Gorgeous and elegant Paris, France. It is the capital of fashion and the capital of art. If it is a representative of European architectural art, a model of ancient city protection, and a model of cultural environment, it is not too much. Paris is also a city full of temptations, where tradition and fashion, old and modern, can find a stage to express themselves. As the art center of the world. The art market in Paris is exceptionally prosperous. It is home to the world-famous auction houses of Justher and Sothebyus, as well as galleries and antique shops all over the streets. There is also a sizable antique flea market. Wandering around these antique markets are some overseas investigators who are composed of experts in the identification of various Chinese cultural relics and members of the 9th Reconnaissance Detachment of the Flying Leopard Commando, who are investigating the situation of Chinese cultural relics scattered abroad, looking for clues about China's important cultural relics lost overseas.

Europeans have been collecting Chinese antiques for hundreds of years, especially Chinese porcelain. It is reported that a small amount of Chinese porcelain has been introduced to Europe since the ninth century, and the European upper class is extremely fond of porcelain, and how much Chinese high-grade porcelain is owned, which has become a symbol of status and wealth. Commissioned by the imperial courts of various countries, merchants came to China to order porcelain. From 1602 to 1682, 12 million pieces of Chinese porcelain, mainly Jingdezhen porcelain, were imported through the Dutch East India Company. After the Second Opium War in 1860, a huge number of Chinese cultural relics flowed into Europe. Many museums, palaces, and noble residences in Europe have a large number of exquisite Chinese antiques.

Located on the north bank of the Seine River in the heart of Paris, France, the Louvre is one of the oldest, largest and most famous museums in the world, a treasure trove of human art, forming an art trading area scattered around the Louvre. The largest is the Louvre Antique City. The antique market in Paris can be divided into several categories: high-end antique shops, antique salons and auctions held regularly, antique streets in the thrift market. High-end antique stores are mostly concentrated in Paris-St. Avenue Honoré and the nearby Avenue Montaigne. It was a noble quarter. The antiques in these shops are high-end, the prices are staggering, and most of the Chinese antiques sold are fine. These antiques include Shang and Zhou bronzes, Tang and Song dynasty paintings, and Ming and Qing dynasty official kiln porcelain, which are priceless Chinese artifacts.

On the third floor of the stately and magnificent Luofu Antique City, two Chinese people look like they are casually wandering around an antique mall, stopping from time to time to carefully play with some objects of interest and chatting with the sales staff. Xu Dehou, a cultural relics expert at the Chinese Cultural Heritage Protection Commission, carries the lens of a miniature camera in his handbag and moves with his gaze. Yang Guang casually looked east and west to look at the "wandering" in an "Oriental Treasure" antique shop, an open jar from Longquan kiln in Zhejiang, China attracted the attention of Boss Xu, this open jar glaze color is uniform and green, blue and white tones are mainly emerald blue, all have a deep tone, close to the fetal bone fetus is hard and fine, meticulous like jade, repair the tire is regular, the utensils are decorated with landscape figures, with an orchid pen to outline the face of the character, very durable, the character dress is more vivid, the tree is the old dry file Fei Chacha, the flower is graceful. The pine is the dry of eggplant, the needle of ink, and the hard green is shaded, giving people a feeling of thick green. The pattern decoration has a strong sense of the times, and its painting, brushwork, layout, and color technology all have a specific royal rhythm during the Kangxi period. Although the shape is not large, the structural lines are smooth and smooth, the maximum diameter is set at the shoulder, the shape has a sense of horizontal expansion, look at the bottom of the device, the foot is the bottom of the two-layer platform, and the middle is written "Kangxi Year of the Qing Dynasty" six-character three-line regular script. Researcher Xu Dehou immediately concluded that the open jar must have originated in the Chinese Imperial Palace.

Although Longquan porcelain was exported to France in China in the 16th century, most of them were products from private kilns, and even the products of official kilns exported to Europe would never be so meticulously worked.

"Hello sir, how much does this porcelain cost?" Researcher Xu asked as he looked at the somewhat bald French salesperson standing beside him.

"If you are interested in this Chinese royal article, we can sell it for 10,200 francs." The bald Frenchman said.

"Oh, Chinese royalty? Can you tell us about its history? We're interested. Yang Guang held the 10-franc note between his two fingers and handed it to the bald Frenchman.

"Thank you," the Frenchman asked, taking the 10 francs from Yang Guang's hand and putting it in his pocket, "you are from Hong Kong?" ”

"Well, the boss has good eyesight." Researcher Xu replied.

The bald Frenchman put Xu Dehou and Yang Guang in front of the table and chair for customers to rest and negotiate. I ordered 3 cups of coffee at the café in the three-story atrium of Luofu Antique City. After Yang Guang once again paid 1 franc for 50 centimes for coffee and a tip for 50 cenels, the three of them chatted.

"I, Oyeni, vouch for you two Chinese gentlemen in the name of God, that this is indeed an article of the Qing Emperor of China. This is a friend of mine, Alledu. Mr. Baru, let me help him sell a Chinese antique. Alledu. In 1860, Mr. Baru visited Yanjing with the French Expeditionary Force, where they were received very kindly by the Emperor Xianfeng of China, and gave them a lot of silk and satin, gold and silver treasures, porcelain, and so on. The Emperor of China is truly an emperor of a great country, he is an absolutely true gentleman, both rich and generous! It's not as domineering as China is now."

When Yang Guang heard this, he couldn't hang his nose, and he interrupted the French antique dealer and said, "Monsieur Oyeni, why did your friend sell such a commemorative thing?" It's not going to be a fake. ”

"Fake! Absolutely impossible, you are blaspheming a French gentleman. If it weren't for the fact that you're my potential customer, I'd duel with you. Oyeni pretended to be very angry, then looked at the bulging muscles under Yang Guang's T-shirt and laughed, "Hah." Hah, but I probably won't be able to fight you. "I'm joking with you," said Oyeni, "but let me tell you that this friend of mine is not in a good family at the moment, and is in a poor financial situation, and only the old castle left by old Monsieur Barü is left. This Chinese porcelain vase was found in the basement of that old castle.

"Can we meet this friend of yours, Aledu. As for Mr. Barry, I'm very interested in this porcelain vase of his, to see if he has anything else that will catch our eyes, as long as the price is reasonable, we will make a purchase of the surname. ”

"I'm afraid not" Oyeni looked at Yang Guang and took out another 50 francs, swallowed back the next words, and immediately changed his words: "It's no problem."

"Mr. Oyeni, don't worry, if the deal is made, your commission will not be less than yours." Yang Guang put 50 francs on the table, pushed it to Oyeni and asked, "And Mr. Oyeni, how long have you been in this business?" ”

"I've been doing this since before World War II, and I'm the owner of this antique shop," Oyeni asked, somewhat surprised, "why do you ask this?" ”

"You know, Hong Kong is the largest distribution center in the world antiques market, and we also specialize in antiques business, and now we need to find a partner in France to do business in France."

"So, what kind of business do you do?" Oyeni asked.

"Buying, selling, of course, is selling and buying. Some goods will be handed over to you for sale by you, and you have good goods here to take photos and send them to us, and we will come over immediately. Yang Guang looked at this "Oriental Treasure" antique shop and said: "Do what we say, and we guarantee that you will earn your current money for three or four years a year." If you're interested, we're talking about it. ”

"I'm very interested in your proposal, and we'll meet at the café at the Shea Ile Garden Hotel tonight." Oyeni said excitedly, "I'll arrange for you to meet that friend of mine now." ”

More than 30 kilometers from Paris, in the eastern suburbs, on an undulating slope on the right bank of the Seine, there is an oval-shaped ancient castle that has fallen into disrepair. This shabby, dilapidated castle was neither an old fortress nor a very sturdy edifice, but a haphazard mass of buildings, the walls of which were crawling with green vines and overgrown with weeds.

Through a pebble-paved path, Yang Guang and Researcher Xu followed Oyeni into the hall of the dimly lit castle. Yang Guang closed his eyes slightly, so that he could adapt to the light in the castle as quickly as possible. As his eyesight adjusted to the brightness of the hall, he saw a middle-aged man in his 40s sitting hunched over the back of a large bulky desk in the center of the hall, with his head bowed and unkempt.

"Baru, are you alright? I bring you two distinguished guests today, who are interested in the broken things left behind by Old Major Baru. Oyeni, like all people in the thrift business, first tried to belittle each other's goods.

Alledu. Baru looked up at the two strange Orientals that Oyeni had brought. Then he pointed to the chair opposite and said weakly, "Sit down." Then he said to Oyeni: "How's that 'broken thing' of mine, have you made a move?" ”

"Not yet," Oyeni said with a hint of disdain in his tone, "these two Hong Kong friends of mine are very interested in your porcelain vase, and they want to see if you have any other old goods, and if so, they want to see if they are collectible." But you can't ask for too much of an outrageous price."

"Hmph, broken thing," he muttered, "is that an authentic porcelain of the Qing Dynasty emperor of China, and it costs only 5,000 francs?" If it weren't for the lack of money now, I wouldn't have been able to sell it at this price anyway. Then he stood up and said, "Then go and see, and come with me."

Everyone bent over and followed Aledu. When he came to the dim, damp and mildewy basement, he took out an old-fashioned key from a crack in the stone, walked to an old wooden box in the corner, opened a large old-fashioned copper lock on it, and said, "It's all there, see for yourselves." Researcher Xu looked at the box, which contained several double-row copper buckle military uniforms of the French Navy in the last century, a saber with a silver handle, three moldy notes, a blackened Bible, and the 6.5-inch long and 4-inch high-shaped pure gold unicorn paperweight that was carried into the arms of the first batch of French Navy Captain Balu who rushed into the Old Summer Palace on October 6, 1860, a simple and gorgeous, rich and stocky style of the colorful cloud crane plate in the Wanli period, and in a piece of apricot yellow silk package, there is a stone blue yarn. Colorful embroidery piece gold, chest, back, sleeve decoration group dragon pattern, mid-waist and hem decorated with seawater, cloud dragon pattern, edge piece gold cloud dragon, eight treasures pattern. Although the lights in the basement were dim in the Qing Dynasty emperor's court clothes, Xu Dehou was sure that these things were genuine in the Old Summer Palace. For further one to identify and take pictures. He was very interested in Aledu. "The light here is dim, and it is not clear to see, can we go up there, and look at it in a better place?" ”

"If you are not afraid of trouble, of course it will be fine," said Aledu disapprovingly, "but the things that old Baru left me must be fine." ”

A few people took their things back to the hall, opened the blinds, and Researcher Xu carefully made the identification, and then took the tape measure and roughly measured it. The last one took a picture. Yang Guang also quietly recorded all this with a camera.

After all this was done, Xu Dehou said to Ou Yeni: "You can make a price first, and we will talk to our boss when we go back, I can't be sure of these things for a while." Then he pointed out a few of the more obvious places for the two Frenchmen to see. In fact, all this that Researcher Xu did was to pave the way for the next action.

However, after researcher Xu said this, Aledu is really a little hairy. He said loudly: "This is impossible, I have here the records of my old Baru, which records the origin of these things. If you don't believe it, you can read his writings. ”

"Now, Monsieur Aledo, we will take back the old Baryut's mark and make a supporting certificate for your antiques. If you don't believe us, why don't you sell it to us? ”

"I can sell it to you, how much money can you give?" Aledu is really poor and insane.

"How about giving you 200 francs for these three books?" Yang Guang offered a price.

Aledu gave Oyeni a pleading look, and he saw Oyeni nodding, and then said to Yang Guang, "No, you have to give 250 for this."

Researcher Xu picked up the three dusty and moldy notes of the French Navy Lieutenant from 100 years ago, flipped through them one by one, pouted and said, "Okay, I'll give you 250." ”

"If there are no problems, we will trade in the Shannan Special Economic Zone of China in a month." Yang Guang finally said.

(To be continued)