The young man was very anxious because Zhou Jimin’s meaning was very playful.
He had sold the porcelain in the room individually, but no one was willing to buy it, not even making an offer, so he rejected it.
Zhou Jimin and Wu Chengfeng now say this. Even if he is a fool, he should understand now.
"Are these porcelains in the room really fakes?"
The young man who fell into self-doubt muttered to himself.
At this moment, Zhou Jimin didn't see the other party replying to him after waiting for a while, so he simply left.
To be honest, he is not very short of cultural relics now. The reason why he collects them is more because he is worried that these cultural relics will be lost overseas.
Although he had previously raided the cultural relics in Wudu and Xiaoli, there must still be many hidden among the people.
Not to mention other more distant cultural relics, just the fact that the Eight-Power Allied Forces emptied the Old Summer Palace caused countless cultural relics to be lost overseas or damaged.
The most famous cultural relics such as the bronze statues of the twelve zodiac animal heads, the Zuo Shouting tripod made by Wang, the "Qichun Garden Shooting Willows", the tapestry Buddha statues and other cultural relics are still missing.
I heard that the most likely place for these cultural relics to appear is Luji Country.
It is a pity that Zhou Jimin has something to do every time he passes by the Luji Kingdom and does not look for these ancient cultural relics.
After all, compared to Fog City and Little Days, these two places have concentrated cultural relics.
Here in Luji Kingdom, most of the cultural relics are hidden, just like finding a needle in a haystack, it is too difficult to find.
There are many rich people in the entire Luji Kingdom, especially the nobles. Some nobles have several castles and manors. Who knows where they hide the cultural relics?
In the famous Bordeaux region, the wine base of Luji Country, there are thousands of castles.
Looking across the country, there are even more castles.
Therefore, Zhou Jimin’s search for ancient cultural relics in the Luji Kingdom is no different from searching for a needle in a haystack.
Of course he would not do such a thankless job foolishly.
After arriving on the ground, Wu Chengfeng came out not long after, followed by a thin young man with a very depressed expression.
"Comrade, are those porcelains really worthless?"
"I believe you must have asked more than just me. You must have asked others before I came here, right?"
Seeing the other party nodding, Zhou Jimin continued:
"It is definitely wrong to say it is worthless. An ordinary bowl is worth a few cents. However, the porcelain below is probably only a few yuan. After all, it is from the Republic of China.
Product..."
Counterfeiting of antiques was definitely at its most rampant during the Republic of China.
At that time, the war was chaotic and the warlords were separatist. Not only was the industry of gold captains very developed, but many warlords themselves even indulged their subordinates in digging ancient tombs in order to provide military pay.
The Dharani sutra quilt was mentioned earlier, and it was this guy Sun Dianying who made it.
In order to realize his ambition and make a fortune, Sun Dianying started the old nine men's business of trying to get the gold of the captain. He organized a group of people to blow up the tombs of Emperor Qianlong and the Empress Dowager Cixi. This catastrophe was called "the catastrophe" in history.
It's called "Aventurine Robbery".
There are countless people like Sun Dianying throughout the history of the Republic of China.
However, most of them carry out tomb robbing quietly and are not known to outsiders.
Tomb robbing is so popular, and counterfeiting will not be far behind, because the market is very popular.
After all, where did so many ancient tombs get stolen?
Moreover, many graves appear to be just buried underground, so they should be easy to dig out.
Unfortunately, this is not the case. The more tombs of princes and nobles, the more complex the mechanisms inside them, such as quicksand tombs, and the most famous tomb of the First Emperor of Xianyang. Who dares to touch it?
Then there is the tomb of Genghis Khan, a generation of genius, whose whereabouts have not yet been found.
Without so many ancient tombs, there would be no way to dig out more antiques and no way to exchange money.
Therefore, counterfeiting has become a new way out.
Unfortunately, the elders of the thin young man should be the victims.
Of course, it is true that one does not know the goods. Among the many porcelains, there is also a Buddha porcelain, which is obviously a national treasure and a precious cultural relic, but it has been hidden.
Seeing the young man standing awkwardly at a loss, Zhou Jimin smiled and said:
"As for those porcelains, if you want to sell them, you can, but I can't give you a high price, and I won't want them all. How about just picking a few pieces?"
After lowering his head and thinking for a moment, the young man shook his head and said that he should sell them all. Anyway, he didn't want to see those porcelains anymore.
Porcelain from the Republic of China era, even if it is fake, actually has a certain value.
But, it is limited after all.
Zhou Jimin pondered for a moment, then nodded in agreement.
The next step is simple. The Qi Guo car accessories were valued according to the market price, neither high nor low. The young man definitely did not lose money.
But he must have lost money on those porcelains.
After leaving the young man's home with a lot of porcelain and car accessories, Zhou Jimin turned around and threw these cultural relics into the warehouse space.
After all, he is not short of money now, but he still habitually bargains every time he trades antiques.
In fact, if we refer to the current price level, he is actually losing money by purchasing antiques on such a large scale.
But who knows that his ability to make money is incredible, and because he feels sorry for these ancient cultural relics, if he loses, he loses, so he just treats it as charity.
In the warehouse space, Zhou Jimin picked up the porcelain Buddha statue that caused the space to vibrate.
After looking around for a while, I had to sigh that the craftsmen’s counterfeiting skills during the Republic of China had almost reached their peak.
To such an extent that the fake is mistaken for the real, even an insider would probably be fooled if he didn't check it carefully.
It's a pity that the young man didn't take out this porcelain Buddha statue, otherwise, it must have been sold.
After all, it’s so true!
Or maybe the young man has sold it before, but those merchants took notice of it, so he didn’t continue to buy it.
After reading it, Zhou Jimin knocked hard on the Buddha statue.
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Then, with great force, the porcelain Buddha statue was broken into pieces.
However, the lifelike jade Buddha statue inside was revealed immediately.
The appearance of the Jade Buddha statue is almost identical to the porcelain one just now, there is no difference.
But the jade Buddha statue looks more real and attractive.
Zhou Jimin can't tell the specific origin of the Jade Buddha Statue at the moment, but he knows very well that the origin of this thing is not simple.
From the dynasties after the Han Dynasty, Buddhism entered the hinterland of the Central Plains and took root, forming its unique culture.
During more than a thousand years of ups and downs, Buddhist culture has become an indispensable part of Chinese culture.
Maybe many people don't like Buddhism and don't believe in it, but there is no doubt that Buddha's position in history is still very special.
Borrowing two sentences from a poem by Du Mu, there are four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasties, and many towers in the mist. From here we can see that Buddhism has been very prosperous in the Southern and Northern Dynasties after the Three Kingdoms.
After putting away the jade Buddha statue, Zhou Jimin continued to look at the car decorations of Qi State again, and he was also amazed.
The level of science and technology in ancient times was backward, but the skills of craftsmen were definitely at the pinnacle.
It is really not easy to come up with such a craft of gold and silver and create such a perfect car decoration in such an era of extremely difficult conditions.
After sighing, he put away the antiques and left the space.
Next, he went to several other stores to purchase antiques, most of which were ordinary cultural relics, ranging from calligraphy and painting to porcelain, from bronze to iron, as well as wooden stools, sunken wood, jewelry, etc.
In short, the variety is dazzling.
Compared with these ordinary cultural relics, there are also many fakes to confuse the audience.
If you don't take it seriously, it's normal to have your eyes pierced.
It can be said that in the business of mixing antiques, it is very common to be noticed or picked up.
As for whether you pick up more leaks or make more holes, it depends on your personal practice.
For Zhou Jimin, he is only interested in treasures. He will not take a second look at ordinary cultural relics.
Anyway, there are as many cultural relics in the mainland as there are yaks. If ordinary cultural relics also need to be purchased, he is still beyond his means.
Not only was he short of money, but also time and energy were the main reasons why he was unable to survive.
After all, even if it is a national treasure, he may not be able to completely acquire it back.
At five o'clock in the morning, when the Jade Rabbit was about to fall and the Golden Crow rose in the east, Zhou Jimin and Wu Chengfeng were ready to part ways.
Before leaving, he asked the latter if he knew the fourth master's home address and wanted to visit him.
Wu Chengfeng immediately expressed his knowledge and gave his approximate location in Xuanwu.
After knowing the specific address, Zhou Jimin turned around and left.
He did not go home directly, but went straight to find the Fourth Master.
Since this Fourth Master is a scammer who engages in buying and selling, and also does antique business with foreigners, he has to go and take a look at anything he says.
Otherwise, the meal will not taste good.
Xuanwu is located in the southwest of Beijing and is one of the four major urban areas in Beijing.
Zhou Jimin, who has been active in the east and west cities, rarely comes to Xuanwu.
At the entrance of a courtyard in Xuanwu, Zhou Jimin hid in the shadows, looked at the courtyard not far away, and then turned over and went in.
His hands and feet landed lightly in the courtyard without making a sound.
The yard was quiet and there were no dogs. This was something he had already confirmed before he came in.
He himself is a dog owner, and he has some experience and understanding of dog families.
There were clearly vendors passing by the courtyard just now, but the courtyard was still quiet, so there must be no dogs.
Entering through the hanging flower door, the lights in the east wing of the central courtyard are on, but it's quiet. You must have just gotten up.
There was a vibration in the space, and Zhou Jimin could confirm that he was not looking in the wrong place.
I just don’t know where this so-called Fourth Master has hidden all the cultural relics.
After more than half a century of ups and downs, there are still many ancient cultural relics buried under the capital.
In the war-torn times of the past, ancient cultural relics were damaged or sold out, but I didn’t expect that today, there are still so many precious ancient cultural relics.
Zhou Jimin was somewhat shocked.
Obviously he had already acquired a lot of ancient texts, and had also raided the two places of Wudu and Xiaoli. He thought that there would not be many antique collections left in the outside world.
However, this low-key fourth master has hidden so many antiques that make the space particularly shocking and longing for. It is conceivable that there may be fifth masters and eighth masters in other places.
In addition to those old and young, it is difficult to describe how many cultural relics are buried underground in the capital.
It is easy for him to find Fourth Master's treasure.
Generally speaking, people here in Beijing like to dig basements.
Or it could be a secret pavilion, a secret passage, etc.
But the vibrations in the space clearly confirm that these cultural relics are inside the courtyard.
Finding a remote corner, Zhou Jimin immediately activated the power of space and began to burrow into the ground.
However, to his surprise, he found the basement, but he didn't expect it to be empty.
In other words, those treasures are not in the basement, but in the rooms on the ground.
This is really hard to do!
However, he is not a person who retreats when difficulties arise. He is a true hero when he rises to the challenge.
Regardless of whether these collections are to be sold or sold to foreigners.
At least if you put it in the space, it will be foolproof.
If it is really sold, it will not be easy for him to get it back in the future.
Besides, his time is so tight, how could he keep following the fourth master?
Therefore, he came out of the underground and began to search for the location of the cultural relics on the ground.
After searching around, I finally determined that it was inside the main house.
The sky is already gray and snowflakes are falling. It should be dawn soon.
Simply, without any further hesitation, he opened the door and walked into the main room.
He was prepared, but in the end, there was no one in the main room.
On the contrary, behind the screen, there are wooden boxes.
These wooden boxes are antique and can be recognized at a glance as boxes made of rosewood.
Hiss!
What a luxury!
You know, these are just boxes used to store cultural relics.
But looking at the neatly stacked boxes, Zhou Jimin fell into deep thought.
Why didn't any protection be done? Just put it in the main house so generously?
Before he could figure it out, there were sounds, footsteps and voices outside the main room. It seemed that the transaction was in progress.
In order not to be discovered by the other party, he had to hide aside and see what these people were doing.
As soon as they hid, the door of the main room was pushed open, and several people walked behind the screen talking and laughing, without paying any attention to Zhou Jimin who was hiding in the cabinet in the corner.
A keen person will definitely know that he is being watched, and that sense of crisis is like a thorn in the back.
But it's obvious that these people didn't notice it.
"Fourth Master, these are the precious cultural relics you mentioned, right? Are they all sold?"
A foreigner with a slightly awkward Beijing accent spoke slowly while looking at the cultural relics inside the rosewood box.
"That's right, there are a total of fifty-eight cultural relics, all of which are first-class treasures. You can inspect them at will, but be careful not to bump into those porcelains... Otherwise, it will be broken.
That’s easy to say.”
Fourth Master touched his goatee and said proudly.
Sitting on the square rosewood chair, the slightly fat Fourth Master sat down and took out an exquisite jade pipe.
After stuffing tobacco into one end of the pipe, the young man next to him wanted to use a lighter to light the fire, but was stopped by the Fourth Master's look.
The young man hurriedly put away the lighter and took out a beautiful box of matches with foreign characters on it. After lighting the tobacco, the fourth master began to smoke, squinting, with a look of enjoyment.
Checking his eyes, this Fourth Master is definitely a very extravagant and lustful person.
In this era, lighters were originally considered high-end gadgets.
But since Zhou Jimin brought out the lighter technology of later generations, there has been a rapid proliferation trend in the mainland.
Anyway, ordinary families can afford lighters, and they are not expensive anyway.
Of course, cheapness is what ordinary people like most.
Compared with lighters, matchboxes are actually the cheapest fire source.
The lighters produced by Red Star Company are mostly sold externally rather than dumped in the mainland.
Flowers bloom inside the wall and fragrance appears outside the wall. Lighters have become popular in many places abroad.
The fourth master is a very particular person and likes to buy some foreign products to use. Well, they are only used at home and will never be used outside.
But what Fourth Master didn't expect was that the foreign goods he asked people to buy were actually made in a, which almost made him angry to death.
Therefore, since then, he has been interested in lighters.
But matchboxes are easily affected by moisture. Once they get damp, they are not easy to light.
Therefore, young people will carry lighters and matchboxes with them to prevent their fourth masters from being unable to smoke.
To talk about the four things that Fourth Master loves most, they are nothing more than three meals a day, smoking, and sleeping with beautiful women.
Keeping a low profile is a low profile, but the pursuit of life cannot be lost. Otherwise, why would you work so hard to make money and leave the family property to future generations to waste the family?
When the foreigner heard this, he didn't say anything and lowered his head to check with his companion.
After a long time, the two foreigners had checked all the cultural relics and confirmed that there were no problems, and then they were ready to start trading.
Zhou Jimin in the cabinet can be seen clearly through the gap. The box the foreigner took out was full of US dollars in cash.
"Using foreign currency cash for transactions, this Fourth Master has probably already thought about leaving the capital, right?"
Thinking of this, his eyes instantly turned cold.
However, you can’t just take everything at face value. You can take this time to take a closer look.
The transaction between the two parties was completed quickly. The amount of U.S. dollars was not much, and it was easy to count. The method of checking the authenticity of the banknotes was also very simple.
For a person like Fourth Master, who often travels in the world, he naturally has a set of standards for doing things.
Since we use U.S. knives for transactions, we must have a very in-depth understanding of the real and fake U.S. knives.
If you are deceived with counterfeit money, it will be a small matter of losing money, but a big matter of losing face.
After the foreigner took fifty-eight precious cultural relics away and the Fourth Master and others left the main room, Zhou Jimin slowly walked out.
In the sky outside, the snow is getting heavier and heavier. Although the sky is getting brighter, the view is blocked by the heavy snow, so it is not very far.
Looking back at the courtyard, Zhou Jimin put on white clothes and wrapped himself up, almost blending into the silver-clad weather in front of him.
Following the traces of the car, we walked all the way out of the city.