Through the phone call from the landlady, Xu Huang knew that the items he bought were probably genuine, which would increase their value.
After that, he returned to Taiwan with these ancient documents, and then went to the National Palace Museum in Wanwan Province to ask researchers about the value of these treasures.
"Mr. Xu, these are all true. They are really very precious. These are the imperial edicts of South Vietnam."
Xu Huang was very surprised to know that he had found the treasure, but the researcher's next words disappointed him.
"But I'm sorry, the Forbidden City does not collect foreign cultural relics. You can only collect these files by yourself. If you want to study in depth, you can apply to borrow rare books from our museum library for research."
This reply surprised Xu Huang. These were obviously very valuable historical relics, but they could not be properly protected.
At that time, Xu Huang suddenly had an idea: "If the government is not willing to do it, then let me do it!"
He turned to the library and studied the Chinese literature of South Vietnam.
A small turning point can change a person greatly.
Just such an accident made a person change his mind from a businessman who wanted to resell and make a profit to a collector and researcher who wanted to preserve culture.
From then on, he devoted himself to the protection of cultural relics in South Vietnam and even "understood the history of Vietnamese cultural relics better than the South Vietnamese."
In this way, Xu Huang began to develop his own business in South Vietnam. At the same time, he also traveled all over South Vietnam, actively searching for the lost ancient Chinese documents in South Vietnam.
He regards collecting as the only serious thing besides doing business in a foreign land, and sometimes even regards it as his mission.
In this process, although he cannot be said to have lost everything, it can definitely be said that he spent everything he had.
As long as you have plenty of money and you see something valuable that is worth buying, you will never hesitate to spend money.
And the strange thing is that every time when he reaches a certain stage in his collection and research and encounters a bottleneck, precious objects will appear to inspire him.
Sometimes he had to sigh, maybe this is his destiny!
Seeing this, Chen Wenzhe also sighed with emotion, people just have a good life!
Not only was he born in a good era, but he was also very lucky. Otherwise, how could he have prospered if he didn't die?
Through a set of manuscripts, it is very interesting to see a person blowing water and telling stories.
After all, these stories represent some precious cultural relics of South Vietnam.
It was in these little stories that Chen Wenzhe found clues and might also get an imperial edict.
The luck of this great collector has continued. Of course, sometimes luck still favors some special people, such as those with special vision.
In fact, in South Vietnam, there is still a class consciousness between the rich and the poor. Because of poverty and lowly occupation, people are often discriminated against and looked down upon.
But what Xu Huang likes to interact with the most is the little people at the bottom of society, such as tricycle drivers.
He really has a unique vision, because when Chen Wenzhe looked back, he saw him lamenting many times: "The tricycle drivers who run around in the streets and alleys every day know best where to find good things."
This can also be regarded as his wisdom in life. As long as you have a heart, you will gain something.
One time when he was chatting with the owner of a tricycle, he learned that a grandma in the country was chopping vegetables with an antique, and he immediately rushed over.
When he arrived at the place, he found the chopping board, which looked very special.
Although the area around the board looked dark and dirty, they were still using it.
He asked if he could let me take a look. When he turned the board over to the back, he was shocked.
Although he didn't understand the stereotyped images of seal characters at that time, he knew that the age of this woodblock board could be traced back to at least four to five hundred years ago.
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He told the old woman that he would buy a new cutting board and trade her for the wooden board.
Not only did she agree, she also said in turn: "There are many books and wooden boards like this at home. Do you want to buy them?"
Who can compare to this kind of luck?
Such a situation may be encountered in China in the early 1980s, but it has become a legend since then.
Chen Wenzhe really didn't expect that such good things would happen in South Vietnam more than 20 years ago. It's a pity that he was born at the wrong time!
At that time, Xu Huang, a generous man, met many South Vietnamese folk friends.
South Vietnam is deeply influenced by Confucian culture and respects scholars very much. When many South Vietnamese people knew that Xu Huang was studying ancient South Vietnamese documents, they traveled all over the country to preserve South Vietnam's history and culture. In addition to being surprised by the efforts of this crooked man, they also actively
provide assistance.
Many South Vietnamese folks are also happy to hand over cultural relics to Xu Huang because they know that he will inherit and protect these objects well.
"We all feel that he is already a South Vietnamese." The South Vietnamese who copied the book would say this from time to time.
And he was not the only one, many of Xu Huang's South Vietnamese friends said this.
Being recognized by the South Vietnamese people naturally brings a lot of benefits.
The meaning of collection is to share learning and dissemination, and Xu Huang has not hesitated to share his research and collection experience over the years.
As long as it is something meaningful, he will cooperate and even take the time to patiently explain and share.
If he heard from others, Chen Wenzhe would not believe that this person was so great, but through retrospection, Chen Wenzhe believed it because he saw the most authentic collector.
While sighing, I skipped some short stories about collecting and picking things up, so as not to continue to envy, envy, and hate.
Chen Wenzhe focuses on some cases of collection failure, that is, the kind of great regret expressed in a regretful tone. This is Chen Wenzhe's opportunity.
In fact, there are many such opportunities, and the one that Chen Wenzhe likes the most is the one related to the imperial edict.
In fact, the story is very simple. One time Xu Huang was in the countryside and found a family that collected the imperial edicts of the South Vietnamese Emperor.
He came to inquire about the acquisition, but was temporarily reneged on it.
It turns out that this imperial decree once saved the lives of the family.
During the Vietnam War, the Southern Dynasty sent troops to suppress the Vietnamese Red Party in the countryside. This family, who was mistaken for the Vietnamese Red Party, produced an imperial edict in Chinese to prove that they were not the Red Party, but were from the old South Vietnamese dynasty.
The soldiers of the Southern Dynasty, who could still read Chinese at that time, saw that this was the emperor's imperial edict, and by chance they spared the family.
Anyone who knows about such a cultural relic with a story wants it, but it’s a pity that they don’t want to sell it.
But that was the original, thirty years ago and now are different.
It turned out that the elders of his family felt that the imperial edict had saved their family's lives, so they naturally did not want to sell it.
However, with the reform and opening up, just like in China, the people of South Vietnam in this era have also begun to focus on money, and naturally want to sell this imperial edict at a high price.
Chen Wenzhe went over to talk to someone, and the deal was settled, but the price was a bit expensive.
All the waiting is valuable.
The person who came was a man with a standard South Vietnamese appearance, short in stature and with a dark face.
But you really can't judge a book by its appearance. This man speaks fluent Mandarin.
When Chen Wenzhe saw a piece of yellow paper, he immediately started backtracking.