The auction was about to begin, and suddenly someone said, "Excuse me, can you let me appraise it?" As you know, this is not an ordinary treasure painting, and the starting price is 10 million US dollars. ”

This kind of request is reasonable, after all, starting with 10 million dollars, no one will pay for it easily without sufficient certainty.

The auctioneer also expected this situation, so the auctioneer did not panic and made a gesture of please.

"Sir, please come over here. In addition, if you have any questions, you may wish to take a look at the treasure painting first. "They weren't worried, the picture scroll was real, and the one in the Japanese museum had been replaced.

You know, this is a national treasure that Japan prohibits from exhibiting abroad.

It's ridiculous to say that their so-called national treasure-level cultural relics are still Chinese things. There are not many cultural relics in their own country, and there is not a single one that can be compared with these in China.

Some people may say, aren't there three major artifacts in Japan?

But the so-called three major artifacts are actually just a little longer in history, and if you want to talk about artistic value, it is far from comparable.

The old man who spoke just now, Hu Yang had a little impression, as if he was a collector in China, but he didn't remember what it was called.

At this moment, President Fang sent him another message to explain the situation.

The one who spoke just now was Wu Xiushan, a well-known collector in China. He has also explained the situation to China, and now, Wu Lao is just acting, so that Hu Yang pays attention to cooperation.

Acting?

Hu Yang didn't understand a little and didn't react.

President Fang explained that although Wu Lao's questioning cannot deny the authenticity of the painting, it can at least make people doubtful, and when the competition will be held for a while, everyone will have scruples, and the auction price will not be so high.

Yes, and that means? Hu Yang said that he understood.

In fact, he doesn't have to do anything, anyway, Wu Lao will raise his own doubts after a while, although it is difficult to establish, but it has already planted the seeds of doubt for everyone.

As long as Hu Yang cares about bidding, he can reduce the amount of money spent as much as possible while ensuring the smooth shooting of "Xiaoxiang Lying Tour Picture Scroll".

Sure enough, Wu Lao quickly asked the question: "Why does it feel a little wrong here?"

The auctioneer was surprised: "What's wrong? ”

"Everyone knows that this is a picture of the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty ......" Wu Lao began to question.

The general rules followed by the appraisal of Song paintings should be the same as those of other ancient paintings. It is nothing more than the identification of the sample, the comparison of the new discoverer with the already established sample, in which its authenticity is determined.

In Wu Lao's view, there are two keys to identifying Song paintings.

The first is the issue of establishing a sample. Since the Song Dynasty, public and private connoisseurs, collectors, good deeds, counterfeiters and deceived people of all dynasties have left us countless Song books, the vastness and complexity of which can only be summed up by four words: vast and complex.

Second, it is also necessary to understand that many elements in the identification of ancient paintings are interchangeable, and the main factor in this painting may be the structure, and the main factors in that painting may be the brush and ink, description, circulation, and even a Tibetan seal may become the main factor.

"Judging from this painting, there are traces of restoration, which is nothing, everyone knows that this painting has been restored. But the problem is the Tibetan seals here, these two Tibetan seals don't feel right!"

He found two seals, indicating that the painting had been in the possession of those two men. However, those two people belong to the same era, and the relationship is still a bit stiff, unlikely, right?

In fact, this kind of questioning is a bit immature and untenable in the eyes of Populus euphratica.

To say that the identification of Song paintings is indeed very complicated and special.

First, it is very far away from our present age; second, there are many copies of Song paintings of the same era and later generations; third, there are many forgeries of the contemporaries and later generations; fourth, there are many erroneous judgments in the records of the past dynasties; fifth, there are completely forged bibliographies; sixth, there is no good history of Song Dynasty paintings; seventh, there are too few practitioners and researchers for the appraisal of Song paintings; and eighth, there are too few Song paintings that have survived from history for study, and most of them are in public collections.

Therefore, the appraisal of Song paintings has always been a difficult problem for all appraisers, and many times, no one dares to say a word, even if it is an expert in this field.

As soon as this problem came out, it really made some people vigilant.

Although this reason is a bit far-fetched, it is not entirely unreasonable.

For a while, the auctioneer himself couldn't tell the reason, so he could only say something else.

Wu Lao didn't dare to offend people too much, raised a slight question, and immediately retreated, as if he was no longer interested in this national treasure, and walked out of the auction hall with the two people around him.

His departure, although not causing a commotion, has already planted the seeds of suspicion in everyone.

The auctioneer was very depressed, if the eyes could kill, the old man was already crushed just now.

At this time, it is not appropriate to drag it out, and the person in charge hurriedly gave the auctioneer a look.

The auctioneer spoke: "Okay, what the old gentleman said just now doesn't make sense! Who said that people of the same era can't collect it? For example, before today, this painting was mine, but I suddenly wanted to use money and sold it to you, and everyone stamped it, this is not good?

Now, let's start bidding. I would like to reiterate once again that this is the first masterpiece of landscape painting in the Southern Song Dynasty of China. ”

Because of the episode just now, everyone's vigilance was raised, and for a while, no one spoke.

In fact, it's not that everyone is not interested, but they are all waiting and waiting, waiting for a bird to emerge first.

Seeing this, Jiang Nan understood what was going on, he was willing to be this budding bird, and shouted with a hippie smile: "I'll add 100,000." ”

The auctioneer was overjoyed, and sure enough, it was the two young Chinese people who gave face.

"That young master's family is 100,000 yuan, is there anything higher? Let me remind you again, this is the first masterpiece of landscape painting in the Southern Song Dynasty. ”

Yes, they all shouted directly to the young master.

The audience in the live broadcast room complained wildly.

Someone started the bidding, and the bidding gradually became fierce.

"One thousand and two hundred thousand!"

"One thousand and a half million!"

......

In just three minutes, more than 80 additional bids have been added, and it has reached more than 18 million US dollars.

At this time, Hu Yang spoke: "Twenty million!"

"Two million dollars, that honorable gentleman bid twenty million, is there anything higher than him? twenty million for the first time!"

It has reached 20 million US dollars, which is already more than 100 million yuan, and even the richest people have to weigh it. As a result, the scene began to fall silent slightly.

After a long time, there was only one person chasing the price of 100,000.

But as soon as his words fell, Hu Yang shouted again: "Two million dollars." ”

This time it's completely clean.