Director Liu brought Lin Sanqi to a group of terracotta warriors and introduced them:
"During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, people were fond of fashionable, plump and colorful figures, and the style of pottery figurines was constantly updated, in line with the popular Zhou Fang painting style.
Look at these three-color female figurines unearthed from Zhongbao Village and Xiaotumen Village in the western suburbs. They have plump bodies, hairpins with flowers on their foreheads, fine eyes and willow-shaped eyebrows, and slightly parted lips. Their movements are subtle and elegant, very realistic, and very beautiful.
But if you look at these female figurines unearthed from Hansenzhai Village in the eastern suburbs, they are a little different. They have plump muscles and delicate bones, protruding bellies and nodding heads, and they are graceful and elegant.
These female figurines all share a common characteristic: their refined forms and subtle language, representing the typical style of Tang Dynasty figurines."
Lin Sanqi is actually not very interested in antiques and cultural relics.
Especially those things dug out from graves. You have to know that these are funerary objects, belonging to the dead.
Think about it again, these terracotta warriors "witnessed with their own eyes" the entire process of the tomb owner's body beginning to rot, turning into a giant, and finally turning into a pile of bones. How many bacteria, pathogens and corpse odors must have been contaminated on these terracotta warriors.
This is absolutely intolerable for an infectious disease doctor. Even Lin Sanqi doesn't want to touch these antiques any more.
He only cares about how much it can be sold for, and only money smells good.
Only money can be exchanged for a large amount of weapons and supplies in another time and space, and then support this time and space.
Without money, but with enthusiasm, what's the difference between him and a corrupt scholar who talks big but harms the country?
"Director Liu, it seems we have a lot of cultural relics in Xi'an. Some are in the eastern suburbs, some are in the western suburbs. No wonder there are dozens of these three-color female figurines alone. I see there are also quite a few male figurines nearby."
Director Liu said proudly:
"There aren't many other things in the area from Xi'an to Luoyang, but there are a lot of graves. Just dig in the ground right here, and you'll find one. There are so many graves and tombs, and so many antiques and cultural relics, that we can't even sell them.
Our few museums have so many antiques that we can't even store them all. Our funds are limited, so we can only select some of the more precious cultural relics for protection. The rest of the cultural relics can only be piled up in warehouses that are leaky on all sides, exposed to wind and rain.
It's a pity that we have so many antiques and cultural relics in Shaanxi Province, but not a single one is worth showing off."
Lin Sanqi blinked and thought, are the cultural relics in Xi'an really not good enough to show off?
Let’s not talk about anything else, just take the Xi’an Museum a few decades later. Tickets there were sold out by appointment only. Without a certain amount of luck and surgery, it was really impossible to make a reservation.
When Lin Sanqi visited before, if he didn’t have the connection with Xi’an Aircraft Industry Group, he might not be able to get in even if he had money.
"Director Liu, you must be joking. Speaking of Xi'an, for the first half of its five thousand years of history, the Guanzhong Plain, represented by Xi'an, was definitely the protagonist."
Who knew that Director Liu would just smile bitterly and shake his head:
"Commissioner Lin, you don't know this. Our Xi'an is absolutely famous in history books, but if you go there, you will find that all the famous city buildings in history are gone.
For example, only a few mounds of earth remain of Qin Shihuang's Xianyang Palace; the Weiyang Palace of the Han Dynasty is now a vegetable patch; we have found the ruins of the Daming Palace of the Tang Dynasty, which is actually a large rural village with only a few platforms left.
It's said to be a thousand-year-old capital, but unfortunately, nothing from a thousand years ago can be found. The city wall you see now was built during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is much smaller than the historical Chang'an city wall and is not as majestic at all.
Last month, I hosted a Japanese delegation. They toured the city and were very disappointed to find no trace of Han and Tang dynasty heritage. They even flew back without visiting any of the cultural relics shops.
At this point, Director Liu sighed and said:
"We have so many treasures in Xi'an, both above and below the ground, so many antiques and cultural relics, and so much glorious history. Yet, in modern times, there's nothing worth showing off. All that's left are those grave mounds outside the city."
Lin Sanqi blinked and thought to himself, you people from Xi'an are really begging for food even though you have a golden bowl.
Putting aside other things in Xi'an, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses alone are enough to sustain the city for hundreds of years. Now they say there are no historical sites worth showing off?
Hey, wait, when were the Terracotta Warriors discovered?
Lin Sanqi rolled his eyes and asked the accompanying personnel, "Um, where is the toilet?"
The staff member smiled and made a gesture of invitation: "Commissioner Lin, I'll take you there."
Lin Sanqi returned to the first floor and came to the backyard of the cultural relics store. He found that it was a dry toilet with no flush bucket and no running water.
There is a pit of feces underneath and a wooden rack on top. People just sit on it when they want to defecate.
It was summer at the time, and Lin Sanqi almost fainted from the fumes when he entered the toilet. Fortunately, he had gotten used to it after traveling through time for so many years.
So he took out a tissue from his pocket and stuffed his nostrils with it, hurried into a cubicle, and then disappeared from this world.
After traveling back to modern society, Lin Sanqi's cell phone had a signal and he immediately started searching.
You wouldn't know until you searched, and you'll be surprised once you do. It turns out that the Terracotta Warriors were not discovered until March 1974 by a villager from Xiyang Village in Lintong.
At that time, when they were digging a well to fight drought at the northern foot of Mount Li, they dug 4 meters underground and discovered this eighth wonder that later shocked the world.
There are more than 8,000 terracotta warriors and horses alone, in addition there are two large painted bronze chariots known as the "Crown of Bronze", namely the "Standing Chariot" and the "An Chariot".
Even more than 20 years later, when the President of the United States visited my country, his first stop was to fly to Xi'an with his family to visit the Terracotta Warriors.
From this we can see that the Terracotta Army of Qin Shihuang can be regarded as a tourist card of Xi'an, or even a city card.
Lin Sanqi held his cell phone and calculated the map again and again, and he had an idea in his mind.
Since I came to Xi'an, I decided to help the city find the Terracotta Army of Qin Shihuang and discover this eighth wonder of the world 10 years ahead of schedule.
This will not only help the city become famous all over the world, but also drive the development of economy and cultural tourism.
At the same time, for Lin Sanqi and his group, when the Terracotta Warriors are unearthed, the people in Xi'an still don't know how precious they are, so it should be okay to give them a few to play with, right?
Either don't sell it, or it will be priceless if you sell it.
If I really can't give it away, then I can just take the credit for being the first to discover the Terracotta Warriors, and my name will go down in history.
When I get old and retire, I can set up a stall at the Terracotta Warriors Museum and charge people for signing autographs and taking photos with them. That would make a small fortune.
After coming out of the toilet, Lin Sanqi, led by Director Liu and Commander Qi, visited the entire cultural relics store, including the warehouse at the back.
There is a BUG in Lin Sanqi's time-travel transportation of antiques, that is, no two identical antiques will appear in the future.
By default, the system determines that antiques that travel back in time will be destroyed and disappear within the next ten years.
For example, the pile of antiques in front of you that are obviously not well preserved will disappear passively in the future.
Lin Sanqi picked up a double-layered nine-piece lacquer box in the corner of the warehouse. A large piece of it had obviously been knocked off. He felt very sad because all the money was gone.
This is a special container for storing dressing utensils. Lin Sanqi doesn't know if this is the only complete set of lacquer boxes in the country.
If the set he had was damaged and lost, the second set would not be found until 1972 in Mawangdui Tomb No. 1 in Hunan. This shows how precious it is.
Of course, Lin Sanqi did not blame the employees of the antique shop for not protecting the antiques well.
These employees were recruited from society, had no diplomas in history and archaeology, and also did not understand the value of these cultural relics and antiques.
In their eyes, these are all commodities, and they are unsalable commodities, taken from the dead body, which is so unlucky.
If there were no leaders to supervise them, these employees would want to wear gossips to work. Who would have the good mood to collect antiques and preserve cultural relics?
"Director Liu, I want all these antiques. Of course, you have also received the notice that I exchanged all these antiques for other things.
But I also know that if I take it all, it will be too disadvantageous for you.
This way, I won't take your antiques for nothing. I'll trade them for a piece of news that could change Xi'an's economy and history. How about that?"
Director Liu was full of questions, thinking that this was not a stall in Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s where there were people specializing in selling intelligence and the price of a piece of information was clearly marked.
How come in this new society, there are still people making money from this?
Originally, Director Liu thought that given Comrade Lin Sanqi's usual generosity, he would at least give them several million dollars or hundreds of thousands of bottles of penicillin.
When Director Liu heard the news, he was very disappointed.
But he is an old cadre, his face is not emotional, and he still has a smile on his face:
"Okay, I wonder what explosive news Commissioner Lin will tell us. I need to find a chair and sit tight, hehe~~~"
Everyone around chuckled. Everyone thought Director Liu was joking, but Lin Sanqi could hear the sarcasm in his words.
Based on his previous temper, if you don't believe it, I won't tell you.
However, after experiencing the ups and downs of two generations, Lin Sanqi has also matured. For the sake of his future retirement plan, he said seriously:
"I know where the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang is."
"What???" (End of this chapter)
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