Cherama Kumar lives next to this weedy temple, and his thatched hut is just below a white and lime-green water tower. Within an hour, he said, "the place was packed with people, and lots and lots of police officers with police dogs and full suits." ”

About 200 miles, or 322 kilometers, south of Chennai, this humble temple is exactly what bandits and black marketeers have been eyeing for years – a deserted, barely defended temple that houses a vast collection of elaborate secular statues from the Chola period. These works of art can be worth millions of dollars in the eyes of large museums and wealthy collectors.

Police said there were 29 such statues in the stolen temple, some of which had been moved to "preserve" for safety purposes after an attempted theft at another temple in 1968. Some of them are for worship, while others are used for annual processions.

"They're all things that we've preserved from the time of our ancestors. Gurukar said. It was July and he was lying in a hammock outside his house, shirtless and wearing a turban. "I'm not sure I'll ever see them again. ”

Indian investigators said at the time that the theft had taken place more than a month earlier. Since then, the artworks have been rapidly moved from that village to Chennai, Hong Kong, and then to London and New Jersey, labelled as worthless handicrafts, and stored in a warehouse controlled by Capper in New York. After being cleaned and restored, they will soon enter his gallery and be transformed. It became an item from a private collection.

And what many people don't know is that these things pass through Hong Kong. And the help of him Hollande.

Although Kapoor has now been discovered, that's the end of this guy's too flamboyance. He took many of the group's assets for himself, and there was no one left to save him at this time.

Hollande doesn't make that stupid mistake, but he is envious of Kapoor's achievements, and he wants to take a lot of things out of China.

You know, China's long-standing culture is more prosperous and prosperous than India, and the country where it was born has always had continuity, unlike India, which was actually before modern times. There is not even a state in the true sense of the word.

In the course of China's history, all dynasties would copy the fine porcelain, calligraphy and painting of the previous dynasty and all kinds of antiques, but due to the repeated wars a hundred years ago, many recipes have disappeared into the long river of history.

Especially ceramics, many ceramics have been annihilated in the flames of war, and even modern people can't figure out how those things are made, and they can't be restored at all.

It has been said before how complex the porcelain of the Ming Dynasty is, and some lost porcelain is even more complicated, if there is no secret recipe for the composition of the porcelain embryo, the preparation of pigments and the firing temperature. Even with the wisdom of modern people and advanced technology, it is absolutely impossible to restore the ancient method of making ceramics.

At most, it's just a cat and a tiger, and what comes out is the so-called four dislikes.

This is true of ceramics, and so are many of the legendary things. For example, the strong crossbow of the Qin Dynasty, although there are decaying bows and crossbows in the terracotta warriors and horses of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, it is really difficult to completely restore it with that thing.

And what exactly is the legendary wooden ox flowing horse? So far, no one has been able to give an exact answer, although many people have guessed many answers. But it's not too mysterious, or it's too ignorant of the technology of the ancients. So much so that it remains a mystery to this day.

In addition, there are some interesting anecdotes, which I have heard before, and Hollande does not know whether they are true or not.

It is said that there is an ancient Chinese toy that looks like a bird and the main body is made of glass. Its body is a glass tube, the upper end of the tube is a small ball, which is the bird's head, and the lower end of the tube is a large ball, which is the tail of the bird. The ball is filled with liquid, and the lower end of the tube is immersed under the liquid surface. The entire body of the bird is airtight and rests on a pedestal that resembles a bird's legs. It has a pointed beak glued to its head and feathers stuck to its tail.

In order to prevent people from seeing the secrets of the bird's body, its body is painted black. And the magic of it is that if you put a glass of water in front of the bird, the bird will lean down, dip its beak in the water, "drink" it, and then stand upright. But after standing upright for a while, it will lean down again, and when the beak is soaked in water, it will "drink" and then stand upright. In this way, it keeps nodding and drinking, like a perpetual motion machine. But perpetual motion machines are scientifically impossible, so what's going on here?

According to the "Continuation of Interesting Physics" edited by the famous popular science writer Belelliman in the former Soviet Union, someone once gave Dr. Einstein this colored, invisible inner mystery "drinking bird", and said to him, didn't scientists say that perpetual motion machines are impossible, now let you take a look at this perpetual motion machine. When Einstein saw it and understood how it works, he was really amazed at the ingenuity of the design of the "drinking bird". That's why this toy was called "Einstein's surprise toy".

But whether it is a perpetual motion machine or not, no one has given an answer, but I think that the perpetual motion machine still does not exist, but this thing may last longer.

There is another thing about ceramics that Hollande is very interested in, and that is the drunkenness of beauty.

The ceramic technique "beauty drunk" that was lost in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty did not reappear in the Forbidden City before. The donor is 80-year-old Chen Zuodao from Treasure Island. "The collection of this exquisite ceramic product fills a gap in the collection of modern ceramics in our institute. Liang Jinsheng, director of the Cultural Relics Management Office of the Palace Museum, said.

Due to the completely opposite firing conditions, the ceramic "beauty drunk" technique has been lost for a long time. After decades of painstaking research, Chen Zuodao finally "reproduced" this "magical" skill. This donation is a "beauty drunk" work that he successfully fired at the beginning of last year.

"We also have a collection of ancient beauty drunk works, but it is rare to see a mixture of copper red and patina like this work. Liang Jinsheng said.

The high-temperature copper red glaze "Beauty Drunk", also known as "Peach Blossom Red", is a kind of ceramic firing technology, and the ceramics fired by this technology show green spots due to the local unreduced divalent copper ions. Hong Liangji of the Qing Dynasty once praised the charm of this glaze with "green as the first birthday of spring, red like the morning glow".

The ceramic glaze is burned red, a large amount of smoke is needed in the kiln, and there can be no smoke when fired green, because of the extremely contradictory conditions, so it is difficult to fire successfully "beauty drunk", which has always been a recognized technical problem in the world ceramic industry.

After nearly 30 years of attempts, Chen Zuodao made this technique "lost and regained".

Hollande also tried to get this technology from the old man surnamed Chen He Wei, but he didn't succeed, but he believed that Liu Dabin would definitely be able to do this impossible thing for him.

There are also those ancient swords, although modern technology can detect their composition, but it is very difficult to restore them completely.

Reverse technology is not so easy, everyone knows that China's fighter jets are weak in engines, but even if you get someone else's advanced engine, but if you want to study it and reverse the copycat, it will be very difficult, otherwise Chinese aircraft will not be so difficult.

At the very least, there is a reference for these things, but many ancient handicrafts do not even have a reference, so it is even more difficult.

There are so many good things in China, he wants them all, and he wants to restore them. And he has not forgotten the core business of his group, which is "counterfeiting", especially high imitation.

This kind of high imitation is not only antiques, but also other luxury goods, anyway, whatever can make money, they will do what they want.

The reason why this Liu Dabin will be favored by the headquarters is because of his very excellent high imitation ability, with a Liu Dabin, the entire porcelain of the Ming Dynasty is likely to be able to imitate high, and when the time comes, it will be able to make a lot of money to deceive Chinese.

Think about it, just a pair of Chenghua Doucai chicken bowl cups are hundreds of millions, so what about other things that are more valuable than chicken bowl cups?

There are still many years when Chinese businessmen want to buy things back, but foreign museums refuse to give them, so well, they don't give it, so we will imitate it and sell it to you, which is also profitable, that is, to coax you stupid guys with a lot of money.

"Mr. Qian is at the hotel, let's go in. ”

Of course, Hollande will not tell the head of the Qian district what he thinks, what he wants to do will frighten the head of the Qian district, and the business will definitely not be able to be negotiated at that time, but he is not worried about the head of the district, this person is very smart and cunning, but after all, his ability is limited, and it is very difficult to find out his identity.

The next thing he wants to do is an investigation against Zhang Tianyuan.

"Okay, let's go inside. District Chief Qian hesitated when he got out of the car, but after thinking about it, he didn't pay for it himself, but he just accompanied the guests to attract investment, and it was not a violation of the rules, so he walked into the hotel with his feet up, and then came to the box that Hollande had booked in advance.

"Mr. Qian, you sit down first, I'll ask for two bottles of good wine, I heard that your most expensive wine in China is that monkey wine, oops, you can't drink it abroad, I'm in a treat today, Mr. Qian, you don't have to be polite." Anyway, that wine can't get drunk, let alone worry......"

District Chief Qian wanted to refuse, but he really liked monkey wine too much, but he just had such a salary, if he didn't have gray income, he couldn't afford to drink monkey wine at all, licked his lips, or swallowed back the words he wanted to refuse, and finally chose to accept it.

Hollande has long figured out the temper of District Chief Qian, so he is very accurate at this point, knowing that District Chief Qian will never refuse, this person, once he meets something he likes, he is a little unstoppable, and District Chief Qian's weakness is beauty and wine. (To be continued......)