Chapter 235: Xu Lao's Collection

Zhou You didn't know what Wang Hao had decided, but since he had a clear goal to strive for, he naturally had to stick to it.

I only heard Zhou You say very consciously: "I know this road is very difficult, but I will not give up." I believe that as long as I keep going, I will see the dawn of hope one day. ”

This time, both Mr. Xu and Mr. Bai were unusually uncharacteristically unexpressed.

Wang Hao asked: "Xiaoyou, if you really want to engage in a private museum, I'm afraid that Mingyuan City is not our best choice." ”

I didn't want to travel but shook my head and said, "No, I don't want to make money by making a private museum, I just need it not to make me lose money." I believe you also know how hard the living environment of those private museums in China is, and most of them are in the delicate stage of making ends meet, so I just need it to be famous, and I don't need it to bring me additional economic income. ”

"You can see it. ”

When Wang Hao heard this, he had nothing to say.

Xu Lao wanted to persuade Zhou You to build the museum in the provincial capital, but when he heard Zhou You say this, he really couldn't think of any good reason to invite. In addition, there is a provincial museum in the provincial capital, as well as two private museums, and the market competition is fierce, so it is indeed not the best choice for traveling.

And Teacher Bai originally had a similar mentality, but after thinking about it, there was really no reason to travel to other places to work hard, and it was far less comfortable than in Mingyuan City.

Wang Hao asked weakly: "Since you are determined to develop Longque Tower, then we will naturally not stop it as brothers." However, our Longque Tower has been planned, and even the progress of the project has reached three or four percent, and it is too late to modify it now. ”

Zhou You replied: "I didn't say I wanted to revise it!"

Wang Hao asked in confusion: "Although our Dragon Bird Tower is small and large-scale, it is only compared to those small museums. Compared with real museums, especially those large museums abroad, there are really two levels of existence, and you want to make it so high-profile, I'm afraid that the space is limited, don't you expect it?"

Zhou You replied mysteriously: "Isn't Jie Shao engaged in large-scale real estate construction in Mingyuan City? If it's not good, we can also buy our own land to build it, and as long as we have enough funds, it's not difficult to build a museum. ”

Wang Hao nodded indifferently.

Zhou You has that courage, but Wang Hao doesn't.

The current third-line pretentiousness makes him exhausted, if it weren't for the additional supplement of the gambling stone, otherwise he wouldn't be able to raise so much money if he sold Wang Hao. In such a tight situation, it is a bit difficult for Wang Hao to do those unrealistic things.

Xu Lao also persuaded: "Xiaoyou, it's good to have goals, but don't be in a hurry, you can't eat hot tofu if you're in a hurry." ”

Teacher Bai also persuaded him: "It's not easy to build a large museum! Indeed, museums can be built with money, but can you buy so many treasures to exhibit with money? Moreover, every museum needs a certain number of top-level antiques and works of art to suppress the scene, even if your dragon and bird sword can only barely be regarded as one, you need more and better antiques to support the scene. Do you think you can collect so many top-notch antiques and works of art in a short period of time?"

"It's difficult, but I'm not going to give up. ”

Finally found a new goal in life, how could Zhou You easily say defeat, and said very firmly: "I'm still young, and I still have a lot of time to search and struggle, if I can't be hungry for three years, I will be five years, if I can't do it for five years, I will be ten years, and if I can't do it for ten years, I will be a lifetime." I believe in my ability to build the world-class museum of my dreams in my lifetime. ”

Xu Lao sighed and said, "The teacher will support you." ”

Teacher Bai also praised: "Courage is commendable, come to me if you have difficulties." ”

Wang Hao patted Zhou You's shoulder and supported him as always.

Xu Lao reminded: "Now you don't have to worry much about porcelain, I heard that you have also found a way in the four treasures of the study and wood carving, and in terms of jade, with your strength, I don't have to worry." In this case, the rest is just the more common items of calligraphy and painting, bronze, gold and silverware, and everyone has to pay attention. ”

Zhou You and Wang Hao both nodded.

Teacher Bai also reminded: "You don't have to be over-consumed, after all, fine antiques are hard to find, and being too deliberate is likely to have the opposite effect." Moreover, those large museums may not be able to cover everything, and even the Forbidden City, which integrates the power of the whole country, has its regrettable side. ”

Zhou You and Wang Hao continued to nod.

"Well, this matter still needs to be considered in the long run, and there is no urgency. ”

Xu Lao waved his hand, feeling that there were thousands of things involved, and it was difficult to sort out for a while, so it was better to face the reality directly: "I heard that when Xiaoyou bought a house, he also found a lot of artworks, including Modigliani's posthumous works, take them out and take a look." ”

Zhou You hurriedly asked Forrest Gump to open the black suitcase and take out all the treasures he was carrying.

"The standard impressionist style, combined with Picasso's breath, is really Modigliani's early work!"

After observing carefully for more than ten minutes, Xu Lao gave a definite answer. But he also said: "However, in this regard, it is the most convincing certificate given by a professional appraiser who is the most appropriate, and our evaluation cannot be taken seriously." ”

Zhou You asked eagerly, "Is it okay for Elder Ming?"

Xu Lao nodded and replied, "Well, Lao Ming does have this qualification." But if you're still going to follow the same old path, then I advise you not to collect it yourself after the appraisal is done, and wait for your museum to open, and you can set up a column for Modigliani. ”

"That's just as well. ”

Zhou You understood and smiled slightly.

Teacher Bai also said: "Anyway, Xiaoyou is not short of this money. ”

Everyone laughed heartily.

Liberate your heart and regain your goals, and you will no longer worry about money. If you think the jade wool he stored at home, it would be enough to travel around and build three or four more villas. Although Zhou You has always taken those high-grade jadeite as investments, and the intention of appreciation is quite obvious, but Zhou You will really use it for emergency when it is urgent, after all, no matter how good and beautiful things are, they need to be used to reflect their most practical value.

And now, Zhou You has the intention of opening the jadeite warehouse and starting the museum project.

Xu Lao got up leisurely and greeted: "Brother Bai, haven't you always wanted to visit my private collection, I wonder if you can be interested now?"

"Yes, all the time!"

Teacher Bai knew that Mr. Xu was a very person.

At the beginning of the turmoil, many national treasure-level antiques were artificially and maliciously destroyed, but Xu Lao was able to use special means to successfully preserve many fine works, and made great contributions to the country's ancient cultural cause, which is also one of the roots of his lofty status in the circle.

Later, with the rise of the Xu family, many characters who wanted to get on the Xu family's wharf always tried their best to get all kinds of antiques and send them to Xu Lao's door. Among them, Xu Jie's father contributed the most, and it is said that once he spent a lot of manpower and material resources to uproot a tomb robbery gang, and finally recovered a large number of national treasures in various places, and finally won Xu Lao's forgiveness.

One of the purposes of Zhou You and Wang Hao's return was to see Xu Lao's collection, and now that he has such an opportunity, he will naturally not refuse.

Seeing the excited looks of the three of them, Xu Lao smiled, and led the way.

Xu Lao's private collection is also underground, and its scale is completely beyond the imagination of Zhou You and others. At the beginning, the underground warehouse of the villa in Shencheng surprised Zhou You, but when he saw Xu Lao's private collection, he knew what the underground space was.

Wang Hao looked at everything in front of him in surprise, and didn't know how to say it: "It's so big, it's so spacious, it's about three or four hundred square meters." ”

Bai Lao also sighed: "Museum, this is definitely the highest-level private museum I have ever seen. Fine pastel, the best Ming blue and white, superb light color is actually only the bottom of the level, if only on the degree of quality, I am afraid that only those top museums in China can reach it. ”

Zhou You almost drooled when I saw it.

He estimated that this place was at most a treasure of the Jun kiln Wanhua porcelain pillow and Ru kiln blue glazed bowl, and he didn't want to be able to compete for a place here with fine pastels and the best Ming blue and white flowers, and the most terrifying thing was that he even saw an antique Xuande furnace when he traveled around.

During the reign of Emperor Xuande of the Ming Dynasty, in order to satisfy his hobby of playing with incense burners, he ordered the import of a batch of red copper from the Xuande furnace from Siam, and instructed the imperial craftsman Lu Zhen and the Ministry of Works, Wu Bangzuo, to design and supervise the production of incense burners with reference to the styles of firewood kilns, Ru kilns, official kilns, Ge kilns, Jun kilns, and Dingyao famous porcelain in the imperial palace, as well as historical books such as "Xuanhe Bogu Catalogue" and "Archaeological Map". In order to ensure the quality of the incense burner, the craftsmen selected dozens of precious metals such as gold and silver, and carefully cast them together with red copper for more than ten times. After the finished product of the copper incense burner color crystal and warm, is really the Ming Dynasty handicrafts in the treasure, Xuande furnace casting success, opened the precedent of the copper furnace in later generations, in a long period of history, Xuande furnace became the common name of the copper incense burner. Xuande used this batch of red copper furnaces to cast a total of 3,000 incense burners in three years, and there was no production after that, these Xuande furnaces are hidden in the forbidden palace, and ordinary people only know their names but do not see their shapes. After hundreds of years of ups and downs, the copper incense burner cast in three years of real Xuande is extremely rare.

The most terrible thing is that in order to make huge profits, from the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China, the activities of antique dealers imitating Xuande furnace have never stopped. Just after the Xuande furnace stopped manufacturing, some officials in charge of the "division of casting" summoned the original furnace craftsmen to imitate the Xuande furnace in accordance with the drawings and process procedures. These carefully cast imitations are comparable to the real ones, and the authority of experts cannot be distinguished, so far there are many Xuande furnaces in the collections of major museums in China, and none of them can be recognized as the real Xuande furnace by many connoisseurs. Identifying the authenticity of the Xuande furnace has become one of the "unsolved cases" in Chinese archaeology.

However, Zhou You is sure that this Xuande furnace is real. It's not because Zhou You is very powerful and can see through the mystery at a glance, but because Zhou You believes in Xu Lao's eyesight, and believes that Xu Lao will not fool the audience with any fakes.

Three thousand Xuande furnaces, the only one in the country.

Every time Zhou You thinks of this, he feels surging in the mood, and he can't wait to fly over and take it for himself.