Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 7 Reputation

Early the next morning, Liang En took these things to Pierce's shop.Because for him, those things bought from the antique shop yesterday are useless after the experiment, so even if the price is cut in half, these things must be disposed of as soon as possible.

"Lawrence, you're here, I still want to call you." After entering the store, Pierce, who was holding a mobile phone in his hand, showed a smile on his face.

"What's the matter?" Liang En asked curiously after putting the schoolbag with things on the counter. "Could it be that you sold that Hummingbird pistol and wanted to pay it back quickly?"

"No, of course not." Pierce shook his head and said, "But I have already contacted a nobleman's private auction. If there is no accident, the gun will be sold within this week."

"Noble private auction, what is that?"

"It's a group of rich and prestigious people who get together and use the auction as an excuse to socialize, similar to holding hunting events or banquets." Pierce shrugged.

"So it's different from ordinary auctions. In this kind of auction, not only should the items be rare, but there should also be some stories behind them, so as to attract the generosity of those auction participants."

"And the process of finding this hummingbird pistol is exactly what they like, so I think it should fetch a good price."

"If it's a story - I think there might be something here that can increase the value of that gun." After hearing Pierce's words, Liang En immediately took out his phone.

"When I discovered the mezzanine, I had a premonition that this might be my first big harvest since I entered the industry, so I took a few photos and wanted to keep it as a souvenir—"

"This is simply amazing, brother." Looking at the photos Liang En took when he found the interlayer, Pierce's smile became brighter and brighter.

"Did you know that this photo could raise the expected auction price of that Hummingbird pistol by another 5 per cent. For those rich people, it is very attractive to find a treasure worth tens of thousands of pounds from a worn-out cabinet. people's stories."

The consumption views of those rich people made Liang En feel refreshed. These people's consumption views are not very consistent with ordinary people, so if you want to do business with them, it is very necessary to master this knowledge.

In the next few minutes, Liang En gave Pierce most of the things he bought yesterday at a price of 150 pounds, but Pierce put forward his own opinion on the string of glass beads.

"If it's just a string of trade beads necklace, this string of beads is just an ordinary antique, but with this bead from the east, it becomes a representative of the ancient old continent trade route." Pierce carefully looked at the Dragonfly Eye of the Warring States Period, with a satisfied smile on his face.

"Although the price of this item will not be too high, because of its unique story, I believe it should be able to become an auction item."

"Sounds great, so are you going to put it up for auction?"

"Yes, things with stories like this often sell for a very good price at auctions, so if you are not in a hurry to spend money, you can try this thing at auctions."

After thinking about it, Liang En decided to sell these things at the auction.He doesn't need money urgently right now, so it's a good thing to earn a little more money.

"By the way, do you have any plans for today?" Pierce suddenly asked Liang En after handing over the glass bead string receipt and £150 in cash.

"There is no special arrangement, but recently I discovered some interesting things when I was learning ancient languages ​​by myself, so I want to write a few papers and see if I can send them to the Journal of the British Archaeological Association."

This is an important path that Liang En found for his future development after he got the golden finger.

Compared with treasure hunters who dig with shovels or metal detectors, scholars who can make contributions to history and archaeology are more likely to obtain various resources, and it is also conducive to him to use his cheating skills. Effect.

When he activated his golden finger before, Shang Boliang's memory gave Liang En a big gift.

Because of the difference between the two worlds, some important artifacts have not been found.So Champollion in this world is just a famous pioneer of oriental archaeology, and has not engaged in the research of ancient Egyptian history.

Therefore, in this world, the research on ancient Egyptian writing has only advanced to the deciphering of ancient Egyptian numerals and the discovery of Wang Mingquan by Thomas Young who did the 'double slit interference experiment'.

To make matters worse, the current historian's understanding of ancient Egyptian writing is more inclined to the view in "Egyptian Hieroglyphs", a book about Egyptian hieroglyphs written by Horapollo (Horapollo), who lived around 500 AD.

The author argues in the book that in Egyptian hieroglyphs, the rabbit symbol means "open" because the rabbit's eyes are always open.The vulture symbol means "mother" because all vultures are female.

There is no doubt that almost all of these contents are nonsense, but the problem is that it successfully brought all subsequent researchers into the ditch.So that now no one can translate the real content of those ancient Egyptian texts.

For people in this world, the ancient Egyptian script is a dead script that no one can decipher.But now, Liang En from another world holds that key.

A good first step in this direction is to correct the misconception in everyone's mind that the graphic ancient Egyptian script is a pure ideogram.

So for the first paper, he just wanted to prove that ancient Egyptian characters can be used as letters to identify pronunciation by comparing the names in the king's name circle of the Ptolemaic kings.

With such a foundation, he can reproduce the research steps of Champollion in his mind step by step, and finally decipher the ancient Egyptian in this world.

"It's a pity, I wanted to ask you to go to the bar for a drink. It seems that I can only have a celebration drink after the next auction." Pierce naturally didn't know Liang En's plan, but he also knew about such academic matters It's far more important than drinking.

Just do it, after returning to the rented house from Pierce.Liang En followed Champollion's thinking back then, taking the ancient Egyptian characters of the names Ptolemy and Cleopatra as an example, and speculated that the ancient Egyptian characters of the two names were pronounced with specific symbols. spell out.

After making this point, he deduced the name of Alexander according to the rules of conjecture.Finally, through this method, the names of those known ancient Egyptian foreign pharaohs were pushed out one by one.

For Liang En, this job is not difficult, but it is very tedious.

Fortunately, he has just graduated for more than two months, so the technical level of writing papers is at the top level, and in this Internet age, he can easily find all the information he needs.

So after three busy days, he finally wrote the paper and emailed it to the Journal of the British Archaeological Society.

(End of this chapter)