Chapter 223: Treasure Gathering Place
Returning to the capital, keeping the harvest, everyone rested for a day, and Sun Dianying pocketed all the suspicious treasures, winning a big victory.
This made Wen Yiming full of confidence in the treasure hunt, with the Treasures of the Troubled Times to provide clues and range, the Gold Devouring Gu locked the final position, and hit it with one hit, and there was no missing shot.
"The next target, Zhang Shaoshuai's relics, Dingyuan Zhai!"
Wen Yiming sorted out the plan, this time the target is the three eastern provinces, Zhang Shaoshuai's hometown, the young marshal's collection of ancient paintings and calligraphy began in the early 20s of the last century, in the northeast in charge of military and political affairs, has often gone to the Beijing-Tianjin area calligraphy and painting shops and antique shops to find antiquities.
In the autumn of 1924, he occasionally found an ancient painting in a pile of old paper in a bookstore in Beijing. Due to its age, the picture is stained. But it can be vaguely seen that the painting is a pine and a maple, there is an old man under the tree, holding a bamboo basket, the brush and ink are exquisite, it should be a famous work, but the painting is not signed.
The shopkeeper did not know him, but when he saw that the customer was looking at the painting carefully and was willing to buy it, he immediately offered a high price. Zhang Shaoshuai did not bargain with him, and resolutely bought it with a lot of money. Later, a well-known connoisseur was asked to appraise it, and it was found that it was the authentic work of Li Tang, a famous painter in the Southern Song Dynasty, which can be called a national treasure.
Since then, his interest in painting and calligraphy collection has been out of control, and he named the calligraphy and painting collection in the Shuaifu Dingyuanzhai, indicating that he has lofty aspirations, so he began to collect antiques, calligraphy and paintings frantically.
In the 30s of the last century, Zhang Daqian happened to see the authentic landscape of the famous painter Hua Rong of the Qing Dynasty in the glaze factory, and he was fascinated. But at that time, the price was 400 oceans, and because of the shyness in the pocket, he discussed with the shopkeeper to keep this painting for three days and not sell it to others.
The shopkeeper agreed to the request, and three days later, Zhang Daqian borrowed the money to buy the painting and returned to the store, but the shopkeeper told him that he had bought it for Zhang Shaoshuai for 600 oceans. Zhang Daqian didn't think about it, but he was depressed for many days.
In August 1962, Zhang Daqian returned to Baodao to hold a personal exhibition of calligraphy and painting. Just as he was about to leave and wait for the plane at the airport, he suddenly received a drawing scroll from the other party. It turned out to be the Huazhe landscape map that he wanted to buy thirty years ago but didn't get, and he couldn't help but feel that he was a confidant.
Later, Zhang Daqian settled on Baodao and had a close relationship with Erzhang Duo, which was also a good story in the collection circle.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, when the Kwantung Army occupied the Marshal's Mansion, some generals wanted to privately swallow Dingyuanzhai's collection of paintings and calligraphy. However, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Honjo Shigeru, ordered people to make a book of the money, books, calligraphy and paintings looted in the Great Marshal's Mansion and transport them to the capital and send them to Zhang Xueliang himself.
seems to be well-intentioned, but its practical intentions are extremely insidious, if Zhang Shaoshuai accepts it, his image among the people will be very unbearable, and he will become a traitor who values wealth and ignores righteousness.
Fortunately, he saw through the trick and ordered them to transport their belongings and calligraphy and paintings back to the Great Marshal's Mansion, and it is rumored that the train passed through Shanhaiguan on its way back and was looted by the Japanese puppet defenders at the station. However, the vast majority of Dingyuanzhai's calligraphy and painting collection was later recovered and collected in the pseudo-Fengtian Museum, but there are still a small number of paintings and calligraphy that are missing.
The lost ones include Wang Xianzhi's "Shenei Ti", Li Zhaodao's "Sea Market Map", Dong Yuan's "Landscape Scroll", Guo Xi's "Cold Forest Map", Song Huizong's "Edict", Mi Yuanhui's "Yunshan Picture Scroll" and other national treasures.
The rest are Zhao Mengfu, Wu Zhen, Wang Meng, Wen Zhengming, Shen Zhou, Tang Yin, Qiu Ying, "Four Kings Wu Yun", Shi Tao, Bada Shanren and other masterpieces. Later, the collection in the Mukden Museum was looted by the Japanese puppet personnel before the war was about to be won, and many of the collections were missing.
Wen Yiming couldn't help but sigh, the three eastern provinces are really a good place, not only Dingyuanzhai, but also another important person who was exiled there, that is, the last emperor, Pu Yi.
The most tragic loss of national treasures in modern history occurred during the abdication of the last emperor, Puyi. In the name of rewarding his younger brother Pu Jie, he smuggled more than 1,200 pieces of calligraphy and painting treasures out of the palace.
Since then, these paintings and calligraphy have embarked on the road of displacement, from the capital to the Zhangyuan Garden and Jingyuan in Jingang, and then to the three eastern provinces with Puyi, becoming the collection of the puppet Manchukuo, and with the collapse of the puppet Manchukuo in 1945, it suffered another catastrophe.
Later, Pu Yi himself recalled that the thefts of the eunuchs in the palace almost never stopped during the war. Even when he got married, he had just had a wedding, and the pearls, gems, and jade inlaid on the queen's phoenix crown were all replaced with fakes!
Later, he was preparing to clean up the inner palace, count the treasury, and ban theft. But before the plan was implemented, the Jianfu Palace, which contained countless treasures, suddenly caught fire. The fire burned overnight, and all the pavilions and pavilions in the courtyard of Jianfu Palace were reduced to ashes, and countless treasures and cheats were also wiped out.
From July 1922, Pu Yi began to reward his younger brother Pu Jie in various names, taking advantage of Pu Jie's opportunity to enter the palace every morning to accompany him to study, and smuggled the precious Song and Yuan Dynasty rare books out of the palace.
After Pu Yi was expelled from the palace, he first lived in his father's mansion, and the stolen calligraphy, paintings, and ancient books were stored in the palace of the prince. After escaping to Jingang, in addition to living in a very luxurious place, he was also very particular about food and clothing, and specially invited a cook to cook.
Empress Wanrong would also smoke a lot of cigarettes, wear the most popular and expensive clothes during the Republic of China, and later packed the cultural relics stolen from the palace into seventy or eighty large boxes and transported them to the British Concession of Tianjin, Hong Kong by rail. In order to maintain a luxurious life, he began to build bridges through various characters and sell calligraphy and paintings that were stolen out of the palace.
The puppet Manchukuo moved to Tonghua, and in the panic, Pu Yi selected some famous paintings and fled in a hurry, including Tang Zhou's "Hairpin Lady", Huang Zhen's "Sketch of Rare Birds" of the Five Dynasties, and Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming Riverside Picture" of the Northern Song Dynasty, etc., but a large number of calligraphy and paintings were left in the puppet palace and were looted by the guards and puppet army, and many treasures were missing.
After the surrender of the island nation, Pu Yi fled again, and when he was about to flee to the Soviet Union, he was caught by the Soviets at the airfield and intercepted the treasure he was carrying. The Soviets thought that the box contained a dragon robe, and when the box was opened, everyone present was dumbfounded.
The boxes are full of priceless treasures, those are the last two bottoms left by Pu Yi, each carefully selected, the best of the best. Shamelessly, in order to seek political asylum and stay in the Soviet Union, he used these treasures as a pioneer to curry favor with Soviet officers.
So much so that Pu Yi was later escorted back to China, and his body was empty, and there were no treasures left! It can be seen how many national treasures have been lost to the people, and it is estimated that even he himself can't count!
"Go to the Northeast!"
After sorting out all the clues, Wen Yiming's heart was surging, the three eastern provinces left a lot of clues, the invaders occupied that land for fifteen years, I don't know how many treasures were robbed, many of them could not be taken away after the defeat, and they were not willing to be buried on the spot and left to the people, since this is the case, let yourself find it back with your own hands!