"Is this it? Because this painting is my ancestral property, I really don't want the money."
Wang Yuqian had a smile on his face, but it was a scheming smile.
Shen Yu waved his hand, "I don't agree with what you said, Boss Wang. What's wrong with this? Only objects of unknown origin are difficult to ask for. Just sell the ancestral items openly!"
Wang Yuqian quickly explained, "It is definitely passed down from ancestors. It has been passed down for several generations. Expert Shen, don't get me wrong. What I just meant is that if the items passed down from ancestors are sold, it will not be easy to explain to the ancestors in the future."
Shen Yu was startled for a moment, then smiled bitterly and picked up the teacup.
Li Tietou was a little impatient after hearing this, "Okay, Boss Wang, just tell me how much it costs? Why are you so embarrassed? If you don't want to sell it, why did you bring it here? To play? I really agreed." In a word, you just want to..."
"Hey, Qinan, why did you kick me?"
Shen Yu glared at Li Tietou and said, "You have no control over your words, so I'll eat your dried fruit."
"Boss Wang, let's get straight to the point. We actually had something very important to do just now. It was you who sincerely invited us, so we came to you. Now that we have the object we like, you are still talking about it. Be happy, do you want to sell this "Portrait of King Pagoda"?
"If you want to sell, let's negotiate the price now. If you don't want to sell, we'll see you later!"
After speaking, Shen Yu's face was still smiling, but the tone of his words just now was filled with a hint of displeasure.
"Sell, sell, definitely sell. Just as you said, Expert Shen, I invited you three here and asked you to appraise three ancient mirrors for free. In the end, I still didn't sell you anything. If this word spreads, I will lose my money." I'm afraid it's impossible to get along in the antique shop. Even if you don't remember the faults of villains, I wouldn't be able to get along.
"How do you say this? My father warned me when he was still alive that this ancestral painting is at least a Song Dynasty painting and will be passed down to future generations. But if I get married, who will I pass it on to? Let's do this. I dare to make an offer, you give me 5 million!"
Poof!
Yu Maolin spit out a sip of tea, "How much? 5 million. How dare you ask for 5 million for such a painting that is about to rot into rubbish? Why don't you go and grab it?
"I said, brother, you are a typical person who misappropriates money. Do you know what the concept of 5 million is? I am interested in a single-family villa in Shuijing Tiancheng Community. The price negotiated now is 1.7 million. This picture of yours Do you want to pay for selling three villas just for painting? If you know you are so dark, we will not come."
Li Tietou also angrily scolded Wang Yuqian.
Wang Yuqian was not angry, and the smile on his face did not appear awkward. He just looked at Shen Yu with bright eyes.
Shen Yu shook his head, "200,000!"
Wang Yuqian's smile immediately solidified, "Expert Shen, although the price I want may be a bit high, is it too little if you give me 200,000? The day before yesterday, I sold a handwritten copy of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" written in the Qianlong Year. ", it was sold for 150,000 yuan at that time. You can't justify paying 200,000 yuan for such a precious ancient painting, right?"
"Boss Wang, you said you sold a copy of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"?"
Wang Yuqian nodded, "Yes! It's "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"."
Shen Yu suddenly knew who the original "Poster on the Balcony" on the wall was.
It’s the famous Wang Shizhen.
Wang Shizhen, whose original name was Wang Shizhen, also known as Zizhen, also known as Ruan Ting, also known as Yuyang Shanren, and known as Wang Yuyang in the world, was a famous poet and writer in the Qing Dynasty.
"Ruan Ting" in "Up to the Balcony" is Wang Shizhen.
When talking about Wang Shizhen, most people call him a great poet and a great writer, because Wang Shizhen wrote thousands of poems in his life, and his literary works also include "Chibei Ou Tan", "Xiangzu Notes", "Juyi Lu", etc.
In fact, his calligraphy is also very strong, but it is overshadowed by the first two names. Wang Shizhen has been practicing calligraphy since he was a child. When he was nine years old, he could write cursive script, and his regular script can rival calligraphy masters.
He and Pu Songling were close friends, and the poem he wrote for Liaozhai Zhiyi was: "If you talk nonsense, listen to it, the rain is like silk on the melon stand in the bean shed. I should be tired of speaking in the human world, but love to listen to the ghosts singing poems in autumn graves."
This is why Shen Yu immediately thought of Wang Shizhen when Wang Yuqian mentioned "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio".
"Since I'm not satisfied with the price I offer, can you please give me a price, Boss Wang?"
Wang Yuqian struggled for a while, then stretched out a finger towards Shen Yu, "1 million!"
Shen Yu nodded, "One million is fine, but I have to get a matching headdress."
Wang Yuqian was startled, "What's the deal? Expert Shen, let's agree first. My three ancient mirrors are not suitable."
Shen Yu smiled and said, "I don't want your mirror, I want the "Tie on the Balcony" on your wall."
Wang Yuqian was stunned at first. He got this calligraphy by bartering with others. The item he exchanged was not valuable. It was a piece of blue and white from a Guangxu folk kiln. As for why he exchanged it, he just thought the calligraphy was good.< /p>
Now that Shen Yu wants it, there is nothing he can't bear to part with.
After all, the increase from 200,000 to 1 million means that this painting has sold 800,000.
But after agreeing to Shen Yu so easily, Wang Yuqian felt that something was missing, and immediately said: "It's not impossible to give you this calligraphy, but the premise is that you have to appraise something for me."
"Deal!"
The transaction is very fast. It is nothing more than signing a transfer contract and then transferring the money. It only takes ten minutes to complete.
With the painting in his hands, Shen Yu's heart that had been hanging finally returned to its original position.
This time Wang Yuqian took out an ancient book with a slightly yellowed cover and four large characters written on the cover: "Yongle Dadian".
There are two lines of small print below, volume: two thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine.
Seeing this, Shen Yu frowned slightly. He never expected that Wang Yuqian would actually take out this famous book in history.
"Yongle Dadian" can be called the largest encyclopedia in the world.
It has the title of The Book of Ten Thousand Books!
Compared with the Song Dynasty's "Taiping Yulan" and the Qing Dynasty's "Sikuquanshu", it contains many more books.
"Yongle Dadian" was first compiled in the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty.
"Since the Book of Deeds, the classics and history have been collected from hundreds of schools of thought. As for astronomy, geographies, yin and yang, medical divination, monks' Taoism, and technical skills, they have been compiled into one book."
The first one that was completed was not called the Yongle Dadian, but the "Dacheng of Documents".
However, Zhu Di was not very satisfied after reading it, so he ordered the prince's young master Yao Guangxiao, the most talented man of the Ming Dynasty and the chief minister of the cabinet Xie Jin, and the minister of rites Zheng Ci to supervise the revision. This time he directly mobilized more than 2,000 people from both the government and the public to rewrite it.
He also warned not to be afraid of trouble and just include the books as long as they are good.
The treatment is amazingly good, and you can eat seasonal fruits and various delicacies as you like.
You don’t even have to go to court early, and you don’t need to talk about salary. Anyway, you just finished the book and everything is available.
The draft was finalized in the fifth year of Yongle, and Zhu Di personally wrote the preface and named it "Yongle Dadian".
In the end, this collection of classics, history, Zi, Ji, medicine, industry, agriculture, divination, Buddhism, Taoism, drama, Kanyu, and Yin and Yang were all copied in the sixth year of Yongle.
The total volume of the book is approximately 370 million words.
After the compilation of "Yongle Dadian" was completed during the Yongle period, it is said that only one copy was made, called the "Yongle Original Edition".
In fact, many people can’t understand why they wasted so much energy and only copied one piece?
You have to back up everything and save it anyway, right?
Shen Yu also couldn't figure out this matter. What kind of data should he save? It has to be stored on a USB flash drive or two computers.
Until the Jiajing Dynasty, Emperor Jiajing cherished this book very much. He was afraid that the original text would be damaged, so he made a re-recording.
This one was called "Jiajing Copy" by later generations.
Later, the original manuscript of "Yongle Dadian" was burned, and only the Jiajing copy remains in the world.
Wang Yuqian looked sincere, "Expert Shen, I would like to ask you to help me see if this book is a copy from the Jiajing period? I also know that the rare copy of the Yongle Dadian has disappeared long ago. Gu Yanwu, a great scholar in the late Ming Dynasty, believes that the Yongle Dadian is in the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the day, "all of them were lost," and the original ones have never been found on the market."
Shen Yu said directly, "This is not a Yongle ceremony. First of all, the Yongle ceremony is 50 centimeters high and 30 centimeters wide. The size does not match.
"In addition, the paper used is wrong. This book uses rice paper. The counterfeiters may think that rice paper is the best, so they use rice paper. In fact, the paper used in the Yongle Grand Ceremony is mulberry paper.
"The distressing is also a mess. The surface is distressed, but the inner pages are intact. This kind of mistake can only be made by novices in distressing.
"The final copying was not standardized. The Yongle Dadian was written in Guange style, with neat and correct words, but this book was actually written in running script.
"So I identify this so-called "Yongle Dadian" as a fake."
