"You're coming to Hong Kong for the first time?"

Wu Tianyuan followed Zhai Jianmin out of the airport and came to Hong Kong, which he had loved for a long time. Zhang Zongxian went to Taiwan in advance and came back in two days.

"It's okay to play for a few more days, follow my brother for a good spin!"

Zhai Jianmin said with a smile: "It just so happens that the Hong Kong Antiques Fair organized by me will open in a few days, and many experts from all over the world will gather. ”

Wu Tianyuan was very excited, and came out to hunt for treasure and travel, and people were much more relaxed. With Sun Yuyao to worry about at home, and Hu Jianmin and Lao Ren in the museum, he can finally relax and enjoy life.

What's the fun of having money not to spend? He is also a little tyrant now, and it is rare to enjoy the life of spending money!

After booking the presidential suite in a five-star hotel, Zhai Jianmin first took him to eat the most authentic Hong Kong local food, which was very refreshing.

"Tomorrow you are free for a day, I will go to do something, and the day after tomorrow I will take you to the antique exhibition, Wang Dagang will also arrive at that time, you will go around together."

Wu Tianyuan nodded, just as he was about to go treasure hunting, to see where the last one of the treasure maps under the mountain was?

Early the next morning, he set off to hunt for treasures, watching people come and go along the way, and sighed that it was really a metropolis, and the pace of life was fast, even walking and traffic lights were fast!

"This is a warehouse?"

Wu Tianyuan was worried all the way, afraid that Hong Kong's treasures would have been discovered? Or if you have a building on it, it will be too much trouble!

Follow the guidance of the treasure map to the very remote edge of West Kowloon, in front of you is a large warehouse, next to the wharf, which should be a place to store import and export goods.

"Sixty-eight!"

Wu Tianyuan finally found his destination this time, a huge warehouse with a locked door, and he couldn't get in.

"Buying a warehouse again?"

Wu Tianyuan hesitated, he had already bought a broken workshop and a closed wine shop, although he made a lot of money, but they didn't have any use value. It's better to have real estate or land, maybe you can use it in the future.

"Ask about the situation first, the warehouse is also stronger than the winery, and it may be used."

Wu Tianyuan inquired with the management office, it turned out that this is the government's property rights, which cannot be bought and sold but can be leased for a long time, and it happened that the lease period of the row on the 68th had just arrived, and it was 500,000 Hong Kong dollars per year.

Wu Tianyuan hurriedly signed a three-year contract first, and it was convenient for Hong Kong to return to the mainland, so he paid the money and got the key.

"Dig!"

This time, it took a lot of effort, and the floor of the warehouse was full of cement, so he could only pay a worker to break the cement on it with a percussion drill, and then start digging it himself.

"Damn, I'm tired this time, it's a loss if I don't have a baby!"

After working until the evening, Wu Tianyuan finally got out the treasure chest that was not too big, took a breath, and slowly opened it.

"Kangxi Twelve Blue and White Colorful Flower God Cup!"

The top is a set of red sandalwood boxed blue and white multicolored wine glasses, the glaze is crystal clear, the blue and white are elegant, and it is very beautiful.

The real scientific name is the December flower pattern cup, 12 pieces for a set, the carcass is light and thin, the shape is exquisite, the shape is regular and beautiful, and the instrument is as thin as paper. Its outer walls are decorated with different flowers for the twelve months of the year, accompanied by corresponding verses.

Kangxi was very appreciative of the study of porcelain in the past dynasties, and in the nineteenth year of Kangxi ordered Jingdezhen to restore the imperial kiln factory to develop new styles of various porcelain. In the twenty-fifth year of Kangxi, Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory fired a set of porcelain for the palace - twelve flower-patterned cups. For the first time, "poems, calligraphy, paintings, and seals" were used together on the same vessel, and each cup was painted with a seasonal flower, referring to famous women in history, and inscribed with corresponding verses, commonly known as the "December Flower God Cup".

Emperor Kangxi loved it very much, and he took it with him on several southern tours, and he not only liked the craftsmanship of Huashen cup porcelain, but also liked the cultural conception of flowers and Tang poems.

In recent years, there have been 10 auction records for single products imitated by folk kilns and later generations, and the prices of single products range from hundreds of thousands to millions; There is no auction record for the original official kiln of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Kaifeng Museum has a complete set of colorful twelve flower god cups, and the Palace Museum has collected several single products that are not in sets.

According to Niu Feng's research, the Japanese emperor during World War II was a super Kangxi blue and white colorful twelve flower god cup fan, as early as 1926, the Japanese government set up an Oriental History Museum to collect precious cultural relics from Asian countries, after the July Seven Incident in 1937, the Japanese Oriental History Museum had deliberately collected the December Flower God Cup in China.

In Japan, the collected Kagami cups were hidden in batches according to the cups of each month in various supply bases. After the defeat of Japan in 1945, the Japanese army retreated in a hurry, and some of the material sites were directly destroyed, some were buried, and some were hastily transported, and this may be one of them.

"Eight of them here?"

Wu Tianyuan couldn't put it down and played with the Huashen Cup, he liked this set of collections the most, the Huashen Cup set is rare to see in a hundred years, it can be said that it represents the highest level of Kangxi's blue and white craftsmanship, this time it is really a treasure.

"Niu Feng checked the ships that the Japanese army retreated, and in the archives about the Awa Maru, there is such an internal mimeographed document distributed in 1977 that records: According to the report, the Awa Maru contained handicrafts, art products and valuables such as Yuan blue and white flowers, flower god cups, copper tripods, jade jewelry, etc., which were smuggled out of China after the Japanese occupation of China during the war."

Wu Tianyuan recalled that according to the research and speculation of various intelligence, the August Osmanthus Cup in the Kangxi Dynasty Blue and White Colorful December Flower God Cup collected by the Japanese from China may be on this ship called Awa Maru!

However, when the ship sailed to the sea east of Niushan Island in Fujian Province, China, it was discovered by the US submarine HMS Fish, which was cruising in the area, and was attacked by several torpedoes, and quickly sank three minutes later.

In addition to one person, 2,009 passengers, crew members, and 40 tons of gold, 12 tons of platinum, about 40 boxes of jewelry and artifacts, 3,000 tons of tin ingots, 3,000 tons of rubber, and thousands of tons of rice on board all sank to the bottom of the sea.

In the modern hundred years of the Kangxi Dynasty's Huashen Cup, there have been no twelve full sets of originals, so the industry has formed many Huashen Cup research associations in different historical periods. The main members of the association are collectors and enthusiasts, who collect all historical materials, local chronicles and cultural relics archives, study the authenticity of the Huashen Cup, the difference between imitations of the Huashen Cup in different periods, especially the search for the lost Huashen Cup, and travel all over the world to spend a lot of money to buy it back from abroad.

But until now, the mainland museum and private collection have not gathered 12 flower god cups. Therefore, the collection world has not less to say about this matter, every time it is talked about, there is a lot of noise, there are different opinions, a hundred people have a hundred statements, and no one can come up with a statement that convinces everyone.

But no matter what, everyone knows that the Kangxi Dynasty's flower god cup can't make up a complete set at all, because the August osmanthus cup is extinct! As for why it became extinct, it is a mystery. On the contrary, the more this is the case, the more undoubtedly the higher the price of the Kangxi Dynasty colorful flower god cup is arguing, arguing back and forth, until now, the complete set of Kangxi colorful flower god cup has been noisy out of a sky-high price, but the sky-high price is sky-high, so far, there is still no complete set, so that this sky-high price only exists in the legend.

"Here are eight, the difference between the March Peach Blossom Cup, the June Lotus Cup, the August Osmanthus Cup, the September Chrysanthemum Cup, and the rest are definitely the Kangxi official kiln imperial system, do you have any clues from other brothers?"

Wu Tianyuan communicated, but there were still no clues, there were eight buried here back then, and there was no news about the rest, so he could only look for it slowly.