"Elder Yin, I really have something I want to trouble you!"

Wu Tianyuan smiled and told Yin Lao about the auction team, hoping to cooperate with Hongmen to monopolize the cultural relics lost in the United States and return them through auction.

"Well, that's a great thing!"

Yin Lao said domineeringly: "I don't dare to say anything else, but I can call the shots in this acre and three points of land, no problem." ”

"It's really about asking you to help find someone to participate in the auction, and then collect the artifacts under the premise that the cost performance is right." Wu Tianyuan said with a smile: "Don't say the same as robbing a house!" ”

Two people laughed, it is very simple to communicate with powerful people with a common background, there are things to do together, and money to earn together!

"Do you want to find Zhang Xueliang's descendants?"

Yin Lao pondered: "I really don't know much about this, I'll ask you later, and there will be results soon." ”

In the afternoon of the same day, Wu Tianyuan received news that Zhang Xueliang's descendants were in San Francisco, and Zhang Guocheng was now in his sixties, and the three of them would go to San Francisco immediately.

"This is my father's legacy, a diary!"

Wu Tianyuan was very surprised, he didn't expect that he would come all the way, and the dignified young marshal Zhang Xueliang only left a diary in the end?

On April 10, 1994, on the second floor of the Shin Kong Art Museum in Taipei, collectors and antique dealers from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, the United States, Japan and other places gathered together, and Taiwan's Sufuby Auction Company is about to hold an auction of "Dingyuanzhai Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Collection".

"They had been waiting for more than two months for this, not only because it was the first special auction for a collector's collection since Sufubi entered the Asian market, but also because the owner of Dingyuan Zhai was the famous Mr. Zhang Xueliang."

Zhang Guocheng recalled: "I remember that there were 207 ancient and modern paintings and calligraphy in the lot, of which more than 160 were ancient paintings and calligraphy, accounting for six-tenths of the total. After fierce bidding, there were no first-class bids for the calligraphy and painting lots in Dingyuanzhai's collection, and the total auction turnover reached more than NT$132 million. ”

"My father's collection of ancient paintings and calligraphy began in the early 20s of the last century, when he was in charge of military and political affairs, and he often went to the calligraphy and painting shops and antique shops in the Beijing and Tianjin areas to "look for antiquities". In the autumn of 1924, an ancient painting was occasionally found in a pile of old paper in a second-hand bookstore in Tianjin. Because of its age, the picture is full of dirt. ”

But it can be vaguely seen that the painting is a pine and a maple, there is an old man under the tree, holding a bamboo basket, the pen and ink are exquisite, it should be a famous work, but the painting is not signed. The shopkeeper did not know him, but when he saw that he was looking at the painting carefully and was willing to buy it, he offered a high price. He did not bargain with him and resolutely bought it with a large amount of money. Later, a well-known connoisseur in Tianjin was asked to appraise it, and it was found that it was the authentic work of Li Tang, a famous painter in the Southern Song Dynasty, which can be called a national treasure. ”

Since then, his interest in collecting paintings and calligraphy has been out of control, and the calligraphy and painting collection in the Marshal's Mansion in Shenyang Da Nanmen is called "Dingyuan Zhai". Later generations have made a variety of interpretations of "Dingyuan Zhai", and most of them believe that it means that the owner of the fasting is "ambitious". ”

Zhang Guocheng said with a smile: "I also have an understanding of this, which seems to have the meaning of stability, pacification and stability in remote areas and borders." Because my father has a collection of idle chapters called "Father and Son Festival", which can be corroborated with the meaning of "Dingyuan Zhai". ”

Wu Tianyuan listened with relish, and could understand a lot of unknown insider stories through just a few words, providing favorable clues for the next treasure hunt.

"Later, the puppet Manchukuo Cultural Relics Handling Committee compiled a "Catalogue of Paintings and Calligraphy" collected by Zhang Xueliang, with a total of 241 collections of calligraphy and paintings, 633 pieces, among which Xuanhe's famous deeds are: Li Zhaodao's "Sea Market Map", Dong Yuan's "Landscape Scroll", Guo Xi's "Cold Forest Map", Song Huizong's "Edict", Mi Yuanhui's "Cloud Mountain Picture Scroll" and so on.

In addition, there are works by Zhao Mengfu, Wu Zhen, Wang Meng, Wen Zhengming, Shen Zhou, Tang Yin, Qiu Ying, "Four Kings Wu Yun", Shi Tao, Bada Shanren, etc., as well as Japanese masters. This collection of paintings and calligraphy, which was later collected in the Mukden Museum, was looted before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and many of the collections were missing. ”

The old man said bitterly: "At that time, someone once inspected a small part of the collection scattered in the Northeast, and many of them were fakes. As for the period of collection in the Mukden Museum, did anyone exchange the fake for the real from it? It has become a historical mystery that will never be solved. ”

Therefore, with the exception of some of the old paintings and calligraphy collected in several museums in Japan, most of the private collectors have hidden them out of legal and provenance concerns. It was not until 1990, nearly 50 years later, that the first batch of Zhang Xueliang's old collection of paintings and calligraphy appeared at the auction of the Hong Kong Auction Company. My father only learned from a friend that he had also planned to buy back these paintings and calligraphy with a lot of money, but despite many efforts, he could not do so. ”

Wu Tianyuan bought the diary left by Zhang Xueliang for 100,000 US dollars, and began to communicate, and sure enough, there were treasure clues.

After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang flew back to Nanjing with Lao Jiang, and since then he has lost his personal freedom. Later, Zhao Yidi and others personally escorted this batch of collections to Fenghua Xikou, Zhejiang Province, and temporarily stored them in a warehouse of China Travel Service on the top of Xuedou Mountain. ”

The diary gushes: "In 1937, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, this collection of paintings and calligraphy was successively transferred to Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guizhou and other places, and finally transferred to Taiwan. I know that there is a treasure in Anwei, and there is one in Fenghua, Zhejiang. ”

Wu Tianyuan flew back to China directly, and immediately went to Anwei to hunt for treasure, Zhang Xuelianggui is the head of the four sons of the Republic of China, and he is the top in terms of strength and vision. The ones that can be secretly collected by him must be heavy weapons, not to mention that he had a lot of Song and Yuan calligraphy and paintings in his hands back then, each of which is a national treasure.

The three of them came to Xiuning County on the side of Anwei Yellow Mountain, which used to be the place where the young marshal had cultivated, and according to the guidance of the diary, they found clues in a closed sanatorium and bought them directly.

"Song Huizong's letter of pardon!"

"Dong Yuan's landscape scroll!"

"Guo Xi's cold village map!"

"Mi Youren's Yunshan landscape!"

Wu Tianyuan satisfied with the inventory of this treasure hunt, four Song Dynasty treasures, priceless treasures, worthy of the collection of the young marshal Zhang Xueliang, tasteful!

"Boss, I don't think you're looking for treasure now, but the treasure is actively looking for you! Just so that you can discover them! ”

Wang Hong reminded Wu Tianyuan in one sentence, this is really the case during this time, you can come whatever you want, and you can have whatever you want!

The longer he came into contact with antiques, the more wonderful Wu Tianyuan felt, the closer his fate became, and by absorbing their energy, he gradually had a strange connection. Treasure hunting is getting simpler and simpler, as if there is a feeling that all wishes have come true.