Chapter 114: The Largest Exodus of Cultural Relics in History

In order to realize the dream of restoration, Pu Yi is like "rushing to the doctor when he is sick", whether it is a warlord, a disarming soldier, or a poor politician, Pu Yi's relationship with them is determined by their attitude towards restoration, and they are no longer too disproportionately the emperor's shelf. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 At this time, Pu Yi's dream of restoration for him is not only a dream, but also almost neurotic, as long as someone verbally supports him and is willing to serve him, his heart will be satisfied, and he will agree to any request made by the other party.

As long as you have the ticket to support the restoration, you can enter Zhang Garden. Groups of bare-bones commanders and frustrated politicians poured into the concession. Their eyes were not to see this powerless and powerless "inferior emperor", but to focus on the cultural relics, treasures, money and antiques in Pu Yi's hands.

A frustrated little warlord named Liu Fengchi, who has a small plan, is called "Little Zhuge Brother", and some people boast to Pu Yi that he is "the modern Zhuge Liang, who has this one, is better than the Wolong and Phoenix Chicks, and the great cause of restoration is ninety percent certain." Liu Fengchi met Pu Yi, and after boasting about his eyes to heaven, he suggested that Pu Yi take out some antique calligraphy and paintings, gold watches, and jade for him. He can take these things out to Pu Yi to contact military figures, so that they can jointly "praise the great cause of restoration", how can Pu Yi not swallow such a "fragrant bait"?

So he generously asked him to take the most valuable things in batches. Later, Liu Fengchi actually named this and that. Once he said that when he went to the activity of Zhang Zuolin's subordinate Zou Zuohua, he openly proposed that "small items should not move his heart, and he should be given pearls, good gems or diamonds, and valuables of about 10,000 yuan should be given to him, and there should be dozens of times the big profit."

In order to win over Rong Zhen, Ma Zhanshan, and Zhang Zuoxiang of the Feng Department, Liu Fengchi specified that he would each send ten pearls; In order to win over a warlord surnamed Mu, he specified the bead on the crown of the bead. These people have never given Pu Yi any actual results, but they just stretched out their hands endlessly, asking for things and money, Pu Yi had rare patience and placed deep expectations on them.

After Pu Yi lived in Zhangyuan in Tianjin, he spent a lot of money and was in urgent need of money, so he was introduced to sell the things he brought out of the Forbidden City to the Wanchang antique shop on Guodian Street in Tianjin for more than 10,000 yuan. These national treasures are rare treasures, and the Tianjin antique industry is very angry when they hear about it.

At that time, the price of flour was 2 yuan per bag, and the price of more than 10,000 yuan was a very considerable amount among the people, but Pu Yi soon squandered it. Pu Yi took out a few pieces of jewelry for people to sell, and told the sellers to go to several antique shops to appraise the price and then sell it to avoid being deceived.

The handler first went to Hengli Gold Store to estimate 60,000 yuan, and then went to Tianbao, Wuhua Gold Store and antique shops in the area of Dongma Road and Guodian Street, all of which were valued at between 50,000 and 60,000 yuan, and finally sold them to Wanchang Antique Store on Guodian Street, and sold them at a price of more than 60,000 yuan.

Why are the estimated prices of the antique shops and gold shops so close? This involves the business of Tianjin antique shops before the founding of New China, and the "partners" played a role. At that time, many antique shops in Tianjin had to raise prices with each other when they encountered precious jewelry and antiques, and the result would be a big loss of vitality.

In order to avoid this kind of economic loss, when encountering the sale of precious jewelry and antiques, several antique shops and gold shops temporarily organized themselves to invest in cooperation, and agreed to press the price to a certain price, and no matter which one received the goods in the future, the profits would be divided equally.

When this batch of national treasures was not sold at the price of 60,000 yuan in Hengli Gold Store, there was a Beijing guest Xiao Mazi who was very good at antique jewelry. According to his identification, this is a batch of rare national treasures, which can make a lot of money, so he proposed this batch of jewelry as "goods". At that time, he reported to ten large gold shops and antique shops, and saw that the estimated value of this batch of goods did not exceed 60,000 yuan.

Afterwards, Xiao Mazi received a total of 3,000 yuan from the ten antique shops and gold shops. Pu Yi, who was afraid of being deceived, was still fooled. Pu Yi was not satisfied with the two selling prices, and later he took out a batch of antiques and jewelry and sold them to the French antique dealer Rosentai, with a total price of more than 60 yuan.

In August 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. At noon on August 9, 1945, the depressed commander of the Kwantung Army, Yamada Otozo, and others came to the puppet Manchurian palace to inform "His Majesty the Emperor" of the important situation. They informed Pu Yi that they would lead their family members to leave "Xinjing" and move to Tonghua on the same day.

At this time, Pu Yi was extremely frightened, but he felt that there were a lot of family members, employees, luggage and other things with him, especially what about the batch of national treasures hidden in the puppet Manchurian Palace? It was really impossible to move that day, so Pu Yi begged Yamada Yisan and others, and finally got the "grace" of "three days of reprisal".

As soon as Yamada Otozo left, Pu Yi called the attendants and the students of the inner court, and said to them in a panic: "It's time to go to Tonghua Da Lizigou, hurry up and pack your things." Then he personally laid out to them what to pack and how to sort and pack. Pu Yi also took out a gun from his coat pocket and gestured and said, "The situation is urgent!" Each of you brings one, just in case. ”

Pu Yi personally took a few people to open the warehouse, first opened the handscrolls, calligraphy and paintings, etc., and he personally selected the fine products, and picked out a batch of famous calligraphy paintings of the Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties for most of the day. In order to bring more, he even threw away the original Nanmu box and all the flower silk furoshi.

On August 19, 1945, Pu Yi was waiting for his flight at Shenyang Airport and was about to leave for Japan when he was airborne by the Soviet Red Army. When Pu Yi and his entourage left Shenyang, his entourage brought two large suitcases in addition to ordinary items. After being captured, the Soviet officials who were escorting Pu Yi at the time thought that the box might contain the emperor's "dragon robe", but when they first checked the luggage, they were stunned to see the priceless jewels inside.