... Also because of Wang Kun's ability, Yang Zhicheng, who was just an ordinary tomb robber at first, developed into a large tomb robber gang in the five provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan and Shaanxi in less than five years. It's a pity that people are afraid of it.
The famous pig is afraid of being strong. In the face of the country's heavy attack on tomb robbing operations, Yang Zhicheng's tomb robbing gang was so famous that at its peak, the total number of people was nearly fifty. However, because of Wang Kun's caution, he has always been free among Yang Zhicheng's gang.
Besides, he was only responsible for one-way communication with Yang Zhicheng!
And this Yang Zhicheng didn’t know why he didn’t disclose the existence of Wang Kun after he was arrested, so the latter survived!
The first owner of Liu Dong's Villa No. 1 in Wohu Mountain was the famous tomb robber Yang Zhicheng, so when he saw Wang Kun's record, Liu Dong also thought of this!
After Yang Zhicheng and his tomb-robbing gang disappeared, Wang Kun also stayed honest for a while. However, his greed has been stimulated by the huge profits of tens of millions of dollars every year. Naturally, he will not be satisfied with Jinyu Pavilion, which only earns around tens of millions of dollars a year.
antique shop.
Therefore, after Wang Kun felt that the news of Yang Zhicheng's tomb robbing case had passed, he began to actively contact other tomb robbing gangs. And in Quancheng, a thousand-year-old city, there will definitely be no shortage of tomb robbers to sell stolen goods, and Liu Dong
I've encountered it not once or twice!
However, after Yang Zhicheng's lessons, Wang Kun also became cautious. Every time he made a transaction, he would disguise himself, first pay the funds to buy the cultural relics from the other party, and then sell them through his own channels.
Even if something happens to the tomb robber, he will not be implicated.
In this way, when Wang Kun was at his peak, he established a stable cooperative relationship with as many as fifteen tomb-robbing gangs from all over the country. There has been no trouble until now!
However, it seems that God can't bear to see his behavior now, and directly sent Liu Dong, the killer, to him, and happened to witness the transaction between the other party and the Japanese Ichiro Fujita!
And Liu Dong, who had a natural dislike for the Japanese, finally chose to kill him!
The ancients often said that "a chivalrous person breaks the law with force", and Liu Dong, who is highly skilled and bold, is also in this state now!
After putting away the diary and the things Liu Dong thought were valuable, Liu Dong passed by the bed next to the desk and came to the end of the bed. Here were four large camphor wood boxes. Each one was one meter long and eighty centimeters wide and high.
Because it was not locked, Liu Dong easily opened one of the boxes! As expected, the contents inside were all calligraphy and painting scrolls!
I randomly picked up one and opened it, and it turned out to be "Picture of Clear Snow" by Wang Shimin, one of the Four Kings of the Early Qing Dynasty! When I opened the next one, it was "Picture of Bamboo and Stone" by Wu Changshuo, one of the three masters of the Shanghai School!
Because time was limited and there were too many scrolls in the box, Liu Dong only judged from the aura. There were 65 ancient paintings in this large box, most of which were from the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Those from the Ming Dynasty and the middle and early Qing Dynasty
There are only 25 paintings, and there are only 3 before the Yuan Dynasty. The most precious among them is "Yunyan Xiaosi Picture" by Juran, a master of landscape painting in the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties!
The other camphor wood box next to it contained, as expected, all calligraphy scrolls.
Moreover, the number of calligraphy scrolls is slightly more than that of paintings and calligraphy. There are 78 scrolls. Most of them are from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are 17 before the Yuan Dynasty. The two most precious ones are one of the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties".
Ouyang Xun's "Executioner's Guide" volume!
The other one is from the volume "Four Ancient Poems" written by Su Che, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Su Che also had an extraordinary status. In addition to being the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, he also had relationships with his father Su Xun and his younger brother Su Shi.
Also known as "Sansu", his original calligraphy is now regarded as a national treasure thousands of years later!
After calligraphy, the next step is inscriptions. The existence of inscriptions is indispensable in the study of any master of calligraphy and painting. And the value of precious inscriptions is no less than those of famous calligraphy and painting handwritings!
In the third large wooden box, there are a total of 118 pieces of stele calligraphy. There are only 25 pieces before the Yuan Dynasty, which is less than calligraphy. The most precious one is the Yuan version of the Eastern Han Dynasty's "Xiyue Huashan Temple Stele", with 135 seals collected by all dynasties.
The family's seals include Zhu Zhishan and Dong Qichang, the great calligraphers of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Shizhen, the great poet of the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Xie, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, who is famous for his "poetry, calligraphy and painting", and so on!
The last wooden box is full of rare ancient books. Among the four boxes, this one has the most, with a total of nearly 214 volumes! The most precious one is a set of seven volumes of Song Dynasty engravings "Lengha Abhadra Precious Sutra", which is also known in modern times as "The Precious Sutra of Lankavatara".
"The Lankavatara Sutra", but there is no so-called Nine-Yang Magic Skill in it!
After Liu Dong put away the four big boxes, he felt regretful and a little lucky at the same time. Unfortunately, there were nearly 500 paintings, calligraphy, inscriptions and ancient books that Wang Kun had left here but had not yet been sold. In the past ten years,
How many people will be sold by him? Two times, three times, nine times, ten times, Liu Dong doesn’t know, but the number must be a lot!
Thinking of these, Liu Dong felt very distressed.
In fact, Liu Dong misunderstood. In the nearly ten years of reselling cultural relics, Wang Kun did not have too many calligraphy, paintings, inscriptions and ancient books, because the most popular Chinese collections abroad are still porcelain and bronzes.
!So almost every time he contacts foreign buyers, Wang Kun mainly sells porcelain and bronze wares, with jade wares as well, plus a small amount of calligraphy and painting, as well as other types of cultural relics such as bamboo and wood horns.
"Fortunately, there are still a lot left!" Liu Dong rejoiced in his heart and put the four camphor wood boxes into the Mustard Seed space.
After putting away these large wooden boxes, Liu Dong turned to a row of iron shelves placed against the wall next to them. Perhaps because of the limited entrance to the secret room, the height of these shelves did not exceed one meter and two meters, and on these shelves
There are porcelain, jade, pottery, bone ware, ancient colored glaze, reddish tiles, bamboo and wood tooth horn ware, gold and silver ware, as well as lacquer ware that surprised Liu Dong, and it was Han Dynasty lacquer ware! I really don’t know which one it is.
Educated tomb robbers stole these lacquerwares and simply protected them. At least these pre-Han Dynasty lacquerwares were not obviously damaged, and the colors were very bright!
The shelves holding these things were placed in a circle around the entire 3,300-square-meter underground chamber. Liu Dong simply counted and found that there should be more than 1,500 cultural relics on these shelves! And there are many precious cultural relics, at least
The 86 pieces of Pre-Qin, Qin and Han lacquerware that Liu Dong counted are all first- and second-level cultural relics!
In addition, there are also many official kilns of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the porcelain, and ancient colored glaze is even rarer.
In short, this collection of more than a thousand pieces has greatly supplemented the deficiencies in Liu Dong's collection!
Of course, the remaining thing placed in the center of the entire space is what interests Liu Dong the most, which is the bronze wares! Even with the more than 10,000 bronze wares in the tomb of King Chuzhuang, the bronze wares inside still make Liu Dong feel...
I was very excited because the bronzes in the tomb of King Chuzhuang were of a single date, basically the Spring and Autumn Period.
There are more than 300 bronzes here from the Qin and Han Dynasties, more than 250 from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, more than 100 from the Western Zhou Dynasty, 56 bronzes from the Shang Dynasty, and 24 bronzes from the Xia Dynasty!
Among these bronzes, there are all kinds of food vessels, wine vessels, water vessels, musical instruments, ritual vessels, and food vessels! Among the nearly 800 bronze vessels, more than a hundred have inscriptions. The most precious one is a 55-centimeter-tall statue.
A four-legged bronze tripod with a diameter of 46 cm and a weight of about 38 kg.
Although it is 98 centimeters taller, weighs 204 kilograms, has a caliber of about 75.6 centimeters, has a 134-word inscription, three animal feet, and three sets of Taotie patterns and cloud and thunder patterns all over its body, the first four-legged tripod is smaller than its companion next to it.
Half of it, and the decorations on it were not that exquisite, but Liu Dong still believed that this four-legged tripod was the most precious among all bronzes.
Because his body is shining with a strong purple aura, this four-legged tripod with 233 inscriptions is a bronze from the mid-Xia Dynasty.
It is more than five hundred years earlier than the three-legged bronze tripod of the late Shang Dynasty!
Moreover, although bronze casting developed rapidly in the Xia Dynasty, large bronze vessels are rarely seen in archaeological excavations today. This four-legged bronze tripod is already big enough!
In addition to these two large tripods, there is also a set of 13 chimes from the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is considered the third most precious thing among these thousands of bronzes!
In addition to the bronzes, Liu Dong also found two large stone piers with a height of 4560 centimeters and a diameter of about 60 centimeters. Each side was not very regular, but was full of inscriptions. However, Liu Dong did not think that these were stone piers because they were on the stone piers.
The yellow aura is so dazzling!
Liu Dong, who had visited the Palace Museum, recognized these two stone piers at a glance as the famous ‘Qin Carved Stone Drums’!
The Stone Drum Inscriptions are pre-Qin stone inscriptions. Among the stone inscriptions that have survived to this day in our country, the Stone Drum Inscriptions are the oldest and most representative. The stone is in the shape of a drum, with a total of ten drums, each of which is engraved with a four-character poem, about three feet in diameter.
The content describes the king of Qin's hunting trip, so it is also called "Hunting Jie". Because it was abandoned in the Yunye of Chencang, it is also called "Chencang Shijie".
The Stone Drum Inscription is the earliest extant stone inscription in China and is known as the 'ancestor of stone inscription'. The original stone is ten drum-shaped stones, a total of ten, two feet high and more than one foot in diameter, thin at the top and thick at the bottom.
Each stone drum is round (actually in the shape of a tablet). Each stone drum is engraved with a four-character poem, ten in total. The handwriting is very worn and the people of the Tang Dynasty did not recognize it. They saw that it looks like a round drum, so they gave it the name Stone Drum Wen.
a name.
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