When Wu Duo said "looking for someone", he was stuck, because he originally wanted to talk about Guan Zhiyu, but suddenly thought that Zhang Chengjin and Guan Zhiyu seemed to be at odds with each other, so he changed his words.

Zhang Chengjin has lived to a certain age, and he quickly adjusted his emotions.

It can't be fake, it can't be fake.

After chatting for a while, Zhang Lao took the first step, and Hu Yunde returned to his office.

Wu Duo then went to the smoking room and lit a cigarette.

Zhang Lao's jade cicada is like this, and where to go depends on how Zhang Lao himself makes up his mind. And Wu Duo needs to ponder the matter of "cursive thousand-character text" at this time.

Because he wants to "open the mussels and take the pearls", he is afraid that he himself will not be able to do it, what if the way of opening is wrong, so that the calligraphy and paintings inside are damaged?

Need to find a professional.

And a trusted professional.

However, Wu Duo did not have any acquaintances in this regard.

I wanted to ask Hu Yunde, but this scroll was collected from the store, and once he opened it and found out what kind of treasure it was, the acquaintances introduced by Hu Yunde might communicate with him.

Hu Yunde should not be looking for trouble, because he has already gone through the procedure clearly, but it must be very awkward to "happen" such a situation.

Everything is foreseen, and if nothing is planned, it will be wasted, and Wu Duo likes to think about problems in advance.

Thinking about it, I thought of Ning Shuang.

It is possible that I will go to Yanjing to find her to see Dong Xiaowan's flower and bird paintings in the near future, why not bring this cursive thousand-character text, tell her the ins and outs, and then find someone from Yanjing to open it?

Well.

Wu Duo returned to the appraiser's office and found that Qiu Buluo was not there; as soon as he sat down, Huang Wei came over and said that someone had sent something again.

It turned out that when he went to the smoking room, someone brought something, and Qiu Buluo went to see it; now that he was watching, someone sent something again, and Huang Wei came to find Wu Duo.

There are more people coming on Saturdays.

"He doesn't want to be in the reception area, let him come directly to the appraiser's office, right?" Huang Wei added.

"Okay. Wu Duo nodded.

In fact, there are three reception areas in the storefront hall, one is relatively large, that is, the one where Wu Duo has been there these times, and two are distributed in the two corners on the other side of the hall.

But the other party brought it up, so it was okay to go to the appraiser's office.

The person who came was a middle-aged man in his fifties, with well-rounded facial features, wearing an old-fashioned jacket and a somewhat serious expression.

"You may be seated. Wu Duo greeted, "Your surname?"

"Don't give your surname to Yu. The man asked, "Is it a formal appraiser?"

"Yes, my surname is Wu. Wu Duo knew that he was looking at himself too young, but he didn't explain, and said directly: "Let's look at things, right?"

The man hesitated slightly, but he still took out a brocade box from the bag he was carrying, opened the brocade box, and took out a copper incense burner from it and put it on the table.

It is said to be an incense burner, but it is more like a large bowl with a straight wall, no ears, no feet, no ornamentation, and the shape is extremely simple.

It can be identified as an incense burner because the bottom is not the structure of a bowl and is very thick, and there are traces of incense ash on the inside.

Wu Duo was not verbose and immediately got started. This incense burner is made of copper, with a diameter of about 25 centimeters, which is not small.

Looking at the leather shell of this copper incense burner, it is old at a glance, and it is definitely not a new thing. Then again, if you are cheating now, you won't do anything with such a simple shape, because people are not easy to be blinded, and if the shape is simple and has no characteristics, it is difficult to make people interested.

However, although the shape of this incense burner is simple, there is a horizontal inscription on the outer wall below the mouth.

And it is relatively long, almost half a circle around the furnace wall:

Governor-General, Mighty General of Military Affairs, Chief Military Officer Zhu Shou made himself.

"Mr. Yu, where did you get this copper incense burner?" Wu Duo asked as he looked at it.

"I bought it at a stall in another province on a business trip a few years ago. ”

"How early?"

"Late nineties. The man paused, "Appraiser Wu, you know Zhu Shou, right?"

Wu Duo smiled, "I know, Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao." Moreover, your incense burner should be from the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Zhu Houzhao of Zhengde gave himself another alias "Zhu Shou"; Emperor Zhu Houzhao can no longer be made an official, but "Zhu Shou" can.

This "Governor-General, Mighty General and Chief Military Officer" was given to "Zhu Shou" by Zhu Houzhao.

One day in August of the twelfth year of Zhengde, twenty-six-year-old Zhu Houzhao disguised himself and quietly left the palace with a few henchmen, and quickly whipped up his horse and went straight to Changping in the north.

The ministers in the court did not notice it that day, and only found out the emperor disappeared the next day!

The three scholars immediately led people to chase after them, but they chased them to Shahe, but they still didn't find any trace of Zhu Houzhao.

Fortunately, in Juyong Pass, Zhang Qin, the imperial historian of the customs, stopped Zhu Houzhao. Zhu Houzhao finally had no choice, so he went to the Changping Imperial Stables to inspect and went back.

But it didn't work once, but it accumulated lessons. Half a month later, Zhu Houzhao once again "absconded" from the palace.

This time, he finally succeeded and successfully got out of Juyong. At the same time, he immediately appointed the eunuch Gu Dayong as a messenger to supervise the Juyong Pass and not let any officials go out of the pass! In fact, it was to prevent the ministers from chasing him.

When he arrived in Xuanhua, Zhu Houzhao immediately issued an edict and appointed "Zhu Shou" as the "Governor-General's Mighty General and Chief Military Officer"!

That is, appoint yourself.

In fact, he has quite an idea, since the emperor's patrol battle is too big and the procedure is too troublesome, then now it is Zhu Shou, the "Governor-General-in-Chief, Military Affairs Mighty General and Chief Military Officer", to Xuanhua on business, which is much more convenient!

Later, this "Zhu Shou" also got many titles, such as Taishi, such as Zhenguo Gong.

Zhu Houzhao is a person who pursues ***, and has done a lot of ridiculous things.

However, it can also be seen from his experience of "absconding" twice that although he is out of line, he also has some of his own exquisiteness.

And before he died, he also issued an edict, which expressed the following meaning: What I did before was my fault alone, and it has nothing to do with you.

Forgive me for my uninhibited indulgence in this life······

Wu Duo was thinking about it, and the man opened his mouth again, "Appraiser Wu, since you know Zhu Shou, then this incense burner is not ordinary!"

"Wait a moment, I'll take a closer look. Wu Duo then held the incense burner with both hands and further "identified" it seriously.

This is indeed the incense burner of the Zhengde period.

It's just that it's five years of Zhengde······

Zhengde has been five years, less than eight years of Zhengde, and Zhu Houzhao has not yet issued an edict to appoint the "Governor-General, Mighty General and Chief Military Officer"!

Moreover, as for the inscription "Governor-General, Mighty General and General Military Officer", I can't hear anything, it must have been engraved within more than 20 years.

Combined with the fact that the man said that he bought it at the end of the nineties, that is, when he bought it, it may not have been engraved for a long time.

Wu Duo calculated for a while, this Zhengde copper incense burner, without such lettering, plus the simple shape, is worth about 30,000 yuan. This is also mainly due to the fact that the vintage can be and the copper quality is excellent.

"Mr. Yu, how much do you want to pay?" Wu Duo asked after gently putting down the copper incense burner.

The man held out two fingers, "Two million!"