Chapter 1203 Answering Reporters’ Questions (II)

Mongolia south to capture the Southern Song dynasty, after the invasion of Europe to the west, which makes the history of the various peoples of Asia and Europe, almost all will be recorded Mongolia, his influence even to Turkey as well as the Arab world.

The power of the Mongols, is indeed a fact that can not be erased, at the time of the conquest of Europe Mongolia commander’s tent, the Russian princes and nobles, the king and queen of Georgia’s son, many of the status of the sultans of the sultan, Goryeo’s princes, can only be humble kneeling in the palace tent.

In history, there is the academic theory that Genghis Khan and his followers conquered the world, promoted East-West exchanges and facilitated the national integration of China, but there are also many different views.

The attitudes of nations towards the Mongols during that period of their rule are very different, from the praise of “Genghis Khan as the greatest emperor of mankind”, to the brutality and ferocity of the Mongols.

The first genocide in history did not take place during the time of Hitler in World War II, but during the time of the Mongol conquests led by Genghis Khan.

When Genghis Khan was educating his offspring on his way back from his western conquests, he said a famous motto: “The greatest pleasure in life is to decimate your enemies, to rob them of all their possessions, to watch their relatives weeping and weeping in pain, to ride their horses, and to rape their wives and daughters.”

During that period, everyone in the world who did not want to be slaughtered by them, plundered by them, or enslaved by them was an enemy of the Mongol dynasty.

Mongolia’s influence on Europe was far more significant than that. One of the largest outbreaks of the Black Death in Europe during the Middle Ages had a great deal to do with Mongolia as well.

The outbreak of the Black Death was the result of a war that began when a group of Italian merchants got into a street fight with local Muslims, who then sought help from the Mongols, who were waving their weapons westward.

The Mongol princes, who wanted to conquer the entire Crimean Peninsula, did not hesitate to send their troops and surrounded the Italian merchants and the Eastern Roman defenders within the walls of the city of Kaffa.

Caffa fortified city and the stubborn resistance of the defenders, so that the gallop of the Mongol army is also difficult to attack, the siege lasted a whole year, when the horror of the plague began to break out in the Mongolian army, the soldiers have fallen, the Mongolian army camp can no longer be heard in that kind of swarthy wild shouts and killings.

Kafa city defenders do not know what happened in the Mongolian army camp, they are just very strange, why has always attacked the Mongolian will suddenly become quiet, there are a number of days do not see the attack?

Did the Mongols give up after a long attack? Or is it that they are accumulating new energy, ready to launch a stronger attack? In the midst of the speculation, the exhausted Kaffa defenders spent a few days in a rare calm.

However, just a few days later in the morning, the Kaffa defenders were surprised to find that the Mongols again set up an attacking position under the city, and this time, they seem to have changed their tactics, no longer using ladders, and no longer unnecessarily letting thousands of soldiers attached to the walls of the city to attack, but outside the walls of the city set up rows of more than three people high, a huge row of wooden stone-throwing machine.

With the Mongolian prince’s order, countless deadly new-style projectiles flew toward Kaffa City, and in an instant, the Kaffa defenders were all stunned one by one, and those shells …… were all people.

Kaffa defenders have not yet reacted to what is going on, a body of plague infected, rotting soldiers have been violently thrown into the air, flying into the city of Kaffa. Kaffa City was thus littered with dead bodies.

Soon, the rotting corpses began to pollute the air and poison the water, and people finally understood the intention of the Mongol army, because the city of Kafa also began to break out with that horrible plague – the Black Death.

Patients suffering from this disease began with chills, headache and other symptoms, followed by fever, delirium, coma, extensive bleeding of the skin, body long sores, respiratory failure, as fast as two or three days, more than four or five days, have died, after death, the skin is often a blackish purple color, and this horrible disease is named “Black Death”.

At that time, people did not know that this is the bubonic plague, less than a few days, within the walls of the city of Caffa have been killed, the city streets are full of body covered with sores, black spots on the side of the dead body, Caffa has become a hell on earth, survived one by one, masked with a black veil, fleeing to the outside of the city in fear.

Italian merchants in the city of Caffa thus embarked on the road of escape, they boarded a sailing ship, ready to return home to Italy. However, little did these people know that they were accompanied by rats and fleas, the main culprits in the spread of the Black Death.

Rats infected by fleas climbed up the mooring cables, hid in the cargo hold, and sailed with the sailing ship to the Mediterranean Sea.

While the fleet of Italian merchants was still at sea, the news of the Black Death that had gripped the city of Caffa had spread in all directions, and Europe was suddenly in a state of panic.

The fleet made the long journey back to Italy, but no one agreed to let them dock, as the ships had already been infected with the deadly disease while traveling on the sea, and sailors were dying in droves.

The merchants eventually arrived at the Sicilian port of Messina, where the terrified harbor master quarantined the ships, but alas, it was too late, the rats had already made the first landfall just as the first mooring cables were attached to the shore, and a brief stopover was enough for the Black Death to land in Europe.

In just two years, the Black Death sent nearly a third of Europe’s population to hell, and more than twenty million people disappeared.

The great destruction brought about by the Black Death became a turning point in the history of Europe, a devastation that caused the population of Europe to plummet and become devastated and disfigured.

Many of those who survived thus questioned the old system and were shaken by traditional values. It was the Black Death epidemic that objectively destroyed the old social system and ushered in the dawn of the Renaissance in Europe.

From the root, it can be said that the Mongols caused this disaster, and the impact of this disaster on the world is even more far-reaching. A European scholar once said that Hitler seemed like an angel compared to Temujin.

Regardless of the merits and demerits, Genghis Khan’s influence in the world, definitely far more than any period of Chinese emperors, for thousands of years have been highly regarded by historians of all countries. So upon hearing that the excavated Mongolian emperor’s tomb was the tomb of Genghis Khan, the entire venue of the press conference, was abuzz with excitement.

“May I ask, what evidence do you have to prove that it is the tomb of Genghis Khan?”

“Have any of the riches plundered by the Mongols around the world been found in the mausoleum?”

“May I ask who was the discoverer of this mausoleum? And how was the process of discovery?”

Countless questions were interpreted in various languages, filling the entire conference site, and many reporters were excited as if they were playing chicken blood, knowing that the legendary Genghis Khan’s mausoleum was a gathering of the wealth of the entire world.

Seeing the venue like boiling hot boiling water boiling up, the host hastily shouted with the microphone: “Quiet, please be quiet, has not yet come to the question session, first please Liu Secretary for everyone to introduce the Genghis Khan Mausoleum related situation.”

“Ahem, I know that my friends want to go to the next session, but this is my job, you still have to be patient and listen to me to finish.”

Director Liu was very good at mobilizing the emotions of these journalists, his words made many of them laugh, “Below, I will play some video materials for you to see, there are scholars in various countries who have studied the history of Mongolia, I believe that they will tell you all about the authenticity of this mausoleum.”

Director Liu made a gesture to the staff present, on the wall behind Zhuang Rui and Director Liu, some edited images immediately appeared.

The curved underground passages, one connected magnificent underground building, and some images of the burial objects inside the mausoleum palace were all revealed, drawing a gasp of surprise from the audience.

When Genghis Khan’s main tomb room picture came out, no one in the field can no longer keep calm, those in the light flashed a dazzling light of gold, so that everyone’s breathing has increased a lot.

When the text on the parchment scroll, enlarged appeared on the screen, countless flash lights, most of these reporters are running the line of science and technology, know the importance of the text for a tomb.

At this moment the reporters on the scene, have believed that this is the tomb of Genghis Khan, because as the publishing party, the Chinese side would not have held such a press conference if there was no conclusive evidence.

“After our experts who study Mongolian history, the text unearthed within the tomb confirmed that this tomb, is indeed Genghis Khan’s mausoleum undoubtedly, well, the following have any questions, you can put forward.”

After the slide show, into the question session, Liu Secretary’s words just fell, more than a hundred hands under the stage brushed up.

A U.S. reporter stood up after getting the name, “Liu Director Hello, I’m a reporter from the Associated Press, I would like to know, the excavation of Genghis Khan Mausoleum, a total of how many cultural relics have been unearthed?”

“The artifacts are still in the process of being cleaned up, after the cleanup work is over, the relevant data will be opened to the public one after another.”

Director Liu answered with a tricky language, what he said was the relevant data, which means that some data will not be released to the public.

Under the supporter’s naming, a few more reporters came forward, and Director Liu was also skillful in his language, answering the questions one by one, of course, these reporters were all greeted beforehand.

Suddenly, a reporter, without being named, stood up and said loudly: “Director Liu, I am a reporter of the Russian news agency, if I understand that history correctly, Genghis Khan once took down the whole of Russia, and the looted property from our country is countless. I strongly urge the Chinese government to disclose these artifacts and return the plundered wealth from Russia that belongs to the people of Russia and the world.”

“Yes, that’s right, the wealth of Genghis Khan’s mausoleum should belong to the people of the world.”

“Demand that the Chinese government disclose the number and types of artifacts in the Genghis Khan Mausoleum.”

The questioning of that Russian reporter who looked a bit like a polar bear was echoed by many people, the gold in the main crypt of Genghis Khan’s Mausoleum just now had made these people feel extremely unbalanced.

You know, as the barrier between Mongolia and Europe at that time, Russia can be said to be deeply ravaged by the Mongolian iron horsemen, in the period of the Mongol Empire, almost the whole of Russia fell.

Of course, all of their treasures, were also looted by the Mongols, however, history has passed nearly a thousand years, what treasures were taken, they have no clear records anymore.

“This ……”

The Russian reporter asked the question very abruptly, obviously not within the scope of Liu’s response preparation. And this question is very sharp, a bad answer, it will make this archaeological excavation behavior caused a great deal of doubt, just now also calm and collected Liu Secretary, suddenly forehead emerged a layer of fine sweat.

“This gentleman, our country has always been very averse to acts of banditry, if you have proof to confirm that Genghis Khan took something from your country, I think that our government is very willing to return it.” On the side Zhuang Rui’s voice rang out.

“This …… this ……”

Hearing Zhuang Rui answering like this, that reporter was dumbfounded in turn, where did he know what objects Genghis Khan had snatched from Russia? This simply does not have any records.

“Damn, really shameless, more than a thousand years of things still want to claim, also do not think about your country in recent times from China robbed how many things?”

Zhuang Rui cursed in his heart and continued, “As far as I know, in your country’s St. Petersburg Museum, there are a large number of Chinese cultural relics, Dunhuang literature alone is 12,000 volumes, can I understand that you are willing to return these cultural relics belonging to China on behalf of your government?”