Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"Thank you so much for your help this time." After the two sides ended the communication, Mr. Frey said happily, because the Chinese side was not only willing to hold a ceremony in this regard, but also said that it would invite at least provincial-level media to report it. .

For this businessman who had wanted to enter the Chinese market before, he naturally knew what the Chinese media was like, so he was very satisfied with the high-level reception from the other party.

The most direct conversion of this kind of satisfaction is verbal gratitude. The greatest gratitude was reflected in his reward: in addition to the bronze vessel originally worth 300,000 yuan, he also gave Liang En several other cultural relics collected in the same batch.

"My family is a big one and someone in the family has been in the antiques business of sorts and these were found while clearing out an apartment building."

Taking advantage of the free time during lunch together, Mr. Frey began to introduce to Liang En the source from which he obtained this batch of Chinese cultural relics.

"At that time, the building that was built during the East German period was about to be demolished, so my nephew who ran an antique shop at the time participated in the auction before demolition as usual."

Hearing this, Liang En nodded with a clear face, because this approach in old houses can be regarded as a common practice among antique dealers, whether in China, Europe or the United States.

However, unlike China, which is basically a private operation, many places in Europe and the United States have turned it into a semi-official project.

That is to say, when a building is about to be demolished, invitations will be sent to antique dealers, asking them to come and see the buildings that are about to be demolished and ask them to bid.

It's just that most of the effects of this kind of bidding can only be said to be average. After all, only a small part of the residential buildings where treasures are often found, most of them just have some debris.

Similarly, not all of the bidders are antique dealers. At least most of them come here not expecting to pick up any antiques, but hoping to find some second-hand goods that can be recycled and make a small profit.

From a statistical point of view, this situation is very normal. After all, the chance of finding valuable items in old houses is really very small.

But what everyone should know is that there are always some people in this world who are much luckier than normal people, such as Mr. Frey's nephew.

He bought the exploration rights of a building at a very unexpected auction, and then during the subsequent search, he discovered a hidden mezzanine and found good things inside.

"Although we don't know the origin of the treasures in that building, we probably guess it is related to World War II and the Cold War. At that time, many people chose to hide their wealth." Mr. Frey concluded in the end.

"It's just that for some reason, the owners of the treasures were unable to retrieve their treasures in the end, so they were discovered and found only when the houses were demolished."

After having a meal together, Liang En and the others were done with their work, so after saying goodbye, they took a plane to leave Switzerland and return to their hometown.

Somewhat unexpectedly, less than two hours after they arrived home, a man arrived with a gift from Mr. Frey.

"Look what this is." After sending the messenger away, Liang En moved the large suitcase into his laboratory and said, "Now I am very curious about what that bronze will look like. .”

He was a little excited now because he didn't get any cards in the previous investigation. After all, the things in this investigation didn't have a long history, so the things in this box were all his gains this time. hehe

"I'm also curious. After all, I'm also curious about what interesting things there would be in the far east in that ancient Bronze Age?" Joan of Arc also looked at the box with curious eyes.

For her, after following Liang En in digging around during this period, she is now also interested in antiques that record various histories. Therefore, she also very much hopes to know what those histories are all about.

As the box was opened, the small box placed in the middle immediately attracted Liang En's attention. As the lid of the box was opened, a green bronze vessel appeared in front of them.

"I know him. This thing should be a bartender." Looking at the bronze vessel that Liang En carefully took out from the box, Jeanne said excitedly. "It's something that ancient Eastern people used to drink, similar to a wine glass."

"Ah, you are half right." Looking at the three-legged bronze vessel, Liang En looked at Jeanne and said with a smile, "This thing is indeed a bronze baron, but it is not used for drinking."

Many people's first reaction when seeing jue is that it is the same as today's wine glass, a container for drinking drinks, but in fact this is not the case, because there are many types of jue, and not all of them are suitable as drinking containers.

For example, this one is an obvious example. If you actually pick it up and prepare to drink, you will find that this thing is not suitable for doing this.

To give a simple example, when normal people use this thing, they will choose to hold the wine jug in their right hand and pour the wine into their mouth through the flow, that is, the bronze U-shaped groove suitable for pouring wine.

However, you can only drink 2/3 of the wine in this way, because if you continue to tilt the wine glass, the two pillars on the wine glass will hit people's eyes.

Even if you raise your head at this time, you can only drink four-fifths of the wine. If you want to drink all the wine, you have to tilt your head back. But at that time, the two pillars will also hit the person's face.

If you consider that you had to kneel down at that time, the posture to drink up the wine would seem too awkward and completely inconsistent with the etiquette requirements of the nobles of that era.

Therefore, it can be said that as long as there are jues with pillars, they basically have nothing to do with drinking. The misunderstanding of Joan of Arc occurs because the history of bronzes only mentioned the name of this thing, and did not say what these things looked like.

Therefore, when the Song Dynasty renamed the cultural relics, it was not very accurate because it was too long ago. As a result, it was passed down through misinformation.

This is the case with jue. Although this is indeed a drinking vessel, the cultural relics called jue now have several different shapes. At least there are four different shapes found now, and these four shapes of jue may not be what the ancients meant. Refers to Jue.

"So this thing is definitely not for drinking." Liang En said to Jeanne after a simple gesture. "After all, few people are willing to drink in an acrobatic manner, especially in those ancient high-end banquets."

"Then what do you think this thing is used for?" Joan of Arc looked at the queen carefully and said, "A container of this size is inconvenient for other things. If you don't have to drink, what else can you do?"

"Then there are a lot of things that can be done." Liang En smiled and said that he had learned a lot of knowledge in this area from the Chinese experts last time, so he could just show it off at this time. "For example, something related to religion."