Wu Tianyuan respects Zhang Boju very much, in fact, the six major collectors of the Republic of China, except for Wang Chuiqian, who emigrated to the United States, are all patriots. In those turbulent times, the spirit of dedicating one's whole heart, even one's own life, to the defense of the national treasure is the most priceless treasure to be passed on.

The ancients did not measure achievements by money and power, but by what spiritual beliefs they could leave to future generations! For example, Wen Tianxiang, as well as the representative of the Japanese bushido spirit, the Dainangong samurai! They are all unyielding and loyal to the monarch and patriotic.

Wu Tianyuan has recently studied the character of Japanese people, found a lot of insider information, and gained a new understanding of them. Bushido originated in ancient Japan, based on the consciousness that the lord is not afraid of death and does not hesitate to die, in order to realize the value of the individual in the collective, the group and the ability to exert their abilities as much as possible, emphasizing the "death without remembrance, death without scruples, death without hesitation" The most typical behavior of the bushido spirit is seppuku.

Bushido attaches great importance to the precepts of the monarch and the minister, and the "king is not the king" (the king is tyrannical and unreasonable) and cannot be "the minister is not the minister" (the minister is not the way of the minister). China's primitive Confucianism is based on filial piety, and filial piety is the absolute value.

If "the father has had", the son "has three admonitions and does not listen, then cry and follow", but if "the king has had", the minister "does not listen to the three admonitions, then he will flee".

Bushido theorists believe that the Confucian "Shidao theory" is to whitewash the selfishness of greed for life and fear of death, and to be cautious about human ethics and pay attention to the morality of the sovereign, so that they choose life and death, and they do not simply die in the face of death. Only pure and complete enlightenment and death is the strength of bushido.

The purpose of bushido is very similar to that of medieval knighthood in the West, setting the concept of survival for warriors and elevating them to the status of hired killers. Samurai who truly believe in bushido advocate integrity, perseverance, simplicity, simplicity, courage, etiquette, faithfulness, honesty, bravery, loyalty, ****, agitation, boldness, martial arts and other virtues.

This spirit can also be used to explain the suicide attacks of Japanese defenders on all the small Pacific islands during World War II.

Bushido still existed in the minds of the Japanese Army and Navy in the 20th century. Bushido, like other formal codes of conduct, has its negative aspects. The samurai often treated their captives cruelly because they gave up bushido. Many of the samurai's enemies were executed after the battle for this reason alone.

Unlike medieval Europe, where nobles and knights who were captured (often imprisoned for several years) could be ransomed for ransom, the Japanese never used a similar approach to exchanging money for captives. Samurai or daimyo were captured alive on the battlefield and usually died disgracefully at the hands of their captives.

Wu Tianyuan has seen an expert study the deep psychological causes of the spirit of bushido, which has a huge connection with the cherry blossom, Japan's national flower. Anyone who has seen cherry blossoms knows that individual cherry blossoms are beautiful, but they are even more beautiful when they are gathered together, which is very similar to the group spirit of the Japanese samurai.

Bushido focuses on commonality, not individuality, as European samurai does. But this commonality of his is actually narrower than the knightly spirit of the European samurai, the spirit of this group is different from the spirit of unity, and it is by no means a patriotic spirit, they love the samurai group to which they belong.

Historically, the Japanese evaluated the samurai not by whether they were loyal to the monarch and patriotic, but by whether they were loyal to their samurai group, such as the Sanada warriors during the Warring States period and the samurai group that opposed the emperor forces in the Meiji period.

The Japanese believe that the most beautiful time for cherry blossoms is not when they are in full bloom, but when they wither, and the cherry blossoms do not bloom for a long time, but the characteristic of withering is that all the cherry blossoms in the mountains wither overnight, and not a single flower is nostalgic for the branches.

This is the spiritual realm advocated by the Japanese samurai, reaching the peak of their lives in a moment of dazzling beauty, giving full play to their greatest value, and then ending their lives without nostalgia!

The samurai committed suicide not because he couldn't afford to lose, nor because he was ashamed of his failure, the samurai was not so vulnerable, he committed suicide because he felt that he had done his best, his wish had been fulfilled, and his life could not have greater glory, and at this moment he should wither like a cherry blossom without nostalgia.

This can explain the cruelty of the Japanese in the war, a person who can even give up his own life at any time, will still cherish the prisoners?

In the Japanese spirit of bushido, the act of seppuku is considered by the samurai to be sacrificing, and although seppuku is very painful, in fact, this pain is also deliberately caused.

The seppuku is to cut open his abdomen with more than one knife. Because it was too terrible to remove the internal organs by himself, the method of seppuku was finally modified and changed to a slashing by the seppuku himself.

After the first cut in the abdomen, a friend or trusted retainer immediately removes the merciful slash and cuts off the head of the seppuku. This act of taking on the mending is called a mistake, but seppuku is not the only formal way to commit suicide.

Therefore, in the study of the history of the whole world, no one can really live for generations because of his great wealth and power, but those who sacrifice their lives for righteousness and righteousness can be worshiped by future generations. No matter how depraved people are, they also have the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty in their hearts!

"Here it is"

The two of them came to a small village in Xiangcheng Township and found the door of the dilapidated small courtyard. According to the records, Zhang Boju's house was raided that year, and a small leader named Li Daming led the team and robbed a lot of calligraphy and paintings, and finally disappeared, this is Li Daming's residence.

Wu Tianyuan spent less than 100,000 yuan to buy the entire courtyard, and the people in the village said that Li Daming had died a long time ago, and there were no descendants, and no one had entered it for decades.

The two of them soon found a letter in the cabinet, which recorded that after the raid of the house, Li Daming also knew that these were priceless treasures of great value. After reading the book for a few years, he couldn't bear to destroy it, so he secretly hid a few and buried them under a big tree in the backyard.

"Song Huizong's Four Birds Picture!"

"Huang Tingjian's sitting!"

"Li Di's flowers and birds!"

Wu Tianyuan sighed that Zhang Boju deserves to be a top collector, any one is a national treasure, some people have counted, the number of cultural relics destroyed by all the wars is not as good as those special years!

Countless cultural relics were treated as the four olds, every household desperately tried to eliminate the evidence that might be criticized, and hundreds of thousands of high-level intellectuals were sent to the countryside. Break the backbone of Chinese culture at once, and make culture lag behind by at least 50 years!

Wu Tianyuan sent the baby back to the museum, and only Zhang Boju and a few collectors can have such a heavy weapon, and now there are more than a dozen calligraphy and paintings in the Song Dynasty, and the level of Tianyuan has suddenly increased a lot, and it is getting closer and closer to the Forbidden City.

"Prepare an exhibition hall to come out, specifically display Song Huizong, it is called the first Emperor Wen of the ages!"

Wu Tianyuan finished counting the Song Huizong in his hand, and now there are ten of them, which is absolutely shocking. Let the staff take out some Ming-style furniture, arrange it into a study, and then hang it on Song Huizong.

"Wait for the next step to find more five famous kilns, Brother Ruguan Junding, let's use Ru kiln to drink tea again, that feeling!"

Hu Jianmin looked at the thin gold body obsessively, and said with a smile: "This study can no longer be measured by money, if the five famous kilns gather, plus these calligraphy and paintings, it will be more than 30 billion!" (To be continued.) )