Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 796 Cases
After hearing that it was related to the illegal smuggling of cultural relics, Liang En and the others immediately gave up the lunch and went straight to the police station. However, before entering the police station, Liang En specially bought some local sandwiches and drinks from a nearby shop for everyone.

"Look at what this is." After putting the purchased simple food outside, Liang En followed everyone into that room, and after revealing their identities, they were also allowed to enter that warehouse.

What appeared in front of them was a large table full of cultural relics. At the same time, there were various things on it, which looked more like a counter in a grocery store.

"These things are what our customs found in a container in the cargo yard during a temporary random inspection." Said the female policeman who led them in.

Mao "When these things were discovered, they were wrapped in a series of cushioning materials and packing materials, and mixed in the mechanical gaps of the container. It seems that they were premeditated."

Oh

To be honest, if it wasn't for a temporary inspection, it would be impossible for the customs and the police to find these things. After all, these things are too secretive.

After learning about the origin of these things, everyone quickly gathered around the table and started identification work, and as the work progressed, they discovered more and more interesting things.

For example, these cultural relics do not have much continuity or procedurality, and the overall appearance is very messy.It doesn't look like it came from a fixed relic somewhere, but from a middleman of a certain cultural relic.

Fortunately, except for a few newly unearthed cultural relics, most of them are obviously handed down from ancient times, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, compared to the illegal export of cultural relics, the theft of historical sites is a serious and irreversible damage to archaeology and history. Every time such cultural relics are discovered, it always makes people feel heartbroken.

You must know that archeology is not just about digging out cultural relics. In many cases, a series of clues such as the direction and location of those cultural relics in the monument can bring a series of valuable clues to experts.

But those looters don't pay attention to these issues, so the ruins destroyed by them often lose a lot of precious clues, and this loss is almost irreparable.

Judging from the current inspection results.These things should come from a middleman, so the content is very complicated, ranging from bronzes from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to Guangcai porcelain from the late Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, the other party should also have a certain level of background in Europe. After all, it is not an easy task to get together this container of cultural relics from any angle.

In terms of money, the cultural relics found now exceed 620 million pounds even in the smallest figure, and in terms of preciousness, there are even cultural relics that can be rated as a first-class cultural relic in China.

"Between 600 million and 650 million pounds, this is really a big number." Ten minutes later, everyone quickly made a preliminary judgment, just as Liang En had guessed before, and everyone present understood the pile of money. How much is something worth.

At the same time, everyone's faces became ugly. Although the Greek side successfully intercepted this batch of cultural relics this time, as long as the other party is not caught for a day, the loss of cultural relics will not stop.

"May I ask if you found any clues before?" After inspecting the cultural relics, Liang En stepped forward and asked the police officer with the highest rank present. "Or something that doesn't feel right to you."

"There are indeed some things that are not right, or some things that I think are different from ordinary similar situations, but it is still up to you to judge whether it is true or not."

Because of the identities of Liang En and Joan of Arc, especially their help to the local economy.So the police officer naturally didn't dare to wait slowly.So after thinking for a while, he quickly said a few things that he felt were wrong.

Of course, Liang En and Joan of Arc followed him to an office next door for the sake of confidentiality, and then the police officer showed the scene report and various pictures during the investigation.

Judging from these pictures, those cultural relics were hidden in a series of mechanical parts that were also packaged at that time. If it weren't for the large mother-of-pearl screen and the rich experience of the customs officers, it would be difficult to see.

"Is there a problem with the sender and receiver of these goods?" Liang En asked directly after reading the information, because he felt that there must be receivers on both sides for such a strict transportation.

"I'm not sure now, but I can confirm that both the consignor and the consignee are more than ten years old. They don't look like the usual companies used to cover up crimes."

"However, if you want to investigate, there are still certain risks. The main reason is that this method is easy to alarm the other party. Once the other party is alerted, it will be too difficult to catch him."

"I have a discovery here." Liang En smiled, then pointed to the photo he just took and said. "The packaging of these things is very academic. Ordinary character smugglers are unlikely to use such troublesome methods."

"I understand. What you mean is that the other party has at least one or two professionals who are responsible for this work—thank you for your cooperation. I think we can know what to do next."

As an experienced old police officer, this old police officer quickly understood what Liang En said, and this naturally greatly narrowed the scope of their search.

After all, there are very few people who study archeology and history through formal channels. If you combine the scope of operations and the intersection here, it is easy to find suspicious people through screening.

"I found something here." Just as Liang En and the others walked out of the room after communicating, another policeman ran over and told them a piece of information. "We found some strange symbols."

These symbols are written on the packaging of things with whiteboard markers. It seems that they are radicals of Chinese characters, and they look like Japanese characters. It seems a bit weird, but there is no doubt that they should come from Chinese characters. Cultural circle stuff.

"I know what this is. This is Suzhou code." After passing the photos of the symbols originally written in the corner of the package to everyone, one of these Chinese scholars suddenly said.

"Suzhou Mazi, what's that?" Joan of Arc approached Liang En and asked after hearing this, because she had learned Chinese before and knew that there were many dialects of this language, but the characters were relatively uniform, at least there would be no independent people in the Yangtze River Delta area. Word.

"That is an early commercial number among the Chinese people. It is also called Caoma, Huama, Fanzai, and Shangma. It is an early Chinese folk "commercial number". It's already small."

Liang En froze for a moment after listening to Joan's question, and then dug out this very remote knowledge from the deepest part of his memory. To be honest, this thing is very remote even in China.It can even be said that most people don't know about it.

Like counting chips, fancy yards are a carry-on counting system.Different from counting chips, counting chips are usually used in mathematics and engineering, while fancy codes are usually used in the business field, mainly for shorthand.

But with the changes of the times, this ancient word and number has gradually been forgotten from the memory of the Chinese people, so that only a few people remember it.

(End of this chapter)