000005 Screen with Napoleon

The contents of the remaining dozen boxes were too messy, and he didn't bother to take them out one by one and look through them. There are a lot of books, a lot of clothes and other daily necessities, and some works of art and antiques in boxes. Xiao Yifei even found some porcelain and other China-related cultural relics in several boxes, among which Xiao Yifei has not studied antiques and does not know the type and value of these porcelain. It's just that a few of them seem to have that kind of open film, looking like the Ru kiln mentioned on TV.

There were a few boxes that really scared Xiao Yifei out of a cold sweat.

As soon as the box was opened, Xiao Yifei's first reaction was to run away. Because Xiao Yifei knew this thing, it was a grenade, or a German wooden-handled grenade, and the long wooden handle immediately distinguished them from grenades from other countries.

Xiao Yifei wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and scolded the former owner of the space. At first, he was glad that there were no dangerous goods in it, but now there are grenades, and not one or two grenades, but a box. If it explodes, all the treasures in the house will be gone, except for gold.

No, you can't leave them here to threaten those treasures, you have to dispose of them. Xiao Yifei carefully carried the grenade box out of the room, and along the marble road, the box of dangerous goods was moved to the river. This is not the place where they will finally stay, Xiao Yifei made up his mind and threw this thing out of the space in a moment. Xiao Yifei had already chosen a place to dispose of them, right on the Necker, a tributary of the Rhine that runs through Stuttgart. When the time comes, find a bridge, throw the box into the water, and let it explode as it likes.

It's a pity that this is not over, and the respite is undecided, Xiao Yifei found dangerous goods again. Fortunately, this time it was not a grenade, but a gun. There are submachine guns, machine guns. Xiao Yifei knew them, the same mP40 submachine gun and the famous mg42 machine gun that Germany was equipped with during World War II.

Xiao Yifei checked it, and the guns were actually loaded.

Xiao Yifei was angry and scolded again: What kind of plane did the last one do, it was really scared to death, but fortunately, Lao Tzu didn't play handsome and pull the trigger just now. Xiao Yifei cursed his predecessor fiercely, while quickly unloading the bullet.

Well, as long as the guns don't have bullets, they're just "burning sticks", so there's no danger anymore, and they're not bad as a collector's item.

But a bullet is also a dangerous commodity, and after so many years, the possibility of a bullet failure is even greater. So he moved and moved these "sub-dangerous goods" to the river again and again. Later, when you throw them, let them go to the bottom of the river to be accompanied by grenades.

Tired and sweaty, I finally got these things done. After Xiao Yifei checked that there were no dangerous goods again, he admired the treasures in the room that now belonged to him, and he now felt that all this was so beautiful.

Except for the boxes with swastikas, the artifacts in these boxes should have been obtained privately by the previous owner. Maybe some of them are hard to get rid of, but most of the cultural relics, especially those Chinese bottles and cans, should still be easy to sell. I just don't know how much money I can get for selling something.

The fact that the previous owner, who had not yet left an identity, had obtained so many things in private alone showed not only that he was certainly not an ordinary person, but also that the Nazis had plundered so much wealth from Europe in the first place. Xiao Yifei couldn't stop thinking greedily, if there were other places in this space where some of the Nazi treasures were buried, then he would make a fortune. He had heard that there was still a large part of the Nazi treasure that had not been discovered and was worth the money.

After dealing with this room, Xiao Yifei came to the middle room.

This room is just as small, but it is much better than the "utility room" just now, with a large rug on the floor where the door enters. Although the carpet is a little dirty, you can still see that it is extraordinary.

Xiao Yifei observed the room, and the first thing that caught his eye was a screen.

That's right, screens. Very Chinese characteristics of the screen.

A vertical screen with a height of more than one person divides the room, and a table, chair and bookshelf are placed in front as an office area, and the back should be a place to rest. Xiao Yifei was very interested in the things with Chinese characteristics in the space, and involuntarily came to the screen.

The screen is composed of 12 screens, and the two screens on the very edge are hollowed out and carved with various longevity characters. The upper part of the middle ten screens is embedded with silk translucent, and the silk is painted with ten kinds of flowers such as peonies, plum blossoms, and lotus flowers, which are very vivid and vivid, and they are not ordinary at first glance. In the middle is a gourd-shaped silk flower. In the lower part of the screen, the moire is actually engraved with a dragon pattern, and the pattern is carefully added with gold.

Xiao Yifei turned to the back along the screen. Behind the screen, it's much simpler. The upper part of the middle ten screens is the same embroidery. The edge is a bat motif, and six golden dragons are embroidered with gold thread in the middle. The lower part of the screen is painted with gold lacquer on a black background with flower baskets and other motifs.

At first glance, this screen is not the current craftsmanship, plus the space and other things in the space, this screen is at least a Qing Dynasty thing. In feudal society, there is something engraved with a dragon, so this screen can't just be described as "not ordinary".

Xiao Yifei noticed that these dragons were actually five-clawed, that is, five-clawed golden dragons. In other words, this screen is actually a royal item.

There is also the word longevity, and it is a royal item, which must be for which emperor to celebrate his birthday. Appearing here, the screen should have been snatched from China to Europe by outsiders. So Xiao Yifei deliberately counted the number of the word "longevity", and there were 60. 60 longevity characters, 60 golden dragons, this should be a 60-year-old birthday gift for any emperor. Slipped out of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty one by one, and analyzed, only Kangxi, Qianlong, Jiaqing, and Daoguang 4 may be the owners of the screen. That is to say, the screen is likely to be more than 200 years old, a good thing, and worth a lot of money.

Xiao Yifei liked this thing very much, and stopped in front of the screen for a long time.

The space behind the screen is indeed a living area. To Xiao Yifei's disappointment, the bed quilts are not antiques, just ordinary things. didn't say anything, these things were also thrown outside the house by Xiao Yifei, and when the time came, they were burned or thrown outside the space.

The residential area still gave Xiao Yifei a surprise. He was amazed by the paintings hanging on the wall across the bed. The painting was so big, much taller than Xiao Yifei, he stood on tiptoe and stretched out his arms to reach the top of the frame, and the width of the painting was as wide as Xiao Yifei's hands were open. The painting is very large, and the cabin is low, and the painting is said to be hanging on the wall rather than leaning against the wall.

In the center of the picture is a white horse, with its hind hooves on the ground, its front hooves off the ground, neighing, and immediately sits a soldier wearing a two-horned hat and a scarlet cape. Not far away were soldiers carrying cannons, and in the distance, the mountains were stretching farther away, and the sky was also cloudy, and the soldiers on the horses were holding the reins in one hand and pointing forward with the other, like a sharp sword that could break through the clouds.

The momentum of the whole picture is very strong, and at first glance, it gives people a very unusual feeling of this soldier.

The name of the character is written on the stone in the lower left corner of the picture: "BonaPaRTe", that is, Bonaparte, needless to say, anyone who has studied history knows that this is Napoleon the Great.

The other two rocks have "hannIBaL" and "KaRoLV**agnVsImP" written on them, and Xiao Yifei only knows that one is Hannibal and the other is Carlos. Magnus, Xiao Yifei doesn't know who it is, and ImP is even more confused.

Xiao Yifei is smart now, so he searched the Internet if he didn't understand, and sure enough, he soon found the answer.

This painting is "napoleoncrossingthealps", our Chinese translation is relatively long, "Napoleon crossing the St. Bernard Pass in the Alps". It depicts the Second War of the French Coalition from 1799 to 1802, when Napoleon led an army of 40,000 troops to climb the steep Alps and cross the St. Bernard Pass to buy time to cross the St. Bernard Pass and enter Italy. When Napoleon's army entered Italy, it took the Austrian intervention there by surprise and finally won the Battle of Marengo. The victory in this battle increased Napoleon's prestige and status, opening the way for him to later ascend to the pinnacle of power.

By the way, Xiao Yifei figured out who the names carved on the other two rocks were. "hannIBaL" is the Carthaginian general Hannibal, who is known as the father of strategy. Carlos's "ImP" to be added to the heel is complete, and he is referring to Charlemagne, the Carolingian king of the Frankish kingdom, who is known as the father of Europe, and the old king of hearts on the playing cards. The names of Napoleon, Hannibal, and Charlemagne are written here because they all led their armies over the Alps.

According to the information, the original author of this painting is Jacques. Louis. David painted five paintings in total, one at the Chateau de Malmaison, one at the Maltenburg in Berlin, one at the Belvedere in Austria, as well as the Palace of Versailles and the Louvre.

But Xiao Yifei has not heard of any problems with the paintings in those places, and there is no news that these paintings have been lost or stolen. How did you get here?

Is it a fake? But by placing this painting here, you can see the love of the owner of the space for this painting, to watch it fall asleep, to wake up and look at it for the first time. Shouldn't that be a fake?

If this Napoleon is really a fake, are the other paintings in the space also fakes?

Xiao Yifei found a small anecdote about this painting by the way, it is said that Napoleon rode a donkey at that time, and some say that it was a mule, but at his own request, the mount was changed to a white horse. And someone painted a painting of the same name, a true reproduction of Napoleon's crossing the Alps scene, in that version of the oil painting Napoleon is not so "high-spirited, magnificent", one hand in his arms, riding a black mule, walking on the snow, next to a tattered old soldier with a stick, the whole picture is very obscene.