Chapter 114: Tomb Robbery
The spacious basement, brightly lit, and as far as the eye can see, there are twenty or thirty stalls, and at the end there is a stand. The booth is the exclusive booth of the organizer!
"It's not on a big scale this time. Shen Lao glanced at it and said.
The largest I have ever seen, fifty or sixty stalls, is almost the same as someone else's antique street.
"Be careful, don't ask where things come from. He reminded again.
Everyone knows that since you come to the black market, under normal circumstances, the origin of things is unknown, and it is a bit deliberately difficult to ask.
"Understood!" Hu Yang and the others nodded.
Shen Lao is very interested in antiques, and immediately found something he liked, which was a glass ware, which belonged to carvings. This kind of baby, under normal circumstances, needs two or three hundred thousand, but here is only 80,000 yuan.
"Ancient glass?" Feige asked.
Hu Yang hesitated for two seconds, nodded and shook his head: "It can be understood in this way, but if you put it professionally, it is not right." Their firing methods are different, and their essence is different. ”
He told the two rookies that the earliest glaze was a by-product accidentally made when the bronzes were fired, and later became a treasure.
The glaze in our country can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the glass is much later.
Western glass is composed of the element soda-lime, while the elements contained in the glass of our country are lead and barium. That's the essential difference.
Liuli is known as the first of China's five famous vessels and one of the seven treasures of Buddhism, which has been basically lost in the Ming Dynasty. Of course, I later pondered the firing method, but it was already different from the ancient method of glaze.
In fact, the reason why glass is precious is that it is called a valuable work of art, and a valuable work of art has two reasons:
First, the ancient glazed material is special, and its production process is quite complex, the fire comes, the water goes, it takes dozens of processes to complete, and some of the light production process takes ten to twenty days, and mainly relies on hand. It is quite difficult to grasp each link, and the difficulty of grasping the heat can be said to be half by skill and half by luck.
Second, glass is not only a material, but also a cultural product, and more importantly, glass products are unique, no two are exactly the same glass products.
"So, glass is not exactly the same, but glass products can be mass-produced, understand?" Hu Yang said to Andy.
This is also the reason why glass is worthless, but glass can be worth 10,000 gold.
Soon, Shen Lao bargained and bought it for 60,000 yuan. He is not a newcomer, so naturally he will not stretch his neck to slaughter, knowing that the price of these is still negotiable.
Elder Shen handed the glass carving to Hu Yang: "How is it?"
Hu Yang looked at it for a while and said with a smile: "It's okay, but the smell of the earth is still a little heavy, just dug up, right?"
For him, it is not difficult to identify, you can see the light and shadow effects, especially the refraction of light at different angles and colors, which can present a three-dimensional visual effect.
Moreover, there are generally large and small bubbles in the glass, which is the life characteristic of the glass.
"Don't get in the way, anyway, I'm not in a hurry to make a move, I put it for a few years, or even twenty or thirty years, and there is no earthy smell! Shen Lao said with a smile.
Feige was tempted to complain: How many years do you think you have to live?
"Two or three hundred thousand, it seems that glass is not as good as porcelain. Andy compared.
Hu Yang and Shen Lao both smiled speechlessly.
"It's not good to compare, glaze is the same as porcelain, it is also divided into grades, and it is not for nothing that there are tens of millions of expensive glazes, such as the red phoenix glazed pot in the era of Emperor Qianlong sold for more than 2 million US dollars.
You haven't seen the real glass treasures, so you can say that. After the Ming and Qing dynasties, the glazed products were not very authentic, because the authentic glazed craft had been lost in the Yuan Dynasty. Shen Lao said.
During the Han Dynasty, the production level of glaze was quite mature. However, the smelting technology was in the hands of the royal family and nobles, and it has been kept secret. Because it was difficult for the people to obtain, people at that time regarded colored glass as even more precious than jade.
In myths and legends, Sha Seng was originally an official of the Heavenly Court, but he was demoted to the mortal world because he broke a glass cup. Although this is a myth and legend, it can also be seen that the preciousness of glass.
Hu Yang turned his head and looked at the stall owner again, and said, "That person is not simple. ”
"Tomb robbers, just don't negotiate too deeply with them, it's okay. "Shen Lao is an old Jianghu, of course, he can also see it.
Andy and Feige were suddenly surprised and couldn't help but look back.
"Hey, don't look back! With that expression, are you underwhelmed?" Shen Lao glared at the two young men, Andy and Feiqi.
Fei Qi was depressed, when Brother Hu looked back just now, why didn't you teach a lesson?
"Touching the heirs?" Andy curious.
In recent years, tomb robbery movies and TV series have become more popular, and the most well-known of them is the tomb robbery genre.
"How can it be so easy to meet the heirs of Jin? If you guess correctly, it should be the descendants of the children of Jieling. Hu Yang said.
Tomb robbery has existed in China for thousands of years, and there are many genres, but the most famous ones are hair mounds, touching gold, moving mountains, and unloading mountains.
Faqiu and touching gold rely on technology to eat, while moving mountains and unloading mountains are mostly brute force, relying on strength, relying on the strength of the people. Especially the Jieling faction, there are hundreds of dozens of people, or even thousands of people, and a mountain can help you flatten it.
As for touching gold and hair mounds, they are all three cats and dogs, which are rare animals, and it is difficult to say whether they are extinct or not, let alone meet them.
"Alright, don't talk about this, lest people misunderstand. Shen Lao opened his mouth to stop the topic.
Although Andy and Feiqi were itchy in their hearts, they knew that the occasion was not suitable, so they didn't ask anything. For example, how did Brother Hu see that the other party was a tomb robber, and he couldn't just say that someone was a tomb robber based on a newly unearthed glazed vessel, right?
Hu Yang suddenly stopped, and his eyes fell on a bronze vessel next to him, which looked a bit like a monk's golden bowl.
On the stall, in addition to this bronze vessel, there are Buddhist scriptures, prayer beads, wooden fish, vajra, conch and so on. Hey!
Looking at the boss again, it turned out to be a bald head and wearing a robe, and Hu Yang was speechless. This guy can't be a temple bankrupt and come here to sell his property, right?
The bald monk first said to Amitabha, and then asked: "Donor, do you have any Buddha treasures that you like?
Fei Qi almost laughed, the monk appeared on such an occasion, it makes a little sense, right?
Moreover, you can't steal these things from the temple, right?
Not to mention the young people, even Shen Lao twitched his face.