Text Chapter 645 - Brother Xi of the Great Qing Dynasty (plus more)
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Lao Yang is asking for a monthly pass!
Xiao Peng asked Wang Hu to purchase some supplies, and he and Yang Meng went to move the big boxes on the bottom of the sea to the Alalei, and after all this was done, he dragged Guo Chuan on the way back.
Wang Hu was curious about the sudden addition of a few large boxes on the ship, but he didn't ask anything, good employees are less nonsense, and it is Wang Hu's consistent purpose not to ask more questions that he shouldn't know. Xiao Peng is now finally free to open the box and see what is inside.
As a result, when he opened the first box, Xiao Peng was a little dumbfounded, inside was a black brick-like square wrapped in paper, after so much time, it had already dried and hardened, and it was still printed with patterns, Xiao Peng picked up a broken one and sniffed it, frowned, and threw it directly into the sea.
"What is this?" Yang Meng asked.
Xiao Peng snorted coldly: "This is a special blessing-longevity-ointment!"
Hearing what he said, Yang Meng suddenly realized.
The so-called blessing-longevity-ointment is opium. Zheng Shi's era is also the era when the Eagle Kingdom dumped opium into China, and Zheng Shi's family also participated in the Humen cigarette sales as Lin Zexu's subordinate official after becoming an official. At that time, almost all the Eagle Kingdom merchant ships that came to China were carrying this thing.
At that time, the Eagle Kingdom had just completed the industrial revolution and needed a vast market as an export place for goods, and Huaxia just met this condition. Because the luxury goods such as tea, silk and porcelain produced in China are very popular in the European market, so the people of the Eagle Kingdom hope that China can open up trade, but the wool, wool and other industrial products exported by the Eagle Kingdom are not favored in China, and the Qianlong Emperor even thought that China lacks nothing and does not need to trade with the Eagle Kingdom.
This caused the Eagle Kingdom to lose its trade in China, the Eagle Kingdom used the gold standard monetary policy at that time, while the Qing court used the silver standard as the currency, because the trade with China needed to be converted into two silver, so the Eagle Kingdom needed to buy silver for trade purposes, and the gold and silver were bought and sold, and the profits of the Eagle people were damaged, and the Eagle Country needed to extract a high tax rate of 20% for goods to China, which made them extremely dissatisfied. In the end, he came up with a way to smuggle a large number of special commodities ------ opium to China in pursuit of high profits.
Due to the influx of opium, the annual outflow of silver from China at that time reached 6 million taels. And it devastated the Chinese people mentally and physically. This also attracted the attention of the Qing government and the broad masses of the people, the Qing government proceeded from its own interests, issued eight bans, and the Daoguang Emperor directly sent Lin Zexu as the minister of the Qin mission to Guangdong to ban smoking, which is the famous Humen cigarette ban. The people of the Eagle Kingdom saw the anti-smoking campaign in China as an infringement on private property, and felt that they could not bear it, which led to the outbreak of war.
As a result of this war, the Qing government also suffered a complete decline, and Hong Kong Island was ceded to the Eagle Kingdom at that time, and more than 20 million silver was compensated to the Eagle Kingdom, resulting in a large outflow of silver. Since then, China has gradually degenerated from an independent country to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.
To this day, Huaxia has zero tolerance for any kind of drugs, and this is why it is for this reason.
A gamble, a drug, are absolutely untouchable.
Yang Meng became more and more angry the more he looked at it, and he wanted to throw it into the sea, but Xiao Peng stopped him: "The sea is not a garbage can, don't pour anything into it." β
"Then what to do with these things?" Yang Meng asked. "Besides, you just threw a piece into the sea. β
Xiao Peng's old face flushed: "Don't care about those details, take the rest and burn them back." No, burning also pollutes the air. Uh, I have a way, I'll go back and contact Director Wang of the Forbidden City Museum and give him all these things. β
Yang Meng was stunned for a moment: "What are you doing? If you don't destroy these things, you still want to keep them?"
Xiao Peng said with a smile: "There are so many museums in our country, and each family is divided into two pieces, so it's not bad to educate everyone on patriotism." How many young people still know the history of those days? Let them see what is the reason why our China has become decadent! See how dare they take drugs?"
Yang Meng shrugged his shoulders and muttered in a low voice: "If you should die, you will die, and if you want to suck, you won't stop sucking just because you put this out." β
Xiao Peng said: "We won't stop them from doing their own death, right? But the education that should be there should also be continued, right?"
"Your boss, what do you say. Yang Meng moved a few boxes aside, and Xiao Peng opened another box, and as soon as he opened Xiao Peng, he whistled: "Wow couple." β
When Yang Meng heard Xiao Peng's whistle, he hurriedly turned his head to look, only to see that the box was full of scrolls, all of which were calligraphy and paintings. Yang Meng casually took out a scroll, opened it and saw that it was a painting, with a few strokes on it outlining a picture of weeping willows and lotuses, and after looking at it for a long time, Xiao Peng pointed to the stamp on the scroll and asked, "Xiao Peng, what is written here?"
Xiao Peng looked at it: "Oh, that says Bada Shanren." β
"Which eight?" Wang Hu leaned over and asked curiously.
Xiao Peng patted his forehead when he heard this: "Can't you usually read books? Bada Shanren is not eight people! It's a person! This person's name is called Bada Shanren!" After speaking, he took the painting in Yang Meng's hand and said: "Not bad, the pen is concise and resolute, the image is exaggerated and peculiar, it should be the work of Bada Shanren." β
Yang Meng also became interested: "Are these Bada Shanren very awesome?"
"Awesome?" Xiao Peng smiled: "This Bada Shanren can be called the grandmaster of the Chinese painting generation, but compared to his paintings, his people are more legendary." β
"How is it legendary? Hearing this name, it's like a Taoist priest, is it still a relative of the emperor?" Yang Meng said disdainfully.
Xiao Peng looked surprised: "You are really right! These Bada Shanren's real name is Zhu Qi, and he is really the royal grandson, and he is the ninth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang's seventeenth son, Zhu Quan." After the death of the Ming Dynasty, he cut his hair and became a monk, changed his name to 'Xue', and together with Shi Tao, Ji Cripple and Hongren, he was called the painting 'Four Monks', and then he was annoyed when he became a monk, and changed his career to become a Taoist. When he was 60 years old, he began to paint poems with Bada Shanren signing inscriptions. β
Yang Meng was not interested in whether the Bada Shanren was a monk or a Taoist priest, what he cared about was: "Is this guy's painting worth anything?"
Xiao Peng thought for a while: "In fact, Bada Shanren is a very productive painter, when he was a monk, he lived a poor life, unkempt, drank in the wine shop every day, and painted when he was drunk, a painting is more than ten pairs, what monk Taoist butcher orphan, whoever wants to paint him will give it to whom, there are still a lot of works circulated during that time, but the price is not too expensive, and after he changed his name to Bada Shanren, there was a period of wandering, visiting friends to paint, and there are many paintings. For example, in the National Museum of Asian Art in the Stars and Stripes, there are more than 40 paintings of the Bada Shanren. β
Yang Meng pursed his lips when he heard this: "It is said that things are rare and expensive, that is, his paintings are worthless?"
Xiao Peng shook his head again: "Good things are always good things, and they will not affect the price because of the quantity, the bamboo and stone mandarin ducks of the Bada Shanren, the auction price of a painting is 118.7 million yuan." And the price of imitation Ni landscape is also more than 80 million. Forget it, let's just put it this way, whether it is the characters or paintings of the Bada Mountain People, they are basically tens of millions of people who go up. β
Now it was Yang Meng's turn to whistle: "Let's see who else it is." I know this Shi Tao, you said it just now, and it's also a monk, right?"
Xiao Peng smiled: "That's right, that's right, and he is still related to the Bada Mountain people." β
"Is it also the prince and grandson?" Yang Meng was stunned.
Xiao Peng said: "Well, forget it, he is a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew." His father was Zhu Hengjia, the king of Jingjiang in the Ming Dynasty, after the death of Chongzhen, his father rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and was destroyed, and Shi Tao was young at that time, raised by a eunuch, and became a monk when he grew up. In his later years, he simply stopped being a monk and specialized in selling paintings, so he was also a prolific painter. β
Yang Meng was smart this time: "But good things are always good things, so Shi Tao's paintings are also very valuable." Right?"
Xiao Peng smiled: "Yes, what you said is so right, Shi Tao's paintings all start at 20 million." β
Yang Meng suddenly opened the scroll and took out a book from the box: "How can there be a book in here?"
Xiao Peng was also interested when he heard this, looking at Yang Meng holding a large silk album in his hand, Xiao Peng took it and took a look, and when he saw the cover, he took a breath of cool air, and his face was full of excitement: "No wonder this set of albums has been lost! It turned out to be here!!"
Yang Meng looked at Xiao Peng's expression and was also puzzled: "Isn't it the Spring Palace Map?"
Xiao Peng pointed to the inscription on the silk and said: "You should know this name, right? Tang Yin! Tang Bohu! We have so many painters and masters in China since ancient times, and they are famous for his paintings of the Spring Palace! The ancient Chinese people tabooed fruit bodies, so Huaxia did not use fruit models, but Tang Yin is an out-and-out pervert, and often uses his mistress and JI woman as models, so he paints so expressively and vividly. Now there are a lot of Tang Bohu's Spring Palace pictures that have been handed down, but such a large silk copy has long been lost! It's really not easy to find it here!"
"How do you know it's not fake?" Yang Meng asked.
Xiao Peng pointed to the album and explained: "The women painted by Tang Yin have characteristics, that is, 'three whites', a little white on the forehead, a little white on the tip of the nose, and a little white on the chin. Do you see if this painting is like this?"
Yang Meng took the album and flipped through it page by page, suddenly a piece of drawing paper fell out, Yang Meng picked it up, looked at it and handed it to Xiao Peng: "What's going on with this one?"
Xiao Peng looked at it, it was also a picture of the Spring Palace, but the level of the painting was a bit bad, and it was obviously not at the level of a master. Take a look at the following withdrawal: "Bao Zai and Mu Xiugu explore the spring of Taoyuan Cave"
Eh, Zheng Shi's real name is Shi Yang, and his nickname is Xiugu, this is when Zheng Shi's and Zhang Baozai were slapping, they were drawn down?
I can't tell if Zhang Baozai is still the Great Qing Dynasty? Disrespectful! Disrespectful!