Chapter 136 The Treasure of Heavenly Secrets (Part 2)

Seeing that he did not respond, Yang Rui was irritated again, "You can't keep your seat yourself. You are afraid that someone else's democratic coup will drive you off the stage, so you will be a scapegoat, right? Do you think you won't be embarrassed?"

Lai Changyi ignored his words and lowered his voice a little, "I will help you, but more importantly, you have to help yourself. You have to show your ability to convince people! Give you a little more motivation..."

"What's the motivation?" Yang Rui's eyes lit up, "I'll give me a sum of election money, and give me a few beauties to canvass, bribe them?"

The dead lai sweated for a moment and said seriously: "I'm talking about the secrets of our Tianji Sect! I don't tell him the most common people about the secrets of our Tianji Sect!"

Yang Rui muttered: "Often people don't listen to your foolings."

"When we choose the sect leader, character is very important. You are greedy and lustful. I didn't plan to tell you now. I will tell you this secret when you make enough money and get tired of playing with beautiful women..."

Yang Rui wanted to knock on his head, but considering that he had to say the secret, he didn't take action. He just whispered: "Damn, am I that unbearable? How could I be such a person?"

The deadbeat's eyes rolled, "You are like this!"

"Nonsense!" Yang Rui said with confidence: "I am not that kind of person. For me, I will never think that I have enough money, and it is even more impossible for beauty to be tired of playing!"

The deadbeat was speechless...

"Okay, I won't discuss this. Today, in order to make you go all the way, I will reveal this secret to you first." Lao Lai lowered his voice. "You know the history of our Tianji Sect, right? Our Master Wang, the first generation of ancestors who had founded the Tianji Sect, were from the Ming Dynasty."

"Well, I know." Yang Rui murmured inwardly. From the Ming Dynasty to the present, it has only been twelve generations in five hundred years. People in the past have lived quite long and long! Could it be that there was such an example of a place where teachers and disciples were accepted in the past?

"How many catastrophes have Chinese history experienced until now?"

Yang Rui didn't understand his intention, but he still calculated, "Three times, the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, and the Manchus entered the pass; the Eight-Nation Alliance in the late Qing Dynasty; Japan invaded China!"

The deadbeat nodded, "You can do this. This is all a big war. But war also requires the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, the warlords' melee, and the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Moreover, in addition to war, there are also cultural disasters, such as the Qing Dynasty's literary inquisition, the ban on military orders, the May Fourth New Movement, the revolution, the four old ones, etc...."

Yang Rui thought to himself what does this have to do with our Tianji Sect? Didn’t Peng Sikai say before that the Tianji Sect never participates in politics? But he knew that the Dead Lai was not a boring person, so he would say that these must be intentional.

Lao Lai sighed, "Whether it is a cultural catastrophe or a war catastrophe, the result is the same - destruction! Although our Tianji Sect does not participate in politics, we have a very small impression of who is in power. But we are a sect of knowledge. The ancestors of all generations have consciously inherited the essence of protecting traditional culture and material civilization.

In the early days of the Qing Dynasty's entry into the pass, it not only plundered gold, silver and jewelry, but also destroyed the Han culture that influenced the Qing Dynasty's rule... In that era, our Tianji Sect was far more prosperous than it is now, and there were many disciples. When the country was destroyed, the ancestors also collected and hid a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, precious books, cultural relics and antiques.

At that time, people did not have as many mundane affairs as we do now, and they did not have as much entertainment as we do now, so they were much more pure than we work hard now. Some ancestors also had research on Feng Shui and Ge, Qimen Dunjia, and had the intention to bury them, and there was no news circulating. Therefore, this treasure was never discovered by the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty."

Yang Rui felt incredible. Has there a treasure? Is that too much?

He recalled many of the information he had seen in novels and unofficial history before, which showed that in the early Qing Dynasty, Li Zicheng collected a lot of gold, silver and jewelry and created a big treasure; Nurhaci and Huang Taiji also created a treasure outside the pass to fight for their treasures... They were all prepared for themselves and their descendants, and later they had made a comeback after their failure.

However, the Tianji Sect is just a small sect, and it is a sect for folk academic research. How powerful is it to create treasures? It is estimated that gold, silver and jewelry are limited, mostly books and cultural relics.

Cultural relics...?

Yang Rui's heart moved, yes! Hasn't it been hundreds of years? The appreciation space of gold, silver and jewelry is limited, and the price of silver has dropped. However, there is no upper limit for appreciation of cultural relics, antiques and even ancient books!

Even the toilet paper used to wipe the butt in the Ming Dynasty is still an antique and cultural relic! The precious books and cultural relics preserved at that time may have been lost now. According to the price of antiques and cultural relics, it is really a big treasure!

He became excited. "Senior brother, what else? Continue to update!"

The deadbeat saw that he really showed his greedy eyes. He couldn't help but curl his lips and contempt and continued: "After the Qing Dynasty's stability, our ancestors also had business places like they are now, and many of them were rich from several generations. By the late Qing Dynasty, the British and French coalition forces burned the Old Summer Palace, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, and then burned the Old Summer Palace, plundering all the Beijing city, which had many treasures gathered in the country. The antiques and cultural relics of our country are still in the British Museum, the Louvre and other places..."

When he heard the deadbeat talk about this familiar but unfamiliar history, Yang Rui's enthusiasm for interests just now was a little sluggish, and the place was boiling and bloody!

"Our Tianji Sect is a literati. I don't know if Empress Dowager Cixi, who was abandoning the capital and fleeing, could come back again, and I don't know that it was some bluffing and scaring away the invaders of the Qing government, not a large army. Whether it was the British and French coalition forces or the Eight-Nation Alliance behind, they were all robbers. They plundered and left, and destroyed, smashed and burned...

Therefore, another large-scale collection and protection of cultural relics by Tianji Sect began.

You will also know in the next few decades, and wars continued. The Qing Dynasty was destroyed, warlords fought melee, Japanese invasion of China, civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party... During this period, it was the time when the master and his generation collected and protected treasures for a long time. After the founding of the country, all kinds of waste were flourishing. Originally, we wanted to donate the cultural relics we treasured to the country. However, decades of wars made the master and his generation feel that they should continue to wait and see and confirm that the country was peaceful.

As a result, political movements continued after the founding of the People's Republic of China followed one after another! Especially in the early days of the revolution, all foreign and ancient cultures became targets of sweeping. The Red Guards rushed to the streets and aimed at destroying all the "Four Old" items. They first smashed the inside and outside of Beijing, and then quickly burned all the cities and villages across the country.

More than 100,000 households in Beijing were searched, and a total of about 10 million households across the country were searched. There are countless precious calligraphy, paintings, books, utensils, ornaments, and ancient books that have disappeared from the fires in various places!

It can be said that this time, the destruction of the residual culture and cultural relics from the people was broken and unrecognizable! If it were not for Premier Zhou Enlai who sent a battalion of the Beijing Garrison District to conduct military protection, the Forbidden City in Beijing would not have been spared! The cultural relics there were, more, more expensive!"

Lao Lai smiled bitterly: "Haha, our master and his generation have calculated such a catastrophe in advance, but individuals cannot be anything. Political movements cannot be stopped by anyone. What they can do is to collect folk culture, cultural relics, etc. as much as possible, and preserve them in our way."

After listening to the words of the deadbeat, Yang Rui was not so relaxed, nor did he lose his original desire for profit. What was shocked in his heart!

No matter what the actual value of this treasure is, it is not just a treasure. It protects and treasures culture and cultural relics, and is a continuation of civilization! Although the Tianji Sect only regards itself as a folk scholar, it can also be said to be a group of strange people and ten generations of ancestors, after four or five hundred years, the protection of traditions, folk culture and cultural relics is already a spiritual wealth worthy of pride!

"The treasure is on this mountain?"

"Of course it's impossible!"

The deadbeat put away the emotion that was caused by the reason of narration and smiled cunningly, "If it were on this mountain, we would worship our ancestors every five years, wouldn't we have been digging it out by the disciples of strangers? Of course, we can't tell you the buried place now. If you want to know, you must strive to be the sect leader."

This time, Yang Rui did not shirk responsibility, but nodded seriously and agreed, which surprised the deadbeat.

Now Yang Rui feels that this sect leader is no longer just a reputation. Even if he does not care about the affairs of other sects, he is at least the guardian of the treasure of Tianji Sect! This treasure is a heavy responsibility.

Yang Rui did not shy away from his liking for money, but he also had his own principles. A gentleman loves money and gets it well. He will use all his relationships to make money, but after knowing the history of this treasure, he will not have the idea of ​​this treasure...at most, he is just moved by the gold, silver, jewelry and other things in it. He will firmly protect the cultural relics!

But...what if it were Peng Sikai, Huang Long, Qian Jun and others who had been in the business world for more than 20 years?

Yang Rui didn't know if they could withstand the temptation. After all, it was a cumulative amount of five hundred years. If it was discovered, it was probably worth a lot. If it was a box of gold, they might not care, but anyone might be moved by a treasure that was worthless!

He has now regarded himself as part of the Tianji Sect and is unwilling to let these treasures protected by his ancestors be threatened.
Chapter completed!