The information book was circulated in the hands of Wang Yirong, Shen Furong and Yan Shizhang, and they were carefully scrutinized.

After about a quarter of an hour, Shen Furong and Hu Chuyuan said: "The owner, there are indeed dozens of rare boutiques in it. These Oriental antiques mainly come from three sources, one is the tributary trade established since the Tang Dynasty, the second is the plundering of the Ming Dynasty, and the third is that when the Old Summer Palace was destroyed, they bought a lot of good things from the British and French forces at low prices. This time, they took it out in one go, and they really wanted to make a lot of money from us! ”

Hu Chuyuan silently didn't speak, thinking in his heart.

He didn't know Shibusawa Heito's transcendent status in the industrial and commercial world, and he didn't know what kind of person this young man would become, but he had that kind of hunch, and he always felt that this person was not ordinary.

As for the auction of Chinese antiques, he is still clear.

Like the United States, they are currently mired in a lack of funds, and they need a large amount of silver and gold to continue to print and distribute dollars and dollars to promote their own economic growth.

In the face of insufficient export power, the Zaibon chaebol, which was still very weak, started the idea of China, not only wanting to occupy Korea and Taiwan as colonies, but also wanting to obtain a large amount of silver from China.

Therefore, they were willing to collect the antiques hidden in the folk and sell them back to the Chinese merchants, and tried their best to raise the capital needed for the development of industry.

Many people will think that this is a very ridiculous move, a very childish behavior, how much money can be recovered by selling antiques? Unfortunately, the facts are in front of us, and in that auction two years ago alone, the bankers of the book raised nearly a million taels of silver.

This time, their appetite is even greater.

Of course, we can't satisfy them, and we can't give them the silver to buy factories and military industries.

Hu Chuyuan took the material back and looked at it again, and there were more than 2,000 lots in this auction, which were divided into a week, and the main ones were more than 120 pieces.

Among these antiques, calligraphy and painting are mainly in the Ming Dynasty, and there are six paintings in the Song Dynasty, among which the best is a calligraphy treasure and a Danqing of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, all of which are in the collection of the Old Summer Palace.

The jade antiques are mainly from the prosperous period of Kangqian, and several real treasures also come from the Old Summer Palace.

These are all things that the British and French don't understand very well, they don't want them, and they deal with them cheaply.

Porcelain was the largest lot in the category, accounting for half of the auctions, and the most precious pieces are still from the royal collection of the Kangqian Dynasty.

In addition, there are miscellaneous categories, including some lacquerware, wood carvings, and seals.

Inadvertently, Hu Chuyuan turned over a very special large shape of blue and white porcelain, because it is a black and white photo, I can't see the specific color and glaze, but the text description is dark blue, and the porcelain experts of this book confirm that it is a unique product in the blue and white of the Ming Dynasty.

After looking at it carefully, Hu Chuyuan opened the page to the other three and asked, "How much is this porcelain worth?" ”

Shen Furong said: "Owner, to tell the truth, there has never been such an example in Ming Qinghua. I used to see a similar one in the home of an antique family in Suzhou, and it also had an allusion to Meng's mother's three migrations. That blue and white porcelain has about the same characteristics as this one, and stylistically, they don't quite look like Ming blue and white. As for the one I've seen, the technique seems to be more refined than the early and middle Ming blue and white periods, and it is clearly a level that only existed in the late Ming Dynasty...... It's a pity that judging from the tire material and the degree of newness, it seems to be the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, or even earlier. ”

Wang Yirong said: "Listening to what the shopkeeper Shen said, I also remembered that Prince Gong once invited me to appreciate a newly unearthed old porcelain, which was the same as what the shopkeeper Shen said, and it was similar to what he wrote in the information. I think that the porcelain fetal material is the style of the Yuan Dynasty, and the bottom glaze cobalt material is imported, and the process is not easy to say, it cannot be said that it is not the late Ming Dynasty, but it can also be said that it is the Yuan Dynasty period. ”

Shen Furong argued: "The Yuan Dynasty didn't have blue and white flowers, they couldn't even buy cobalt materials, how could there be blue and white flowers." Besides, in the old porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty for so many years, there is no such thing as blue and white! ”

Wang Yirong said with a smile: "What Shopkeeper Shen said is yes, it's hard to explain clearly anyway. At present, there is a saying in the capital that someone used the pottery of the Yuan Dynasty to brush the blue and white materials, re-roasted them in the furnace, and then made old...... It's all said and done, but I've never seen it. ”

Shen Furong said: "Other than that, there is actually no other explanation. If you want to talk about old fraud, then I can be regarded as an expert, but I really can't do this method, probably because there are other masters in the Jingshi area! ”

Hearing them say this, Hu Chuyuan knew more clearly in his heart, these are Yuan Qinghua.

In other words, these are the most brilliant and precious pages in the Chinese porcelain collection, each of which is a fine piece that can be handed down to the world, and its value should be measured in hundreds of millions.

Although he didn't want to give him silver, at this moment, Hu Chuyuan decided to buy this Yuan Qinghua back.

He thought for a while, and said to Shen Furong: "Can you buy the blue and white porcelain you saw last time, let's study it and see what is going on!" ”

Shen Furong said: "That's easy to do, I'll go now, that bottle is not valuable, but unfortunately they are all veterans who collect antiques, everyone only exchanges and does not sell." I just found something worth a few hundred taels of silver from the pawnshop and exchanged it with him. ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "Okay, you go back quickly, if the time comes, let's go to the East to have a look." When you pass by the trading house, by the way, tell the shopkeeper Liu about this, and ask him to inquire about it and see who else has been invited. ”

Shen Furong agreed and immediately left the Hu family's compound to handle these matters.

There is a small steamer between Hangzhou and Suzhou, which comes and goes quickly, Shen Furong chartered a steamer overnight, and the next morning, he came back with the blue and white porcelain.

The shape of the vessel is really large, similar to the pickle jar, and it looks heavy on the table.

Hu Chuyuan, Wang Yirong and Yan Shizhang came to watch together, and at first glance, Hu Chuyuan fell in love with this blue and white porcelain jar, although half because of its potential value, and the other half because of its atmosphere and exquisiteness.

Perhaps it is precisely because its craftsmanship is so exquisite and mature that people cannot believe that during the Yuan Dynasty, China was able to produce such exquisite blue and white porcelain, and its classification has always been in the Ming blue and white porcelain.

The overall price of blue and white porcelain in the Ming Dynasty is low, far inferior to Kangqian blue and white, and the background of Yuan blue and white is doubtful, the price of this blue and white porcelain in China is particularly low, and no one may want it.