Chapter 946: The Treasure of Tanglin (II)

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Liu Dong has visited the Palace Museum's clock hall more than once, and its rich and varied, whimsical, expensive materials, and amazingly valuable clocks have always been one of his most desired collections!

However, because exquisite ancient clocks are difficult to find, until now, through auctions and his own Taobao leaks, Liu Dong now has only more than 200 wall clocks and table clocks in his hands, and the reason why he can have this number is thanks to the harvest of his trip to the Netherlands!

However, among all the clocks and watches in Liu Dong's collection, although there are many exquisite heirlooms of the Qing Dynasty royal family and European masters, there has always been a lack of the kind of 'king of clocks' that can shock people, commonly known as the treasure of the town!

Now seeing this golden giant clock, Liu Dong finally has no regrets in his heart!

Of course, there is more than one table clock here, in addition to this amazing giant gold table clock, Liu Dong found about a hundred clocks, more than half of them are made of gold, and some of them belong to silver, which has been made of wood such as huanghuali and red sandalwood, as well as a small amount of jade, all of which are top-quality Hetian jade, Lantian jade and Dushan jade!

The forms of various clocks are also diverse, there are Chinese clocks with Buddha statues, Taoist immortals, legendary beasts, Chinese myths and historical stories, as well as Western-style clocks decorated with elephants, lions, angels, and Western characters.

A piece of gorgeous clocks passed in front of Liu Dong one by one, and he was not only the whimsical ideas of the craftsmen of his predecessors. and marvel at the superb craftsmanship, especially the extravagance of the Qianlong Emperor, if these craftsmen did not waste their talents on clocks that could only be used as playthings. And if you go to study machinery, I am afraid that China will not have the shame of the next hundred years!

Of course, all this is if, history is still irreversible!

Throw away the occasional sentimentality, and the rest of the wooden box still attracts Liu Dong's attention!

There are more than 300 pieces of furniture made of huanghuali, red sandalwood and golden silk nan, except for about a quarter of the large pieces of furniture such as shelf beds and eight-immortal tables, there are almost no ordinary pieces of furniture such as small pieces such as boxes and trays. On each piece, you can see the existence of red, rhino, luodian, gold and silver leveling, lacquering, gold, gold painting and other crafts.

In addition to the furniture, there are also a large number and fine workmanship. The top-quality silk of the 'Jiangnan Sanwo' with exquisite patterns, as well as the dragon robes and phoenix robes made of silk, and the large number of concubine costumes with different styles!

Liu Dong took a brief inventory. There are 999 pieces of silk of various colors that have not been cut! There are also some reds and blues, as well as decors and so on!

In addition to silk, there are a total of 77 pieces of the emperor's court robe, 13 crowns, and seven pearls. Eight pieces of sable, three pieces of ferret, and three pieces of Xuanhu dragon. There are two pieces of white wolf and nearly 100 pieces of clothing, such as boots and purses.

In addition, there are forty-nine pieces of phoenix robes in the queen's court clothes. The phoenix crown crowns six crowns, perhaps because the queen uses three hanging pearls every day. The queen's pearl has thirteen hangings. Eight pieces of sable. There are five pieces of firefox and five pieces of ferret, and nearly 300 pieces of other clothes.

In addition to clothing, there are thousands of silk fabrics of different shapes and functions, such as tents and bed curtains, which are used by the royal family!

Although these furniture and silk costumes are not particularly top-notch national treasures, each of them is worth a lot!

These things are enough for Liu Dong to open a Qing Dynasty royal costume and silk fabric museum!

Plus, it's impossible to have a tomb without gold and silver!

Of course, gold and silver here do not simply refer to gold bullion and silver dollars, but also include all kinds of gold and silver utensils.

Liu Dong probably counted and found a total of 35 sets of gin wine vessels with various decorations, 44 sets of gold tableware, 1,109 pieces of exquisite craftsmanship such as gold hand stoves, gold trays, gold candlesticks, gold incense burners, gold Buddha shrines, gold Buddha statues, gold ruyi, and so on. There are more than 1,900 pieces of silver utensils of all kinds, 2,550 pieces of gold and silver inlaid royal utensils, and 910 pieces of gold jewelry.

In addition, Emperor Qianlong did not believe in Buddhism, so there were more than 1,500 gold and jade Buddha statues, stupas and Buddhist scriptures in his tomb, and the most valuable ones were mainly three in Liu Dong's opinion!

One is a two-metre-tall statue of Shakyamuni Buddha made of pure gold with a small amount of pearls, agate and ruby sapphires! and a gold-inlaid pagoda that is half a metre taller than Shakyamuni Buddha's! and the last one is only one and a half metres tall and only 60 centimeters in diameter, but the entire body is carved out of the finest mutton fat white jade!

The reason why it is said to be ten thousand Buddhas is because on this nine-story pagoda, 9,999 Buddha statues with the same shape are carved by means of semi-circular carving combined with miniature carving!

Nine is the pole, so although there is a gap of 1 Buddha statue here, it is also called ten thousand Buddhas!

Through this exquisite Ten Thousand Buddha Pagoda, Liu Dong also peeked into the superb skills of the jade carving craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty Royal Ruyi Workshop! If you want to complete such a delicate pagoda, I am afraid that it will not be possible in more than three years!

And compared with the superb carving skills on the pagoda, its material is more extraordinary, different from the so-called Hetian mutton fat jade is now a first-class white jade that is indiscriminately filled, the jade material of this ten thousand Buddha pagoda is the real Hetian mutton fat jade, which can be long and short with the top glass imperial green jade, which can be met but not sought, and there is a real top Hetian jade material with no price.

Up to now, Liu Dong has collected it himself, and with the harvest from Han's jewelry treasure house, the largest piece of Hetian jade in his hand is only 40 kilograms, which is not much bigger than a laptop!

But the jade material in front of him is at least 5 times his weight and even more!

"Come to think of it, unless it's the royal family of 'the whole world is not the king's land', I'm afraid it will be difficult for anyone to get such an amazing Hetian breeding jade material!" Liu Dong secretly said in his heart.

In addition to the astonishing number of gold and silver utensils and dark utensils, there are also a lot of gold and silver that are simply used for burial, but there is more gold and less silver here, and Liu Dong is not surprised by this situation.

At the beginning, the reason why Sun Dianying dug Tanglin was to raise military expenses for military expansion, and the silver in hand had naturally been spent, and the gold was precious so it was left for the end!

Therefore, there is also the situation that Liu Dong sees now, there is more gold than silver!

Of course, there is still a difference between the gold in the tomb and the gold used in ordinary times, for example, now, there are only six boxes of gold ingots of about ten taels each in the wooden box that Liu Dong saw, and the rest are gold melons, gold cakes and gold leaves!

The shape of the golden gourd resembles a winter melon, there is a simple ornament on the surface, Liu Dong casually picked up a piece from it and turned it upside down, the weight is about 500 taels, and the golden cakes are solid, there is no decoration, the size is equivalent to the palm of an adult, each piece is about ten taels!

There was not much time, and Liu Dong did not count the number of these gold ingots, golden melons, gold cakes and gold leaves, but only weighed them slightly when he picked up each box, and finally estimated that the weight of these gold should be between 180~200 tons! As for the remaining silver, Liu Dong was too lazy to look at it, not even a tenth of the gold, the value was too low!

In addition to gold and silver, there is also a part of the bronze ware, which is Qianlong according to the Xia Shang era of the Son of Heaven 'nine tripods and eight gui' to create for his own burial, in addition to 9 ascending to the tripod, there are 6 about two meters high, weighing more than 3 tons of woks, 9 feeding tripods, 9 statues of the base of the square gui, a bronze ban decorated with dragon patterns, 9 pieces, 2 pairs of large zun tong, 2 pairs of joint pots, 2 pairs of ice jian, 1 set of 2 pieces of zun plate and 4 pieces of cups, and a set of chimes with 36 pieces, and a set of chimes!

Although these bronzes are made in strict accordance with the Zhou system, they are not cast in bronze like in the pre-Qin period, but in the material, each piece is made in the same way as the Xuande furnace made in the Ming Dynasty, with red copper, with gold, Dozens of precious raw materials such as silver, refined twelve times cast, so although these Zhou ritual vessels are made in the late Qing Dynasty, but each piece has poured into the efforts of the craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty Royal Ruyi Fang, and the craftsmanship is exquisite, with openwork and semi-circular carving in each bronze ware have left exquisite cloud and thunder patterns, leaf patterns, gluttonous patterns, dragon patterns, etc., simple and generous but also with the Qianlong period utensils are gorgeous characteristics, although only more than two hundred years of history, but the same value is amazing!

After putting away the wooden boxes containing a total of 289 pieces of various antique bronze ritual vessels, Liu Dong looked at the thirty or so large wooden boxes that were finally located in the center.

These wooden boxes placed in the center like the moon held by the stars must be the most valuable, and the spiritual light rising from the sky on them also proves Liu Dong's speculation!

Ten of these wooden boxes are particularly huge, each of which is more than 3 meters long, about 2 meters high, and even more than 2 meters wide.

Liu Dong walked to a wooden box that was almost square and opened the lid on it!

Before he could see the contents clearly, he first choked on a strong musty smell and sneezed a few times!

"What a stupid, how did you forget this!"

Looking at the decaying straw in most of the wooden box, Liu Dong felt a little annoyed.

Decades have passed, and these straws that were originally used as cushions have long been rotten and rotten, and the taste will naturally not smell good, and Liu Dong only thinks about the treasure inside, and he actually forgot about this stubble, no wonder he suffered!

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