254 gold and jade plates
The third warehouse is the calligraphy and painting warehouse, in this warehouse, the largest number of Western oil paintings, and Oriental paintings and calligraphy also account for a small part.
Xiao Yao felt that the leaks of oil paintings were not easy to pick up, and the first thing he identified was Oriental calligraphy and painting.
There are only a few small leaks in calligraphy and paintings, and Xiao Yao is not interested. But among the books in the inventory, Xiao Yao actually found three unique copies of famous people's handwritten books.
Among them, the most precious is the "New Tang Dynasty Book" by Ouyang Xiu's handbook, although it is only one volume, but this volume has more than 50 pages, and its value is simply immeasurable.
There is also a volume of "Diamond Sutra" written by Master Yunqi in the Ming Dynasty, and the last volume is "Bamboo Branch Words" written by Zheng Banqiao.
"Bamboo Branches" contains a total of 40 bamboo poems by Zheng Banqiao, which are astonishing in terms of literary value and artistic value.
These three handwritten authentic works are too rare, especially the "New Tang Dynasty Book" written by Ouyang Xiu himself, which is not an exaggeration to call it a national treasure. In terms of value, it is not far behind compared to Yan Liben's "Wei Zhengjin Advice".
The appraisers at the Louvre are a little worse than the Oriental artworks, but the appraisal of Western paintings is very high, and Xiao Yao has only selected two master-class oil paintings from the huge inventory.
One work is "Sun God" by Tintoretto, a famous painter of the Venetian School in Italy, and the other is "Harvest" by Miller, an outstanding representative of realism in the 19th century.
The signatures in these two works were deliberately concealed and regarded as imitations by posterity, and Xiao Yao was able to pick up two big leaks.
In the warehouse where the sculptures were stored, Xiao Yao's harvest was not small, and he found two master-level sculptures.
One is Bernini's sculpture "Little Angel" and the other is "Athena's Head" by Phidias.
The last two warehouses were the gold and silver goods storehouse and the jewelry storehouse.
In the jewelry warehouse, Xiao Yao didn't find any valuable leaks.
There is a harvest in the treasury of gold and silver.
As soon as he walked into the treasury, under the exploration of spiritual power, he found a heavy treasure - the Tang Dynasty court gem gold cup.
The patterns on the gold cup are extremely intricate and delicate, the shape is luxurious and exquisite, and its exquisite craftsmanship is amazing.
It was already the last warehouse, Xiao Yao originally thought that this harvest would be like this, but he didn't expect the real heavy treasure to appear so suddenly.
In his spiritual power, a one-foot-square gold-inlaid jade plate appeared, which on the surface was a gold plate engraved with strange words, but in fact, there was also a half-foot square white jade plate wrapped inside the gold plate, and the white jade plate was also densely engraved with strange words.
What is particularly strange is that there is a drop of purple liquid wrapped in the center of the white jade plate.
This drop of purple liquid was not water, nor was it any liquid he had ever seen, and his spiritual power passed through this drop, which actually gave him a warm and refreshing feeling.
Xiao Yao knew the strange characters on the gold plate and the white jade plate, which was the common script in ancient times.
Due to the rush of time, he did not read the words recorded on the gold and white jade plates in detail. He just glanced at the first few lines of text on the gold and white jade plates.
The first line of text on the gold plate translates to the meaning: Spirit Formula.
The first line of text on the white jade board translates to the meaning: Yulu Decision.
There is no doubt that this piece of gold and jade plate is definitely a treasure handed down from ancient times.
As for the levels of the "Spirit Divine Formula" and the "Gyokuro Decision" recorded above, he must wait for him to study it before he can know whether it is precious or not.
This piece of gold inlaid jade plate is too important, if it weren't for the existence of monitoring in the warehouse, Xiao Yao would be eager to take it away immediately.
Xiao Yao used his spiritual power to comb through all the collections in the 6 warehouses in detail, but in the eyes of others, he just looked at them casually, and the items he selected were also very random.
It only took more than half a day to see all the 6 warehouses.
Xiao Yao was worried that if the Louvre's management asked the appraisers to re-examine the items he had selected in detail, some of the items would surely attract attention.
If the clues are seen, the Louvre in Paris is likely to organize a top appraiser to conduct a detailed appraisal, and then things will be in trouble.
In order to avoid this situation, he chose very casually and quickly, and visited all 6 warehouses in less than a day.
All of the items he selected were recorded and packaged separately.
He was reassured that the Louvre had not arranged for an appraiser to re-appraise the items he had selected.
Seeing the collections he picked out were repackaged one by one, Xiao Yao was relieved.
He selected a total of 116 pieces, none of which were very expensive, all of which added up to a total price of $36 million.
For the remaining $24 million, Xiao Yao negotiated with the Louvre in Paris to select ten more expensive pieces of oriental art.
This time in a barter, he ended up exchanging the painting "Thunder" for 126 pieces from the Louvre Museum in Paris.
These 126 pieces of the collection are relatively ordinary, and they have never been exhibited to the public, and the management of the Louvre is very satisfied with the fact that these ordinary collections, which can only be stored in the treasury and eaten ashes, can be exchanged for "Thunder".
Xiao Yao exchanged a painting for a treasure handed down from ancient times, as well as more than 30 top-level antique artworks, and he was also very satisfied.
In order to avoid being seen as a problem, of course, he can't just select the more than 30 pieces of the collection he likes, and the remaining 80 or so pieces of the collection are all selected by him at random to disguise his real goal.
The whole transaction process was tedious, and it took three days to sign the final exchange contract.
The moment he finished signing, he was truly relieved. From now on, the more than 30 treasures he selected will truly belong to him.
Other antique artworks are naturally arranged to arrive in China according to the normal process. Only the gold-inlaid jade plate, Xiao Yao valued it the most, and he was included in the Holy Soul Ring.
Returning to the hotel in the evening, he took out the gold and jade plate again.
Before reading the text recorded on the gold and jade plates, he first identified the materials of the gold and jade plates.
As he expected, the gold and white jade on the gold inlaid jade plate were indeed not ordinary things.
The gold, which looked very ordinary, turned out to be a gold refined alloy, and with his current strength, he couldn't even use his sword to damage it.
The white jade wrapped in the gold plate is not ordinary, the white jade plate is full of spiritual light, and it is a very high-grade spiritual jade at a glance. This kind of extremely high-grade spirit jade, even in Panwu's collection, there are not a few pieces.