The time of this meeting was just after 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Nan calculated in his mind, the difference between the western time and the opposite side of the ocean was 16 hours, and the Huaxia time should be 7 o'clock in the morning, and the agricultural curator should also get up.

I brought my own communication book and dialed a phone call to the other side of the Pacific.

Sure enough, Comrade Bosheng had just washed his face at home and was going to have breakfast.

A few words of greeting, but Nong Bosheng was more direct: "Xiao Zhang, is there any good news?"

Human spirits!

Here Zhang Nan smiled and said, "I said brother-in-law, you definitely belong to 007!"

It's a good thing, that's the case, today I found the body of the lid of the Tianquan Fang in the Xiang Provincial Museum..."

Zhang Nan said the general situation, 007 will not be released in Huaxia, but Nong Bosheng doesn't care what it is, and focuses on the second half.

Good guys, heavy weapons!

"$500,000, those guys in Hunan Province are lucky!"

Nong Bosheng had seen the original materials of the piece, as well as a book on Chinese bronzes printed in the United States in the 30s, which contained an introduction and black-and-white photographs.

Although the definition of the photos printed in the book is not high, he also heard that the body of the vessel is magnificent, and this piece of Tianquan Fang Wei is still the largest and most exquisite one of the Fang Wei unearthed so far, which can be called the king of Fang Wei!

Gai Nong Bosheng has seen it, and combined with the memory of the black-and-white photos and the text introduction of the original materials, Comrade Librarian has a general concept in his mind.

Such a "different head", gathering a Shang Dynasty bronze heavy weapon at a distance from the Pacific Ocean, Comrade Director thinks that Zhang Nan will come to a generous donation again - anyway, the lid in the Xiang Provincial Museum is impossible to give to Xiao Zhang.

Not to mention private individuals, other state-owned museums want it, it's all a matter of no door!

Thirty-eight years ago, a reactionary lieutenant general thought about cultural relics to exchange his life, and this private person should not think about it, unless he used some dishonorable means.

For the sake of a cover, Zhang Nan disdains to use three indiscriminate means, which Nong Bosheng can affirm.

As for not thinking about tidying up, if Zhang Nan wants to collect the body by himself, he won't call him, since he has called, it must be a donation.

Don't care about "mutilated beauty" and keep it?

A few years later, the lid and the body fit, come to a good story?

Nong Bosheng knew that a group of ordinary bureaucrats and academic bureaucrats would like that Tao very much, but he also knew that this Xiao Zhang probably didn't bother to play with you at all.

People don't look down on it!

Besides, if it's not a donation, is it possible to let the museum spend money on the acquisition?

People probably don't care about this money, but 500,000 US dollars, this will kill the gang of guys in Hunan Province and can't get it!

Hearing Nong Bosheng's words here, Zhang Nan said with a smile: "I said brother-in-law, I'm not so generous, give it to them for nothing?"

No, we don't have much friendship over there.

I'll let someone send you there as soon as possible, it's up to you, what do you like to deal with, it's okay to put pickles at home, and it's not bad to use a lid as a rice bowl......"

In this regard, Nong Bosheng on the other end of the phone was crying and laughing...

"I said Xiao Zhang, you have another problem for me!

Forget it, I took the things, if Lao Liu of the Xiang Provincial Museum doesn't have some blood, don't want to take things from me.

By the way, when will you come back?"

Saying this, it obviously means that he has a friendship with the Xiang Provincial Museum.

"In the fall, I want to come back too. I'll bring back two oil painting experts to see the Moulin Rouge at home, and if it's all right, you'll be ready to renovate the new gallery.

If it weren't for Renoir's, then I'd donate some, don't think about it, it's probably no problem to buy a few air conditioners. ”

It's rare to get a little skin, who makes Zhang Nan have the impression that this farmer hall elder appears in the image of an 80-year-old gentleman more than 20 years later, which will always feel that he is a bit of an old boy.

After a few more nonsense and an explanation, you can tell who donated it to the Yongcheng Museum, but forget about the money, stories and so on, so as not to cause hype.

500,000, 800,000, and 1 million publicity, waiting for the wind of tomb robbery to blow more and more fiercely, and the smuggling of cultural relics to become more rampant!

“...... Don't worry, Xiang Province wants this thing, and if you don't agree to these conditions, you have to agree. ”

After both sides finished speaking, they hung up the phone.

This is donating, after listening to Zhang Nan's casual explanation in English, Henry shrugged his shoulders: 500,000 is a small meaning for the boss, donate it.

This is still a good thing for Henry, which shows that the work of the "Treasure Hunt" show finally has something that can make the boss happy - a heavy weapon that can be donated by the boss, a good thing!

Henry didn't know, if it weren't for Zhang Nan's hatred of fragments in his bones, donate a hair!

If such a large scale is complete, it will be placed in its own museum in the future, and there will be a fan!

And it is an object of the Shang Dynasty, Zhang Nan's own collection of Shang Dynasty bronzes is not a few, and the grade is even more than the same as this dish.

Even if the Emperor Lao Tzu comes, don't even think about taking it from Zhang Nan's hands!

......

Henry is gone, and the dust has settled on this year's Oscars, but the follow-up is not over.

He is the CEO, not an idler, and he doesn't have to revolve around the boss.

Zhang Nan is also not idle, he has to go to Borneo in a few days, and if there is nothing else to do, when the time comes, it is best to go to Italy again, and the dream ship he came up with will be built there.

Don't choose France, lest the British have a nervous heart when the construction capacity of luxury cruise ships is declining, and in terms of the ability to build luxury cruise ships, Italy also has the world's top level, and the shipping schedule is not as full as the French.

If you have time to stop by Austria, if you are busy, forget it, your own super castle has entered the final bidding stage of design, and the plan on paper will be finalized.

Before returning to China for a period of time, several diamond mines in the southern hemisphere also have to be visited, and the boss still has to visit once or twice a year.

Finally, go to India to fight tigers, fight big tigers!

Spend a quiet day at home?

I haven't retired yet, so let's talk about it when I retire.

......

Back in New York, Adjani stayed until March 1 and took her son back to France temporarily, she also has a lot to do, even if her personality is maverick, as the first actress in France, she will not be completely invisible this year.

It had been long enough to disappear before, and this trip would have to be in France until at least June before coming to the United States.

No problem, Zhang Nan can understand.

Let's go, let's go, it's a big deal to miss my son, and I saw it when I flew over the Atlantic.

Jenny learned about what was going on over there, and the company's funds were successfully withdrawn and a fortune was made.

At the end of last year, the energy was basically focused on the little devils, which will continue to slide the devil economy into the abyss, but from the stock market alone, it is actually worse for the bent stockholders.

A large group of international financial speculators in the past year or two, a lot of hot money was smashed into the bend, and now it has collapsed, and the stock market is more ruthless than the little devil's stock market!

Asian Tigers, hehe......

I'm about to be fired.

......

I hugged my baby daughter every day, fished on the trestle for a few days, and planned to enjoy the taste of family before going to Borneo on the 10th.

On the 5th, Henry called: through the efforts of his own personnel, the collector who had sold his body planned to sell the remaining three bronzes in the collection again, asking for a total of $1 million.

Zhang Nan asked what it was, and Henry took a short copy of the information given to him by the person below and read it out according to the script, so he said a paragraph and sent a few faxes, and Zhang Nan quickly decided to pay.

“...... There is an object called Yi, which has a strange pronunciation, and there are 187 ancient Chinese characters in the lid and at the bottom of the object that they do not recognize.

Boss, would you like to take a look at the photos first?"

Henry thought thoughtfully, even if the quality of the fax is not good, it is better than buying blindly.

"Can you be sure that the artifact is genuine? Why does that person want to sell it?"

"At least 2,000 years or more, that can be guaranteed. The guy wanted to buy a big enough farm in Texas to live far from downtown Houston.

Escape from the city, it's weird. ”

"Send it over. ”

A few minutes later, Zhang Nan clapped: Buy!

The next day, escorted by two "joint forces" personnel, the four boxes were sent to Zhang Nan's manor.

The spring rain in New York is quite annoying, Zhang Nan is unboxing things in the living room.

The four boxes, with only numbers marked on the outside, were first checked by the bodyguards on duty with X-ray security scanners: even if they were packaged by the company, since the end of last year, all packages entering the manor have to undergo this security check.

Nicole and Jenny set the rules, and Zhang Nan did not object.

Mark unboxing, who made him a renovation worker, is the most experienced in this.

As soon as it is opened, the object is taken out and placed on the table, and the second box is opened.

Don't gossip, I have a long memory last time.

"It's a kettle, a wrong copper kettle, it's kind of interesting. ”

Copper kettles, common objects in bronzes, are generally not very valuable, because there are not many fancy things in this thing.

But this in front of Zhang Nan is a bit interesting, the real thing is much better than what is shown in the black and white fax, and the level of craftsmanship is quite high.

It's not because of the fancy shape, it looks quite decent in this regard, the surface is quite smooth, and there are no protruding decorations that are bizarre and "rising in price";

Because of its gorgeous and "high-grade" craftsmanship on its surface, this is a wrong copper bird and beast pattern pot, the process is special!

Take a ruler and measure it, the diameter is 13.6 cm, the height is 46.6 cm, and the weight is 6.2 kg.

Straight mouth, long neck, round shoulders, oval abdomen, straight wall ring feet, and a pair of ringed ears on both sides of the shoulders.

The lid of the pot is slightly raised, and there are four ring-shaped cloud-shaped buttons on the top, which are fastened with the spout of the pot with the mouth of the child.

The body of the pot is inlaid with red copper ornamentation, with a pair of triangular patterns to form a lattice bar, from top to bottom decoration is divided into seven layers: dragon pattern, phoenix bird pattern, dragon pattern, geometric phoenix bird pattern, dragon pattern, deer pattern, vertical leaf pattern, and the lid is also inlaid with red copper four-point moire.

Xiang Weirong touched the surface of the pot, and didn't feel that there was an obvious dividing line, "It's rare, I've seen it with the wrong gold and silver, and there is still a copper ...... wrong copper."

Wrong gold gold, wrong silver white, oxidized black, the intricate purple red pattern on the surface of this bottle is made of pure copper, that is, red copper inlay.

Two basically the same metal materials together have such a beautiful effect, if this artifact is newly made, it is estimated that it will look even better!

Pure copper is purple and red, malleable and easy to inlay, and the color of bronze itself is gray or gold, mostly gold.

In this way, the bronze base is golden yellow, and the color and luster will form a strong contrast, so as to have an excellent decorative effect.

"When?"

Xiang Weirong has seen the wrong gold and silver craftsmanship, this is the first time he has seen the wrong copper, and he is not a real expert, and he knows a fur about bronze.

Zhang Nan also touched the smooth surface of the copper kettle, and said: "The shape looks like the late Spring and Autumn Period, and the income from gold, silver and precious stones from this mistake was only available two thousand five or six hundred years ago, and it is basically not wrong, and the times cannot run Taiyuan."

This thing is very difficult, this thing is all staggered with a large area of red copper ornamentation, it may be cast by the technique of secondary casting of red copper.

The general bronze 'wrong' process is local inlay with simple patterns, and the number of such bronzes full of inlaid patterns is very small, and such a grade is not necessarily snatched from the Old Summer Palace!"

Zhang Nan is not talking nonsense, more than 20 years later, he seems to have seen such a wrong copper kettle on the Internet being collected by a famous American private museum, or a newly donated collection, and the source is the Old Summer Palace.

When I read the fax yesterday, I had this feeling: if I didn't pay attention, it was originally the old collection of the Old Summer Palace.

But I can't be sure, go back and ask Nong Bosheng to see if there is any statistics on the robbed bronzes of the Old Summer Palace.

Mark had already opened the second box: the packaging was too good, and the outer tape was wrapped dozens of layers thick, which took a little time.

This is a gōng, one of the ancient bronze vessels used by high-ranking nobles.

It is 23.5 cm high, 31.1 cm wide and weighs 3.52 kg.

This kind of wine vessel is rare, and the shape of this one is even stranger!

At the front end of the lid is a tiger head with round eyes and grinning teeth, and at the back end is decorated with a towering beak of a bird's head.

The whole body is a bird with the head of a tiger facing away from it, the belly is decorated with outstretched wings, and the hoop feet are decorated with curled legs.

"This piece is at least 500 years old, this style is particularly exaggerated, and the merchants especially like it, and the Zhou people don't seem to like such an exaggeration. ”

The third piece is the Yi that Zhang Nan values the most, which is not a small "wine jar": without distinguishing the external details first, he directly opened the lid and looked at the inscription on the inside of the lid.

"In August, Chen was in Jiashen, and the king ordered Zhou Gongzi Ming to protect Yin in three ways, and he was subject to the secretary's affairs. Ding Hai, ordered to report to the Zhou Gong Palace, and the public ordered to report to the secretary of the palace. In October, (10) the month is auspicious. Guiwei, Ming Dynasty to ......"

Good guy, the results of the two years of free time to make up for Jin Wen have come out, and this stumbling one has basically been recognized.

Put down the lid and take the flashlight to look at the bottom: interesting, the inscription on the lid and the body is exactly the same.

"What do you mean?"

Zhang Nan studied it again before saying to his brother-in-law: "I guess, I can't say accurately: there is a Zhou prince named Mingbao who held a sacrifice in Chengzhou and appointed a hundred officials of the Zhou Dynasty to fight the world, as well as the princes of the Shang Dynasty who have died of the suzerain.

This is a commemorative ritual of sacrifice, there is a person named Ming Gong, it may be Zhou Tianzi, who tried his best to hold this ceremony Kang Shi and Ya Ling gave gold and calf respectively......

It's hard to say this word, and the next thing is to appoint these two officials called Kang Shi and Ya Ling to new official positions.

In order to commemorate this event, this person called Yaling made a special thing to praise Ming Gong. ”

Even guessed, I don't know how many layers are correct: the words are known, and the meaning has to be practiced.