Chapter 36: The World Is a Money Worshipping

The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and there are 3,000 nails in the broken ship!

Even the declining aristocracy can't stand the British from being robbers for hundreds of years, it can be said that the ancestors of the British were robbers, and the British people today admit it.

Don't say that the robbers have no treasures at home!

"Qing painter Wang Jian's landscape album, Qing painter Wang Su's "Twenty-four Filial Piety Picture Collection", Qing Dynasty painter Wang Hui's ancient landscape album, Qing Dynasty painter Wang Shishen's cordyceps album, "Flower Landscape Book" Qing painter Shi Tao. ”

"Damn it... My God... Four kings, eight mountain people, eight monsters in Yangzhou... ”

Arthur trembled his hands and carefully flipped through the somewhat musty album, and muttered uncontrollably, it was a tyrannical thing!

This kind of random storage, if you don't find it yourself, these albums will definitely be destroyed, this group of uneducated robbers... Ahem, well, now he's the descendant of the robbers.

At this moment, Arthur was really grateful and contemptuous to the incompetent 'expert experts' of the auction house who was invited at the beginning, despised his ignorance of the Celestial Empire's culture, and also thanked the other party for his ignorance, so that he left these treasures and cheapened him, a person who was 'knowledgeable'.

Pride and prejudice!

This is the deeper reason, modern Western countries have a really little understanding of the Celestial Empire, although an Olympic Games has greatly improved some prejudices in the West, but arrogance is still there.

What's more, ten or twenty years ago, the value of these 'stones' and 'picture albums' was really similar to that of stones and ordinary calligraphy and paintings.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for the Celestial Empire's tyrants who wantonly bought back the cultural relics lost overseas at sky-high prices all over the world, this group of arrogant idiots in the West would still not pay attention to the cultural relics and antiques of the Celestial Empire.

You must know that before 08 years, the starting price of a blue and white plate from the Qianlong official kiln of the Qing Dynasty was only 2,000 pounds。。。。。。

Arthur carefully put the five albums into the box brought by Paul, who was shocked by the value he said, put the 'stones' back in the suitcase, and looked at the utility storage room of more than 100 square meters, his eyes lit up.

"It's a really good thing!"

In fact, it is also very understandable that as an aristocratic family that has family members joining the army in every generation, how can it lack heritage, especially when Count Boleyn was still a colonel during the period in 1900.

"Come, Paul, help me get these boxes down... ”

Arthur stepped on a chair and looked at the boxes above the three wooden cabinets and turned back to Paul.

"Okay, be careful, don't fall... Paul, the butler, instructed as he quickly carried his chair and walked over.

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The housekeeper Paul looked helplessly at the fact that he had sat on the ground regardless of the mess, and began to rummage through the cabinets, covering the floor of the entire storage room with all kinds of 'sundries', one by one carefully checked, sometimes disappointed, sometimes sighing, sometimes laughing happily Arthur, although a little speechless, but seeing the pure joy and happy smile on Arthur's face, he was relieved.

Turning his head to look at the suitcase on the table next to him and the box containing five albums, he still couldn't believe that the kind of stone called Tian Huangshi was worth as little as 100 pounds a gram, and that blood-red stone was even more valuable than Tian Huangshi. Seriously, it really subverted his perception, and he was even more curious about how Arthur knew the value of these stones, and what Arthur was saying as if it was in the language of the Celestial Empire when he just looked at the album made him even more stunned.

β€œγ€‚γ€‚γ€‚ A snuff box without a lid... Tsk, these rulers must be ivory, Paul, look at them. ”

Arthur, who was happily rummaging through the 'treasures' on the ground, handed three rulers of different lengths and some yellow and white colors to the butler Paul.

Somewhat surprised, Paul reached out and took what might have been a ruler made of ivory, and examined it carefully.

Arthur looked at the various objects that he had placed all over the floor, although he had issued good things, but there was not a single porcelain in it, but he was relieved to think of the exquisite porcelain that was placed in the display case, and he could see if he could find a two-piece official kiln porcelain from those display cases, so that his first pot of gold would not have to ask for others!

"Huh? It says 1938 Birmingham, sterling silver antique cigarette case... Arthur picked up a rectangular piece of silver, looked up the inscription, the cigarette case was slightly squeezed, looked at Paul and asked, "Paul, can you fix this?"

"No problem. Paul reached for the cigarette case, looked at it, and smiled confidently.

"I have to say, there are a lot of good things here, and this pair of small bottles, at least 20,000 pounds. Arthur put the dirty snuff box in his hand and showed Paul that although he was not sure what material it was made of, he knew that as long as it was halal, it was definitely worth the price he had just said.

"How is that possible?" the butler Paul was shocked, he could not have imagined that this pair of dirty little bottles was so valuable, "Are you sure, Earl?"

Arthur didn't explain too much about the questioning look on Paul's face, but played with it in his hand without being dirty, and used his hand to remove the dust and stains on the bottle, "It's a pity... It's a pity that it's not white jade, otherwise it's more valuable... ”

But anyway, this trip to Taobao, he made a fortune, and the five albums and the thirty seal stones alone were enough for him to alleviate the current financial crisis.

"You find a large auction company that has an auction house in the Celestial Empire, and ask them to send someone who understands the relics of the Celestial Empire and say that we have antiques to be auctioned by their auction house, remember, not in the United Kingdom. I want them to bring things to Asia for auction!"

"Well, Count, I'll get in touch as soon as I can. Paul, the butler, responded.

"Well, then you go and get busy first, you don't have to accompany me, I want to stay a little longer. Arthur said as he looked at the two boxes that had not yet been rummaged through.

"Okay, I'll arrange for someone to wait outside, if you have any orders, you can call someone in directly, you pay attention to your safety... When Paul the butler had finished speaking, he bowed slightly and turned to leave.

Arthur got up from the floor, walked to one of the large wooden boxes, bent down and lifted the lid, looked at the mess inside, crouched down, and began to take them out one by one.

Britain is probably Europe's largest distribution center for Celestial antiques for a variety of reasons and historical origins. At the end of the 17th century, Britain and the Netherlands became the first European countries to trade with the Celestial Empire by sea, and many treasures of Celestial art, including porcelain and other works of art, were transmitted to Europe. Although there were many in France, they were not as large as those in England, and antiques and works of art from the Celestial Empire continued to flow to England in large numbers.

After all, London is the third largest art market in the world, and collectors from many other European countries, such as France, Spain and Portugal, are more willing to sell their collections on the London antiques market. Because London's antiques market is more concentrated, it has a high level of flexibility and maturity, and it is also very well stratified.

London has such a comprehensive market for high, medium and low-rise antiques, allowing collectors and casual enthusiasts alike to take what they need. In addition to large and small antique shops and mass antique markets like Portebello Road Market, London is also a great place to shop for treasures with a variety of art festivals.

While inspecting the objects in his hand, Arthur thought that maybe he should go to those antique markets to find some treasures, and maybe he could really find some good things before the army of local tyrants of the Celestial Empire was killed.

Arthur Taobao is to make money, although he also likes these antiques and antiques, but the conditions do not allow him, he is not allowed to collect these treasures, for him, now, the pound is more important than these paintings, paintings and stones.

There's no way, the world is a money-worshipping, without money, it's all wrong to breathe!