In later generations, there were often news of Chinese cultural relics being lost overseas on TV news. In order to recover the difficulties of cultural relics, patriots also bought them at high prices abroad, etc. ●⌒,

It is obvious that even a cultural relic can be broadcast on the news.

At that time, Lin Zixuan was just a villain. He didn't feel it deeply when watching TV. He scolded the cultural relics dealer and then passed by. Anyway, he couldn't do anything.

After traveling through time, he didn't have much contact with the antique industry. He didn't understand this and had no hobby of art.

After all, the Lin family is a businessman family, not a scholarly family. Lin Zixuan is an anomaly and accidentally becomes a writer.

But he was a fake writer and was not very interested in things that literati of this era thought were elegant.

However, although he did not understand the cultural relics market in Shanghai, he had heard of it.

For example, Canadian Fu Kaisen, a major shareholder of Shanghai News, likes to collect Chinese cultural relics. This person has been living in China in 1887 for decades and has collected thousands of Chinese antiques.

The loss of Chinese cultural relics has long been happening overseas. The Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing to burn the Old Summer Palace and looted countless cultural relics.

According to the "First Collection of Unofficial History of the Qing Dynasty", the record of "The First Collection of the Capitals' Knowledge".

"During the Gengzi period, more than half of the books in the "Siku" were lost. People in the capital said that many of the four countries of Britain, France, Germany and Japan had lost their fortunes. They also said that when foreign soldiers entered the city, they took the book about two inches thick and about one foot long to replace bricks and put on military utensils. Liu Baozhen, the Grand Historian of Wujin, picked up several volumes, and regarded them as "Yongle Encyclopedia".

This is just the beginning.

These cultural relics from China were brought back to the West, which attracted the attention of Westerners.

Western cultural relics dealers and scholars flocked to the east regardless of risks. They were going to plunder treasures. Western museums even offered purchase documents for Chinese cultural relics, with clear prices.

The soldiers did not know the goods and used ancient books as bricks, but these cultural relics dealers were different. They knew what was valuable.

Some foreign merchants have also opened trade shops in places such as Peking, Shanghai, and Tianjin, specializing in purchasing Chinese cultural relics.

Some Chinese antique dealers have also opened antique shops specializing in foreign business.

As a result, the two sides colluded together and a large number of cultural relics were continuously transported abroad through various channels.

In the late Qing Dynasty, Wei Wuda, the third French ambassador to China, was famous for collecting Chinese cultural relics. He was an expert in identifying Chinese antiques. After leaving office, he opened a Chinese antique shop in Paris.

Yue Bin, the largest antique merchant in Peking, got rich by him.

During this period, the Beiyang government had neither laws and regulations prohibiting cultural relics from going abroad, nor did it lack the necessary management of the old book and antiques industry, resulting in unimpeded flow of cultural relics outside.

Over time, these foreign cultural relics dealers are not satisfied with the antiques on the market.

In order to make huge profits and find more valuable Chinese cultural relics, they joined forces with tomb robbers in China and began to conduct tomb robbers in various parts of China in the name of archaeology.

A one-stop cultural relics smuggling industry chain has been formed, which is a one-stop cultural relics smuggling industry.

Ding Wenjiang had seen similar scenes, but he was heartbroken when he said that, but he was powerless.

Because not only were tomb robbers involved, but also warlords from all over the country provided convenience for foreigners, and even these warlords participated in tomb robbing in exchange for money.

The most famous warlord tomb robbery incident in the history of the Republic of China was considered to be the crazy tomb robbery that Sun Dianying had in Zunhua, Hebei in 1928.

He chose two tombs, one was the Yuling of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty and the other was the Dongling of Empress Dowager Cixi.

In Lin Zixuan's memory, he was deeply impressed by the loss of cultural relics in two places.

One is the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang and the other is the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang.

In later generations, he read "Cultural Journey" written by Yu Qiuyu. The first one was called "Taoist Tower", which tells the story of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. The Taoist priest in the king is hated by people.

Taoist Wang was originally an ordinary farmer who fled to Gansu and became a Taoist priest, responsible for guarding Mogao Grottoes.

One day, he accidentally discovered a large number of cultural relics in a hidden cave in Mogao Grottoes.

He didn't understand the value, so he took a few volumes of scriptures to the county magistrate. The county magistrate gave it to the Gansu School Station.

This learning platform is an epigrapher and understands the value of caves, so he suggests sending them to the provincial capital for storage, but there are many things. The freight is not low, so the bureaucrats hesitate.

In the end, the matter was left alone.

Only Taoist Wang took out some cultural relics again and again, and were sent as gifts in the officialdom.

Later, these scriptures were discovered by foreigners and they felt like they had treasures.

A large number of European scholars, archaeologists and adventurers rushed to Gansu without hesitation. They arrived at Mogao Grottoes just to obtain the scriptures in the cave.

The last thing they faced was the Taoist priest who was guarding Mogao Grottoes.

A completely unequal transaction began in front of Mogao Grottoes. The offer price of Taoist Wang was not high, or even pitifully low.

In 1905, the Russian Bouruchev exchanged Russian goods with him for a large number of documents and scriptures.

In 1907, the Hungarian Stein exchanged a one-piece silver dollar for 24 large boxes of scriptures, 5 boxes of weaving silk and painting.

In 1908, the French feared that Xihe exchanged a small amount of silver dollars for 10 large trucks, more than 6,000 volumes of manuscripts and picture scrolls.

In 1911, the Japanese Yoshikawa Koichiro exchanged more than 300 volumes of manuscripts and two Tang Dynasty statues at an unimaginable low price.

This Taoist priest Wang didn't know that the one who traded out of him was a brilliant civilization.

In such a huge China, there are not many volumes of scriptures left!

In Luoyang, the same thing happened in Longmen Grottoes.

In 1931, American Pu'eren went to Luoyang to visit Longmen Grottoes. He was interested in these stone sculptures and took pictures of the "Picture of Emperor and Empress Retirement of Buddha".

"The Picture of Emperor and Empress Respecting Buddha" carved the scene of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty and Empress Wenzhao worshipping Buddha.

After Pu'eren returned to Peiping, he discussed with Yue Bin, an antique merchant from Peking, and signed a contract, and transported the "Picture of the Emperor and Empress's Revealing Buddha" to the United States for a period of 5 years and a period of 40,000 yuan.

Yue Bin took advantage of the turmoil at that time and bribed the local garrison in Luoyang, carved the "Picture of Emperor and Empress Respecting Buddha" into pieces and transported it back to Peking.

He asked someone to stick the gravels together and repair them, and finally pieced together two reliefs, "The Emperor's Respect for Buddha" and "The Empress Dowager's Respect for Buddha" and sold them to the Americans.

It can be said that it is a great sin.

The ignorance of the people, the inaction of those in power, and the greed of Western cultural relics dealers are the main reasons for the loss of cultural relics overseas in China.

Just like the most common sentence in "The Taoist Tower": I hate it so much!

I hate that I have not been born a century ago, I have not stopped Mogao Grottoes, I have not stopped those cargo ships heading to the West...

Lin Zixuan traveled to this era and had some strength. He felt that he should do something so that the Chinese in future generations would no longer be so sad and keep the cultural relics in China as much as possible.

Ding Wenjiang and Lin Zixuan said this without any other intention. He and Lin Zixuan have the same concepts and the same educational background.

Both of them returned from studying in Britain and the United States, supported traditional culture, opposed the Soviet Union, and were willing to do something for this country.

Lin Zixuan knew that this was too big and could not be done by him alone. It took too long to fight against Western cultural relics dealers.

Therefore, he needs to find a group of like-minded people, establish a huge private institution, and continue to operate.

"Let's start with us!" Lin Zixuan said firmly to Ding Wenjiang among the peach blossoms in Longhua Town. (To be continued.) Mobile users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net
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