Volume 1 The Four Elephants Demon Palace Chapter 2 I
As the saying goes, the south is the prime minister and the north is the general, and the Shaanxi loess is buried in the emperor.
The meaning of these words is the simplest, the south produces the prime minister who governs the country and the country, and the north produces the general who pacifies the world. And this Shaanxi, it is not that he is the emperor, but that he buries the emperor.
According to incomplete statistics, there have been as many as seventeen dynasties on the border of Shaanxi, no matter how long or short. Of course, this statement is rejected by many people, but even according to the least, there are ten.
From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the later Huangchao who entered Chang'an City and fulfilled his oath of wearing gold armor all over the city, there were more than a dozen dynasties before and after, if you count the later Li Zicheng, it would be more.
Although this Huang Chao and Li Zicheng did not die on the border of Shaanxi, they were not buried there. But ah, from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, for thousands of years, I don't know how many emperors have been buried in the land of Shaanxi, let alone princes and generals.
Since the reform and opening up in the last century, the antique industry has become more and more powerful, of course, the antique industry has been very prosperous since ancient times.
It's just that at that time, a new wave happened to be set off in China, and this folk antique was almost confiscated. Some people want to dig underground, and Shaanxi, as the most dynasties, has naturally become the most rampant place for tomb robbers.
Later, the state began to attach importance to cultural relics, began to protect cultural relics, and severely cracked down on tomb robbers, and the tomb robberies gradually decreased. Of course, secretly, there are still many people who do this business.
In the past 30 years of reform and opening up, there have been fewer and fewer things underground, and they have almost been dug up. Even if there are some that have not been dug up, they have all been marked and protected.
However, in the past few years, the hidden matter of tomb robbing has become more and more in the field of vision of ordinary people. Especially after the appearance of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "Notes on Tomb Robbery", two popular novels that swept the country, more and more people are curious about tomb robbing.
Southern Shaanxi is a mountainous place, and the mountains are layer after layer, one after another, layer upon layer, and the mountains are stacked on top of each other. Moreover, most of them are still primeval mountain forests, and not too many people have developed them.
In the beginning, when there were no railways or roads, it was very difficult to get out. Don't talk about going to the provincial capital of Xi'an, just say that people who live in the mountains go to the county seat from the mountains.
When you come down, if you ride a bicycle, you can still slip all the way down, and when you go back, I'm sorry, you can push the bicycle for a day.
It takes four hours to take the train from Chang'an City to Shuiyang County, but most of the time on the road is to drill caves.
There are so many mountains that I can't go any more, and the eardrums in both of my ears hurt.
My name is Qin Ide, I am Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, if you don't pay attention, call me my full name is dear. Because of this, I don't know how many girls have been taken advantage of, although it is invisible, but the advantage is taken after all.
Maybe it's because I take advantage of too much that I don't have much female popularity, so what I want to say below is very important, I'm single.
In fact, I chose the name Qin Ide not because my parents admired foreign countries and wanted to give me a name that looked a bit like a foreigner. It's because my dad has a German character in his name, and my mom has a Ai character in his name, and then my surname is Qin, so I became Qin Aide.
What can I say, I am an antique dealer, I opened a small shop by myself, bought and sold some antiques, and my life was not bad. In addition, I have a high talent for antique appreciation, and I have never had a problem with it anyway. Of course, it's also possible that it's because I have too few things to handle.
Originally, I did this business at the age of 30, and it was not a family heirloom, and I was still famous, which was a bit unlikely. This is going to start from the beginning, my surname is Qin, but my father's surname is Wang, why?
Of course, it's not because my neighbor's surname is Wang, but because my mother's surname is my mother, my father is a door-to-door son-in-law, when my parents got married, my grandfather's only requirement was that I had to be surnamed Qin, so I was surnamed Qin.
Since my father is the son-in-law of the upside-down door, the family is naturally poor, and my mother can find a son-in-law who is inverted, and the family is naturally not bad.
According to my grandfather, their ancestors were officials, and their family was very wealthy, so they left a lot of antiques from the previous dynasty. During the ten-year catastrophe, I was afraid and didn't dare to take it out, I hid it.
Later, I was born, and it has been several years since the reform and opening up. The house is no longer hidden, but because the family has money, they don't sell antiques.
Therefore, I have been playing with antiques since I was a child, not to mention more, dozens of pieces are still available at home, especially porcelain. In addition, my grandfather has dabbled in this area, so I know a lot about antiques.
When I grew up, I didn't study well, I went to a third-rate university school, I studied history related to antiques, and I went home for two years after graduation, and I didn't do anything just to play. raised at home, and later felt that I couldn't do this, so I read "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "Notes on Tomb Robbery", this kind of novel, and suddenly had a whim, and I also got a small shop.
As a result, after three years, I became a little famous in our local area.
I came to Shaanxi this time because something happened to one of my big customers, and their family asked me to come here. Of course, this is the same as a doctor's visit, and the cost is not less.
And this big customer doesn't care about this money.
What about the news I got, saying that I, a big customer, when Yang Kailu was in Baokeng, dug up an ancient tomb that I couldn't tell what age it was, and died inside.
More than 20 people who went together died, and they didn't dare to report this matter to the official, and first, tomb robbing itself is illegal. Second, this Boss Yang himself is not clean, and he has been checking on him.
Third, Boss Yang's family, although this ancient tomb is evil, it is believed that there are heavy treasures in it. I decided that this ancient tomb belonged to theirs, so I didn't want others to know about it.
They don't want people to know, so they can only look for us who know the rules. In our industry, it was originally a side game, and many things were illegal to collect, but if we didn't accept them, we would wait to drink the northwest wind.
So no one's foundation is clean, and no one can run to report anything. The only tacit understanding is that you give me money to do things, it's as simple as that.
I'm just a guy who gives people money to do things, and of course, I'm not the kind of person who sees money.
There have been many rumors of this accident in the circle. When encountering strange and evil things, I have heard of it a lot. But this is the first time that so many people have died.
Normally, I would have been killed and wouldn't have gotten because it was too dangerous. Although you give money, you may have a life to earn it, but you don't have a life to spend it.
The reason why I finally agreed was not only for the sake of money, but also for my own curiosity, although I was well-known in the circle, I had never been on the ground.
As an older single young man in his twenties and thirties who is full of infinite yearning for adventure life, to be honest, I really want to be like the protagonists of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "Notes on Tomb Robbery".
This is a bit the same as Boss Yang's initial search for excitement, and it is estimated that it is also a bit of the same meaning.
Of course, there is one last reason, and this reason is that I am very grateful to this Boss Yang. I feel a little grateful to Boss Yang, and even the feeling of knowing the grace of encounter.
Why do you say that, in the antique industry, when you look at and hear about auctions, they sell for millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, but in fact, it's not the same thing at all.
Generally, private transactions are very cheap, a blue and white porcelain, in TV shows, to say the least, is millions. But in private, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, will be sold.
Antiques are a thing, and to put it bluntly, it is hype. What do you say that Yuan Qinghua sold for a high price of 200 million, a broken bottle, no matter how high the manufacturing process is, no matter how much research value there is, is it really worth 200 million white flowers?
I can tell you for sure, it's not worth it, let alone 200 million, two million is not worth it. Those things that can be fetched high prices, is there really anyone who wants to buy them?
Of course not, or for the hype. For example, I have a blue and white porcelain bottle, which is actually worth 20,000 yuan. However, Yang Kailu, Boss Yang is willing to pay 200,000 yuan to buy.
This has raised the price so much at once, and my reputation has been raised at the same time, and there are more people looking for me.
But in fact, this bottle may be sold for 20,000 yuan, and 200,000 yuan is for others. Or the price of this bottle is a little higher, but it can't be 200,000.
Even this so-called sold bottle was not sold at all, it was still in hand, and the next time someone came, he took a fancy to it, and he tricked people, saying that it was set by someone else for 200,000 yuan, so that the other party bid higher.
That's how the antique circle is holding it around, and then pit the newcomers and tyrants, this kind of is pretty good, some of them directly give you a fake, hundreds of thousands, millions, buy a mechanical manufacturing, then you have no place to reason.
As for me, at the beginning, I sold Boss Yang a few good things, and also helped him see things a few times, so that he was not deceived, so he kept praising me, so I am so famous.
In other words, half of my fame, as well as my current reputation and business, was given by Boss Yang, and Boss Wang has the grace of knowing me, so I must come this time.