Prince Heshuo Gong Yixun, the sixth son of Emperor Daoguang, the half-brother of Emperor Xianfeng, the famous king of Xianfeng, Tongzhi and Guangxu, the leader of the Westernization Movement, commonly known as the sixth devil.

In 1898, this devil hung up, and his grandson Pu Wei took the title of Prince Gong, commonly known as Prince Xiao Gong.

But the good times didn't last long, 10 years later, Pu Yi came to Xuantong, and I hung up in the blink of an eye, and became the world of the president.

In 1912, in order to save the Qing Dynasty, Xiaogong Wang Puwei and a group of relatives of the Manchu Emperor and the former Qing Dynasty legacies organized the "Zongshe Party", a 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 person, or the grandson of a loser, 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 got this batch of cultural relics, he transported the higher grade of them back to the devil's homeland, and the next year in London and New York, he auctioned these antiques of Prince Gong's mansion, of which 536 were sold in the United States.

So this will be a very awkward thing: now in the huge Gongwang Mansion, except for the house itself, there is not a single furnishing of the palace itself, it is completely empty. And in addition to the dozens of pieces of furniture in the Jietai Temple, the original cultural relics of Prince Gong's Mansion are not found in China.

In the past two years in the United States, 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 will be notified to collect cultural relics and artworks from various countries for the boss.

I don't buy them all, I shouldn't be stupid, there are already a lot of decorations from the Qing Dynasty royal family in Zhang Nan's treasury and various properties, and everything is to raise prices.

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

At this time, several people arrived at a room where the items were temporarily stored, and Zhang Nan pointed to the four boxes and said, "That's it, open them together." ”

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

Weng Yeming went to get a large tape measure and measured it: the height is 2.26 meters, the width of the platform is 107 cm, and the diameter of the screen is nearly 84 cm.

The large round light shaped screen is a hardwood frame, yellow lacquer floor, and is inlaid with all kinds of jade carving treasures: vases of flowers and grass, sacrificial ritual vessels, elixir vases, horses, scrolls, and treasure elephants.

There are also the "three more" that imply many blessings, longevity and many children: bergamot, peaches, and pomegranates;

Weng Yeming looked at the research meeting and said: "The base material red sandalwood, the throne is the 'five-clawed cloud dragon' and 'seawater river cliff' ornamentation that can only be used at the prince level, and the 'color dyed ivory carving' in the heart of the screen and the 'yellow lacquer' craftsmanship in the center of the screen are also exclusive to the Qing Dynasty royal family." ”

"I know you've learned some real skills from the curator, and this is for you..."

Saying that, Zhang Nan handed him a sealed bag that was brought with the box, "Inside is a copy of the auction catalogue from the New York auction in '13, and this pair of large bottles is Lot 199, which is equipped with two black-and-white photos and a description of the lot. ”

Opened the bag, all in English, fortunately, Weng Yeming's English grades were okay when he was studying before, plus because he had a brother-in-law abroad in the past few years, he didn't completely throw the foreign language into the corner in his free time.

Most of them couldn't understand it, but they still understood it: "The transaction price is $700." ”

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

If it is 700 US dollars today, the official exchange rate is more than 3,700 yuan, and the black market is about 5,560 yuan.

It's hard to say that 700 dollars from 78 years ago.

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

"In the early years of the Republic of China, one dollar in the capital could be exchanged for about 2.4 to 2.5 silver dollars, and in 13 years, it was estimated that the hardest Yingyang at that time, Long Yang would add seven or eight percent.

From 11 to 19 years, except for a few times when the price was unstable, the price of rice in the capital was basically constant, 178 catties of old stone 6 silver dollars, 1 silver dollar can buy 30 catties of high-quality rice.

Pork is an average of 1 jiao 2 cents to 1 jiao 3 cents per catty, cotton cloth is 1 dime per city foot, and vegetable oil is 7 to 9 cents per catty.

That's about it, 700 dollars is almost 1,700 silver dollars, which can buy twenty-five or six tons of rice.

If we eat one pound of rice a day, we can eat it for almost 140 years, and we will never be able to eat it all in a lifetime. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Aihua, who was most familiar with him, smiled and said, "What about the rice bucket?"

You kid only has a pound of rice a day. ”

At this time, Weng Yeming counterattacked: "I said Aihua, if you don't have so much oil and water now, one pound of rice a day, I will make some boiled vegetables and radishes for rice, and then let you do some physical work."

No heavy physical labor, moderate is enough, and you can starve you to ribs in two months!"

To tell the truth, Jiang Aihua didn't catch up with the three years, not to mention the difficulties, he didn't even have the days of sky green radish and rice, even if he was a child, when he was a child, it was no problem to eat meat once a week.

He didn't believe Weng Yeming's words, "We people in the capital love to eat noodles, but we don't eat less rice, one catty of rice and two catties of rice, I have to eat it, right?"

"100 grams of rice is about 350 calories, a pound of rice is 1750 calories, and you add a little radish and greens, 2,000 a day.

Moderate physical labor, probably the traffic police are on duty to direct traffic, sit and drive a tractor, do not need to move bricks, a day of work, eat and sleep, almost 2800 to 3000 calories to consume.

A person of more than 100 pounds, even if he doesn't do anything for a day, he has to eat at least 1,500 calories to not lose weight.

It's a pound of rice a day, you say that your weight of one hundred and fifty or six, will you lose weight into ribs in a month?"

It's not nonsense to have a lot of food without oil and water, didn't you see those people in the old photos eating with an old sea bowl?

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

Scumbag!

The question of whether to eat or not to eat is here, because at this time, seeing that there are many people here, Weng Qianhui also came to join in the fun with her son, and asked Zhang Nan after discovering this pair of huge seat screens: "How much did it cost to be such a big guy?"

"Bought from two places, quite a coincidence.

The two brackets were filmed on a scavenger hunt TV show I got in the U.S., $5,000.

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

As a result, a bent man saw that episode of the program, and contacted the TV station to contact the buyer to buy this pair of brackets, and it turned out that the pair of seats on the top was bought by him from the United States seven or eight years ago, and he has never found the original brackets..."

Well, the agent who didn't know who the buyer was behind the TV was, but the bracket was not bought, and the interstitial screen was fooled away by the agent of the TV station.