It is said, it is said that thirty years later, from 1920 to 1950, the two largest cultural relic dealers in China at that time were Lu Qinzhai and Yue Bin. The two of them together sold more foreign antiques.
Not as good as the one stolen by Xiao Ke.
The man surnamed Lu is quite impressive. The number of things he sold is conservatively estimated to be over 100,000 pieces, many of which are famous national treasures, such as the Salu Zi and Quan Maojun among the Six Horses of the Zhaoling Mausoleum of Li Shiming, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
Sui Dynasty white marble standing Buddha, etc., Pan Fang Lei, etc.
Yue Bin is also very creative. There is a TV series called May Sophora Flower Fragrance. In the TV series, Mr. Wang Gang plays the role of Shopkeeper Lan of Liulichang Antique Shop. In fact, the prototype of this character is Yue Bin.
Yue Bin was the main seller of Buddha heads at Qingzhou Temple in the Northern Qi Dynasty. It is said that he sold more than 800 Buddha heads in a year. Now that so many Buddha statues in movies have no Buddha heads, it is probably related to him.
There is also the giant stone sculpture of emperors and empresses worshiping Buddha that Emperor Xuanwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty built for his parents. Yue Bin smashed it into more than 200 pieces, packed it in nine large boxes, smuggled it out and put it back together again. There is one thing that many people don’t know.
, the nine boxes that were used to pack the pictures of the emperors and empresses paying homage to the Buddha were taken by water, and one of the boxes fell into the sea, resulting in the incomplete assembly of the later pictures of the emperors and empresses paying homage to the Buddha.
This thing is now hidden in a museum in the United States. Friends who are able to see it may wish to pay close attention to the lower right corner of the stone sculpture. Those with strong eyesight will definitely find something.
Let’s talk about it later.
Xiao Ke originally came to Yinchuan to go to the Xixia Emperor's Mausoleum at the foot of Helan Mountain. However, when he brought his people there, he was dumbfounded. There were nine sealed mounds in total. Not even a hair was left on the stolen ones. There were holes everywhere.
Yes, some caves are filled with water, and grass carp are as big as an arm.
Xiao Ke thought that this was not possible and he couldn't make the trip without taking an empty trip, so he asked around in Yinchuan and heard stories about Heishui City from the villagers.
Xiaoke trudged through the sand and encountered a sandstorm just like us. The person who saved Xiaoke was the grandfather of the old patriarch in front of me, Prince Darcy.
Prince Darcy said that he knew there was a place deep in the desert, which was somewhat similar to the place you were looking for. Xiao Ke was anxious and said, "Take me there quickly. What if you delay my tomb robbery?"
King Darcy saw that Xiao Ke had a big nose and dared to be so arrogant, so he immediately kicked them all away.
The desert is so big that Blackwater City cannot be found without the help of the Hute people. If Blackwater City cannot be found, there is no way to explain it to the Royal Geographical Society. After a few days, Xiaoke's service was weak, and he ran to find King Darcy again.
He said let's make peace and I'll give you a good thing. Then Xiao Ke gave Darcy Wang a set of the most advanced brass loudspeaker phonograph at the time.
A bunch of copper lumps could actually speak human language. Although King Darcy couldn't understand it, he liked it, so he happily accepted the phonograph and in return provided an experienced guide to the Xiao Ke Camel Team.
, this guide led them to the legendary desert city of Harahhot.
After arriving at the place, Xiaoke led people to dig for three days. He found two underground palaces and dug out a total of nine boxes of cultural relics. He was also a veteran, but he still couldn't understand these things dug out of the sand. This type of style
There were things he had never seen before. He had never seen anything like the three-headed Avalokitesvara statue, the eight-armed Dharma protector statue, the horse-headed king's wooden drawing board, etc.
Xiaoke thought these things were of average value, so he packed them and sent them to the Royal Geographical Society in his country, and then he went south to Sichuan.
More than a month later, these nine boxes arrived at the Royal Geographical Society.
After opening it, those people were dumbfounded. The old scholars with gray curly hair wore glasses and held magnifying glasses, and exclaimed: "Which dynasty is this from? How come this style has never been seen before? Is this something we know?"
Other medieval civilizations?”
Later, they realized the importance of this batch of things, and sent out more than a dozen telegrams in succession. The contents of the telegrams were all very similar, and they could be summed up in just two words.
