Chapter 1181 – Neither of them suffers

“Yuan blue and white porcelain jar? Is the ghost valley son down the mountain that?”

After hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, Guo Director’s eyes behind the lenses of his eyeglasses, all of a sudden glared round, Zhuang Rui’s words, the lethality is really too great, so that Guo Director for a moment did not have the heart to bargain.

To know, as the country’s largest number of collections, has the most complete first-class cultural relics of all dynasties of the Palace Museum, but the lack of Yuan dynasty blue and white porcelain.

Especially in the Yuan blue and white flowers in the past two years, there is no Yuan blue and white flowers of the Palace Museum, seems to have less confidence, after all, Zhuang Rui so a private museum, there are several pieces of Yuan blue and white porcelain, which has always been boasted as the boss of the domestic museum of the Palace Museum how can it be embarrassed ah?

But want to buy from abroad, they can not get so much funding to, so this has to Zhuang Rui’s private museum phase borrowed yuan blue and white things, for the museum and cultural relics bureau of leadership, is a disgraceful thing.

“That’s right, it’s that Yuan Qinghua porcelain.”

Zhuang Rui was startled when he saw that Guo, who had always behaved in a gentle and elegant manner, actually revealed a hungry wolf-like expression, and said immediately afterward, “Director Guo, you can listen clearly! I am saying that if you win me, that porcelain I will only donate to the country.”

Zhuang Rui afraid of this old man reneged on the debt, at that time, regardless of win or lose, lending a few objects to the museum of stereo, and then their own that Ghost Valley downhill porcelain pot to blackmail away, then this business can be a big loss, that the seal of the state is always not their own ah!

“Listen clearly, listen clearly, young age, how so long-winded ah!”

Compared to Liu, who was sitting on the side, Guo was more like a businessman than a bureaucrat at the moment, where was the smiling look like a vice-ministerial official? The whole thing is just an old fox who has taken advantage of the situation.

“Hey, hey, I said, all of you can hear ah! You all give a witness, if Xiao Zhuang won, I let him pick three pieces of artifacts in the tomb, placed in his museum exhibition for three months. But if Xiao Zhuang loses, his Yuan Dynasty Ghost Valley Tzu downhill blue and white porcelain pots, can be donated to the state, in addition to free to the Palace Museum donated 20 million yuan, as repair and maintenance of cultural relics used. By the way, no matter win or lose, Xiao Zhuang this 20 million will be donated.” Guo director that is a person old into a fine, a little loss are not willing to eat, and finally added on a sentence.

Seemingly afraid of Zhuang Rui’s backtracking, after the two finalized the relevant matters, Director Guo immediately yelled out, causing some of the experts, who were originally discussing the situation of the tomb in a low voice, to turn their heads and look over.

Guo director in the public office before, is the capital university archaeology vice dean, and professor Meng very familiar, after hearing the words of the director of Guo, professor Meng cried and laughed, said: “old Guo, you are also almost sixty people, have the cheek to take advantage of the younger generation?”

According to Professor Meng’s analysis, the owner of this tomb, is the nest or Kublai’s possibility is a little more, because they are in power period, is Mongolia’s most powerful time, the construction of such a large-scale mausoleum of the time, but also more mature.

And from a variety of historical traces in the analysis, Genghis Khan mausoleum in outer Mongolia to the possibility of some of the larger, although not conclusive, but this is also at home and abroad, Mongolian history research experts consensus.

Now these experts in the tent, even if they are in favor of this tomb is the early Yuan Dynasty, but also mostly and Professor Meng a view, and no one is optimistic that this is the Genghis Khan Mausoleum, is why Professor Meng has Guo director to take advantage of Zhuang Rui’s statement.

Guo is more than ten years younger than Prof. Meng, Prof. Meng is also very respectful, said with a smile: “Mr. Meng ah! I can’t help it, the country is poor! A Yuan blue and white porcelain is hundreds of millions of dollars, we can’t afford to shell out this money, so we can only play the landlord.”

And Zhuang Rui’s this bet, no matter win or lose, Guo director does not lose, win that naturally needless to say, can help the National Museum to fill the blank of no Yuan blue and white porcelain collection artifacts.

Even if he lost, that’s nothing, just a temporary loan out three cultural relics, not to mention Zhuang Rui that 20 million or to pay, is that the director of Guo simply do not need to ask the leadership of the Ministry of Culture again, since the board will be the matter to be finalized.

Zhuang Rui see Guo director of that complacent kid, can not help but smile and said: “Guo director, who wins and who loses is not yet known, you do not regret at that time on the line.”

The reason why Zhuang Rui added a donation of 20 million terms at the end, mainly because he did not want to take advantage of the country, and the deeper the background, the best to act more careful, now take advantage of the cheap, later to find you to liquidate that can be troublesome.

The 20 million spent, as the cost of renting the state seal, although three months may not be able to earn back 20 million, but the state seal appeared in the stereoscopic museum, this sensational effect, is definitely 20 million can not buy.

“No regrets, definitely no regrets ……”

Director Guo and Zhuang Rui were each calculating the ideas in their minds, and both had smiles on their faces, but it was estimated that it wouldn’t be long before that bright smile on Director Guo’s face would turn into a bitter smile.

This is supposed to discuss the development of the tomb of the meeting, in the end even to Zhuang Rui and Guo director of the end of the bet, a tent of people are laughing and joking, this one old and one young is also not this serious work conference as a serious matter, right?

However, the director of Guo is not for personal gain, and Zhuang Rui’s little heart everyone can understand, the crowd also took it as a good story.

After the meeting, Zhuang Rui immediately entered the underground mausoleum.

Now the whole working group is divided into two shifts, each shift is twelve hours to carry out cleanup work down there, as the deputy commander-in-chief of this archaeological operation, Zhuang Rui often has to stay in the mausoleum up to fifteen or sixteen hours of time.

The cleanup work of the underground chamber, are arranged by Zhuang Rui, today will open the chamber that is full of Xixia burial goods, because it is quite a lot of porcelain, need to be carefully organized, Zhuang Rui personally led the opening of the chamber.

“Zoom in closer, focus on that tile jar, yes, that’s the wine vessel.”

“Mr. Meng, the shape of these vessels is rare in China!”

“Not surprising, this should be looted by the tomb owner from Western Xia, Lao Zhao, you’re an expert in Western Xia culture research, let’s see if there’s any valuable written records when the time comes?”

The thirty to forty square sized burial chamber was full of various ceramics and gold and silver ware, the shape of the Xixia wares had some western colors, that’s why the experts who were on the ground, saw it at a glance.

“These should be the objects that can only be owned by the Western Xia nobles or the royal family, Xiao Zhuang, you must …… be careful, careful again, any suspected textual things, should be properly protected.”

The shape of these artifacts was very unique scenery, that teacher Zhao who studied the Xixia culture, at this moment, had almost put his eyes on the monitor inside the tent, and was almost communicating with Zhuang Rui inside the underground mausoleum in a roaring way.

In the eyes of these archaeologists, even more precious artifacts are not as important as written records, because those records can make the truth, which has been extinguished in the river of history, reappear in front of people’s eyes.

Above the debate, the tomb is busy, by the Beijing University emergency allocation to more than a dozen trainees, respectively, wearing oxygen suits, holding a bucket of special potion, is to those with the color of the ceramic pavilion on the whitewash.

Coated with this special potion, these artifacts that had been placed inside the ancient tomb for a thousand years would not be discolored due to contact with outdoor oxygen.

In addition, some wooden and bronze gold, silver and iron objects, it is evenly coated with a layer of underground soil on top of it, this is only a temporary protection method, after taking it out, there are still many ways to protect the process to be done, or else these wooden vessels, I’m afraid that nine out of ten of them will be damaged.

This is not alarmist, many archaeologists have experienced, this is also their experience with many lessons learned.

In some thousand-year-old tombs, the vessels that were intact and with magnificent colors when they first entered the tomb suddenly became aged and decayed in just a few minutes, right in front of everyone’s eyes, and many wooden products and silk objects even directly turned into flying dust.

That kind of instant millennium feeling, as if it was history evolving in front of them, after the loss of many precious cultural relics, archaeologists have also found the reason, and accordingly made some antiseptic materials to.

Every item that is painted, it will be labeled with a number and sent to the already cleaned chamber, and in addition, there will be staff to organize and classify it, and then sealed and packed and sent to the ground.

Due to the special nature of the mausoleum’s geographic environment, the excavation of the manpower and material resources used is also unprecedented, just the domestic provinces archaeology staff called hundreds of people, in addition there are more than two hundred major universities and colleges of archaeology students.

This place Xixia burial chamber although not the largest, but there are tens of thousands of precious relics, after more than a week of cleanup work, most of the cultural relics are protected.

Of course, in the process, there are some artifacts contact with the outside oxygen and damaged part of it.

The unearthing of the Western Xia artifacts also made the expert group’s speculation on the identity of the tomb owner lean more towards Wukodai and Kublai.

The reason was simple, Genghis Khan died during the conquest of Western Xia, that is to say, he didn’t bring down Western Xia, so naturally, it was impossible for these objects that should have been in the royal family of Western Xia to appear in his tomb.

“Xiao Zhuang, how about it? Willing to gamble, when will you hand over that Yuan Qinghua? I’ll organize a donation ceremony for you then.”

Director Guo hadn’t caught Zhuang Rui in the past few days, and when he saw Zhuang Rui come out of the lake just now, he hurriedly pulled him in, with a smug look on his face.