In the next few days, Xu Zhiyuan moved to Yunlongling Villa, and went to the newly built dojo in the mountains every morning to practice. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"So? Afraid that my sister will pester you and move to the mountains? ”

Early this morning, Hu Yan came to Yunlongling to find Xu Zhiyuan, turned around the villa, and quipped: "Don't worry, everyone is an adult, I won't let you be responsible for what you want me to do!" ”

Xu Zhiyuan laughed, slapped Hu Yan's round and sexy buttocks hard, and said with a smile: "I'm still afraid of you?" ”

Hu Yan glanced at Xu Zhiyuan, remembering the passion of the last time, she couldn't sleep every night, dreaming of this enemy, and said with a smile in her eyes: "Okay, let's have another friendly match tonight?" ”

"No problem, always waiting!" Xu Zhiyuan responded domineeringly, and asked curiously: "You won't just run for this thing, right?" ”

"you!" Hu Yan blushed and scolded: "I came to you this time to find you on business, what do you think this is?" ”

Xu Zhiyuan took a bronzing invitation letter handed over by Hu Yan, opened it and looked at it, his face sank.

"I also just received their invitation, half a month later in Hong Kong, a total of 16 pieces of Prince Gong's Mansion fine furniture, claimed to be from the palace collection, each of which is a rare boutique."

Xu Zhiyuan nodded, Prince Gong's Mansion is the most well-preserved and most typical palace courtyard in the capital today. Here, people can not only feel the history, but also appreciate the architectural art of the Qing Dynasty very intuitively. It was also once a treasure trove, and a large number of precious artifacts have been accumulated in the palace of Prince Gong's Mansion over the years.

Jin Dynasty calligrapher, writer Lu Ji's "Pingfu Post" is known as the treasure of the town, due to historical reasons, including this authentic piece of more than 1,000 pieces of national treasure cultural relics of Prince Gong's Mansion has been greatly lost. In order to carry out the activities of restoring the Qing court, Wang Puwei, who inherited the prince's title, sold almost all the property of Prince Gong's mansion in more than 20 years, and these sales activities did not leave much written information at that time.

Speaking of Prince Gong's Mansion, we have to mention a Japanese, who is one of the main culprits in the loss of cultural relics in the Republic of China, Japan Yamanaka Dingjiro!

Born in 1866 into a family of antique dealers in Osaka, Yamanaka was born as Adachi Jojiro, and grew up with his father in and out of antique shops, where he developed a keen interest in buying and selling antiques.

His constant contact with scholars and collectors from Europe and the United States in his business opened a door to the world and made him realize that there would be a large market for oriental art in the future exchanges between the East and the West, and he would obtain huge benefits.

The first turning point in Anda Dingjiro's life was when he was 23 years old, when Yamanaka Yoshibei, the owner of the antique shop, married his eldest daughter to him, joined the Yamanaka family and changed his surname to Yamanaka Dingjiro, and then began to open up the way for the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce to enter the European and American markets.

With the expansion of the demand for Chinese art in overseas markets, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce turned its attention to China, which has a long history, the richest collection of antiques and cultural relics, and the most active market transactions, and began to establish a branch of the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. The chamber of commerce has collected a large number of precious Chinese artworks, resulting in the loss of a large number of Chinese cultural relics overseas.

At that time, Yamanaka Jojiro bought a large number of secrets from the Qing Palace from Prince Gong Pu Wei, and soon after the Xinhai Revolution, in addition to calligraphy and paintings, almost all the antiques of Prince Gong's Mansion were collected and sold to the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce in Japan.

Although the exact scale of this purchase is not clear, according to some accounts in the "Biography of Yamanaka Jojiro", "the amount is different from 100,000 or 200,000,000," and "no matter which merchant it is, this is something that will not happen again in his life." It can be seen that this large-scale acquisition is definitely a huge transaction, and it is very likely to be measured in millions of yen.

The amount is not inferior to the annual export of Chinese antiques before and after the Xinhai Revolution, or the maximum amount borrowed by the Qing Dynasty royal family in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China against antiques.

Later, these cultural relics were quickly transported back to Japan for sorting and sorting, and were sold in three batches, one for auction in the United States, one for auction in the United Kingdom, and one for retail in the Yamanaka Shokai's antique store in Yoshikoku, Japan. Both the American auction catalogue and the British auction list have now been found, causing a huge sensation at the time.

In 1912, Prince Gong Pu Wei raised military salaries in order to help the last emperor Pu Yi carry out restoration activities. It was decided to sell the entire collection of Prince Gong's mansion. Yamanaka Dingjiro, who got the news, accompanied by his friends Yamanaka Rokuzaburo and Okada Tomoji, came to Prince Gong's Mansion to see the treasures treasured by Prince Gong's Mansion.

The treasures of Prince Gong's Mansion are divided into dozens of treasure houses such as Ruyi Library, Calligraphy and Painting Library, Jade Library, and Bronze Library. Countless of the treasures were covered with dust, and in the jade vault, the housekeeper of Prince Gong's Mansion picked up a bunch of jade ornaments and asked Yamanaka Dingjiro, "How much do you plan to collect these things?" ”

Yamanaka Dingjiro secretly thought that this transaction could be bigger, after weighing, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce decided to buy all the collections of bronze, ceramics, jade, jade, etc. in Prince Gong's Mansion in addition to calligraphy and painting for 340,000 oceans, which was a big gamble for the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, and also brought the greatest glory to Yamanaka Dingjiro in his life, laying a solid foundation for the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce to become the world's largest dealer of Chinese antiques and cultural relics.

The year after the purchase of this batch of Prince Gong's mansion by the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, the American Art Gallery in New York, USA, printed a gilded catalogue for auction, and the auction results caused a sensation in the American collecting circles, and it was considered to be the best collection of Chinese art, with an auction record of more than 270,000 US dollars, which was a record-breaking astronomical figure at the time.

The following year, in 1914, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, also in New York, held a special auction entitled "The Personal Collections of Chinese Aristocrats in Tianjin and the Cultural Relics Purchased by the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce in Beijing". With a turnover of nearly $200,000, the auction was once again a success.

The Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce took the opportunity of the second auction and achieved great business success. In 1916, 11 auctions of Chinese antiques were held in New York, making the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce the world's largest dealer in Chinese art.

In 2004, the relevant personnel of Prince Gong's Mansion found the catalogue and catalogue left by the Japanese Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce in 1912 after buying a large number of cultural relics of Prince Gong's Mansion in the United States and the United Kingdom in February and March 1913 respectively, so they knew that Prince Gong's Mansion collected a large number of precious works of art such as bronze, jade, porcelain, and ivory carvings.

However, most of the artifacts lost from Prince Gong's Mansion are difficult to repurchase, or their whereabouts are unknown. In 1937, Pu Ru, the grandson of Yixun, was in urgent need of money and sold the "Pingfu Post" to the great collector Zhang Boju for 40,000 silver dollars.

In 1956, Zhang Boju donated the "Pingfu Post" to the Palace Museum in Beijing, and now the "Pingfu Post" is in the Forbidden City. Tang Dynasty painter Han Gan's rare horse-themed "Illuminating the Night White" is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA, which was purchased by the British collector David Davide from Pu Xinji for 10,000 silver dollars in 1935.

Pu Wei in 1930, at a high price Yan Zhenqing "farewell post" pawn to the Japanese Mitsubishi company, and then unable to redeem, in July 1930 the Japanese calligrapher and painter Nakamura did not buy from the Mitsubishi company for 30,000 yen, now this cultural relics are stored in the Japanese Calligraphy Museum.

Wang Xizhi's "Wandering Eye Post" is now hidden in the underground whereabouts, the Boxer Rebellion flowed out of Prince Gong's mansion, after the Xinhai Revolution to Japan, was collected by Hiroshima Prefecture Anda Wanzo, was destroyed in the atomic bombing in 1945, and now only a copy of 1925 remains.

64 pieces of furniture such as treasure cabinets are now stored in the Jietai Temple in Xishan, Beijing, which is the residence of Prince Gong Yi's self-cultivation, so he left the furniture he used in those years. Most of these pieces of furniture are made of red acid branch wood, and there are still 64 pieces in stock, including tables and chairs, couches, treasure cabinets and other types.

There are about 33 pieces of furniture in this batch of furniture, including the royal couch, the throne, the flat head case, the Taishi chair, etc., which were obtained by the members of the "Qing Imperial Family Acceptance Committee" during the Republic of China, brought from Beijing to Shanghai, and finally from Shanghai to Hong Kong, and finally transferred to Taiwan, where they were collected by Soochow University in Taiwan, and finally acquired by the National Palace Museum in Taipei as a collection.