Chapter 61: Into the Urn (Part II)

"Brother Ma, you take a sip of tea first, I have a magazine brought by a Hong Kong friend, do you want to take a look?"

Nie Tianbao put the jade pendant on the coffee table, poured a cup of tea for "Ma Zibian" first, opened the safe in the store, and took out a few magazines from it.

"Hey, it's a dragon, tiger and leopard? Lao Nie, can you actually bring it out? The last time I brought it was checked by customs. ”

When Ma Zibian saw those magazines, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he grabbed the magazines in his hand and said, "Old Nie, you have to give me this thing when you go back, you can take your time to look at the jade!" ”

"No problem, Brother Ma can do it if he likes it." Nie Tianbao laughed when he heard this, he finally found something about this kid's temperament, now he won't shout to leave, right?

"Lao Zhao, come and see this."

After playing with it in his hand for a while, Nie Tianbao handed it over to the shopkeeper Zhao, who had been waiting by his side for a long time, and said in a low voice: "I think this thing is the legendary Imperial Green, right?" ”

Nie Tianbao has not been in contact with jadeite for a long time, and the statement of imperial green is still heard from those peers in the coastal and Yunnan provinces, but even those peers have rarely seen imperial green jadeite, and he is a little unsure whether this thing is true or false.

"That's right, it's indeed jadeite, the yang green transparent seed water, and the same as the earrings, can reach imperial green, and the two seem to come from the same piece of material."

Shopkeeper Zhao took a high-powered magnifying glass, put the Maitreya Buddha pendant under the strong light and looked at it for a long time, then lowered his voice and said: "There are no bubbles in this thing, it should be real, boss, I think I can buy it!" ”

"What price?" Nie Tianbao stole a glance at the "horse side" who was looking at the dragon, tiger and leopard, and said, "This kid is a chick, he doesn't know much, let's be ruthless." ”

"Boss, if this is really the Empress Dowager Cixi's object, then ...... The price is out of line, and it can be worth at least more than 10 million! ”

Zhao's shopkeeper's voice trembled, although he was not born to play jadeite, but Cixi loved jadeite all his life, as long as he was a person in the collection world, there was nothing he didn't know.

The most famous of Cixi's collections is naturally the jade cabbage.

However, Zhao's shopkeeper knew that in order to please Cixi, officials from all over the country almost every year offered tribute to the imperial court, there were a lot of superb jadeite, and Cixi's jadeite collection was countless.

Some of Cixi's collections were buried with her, just like the jade cabbage, Zuihou fell into the hands of Sun Dianying, the warlord of the "Tanglin Thieves".

There is also a part of the jade collection, which was given to the palace guards and palace maids by the little emperor Pu Yi at that time, and the palace was chaotic at that time, and those guards also stole things from it, and all the zuihou were lost.

Judging from the Maitreya Buddha pendant and the carving of the pair of earrings in front of him, it is definitely from the hand of the master, and the pulp is thick with a sense of age, which should be from the Cixi collection.

"Ten million?"

Hearing Zhao's shopkeeper's words, Nie Tianbao hurriedly glanced at the "Ma Zibian" and found that he was looking at the dragon, tiger and leopard with relish, so he relieved himself and said in a low voice: "Old Zhao, can you be sure?" ”

Shopkeeper Zhao nodded and said: "Boss, this imperial green material is a person who specializes in jadeite business, and he may not have seen it in his life, plus the Empress Cixi, I said that 10 million is still less." ”

Although the market price of jadeite is not very high now, it is aimed at ordinary jadeite jewelry, such as imperial green jadeite, which is already the best among gemstones.

According to Zhao's shopkeeper, even if this pair of earrings and Buddha pendants can't be sold in China, if they are taken to Hong Kong Island and other places, someone will definitely buy them!

"Ten million, damn, or hack him?"

A trace of fierceness flashed in Nie Tianbao's eyes, although he rumored that he was worth hundreds of millions, but in fact, Nie Tianbao only had thirty or forty million, and the rest of the money was all shares from all parties and was only in his name.

And even if these 30 or 40 million are mostly fixed assets, some of the millions that Nie Tianbao brought to Myanmar some time ago were borrowed from the bank.

So after hearing the price of this thing, Nie Tianbao was really moved to kill him, and killed this stinky boy and threw it at the Xinzhuang Mine, and no one would find it.

"Boss, this won't work......"

Although Shopkeeper Zhao is also a profiteer, he is not as ruthless as Nie Tianbao, and he couldn't help but be startled after hearing his words, and said: "I see that the string of beads he wears on his hand should be made of high-grade small leaf sandalwood, and the pulp is quite thick, at least it is an old object of more than fifty years, not something that ordinary people can afford to wear, I'm afraid he is really a yellow belt!" ”

"Lao Zhao, what is a yellow belt?" Just now, I heard three yellow ribbons from the mouth of "Ma Zibian", but Nie Tianbao didn't quite understand what the yellow ribbon was.

"It's the royal family of the Qing Dynasty in the past, I think this kid is a person with a background, and I also know the Minxue incident he said...... "Nie Tianbao is considered a halfway monk in the antique shop, but Zhao's shopkeeper is different, he knows the allusions of the Qing Dynasty well.

The so-called yellow belt, in fact, is another name for the Qing clan, the first year of the Qing Taizong Chongde stipulated that the prince's following clans are tied with golden belts to show their identity, so they are called yellow belts.

Yellow belt is the backbone of the Manchu Dynasty, from the unification of the Jurchen tribes in Hachi, until the establishment of the Qing Dynasty by Huang Taiji, and Dolgon's protection of widowed sisters-in-law and nephews into the Central Plains, yellow belts have played a vital role.

Therefore, the yellow belt at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty can be called the four beams and eight pillars of the Qing Dynasty, enjoy a variety of political privileges and generous treatment, only take the prince as an example, in addition to getting 10,000 taels of silver and 5,000 stones of rice every year, you can also get 50,000 or 60,000 acres of manor land, 250 households.

When the Manchu Dynasty first entered the customs, there were only hundreds of yellow belts, but after several generations of Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties, by the Jiaqing period, there were tens of thousands of yellow belts.

As the saying goes, if these idlers are just ordinary people, there is a law to govern, and there is no big trouble, but the idle ones are the yellow belt with royal blood on their bodies, and this trouble is big.

At that time, it was common to see these idle yellow belts on the streets of the capital, holding a birdcage in their hands, or lying on their shoulders with a vulture on their heads, followed by a group of wolf-like family members, shouting and rampaging on the streets.

The Qing court stipulated that the Yellow Belt was not responsible for killing people, and if he violated the law, he could only be handed over to the Imperial Ouchi's Yamen-Zongren Mansion to deal with. Tens of thousands of lawless yellow belts, plus a lot of fake yellow belts that took advantage of the fire to rob, are both true and fake, both demons and demons, stirring up a capital into a miasma, ghosts crying wolves.

As for the "Minxue Incident", it happened in the Jiaqing period.

In the thirteenth year of Jiaqing, there was a yellow ribbon named Minxue, who drank a little wine, came out of the barber shop after shaving his head, and walked along, when he suddenly saw a roasted sweet potato seller on the street.

He looked up at the fiery sun, and wondered in his heart, how could there be roasted sweet potatoes sold on such a hot day? Nine times out of ten it is fake, this is the ground in the capital, this matter has to be managed!

So, Minxue walked to the sweet potato stove and asked, "Is your sweet potato real or fake?" The roasted sweet potato looked up and said angrily: "How can sweet potatoes be fake?" Min Xue said: "I think your sweet potato is fake, you take one, I'll take a look."

The roasted sweet potato glanced at Minxue and handed over a roasted sweet potato.

Min Xue took a bite of the sweet potato, it was really a sweet potato, threw the sweet potato to the ground, and said, "It's really not a good thing!" There was a smell of pickled radish, and it was unpalatable. With that, he turned around and wanted to leave.

The seller of roasted sweet potatoes stopped working, grabbed Minxue's arm, and said, "You have nothing to pick on the thorns, you compensate me for my sweet potatoes!"

Min Xue has always been used to being rampant, and he only brought a family member when he came out to cut his hair, and the master and servant grabbed the roasted sweet potato seller and beat him hard, until the face of the roasted sweet potato seller was covered with blood, and he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

As soon as Min Xue started, someone went to report to the official, and the soldiers of the infantry commander Yamen rushed to restrain Min Xue, and handcuffed him, Min Xue was furious, and he drank again, forgetting that he didn't tie the yellow belt, and thought that the infantry commander Yamen deliberately wanted himself to be ugly, so he scolded.

Min Xue was pushed and shoved to the stacking room (equivalent to today's public security police station), the family saw that the matter was not good, so they ran back to the house to call someone, and after a long time, more than a dozen family members with knives and sticks came to the stacking room where Min Xue was detained.

As soon as Min Xue saw someone coming, he jumped up, and the commander Ding beat the soldiers in the stacking room severely, smashed the windows of the stacking room, and knocked down the weapon rack.

This incident happened in the downtown area, there were many onlookers, and the infantry commander Yamen was angry and felt very shameless, so he sued Minxue directly to Emperor Jiaqing with a piece of paper.

After Emperor Jiaqing received the request, Long Yan was furious. Since he succeeded to the throne, he has constantly received reports of yellow belts gathering crowds to make trouble, killing and injuring people, and lawlessness.

Emperor Jiaqing decided to take Minxue to open the knife, and for a moment this unhealthy trend that has affected the national body, he issued a strict decree to expel Minxue from the clan, and beat 40 big boards outside the palace gate, and issued Shengjing, strictly controlled, and never allowed to return to Beijing.

Subsequently, Emperor Jiaqing ordered the Zongren Mansion to report the yellow ribbon with misconduct, counting Minxue, a total of 70 households, and distributed them to Shengjing, which was thousands of miles away.

"Damn, dare to love this kid's unreasonable is ancestral?"

After listening to Zhao's shopkeeper's words, Nie Tianbao couldn't cry or laugh, he originally felt that this "Ma Zibian" was already quite horizontal, but he didn't think that his ancestors were even more lawless.

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