treasure hunt god pupil

Chapter 934 Counting the Treasures
The college holiday is approaching, and all the professors are very busy. Even Professor Zhu Changping, who has been hired back, is preparing for the semester-end year-end exam. The underground treasure house in Moyanjiao area.

It was the first time for these old professors to come, so when they passed through the checkpoints and entered the treasure house, they were still shocked by the scale in front of them. The treasure house is divided into two floors underground and one above ground.The main thing on the ground is to open a museum, which only receives sporadic individual tourists, not for group tourists.

Li Mo arrived early in the morning, and the brown bear's arm was not fully healed, so he didn't do anything, but managed the order work on the scene.

"Boss, the professors of archeology from Peking University and Qing University have arrived. There are five old professors in total."

"I'll go to meet them." Li Mo actually didn't invite those old professors, after all, they are all about 70 years old. After they retired, they were hired back to continue to shine because they couldn't relax.But he still took good care of those old professors, who gave him a lot of help a few years ago.

"Teacher, Professor Zhang, Professor Yu, Professor Wang, Professor Huang, hello."

"Hahaha, when some of us old guys heard that Professor Li was going to go into the treasure house to sort out the treasures brought back from Europe in person today, we couldn't stand itchy hands, why don't we come over together and learn from you. "

Professor Yu is two years older than Zhu Changping, so he is 72 years old, but he is usually well maintained and in good spirits.

"Professor Yu, I really wish you could help me, but I'm a little embarrassed to keep bothering you."

Zhu Changping stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You are embarrassed to open your mouth, and we are even more embarrassed. What kind of antique wine did you give us when you were driven back by the Yingguo officials? We showed the pictures of the heavy treasures we got back, and if we didn’t take a look for ourselves, we always felt empty in our hearts.”

"Haha, what Lao Zhu said didn't make sense. In fact, Professor Li, you are trying to whet our appetites. Alright, let's come here today to open our eyes."

Li Mo said happily: "Five professors, please come in."

"Have all the experts you invited arrived?"

"I invited six experts from the Kyoto Museum, the Imperial Palace Museum, and the Jinling Museum, and my master invited two from Shanghai, plus Sima Haotian from the National People's Congress, me, and my master, a total of eleven main forces. I also called a lot of assistants from Peking University and Tsinghua University, so far the workload is not too big, the main thing is to be careful and conscientious.”

When everyone entered the first treasure house partition, they saw various boxes placed in order in the huge venue. A large group of people were already watching around a rectangular table, whispering excitedly from time to time. talk.

"Master, what was cleaned up first?"

Liu Chuanqing first greeted several old friends one by one, and then pointed to the five bronze animal heads laid out on the table, which were the last five lost overseas, namely dragon heads, snake heads, chicken heads, and dog heads. Head and sheep head.

The Bronze Statue of the Animal Head in the Yuanmingyuan was cast during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It was designed by the Italian court Western painter Castiglione Castiglione, supervised by Jiang Youren from the Fa Kingdom, and produced by court craftsmen.

Castiglione originally wanted to build a nude female sculpture with Western characteristics, but Emperor Qianlong felt that this violated Chinese ethics, so he ordered a redesign.Therefore, Castiglione took into account the folk culture of China, and replaced the human body sculptures commonly used in Western fountain designs with seated statues of the twelve zodiac signs.

"The bodies of these bronze statues of the zodiac are stone carvings wearing robes, and the heads are in a realistic style. The casting is fine, and the details such as folds and fluff on the animal heads are clear and lifelike. The materials used to cast the animal heads were Qing Dynasty at that time. The red copper refined by the imperial court has a deep color on the outside and a smooth inside, and it has not rusted after a hundred years, which is really unique."

Li Mo touched it with his hand, full of emotion.

"After more than 100 years of catastrophe, today we can finally see the light of day again. Li Mo, what do you plan to do with the five copper animal heads of the twelve zodiac signs in Yuanmingyuan?"

Liu Chuanqing asked.

"I've already communicated with my superiors. Since all the copper animal heads have appeared, they will naturally be merged together. Therefore, we are going to cooperate and conduct a national tour first. No matter who owns the thing, it will eventually belong to the wealth of all our Chinese people."

"It's better to take pictures as soon as possible, rearrange and pack them, and then put them in a batch of re-customized independent safes."

The work is proceeding in an orderly manner. In the corner of the treasure house, a small area dedicated to taking pictures has been made separately. Every sorted out treasure will be photographed and registered here, and then transferred to another treasure house partition In the future, when you need to find it again, you can directly inquire the computer to quickly locate it.

"Little Mo, haven't you marked the most important part of so many antiques?"

Looking at the densely packed boxes, Zhu Changping couldn't calm down.However, even the antiques are divided into grades, the top batch must be sorted out first, and the officials will also classify the antiques on the list. Naturally, those rare treasures will no longer have the opportunity to go out of the country.

"It's all marked. Let everyone take a look. It used to be the treasure of the town hall in the Huaxia Palace of Fontainebleau Palace in the Kingdom of Fa."

Li Mo found a batch of boxes placed together, and then opened the box himself, and took out the treasures inside one by one. The first one was naturally the well-known cloisonné unicorn.

"Oh, isn't this the cloisonné unicorn that was on the stolen list long ago? Why is it here with you?"

Zhu Changping stepped forward to take a closer look and was a little surprised. Back then, Fontainebleau Palace Huaxia was stolen, and the stolen items were all the top Chinese national treasures. When the news spread back to China, many archaeologists and people in the industry felt very sorry. It actually appeared in Li Mo's hands.

"It fell into my hands by chance, and this time I took the opportunity to bring it back to China. In the future, it will be our own national treasure."

Li Mo then took out the second antique.

"This is a ceramic bowl from the Northern Song Dynasty. It's really a good thing."

"The five famous kilns in the Northern Song Dynasty produced high-quality goods, but now such heavy treasures are rare, and the value of each one produced in the world exceeds [-] million yuan."

"The experts in Faguo are still very discerning."

People around were talking in low voices, Li Mo took out the third treasure, which was the golden manza.

"This is a temple decoration of Tibetan Buddhism. In the future, it will be placed directly in the Daleiyin Temple for believers to pay their respects."

Every piece is exquisite.

"Hey, Professor Li, is the crown in your hand?"

Someone's attention was attracted by the crown that Li Mogang took out.

"This is a replica of the Siamese king's crown given to Napoleon III by the King of Siam in the middle of the nineteenth century. This treasure will be collected in the Guyunxuan Museum of European and American Art."

Several old professors gathered around the table and looked at the crown carefully, marveling at the exquisite craftsmanship.

Then there are two gold cups engraved with Tibetan characters and inlaid with many precious stones. Each of them will arouse the praise of the staff. No wonder it can be selected as the national treasure of the Huaxia Pavilion of Fontainebleau Palace. The things are really special. Delicate and beautiful.

As the treasures of the Old Summer Palace were sorted out one by one, Zhu Changping said casually: "I really doubt that you even moved back the treasure house of Fontainebleau Palace."

Li Mo coughed twice, just smiled, didn't he just emptied the treasure house over there, but it wasn't him or his own people who did it, but it got into his hands after two or three changes of hands.

There are more than 3 antiques belonging to the Old Summer Palace brought back from Faguo this time, and it will take some time to complete the inventory.

The five old professors didn't participate, they didn't want to cause trouble, they just wanted to see what good things were there.

"Professor Li, where are those Dunhuang cultural treasures kept?"

Li Mo put down a jade hairpin inlaid with gold and silver handed down from the palace of the Qing Dynasty, and pointed to another area: "I'll show you there first."

(End of this chapter)