After buying this big seal, Li Yi and the others swept more than a dozen stores in a row, but they didn't get anything.

Seeing that this last one had been finished and was about to leave, suddenly a young man rushed in from the outside in a hurry, and before he could stand still, he excitedly shouted at the shopkeeper:

"Uncle Huang, come and help me see if this is Zhejiang!"

Zheben? Li Yi's heart moved, pulled Lu Ningshuang, and slowly slowed down.

Zheben mainly refers to the ancient books engraved in Hangzhou, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, also known as "Hangben". In addition, according to different places, there are many versions of Quzhou, Wenzhou, Wuzhou and so on.

But the term Zheben is not used indiscriminately by ordinary people. Because, it represents a legend in the ancient book market, the Song version, the Song carving! That is to say, generally without a prefix, it must be the Zhejiang of the Song carving!

Compared with the engravings of other dynasties, the Song engravings are exquisite, and their hand-me-down is scarce, so they are very precious.

According to statistics, the total number of Song engravings that can be found in the whole of China today will not exceed 1,200, and more than 90% of them are concentrated in those large libraries.

In fact, judging from the engraving technology of the Diamond Sutra engraved in the ninth year of Tang Xiantong (868) in the British Library, the printing technology in China was quite mature at that time.

However, before the Song Dynasty, engraving printing has not been promoted, which has to be said to be a huge pity.

Historically, this is likely to be related to the political turmoil of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, but it is also very likely that people were accustomed to reading handwritten books. Compared with handwritten books, many engraving prints do have defects such as sluggishness and rigidity, which affects people's reading experience.

The reason why the Song carving book is different is because it is both practical and ornamental. Judging from the famous products in the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty edition, the Song version, not only the person who wrote the version is good at calligraphy, but also the carver also understands calligraphy!

Thinking of the status of scholars in that era, carvers also knew calligraphy, which is really amazing.

Moreover, the style of the Song carved book is different, the European style, the Yu style, the Yan style, the willow style and so on are all calligraphy to compete for the strange and varied, coupled with the excellent paper and ink, fine production and many other factors, it can have today's status, it is by no means fortunate.

However, there are too few Song carvings that have been handed down to this day, especially the Song carvings that have been circulated among the people. In recent years, except for the occasional glimpse at some large-scale auctions, there is almost no news about Song Keben in the market!

Before Li Yi came into contact with this industry, he had heard of the preciousness of the Song carvings, and then he had made great efforts to study them carefully, but he had never had the opportunity to see the authentic works. I didn't expect to meet Zheben this time, so I naturally wanted to stay and have a look.

"Zhiqian, do you know the difference between ancient books and rare books?"

The shopkeeper took the ancient book from the hand of the young man named Zhiqian, took a brief look, and asked.

Zhiqian shook his head.

Zhang Zhidong of the Qing Dynasty defined the meaning of "rare books", one is a full book: no missing volumes and deleted pages. The second is the fine book: the engraving is excellent and the font layout is extremely elegant, and the proofreading is extremely fine and complete, not only less wrong, and between the proofreading, you can see the context of the history of the collection of books and the history of ancient books. The third is the old book: the engraved manuscript with a long heritage, such as the Song version of Yuanchu. ”

With that, he shook the thick thread-bound book in his hand that didn't even have a cover.

"First of all, this is not a rare book, and its value is more than one notch lower. Next, let's take a look at whether it is a real ancient book. ”

He put the book on the table to the side, not avoiding the eyes of Li Yi and several other customers.

"Zhejiang's book mostly uses European style, the heart of the edition is mostly white, there is a fishtail, most of the frames are left and right double columns, and the upper and lower single columns are ......"

The boss looked through it carefully, and compared the characteristics of the Song carved book in his memory. However, before he could finish reading it, Li Yi had already confirmed that this should be an ancient book, but it was by no means a Song carved book.

"This should be a Ming engraving, and it is an engraving in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, although it is precious, it is not the same as the Song engraving."

Hearing that it was not Song Keben, Zhiqian's face suddenly fell,

"Uncle Huang, is this thing worth anything?"

"Hehe, one or two gold on a page of the Song version, you one, one or two silver!"

When Zhiqian heard this, he immediately became happy again, and the silver is also very valuable!

"Now a gram of gold is about 1,500 yuan, right? One or two is 75,000, what about silver? Silver, who knows? ”

When Li Yi heard this, he immediately laughed dumbly. Boss, that's a metaphor, this young man is still serious, you know, gold is expensive and silver is cheap, he is saying, your book is not worth much!

For the Ming engraving book, Li Yi also knows a lot, the Ming Dynasty is the prosperous period of the Chinese engraving printing industry, the Ming engraving book is far better than the previous generation in terms of the engraved book area, the form of the engraved book, the engraving technology, the scope of the engraving book, the number of folk bookstores, etc.

Therefore, there are many Ming engravings that have been handed down, especially in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Ming carving is divided into official carving, family carving, and workshop carving. Among them, there are official inscriptions of the Inner Prefecture (including the Jingchang Edition), the Guozi Jian Edition, and other central and local official inscriptions, as well as the feudal inscriptions between the official inscriptions and the family inscriptions.

Among these books, the inner house book, that is, the royal carved book, is the most precious, and relatively speaking, the fang carved book is generally not very valuable.

Moreover, according to records, there are almost hundreds of layouts in the Ming engraving book, and several forms such as engraving, arch flower, overprint and illustrated book were also invented in the engraving in terms of plate making, which had an impact on the price of the Ming engraving book.

Li Yi couldn't determine the provenance of this fragment in the young man's hand because he didn't take a closer look at it. But just from the point of view of printing quality, it should be the most worthless ordinary carved book.

"The current price of silver should be less than 25 grams, right? One or two for 1200 yuan, so cheap? ”

Not only Zhiqian, but also some of the guests did not understand what the boss was saying, so someone soon intervened and quoted the price of cash.

Hearing that the price of silver was only 1200 taels, Zhiqian couldn't help but be a little discouraged,

"Uncle Huang, that ...... Do you accept this book? ”

The boss shook his head and said with a smile:

"I'll take it, but you're definitely not satisfied with the price, why don't you ask these people?"

Zhiqian nodded, silently calculated,

"This book has a total of 36 pages, 1,200 yuan per page, that is, 43,200 yuan, forget it, I will lose another 3,000, 40,000 yuan! Are you interested? ”

Several guests shook their heads, and Li Yi's heart moved, although the basis for this young man's calculation of the price is a bit absurd, but this price, for a Ming carved book, even if it is a fragment, is not very high.

Moreover, if the content of this fragment is more precious, buying it at this price should be regarded as a small leak!

"Show me."

As soon as he thought of this, Li Yi reached out and asked for the book.

The book has no cover, so he starts from the first page.

However, just after carefully reading a few lines, he knew that he had misjudged at first, this book should be a volume in the "Commentary on the Thirteen Classics", and this kind of scripture and history books are generally engraved and printed by Guozijian, although I don't know whether it is the South Prison or the North Prison Edition, but it is definitely better than the Fang Engraving Edition.

Although it is said to be better than the workshop engraving, its price may not be sold as the workshop engraving.

Because the number of books on classics and history that have been printed is too large, and of course there are a lot of hand-to-hand generations, and the collection value of this book is indeed not high.

As soon as his mind moved, he didn't bother to look at it again, and directly opened the spirit card.

Immediately, his face showed an expression of crying and laughing, laughing and laughing, it was unbearable, it was really ...... Nima, these people are actually scheming to such an extent!

The spirit tablet told Li Yi that this was a forged ancient book, and it was not a real Ming carved book except for the first and last pages.

However, if it was just like this, Li Yi would at most raise his eyebrows and throw the book back to him.

But the reason why he showed that expression was because the spirit card told him that there were a full 11 pages of the real Song version mixed here!

"One page of the Song version of one or two gold" is not just a metaphor, in the current market, the unit price of each page of the Song version of the book in good condition is almost around 50,000 soft sister coins, among which there are some orderly boutiques, the price is to break through the sky, the earliest existing Northern Song Dynasty solitary poetry collection "Hangzhou West Lake Zhaoqing Temple Lotus Society Collection" has set a sky-high price of 16.1 million soft sister coins, the average single page value of hundreds of thousands!

Although the Song version of this ancient book must not be completed, the unit price of this kind of single page will definitely not be less than one or two gold!

The counterfeiting actually uses materials that are dozens of times more precious than the things to be imitated, which reminds Li Yi of a news in the previous paragraph, three young people with lofty ideals used 200,000 soft girl coins to create counterfeit coins worth 170,000 yuan!

It's really drunk to think about!

"That's it, 30,000, I'll ask for 30,000."

Zhiqian saw Li Yi's counteroffer, and by bowing his head, he secretly glanced at the boss, and when he saw him nodding slightly, he couldn't help but smile:

"Deal!"

Li Yi finished the transaction with a smile, and then, while walking outside, he lowered his head and read the book. Soon, he found the first Song version of the single page.

What he didn't expect was that this was not only a text in the "Book of Shang", but also a seamless connection with the previous Ming engraving book!

Li Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head, he is indeed lucky, if it weren't for this, I am afraid that there would be no such Song version in this book!

However, he also had some expectations because of this, since these people pay so much attention to the continuity of the content, then, will the eleven pages of the Song version be continuous?

If that's the case, its value will definitely go up another level!

One, two, three......

From the first page of the Song edition, seven pages in a row are the real Song edition, until the eighth page, it is the old fake, and from the 20th page, the remaining four pages are connected together!

Haha, picked it up!

PS: Ha, go to the festival, happy Dragon Boat Festival everyone! (To be continued.) )