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Chapter 255 The Thief Stein

The goal is great, but it needs to be achieved step by step.Wu Tianyuan rested for two days and continued his treasure hunting trip. He hadn't been to the United States for a long time. This time, he just started to decorate the Dunhuang exhibition hall. He also needs to accumulate the energy of the Tang Dynasty to find Stein's lair!

Back then, Stein talked about negotiating prices.After he and his servant Jiang Xiaowan set a goal, Jiang talked directly with Taoist Wang.Jiang Xiaowan and Taoist Wang finally reached an agreement on the price, which was £130 for seven boxes of manuscripts, five paintings and other items.In a letter to his friend Allen, Stein happily wrote: "At this price, you can buy a Sanskrit bay leaf and a few antiquities."

After Stein left in the summer of 1907, Taoist Wang continued to sell the scripture cave documents and used the proceeds to restore the cave complex.Jiang Xiaowan returned to Dunhuang in the autumn of the same year, bought another 230 bundles of documents and sent them to Stein.Stein received about eleven thousand documents.

1908年天才的法国汉学家伯希和买了七千件文书并将其运回巴黎。1910年中国政府下令将余下的一万件汉文文书运回BJ。王道士扣下了一些，运往BJ的途中又遗失了一些。1912年俄国人奥登堡买走了大概一万件，1914年斯坦因最后一次回到敦煌又买了600卷。

In 1929, Stein proudly told the audience about his Dunhuang experience in a series of lectures at Harvard. When Stein returned to Dunhuang in 1914, Taoist Wang warmly welcomed him and showed him an account that detailed the How did I use the money to renovate the cave.

Stein felt that because he had paid Daoist Wang more than anyone else, he should have been able to buy the entire scroll and ship it out of China.Even though many European and Chinese scholars believed that Chinese cultural relics should remain in China in 1929, Stein still did not think there was anything wrong with transporting documents and cultural relics out of China.

"Nonsense, if I go to snatch Japanese cultural relics, I can still say that I am protecting the cultural property of all mankind!"

Wu Tianyuan thought to himself, standing and talking won't hurt your back!Who doesn't cherish the treasures left by their ancestors?It feels so good to let others snatch it away, and to go to a foreigner's museum every time?

"Go to Boston!"

Wu Tianyuan and his party went to Boston the next day. He didn't buy a private jet, but Tianyuan would have one.There are Wang Jiansen, Ma Yun, and Ma Tengfei, and you can go right away if you find one.

"This is Stein's old house?"

Wang Hong investigated an old house. Stein died in this house. Before his death, he donated a large part of Dunhuang cultural relics to the museum, earning both fame and fortune.But there should be a small part left, just don't know if it's here?

"Not here?"

Wu Tianyuan went around under the leadership of the real estate agent, but there was no clue, probably not here.The group had no choice but to leave and go back to the hotel first, while Wang Hong continued to inquire about the news.

"Boss, I found out that Stein has a daughter in San Francisco, will the inheritance belong to her?"

Wu Tianyuan nodded, went to San Francisco, just happened to chat with Mr. Yin, if he was there, the news would never be hidden from him.

"Give me half a day, and I'll check it out for you!"

Mr. Yin made a phone call and asked his subordinates to investigate the situation of Stein's descendants. The two exchanged news while drinking tea at ease.

"You actually established a relationship with the Ford family? It's really impressive!"

Elder Yin sighed: "At first, I was very surprised at the speed of your growth, thinking that it would take two or three years to get in touch with the hidden family. I didn't expect that you could establish a good cooperative relationship with them in just one month. I am really drunk." Already!"

"Hey, it's not a cooperation, it's just giving the baby to others earlier, and saying that cooperation is flattering me!"

"This is the skill!" Yin Lao said seriously: "How many people sharpen their heads and want to have a little contact with them, just to find opportunities for future cooperation. You may not have really seen the strength of the hidden family. It is a kind of powerful To a desperate and terrifying force!"

"I have seen several times that a capitalist who seems to have a bright future in the society is issued a banning order by a big family, and the family is ruined and his reputation is ruined! This is not an alarmist talk, it is a living example!"

Wu Tianyuan saw that the dignified old Yin also attached so much importance to the hermit family, and he became vigilant in his heart. It seems that he should pay attention to propriety in the future, and keep a low profile before he has absolute strength.

"But you are a person with magical abilities, which is why they like it. Money is a piece of paper, and big families never use money as a measure of wealth. Just like local tyrants in the Middle East like to show off their wealth with yuan blue and white flowers, between them The transactions are all cultural relics, especially ancient cultural relics with historical value and research value!"

"For example, the parchment scrolls that record ancient texts, or religious scriptures?"

"Yes, this is their most important treasure! Think about it and understand, when the material reaches its peak, it is natural to pursue spiritual emptiness! Every family is studying how to live forever? How to have superhuman power? Superstitious belief in the advance of ancient civilizations , hoping to find various clues from the cultural relics."

Wu Tianyuan finally understood the preferences of the Hidden World Family, it seems that there is so much money that it hurts!That's right, the emperors of all dynasties spent their later years doing nothing to study the mystery of eternal life.For example, Qin Shihuang, the first emperor of all ages, used alchemist Xu Fu in order to live forever, and went overseas to seek immortality.

Even the terracotta warriors are preparing to take them down to the underworld, follow him to continue fighting, and become the emperor of the underworld.

In today's China, the greatest Newton is often distorted as "studying science in his early years and achieving great results, but turning to theology in his later years and achieving nothing."

In fact, Newton was a devout Christian all his life. During his life, more than 80% of his works were theological works, with a total of more than 140 million words. It was not in his later years that he turned to theology.The main reason Newton became religious was his religious environment, not how compelling religion was compared to atheism.

Newton studied the Bible every day, he tried to discover the hidden messages of the Bible and he tried to explain the meaning of the Bible.He wanted to extract scientific information from the Bible.According to his research, the end of the world will not come until at least 2060 at the earliest.

He once said: "I don't want to confirm the exact time of the end, but I want to stop those who make predictions about the end of the world every time. Every time these people's predictions fail, it will bring negative consequences to God's prediction itself. influences."

There is also the most famous group, the Priory of Mount Sion, which is said to have originated from an alchemy practice group led by an Egyptian sage Olms around 46 AD, also known as the Gnostic Society.

In 1188, when the Priory of Mount Xion changed the name of the "Holy Mountain Order", they also called themselves the "Cross of the Rosary Order of Zhenzong" at the same time, indicating that the Priory of Mount Xion may be the earliest Rosary Cross sect in Freemasonry .

It wasn't until the Middle Ages that an organization known to historians as being associated with the Holy Mountain arose.Valley of Gold in Steiner, Ardennes region, northern France.According to legend, the widow Matilda's wedding ring fell into a mountain spring in the valley. As soon as she said her prayers, a trout in the spring jumped into her hand with the ring in its mouth.She cried out in surprise: What a golden valley!This is also one of the places where General Patton once discovered the treasure. The history is an amazing coincidence!
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