ps: Sorry, there is only this update tonight, I will make it up later!
Chapter 940 Jade Unicorn
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After saying goodbye to Zhou Bin, Li Yuncong and Lu Mingyuan, it was already nine o'clock in the evening. Looking at the time, Liu Dong did not go back to his courtyard house in the capital, but drove straight to Nanluogu Lane.
Now, except for a few limited cultural relics protection units, a total of 16 hutongs here have basically been bought by the Jiahua Group. The scale of the hutongs far exceeds Liu Dong's original plan. Of course, there is also a lot of investment, except for the 40-year-old commercial land.
In addition to the contracting costs, it cost the K. Wah Hotel Group nearly 3 billion to move out all the nearly 5,000 permanent households living in Nanluogu Lane. If the later reconstruction and decoration costs of the hotel are also included, but here
The funds invested in a single project may amount to as much as five to six billion.
However, although the investment is huge, it is all worth it. Not to mention that the location advantage of being located in the bustling area of the center of Beijing will definitely bring huge passenger flow. However, after all reconstruction is completed, the number of more than 3,000 courtyard houses will increase every day.
All can bring huge profits to the hotel!
And this representative hotel can also greatly increase the reputation of K. Wah Hotel Group!
Therefore, even if Liu Dong invested more and more in this project that was originally set up for the convenience of collecting treasures, he has no regrets!
Parked the car in the parking space on the roadside of Nanluoguxiang. After getting off, Liu Dong took a look at the Nanluoguxiang neighborhood not far away, which was already being renovated, and strode towards Jingyang Hutong!
Last time he searched six alleys before going to the United States. There was no gold, silver or jewelry, but there were 129 antiques, especially the "Seven Sages in the Bamboo Forest and Rong Qiqi" by Lu Tanwei, one of the four great masters of the Six Dynasties, and the painting of the Tang Dynasty painter
Zhang Xuan's "Ming Emperor Enjoying the Coolness" and the Western Zhou Dynasty Luminous Cup are the best among them, and they are also three national treasures!
Now that all the residents in Nanluogu Lane have been relocated, Liu Dong is looking forward to gaining more this time!
Because Nanluogu Lane is being renovated, the entire block has been enclosed by walls. However, this is not a difficult task for Liu Dong, and he does not need any assistance. He jumped nearly two meters with just a slight jump.
wall!
After standing firm, Liu Dong took a look at the street, which was still dim under the street lights, and strode forward!
Fortunately, he was a skilled and courageous person, otherwise not many people would have dared to come to the old house that was full of debris, silent, dark, and not popular at all at night!
Feeling the spiritual light that suddenly appeared within the scope of the relic's Yuanguang, Liu Dong couldn't help but smile, "I didn't expect that I would gain something just after I arrived, and it seems that there are more than one!"
Looking for it according to the direction of Ling Guang, to Liu Dong's surprise, Ling Guang was not the gate of the mansion he thought, but a small courtyard of only about 200 square meters!
The gate to the yard was open, and there was still a mess of garbage on the ground. An Eight Immortals table with missing legs fell in the middle of the yard. Because it had been moved for a long time, the Eight Immortals table was covered with dust, and there were heavy traces of ice and snow erosion in some areas! Occasionally,
A gust of north wind blew, shaking the Eight Immortals table and making a hoarse friction sound, like an octogenarian who is about to die at the age of eighty!
The garbage and fallen leaves nearby also rustled with the sound of the wind, exuding a strong sense of loneliness and decay in the dark environment. If it weren't for the occasional mice passing by, it would probably be even more eerie!
Liu Dong didn't take a long look at this small courtyard house with only the left and right wing rooms and the main house. Instead, he strode through the messy yard and came to the space between the left wing room and the main house, which was about 16 or 7 square meters.
, Generally speaking, northerners will load some flowers, plants and trees here to add to the beauty of the house.
In the countryside where Liu Dong lives, many people also use this small space as a place to cook over a fire. But the more common option is to make it into a millstone like what Liu Dong saw before him!
But the millstones here are not the kind of small double-layered millstones that can be fully used by one person, but the kind of large stone mills that are pulled by animal power!
The diameter of the grinding disc alone is nearly two meters, and the weight of the rollers above even exceeds a ton!
Under this millstone, there is a cushion layer made entirely of hard bluestone! It is solid and solid!
Liu Dong circled around the millstone, frowned slightly, and with a wave of his hand, the large millstone, the underground cushion, and the two-meter-deep soil layer all disappeared.
"It seems that this treasure must have been buried by the predecessors, otherwise future generations would not be able to build such a heavy millstone on it without fear of being crushed!"
With this thought in his mind, Liu Dong thought again, and instantly a thick pottery jar appeared in his hand.
Now the automatic collection range of Liu Dong's relic Yuanguang has reached a radius of six meters. Liu Dong can get anything within this range instantly.
After gently putting down the pottery jar with a height of more than 1 meter and a diameter of at least 60 centimeters, Liu Dong took down the pottery pot that was covered in the port but was now broken into three petals, and saw that the inside was completely leaking.
The treasure was in a mess eroded by rain and soil. Liu Dong sighed secretly in his heart.
Forget about gold and silver jewelry. Even if they are oxidized for a long time and lose their original luster, they will not be damaged at all.
However, the calligraphy, paintings and ancient books in it are finished. Most of them have been corrupted into ashes. No matter how powerful Liu Dong's relic Yuanguang is, there is nothing he can do to save it!
"Fortunately, I finally saved something!"
Thinking about it, Liu Dong took out a unicorn ornament from a thick pottery jar. The unicorn is about 40 centimeters in length and over 20 centimeters in height. It looks majestic and naive at the same time while showing its teeth and claws!
Qilin is a traditional auspicious beast in ancient Chinese myths and legends. The ancients believed that wherever Qilin appears, there must be auspiciousness. Sometimes it is used to describe people with outstanding talents and both political integrity and talent. People combine Qilin with green dragon, white tiger, red bird and Xuanwu.
They are called the five auspicious beasts.
The ancients called the male Qilin and the female Qilin. Qilin is an ancient benevolent beast that combines dragon head, antlers, lion eyes, tiger back, bear waist, snake scales, horse hooves and ox tail.
It is a decoration in the court, used to boost the authority of the official, and is also a symbol of power.
From ancient times to the present, no matter the royal family or the people, there have been many costumes, articles, calligraphy and paintings, and sculptures about Kirin, and this one in Liu Dong's hands is one of them.
After Liu Dong used the relic Yuan Guang to clean away the dirt stained on Qilin's body for hundreds of years, its white and warm appearance was immediately revealed!
There is no flaw from beginning to end. It is completely the best white jade. However, it is not Hetian jade, but Nanyang Dushan jade! It is also the highest grade 'water-permeable white' among Dushan jade. This grade of white jade is the best among all
Not even 10% of Dushan jade is white jade, which is very rare. Dushan jade has been mined for thousands of years, and now top-quality white jade is even rarer.
If you don't count the carving, the value of such a large piece of top-grade Dushan permeable white jade in Liu Dong's hands is more than 5 million Chinese coins!
If you include the carver, the price will double again. If the time of this jade carving is placed four hundred years ago, the price will be increased by 2 million. If the words "royal tribute" are added, the price will be even higher.
Add another 5 million!
As long as Liu Dong is willing to send this top-grade Dushan white jade unicorn used by the royal family of the Ming Dynasty to the auction, I believe its price will never be less than 20 million!
After playing with it for a few times, Liu Dong turned the unicorn jade sculpture over, and the four seal characters "Jiaqing Imperial System" were engraved in the middle of the right forefoot of its front foot!
Ming Shizong Zhu Houcong, the eleventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty, also known as Emperor Jiajing, was no stranger to Liu Dong!
Among all the emperors in China, this one can be regarded as a capable person. Generally speaking, few emperors who like to practice Taoism and alchemy have a good ending. Even Qin Shihuang, the first emperor through the ages, is no exception. And this man has practiced Taoism and Xuanxuan for twenty years.
, but always firmly controlled the political, financial, military and people's livelihood power of the entire Ming Dynasty.
It even led to the emergence of the "Longqing New Deal" and the "Zhang Juzheng Reform" in the increasingly decadent Ming Dynasty. It is no wonder that the history books evaluated Emperor Jiajing as the "Lord of the ZTE", saying that he had "unparalleled wonders, six unparalleled heroes"
, and there is also the "Lonely Acting Five" that shocked the world.
Of course, being related to the master of ZTE in the Ming Dynasty also makes this Dushan Jade Kirin even more valuable!
Time was limited, so Liu Dong simply played with it a few times and then put the jade unicorn away.
Then he picked up a piece of Ruyi jade from the vat. The material of this Ruyi jade was also Dushan white jade, but the quality of the jade was not as good as the jade unicorn just now, but it could still be considered a top-grade white jade.
In addition, there are some differences in the carving work. Although it is a masterpiece, it is not as good as the royal one!
Therefore, after Liu Dong cleaned the dirt on the surface of the jade Ruyi, he put it away.
In addition to this jade Ruyi, there are two other jade carvings in the vat, a bowl-sized Hetian jade mountain son, and a book-sized Lantian jade screen! The screen originally came with a base, but now it has
It was corroded by rain and mud, and Liu Dong did not waste any more time repairing the relic!
In addition to the four jade carvings, there are also some jade ornaments such as rings, jade pendants, jade hairpins, and jade pendants. They were originally supposed to be wrapped in brocade boxes, but now that the wood has decayed, they have basically all fallen out, so they have to be covered.
Although the thick pottery basin on top of the pottery jar was shattered, it did not fall off, thus preserving the integrity of these jade objects.
After Liu Dong packed away all the large jade articles, the most remaining ones were gold and silver jewelry!
Of course, jewelry and gold are only a few, and most of them are silver!
But Liu Dong is the least interested in silver, because today's silver is worthless. The value of 100 tons of silver is less than 100 million Chinese coins! And the silver in this big vat is only 200 kilograms! According to the current silver price
Price, the price of this silver does not exceed 500,000 Huaxia coins!
Although 500,000 is a huge sum of money to most people, it is dispensable to Liu Dong, not even a drop in the bucket!
Therefore, after clearing out all the valuable antique jewelry and gold, Liu Dong casually waved his hand and put the remaining silver into the mustard space. (To be continued)