"Wang Jinsheng? The four great ink makers? ”

"Yes." Huang Chong picked up a piece of purple jade light on the table and said: "Among the ink ingots of the Qing Dynasty, Cao Sugong's purple jade light is the most famous. ”

"Wang Jinsheng is a native of Huizhou, originally an ink worker of Cao Sugong's family, probably rose in the Kangxi to Yongzheng period, he got rid of the fetters of the Cao family, and opened a 'Jiangu Zhai' ink shop in Huizhou City alone, because he made exquisite ink carvings, ingenious decoration, in a short period of time, in order to be as famous as Cao Sugong, Wang Jie'an and others ink masters, people who want to buy, it can be said that there are countless people."

"Is this a stealer?" Brother Ma laughed.

"Maybe, but his ink-making skills are really powerful, in the book Uncle De gave me, I saw a record, in the sixth year of Qianlong, Wang Jinsheng's son Wang Weigao, was called to Beijing to teach the Ministry of Internal Affairs to make ink, and in Wang's ink book, there are ten colors of gossip and ink."

"In other words, this is the ten-color gossip diagram made by Wang Jinsheng?" Zhuang Rui asked.

Huang Chong did not answer directly, but picked up a piece of ink and said: "Judging from the gold color of these ten pieces of ink and the lacquer leather on it, it is definitely the ancient ink of the Qing Dynasty. ”

"Hmm."

"What about patent leather?"

"The so-called patent leather, also known as lacquer clothing, refers to the ink surface plus scraping, prevailed in the Ming Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty most of the lacquer up and down the left and right sides, the front and back for the natural color, and the Qing Dynasty is more lacquer on both sides of the side, both sides up and down are not lacquered, as well as the ink on the pulp, simple vicissitudes, the shape of the vessel is regular, the surface pattern is clear, the strokes are clean and not dragging mud and water, it should be the ancient ink of the Qing Dynasty."

"Then this gossip color ink is produced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs? Or is it made by Wang Jinsheng's Jiangu Zhai? Zhuang Rui asked, he was like a studious student at the moment, and he asked the main point at once.

Huang Chong didn't answer, but took out a piece of ink from the ink ingots on the side, picked up a piece of gossip colored ink, and handed it to Zhuang Rui: "This piece is the tribute ink of the Qing Dynasty, you compare it, what is the difference between the two." ”

"It's not as subtle as it gets." After the comparison, Zhuang Rui said.

"Not bad." Huang Chong opened the silk cloth wrapped in gossip color ink just now: "The handwriting and seal on this should be enough to explain the problem." ”

There are dense words written on the silk cloth and a red seal, which Huang Chong discovered when he took ink, and it is also of great help for identification.

"There is a collection of ancient hall seals, but also have comments on this set of ink, you look at this part of the record, but also to show that these ten pieces of ink, in order to avoid the turmoil of the decade, only to hide the ink in the box, set the ancient hall, is the famous collector in modern times Mr. Zhang Jiongbo's Zhai number, it is very fond of the ancient periods of the famous ink, the appreciation of the eye is unique, the collection is quite rich, from this set of ancient hall seals, it should be the collection of ancient hall undoubtedly."

"That said, it's true."

"I don't dare to say that I am ten percent sure, but eighty or ninety percent are still there, this set of color ink, the full name should be 'Qing Qianlong Imperial Bagua Color Ink'."

"Yumo, this is the highest level." Brother Ma said that he still remembered the six kinds of ink ingots that Li Shan said before, and then Brother Ma asked: "Then how much is this set of gossip color ink worth?" ”

Sure enough, in the eyes of a nouveau riche like Brother Ma, how much money is the best measure, but this is understandable, if it weren't for these rich people entering the market, the price of antiques would not have risen to this extent, it can only be said that there are good and bad!

Huang Chong thought for a while, rearranged the ten ink ingots, and said: "You should know that the highest value ink ingot on the market at present is the set of Qianlong Imperial West Lake Ten Scenes Collection Colorful Ink that was auctioned in 07, which was made by Wang Jie'an, one of the 'four famous ink makers', on one side is the seven-word poem of Qianlong Imperial Yong, and on the other hand is the bas-relief West Lake Ten Scenes Picture printed by fine molding, which can be called a peerless treasure, and its price is 4.48 million yuan, which is also the highest record of ink auction so far. ”

Huang Chong looked at the ten ink ingots and said: "Actually, I don't know much about the market of ink ingots, this set of imperial gossip color ink, there has been a book record, the imperial ink produced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, only one piece of vermilion ink, you need a pound of cinnabar, six taels of glue, three coins of borneol, ten pieces of flying gold, one penny of cotton, three feet of white cloth, ten catties of charcoal, fifty catties of coal, and the cinnabar ink obtained is only about six taels, produced in Wang's ink products, and put on the market of gossip color ink, each ingot is six taels of silver, ten ingots are sixty taels, It was equivalent to a prefect at that time for a year and a half, and this was just the color ink put into the market, not the imperial ink. ”

"The highest price of West Lake Ten Scenes of Color Ink, as far as I know, there are currently two museums in the collection, and this imperial gossip color ink, if I remember correctly, has not been recorded and published by major museums, it can be said to be a very rare thing, but in terms of value, it is still not as good as the poetry and scenery of the West Lake Ten Scenes Ink that exists on the ink at the same time."

"According to Brother Huang, this ink is more precious, but more than ten years have passed, considering inflation, and the price of antiques has skyrocketed in the past ten years, I am afraid that there are still four million." Shi San'er said.

"Not bad, not bad!" Zhuang Rui and Brother Ma nodded, agreeing with Shi San'er's statement.

"I didn't expect a piece of ink to be so exquisite, it's really a long experience, ten yuan four million, one piece four hundred thousand, anyway, I can't afford it." Brother Ma sighed.

"Although these ancient inks are well-made, but in the current situation, the ornamental value is still greater than the practical value, with these residual ink, it is enough for me to use it for a long time, and these inks can only be collected." Huang Chong said.

"It doesn't matter what the value is, even if these ten pieces of ink are not worth four million, even if there are four hundred thousand, then brother, you have picked up a big leak! A furnace money of less than ten yuan changed hands to 200,000, and a box of ink bought by 250,000 yuan became 4 million in a blink of an eye, no, if you have to add these ink ingots, it must be at least 4.2 million, Brother Huang, I took it today, and I was completely convinced! Brother Ma said to Huang Chong with a thumbs up.

"Luck, luck." Huang Chong said.

"Don't think that you can escape by saying luck, I tell you, today's big meal, you are decided."

"That's a must!"