Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

The enthronement ceremonies of European nobles are all similar. They are basically held in churches, especially the enthronement ceremonies of dukes. The main ceremonies are all held in churches.

This is mainly because traditionally, dukes, like kings of various countries, are considered to be given rights directly by the gods rather than from the king, so their rituals naturally have more religious elements.

But this was not good news for Liang En. Because he could not enter the church, he could not see the most important part of the ceremony.

However, even the parts that Liang En could see could illustrate the importance of this ceremony. For example, the clergyman at the ceremony was the chairman of the French Bishops' Conference and the highest-ranking clergyman in the French Catholic Church.

This also set a precedent in Britain, because traditionally British nobles must be members of the Anglican Church. Previously, it was not even possible to inherit the title of Duke.

Fortunately, after the laws in this area were revised in 1963, people like Mr. Dulis who had no inheritance rights in the past were able to have inheritance rights.

Of course, in addition to obtaining the right of inheritance, Mr. Dulis also changed the inheritance tradition of this dukedom. With the Queen's permission, this title can be passed to female heirs in the future, instead of the traditional choice of male heirs.

According to what Liang En and the others learned in advance, this is what Mr. Dulis has worked hard to achieve. In addition to mobilizing his own personal connections, the most important thing to achieve this is the tradition of the earl title itself.

After the ceremony, Butler Robuchon came to Liang En and the others to express his gratitude. After all, it was thanks to their help that they were able to retrieve the important crown before the ceremony.

As a repayment for Liang En and the others' kindness, Butler Robuchon gave Liang En and the others a Hetian jade cup with an obviously strange style.

"His Excellency the Duke bought this from a businessman. It is said to be the relic of a noble from Central Asia. I think it would be more meaningful to give it to you than to put it in our hands."

"The most important thing is that there is probably a secret behind the difference between this thing and similar things. We have been studying it for a long time and have not found the problem. I think you may be able to see something from it."

On the way home, Liang En has been studying this cup. The quality of the jade cup looks really good. If it were to be sold, it would definitely be worth hundreds of thousands of euros.

But what he is paying attention to now is not the price of this cup at all, but the overall style of the cup that seems to be obviously abnormal the more he looks at it.

I have to say that the earl was really careful in choosing a gift for Liang En. Although the price of the item may be similar to the previous crown, it contains a lot of interesting information.

To give the simplest example, this cup looks like a fusion of Chinese style and Central Asian style, and is also engraved with a series of reliefs of dancing people.

Although it is not surprising that Central Asia, as the crossroads of East and West, has such fusion-style objects, it is rare to see such an obvious style as this cup.

Not to mention that unlike Burmese jade, which has a short history, the white jade produced in the geographically Central Asian region has been regarded as a treasure in East Asia, Central Asia and South Asia for thousands of years.

Therefore, such a cup with excellent texture and exquisite carvings is unlikely to be for ordinary people, but should come from the collection of a noble person.

After arriving home, Liang En received an email from Robuchon's housekeeper, and the email contained detailed information about the origin of the cup that the count had collected.

This cup was legally exported from Kyrgyzstan in 1993. It turned out that it had been collected by a family. According to the family members, this cup was found from a man who froze to death on a snowy mountain in 1919.

That year, the ancestor of the family was a shepherd who found a frozen corpse in the snow while looking for a lost goat in winter, and found several gold rubles and this cup from the corpse.

The amount of gold rubles was not large enough to completely change their situation, but it also saved the family from the bad luck of freezing to death in that cold winter. The cup was not sold because everyone did not know the goods, but kept it. Come down.

Until the same cold winter of 1993, they once again used this treasure gifted by fate to get the family out of trouble, and also let the cup come into the hands of the earl.

The count also investigated this, but only found that the cup should have been unearthed in Kazakhstan for more than two hundred years. Other than that, there were not many clues.

After returning home, Liang En quickly took the cup and began to study it. Soon, he found that the cup looked familiar, as if he had seen it there before.

"Let's go eat first." Just when Liang En was thinking about when he had seen this thing, Joan of Arc wearing an apron came in from the outside and said, and then happened to see the cup in Liang En's hand. "Is this the cup you've been studying on the way?"

"Yeah." Liang En nodded and said, "This thing looks very different from the common Central Asian jade cups, but it looks familiar. The most important thing is that the earl said that this cup is likely to be connected to some thing."

"I think this cup looks like the gold and silver cup of the Tang Dynasty that I saw when I went to China last time." Joan of Arc said suddenly after looking at the cup in silence for a few seconds. "It's just that this one is made of jade."

"You said gold and silverware from the Tang Dynasty - yes, this should be the style of gold and silverware from the Tang Dynasty." Liang En immediately reacted after being reminded by Joan of Arc.

He suddenly realized that both the shape and the pattern of this jade cup were very similar to the style and patterns on the gold and silver cups of the Tang Dynasty. It seemed that it came from the same place.

The reason why he didn't recognize it before was also very simple, because making it with metal and carving it on jade were completely different things, so the appearance was a little deformed, so Liang En didn't think about it at first.

From a certain point of view, it can be said that this is because experience has bound him. Instead, amateurs like Joan of Arc took a quick look and boldly guessed a situation closer to reality.

"You are right, so this should be a piece of jade from China or Central Asia." Five minutes later, when everyone was sitting at the dining table to eat, Liang En said with some excitement.

"No matter where it comes from, these represent various items from the Silk Road and the spread of civilization behind them, which is also part of history."

"Yes, but why would someone use the techniques used in metal making in jade carving?" Joan of Arc asked after putting the fork aside. "You know, it's not a simple thing."

"I don't know, but this is indeed abnormal, and this is what I want to find out next." Liang En said with a slight frown.

Because the ductility and toughness of jade and metal are completely different things, it is easy to imitate the style of jade with metal, but the reverse is difficult. So it seems very strange that the maker of this cup chose to do this.