Chapter 1316 Postscript

In the first week of June 2012, the Great Hall of the People in Beijing was filled with 10,000 people.

The biennial conference of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering kicked off at the Great Hall of the People amidst the loud and clear singing of “Sing for the Motherland”.

Leaders of the Party and the State attended the meeting and delivered important speeches, recognizing the important role played by the two academies in the fields of science and technology, and putting forward higher requirements for the development of the two academies in the new period of history.

At the end of the leaders’ speeches, the meeting proceeded to the process of adding new academicians to the two academies, 52 new academicians of the two academies, in the 10,000-person auditorium that warm applause, walked to the podium.

The 52 co-opted academicians, representing the highest level of China’s contemporary scientific and technological development, are not domestic science and technology or major engineering projects in the top people in different scientific fields, made outstanding contributions to the country.

The average age of the co-opted academicians is 68 years old, the oldest is 78 years old, while the youngest one is only 34 years old, which is the youngest one academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences since the establishment of the system of the two academies.

Standing in the middle of a group of gray-haired old men, Zhuang Rui was so conspicuous that almost half of the people’s eyes in the field were focused on him.

Although he was the youngest of the co-opted academicians, Zhuang Rui’s election was the smoothest.

In the early stage of the selection, there were people who had questioned Zhuang Rui’s age, thinking that such a young scientist was not convincing enough, but when Zhuang Rui’s scientific examination results were laid out, all the skeptical people closed their mouths.

The excavation of the tomb of the first emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the unearthing of the tomb of Genghis Khan, the smooth salvage of the Song Dynasty shipwrecks, the major discovery of the Dunhuang culture, the reappearance of the Peking Man skull, in the past few years, these discoveries have brought surprises to the world again and again.

These are only the achievements of Zhuang Rui’s scientific research in the country, and the discovery of the pirate island, the restoration of Solomon’s ruins in the jungles of Africa, the salvage of the gold fleet, but also to make Zhuang Rui in the international reputation, and become recognized as the most outstanding contemporary explorers and scientific research experts.

Any one of these achievements is enough to go down in history, and it is no exaggeration to say that a scientific and research community that can do just one of these things can make him an authority in the relevant field.

And when these achievements are concentrated in a person’s body, it is more established Zhuang Rui’s position as the leading figure in the contemporary scientific and technological research community, and when the selection of academicians was carried out, almost everyone unanimously passed the review of Zhuang Rui’s deeds.

Compared to these scientific and technological achievements, Zhuang Rui’s identity as a collector and expert in antique jade appraisal is also being talked about.

Just a month before the meeting of these two chambers was held, in the case that Zhuang Rui resolutely refused to accept the position of president of the Jade Society, the Jade Society of China passed a resolution to award Zhuang Rui with the certificate of Honorary Lifetime President of the Jade Society, which was the second Honorary Lifetime President of the Jade Society, following the old man of Gu.

“My grandfather, a student of Mr. Li Siguang, was a geologist, and I am very excited to be able to stand here today, and in the days to come, I will make new contributions to the country’s scientific research cause!”

Zhuang Rui’s short speech, so that all the people in the venue stood up, a time of thunderous applause, Zhuang Rui with that one shocking achievements, won the honor that belongs to him.

In February 2013, only eight months after he was elected as an academician of the two academies, Zhuang Rui led the archaeological team of Beijing University to excavate a large tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the Anyang area of Henan Province.

Within this tomb from the late Eastern Han Dynasty, a large number of artifacts were unearthed, including gold, silver, copper, iron, jade, bone, lacquer, porcelain, glazed pottery, and earthenware, in addition to weapons such as kaijia, swords, chains, and chippers, totaling about 10,000 pieces.

The most exciting thing for Zhuang Rui and the others was that a male corpse was found inside the main chamber of the tomb, and a tombstone was unearthed under the tunnel in front of the main chamber, which stated that this was the tomb of Cao Cao in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

After DNA identification of the bones inside the tomb, the archaeological team eventually announced to the outside world that the tomb, located in Anyang at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was the Tomb of Cao Cao, which had been known for thousands of years as one of the seventy-two mysterious graves.

This discovery caused a huge stir in the domestic academic community, although many people raised questions, but in the face of conclusive evidence, these skeptical voices have disappeared, and Zhuang Rui also proved with the facts that his Chinese Academy of Sciences, is well deserved.

In August 2015, Ouyang Gang passed away at the age of one hundred and three.

Although in the period of time before Ouyang Gang’s death, Zhuang Rui uninterruptedly combed the old man’s body with his aura, but Ouyang Gang had reached the end of his days, and Zhuang Rui was unable to return to heaven and could only accept the fact.

After pacifying his mother, Zhuang Rui threw himself into his work, and in the next few years, he continued to excavate the tombs of ancient celebrities of great historical significance, and rescued a large number of precious national cultural relics.

In December 2016, a famous British media group, counted the statistics of the number of foreign tourists visiting museums around the world in the previous year.

China’s Tingguang Museum received 5.22 million foreign visitors, second only to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States and surpassing the British Museum and the Louvre in the United Kingdom, in second place in the world.

In June 2017, an authoritative data and statistics company in the United States, after a series of surveys and statistics around the world, announced the ranking of the world’s famous comprehensive museums in the previous year.

In this ranking, China’s Dingguang Museum, successfully squeezed out Russia’s State Hermitage Museum, ranked with the Louvre, the British Museum, and the U.S. Metropolitan Museum of Art, and for the first time, ranked among the world’s top four museums.

In August 2017, Zhuang Rui took his family, took the “Xuan Rui ship” to carry out a six-month-long global tourism, and in the “Xuan Rui island” has been completely built to live for a period of time.

In the eyes of outsiders, Zhuang Rui had just made a round-the-world trip, but no one knew that Zhuang Rui had recorded the coordinates of all the underwater shipwrecks in detail during the process.

From 2018 to 2020, Zhuang Rui spent three years in the Pacific and Atlantic waters, carrying out large-scale salvage operations, totaling more than sixty shipwrecks from Britain, the United States, Spain, Portugal and other countries.

Although Zhuang Rui never announced the total value of the items salvaged from the shipwrecks, but people based on the estimation of the several newly opened pavilions of the Definitive Light Museum came to the conclusion that the wealth of Zhuang Rui’s salvage this time was at least more than 20 billion dollars.

The salvage of the shipwreck also made Zhuang Rui the greatest explorer of the 21st century, and all the people who had heard of Zhuang Rui’s deeds were very happy about his fortune-making experience.

In 2022, Uncle Te and the old man and Professor Meng three old people died one after another, Zhuang Rui holding discipleship rituals for three days, the three to his life in the significance of the death of the mentor, let Zhuang Rui depressed for a long time.

However, remembering Professor Meng’s dying advice, Zhuang Rui revitalized, leading the Beijing University archaeological team of competent personnel, the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin did a full range of surveys and technical preparations.

At the beginning of 2025, after the approval of the relevant state departments, Zhuang Rui spent hundreds of millions of RMB for two years to build a vacuum chamber, which is considered to be the world’s largest, right above the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.

At the end of 2026, the excavation of Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum was officially launched, and the ancient emperor, who had been buried underground for thousands of years, finally appeared in the world.

Due to the perfect and sufficient preparatory work, this mining operation did not cause any damage to the cultural relics unearthed in the mausoleum.

The excavation of Qin Shi Huang’s tomb is considered to be the pinnacle of the world’s successful archaeological work and an extremely important turning point in the world’s modern archaeological history, and has been called the greatest scientific event in the history of mankind, bar none!

More than 500,000 pieces of artifacts were unearthed from the mausoleum, each of which is a priceless treasure, and the “Records of the Grand Historian – The First Emperor of Qin Shi Huang’s Chronicle” says, “Collecting the world’s soldiers, gathering them in Xianyang, pinning them as bells and instruc- tions, and the twelve golden figures, weighing each one of them thousands of stones, and placing them in the court and the palace.” Twelve gold statues unearthed, but also shocked the world.

Zhuang Rui and the relevant departments to spend about three years, spending nearly ten billion dollars, the entire underground imperial tomb, transformed into a grand and spectacular museum.

And Zhuang Rui hand holding that gold statue of the lens, has become a classic in the history of archaeology can not be surpassed, the unearthed tomb of the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang, so that all of the world’s collections are eclipsed by it, want to thoroughly study them, perhaps need dozens of years or even hundreds of years.

Who knows that the sky has unpredictable winds and clouds, people have every day, just when Zhuang Rui’s career has reached its peak, focusing on the work, Ouyang Wan suddenly fell ill, and when Zhuang Rui heard the news, rushed to Beijing from Xi’an, his mother had already passed away.

Ouyang Wan’s death, let Zhuang Rui grief and self-blame, after taking care of his mother’s aftermath, just know the fate of Zhuang Rui, held a press conference, made a world of archaeology shocked decision: he decided to withdraw from the field of scientific research, to leave more time to accompany their families.

After the press conference, Zhuang Rui resigned as a professor at Beijing University and all the positions in the country, handed over all the domestic properties to his grown-up children to take care of, and took his wife and the white lion, which has created the record for the longest life of a dog, as well as all the partners in the manor, and disappeared from the country.

A year later, a bronze sculpture of Zhuang Rui was erected in front of the Dingguang Museum and the Archaeological Research Institute of Beijing University respectively.

This is in order to recognize Zhuang Rui’s significant contribution to China’s archaeology, by the state specially approved the construction, this is also the only living can enjoy such treatment of the master-level characters.

However, since then, Zhuang Rui had never shown his face in any public place, and with the passage of time, it was only in front of the Qualitative Light Museum and the Research Institute of the University of Beijing that people would remember this greatest archaeologist of the 21st century.

“Hehe, Wood, I said how come you haven’t seen any aging? The skin is still so good, and so is this Peng Fei kid, is it because the soil and water overseas nourishes people?”

In Zhuang Rui’s “Xuan Rui Island”, ushered in a group of guests, at this time from the exit of the scientific research community has been five years, Zhuang Rui in the middle of only once back to the country, but every year, old friends will always come to his island for a small gathering.

Huangfu Yun couple, Liu Chuan’s two families, Zhou Rui and Peng Fei’s family, the four hardcore brothers of the university, Ouyang Jun who shouts all day long that people are old and their hearts are not old, as well as Miao Fei Fei who has long since unraveled the knot in his heart with Zhuang Rui, all of them took Zhuang Rui’s Xuan Rui Island as the location of their gathering.

But time flies, this group of people are also fifty outside the old man and old lady, the years in each of their faces, have left a mark, everyone’s temples are a little gray, but the body is very strong.

But Zhuang Rui and Qin Xuan Bing, seemed to have changed very little, except for the little wrinkles that inadvertently appeared at the corners of their eyes, no one could tell that they were also old men in their fifties.

“Early for you guys to settle here, one by one, you can’t let go, now envy, right?”

Zhuang Rui laughed loudly after hearing Liu Chuan’s words, he truly hoped that all of these old friends could come to Xuan Rui Island to live, but at the moment, it seems that only Peng Fei’s two families could endure loneliness and accompany him to live in this paradise.

Of course, the two Peng Fei’s who were often secretly groomed by Zhuang Rui with his aura, also looked much younger than the others, Liu Chuan’s statement was not unreasonable.

“Forget it, me and Leilei are still ready to travel around the world, when we get tired of playing outside, we will come back to live ……”

Although the life on Xuan Rui Island is not boring, and the distance from the United States such a prosperous city is not very far, but Liu Chuan still do not live for a long time, every time at most stay for a month, then cried out to go back.

“This is also your home, you are always welcome to come and stay ……”

Zhuang Rui smiled and raised his glass, he was very satisfied with his current life and had gotten used to the lazy sunshine that the Caribbean made.

Sitting in the sun every day with his old buddy White Lion, who had long been unwilling to walk, was one of Zhuang Rui’s favorite things to do.

Time rushes on, twenty years have passed, in a courtyard in Beijing that has not survived much, a white-haired crone sits under a big tree, holding a book in her hand, quietly flipping through it.

A seven or eight year old boy with a tiger’s head ran out from the house of the courtyard house, mischievously snatched the book from his grandmother’s hand and said: “Grandma, grandma, are you reading this book again? Tell little Rui Rui another story about Grandpa Zhuang ……”

“Didn’t you meet Grandpa Zhuang last year?”

The old crone sat up with a hint of a smile on her face as her thoughts flew to an island far away overseas, where the once a year gathering had become once every five years due to the age of each person.

Liu Chuan’s voice, as loud as ever, Brother Wei still cracked harmless jokes, just stepped down from the post of secretary of a province, Brother Yue Jing, because of the little bit of official authority left on his face, was taunted by the crowd crying and shouting to jump into the sea.

Fortunately, old friends are all in, and children and grandchildren more and more, every time the party, very lively, so that Miao Fei Fei also gave birth to a few points in Xuan Rui Island settlement of the mind.

“Grandma, grandma, why does grandpa Zhuang look as young as dad ah, I think it should be called uncle instead of grandpa ……” seven or eight year old child, already has his own opinion, pointing to the title page of the book in his hand, interrupting the old crone’s contemplation.

“Silly child, Grandpa Zhuang is not the same as ordinary people ah ……” Miao Fei Fei smiled at his words, and the wrinkles on his face stretched out.

“Why is it different ah? Is it because his story was written into a book?” The little child pursued.

“Yes and no, you’ll understand when you read the story in the book ……” The old man smiled and touched the child’s head.

He was an epoch-making legend!