Compared with Japan at that time, that bullshit Qing Kingdom, even if you don't want to die, you can't do it!

Thinking about it again, some of the current domestic situations, Jin Muchen can only be hehe......

Nayamanaka Dingjiro discussed with several gold owners, and finally after weighing, they decided to buy all the bronze, ceramics, jade, and jade collections of Prince Gong's Mansion at a price of 340,000 oceans, except for calligraphy and painting.

It was a big gamble for the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce, you must know that 340,000 oceans, for them, was already the limit amount they could take out at that time, and Pu Wei, the loser, didn't even think much about it, so he agreed......

This transaction not only brought the largest loss of cultural relics to China, but also brought the greatest glory in Yamanaka's life, and his Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce relied on this transaction to lay a solid foundation for the world's largest dealer in Chinese antiques and cultural relics.

In 1913, the year after the purchase of the old collection of Prince Gong's Mansion by the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, in 1913, the American Art Gallery in New York, USA, printed a gilded catalogue for auction, and the auction was very successful.

Many of the richest Americans and collectors believe that the auction will be a great gathering of Chinese art, and it is said that before the auction begins, the rich are even willing to spend a lot of money for an invitation to enter the venue. When the auction began, there were countless wealthy people who came from all over the United States with cash to participate in this grand event.

And the auction did not disappoint everyone, all the lots. was almost swept away by those American tyrants.

The final auction sold for more than $270,000, the highest in U.S. history that year, and $270,000 was an absolute record-breaking astronomical figure at the time, if it were based on inflation. Taking into account factors such as the over-issuance of US dollars, after calculation, the $270,000 that year is definitely more than $2 billion when converted to the present.

So far, there has not been a single large-scale shareholder auction held around the world that has reached a record of more than $2 billion.

And this auction, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce sold it. In the following year, that is, in 1914, he also held a special auction entitled "The Personal Collection of Chinese Aristocrats in Tianjin and the Cultural Relics Purchased by the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce in Beijing" at the "American Art Gallery" in New York. In addition, during this year, he was in the hands of those old and young people of the Qing Dynasty in Jinmen. The auction was also very successful, with a turnover of nearly $200,000, and since then, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce has become famous in Europe and the United States, becoming a well-known Chinese antique dealer for a while.

The Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce did not waste either. These two successes brought them great fame, and they then began in 1914 and continued until 1916, which was a three-year period. A total of 11 Chinese antique art auctions have been held in New York, and it can be said that each time it has been a great success.

Since then, the Sanaka Chamber of Commerce has truly become the world's largest Chinese art dealer.

Later, there were countless historians who once wondered how many treasures Yamanaka Dingjiro took out from King Gong's mansion back then, but Yamanaka Dingjiro remained silent on this issue, until after his death, how many treasures he took out from King Gong's mansion back then has always been a mystery to future generations.

However, after the liberation, domestic historians once found a catalogue of the lots in China when the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce held an auction in New York for the first time in 1913, which probably solved part of the mystery of the cultural relics lost overseas in Prince Gong's mansion.

Printed in English, the title page contains a photograph of Prince Gong's court costume by Prince Pu Wei, and it illustrates the collection of Prince Gong's Mansion that was auctioned in New York that year, mainly porcelain, with a total of 133 pieces.

The varieties of these porcelain auctioned can be said to be all-inclusive, among which white glaze ware is the majority, a total of 35 pieces, accounting for 26% of the total number of porcelain on the plate.

Among them, there are white glazed water bowls of the Ding kiln system of the Song Dynasty, sweet white bowls of the Yongle official kiln in the early Ming Dynasty, white glazed stationery supplies of the Jingdezhen official kiln in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, Guanyin statues of the Dehua kiln in the Ming and Qing dynasties and the Qing Dynasty of the study, etc.

In addition, there are 35 pieces of blue and white multicolored porcelain, accounting for 26% of the total number of porcelain auctioned, with the Jingdezhen Guanyin Zun and mallet bottles in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

In addition, there are 63 pieces of monochrome glazed porcelain produced by Kangxi and Yongzheng official kilns in porcelain, including black gold, blue glaze, sprinkled blue gold, red glaze, cowpea red, Lang kiln red, yellow glaze, sky blue glaze, peacock green glaze, gold sauce glaze, coral red, Lang kiln green, apple green, tea powder and so on.

These are all materials, all of which were found by Jin Muchen after he came to the Oriental Museum and saw the three-piece red sandalwood set donated by Yamanaka Jojiro to the Tokyo National Museum, and then went back to find information on the Internet.

Looking at this three-piece red sandalwood set now, he suddenly thought of the fine porcelain that was sold by the Chamber of Commerce in the mountains in New York, and every time he thought of it, his heart felt a twitch and pain.

How many treasures does that have to be, let's just say that the 63 pieces, all kinds of monochrome glazed porcelain produced by Kangxi and Yongzheng official kilns, he has robbed so many museums now, and it seems that he has not gathered so many varieties of porcelain.

But Prince Nagong's unscrupulous descendants, just like that, packed those treasures cheaply and sold them to these Japanese, it's really special, you deserve your grandson, and finally died miserably in a small hotel in Da @ Lian.

He also looked for drawings of porcelain examples on the Internet, as well as an electronic version of the brochure of that year.

Judging from the drawings and brochures, the porcelain from the old collection of Prince Gong's Mansion that was auctioned that year spans from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty; The types are mainly Jingdezhen Ming and Qing official kilns, and there are also famous kilns of the Song Dynasty such as Jun kiln, Ding kiln, Ge kiln, etc., as well as a small number of local kilns, such as Dehua kiln, Fahua porcelain and other varieties.

These porcelains can be said to be pieces of pieces, exquisite modeling, well-made, and each piece has the original hardwood base, some people also specialize, from the analysis of the shape and artistic value of the utensils, that these porcelain, should be the daily furnishings of the palace and the large study room of Prince Gong's palace.

There can be so many fine porcelain in the inner hall and the big study alone, so how many other places must be, that Yamanaka Dingjiro, who took away too many treasures from Prince Gong's Mansion at that time?

A few years ago, Professor Noboru Tomita of Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, wrote a book entitled "The Outflow of Imperial Treasures of the Qing Dynasty", which was published by the Japan Broadcasting Publishing Association in June 2002.

And he was also bold and made a guess, he estimated that this Yamanaka Dingjiro, in Prince Gong's Mansion through pressure on Prince Gong Pu Wei, fraud and other means, a total of 536 pieces of Prince Gong's Mansion cultural relics except for calligraphy and paintings were predatory from Pu Wei's hands......

Of course, this is just a guess, but Jin Muchen doesn't believe the result of his guess, he estimates that the treasure that Yamanaka Dingjiro took out from King Gong's mansion that time has to add a zero after the number 536.

But there is one thing, this Tomita Sheng's truth is telling, this Yamanaka Dingjiro, when he dug out the old mansion of Prince Gong Puwei this time, he really used shady means, in which book, he said, through research, he can conclude that Yamanaka Dingjiro must have used disgraceful means such as pressure and fraud at that time.

And this guy is so able to use such a method, it is completely because of the two guys that he brought with him, Yamanaka Rokuzaburo and Okada Yuji, to know the identity of these two people, it is not just the identity of the shareholders behind the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, the two of them are also inextricably linked with the Japanese government.

According to Professor Tomita's speculation, at that time, the two must have put pressure on Pu Wei by constantly mentioning their relationship with the Japanese government, and on the other hand, they kept promising benefits to Na Puwei.

For example, they can use their relationship with the Japanese government to bring advisers to Pu Wei, help him forge a sword army, and then help him restore or something, otherwise Pu Wei will definitely be reluctant to sell so many good things in his own home, a total of 340,000 silver dollars, to this Yamanaka Dingjiro......

It's a pity that Pu Wei's wishful thinking ended up in vain, and he also understood that he was just a wronged man who was tricked, and finally ended up depressed.

The 1913 auction was only the first auction they held, and you must know that in the next three years, these Japanese devils, but in New York, they held twelve such auctions in succession.

And from these auctions, they have taken more than two million dollars.

If the exchange rate, inflation, and currency over-issuance factors are taken into account, then the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce back then, relying on these Prince Gong's mansions and the family funds scavenged from the old and young of the Qing Dynasty, cashed out a total of 2 million US dollars from the hands of the Americans, which is converted into the current US dollars, which is nearly 20 billion US dollars.

And how much tax does this money bring to the Japanese government? How many guns and bullets did these taxes add to the Japanese invading army later? (To be continued.) )