Chapter 182: Snake Ghost Town · Bronze Red Furnace

For a long time, this graphic is mysterious, and there is no clue how to find it. Now that I heard this, Jude Kao was very excited. He immediately invited someone to make a pot of good tea and handed it in respectfully. Ask the old scholar to say in detail Say.
The old scholar had nothing to do with himself. Seeing that he was very interested, he was also interested, and told Jude Kao about the past.
That happened 30 years ago. At that time, the old man was a professor of Sinology at Peking University, a member of the Kuomintang, and his son-in-law was a brigade commander under Zhang Lingfu. After the defeat of the 74th Division, the Kuomintang's remnant army was reduced to zero, and his son-in-law fled the Qimeng Mountain with the remnants, became a bandit, and spent three years in the mountain. Later, the PLA's bandits and his son-in-law were forced into desperation, and they took over with the Kuomintang agents, preparing to flee to the United States.
After buying the way, the old man and his family were taken into the mountains by his son-in-law, waiting for the news of the boat. Because the wind was very tight and it was inconvenient to bring family members, during this time, his son-in-law settled them in a Taoist temple, disguised as a Taoist, and waited for the secret agent to respond.
Is said to be Taoist temple. It is actually a kind of folk earth temple. However, unlike other mountain temples, this Taoist temple is located between two cliffs less than 50 meters apart. The entire Taoist temple is similar to a huge ladder, one layer at a time, a total of seven floors, the walls are painted yellow mud walls, very simple, the top four floors, is the wooden board between the two cliffs, even railings No. Several shrines are made of clay sculptures of Sanqing, and there are also Guanyin and land, which have Chinese characteristics.
The entire Taoist temple is managed by two old Taoists. The older one was the father of a younger Taoist. At that time, the soldiers were scarce and the incense was thin. His son-in-law gave them some money as a cover.
The old professor lived in Taoist temple for two months. Taoist temple was in the deep mountains. It was inconvenient to climb up and down, and he had nothing to do, so he began to study the antiques in this Taoist temple. It was during that time that he discovered something strange. A lot of things in this Taoist view are crudely manufactured folk soil goods, which are of little value. Occasionally there are a few pieces of antiques, which were also things of the Ming Dynasty. However, there is a bronze alchemy furnace at the top of Taoist temple, which has a very peculiar shape, like a turned lotus. Looking at the patina above, it is much older, and it is very different from other things here.
The old professor did not study history, but the old master at that time had some experience with these, and he was very interested, so he asked the old Taoist, where did this monastery come from.
The old man praised him for his great vision. This dan furnace was indeed unusual. It collapsed from the mountain before an earthquake before liberation. At that time, there were many dead skeletons. The villagers were afraid, so they brought it here. It has been more than sixty years for Shenxian to be in town. He was still young at that time, and it was unclear exactly what happened.
The old professor felt more and more interesting after listening to it. However, at that time, he was in a state of chaos, his identity was special, and he couldn't carry out more investigations. He pondered for a while in Taoist temple, and later there was no more. However, the circumstances and circumstances at that time made him remember the incident very deeply. He also remembered the shape and pattern of the red furnace very clearly, so he recognized the figure Judeka showed him.
He told Judeco that the pattern was on the lid of the Dan furnace, and the shape was exactly the same as the figure. He would never forget it. If he wants to know more, he can find a way to go to that Taoist temple to understand the situation. However, the vicissitudes of the sea are still there, depending on your character.
After listening to Jude's exam, he was excited and disappointed. The excitement is that the content behind this graphic is obviously more abundant than he thought; disappointed that after listening to these narratives, he still knows nothing about the graphic.
He really wanted to see the bronze dan furnace in the mouth of the old professor himself. However, this was almost impossible at the time. At that time, it was quite difficult for an American to go to China, especially his infamous cultural relics dealer.
But Judeka is very conceited. No one can stop what he wants to do. He still thought of a way: he could not go to China, but after so many years of cultural relics activities, he has a close network in China. He began to try to contact the old relationship in China, find a way to find someone to enter Qimeng Mountain, take a look at that deep mountain Taoist temple, and understand the situation. It is best to be able to steal the Dan furnace and transport it to the United States.
At that time, China had just suffered ten years of catastrophe, and it was a waste of life. His old relationship had disappeared. The older generation of Confucius died in Qingsu after liberation, fled, and smuggled cultural relics. , Has completely reshuffled. With the help of his relationship with the Kuomintang, he exhausted almost all channels and could not find a person he knew.
In desperation, he could only take the risk and turn to several cultural relic smugglers who were unfamiliar with him at that time to let them introduce some new people in the industry of Changsha.
It was a series of twists and turns, but Huang Tian did not live up to his heart. Finally, he finally contacted him with a Chinese who was willing to cooperate with him.
This person is unlinking.
Understood how the chain went into this business, the third uncle was puzzled at that time, because the environment at that time, even the father of the Jie family did not dare to dabble in the old business, and could only eat and eat the old business. This smuggling of cultural relics is a big crime. Like the current drug trafficking, it is the work of keeping his head on the waistband. Generally, he is not in a hurry to ask for money to save his life. No one dares to do this.
At that time, Jielianhuan was a young boy, a complete second-generation ancestor. The old man of Jiejia deliberately cleaned up. From an early age, he was not allowed to contact the family business or let him learn anything, so regardless of guts, vision, experience or other objective conditions, It is impossible for him to enter this business, and there is no reason to be able to get in touch with smugglers abroad.
To put it bluntly, the smuggling of cultural relics requires craftsmanship. Taking the goods, appraising and appraising these techniques, without two or three decades of exercise and accumulation, you can't become a climate, and if you don't have these capabilities, even if you are subjective If you want to enter the business, you can't find a doorway, and your buyer will not care about you. Therefore, if Jude Kao can contact Jielian through an intermediary, it means that Jielian must have had business dealings with these people and gained the trust of the other party. This is how to solve the problem, it is impossible.
This problem has always troubled the third uncle until he returned from his first trip to Xisha and started investigating this matter, and asked the boss of the family to realize some ins and outs. However, this matter has nothing to do with Judeka's matter, and there is no need to mention it here.
After the solution chain and Jude Kao took over, Jude Kao sent his plan to understand the chain. It was a detailed document with a sketch of a bronze dan stove drawn by the old man and an advanced camera. He asked Xie Lianlian to first confirm whether the Taoist temple was still there—at that time, the ancient temples and temples belonged to the four old and might have been destroyed—then, he collected information about this monastery and took photos, Send back to the United States to confirm that if everything is correct, then look for opportunities to smuggle this thing abroad.
Although I do n’t understand things about going to the ground, I can go to a place to see if things are there. I can inquire about things. After he got the information, he went to Shandong. Based on the old man's memories, he found the mountain area where the ancient Taoist temple was built.
Fortunately, because Taoism is very remote and has not been harassed too much, it has been miraculously preserved in the ten years of turbulence. However, the old Taoist is dead, and only the old son is still a wind candle. Xie Lianhuan filmed the Taoist temple and the bronze dan furnace and sent it back to the United States. Judeka took out a comparison of the translated patterns. Sure enough, the old man was right. The figure on the lid of the bronze monastery was exactly the same as on the silk book. However, for the origin of this dan furnace, because the age is too long, the old son can only give a rough idea, and the content that the old professor said is also similar, and no more clues can be obtained.
Despite this, Jude Kao was overjoyed, and issued an order for Jielian to begin preparations to find a way to smuggle Dan furnace secretly.
However, as soon as the solution was prepared, it was found that this was actually an impossible task.
What Judeka did not consider was that this dan furnace was much larger than he had predicted in advance, and the times were different. Such things were impossible for China to ship through customs at that time. However, if you pass a smuggling ship, you must first arrive in Zhejiang or Guangdong. The risks are also very large. At that time, the chaos in the southeast coast was beyond the ordinary people's imagination.
They tried many methods, but no results, but caught Lei Zi's attention. In desperation, Jude Kao had a despondent thought. He asked Jielianhuan to smash the entire Dan furnace, sawed it into more than forty pieces, then marked it, and mixed it in batches in the silk exported at that time.
This is an outrageous beast for the archaeological community, but Judeco does not care at all, because the value of this thing is no longer meaningful to him, he wants the above information.
It can also be said that there is no coincidence. When Jielianhuan saw the Dan Dan furnace, he discovered the bottom of this bronze Dan furnace, and there was a very clever mechanism. It was with this organ that the secrets of the mysterious graphics on the silk books of the Warring States Period were finally unlocked.