Chapter 661: The first major case of tomb robbery

Xiao Peng finally met Curator Wang in the Imperial Capital, not to receive his apology, but Curator Wang invited him to take a look at the collections in the Forbidden City, some of which have not been exhibited.
"Boss Xiao, in fact, we have a lot of collections here that have not been exhibited, just like the jewels on your Pashala necklace. Although they are displayed here, it is not a good time for exhibition. Why, you know." Wang The curator led the way.
Xiao Peng shrugged: "These three Indians dare to ask them to find me. What are you doing. They also had their share in the Eight-Nation Alliance!" In the Eagle Nation’s aggression force during the Eight-Nation Alliance, there were not many Ying Nation members, most For India III. After all, Yinsan was a British colony at that time-----a group of dogs.
"Lu Ya, let me show you women's favorite things in a moment." Xiao Peng said to Lu Ya behind him, but Lu Ya snorted coldly and turned his head to ignore him.
That's right, Xiao Peng offended Lu Ya again. The reason is really simple. Xiao Peng puts coriander in all the dishes, and Lu Ya is a member of the famous'Anti-Coriander Alliance'.
There are only two kinds of people on the earth, one who eats coriander and the other who doesn't eat coriander.
For people who like coriander, coriander is simply an indispensable delicacy in the world. To describe it in a famous online paragraph: ‘When I’m hungry, I just want a bowl of beef ramen, no beef, no ramen, just coriander! 'But for people who hate coriander, the taste of coriander is'if the plant can pee, then it is the taste of coriander','coriander tastes like a severely chemically contaminated mouse after being crushed with a meat grinder taste'.
According to statistics, 21% of East Asians, 17% of whites, and 14% of blacks hate coriander! For them, coriander is like the devil's fart and Satan's underarm smell.
But people who love coriander are even more terrible. There is even a special coriander restaurant in Tokyo, where all the dishes are made of coriander, which is simply paradise for coriander. There are even hot spring owners who put bundles of coriander into their own hot springs to create a ‘cilantro hot spring’, and the whole bath is filled with the smell of coriander. These are not the best. The best is a hot pot restaurant in Waguo. There is a coriander set meal directly. Among the four kilograms of hot pot ingredients, coriander accounts for three kilograms. Do you want to eat meat? Eat the coriander first!
The price of coriander has skyrocketed a while ago, and countless people in the coriander party are going crazy. Fortunately, the price dropped quickly, otherwise the coriander party would riot. . . . . .
For the coriander party, what is the difference between people living in the world and not eating coriander and salted fish? What coriander shower gel, coriander perfume, only you can't think of, we can't do it without us.
Cilantro is such a peculiar object. If you like it, you will love it, and if you hate it, you will hate it.
However, the taste of this coriander itself doesn't really matter much. The aversion to coriander actually comes from a gene in the human body encoded as OR6A2, which makes the human body sensitive to the aldehydes in coriander. Such people will immediately think of the soap in the bathroom after eating coriander, while those without this gene can accept the taste of coriander and feel that it is delicious and delicious.
Unfortunately, Lu Ya was the only anti-coriander party in the family, which caused Xiao Peng to cook a large table of dishes and eat and drink well for the elderly, but Lu Ya could only pitifully watch everyone feasting.
This also led to Lu Ya's opinion on Xiao Peng. There was no other way. Xiao Peng had to owe Lu Ya ten meals without coriander, which made Lu Ya feel better.
"Xiao Peng, curator Wang didn't just say something that came out of the soil, why are you so angry?" Lu Ya looked at the way, Xiao Peng didn't give curator Wang such a good expression, curious Asked.
Xiao Peng said: "Because of this sentence, you can directly position my things as'illegal', and confiscation is light, and you can even arrest me and sentence me directly!" After finishing this, Xiao Peng stared fiercely. One glance at Curator Wang, Curator Wang looked embarrassed.
Lu Ya was puzzled: "Most of the cultural relics are dug out of the soil, right? You see that there are so many things sold in Panjiayuan, there must be real ones, then how can they be sold?
Xiao Peng looked at Curator Wang: "You have to ask Curator Wang, he is an expert."
After hearing this, Curator Wang hurriedly explained: "Uh, Miss Lu, what happened is that after a cultural relic is stolen and unearthed, it often has to be sold overseas through several levels of markets. This is not only a process of value-added, but also A process of'legalization', of course,'legalization' does not mean that this cultural relic is really legal, but that its origin is difficult to trace."
"How can this'illegal' become'legal'?" Lu Ya asked.
Curator Wang replied:
This is like the spreading game that we all played when we were young. After ten people passed on a word, in the end it was completely different. After the cultural relics were resold again and again, the trading chain became longer and longer, and the source was also The more vague, generally speaking, tomb thieves will not keep the stolen cultural relics with them. They must act quickly to avoid long nights and dreams, or sell them to the so-called "palm eyes" and let them sell directly to the antique market in Beishangguang, or else Sell ​​to the antique market in second- and third-tier cities. This way you can avoid risks."
"Moreover, tomb thieves nowadays rarely fight alone, most of them are gangs. The production, supply and marketing are one-stop, and the general tomb gang has a fixed home to buy the stolen cultural relics. These cultural relics can enter the cultural relics through one channel. market."
After hearing this, Lu Ya was still puzzled: "What if those cultural relics are of higher value? Just like Xiao Peng’s Gunpei, it will definitely be a sensation when it gets on the market. Then someone will definitely track down the source, right? This will not easily cause trouble. ?"
Curator Wang nodded after hearing this, and continued to explain: "You have a good question. Ordinary stolen cultural relics will be finished after a few circles in the domestic cultural and entertainment market, while those with higher value must go abroad. Gold. In addition to the ordinary cultural relics market, another channel is to transport them overseas through smuggling."
After hearing this, Lu Ya questioned: "This is a serious criminal law, right? Is it a felony?"
Curator Wang sighed and continued:
In the face of huge profits, many people are blinded. Although China’s Criminal Law and the Cultural Relics Protection Law have strict laws and regulations to punish cultural relics smuggling, there are still many people who know the law and violate the law. With a sampling rate of 5% in the four customs offices each year, 11,512 cultural relics were seized within one day! If calculated based on the 100% inspection ratio of all customs and 365 days a year, how much China cultural relics would be lost each year?"
"So many?" Lu Ya took a sigh of relief after hearing this. "That's too much, right? How did they do it?"
"Who said no?" Curator Wang sighed: "It is also because of this that I saw Boss Xiao's son Gangpei was blocked by lard, but Boss Xiao, I really don't want to see us China’s babies are getting fewer and fewer to do this."
Xiao Peng nodded: "Everything is over, there is no need to mention it." The old curator is actually quite cute, at least not for selfishness, the standard old school.
Curator Wang turned his head to answer Lu Ya’s question just now:
In fact, the method is very simple, which is to declare customs clearance in the name of a copy. So far, the identification of cultural relics is still a work with extremely high technical requirements, sometimes even authoritative experts Cultural relics that cannot be authenticated are like a treasure appraisal program. If the authentication is a fake, then the object will be smashed. As a result, it can’t be done now, because the authenticity of the artifact is smashed and the lawsuit is caused. Those experts can identify mistakes on the spot. How can those real cultural relics be identified when they reach the circulation gate? Once these cultural relics leave the border and want to recover them, it is an almost impossible task."
Lu Ya thought about it: "No, Director Wang, what you said is wrong. If those national treasures go abroad, they will definitely be paid attention to. How can this be whitewashed?"
Curator Wang replied: "You are right. The so-called tree attracts the wind. Even if such national treasures are successfully transferred abroad, they cannot be immediately put on mainstream auction houses to cause trouble. In the words of the cultural relics reselling industry, they are called hidden in the water. This means that these cultural relics will be kept in hiding for a period of time. Then, in this process, the preparation of archives for these cultural relics will generally frame the war because there are too many cultural relics flowed abroad during the war. There is no detailed list in China. , Is a perfect loophole. Then put these cultural relics on some small-scale auction houses outside Europe and the United States with low threshold for auction, and then take them back by themselves, start to build an'auction record file', dive for a few years, and then take them out. Transfer to another country for auction, the process is repeated several times, each time the auction house’s specifications are appropriately increased, one come and go, the cultural relics have an "orderly circulating file", or a "legal" identity, then you can go The mainstream auction houses in Europe and the United States have appeared. After this process, the value of the stolen cultural relics not only doubled, but also turned into'overseas lost cultural relics', enticing wealthy Chinese businessmen to bid at high prices."
After hearing this, Lu Ya pondered for a long time before saying, "Those people are simply too bad."
Xiao Peng made Lu Ya's comments bewildered: "What you said, can someone who can do things like digging people's ancestral graves, can he be a good person?"
Curator Wang shook his head: "In fact, there are still people worse off."
Upon hearing this, Lu Ya hurriedly asked, "Who else is worse than them?"
Curator Wang said: "In the process of whitewashing cultural relics, there is another institution that plays an important role, and that is the museum. Now museums have become one of the largest cultural relics whitewashing methods for Chinese tomb robbers. Moreover, not only private museums, but also some official The same is true for museums. Of course, most museums do not directly contact the tomb robbers, but buy through second-line channels such as "palm eye". After all, museums have strong financial resources, many social connections, and many resell channels. They are indeed tomb robbers. The best choice for whitewashing cultural relics. Those experts who have been dealing with cultural relics for a long time know the origin of these cultural relics. Some cultural relics are new at first sight. Everyone knows it well, but let’s not say it is broken, just like the son of Boss Xiao Gampei, you can tell at a glance that it was just unearthed, but there is no way to break the matter. If you break the matter, or even report it according to the law, if the supply of goods is cut off in the future, who will do business with you?"
Hearing what Curator Wang said, Xiao Peng was stunned: "Curator Wang, are you not alarmist? Is this true?"
Curator Wang nodded and said: "Boss Xiao, what did I lie to you, don't you know the first major tomb robbery after the founding of the People's Republic of China?"
In fact, when talking about China’s first major tomb robbery, we must first talk about Qin Shihuang. He deceived China’s historians seriously. He made everyone think that China’s culture and nation are all things south of the Great Wall. In fact, this is a big deal. By mistake, archaeologists found the "older home" of the Chinese nation north of the Great Wall, which is the Niuheliang Hongshan Cultural Site in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province.
There, people discovered large altars, goddess temples and "pyramid"-style buildings about 5,500 years ago, which improved the history of Chinese civilization for more than a thousand years, and was known as the "new dawn of Eastern civilization". It is a worldwide discovery that can be compared with the Egyptian pyramids and the ancient civilization of Asam Gedaro. Since 1988, it has been listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit.
Unlike the Neolithic tombs in the Central Plains, where pottery was generally buried in the ancient tombs of Hongshan Culture, there are a large number of jade wares. In addition to the common jade bracelets and jade bi, there are also jade turtles, jade phoenixes, and jade pig dragons. Gems. In the past, people always thought that the Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin were the source of Chinese history, and Hongshan Culture was just a branch or a mixed culture of north and south of the Great Wall. A new understanding has been achieved and the focus of prehistoric cultural research has shifted from the Yellow River Basin to the north!
However, this has also attracted the attention of many criminals, including Yao Yuzhong's'Yao Sanye', who is known as the'No.
This Yao Yuzhong is also a strange person. He was given the nickname "Master of the Father" and read books on archaeology. After determining the direction of the ancient tombs, he directly determined the location of the tombs by looking at the geomantic signs of the mountains and rivers and the positions of the sun, moon and stars. He is a real Captain Touching Jin. Knowing where to find the ‘living soil’, after he stepped on it, the tomb-robber gang could dig something every time.
Moreover, Yao Yuzhong is very cunning. He knows how deep he digs every time after the tomb is robbed. After digging, he will carefully backfill and try every means to cover up the digging site so that it is difficult for others to discover.
However, there are more and more Hongshan cultural relics on the market, which has attracted the attention of the government. In the end, 225 criminal suspects were arrested in one fell swoop, including Yao Yuzhong. A total of 12 criminal gangs were destroyed and 2063 pieces of cultural relics involved in the case were recovered! Among them, there are only 248 first-class cultural relics! This case has become the most stolen cultural relics recovered and the most criminal suspects captured in a single case since the founding of China!
Absolutely the first big case of Chinese tomb robbery!