Chapter 520: Emerald Watermelon

Director Huang reminded with a gloomy face: "There was once a private museum with incomplete documents, and he had a significant treasure that was taken by a provincial museum. This can be done even for provincial museums, let alone national museums. ”

Wang Hao and Jiang Jun's faces changed drastically when they heard this.

They all used to treat the Palace Museum as a paper tiger and didn't think so. But now I hear that the minds of the literati are the most poisonous, and they make you have nothing to say when they scratch your sore feet.

But Zhou You was still calm and said: "It doesn't matter, my documents are complete, and I have the advantage of being a landlord in Mingyuan City, I believe that there are not many people who are their first birds." ”

Teacher Bai asked solemnly, "What if they do something you can't imagine?"

Zhou You replied: "A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye." Although they have lost enough face, I am confident that they will be ruined. ”

Everyone invariably thinks of Zhou You's magic gambling skills.

In other fields, there may be no way to deal with them, but in the most controversial fields, Zhou You has the absolute right to speak. Even Zhou You can make a promise to sacrifice a profit, so that some people can come forward to deal with the people he wants to deal with, and I believe that there will be countless people in this world who will take the initiative to work for Zhou You.

You know, traveling around now a promise is worth hundreds of millions. The God of Gamblers, the supreme existence of a realm, is no longer something that ordinary energy can measure.

Suddenly, everyone really realized the strength of Zhou You, and only then did they realize why Brother Guang, who had always been proud and conceited, only dared to travel around and discuss with his peers.

In fact, there is one of the best steps in traveling. But that step is the last, the most absolute step, unless you have to do it, you will not choose the last step.

Because the topic was too serious, everyone didn't communicate for too long, and they dispersed early. As for the so-called Teacher Liu, Zhou You didn't invite him to stay on the boat at all, and even the whole fleet didn't welcome this representative of the Palace Museum in the name of an expert.

In the following days, nothing unpleasant happened, and even God was helping them around, and the good weather and warm atmosphere quickly promoted everyone's protection process.

In just three days, Director Huang and his team completed the protection of the shipwreck and all the antiques, especially the valuable items left on the bottom of the sea.

The flotilla began its return journey.

It's just that the fleet has not yet returned to China, and the domestic media has gone crazy. The news that a shipping company, in cooperation with the cultural department of Guangdong Province, had successfully salvaged a Qing Dynasty shipwreck in a sensitive area of the sea and frontier had quietly spread for several days, and at this time it had become a national sensation, and even the country's leaders had personally inquired about it.

Director Huang and Director Wang, who were destined to make political achievements, naturally took advantage of this rare opportunity to publicize their efforts, especially the careful Director Huang, who specially invited the best technicians in the fleet to take photos of the various cultural relics salvaged, especially the main body of the wreck, and quietly flowed into the hands of major media.

When this force forms a scale effect, it will naturally explode in an all-round way. And the arrival of the flotilla was, of course, the last ignite.

When they appeared in the port, the whole port was densely packed with people, and the flashing lights began to flash non-stop at that time.

For all this, Zhou You was very calm, and he didn't even show up at the most basic level, and completely handed over to Director Huang and Director Wang. And Director Huang and Director Wang are also very knowledgeable and interesting, they did not take all the credit, and pushed the biggest credit to Zhou You, and by the way, they also helped him promote the upcoming Mingyuan Museum.

Needless to say, the Mingyuan Museum was popular before it opened.

Governor Xu is also very face-saving, and rarely publicly praised Zhou You, Director Huang and Director Wang's contributions to the national cultural cause, so that many people can clearly see that Zhou You is a member of the Xu family, naturally, Zhou You's museums, and even his company were all given the green light, and no one dared to make things difficult in the past.

Interestingly, even though Zhou Yu didn't go to the front desk, the enthusiastic people didn't let him go. Not to mention those enthusiastic media, not to mention those members of the system, not to mention other peers, just friends who are connected with Zhou You are enough to have a headache for Zhou You.

For example, Mr. Cheng of Yongjian Museum, he directly approached them, hoping to reach a deeper strategic alliance with Zhou You, of course, he also rented a number of fine antiques with Zhou You for past exhibitions, and it is said that he wanted to take this opportunity to open a Kangxi porcelain exchange meeting.

For example, collectors such as Jiang Hailiu, Brother Guang, and Lin Yizhen are more direct, hoping to acquire a batch of high-value Kangxi porcelain from Zhou You's hands. And Zhou You didn't want to make the relationship too stiff, so he selected a batch of porcelain with a certain amount of foundation in the past. However, Zhou You is not short of money now, but uses it to exchange the excess antique collection in the other party's hands to enrich his own exhibition types.

Others, such as Hong Kong Dao's He Lao and others, Kong Lao and others in Southeast Asia, even if they didn't come in person, called one after another to congratulate them.

The leaders of the city have invited him to participate in various types of meetings, and hope that he can provide greater help to the cultural cause of Mingyuan City, so as to promote the development of tourism in Mingyuan City. Of course, the municipal party committee will also give him the green light to make his travel as efficient as possible.

After nearly ten days of tossing like this, traveling around was almost annoying, and I almost came to a closed door.

At this time, Mr. Zheng, the master of jade carving, and Mr. Shi, the master of stone carving, actually visited together, which flattered Zhou You and hurriedly went out to greet him.

When the two Grandmasters come together, things must be extraordinary.

After Zhou You asks Fluttershy to set up the tea set, he lets them leave to avoid suspicion.

Mr. Zheng and Mr. Shi glanced at each other, and after reaching a consensus, they handed out a photo, but they didn't speak, just looked at Zhou You seriously.

"Emerald watermelon!"

When Zhou You saw the things in the photo, he immediately exclaimed.

Zhou You trembled and asked, "Two seniors, don't you tell me that this is the Empress Dowager Cixi's jade watermelon?"

Mr. Zheng replied: "We just don't understand and come to you secretly. ”

Zhou You asked: "This is not a joke. This jade watermelon is a national treasure that is even more precious than the bronze beast heads of the 12 zodiac animals in the Old Summer Palace combined!"

Legend has it that the "jade madness" Empress Dowager Cixi has a jewelry room in the Summer Palace, with sandalwood cabinets on all sides, large and small glass brocade boxes, those delicate boxes wrapped in embroidered satin are filled with all kinds of jewelry, gold and silver, gemstones, pearls, agate, jade, and countless others. Among the thousands of treasures, her favorite was a pair of emerald watermelons.

It is said that this pair of jadeite watermelons was naturally generated in the Kunlun Mountains and is very beautifully carved. Cixi loved it so much that she still didn't feel at ease in the most solid cupboard, and later added a mechanical lock. If you want to open this lock, you have to insert the key into the lock core and turn left five times, if you turn in the wrong direction, or turn more or less and half a circle, you can't open it at all. For the safety of this pair of jade watermelons, Cixi also specially sent several cronies and eunuchs, in groups of three, to take turns guarding this jewelry room day and night. Whenever she was happy, the Empress Dowager Cixi would ask the eunuch to take out the jade watermelon and play with it in her own hands, and she often boasted to others: "This pair of jade watermelons! ”

It's a pity that with the mediocre destruction of the late Qing Dynasty, a large number of national treasures were stolen. Especially after the death of the Empress Dowager Cixi, the Empress Dowager's favorite treasures disappeared.

There is a saying on the market: the pair of jade watermelons became the funeral goods of the Empress Dowager Cixi. It's just that in the 20th year after the death of the Empress Dowager Cixi, that is, from July 4 to 10, 1928, the warlord Sun Dianying excavated the Yuling and Cixi Tombs of Emperor Qianlong, destroyed the coffins and threw away the corpses, and plundered all the buried treasures. So the people who hold the jade watermelon now are likely to be descendants of warlords, or they will be robbed and collected by the Japanese.

Mr. Shi said: "This is an invitation letter that I received by accident, and there is no advertisement in the letter, only this photo. After much inquiry, I learned that this invitation was not sent out randomly, because the initiator is the largest black market auctioneer in Southeast Asia, and only very respectable people are eligible to be invited. ”

Mr. Zheng added: "Although Lao Shi has studied jadeite, he can't make an approximate study based on a single photo, so he found me, who I have known for nearly 20 years. And after my many investigations and judgments, I think this thing is very likely to be true. ”

Zhou You also sighed: "Yes, it is almost impossible to find the same type of jadeite of this scale in modern times, not to mention that it must be born exactly like the historical record." ”

Mr. Shi sighed: "If it is Chinese, then it is fine, but the problem is Japanese, then we can't sit idly by." ”

Zhou Yu nodded deeply.

Zhou You now finally understands the mood of Rukawa Eiichi when he sees the black dragon pattern secret treasure and the emperor's armor.

Zhou You asked, "Do you want me to come forward?"

Mr. Shi and Mr. Zheng nodded at the same time, and Mr. Zheng said, "Among the people we know, you have the most Japanese national treasures and are qualified to talk to the Japanese. ”

Mr. Shi added: "The most important thing is that you have won every battle, whether it is gambling, antiques, or jadeite industry, you have not lost any results so far. Now coupled with the titles of the first salvage master in China, the first private museum owner in China, etc., the deterrent power is extremely strong. ”

Zhou You didn't refuse, and asked directly: "Two elders, what do you want me to do?"

Saving national treasures is everyone's responsibility.

Mr. Shi said: "It's very simple, you first go over to identify whether it is a real jade watermelon. Secondly, if it is true, I hope you can offer to bet with them and invite those super national treasures back to China. ”

"Isn't that too easy?"

Zhou You felt a little incredible.