Everyone came to the front of the Zhaoling Tomb and looked at the six bluestone relief stone carvings on the east and west sides of the altar in the north, and said regretfully: "Fist Mao, Shivachi, White Hoof, Tellebi, Qinghu, Sa Luzi, when will the six horses of Zhaoling gather?"

Each stone carving is about 2 meters wide and 1.7 meters high, with beautiful shapes, smooth carving lines, fine knife work, rounded and carved art treasures.

"This is an imitation, carved with the heroic posture of the horse ridden by Tang Taizong in the major battle of the founding of the country. In 1914, Sa Lu Zi and Fist Mao were broken and packed into boxes and smuggled to the United States, where they are now stored in the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The remaining four pieces were also broken and boxed, intercepted during theft, and are now displayed in the Forest of Steles Museum in Xi'an. ”

Speaking of this, Wen Yiming suddenly remembered a person, if Tan Jing is known as the strongest cultural relics counterfeiter, then he is the biggest cultural relics dealer in history, Lu Qinzhai.

Lu Qinzhai has a genius ability to identify cultural relics, and he has taught European and American collectors to appreciate ancient tomb relics, including tomb carvings, bronzes, burial ancient jade, terracotta figurines, Buddha statues, etc. Many of the antiques he handled changed from dead to alive, from cold to hot. At that time, Lu Qinzhai's status in the international antique industry can be described as calling for wind and rain, and it is a success.

"Catching up with the collapse of the Qing government, the Beiyang government was in power, the people's hearts were unstable, and a large number of antiquities and treasures of the Forbidden City were lost overseas. ”

In 1926, Lu Qinzhai built the famous Red House in Paris, and opened the largest antique store in the United States with his partner Wu Qizhou on the corner of Madison and 57th Street in New York.

Soon he became a supplier and consultant to many private museums, Lu Wu Company exported cultural relics to the United States for 30 years, countless national treasures, only a small shareholder of the company can share more than 100,000 yuan of silver dollars a year, and an antique shop in Liulichang could not make so much money for a few years!

"Hmph, no matter how much money you make, it's black money, traitor!"

Wen Yiming looked at Hei Feng's angry appearance, shook his head and said: "It's really hard to say about Lu Qinzhai's evaluation, according to statistics, about half of the cultural relics lost overseas have passed through Lu Qinzhai's hands, and the strongest cultural relics dealer in history deserves it." There are countless statues, stone carvings, bronzes, and jade artifacts smuggled and sold before the Ming Dynasty, and a large number of them come from the tombs of the emperors of previous dynasties, causing immeasurable losses to archaeology. ”

But at the same time, he is also a promoter of ancient culture, often inviting well-known scholars to study cultural relics, which invisibly increases the value and popularity of objects. Exhibitions and catalogues are also often held to expand the influence of ancient works of art. ”

"In a sense, Lu Qinzhai was an enlightener for the West to understand ancient culture, conquering European and American collectors with his exquisite cultural relics expertise and genius business vision. ”

In his later years, he also supported the revolution and donated money to patriots, which was regarded as making up for his mistakes in his early years in disguise, and he was a man of the hour in the antique shop.

Wen Yiming suddenly laughed and said: "The strongest cultural relics dealer and the strongest counterfeiter are actually mortal enemies, in 1948 Lu Qinzhai spent millions of francs to buy a batch of ancient painting fakes, and fell into Tan Jing's trap." The old paintings were old-fashioned, and the fake was real, which made him a big heel in the field of calligraphy and painting, which directly led to the decline of the business. ”

After the liberation, the relevant departments immediately seized all of Lu Qinzhai's businesses, and his subordinates and the four King Kongs -- Zhang Xuegeng, Ye Shuzhong, Hong Yulin, and Dai Fubao -- were either arrested and sentenced, or fled to Hong Kong Island, and the smuggling channels were wiped out. ”

"I can only go back to France to retire in the Red Mansion, which is five stories high, carved beams and paintings, extraordinary, and costs as much as 8 million francs, and has become a landmark building in Paris at that time, and it is also the only representative of the classical style. ”

Everyone left, and Jinbao began to hunt for treasure, and sure enough, he reacted and came to the bottom of a small hill in the northeast.

"What is this?"

Liu Datong took out the strange gold artifact, handed it to Wen Yiming, and said confusedly: "Sir, look ......?"

"The gilt turtle is negative, and the jade candle of the Analects is a jade candle!"

Wen Yiming took over the cylindrical gold, the pattern was gilded, and the turtle seat below was depicted realistically, and the turtle raised its head and tail, making a prostrate posture, and landed on all fours to support the whole object.

With the turtle as the seat, it carries a covered cylinder, like a golden candle erected on the turtle's back. The lid is rolled in the shape of a ruffle, with a gourd-shaped button, and the cover is engraved with patterns such as wild geese and curly grass.

"Look here, engraved with the words "Analects and Jade Candles. Wen Yiming pointed to the double-line rectangular frame with a window on the front and displayed: "This is a game played by people in the Tang Dynasty when drinking, and the chips of the liquor order are held when drinking." There are 50 gilt liquor orders in the tube, all of which are of the same size, all of them are rectangular, with cut corners and edges, and the lower end is closed into a thin handle. ”

The first half of the edict is taken from the Analects of Confucius, and the second half is the specific content of the liquor order, including six types of drinking, including "self-drinking", "accompanying drinking", "persuading drinking", "punishment (punishment)", "release (non-drinking)", and "designated person drinking", respectively, stipulating six types of drinking. ”

"So cultured?" Black Tiger scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "We are all big bosses, and we all rely on guessing boxing and guessing coins to drink, this kind of crepe really can't be fun!"

Everyone laughed, Wen Yiming picked up the wine order casually and said: "There are thirty-two kinds of wine orders, and the number of drinks is divided into: meaning, three points (small half a cup), five points (half a cup), seven points (half a cup), ten points (full cup), and a maximum of forty points (four glasses), which is full of fun." ”

"For example, make friends with friends, keep your word, ask people to be very good, be sensitive and studious, not ashamed to ask, five points for legal affairs, do not do to others what you do not want, let go, have friends from afar, be happy, five points for guests, and so on. ”

Looking at the black tiger, he scolded with a smile: "This is also called being educated?

At that time, Wang Xizhi and others sat on the ground on both sides of the Lanting Qingxi after holding the ritual of repairing and sacrificing, put the wine in the stream, floated slowly down from the upstream, and passed through the winding stream.

In that game, eleven people wrote two poems each, fifteen people wrote one poem each, and sixteen people could not write poems, and each was punished with three drinks. Wang Xizhi collected everyone's poems, used silkworm cocoon paper, mouse whisker pen to make a preface, and took advantage of the book to write the world-famous Lanting collection preface.

Lanting Qushui is good at wind flow. Move the banquet to Qingqiu.

Liuyu Yuan has been ridiculed, and it is even referred to as three days as a good day. Sanyin sits on all the luxurious, Chang'an waterside Duoli.

The green pond is weeping and the willows are weeping, and the silk is dancing and cui'e. In order to report the guests in the pavilion, Yonghe should not win the yuanhe.

Lanting silk bamboo. Gao will be virtuous, and his people are like jade. The winding water flows, the drizzle in front of the lamp, and the eaves are full of flowers.

This is called a literati!

"Be careful, let me come!"

Seeing that there were still a few scrolls in the box, Wen Yiming asked the rough black tiger to get out of the way, put on his gloves, and opened them slowly and carefully, and was suddenly overjoyed.

"Eighteen Scholars of the Qin Mansion, Yan Liben!"

Wen Yiming looked at the well-preserved scroll, the characters were vivid and expressive, it was a masterpiece of the world, and it was praised as the deification of Danqing at the time.

Yan Liben is good at painting pavilions, chariots and horses, portraits, especially historical figures and style paintings of major themes. There are sixty or seventy of his paintings mentioned in the "Records of Famous Paintings of the Past Dynasties", "Catalogue of Famous Paintings of the Tang Dynasty", and "Xuanhe Paintings", which shows his influence in the art world.

The Forbidden City treasures the step diagram, the top national treasure, more precious than the Qingming Shanghe map, the silk can be handed down for more than a thousand years, after countless wars and intact preservation, it is simply a miracle!