Xiao Letian dealt with the thieves in the Qing Dynasty, but he could not deal with the British bandits. Samuel's death made Xiao Letian extremely noble, which also set up the British.
It can be regarded as a disguised form of moral kidnapping. I directly molded Samuel into a saint, molding him into a person that your people like, so that you can take the lead.
Once inertial thinking appears, there is no need to listen to any rumors! Even if someone doubts that Samuel was murdered, people with preconceptions will not believe it.
Because if you believe it, you can no longer recognize Samuel as a saint. Without a saint with noble morals in Britain, many people will subconsciously resist.
Of course, the most important thing is that you have no evidence in the UK, no witnesses or material evidence, so who will pay attention to you if you just engage in conspiracy theories? The people in your own country don’t believe it either!
When the British saw that using Samuel's death to blackmail the Chinese was not working, they thought of a new way!
You Chinese people have already admitted that the Scripture Cave was discovered by our Samuel, so we have to join forces with archaeologists, right? Let’s share these documents together!
Don't be snarky with me, we are not as easy to bully as the Manchus!
If you follow the rules of the archaeological community, this request is not too much. In an era when countries around the world do not have cultural relic protection laws, ancient excavated objects basically belong to whoever finds them.
Samuel and the Chinese formed a joint expedition, so the harvest must be half of each person!
The British plan is very good, but it is a pity that it is beyond their reach! When the thieves within the Manchu Qing Dynasty were suppressed and did not dare to cause trouble, Xiao Letian immediately ordered Dunhuang to forcefully transport these national treasures and hide them in the base camp first.
The emergency telegram from the head of state finally arrived in Dunhuang. By this time, Zuo Zuo had been living and eating in the Sutra Cave for three days. He had not changed his cotton-padded jacket that had been splashed with kerosene, and his hair was filled with the choking smell of kerosene.
Liu Jintang came here to see him before retreating. He sighed and provoked Brother Thumb, "You are awesome! You really don't want your life! If you were in my army, he would be a bachelor who is not afraid of death!"
"Because of your madness, I consider you a friend. Let's talk to you when necessary in the future!"
Liu Jintang left, but the left side still refused to come out, because he had been studying these national treasure documents in the Buddhist Scripture Cave for the past three days. The more he studied, the more he discovered that the head of state was doing the right thing.
Priceless treasures are all priceless treasures. He even found Buddhist scriptures that were compared between Tocharian characters and Han Chinese, and started the study of a lost language.
King Shangtai asked him to go out, but he didn't even look at it. "Your Majesty, please don't call me. I'm worried. From today on, I will guard these treasures to the death. I will never leave here until our large army comes up..."
"Why do you believe them so much? What if Liu Jintang is deploying troops? I won't go out..."
King Shangtai had no choice but to wait for the order from the head of state. On the third day, a large team of people finally came to Guazhou City. The CIA hired almost all the escort agencies in Lanzhou to come over with high salaries.
There are more than a thousand names in Wuyangyang's six escort bureaus, escort masters and escorts. Among them, the intelligence officer with a serious plot brought the secret order of the head of state to the left side.
"Head of State Order No. 087 of 1872... Antique dealer Zuo Zuo has made great contributions to protecting Dunhuang documents. He is specially approved to be naturalized as a Chinese citizen without taking the test, and cooperates with King Shangtai to build a Chinese museum..."
"The person on the left is appointed as the person in charge of the preparatory committee and the first director of the Institute of Dunhuang Studies, and King Shangtai is appointed as the deputy director..."
When the good news came, the Mogao Grottoes were filled with joy. These people who took huge risks to protect the national treasure finally made the right bet. The head of state did not punish them for their arrogant crimes, but instead rewarded them.
The reward for the monk Tai Wang on the left was given directly by Xiao Letian, and other members of the Intelligence Bureau also received rewards from the Wang Bureau. It was a happy ending for everyone.
"Immediately start counting the number of documents, classifying and packing them...immediately start secretly transporting them to Ryukyu..."
"The CIA has prepared a complete set of camouflage plans. There are three waves of escort agencies. One team will go directly to Beijing through the grassland in the spring, and the other team will go to Lanzhou, Xi'an, and Henan via the Gansu-Shaanxi Ancient Road and then go to Ryukyu..."
"The last team will enter Sichuan from Gannan, and finally take the waterway along the Yangtze River straight to Ryukyu..."
"Of the three routes, only the southern one is real. The remaining two routes are all suspects... We have to guard against the British's evil intentions! Take action, we must set off within half a month!"
It takes half a month to deliver 100,000 volumes of Dunhuang documents. The workload every day is terrifying. The people on the left don't sleep for more than three hours a day.
When I opened my eyes, it was sorting, registering, packing, and shipping... All the carpenters in Dunhuang City were mobilized, and the wood piled up into a mountain outside the Mogao Grottoes.
Handful after handful of wood shavings were placed in the box, and the bundled books were heavily wrapped in oil paper. Finally, the box was sprinkled with moisture-proof charcoal and insect-killing camphor.
The escort agencies they hired were all paid heavily. This escort trip was twice as expensive as the most expensive escort they usually received. If this trip ended safely, these escort agencies wouldn't have to work for ten years!
For the sake of money, these warriors have sacrificed their strength, and all the elites came out of the northwest rivers and lakes, and they were in a state of chaos!
"Don't worry, this is to escort the head of state. Just because the head of state and his men are going to slap the big French nose to relieve the anger of the people of the world, we will work hard!"
"Either it arrives safely and everyone is happy, or it dies on the road...No problem!"
The British kept applying to the Chinese to form a joint archaeological team, but the Chinese did not refuse and just kept delaying. They took the official procrastination tactic to the extreme.
If you have a message, I will call you back; if you come as an envoy, I will entertain you! We listen to all your requests and agree in principle, but there is no timetable for specific implementation.
One moment it was said that the war was in chaos, the next moment it was said that the weather was cold, and the next moment it was simply said that there was a sandstorm in the desert!
As a result, after more than half a month, all three escort teams set off, and the British did not send out the expedition team!
In the end, the British also figured out that Xiao Letian was going to be a rogue! It was really unbearable, and by this time the reports from other members of the British expedition had already arrived in Beijing and London.
The entire British political and academic circles have realized the important value of Dunhuang documents!
Facing Baoshan, how could they return empty-handed? These professional and ancestral bandits were at work again. Many corrupt officials and scum hidden among the upright officials began to act for British rewards.
Two months later, a team of escorts traveling on the Mongolian grasslands of Zasaktuhan was suddenly attacked by grassland horse bandits. The 200-person escort team was surrounded by more than 500 horse bandits.
After a bloody battle, the escort agency suffered more than half of its casualties and had no choice but to abandon all the baggage and flee south in a hurry.
When the British military attaché disguised as a horse bandit pried open the wooden boxes, he became furious. It turned out that there were no ancient books at all in these wooden boxes. Some were just ordinary Hotan jade and some gold and silver utensils smuggled from Xinjiang. .
"I've been fooled! What Xiao Letian put here is a bait...Hurry and investigate again!"
