Chapter 1097 – Arrival at Dunhuang

“You’re talking about the Japanese named Nakagawa? Released so soon?”

Zhuang Rui froze for a moment when he heard this, but his mind was immersed in the chambers of the First Emperor in the underground at this time, and he didn’t put much on it, those bureaucrats in the country have always been soft on the outside and hard on the inside, and Zhuang Rui had long since guessed to get this kind of ending.

“That kid sneaky do not know what to do, brother Zhuang, want …… me to chase up and ask?”

Peng Fei and others saw Zhuang Rui stood up, also gathered around, just now Zhuang Rui sat on a rock with his eyes closed, they did not dare to disturb, thinking that Zhuang Rui was considering something important!

“Forget it! We are not the police, can we manage once or twice?”

Zhuang Rui shook his head, he was also a bit strange in his heart, if according to that deputy chief Xiong, Nakagawa should have been fined, I don’t know why this Japanese person still has the leisure to roam around?

However, Zhuang Rui is also lazy in a Japanese body waste of thought, rather fondly glanced at the foot of the earth, in the heart of the dark thinking up: if in accordance with their own previous ideas, in the excavation of the establishment of a vacuum chamber, then, exactly how much expenditure is required?

Want to excavate this underground palace intact, I’m afraid to look around the world, only Zhuang Rui can do, because only he can accurately grasp the specific location of the underground palace, to selectively decide when is the best time to open the underground palace.

This is a very cumbersome work, because working in a vacuum environment, is to wear an astronautical suit, which will give the excavation work to increase the difficulty, and enter the underground palace after the antiseptic treatment of cultural relics must be carried out in this kind of environment, which in the early stage, the need for a large number of theoretical arguments and repeated research.

Zhuang Rui heart has made up his mind, and so on after returning to Beijing, it will be their own funds, will be listed as a subject research, as long as the research results, they will declare to the state, he really want to in his lifetime to glimpse the truth in the underground palace of the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.

“Go! Try to stay in Lanzhou at night.”

Zhuang Rui buried the ambition of excavating the First Emperor’s Mausoleum deep in his heart, perhaps the next time he traveled to Xi’an again, it might be the time when the underground palace of the First Emperor’s Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, which had been silent for more than 2,200 years, was revealed, and Zhuang Rui was confident that he would show this treasure of Chinese culture to the world.

Zhuang Rui and other people’s next destination is Gansu, from Xi’an when it is already in the afternoon, through the Baoji Tianshui arrived in Lanzhou, the sky is already dark, find a hotel to stay a night, the next day in Lanzhou, the White Pagoda Mountain, Yellow River Iron Bridge, Wuquanshan, the temple, Baiyunguan browsed around.

Of course, do not forget to taste the famous Lanzhou ramen, and that soft and lubricating, sour and spicy Lanzhou stuffed skin, are eating Zhuang Rui and others screamed addictive, and as the ancient Silk Road throat of Lanzhou, but also to Zhuang Rui and others have left a deep impression.

After a short stay of two days in Lanzhou, Zhuang Rui and others set foot on the journey, from Lanzhou all the way to the highway, along the way through Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan to the terrain is dangerous, majestic known in the world of Jiayuguan.

Jiayuguan, is the western end of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall starting point, is the Ming Dynasty along the Great Wall to build the most spectacular scale, the degree of preservation of the most well-preserved an ancient military castle, is the Ming Dynasty and its later generations, the Great Wall along the important military fortress.

The entire pass city by the mountains and the water, guarding the north and south of about 15 kilometers wide canyon area, the canyon south of the Chia Lai River Valley, constituting a natural barrier of the pass defense, near the beacon flints, piers crisscrossed, the pass city east, west, south, north, northeast of the road a total of 66 piers, Jiayuguan terrain heavenly, offensive and defensive, and the nearby Great Wall, the platforms, trenches, beacons, and other facilities constitute a tight military defense system, also known as the “world’s most powerful pass”. “the most powerful pass in the world”.

Lin Zexu in the Qing Dynasty was convicted of anti-smoking, was deported to Xinjiang, passing through Jiayuguan Pass, see this pass so majestic, there is a poem in praise of: “strict pass 100 feet boundaries of the sky west, 10,000 miles of the draftsmen stationed on the hoof of the horse.” The poem, so that it and 10,000 miles away from the “world’s first pass” – Shanhaiguan echo, known throughout the world.

Zhuang Rui and his entourage in the Guan Cheng guanzhuang general house, official wells, Guandi Temple, theater and Wenchang Pavilion to play some, and then west out of the Yumen, through the Guazhou and then traveled more than two hours, and finally came to Zhuang Rui’s third destination of the trip to Dunhuang.

Dunhuang is located in Gansu Province, the westernmost tip of the Hexi Corridor, is located in Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, three provinces (regions) intersection, surrounded by all the Gobi Desert, due to Dunhuang has 1400 square kilometers of oasis, although only 4.5% of the total area of Dunhuang, but still be called the “oasis in the Gobi”.

Car traveling in this historical and cultural city, the territory of the Great Wall, beacon station dotted, due to the special location of Dunhuang Desert Oasis, making it the ancient Silk Road on the throat of the ancient town, since the Han Emperor built the county, this is not only to open up the frontier, the operation of the outposts of the Western Region, but also the ancient Chinese Rongjian metropolis.

The prosperity of the Silk Road in the Han and Tang dynasties, so that Dunhuang has become China’s history of the first to open up to the West in the region, the East to the West of the countries envoys, merchants, scholars, monks, artists and other people of all colors, the ancient Chinese culture, Indian culture, Egyptian culture and Greek culture to link up.

Along the long Silk Road, Dunhuang in the indomitable spread of civilization and friendship, in pursuit of understanding and peace, East and West civilization here, East and West culture from here to the West and East, so that Dunhuang for a long time, the formation of its enlightened and open, eclectic historical tradition.

In one or two thousand years ago, here may be like today’s Beijing Shanghai general, is the ancient center of cultural and commercial exchanges between the East and the West, although Dunhuang has lost the glory of the original, but walking in Dunhuang, the heavy history still seems to be in the silent story of the year’s glory.

Although Dunhuang is only a county-level city below Jiuquan City, but the former glory and profound cultural connotations, but its reputation far beyond the city of Jiuquan, especially the Mogao Grottoes, Yulin Grottoes, the existence of the Western Thousand Buddha Caves and other places of interest, known as “Dunhuang Grottoes”, “Dunhuang mural”, but also make it become the most important place in the world. “Dunhuang Grottoes” and “Dunhuang Frescoes” are famous all over the world, making it the first choice for tourists from all over the world.

“Brother Zhuang, how many days are we going to stay here? The air in this place is really dry, I wonder if there will be a restriction on water for bathing in the hotel?”

Peng Fei parked his car in the parking lot of a hotel that had long been booked, although he had followed Zhuang Rui for several years, but Peng Fei was still not interested in antiques and jade in the slightest, as for what history and culture to talk about with Peng Fei, it was more like talking to a cow, the dude couldn’t find a trace of art cells from his hair to the soles of his feet.

In Peng Fei’s opinion, there is idle time in this place where the birds do not lay eggs, it is better to be in Burma and drug dealers and real life to the stimulation of the pain.

“You kid, I didn’t intend to let you follow, next time let Hao follow.”

Zhuang Rui pushed the door off the car, although all the way to close the windows, but still feel full of dust, but Zhuang Rui heart and Peng Fei is not the same, it is because of the dry climate of Dunhuang, rainfall is small, evaporation is large, only to make this place unearthed cultural relics, most well-preserved.

“Don’t intervene ah! Brother Zhuang, I won’t bullshit in the future yet.”

Peng Fei jumped out of the car in a hurry, he is easy to change the nature of the river and mountain, the bones and Zhuang Rui, have a kind of adventurous spirit, in the army out of the mission, incomparably long for the wife and children hot life, but once settled down, will feel bored, the body of the unstable molecules will begin to sprout up again.

Even if you know that Zhuang Rui’s work this time will be relatively boring, Peng Fei still promised Hao Long a lot of benefits, which was able to follow Zhuang Rui, of course, Zhuang Rui’s safety is also one of the factors.

At this time, but it is the afternoon, according to Zhuang Rui’s intention, will first go to the Mogao Caves to see a little, but see the face of the crowd are a little tired, can only open the mouth and say: “Okay, everyone today rest a little! Tomorrow we go to the Mogao Caves around, behind a few days will be busy.”

Archaeology in Gansu, especially around Dunhuang, the difficulty is far greater than Henan and Shaanxi, here are all the Gobi Desert, out of Dunhuang, often a few days can not see a person, not to mention the harsh geography, is the kind of boring, are generally difficult to endure.

However, it is also this special geographical environment, all the cultural relics unearthed in Gansu, the quality of quality are first-class, like a national treasure cultural relics “Horse Feiyan” and in 2008 unearthed a precious Xixia the only one horse modeling cultural relics – horse head bas-reliefs, once discovered, are shocked the entire archaeological community! .

After a day of rest, Zhuang Rui and others drove to Dunhuang city not far from the attractions – Mogao Grottoes, to say that Dunhuang is the ancient Silk Road on the town, and Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes treasures of art, is the treasure of Sino-foreign exchanges.

From the 20th century since the discovery of the Mogao Caves, known as the “Louvre in the East”, known for its exquisite murals and statues, Mogao Caves was built in the sixteen countries of the pre-Qin Dynasty, through the sixteen countries, the Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, the Five Dynasties, Xixia, Yuan and other successive generations of the construction of the cave, the formation of a huge scale, the existing caves 735 caves, mural paintings of 45,000 square meters, clay color sculpture 24,000 square meters. There are 735 caves, 45,000 square meters of wall paintings, and 2,415 colorful clay sculptures.

Mogao Caves is also the world’s largest and richest surviving Buddhist art shrine, the recent discovery of the Cave of Sutras, containing more than 50,000 pieces of ancient cultural relics, in 1987, was listed as a World Heritage Site.

Mogao Grottoes is only half an hour’s drive from Dunhuang City, and when he came to the parking lot on the outskirts of the Mogao Grottoes attraction, Peng Fei suddenly touched Zhuang Rui, pointing to the outside of the car, and said: ”Hmm? Brother Zhuang, look at that person, is it that little Japanese ah?”

“It’s the one called Nakagawa, how come this kid’s ghost is still around?”

Zhuang Rui followed the direction of Peng Fei’s finger and froze, it was really the Japanese Nakagawa who clashed with them in Lintong.