The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Prince Yixin He Shuo Gong, the six sons of Emperor Daoguang, the half brother of Emperor Xianfeng, the famous Wang Chongchen of the three dynasties of Xianfeng, Tongzhi, and Guangxu, the leader of the Westernization Movement, commonly known as Guizi Six.

In 1898, the devil died six times, and his grandson Pu Wei took the title of Prince Gong, commonly known as Prince Gong.

But the good times didn't last long. Ten years later, Puyi came to Xuantong. I died in the blink of an eye and became the world of the president.

In 1912, Xiao Gong Wang Puwei, in order to redeem the Qing Dynasty, and a group of relatives of the Man Qing emperor and the elders of the former Qing Dynasty organized the "Socialist Party", the political party for the restoration of the Qing Dynasty.

Yes, if you want to restore the country, you must first have money!

This is a big project. This Pu Wei is also a ruthless man, or a grandson of a prodigal family. In order to raise funds for the event, he packaged and sold the old cultural relics in Prince Gong's Mansion to the little devil's trading company.

After the little devil obtained the batch of cultural relics, he transported the higher-grade ones back to Guizi's homeland. The next year, the antiques of Prince Gong's Mansion were auctioned off in London and New York. Among them, 536 pieces were sold in the United States.

So there will be a very awkward thing: in the huge Prince Gong's mansion, apart from the house itself, there is no furnishings of the palace itself, it is completely empty. Besides, apart from the dozens of pieces of furniture in the Jietai Temple, China has rarely found the original cultural relics of Prince Gong's Mansion.

In the United States in the past two years, this batch of cultural relics from Prince Gong’s Mansion has occasionally been auctioned, and each time the person in charge of the Sunshine Star Company who collects cultural relics and art from various countries for the boss is notified.

I don’t buy all of them. I don’t want to be silly. There are already a lot of furnishings from the Qing dynasty in Zhang Nan’s warehouse and various properties.

But as long as it is Zhang Nan's fancy, that's good, 100% nothing else.

When a few people arrived in a wing room for temporary storage, Zhang Nan pointed to the four boxes and said, "This is it, take it apart together."

Everyone was busy, and the items in the box finally showed their true colors. This is a large round light screen with carved lacquer inlaid jade, plus the six-arc leg bracket with mud support at the bottom is more than two meters high!

Weng Yeming took a large measuring tape and measured it: the height is 2 meters 26, the width of the platform is 107 cm, and the diameter of the screen is nearly 84 cm.

The round light-shaped big screen is a hardwood frame, painted yellow lacquer floor, on top of which is inlaid with various jade carvings and treasures: **flowers and grasses, sacrificial rituals, immortal pill **, horses, scrolls, and treasure .

There are also the "three mores" which means blessings, longevity, and many children: bergamot, peach, and pomegranate; sail canopy with beautiful and joyful sails, and the dragon gate that symbolizes flying yellow and great.

Weng Yeming looked at the research meeting and said: "The base material is red sandalwood. On the throne is the five-clawed cloud dragon and the sea water cliff decoration that can only be used by the prince class. The lacquer floor craftsmanship was also used exclusively by the Qing imperial family."

"Knowing that you learned something from the head of the farm, this will give you..."

Speaking of Zhang Nan, he handed him a sealed bag that was shipped with the box, "Inside is a copy of the auction catalogue at the 2013 New York auction. This pair of large inserts** is Lot 199, with two pieces inside. Black and white photos and lot descriptions."

Open the bag, it's all in English. Fortunately, Weng Yeming's English grades were good when he was studying. In addition, in recent years, because of a brother-in-law who is abroad, he didn't completely throw foreign languages ​​in his spare time.

Most of them don't understand, but I still understand a little bit: "The transaction price was 700 US dollars."

Hearing this, Jiang Aihua on one side interjected: "How much can the dollar be worth at that time?"

If it is today's 700 US dollars, the official exchange rate is more than 3,700 yuan, and the black market is about 5,556. An ordinary capital staff member can't earn a year or use it in two years, and it is not a lot.

It's hard to say the 700 dollars it was seventy-eight years ago.

Zhang Nan was still thinking about the purchasing power of US dollars at that time, but Weng Yeming spoke first.

"In the early years of the Republic of China, one U.S. dollar can be exchanged for about 24 to 25 silver dollars in Beijing. In 13 years, it would be the hardest Yingyang at that time, and Longyang estimated that it would increase by 78%.

From the 11th to the 19th year, except for a few occasions when the high-ranking men fought around and the prices were unstable, the price of rice in the capital was basically constant, 178 kilograms of old stone 6 silver dollars, and 1 silver dollar can buy 30 kilograms of top-quality rice. .

Pork costs an average of 2 cents to 1 cent per catty, cotton cloth is 1 cent per city foot, and vegetable oil costs 7 to 9 cents per catty.

That's about it, 700 dollars is almost 1,700 silver dollars, which can buy 25-6 tons of rice.

If we alone eat one catty of rice a day, we can eat it for almost 140 years, and we will never finish it in a lifetime. "

Hearing this, Jiang Aihua, who is most familiar with him, smiled and said, "Where is the rice bucket?

Your kid only gets a catty of rice a day. "

Now Weng Yeming counterattacked: "I said Aihua, if you don't have so much oil and water, and a catty of rice a day, you can get some boiled vegetables and radishes to eat, and let you do some physical work.

You don’t need to work hard, and the moderate one is enough, and it can starve you into ribs in two months! "

To be honest, Jiang Aihua didn’t catch up with those three years. I won’t talk about the difficult ones. I have never had a day of greens, carrots and rice. Meat is fine.

He didn’t believe Weng Yeming’s words, “We people in Beijing love to eat noodles, but we don’t eat less rice. I have to eat two catties of rice for one catty of rice.”

"100 grams of rice is about 350 calories, and 1 jin of rice is 1,750 calories. Add your radish and green vegetables to the top for 2,000 calories a day.

Moderate manual labor, probably at the level of traffic police on duty directing traffic, sitting and driving a tractor, without having to move bricks, working, eating and sleeping in a day, it takes almost 2800 to 3000 calories to consume.

A person of more than a hundred catties, even if he doesn't do anything a day easily, he still has to eat at least 1,500 calories to not lose weight.

One catty of rice a day, you said your weight of one hundred and fifty-six, will you lose ribs in one month."

It’s not nonsense that I don’t have a lot of oil, water, and food. I didn’t see those people in the old photos all carrying an old sea bowl to eat.

Jiang Aihua obviously didn't read much in middle school, and compared with Weng Yeming...

slacker student!

That’s the question of whether there’s no food or not. Because at this time, there are so many people here. Weng Qianhui also came to join in the fun with his son. He found the huge pair of seats and asked Zhang Nan, “How much did it cost for such a big guy?”

"It's a coincidence that I bought it from two places.

The two brackets were filmed on a treasure hunt TV show I made in the United States. They cost $5,000.

At this price abroad, red sandalwood is also sought after by Westerners.

As a result, a guy who saw that episode contacted the TV station and wanted to contact the buyer to buy the pair of brackets. It turned out that the pair of seats above was bought by him from the United States seven or eight years ago, and he has never found the original support. shelf…"

Well, the agent who didn't know the buyer behind the TV at all, but didn't buy the bracket, and the interstitial was fooled away by the agent of the TV station.