Appreciation of treasures

Chapter 919 Huge Number

Moreover, the soil color on many things is very new, and it should have been unearthed not long ago.

Zhao Gang was able to judge that most of the cultural relics smuggled by these people should have come from tomb robbers. This Kowloon Shipping Company should not only be a simple cultural relics sales company, but should also support a group of tomb robbers.

Thinking about it this way, Zhao Gang felt that it was normal to have a coffin.

Afterwards, Zhao Gang came down to a warehouse under the leadership of Director He. When he opened the door, the two sides of the warehouse were full of things, and the top was covered with black tarpaulins, so he couldn't see what was underneath, but Zhao Gang thought about it. It's some antique...

I don't know how big this director He is in the whole Kowloon company. He has so many antiques here. If the three places of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei add up, wouldn't the antiques cost tens of thousands?
This is a shockingly huge number. Although it is impossible for everything to be a valuable cultural relic, the loss of so many antiques overseas is a serious loss to the country.

"Here." At this time, Director He came to the middle of the warehouse, where a rectangular object was placed, covered with a waterproof cloth.

When Zhao Gang saw the coffin, he felt a little strange, because it was so tall, it was actually taller than Director He, at least 1.8 meters above.

What coffin can be so tall?

Zhao Gang couldn't figure it out. A normal coffin, even for an emperor, is only about 1.5 meters long, unless something is placed under the coffin.

Thinking of this, he stepped forward to take a look, and found that the coffin was solid, and there was nothing to cushion it, which meant that the coffin was just this high.

This is very strange. In fact, the ancients had strict regulations on the system of coffins. In the feudal society, the coffins of what grade and shape were all particular, and they could not be skipped at all.

But if the thing under the tarpaulin in front of him is really a coffin, then the owner of this coffin must at least be the emperor.

According to this calculation, it is certain that the people of Jiulong Shipping Company stole and dug an imperial tomb.

These people are so courageous, they even dared to steal the emperor's mausoleum!

Zhao Gang couldn't help being startled, these guys were really unexpected.

"This coffin is very strange. With such a tall shape, I am afraid that there is no such tall one among previous emperors?" Zhao Gang said.

Director He nodded, "That's right, I've never seen such a high-profile coffin."

As he spoke, Director He slowly lifted the black tarpaulin, gradually revealing the coffin in front of him. Zhao Gang glanced at it and was dumbfounded at the time.

"Is this a coffin?" Before Zhao Gang could speak, Zhou Qin couldn't help but said.

What appeared before Zhao Gang's eyes was a somewhat different coffin. To be precise, it was a coffin locked by black iron chains.Several powerful dark black iron chains extended from the lower part of the coffin, and directly tied up the entire coffin.

"The outside doesn't seem to be made of wood, but iron?" Zhao Gang stepped forward to examine the coffin carefully, and found that the material of the coffin was very hard. When he knocked on it with his hands, he could hear a "bang bang bang" as hard as iron. the sound of.

"This is not iron sheet." Director He shook his head.

"Isn't it iron?" Zhao Gang took another look at the coffin and found that it was indeed not iron, because if it was iron, it would take a lot of nails to fit it tightly on the coffin, but Zhao Gang didn't see it when he went around the coffin. nail.

"Indeed, it's not iron sheet. By the way, do you know that there is a kind of wood on Kunlun Mountain that is only ten meters long for thousands of years. The wood is dark brown in color, hard as iron, immortal for thousands of years, and it grows in the underground of Kunlun." Zhao Gang suddenly thought It seems that there is a legend about this kind of sacred tree in Shimen.

"You mean Kunlun Shenmu?" At this time, Director He also rang. There is indeed such a legend in the industry. It is said that the first generation of King Loulan used Kunlun Shenmu as a coffin, but it is impossible to know whether it is true or not.

In addition, I also heard that when Genghis Khan died, he was also buried with the Kunlun Shenmu, but because the tomb of Genghis Khan is still unknown, so I don't know if it is true or not.

In addition, other emperors generally use sunken wood or golden nanmu. The main function is to seal well, isolate the air, protect the corpse, and enable the owner in the coffin to ascend to immortality.

"The Kunlun sacred tree is hard to come by. There are thousands of years of frozen layers under the Kunlun hinterland, so it is difficult to find the Kunlun sacred tree there. Once you encounter it, you will definitely cherish it even more, but the current situation..."

Looking at the coffin bound by black iron chains, Zhao Gang felt that the more he looked at it, the weirder he looked.

If it is said that the emperor is lying in the coffin, then what is the purpose of locking it with iron chains like this, is it afraid that the emperor will cheat the corpse?Or is the emperor a monster?
Zhao Gang doesn't know all this at the moment, and can only discover it slowly through the dragon coffin.

Zhao Gang discovered that these iron chains were not made of ordinary materials, or they were not iron chains at all, but a rare material.

Because it can be seen from the structure on the coffin that this is definitely not something that happened in the last few hundred years, at least it must have been a thousand years ago, and the most important thing is that there are obvious water stains on the coffin, and This kind of water stain spreads over the entire coffin cover.

In other words, the coffin was placed in water.

This is even more weird. As we all know, the ancient people's burial customs are "death is like life", and they try to keep their remains for a long time, preferably not rotten for a thousand years, so that they may have a chance to become immortals.

Therefore, not only the material of the coffin is very particular, but also the location of the tomb. In addition to the feng shui above, we must also pay attention to dryness, because places with high humidity tend to accelerate the growth of various bacteria, which will accelerate the decay of human remains. .

Of course, no one would put the coffin under the water. This kind of burial custom has been unheard of in China for 5000 years.

"Is this thing fished out of the water?" Zhao Gang couldn't help asking.

"I'm not sure about this, but there was indeed water when I got it." Director He also discovered this before, and he also felt that there was no explanation that could explain it.

Before, Duotu and Jingjing came over and directly asked to buy this coffin. He felt that the matter was weird, so he didn't agree.

For Director He, what is the purpose of this thing is not very meaningful to him. He has to figure out its value. After all, if it can be sold overseas and exchanged for US dollars, it will make a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)