You want to stop Lao Mou, who's already obsessed, from raising funds? This project is a joke from the start!
Will he listen?
It just won't stop.
The only thing Xing Baohua could do was distance himself from the project, claiming that the plan originated from him, which he admitted. He also admitted to using high technology to work with tiles, but what could he do when the technology wasn't mature enough and he couldn't develop it?
Whether it's nanotechnology or graphene, adding it to tiles is just making scientists laugh.
Therefore, Xing Baohua also had to contact Professor Li and some experts she knew to publish several popular science articles in the media.
Nanomaterials are not yet suitable for commercial applications. Graphene technology is not yet mature enough to be used in the commercial field.
Will these articles be able to wake Lao Mou up?
No, Xing Baohua then got Lao Mou's phone number and personally communicated with him to inform him that the tile-laying project had to be temporarily shelved due to technical limitations.
Well! After reading a few popular science articles, Lao Mou understood that Xing Baohua wasn't going to do this project anymore. Fine, he could have chosen not to! He would have continued.
When Xing Baohua called him, Xing Baohua clearly told him that not only was the technology restricted, but the main problem was that the country wouldn't allow it.
If the government doesn't agree, who will give you bonds?
It's not enough for you to just put up the posters willingly; you also have to hold a seminar to study the severity of the damage to the Great Wall.
Antiques lose their value once they're repaired; everyone understands that. What matters is their rustic charm.
After finishing his phone call with Xing Baohua, Lao Mou thought about the possibility of him going it alone. As for the capital, he had connections there!
So far, he has raised over 800 million.
To prevent those who had invested money from seeing the science article, he immediately went to the headquarters in the capital.
I'll use my connections to inquire about the feasibility of tiling the Great Wall, and while I'm at it, I'll go and inspect the Great Wall.
The ancient architecture company also registered in the capital and used connections to hire two professors from the architecture academy as technical consultants.
During a meal together, the professor told Lao Mou the truth: the Capital College does not offer an undergraduate major in ancient architecture; instead, it offers a major in historical building conservation engineering.
There are seven universities nationwide offering this major, with Tongji University ranking first, followed by Capital University of Architecture and Technology, Soochow University, and Xidu University of Architecture and Technology.
In higher vocational education, there are majors in ancient architecture engineering technology, such as Heishi Construction Vocational and Technical College, Jianye Construction Vocational and Technical College, Yuzhong Construction Vocational and Technical College, and Inner Mongolia Construction Vocational and Technical College.
Old Mou didn't quite grasp the concept at first. Isn't restoring ancient buildings and constructing them the same thing?
There are indeed two meanings.
It's like having an archaeology major and a history major – the two majors are completely incompatible.
Modern technology cannot use ancient techniques to build ancient buildings; at most, it can only create a replica. In reality, it's still modern technology.
The structure is similar to that of ancient times, but the materials used are very different.
A company that would give you an air gun would never give you mortise and tenon joints.
Most of the antique replicas are done by film and television studios, which greatly limits their professional expertise.
However, the profession of historical building conservation engineering requires a lot of cultural knowledge, such as what materials were used in the original building, how to use modern technology to fit the original situation, and how to restore the building piece by piece according to its structure.
This major is not for construction, but for repairing ancient buildings.
This is the same concept as restoring ancient paintings, antique porcelain, and antique furniture.
After hearing the explanation, Old Mou clapped his hands and said, "Isn't this perfect? Isn't this what repairing the Great Wall is all about?"
The experts and professors were shocked when they heard this.
Logically, it should be this major, but that's the Great Wall! We need to repair that section of the Great Wall, the section from that period.
It is important to know that the Great Wall was built from the Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, with each section representing a different dynasty.
For example, starting from Jiayuguan in the west, many places are now just ruins. Most of the Great Wall in the Gansu and Shanxi provinces is also in ruins; the only well-preserved section of the Great Wall that can be seen today is the Badaling section, which is representative.
Even the Great Wall near Badaling is in many damaged sections, not open to the public, and not repaired.
Judging from Chairman Mou's words, he wants to propose national restoration?
So, Lao Mou suggested that while he was building the Great Wall, he should also lay some tiles.
The two professors said that repairing the Great Wall was acceptable, but laying tiles was not.
Tiling up tiles doesn't equate to modern art; it's a completely different concept from ancient art.
Let alone the feasibility of tiling, even the professor disagreed at this point, let alone the cultural relics experts; absolutely none of them would agree.
They won't even let you protect them.
Because with current technology, large cultural relics cannot be protected at all outdoors.
Take the Cangzhou Iron Lion as an example. A few years ago, experts saw that it was covered in rust. If it hadn't been protected, it would have rusted away in a few years.
So they used some technology to protect it, but what was the result?
The iron lion was about to collapse, so many steel pipes were put around it to support it and prevent it from collapsing.
To prevent the hollow legs from being compressed, sulfur anchoring compound was temporarily injected, but it was not removed in time.
Years later, the legs of the Iron Lion cracked due to the expansion of the sulfur anchoring compound when exposed to rainwater.
There is also the Yellow River Iron Ox, a river-suppressing beast, on the banks of the Yellow River.
It is said to have been cast during the Tang Dynasty. For a period of time, it was submerged in the Yellow River. After more than two years of surveying and investigation by the local authorities last year and this year, the Yellow River Iron Ox was finally salvaged from the Yellow River. This caused quite a stir, and many people from nearby areas went to see it.
Once the item was salvaged, experts pointed out that protective measures should be taken.
As a result, more experts disagreed with the idea of protection and suggested letting nature take its course. After all, the protection of iron artifacts remains a global challenge, and issues such as rust prevention and removal have been troubling experts. They suggested doing nothing and waiting for the technology to mature before taking any action.
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