Chapter 431: Great Britain's National Treasure
The stowaway man once bought the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica at a high price. And not just one set, but 863 sets!
From then on, it was out of control! According to the requirements of the smuggler, Chen Shan immediately purchased 863 sets of each version that came out. To this day, none of the versions have been pulled down.
As a three-book papermaker, the only opportunity to use his professional knowledge in the 40,000 years after the smuggling man crossed over was how to preserve the more than 800 sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
In the eighteenth century, European paper mills already used rosin + alum to give paper water resistance.
One of the biggest problems with this process is that the paper is made under acidic conditions, and the paper is not resistant to putting! After ten years of storage, the paper is obviously yellow and brittle!
This is really different from the Caihou paper and rice paper of the ancestors of China, Huaxia rice paper is not resistant to water but is durable.
So, in the last life, the first edition of 3,000 sets, in later generations, only half of the sets in the British Museum remained!
How the British Museum preserves that half of the set, the smuggler doesn't know. Even if you know it, you can't follow suit. The reason is obvious, it is a proper drop of high technology, and the scumbags of the previous life can't understand it at all!
The smuggling man in this life is still a scumbag. If you want to save this set of things, you can only use the old method of the flood wilderness! What is the method? Time pause! The little flood wilderness arranges a version of the innate spiritual power of the time pause.
Therefore, the cost of these more than 800 sets of "Encyclopædia Britannica" is too high for others to imagine! Of course, this is for such great powers as Hong Ba and Cain. For Han Chen people, it is just equivalent to a small half of the spring thunder!
It's just that now, those books are still on Hanchen Island, and I have to go and get them.
"Please wait a minute, I'll go get a set in the car. The stowaway man got up and walked out of the living room as he spoke, making the appearance of going to the trunk to pick up something. Of course, I didn't forget to close the doors.
In the next second, the little swallow who had finished teleporting appeared in front of the small flood in the stone school space of the crater camp on Hanchen Island in the southern Indian Ocean: "Sanshan, I want to get some books." "Okay!!How many sets?"Thirty-six!"Okay!"
Fifteen seconds later, the stowaway man stepped out of the cart crammed with books. Thirty-six sets, each set of dozens of copies. Nearly three thousand thick books, just crammed into the trunk.
"Nicholas, this is the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica in a set of three. I brought thirty-six full sets with me this time. Do you see, is it enough?"
Shocked! Shocked! This is a proper British treasure!
The old vampire is an Englishman, so how could he not know the preciousness of this set of books? Not to mention, he once bought the first edition of the book with his own hands! However, that set of books has long since been mothed into powder!
As soon as you get started with these three sets, you immediately know that they are absolutely genuine!
"My lord, can I take a look at the other version?" "Yes, it's in the trunk." ”
"Oh, God!" a cartload of different editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the ten elders who had come to see the rarity together were immediately incoherent by Rayder. Vampires chant God!
"My lord, I will contact the British Museum at once! Then contact the media, journalists, and parliamentarians! I will have to ask which is more valuable, foreign cultural relics or British treasures!" Nicholas, who was extremely frozen, almost roared.
"Lord Earl, let me move the Chinese cultural relics you have collected during this time!"
Nicholas was a man of pursuit, and in order to be able to hug what he thought was a thick thigh, he repaid his enthusiasm for the task assigned by the former king. All artifacts are carefully stored in insect-proof wooden boxes.
No, the effect is out!"I'm satisfied! Thank you!" the former king gave a satisfactory conclusion!
"Thank you, sir, do you need us to help you get them out?" Nicholas was also speculating at the three houses full of boxes of relics, and he was ready to smuggle them out on a large scale.
"Not necessarily! I have a way out of England! I load these boxes into a truck! I have rented a warehouse at the docks. "The former king's method is a bit unexpected, and this is a little bold!
However, Nicholas was not stupid enough to question the decision of the former king!
Rejecting the offer to call for help, the former king and his two retinue drove to the docks in three minutes filled with a cartload of boxes of relics.
Vampires have much more strength than normal humans, but it would be difficult to lift a three-hundred-pound box with one hand.
Looking at the former king's light-hearted appearance, everyone on the sidelines felt incredible: "Mud horse! Is this a human being? Proper drop Hercules, okay?"
Of course, the smuggling man will not explain to them, what is Pangu's new body, and what is the anti-gravity supernatural power. It's still useful to keep a proper mystery! But all human beings worship power! Vampires are just genetically mutated humans. At heart, they are still human.
After ten trips in one car, more than 300 boxes of cultural relics were finally stacked in a temporarily rented warehouse. The other car didn't work, a cart full of books!
Next, it is a matter of farewell: "If you have any difficulties, find the Dragon Fund in Paris! These two cars, let you leave them here! Maybe they will be used sometime." I'm gone, I don't have to send it, confidentiality is the most important thing!"
This time, there was no flash. Instead, he sat in Nicholas's car and went straight to the pier.
When I got to the door of the temporary warehouse on the dock, I said goodbye to Nicholas and got out of the car. Although Nicholas was curious about the former king's methods of smuggling antiquities, he did not dare to inquire directly!
"Boss, there's no one right now. Shall we put the boxes away?" Brother Light took out his little star and prepared to put away the boxes in the warehouse.
"Don't take it yet. It's not dark yet! What if someone is nosy?"
"So, what are you doing now?" The Bright Brothers have always disliked to sit still, and they can't stop. The smuggler sometimes wonders: Why don't I remember that I had ADHD when I was a child?
"I'll make something. Don't bother me. With that, he sat down on a box.
The boss had something to do, and Brother Guangming naturally didn't dare to disturb him! So he muttered on the box on the other side of the warehouse: "Xiao Ming, what do you say the boss is doing?" "I don't know!" "Guess what!" "I guess I'm closing my eyes and recuperating." "No! The boss doesn't have this habit. ”
"Or, in the enlightenment of the law?" "It's not like it! There is not enough time, and the gains outweigh the losses!"