"Rosewood dragon pattern throne, a pattern couch, a cloud dragon pattern large painting case, two pairs of five-screen comb back rattan chairs, and a large cabinet of Li Dragon Pattern Hundred Treasure Pavilion......"

Xu Zhiyuan looked at the auction catalogue, sixteen pieces of rosewood furniture are all imperial masterpieces, each of which represents the pinnacle of craftsmanship at that time, no wonder collectors all over the world flock to it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I know the matter, when will your plan to open up the Hong Kong market be carried out?"

"I have officially reported to the board of directors, and the unanimous decision is as soon as possible, in fact, the company has been deploying for several years, and the office location has been selected the year before last, and Lao Yan and other senior executives have also contacted local big collectors through various relationships.

"That's right, let me fire the first shot!"

Xu Zhiyuan stood up and said in a deep voice: "Jia Shide is obviously uniting with Little Japan to cheat money this time, taking advantage of our patriotic sentiments, and deliberately releasing the bait of Prince Gong's Mansion, in this case, I can't let them succeed!" ”

"You go back and prepare, half a month later, the first Hong Kong special session of Zhiyuan is also furniture, a mule or a horse, let's pull it out and slip away!"

Hu Yan looked at Xu Zhiyuan with an obsessive face, both physically and mentally had been completely conquered by this man, and excitedly went back to report to work, and before leaving, she also told her to see you at night.

Sending Hu Yan away, Xu Zhiyuan entered the system and directly connected with Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, and the culprit of the outflow of cultural relics from Prince Gong's Mansion.

"You're Pu Yi?"

Xu Zhiyuan looked at the last emperor who was sick and sick, and sighed that it was really not as good as the generation! Needless to say, Qianlong is graceful and luxurious; Although Xianfeng is already declining, he also has a bit of imperial domineering.

Look at Pu Yi in front of him again, dressed in a suit, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, pale, his eyes are blank, and he looks weak, not to mention that he thinks he is a sick scholar from somewhere!

I read his own autobiography that he later wrote, after the Xinhai Revolution, the Forbidden City was divided into two. Although Pu Yi has abdicated, he still lives in the Forbidden City according to the "Qing Preferential Treatment Conditions" after the resignation of the Qing Emperor, and still lives in the Forbidden City, but the scope of his activities has been reduced.

The outer courts, with the three major halls of Taihe, Baohe, and Zhonghe as the main body, were assigned to the government of the Republic of China, while the inner court areas such as the Qianqing Gate in the south, the three palaces and the six palaces in the east and west from the Shenwu Gate in the north were still used by the Xunqing royal family. In this way, the two parts of the army served as guards inside and outside the Forbidden City. Outside the Shenwu Gate, the inner city garrison composed of the 3rd Regiment of the 16th Division of the Army, which was reorganized from the original palace guards, served as the guard, and the inside of the Shenwu Gate was guarded by the guards.

Pu Yi and the key to their plot to steal the national treasure are how to transport them out of the palace safe and sound? The focus of success or failure is how to get through the inner city garrison under the command of the commander of the Gyeonggi garrison. After a period of temptation, Pu Jie and the others found that the soldiers and ruffians who were insensitive to food and salary turned a blind eye to them carrying yellow burdens out of the palace gate, and they successfully passed the test.

Since 1922, they have secretly smuggled out of the palace in batches the ancient books collected in the palace, most of which are Song editions and calligraphy and paintings of celebrities of previous dynasties, and most of them are handscrolls. There were a lot of books, calligraphy and paintings, and it took a lot of trouble to transport them out of the palace.

Because the items stored in each palace are kept by the eunuchs of each palace, if Pu Yi wants to reward people with items from a certain palace, not only must he write it down clearly in the account book of a certain palace, but also get a certain item to reward someone in the secretary's room, and then open a strip to carry the items out of the palace.

At that time, they thought of a very ingenious way to think that this large number of antiquities was in the name of rewarding Pu Jie, and sometimes in the name of rewarding other henchmen, and taking advantage of the opportunity for them to leave the palace every day after school, and take them out of the palace in batches.

From September 4, 1922, the official start of the reward, they first put the target of the smuggling on the Song and Yuan Dynasty version of the rare books, the main reason for starting from then on is that the rare books and Pu Jie, Pu Jia and other usually carry the same size on the surface, and in form they all belong to the category of textbooks, because of its small size, wrapped in yellow satin wrapping up with the surface of the items carried by the eunuchs in and out of the Forbidden City, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the soldiers on duty in the inner city garrison under the Gyeonggi Garrison Headquarters.

Pu Yi has liked jade since he was a child, and after seeing a lot, he naturally has a certain level of appreciation for jade. Pu Yi smuggled from the Forbidden City in Beijing to the jade jewelry jade is the most refined, the value is also very expensive, including glass jade, the size and shape of the variety, are rare treasures, as well as dozens of grams of diamond gemstones, Indonesian opal, ruby, jade and other treasures.

In fact, before Pu Yi and Pu Jie planned to steal national treasures, they had already started the idea of treasures in the palace. Because Pu Yi not only maintained the old imperial dining room, but also added a "fan vegetable dining room" for Western food. The monthly cost of the two dining rooms is as high as 1,300 yuan. Before 1921, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that the "gifts" and other expenses for "delivery" and "order" expenditure amounted to more than 870,000 taels of silver per year. It is said that the total annual expenditure of the small imperial court is not less than 3.6 million taels.

The money is not enough, and the government of the Republic of China is often in arrears, what should I do? Pu Yi's first thought of was to borrow. So Pu Yi ordered people to borrow money from firms and banks, but Pu Yi couldn't afford to pay back a large amount of money. So he took the treasure in the palace as collateral. The Xunqing royal family used this method to borrow more than 1 million yuan from major firms and banks.

After Pu Yi secretly sneaked to Tianjin, he began his seven-year life as a "public residence". During the Tianjin period, in order to achieve the political goal of "restoring the ancestral industry", Pu Yi co-opted and bribed all kinds of warlords, so that a large number of antique treasures were scattered.

How many pieces of calligraphy and calligraphy did Pu Yi sell later? There are basically no records to be checked, and it is difficult to find out the bottom number. However, there are more detailed records of the "Erxi" in the "Sanxi Hall", that is, Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Festival" and Wang Xun's "Boyuan Post", two ink blots were sold by Pu Yi when he was in Tianjin.