After half a ring, several people looked at each other, shook their heads and took a few steps back, their faces full of disappointment.

Among them, Li Lao, who was like an old pedant with glasses, sighed, and said angrily to Boss Qi, who had already guessed the result, with disappointment and anger: "Fake, the counterfeit is quite standard, but the content of the scriptures is wrong, and the content of the scriptures is the version of the Qing Dynasty." ”

Boss Qi didn't put a disappointed expression on his face, but smiled bitterly and said: "I also know that it is likely to be a fake, but if it is true, I will admit it if I gave them 200,000 yuan, and if I am lucky enough to see the things in the scripture cave, I will be content." It's just a pity! Or fake. ”

Mr. Zhang handed over the big magnifying glass in his hand from his left hand to his right hand, as if he wanted to use his right hand to pad the weight of the magnifying glass, shook the magnifying glass in his hand, shook his head, walked a few steps in disappointment, and gently put the magnifying glass on the edge of the long table and said: "No, the things in the cave of the scriptures, except for those that are scattered overseas and collected in domestic museums, are basically not seen on the market, and it is estimated that what is now exposed on the market is fake, so don't dream." 200,000, you can't get it even if it's 2 million. ”

At this time, as soon as Gao Hongsheng heard that it was a fake, he walked boldly to the long table to see what it was.

On the white flannel of the long table was a broken scroll, the yellowed pages showing a hint of old age, but the broken appearance was really miserable, not much better than the scroll he had eaten by a dog in middle school.

He didn't even know a word of the text that turned in the scroll, and it looked like it was neither Chinese nor familiar English, but a kind of text he had never seen before.

Looking at Gao Hongsheng's appearance of wanting to ask and wanting to speak, Zhang Lao on the side said kindly: "This is Sanskrit, and now few people understand it, and the counterfeiters probably don't understand, and they even use the Sanskrit of the Qing Dynasty as the Sanskrit of a thousand years ago, and some words were not available before the Song Dynasty, that is, to bully you people who don't understand Sanskrit, real experts can know it at a glance, which is why we are so quick to draw conclusions." ”

"Then how do you determine that it is the Tibetan scripture in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang?" Gao Hongsheng asked curiously.

"Haha, this is a bit of a long story, we have seen more than a dozen of these scriptures over the years, the same method of falsification, and the first half of the volume is now stored in the Zài Museum, we are fortunate to look through it, and we are particularly impressed, so we will know it as soon as we see it." Zhang Lao smiled and told the secrets of this industry, but at that time, some of the scriptures were indeed torn into two parts, or even several parts, and then handed over to the Qing Kingdom as a scripture.

The next is the time to talk about the world, several old people who studied the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes gave Gao Hongsheng a lesson, and it was only at this time that he understood the origin of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and the story of the Tibetan Scripture Cave.

The origin of the Mogao Grottoes is basically in the books, but the story of the Tibetan Scripture Cave is a bit bizarre.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the progress of science and technology, a large number of new manuscripts and printed Buddhist classics poured into Dunhuang, resulting in the accumulation of a large number of books.

A large number of repetitive, dilapidated and unsuitable for further use, as well as some scriptures and other classic cultural materials that were popular in the past but are rarely reread at present, as well as scriptures and other scriptures that have been eliminated in various monasteries before, foreign scriptures and documents that have been accumulated for many years, waste paper, old banner paintings, and redundant Buddha statues are gathered together.

However, according to the fine tradition of ancient China, the paper cannot be discarded casually, so they bundled these books, papers, paintings, documents, etc. as waste and put them into the 17th cave, (the 17th cave is an abandoned ear chamber in the 16th cave corridor, only a few square meters in size) and then sealed the abandoned ear chamber with soil, and then painted murals on it.

As a result, after the death of the contemporaries, this waste warehouse has been unknown, and the specific time of its closure is no longer verifiable, but according to the materials unearthed in the cave, it is inferred that it was about 1002 A.D. or a year or two.

However, the people of the Song Dynasty could not have predicted that the things they disposed of as waste would become a rare treasure in the world after more than 900 years, which is the origin of the Tibetan Scripture Cave.

History is sometimes a joke like this, those classics that should have been preserved in the world have been destroyed in the long river of time, but those things that have been treated as waste can be preserved by luck.

There are 50,000 or 60,000 pieces of precious ancient documents and cultural relics in the cave, and their value is impossible to estimate, and they basically belong to the category of national treasures.

Among them, there are a large number of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and other religious classics, as well as a large number of scriptures, histories, children, collections, poems, words, songs, fu, popular literature, as well as water classics, geographies, almanacs, star charts, medicine, mathematics, textiles, sugar, winemaking, chess classics, etc., astronomy and geography are all-encompassing, as well as a large number of folk sales contracts, pawns, account books, household registrations, letters, butterflies and so on.

These precious documents are recorded in a variety of languages, including Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit, Qiuzi, Lite, Turkic, Uighur, Kangju and so on. In addition to these, there are paintings. Buddha statues, embroidery, and a host of other precious works of art.

These documents involve almost all aspects of social and natural sciences, and many world firsts have been discovered through the research of Chinese and foreign scholars.

For example, the world's earliest paper, the oldest books, the earliest muskets, the earliest horse harness, the earliest astrological charts, the earliest musical scores, the earliest chess classics, the earliest stage performance diagrams, etc., how many world firsts, this mystery can only wait for the world's Dunhuang experts to solve.

There are more archaeological discoveries in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gao Hongsheng is listening to the story, but it has also aroused his considerable interest, and in the end, it is time to eat a big meal at noon, and several old-timers are still sighing diligently after the Mogao Grottoes Tibetan Scripture Cave was plundered by those foreigners overseas.

They even condemned Zhang Daqian's destruction of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, and one by one they almost opened their mouths to scold him for peeling off the murals in the caves at will, and causing permanent damage to the cultural relics.

When he sent these old-timers away after eating, looking at their regretful faces, he couldn't help but run to Gansu now, go through the past to open the scripture cave, and carry the cultural relics inside back directly, and then shouted, where are the cultural relics in the entire scripture cave! You study it.

But think about it, even if you give him a hundred guts, he doesn't dare to take out the cultural relics in the scripture cave, it is simply that the birthday star hangs himself for a long time.

However, he became interested in the Scripture Cave, and was ready to take advantage of the damn stupid Taoist priest to open the Scripture Cave, he took the first step to transport all the things in the Scripture Cave back to his home, even if he put it there, it would be better than being sold by that stupid Taoist priest after he left in the future.