When the last carriage left the Tuileries Gardens, it was exactly 4:55 in the morning, five minutes earlier than the scheduled time.
On a long winter night, five o'clock is the darkest time, but there are countless supervisors quietly guarding order on the street, and all irrelevant people have been driven away.
The explosion just now woke up a group of residents. Those citizens opened their windows and cautiously looked out, but they were immediately scolded by the supervising team.
"What are you doing? Close the windows, hang up the curtains, go back to sleep..."
"Hurry up, if you don't back down, you will be arrested as a spy..."
Faced with the vicious threat, everyone shrank their heads in fear. Yesterday's killings, especially the battle to attack the palace in the first half of the night, were still vivid in their minds. People were indeed frightened.
But there are always some people who are too curious and too courageous. The curtains in the dark room were drawn up, leaving only a gap to reveal the eyes inside.
The carriage was moving very slowly on the street, and it looked like there was quite a lot of loot inside. The peeping citizens wanted to scream, but their mouths were blocked with their hands.
"Don't say anything. Do you want your life? Just take a look secretly. Don't say it. Don't tell anyone..."
The ankles of the Goddess of Victory were just exposed outside the car window, and the snow-white calves of Venus de Milo could not be hidden in the car. Even a fool knew what was happening at this moment.
Tears flowed from the eyes of countless people. They wanted to scream, they wanted to rush out and stop these bandits, and they wanted to vent the pain in their hearts.
But they didn't dare. They could only block their mouths and watch it all happen before their eyes, unable to do anything!
When the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, who else will care about the life and death of cultural relics!
Xiao Letian was waiting all night outside Chapelle. This transaction was too risky. Once exposed, the surging public opinion in Europe would completely drown it.
Therefore, everything must be kept absolutely confidential, and the cultural relics must be transported back to the country as quickly as possible after they are obtained.
"You are back. How was the mission accomplished?" Xiao Letian finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Luo Huo.
"Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission and brought out all the three treasures that were important to me!"
The Venus de Milo and the Statue of Victory have been seen countless times in photos, magazines and on the Internet in previous lives. Xiao Letian knew as soon as he laid eyes on them that they couldn't be fake.
Touching the cold marble skin with trembling hands, he could even feel the body temperature of the model from a thousand years ago.
The brothers around looked at the head of state one by one and sighed in their hearts, "What a pervert. Why didn't the head of state even let go of the statue? He was touching his breasts! It seemed that he had been holding it in for too long. He had to grab some women to comfort the head of state. Already..."
If Xiao Letian knew that his brothers thought of him like this, he would definitely go up and kick him violently. This is just lamenting the history that he actually thought of me as a pervert.
"Immediately mobilize a special train to transport away...all the treasures are divided into 24 parts and divided into 24 ships to be shipped back to the country!"
"You can't stop for a moment! This is top secret!"
"Hey... it's time to stop. From today on, the return of cultural relics will have to be handled more slowly. The road to plundering has come to an end. From now on, you should buy it from the market in a disciplined manner!"
Xiao Letian knew very well that going too far would not be enough. During the siege of Paris, the Chinese plundered more than 55,000 pieces of art from Paris through smuggling and other means.
Among them, China has lost as many as 20,000 cultural relics, and the rest are treasures from European history!
Opportunities like this are rare. If you can meet them once in your life, it will be considered a blessing in your life!
The sky was already darkening in the east. Xiao Letian and Blanqui looked at each other and shook hands gently.
"We will transport the remaining supplies directly to the Porte de Chapelle freight station. You can organize your own manpower to carry them... There will be no more transactions in the future. I hope God bless you!"
Blanqui raised his head arrogantly, "No! I don't need God's blessing. The working class of France is the God who protects me! We are invincible!"
Xiao Letian sighed softly, "Do you still think you are bound to win? Forget it, I won't say more, just take care of yourself!" After saying that, he turned around and left.
Blanqui looked at Xiao Letian's back and cursed coldly in his heart, "Big Beard said that this person can develop into our ally, but now it seems that he is just a greedy careerist!"
The underground smuggling channel at the Porte de Chapelle was completely cut off. When the Chinese soldiers retreated to the north, Eugene and Andrew followed them secretly with their families and loyal subordinates.
"I hope you can let us go. We can't stay in Paris anymore. These people are crazy. They even captured the archbishop and turned them into meat!"
"How much does the head of state cost? No, no, no, we also have a batch of Sumerian clay tablets with a lot of cuneiform writing on them, which are collected by an old scholar in Paris!"
"We are dedicated to the head of state. Please let us leave Paris. We will borrow a road..."
After all, they have been cooperating for several months, so they still have to give this face. Sima Yunluo Huo and the others cannot just watch Eugene and Andrew lose their lives in Paris.
"I'll give you a carriage and go to Versailles! Thiers is negotiating with Bismarck over there. You'll be safe wherever you go!"
Eugene and Andrew fled Paris on the eve of the most dangerous moment. Many years later, they were still aware of their good luck, because if they had been even half a day later, they might not have been able to escape.
Because Paris had completely exploded at this moment. In the early morning, General Trochu finally received the shocking news. Not only was the palace captured, but what was terrible was that the Archbishop of Davabre and other high-level Catholics were also evacuated. aristocratic capitalists.
He was actually arrested and became the commune's meat ticket. Such behavior completely angered the old general and completely tore up the final bottom line!
The angry general issued an ultimatum to the Commune, demanding that they immediately release the hostages and evacuate the palace, but the Commune, which had just received a large amount of supplies, simply did not buy his account.
Gunfire rang out again along the Seine!
The outnumbered Paris Commune became more and more courageous as they fought. They even broke through the Seine River and invaded the south several times. The civilian areas in the south launched riots one after another, which made General Trochu very passive.
For three full days, the Paris garrison paid a heavy price with thousands of casualties, but it could only hold the Seine River defense line. The chaotic situation in Paris did not improve at all.
At this point, General Trochu has completely recognized the reality. He can no longer change the current situation, and the Provisional National Defense Government has completely lost control.
"Haha, I thought I would become the first president of the new republic, but... I'm sorry for the motherland, there is nothing I can do!"
As soon as his hand was released, a stack of casualty reports were scattered on the ground, and General Trochu finally made up his mind.
"Send a report to Bismarck. On behalf of the Provisional Defense Government, I am willing to surrender to Prussia..."
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