The purchase information that Jiang Ping saw was posted by a person with the nickname Orange Tulip. He said that he was willing to pay a lot of money for the most famous Easter egg maker of Peter the Great, Alexander Ivanov.

As we all know, the Easter eggs of the Russian Tsarist period were very famous, and many famous Easter egg making masters have emerged. And this Alexander Ivanov is one of the more famous ones.

Ivanov's works are known for their beauty, beautiful decoration, and high cost. The most common decorations he used on Easter eggs were gemstones, and the main body of the eggs was also made of precious metals such as gold and silver. In addition, Ivanov will also add a lot of unique gadgets to the easter eggs, so that his works will not only be luxurious and beautiful, but also have more unexpected little surprises.

Because of this, Ivanov's Easter eggs, in addition to the value of their own materials, have high artistic value and collectible value. In addition, his works are also hundreds of years old, and they can be regarded as antiques according to Western standards, so the price is naturally higher.

In Jiang Ping's memory, in his previous life, in 2005, Sotheby's once auctioned an Ivanov Easter egg, which sold for a sky-high price of $37 million. After that, the price of Ivanov's work went all the way up, and just two years later, the same easter egg had been auctioned for 45 million dollars!

So this guy called Orange Tulip wants to buy Ivanov's products at this point in time, which shows that his vision for art is still very accurate.

And the reason why Jiang Ping sneered was because he happened to know the true identity of this guy with the nickname Orange Tulip. This person is a senior executive of an art investment company, an art investment company called Fasco. Mainly dealing in Western art. Occasionally, there are some Asian antiques involved. It has a good reputation in the European market, and has business dealings with many collectors and wealthy people.

But that's just the appearance, and the fact is that Fasco is not a big and respectable company as it seems. In fact, they have contacts with many people in the underworld, and often buy stolen goods from various sources at relatively low prices, launder them and send them to auction or sell them to collectors in need. This can be seen from the fact that representatives of Fasco will go to the black market to publish the purchase information.

Jiang Ping knows this Fasco company so well. Naturally, it is also based on the experience of past lives. In fact, in his previous life, he had also made several transactions with Fasco, and at the time of the last big deal, Fasco also took advantage of Jiang Ping's negligence and severely cheated him.

That deal cost Jiang Ping millions of dollars, and it can also be said to be a stain on his "career". However, after being reborn, Jiang Ping thought that he would never have anything to do with this company again. However, as the saying goes, "people are not as good as heaven", Jiang Ping didn't expect that he would see the ID of orange tulips on the black market again. Recalling the losses he suffered in his previous life, Jiang Ping couldn't help but feel a little itchy.

You must know that Jiang Ping is not only a famous thief, but also a highly accomplished art and antique counterfeiter. After being reborn, he forged several antiques, each of which served as it should.

And now, since I have encountered a Fasco company that has cheated on me in my previous life. Of course, Jiang Ping will not let go of this good opportunity to not only breathe a bad breath, but also make a lot of money for himself. He quickly decided. I made an Ivanov-made egg and sold it to Fasco.

Of course, it would take months to forge an elaborate Easter egg inlaid with various gemstones. So Jiang Ping did not rush to contact the orange tulip, but closed the computer and first considered which of Ivanov's works should be faked.

In Jiang Ping's memory, Ivanov was not a prolific master of making zuò. In his lifetime, there are only a dozen recorded Easter eggs in total.

Among the more than a dozen Easter eggs, some have been collected by museums or collectors, these are things that are recognized all over the world, and Jiang Ping certainly can't fake these Easter eggs, which is tantamount to asking for trouble for himself.

In addition to these easter eggs that have been publicly collected, there are also a few collectors who do not want to disclose their names. Although these messages have never been publicly acknowledged, Jiang Ping also removed these easter eggs from the shortlist.

As a result, there are only three or four objects left that can be faked. Jiang Ping didn't think about it for too long, and quickly chose the final goal.

This Easter egg is arguably Ivanov's best work, and was specially made by a duke to celebrate his daughter's coming-of-age. In order to make this egg, Ivanov spared no effort to use a large amount of gold, silver and various colored gemstones, which made the egg look simply beautiful and luxurious. Even Ivanov himself said that this was one of his most satisfying works.

The duke was so pleased with the egg that he even asked the poet to write a long poem in praise of the egg. For the forger Jiang Ping, this long poem has just become the basis for his forgery of easter eggs, and he can forge this easter egg, which is called a "miracle", according to those very specific details.

And this Easter egg, which amazed everyone, was lost during the October Revolution. At least so far, no one knows where it is. So Jiang Ping can be assured to forge boldly, and he doesn't have to worry about being debunked by the people of Fasco at all.

Even better, Jiang Ping, who has memories of his past life, knows that the real easter egg will be revealed a year later, at Sotheby's Autumn Auction in 2004. At that time, Jiang Ping had already sold the easter eggs to Fasco, and they had become tasteless chicken ribs that were discarded, just to breathe a sigh of relief for what happened to him in his previous life.

"Okay, it's going to go!" Jiang Ping, who had decided, nodded secretly in his heart, and then began to list the materials needed to make this easter egg.

The most commonly used zuò eggs made by Ivanov are gold, silver and various colored gemstones, and for Jiang Ping, these materials are not a problem, as long as he is willing to spend money, he can buy them. What really embarrassed him was the several pigments used to outline the patterns on the surface of the eggs.

You must know that with the progress of the times, many of the pigments used by people in the past are different from those of modern times. Insiders can easily distinguish the difference between modern pigments and ancient pigments, and if Jiang Pingtu uses modern pigments, he will definitely be debunked on the spot when trading.

And Fasco is not a good man and a woman, and the consequences of being seen through by them are very strict, and Jiang Ping will never allow this kind of thing to happen. So he had to get his hands on the paints used in Ivanov's time, so that he could fool the art experts at Fasco.

However, it was not easy to get hold of the pigments of that era, and many of them have long since been discontinued, and even their formulas have been lost. Jiang Ping secretly calculated that if he wanted to make the Easter eggs seamless, he had to get at least three kinds of paints that had long disappeared from the market.

"That's a bit of a hassle." Looking at the three pigments he listed, Jiang Ping also felt a little embarrassed.

Not to mention in China, it is not easy to get these three pigments even in Europe. One of them, one of the blue pigments, is the focus of the focus. Because the Easter egg that Jiang Ping wants to forge is mainly based on blue. If you can't get this paint, it's better to dispel this idea sooner.

The trouble is, however, that the other two pigments are still available on the black market in Europe, and at most they cost a little more. And this blue pigment is the only treasure in the world that has been treasured by the art department of the University of Paris.

In other words, if Jiang Ping wanted to get this blue paint, he had to find a way to infiltrate the heavily guarded storage room of the art department of the University of Paris, and unknowingly get some blue paint, and no one could find it afterwards.

After all, Fasco has eyes and ears in black and white in Europe, and if someone steals the blue paint from the art collection of the University of Paris, and a few months later someone sells them an Easter egg with a blue tone, it is hard to guarantee that no one will think of the connection, which will be very unfavorable to Jiang Ping.

"Forget about the other two pigments, what about this blue pigment?" Jiang Ping circled the blue paint with his pen, scratched his head a little distressed, and said: "Do you really want to get this kind of paint from the University of Paris as a student, it was not easy to persuade my parents to suspend their studies, and they want to enter the school again in a blink of an eye, which is really troublesome!" ”

However, complaining is complaining, but Jiang Ping still decided to find a way to infiltrate the University of Paris and get his hands on this blue pigment. After all, this is one of the most important raw materials for forged Ivanov's works, and in this there must be no sloppiness.

Of course, although Jiang Ping decided so, it was impossible to act immediately. After all, it is not easy to enter the art department of the University of Paris, and even if Jiang Ping knows a shortcut, it is impossible to enroll immediately, but he must do a lot of preparation work first.

Although he couldn't get those three pigments for the time being, this did not prevent Jiang Ping from implementing his plan. He also bought some European gold and silver objects from the Peter the Great period through the guò black market, and when they arrived, he dissolved them and began to build the basic structure of the Easter egg.

Pigments are used only when the basic structure of the egg is made out of gold and silver, and then it can be inlaid with various colored gems and other decorations.

The work of creating the basic structure of the Easter egg is still carried out in a factory in the suburbs. In the evening of that day, Jiang Ping, who had been busy all day, returned to the small courtyard in Huanhua Lane, but found that the landlord, Mrs. Feng, was also there, talking to Zhang Chenlin. And Zhang Chenlin's face was very ugly, it seemed that Mrs. Feng had brought some bad news. (To be continued......)

PS: Second update.

Today is September 1st, the school has started, I wish you a happy new semester and academic success, at least ...... Don't fail, uh-huh.