From the Island Owner to the King

And Zhao Lin, with the approval of the enthusiastic antique shop owner, can take pictures at will in the shop.

The owner of the antique shop is from Yanjing. His ancestors came here in about 1870 before the Qing Dynasty. He was the first group of Chinese to come to Manhattan's Chinatown, and the first to imitate Akon (, is considered the first Chinese to settle here permanently. ) sells a 30-cent cigarette, and provides cigarette lighters and oil lamps for customers to use.

Gradually, with some savings, he started his old business and opened an antique shop on Maubilee Street, which was passed down to his third generation.

Chen Rui suddenly found some books in a corner of the antique shop.

Books were piled haphazardly together with dusty covers on their covers.

Chen Rui walked over, picked up a book at random and read it.

"Red and Black", German version, the book looks a little worn, some years old.

Feel free to pick up a few more copies, Notre Dame de Paris, Farnina Farnini, Carmen, Racine and Shakespeare, some of the works from 18th century Europe, all in German translations .

Chen Rui didn't have much interest in these, and put these books back into the stack at will.

Suddenly, Chen Rui turned around and wanted to look elsewhere. When he was leaving, he scanned the stack of books with the corner of his eyes. Suddenly he stopped, turned around, squatted down again, and picked up the "Fannie" he just picked up. Nafanini's book.

When he turned around just now, out of the corner of his eyes, he noticed a corner of a piece of paper in the book "Farnina Farnini".

Chen Rui held the book "Farnina Farnini" in his hand and opened it gently. It was a slightly yellowed page, but the quality of the paper was very good. Paper for drawing a map. The interleaf was artificially glued to the pages of the book. Because it may have been a long time ago, the glue was a little loose. When Chen Rui picked up the book and shook it, a corner of the interleaf was exposed. It was discovered by Chen Rui.

This is a five-line sheet music, in addition to some tadpole-like notes, there are also some special symbols.

There is a string of German above the staff, a string of German below, and then a person's name.

Chen Rui put down the book and turned on the phone. First translate the name of the person at the bottom of the music score through the translation software.

Martin Bowman.

When he saw the name, Chen Rui couldn't help but be very surprised.

The name is so famous.

Anyone familiar with World War II knows this man.

The Nazi's "No. 2 war criminal", the secretary general of the Nazi party, Hitler's private secretary, he holds the money bag of the Nazi party. Known as the "Shadow of the Führer", in the last days of Hitler's regime, Martin Baumann became the second most important figure after Hitler, the head of the Nazi Party headquarters.

Martin Bowman holds the Nazi party's purse, and thinks that the Nazis hid a large amount of gold treasures and looted works of art on the eve of the end of World War II in 1945.

The number of these treasures and works of art is very large.

There have been statistics of Nazi Germany's looting of treasures and works of art from the occupying power during World War II.

Before the war began, the leaders of Nazi Germany were fond of seizing art through state power, and Hitler dreamed of becoming an artist. The number two figure in the Nazi Party, Goering, calls himself a "Renaissance" person. He likes to collect and has a wide range of interests. Including paintings, jewelry, handicrafts, furniture and even rare animals, Goering's collection reached '8 rooms' long before the outbreak of the war, and by early 1938, Goering's collection had far surpassed that of the leader Hitler.

In Vienna, Himmler's SS and Neo-Austrian Nazis carried out blatant looting of Jewish shops and personal treasures. The large and exquisite collections of the great Jewish merchants were the first targets of their looting.

The following year, the SS targeted 32 boxes of jewels hidden in Vienna after the fall of the Holy Roman Empire: Charlemagne's jeweled prayer book, several scepters, globes, swords and other coronation rites.

Works by modern and Jewish artists like Picasso, Gauguin, Chagall and Kandins were labelled "degenerate art" and confiscated.

After the German Blitz conquered Poland. Half a year later, "all the cultural relics in this country. All have been received."

This number is 137 railway wagons, a total of 4,174 boxes, and 20,973 pieces. There are 10,890 paintings alone, most of which are masterpieces by famous artists. In modern times, any painting can be auctioned for more than millions of dollars.

After invading France, the Netherlands and other Western European countries, the Nazis made a 300-page catalog of "protected" items.

In the Soviet Union, the Germans looted 400 museums, 2,000 churches and 43,000 libraries.

In order to frantically plunder the world, Hitler carefully organized a special force whose task was to carry out large-scale looting of precious cultural relics, gold and silver treasures of various countries in a planned and planned manner.

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From the outbreak of the war to the eve of the end of the war in 1945, almost the entire wealth of Europe was plundered, not only gold and foreign securities, foreign exchange, etc., but also cultural relics, treasures, and famous calligraphy and paintings throughout Europe, including Utrillo, Works by famous artists such as Manet, Degas, Barack, and Picasso.

This huge amount of treasure and most of the works of art was a foregone conclusion after the defeat of the Nazis in 1945 and was hidden by the Nazis.

So far, at most one-third of the Nazi treasure has been recovered, with the rest still hidden somewhere.

There may well be a hidden secret to some Nazi treasure hidden in this stave.

Or buried in an abandoned mine, or in the Alps, or in the underground chambers of some mansions.

Chen Rui also translated the German on the staff.

On the top row: home of zither and brass.

The bottom line reads: Holy and colorful place.

These two strings in German say that they are somewhere in Germany and Austria, and the symbols on the staff to distinguish the notes should be some other hints.

Due to the lack of some geographical data about Germany and Austria, Chen Rui could not temporarily decipher the burial site of the Nazi treasures marked in the stave.

Perhaps, there are other books in the stack that have some hints about Nazi treasures in the middle pages like a stave.

Chen Rui closed "Farnina Farnini", folded the exposed corners of the book back into the pages, and decided to buy all the books.

Chen Rui said, "Boss, how much is this pile of books, I want to buy some books to go back and decorate the study."

The boss said, "One copy is $140. If you want all of them, you can save $10 for one copy." (To be continued)