Chapter 13: The Realm of Collection
Dong Qingshan smiled: "Perfect? He's still early! 'Entering the house' is still so-so, to be precise, it's just 'integrating and penetrating' high-level. ”
Gao Lingfeng didn't know what he meant, he was stunned when he heard it, but he didn't dare to ask. The muscles on Dong Tianyue's face jumped, and he said in his heart: Still no breakthrough? His heart is inevitably a little depressed, although he has a perspective eye, the ability to identify antiques has only risen from the "mastery" primary to the advanced, and the uncle has broken through to "perfect" at the age of 30!
"Hehe, 'Integration' advanced? That's not bad either. I only entered the realm of 'entering the house' two years ago, and it seems that the little junior brother will soon throw me far away! Gao Yide said with a smile.
The more Gao Lingfeng listened, the more confused he became, he only heard that there were primary, senior, and expert levels in the appraisal level, but it was the first time he had heard of what "integration" and "entering the room", who judged this? He couldn't help but interject: "Dad, how do you know that you just reached the realm of 'entering the house' two years ago?" ”
Gao Yide glanced at him and said, "This is the secret of this sect, you have to ask nonsense!" Gao Lingfeng bowed his head and was silent.
Dong Qingshan waved his hand and said, "Ling Feng is also his own person, so let's ask Yue'er to explain it to him a little, lest he think that we treat him as an outsider." ”
"Haha! The master is so humorous. Gao Yide said with a smile: "Then the little junior brother, you can just say a few words to satisfy his rude curiosity." ”
Dong Tianyue was stunned for a moment, he was still thinking about the appraisal level, and when he saw that everyone was looking at him, he reacted and said with a smile: "Are you asking the Dong family's appraisal grade?" ”
"yes, how are they determined?" Gao Lingfeng asked.
"How do you decide? There are two scenarios. When the Dong family's identification and high-imitation stunts reach the realm of 'perfection' at the same time, they are qualified to become the official heirs of the 'ghost hand'. It is up to him to determine and identify the level of skill for people below the realm of 'Perfection'. As for those above the realm of 'perfection', such as my grandfather, then I have to go to see my ancestors. His old man's appraisal skills have reached the realm of 'supernatural transformation'! But this matter is related to the Dong family's top secret, I can only tell you so much, I'm sorry! ”
Gao Lingfeng was shocked, the name "Ghost Hand Descendant" is cool, the Dong family still has an ancestor? Oh my! I didn't expect this to be the case, I actually inquired about the secret of other families, and said ashamedly: "Thank you Uncle Xiao for not treating me as an outsider, if I say this, I will definitely die with ten thousand arrows through my heart!" ”。
"What kind of poisonous oath did you swear!" Dong Tianyue was stunned, he didn't expect Gao Lingfeng's aura to be so strong, and he immediately swore a poisonous oath. Gao Yide waved his hand and smiled: "It's okay, everyone who mixes the rivers and lakes is this stinky virtue!" Moreover, those who know the two things of the Dong family's ghost hand heirs and ancestors, there are only a few people in total, and they are all friends of the Dong family. You tell Ling Feng about it, it's Ling Feng as your own. Ling Feng, if you tell me about this, I won't spare you first! ”
"How dare you!" Gao Lingfeng sweated slightly on his forehead.
"Grandpa, I heard that my uncle entered the realm of 'perfection' at the age of 30, and I am 24 years old this year, why haven't I broken through to the realm of 'entering the house'?" Dong Tianyue complained to his grandfather.
"Hmph, you kid thinks beautifully! You are learning Wing Chun while learning the ancestral skills of the Dong family, and you are using two minds, and it is already very good to reach the advanced level of 'integration' at the age of 24! Dong Qingshan said with disdain.
"That's right, Grandpa. When I entered my brother's auction house, my immediate boss said that I wanted an appraiser qualification certificate, how could I have it? If we compare the appraisal qualification level of the world, what is the level of our Dong family's 'integration'? Dong Tianyue asked.
Dong Qingshan looked at Gao Yide and motioned to him. Gao Yide said with a smile: "How can the so-called appraisal qualification level in the world be compared with your Dong family? 'Integration' is at least equivalent to an ordinary little expert. So, when you joined the company, I didn't expect this, it was my negligence. Dong Tianyue was overjoyed when he heard it, and he dared to be a little expert, haha!
Gao Lingfeng used tea instead of wine to congratulate him: "Congratulations to Uncle Junior, he is already an expert in identification at such a young age." It's just that the "Xuanhe Secret Record" just now, I still can't figure it out. Dong Tianyue and Gao Yide glanced at each other, but they didn't expect Gao Lingfeng to be in a good mood today! Gao Yide is also strange, today's Gao Lingfeng seems to be much more interested in antiques than usual?
"Which point, you say." Dong Tianyue said.
"I really didn't expect that a Zhanchen like Cai Jing also understands art, and has made such a small contribution to antique art? It's just that the next three volumes are really missing? "Most of the "Xuanhe Secret Record" was compiled by Cai Jing, which gave Gao Lingfeng a new understanding of Cai Jing, even if it was a minister, it was not useless?
Gao Yide was a little happy at first, it's a good thing that his son is interested in antiques, but as soon as this question came up, he felt ashamed for his son, you can ask such an idiotic question, then you might as well not ask. Of course, it was lost, but it must have been passed down later, otherwise how could the master say that this "Xuanhe Secret Record" is genuine.
Dong Tianyue smiled and said: "After the Jingkang Change, the fourth, fifth, and sixth volumes of the "Xuanhe Secret Record" were indeed lost, and the only ones that have been handed down and circulated widely are "Xuanhe Book Spectrum", "Xuanhe Painting Spectrum", and "Xuanhe Bogutu". During the Qianlong period, the Ministry of Internal Affairs had great powers, and I don't know where to find the lost three volumes, and recompiled the "Xuanhe Secret Record", but unfortunately there were too few prints. Most of them are given to the emperor's relatives and heroes who like to collect, calligraphy and paintings, and seal stones, and some of them are stored in the Royal Academy. ”
Qianlong was an emperor with very elegant tastes and a great collector of antiques. Emperor Qianlong is erudite and talented, in his 60 years of reign, in addition to Ji Xiaolan and others compiled the world's masterpiece "Siku Quanshu", but also compiled a lot of famous antique secrets in the antique world, such as: "Shiqu Baoji", "Daqing Collection". In addition, Qianlong also likes to sort out and adapt the works of his previous life, and the Qianlong version of "Xuanhe Secret Record" is one of the classics. When it comes to antique collecting, people always like to mention the "three generations of the Qing Dynasty": the three generations of Kang Yongqian, and among the three generations of the Qing Dynasty, the most famous is not Qianlong's father Yongzheng, nor Qianlong's grandfather Kangxi, but Qianlong himself.
When it came to Emperor Qianlong, Gao Lingfeng stretched out his thumb and said, "It turned out that Lord Qianlong sorted out a new version!" Lord Qianlong is the emperor I admire the most, civil governance, martial arts, taste, filial piety, and personality charm, all of which are admirable! He is an old man with great powers, and only he can make "Xuanhe Secret Record" scattered and reunited! ”
"Yes, five hundred years and one thousand, one thousand years and one Qianlong, I also like Qianlong!" Dong Tianyue said.
Daqian is Zhang Daqian, and Qianlong is Aixinjue Luo Hongli. The calligraphy and painting circles say that it takes 500 years to produce a genius like Zhang Daqian; The literary and artistic circles say that among the emperors, it takes a thousand years to produce a Qianlong. Of course, there are also many literati who hate him and say that Qianlong is engaged in literature. The word prison has killed many innocent literati.
"Yes, Emperor Qianlong's whole life, the one who lives is the one who lives, and the one who has not come to the world for a while!" Dong Tianyue sighed. Gao Lingfeng nodded and smiled, feeling that men should be like that, but it was a pity that he was not the emperor. This book was printed by Lord Qianlong, so why should I pay it back? Xindao: Since this secret book is the Qianlong version of the authentic work, it must be worth a lot of money, why don't everyone ask. After a pause after taking a sip of tea, Gao Lingfeng was a little itchy, and after enduring it, he still asked: "Uncle Xiao, in your opinion, if this cheatbook is auctioned by Yide, how much will it cost?" ”
Everyone looked at him with contempt for this question, which made Gao Lingfeng confused. Dong Tianyue's face immediately became wrong. He put the teacup on the table and said with a serious expression: "Such a national treasure-level thing, you want to take it to auction?" Do you want foreigners to pick up the leaks, or do you want to steal the connoisseurship knowledge in it? ”
"This ......" Gao Lingfeng never thought that Dong Tianyue would turn his face when he said it, such a merciless questioning made Gao Lingfeng a little embarrassed. He was just curious, he didn't expect Dong Tianyue to take this issue so seriously. Gao Yide also agreed with Dong Tianyue's point of view, and also educated Gao Lingfeng and said: "Your little uncle is right, this thing can't be auctioned." Are there still fewer good things in China that go abroad? Not to mention it far away, let's just say that the 12 zodiac animal heads have brought how much trouble and humiliation? Do you want to add such a heavy weapon, the icing on the cake? ”
's father also said the same, Gao Lingfeng felt that he was really wrong, and if he did business with foreigners in the future, he would have to have a good heart, and he couldn't sell good things to them.
Once upon a time, Chinese antiques were lost abroad, and when you wanted to buy them back, the price was dozens or even hundreds of times that of it! For example, the head of the zodiac animal. What's worse is that some precious cultural goods have fallen into large foreign museums, and even if Chinese people want to spend a lot of money to recover them, it is not only a problem that money can solve. It is designed to meet the face of politics, the face of the country, diplomacy, and so on.
"Hehe, I'm just asking, I didn't really take it to auction, I'm just curious about its value!" Gao Lingfeng smiled embarrassedly, admitting his mistake. He regretted that he said that, and everyone looked at him with the eyes of a traitor, and Uncle Xiao taught him mercilessly. This is the first time we've met! This is also Dong Tianyue, who would dare to ask Gao Lingfeng so much if he were someone else?
"That's good, as for its value...... Speaking of this, Dong Tianyue pointed to the paragraph on the cover at the end of the book and smiled: "See, this is the money from the Office of the Qing Dynasty Internal Affairs Office." ”
"I'll see." Gao Lingfeng came over to take a look, only to see that it was written in small letters: "The Office of the Internal Affairs Office of the Qing Dynasty, the twenty-one year system of Qianlong." ”
"That's right, it's a pity that I didn't see the oval seal of the 'Treasure of Qianlong', but it's already very good." Dong Tianyue flipped through the book from beginning to end, and indeed did not see Qianlong's oval seal. Gao Yide also flipped it, but he didn't turn it either.
"This book has the seal of Qianlong Ye Sanxitang, and there is also the money of the office, which is not comparable to ordinary ancient books. If you really want to take it to Yide Auction, the reserve price is at least more than five million, as for how many transactions, I don't know, tens of millions should not be a problem" Dong Tianyue tapped his fingers on the book.
"So much!" Gao Lingfeng exclaimed.
Gao Yide couldn't help but say with contempt: "What's all the fuss, telling you to read more, study more and don't listen, now it's lonely and unheard, right?" In 1994, Bill Gates, then president of Microsoft, auctioned off a scientific manuscript of Leonardo da Vinci for $30.8 million, which was hundreds of millions in yuan. That was more than 10 years ago! Could it be that the things of our ancestors are not as good as the manuscripts of a foreign painter?
The junior brother is right, this book is not comparable to ordinary rare books! Also, I'm not in favor of putting it up for auction. The book was either passed down or donated to the state for safekeeping. ”
Dong Qingshan finally smiled, he had been waiting for Gao Yide's words for a long time, and looked at Gao Yide with appreciative eyes and said with a smile: "What Yide said is very true, even the Yanjing Forbidden City does not have a complete "Xuanhe Secret Record", the value of the complete version of "Xuanhe Secret Record" can be imagined, and the quality is still so good?" For the incomparably precious cheats, what is needed is inheritance, not auction, and it cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of foreigners! ”
Hearing Dong Qingshan say this, Gao Yide finally understood why the master insisted on returning the treasure chest to himself, the master wanted to donate this book to the country!
"Master, do you mean to donate it to the state?" Gao Yide asked.
Old Man Dong nodded and said, "Well, we can just leave the copy, and the original work will be donated to the country in your personal name, which can be regarded as the highest level of a collector." Yide, you can say that, I'm very happy for you. From the height of a collector, Yide is still a little far from the word 'home'. However, if you sincerely donate this "Xuanhe Secret Record", you can be regarded as a collector! ”
Everyone suddenly realized, it turned out that Old Man Dong called everyone here because of this! Dong Qingshan's second visit is the inheritance of antiques; The second is to win the title of collector for Gao Yide. It's just that by donating the treasure to the country, Gao Lingfeng didn't understand it, and carefully interjected: "Master, then this is too valuable, right?" Has every collector ever donated a treasure to the country? ”;