Chapter 705: A Cultural Relic That Doesn't Know Its Origin
When Wuyang went out, he knew that it was hoisted from the outermost one, so he asked the employees of the first and second houses to come out and rest beside him. Come and sit down on the granite of the flower bed, drink water, and smoke.
Wuyang heard someone talking, "What did you dig out of your house?" ”
"It's silver ingots, what about you?"
"It's a silver ingot, 5 taels, 10 taels, 50 taels."
"Silver isn't worth much, is it?"
"It's worth a lot now, I bought some silverware, which costs more than 10 yuan per gram."
"Our boss has a lot of silver, have you ever been to a silversmithing factory? I've been to transport silverware, and there are tens of thousands of tons of silver there, so do you care about digging up such a little bit? ”
"It's better than nothing, right? The next cellar may be gold. ”
"The boss said that there are many rewards, do you say that the boss is giving money or silver?"
"It's okay for anything, and the boss won't treat us badly anyway."
Wuyang thought: These silver ingots and silver ingots have words, what are the words such as house, maybe they are cultural relics, they are not easy to take it, and they will spread this matter, so they will simply send money.
"Brothers, you can't talk about this matter, and if you do, the state will definitely confiscate it. I am sending you money to seal your mouths. You say, how much money is better? ”
An employee said: "Boss, we don't say that it is right, the boss gives us a bonus, the boss gives a bonus, of course, the more the better, just give each person 10,000 yuan." ”
Another person said, "Boss, if you don't have 10,000, you can do 5,000." ”
Wuyang likes these veterans very much. Contributed youth in the army. After arriving at the company. Very faithful, the security company has not had a case of missing or missing items in several years. "You're really joking, 5,000, 10,000, how can I get it? Today came, 50,000 yuan per person, including the crane driver and the truck driver. But you have to finish your work today, and get back the beams and the timber from the cellar. ”
Guo Zhiping said: "Secretary Li. When I go back, I'll ask the company's financial information department for money, and I can't spend money from the security company, Gan Jialiang won't do it. ”
"Good. Chairman Guo, how many people are in the security company now? ”
"More than 1,400 people. In addition to the cooks and dispatchers, there are basically three people in one car, and Gan Jialiang and his managers, deputy managers, often work on duty. ”
"These people deal with gold, silver, and jewels every day, but they don't, so let's do it, and you make a book when you go back. Give each person a set of gold jewelry, about 120 grams; A set of silver cutlery was issued. 10 vegetable bowls, rice bowls, chopsticks, spoons, and wine glasses, about 1500 grams; One bracelet and two pendants. Chairman Guo, does the board of directors consider whether the advanced workers in the future will also issue gold, silver and jade? ”
Guo Zhiping said: "Gold and silverware can be, it is tens of thousands of yuan, jade can only be glutinous, ice is a few hundred thousand, so many employees in the company, according to 3% of the advanced evaluation, that is, hundreds of thousands of people, can not afford to do a small thing, let the evaluation of advanced become a turn to sit in the village, it will not work." ”
"Well, a qiē to benefit the work, the board of directors to study."
Seeing that two osmanthus trees had been hoisted, the big truck drove away, and the crane was far away from the first house, Guo Zhiping said: "Let's go and carry the timber over, and it will be loaded later." ”
The people who went to the third and fourth houses came out to rest, and when they heard the news that the bonus was going to be paid, everyone's enthusiasm came again, and they took the initiative to help carry the timber, and the excavator outside was demolishing the small building, and they helped to collect the beams of the house.
Wuyang himself was in the first house, he always felt that there were still things, and he didn't bother to look for clues, so he simply ran the cellar and saw that there was a second floor, and after moving the stone slab, there was a box of the same size inside, and when he opened it, it was full of ancient jade. The shape of ancient jade is various, some are simple, some are exquisite, the color is pure white, green, off-white, and some are several colors together, the carver skillfully uses the color, carving out a skillful work of art.
A lot of jade is very colorful, especially those white, with some yellow and red colors, but there are very few natural colors. These may have been buried underground for many years, dug up, and buried here later, with more weight and less jade. Each of these ancient jade pieces should have a history and its own story.
What is missing in the museum of Wuyang is ancient jade, which can fill this gap. Unfortunately, they are all small pieces, the largest pure white round object, with a diameter of only 12 centimeters and a thickness of only 1.5 centimeters. According to legend, He's Bi is a pure white round, but unfortunately there is no detailed description in history, and Wuyang can't figure out whether it is He's Bi.
Wuyang tried his best to move, but the box didn't move, and then he smiled again. The volume of this box is about 0.69 cubic meters, and the density of jade is about 3.2, so the weight of this box is 2.2 tons, how can it be moved by one person?
Let someone bring a plastic box and put it at the door, and several people passed the jade to put it inside. Half of the box was loaded and transported to the car by forklift.
After the silver ingots in the second room were transported away, Wuyang instructed the staff to move away the stones, and the cellar on the second floor was also a box, which was still jade, but it was all large and small, and the space between the large vessels and the large vessels were filled. There are pen holders, pen washes, wine jugs, plum bottles, jade pillows, jade bowls, jade bowls, jade ruyi, etc.
The jade pillow has the shape of a doll and the shape of a cat. The most exquisitely carved should be the pen holder and plum vase. The pen holder is 36 centimeters high, the maximum diameter is about 25 centimeters, it is the use of hollow carving, the carving is the scene of the queen mother's birthday, the Jade Emperor and the queen mother sit on the high platform, accept the worship of the gods, the Jade Emperor's long beard is elegant, the demeanor is majestic, the queen mother is graceful and dignified, and the eyebrows are kind; The fairies of Route 108 have different appearances, the fairies are dancing, the banquet is full of dishes, and the peaches are still with dewdrops.
It's a variegated piece of jade, and it's been used just right by the carvers. While Wuyang sighed at the superb skill of the carver, he was also impressed by this patience. Ancient times. There are no power tools. It depends on manual chiseling a little bit. Grinding a little bit with emery, a person does not know how many years it will take to carve it to complete.
After the loading was completed, the trees were hoisted, and Wuyang asked Guo Zhiping to take people to the restaurant for dinner, Guo Zhiping said: "Secretary Li, you should go, I'll stay here and bring me a box lunch." ”
Wuyang said, "It's okay." I'll ask the restaurant to pack a table of food. You can't drink alcohol at noon, and you'll drink it when you're done. ”
After eating, the forklift began to load the contents of the third room, and Wuyang arranged for the people working in the first and second rooms to start digging the cellar under the trees, and he went to clean the second cellar of the third room.
The first cellar here is 6 boxes of gold bricks, and after opening the boxes on the lower floor, all the scrolls wrapped in kraft paper are inside. Although it is a full box. But it wasn't heavy, and the four people went down and lifted it up.
The fourth room. The upper layer is a mess of gold, there are gold nuggets that melt into a big lump, there are also gold utensils, gold coins, and the lower layer is pearls, agate, tortoiseshell, red coral, etc., the pearls have turned yellow, and the red coral is no longer very valuable now, so Wuyang feels that the things in this room are the least valuable.
When Wuyang entered the five rooms, several employees had already opened the boxes on the lower floor, and with their dirty hands, they each unfolded a calligraphy work to read. Wuyang wanted to talk a few words about them, but when he saw that a person was holding Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Collection" in his hand, he didn't say more. The other person is in the hand of Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy works, another is Dong Qichang's work, and the last one is Song Huizong's thin gold work. These are milestone figures in the history of Chinese calligraphy, especially Wang Xizhi, who is known as the sage of calligraphy.
"Brethren, do you know these writers?"
"I only know Wang Xizhi, he washed his pen after writing, and turned the water of a large pool black." An employee said.
Wuyang said: "Come, you give me things, and I will tell you the story of Dong Qichang." This Dong Qichang is still very upright when he talks about it, he does not cooperate with the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, he has resigned repeatedly, and the emperor has always used him. In feudal dynasties, the emperor wanted his courtiers to be loyal to him, and he gave many benefits in terms of living treatment. This Dong Qichang and his family have developed a bad temper of being powerful and doing whatever they want. In his hometown, his son took a fancy to a folk girl and wanted to marry her as a concubine, and the family was also rich, so of course he didn't want his daughter to be a little wife, so he resolutely disagreed. Dong Qichang asked his son to take someone to beat the man, which aroused public anger, and more than 10,000 people surrounded Dong's house, so frightened that they hid, and later moved to another place to live, not daring to return to their hometown. ”
"Such a bully, can he also write well?" An employee asked.
Wuyang said: "Compared with Zhao Mengfu, Dong Qichang is a trivial matter, a matter of personal cultivation, and Zhao Mengfu's surrender to the Manchus is a major event of national integrity, and it is very despised in history." ”
An employee said: "If it were now, the Manchus would also be a member of the big family of the Chinese nation, so it would not be a problem." ”
Wuyang cleaned up, closed the lid and locked it, and said with a smile: "This is called this time and that time, and no one will care about him anymore." We carried it outside. ”
The back of the 6, 7, 8 three rooms, the upper floor has gold ingots, golden Buddha, gold Arhat, jade Buddha, the lower layer is a box of ivory carving, a box of rosewood to make the frame of the hanging screen and screen, there is a folding fan, the bone of the folding fan, there are jade carving, ivory carving, mostly hollow carving, extremely exquisite, the fan surface is basically silk, and there is a face carved into a figure with ivory on the fan surface; A box of gold, jade, Tianhuangshi, Qingtian stone seals, whether there are heirloom jade seals, or seals of historical celebrities, will be left for later slowly tasted.
The 9th and 10th cellars are mostly large, 8 meters wide and 20 long in the center of the room, is a 4 meters wide, 12 meters long cellar, the upper layer is a large knife, a large axe, a halberd, a lance, a Yue and other long weapons, each has thousands of them, quite well preserved, even a little rust, the wooden handle can continue to be used.
On the lower level were knives and swords, and the knives and swords were packed in small boxes, one chest contained five knives and five swords, and there were 20 such chests in the lower cellars of the two rooms. The scabbard and scabbard are inlaid with rubies and turquoise. Wuyang drew the sword out of the sheath, and the sword made a 'whoosh' sound, looking at the sword body, the cold light flashed. Several employees were stunned. Involuntarily took a step back.
Last time I got those weapons in the Northwest. Mainly because the rust is relatively strict, the armory hall has not been carried out, and this time it must be done.
Two meters under the tree, also the cellar, has now been dug up. There is no waterproofing treatment, the wooden boxes are rotten, and the employees are carefully pulling with their hands when cleaning up the soil, roots and debris. Don't dare to use tools.
After cleaning it up, it was found that it was all porcelain, and Wuyang was a little incomprehensible. In the chaos, what are you doing with these porcelain? What's more, porcelain is not produced locally, it must have been shipped from other places, which will cost a lot of manpower and material resources.
The staff cleaned up some, packed it in a plastic box and handed it over, Wuyang took a plum bottle and a wine jug, went to clean it under the faucet in the small building, and found that there were words at the bottom of the plum bottle. It is written 'Ming Chenghua Year System', and the bottom of the wine pot is written 'Ming Xuande Year System'. Both things are extremely delicate and thin, and the plum bottle and wine jug are painted with exquisite ornamental patterns from top to bottom, which should be court utensils, and they are also very valuable.
These cellars are not large, that is, they are one foot square, but they are very deep, and it may be that when they were buried, they were wooden boxes stacked on top of each other. After cleaning up the debris, it should be speeded up, but the problem is that the people who pick up porcelain in the cellar have no place to stay, and if they are not careful, they will step on the porcelain.
Guo Zhiping thought of a way to put the wooden board on the porcelain, the force area increased, the pressure decreased, and the problem of stepping on the porcelain was solved. Since the people below could not move the planks, ropes were bought to hang the planks and the people above moved them. The men below then hung from the ropes tied to the timber at the mouth of the cellar.
Wuyang saw that a plastic box could not hold a few pieces of porcelain, so he called Han Jianzhou to quickly buy 500 at the small commodity market in Lujiang and send them over, and transfer a few trucks over. Han Jianzhou is a native of Yihe, so he should be familiar with Yihe, and he can drive it over by himself.
Go to a few cellars to see, and find that the porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, there are only two cellars, and the other three collections are from the Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties, of which two are from the Yuan Dynasty, and two of them are from the Tang and Song dynasties, and there are some black pottery or something, all of which are placed together with the porcelain of the Tang and Song dynasties.
After picking up for a while, Wuyang looked at the situation, it was not far from the groundwater, and he didn't know how deep it was below the groundwater level, so he called Li Shuangyan to arrange for someone to send a few small pumps.
Li Shuangyan said: "The fewer people know about this kind of thing, the better, so I'll buy it myself and send it over." ”
The strength of the large number of people soon filled more than 80 plastic boxes, and when there were only a few left, Guo Zhiping said: "We use the plastic boxes as hanging baskets, pull the porcelain up, and unload it aside, so that there will be no delay." ”
The pump was delivered quickly, and the plastic box arrived an hour later. Everyone does it, and the progress gets faster and faster. By 7 o'clock in the evening, the work of picking up the porcelain was complete.
After loading the car, Wuyang said: "Chairman Guo, I will escort the car back, you take someone to the restaurant for dinner, and then remove the beams after eating, okay?" ”
"Let's go back to dinner when we're done, let's go, we have to unload the car when we get to the museum."
"Okay, then I'll work hard for you. I'll be waiting for you at the Wayuan Hotel. ”
The truck was in front, and Li Shuangyan drove behind to escort it. "Wuyang, these things should be very valuable, right?"
"If you sell it, it must be very valuable, I don't plan to sell, I'm going to lose money."
"There are so many porcelain, why not sell some?"
"If people know that we have a lot of things, they won't pay a high price, and if they sell more things, they won't be worth much, and things are scarce."
"Wuyang, do you know who these things are and when they were buried?"
"The burial time is about the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, this is what I have never analyzed from a Qing Dynasty object, who buried it, I didn't find any clues, there is no way to guess. I think that it should not be ordinary people who can accumulate so much wealth. The Ming Dynasty was overthrown by the peasant rebel army of King Li Chuang, and it was impossible to transport these things to the far south in advance. The Qing Dynasty built its capital in the north, and it was impossible to transport gold, silver and jewelry to the south, most likely, it was the peasant rebel army of the Dashun Dynasty. They invaded the capital, swept almost all of China, and were able to collect these things, and they retreated from the north to the south, and they did not go in a particularly hurry, and according to folklore, they carried with them a large amount of treasure, and these treasures have been missing. However, from the analysis of the situation of using all the golden silk nanmu and sandalwood here, it is not in line with their defeat and escape, and according to historical records, they have not been to the Yi River. ”
Shuangshuang smiled: "Even if there is such a thing, it will not be known, they are hidden in the city." The fact that their descendants will be able to keep this secret for hundreds of years is telling. Let's not figure it out, you will exhibit it in the future, and don't put out some objects that can make people suspicious. In case someone seriously investigates, it will not be a good thing, and the matter of your cellar will be revealed to the world. ”
"yes, I'll take notice."
Passing by the hotel, Wuyang got off the bus and talked to the bar, asking them to arrange 8 tables of meals according to the highest specifications.
Approaching the museum, the lights are all around, and there are long queues of concrete tankers waiting to be unloaded. As you can see from the main entrance, there are two new buildings in front and three new buildings on one side, so there will be 8 new exhibition areas.
The outer wall of the new museum, each side is 200 meters long, if there is also the width of the old museum, then each floor has 8,000 square meters, according to the calculation of 4 floors above ground and 3 floors underground, the construction area of 8 exhibition areas, there are 448,000 square meters, plus the original exhibition area, it should be the largest museum in the world, and it is also the most money-burning.
The museum staff and forklift drivers were waiting to unload the trucks, and when the convoy arrived, they started working immediately, all of them mechanically, quite fast.
Tan Changqiao, the director of the museum, came over and said, "Secretary Li, congratulations, you have obtained so many cultural relics. ”
Wuyang smiled: "This should be the happiest thing for you, you used to be a professor at Beijing University, and your fame is not as big as it is now." ”
"yes. Your museum is sought after by industry insiders and collectors, and I can't think of a big reputation. ”
Wuyang said: "This is complementary to each other. Without your guidance, a museum is not called a museum if we rely on ourselves, and we can't even write a brief introduction to many things. ”
Tan Changqiao said: "It is also through the analysis and research of the cultural relics in the museum's collection that I have further established my position in the academic community, and I have been able to hire so many experts and scholars to work in the museum." Secretary Li, will the cultural relics this time also be distributed to other museums? ”
"After you have verified the history of the cultural relics, some of the ancient jade can be divided, and the other cultural relics should not be divided. I won't tell you the reason for this, and you will definitely agree with me in the future. ”
"I know what you mean, it's not an outsider. Well, I'll also inform a few of my close colleagues and students to participate in the research, anyway, the new museum is still under construction, and the layout of cultural relics should be next year. ”
"Mr. Tan, there are still many objects that are not suitable for display, please consider it."
"What kind of object are you referring to?"
"It's mainly calligraphy and painting and swords, I took a cursory look, a lot of fine products, will make people contact some historical celebrities, then I have no way to keep the cultural relics secret."
"Okay. At that time, we will go through the screening, and after your approval, we will confirm the exhibits. Secretary Li, the driver said just now, you found these cultural relics under a blue brick bungalow, can you get those green bricks and green tiles? (To be continued......)