Behind the long detailed data is a real story, which is the famous "Real 008" disappearance incident.

This is an ugly battle between the Japanese and puppets. As early as 1926, the Japanese government established the "Oriental History Museum" that collected precious cultural relics from Asian countries. The famous work "Golden Mountain Scenery Picture" by Tang Yin, a famous Chinese Ming painter, was numbered as "Original Works 008", becoming one of the important cultural relics that the Japanese invaders urgently need to seize.

After the outbreak of the war of aggression against China, many Japanese cultural spies sneaked into China and inquire about the whereabouts of the "Original 008". Finally, they learned that the painting was in the hands of Chen Bijun, the wife of Wang Jingwei, the chairman of the pseudo-government in Nanjing, and were ready to plunder it.

Chen Bijun, who had noticed this, hurried to Tianjin and prepared to take the "Seagull" yacht to Daoqing to take back to Nanjing.

The "Seagull" that Chen Bijun was scheduled to take was intercepted by dozens of Japanese people led by Shitaro Yamamoto on the Bohai Sea. Five Chinese employees and 19 merchants on the ship were thrown into the sea. However, the Japanese searched the entire ship, but they could not find Chen Bijun and "Golden Mountain Scenery Picture". It turned out that Chen Bijun, who had learned the news in advance, had secretly changed to the "Fujimaru" to sneak back to Nanjing from Tanggu. Chen Bijun, who escaped the disaster, secretly transferred the famous paintings to an underground secret room with a steel-bone iron gate structure in the traitor Zhou Fohai's house.

Soon, the omnipresent Japanese spies found out the news again. They took advantage of the opportunity of Wang Jingwei, Chen Bijun, Zhou Fohai and other traitor leader Jin to see Japanese officials and sneak into Zhou Fohai's house, used a cutting machine to open the basement iron door, steal the "Golden Mountain Scene Picture", and then set fire at Zhou's house to destroy the evidence of crime.

However, after the "Golden Mountain Scenery Picture" was transported to Japan, it was identified by experts from the "Oriental History Museum" as a high-quality fake.

Regarding this mystery, some people speculate that the paintings shipped to Japan were indeed authentic, but the cunning Japanese deliberately used a trick to point to the truth as false; some people believe that Chen Bijun’s hidden in Zhou Fohai’s house was originally a fake painting.

But Cao Juren gave another statement in this article. This painting was taken first by the gang of fake cultural relics production and sale at that time, and used a package transfer to replace the real painting, thus leaving this precious work in China!

"So what if you stay in China? Are you planning to use it as a fake version to make more profits?"

The article ends here, but Li Yi speculated that it was Cao Juren who knew the fate of this painting later, or the purpose of his writing, originally hoped that through his praise, he could inspire the national responsibility and sense of justice of some people in the "13" organization, so that this painting would not be used to make fake profits!

Li Yi looked at the other pages and found that they were all other contents, which had nothing to do with cultural relics, so he temporarily put the newspaper aside. These other contents are also of great research value, but they just don’t care about it now.

Immediately afterwards, he picked up the second newspaper. This was still a "Ta Kung Pao", but the publication date was much later, in 1948, and the date and front page content should be a newspaper published by Chiang Ching-kuo during the fight against the tiger in Shanghai.

In the second page of the newspaper, a Chiang Ching-kuo's escort said in an interview: "Long before the Shanghai Stock Exchange fell into the hands of the Japanese invaders, a group of righteous men realized the crisis. Through a arduous struggle with Japanese and puppet spies, they replaced the total of 273 precious cultural relics in the Shanghai Stock Exchange Museum at that time with fakes, and then transferred the relics to the National Government. Because similar actions were required to be carried out in the future, they have not disclosed it."

Although this report did not mention who these righteous men were, judging from the intention of 13 to give this newspaper to Li Yi, this should have been done by their predecessors. And the counterfeit for real in the article just proves this.

"What happened this time is pretty good, but in the end I handed over to the National Government. It is very likely that it would be better to keep things in your own hands than to do this! Alas."

The next few newspapers were several newspapers published in the liberated areas during the War of Resistance Against Japan, which vary in time, but the contents of the reports were not very different. Patriots who were unwilling to reveal their names donated a large amount of precious cultural relics as military funds to support the anti-Japanese war.

"It actually has connections with the Kuomintang and the CCP at the same time, so what about the follow-up?"

Unfortunately, there are only so many newspapers in total, and there are two notebooks and some scattered information.

Li Yi first picked up a notebook above. The handwriting inside was very sloppy, but the things recorded were amazing.

The first record of this notebook is the specific action plan and participants of the Shanghai Municipal Museum in 1936. However, all the personnel replaced the names with code names, which made Li Yi very regretful.

"It turns out that the Japanese had almost penetrated the museum at that time. So, they really put in a lot of effort for this."

While watching slowly, Li Yi was thinking about what the purpose of mailing these things to him was.

These things should be very precious or even irreplaceable for the 13 inherited from generation to generation. Why did the other party send them to him? What are the intentions?

Soon, I finished reading the first page, and as soon as I came up on the second page, I recorded the results of the action and the disposal plans for the secretly replaced cultural relics.

"Seven people were sacrificed!"

The notebook records similar actions, some successful and some failed. A total of 13 actions were involved in 13 provinces and cities, and the number of people who died in the end was as high as 178!

The person responsible for writing this note wrote sadly at the end that after so many years of hard work, the entire 13 organization was almost destroyed, and he had no choice but to go to dormant. Fortunately, he had seen the dawn of victory in the War of Resistance.

Seeing this, Li Yi felt that the notebook in his hand was heavy. What a magnificent era at that time. Even a group of "bad people" who made huge profits by making counterfeit prices on weekdays devoted themselves to the War of Resistance!

"It seems that the master is not wrong. This is really a group of heroic people! But why have they not chosen to publish these information for so many years, and instead embarked on the old path of fake production? Is it because 13 has changed people?"

Li Yi was really confused, so he shook his head, and no longer thought about it. He reached out and picked up the second notebook.

In this second notebook, the treasures they secretly exchanged from the museums, and each treasure was marked behind them.

Related to the meaning of the previous and subsequent texts, Li Yi found that this mark should represent the whereabouts of these cultural relics, so he couldn't help but study them carefully.

"There are three different styles of this kind of mark. If one representative was handed over to the Kuomintang and the other representative was donated to the CCP at that time, then the remaining one should represent the cultural relics that remained in the hands of 13."

After studying for a while, Li Yi guessed the general meaning of the mark.

"The three-legged incense furnace of blue and white tangled branches and lotus in the Ming Dynasty, the three-legged incense furnace of blue and white dynasties, the picture bowl of blue and white dynasties, and the "Tian"-shaped pot of Doucai Sea Water Tianma Picture, which is such a precious thing."

Li Yi browsed page by page and found several familiar names in it. These things are now in Taipei or the Forbidden City. Without exception, they are all national treasures!

But this time, he became even more confused. What exactly did this 13 want to do? Do you want to make these things public through his means, thereby clearing them of their stigma for so many years?

"But why did you choose me? Do I know this person?"

13 People in the organization usually have another identity, and everyone is doing this, so it is normal to know each other.

"If this is the plan, it doesn't matter if it is made public. After all, they have made so many sacrifices and shouldn't be buried in history silently."

Putting down the notebook, he looked through the scattered information and found that the content of these records was quite messy, including a certain month and a certain day. He successfully imitated the antique and recorded all his experiences. Some were documents such as instructions, requiring a member to imitate a certain cultural relic, and some transaction records.

After reading these things one by one, Li Yi shook his head with a wry smile, "Let's wait." Since this guy handed him so much valuable information, there must be some information. And all he can do is wait.

It seemed that the other party was also calculating how much time it took for him to see these things, so he didn't ask him to wait for a long time, and the phone call came in again just now.

"Well, I admit that I may have had some misunderstandings about your organization before, but I don't understand what it means to send these things to me. Do you want me to make it public for you?"

Li Yi was too lazy to go around the circle politely, and asked the other party's plans directly.

"No, Mr. Li, these valuable information would have been made public long ago if we were willing to be disclosed. However, the 13 organization has a rule since its establishment that all information within the organization must not be leaked, otherwise it will be hunted down by the organization."

"Oh? There is actually this rule. Mr. 13, do you do this and want me to be hunted by your organization together with you?"

The other end of the phone was silent for a while, and finally, it seemed like he had made up his mind and said a shocking sentence: "No, I want Mr. Li Yi, you, to replace me as the next 13!"

"Puff!" Li Yi squirted directly. This surprised him so much. The purpose of the other party sending him these information was to let him take over 13?

Let a guy with a private museum with countless precious cultural relics be the leader of a counterfeiting group. This proposal is really fantastic!
Chapter completed!