Rebirth 93: Break off the engagement at the beginning and marry Bai Fumei

In the eighth year of Qianlong's reign (1743), Tang Ying reported that he had "newly planned nine types of laminated Linglong and Jiaotai vases". He also said that "the work and materials were expensive, so we did not dare to make more." He had to obtain the emperor's approval before " Then burn them in pairs."After approval, Emperor Qianlong required that the new porcelain "must be paired. If they cannot be paired, they will be fired in different varieties."It can be seen that it is very likely that Tang Ying only fired one at that time and submitted it. Later, it was approved by Emperor Qianlong and later paired. This may explain why the two statues were paired and signed differently.

So how did these objects end up overseas?Here I want to explain the Mountain Chamber of Commerce.

"Chen Yang, since you have joined the antique shop, you must know about the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce." Chen Yang looked at the heart-changing bottle in front of him, and remembered the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce that his master in his previous life told him.

The Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1910. It was once a powerful antique business organization across Europe, America and Asia. It was the largest antique chamber of commerce established by foreigners in my country at the beginning of the 20th century.Its soul figure is Yamanaka Sadajiro, a tycoon in the Japanese antiques industry. What is extraordinary about him is that he seizes the most favorable opportunities in time and establishes the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce's leading position in the industry through large-scale operations of Eastern and Western antiques.

Yamanaka Sejiro is a bold and decisive person in the business world. In 1894, he opened an antique store in New York, and later opened branches in Boston and Chicago. A branch was opened in London in 1900 and an agency in Paris in 1905.The reason for this was that Yamanaka Sadajiro recognized that the rapid economic development in Europe and the United States at that time would inevitably drive art collection, and the wealthy classes in Europe and America were already full of curiosity and curiosity about oriental art.

Seizing such an opportunity, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce quickly established a sales network overseas and cultivated the sales market for oriental art in Europe and the United States.As the overseas market's demand for our country's artworks expanded, Yamanaka Sadajiro turned his attention to the capital, which has a long history, the richest collection of antiques and cultural relics, and the most active market transactions, and began to establish a branch of the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce in the capital of our country. It should be said that from this time on , the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce truly entered its glorious history of prosperity.

Yamanaka Sadajiro did two major things in our country. First, he purchased a large sum of money from Prince Gong’s collection and shipped it all overseas for sale and auction. Second, he bribed the monks guarding the grottoes in Tianlong Mountain, Shanxi, to steal and destroy the Buddha statues in the Tianlong Mountain Grottoes in Shanxi.Yamanaka Sadajiro's diary records one of the stolen shipments in detail. More than 40 Buddha heads were cut off, packed into boxes, and transported to the capital, and then transported from the capital to Onigashima.

Prince Gong's Mansion was built in 1776 during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It was originally built for Emperor Qianlong's favored minister He Shen. It also served as the residence of Qianlong's ten daughters, Princess Gu Lun and Princess Xiao, and his consort Fengshen Yin De (son of He Shen).On the third day of the first lunar month of the fourth year of Jiaqing, on the third day after the death of Emperor Qianlong, Emperor Jiaqing issued an edict to secretly escort Heshen. The next day, Heshen was relieved of his duties as Minister of Military and Aircraft and Admiral of the Nine Gates.On the 49th day of the first lunar month, Emperor Jiaqing promulgated [-] charges against Heshen, and searched Heshen's house. On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, Emperor Jiaqing issued an edict to confer brocade, and Cao Linshi, the prisoner of the Ministry of Punishments, committed suicide. Heshen was [-] years old.

After Heshen's death, Emperor Jiaqing gave Heshen's Mansion to his younger brother, Prince Qing Yonglin. On March [-], the first year of Xianfeng, Emperor Xianfeng transferred Prince Qing's Mansion to his younger brother, Prince Gong Yixin, and it was first called "Prince Gong's Mansion".

In 1912, Prince Gong Puwei decided to sell all the collections in Prince Gong's Mansion. After receiving the news, Yamanaka Sadjiro, accompanied by his friends Yamanaka Rokusaburo and Okada Yuji, came to Prince Gong's Mansion to view the treasures collected by Prince Gong's Mansion.

In his diary in the early winter of 1912, Yamanaka Sadajiro described this trip to "dig for goods" at Prince Gong's Mansion: In the spacious courtyard, there are rows of warehouses filled with treasures, which are divided into Ruyi warehouses, calligraphy and painting warehouses, and bronze wares. There are probably dozens of libraries.The items in every room were covered with a thick layer of dust.You can also see countless jade jewelry in the library, as many as rice in a rice store.Yamanaka Seijiro also said proudly, "No antique dealer will ever have such an opportunity in his life!" After Yamanaka Seijiro purchased the collection of Prince Kyou's Mansion, the cultural relics were quickly shipped back to Japan for classification and sorting, and were divided into three A batch of fine products are shipped to the United States for auction, a batch is shipped to the United Kingdom, a batch is left for retail in the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce’s antique shops on Onigashima and abroad, and some fine products are collected by the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce itself.

A 1913 New York auction catalog obtained in China is printed in English. On the title page there is a photo of Prince Gong Puwei in court attire. It introduces with pictures and texts the collection of Prince Gong’s Mansion that was auctioned in New York that year, including jade, bronze, ceramics, and wood. There are more than 7 pieces in 500 categories including , enamel, stone carving, and weaving and embroidery.

The Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce has been looting treasures in our country for more than 30 years. According to surveys, this period is also the most important period when the best parts of our country's cultural relics are lost overseas. In addition to Lu Qinzhai, who is well known in the industry, adding fuel to the flames, the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce undoubtedly bears the brunt.

It wasn't until the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 that they pushed themselves into the abyss, and the Mountain Chamber of Commerce also encountered misfortune.The United States declared war on Japan, and at the same time seized the relevant assets of the Little Japs in the United States. All the inventory of the New York, Boston and Chicago branches of the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce were all confiscated by the United States government as enemy property, and public auctions began in 1943.

Chen Yang recalled in his mind and couldn't help but clenched his fists slightly. At the same time, he also thought of Inoue's life. Fortunately, he was killed by himself. Otherwise, he didn't know how many good things he had, or else he would be taken away by these little devils.

"This bottle is good," Song Qingyun's voice came to his ears. At this time, Song Qingyun was sitting on the edge of the kang, turning the bottle and looking at it. "This bottle has blue and white flowers on it, and the outside is painted with foreign colors, enamel colors, and pastels. It is quite good to use various techniques such as gold tracing, hollowing, centering, relief, and shallow engraving.”

Song Qingyun's voice brought Chen Yang's thoughts back to reality, and he looked up at Song Qingyun. At this time, Song Qingyun's eyes flashed with a trace of surprise and sadness, and then his eyes became calm again, and he looked up at Uncle Jiang with a smile, " Bro, that’s all these two, right?”

Uncle Jiang nodded, "I won't have any more, just these few, let's see how much I can give you?"

Song Qingyun touched his chin, frowned slightly, rocked his body back and forth, looked at the jewelry box on the table, then at the revolving bottle in front of him, and finally clapped his hands, "Brother, how about 800 yuan for two items?"

After hearing the price, Chen Yang wanted to go up and give Song Qingyun a big mouth. One was a pink glass grape flower jewelry box collected by the museum. Not to mention how much it was sold for in later generations, even at this time, it was easy For a few hundred thousand yuan, I would give someone 800 yuan!

"That won't work, this is too little!" The uncle shook his head like a rattle, "Look at how beautiful this jewelry box is. Not to mention it was left in the past, even the workmanship on the market today is not as good as it."

"Look at this again, there's money underneath!" As he spoke, Uncle Jiang picked up the revolving bottle. Chen Yang secretly smiled secretly beside him and glanced at Song Qingyun, asking you to give such a small amount of money. , people know the style!

"Made in the Jiajing Year of the Qing Dynasty, what a neat style!!"

puff!Chen Yang was thinking in his heart. Hearing what the uncle said, he almost spit out a mouthful of blood!

The Jiajing Year of the Qing Dynasty!Uncle, you don’t know how to talk nonsense. How did you do it? Can you regard Qianlong as Jiajing?Even if you don't know the Chinese characters, don't you know any history? Jiajing of the Qing Dynasty... Jiajing was reborn to later generations!

"Uncle, this is what makes your bottle so worthless!" Song Qingyun pursed his lips and chuckled, "Without this guarantee, the price would have been higher. Because of this guarantee, your item is worthless! "

"why?"

Song Qingyun turned the bottle to himself, and after fooling the uncle, he turned the bottom of the bottle towards the uncle, "Uncle, this bottle of yours should be from the late Qing Dynasty or the early Republic of China. It was imitated by folk craftsmen according to the royal standard. If you don't have this model, I will buy it back." It can be sold as something from the late Qing Dynasty, but..."

"But what, wouldn't it be better to have a bottom line?"

"Alas," Song Qingyun sighed slightly, "but this one is written wrong. Jiajing was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty!"

"Think about it, the Qing Dynasty came after the Ming Dynasty. Isn't this an obvious mistake?" Song Qingyun pointed at the bottom of the money and explained to the uncle, "I guess the craftsmen at that time wanted to print the Jiaqing Year System of the Qing Dynasty. Maybe it was written in the Jiajing Year System of the Qing Dynasty due to insufficient education or a manual error."

"Oh, that's right," Uncle Jiang heard Song Qingyun say a lot, and obviously frightened the old man, "Then let's just say it's the Jiaqing Year of the Qing Dynasty, and no one else will know it anyway."

Song Qingyun smiled and waved his hand, "Take a look for yourself, does this word look like the word "Celebration"? Besides, there is still a chance to fool a layman. If I meet someone who understands, can I fool them? Isn't this going to ruin my own job? ?”

"Let me tell you this, I just saw that the workmanship of the bottle looks pretty good. I bought it and put it in the store. If someone really buys it, I really don't dare to sell it to others. What the hell is this!"

After hearing this, the uncle pounded his thigh and kept talking. He didn't expect that all his father left behind were junk things, and he didn't know what he had done with being so rich all his life.After several discussions, Song Qingyun finally succeeded in acquiring the two items for 2000 yuan.

The black heart is indeed a traitor!Chen Yang curled his lips next to him, saying that the old guy Song Qingyun gave the uncle a trick and actually got two such good items at such a cheap price.No, I have to get this heart-changing bottle from Song Qingyun.

Song Qingyun counted out 2000 yuan from his bag and handed it to the uncle. Then he waved to Chen Yang to pack his things. The two of them were packing their things when they suddenly heard someone push open the door and a woman shouted at the door. , "Is Brother Jiang at home?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a woman dressed as a village woman walking into the yard and starting to walk into the house.Uncle Jiang hurriedly hid the money, stood up and walked outside while shouting, "Lao Ga's family, why are you here?"

"Our family member asked me to come over and tell you that we are going to have a drink at home tonight." As the village woman spoke, she glanced into the house. Song Qingyun and Chen Yang just walked out, "Is this a visitor at home?"

"No," Uncle Jiang smiled and shook his head, "Isn't the child always sick? I asked my nephew to find two people in Jiangcheng. If there are any old objects that I like, I will sell them for money."

When the village woman heard this, she glanced at Song Qingyun and Chen Yang, "Hey, it's a good relationship, are you sold?" While speaking, the village woman smiled and nodded to Song Qingyun and Chen Yang.

"I sold it for 500 yuan and it will last for a while. I will figure out a way to do the rest later!" At this point, Uncle Jiang sighed and said that if it didn't work, he would think of other ways.

Song Qingyun and Chen Yang said hello to Uncle Jiang, and left Uncle Jiang's house with their belongings in their hands. The two of them walked towards the parking lot with their belongings in their arms. Song Qingyun asked Chen Yang to go slowly, "That woman will be there in a while." You have to come find us, she definitely has something at home."

"No," Chen Yang looked back and looked at Song Qingyun in surprise, "How do you know, in case someone is just curious!"

"I'm not running away," Song Qingyun said firmly, "The look in our eyes is wrong. If you don't believe me, just wait and see."

Song Qingyun had just finished speaking, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and lit it with Chen Yanggang, when he heard someone calling from behind, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you two collect old things, right?"

"Well," Song Qingyun smiled and nodded, "Auntie, do you have any old things at home?"

"Yes, yes," the village woman walked up to Song Qingyun with small steps, "There are quite a few at home," as she spoke, she looked around cautiously, "In those years, my old man had a lot of trouble! "

"That's great, let's go take a look with you." After saying this, Song Qingyun glared at Chen Yang.

Damn, this is so awesome!Chen Yang looked at Song Qingyun silently, how could he tell if it wasn't his uncle?