The conversation was divided into two parts. After receiving Ye Yu's instructions, Cai Yanzhi contacted Huo Xiangu directly and asked her to come out alone, wanting to talk to her about the incident that year, especially the final whereabouts of the blood corpse, and the third-party forces who knew about it at that time, it would be better to involve overseas.
After some exchange, there was indeed such a person. His name was Cox Hendrey, whose Chinese name was Jude Kao. He was a missionary who worked in a church school in Changsha. He was one of the Americans who came to China with the tide of the East during the Kuomintang period.
However, this man has been unclean since childhood and is very interested in Chinese culture. Perhaps in the economic concept of Americans, cultural relics are just one of the commodities, and can be bought and sold freely, so in the third year of China, he occasionally did some secret cultural relics smuggling activities, and that year he was only 19 years old.
Therefore, Jude Kao got to know Jiumen and had a lot of contact and cooperation with Jiumen Zhongren, and gradually became one of the downstream distributors, and had a lot of business dealings with Wu Laogou of Jiumen and even the Huo family.
Changsha was liberated in 1949, and the Kuomintang was completely defeated. Then in 1952, the church began to withdraw from China. Many Americans stranded in China began to return home one after another. Jude Kao naturally received a telegram from the church to ask him to return when he was safe.
Jude Kao realized that his business in China was about to come to an end, so he began to make relevant preparations and transferred his property.
Before leaving, Jude Kao had another sinister idea. He and his accomplices began to buy Minggui (antiques dug out from the tomb), taking advantage of the Chinese's mentality of trusting old relationships, and with the special current situation at that time, they used extremely cheap deposits to sweep away a large number of cultural relics, including the very important Warring States silk book.
After all these goods were on board, Jude Kao, who did not intend to pay the final payment, knew that there were many people in the Nine Gate. In order to leave trouble, he took a telegram on the ship to the security office at that time, and leaked all the traces of more than a dozen masters from the Nine Gate to the temporary garrison of the Changsha People's Liberation Army at that time.
This led to the very famous Warring States silk book case at that time.
This is not just a case of smuggling cultural relics, because the relationship between Jude Kao and the Kuomintang generals before the liberation even involved spies, treason and many other special crimes that were very serious in that era. The situation became very complicated and almost alarmed the central government.
That day, Jude Kao returned with a full load, but the old men who had accumulated wealth for him were shot and killed. He was in jail. The entire tomb robbery world was wailed, and the Nine Gates and many tomb robbers were also severely damaged and almost disappeared.
After Jude Kao returned to the United States, he auctioned the batch of cultural relics, which made a fortune. The Warring States silk book was sold at a high price to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, becoming the highest-priced cultural relics at that time. Jude Kao also became a billionaire and a newcomer in the upper class.
His story in China was written into a biography and was widely circulated, constantly stimulating other American antique merchants. So after the reform and opening up, the first group of cultural relics dealers to come to mainland China to make gold was the first to come to mainland China to find gold.
After becoming rich, Jude Caw gradually turned his interest to socializing. In 1957, he was invited to serve as a consultant to the Far Eastern Art Department of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, providing consultant to the research on the Warring States silk books.
The museum director at that time was the infamous Pu Allen. Both of them were China News and were both homes that hired bandits to dig cultural relics in China. They were like a lot and soon became friends. Jude Kao also sponsored a sum of money to the museum as a fund to acquire private Chinese cultural relics.
Perhaps because of his leisurely life in a wealthy life and his love for Chinese culture, Jude later gradually became addicted to the study of Chinese culture. He presided over several large-scale projects at the Metropolitan Museum, and the results were quite prominent.
However, what really left his name in history was in 1974, when he unraveled the secret text of the Warring States silk book.
At that time, his research on the Warring States silk book had lasted for more than 20 years. No one believed that an American like him could unlock the ancient code of China, but Jude Kao did it.
It is said that he discovered the decoding method of the Warring States Book Pictures by borrowing inspiration from an ancient Chinese embroidery book.
This decoding method is actually similar to the method of using text to record embroidery programs in embroidery scores.
In mathematics, it is like lattice forming a graph. It is not complicated. It is entirely due to a coincidence. If you can think of it, you can solve it. Unexpectedly, it is useless even if you are proficient in ancient Chinese cryptography.
This embroidery book was entered into the museum in 1974. In the same year, China discovered the Terracotta Warriors and Horses pit, which shocked the world. Because of the impact of this incident, the news that the Silk Book of the Warring States Period was decoded did not attract much attention. God seemed to have intentionally given Jude Cat a chance to act silently.
After discovering the decoding method, Jude Kao was overjoyed and immediately summoned personnel to translate the Warring States silk books on a large scale.Until one month later, all the cipher texts were unraveled.
However, to Jude Kao's surprise, the appearance on the decoding paper at that time was not the ancient text that he had originally expected to record the divination calendar of the Warring States Period, but a strange and completely meaningless pattern.
This pattern is very simple, consisting of only six lines and an irregular curve, and there is no information. If you don’t say that this is from a fragment of ancient Chinese books, everyone will think that this is a line drawn by a child who just knew how to hold a pen on the paper.
And no matter how you look at it from a different perspective, this pattern is meaningless.Even if you have to use your imagination to guess something similar to this pattern, it is difficult to imagine what the painting is.
Looking at the strange graphics in front of him, Jude Kao was both surprised and confused. Based on his experience in China over the years, his intuition told himself that this must be an extraordinary thing, and it would not be an ordinary pattern that could be written in cipher text in extremely expensive silk.
However, what is this?I have been in China for so many years and have never seen anything like that.
He looked up countless materials, but no results were found, so he had to use this pattern to ask Chinese sinologists in the university at that time for advice. At that time, a scholar from Taiwan to the United States recognized the pattern. He told Jude Kao that this figure is indeed extraordinary. In the archaeological world of China, it is called the Ghost Picture.
An old expert told Judekao: Since the reign of Wu Ding, the Shang Dynasty, maps are absolutely military secrets. Even in ancient tombs, maps rarely found. In order to keep secrets, people at that time mostly divided a map into two parts, one for a river and the other for a mountain, and transported separately. This has an advantage. This is that if the messenger dies or is captured during transportation, it can prevent the map from leaking, and the second is to pass the checkpoint or be investigated. Such patterns are also easy to get away with.
So this silk book should be part of a map.
After hearing this, Jude Kao couldn't speak for a long time. The simple lines in front of him turned out to be a map. This is really unexpected. Chinese culture is indeed profound, but what is the map of this place?
He asked the old man again, and the old man shook his head and said he didn't know.
After this incident, Judekao became more and more interested in the Warring States silk books. He and the Pullen family raised funds to establish the Metropolitan Ancient Art Company and began to conduct a large-scale search for Warring States silk books and rubbings.
In just half a year, the Metropolitan Company has collected more than a dozen fragments and rubbings of various colors.
Jude Kao spent nearly a year organizing these things. By Christmas in 1975, when he was 54 years old, a parcel from China made things a breakthrough.
He opened it and saw a photo of fragments of the Warring States silk book.
The fragment in the photo is only the size of a palm, and has cracked into countless small pieces and is kept in glass. According to his experience, he knew that the fragment is only one-fifth of a silk book. It is written in small fly heads, and more than 300 ancient Chinese characters are written in small flies. Many of them are no longer recognizable, but the remaining photos are taken very clearly.
The photo was sent by a cultural relics smuggler in Changsha. In the letter accompanying the package, he told Judekao that the fragments of the Warring States silk book came from a famous plaza in Changsha. There were four fragments in total. The other party offered the price and asked him to take one of them. As evidence, he asked Judekao whether he was considering buying it.
When he saw the photos of the silk book, he could not tell the authenticity of the silk book for a while.
So I used my own method to translate the text that I could see in the photo, wanting to see what the content in this silk book is.
After he had read it intensively, he opened his mouth wide and took a long time to realize that maybe he had finally found what he was looking for. He was immediately ecstatic and trembled all over.
What made him so excited?
Chen Pi Asi told Huo Xiangu and the others that there were some things about immortality on it.
At that time, Sino-US relations had been loosened. Although it was difficult for Americans to go to China, it was not impossible. The Chinese people's concept of American imperialism also improved. Therefore, during the Spring Festival in 1976, 54-year-old Jude Kao took a plane from an American journalist inspection team and returned to Changsha, China after nearly 30 years of separation from China.
Not long after, he got in touch with the cultural relics smuggler he contacted. He was a middle-aged fat man with a bald face. With the introduction of this person, Jude Kao met the seller of the fragment of the silk book.
That was a fair young man, whose name was Wu Sansheng, who was the third son of Wu Laogou, the third son of the Nine Gate.
Judekao has a good relationship with Wu Laogou, at least in the face of this, but Judekao is not a friend worth making. From the bottom of his heart, he did not regard Wu Laogou as a friend, and he did not even regard Wu Laogou as an equal person.
Later, Wu Laogou learned afterwards that in private, Jude Kao has always called him a bed bug.
Although it was a crime to be cheated by Jude Cao, such a death was too tragic. Later, the Great Leap Forward and the smuggling of cultural relics in China during the Cultural Revolution were almost extinct, which was also related to the deaths of this group of people at that time.
At that time, Wu Laogou was very clever. When he saw that the form was wrong, he escaped into the mountains at night, hid in an ancient tomb, slept with the dead for two weeks, and escaped from the limelight. Later, he escaped to Hangzhou alone. This incident had a great blow to Wu Laogou, so that the silk book of the Warring States Period became a taboo for him. When he was alive, he kept reminding Wu Sansheng and his brothers not to talk about this matter, so the people of the Wu family were always secretive about it.
After some exchange, there was indeed such a person. His name was Cox Hendrey, whose Chinese name was Jude Kao. He was a missionary who worked in a church school in Changsha. He was one of the Americans who came to China with the tide of the East during the Kuomintang period.
However, this man has been unclean since childhood and is very interested in Chinese culture. Perhaps in the economic concept of Americans, cultural relics are just one of the commodities, and can be bought and sold freely, so in the third year of China, he occasionally did some secret cultural relics smuggling activities, and that year he was only 19 years old.
Therefore, Jude Kao got to know Jiumen and had a lot of contact and cooperation with Jiumen Zhongren, and gradually became one of the downstream distributors, and had a lot of business dealings with Wu Laogou of Jiumen and even the Huo family.
Changsha was liberated in 1949, and the Kuomintang was completely defeated. Then in 1952, the church began to withdraw from China. Many Americans stranded in China began to return home one after another. Jude Kao naturally received a telegram from the church to ask him to return when he was safe.
Jude Kao realized that his business in China was about to come to an end, so he began to make relevant preparations and transferred his property.
Before leaving, Jude Kao had another sinister idea. He and his accomplices began to buy Minggui (antiques dug out from the tomb), taking advantage of the Chinese's mentality of trusting old relationships, and with the special current situation at that time, they used extremely cheap deposits to sweep away a large number of cultural relics, including the very important Warring States silk book.
After all these goods were on board, Jude Kao, who did not intend to pay the final payment, knew that there were many people in the Nine Gate. In order to leave trouble, he took a telegram on the ship to the security office at that time, and leaked all the traces of more than a dozen masters from the Nine Gate to the temporary garrison of the Changsha People's Liberation Army at that time.
This led to the very famous Warring States silk book case at that time.
This is not just a case of smuggling cultural relics, because the relationship between Jude Kao and the Kuomintang generals before the liberation even involved spies, treason and many other special crimes that were very serious in that era. The situation became very complicated and almost alarmed the central government.
That day, Jude Kao returned with a full load, but the old men who had accumulated wealth for him were shot and killed. He was in jail. The entire tomb robbery world was wailed, and the Nine Gates and many tomb robbers were also severely damaged and almost disappeared.
After Jude Kao returned to the United States, he auctioned the batch of cultural relics, which made a fortune. The Warring States silk book was sold at a high price to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, becoming the highest-priced cultural relics at that time. Jude Kao also became a billionaire and a newcomer in the upper class.
His story in China was written into a biography and was widely circulated, constantly stimulating other American antique merchants. So after the reform and opening up, the first group of cultural relics dealers to come to mainland China to make gold was the first to come to mainland China to find gold.
After becoming rich, Jude Caw gradually turned his interest to socializing. In 1957, he was invited to serve as a consultant to the Far Eastern Art Department of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, providing consultant to the research on the Warring States silk books.
The museum director at that time was the infamous Pu Allen. Both of them were China News and were both homes that hired bandits to dig cultural relics in China. They were like a lot and soon became friends. Jude Kao also sponsored a sum of money to the museum as a fund to acquire private Chinese cultural relics.
Perhaps because of his leisurely life in a wealthy life and his love for Chinese culture, Jude later gradually became addicted to the study of Chinese culture. He presided over several large-scale projects at the Metropolitan Museum, and the results were quite prominent.
However, what really left his name in history was in 1974, when he unraveled the secret text of the Warring States silk book.
At that time, his research on the Warring States silk book had lasted for more than 20 years. No one believed that an American like him could unlock the ancient code of China, but Jude Kao did it.
It is said that he discovered the decoding method of the Warring States Book Pictures by borrowing inspiration from an ancient Chinese embroidery book.
This decoding method is actually similar to the method of using text to record embroidery programs in embroidery scores.
In mathematics, it is like lattice forming a graph. It is not complicated. It is entirely due to a coincidence. If you can think of it, you can solve it. Unexpectedly, it is useless even if you are proficient in ancient Chinese cryptography.
This embroidery book was entered into the museum in 1974. In the same year, China discovered the Terracotta Warriors and Horses pit, which shocked the world. Because of the impact of this incident, the news that the Silk Book of the Warring States Period was decoded did not attract much attention. God seemed to have intentionally given Jude Cat a chance to act silently.
After discovering the decoding method, Jude Kao was overjoyed and immediately summoned personnel to translate the Warring States silk books on a large scale.Until one month later, all the cipher texts were unraveled.
However, to Jude Kao's surprise, the appearance on the decoding paper at that time was not the ancient text that he had originally expected to record the divination calendar of the Warring States Period, but a strange and completely meaningless pattern.
This pattern is very simple, consisting of only six lines and an irregular curve, and there is no information. If you don’t say that this is from a fragment of ancient Chinese books, everyone will think that this is a line drawn by a child who just knew how to hold a pen on the paper.
And no matter how you look at it from a different perspective, this pattern is meaningless.Even if you have to use your imagination to guess something similar to this pattern, it is difficult to imagine what the painting is.
Looking at the strange graphics in front of him, Jude Kao was both surprised and confused. Based on his experience in China over the years, his intuition told himself that this must be an extraordinary thing, and it would not be an ordinary pattern that could be written in cipher text in extremely expensive silk.
However, what is this?I have been in China for so many years and have never seen anything like that.
He looked up countless materials, but no results were found, so he had to use this pattern to ask Chinese sinologists in the university at that time for advice. At that time, a scholar from Taiwan to the United States recognized the pattern. He told Jude Kao that this figure is indeed extraordinary. In the archaeological world of China, it is called the Ghost Picture.
An old expert told Judekao: Since the reign of Wu Ding, the Shang Dynasty, maps are absolutely military secrets. Even in ancient tombs, maps rarely found. In order to keep secrets, people at that time mostly divided a map into two parts, one for a river and the other for a mountain, and transported separately. This has an advantage. This is that if the messenger dies or is captured during transportation, it can prevent the map from leaking, and the second is to pass the checkpoint or be investigated. Such patterns are also easy to get away with.
So this silk book should be part of a map.
After hearing this, Jude Kao couldn't speak for a long time. The simple lines in front of him turned out to be a map. This is really unexpected. Chinese culture is indeed profound, but what is the map of this place?
He asked the old man again, and the old man shook his head and said he didn't know.
After this incident, Judekao became more and more interested in the Warring States silk books. He and the Pullen family raised funds to establish the Metropolitan Ancient Art Company and began to conduct a large-scale search for Warring States silk books and rubbings.
In just half a year, the Metropolitan Company has collected more than a dozen fragments and rubbings of various colors.
Jude Kao spent nearly a year organizing these things. By Christmas in 1975, when he was 54 years old, a parcel from China made things a breakthrough.
He opened it and saw a photo of fragments of the Warring States silk book.
The fragment in the photo is only the size of a palm, and has cracked into countless small pieces and is kept in glass. According to his experience, he knew that the fragment is only one-fifth of a silk book. It is written in small fly heads, and more than 300 ancient Chinese characters are written in small flies. Many of them are no longer recognizable, but the remaining photos are taken very clearly.
The photo was sent by a cultural relics smuggler in Changsha. In the letter accompanying the package, he told Judekao that the fragments of the Warring States silk book came from a famous plaza in Changsha. There were four fragments in total. The other party offered the price and asked him to take one of them. As evidence, he asked Judekao whether he was considering buying it.
When he saw the photos of the silk book, he could not tell the authenticity of the silk book for a while.
So I used my own method to translate the text that I could see in the photo, wanting to see what the content in this silk book is.
After he had read it intensively, he opened his mouth wide and took a long time to realize that maybe he had finally found what he was looking for. He was immediately ecstatic and trembled all over.
What made him so excited?
Chen Pi Asi told Huo Xiangu and the others that there were some things about immortality on it.
At that time, Sino-US relations had been loosened. Although it was difficult for Americans to go to China, it was not impossible. The Chinese people's concept of American imperialism also improved. Therefore, during the Spring Festival in 1976, 54-year-old Jude Kao took a plane from an American journalist inspection team and returned to Changsha, China after nearly 30 years of separation from China.
Not long after, he got in touch with the cultural relics smuggler he contacted. He was a middle-aged fat man with a bald face. With the introduction of this person, Jude Kao met the seller of the fragment of the silk book.
That was a fair young man, whose name was Wu Sansheng, who was the third son of Wu Laogou, the third son of the Nine Gate.
Judekao has a good relationship with Wu Laogou, at least in the face of this, but Judekao is not a friend worth making. From the bottom of his heart, he did not regard Wu Laogou as a friend, and he did not even regard Wu Laogou as an equal person.
Later, Wu Laogou learned afterwards that in private, Jude Kao has always called him a bed bug.
Although it was a crime to be cheated by Jude Cao, such a death was too tragic. Later, the Great Leap Forward and the smuggling of cultural relics in China during the Cultural Revolution were almost extinct, which was also related to the deaths of this group of people at that time.
At that time, Wu Laogou was very clever. When he saw that the form was wrong, he escaped into the mountains at night, hid in an ancient tomb, slept with the dead for two weeks, and escaped from the limelight. Later, he escaped to Hangzhou alone. This incident had a great blow to Wu Laogou, so that the silk book of the Warring States Period became a taboo for him. When he was alive, he kept reminding Wu Sansheng and his brothers not to talk about this matter, so the people of the Wu family were always secretive about it.
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