According to Wang Yu's understanding, whether it was during the Eight-Nation Allied Forces or the eight-year resistance against Japan, many cultural relics were transported back to Japan by Japanese "criminals".
During the Anti-Japanese War, other countries stole approximately 3.6 million cultural relics in China (a conservative estimate is that there are about 800,000 cultural relics in major Japanese museums alone).
Among them, there are more than 40,000 pieces of ancient books, more than 16,000 pieces of calligraphy and painting, more than 12,000 pieces of stone Buddhas and inscriptions, and nearly 1 million pieces of gold and jade jewelry and utensils.
Among them, the most representative are national treasures such as the Buddha head at Tianlong Mountain Grottoes, the Yaobian Tianmu tea bowl, and the physical body of Zen Master Yuanji.
On December 2, 1929, Chinese archaeologist Mr. Pei Wenzhong discovered a complete skull of Peking Man for the first time! After identification, the skull was estimated to have lived between 700,000 and 200,000 years ago.
In 1936, Mr. Jia Lanpo and his colleagues discovered five more complete skulls. These major discoveries can be regarded as world-class archaeological discoveries.
When the Japanese invaded, in order to protect this rare national treasure, the Nationalist Government wanted to send the Pekingese skull to the United States. In November 1941, five Pekingese skulls were carefully packaged and put into two large wooden boxes, ready to be shipped to Falcon Country.
However, the ensuing Pacific War plunged the situation into chaos. At that time, the Japanese nation quickly occupied the Union Hospital, and these national treasures also disappeared inexplicably.
During the Wanli period, Emperor Wanli ordered people to dig grottoes on Tianlong Mountain in Taiyuan City. There are more than 500 statues inside and outside the grottoes, and 1,144 murals and reliefs, which can be called national treasures.
The ronin of Japan, Yamaaka Sadejiro, colluded with the monk Jōryō, who cut off more than 40 Buddha heads and transported them to Japan. These Buddha heads are still in Japan.
Zen Master Yuanji, a monk from the Tang Dynasty, passed away at the age of 91 in Hengshan, Hunan. His body did not decay, so a temple was built to worship him. For thousands of years, incense was very popular until the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
In the 1930s, Japanese spy Shiro Watanabe was seriously ill. He took advantage of the chaos to poison the young monk in the temple and stole the body of Zen Master Yuanji to Japan.
The physical body of Zen Master Yuanji is now at Sojiji Temple in Tsurumi District, Yokohama, and is regarded as a "national treasure" of the Japanese country. It has not been returned to the Chinese country.
In addition to robbing food, the Japanese army also robbed various mineral resources. Among them, there are about 640 million tons of coal, about 700 million cubic meters of trees, about 200 million tons of rare earths, about 1.5 tons of kaolin, and about 490 million tons of copper ore.
Among them, about 227 million tons of coal were stolen from Fushun Coal Mine in Liaoning Province.
According to various historical records, any Chinese with a little bit of blood will not compromise with the Japanese at any time or under any circumstances.
This is why Wang Yu started checking the cultural relics of Japan after seeing the cultural relics of the Great Britain. He just wanted to see if those valuable cultural relics had come back.
After using his clairvoyant eyes to see, Wang Yu was really excited to see the Buddha head in the Tianlong Mountain Grottoes, the Yaobian Tianmu tea bowl, the body of Zen Master Yuanji, the tiger cannibal from the Shang Dynasty, the bronze tripod from the Warring States period, and the panchi pattern from the 5th century BC.镈.
Tang Dynasty bronze mirrors with inkstone patterns, Shang Dynasty bronzes, Qing Dynasty Ruyi jade, Yuan Dynasty lacquer plates with dragon patterns inlaid on them, Warring States colored glaze pots, and Tang Dynasty three-color double-dragon-ear bottles.
A porcelain bowl from the official kiln of the Southern Song Dynasty, a vase with colorful dragon and peony patterns from the Jingdezhen kiln of Wanli Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, an anonymous "Picture of Wild Geese in a Bamboo Pond" from the Northern Song Dynasty, a "Picture of Quail" from Li Anzhong from the Southern Song Dynasty, and a "Picture of Lying in Xiaoxiang" by Li Sheng from the Southern Song Dynasty.
The Yuan Dynasty Indra's "Zen Machine Picture Broken Slips Found in Hanshan", Master Muxi's "Avalokitesvara Monkey and Crane Picture", the three Buddhist niches of Tathagata in Baoqing Temple of the Tang Dynasty, and the gold seal of the Han Japanese slave king.
Some very valuable cultural relics such as the Tang Dynasty mother-of-pearl and red sandalwood five-stringed pipa are on the list. And many of them were displayed by the Japanese as their national treasures.
However, after the Southern Song Dynasty, the craftsmanship of Yaobian Tianmu tea bowl was lost and cannot be restored to this day. Today, there are only three and a half "Yaobian Tianmu Tea Bowls" left in the world.
All three complete pieces were found in the Japanese country, and the half incomplete piece was in the Guyue Guild Hall in Hangzhou, China. Today, these three complete "Yaobian Tianmu Tea Bowls" finally returned to China.
After seeing this, Wang Yu did not hesitate to use his clairvoyance eyes and began to draw circles on these precious cultural relic boxes, so that they could be distinguished clearly in a while.
After a while, Wang Yu separated all the 100 cultural relics of the Japanese country. After Wang Yu's inspection, even the most common cultural relics were auctioned at a sky-high price.
This was only a hundred pieces, and there were still hundreds of thousands of cultural relics in Japan that had not come back. After thinking about it, Wang Yu secretly vowed to get back all the Chinese cultural relics in Japan.
He Feng and others also came to the Japanese country after seeing the cultural relics of the Great Britain. Wang Yu also briefly explained the matter.
But this time, no one was too surprised. It turned out that Mr. Xiao paid great attention to the cultural relics of the Japanese country at that time, and directly ordered people from the embassy to pack them in the boxes himself, so he basically knew everything that came back.
As for the representative cultural relics he brought, it is said that the Japanese emperor was reluctant at first, but when he finally heard that the Chinese embassy was preparing to report it, he immediately dared not let go of any of them.
It was so slippery that people carefully packed it into boxes, and then asked people from China to transport it away.
Looking at the cultural relics in the courtyard, it was not that the senior officials of Japan did not want to keep them, but they did not dare to keep them. Today's Hua Kingdom is not something that the Japanese Kingdom can fight against, and even his godfather, the Falcon Kingdom, dare not say anything.
After hearing this, Wang Yu also understood why no one was surprised. It turned out that everyone knew it.
He simply said, "Well, the boxes I circled are relatively precious cultural relics. The degree of their rarity cannot be estimated. They are the kind that have a price but no market."
I won't say anything else. I'm going to see the cultural relics of other countries first. After Wang Yu finished speaking, he was about to get up and leave.
Brat, stop here. Find the three cultural relics in the box for the old man: the Buddha's head at the Tianlong Mountain Grottoes, the Yaobian Tianmu tea bowl, and the physical body of Zen Master Yuanji.
I have worked hard on these three cultural relics, Mr. Xiao said while glaring at Wang Yu who was about to slip away.
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Old man, I thought you didn’t need it, so I thought of visiting other countries. Wang Yu also said with a smile at this time.
Then they also found the boxes containing the three cultural relics, and then Mr. Xiao carefully began to unpack them. After all, these cultural relics should be said to be one of the most valuable among the batch of cultural relics.
Everyone had only seen it online before, but now they have the opportunity to get up close and personal. Of course, they are very happy, so they can’t wait for the staff to unbox it.
But Wang Yu didn't wait. In his eyes, the box looked the same whether it was there or not. He couldn't stop his gaze at all, so just now.
Wang Yu had already looked at these three cultural relics carefully. His only regret was that he had not retrieved all the cultural relics from the Japanese country.
