate, and your Excellency can stun them unconsciously, it's really powerful......"
Hearing that this little devil was still trying to curry favor with him, Ao Tang couldn't help but be happy.
“…… There are also two professional poaching teams invited by our owner, called Kenshin Takeda and Shingen Uesugi Shingen......"
Kinoshita Ieyasu explained the origin, and honestly told the clues: "After I found the clues of the treasure on the "Montessori Family Biography", I successively flipped through the "Chronicles of Changhe", "History of the East" and ......"
Listening to Kinoshita Ieyasu's words, Ao Tang frowned, and looked at the ancient book in his hand, it should be "Montessori Family Biography", what is the "Changhe Zhi" behind...... He knew that the short-lived dynasty established by Zheng, who usurped Nanzhao, was called "Da Changhe", could it be the history book of Da Changhe? But whether it is "Montessori Family Biography", "Changhe Zhi" or the later "Eastern History" and other titles, Ao Tang has never heard of it before.
In fact, the historical materials of these remote and small countries, even in ancient China, are not very valued, between the rise and fall, often drowned in history, occasionally a few will be collected by the Central Plains Dynasty, but it is only shelved, no one is interested, no one will study, until the modern war, was plundered by the foreign powers as cultural relics. Not to mention Ao Tang, even many historians have never heard of these books.
In any case, after consulting a lot of information, Kinoshita Ieyasu borrowed local county chronicles around Fuxian Lake in the name of tourism, searched for old people to talk about the ancients, and gradually found out more clues, and let the two diving thieves go into the water many times to search, and finally found out the location roughly. But even so, it is only his speculation and inference, history has changed for thousands of years, and maybe it has long been shifted.
Ao Tang got the clue, and he didn't bother to continue asking the other four, and after knocking out Kinoshita Ieyasu, he groped around the shore of the lake. According to the clue, it is from the southwest peak, corresponding to the direction of the Beidou and the moon...... Ao Tang looked at the mountain peak, this is a scene of Fuxian Lake, known as "Jade Shoots Qingtian", and quickly determined the suspected location, in fact, it is also near here, otherwise these people would not have run to this shore.
Oyu returned to the water again, and after a while, he found the location that Kinoshita Ieyasu had speculated in a shallow area. He had scanned the lake before, but he had only scanned what had fallen at the bottom of the lake, and could not see the mud and rocks buried beneath the lake.
"Hmph, there are still some excavation traces here, it seems that I dug it a few days ago, but fortunately they haven't dug it yet."
Ao Tang turned into a dragon shape again, and with a wave of the dragon's claws, it was a big pit, and with a flick of his hand, mud and stones were sprinkled on the side.
"No, come again......"
The dragon's claw was like an excavator, and the earth and stone were constantly dug out and thrown away, until after more than ten times, the dragon's eyes suddenly lit up and found something. Seeing this, Ao Tang suddenly shouted: "Dizzy, it's a small box!" How much treasure can this hide? ”
Nanzhao Kingdom has been inherited for nearly two hundred years, I thought that what descendants fled, can take away a lot of treasure, Ao Tang only came to dig treasure with great interest, now look at this small box, it is the size of a large stainless steel lunch box, even if it is filled with gold, what is it?
Ao Tang opened the box casually, and couldn't help but sigh lightly, it was not gold and silver jewelry, but several seals, and quickly understood that it was the seal of Nanzhao Kingdom, right? Then why did the descendants of the exiled country flee and take a few seals with them?
But it's right to think about it, for the ancient people, the jade seal has extremely important political significance, and it is a symbol of the rise and fall of the dynasty and the inheritance of the country. Countless stories have occurred in history around the heirloom jade seal, starting from the Qin Dynasty and not being destroyed or disappeared until the Tang Dynasty five generations later, and even in the Song and Yuan dynasties, there are still unearthed news that is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
Of course, the one in the box is not the legendary jade seal, but the seal of the small country of Nanzhao.
Ao Tang picked it up and looked at it, one engraved with what "Great Rite Emperor's Seal", Nanzhao was a subject country of a great power most of the time, but one of the lords of the country fell out with the Tang Dynasty, proclaimed himself emperor, and changed the name of the country to "Great Rite Country". Later, there was another lord of the country, who changed the name of the country to "Dafeng Republic of China", including the "Dachanghe country" of the later usurper, and it is strange to look at these country names with today's habits.
Ao Tang put down the Great Gift National Seal and picked up the second one, and sure enough, it was the "Seal of the Great Fengmin Emperor". He picked up the third one, but it was a silver and gold seal, with a snake as a button, and it was printed with the inscription "Zhenyuan Book Nanzhao Seal".
Ao Tang pondered for a while, Zhenyuan was a year name of the Tang Dynasty, and he couldn't help but understand, this was the royal seal granted by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to officially canonize the Nanzhao Kingdom!
Staring at the three seals, Ao Tang couldn't help but have a headache, what does this thing want it for? Auction? He heard Lao Li say before that there had been seals in the auction market, and the most of them were Qianlong's in the Qing Dynasty, because that guy scratched his bag and carved a lot of seals for himself, such as one of the Qianlong Imperial Treasure Xintian master Jiaolong Niu White Jade Seal, which was auctioned for hundreds of millions of yuan at Sotheby's Hong Kong auction in October 10; There is another Qianlong Jiuzhou Qingyan Treasure Seal, in March this year, at an auction in France, it was also hundreds of millions!
I wonder if the seal of the small country of Nanzhao can be auctioned at such a high price? But Ao Tang knew that this thing must be regarded as a cultural relic, unlike vases, bowls and jars like Yuan Qinghua, which may be a little troublesome.
Ao Tang shook his head, and was about to go back with the three seals, when he suddenly exclaimed, he faintly felt that there was dragon qi on the silver and gold seals!
Ao Tang was taken aback, and said that the real dragon son of heaven, could it be that there was really dragon energy on the seal of the ancient dynasty? Is there still a remnant?
No, Nanzhao is just a small country, and it is definitely not a true dragon emperor, at most it can be regarded as a dragon, but as long as there is dragon energy...... Ao Tang's eyes gradually brightened, maybe collecting the jade seals of the past dynasties and absorbing the dragon qi could speed up his evolution!
(To be continued)