Chapter 1560: Swap It Back
The banquet was held on time at half past five, in the form of a long table banquet with a combination of East and West that is common in Long Island Manor, with a Western-style layout, and the food was a combination of Russian cuisine and Chinese cuisine.
Before eating, he also gave out red envelopes, Zhang Nan's reserved program, which is much more intuitive than typing a number into people's households.
Not only the people who got on the train, but also the peripheral guys who participated in the "sweep" in Moscow, of course, this has been distributed through the company before.
The money is not much, 20,000 US dollars each, this task is not very difficult, and it is not as troublesome as it is to find out and clean up the underground Chinese robbery gang in Moscow before, that is, everyone is asking for a lottery.
Joseph, Tu Haibo and others are dispensable to this, they are all rich people, and they just feel that the boss is close. Originally, a guy in Moscow felt different, such a red envelope can be regarded as a very good income, and I really thank the boss for his generosity.
Jiang Aihua is still there, and he will return to the capital by plane tomorrow; Nong Bosheng, who arrived in Moscow a few days ago, is also there, but Comrade Director is not in Moscow for a week, he just returned to Moscow from St. Petersburg this morning on the famous Red Arrow train, accompanied by bronze experts Liu Chengjun and Lao Liu.
For the reasons of their respective working schedules, only two experts, Nong Bosheng and Liu Chengjun, went to Moscow from Kazakhstan to accept Zhang Nan's invitation.
Although there are only two people, it is enough, Nong Bosheng is very knowledgeable, and Liu Chengjun's appreciation of ancient bronzes is the top in China!
Liu Chengjun and Lao Liu have a deep study of ancient bronzes, and are also familiar with the bronzes of the Tang and Song dynasties, especially the items of the Song Dynasty.
Zhang Nan was not in the hotel during the day today, and took Charlie out to play, and the two experts seemed to have chosen the wrong means of transportation: they were a little older, and they didn't rest well in the box of the Red Arrow train with first-class conditions.
When Zhang Nan returned to the hotel, the two experts were resting. This is the first time that Zhang Nan and the two have met since Nong Bosheng and they went to St. Petersburg in recent days.
The Red Arrow train departed at 11:55 a.m. and arrived in Moscow and St. Petersburg at 7:55 a.m. the next morning.
The two staff members who accompanied the two experts to St. Petersburg did this with good intentions, but for young people, the Red Arrow Express, which can complete the journey with a good night's sleep and save a night's accommodation, is not a bit suitable for the two of them.
Today is a celebration for the guys who stopped the train robbery, and naturally, many of the people talked about train-related topics in the small talk.
Nong Bosheng was talking about the car, and he still had some memories and feelings: "When I was young, I made two trips to the Red Arrow, and at that time, it was all night, and the administrator could stay in the library until the administrator drove people. A trip to Leningrad to be able to take the Red Arrow is to enjoy, and to get a good night's sleep.
Not now, I dozed off in the waiting room before getting on the bus, but it was fresh when I got on the bus, and I couldn't sleep at all..."
Lao Liu on the side said with a smile: "It's not that the car is too noisy to sleep, it's that you sleep enough in the waiting room!"
Xiang Weirong, who was drinking a small amount of aged southern Ukrainian coastal wine, shook the wine glass in his hand slightly, smiled and said to Nong Bosheng: "We are all suffering from wealth and wealth, and the better our life, the more problems we have."
I remember when I was a recruit in the army, it was the first time I saw a train with my own eyes, and it was also the first time I took a train, and I had never gone out in my hometown basin before..."
Surrounded on all sides by high mountains 800 to 1,200 meters above the base of the county, it is a typical small basin with the neighboring Xinchang County.
Not to mention 1970, when Xiang Weirong joined the army, even when Zhang Nan was 48 years old, there was no train: it was going to be built, it was being surveyed, and the year of completion would be 2021.
Xiang Weirong continued here: "The first time I took the train, it was fresh, but there was no bus, not even a hard seat, it was a genuine stuffy tanker.
The railway department has this kind of dispatch of troops when needed, and the stuffy tank cars that usually transport goods have never pulled pigs.
Originally, there should be a bunk plank bed made of square wood in the carriage, but the number of recruits that year was particularly large, and it was already quite cold in November, so let's go straight to the floor!
Fortunately, there was a thick layer of straw on the ground, and no matter how much it was laid on the ground, it couldn't freeze. I feel fresh about that condition, but at the beginning, I was accidentally used as a bun by recruits from Shang-Yu, Zhu-Ji and Huiji.
They have long been connected to trains in those places, but we and Xinchang have not had them, so we have fought with the recruits of Xinchang and Zhuji and Shangyu next door.
It's also interesting to think about it, less than a year after being a soldier, these people who have fought have become the best little fellow countrymen. ”
As a soldier in Xichuan, everyone in Shanghai can be regarded as a fellow villager, and those in a province are even more genuine, and of course the same area has become a small fellow villager.
“... The young man felt comfortable in the tanker, but now he can't. ”
Xiang Weirong also sighed a little.
Zhang Nan heard this story more than ten years ago, and he will hear it again, and he still thinks it's a little interesting.
At this time, Charlize Theron, who was on the side, felt that he had found a loophole in Xiang Weirong's words, and said to him: "Brother-in-law, it seems that there is a lack of a trick, right?"
"Fights, you say?"
"Uh-huh. ”
"We don't fight, we don't like to fight with them, it's boring, it doesn't seem like we've ever fought. ”
"Why?"
Charlie was puzzled: they were all despised, why didn't they their fists?
Without Xiang Weirong answering, Zhang Nan grabbed the words and said: "I know how to show the master, understand?"
If people don't use their mouths, they will quarrel at most, and basically they can't fight. ”
Forget it, except for the Chinese people sitting here, no one else can understand the essence of Zhang Nan's words at all, and even Charlize Theron, who has learned a lot of Chinese culture, can't fully understand it.
Of course, this is also a saying, of course, there are many of Xiang Weirong's comrades-in-arms who can fight, and there are quite a few, this is a regional habit.
Otherwise, imagine if Lu Xun didn't think about writing articles with a pen in his hand when he was holding a cigarette, but rolling up his sleeves and fighting with others, that scene...
Anyway, there is absolutely no harmony in the scene where Du Fu talks about the guitar.
Now that the conditions are good, they can't be better, and they can't even get used to sleeping in a box sleeper, it's all for the rich!
Zhang Nan and Nong Bosheng also talked about the scene of taking the train for the first time, the latter was still before the liberation, and the passenger cars were all called tickets.
As he spoke, Zhang Nan said to Nong Bosheng: "The Heavenly Sage Bronze Man was sent to the port of South Russia the day before yesterday, and it is estimated that it will take almost two months to reach Yongcheng in a circle.
Anyway, I won't go back for the time being, so I can borrow you for a month or two first. ”
"That's a good feeling!" Nong Bosheng smiled.
I don't take land or air transportation, all in order to avoid the customs on both sides, lest there be a hot news or something before the things arrive in China, and the result is to embarrass the Russian customs.
Liu Chengjun, who was on the side, heard it and said: "Xiao Zhang, how about borrowing me once in the future, it won't take too long, just borrow as many as a month to make a special exhibition." ”
"In the end, the dating of that thing is still the result of the two of you, of course no problem. ”
Zhang Nan boldly agreed, this Lao Liu is on the second line, but the expert always wants to let more people see the real Chinese treasure.
Previously, Lao Liu and Nong Bosheng judged from their rich experience that the age of Zhang Nan's acupuncture bronze figure obtained by an ant was around 1000 AD.
Whether judging from the shape, copper, patina feeling, and the time of the wood carving organs left inside, it should be an item before and after the Northern Song Dynasty.
The two told Zhang Nan that only the inside of the "Tiansheng Bronze Man" can be opened in the historical records of the acupuncture bronze man, so what else can this bronze man be except for one of the "Tiansheng Bronze Men" that has been recorded in detail in the history books and disappeared in history?
Scientific analysis, research, judgment, plus elimination, and this becomes.
The identity of the "Heavenly Sage Bronze Man" was confirmed, and the two experts were very happy, happy that there would be another real national treasure that had disappeared in history in Huaxia: Zhang Nan said that this thing would not be donated, but it would be transported back to Huaxia and finally put into the museum in his hometown for exhibition.
Before the two were happy, Zhang Nan told them: In the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, there is also an ancient Chinese acupuncture bronze figure, which can be life-size, and it is likely to be the one stolen from the Tai Hospital when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China.
At that time, when Nong Bosheng heard it, he was a little incredulous: "In 55 years, I studied at the Hermitage Museum for 3 months, and I never saw any bronze figures at all. ”
Zhang Nan replied to him: "I said brother-in-law, there were a bunch of things in the warehouse of Yongcheng Museum a few years ago that you, a decades-old curator, didn't know, and there are always millions of cultural relics in the Hermitage Museum's collection, right?"
Three months, I haven't been able to look at it carefully for three years.
I guess I didn't know which corner of the warehouse was dusty, I went there a few years ago, and I didn't see any ancient Chinese acupuncture bronze figures on display. ”
Not much to say, Nong Bosheng and Liu Chengjun wanted to rush to St. Petersburg to see things, so Zhang Nan asked people to make arrangements.
The two experts didn't ask Zhang Nan where he knew that there was an acupuncture bronze figure in the Hermitage Museum, they only knew that this supernatural power was vast, and it may be that the staff in the Hermitage Museum didn't necessarily spread the news.
Mr. Allen, who is famous and has good hands and eyes, likes Chinese cultural relics, and spends a little money to know what Chinese cultural relics are in the warehouse in the Russian museum, and there is still a way.
This will talk about the bronze man in the Hermitage Museum, Nong Bosheng said: "That thing is still in the warehouse, relying on your relationship to open the joint, I only know which warehouse it is in after a day of original materials, I estimate that no one has touched the bronze man since the October Revolution."
Later, I searched for a long time to find it, and in the corner of a warehouse that had not been sorted out for decades, it was standing vertically, holding a canvas outside, and the ash on it could be two inches thick... Lao Liu and I studied carefully for a long time, and thought that the bronze man was the orthodox bronze man that was robbed!"
Exaggeration, no matter how much this ash accumulates, it can't reach two inches.
Speaking of this, Liu Chengjun on the side interjected, "Mr. Guan called us to eat just now, and I didn't put the photos in my pocket when I came out, I prepared them, I'll get them." ”
took the photo, and it was originally going to be shown to Zhang Nan.
Liu Chengjun's name is Zhang Nan Xiao Zhang, that is Zhang Nan's request, otherwise it is a bit awkward for the old expert to call him Mr. Zhang.
Calling Guan Xingquan, who has been out of Star City for a few days, Mr. Guan, is Liu Chengjun's courtesy.
I didn't expect this piece before, but now Zhang Nan also wants to see the appearance of the bronze man immediately: in his last life, he heard that the "orthodox bronze man" was in the Hermitage Museum in the Winter Palace, but Zhang Nan didn't know what the bronze man looked like, and he hadn't even seen a photo.
A stack of 7-inch color photos was quickly brought in, and the bronze figure was taken in several directions, parts, and details, and was taken very carefully.
Nowadays, there are no digital cameras, and Zhang Nan doesn't know if there is such a concept as a "digital camera".
This will use a film camera, if you want to see the photos you have to wash first, but it is not as convenient as a digital camera on an LCD screen or computer, not to mention that the era of smartphones has almost wiped out home-grade digital cameras.
It can take as little as two or three days to get a color photo, as long as more than a week to get the photo, and some small local photo studios need to wait longer!
Who let this many photo studios in the county town have not yet washed the machine for color photos, and the negatives have to be mailed to a large place to be cleaned out and then sent back.
However, there is such a thing as expediting and money laundering photos everywhere, and of course it can be done in the huge city of St. Petersburg.
Zhang Nan looked carefully at the dinner table one by one, the bronze statue was still preserved, there was no green show at all, and the whole body was a slightly shiny black-brown color that only came after the deposition of the years.
Judging from the photos, the warehouse where the bronze statue is stored is very dry, and Nong Bosheng also said that the bronze statue was wrapped in thick hemp canvas before, and it is estimated that there is not much to move.
The nearly 100-year period of disappearance has almost stopped for this bronze statue, and it is definitely less damaging than putting it on display in a public cabinet.
It can simply be said that there is no better state of preservation than a few decades of stillness, except for the damage that can be caused by plunder.
The bronze statue is a male figure, and according to the measurements of Nong Bosheng and the others, the bun can be 175.5 centimeters high, high on a rectangular base.
The arms hang down naturally, the palms are forward, the fingers are stretched, the upper body is exposed, and the feet are barefoot.
The hair is tied in a bun, and the photo is very good, and you can see that the hair on the head is very clear.
The bronze statue looks plump, with broad chest and shoulders, round muscles, straight nose, eyes level, dignified demeanor, and a smile and teeth, with a humble expression, giving Zhang Nan the feeling that he is still elegant and wise.
Regardless of anything else, just this casting technology and image of artistic attainments, that is a national treasure!
After carefully looking at all the photos, an idea popped up in Zhang Nan's head, and Nong Bosheng, who happened to be on the side, said: "It would be nice if this orthodox bronze statue could return to China." ”
Liu Chengjun on the side heard it and said, "Go back and tell the Ministry of Culture?"
Zhang Nan immediately said: "Don't! If the cultural department knows about this, don't think that it can go home!"
Liu Chengjun's mind turned and understood: Don't be funny, the things snatched by the Eight-Nation Alliance, if you don't come back, people don't think the birds will bird you!
Nong Bosheng frowned, "Anan, do you have a way?"
Zhang Nan smiled and said in dialect: "Two, one uses the fool's method of the Outer Eight Temples, but it's not necessary."
I don't need to use the ninth-rate method, I can exchange it back with Russian things. ”
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