Bai Lu didn't know much about Lu Qinzhai and the history that happened back then, and Lin Yi only knew a little, but he was still lacking in details.

As the apprentice of the shopkeeper of 'Wengu Zhai' Yue, Wang Xiangfu, who had experienced these past events, naturally understood these contents more carefully.

Uncle Wang took a string of small-leaved rosewood Buddha beads in his hand at random, twisted it in his hand, and told the two of them about the past.

"Compared with the "Emperor and Empress Buddha Picture" in the Longmen Grottoes in Luojing, the "Zhaoling Six Horses" buried in Zhaoling were targeted by foreigners earlier."

At the beginning of the last century, the rule of the Manchus was crumbling, and the Eight-Nation Coalition swaggered into the Forbidden City.

And with them came the people of the great powers.

They came to this land, not for tourism, but for treasure hunting, and after so many years of looting, they knew that there were treasures everywhere in this magical land.

A group of French foreigners, who claimed to be sinologists, took a group of photographers and others to visit Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Qin, Jin and other provinces in just a few months, inspecting cultural relics and historic sites, which lasted for ten months.

When I traveled to Zhaoling in Jiuzhi Mountain, I took photos of the "Six Horses of Zhaoling".

"Zhaoling Six Horses Tablet", originally divided into east and west two lines, displayed in the north of Zhaoling, the head is facing south. The west side, from south to north, is in turn Sa Lu Zi, Fist Mao, and White Hoof. The east line, from south to north, is the special service horse, the green horse, and the Shivachi.

These six steles belong to the relief stone carvings, which are carved to commemorate the six war horses that accompanied the Tang Taizong to conquer the territory.

It is said that the original painting of these six horses came from the hand of Yan Liben, a famous painter of the Tang Dynasty, with the calligraphy of the great calligrapher Ouyang Xun, as well as the praise inscribed by Taizong himself.

Previously, it had always existed on Jiuzhi Mountain, but it was a pity that it had escaped Wen Tao and Huang Chao, but it had not escaped the eyes of this group of foreigners.

When the French merchant Grouchan saw the photographs taken by his own people, he immediately became interested in the six reliefs.

So, he found Zhao Hefang, an antique dealer in Liulichang, and was willing to buy all the "six horses" and bring them back to France.

Zhao Hefang is a well-known profiteer in Liuli Factory, and he has done a lot of this kind of thing.

But this time, he was more greedy and wanted to play some tricks and eat two fish with one hand.

At that time, not long after Yuan Datou ascended the throne, his second son Yuan Kewen was building a large number of buildings in Shangjing and wanted to build a mansion for Yuan Datou.

After the construction started, according to Mr. Feng Shui, he lacked a stone tool for the town house here, otherwise the foundation would be unstable.

At that time, this Zhao Hefang thought of the "Zhaoling Six Horses".

This idea was discussed with Yuan Ergongzi, and it was hit off in an instant.

Taizong is a generation of male masters, able to fight well, if the "six horses" can be placed in the garden of the Yuan family, it will definitely be able to make "Longyan Dayue".

And wouldn't it be beautiful to steal treasures in the name of these Frenchmen, and when the time comes, play his "fairy jump"?

Just do it, Zhao Hefang took Grushang's deposit, came to Jiuzhi Mountain, and found a stonemason to break all the "Zhaoling Six Horses", ready to pack and transport away.

"Coincidentally" was discovered by Lu Jianzhang, the warlord of Sanqin at the time, and those who transported the stone knew that it was a felony, and immediately scattered as birds and beasts.

As everyone knows, Lu Jianzhang has long been in agreement with Yuan Ergongzi and Zhao Hefang and others, and the theft of the "Six Horses" will definitely cause public resentment to boil, because Tang Taizong's status among the people is still very high.

Therefore, at that time, a compromise was made, and the six horses, selected the second, put them in a wooden box with a special seal of Yuan Shikai's mansion, and transported them all the way to Shangjing.

The remaining fragments of the four horses, as Lu Jianzhang's "political achievements", were sent back to Zhaoling under the condemnation of the three Qin fathers.

The French businessman Ge Shanglu was put on a table by Zhao and Fang, and he could only eat it himself.

"After 'Sa Lu Zi' and 'Fist Mao' were transported to Shangjing, Zhao Hefang directly pulled these two boxes of stones into 'Wengu Zhai' in the middle of the night.

He personally told the shopkeeper that he had found a better buyer for this thing, and was willing to give ten 'big yellow croaker' in exchange for these two boxes of broken stones.

He also paid a lot of money himself, so he must let the shopkeeper make an imitation as soon as possible, and send it to Yuan's mansion after the splicing is completed.

The original product was returned to him and exchanged for the ten 'big yellow croaker'. ”

When the shopkeeper heard it, he immediately understood that this person who was willing to pay a lot of money to buy "Erjun" must be Lu Qinzhai.

This kind of large-scale stone carving, in that era of war and chaos, people who collect antiques will not even look at it.

They were still thinking about how to quickly cash out the things in their hands.

The only people who are interested in these things are foreigners.

As the largest of the "foreign trade" of the glaze factory, it is none other than Lu Qinzhai of the "Yongyi". ”

Lu Qinzhai was a person who had been smuggling cultural relics in the early part of the last century, and was the largest cultural relics dealer in Liuli Factory at that time.

He also opened an antique shop in New York and Paris at the time, and the smuggling business alone cost him thirty years.

According to incomplete statistics, during this period, hundreds of thousands of important national treasures flowed overseas through Lu Qinzhai's hands.

"According to Zhao Hefang's request, after the shopkeeper made a replica of 'Sa Lu Zi' and 'Fist Mao', he specially called Zhao Hefang to persuade him to send it to Yuan's mansion, at least to ensure that this thing is still on our territory and will not flow into the hands of foreigners.

Sell the imitation to Lu Qinzhai and let him use it to fool those foreigners.

I didn't expect this Zhao Hefang to be smart, he knew that Yuan Er's company was a mallet, and he couldn't tell the truth from the fake, so he sent the two pieces made by our shopkeeper to Yuan's mansion.

Lu Qinzhai had poisonous eyes and was not easy to fool, so in the end he sold the original product to Lu Qinzhai.

Lu Qinzhai sold two national treasures to the University of Pennsylvania Museum at a high price of 180,000 US dollars. ”

Hearing Uncle Wang say this, Bai Lu was finally able to interject a sentence.

"I know these two things are still on display in Penn's museums, and I've seen them."

"Alas, so you say, what is the matter with the things of our ancestors and put them with others?

This Boss Zhao is also confused, just with the craftsmanship of our shopkeeper, he Lu Qinzhai can see that it is an imitation, and then there is a ghost. ”

Hearing him say this, Lin Yi suddenly asked:

"How do you know that this Lu Qinzhai must not be able to see the authenticity?"

Uncle Wang waved his hand with disdain.

"Just by virtue of the descendants of their Lu family, they have taken more than 100 pieces of goods from me, and they haven't seen the problem once, so I know that their Lu family's ability is just like that.

My craftsmanship is not half of our shopkeeper's, and I can give them the descendants of the Lu family to play around, and I expect his old Lu to have much ability. ”

"Then how do you know the relationship between the Lu family and the 'Purple Marquis'?"

Uncle Wang sighed.

"This is still because of what our shopkeeper committed back then, the 'Emperor and Empress Buddha Map' went out from us, and the Lu family treated us as 'their own people'."

(End of chapter)