These two pieces of good news were very good news for Yang Jing, and compared to investing in Tianqu for large-scale construction, Yang Jing liked these two pieces of good news more. So Yang Jing immediately called the secretarial team over, and after instructing them on what needed to be done in the next few days, he simply slipped out of his office.
After returning home and having dinner with his family in the evening, Yang Jing went straight into the study and had a video call with Mr. Wang from the shareholder museum.
When I went to Wu Zetian's Mausoleum with Mr. Wang and Mr. Song in June and July, it was Mr. Wang and Yang Jing who entered Wu Zetian's Mausoleum together. Mr. Wang and Yang Jing's four masters were also good friends, so Yang Jing left contact information with Mr. Wang before he came back.
Yang Jing even thought that if the country insisted on excavating Wu Zetian's tomb and there was no money to protect the murals, then he could contact Mr. Wang and then pay for Mr. Wang and other cultural relics experts to protect the murals.
This time, he learned that Wu Zetian's tomb had been excavated, and Mr. Wang did not contact him on his own initiative, so Yang Jing had to ask about the situation inside.
Although Mr. Wang is in his seventies, he is still very familiar with WeChat, QQ video chat and the like. So when Yang Jing contacted him, the old and the young started a video chat, and Mr. Wang also told Yang Jing the entire process of excavating Wu Zetian's Mausoleum.
It turned out that after Yang Jing returned from Wu Zetian's Mausoleum, a group of domestic experts gathered together to discuss whether to excavate the Mausoleum of Wu Zetian.
This is a rather puzzling matter. There are two sets of national treasures in Wu Zetian's mausoleum. Both the Nine Cauldrons of Dayu and the Twelve Golden Men of Qin are of great significance to China. The top leaders will never allow these two sets of treasures to sleep in the mausoleum.
However, the entrance to Wu Zetian's Mausoleum is at the bottom of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir. Even if all the water in the Xiaolangdi Reservoir is drained during the dry season of the Yellow River, the entrance to Wu Zetian's Mausoleum will still be several dozen meters below the normal dead water level of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir. In addition, both the Nine Cauldrons of Dayu and the Twelve Golden Men of Qin are very heavy, so it is impossible to transport these two sets of treasures out from the entrance of Wu Zetian's Mausoleum.
These are truly national treasures, and if they were transported out of the entrance of Wu Zetian's Mausoleum, they would inevitably face the risk of being soaked in water. No one dared to take such a risk to transport these two sets of treasures in this way.
But at the same time, if the mountain was directly excavated and a passage leading to the Mausoleum of Wu Zetian was carved out of the mountain, it would definitely cause great damage to the exquisite murals in the Mausoleum of Wu Zetian, and might even destroy them.
Although these murals are not as precious as the two sets of national treasures, they are definitely first-class national cultural relics. After all, such exquisite and well-preserved murals in the tombs of Tang Dynasty emperors are absolutely unique in the whole of China.
Naturally, the experts could not bear to destroy these exquisite murals for the sake of those two sets of treasures.
The palms and backs of your hands are all made of flesh, and it is difficult for anyone to make a choice.
In the end, the state issued an order to first provide the safest protection for those exquisite murals before excavating Wu Zetian's tomb.
In order to fully protect the murals in such a large tomb, the cost is not a small amount. Only the state can come up with such a large amount of funds. Of course, the local government of Luoyang also invested a lot. After all, if the Wu Zetian Mausoleum is really excavated, Luoyang will have another extremely famous scenic spot.
Look at the Ming Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Yanjing, how popular they are. And Wu Zetian is definitely better than those emperors with pigtails in every aspect, okay? She is a unique empress in the thousands of years of Chinese history!
Therefore, with the full support of the country and the local government of Luoyang, top cultural relics experts from all over the country entered the tomb of Wu Zetian one after another and carried out strict protection of those exquisite murals. In the end, this project took more than two months and cost nearly 10 million yuan to complete.
After the tomb murals were completely protected, the excavation of Wu Zetian's Mausoleum was fully launched. In front of modern mechanical tools, the hard mountain is nothing. The construction team spent more than half a month to dig a circular hole more than 40 meters long and more than two meters in diameter from the middle of the mountain to the bottom, completely connecting Wu Zetian's Mausoleum, which had been silent for thousands of years, with the outside world.
However, the good news is that due to proper protection, the tomb murals that have not been exposed to the outside air for more than a thousand years have not been damaged when exposed to the fresh air. The more than 10 million yuan of funds were well spent!
"Xiao Yang, the tomb murals in Wu Zetian's Mausoleum have been well protected, and our country has gained a new batch of precious Tang Dynasty tomb murals. Similarly, the Nine Cauldrons of Dayu and the Twelve Golden Men of Qin, which were imitated by a female empress, were also safely transported out of Wu Zetian's Mausoleum without any damage. I heard from the leaders of the institute that they are still planning to put the first exhibition of the Nine Cauldrons of Dayu and the Twelve Golden Men of Qin in your Grand Canal Museum, which can be regarded as a reward for you. Xiao Yang, congratulations." On the screen, Mr. Wang's smiling face immediately turned into a "big pancake".
During a video chat, the images of both parties on the screen will change slightly. Although Mr. Wang is not fat, he has a big face. In addition, his camera is relatively close to his face, so when he smiles, his image immediately becomes extremely funny.
Yang Jing laughed heartily, "Grandpa Wang, thank you for your blessing. But I am also very happy that I can preserve those beautiful murals. Also, when will you come to see my Grand Canal Museum? It seems that among the experts in the museum, you and Mr. Song are the only ones who have not been here yet?"
Old Wang smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "I didn't have the time before. Old Song and I were in charge of the excavation of Wu Zetian's Mausoleum and the protection of the tomb murals. I was very busy in the past few months and lost 7 or 8 kilograms."
"Old man, you have to take care of yourself. You are already over 70 years old, not like those young people."
"Fortunately, I used to be in charge of some tomb excavation work outside for many years, so this body is well trained. Well, now the work on Wu Zetian's Mausoleum is basically done, and the only thing left is the development work of the Luoyang Municipal Government on that mausoleum, which has nothing to do with me. So Lao Song and I can go back in the next two days. When the time comes, Lao Song and I will apply to send you the Nine Cauldrons of Dayu and the Twelve Golden Men of Qin, so that Lao Song and I can appreciate your collections properly."
"Then I'll make the bed ready for you."
PS: I would like to thank “Lao Wang’s Cleaver 1” for the reward of 200 and “Very Lazy Fish” for the reward of 100.
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