After dealing with these things, Yu Fei finally began to have the mind to deal with the one hundred and twenty antiques picked out from Sumitomo Mitsui, although three were given to Ye Jianjun, but there were still one hundred and seventeen pieces, and all of them were high-quality, more than half of them belonged to the national treasure level, and this unpromising thing didn't sleep for half a night holding these antiques!

It's better to be happy alone than to be happy, Yu Fei still wants to display these antiques through Ma Shangdu's Anti-Reflection Museum. Of course, the extension period is still limited to three months.

Since Ma Shangdu and Dong Dechang returned to China from Yuben, there has been no news, and Yu Fei had to take the initiative to call him.

But it rang for a long time and no one answered!

This Ma brother is really, Yu Fei shook his head and smiled bitterly, he didn't answer the phone, he wouldn't be worried that he would ask him for those antiques on display, right? The exhibition period for those antiques has arrived! It seems that it is the uncle who is really in arrears! Yu Fei guessed that Ma Shangdu might be busy with something, and estimated that he would come back to him after seeing the phone.

But the wait lasted until about eight o'clock in the evening.

"Xiaofei, I'm really embarrassed, I'm in a meeting in the afternoon, and I haven't had time to look at my phone." Ma Shangdu said apologetically as soon as he came up, with a thick tiredness in his voice, after all, he is not a young man, and he is a little overwhelmed by the energy after such a long meeting.

"It turned out to be a meeting, I thought it was Brother Ma who was afraid that I would ask for the account and deliberately avoided me." Yu Fei said jokingly.

"How can I be?" Ma Shangdu also laughed and said, "When your collection is over at the end of this exhibition, I will return it to you, so as not to be called an old man by you." What's good about you looking for me? Hurry up, I'll have something to do in a while. ”

"Brother Ma, what is so important? And it's mysterious. Yu Fei was aroused. Marchand's involvement must have something to do with the collection of antiques, which is exactly what he is very interested in.

"I know that your kid can't help but ask, in fact, there is nothing to keep secret. We are discussing the Yongle Canon. Marchand said.

"Yongle Canon"? Yu Feipo has also heard of some, "Yongle Canon" was the Ming Dynasty Yongle period by Xie Jin as the general compilation, it took six years to compile and complete, the original name "Literature Dacheng", is a Chinese encyclopedic style of literature collection, the whole book 22,937 volumes (table of contents accounted for 60 volumes), 11095 volumes, about 370 million words, this ancient cultural treasure house brings together seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient and modern books.

However, due to historical reasons, the whereabouts of the original are unknown, and not a single piece of paper has been circulated, while the copies have been tragically destroyed, and most of them died in the war, and less than 800 volumes or about 400 volumes have survived today.

As a world-famous encyclopedia, the Yongle Canon shows the glorious achievements of the ancient Han culture, and is a masterpiece of the world. The Encyclopedia Britannica called the Yongle Canon, a Ming Dynasty book in China, "the largest encyclopedia in the history of the world" in the "Encyclopedia" entry.

Some people may say, how can this "Yongle Canon" still be divided into original copies. Actually, there is a historical reason for this. The original copy of the "Yongle Canon", as the name suggests, was of course compiled by Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor. Because it included a lot of very advanced technologies at that time, such as the Divine Arm Bow and so on, it was not printed, but preserved in the court.

In the Jiajing period, the emperor liked the "Yongle Canon" very much, and he usually put a few copies of the "Yongle Canon" on the table, and read it when he had time.

Because most of the buildings in ancient times were made of wood, and there were no electric lights in the past, they were all lit candles, so they were prone to fires. During the reign of Emperor Jiajing, there was a fire, and the original copy of the "Yongle Canon" was almost burned.

And some ministers are also very fond of the "Yongle Canon", although the emperor repeatedly ordered that the "Yongle Canon" was not allowed to be taken out of the palace, but there were still some officials who did not follow the regulations and took some out of the palace to read at home, and there was a theft. Later, although it was recovered, Emperor Jiajing was still very worried that if the original was lost, he would never be able to find it again, so he asked his subordinates to copy a copy, which was a copy.

Therefore, the copy of the Yongle Canon is different from the so-called copying and fakes in general, and it is also unique and has a very high value.

Its damage is also very painful.

The person in charge of transcribing the copy should also be familiar to everyone, that is, the name Xu Jie. This old boy originally wanted to disrupt the typesetting and only record the content, but after seeing the typesetting of the "Yongle Canon", he found that there was no more suitable typesetting than this, so he completely re-recorded it according to the typesetting of the original. It's too easy to do this kind of work today, get a photocopier, and you can do it in a few days at most. However, there was no such high technology at that time, and Xu Jie and a large number of people took another six full years, until after the death of Emperor Jiajing, the copy was completed.

But the strange thing is that the original has disappeared since then, and there is still only one set of "Yongle Canon" in the world, that is, a copy.

Ma Shangdu and others held a meeting at this time to discuss the issues related to the "Yongle Canon", what was the reason?

"Brother Ma, on this cold day, don't blow the heating at home, what kind of meeting are you going to have? Could it be that the original copy of the "Yongle Canon" has been found? Yu Fei didn't realize how precious the Yongle Canon was. joked at the moment.

"You kid, if the original can really be found so easily, where will there be no news for hundreds of years?" Ma Shangdu said with a smile: "The main reason for calling us together this time is that St. Petersburg State University in Russia wants to return to us the eleven volumes and twenty-two volumes of the Yongle Canon in their collection. ”

The Yongle Canon generally records two volumes in one volume, and sometimes there are cases where one volume records three or four volumes, but the situation is very rare. The 11 volumes of the Yongle Canon donated by St. Petersburg State University are all in one volume and two volumes, so there are 22 volumes in total.

"Hey! What shall I do? Aren't they just a few broken books? Is it worth making such a fuss? Yu Fei said. His understanding of antiques is not particularly clear, so he does not understand the preciousness of the Yongle Canon. He also wanted to talk to Marchandu about the more than 100 antiques he had recently acquired.

He was sure that as long as he leaked a little bit of this news to Ma Shangdu, he would definitely run to Yangzhou to find him immediately.

But the current situation is that Ma Shangdu is all focused on the "Yongle Canon", I am afraid that this call will only be replied to because Yu Fei is creditor, otherwise, he will definitely not reply.

"How many broken books?" Ma Shangdu glared and said, "Why don't you go and find me a few such broken books?" Let me tell you, Dong Lao Ke is also here, if I relay what you said to him, I will keep his big ears and shave you. ”

"Don't! You accumulate some virtue, good people have good rewards, and I am the first to think of your brother Ma when I get the antique guarantee. Yu Fei hurriedly said to him. He wasn't afraid that Dong Dechang would beat him, he was afraid that Dong Dechang would be wordy. I don't know if it's because I'm older, Dong Dechang's lesson started from flying, and it was endless. Yu Fei was really scared.

"You kid also have times when he is afraid." Ma Shangdu smiled and said, "Okay, do you have anything else?" If not, I'll hang up first, and I'll have a meeting later. ”

It seemed that Ma Shang wanted to end the call, and when he was about to hang up the phone, Yu Fei suddenly remembered something, so he hurriedly asked: "By the way, Brother Ma, what is that "Yongle Canon" like?" ”

Among the antiques he selected from the Sumitomo Mitsui Collection, one of them was a book, judging from the age of the chaotic qi, it should belong to the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Jiajing reigned for forty-one years, and it was relatively easy to break the dynasty. Could it be one of the copies of the Yongle Canon?

But Yu Fei immediately overthrew it, and the copies of the "Yongle Canon" now exist only 800 volumes, about 400 volumes, and they are scattered all over the world, where is it so easy to find?

Sure enough, when Ma Shangdu heard Yu Fei's words, he also said, "Why are you kid asking this?" Do you want to pick up this leak again? I'm telling you not to even think about it! There are only about 400 copies in the world, and there are no ones circulating in the market! That's why the 11 volumes of the Yongle Canon donated by St. Petersburg State University are so precious. As for the fact that you want to pick up the spills in the antique market, I advise you to give up on this idea. Since the thirties and forties, Ben has been buying copies of the Yongle Canon at high prices in China, and has indeed received a lot of them, which have basically been collected. Now it is also the country with the largest collection of "Yongle Canon". So if you have that kung fu to find the "Yongle Canon", you might as well go and find some other national treasures, maybe you will get something! ”

Marchand is too knowledgeable to pick up leaks, and with his luck, he may be able to get some precious antiques!

Ben! It's this again! Yu Fei hated this country to the core, and it really did everything it could to plunder China. But this has become a fact, and it is difficult to change.

However, Yu Fei still wondered if the broken book in his hand was "Yongle Canon". Because the book coat had fallen off, he couldn't judge. (To be continued.) )