There are two different versions of the rumor about the Kunimitsu short knife.

Ji Cheng remembered that the Guoguang short knife was a famous swordsmith in the early days of the Japanese Ben Kamakura, and was known as the "father of forging and refining in Xiangzhou".

Nothing is wrong here.

The problem is that two different versions are missing.

The first version is that the knife was stolen in the 13th century and then found in private collections, where it has not been found.

The second version is that the knife was stolen during the exhibition in the beautiful country, and later appeared once before disappearing.

According to the records of Nippon, the Kunimitsu short knife was used in the 16th century by the Gamo clan, a famous general under Oda Nobunaga during the Warring States period, and the wood carving was a product of the 17th century.

Then, Ji Cheng has enough reason to believe that the first version is true, because if the knife was stolen during the exhibition in the beautiful country, it is impossible that this knife will appear once again in the Japanese and Ben Warring States periods.

"The Kamakura period began in 1185 and ended in 1333, if this sword was cast in the early days of Kamakura, then it should be the beginning of the thirteenth century, with the fall of the shogunate, this knife came to the hands of the Gamo clan, not only witnessed the fall of the shogunate period, but also witnessed the death of Oda Nobunaga, plus the famous craftsman himself cast, then for the Japanese people, this knife has great historical value."

Ji Cheng thought thoughtfully, "If this knife is re-launched and put up for auction, the Riben side will definitely strongly condemn it, but if it resists this wave of condemnation, the Riben people will spend a lot of money to buy it." ”

Isn't this tantamount to blackmailing a wave of small days?

Especially at the auction, arrange one or two of your own bidding, when the time comes, the bidding scene must be very lively, and the final transaction price will far exceed the value of the knife itself.

Thinking of this Ji Cheng, he couldn't help but laugh, that group of small days stole our Huaxia I don't know how many national treasure-level cultural relics and antiques, the Chinese people have been very sad about this, some patriots even do not hesitate to spend several times the price to welcome back those stupid national treasures, and sometimes buy fakes, now the national treasure-level antiques of the small days have fallen into his hands, how can he not be happy about this?

Hey!

It's time for me to blackmail you!

Ji Cheng thought about it and wanted to take out this Guoguang short knife from the wood carving, but he needed tools to smash the wooden carving, and he also wanted to determine whether this knife was a Guoguang short knife or not, so he took out the phone and dialed Master Cheng's number.

Dudu, the phone was connected.

"Master Cheng, where is it?" Ji Cheng asked.

"Boss, I'm visiting antiques at the Met." Master Cheng has always been frugal, and asked bluntly: "International roaming charges are more expensive, boss, what do you have to say directly." ”

"Oh, I've got a stupid antique here, I'm not sure what it is, and I want you to come and have a look." Ji Cheng explained.

"Okay, I'll rush back with Hailin." Master Cheng was about to hang up the phone after speaking.

"Wait, when you and Hailin come back, buy some chainsaws, hammers, axes, or something from the hardware store." Quarterly deals.

Master Cheng was stunned, "Chainsaws, hammers and axes? What are you doing here? ”

He couldn't help but think back to the scene in a horror movie called "Chainsaw" that his son had watched, and said that the boss should not want to kill someone, right? Otherwise, why buy these tools if you have a good time playing in a beautiful country?

Fortunately, Ji Cheng didn't know what Master Cheng was thinking, otherwise he would definitely vomit blood, so he explained a little, "I'm going to dismantle something." ”

"Okay, I'll be back."

Master Cheng hung up the phone.

Ji Cheng pondered that it was okay, and asked the room service to bring a cup of coffee.

The hotel they were staying at was not too far from the Metropolitan Museum, about 3.3 kilometers away.

After a cup of coffee, the doorbell rang at the same time.

Ji Cheng ran over to open the door, it was Master Cheng and his son Cheng Hailin.

"Boss, what do you want to dismantle? I'll help you dismantle. Cheng Hailin grinned as he carried a large pile of tools.

This smile was a little hideous, plus Cheng Hailin was holding a chainsaw in his hand, Ji Cheng was really a little afraid that this guy was a chainsaw maniac, so he took the chainsaw and said, "I'll just come by myself, you can identify something for me later." ”

"Okay......" Master Cheng said as he walked inside, but he only said one word, and his voice stopped abruptly, and then he rubbed his eyes in disbelief and sighed, "Is this a trick wood carving?" ”

"Trick Wood Carving?"

Ji Cheng turned his head suspiciously.

"Wait, I'll look carefully." Master Cheng quickly stepped forward and came to the wood carving, then stretched out his hand to fiddle, and then showed an expression of amazement on his face, and looked sideways at his son, who was also squatting next to him, "Hailin, do you see anything?" ”

See what?

Ji Cheng didn't understand these things, and looked at the father and son with a curious expression.

Cheng Hailin said with a serious face: "I'm not sure if it's not." ”

Master Cheng intends to test his son, "Tell me, I'll listen." ”

"Okay, Dad." Cheng Hailin stroked the wood carving and said: "This mechanical wood carving is a bit like the craftsmanship handed down by the flying dragon Han Zhi and the dragon recorded in the book, and these textures and drawings are like Han Zhi and the genre of mechanical carving. ”

"Han Zhihe?" Ji Cheng didn't understand.

"Oh, Han Zhihe is a man from the Tang Muzong period, some people say that he is a wild historical figure, and some people say that this person really exists, but there have always been rumors about this person on the side of the day." Master Cheng explained, "It is rumored that this person is a national teacher of the Oriental Kingdom, because Jianzhen's eastward crossing aroused the madman love of our Chinese culture, so he sent this national teacher to our country to dedicate the national book and learn culture at the same time." ”

He paused, "It is rumored that this person is a master of mechanical arts, he learned the Mojia mechanical arts, and on this basis, he created a set of his own mechanical techniques, he used wood to carve the shape of birds and beasts, built-in mechanisms, and real birds and beasts, for example, the wooden birds he made can not only peck, but also fly in the air, and can fly a hundred feet high, one or two hundred steps away." ”

Isn't this similar to the wooden ox and flowing horse?

Ji Cheng was a little interested when he heard it, "This Han Zhihe is so powerful?" ”

"It's just a rumor, it's hard to say if it's really so godly, anyway, I've never seen Ri Ben take out such a magical wood carved out of the rumors." Master Cheng said with a smile: "But although this person is a wild history figure, but to be so boasted, it should be a bit of a skill, I used to study wood carving antiques when I was fortunate to read some records, of course, it is also a wild history type of records, which can be seen that this wood carving is a bit like Han Zhi and the genre production." ”

"But that's not right, I'm not sure about this wooden statue, its production year is the seventeenth century, since Han Zhihe is a person from the Tang Muzong period, he shouldn't live to the seventeenth century, right?" Ji Cheng questioned.

"Hehe, so my dad said that this wood sculpture is made by Han Zhihe genre, not that Han Zhihe himself made it." Cheng Hailin smacked his lips, "It's hard to say whether it's specific, but if it's really a puppet made by Han Zhi and people from the genre, then the research significance of this wooden sculpture is very great, especially for Xiao Riben's side, it is estimated to be a national treasure-level cultural relic." ”

Ji Cheng wanted to speak in admiration at the moment, but then he thought of one more thing, he had just observed the internal structure of this wooden sculpture with perception enhancement, it didn't look like a trick, because this thing was like a natural thing, except for some stripes and concave and convex parts inlaid with each other, it seemed that there was no clue.

"You can't be mistaken, right?" Ji Cheng took the initiative to say: "This thing doesn't look like a puppet no matter how you look at it." ”

"It's also possible that we are wrong, but this pattern and carving do look like Han Zhi and the genre." Master Cheng didn't dare to say everything.

Ji Cheng thought for a while and didn't speak, and when the Cheng family father and son were studying this wood carving, he turned on the perception enhancement again and carefully observed the wood carving again.

After observing for several minutes, nothing new was discovered.

At that time, Ji Chengdu was a little impatient and ready to give up.

At this moment, Cheng Hailin gently tapped on the neck of the wood carving, "How should this thing be activated if it is a puppet?" ”

Master Cheng also reached out and tapped lightly on the wooden carving, as if he wanted to find the switch, "Knock it like a solid one, could it be that I am wrong?" ”

There is nothing wrong with the father and son's actions, after all, the switch of the puppet is generally better hidden, and the two of them are not the people who made this wooden statue, so they always have to knock and play to find out where the switch is hidden.

But Ji Cheng's perception enhancement is too perverted, when Cheng Hailin knocked on the position of the neck of the wood carving, he obviously observed that there was a little bit of loosening over there, and this gap was loose even if it was carefully observed with a microscope to find it, but the perception enhancement thing was much more awesome than a microscope, and he saw this abnormality at once!

"Wait!"

Ji Cheng stepped forward and waved his hand to let the two of them leave the wood carving.

Master Cheng was puzzled, "What's wrong?" ”

"I might have figured out where the switch was." Ji Cheng gently tapped the place where Cheng Hailin had just tapped, and he continued to use perceptual enhancement to observe while tapping, and finally found the key problem, it turned out that there was a place here that seemed to be "cylindrical" and could be moved, but the production was too ingenious, as if it was natural, so he didn't find it just now.

Under the gaze of Master Cheng and Cheng Hailin.

Ji Cheng tried to move his fingers to an inch above the part of the tap just now, and then moved them lightly with his fingers.

At first, there was no response when the cylindrical switch was moved, but after about a turn, the three of them clearly heard the sound of "Kacha".

Then, this wood sculpture "lived"!

"It's moving!"

"This wood is scarved!"

Master Cheng and Cheng Hailin were very excited.

Ji Cheng was also curious about how this wood carving would behave.

And then...... Well, the wood withering disappointed Ji Cheng.

Because it just spreads out slowly, falling into the shape of a lotus flower, and in the middle is a knife with a sheath!

"It turned out to be a storage mechanism." Master Cheng pouted and said in disappointment: "I thought why was the subtle mechanism puppet, hey, Xiao Ri Ben just has such a little mechanism technology?" ”

Cheng Hailin didn't think so, "That is, it's far worse than our ancient Chinese mechanism, such as Zhuge Liang's wooden ox flowing horse, this thing uses the structural principles of connecting rods and gears, and the connecting rod was not invented until about the thirteenth century, and the gear was not invented until the end of the nineteenth century. ”

"But its carving process is really amazing." Master Cheng looked very carefully and exclaimed: "Look at it, when it was unfolded just now, it seemed to be integrated with the scabbard, and this carving technique is absolutely masterful." ”

Ji Cheng had to admit that this puppet carving technology was indeed as Master Cheng said, very awesome, because he didn't find any gaps when he used perception enhancement to observe at first, but after deflecting the switch, this thing could still be rolled up into the shape of a lotus flower, that is to say, the carving process reached the point of "seamless".

"This scabbard is very well made." Master Cheng observed, "And I can't tell which genre it is, it is estimated that it is a lost craft." ”

Cheng Hailin stared at the handle of the knife, "This knife should be a good thing if it can be hidden in the storage puppet, take it out?" ”

Ji Cheng allowed: "Take a look." ”

Master Cheng took out a white glove from his pocket, and then instructed, "Hailin, go and ask the hotel for a roll of plastic wrap." ”

"Okay."

Cheng Hailin Xing left in a hurry.

Ji Cheng wondered: "What do you want plastic wrap for?" ”

"Aren't we incompletely equipped here? This knife has been hidden in the wood and scabbard for so long, I am afraid that it will oxidize when I take it out, so I will take it out and wrap it in plastic wrap to isolate the air, if I am sure that it will not oxidize, if it will oxidize, I will send it to a professional organization to help maintain it. Master Cheng was very careful, "Well, but this is not an unearthed cultural relic, and it generally does not oxidize, just in case." ”

Ji Cheng just looked at it with perception enhancement and determined that this thing would not oxidize, and the blade should be made of ancient anti-oxidation materials, because no matter how tightly the wood is withered, even if it looks natural, there are always gaps, and it will have been oxidized long ago.

Of course, some measures are necessary.

Not long after, Cheng Hailin came back with plastic wrap.

Only then did Master Cheng carefully pull out the knife with white gloves, and then quickly wrapped it in plastic wrap, and then observed it carefully, "Huh? Kunimitsu short knife? ”

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Cheng Hailin shouted, "Small days of national treasure-level antiques? ”

"It looks like it." Master Cheng's face became solemn, "It's best to ask an expert in this area to appraise it, my preliminary judgment is that knife, if it is really a Guoguang short knife, then this thing is worth a lot." ”

Ji Cheng blinked and said, "How much is it worth?" ”

"In terms of the value of the item itself, it may be tens of millions of dollars, it depends on the market situation, maybe millions of dollars may be in the cold." Master Cheng analyzed: "But if it's a stupid person who wants to buy it, I don't think there's a problem at all with breaking 100 million, well, I'm talking about dollars, after all, supply and demand are over there." ”

it!

Is it possible for an antique knife to sell for hundreds of millions of dollars?

Ji Cheng was really shocked, and he couldn't believe it: "Is it so expensive?" Emperor Qianlong's saber was only auctioned for more than one million dollars. ”

"Hehe, it's not like that." Master Cheng shook his head and said, "If this knife is really a Guoguang short knife, it is not compared to the Qianlong Emperor's saber, but the fish intestine sword." ”

"Fish intestine sword?"

"Yes, its status in the minds of Xiao Ri Ben is almost as high as the status of the fish intestine sword in the minds of our Chinese people, antiques sometimes have limitations, we think that valuable antiques, foreigners may not feel valuable, the same is true of the Guoguang short knife, we may think that it is not so valuable, but the Japanese people will not feel so much, because this is their national treasure, the national light short knife not only witnessed the fall of the Japanese Shogunate, but also witnessed the end of Oda Nobunaga, the historical value is too high for the Japanese Ben people, Moreover, the Kunimitsu short knife is made by famous craftsmen in the history and culture of Riben, so of course they will feel that it is valuable. ”

When Ji Cheng heard it, he felt that it made sense, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed: "I didn't expect me to pick up a big leak." ”

"It's not just a big leak." Master Cheng looked at the puppet again, "I'm afraid that the puppet production process of this puppet has been lost now, especially the carving technology, I estimate that the value of this thing may not be under the Guoguang short knife, because it has great research value, and often antiques with great research value are restricted from leaving the country, especially this kind of antiques that may reproduce the ancient lost mechanism technology are even more valuable." ”

The Guoguang short knife may be sold for hundreds of millions of dollars, and this wooden puppet may also be worth so much?

If that's really the case, buddy picked up $200 million for nothing?

Ji Cheng was in a good mood all of a sudden, and he didn't have 150,000 US dollars to sell this wooden statue to Lai Ang. Blake, otherwise it will be a big loss.

Of course, he knew that whether he could sell for so much money in the end would depend on how the auction market was, but according to Xiao Ri's urine nature, there was a good chance that he would try to bring back these two antiques that were extremely important to their country, so it was still very likely that they would be sold for the ideal price.

Ji Cheng thought for a while and said, "Then let's auction these two things when we buy them in the spring next year." ”

"Okay, when the time comes, it will be vigorously promoted, and it is estimated that Xiaori will definitely come to spend a lot of money to participate in the auction." Master Cheng said very happily.

Ji Cheng snorted, "Go back and discuss the publicity, anyway, you will return to China tomorrow, you can call the person in charge of the company's publicity to discuss it then." ”

After chatting about things, they put together the wood carving again, well, this thing is very convenient to drive, just need to flip the switch, but close it all manually, so look at it, the technical content is actually not high amazing.

At least Ji Cheng thinks that's the case.

After cleaning up, Master Cheng suddenly thought of something, "Eh, boss, what do you want to dismantle with these tools like chainsaws?" It can't be this wooden statue, right? ”

Cheng Hailin refuted his father with a smile and said, "Dad, the boss is not a fool, how can he dismantle antiques?" ”

You're a fool!

You and your dad and your whole family are fools!

Ji Chengdu didn't want to deal with this.

Okay, he really wanted to do this, but he didn't know the true value of this thing, and he had to call the well-informed Master Cheng and Cheng Hailin father and son back, otherwise he would definitely die of distress if he destroyed this wooden statue whose value was not under the Guoguang short knife.

……

Following.

Ji Cheng and others came to the airport to prepare to return to Huaxia.

They each bought a lot of things to take home to give to their friends and family.

Of course, Ji Cheng is no exception, yesterday afternoon, after appraising the Guoguang short knife and wood carving, he and Master Cheng and Cheng Hailin came to make a ruthless purchase on Fifth Avenue and bought a lot of luxury goods to take back.

Airport, in the departure lounge.

Ji Cheng kept looking at his phone and muttered, "Why hasn't the money arrived yet?" ”

In fact, after signing the sales contract, Ji Cheng is not afraid that the gang will not give money, otherwise he will win the lawsuit, just saying that he will lose face for the group of rich people if he takes something and does not give money, and ordinary people will not be so shameless.

And as Ji Cheng's business is getting bigger and bigger, many things are also changing, he knows that sometimes it is time to raise funds for customers, hey, what are you worried about, the money will definitely arrive sooner or later.

I am so broad-hearted!

Okay, let's stop blowing it, hurry up and see if the money has arrived.

Ji Cheng turned on his mobile phone to look at the bank information.

There is still half an hour to board.

Why hasn't the money come yet?

Twenty-eight minutes to go.

These beauties won't lie to me, will they?

Twenty-six minutes left to board.

Should I call the police?

Well, how could Ji Cheng not worry about the money not being in his account, after all, it was more than 200 million US dollars, and he kept staring at his mobile phone.

Finally, about five minutes before boarding, Ding Dong Ding Dong messages came in one after another!

$130 million!

Three million dollars!

Five three million dollars!

One after another, and according to Ji Cheng's observation, this group of super-rich people are very measured, and each remittance corresponds to the purchase price of each thing, rather than being remitted together, so that even if there is any problem in the future, it will not cause too much trouble.

When the last $50 million for Xiao Lizi's purchase of "Portrait of Jacob III" arrived, Ji Cheng's $269.9 million from selling art, jewelry, and antiques yesterday had all arrived!