"What about the head of this Buddha statue?"

Chen Yanguang was startled by the headless Buddha statue at the door, and naturally wanted to figure out its origin.

"I don't know, that's how I bought it."

Boss Li stretched out his hand and asked everyone to take a look at the surrounding situation first.

The entire living room in the basement is full of stone Buddha statues, including complete Buddha statues, as well as many Buddha heads that have been cut off, and Buddha bodies that are missing Buddha heads.

I don't know, I thought there was some sculpture workshop.

"Brother Yang, how do you say it, is this thing worth anything?" Chen Yanguang was still paying attention to the Buddha statue at the door.

"Baoyou, the Buddha statues of the Sui Dynasty don't ask for a price!" Zhang Yang said with a smile.

", from the Sui Dynasty?" Chen Yanguang exclaimed.

He understands Buddha statues and knows how precious the Buddha statues of the Sui Dynasty are.

Basically, in the major provincial museums, there must be Sui Dynasty Buddha statues as collections.

"Director Zhang, you read that right? Is it really from the Sui Dynasty? Boss Li was also surprised.

He knew Zhang Yang's identity, so he hesitated for so long when he considered whether to bring them to this private treasure house.

When Boss Li went to Linhai, he didn't know that the Hailin Museum was private, in his eyes, such a magnificent and large museum must be official, so Zhang Yang must also be an official person.

That is, he is indeed confident in the source of his things, and he bought them with real money, so he dared to bring Zhang Yang over.

"There should be no doubt about this, probably the Buddha statue stolen from the Bazhong Grottoes in the last century." Zhang Yang replied seriously.

There are only a few places in China where the grottoes of the Sui Dynasty have been discovered, and most of them have entered the public eye since modern times, that is, after the death of the Qing Dynasty, and there is no secret.

Although it was chaotic in modern times, people's enthusiasm for collecting antiques at that time was no less than it is now, and many stone Buddha statues were cut from the stone walls at that time and then scattered all over the world.

"It's a pity that the Buddha's head is missing, which has greatly reduced the value of its cultural relics, and it is now expensive, that is, because there are too few stone statues in the Sui Dynasty."

"I bought it in Thailand." Boss Li explained, "The Buddha statues in this room are basically bought over there. ”

"Wasn't there a time when there was a craze for Buddha statues? At that time, I went to Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia, and I was selling Buddha statues everywhere. ”

"But I don't understand, many of them are exchanged for Hailao porcelain, so the quality is uneven."

"You can see it." Zhang Yang nodded, took two steps forward, looked around at the Buddha statues, and helped to identify them all.

"This is a third-century Gandhara style statue of the King of Peacocks;"

"The statue of Manjushri Bodhisattva in the Tang Dynasty, the Bodhisattva's head should have been accidentally broken when it was transported out of the country, and the stubble was very new, just a few decades of appearance;"

"The sitting statue of Guanyin during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, pay attention to the signature of the craftsman behind it, which should be enshrined in the stone Buddhist shrine in the southern region;"

"A ninth-century statue of Sakyamuni in Bihar, a state where India, Nepal and China meet, where Sakyamuni is said to have preached......"

Zhang Yang almost looked at the Buddha statue here of Boss Li, and the Buddha statue stood out as a messy and unruly.

The materials are sandstone, marble, black stone, and even Shoushan stone;

The style covers ancient India, Nepal, Tibetan, Khmer and so on;

The age ranges from antiques from the first century A.D. to crafts from more than 10 years ago.

"Boss Li, why are you all messing around?" Chen Yanguang felt very strange when he looked at it, he had never seen anyone collect Buddha statues like this, and even the scrap yard was more organized than this.

"I don't know anything but porcelain!"

"Many of these are paid for goods, and I shipped them back to Indonesia, but no one here believes in Buddhism (less than 1% of Indonesian people believe in Buddhism), and they can't be sold, so what else can I do?"

"If you two don't dislike it, I'll sell it to you?"

As he spoke, Boss Li picked up a small Buddha head and gestured to hand it to Chen Yanguang.

Chen Yanguang really took the Buddha's head.

He looked at Zhang Yang expectantly and asked, "Brother Yang, what do you say?" ”

"What do you say?"

"Shall we take the plate?"

"You can take the plate, I remember you don't have a dream of collecting?"

"I'll forget it." Zhang Yang shook his head, "There are enough complete Buddha statues in the museum, and these broken Buddha statues, I bought them back and put them in the warehouse to eat ashes, and I had to be inspected by the cultural relics department for three days and two ends, asking for trouble." ”

"Huh?" After hearing this, Chen Yanguang was a little disappointed.

But he looked around the stone statues in the room, and he was very reluctant.

At the beginning, fakes were bought wildly, and now the real thing is in front of you.

I really can't hold it!

In the end, I still asked Zhang Yang for help: "Help me think of a way?" I want to buy it, where do you think it's better. ”

Zhang Yang thought about it for a while, and finally gave an answer:

"Xiangjiang."

"I know a boss Lan over there, who is engaged in international art trade, I can ask him for help and give you a whole small exhibition hall, and all these things are placed in it."

"Okay! Then I want all the Chinese cultural relics here! ”

Chen Yanguang finished speaking with a proud face, and then looked at Boss Li, but found that people's eyes were on Zhang Yang.

"Director Zhang still has the resources of Xiangjiang?" Boss Li asked with interest.

"Oh? Could it be that Boss Li, you also have research on the art trade? Zhang Yang asked with a smile.

To be honest, with the fake foreign paintings I just saw, it was hard to believe that Boss Li had studied artworks.

The vassal elegance is not counted, it is more like an oil painting version of the National Treasure Gang.

"I just understand a little, I understand a little."

"My best field is Asian cultural relics, especially those of our Chinese and surrounding civilizations."

"Eh, Boss Li?" Chen Yanguang felt that the topic was off-topic, and repeated what he had just said, "I said, I want to buy all your Chinese Buddha statues here!" ”

"I heard you. Thank you, Mr. Chen! ”

"But there's no urgency, there's no need to be in such a hurry." Boss Li smiled and shook his head.

"What do you mean?" Chen Yanguang frowned, he felt like he was teasing a child.

"What Boss Li means is that he has something better, and you don't have to decide so quickly to just buy these stone Buddha statues."

"Hehe, Director Zhang is an expert at first glance."

Boss Li gave Zhang Yang a thumbs up, and then pointed to a hardcover iron door behind him.

The entire basement is very large, and they have only just walked around the living room now.

In fact, there are many small rooms, all hidden behind Buddha statues.

Compared to the basement, which only has a large locked iron door, the small room inside is obviously upgraded in security, and it even needs face recognition.

"How? This is a high-tech I bought from Germany a few years ago. Boss Li pointed to the smart lock and said proudly, "It has to be my face to open it, and it's useless to be a human skin mask." ”

"Well, this thing is now all in domestic supermarkets, and you can pay with your face."

"I know that, but I'm a lock, and the security is different."

"Face lock, it's cheaper than a thousand yuan." Chen Yanguang, who has just finished renovating his new house, said.

“……”

"Forget it, the lock is not important, and we don't understand high-tech." Boss Li waved his hand, pretending that nothing had happened, "Let's go, let's look at things first." ”

"This place is my room for collecting jade."

"Let's just take a look."

In the entire jade collection room, the most conspicuous thing is a large glass display case in the center of the room.

Like a display case of precious jewelry, a square booth covered with red brocade cloth is illuminated by warm lights, on which a jade-carved carriage is placed.

The jade is yellowish in the blue, and it is suspected that it is Tuqin.

It is a troika, the two horses in the middle are connected to the carriage body by the beams, and the two horses on the side are tied to jade carved chains.

An old man who looked like an emperor sat in a carriage.

The first time Zhang Yang saw this thing, he recognized its origin.

"I'm blanching, made in Pizhou!"

"Director Zhang, what did you just say?" Boss Li asked Zhang Yang in a daze.

"I said, this is a high ancient jade handicraft made in Pizhou, made of inferior Hetian green jade and white jade."

"Something fake?" Boss Li scratched his head, his expression a little cramped.

After all, he lives abroad, and he is not very suitable for Zhang Yang's straightforward way of speaking, for him, the impact of Zhang Yang's words is a bit too great.

After a few seconds of mental construction, he spoke again:

"When I bought it, people said that this was the Troika of the Son of Heaven in the Han Dynasty."

"Fake ancient jade is generally said to be from the Han Dynasty, because there are many burial goods in the Han tombs, and there are many jade artifacts unearthed." Zhang Yang explained simply.

"That's ......" The expression on Boss Li's face obviously didn't believe Zhang Yang's words.

He turned around and made a gesture of please.

"Director Zhang, then you can take a look at this again."

The display cabinet next to it didn't turn on the light, but at this time, Boss Li went over to turn on the light of the cabinet, and Zhang Yang saw the things inside.

Another troika.

This time it was even more outrageous than the one just now, with four horses, two in front and two in the back, connected by a jade-carved chain in the middle.

Anyone who has ever seen a carriage knows that without the girders, the two horses in front are not controlled at all.

The people who were embarrassed to fake also made chicken bone white and blood red for Hetian Qingyu, wasting a lot of chemical pigments.

"Boss Li, do you like carriages so much?" Zhang Yang asked curiously.

"That's right." Boss Li smiled and nodded violently, "The jade carriage is my proud work." ”

"When I'm collecting things that I don't know too much about, I have one way of thinking: buy more."

"My multi-buying is not a general purchase, the kind that buys watermelon today and sesame seeds tomorrow. I'm very focused, just buy one thing. ”

"In this room, except for the two white marble bowls over there, the others are ancient jade carriages, which are said to be more precious than bronze carriages."

"I see." Zhang Yang nodded, "Then let's go and see the white marble bowl." ”

"Wait." Boss Li suddenly felt that something was wrong, especially when he saw the smile on Chen Yanguang's face, "Director Zhang, I invited you to be a guest, and it's boring to hide it." ”

"These things, what's the problem, you say!"

"You really want to know?" Zhang Yang asked as he looked directly into Boss Li's eyes.

"I really want to, otherwise how could I invite Director Zhang to come over? I still want your help in selling these jade-carved carriages to the Saudis! ”

"That really doesn't sell ......"

Zhang Yang reluctantly took out the photos of Qin Shi Huang's troika and explained the structural characteristics of the troika.

In ancient times, horse-drawn carriages used wheels to conduct the pulling force of livestock, and used the crossings of the carriage to make the animals always move forward on a horizontal line, and the yoke was used to control the neck of the livestock.

But the two things that Boss Li just showed......

The first one simply did not have a chariot cross, and the second one was placed directly on the horse's back, which was no longer a problem of violating the ancient carriage regulations, but a problem with the counterfeiter's brain.

If a chain can tie a horse, the ancients were full of food and invented so many parts of the carriage.

"If it is built according to the first carriage, it will really run, and the four horses will be directly divided." Zhang Yang said helplessly.

"Poof~" Chen Yanguang burst out laughing.

"This ......" Boss Li touched his chin, and the two words uncomfortable were written on his face.

He smacked several times, and then circled around the display cabinets.

He lit the lights of the display cases one by one, revealing all kinds of jade-carved carriages inside.

They are basically three- or four-horse carriages, and almost all of them have a common feature, that is, they replace the wheels with chains.

"Two horses divided into corpses, three horses divided into corpses, six horses divided corpses, ......"

Chen Yanguang was addicted while watching, and finally laughed directly and hugged his stomach and squatted on the ground.

Zhang Yang himself was also very curious: "Boss Li, where did you get these things from?" ”

"It's not going to be a game, is it?"

"Probably not, there are several pieces here that I bought at auction in Singapore, including the middle one. The time span before and after is almost ten years. ”

Zhang Yang understood, that is, if he made a fake, he would buy one.

Many auction houses in Singapore are leather bag companies, the kind that sell a fake and disappear.

Only in this kind of place, will there be a rich businessman like Boss Li, who is both vegetable and fun-loving, and when he changes to China, it is estimated that when he buys the first one, he will be seen as a fake by the knowledgeable people around.

It is estimated that the people who make fake carriages also mutter, why have they made so many people, and there is not a single one circulating in the market?

It turned out that they were all hidden by Boss Li's golden house.

"What about the price of these carriages?" Zhang Yang asked.

"There is nothing less than four million."

"Then you come down in this room, isn't it ......?"

Zhang Yang felt that he might have met the most wronged collector of all time.

And it's the kind that takes the initiative to get up and send money.

"That's right, it adds up to about ...... About 200 million. Boss Li leaned on the side of the display case with his arms crossed and sighed.

The depression on his face is visible to the naked eye.

Zhang Yang praised Boss Li's mentality from the bottom of his heart, if someone else, this place should have been smashed.

Such an emotion is obviously not suitable for waiting to continue looking at antiques, Zhang Yang took the initiative to propose:

"Why don't we take a look at the white marble bowl you bought."

"Okay, I bought those two bowls from China." Boss Li took the initiative to introduce.

"The cultural relics of the Han Dynasty are not allowed to leave the country, I am smuggled out, Director Zhang, you won't report me, right?"

"No, no, no." Zhang Yang, who had already seen the bowl, shook his head, he turned to look at Chen Yanguang, who was still smiling, "Old Chen, if I am you, I won't laugh now." ”

"Come and have a look."

"What's wrong?" Chen Yanguang hurried up.

Seeing the white marble bowl of the same style of Hedong Group in the cabinet, Chen Yanguang was like a mang.

"This is smuggled by Boss Li at the risk of going to jail." Zhang Yang reminded in a low voice.

"Boss Li, don't talk about it, brother, I'll knock you one." Chen Yanguang turned around and bowed deeply to Boss Li.

(End of chapter)