Chapter 19: Being an Internationalist
"Professor Yamashita, I'm very sorry for this happening. Because the organization has made other arrangements, Mr. Wang really cannot accompany you on this inspection trip.
But don’t worry, we will arrange the itinerary carefully according to the requirements for your trip. Whether Mr. Wang is present or not will have any impact on the slightest!"
Two days later, Yao Yingzhuo from the Provincial Foreign Affairs Office respectfully welcomed the guests he wanted to receive, and took them up the mountain with ease and headed straight to the Red Star Tea Farm.
The Foreign Affairs Office originally sent a car to Yao Yingzhuo, which was a military-green jeep. However, the customer had a Toyota car and more than one, so he asked him to get in and accompany him.
The foreign guest was named Yamashita Yoshihisa, who was in his early 40s and wore gold-rimmed glasses with a sparse forehead and a little Mediterranean. He is a professor in the History Department of Kyoto University, studying Chinese history and corresponding archaeology.
It is said that such a professional liberal arts professor has no future.
However, in Japan, if you can ignore the failure of employment prospects and pursue archaeology, most of the family has little assets and don’t care about this.
Yamashita Yoshihisa is a typical example - his father is an insignificant minor shareholder of the Mitsui Zaibatsu and has a property of hundreds of millions of yen.
In the late 1970s, Japan's housing price bubble had not yet arrived, so money was still relatively valuable. Unlike when the housing price bubble reached its peak more than a decade later, hundreds of millions of yen were only equal to the land price of 20 square meters in Ginza.
Therefore, Yamashita Yoshihisa has money to satisfy his personal academic hobbies.
He heard that something happened to Wang Pingshan, and he was a little unhappy:
The investigation was secondary. Anyway, I had almost seen it all last time, but the result made him very heartbroken: the orthodox Chinese and the orthodox clothes of the Tang and Song dynasties were actually destroyed so thoroughly at its original site! The ruins of the Yongfu Mausoleum and Yongchong Mausoleum have been completely crushed and tilled into tea fields.
So this time, his key purpose was to buy things! He had a transnational and ethnic love for these antiquities. He always regarded himself as the orthodox heir of the Tang and Song dynasties, and did not want to see more things being destroyed.
When something happened to Wang Pingshan, who else would he ask to buy it?
"Class Yao, I can understand that Mr. Wang has other arrangements. I just don't know if he has explained what antiquities are...? I'm more interested in those things, you know." Yamashita Yoshihisa asked unwillingly.
Yao Yingzhuo could hear the unspoken words, but the things Wang Pingshan collected had been sealed as physical evidence by the provincial department, so he had no choice.
The most annoying thing is that I can't tell the truth to the Japanese: "Professor Yamashita, we really haven't heard of this. Maybe he forgot it, or maybe there are no new discoveries for you to study."
However, this statement was immediately refuted by Yamashita Yoshihisa: "Impossible! When I was in the consulate in Hujiang, I repeatedly confirmed with him that he said that there were some new things that were not sure whether they were genuine. I hope I could help him identify them, how could there be no new discoveries!"
Yao Yingzhuo cursed MMP in his heart:
Wang Pingshan is really bold and reckless! He actually dares to talk to foreign guests in private! Don’t you know that all the lines should be passed by the foreign affairs department to decide what can be said and what can’t be said?
But at this point, he could only ask the relevant judicial departments to see if he could be eased and thaw the things that were used as evidence of Wang Ping'an's case, so that Japan could talk about it later.
At worst, he insisted on not selling it in the end and told him that these were all judicial evidence, so that he would enjoy it.
In Yao Yingzhuo's idea, as a staff member of the Foreign Affairs Office, he would have to "not give bad reviews" for the foreign guests. As for the relevant domestic departments who cannot meet other requirements of the foreign guests after the matchmaking is completed, it is nothing to do with him.
He just needs to clear his responsibilities.
...
After a while, Yao Yingzhuo's request came to Wu Junfa, who was handling the case in detail. As for the cooperation comrades from the local relevant departments, they also received it.
Before Gu Min and Gu Ao returned to Qiantang, they stayed in the guesthouse for a few more days, wanting to wait for Wang Pingshan to be sure of the crime - they were also afraid that something would happen again and they would be overturned by local snakes. If they could not die when they were beaten, they would be troublesome if they were retaliated against.
The roots must be eradicated when cutting the grass.
Wu Junfa also knew that the reason why the things that Japan wanted to find could not be found was that it might have something to do with Gu Ao's protection, so he did not hide it from the Gu siblings and told Gu Ao that the situation was told to Gu Ao.
Gu Ao didn't want to get rid of the problem, so he thought about it and asked Wu Junfa:
"Would we also meet those Japanese as the reception staff of the tea farm? I didn't want to leave written evidence, so I verbally told them that Wang Pingshan was lying to them and that those things did not exist, so I should send them away."
Wu Junfa didn't expect Gu Ao to ask this: "You want to meet foreign guests too? Do you know foreign languages? If you expect Section Chief Yao to interpret for you, I'm afraid he will not be happy. You are not the leader."
Gu Ao was quite sure: "A little more knowledgeable, can you still speak English if you can't speak Japanese? I don't believe in a history professor at Kyoto University, and I can't even speak English. I can't work hard as Director Yao."
"Okay, at worst, you can follow me, I will take responsibility. Anyway, they are not very important guests, and there is no big leader to meet him." Wu Junfa decided to sell this favor, so he replied to the letters layer by layer through the relevant departments.
Yao Yingzhuo was about to turn the blame, but it didn't matter who the relevant departments sent to explain the loss of physical evidence.
The final conclusion is to let Wu Junfa, who is in charge of the case, participate in the meeting personally. As for whether he wants to lead the escort, and if his escort says the wrong thing, of course, he will be responsible for the leadership.
The next morning, Gu Ao followed Wu Junfa and Yao Yingzhuo together to meet Yoshihisa Yamashita on the farm.
Wu Junfa used a relatively stiff attitude to inform Yamashita Yoshihisa that King Pingshan had committed an unforgivable evil deed and had been controlled.
"Mr. Yamashita, I'm very sorry. We can prove to you on behalf of the judicial department that there are a lot of deceptive information in the telegram that Wang Pingshan replied to you. The things you want to see do not exist after our verification. I'm really sorry that such a thing happened..." Wu Junfa said in Chinese in an official accent, and then asked Yao Yingzhuo to translate.
Yamashita Yoshihisa was shocked and very unwilling to accept it.
Gu Ao was always by his side, pretending to be a local educated youth, watching in a crowded manner.
However, from just over a dozen minutes of conversation, he also saw that Yamashita Yoshihisa seemed to be a person who pursues academic reputation and wants to leave a name in history.
Maybe they really don’t care about money and collection value, they just want to gain a good reputation.
Gu Ao Sizhi repeatedly and seized the opportunity to say in English: "Professor Yamashita, I think Wang Pingshan must have never told you that Yongfuling and Yong Chongling were the ones he personally directed to dig Ping. Do you really think that cooperation with such a demon will not damage your reputation in the historical community in the future?"
There are not many foreign affairs personnel in multilingual languages nowadays. Yao Yingzhuo is proficient in Japanese, but he only understands English slightly. For a moment, he was shocked to hear that Gu Ao's English speaking seemed to be much more standard than him, and he was vaguely talking about Wang Pingshan's crimes.
"This little comrade! Please pay attention to your words!" He spoke in a hurry to stop him, and he was very unhappy.
However, he did not expect that Gu Ao's words actually made Yamashita Yoshihisa pay great attention to them.
"Bridged bean sack!" He suddenly stood up, his eyes full of shock, and then turned to Yao Yingzhuo, "Secretary Yao, I hope to say a few words to this gentleman, please do not stop him, and do not punish him for his words."
"Mr. Yamashita, please forgive us for our work..." Yao Yingzhuo begged with a bitter face.
But in the end, he still failed to get what he wanted. He could only quietly pull Wu Junfa aside: "Director Wu! Who are you bringing? Do you not understand foreign affairs discipline?"
Wu Junfa was also helpless: "This young comrade is the person involved in the case and knows the situation more well. Maybe he wants to clarify."
Yao Yingzhuo's nasolabial folds were stimulating, and he was intimidated: "I won't make things difficult for Professor Yamashita to plead for him. But you have to give me all his information. Today, I will report it to the foreign guests and record it in his file, and follow him for the rest of his life."
After recording it in the file, it is already exempt from direct punishment, and additional punishment must be imposed - in fact, it is not necessarily considered a punishment. If you are a future college student, you will go to a private or foreign company after graduation, and the file will be worthless.
But for most people who cherished the "identity of a state cadre" at that time, writing a truthful statement in the archives was already a punishment.
However, Gu Ao didn't care. Who made his views come from later generations?
At Yamashita Yoshihisa's insistence, Wu Junfa and Yao Yingzhuo were both left to the side to talk. He talked to Gu Ao alone in English and not very proficient oral Chinese.
Gu Ao knew that he had bet right.
Ever since he judged that Yoshihisa Yamashita was a man who cherished his academic reputation, he knew that with Wang Pingshan's treacherousness, he must have not told Yoshihisa Yamashita that the last two of the six tombs of Song Dynasty were destroyed by him personally commanding people.
And Yamashita Yoshihisa's next question quickly proved this.
He said with a heartache: "After the two countries resumed diplomatic relations a few years ago, I only heard that many things happened in your country... It was a very unfortunate thing for ancient civilizations. I have been studying the history of the Tang and Song dynasties all my life, and I felt very sad. This year the situation has relaxed a little, so I rushed to Kuaiji for inspection.
But at that time, Wang Pingshan told me that he was sent when your country wanted to use the wasteland and reclaim the tea farm. The previous destruction had nothing to do with him, and he also said that he was exploring and searching for rescue..."
Gu Ao interrupted: "But we have sufficient evidence - you can't take it away, but if you want to hear it, I can show it for you. If you have seen it, forget it. You must never tell the Section Chief Yao that you have seen it."
In just a few minutes, Gu Ao proved Wang Pingshan’s main bad deeds to Yoshijiu of the Yamashita.
"Maru Noro!" Yamashita Yoshihisa pounded the ground with his fist, looking unwilling. Then he seemed to remember something and asked Gu Ao sincerely.
"Gu Sang, thank you for telling me this. I know that there must be some things that Wang Pingshan said - he is an example of the interests and cannot deceive me. Can you help me mediate after the case is completed and the judicial thaw of physical evidence?
I am willing to buy those things through official and formal channels and absolutely give a reasonable price - believe me, I am not because of greed, I do not want your country to have another fluctuation and ruin more things.
You have to believe in our Japanese attitude towards ancient culture. Fifty years ago, when the Kanto earthquake was in danger of fire, senior Kikuchi had to risk his life to rescue Su Xian’s cold food post. Sell me the things, and I can even promise you not to take them out of the country.”
Gu Ao refused righteously: "No, this is impossible. Give up this idea - the things you want do not exist at all. And there will be no such chaos in China. I promise that after Wang Pingshan's case is settled, all antiques related to him will be donated to the provincial museum and displayed and protected by professionals."
Yamashita Yoshihisa was a little decadent, but he didn't insist. He thought for a while and changed his words and said, "I hope you can give me a piece of evidence that it was indeed the destruction of Wang Pingshan in that year. The documents you organized are fine. As long as they are sufficient, I will also help you prove his other crimes - I believe that he must have made a lot of difference from the transaction with me.
Chapter completed!