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Chapter 813 Yongle Grand Canon

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"Ten AT-12T 120mm rocket launchers, 1,000 rockets; 10 20mm Vulcan guns, 1 million rounds of ammunition; 20 Type 95 assault rifles, 500,000 rounds of rifle ammunition, 100,000 rounds of grenades; Plus 2 tons of C4 plastic explosives, 12MK48 heavy torpedoes, 12 Whaling Fork anti-ship missiles, a total of 153 million dollars! ”

After nodding, Liu Dong said, "How much deposit do I need to pay?" ”

"30% deposit, a total of $45.9 million!" Ed said immediately.

"I swipe my card!"

Watching Liu Dong take out his bank card to pay the deposit, the most excited person in this weapon shop was not Ed, who received a big order, but Richardson, who brought Liu Dong here!

According to his decision with Liu Dong, his intermediary fee can get 0.5% of all Liu Dong's transaction volume, and this 0.5% multiplied by 153 million US dollars, which is 765,000 US dollars, which is much more than the money he earns in a year!

"Great!"

After three days of getting along with Ed, the time and place of the high seas transaction, turning to look at Richardson's eyes that were almost about to pounce, Liu Dong smiled, "Don't worry, I won't lose your commission!" ”

"Little Richardson, you're making a lot of money this time!" Ed also laughed beside him.

"Hehe, hehehe. Thank you, Mr. Liu! Richardson was already smiling from ear to ear.

"Don't thank me. You deserve it! ”

Finished buying arms. Although Liu Dong plans to take a stroll in the black market, he doesn't need to be accompanied by Richardson for the rest of his trip! After all, Liu Dong himself is purely curious, and there is nothing he must buy.

Of course, Liu Dong will not look at the arms and weapons anymore, but Liu Dong is very interested in the jewelry and artworks on the lower floors.

So after sending Richardson away, he took Eric with him.

As Liu Dong imagined, despite the black market, there are still fakes in the area where art is sold, but only a lot less!

"Huh. How is this painting here? ”

When Liu Dong inadvertently walked to an open art shop, he was attracted by an oil painting hanging on the wall of the store, and he was very familiar with this oil painting!

Originally, Liu Dong thought that this was a fake, but in the process of exploring with relics Yuanguang, Liu Dong found a rich spiritual light on it.

"Boss, can you show me this painting?" Curious, Liu Dong immediately walked into the store.

In fact, when Liu Dong stood in front of the store and stopped, the boss had already noticed him, but he didn't come up to say hello at the first time!

Now seeing that Liu Dong has a tendency to buy, the boss naturally quickly came up.

"Hello. Do you want this? Following the direction of Liu Dong's finger, the boss took down a portrait of a person hanging on the wall.

"Yes!"

After Liu Dong nodded. The painting was also handed to him.

The moment his hands touched the painting, the relics in the mustard seed space also gave the identification result: "Vincent. Van Gogh's "Portrait of Doctor Gachet"! ”

"It's it!" With the corroboration of the relics, Liu Dong no longer doubted it!

However, the whole world knows that this famous Van Gogh painting was auctioned for $82.5 million in 3 minutes at Christie's auction house in New York on May 15, 1990 to Hidei Saito, Japan's second-largest papermaker.

It also set a record for the highest price ever paid for an art at auction at the time, and to this day, Van Gogh's famous painting still holds the record for the world's most valuable art at auction.

But now this painting has actually appeared in the black market of Miami!

Faced with this result, Liu Dong didn't have to guess to know that this Japanese entrepreneur's family must have been robbed!

But whether it is Liu Dongchai's reason or not, since this famous painting worth a thousand gold has been encountered by himself, there is naturally no reason to let it go, as for the troubles that may be encountered in the future, Liu Dong will not care, is there still less Chinese art looted by Japan? I haven't seen them return in so many years!

Having made up his mind to pay attention, Liu Dong said: "Boss, how much is this painting?" ”

"$50 million!" The slightly thin boss stretched out five fingers towards Liu Dong.

"No, no, it's too expensive! I'll only give out 5 million at most! Liu Dong shook his head without hesitation.

What are you kidding, this is the black market, how can something on the black market be sold at the market price?

However, although he knew that the price of 50 million was indeed a bit expensive, Liu Dong's tenfold bargaining standard suddenly made the thin boss angry.

"That's too hard!" The skinny boss frowned fiercely.

Although this painting is a stolen property, its original value is as high as 82.5 million, and this is still the price ten years ago, counting the heating up of the international art market in the past ten years, the price of this painting is definitely more than 82.5 million now! So he thinks that although $50 million is a bit expensive, it should still be acceptable!

"Sir, since you know this painting, you should know its current value, compared to a record holder of 82.5 million in the transaction of an art that sold for 82.5 million in 90, I think 50 million dollars is cheap enough!"

"No, quite the opposite! In addition to our own appreciation, the most important thing is to value its investment value, and now if I buy this painting, I can only enjoy it in private, and I can't trade it at auction in an open manner, so the value of its investment has shrunk significantly! Therefore, the price of $50 million is too high! ”

Of course, Liu Dong also understands that the other party will definitely not sell $5 million," ...... Otherwise, $20 million, $20 million I'll buy these two paintings, and then I'll pick two things from your store!" ”

"$20 million?"

The skinny boss hesitated. His painting of Van Gogh has been hanging here for more than a month. There are many people who ask for a price. But in the face of high prices, few people will actually buy it, and this thing is a stolen thing, and it is easy to have problems if it is hidden for a long time.

So after thinking about it, the thin boss said decisively: "Okay, for 20 million dollars, you can also be allowed to pick two things in the store, but the oil paintings on this wall are not within the range!" ”

In his shop. Except for four or five good oil paintings on the wall, everything else is worth no more than $1 million, so it doesn't hurt to let Liu Dong pick two.

"Of course!" Liu Dong said happily in his heart.

In addition to this famous Van Gogh painting in this store, Liu Dong also found two precious antiques that are 'national treasures' for Chinese!

"I'm going to have them!"

As he spoke, Liu Dong took two blackened pages from the edge of the iron shelf next to the store, and the book cover had obvious moth-eaten and sweat-stained thread-like books!

Compared with the average Chinese ancient book, these two books are much larger, 50.3 centimeters high, 30 centimeters wide, and more than a finger thick!

looked at the four big characters of the pavilion body that were vaguely visible on the cover. Liu Dong, who was excited in his heart, said silently: "Yongle Canon, I didn't expect to find a rare copy of Yongle Canon here!" ”

The Yongle Canon was compiled in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. It took six years to compile and revise by Xie Jin, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, and it is one of the most famous ancient classics in China and the largest encyclopedia in the world so far.

It is far larger than all the books compiled by its predecessors, leaving many rich stories and puzzles for future generations.

Compiled during the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty, this book preserves Chinese history and geography, literature and art, philosophy and religion, and encyclopedic documents before the 14th century. There are 22,937 volumes and 60 table of contents, divided into 11,095 volumes, with a total of about 370 million words.

Compared with the Encyclopedia compiled by Diderot in France and the Encyclopædia Britannica in England, the Yongle Canon appeared more than 300 years earlier and can be called a treasure of world cultural heritage.

According to rough statistics, there are as many as seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient classics selected and preserved in the Yongle Grand Canon, which is five or six times the number of books such as "Art and Literature Gathering", "Taiping Yulan", and "Shufu Yuangui" in the previous generation, which is the large-scale series of books compiled in the Qing Dynasty, "Siku Quanshu", and the collection of books is only more than 3,000 kinds.

It is only because of the war and the self-theft of the guards that there are only more than 400 rare copies of the Yongle Dictionary preserved in the world, scattered in 30 units scattered in 8 countries and regions around the world.

The preservation of zài China, including the Tai-Wan together, is only 223 volumes, and the rest are all abroad.

But these two copies are not among the more than 400 volumes, because he is very familiar with the number and content of all the rare copies of the Yongle Dadian that are still preserved, even the 797-volume photocopied edition.

Neither of these books is among them.

Being able to find the well-preserved "Yongle Canon" on both sides here, Liu Dong was naturally very excited, perhaps in the eyes of Westerners, although these two ancient Chinese books are of great significance, their value is not too high, but in Liu Dong's eyes, they are priceless!

It is even more precious than Van Gogh's "Portrait of Doctor Gäscher" that I got before.

With the wrapped Van Gogh paintings in hand, plus two never-before-seen copies of the Yongle Canon, Liu Dong became more interested in the black market!

Not to mention, there are really a lot of good things here!

However, considering that most of the things sold here are stolen goods, it will bring him a lot of trouble if they are exposed in the future, so although Liu Dong is greedy, he does not buy more.

But by the time he left, he had 37 antiques in his hand!

In addition to the original Van Gogh famous painting "Portrait of Doctor Gäscher" and the two volumes of "Yongle Canon", the most precious is the Qing Dynasty Kangxi Imperial Kiln 'Yipin Palace Porcelain' pastel celestial ball bottle!

With Eric by his side, Liu Dong couldn't fit everything into his mustard seed space, so he could only hire a few people to drive these artworks to his yacht.

And at this time, the Nord and the two who went out to buy daily necessities have also returned! (To be continued......)