Hearing Zhao Qirui say this, Chu Chen was slightly stunned, and thought about the texture of the two paintings, there really have to be similarities.

Liu Sizhe said with some excitement: "In this way, it is really possible!" Maybe there are many materials in the red dragon picture, so it will show its true face when it rains, and there are few materials in the "Hanhai Starry Sky Map", so it needs to be put in the water. In this way, the red dragon diagram may also be able to be put directly into the water to show its true face. Brother Chen, do you want to try it when we go back? ”

Wang Xiaoyue preemptively said: "I think it's better to forget it, if it's not like what you said, then it won't ruin the painting!" ”

"That's it!" Liu Sizhe scratched his head and said with some embarrassment.

"I think I can try it!" Chu Chen said with a smile: "Let's try it in the corner of the scroll first, if it is also like the "Hanhai Starry Sky Map", it will almost prove to be feasible!" ”

Liu Sizhe persuaded: "This, Brother Chen, you should think about it and talk about it!" ”

Now that he thinks about it, what he said just now is somewhat irresponsible, if he damaged a strange painting because of his suggestion, even if Chu Chen didn't blame him, he wouldn't forgive himself.

Chu Chen somewhat understood his thoughts, so he nodded and said, "Okay, let this go in advance!" ”

Next, everyone chatted for a while, and when it came to the auction in the evening, Zhao Qirui said to Chu Chen with a serious face: "By the way, there is one more thing I want to tell you, there are two national treasures in this auction, and we will have to auction them anyway." ”

Chu Chen was not surprised by how his uncle knew about the lot at the Lu Dao auction, and what he was curious about now. will make my uncle make such a solemn statement.

Liu Sizhe was anxious, and he asked first, "Uncle Zhao." What are the two national treasures you are talking about? ”

"Among them are ten original oracle bone inscriptions, as well as one hundred and twelve Dunhuang testaments." Zhao Qirui replied.

Listened to Zhao Qirui's answer. Everyone couldn't help but look at each other, these two things are indeed very important national treasures, and it is no wonder that they will attract Zhao Qirui's attention.

"Uncle, presumably those ten original oracle bones are not simple, right?" Chu Chen asked.

Zhao Qirui nodded and said: "Yes, those ten originals are the most quintessential part of the oracle bones collected by Mr. Meng Guanghui in the past, and they can be said to be the most precious oracle bone inscriptions among the people, so no matter what, they must be photographed." ”

"Who is this Meng Guanghui?" Josie asked Wu Ke beside her in a low voice.

Wu Ke shook his head: "I don't know what to do!" ”

"Meng Guanghui is an expert in paleographies during the Republic of China and a famous calligrapher."

Chu Chen explained: "It is generally believed that the earliest discovery of the oracle bone inscription was in 1899 by Wang Yirong. But in fact, Meng Guanghui's discovery of the oracle bone inscription preceded Wang Yirong's discovery by a year. Therefore, Meng, Wang Yirong and Wang Xiang are among the earliest scholars in China to discover, identify and study oracle bones. ”

"It was reported. Meng Shi purchased the original oracle bone from a Lu antique dealer who was Fan Shouxuan at that time, and he collected 430 oracle bones in his lifetime. ”

In 1951, Li Henian selected and kept 30 pieces from it, and the remaining 400 pieces were introduced by Mr. Guo Moruo and resold to the Social and Cultural Affairs Administration of the Ministry of Culture. The remaining 30 oracle bone fragments are not only larger, more handwritten, but also more important, and are the most quintessential part of the oracle bones in Meng Guanghui's collection. It's a pity that during that period of turmoil, ten pieces were lost. ”

Speaking of which. Chu Chen asked, "Uncle, are the ten oracle bones in this auction the same ten pieces that were lost back then?" ”

"Yes, those ten pieces. That's why I said I had to get it! ”

Zhao Qirui said: "Fortunately, there are not many people who know the Tao in this auction, and they are basically local people in Xiangjiang and rich people near Xiangjiang. And. I have already greeted the owner of this auction beforehand and asked him not to notify foreign buyers to come. Otherwise, we will be under a lot of pressure. ”

Regarding his uncle's greeting behavior, Chu Chen didn't feel that there was anything wrong. After all, these ten oracle bones are national treasures, and it is natural to stay in the country, so it is normal to play some tricks for this reason, and besides, they did not force them to buy and sell, so the organizers of the auction should not do anything unfavorable to the country.

Chu Chen said firmly: "Uncle, don't worry, no matter what, I will definitely get those ten oracle bones in my hands." ”

Zhao Qirui patted Chu Chen's shoulder with relief, and said with a smile: "Okay, I'm just telling you, when the time comes, you will take the lead, are you still worried that I won't be able to shoot?" ”

Chu Chen complimented: "You go out in person, that is the god blocking and killing the god, the Buddha blocking and killing the Buddha, needless to say, you will definitely be able to catch it!" ”

"You kid!" Zhao Qirui smiled.

After a while, Liu Sizhe asked again: "Uncle Zhao, those Dunhuang suicide notes must also be treasures, right?" ”

"Yes, it's all boutique!" After speaking, Zhao Qirui sighed, his expression a little depressed.

The Dunhuang testament refers to the ancient manuscripts and prints from the 5th to the 11th centuries in Dunhuang. In 1900, when the Taoist priest Wang Yuanqi cleaned the 16th cave of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, he found that there was a secret room behind the wall, and the cave was full of various Buddhist scriptures and other cultural relics, with a total number of about 50,000 pieces. Among them, Buddhist books account for about 90 percent of the Chinese literature in Dunhuang.

Subsequently, in 1907, the British Stein came to Dunhuang and fraudulently took away 24 boxes of suicide notes, posthumous paintings and 5 large boxes of other cultural relics with 14 horseshoe silver. In 1908, the French sinologist Bo Xihe came to the Mogao Grottoes and used a large amount of silver to defraud more than 6,000 manuscripts and more than 200 ancient Buddhist paintings and silk fabrics. Bo Xihe also found a batch of Uighur suicide notes from the Yuan Dynasty in Cave 464.

In 1905, the Russian Obruchev, the island people Ju Ruichao, Yoshikawa Koichiro, and the Russian Ottenburg, the American Warner and others in 1914 successively stole a large number of scriptures from the Mogao Grottoes. To date, 35,000 of these cultural relics have been dispersed overseas, accounting for about two-thirds of all cultural relics.

It was not until August 22, 1909 that the Qing court knew the value of the Dunhuang testament, and Qiao Shunan, the Zuo Cheng of the Academy, ordered Mao Shijun, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, to seal the Mogao Caves.

Thinking of the precious cultural relics of his country, he ended up like this, not to mention that Zhao Qirui would feel depressed, and everyone else here also sighed.

Qiao Qian couldn't help but say angrily: "That royal Taoist is really bad, because he has caused the loss of so many cultural relics, and he is still a Taoist, and he is not afraid of going to hell!" ”

Chu Chen shook his head: "Actually, although Wang Daoren is also the culprit, in fact, in the whole incident, his responsibility is not great. ”

Josie frowned and said, "Why is it not big?" If it weren't for him, how could those scriptures have been sold to foreigners at such a low price? ”

"If you know the cause and effect of this, then you know what I said for Lu."

Chu Chen explained: "First of all, Wang Yuanqi is an authentic Taoist priest, and the Mogao Grottoes are a holy place for Buddhism, which has always been a place for Buddhists to operate. However, the Qing court did such an outrageous thing and actually arranged a Taoist priest in a Buddhist cave. ”

After Wang Daoren arrived there, he saw that the Sacred Treasure Cave was dilapidated because no one took care of it, and his heart was very anxious. After that, he ran around, persuaded hard, saved money, and used it to clean up the sand in the cave, and it took nearly two years to clean up the silt in the 16th cave alone, and therefore found the Dunhuang suicide note.

After the suicide note was discovered, Daoist Wang can be said to have done everything he should do, first of all, he personally sent two volumes of scriptures from the cave to the county order, but the county magistrate did not learn and did not know how to do it, but regarded these two volumes of scriptures as two yellowed pieces of waste paper.

After that, a new magistrate came to the local area, and after the magistrate went to inspect it, he just left a sentence for Daoist Wang to keep it on the spot, take a good look at the scripture cave, and pick up a few volumes of scriptures to take away.

After the last, Wang Daoren was still unwilling, so he picked two boxes of scriptures from the cave of the scriptures, drove the donkey, slept in the open air, single-handedly, risked more than 800 miles, and found the Taoist Tingdong who was the Ansu soldier at that time.

After some browsing, the Taoist came to a very absurd conclusion that the characters on the scriptures were not as good as his calligraphy, and that was it!

Speaking of this, Chu Chen shook his head and sighed: "For as long as 7 years, Wang Daoren has asked the official for attention many times, and it has been reported level by level, but no one cares, how do you say he is not discouraged?" And at that time, in order to repair the cave, he lacked funds, and he did not know the value of the cultural relics, so he finally sold the scriptures because of this, how much fault do you think he had? ”

After listening to Chu Chen's statement, everyone was silent for a while, empathy, if they were royal people, in that situation, would they definitely be able to change the fate of those cultural relics?

"I think the culprit is actually the Qing court at that time! Not only did they not know how to protect cultural relics, but because of their own decay, there were so many corrupt officials and corrupt officials who ate vegetarian meals at that time! ”

Chu Chen said angrily: "At that time, the Qing court learned the value of the suicide note, so it sent someone to escort the scriptures back to Beijing, but after the escort officer Fu went to the capital, he disobeyed the order and did not directly return to the school, but privately drove the convoy into He Zhenyi's private house. ”

At that time, He Zhenyi and his father-in-law Li Shengduo, as well as Liu Tingchen, Fang Erqian and other four people flipped through all the Dunhuang suicide notes in the car and embezzled and stole some treasures. More than 8,000 volumes of Dunhuang testament, many of which were intercepted and embezzled by officials, these cultural relics selected by Confucian officials are all first-class cultural relics! ”

Hearing this, Zhao Qirui sighed and said, "Yes! I also think that although the loss of the suicide note was somewhat responsible, it was more caused by the decay of the Qing court at that time. Just like those suicide notes in this auction, they are actually treasures that were intercepted by those corrupt officials at that time! Do you say sarcasm or not? (To be continued......)