Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 790 Warehouse
After inspection, Liang En determined that the building in front of him should have been just an ordinary warehouse at first, but it was used to store grain and firewood in the later stage, and then it was destroyed in the battle.

After all, this warehouse is located at a high place, dry and ventilated, but it is also more suitable for defense because it is located at a high place, so it was used as a firepower point by the Germans in World War II.

Judging from the situation around this warehouse, it is very likely that the entire warehouse was transformed into a fortress at the end of the war and started a firefight against the attacking Soviet army, so there are so many traces of war around.

"Why are these things piled up in the warehouse?" After entering the warehouse, Joan picked up a piece of black charcoal and asked after looking at it. "Food I understand, but wood—"

"For the Germans at that time, wood was their only fuel." Liang En also picked up a piece of wood, and then said.

"You have to know that at the end of World War II, there was a serious fuel crisis in Germany, especially in this place far from the coal mines. The only thing they could use for heating was firewood."

To be honest, it is very good that this place has enough firewood for heating and cooking. After all, it is still able to get certain preferential treatment as a field hospital.

And because it contained firewood and food, after the war, the Soviets just checked it and left it alone, but focused on the main building of the manor.

At least according to the results of Liang En's observation just now, those people even took away the radiators in the room and some sculptures on the building. Even if there is a secret room, it is unlikely that it will be preserved until today.

So after finishing the preliminary inspection, Liang En and Joan of Arc took out the metal detectors and started detecting around the warehouse.And when they came to the south side of the warehouse, they heard a signal from the headset that they found metal objects.

"It seems that I found the right place. There is indeed an iron gate underneath." After circling around, Liang En was roughly sure what was underneath, and then started digging.

Because there were no other people around, I simply used the power of the card to open a hole in the iron door to start ventilation, and then walked down the stairs and Joan after confirming safety.

"It was just astonishing." Even though they followed the clues, they were still shocked by what was underneath:
One after another, the boxes were densely stuffed into this not-so-big space, making it impossible to count even at first glance, and these gray boxes covered with a layer of iron sheet also showed the value of these things.

This kind of iron-clad wooden box with the German eagle logo of World War II printed on it is a box specially used to store important items. At the end of the war, only precious things can be packed in it.

It has to be said that these things are so full that there is no passage left. It is very likely that since they were put into this secret room, they have not been reopened for inspection at all.

"What do you think these things are? Could it be gold?" After a few seconds, Joan looked at the dusty things and said in a low voice.

"It's unlikely. These boxes don't look like they're filled with gold, but I guess they're probably some kind of stone sculpture or something similar." Liang En grabbed a box and shook it.

"However, if we want to be sure what it is, we still need to open it up. Let's open it up and have a look. I hope the contents inside will allow me to directly recognize what it is."

After speaking, he pried open the lid of a box, only to find that there were some golden sponges inside the box, and after uncovering this layer of sponges, a half stone tablet was exposed.

"This should be a cultural relic from China." Liang En said after roughly looking at the text on it, and then pried open the next box with the same Arabic numeral 14 written on it.

Sure enough, the other half of the stele was quietly lying in this box, and this method shows that these boxes should come from a certain museum, because only this kind of professional place can put these things so regularly.

After a rough visual inspection, Liang En found that if the two sections of the broken stele were put together, it would be about 1m85, that is, about the same height as himself, and the width would be about 80cm, which is a relatively common stele size.

After more accurate statistics, he found that there were a total of 22 lines engraved on this stone tablet, with 47 characters in each line, totaling 1034 Chinese characters.

"Can you see what this is?" Joan of Arc helped Liang En shine and asked, although he can basically communicate in Chinese now, but it is limited to spoken language, and he hardly knows Chinese characters How many.

"Of course you can. It can even be said that any Chinese with a certain amount of education will be able to see this stele in a similar way." Liang En said while looking at the words on the stele.

Unlike the languages ​​of those countries in Europe, the Chinese characters in Huaxia have not changed so exaggeratedly over thousands of years, and the word order of ancient Chinese has a certain degree of continuity with today's modern Chinese.

This is also very friendly to the Chinese people, at least it is much more convenient than those unlucky Europeans when studying the culture of their ancestors.

Therefore, after a simple reading, Liang En determined that this stele was carved in the second year of Juqu Anzhou, the king of Northern Liang (that is, AD 445), and the inscription was written by Xia Houcan, a Zhongshu Lang in Beiliang.

As for the content of the inscription, it mainly praised the deeds of Juqu Anzhou, the king of Northern Liang, who believed in Buddhism and the merits of establishing a Buddhist temple in Gaochang. It was a kind of stone tablet that was relatively common in Buddhist temples at that time.

What attracts people more is the font on the stele. As we all know, when it comes to Chinese calligraphy, the Wei stele is an unavoidable part.

The font engraved on this stele is official script, but it already has the charm of regular script. It mainly uses square brushes. style of.

So this stone tablet that has been broken into two sections is obviously unlikely to be an unknown cultural relic. Unfortunately, after Liang En searched the knowledge in his mind, he found that he didn't know what it was.

This is indeed a bit embarrassing, but fortunately, it is the Internet age, so after climbing out of the cellar and inputting the content of the inscription with the equipment on his body, he finally understood what it was:
The Beiliang Juqu Anzhou statue Buddhist temple stele, together with the Fengdai Tomb Biao (13th year of Taiping, 455), which was ten years later than it, are the only two stone steles carved in the Northern Liang Dynasty.

According to records, this stele was unearthed in the ancient city of TLF Gaochang during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and was stolen to Berlin, Germany in 1903 by the TLF expedition led by German explorer Glenn Wedel.

After the cultural relic thief returned to China, he sold these things to the museum, and then collected them in the Berlin Museum of East Asian Art, the predecessor of the Berlin Asian Art Museum in Germany.

However, this stele disappeared during World War II. Many people think it is about offensive artillery fire, but there is no definite evidence to prove this.

(End of this chapter)