Chapter 346: Taking Stock of the Harvest
Liu Guangqi originally came to check these treasures with full expectations, but when he walked through these boxes, he found that the situation was a little bad, just now in the secret room because of the bad light, and the time was pressing, so Liu Guangqi did not carefully check these things.
But now that the sky is shining now, Liu Guangqi suddenly found that half of the more than 100 boxes did not look like boxes for treasures, but more like ammunition boxes for weapons.
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In order to verify his conjecture, Liu Guangqi quickly opened a box, and sure enough, there were ten brand-new Monagan sins neatly placed in the box. Seeing these ten rifles, Liu Guang kicked the box in unison.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Liu Guangqi's angry appearance, Bai Hui on the side walked over.
"See for yourself"
Liu Guangqi covered his head and pointed to the wooden box in front of him, with an ugly expression as if he wanted to eat poop.
"Why are there guns in here, these boxes won't all be guns, wouldn't it be in vain?"
Bai Hui was also startled when she saw the rifle in the box. Then he reacted and asked with a painful face.
"Probably not, the outermost box when I collected it must have been a treasure. You get up first."
In order to find out what the boxes stored, Liu Guangqi picked up the crowbar and started to do it. For the next three hours, Liu Guangqi didn't stop for a moment, and finally figured out the contents of the box.
As Liu Guangqi estimated, 65 of the more than 100 boxes contained munitions, a total of 450 Monagan Sin, 36 Madsen's light machine guns, five Makqin heavy machine guns, and more than 100,000 rounds of ammunition of various types, which was enough for Li Yunlong to arm two battalions during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
It seems that the Russian royal family still has some other thoughts, and left a little backhand, but this backhand is not used.
In addition to these, the remaining forty or so boxes contained things that made Liu Guangqi more pleasant, especially the ten full boxes of gold bars weighing two tons, Liu Guangqi was dumbfounded, you must know that he had only found 800 kilograms of gold in Cixi's treasure, and this time it directly more than doubled for him.
In addition to the gold, the rest of the chests were filled with valuables. There are jewelry, there are Western artworks, oil paintings, porcelain, and there are also antique jade objects from the East.
What shocked Liu Guangqi the most was the twenty boxes full of jewelry, and the first thing that caught his eye when he opened a box was the dazzling brilliance of the various gems on the jewelry.
Unlike the restrained Oriental jewelry, each piece of these jewelry is extremely luxurious, full of jewels, and the inlaid with either diamonds, ruby sapphires, and the most advanced are crystals and pearls, anyway, the more shiny the better.
Although it looks a little tacky in terms of materials, it does not look tacky at all under the design of jewelry designers, but is full of ingenuity.
After the shock, he was puzzled, how could Liu Guangqi not understand how the Tsarist royal family could have so many jewelry, and if there were three or five boxes of Liu Guangqi, he would not be surprised.
After all, the royal family, it's normal to have more jewelry. But twenty boxes are too much, although these boxes of jewelry are not big, but a box with one or two hundred pieces of jewelry is no problem, a box is counted as two hundred, twenty boxes are more than 40,000 pieces of jewelry. Could it be that the royal family put all the jewels here.
Of course, Liu Guangqi naturally won't dislike these things, the more these things, the better, he is simply curious, can a woman from the Tsarist royal family wear so many jewelry, this is too crazy.
Liu Guangqi didn't know that it was all this, but it was actually the Russian Tsar Peter the Great hundreds of years ago.
As the fifth tsar of the Russian Romanov dynasty, the first emperor of the Russian Empire, and one of the two great emperors in Russian history, Peter the Great, he had an almost paranoid fanaticism for jewelry, and even deliberately issued a special order to protect treasures, requiring the people of the country not to sell precious jewelry and ornaments at will, and diamonds and jewelry above a certain weight must be purchased by the royal family.
In addition, Peter the Great searched the world for diamond beads, and built a mysterious building in the Hermitage of St. Petersburg, where he lived, and treasured all the jewels he collected, and the place was also made available to outsiders. The world calls it the Diamond Vault.
After several generations of royal collection, Russia's diamond vault eventually became the world's largest concentration of precious diamonds, including three of the world's top 10 largest diamonds.
Influenced by Peter the Great, both the later Catherine II and the last Tsar Nicholas II perfectly inherited his taste for jewelry.
Especially Empress Catherine II, someone once said that if every woman in the world loves diamonds, then the woman who loves diamonds the most is Catherine II. One of her Bibles alone has a silver cover set with 3,017 diamonds. Not to mention her crown and scepter.
Even Alice, a British princess who married into the Russian royal family, wrote in shock in a letter to her mother Victoria: "The jewels in the Tsar's palace may not even be comparable to your collection." β
You must know that the British Empire at that time was an empire rich in the world and the sun never sets, and it is enough to show how amazing the jewelry vault of the Tsarist Russian royal family is to make the princesses of the British Empire feel such feelings.
The royal family's pursuit of jewelry soon spread to the people, and even affected every person in Russia, and some people once commented on Russia
"It's a magical country, and even if women are too poor to afford bread, they still proudly wear their mink coats, sparkling pearl necklaces and diamond necklaces to the theater and watch a ballet."
From this comment is enough to see the Russians' pursuit of jewelry, it can be said that if a Russian does not have a few pieces of jewelry at home, then this life will not be able to go on at all, even now Russia has changed from the original Tsarist Russia to the Soviet Union, this problem has not been changed.
In addition to these 20 boxes of jewelry, Liu Guangqi also found some exquisite porcelain and artworks in this box, including more than a dozen easter eggs, these easter eggs are not the easter eggs at the back of the movie, but the famous Russian jeweler FabergΓ© made easter eggs for the royal family, which can be counted as jewelry or a work of art, which uses up all kinds of precious materials, including amber and tortoiseshell.
Along with these eggs, there is also some porcelain, which is not Chinese porcelain, but Western porcelain, and many people know that China is the birthplace of porcelain, and has a long history, but few people know that after the eighteenth century, the Western porcelain firing technique has surpassed that of China. And through the new, the porcelain that conforms to the aesthetics of Westerners has been fired.
Although the price of these porcelains in later auctions is not high, it is mainly because its history is too short and the number of surviving porcelains is large, unlike Chinese porcelain, which is often hundreds or thousands of years old
These porcelains are divided into two categories, one is ornamental porcelain, the other is the porcelain used daily, the daily use is naturally the plate and cup, the ornamental category can be more, there are portraits, animals, and vases. No matter what kind of workmanship it is, it is very exquisite, even extravagant, full of baroque and rococo style, and some of them are completely showing off in Liu Guangqi's opinion.
In addition to these, there are two boxes of antique jade from China, as well as several large boxes of oil paintings painted by Western celebrities, Liu Guangqi does not understand oil paintings, so many oil paintings Liu Guangqi only recognized a pair of Van Gogh, after all, Van Gogh's paintings are too distinctive, as for the others, I don't know any of them, but they can be collected by the royal family, and they are all painted by celebrities.
After checking these things, Liu Guangqi began to classify these things, after all, so many things can't be kept here all the time. In particular, there are guns in it, so it will be troublesome if a child accidentally touches a misfire.
But now Liu Guangqi has also learned to be smart, and he is no longer stupid to move by himself. Instead, use your ability to get things to the real world first, then go back to the space and run to the place where you want to store the things, and then come out and bring the things back to the space, which is simple and labor-saving.
"Take care of these things, and don't let your children break them."
Looking at the three girls who were circling around the dozens of boxes of jewelry, Liu Guangqi reminded him, and then began to get busy.
"Don't"
Soon Liu Guangqi put the arms, gold and jewelry in their respective places, and just as he was about to put the porcelain and oil paintings away, he saw Xu Huizhi take out a pair of oil paintings from a painting tube and spread them on the box to open them. Seeing this scene, Liu Guangqi hurriedly stepped forward to stop it, but unfortunately it was too late, Xu Huizhi had already opened the painting and put her head together.
"Ahh
Seeing the things on the canvas, Xu Huizhi's face suddenly turned red, and she screamed shyly, and then threw the painting in her hand out as if she had got a hot potato.
"You rascal"
"How am I a hooligan. What did I do. β
After being scolded, Liu Guangqi asked with a confused expression.
"You know what you're doing, don't you already know what is on this painting?"
"I don't know what's drawn on it. So that's it. β
Liu Guangqi walked up to him and took a look at the things on the painting, and suddenly realized, no wonder the three girls blushed after seeing it.
"This is a kind of subject matter of European oil painting, mainly to resist oppression and show the natural beauty of the human body, in addition to this kind of painting, there are many sculptures of this theme, which is a very common thing in the West."
Liu Guangqi looked at the third girl and explained.
"Then what did you just scream for?"
Yunzi asked with a red face.
"I just yelled because this scroll has been around for too long to be opened like that, and see for yourselves if there are a lot of cracks on it. Don't underestimate these cracks, if you can't get it, you will be worth this painting."
Liu Guangqi pointed to the tiny cracks on the oil painting and said.
"The impact is the impact, and this kind of thing is better ruined. You say no. β
Bai Hui said with a disgusted face
"That's right"
"It is"
Xu Huizhi and Yunzi also echoed.
"Alright, alright, don't stay here, go back and rest."
Seeing that the three girls were unreasonable, Liu Guangqi waved his hand and drove the three of them back to the small western-style building, and after he was done, the three girls had already returned to their respective houses to make up for sleep.
"Ah, comfortable"
After being busy for several hours, Liu Guangqi, who was already tired, came to the bathroom and put a full tank of hot water for himself. Then he dragged his tired body and sat in. Soaking his head in the slightly hot water, and then slamming it out, Liu Guangqi couldn't help but let out a hearty moan.
Just when Liu Guangqi was enjoying the fun of bathing with his eyes closed, the sound of slippers suddenly sounded behind him, followed by the sound of someone entering the water
Then Liu Guangqi felt a pair of delicate and delicate little hands on his temples, and pressed them lightly and heavily.
"Why are you?"
Liu Guangqi thought it was Xu Huizhi, but he didn't expect to open his eyes and see Yunzi's little face.
"Sister Huizhi is busy watching the children, so she doesn't have time to come over, and Sister Huizi is inconvenient today."
Yunzi explained.
"Oh"
Liu Guangqi responded, then closed his eyes while enjoying Yunzi's service, and made small movements on Yunzi's chest. After pressing their temples, the two of them switched positions and pressed their necks and shoulders again.
Then the posture of the two became more and more ambiguous, feeling that the heat was almost over, Liu Guangqi was no longer polite, and walked towards her room with Yunzi on his shoulder.
After a night of romance, Liu Guangqi ushered in the early morning of the next day. In order to prevent the Vladimir family from discovering the abnormality, Liu Guangqi got up from Yun Zixiang's soft arms at more than five o'clock.
"Dear Davaris Liu, you are really amazing, I have never seen anyone as good as you, where did you get your wine, it is really too strong, I have never drunk such strong vodka, my head is still hurting."
After feeling the sound of someone moving outside the room, Liu Guangqi also got dressed and walked out. As soon as I opened the door, I met Andre coming down from upstairs.
After seeing Liu Guangqi, Andre covered his head and praised Liu Guangqi's drinking.
"I distilled it myself with vodka, and it was 96 degrees pure, and I usually use it as a base and drink it with other drinks."
Liu Guangqi explained with a smile.
"Oh my God, 96 degrees, that's no different from direct alcohol. It's amazing that you can drink so much wine with such a high number of high numbers. β
Hearing this, Andre gave Liu Guangqi a thumbs up again.
"You look good, Vladimir"
After greeting Andrei, Vladimir also followed him down from the upper floor, he was in much better shape than the old Andrei, and it seemed that he had a good rest last night.
"It's not comparable to you, my God, if I were you, I wouldn't be able to stand up today, and I'm even ready to ask for leave for you."
Vladimir looked at Liu Guangqi in disbelief. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that a man who drank five bottles of vodka and a dozen beers would actually stand in front of him like nothing for a few hours.
"Small meaning. You might as well think about where you can take me to play today. β
Liu Guangqi smiled smugly at Vladimir.
After gobbling up Yin Wa's breakfast, Vladimir took Liu Guangqi back to Moscow, and walked around various attractions in Moscow before sending Liu Guangqi back to the guest house.
Back at the guest house, Liu Guangqi was about to go into his room to take a nap and rest, when he saw Wang Dongfang and Qi Sheng walking out of Li Xizheng's room dressed as dogs.
"You're back. Guangqi, have you had fun these two days. β
"It's okay, I'm very happy, and I've gained a lot."
Thinking of last night's harvest, Liu Guangqi smiled very brightly. After laughing, Liu Guangqi looked at the three of them and asked.
"Dressed up so slick and slippery, what are you going to do?"
"Of course, I went to the ball, and our embassy and several universities in Moscow organized an exchange dance at the Palace of Culture, inviting students from all over the world to participate. I've heard that there are a lot of beautiful Soviet schoolgirls who will come over, do you want to go?"
Li Xizheng said excitedly.
"Forget it."
Seeing the three of them eager to try, Liu Guangqi refused with a smile. This kind of dance is said to be an exchange dance, but a few of them are exchange and learning, and they are basically going to flirt, of course, they are all young people in their early twenties, and it is understandable that the restlessness of adolescence has nowhere to vent.