Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Secret Recipe Auction
Gao Pet looked at the fierce competition below, he didn't know that there was such a treasure, this is a priceless treasure, remember that the four sheep Fangzun has experienced a strange experience since the discovery, one morning in April 1938, on the Zhuan Erlun Mountain in Huangcai Town, Ningxiang County, Hunan Province, Jiang Jingshu, Jiang Jingqiao, and Jiang Xiqiao brothers were planting sweet potatoes in the middle of the mountainside. Suddenly, the sound of metal colliding with the hoe "dang" caught their attention. A huge metal artifact appeared in front of Jiang Jingshu's brothers. They didn't know what the dark green thing with four curly horned sheep's heads was, and they guessed it must be a treasure. This incident made the boss of Wanli Mountain in Huangcai Town also get the news at the first time, and he immediately offered a price of 400 oceans to buy this rare treasure that was later called "Siyang Fangzun". Four hundred oceans, and finally in Jiang Jingshu's hands, there were only two hundred and forty-eight pieces left. When Jiang Jingshu sold the treasure, he also subconsciously left the piece of knockdown as a souvenir.
The news of the excavation of Siyang Fangzun was soon learned by the Changsha County Government. In order to prevent profiteers from selling national treasures to foreigners, the Changsha county government immediately sent police officers to investigate and deal with the matter, confiscated the Siyang Fangzun, and handed it over to the Hunan provincial government. After the confiscation of the treasure, it was placed in the office of Zhang Zhizhong, then chairman of Hunan Province, although Zhang Zhizhong knew that it was a treasure, but he did not know what value it had, and actually put the treasure as a pen holder on several cases for three months.
Soon, the Japanese invaded Changsha, and Siyang Fangzun was sent to the Hunan Provincial Bank for safekeeping. In November 1938, the Kuomintang Hunan Provincial Government and the Provincial Bank both moved to Yuanling. In order to prevent the intact city of Changsha from falling into the hands of the Japanese invaders, the authorities decided to implement a "scorched earth policy". On November 12, the fire, which lasted for two days and two nights, burned down nearly 80% of the buildings in Changsha City, known as the "Wenxi Fire". This fire not only burned down Changsha City, but also caused the Siyang Fangzun to be lost in the war.
After the liberation of the government attaches great importance to the search for this cultural relic, in 1952, after many verifications, it was learned that Siyang Fangzun was on the way to Yuanling with the Hunan Provincial Bank, the convoy was bombed by Japanese aircraft, and the vehicle carrying Siyang Fangzun was unfortunately shot, and Siyang Fangzun was blown into more than 20 pieces. Since then, the fragments have been discarded in a wooden box in the warehouse of the Hunan Provincial Bank, where they have not been cared for for for more than a decade. After finding these fragments, it took more than a year for Zhang Xinruhua, a domestic cultural relics restorer, to complete the restoration, but the last time I looked at it, there was still a piece missing from this Fang Zun. It turned out that when the farmer Jiang Jingshu sold his respect to an antique dealer, he consciously left a piece of the hoe as a souvenir. This matter was discovered in 1976 by Gao Zhixi, the former director of the Hunan Provincial Museum. In the end, it was over.
Gao Pet wondered if this Fang Zun was the same thing as the one discovered in 1938, or if it was not the original excavation site of the treasure discovered in 38? Was this original lost again and found by the Jiang brothers?
When the high pet woke up from the memory, the treasure had fallen from the hammer and was obtained by the seventh box for 125,000 yuan. Gao Zhong asked Lao Qian to check the characters in Box No. 7, only to find out that it was obtained by Qi Yu, maybe he wanted to dedicate this treasure to Dajin's Zong Han?
Now the rice is about five or six copper plates a catty, a stone 120 catties is 600 copper plates, the price of a horse is only fifteen to twenty guan, this four sheep bronze square is worth eight thousand horses or two hundred thousand stone grain, more than 20 million catties of rice noodles.
But this price is not high in relation to the value it has on its own.
The first treasure was auctioned, and other treasures were auctioned one after another.
In the next two days, Gao Chong also took a few things, such as a string of Guanyin Buddha pendant natural pearl necklace for the princess, and nearly 5,000 yuan for Deng Yu to take a jade dragon and phoenix gold hammer, which took more than 2,000 yuan, and Gao Zhong spent 8,000 yuan and also took a handwritten book of Tibetan Tantra's practice experience. However, it was sold and translated by Li You.
Xiping City was as lively as ever, some people from the Xinhe Auction House were happy, some were sad, some were stomping their feet because they didn't have enough money, and more people were excited to see this new sales model. Many merchants have recorded the layout, structure, and marketing behavior of the entire auction house so that they can go back and figure it out. This is a businessman with a heart.
After a few days of auctions, more than 1,800 pieces were auctioned one after another, and of course there were many unsuccessful auctions.
On the third day, Sino Auction House ushered in an auction*, and the last exhibit, "Wet Alchemy", was auctioned.
"Distinguished guests, the last treasure auctioned today, he is not a thing, he is a peerless secret recipe, the secret recipe of copper smelting, he is called 'wet copper alchemy'."
"Many guests may not believe why such a treasure would be put up for auction, so some people do not believe in its authenticity."
"You see, there is a small half bowl of red copper on my auction table, and its purity has reached more than ninety and eight, which was refined in the secret room of my Shinhoku, and it took less than a day."
"The products produced by Sino are absolutely genuine, believe in me, and I am convinced, yes."
"Copper smelting is money smelting, there is nothing wrong with it, the money we use every day is made of copper, and now countries do not have the ability to smelt copper to such purity."
"Okay, you believe in him, you don't believe him, this method is absolutely simple, convenient and practical, the reserve price of this secret recipe is 200,000, before the start of the auction, friendly reminder, this secret recipe is delivered before the cash is in place, and the penalty for breach of contract is 20% of the highest price. Start bidding now. ”
"Okay, it's the seventh again, the seventh that won the first peerless treasure, 300,000, 300,000 for the first time."
"No. 5, 400,000, No. 11 450,000, No. 4 550,000, the current appearance is already 550,000"
"No. 3 800,000, 800,000 for the first time" This is the bid of the Golden State. The eighth is the Song Kingdom, and there has been no movement.
"Good 800,000 for the second time, 800,000 for the second time, and there is not, okay, 850,000 for the 8th."
"One million, to a new price, number three, one million, number eight, one million fifty thousand, one million and fifty thousand"
"No. 3, 1.2 million" The scene suddenly quieted down, 1.2 million guan, the copper alone weighs more than 10 million catties, and the annual iron output of the Great Song Dynasty is only about 2 million catties, is this recipe really worth so much money?
"One million two thousand, twice, one million two thousand, twice, and there is no offer"
"No. 3 offer, 1.2 million, three times, deal" hammer fell.
Although the transaction was completed and the task was basically completed, the whole body was also soaked with sweat, and this auction bidding was much more tiring than fighting. So there is another factor in being so nervous is that I don't have so much money, at least not so much money now. The people below retreated one after another, and he was still slumped in his chair, he hadn't figured out how to deal with this delivery, he was a loud general, let him rob it, he could do it, but he said it and reversed himself, he couldn't afford to lose this person.
"There is no general, the lord has asked you to pay for it." This is the third time that Shinwa has come.
"You tell your master Li You, I want to see the owner of the treasure."
"According to the regulations, this must be agreed by the owner, and if the owner does not agree, we have no way to believe in peace."
Drag is not a way, or see Li You first.
"I will go to you Lord, and you will lead the way."
When he arrived in the living room, Li You came out early. The laugher said:
"I didn't set up a general, congratulations, congratulations, I got this secret recipe."
"There's nothing to be happy about, it's not mine, it's more tiring to do this stuff than to fight."
"Then there is no general, when will it be delivered, the other party will not have so much time to wait for you."
"You know, there's no way I'm going to bring that much money, I'm going to go back and come back to you."
"It doesn't matter that we have a three-month grace period for bulk closing, and if we don't close the deal within three months, we will be fined 20% of the turnover."
"You let that man hand over the recipe to me, I have a lot of gold, and it is impossible for a kingdom to owe you money."
"I didn't set up a general, I'm sorry, you can take back this copper sample, you Dajin can make such a pure red copper?"
"If I ask you to bring back the prescription, I will lose my trust, and besides, the owner said that it is impossible for him to hand over the prescription if he does not have cash, and we have no prescription in our hands. I'm sorry, please forgive me for not having a general. ”
How can I explain if I don't bring it back, and what is it if I bring back the sample that was refined? If you know who it is, maybe it would be easier.
"Master Li, can you let me meet the owner?"
"The owner said that for safety reasons, he would not let people know who he was."
"And you've seen him?"
"He came in masked every time he came."
"Then he's not coming, aren't you going to break the trust of others?"
"He has something important to suppress the letter of heaven, he exchanged his trust with me, and I lost my trust with you, but if I broke my trust with you, we will compensate for the loss according to the regulations, and this loss is 20% of the starting price."
Could it be that he copied this letter? Didn't I have the power I have? Do you pay the money and get the prescription, or find another way and let the master decide.