Chapter 235: Ten Tons of Gold
Except for two boxes of porcelain, the rest were gold and jewelry, a total of nine large boxes, which were hurriedly loaded onto the ship, left the island, and returned to a small town by the sea to live.
"I informed the polar bear that the gold jewelry was to be disposed of by someone, and the porcelain was brought back."
Wu Tianyuan went through the jewelry, and there was nothing valuable for treasure hunting, so he notified the polar bear to transport it away and sell the stolen goods directly.
Five million dollars arrived a day later, and after several times, the two became more and more tacit, and the polar bear is now the boss, and he has incorporated many horses, and his strength has doubled.
Then the group returned to the museum with porcelain and put it in the warehouse, Wu Tianyuan asked Lao Ren to open two exhibition halls, one is the first Emperor Wen of the ages, Song Huizong special session, more than a dozen treasures. The second is the five treasured porcelain, Ruguan Brother Junding, rare and rare.
"There are now 89 records of Ruyao, 19 in the Forbidden City, 17 in Taipei, 10 in the British Museum, seven in the Louvre, five in the National Museum, and the rest in public museums in various countries."
"There are only 130 records of official kilns, and there are some controversial ones, which are also the treasures of major museums."
"There are more than 200 pieces of kilns in the world, and there are still a very small number of them circulating among the people."
Sun Yuyao took stock of this harvest and said excitedly: "Dingyao and Jun kiln have been handed down a lot, especially Jun kiln, which began in the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, and has a history of more than 1,300 years, and is known as the "treasure of the country". Since Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, it has been designated as a royal treasure by the emperors of all dynasties, and it is only allowed to be owned by the royal family, and it is not allowed to be privately collected. In the Song Dynasty, it enjoyed the reputation of "gold is priceless". ”
"The most beautiful is the kiln change art, Jun porcelain belongs to the northern green kiln system, and its uniqueness is the use of a kind of milky cloud, that is, the kiln color change glaze is usually called. After firing at high temperature, it will produce such as sunset and sunset, or such as autumn clouds and spring flowers, etc., and no matter how experienced craftsmen do not know the results, they are magical, and they are natural. ”
Wu Tianyuan is playing with Jun Yao, Jun Yao's style is the most special, from one to ten numbers, one is the largest, and ten is the smallest. Back then, it was mainly used by Song Huizong to make flower pots, so there were many pots and jars handed down.
There is also a saying that the number is for the distinction of glaze color, "Tao Ya", "Drinking Liuzhai Saying Porcelain" believes that the singular number of 13579 represents the vermilion ware, and the double number of 24680 represents the blue artifact.
"Now there are three and eight Jun kiln models in my hand, and I will slowly get together other sets in the future, one to ten, how domineering!"
"The official kiln has the Northern Song Dynasty Xiu Neisi and the Southern Song Dynasty Xiu Neisi kiln, and later there are official kilns made inside, and they must also be collected!"
Sun Yuyao looked at Wu Tianyuan with a smile, and he was the only one who had this idea, each of the five famous kilns was extremely precious, and he actually wanted to put together a set.
Now the Tianyuan Museum has been upgraded to a new level, and the least of the treasures of the Song Dynasty in China are provincial-level museums, and some provinces do not have them. Since the Song Dynasty for more than 1,000 years, any cultural relics that can be handed down are heavy weapons, not to mention calligraphy, paintings and porcelain, which is simply a miracle.
Two days later, Wu Tianyuan and his people continued to set off to the Philippines, an unknown island that could not be found on the map, and the third treasure of Fengwen under the mountain was there.
"This is Imari porcelain? And Kutani yaki? ”
Wu Tianyuan curiously picked up a piece of porcelain, which is a classic Japanese shape, a total of nine pieces.
At the end of the 17th century, the change of Chinese dynasties, domestic instability, Jingdezhen's production plummeted, unable to meet the needs of exports, small Japan had been dependent on the import of Chinese porcelain, the Dutch also needed to resell Chinese porcelain to Europe, Japan took the opportunity to study its own firing, from Korea to grasp craftsmen, from China to learn technology.
Finally, in the 17th century, he fired his own porcelain in the Arita area, and since then, he has relied on copycat Chinese porcelain to imitate the porcelain of Jingdezhen for export, and then also produced some of it for domestic supply. Because they are all exported from Imari Port, they are called Imari porcelain.
Imari porcelain also imitates the Chinese five-colored, but because the quality of the porcelain clay itself is not white enough, the base of the Japanese five-color porcelain is yellow, and this has become the "milky" characteristic touted by Japanese porcelain. It is represented by the "Kakiemon style".
In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the country gradually stabilized, Kangxi opened the sea ban in 22 years, and the Dutch East India Company began to import porcelain from China again.
As a result, China's Jingdezhen porcelain made according to the Imari style, whether it is the fetal quality, glaze color, painting work is more than the Japanese native Imari porcelain, European orders have come to China in a steady stream, and since then China has invented new varieties such as pastel, style renovation, high quality, European demand for Chinese porcelain is greater, and there is no Japanese style, and Japanese Imari porcelain has declined since then.
The earliest ancient Kutani ware was influenced by the dyeing and painting of Arita ware in Kyushu, and interacted with the porcelain style of the Kaga region in the north. It is said that the first lord of Kaga Daishoji Temple, Maeda Toshiji, ordered his retainer Goto Saijiro to open a kiln in the remote village of Kutani deep in the mountains along the Daishoji River during the Ming Dynasty, and it lasted until the early years of Genroku. In order to distinguish it from the re-emerging Kutani that began at the end of the Edo period, it is generally called Kokutani ware.
Color is the most distinctive feature of Kokutani ware: the glaze is thick and delicious, and the artistic conception is outstanding, and the strong color and slightly cloudy and dull texture form a perfect harmony, showing the highest level of Japanese painted porcelain. Another technique is to paint the plain porcelain with blue, green, purple, yellow and other color glaze, because there is no red and commonly known as green hands, and there are quite a lot of artistic conception of the masterpiece.
"There is also the gold and silver flat back octagonal mirror of Shosoin!"
"A pair of lacquered gold leaf painting plates of Master Akisai Kitamura!"
"Master Wild Fox's beauty under the tree!"
"A pair of blue glass cups!"
Wang Jun walked over and said in a low voice: "Boss, there are all gold bricks there, and it is estimated that they weigh at least ten tons!" ”
Wu Tianyuan was taken aback, ten tons? 300 million yuan per ton, 3 billion yuan!
He hurriedly opened a large box, and sure enough, it was full of gold bricks, numbered in Japanese, which must have been a small part of the looted from China that year.
For the Golden Lily Plan, ten tons is just a drop in the bucket, Nanjing alone was robbed of 6,000 tons of gold, and the value of other jewelry and cultural relics is even more incalculable, which is a little interest!
"This is the border of the Philippines, let the polar bears go first!"
As soon as the polar bear heard that there were ten tons of gold, he immediately came over in person and transported it away overnight. According to the black market estimate, at least 400 million US dollars, he did not have so much money, so he paid 200 million US dollars first, and then gave the rest to Wu Tianyuan after selling out.
"Hey, I'm finally rich again!"
Wu Tianyuan received the money and relaxed, he spent too much money recently, Tianyuan Fund prepared one billion at once, and spent more than 700 million yuan to acquire Bonhams, and now he finally returned the capital at one time, and he has three billion funds in his hand. (To be continued.) )