In the news, you can often see such reports, some people accidentally threw cash, valuable jewelry, mobile phones and other items into the trash, or sold as waste to the waste recycling station, and by the time they think about it, they have been unable to return to the sky. However, such losses are actually within the bearable range for modern people, and in the last century, because of the carelessness and carelessness of people at that time, a number of precious cultural relics in our country were damaged, which is a painful historical lesson that is difficult to save for all Chinese.
In 1898, the Qing Cabinet Treasury fell into disrepair, and the entire treasury seemed out of place in the magnificent Forbidden City, so the Qing government decided to spend money to repair the Cabinet and clean up many documents and archives in the Cabinet. Fortunately, at this time, a Qing Dynasty official named Luo Zhenyu reported the matter to Zhang Zhidong in time, and he listed a large number of evidence to prove the value of this pile of archives, and Zhang Zhidong decided to leave this pile of files and entrust Luo Zhenyu to deal with the matter.
In this way, Luo Zhenyu and a group of subordinates packed these archives in a neat and orderly manner in the cabinet, a total of 8,000 sacks, and placed them in the Guozijian of the Qing Dynasty, these archives have great reference value for future generations to study the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Luo Zhenyu's move has left an incomparably precious wealth for future generations. However, the turbulent fate of the archives in these eight thousand sacks did not end there, on the contrary, with the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, these eight thousand sacks also began their nightmarish and turbulent lives again.
After the Beiyang government settled in the Forbidden City, some moth officials in the government certainly did not miss the opportunity to touch the fish at this time, these archival documents that were originally lying in the Guozi Prison would be turned over from time to time, and then there were fewer and fewer, especially some of the Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty orphan books, which were even more missing. Later, the Beiyang government had a financial crisis and the turnover of funds was difficult, so this group of people began to think of the files in the sacks, and in their eyes, this large number of sacks could be sold as waste paper, bringing them a windfall.
In this way, the Beiyang government quickly contacted a paper shop in Xidan, and the owner of the paper shop said that the 8,000 sacks actually weighed 150,000 pounds, which was worth 4,000 oceans. Luo Zhenyu was heartbroken after hearing that the archives had been sold, so he immediately contacted the owner of the paper shop to buy back the archives at a high price, but the stock of the archives that came to him again was far less than at the beginning, especially some of the treasure archives and documents, which were already scattered and difficult to find. In order to let the archive play its true value, Luo Zhenyu began to sort out the work, but after several years of sorting out the case, he only sorted out the data of the sea.
Later, Luo Zhenyu's family became increasingly difficult, and he had no choice but to resell these precious cultural relics to a collector named Li Shengduo, who took over about 120,000 jin when Li Shengduo took over, and after he transferred some of them to Puyi and his friends, he sold the rest to the Institute of History and Linguistics of the Academia Sinica, weighing about 100,000 jin. At the beginning, more than 150,000 kilograms of precious cultural relics were reduced by a full third in the back, which is a pity.
However, these sacks did not stop the fate of drifting, they changed hands several times, until the founding of New China did not end the nightmare of wandering, but at this time, the sacks lying quietly in China's first historical archive were only 50,000 pounds left. Later, the government sent experts and scholars to spend several months cleaning and repairing these precious archives, and found many historical documents with great research value, but because of the lack of nearly 100,000 kilograms, many of them were fragments of waste paper. The archival documents contained in these eight thousand sacks are precious cultural relics of our country, but due to the ignorance and stupidity of the greedy people, these cultural relics have been displaced, and they cannot be bought back for billions of dollars. China's rarest cultural relics were sold for 4,000 yuan as 150,000 kilograms of waste paper, and now billions cannot be bought back!