Chapter 226: Seeing the Light of Day Again
Gu Baozhen was swept out of the house, and after repeated pleas, he agreed to let her live in a small house of less than 4 square meters next to the stove in the house where she originally lived. Her family's nanny, Gu Fengxian, always accompanies her, and the two are commensurate with each other.
Once, in the forced street sweeping labor, Gu Baozhen suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, fainted on the spot and fell to the ground and was sent to the hospital. After that, she was unconscious, not dripping water, and was rubbed by Wu Hufan's daughter-in-law Xu Houjuan every day, and went with Wu Hufan in a few days, at the age of 54.
"Hey, it's heart-wrenching that a generation of idols ended up like this!"
After reading the information, Wu Tianyuan felt very heavy, his only idol was so desolate in his later years, and his lifelong treasure was destroyed overnight, that kind of unforgettable pain is simply life-threatening!
"No. 88 Songshan Road, Luwan District, go see if there are any clues!"
Three days later, Wu Tianyuan set off with Wang Jun, and Wang Hong was not needed in China, a girl's house, let him take a rest.
"After a while, the iron-blooded boss will come to me, and in the future, I will really go to the wilderness or war-torn places to hunt for treasures, and let them protect me."
Wu Tianyuan explained: "After all, you are a person of national security, and your life and identity are very sensitive, and there are some things that are not easy to risk participating in. ”
"Boss, what are these words?"
Wang Jun was dissatisfied: "My duty is to protect your safety, how can I escape?" Don't worry, I thought about this last time. If you really want to go to dangerous areas, it's better to have iron-blooded protection, but I'll have arrangements here. Now your status is special, and there can be no mistakes in the leader's explanation! ”
Wu Tianyuan nodded, it doesn't matter, the more people there are, the safer they are, who would joke with their lives? He did not know that in view of what he had done, the state had paid more attention and that the level of security had been raised to the highest level.
"It's still an old alley?"
Two people came to Shanghai and found a dilapidated old alley, but it was not developed? A small two-storey building where people still live.
"Help me get in touch, I bought it!"
Wu Tianyuan saw that this was good, in case the development of the treasure was not discovered, he would run in vain, and after a period of negotiations, he bought a small building for the last 10 million, which can be regarded as having an industry in Shanghai.
"Under the cabinet, yes, dig!"
The two of them went to the bedroom, made sure that the treasure chest was under the cabinet, and began to dig for the treasure.
"Haha, Song Huizong's hibiscus brocade chicken picture!"
"Thin gold body thousand-character text!"
"Late Autumn Picture of the Pond!"
"Eight Beauties Album!"
Wu Tianyuan's excited inventory harvest turned out to be the authentic works of Song Huizong, and there was also a set of beauty eight albums, superb!
After absorbing the energy, Wu Tianyuan sighed that any one of them is a national treasure now, and it is estimated that the treasure hunt will be a matter of entering the museum in the future. It seems that if you want to make money, you still have to find foreign treasures, and you don't feel distressed when auctioned.
"Let's go, the second target, Henan Xiangcheng!"
The two of them immediately returned to the capital, put the treasure in the museum, and went to Xiangcheng, Henan Province non-stop, which was Zhang Boju's hometown, where many collections were raided, maybe there were discoveries.
Before his death, he served as a special member of the Palace Museum, a member of the Appraisal Committee of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Museum, an honorary tutor of Chinese art history of the Department of Chinese Literature of Yenching University, an honorary president of the Beijing Chinese Painting Research Association, and an honorary director of the Chinese Calligraphers Association.
Persecuted and framed during the Revolution, in 1972 the Prime Minister learned of the news and instructed him to be appointed as a librarian of the Central Research Institute of Culture and History.
In the first month of 1982, Zhang Boju, who had returned from a banquet, suddenly fell ill with a cold and was sent to Peking University Hospital. On February 26, when his daughter finally got the approval to change hospitals, Zhang Boju unfortunately passed away at the age of 84.
The famous paintings and calligraphy collected by him can be seen in his work "Congbi Calligraphy and Painting Record", there are as many as 118 pieces, which is known as the first collection in the world. Sparing no cost, even risking one's life, in order to preserve cultural relics and treasures is not only out of patriotism and sincerity, but also based on a deep understanding of the national cultural heritage and a heartfelt love.
In 1965, when Zhang Boju donated more than 30 pieces of "Hundred Flowers" and other ancient paintings and calligraphy to the Jilin Provincial Museum, which is today's Jilin Provincial Museum, there was a curator named Song Zhenting in Jilin Province at that time, he held Zhang Boju's hand and said: "Mr. Zhang suddenly made our museum a rich man." ”
Lu Ji's "Pingfu Post", Zhan Ziqian's "Spring Tour", Du Mu's "Zhang Haohao's Poems" and other ancient calligraphy and painting masterpieces are the treasures of the Palace Museum.
"Any thing donated by Mr. Zhang Boju cannot be overstated in any adjective to describe its value." At that time, the director of the Forbidden City sighed sincerely: "There are two top donors to the Forbidden City, one is Sun Yingzhou who donated porcelain, and the other is Zhang Boju who donated calligraphy and paintings. ”
Lu Ji's "Pingfu Post" is the "originator" of today's ink. Although it is less than a foot long, only 9 lines of words, it is covered with the collection seals of the famous artists of the past dynasties, and the vermilion seal is accumulated, and the paper is full of brilliance, and it is respected as "the first post in China" by the collection circle.
The great painter of the Sui Dynasty, Zhan Ziqian, painted the "Spring Tour", which dates back more than 1,400 years and is considered to be the earliest surviving painting in China.
Zhang Boju first saw "Pingfu Post" at a disaster relief calligraphy and painting meeting in Hubei, which was owned by Pu Ru at that time. Pu Ru was the great-grandson of Emperor Daoguang and the grandson of Prince Gong. In 1936, Pu Ru sold his collection of Han Gan's "White Picture of the Night" in the Tang Dynasty to others, and then went overseas, which made Zhang Boju unable to let go for a long time.
According to Wang Shixiang's recollection, Zhang Boju was deeply afraid that "Pingfu Post" would make this mistake, so he entrusted the owner of a Liuli factory to ask Pu Ru to sell it. But Pu Ru asked for 200,000 yuan, and Zhang Boju couldn't win and failed. In the second year, he asked Zhang Daqian to also ask Pu Ru for purchase, but also stopped before the asking price of 200,000 yuan.
Zhang Boju, who has always been obsessed with this, later learned by chance that Pu Ru lost his mother and urgently needed money to mourn his mother, and through the mediation of Uncle Fu Yuan, he bought it for 40,000 yuan. Zhang Boju later learned that another calligraphy and painting merchant surnamed Bai also wanted to get this post and sell it to the Japanese after hearing about it, and the bid was 200,000 yuan.
Fortunately, "Pingfu Post" is in the hands of Zhang Boju. Zhang Boju later wrote a small article, only lightly mentioning this matter, "In the past, I wanted to prevent "Illuminating the Night White Picture" from going abroad but failed, which ended my long-cherished wish and was also a major event in my life."
In Zhang Boju's eyes, the value of these calligraphy and paintings, which contain Chinese culture, even exceeds his own life. In 1941, there was a sensational kidnapping case in Shanghai, and the kidnapped person was Zhang Boju.
According to Zhang's daughter's recollection: "My father had to go to the Shanghai branch every month for a meeting, and after the plane came down early in the morning, our car would pick up my father. As usual, a car drove in front, and the car in which Zhang Boju was riding followed behind. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the alley, Zhang Boju was quickly taken away by someone who got off a black car. ”
The identity and details of the kidnappers soon became an open secret in Shanghai, it was the No. 76 spy organization of Wang's puppet agent headquarters, and they demanded 3 million from Zhang Boju's wife, Pan Su, otherwise they would tear up the ticket! The kidnappers obviously came for Zhang Boju's money, but most of the Zhang family's money actually turned into those precious calligraphy and paintings.
"My father's uncle and my mother borrowed money everywhere, because the family had no money, and they bought calligraphy and paintings when they could." The daughter recalls that the easiest and feasible way is to sell calligraphy and paintings and use money to ransom people. Mrs. later managed to go to see Zhang Boju once, but her husband secretly told her that the calligraphy and paintings at home must not be moved, especially the "Pingfu Post"!
"My father said, this is my life, it doesn't matter if I die, this calligraphy and painting must stay, he said don't think that he will sell the calligraphy and painting for money to redeem me, in this case I will not go out."
After nearly eight months of stalemate, Zhang Boju would rather risk being "torn up" at any time, but he never agreed to sell a piece of the collection. It was not until the kidnappers compromised and lowered the ransom from 3 million to 400,000 that Pan Su and Zhang's family borrowed money from various sources to rescue Zhang Boju.
In the end, the old man donated the 8 pieces of fine works he had collected in the past 30 years and became the eternal collection of the Forbidden City. The government rewarded 200,000 yuan for this, but Zhang Boju politely declined.
He said very simply, I have seen and collected quite a lot of things, just like a passing cloud, but these things do not have to be kept with me forever, they can be donated so that this treasure will be kept in our land forever! (To be continued.) )