Chapter 487 Collecting Cultural Relics and the Expansion of the Base Areas in Jiangsu and Zhejiang

Because many soldiers from Britain, France and other countries in the past were fully loaded, and their private wealth was cared for to a certain extent, there are many folk cultural relics, which are no less than the inventory in the hands of the government. In this era, China's economic strength was indispensable, and the value of natural cultural relics was not too important. You can easily exchange a little bread or candy for cigarettes.

At this time, the war was obviously unfortunate to the British, and the people who had little prospect would rather exchange the "decorations" in their hands for more needed daily necessities.

Prosperous antiques, troubled gold. In troubled times, the value of many antiques is not enough.

Precious metals in cultural relics, they may not be exchanged. However, bottles and cans and easily damaged paper are best changed out as soon as possible.

At this time, the British still had some stock, and it was not the most difficult time for life, so they paid a higher price. But after the war, it is not known how many cultural relics will be destroyed. Meng Xiangcai chose to redeem it in advance. Compared with the crystallization of Chinese civilization, it is nothing to pay a little more resources and money.

If the innocent acquisition of Chinese cultural relics is true, it may lead to an increase in the price of Chinese cultural relics, and it is also easy to attract the attention of the British government. Therefore, this exchange not only includes Chinese cultural relics, but also almost all cultural relics. Egyptian, Inca and Maya, Indian, ancient Babylonian, Arab nations were acquired.

At this time, in addition to some cultural relics of European civilization, these Europeans and Americans will consciously take care of them, and the price is relatively high, the cultural relics of other regions are not as rare as a few experts in the eyes of the public. However, Meng Xiang knew about the soaring prices of cultural relics in later generations. Not in addition, just the Arab cultural relics, when those Arab oil tycoons, after seeing the cultural relics of their own nation, they are definitely the image of a fat sheep who spend a lot of money.

Although the cultural relics of Egypt, ancient Babylon, Maya, ancient India and other countries have not been purchased at a high price, the history of ancient civilizations contained in these cultural relics can solve mysteries one by one and better understand the growth of human beings. This is also something that Meng Xiang should not miss.

The more cultural relics are acquired, the more price is naturally paid, and Meng Xiang is not a comprehensive acquisition. Nearly 100 appraisers recruited from China cover a wide range of topics, but the focus is on the various media recorded in writing.

Words are undoubtedly the most direct tool for recording history. After hundreds of years of tossing and turning in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there is a lot of missing written records in China. Some books, such as "Heavenly Creations", still need to be learned from the Japanese. Compared to those vases, words can tell us something more explicitly.

Historical research and the collection of artifacts have duplicate premises, but the purpose is not the same. In the eyes of many historians, even those vases that sold for hundreds of millions of dollars in later generations are not comparable to an oracle bone cow bone or turtle shell.

Meng Xiang purchased cultural relics in order to understand history and make Chinese civilization more sufficient, not to collect and make money.

Some items that are just rare treasures and have little historical research value, Meng Xiang is not interested in purchasing. It will definitely not spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy some pig heads and dog heads like those zodiac heads in later generations. With that money, it is better to invest in education, have a few more talents, and add a fresh vitality to Huaxia, instead of drowning in the twilight of guarding the coffin board.

It's better to be stronger than the country and grab it back. If it weren't for the worry that some literal tools would disappear, Meng Xiang would only lead a large army to rob him later. Meng Xiang is not distressed about destroying some works of art such as Greece, Rome or Europe and the United States, but the inheritances left by his ancestors are preserved as much as possible.

The biggest surprise comes from the 3 and 2 volumes of "Yongle Dictionary" that 3 catties of tea and 2 pairs of nylon stockings were exchanged for. Among them is a part of the "Lunar Calendar" edited by Deng Yufu that is more detailed than "Qi Min's Technique".

In the past, the British and French forces burned down the Hanlin Academy, and many of the endless books in the Hanlin Academy were burned to paper ashes. The "Yongle Canon" was robbed, burned, and stolen, and the Hanlin Academy finally had 64 volumes left. You must know that the Yongle Canon has a total of 10,095 volumes, which is far from being comparable to the castrated version of the "Siku Quanshu" that deleted a large number of scientific and military works.

Although it was collected and cared for by many parties, in 34 years, there were only 93 fragments in the hands of the National Peking Library at that time. Later generations Meng Xiang remembered that more than 400 copies of the Yongle Canon were also scattered in 8 countries.

After the vanguard army occupied Beiping, more than 60 copies of the "Yongle Canon" that were originally to be shipped to the United States were returned, and 2 copies were recaptured from the Japanese. With the unexpected surprise of these 5 volumes, the vanguard army already has 100 volumes in their hands.

However, there are still successive "Yongle Grand Canons" that have been collected into the hands of the vanguard army, because this time the acquisition and exchange of cultural relics are not only from the people, even the government, has long adopted these exchanges. However, what they need is not food, but weapons.

The Germans were the first to cooperate with the Pioneer Army, and most of their official Chinese cultural relics were returned to the Pioneer Army. And the vanguard army just gave its own BF-109B aircraft, IIB submarines and other weapons to the Germans. Among them, there are 12 volumes of the Yongle Canon.

After the surrender of the French, such a deal was also underway, and some of the Vanguard Ju-88 bombers and Stuka D planes were directly exchanged for Chinese artifacts in the Palace of Versailles. Among them, there are 9 volumes of "Yongle Canon".

Other countries such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and other countries that had invaded China in the past were also transferred by the Germans and used some arms to recover the Chinese cultural relics of the past. 8 volumes of the Yongle Canon were also discovered.

Even the British were willing to trade those Chinese artifacts for the weapons and attitude support of the vanguard army. Huaxia was still connected to neutrality at this time. But the British also knew that the vanguard army would influence the future trend of China, and if China completely fell to the Germans and did not want Southeast Asia, even India could be dangerous. So the Vanguard used only one Scott destroyer. In exchange for the British Museum and the royal family, a large number of Chinese cultural relics were collected.

Of course, there are still some that have not been returned, but these need to be taken back slowly. Although the front line is urgent, the British have not yet reached the time to cry, and Meng Xiang is naturally not in a hurry. This time, there are many cultural relics obtained from the British government, and there are 37 volumes of the Yongle Canon alone.

"I didn't expect that! I didn't expect to see so much! Yuan Tongli, Zhao Wanli and several other people, who were responsible for the collection and revision of the "Yongle Canon" over the years, couldn't help but burst into tears and were excited when they saw the more than 100 classics in front of them. The return of more cultural relics has become a major event in the cultural circles of China.

Guo Moruo is more sophisticated about cultural relics, although it is difficult for people to identify with his character, but there is still real knowledge, and he can be regarded as a person who carries the flag. This time, under the recommendation of everyone, he took the lead in organizing people to start sorting out these cultural relics.

Chinese cultural relics have not been particularly cherished, in addition to some historical reasons, too many cultural relics, can not be properly cared for is one thing. Meng Xiang is sending people to learn some advanced methods of preserving cultural relics in Britain and France, and on the other hand, he is also having a headache in the care of a large number of cultural relics.

The care and restoration of cultural relics requires a lot of money and energy. It is not enough to rely on the state alone, and the power of the private sector also needs to be involved. However, the participation of private forces also means a huge market of interests, which induces a large number of tomb robberies. Don't want future generations, even at this time, tomb robberies in Luoyang and other places are extremely arrogant. Many of these cultural relics have gone abroad, and most of them are Japanese.

In fact, the loss of these excavations is not only this benefit, but also the destruction of the tombs by the tomb robbers who are mostly crappy in the eyes of archaeologists, so that it is impossible to reproduce the history completely.

However, after the implementation of the subsistence allowance, with the guarantee of livelihood, the constraints of rewards and punishments for the subsistence allowance, coupled with the implementation of relevant laws and regulations in the joint theater, and more importantly, the implementation of strict laws and regulations by the clone soldiers and the patrol of the National Guard, which made the theft and excavation in Luoyang and Anyang and other places much worse.

Meng Xiang thought about it for a long time, but still imitated the style of later generations to classify and care for cultural relics.

In the cultural relics and historical sites, it is divided into national, provincial, and county and city levels.

In the cultural relics collection, it is divided into three levels. Because the war zone also carried out sacred and inviolable care for the wealth of individuals. Therefore, the government of the war district will not be able to deprive the cultural relics in the hands of everyone at will. Individuals can hold it. However, the first- and second-class cultural relics must be registered by the government of the war zone and cannot be bought and sold at will.

Due to the value of cultural relics in historical research, the state may borrow and study the relevant cultural relics on the basis of consultation with the holders, although there are time limits and certain compensation.

For newly discovered unowned tombs in various regions, local villages and towns and discoverers can jointly obtain the ownership and trading rights of the third-level cultural relics according to a certain proportion. No transactions shall be carried out at the first level, and it shall be owned by the whole people in the joint theater. Grade II cultural relics are generally not traded, and if they are traded, the relevant money is distributed according to a certain percentage of the income of the country, the country and the individual.

If the tomb needs to be cared for and the excavation is not carried out for the time being, it can be saved for later excavation to compensate for it.

Such a system also makes the local collective beneficiaries automatically form a certain resistance to the tomb robbers, and the tomb robbers fall into the vast sea of people's war.

Meng Xiang specially set up special cultural relics trading places in Beiping, Luoyang and Chang'an City, and set up relevant taxes and fees, which is where the huge profits of the government lie. However, it is necessary to earmark funds for the care and repair of cultural relics and cultural relics. In principle, the restoration of relevant monuments is to take the same approach as the European care of ancient castles and monuments in later generations, mainly to connect the original state, no longer the restoration of dog-tailed mink, presenting a joke similar to the reconstruction of the Old Summer Palace.

The relevant laws and regulations and systems have been gradually improved, and even the cultural relics brought from Europe this time have been classified, some of them are under the care of the state, some of them are auctioned, and the proceeds are used for the care and purchase of cultural relics, and there are still a large number of cultural relics to be purchased. Although the price spent is very large, but the amount is too large, in addition to Meng Xiang invested in the special funds, a part of the special funds for cultural relics has also been allocated for this large purchase.

Europe fell into the war, it is only in the early middle and early stages, and there will be more difficult days in the future, and a large number of cultural relics will be more depreciated. And Meng Xiang just laid out all the dots, looking forward to receiving a little bit.

Of course, those black markets and temple vaults are not only for the exchange of cultural relics, all kinds of items have a certain value, gold, silver, platinum, and even hard currency are all eaten, and related technology and talents are also being looted. In troubled times, some talents who are not suitable for war will always be lost and ignored. Those Chinese students who have been studying in the UK and other places since 38 years did not forget to invite some of their teachers when they left.

As a result, China's attractiveness is not as good as that of the United States, and the vast majority of people either choose to stay or go to the United States.

In the past, when British and French students and young people went to the front line at night, some Chinese students who did not leave could still hide in the empty classrooms and enjoy the opportunity of their instructors to teach them at close range.

The war gave China a better chance, and Meng Xiang plundered not only cultural relics and wealth, but also knowledge and talents.

This is what war is for, not to fight and shed blood, but to gain more. Although Huaxia did not participate in the war, and only watched the Germans and British fight to the death over that canal, the intelligence from all sides every day, as well as the placement of various places, had already kept the leadership of the vanguard army busy.

Meng Xiang is not idle, he really can't feel the ease of lying on the knees of drunken beauties. Every day there are things that he needs to decide. Although there are not many things to be instructed every day, the fate of tens of millions of people has been changed in a single sentence. This heaviness often weighed him out of breath and kept him awake at night. These tools are not something that can be replaced by the base, and can only be judged and interpreted by himself.

At this time, he realized the pain of those leaders who were often seen on TV in later generations, who had grown old a lot in a few years, and even if he sat there without moving, thousands of thoughts flashed in his mind. It's strange to be old!

Being an official is easy and easy, and difficult and difficult. Even if Meng Xiang doesn't care about anything at this time, the entire system below is running as usual, and there is not one more puppet. But if you come with the golden finger of history, if you don't change it from all aspects, it will be in vain to waste the name of the pride of the universe. Therefore, it is not surprising that Meng Xiang is extremely busy.

The robbery of the gold had just been arranged, and the matter of the Japanese came again.

Because the vanguard army invaded Rehe, the Japanese and the puppet Manchuria were constantly clamoring. Even some people in China are complaining, complaining that the vanguard army did not first recover the lost territories of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Lianghuai, but first attacked the puppet Manchurians. In their eyes, there is no doubt that the proximity in the puppet Manchurian region is much worse than that in Jianghuai and other places. As a result, the puppet Manchurians had long been occupied by the Japanese, and in several armistice agreements between the central government and the Japanese, they all acquiesced in the temporary control of the Japanese. The Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions belonged to the central government at the beginning and should be recaptured first.

"Jiang Zhongzheng is also sad!" When Yan Xishan was at this, the emotions in his eyes were very complicated, a little sympathetic, and a little gloating.

Part of the tone of these people is also controlled by Lao Jiang behind.

Lao Chiang's life was actually not good, although many of the Central Army joined the Vanguard Army, which saved him a lot of arrears. But in order to hold the existing land, it is necessary to have a large army to protect it, and the size of the million-strong army is not less, and with the comparison of the vanguard army, some expenses should still be spent, especially to win over those high-level officers. In this way, the expenditure of innocent military spending is also an astronomical amount.

However, the industry and commerce in the national control area are sluggish, and even agriculture has reduced tax revenue because of the bad year. Although looted in various places, with the contrast of the vanguard army, there were more people who resisted taxes. Especially in the places bordering the land of the Pioneer Army, it was thrown into the Pioneer Army en masse. Sometimes even the army can't hold it down.

As a result, the joint theater of the vanguard army continued to expand outward through encroachment. However, as long as the vanguard army does not expand on a large scale and directly reshuffle the cards, the central government will still turn a blind eye to the inexhaustible quarrel with the vanguard army. There are still many people in the central government who are riding the wall, and in the face of the huge strength of the vanguard army, Lao Jiang does not dare to turn his face, as long as he drags on one day and counts one day at a time, he slowly consolidates his absolutely loyal forces.

However, although the vanguard army is encroaching, the mouth is also too big, although the critical premises digest a township in a few days and a county town in half a month, but it can't stop the chasm from growing, and it has infiltrated the edge of Wuhan unconsciously. Even the people of Wuhan want a stronger vanguard to take care of them.

The strength of the vanguard army is not just a legend. Not a while ago, it took a few days to recover most of Rehe, Wuhan alone, even if the Central Army Chen soldiers were more than 300,000 nearby, the last time they almost let the devils who feint to attack the Huarong area. Thanks to the timely rescue of the fighters of the vanguard army, the devils were forced back with aerial fire coverage.

The Air Force alone has forced back the devils, not to mention that they still have a strong army. In addition to the various policies of the Vanguard Army, at this time, all walks of life in Wuhan were also discussing the matter of joining the Vanguard Army's joint theater by the general election.

Even if it is a popular election, no one else will come out of it, and if someone intervenes, the vanguard will directly intervene, in the name of defending democracy and returning the people's civil rights. But all walks of life support this, which is also a headache for Lao Jiang. The vanguard army occupies a greater righteousness, which is more effective than the words of the central government.

As a last resort, Lao Chiang began to provoke the vanguard army to attack the Japanese. By his side, the influence of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium is still there, and his ancestral grave is still in Fenghua, Zhejiang, so he naturally hopes to recover these places first. However, the power of the Central Army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was not strong, and even if there were more people, it might not be able to take it from the Japanese. At this time, he could only urge the vanguard to act.

In any case, it is better for one's hometown to be in the hands of the vanguard than to be looted in the hands of devils.

After repeated defeats in front of the vanguard army, the Japanese stepped up their search for the occupied areas, and the common people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were full of complaints. also leaned more towards the vanguard army.

The Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are the base of Lao Chiang, and the central government of Lao Chiang is more recognized, coupled with the weak strength of the vanguard army in the early stage, it has not opened up the situation, and only guards Tianmu Mountain.

It wasn't until last year that they set up a base in Tianmu Mountain, and the prestige of the vanguard army was gradually accepted, that they really got the opportunity to grow. Until now, it has been in rapid expansion. However, their battles are all battles of some scale, and the same superior military power is eating away at the surroundings little by little. It is not as obvious as the record in the north, but it has also fought hundreds of times with the surrounding devils and puppet armies, and more than 30,000 devils have been annihilated.

The land has been expanded again and again, occupying Xuanzhou and Luyang in the north, Poyang Lake and Xinjiang in the west, and recently crossing the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway in the south, and reaching the area of Fenshui Pass and Fengling Pass, which border Fujian Province, has begun to establish political power in the area north of Kucang Mountain.

It's just that those coastal cities have not been engaged in large-scale operations, and many cities have been received from the Central Army, which also makes the Jiangsu and Zhejiang base areas of the vanguard army actually not like the scenery of the joint theater in the north.

This is also helpless, there are not many coal resources in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and even oil resources, Meng Xiang has no impression in his mind. The entire base area in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is supported by only one sub-base. Rat Yi and their guerrilla column had grown to nearly 300,000 people by this time. But the scarcity of weapons and ammunition became apparent, and it was no longer necessary to rely on bases to consolidate coastal defenses.

At this time, the navy of the vanguard army only patrolled the area of the Huai River, and with the support of the air force, the Japanese also acquiesced to this situation. However, it is somewhat difficult for surface ships to rush to the mouth of the Yangtze River. There were two clashes between the torpedo boats of the vanguard army and the shelling of the Japanese, and although the vanguard army took advantage of the advantages of advanced weapons and large numbers of people, the large ships never fought with the Japanese.

So far, the navy of the vanguard army is still a little immature, and Meng Xiang will not be moved by his moment, but fight to the death with the Japanese.

The joint theater in the north was able to hold the coastal defense because of the large number of huge artillery and shore artillery, but without the support of the sub-bases in the south, it was impossible to talk about a tight defense of so many coastlines.

It's okay to transport some small arms and ammunition through the cows, but it's hard for a big guy like shore artillery. Even if the sub-base of Tianmu Mountain produces by itself, leaving the scale of the sub-base, the huge cost and energy of transportation, installation and protection are also a headache. Before absolute control, Meng Xiang didn't want to fight to the death with the Japanese navy.

These are all things that should be reserved for a headache for Britain and the United States.