Chapter 149: The Queen Steals People
On March 1, 1934, she was canonized Empress of the Manchurian Empire. The queen was rejected by Pu Yi and smoked opium to survive. The emperor hated the empress for forcing Wen Xiu away, and was extremely disgusted with her. The queen, who was treated indifferently by Pu Yi for a long time, had normal physiological needs on the one hand, and on the other hand, she could not abandon the queen's honorific title and divorce Pu Yi, so there was an act of warm fornication. Adultery with two of Puyi's attendants, Li Tiyu and Qi Jizhong, became pregnant, which angered the emperor! ”
In 1935, until the queen was pregnant and about to give birth, Pu Yi did not know that the queen had an affair with someone else, and then she gave birth to a baby girl. The emperor decided to throw the daughter born to the empress into the boiler, but later lied to her brother to raise her. Empress Daozhì did not know until her death that the child had already died. ”
Wu Tianyuan has seen the wild history and knows this experience, the fallen phoenix is not as good as a chicken, and with the unlucky Pu Yi, what good results can she, the so-called queen, have?
In August 1945, the Soviet Union quickly captured Manchuria in Operation August Storm, and Wanrong withdrew from Xinjing to Dalizigou in Tonghua with the palace personnel on the 11th, and was later captured by the ** guerrillas who occupied the area.
He was transported to Tonghua, Changchun, Yongji, Dunhua, and Yanji, and finally died in prison in Yanji, Jilin Province on June 10, 1946. The burial place is unknown, and the bones are nowhere to be found.
"Then can you find the treasure that Wanrong left behind?"
"The queen brought a lot of gold, silver and jewelry privately before leaving the palace, but there was nothing left after being captured several times, and she was deceived a lot by that villain Li Tiyu, and later heard that the emperor executed Li Tiyu, I can feel the location of other jewelry, take you there."
Wu Tianyuan took Jin Hai to find the treasure chest left by the guards, ran to a small mountain village, and secretly dug up the treasure behind a small temple behind the mountain.
"This is Chaozhu?"
Wu Tianyuan didn't have any hope for this treasure hunt at first, what good things can a guard have? There was a surprise in the result!
"I am the Qianlong Imperial East Pearl Dynasty Pearl, 108 East Pearls, plus four high-grade coral Buddha heads, and turquoise ......"
"Shut up, I'm Tongzhi Ye Dongzhu, all of them are top-level pearl imperial systems, you see the workmanship......"
"I'm Jiaqingye's ......"
Six Chaozhu were chattering, Wu Tianyuan hurriedly packed them and put them away, these are good things, and they really don't have them in their hands. There were also some gold, silver and jewelry in the chest, which I took with me.
Wu Tianyuan returned to his home in the capital and cleaned up today's harvest, it seems that the last emperor Pu Yi was the last real nest! There are no treasures left, and it is estimated that they were either snatched to Japan by little devils, or taken to the Soviet Union by Hongmaozi.
At that time, hundreds of Song and Yuan paintings and calligraphy disappeared like this! It's a shame to leave only these gadgets. The dignified emperor and queen, an incompetent and a thief, is a perfect match! ”
The next day, Wu Tianyuan put the things here in Tianyuan's warehouse, and had the opportunity to display them, which could be regarded as a part of the emperor's life.
"It seems that the clue of Puyi's escape has been temporarily broken, and I didn't find anything when I went to Da Lizigou, forget it, according to the original plan, go to Tianjin to find the treasure of the Republic of China F4!"
Wu Tianyuan was just about to set off, when he suddenly received a call from Liu Huasheng, saying that Cao Fatzi from Macau had a good introduction and asked him to go quickly.
"Brother Cao, what's so urgent?"
Wu Tianyuan ran to Macau non-stop and saw Cao Fatzi of the Pawn Association, did he find anything serious?
"Brother, are you interested in the old collection of Prince Gong's Mansion?"
"What? Prince Gong's Mansion! ”
Wu Tianyuan stood up excitedly and asked urgently, "Where is it?" ”
Cao Fatzi smiled: "Don't worry, listen to me slowly, you are a senior expert, you must know the ins and outs of Prince Gong's Mansion." I won't say much nonsense, recently there was a third son of the Yamanaka family in Japan, and the Yamanaka Hongmei Casino owed eight million dollars! ”
"Hiroaki Yamanaka?" Wu Tianyuan nodded, this is right, the mountain family is the head of the old collection of Prince Gong's mansion.
Speaking of Prince Gong's Mansion, I have to mention a Japanese, who is one of the main culprits in the loss of cultural relics in the Republic of China, Japan Yamanaka Dingjiro!
Born in 1866 into a family of antique dealers in Osaka, Yamanaka was born as Adachi Jojiro, and grew up with his father in and out of antique shops, where he developed a keen interest in buying and selling antiques.
His constant contact with scholars and collectors from Europe and the United States in his business opened a door to the world and made him realize that there would be a large market for oriental art in the future exchanges between the East and the West, and he would obtain huge benefits.
The first turning point in Anda Dingjiro's life was when he was 23 years old, when Yamanaka Yoshibei, the owner of the antique shop, married his eldest daughter to him, joined the Yamanaka family and changed his surname to Yamanaka Dingjiro, and then began to open up the way for the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce to enter the European and American markets.
With the expansion of the demand for Chinese art in overseas markets, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce turned its attention to China, which has a long history, the richest collection of antiques and cultural relics, and the most active market transactions, and began to establish a branch of the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. The chamber of commerce has collected a large number of precious Chinese artworks, resulting in the loss of a large number of Chinese cultural relics overseas.
At that time, Yamanaka Jojiro bought a large number of secrets from the Qing Palace from Prince Gong Pu Wei, and soon after the Xinhai Revolution, in addition to calligraphy and paintings, almost all the antiques of Prince Gong's Mansion were collected and sold to the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
Although the exact scale of this purchase is not clear, according to some accounts in the "Biography of Yamanaka Jojiro", "the amount is different from 100,000 or 200,000,000," and "no matter which merchant it is, this is something that will not happen again in his life." It can be seen that this large-scale acquisition is definitely a huge transaction, and it is very likely to be measured in millions of yen.
The amount is not inferior to the annual export of Chinese antiques before and after the Xinhai Revolution, or the maximum amount borrowed by the Qing Dynasty royal family in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China against antiques.
Later, the artifacts were quickly shipped back to Japan for sorting and sale, one for auction in the United States, one for auction in the United Kingdom, and one for retail in the Yamanaka Shokai's antique stores in Japan and the United States. Both the American auction catalogue and the British auction list have now been found, causing a huge sensation at the time.
In 1912, Prince Gong Pu Wei raised military salaries in order to help the last emperor Pu Yi carry out restoration activities. It was decided to sell the entire collection of Prince Gong's mansion. Yamanaka Dingjiro, who got the news, accompanied by his friends Yamanaka Rokuzaburo and Okada Tomoji, came to Prince Gong's Mansion to see the treasures treasured by Prince Gong's Mansion.
The treasures of Prince Gong's Mansion are divided into dozens of treasure houses such as Ruyi Library, Calligraphy and Painting Library, Jade Library, and Bronze Library. Countless of the treasures were covered with dust, and in the jade vault, the housekeeper of Prince Gong's Mansion picked up a bunch of jade ornaments and asked Yamanaka Dingjiro, "How much do you plan to collect these things?" ”
Yamanaka Dingjiro secretly thought that this transaction could be bigger, after weighing, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce decided to buy all the collections of bronze, ceramics, jade, jade, etc. in Prince Gong's Mansion in addition to calligraphy and painting for 340,000 oceans, which was a big gamble for the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, and also brought the greatest glory to Yamanaka Dingjiro in his life, laying a solid foundation for the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce to become the world's largest dealer of Chinese antiques and cultural relics.
The year after the purchase of this batch of Prince Gong's mansion by the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, the American Art Gallery in New York, USA, printed a gilded catalogue for auction, and the auction results caused a sensation in the American collecting circles, and it was considered to be the best collection of Chinese art, with an auction record of more than 270,000 US dollars, which was a record-breaking astronomical figure at the time.
The following year, in 1914, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, also in New York, held a special auction entitled "The Personal Collections of Chinese Aristocrats in Tianjin and the Cultural Relics Purchased by the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce in Beijing". With a turnover of nearly $200,000, the auction was once again a success.
The Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce took the opportunity of the second auction and achieved great business success. In 1916, 11 auctions of Chinese antiques were held in New York. As a result, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce became the world's largest Chinese art dealer.
Wu Tianyuan found an excuse to go to the toilet and called Niu Feng to ask Niu Feng about the current situation of the Yamanaka family.
"The current head of the family in the mountains suffered a stroke last year and was lying in bed waiting to die, and he has three sons, the eldest and the second are the most vocal in their position, and there are many people in each of them who support him. Only the third child is a loser, idle all day long, not doing his job, he is the least threatening. ”
Niu Feng said solemnly on the other side of the phone: "Although the Yamanaka family is in decline, it is still the largest antique family in Japan, and it has most of the channels and resources in its hands. The forces behind it are very complicated, and they are inextricably linked with foreign forces, so you must be careful. ”
Wu Tianyuan hung up the phone, and had a general understanding in his heart, since he came, he would go to meet the so-called loser!