The experience of this Mao Gongding can be regarded as an unusually bumpy one, since it was unearthed, it has been a displacement, and now it has fallen into the hands of Jin Muchen, and it can be regarded as being able to return to the roots and return to the hometown.

In the twenty-third year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1843, this Mao Gongding was dug up in the farmland in the west of the village by Dong Chunsheng, a villager of Dongjia Village, Shaanxi @ West @ Qi @ Shan County, and caused a sensation when it was dug up.

Fortunately, the Qing Dynasty at that time still had such a tone, and it was not as chaotic as the last period, otherwise those Japanese and British would have heard the wind a long time ago.

However, the famous antique dealers at that time were still in an endless stream, and later an antique dealer bought this Mao Gongding from Dong Chunsheng at a price of 300 taels of silver.

But just when he was about to leave Dongjia Village, he was stopped by another villager Dong Zhiguan, this Dong Zhiguan is actually not a good person, it is said that this thing was dug up by Dong Chunsheng, at that time, it was not like now, all underground things belonged to the state, and the rules of the game at that time were whoever dug it out, that is, it was who's, so Dong Chunsheng had a complete right to dispose of this bronze tripod.

But this Dong magistrate is actually jealous, and he also wants to get a little cheap and cut a layer of skin, so he fooled the people in the same village and said that this bronze tripod is left by the ancestors, and if he wants to stay in the village, he will cut off his children and grandchildren if he buys it, and the people in the same village actually understand this hooligan, in fact, they want to take advantage, but in the end they all supported him, because everyone also wants to get cheap, if Dong Chunsheng fails to sell this tripod this time, then the next time I buy it, hehe, but everyone has the final say, Everyone can share points when they buy it, so the deal is not done in the end.

Seeing this, who can say that our Chinese farmers are the most simple? In fact, people are cunning, even now, we in China have not been able to fully establish the spirit of contract, and there are many laws, even if they are promulgated, they cannot be enforced in the end, in fact, it has something to do with these 'simple' farmers.

But how can this antique dealer who has already spent money just give up, he wanted to do business as he should, according to the situation at the time, he had already signed the contract, but what a special thing, it was actually disturbed by someone who had nothing to do with the contract at all, do you say he was annoyed? Angry or not?

In the end, the businessman who couldn't stand this tone could only be forced to take the route of combining government and business, and he simply bribed the local magistrate with a lot of money, arrested and imprisoned Na Dong, and charged him with privately possessing national treasures.

And the Mao Gongding was forcibly transported to the county government by the government, and at this time, no one dared to come forward to intercept the farmers who shouted the treasure of their ancestors, so it can be seen that this is a group of mercenary, wild goose and rabble who want to pluck their feathers and just want to take advantage.

This Ding was transported to the county government, and was quietly transported away by this antique dealer, and later this Mao Gongding was monopolized by a number of antique dealers several times, and finally fell into the hands of the antique dealer Su Yinian.

In the second year of Xianfeng, that is, in 1852, Chen Jieqi, a goldsmith and collector in the capital, bought this Mao Gongding from Su Yinian's hand, and this research, only to learn that this bronze tripod was actually the treasure of the Zhou Dynasty, and Chen Jieqi was happy, and directly rewarded Su Yinian with an additional 1000 taels of silver.

Since then, this Mao Gongding has been hidden in the secret room by Chen Jieqi and is little known.

In 1902, Chen Jieqi died of illness, and several of his descendants sold this Mao Gongding in order to fight for family property, and the buyer was the famous Liangjiang Governor Duan Fang, on November 27, 1911, Duan Fang was sent to Sichuan to suppress the Baolu Movement, but the revolution failed to suppress success, but lost his life in Sichuan.

Since then, Ruifang's family began to fall in the middle of the family, and during the Republic of China, because of the abdication of the Manchu Dynasty, Ruifang's descendants did not have much ability, and the days were Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and the year was not as good as a year, and the descendants of Ruifang were also the same as the Aixin Jueluo family, and they moved the idea of selling their property.

His descendants staked this Mao Gong Ding to the Sino-Russian Daosheng Bank opened by the Russians in Tianjin, when a British journalist Simpson was on a business trip in Tianjin, he was very surprised to find this Mao Gong Ding, this reporter from the second generation of official wealth, at that time he offered a sky-high price of 50,000 US dollars, and bought it from the Duan family, 50,000 US dollars, in that era of the gold standard, it was an absolute huge amount of money, absolutely not lower than the gold content of 5 million US dollars now.

I don't know what the children and grandchildren of this Duan family think, they are all poor and can't open the pot, but they still want to put on a façade, and they actually suspect that the money given by the family is too little, and they refuse to cut their love.

It's really thanks to the fact that the descendants of the Rui family were greedy enough at that time, otherwise this Mao Gongding, the final result would be lost overseas like other precious cultural relics.

And after the Rui family rejected the British reporter's request to buy, this matter somehow spread to the society, and for a while, the upper class of society at that time was boiling, and some people laughed at the descendants of the Rui family who were stupid enough, and their brains were kicked by a donkey, and they didn't know how much the 50,000 dollars were worth?

Some people laughed at them for being greedy enough, and they didn't even think they had enough to offer $50,000.

However, more than that, some rich and patriotic people were reminded by this incident, so they strongly called for the protection of national treasures in the society, and could not let our Chinese national treasures be lost overseas in such an unknown way.

So someone took the lead and asked the Rui family to take this Mao Gongding back, and held several auctions, and finally this Mao Gongding was bought by Ye Gongxuan, a big collector who was the chief of transportation of the Beiyang government at that time, and later the director of the Chinese Culture Museum, and then deposited it in the mainland bank.

However, the story of this Mao Gongding did not end like this, this is definitely an ill-fated national treasure.

In 1937, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Ye Gongqiu avoided taking Xiang @ Hong Kong, because the Japanese soldiers were advancing too fast, and he was in a hurry from Puhai, and this Mao Gongding was not able to take it away, so he hid this Ding in Puhai's apartment.

However, the fame of this tripod is so great, those Japanese robbers have always been worried about it, and even listed this Mao Gongding as one of the treasures they had to grab after their invasion of China.

Because at the time of the auction, Ye Gongqiu bought Mao Gongding under a pseudonym, so after the Japanese occupied Puhai, they only roughly knew that this Mao Gongding was now in Puhai, but the Japanese could not find out where this tripod was.

After Ye Gongqiu arrived in Hong Kong, he sent a telegram to his nephew, instructing his nephew Ye Gongchao to dedicate the tripod to the country one day.

The Japanese turned Puhai upside down, but they couldn't find this Mao Gongding, which made the clerk in charge of this matter furious, and in the end they simply colluded with a lot of Puhai's ruffians and hooligans to help inquire about the whereabouts of this Mao Gongding.

After all, these local snakes are more familiar with Puhai than the Japanese, and these guys have no discipline at all, for them, if they have milk, they will do things for whomever they give money.

So this Mao Gongding was really found by the gangsters, but these hooligans are not fools, they are the same as the villagers of Dongjia Village who found this tripod before, they have no contract spirit at all.

Especially after they know the value of this Mao Gongding, they are even more reluctant to give this Mao Gongding to the Japanese, after the Japanese know, of course, they are furious, and sent several waves of ronin, spies, to grab this Ding, but those hooligans are all local snakes after all, and they have been operating in Puhai for many years, after the establishment of the Wang puppet government, they have climbed a lot of relationships in the Wang puppet government, so that those Japanese cultural relics spies are not good to openly attack them, after all, hurting teammates such a thing, the above does not want to see.

However, Ye Gongchao is not a good person, he is also an old Jianghu of Puhai, knowing that this Ding was snatched away by the ruffians and hooligans, he also gathered a group of people and horses, and had a conflict with the gangsters, and finally the Ding changed hands several times, and was even almost taken away by the Japanese military who came to pull the bias, Ye Gongchao failed to please well, and was seized by the Japanese and put in prison, but this person is quite temperamental, desperately protective, and swears not to admit to knowing the whereabouts of Baoding.

In order to save his nephew, Ye Gongchao specially made a fake tripod and handed it over to the Japanese army, so that Ye Gongchao was released. Then in the summer of 1941, this Ye Gongchaomi fled to Hong Kong with Mao Gongding.

But this Ye family's uncle and nephew are also too old-minded, and not long after the reunion, Hong Kong was occupied by the Japanese army, in order to keep Mao Gongding, who was not easy to bring to Xiangjiang.

The Ye family had no choice but to entrust a German friend to return Mao Gongding to Shanghai.

Later, because of the plundering and oppression of the Japanese, the Ye family lived in difficulty, and they pledged Mao Gongding to the bank, and finally the wealthy businessman Chen Yongren paid for redemption, so that Mao Gongding would not wander abroad.

After Japan's surrender in 1946, Chen Yongren directly donated Mao Gongding to the then Nationalist Government, and the following year he was transported from Puhai to Jinling, where it was collected in the Central Museum at that time.

In 1948, KMT was in a position to retreat to Taiwan, so it moved a large number of precious cultural relics from the Jinling Palace Museum south and transported them to Taiwan@north.

In 1965, the Tai@North Palace Museum was officially completed, and the rare treasure Mao Gongding became one of the treasures of the Tai@North Forbidden City. The latter work even became one of the statues on the two major commemorative medals of the Tai@North Palace Museum.

But at that time, KMT probably couldn't have imagined that the treasures they had saved with the Japanese would be dedicated to their Japanese godfathers by some Japanese mongrels left by their kindness back then. (To be continued.) )