Chapter 42: The Looting of Cultural Relics (Part II)
"I'll it! You've emptied the palace archives? Wang Neng roared at Li Ji. It's not that exaggerated, it's just a partial steal of beams and columns. Li Ji said with a smug face.
"Ask a few chamberlains to replace a few pieces and documents every day at a high price, and you can achieve the goal of replacing the old with the new over time. It's not easy to find a few calligraphers who can make a real copy, a piece of Wang Anshi or Sima Guang's piece can be brought out, and then a copy of the copy can be made and stuffed back in, which costs several dollars. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there are so many notebooks that they can be counted by box, and there are thousands of copies of Fan Zhongyan's notebooks alone.
I also hired hundreds of people to do this work, otherwise I would not have been able to get tens of thousands of fine books and documents above the level of national treasures in just two months. Among them, the most precious is the relevant transcripts of the ministers and promoters of the Qingli New Deal, which have outrageous historical value, according to later generations, that is, the original manuscript and handwriting of Deng's speech on his southern tour. This kind of literature is not easy to auction and price without selling for billions.
Do you know how much it cost me to buy my chamberlain? There are at least 5,000 pieces of internal cargo. ”
"5,000 can be exchanged for 50 billion documents, how do you get it? Could it be that the Empress Dowager was bribed by you, or did you get the emperor's edict? ”
"These expired non-confidential documents themselves are not very valued, but they are stored in warehouses waiting for future generations to review and proofread, and no one will necessarily look through these dusty things for hundreds of years. As long as you buy some important custodians, and then launch the Jin Yuan Offensive, you can smoothly replace these documents without anyone knowing. We're not going to sell it anyway, so no one will be able to verify the authenticity of the documents in stock. There is almost no risk we take, and the asking price of these chamberlains is simply negligible compared to these cultural relics and authentic works, just a few gold membership cards and vouchers of the casino under our name, although the nominal value is tens of thousands, but the internal settlement price is only worth thousands of yuan. I bought the card out of my own pocket, and I didn't take advantage of you. Don't think about it! Lee Ki made his plans and methods clear.
"If you don't take pictures of us and learn from us, won't you have a chance?" Wang Neng asked.
"It should be that you don't have a chance, how can it be that I don't have a chance? Not to mention whether you can find enough counterfeiters and handlers, and even if you do, there will be no stock. Unless you're looking for those tall knockoffs that I've stuffed in! ”
"You mean you've got all the valuable boutiques in your pocket? None left? "The king could not have imagined what he could have been surprised.
"You don't know my style of doing things, will I still give you a chance? You can only wait for the future, those that will enter the Ouchi in the future, unless you can have your hands and eyes to the sky to intercept the recital of the progressive dragon case or to bring out the contemporary military affairs of the cantata. Why don't you ask the Zaifu who wrote the book to write you another copy! It depends on your character. "The works of those dead masters are naturally impossible to increase, and if you want to get more cultural relics, you can only collect more cultural relics from the scattered folk and communicate with the living masters, establish good relations, and exchange more new works.
"One more thing, I forgot to tell you, last time I sent each of the 'target people' fifty boxes of the best pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, enough for them to use until they died. I have sent ink, stones, tablets, secondary antiquities, essences, daily necessities, etc., which I don't like, and I will definitely not have the effect of sending them again, so it is better to spend more time on cultivating talents by yourself, if there are a few masters among the students, wouldn't it be an endless gold mine? After Li Ji finished speaking, he laughed proudly, picked up the latest Ming Dynasty style folding fan and angry him. Because the folding fan has dozens of big characters and five fierce seals on the folding fan that Su Shi personally carried 'When is the bright moon, ask the wine to the sky'.
In the basement of Li Ji's mansion and the vault of Chenji Bank, there are too many calligraphy and paintings in the single room of the special user reading power to fit in, more than 50 boxes of silk paintings and unique classics before the Song Dynasty are crammed into the basement, and the antiques and utensils in the vault are piled up like the vault of Donald Duck's uncle Scrooch Mack. Ancient rare coins and aristocratic metal utensils are piled up like miscellaneous items in various small mountains, as for the invaluable jade, obsidian stone knives, ancient colored pottery, Tang Dynasty porcelain, bronze ritual ware, gold and silverware, lacquerware, important sculptures, stone carved bricks and tiles, famous calligraphy and painting, ancient inkstones, oracle bone inscriptions, seal seals, uncirculated Inner Palace reward coins, tooth bone and horn ware, top bamboo and wood carvings, weaving and embroidery, ancient rare books, inscription rubbings, and famous weapons for burial can be seen everywhere. Last month alone, hundreds of top-level national treasures and first-class cultural relics were brought into the vault in the eyes of Lee Ki.
The newly established museum has also issued a comprehensive set of principles and standards for the grading and classification of cultural relics to cooperate with the efficient looting of the traversal, and the well-paid cultural relics experts (cultural relics dealers and famous tomb robbers) have also actively participated in the traversal of the great cause of looting to realize their long-cherished wish (to make a fortune and publish a book, to put it nicely, it is to stand up and speak).