Chapter 864: Scourge in the Mountains
Whenever he thinks of these things, Jin Muchen can't help but hate Pu Wei, the-stirring stick who wants to reverse history, and gritted his teeth with hatred.
Just such a bastard, how much loss and how much suffering will it bring to us Chinese?
Therefore, he loves the Xinjueluo family, and if he does not perish, which is unreasonable, although they love the Xinjueluo family and enter the Central Plains, it has indeed brought a lot of benefits to our China and the territory of the territory.
For example, the right to rule West @ Tibet, the right to rule Inner @ Mongolia, and the right to rule New @ Xinjiang to the end, it is indeed a great help to the expansion and formation of China's current territory, etc., but they love the descendants of the Xinjue Luo family, and they are really fucked up.
But if their grandchildren could be a little more enlightened, they would not have withdrawn from the stage of Chinese history in such a disgraceful way.
Just from the protection of Chinese ancient cultural relics, the fuck things done by these descendants of Aixin Jueluo are absolutely innumerable, and it is precisely because of their large number of rebuying and selling that it has led to the loss of a large number of Chinese cultural relics overseas.
Not only this Prince Gong Pu Wei, but also his younger brother Pu Xin, also resold a large number of calligraphy and paintings left by Prince Gong's mansion to foreigners.
Yi Yuanji's "Gathering Ape Picture" in the Song Dynasty was resold to the Japanese in 1927 by the younger brother of the brothers, Pu Ru.
First collected by Abe Bojiro, it was later collected by the Osaka City Museum of Art, and the Ming Dynasty Wen Zhengming's "Garden Pond Atlas" was sold by Urashin to the Japanese Saito Etsuzo in 1928, and the current collection location is unknown.
Yan Zhenqing's "Farewell Post" in the Tang Dynasty was pawned by Pu Wei to the Japanese Mitsubishi Company at a high price in 1930, and has been unable to redeem it since then.
In July 1930, Nakamura, a Japanese calligrapher, bought it from Mitsubishi Corporation for 30,000 yen, and this work is now in the collection of the Japan Calligraphy Museum.
Ming's Zhu Yunming's "Linhuangting Sutra" and "Hetao Drinking Poems". Qiu Ying's "Plum Blossom Princess Picture Vertical Scroll" in the Ming Dynasty, Fang Cong's "Colored Landscape Map" in the Qing Dynasty, Li Shizhuo's "Imitation Zhao Qianli Listening to the Spring Picture Vertical Scroll" in the Qing Dynasty, and Zhang Zhao's "Linmi Tianma Fu Post" in the Qing Dynasty, these six paintings were sold by Pu Xin to the Japanese Yamamoto Tsujiro in 1931. His whereabouts are unknown.
Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty's "Five-Colored Parrot Picture Scroll" was also sold by Puxin to Yamamoto Jijiro in 1931, and then sold to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, by this Yamamoto Jijiro, and now it has been included in Jin Muchen's pocket.
Chen Rong pawned the "Nine Dragons Picture Scroll" in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was sold to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, by Na Puxin in 1917, and now it has also been taken back by Jin Muchen.
Song Obi's "Cattle Grazing" was sold by Urashin to the collection of the Japanese Abe Bojiro, and is now in the collection of the Osaka City Museum of Art.
It can be seen that the three brothers of Prince Gong's Mansion are so losers. As the so-called cub sells Ye Tian's heart, these celebrity calligraphy and paintings are all received from the people by various means when they love the Xinjue Luo family and become the emperor.
But these are all treasures of our Chinese art, and as a result, these guys sold these things to those Japanese and Americans for money.
Get it now. Our descendants want to see the relics of these ancestors, not to go to Japan. You have to go to the United States to see it.
What's even more regrettable is that those good things sold to the Japanese have been destroyed in the war because of the bombing of Japan by the United States during World War II.
One of the most heart-wrenching for the new. It belongs to Wang Xizhi's "Wandering Eye Post", which is one of the few authentic works left by the book saint Wang Xizhi in the world, but it was also sold to the Japanese by the unscrupulous descendants of the Gong Wangfu, but it was finally destroyed by the United States bombing Japan, resulting in the current Wang Xizhi's surviving authentic works. There is only the "Funeral Post" collected by the Emperor of Japan.
And that "Funeral Post" was regarded as a miracle by the Emperor's family, and was seen by the Emperor's old Wangba family, not to mention that it was displayed at the Tokyo National Museum, even if it was his own family, it was impossible to easily see this calligraphy.
And we Chinese don't even think about it, unless we knock down Japan, I'm afraid that we modern Chinese, even if we live a lifetime, don't want to see the true handiwork of this post.
Many of these calligraphy and paintings were imported to Japan or the United States through the hands of the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce.
The Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce also made a fortune in these transactions, and after the time entered the 1920s, the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce's activities in China expanded more and more.
Because Japan became the victor of World War I at that time, its international status was sharply improved, and it received a large number of war dividends, coupled with the fact that Japan later openly annexed the Aotori region in the mountains @ east, and its sphere of influence in China continued to expand.
And this mountain chamber of commerce, also taking this opportunity, began to become more and more rampant, and acted as a blessing on the heads of the Chinese.
At that time, the nature of their work in the China branch was not limited to areas such as Beijing and Jinmen, sitting at home and waiting for others to deliver to their homes.
Instead, they began to go out of their homes and go to various parts of China to loot, and they went deep into the hinterland of China many times, such as they dug up a large number of bronzes in Shaanxi @ Western Zhou Yuan, such as Zhou Gongding, Sanshi Pan, Da Yu Ding, Xiao Yu Ding, etc., which marked the ritual vessels of the Western Zhou Dynasty; They also went to the Pishan tomb group in the north of Luo@Yang, where they dug a large number of catacombs, and where they got a large number of cultural relics, such as Tang Sancai, pottery, bronze, ancient jade and so on.
It is by virtue of these illegal means that this mountain chamber of commerce can continuously obtain all kinds of precious cultural relics from China.
And they used these cultural relics, on the one hand, to make friends with important people in the political and business circles in China, to act as a protective umbrella for them, and also generously donated a lot of treasures to museums all over Japan.
On the other hand, they also transported most of the Chinese cultural relics to Europe and the United States for sale, thus obtaining sky-high profits and making a windfall.
While grabbing huge profits, they also made a name for themselves in Europe and the United States, so that many European and American collectors, whenever they want to get a piece of their favorite Chinese antique, the first thing that comes to mind is the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce.
If they don't find such a treasure in the store of the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, they will place an order for the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce to go to China to find it.
At this time, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce is no longer just the nature of an antique shop, they have completely transformed into cultural relics robbers and antique skewers.
Just behind this three-piece set of red sandalwood, there is a sitting statue of the Tang Dynasty, which is from the 21st cave of the Tai@ original Tianlong Mountain Grottoes.
There is actually a saying about this seated statue.
In 1923 of the last century, several major museums in New York, USA, were desperately searching for antiques and cultural relics from China.
On the other hand, they also contacted the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce and asked them to help collect a number of stone statues from China, especially Buddhist stone carvings, which they were particularly interested in.
And because the Buddha statue in the grottoes of Tai@ Yuan Tianlong Mountain, especially known for its exquisite carvings, several large museums in the United States have placed orders for the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, as long as they can get it, these museums will not hesitate to buy at a high price.
Therefore, for this business, in 1924 and 1926, the head of the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, Yamanaka Dingjiro, personally brought it back and went to Tianlong Mountain in western Shanxi twice, each time with a clear purpose, that is, to smuggle a large number of exquisite Buddha statues in the grottoes out of the country.
There is no clear record of the Americans' offer, how much it is, but at this time, Yamanaka Dingjiro was already famous, and he was not bad for money, but he was not short of money, and he actually had to go into battle in person, which shows how high the bid of those Americans was.
And this Yamanaka Dingjiro never returned empty-handed, with the help of his assistants and some local mercenary traitors at that time, his plan to steal and dig can be said to be very successful.
The Buddha statues in the Tianlong Mountain Grottoes, as long as they are preserved in good condition, there is almost nothing he can't start.
How many Buddha statues he took away from the grottoes of Tianlong Mountain, there is no complete statistics until now, but there must be no less than a hundred, that is certain.
And the worst thing this grandson did was that he was looting the Buddha statues in those caves while constantly destroying them.
You must know that there are not only Buddha statues in those grottoes, but almost every grotto where the Buddha statues are stored, there will be exquisite murals, but while he steals those Buddha statues, he does not cherish those murals at all, and wantonly destroys those murals.
Fortunately, there are enough Buddha statues in the Tianlongshan Grottoes, although he stole some of them and destroyed some of them, but now there are more than 1,000 left, which is also thanks to the ancestors, who left us with a thick enough family foundation.
Otherwise, even if we Chinese want to see the Tianlongshan Grottoes, I am afraid it will be very difficult.
And now, what appeared in front of Jin Muchen's eyes was the one who came to the twenty-first cave of Tianlong Mountain, a statue of Rulai leaning.
The reason why this statue appears here is also because when Yamanaka Dingjiro stole this Buddha statue, because he was careless, the head and the front of his right arm were missing, and the color was almost peeled off.
Such a seated statue of Nyorai, if it is sold on the market, is of little value, so this guy pretended to be generous and donated this broken statue to the Tokyo National Museum, charging a good person.
But this statue, although it is incomplete, but the relief carving technique on the Buddha statue is extremely superb, the texture of the clothing pattern and the beauty revealed from the light robe but the round carved Buddha body, clearly showing the high artistic level reached by the Buddhist statues in the Tang Dynasty. (To be continued.) )