Volume 5: The Age of Storms Chapter 0607 Soul Interrogation
"Yes."
"Then what to buy? Do you have a target?" Nan Yi said with a smack of his lips.
"The Yongle Encyclopedia."
“Which museum was robbed?”
"The original." Zhou Dingjun said lightly.
"That's not right. At that time, Jiajing ordered people to re-record a copy, but he died before it was completed. Later, it seems that Longqing ordered people to continue re-recording it, and the original copy was buried with Jiajing.
But that was just a rumor and might not be true. There has been no authentic record since then.
In the 1950s, didn’t President Guo like the Yongle Encyclopedia very much?
In order to find it, he opened all the Ming Tombs. How come he didn't dig Jiajing's tomb, but Lou Xiaoyuan and others did?
This shouldn't be the case. The guy named Lou isn't that brave. Would he dare to dig up the imperial tomb in the capital?"
"Boss Nan, you also said that it was just a rumor. No one knows where the original copy went. A month ago, an auction house in Xiangzhen sold three volumes of the Yongle Encyclopedia, which were said to be the original copy. When we traced the source, we found Lou Xiaoyuan."
“Is it expensive?”
"The transaction price was HK$7.8 million and it was bought by a wealthy Malaysian businessman."
"Lou Xiaoyuan has already made it, but it's still unclear. The Yongle Encyclopedia has a total of 22,937 volumes. If they are all sold at this price, they can be sold for 60 billion Hong Kong dollars. Team leader Zhou, what are you waiting for? Just arrest him, use the tiger bench and pepper spray, and I don't believe he won't confess."
Luo Qianqian glared at him and said, "Mr. Nan, what nonsense are you talking about? We need evidence to handle cases."
"You don't need to ask me for evidence. I don't make money by smuggling cultural relics. If Lou Xiaoyuan is doing that kind of business as you said, then based on my limited understanding of him, he is definitely a cunning man who has channels to get things out. Why would he sell the Yongle Encyclopedia to me?
Besides, what can I use to buy it?
I can still scrape together tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but where do you want us to go to get millions or tens of millions?
Or do you want me to embezzle Yaqing’s public funds?
Embezzlement of tens of millions is enough to get you executed. Are you using one crime to stop another?"
What original copy of the Yongle Encyclopedia? Bullshit. Nan Yi had never heard of any original copy appearing in his previous life. If the original copy of the Yongle Encyclopedia really appeared, even if he was indifferent, the news would automatically reach his eyes and ears.
Nan Yi would rather believe that there are one or more counterfeiting experts among Lou Xiaoyuan himself or his subordinates.
Who authenticated the three volumes of the Yongle Encyclopedia?
How is the identification level?
Has he seen the original Yongle Encyclopedia before? If not, how can he say those three volumes are authentic?
Appraisal experts, haha, their appraisal level is fickle, they can be high or low as they wish, and can change at any time depending on the situation. Even Monkey King does not have as many changes as them.
Nan Yi was thinking about buying two loads of Hetian jade tomorrow, starting to make the gold-thread jade burial suit the day after tomorrow, and getting a mortgage loan from a Swiss bank the day after that. He didn't want a lot, just 1 billion U.S. dollars. Even if he had to give 990 million as a kickback, he generally thought it was a good deal.
"Xiao Luo, don't say anything. President Nan, don't get emotional either." Zhou Dingjun soothed him, "President Nan, you don't have to pretend to be a buyer. You can also act as a broker. You have work experience in Hong Kong, plus your grandmother's relationship. If you say you know a few wealthy people in Hong Kong, no one will doubt it."
"Being a broker is an idea. I used to be in charge of investment promotion on the front line. I know a lot of bosses in Hong Kong, but none of them can come up with tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars to buy antiques, right?"
“You don’t have to buy all of them, you can buy a few volumes.”
Nan Yi patted his forehead and said, "Yes, yes, yes, I thought about it. There is no need to buy the whole thing. They can sell it in small quantities. Team leader Zhou, tell me how you want me to cooperate with you. I will listen to your instructions.
However, there is one thing I want to make clear first. I can't be away for too long. Yaqing's work is at a critical moment. I wish I could work 24 hours a day and can't be away for too long. "
Zhou Dingjun smiled and said, "It won't take too long. The line from Xiangkeng can be connected to the devil Li Tangming. President Nan just needs to go to Jingcheng Hotel to find him and tell him that you want to buy the Yongle Encyclopedia. Then we just need to wait for news from Lou Xiaoyuan."
"Today?"
"No, the day after tomorrow. Li Tangming is not in the capital right now and will be back tomorrow night."
"Okay, what about today?"
"Mr. Nan, just focus on your own business. I'll let Xiao Luo stay as the liaison officer." Zhou Dingjun said.
Nan Yi frowned, "Comrade Luo will go with me the day after tomorrow?"
"Yes, she wants to keep you safe."
"What protection? She's just using me as a ladder. What a pity. I don't have a chance to succeed." Nan Yi complained in his heart and said, "Then how can I introduce her to outsiders? Team leader Zhou, please don't hurt me. My wife is very fierce.
I am forced to kneel on the washboard every now and then. If a beautiful woman appeared next to me, how would I live? "
"Boss Nan, don't joke around. We absolutely believe in Director Liu's political awareness. Don't worry, our task force will explain the situation to her afterwards, but beforehand..."
Zhou Dingjun deliberately didn't finish his words.
"Captain Zhou, don't worry. I used to be a communications militiaman and I have memorized the confidentiality code." Nan Yi said with a straight face.
"good."
Zhou Dingjun left and Luo Qianqian stayed.
"Comrade Luo, I apologize again for what happened on the train." Nan Yi expressed his apology first, and then said: "However, you have to be polite to me. After all, I am also the grandson of the target of the united front."
"Are you sure?" Luo Qianqian sneered, "I think Ms. Fang Mengyin is more like the grandmother of the target of the united front."
"Do I need united front work?" Nan Yi pointed to the documents on the table and said, "Don't you see that I am working hard for the reform and opening up of our country? Well, if you want to drink water, pour it yourself. If you want to drink beverages, there is a refrigerator downstairs. I have to work, so help yourself."
As soon as he finished speaking, Nan Yi began to read the document, occasionally writing something in the blank space of the document.
Luo Qianqian was bored. She stared at Nan Yi for a while, then looked around Nan Yi's office after getting bored. After a while, she wanted to kill the green-headed fly buzzing beside the screen window with her eyes.
After two hours, Nan Yi finished processing the documents and then looked up at Luo Qianqian who was struggling with a fly.
"The female dormitory building of Kyoto University is not far from here. These green flies go there to eat every day. After filling their stomachs, they will take a walk. After digesting the food, they will fly to my place to enjoy the cool air and watch a movie called "A Busy Day" repeatedly.
After watching the movie, they fly back to the girls' dormitory for a big meal. At night, as long as it doesn't rain, they will hold a bonfire party deep in Yannan Garden. Grass mosquitoes, moths, and fireflies will all participate, and they will dance together regardless of race.
The one you see, I call it Kung Fu Fly, it is very clean and must eat freshly pulled...prepared."
Luo Qianqian originally thought it was interesting that a fly could be endowed with romantic humanistic colors. However, Nan Yi's final word "pull" instantly shattered all the beauty.
"That bastard named Nan must be trying to disgust me on purpose."
Luo Qianqian keenly noticed Nan Yi's bad taste, she just glanced at Nan Yi and said nothing.
Nan Yi scratched his chin, feeling a little embarrassed. It wasn't that he deliberately wanted to make a reversal at the end, but he was already used to this reversal of speaking style.
"I'm going out. Do you want to follow me or stay here?"
"I want to follow you 24 hours a day."
Luo Qianqian didn't say anything. She had already discovered that her talking skills were probably not as good as Nan Yi's.
"good."
Nan Yi nodded and picked up the phone on the table.
"Hello, Nanyi from Yaqing Company, do you have any suites available? Okay, reserve one for me. I'll stay for two days... Thank you."
The Great Wall Hotel has a business booking service, and Yaqing Company is their cooperative unit. If you book a room in the name of Yaqing, you can get a good discount.
Although it is called a cooperative unit, there is actually no threshold, and no additional fees are required. As long as the unit’s name comes forward, it’s fine. It’s nothing more than giving potential high-quality customers some discounts to increase customer stickiness.
This marketing model only began to become popular among domestic business hotels in the mid-to-late 1990s. It has to be said that the business model of the Great Wall Hotel is quite advanced.
After going out and getting in the car, Luo Qianqian just glanced at the school beauty and the tiger cub and didn't pay much attention to them.
There is no need to pay attention to it now. The two school beauties held Hong Kong ID cards and got Home Return Permits when they came to the mainland. There are records of all of them. Luo Qianqian must know of their existence.
The car drove to Wangfujing. As soon as Nan Yi got off the car, he went into the Wangfujing Bookstore and then squeezed into the crowd.
Wangfujing Bookstore is the largest bookstore in Beijing. Ever since the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination was published in October 1977, the business here has been booming. Not only do local people in Beijing come here to buy books, even people from other places on business trips or tourism have to come here for a stroll. In addition, schools and libraries from other places all recognize Wangfujing Bookstore.
As recently as the first half of last year, bookstores did not have a self-service model. There were glass counters in front of the bookshelves. You had to ask the teller to get you whatever book you wanted, and there was no chance to read a few pages first.
If anyone dares to stand by the counter and slowly flip through the books, the people waiting in the queue behind him will just throw him out.
Every day when the bookstore opens, readers immediately line up in long queues, which is a unique landscape on Wangfujing Street.
It’s not that people who buy books like to come to Wangfujing to join in the fun, but Wangfujing Bookstore is the “No. 1 store in the country”. Any new books will be supplied here in advance, and those that cannot be bought anywhere else can be bought here.
Nan Yi squeezed into the crowd and ran towards a staff member who was restocking the bookshelf.
"Old Ai, did you keep it for me?"
"I kept them, but there are only eight. There's nothing I can do. Too many people have reserved them, and I dare not keep too many." Lao Ai whispered in Nan Yi's ear.
Lao Ai, Nan Yi couldn't figure out who the relationship was. Anyway, he had to go through many twists and turns to get in touch with the person, who was actually a friend of a friend of a friend.
"When will the next batch arrive?" Nan Yi asked.
Lao Ai: “At least by the end of next month.”
"Forget it, eight books is eight books. Can you take them now?"
"Not now, I can't leave, I have to restock, and I've already restocked more than ten times today. So, I'll bring it back in the evening and you can pick it up from my house." Before Lao Ai finished speaking , he was questioned by a reader next to him.
"You are busy, I still have to go to the internal bookstore next door."
Nan Yi said this and turned to leave without disturbing others' work.
This is a lovely era. If you want to buy a copy of "Cihai" or "Ciyuan", you have to go through a back door, or pay a deposit, register and get a number, and the book will be in your hands within two years. Isn't it fast?
On the right side of Wangfujing Bookstore, there is an "internal bookstore" a few dozen meters away.
The door is half-open. If you want to get in, you have to show your identity and make the cut.
"Hey, hey, hey, who are you? This is an office. Why are you barging in here?"
As Nan Yi walked to the door of the bookstore, he was stopped by a male voice.
After trying his luck and clearing his throat, Nan Yi was just about to say "The earth shakes the high hills, and the streams and mountains are beautiful for ages" when he heard the male voice again, "It turns out to be you, come in."
This was not the first time Nan Yi came here, and he had already left an SSS-level confidential file here.
It was a male voice, nicknamed Nerd, and his real name was unknown, so Nan Yi didn’t ask.
The nerd not only runs this bookstore, but also forms a translation team with a few good friends. They not only sell previously translated foreign literary works, but also translate some newly published foreign books. For example, the incomplete volume of "Shogun" that Nan Yi bought last time has a unique flavor of translation on the third page.
"Which country's army does the old lady want to challenge today?" Nan Yi asked as he walked into the door.
The nerd replied, "The Chinese Brave Battalion from Weihaiwei has just arrived, and the old Buddha wants to have a fight with them, so go all the way to the end on the far right."
"good."
Nan Yi responded and walked along the bookshelf to the innermost part, where he saw two books of Eagle Country literature, "Down and Out in Paris and London" and "Middlemarch", in a very conspicuous position.
After picking it up and flipping through it, he didn't find any obvious printing errors, so Nan Yi looked up and said to the man, "How many are there?"
"Twenty-two. You can take ten."
"Um."
Nan Yi responded, walked around the bookstore again, and picked up two original books that he had not read yet.
He paid the money silently, nodded and left.
Carrying the books, I went to the post office and sent a package to Wenchangwei.
"Isn't it a little early for an elementary school student to read this kind of book?" Luo Qianqian suddenly said while looking at Nan Yi packing.
"You checked me thoroughly enough." Nan Yi groaned, and then said, "You don't have to read it if you don't understand it, but as long as one person reads it, the book won't be a loss. Maybe Wenchangwei will produce a Nobel Prize in Literature in the future."
The price difference between sending the packages separately and sending them together is not much. Without waiting for "Etymology", Nan Yi sent out the ten books.
"What do you want?"
After walking out of the post office, Luo Qianqian asked again.
"What?"
"Why are you so concerned about Wenchangwei?"
Nan Yi stopped, looked into Luo Qianqian's eyes, and said, "Before I went to the countryside, the teacher who gave me a big red flower said to me: 'Go to the countryside and change the backward appearance there.'
The teacher may have just said it to me in a formal way, but I took it seriously as I was wearing a big red flower.
The educated youth went to the countryside, received re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants, integrated with them, became one with the peasants, transformed them, changed the backward ideas in the countryside, and led them to realize a better life with electricity and telephones upstairs and downstairs. "
"Not just empty words?"
Luo Qianqian didn't believe Nan Yi's words at all.
Nan Yi sneered, "Of course it's just empty talk. It's glorious to be a soldier defending the country, it's glorious to be a policeman fighting violence, it's glorious to be a scientist improving science and technology, it's glorious to be a cadre serving the people, it's glorious to be a doctor saving the dying and healing the wounded, it's glorious to be a cleaner beautifying the city, and it's glorious to be a worker engaging in industrial production.
Be a farmer?
Comrade Luo, are you willing to marry a farmer and settle down in the countryside? "
Nan Yi asked a question that penetrated his soul.
No, it should be said that it is an interrogation.
