The exchange was full of twists and turns. After the first failure, Li Yuanhong immediately confiscated the cultural relics and did not give the cassock to Luca. This made Luca very embarrassed, but he had no place to reason. After all, it was not Li Yuanhong's fault that the goods were inferior. , Li Yuanhong confiscated the antiques on the grounds of mental loss, leaving Luka unable to pick out any courtesy at all.
Soon, Luca brought a second batch of cultural relics for exchange. This time the quality of the cultural relics was indeed improved. At least they were no longer from the Qing Dynasty, but from the Ming Dynasty. Some of them were even from the Yuan Dynasty. One of them is a sword used by a general in the Yuan Dynasty. Although it has been used for nearly a thousand years, when the sword is unsheathed, there is still a cold air seeping out, and the sword still remains sharp.
Although this batch of cultural relics is good, to Li Yuanhong, these can only be regarded as cultural relics. Before the end of the world, various museums would always have hundreds or even thousands of such cultural relics, not to mention tens of thousands. They are definitely not enough to be the treasures of the museum. .
In response, Li Yuanhong smiled: "Your country regards these things as national treasures. You don't want to fool our soldiers! I won't confiscate these things. If you move them back, I will leave Rome the day after tomorrow. If you are not sincere in exchange for this set, Clothes, I will leave with these things by then, and the Pope’s vestments will be on display in the Imperial Capital Museum in China.”
"No, I'll come over tomorrow with cultural relics you're satisfied with for exchange!"
Luca quickly expressed his goodwill to Li Yuanhong. If it really happened as Li Yuanhong said, not only would the Pope's face be wiped out, but it would be a question of whether the Pope could keep his position by then. Also, Luka's path to repairing its relationship with China will be completely blocked. Therefore, Luca quickly loaded up the cultural relics he brought and transported them away again, and asked the Pope for instructions.
Sure enough, early the next morning, Luca came again, but this time Luca only brought two big boxes, and it took four people to carry them.
This made Li Yuanhong very puzzled. What kind of cultural relics could be packed in two large boxes? Is it an ancient painting
When the box was opened, Li Yuanhong was surprised. I saw another box in the box. When I opened the box, there was a book inside.
Li Yuanhong immediately opened his eyes of reality, and he was immediately surprised by what he saw.
"Dunhuang Posthumous Notes
During the Jin and Tang Dynasties, monks in Dunhuang copied and printed Buddhist scriptures and lecture notes, which were later hidden in the Dunhuang Grottoes. It was excavated again in 1900, and was later defrauded by Italian missionaries and brought back to the Vatican. "
Although it was just a brief introduction, Li Yuanhong was extremely excited. Among cultural relics, books are among the cultural relics, especially Buddhist scriptures that record history and Buddhism, which are even more precious.
Take the Yongle Dadian of the Ming Dynasty. Although it was a book compiled in the Ming Dynasty, it is the treasure of the Forbidden City. What's more, these books are from the Jin and Tang Dynasties, and they are even more precious.
"These are ancient books from your country. There are forty books in total. Do you think these meet your requirements?" Luka asked carefully, fearing that Li Yuanhong was still not satisfied.
"Is this all you have?" Li Yuanhong frowned. He seemed to have heard that there were tens of thousands of Dunhuang suicide notes, and most of them were scattered overseas.
"It was agreed at the beginning that one piece of clothing would be exchanged for ten cultural relics. These are forty books. Didn't we agree before?"
"Well, yes, you are right."
Li Yuanhong nodded, then waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him carried the zombie's body over. Luca quickly ran over, bent down and inspected carefully to see if there was any damage to the Pope's clothes.
After this inspection, Luka was very surprised. Except for some dust, there was no damage to the clothes. What made Luka especially surprised was that except for the scars on the eyes, the zombie didn't have any damage at all.
Although Luka was very curious about how the Chinese army did it, he was too embarrassed to ask, so he had to ask his people to carry the soft bed into the car, and then drove away quickly.
Li Yuanhong looked at the car driving away, lowered his head and thought for a moment, and finally smiled slightly, then waved his hand and asked someone to carefully put the books away, then put them in the car, sent heavy troops to escort them to the base in the Adriatic Gulf, and passed through the portal. , send books back to China.
On the other side, Luca was also very happy to carry the zombie wearing the Pope's clothes to the Pope. The Pope looked down and was almost scared to death. After all, the zombie was so ugly. It was said to be a skeleton but not a skeleton, and it was said to be a zombie but not a zombie. , with a dry face and eyes blinded by Li Yuanhong, it was simply too scary.
Although it was scary, the Pope still closed his eyes and calmed down his mind. Then he took a closer look at the long-lost papal cassock. He was relieved when he saw that the clothes, including the cane, were not damaged.
"Luka, you did a good job on this. Hurry up and put your clothes away. I want to see what those old guys in red clothes have to say this time."
"Yes, His Majesty the Pope. What to do with this body?" Luca asked.
"You can just find a place to deal with it. Why do you ask me for such a thing?" The Pope frowned slightly. Luca is a very smart person. Could it be that he can't handle such a small thing well
"Your Majesty the Pope, this corpse is very unusual."
"Huh? Why is it unusual?" the pope asked doubtfully.
"The men in black said that this corpse is probably that of the crazier pope." Luca reminded carefully.
"What!" The Pope was startled and quickly bent down to take a closer look. This time he was no longer afraid of the corpse.
"It's him, it's really him!" the Pope blurted out in surprise.
After the recognition, the Pope was very embarrassed. He paced back and forth in the room for more than ten minutes. If outsiders knew that the Pope had transformed into a zombie, it would be a big scandal, so this matter must be covered up.
"In this case, you must find a secret place to cremate this body. You must not let outsiders see this body. Do you understand?"
"Understood!" So Luca withdrew, but in fact, the body was secretly hidden by Luca. Years later, when the Pope wanted someone else to be his successor, Luca moved the body out again.
Elsewhere, the cultural relics brought back by Luca last time were returned to the Pope's treasury. However, one night three days later, a black shadow entered the sealed treasury. The shadow quickly moved around the treasury. In a circle, the valuable Chinese cultural relics collected in the treasure house disappeared in an instant, especially the thousands of Dunhuang suicide notes, which disappeared without a trace. Then the black shadow directly got into a black hole in the wall and disappeared.
After four or five days, someone entered the treasure house and discovered that the Chinese cultural relics in the treasure house were missing. However, this matter was suppressed by the Pope. After all, Chinese cultural relics were not very important to them. They were Chinese civilization. If it is lost, it is lost. As long as it is not about the loss of cultural relics of the Holy See, it does not matter.
However, this incident also made the Pope and Luca very puzzled. You must know that the location of this treasure house is very hidden. Outsiders do not know the location at all. Even within the Holy See, there are only a few people who know. However, there is no trace of this theft. The signs of damage to door locks or walls are very much like the work of an insider, but the Pope knows that this is definitely not done by an insider. Otherwise, this person will not wait until the end of the world to do this. You must know that those who cannot be eaten The cultural relics are worthless to the people of the last days.
The suspects can only be those Chinese people, but how did the Chinese people know the location of this treasure house
In fact, this question is very simple. When Li Yuanhong was inspecting the cultural relics, he secretly put a locator into the cultural relics brought by Luca. As the cultural relics returned to the treasure house, Li Yuanhong also knew the location of the treasure house.
Li Yuanhong has space magic. As long as he finds the location of the treasure house, other things will be easy to handle. Li Yuanhong will definitely not leave those national treasures alone, so he uses teleportation skills to enter the treasure house through the wall in the middle of the night and remove all the valuable Chinese cultural relics in the treasure house. Tuck into the space and then retreat quietly.
However, the Vatican did not know about Li Yuanhong's skills, so the theft case became an unsolved case. Even if they suspected Hua Xia, they had no evidence and had to drop it.
On the other hand, Li Yuanhong arranged to clean up the zombies on the Italian peninsula. This time, the Chinese army was only an auxiliary, while the Italian troops joined in and became the main force of the attack.
It is said that they are the main force, but they are superior in numbers, and the firepower output and tactical guidance are still dominated by the Chinese army. Li Yuanhong meant to train these Italian troops, but these Italian troops really gave Li Yuanhong a headache.
Once, Li Yuanhong was commanding the army to shoot at the zombies pouring out of a city. Suddenly the gunfire on the Italian army position stopped. This made Li Yuanhong wonder, could all the Italian army be dead? But the zombies had just poured out of the city, and they were still more than a hundred meters away from the human position.
So Li Yuanhong took two guards and quickly rushed to the Italian army position.
"Why did you stop shooting?" Li Yuanhong asked an Italian officer.
"I'm really sorry, our guns are out of ammunition." The officer replied lazily.
"Out of bullets? Impossible? I remember I gave you enough bullets before the war." Li Yuanhong asked with a gloomy face.
"Oh, you're talking about those bullets! We can't open them!" The officer pointed to a simple warehouse built with rainproof canvas, which contained neat ammunition boxes. Good sealing, so the wooden box is nailed very firmly.
"Can't you open these wooden boxes?" Li Yuanhong was speechless. These wooden boxes could be easily opened with just a saber.
Due to this strange reason, the battle ended in failure. Fortunately, Li Yuanhong had made arrangements in advance, so the troops did not suffer much loss. However, it was because of such strange reasons that Li Yuanhong completely experienced the combat effectiveness of the Italian army, and thus Li Yuanhong completely gave up on the Italian army.
In order not to affect his plan, Li Yuanhong only arranged for a part of the army to defend the city that had been captured. Li Yuanhong only sent a small force to monitor the zombies in other cities. Through this arrangement, Li Yuanhong mobilized more troops and prepared to land on the Balkan Peninsula across the sea.