Chapter 2908

After hearing what Zhou Liangyun said, Ye Chen said without hesitation: "Uncle Zhou, let's go out and talk slowly!"

"No..." Zhou Liangyun shook his head and said firmly: "Young Master, let's talk here."

As he spoke, he pointed to Bruce Weinstein, who was standing behind Ye Chen with a dull face, and said: "Only he will come here recently. Since he has been controlled by you, this place must be absolutely safe for a short time. I still have some things I need to explain to you as soon as possible."

Ye Chen hesitated for a moment and nodded gently: "Okay! I'll treat your body first, and then you can tell me slowly."

After saying that, he placed his fingers on Zhou Liangyun's pulse, and a trace of spiritual energy was transferred into his body, making his entire physical state completely restored instantly and greatly improved.

Zhou Liangyun felt the earth-shaking changes in himself and said with surprise and joy: "It seems that you have mastered the 'Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra'. If your father's spirit in heaven knows this news, he will be very gratified!"

Because Zhou Liangyun's body had been greatly improved, Ye Chen asked Bruce Weinstein to guard outside the room, and he and Zhou Liangyun simply sat on the ground.

Zhou Liangyun said first: "Young Master, just ask whatever you want to know, and I will answer everything I know."

Ye Chen said: "Uncle Zhou, let's start with your situation. What exactly is the grudge between you and the Rothschild family?"

Zhou Liangyun sighed and said: "Our Zhou family has mainly been engaged in the antique business in the West for these years, and we focus on Oriental antiques. We are somewhat well-known in this niche field of Oriental antiques. This is the premise of the whole thing;"

"So a few months ago, people from the Rothschild family found me privately and offered a very high price, wanting me to help them restore an Oriental antique, a square treasure pagoda from the Tang Dynasty in China that only existed in wild history records but had never really appeared in the world."

Ye Chen asked curiously: "Treasure pagoda?"

"Yes." Zhou Liangyun explained: "A treasure pagoda is a general term for a type of ancient craft. Its characteristic is that it is somewhat similar to a reduced version of a pagoda. Every dynasty has similar antique cultural relics. The most famous one at this stage should be the Song Dynasty Pearl Relic Pagoda, but that pagoda mainly has religious significance. Although it is similar in form to the Tang Dynasty square treasure pagoda of the Rothschild family, it is very different."

As he spoke, Zhou Liangyun added: "I collected many Chinese antiques that were scattered overseas in my early years, including some literature and materials from various dynasties. There have been continuous records in ancient books that Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, believed in Buddhism and the Zhou Yi. He not only sent Xuanzang to India to obtain scriptures but also gathered the best Zhou Yi masters in the country at that time to deduce the national fortune in Chang'an City. To ensure the stability of the Great Tang Empire, he ordered the best craftsmen in Chang'an City at that time to build a square treasure pagoda and placed this pagoda in the dragon vein of the Great Tang to ensure the stability of the Great Tang Empire;"

Ye Chen asked curiously at this time: "Could it be that this square treasure pagoda is a magic weapon for Zhou Yi Feng Shui?"

"Exactly." Zhou Liangyun nodded and said: "The wild history I saw records that when Huang Chao started an army, he was fortunate to be assisted by a Zhou Yi master, who broke the Great Tang dragon vein and took the square treasure pagoda out of the dragon vein. It's just that Huang Chao had no imperial destiny, and even with the square treasure pagoda, he could not escape the end of failure. So this square treasure pagoda later fell into the hands of Zhu Wen. It's a pity that there were no capable people who were proficient in Zhou Yi around Zhu Wen, and the square treasure pagoda could not exert its true effect in his hands. Since then, the square treasure pagoda has disappeared and its whereabouts are unknown."

Speaking of this, Zhou Liangyun paused slightly and continued: "The square treasure pagoda appeared again in the world when it reached the hands of Nurhaci hundreds of years later. It is said that Nurhaci brought the square treasure pagoda to Liaodong. Nurhaci's Later Jin was blessed by the square treasure pagoda, and the national fortune soared. It happened that the national fortune of the Great Ming Dynasty declined, and the Later Jin became stronger and stronger. By the time of Huang Taiji, the country was named Great Qing, and finally successfully entered the customs and seized the country;"

Ye Chen couldn't help but ask him: "If so, this square treasure pagoda must be a treasure of the country in the hands of the Qing royal family. How did it fall into the hands of the Rothschild family?"

Zhou Liangyun sighed and said: "In 1840, the British government launched the Opium War in China, using the power of the whole country to dump opium to China and the entire Southeast Asia. After forcing the Qing government to open its doors, the Rothschild family did opium business in China. Later, they almost controlled the opium business in China and Southeast Asia. From that time on, the Rothschild family transported a large amount of opium to China while transporting gold, silver, tea, and various precious antiques from China back to Europe;"

"This kind of looting reached its peak during the Eight-Nation Alliance period. The joint army composed of eight countries including Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Austria, and Italy burned, killed, and looted in Yanjing, doing all kinds of evil. Countless national treasures of China were robbed or destroyed by them. The two largest flows of those robbed national treasures were the British government and the Rothschild family;"

Speaking of this, Zhou Liangyun complained indignantly: "Nowadays, more than 20,000 Chinese cultural relics in the British Museum were basically looted from China during that period, and the Chinese cultural relics in the hands of the Rothschild family are no less than those in the British Museum. I have heard of this for a long time, but I didn't expect that the legendary square treasure pagoda was actually in their hands!"

As he spoke, Zhou Liangyun added: "According to historical records, the square treasure pagoda is a Feng Shui treasure that can protect the country. Your father and I have both studied I Ching Feng Shui in depth. According to Zhou Yi records, if you want to build this kind of Feng Shui treasure, you need the blessing of countless Zhou Yi masters and exhaust countless efforts to complete it. It's just that the Feng Shui power of this square treasure pagoda will gradually weaken over time. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, its magic power was no longer enough to protect the Qing Dynasty's country;"

"However, this square treasure pagoda has been in the hands of the Rothschild family for at least a hundred years, and their family has developed vigorously and stood out from the crowd for so many years. I am afraid it is closely related to this square treasure pagoda;"

"Some time ago, the square treasure pagoda itself had multiple cracks, and the Rothschild family found me, hoping that I could help them restore this cultural relic. They probably thought I couldn't recognize the square treasure pagoda. After all, there are no records of it on the market. But they didn't expect that I had come into contact with wild history literature about the square treasure pagoda, so when I saw the real thing, I recognized this national treasure. To confirm my speculation, I quietly did a carbon-14 identification for it, which can indeed prove that it came from the Tang Dynasty;"

"After confirming the identity of the square treasure pagoda, I checked the news of the Rothschild family during that period and found that they had indeed experienced many small setbacks in the past few months, and even a grandchild died in an accident. I guess this must be related to the cracks in the square treasure pagoda, so I deliberately told the Rothschild family that the square treasure pagoda had been around for too long, its own material aging and decay were very serious, and it was not as exquisite and religiously valuable as the Song Dynasty Pearl Relic Pagoda, so its comprehensive value would not be very high, and advised them to preserve it statically and not to force restoration;"

"However, people from the Rothschild family were willing to spend tens of millions of US dollars to let me restore it, so I pretended to be greedy for money and agreed, and told them that restoration would take a long time, at least a few months. People from the Rothschild family left the square treasure pagoda to me, but someone came to check the restoration progress every day, and I also found that they had been monitoring me secretly during that time;"

"In the process of restoring the square treasure pagoda, I felt more and more that this thing should not stay in the hands of the Rothschild family, because this is a Chinese cultural relic itself, and almost all Chinese people still don't know the square treasure pagoda, and don't even know its existence, but it is likely to be the most significant national treasure lost in China's century of humiliation since the Opium War. I have been committed to sending Chinese cultural relics scattered in the West back to China for so many years. If I don't send this square treasure pagoda back, I'm afraid I won't be able to close my eyes when I die..."

"So, I took advantage of the few months of restoration time to make a one-to-one fake square treasure pagoda, played a trick of 'civic cat for a prince' on them, and then quietly hid the real square treasure pagoda, waiting for the opportunity to transport it out of the United States;"

"But I originally thought that after giving the fake square treasure pagoda to the Rothschild family, I could at least fool them for a while and win a chance for myself to transport it, but I didn't expect that after they took the fake square treasure pagoda back, they immediately did a carbon-14 test and realized that the thing had been swapped by me. They wanted to take me away secretly at the first time. Fortunately, I was on guard against them. When they came to the door, I took the initiative to call the police and surrender. After the police intervened, the Rothschild family had to arrange for me to go to Brooklyn Prison..."