Section 5 The jade seal of the country
Under Zhou Xiaomei's repeated urging, I had to put my energy back into the company's business, and told Wen Yuan and Zhang Xianyun to hurry up and transport back all the Wumen cultural relics in the tomb of the Ghost King, and let them clean up the tomb so that they could be sorted out and opened up into a tourist attraction!
I was woken up by a phone call late one night, and Hua Yongde called urgently and said: "President, tell you an earth-shattering thing, Wen Yuan brought back a treasure from Beibi Mountain, it seems to be the legendary long-lost jade seal!"
"What?", I suddenly sobered up and asked in surprise: "No, is it the jade seal that Qin Shi Huang made with He's bi?"
Hua Yongde said with a smile: "Yes, but this jade seal has a very deep background, it's not so simple! President, you better come to the company quickly, we are all here, I can't wait for you to come and identify it together! Aren't you an expert in this area?"
...... , I put down the phone and immediately dressed and went out, and rushed to the company in a hurry!
After coming to the company, the whole company was crowded, and it was hard to imagine that the company was so lively at two or three o'clock in the night!
When my colleagues saw me coming, they called out for greetings and made way for me!
He Kuan greeted me and said as he walked: "President, if this thing is true, then our company will be famous all over the world overnight!"
I casually asked, "Wen Yuan, are they back?"
He Kuan replied: "Not yet, they stayed in Beibi Mountain to continue to excavate the tomb of the ghost king, and then sent back the first batch, I heard that there are still a lot of good things hidden in the tomb, this time our company's performance is going to explode!"
"Hmm!", I nodded, and followed He Kuan to the company conference room!
On the table in the conference room was a cloth with a large copper box of fine workmanship, and it seemed that most of the contents were genuine treasures!
Hua Yongde and Zhou Xiaomei were already sitting at the table, and Zhou Xiaomei said eagerly: "Why did you come, President, just wait for you to open the box, if you don't come, none of us will dare to open this box!"
I took off my coat and handed it to He Kuan to hang on the hanger next to me, then loosened my tie and sat down, reached out and opened the copper box, and took out an item wrapped in brocade from it!
I carefully untied the brocade, a piece of white milky tender jade seal immediately appeared in front of me, I put on gloves and picked up the jade seal to look at the bottom of the seal, only to see that there were several large seal body anti-body ancient characters engraved on it: "Ordered by the day of longevity Yongchang". Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info I looked back and forth, and found that there were some flaws in the corner of the jade seal, as if it had been repaired with gold!
I frowned and looked at the position of the patch, a little puzzled, so I asked everyone: "This thing is flawed, is it true, has anyone sorted out the relevant information?"
"It's already been sorted out!", Zhou Xiaomei reached out and handed me a stack of printed colored paper!
Then I listened to Zhou Xiaomei explain while watching: "In the nineteenth year of the reign of King Qin, that is, in 228 BC, Qin destroyed Zhao and obtained the Heshi Bi. Later, after the Qin Emperor unified the world, he stored the Heshi Bi in the tomb, hoping that he could be accompanied by the Heshi Bi forever after his death! Later, the Qin Emperor selected a piece of fine Lantian jade, and ordered Prime Minister Li Si to write down the eight characters of "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and Yongchang" with a bird seal, and then ordered the Xianyang jade worker Wang Sun Shou to grind and carve the Lantian jade into a seal, which is the legendary jade seal of the country in later generations. Therefore, the jade seal of the country is not He's bi, and He's bi is too thin and has a hole in the middle, so it is impossible to carve such a thick jade seal!"
I frowned and asked, "But I heard that the jade seal of the country was passed from the Han Dynasty to the late Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Congke, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Hou Yan, how could Murong Chui get this jade seal!"
According to legend, at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang usurped power and asked the Queen Mother for the jade seal, and the Queen Mother was angry and smashed the jade seal to the ground, breaking one of the corners of the jade seal, and Wang Mang immediately ordered the craftsman to make up for it with gold. You look at the jade seal that has really been repaired with gold, it seems that this jade seal is really a national jade seal!"
Hua Yongde also picked up a copy of the information and looked at it, and then said to me very seriously: "When the jade seal of Chuanguo was passed to Ran Wei, Ran Wei asked for help from the Eastern Jin army, and the jade seal of Chuanguo was deceived by the Jin generals and sent to the capital Jiankang overnight with three hundred fine horses. How could a dignified jade seal of a country be deceived by the generals of another country, and it is very likely that Ran Wei imitated a fake jade seal and let the Jin generals take it away! Later, when Former Yan destroyed Ran Wei, Murong Chui also participated in the battle to destroy Ran Wei, could it be that at this time Murong Chui was lucky enough to get the real heirloom jade seal! Look, this Murong Chui made great achievements when he was a general in Qianyan, and he was squeezed out by Former Yan's ministers later, and he actually chose to defect to Qianqin. Will this have something to do with Murong Chui's refusal to give it when he gets the heirloom jade seal, so he would rather leave Qianyan and go to Qianqin, the purpose is to let himself have this heirloom jade seal, so that he can return to the Central Plains to claim the emperor's use in the future!"
...... I lit a cigarette, took a puff and said, "Well, Hua Yongde, your imagination is really not ordinarily rich, this can also be thought of!"
Hua Yongde said with a smile: "Aren't I also curious, the jade seal of the heirloom country has obviously been owned by the Eastern Jin Dynasty, how can this Houyan Emperor get it! The only explanation is that the jade seal had an accident halfway through, and it was cleverly obtained by Murong Chui!"
I replied without hurrying: "All conjectures are groundless, ancient things are so far away, no one can tell whether it is true or false, even if it is said in the history books, most of the records contain a lot of water! Whether it is really a jade seal of the country has to be identified first, no matter how Murong Chui got this jade seal, as long as it can be confirmed that this jade seal was carved during the Qin period, that is, around 200 BC, then this thing is a jade seal of the country!"
After saying that, I continued to wrap the jade seal in brocade, continued to put it in the bronze box, and instructed everyone: "Send someone to guard the jade seal, and find someone to send it for carbon 14 year testing tomorrow, and it must be accurate to within ten years! It's too late, everyone go back to rest first, and continue to get it tomorrow!"
After I finished taking care of the bird, I went home and went back to sleep, sleepy!
At breakfast the next morning, Liang Jie asked me at the dinner table, "President, I heard that you found the heirloom jade seal from the tomb of the ghost king, is it true or fake!"
I drank the porridge and said, "I don't know if it's true or not, no one has seen this thing, and I'm about to send it for identification when I turn around!"
Who knew that Zhao Yanyang took a sip of the beauty soup and said: "Your second senior brother likes to do this kind of thing, and he has been busy with his emperor dream for generations! How can the things he found be fakes! What else is there to identify, I can be sure that the heirloom jade seal must be real, otherwise how could it be in the eyes of your second senior brother and hide it in his own underground palace!"
I was shocked after hearing this, and looked at Zhao Yanyang in a daze, her words suddenly woke me up. Murong Trai's power is well known, it was not difficult for him to get what he wanted in his time, this Murong Trai was so obsessed with the theory of feng shui, and most of the jade seals of the country fell into his hands!
Zhao Yanyang wiped her mouth, then looked at me with her big eyes like a fascination and said, "What? Am I wrong? Don't you know how to use yin and yang gossip, don't you know if you pinch it casually, what else is there to identify, isn't it too troublesome?"
I didn't know how to answer, so I was silent for a long time.
Zhou Yating smiled and replied: "Oh, Master, you don't know that this cultural relic needs evidence to be convincing, either you say it's him! If you want the outside world to believe that this is the real heirloom jade seal, then you can only get enough evidence, how can it be as simple as you think!"
Zhao Yanyang smiled slightly after hearing this, this smile is a great one, I really don't know how she did this, could it be that she was born with such a beautiful figure, and she can continue to inherit it in reincarnation? Or is she just relying on soul transfer to get someone else's body?
Suddenly, Zhou Yating knocked the basin with an iron spoon and said to me: "Hey, hey, is there a person like you, why do you keep staring at my master like this!
...... , I coughed, immediately lowered my head and drank porridge, and said nothing!
Who knew that Zhao Yanyang smiled and said: "Hehe, stinky boy! Back then, your master often looked at me with such eyes, but ...... Forget it!"
After saying that, she looked a little sad, got up and left the dining room, and went to the living room sofa to drink tea and rest!
Seeing that Zhao Yanyang and Zhou Yating were leaving, I turned my head and asked Liang Jie, "Sister Liang, what is the situation between her and my master, do you know?"
Liang Jie spread her hands and shook her head and said, "How do I know, I'm not much older than you!", after speaking, she got up and twisted the bag, and said to me as she walked: "President, eat slowly, I'm going to the company, business has been busy recently, and I have to arrange someone to help a few companies in Hong Kong to see feng shui!"
Watching the busy Liang Jie step on high heels and leave the door, I found that these women are really much more diligent and serious than our male compatriots!
I wiped my mouth, got up and went to the living room, and asked Zhou Yating, "Zhou Yating, I haven't seen your senior sister for a long time, what has she been busy with lately, when will she come back to our Witch Association?"
Zhou Yating replied while helping her master beat her back: "It's the end of the year, there must be a lot of things to be busy with over there!
Zhao Yanyang enjoyed the service of his apprentice, and replied lazily: "Xiao Feng, after you help me exterminate the Demon Kingdom in the future, I will also transfer this Universal Pharmaceutical to the name of the Witch Association, and I will hand it over to you to take care of when the time comes!
"Oh!", I got up and got dressed, took my briefcase and went to work!
The identification of the heirloom jade seal is a troublesome matter, not only to have the corresponding year proof, but also to have sufficient materials as a proof! The carbon 14 test report soon came out, and the report showed that this was indeed carved around 200 B.C.! Then I began to work on my old business, for the heirloom jade seal to take text notes for comparison, first to prove that these imprinted words are indeed from Li Si's hand, and then to find relevant clues, to say how Murong Chui got this heirloom jade seal!
After being busy for more than half a month, all the materials were basically ready, and with the publicity of advertisements in turn, the public press conference of Chuanguo Yuxi soon began.
The heirloom jade seal must not be sold, this will be the treasure of our Wumen Museum, and the value is far higher than those things in Wumen!
I was always worried that we might not have enough materials to convince the industry, but on the day of the public exhibition, the museum was crowded with people and the popularity was far beyond our expectations!
The guests who came to visit were not only high-ranking figures in the collecting world, but also important leaders of several neighboring countries, who seemed to have a special interest in this antiquity! Soon the British Museum and other foreign units came to contact our association, saying that they were willing to pay a high price to buy this heirloom that symbolized the ancient emperors, and it was obvious that I immediately refused.
I asked Zhang Wenyuan to arrange someone to create a throne for the heirloom jade seal in the Wumen Museum, so as to support the noble identity of this treasure, and then placed many other royal relics of Houyan next to it!
Overnight, the name of our Wumen Museum became all the rage in the industry, and it became a dazzling unit in the field of cultural relics collection, attracting the attention of everyone in the ancient literary circle! The museum began to receive package tour bookings from tour groups, and the schedule was scheduled until the end of the new year, which is really a good start! And our Wumen art auction company is also responsible for the identification and notarization of the jade seal, the reputation of the industry, coupled with the many precious ancient relics in the tomb of the ghost king in the public auction of the auction company, the company's reputation has skyrocketed, becoming one of the most concerned art auction companies in the New Year!
At the meeting of the company's annual performance plan, Zhou Xiaomei gave me a perfect score in front of many executives, praising me as a good boss who does what he says.
I was relieved to see that everyone was very satisfied! I think that this art auction company has come up with so many good things in a short period of time and attracted so many high-end customers, and the company's business in the future should not be a problem!
I am very busy and tired at work, and I have plenty of time, but as soon as I get off work, I immediately become very empty and melancholy, and I always feel like I will never be able to live this life!