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If someone speaks Mandarin so well, he must know the words above.
After a quick glance at the history of this thing, Chen Wenzhe knew that it was a real imperial edict. It was 130 centimeters long and 65 centimeters wide.
Because he had done his homework long ago, Chen Wenzhe knew that this was an imperial edict.
In ancient times, emperors issued edicts to the world, granted officials gifts, issued edicts to foreign vassals, and handled military and state affairs. The documents issued were collectively called edicts, and were commonly known as imperial edicts among the people.
Due to the different institutions and functions of edicts and announcements, there are many names, such as imperial edict, imperial edict, edict, edict, golden list, volume, book, talisman, edict, etc.
Imperial edicts and imperial edicts are extremely important imperial edict documents.
In ancient South Vietnam, the Nei Di system was implemented, and this imperial edict system was also learned exactly the same.
This South Vietnamese edict follows the Chinese style and is entirely in Chinese. The difference is that the size is wider and shorter than the domestic ones, and the texture is made of paper. Gold and silver powder is used to draw exquisite dragons, clouds, and auspicious patterns on both sides.
The reverse side shows the Chinese green dragon, red bird, and black basalt, but the white tiger is changed into a unicorn.
The national seal and jade seal in the imperial edict were all given by the Chinese emperor as the "treasure of imperial decree".
The introduction of Buddhism in South Vietnam was also reflected in the imperial decrees, and the admiration for gods was revealed in every word of the imperial decree.
In the ancient dynasties of South Vietnam, all major national events or grand celebrations, such as the emperor's accession to the throne, wedding, pro-government, Bintian, acceptance of the throne, restoration, constitution, major disasters, etc., would have the emperor issue an edict to inform the world.
There is a certain format for the edict to be drafted. The first sentence must be "To carry heaven's fortune, the emperor will make it happen", the last sentence is "to announce to the world, and the envoys will hear about it", and in the middle is to describe the content of the edict to the world.
The materials of this imperial edict are very exquisite. They are all damask fabrics made of fine silk. The patterns are mostly auspicious clouds and are magnificent.
There is also a flying silver dragon above the imperial edict as an anti-counterfeiting sign.
As documents and orders issued by emperors of all dynasties, as well as edicts or edicts that bestow gifts on meritorious officials or confer titles on them, the richer the color of the edict, the higher the official title of the official who receives the gift.
There are no hard and fast rules on the length of the imperial edict in the past: the long one can be up to 500 centimeters, the short one is about 200 centimeters, and the width is generally about 33 centimeters, with the emperor's seal printed on it.
After carefully looking at the content, Chen Wenzhe discovered that it seemed to be an edict used by the South Vietnamese emperor to confer a princess.
The beginning is Emperor Ruoyue and the ending is right. This is definitely not an ordinary thing.
It's a pity that this is not an imperial edict from the domestic emperor to confer the title of South Vietnamese Puppet King, otherwise it would be interesting.
"This is indeed an imperial edict, I will give you 360 million!"
After seeing something, Chen Wenzhe made a direct bid. He did not play tricks and directly bid 100,000 yuan!
This is the agreed price. As long as the items are right, no matter the size, each portion is 100,000 yuan. Otherwise, it really won’t attract people to automatically deliver it to their door.
The value of an imperial edict also depends on who issued it and the content recorded in it.
This one is obviously not very important. After all, it is just an edict to canonize a princess. If it is to canonize a queen, its value will be even higher.
The visitor also knew the value of the things he brought and knew that Chen Wenzhe would pay a high price, so when he heard that the price was 360 million dong, he was full of surprise.
If both parties are happy, the transaction will naturally go smoothly.
However, this time Chen Wenzhe's luck seems to have not run out yet.
After he paid 360 million South Vietnamese dong to the other party, the other party turned around and took a bag and took out a lot of folded pages.
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Seeing this situation, Chen Wenzhe was stunned. Can he encounter a situation where treasures are piled up now? You must know that this is not thirty years ago.
"My family didn't sell the imperial edict back then, and we certainly won't sell it now. We collected this imperial edict later, and we also received so many memorials along with it!"
Chen Wenzhe suddenly realized that this was the case.
No wonder Wanwan didn't buy it back then, but he asked a little and got a positive answer.
It turned out that the family never thought about selling the family heirloom, but later got into this line of business.
Since we know that the imperial edict is valuable, it is normal for a local to acquire this thing for a long time and gain something after the family conditions are better.
Besides, there seems to be a lot of this stuff in this country.
Chen Wenzhe has not been idle for a while. Although he has not received many treasures, he has a thorough understanding of some relevant information.
Still over there in Wanwan, there was a tea farmer who was doing business in South Vietnam in the early days. By chance, he bought a batch of precious modern historical relics such as memorials and imperial edicts written in traditional Chinese characters from the Ming and Qing emperors that had been left behind by the people.
After the tea farmer privately asked experts to identify it, he determined that it was a priceless "national treasure".
Recently, the South Vietnam Hannan Research Institute tried to buy it back through channels, but the goal was not achieved.
I have to say that it is really easy to gain something if you are born at the right time.
Take this tea farmer for example. When he went to South Vietnam to sell frozen top oolong tea more than ten years ago, he accidentally bought something at a second-hand book stall. How could he have thought that it was a national treasure of South Vietnam?
Just once, he bought two Chinese "memorials" of the Qing Dynasty.
Later, with the help of his friends, he successively collected and purchased more than 100 imperial edicts, edicts, edicts, edicts and other large and small items of the emperor from the private sector, as well as 54 memorials.
All these things were brought back to him for collection.
Because he was busy recording tea affairs, he recently asked historical experts to identify them, and the experts confirmed that these items were "authentic".
Before South Vietnam was invaded by the French army, it was a vassal state in Chinese history. During this period, the imperial edicts issued by the thirteen emperors were all recorded in Chinese.
After the Vietnam War, they lived among the people. However, the Vietnamese people were financially poor and had no knowledge or feeling for the Chinese language. Therefore, they did not know how to cherish it and sold it.
Chen Wenzhe paid 100,000 yuan for the imperial edict just now, which was the same price he paid for the imperial edict back then.
The tea farmer spent tens of millions of yuan to buy these ancient cultural relics.
On average, one piece only costs 60,000 to 70,000 yuan. After all, 1,560 pieces cost tens of millions of yuan.
However, the ten million dollars back then are incomparable to what they are now. If inflation is included, the price of one hundred thousand edicts is certainly not high.
However, if everything is calculated according to one hundred thousand, this South Vietnamese will make a lot of money.
Looking at these folded pages, there are Zhu's comments inside. This must be a memorial.
In addition to imperial edicts, the emperor also had Zhu Pi. These Zhu Pi were the emperor's opinions in reply to ministers' memorials.
Memorials are a document used by senior officials to report affairs to the emperor. Nanyue imitated the imperial system of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the early days, only certain ministers were given the power to make secret memorials. After approval by Emperor Zhu, the original memorial was issued.
Later, the emperor expanded the scope of use of memorials and established a return system, that is, all memorials approved by the emperor were returned to the palace for storage, and ministers were not allowed to keep them privately. This was followed by successive dynasties and became a custom.
After the establishment of the Secret Academy, all memorials approved by Emperor Zhu must first be handed over to the Secret Academy, where a copy will be copied and kept for future reference, which is called the "Memories and Records Vice".