Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and when everyone returned to the auction, Takeuchi Hideyoshi had already arranged everything.
There weren't many auction items at the end, but both parties kept raising the prices back and forth, raising the prices of all the antiques. Zhou Zichen bought another piece of porcelain and spent 1.6 million.
, this auction has already spent 3.6 million, and lost nearly 1 million.
However, as long as you take pictures of antiques here, you will lose everything. However, at this time, no one will care about such details.
All the items originally budgeted for were auctioned off, and when everyone was about to leave, Guan Qingwen walked up to the stage and said: "Everyone, our Japanese friends just added one more item. It has not been authenticated, but according to Mr. Takeuchi Hideyoshi,
, this may be a Tang sword. After consultation, we both decided to auction this sword. We also discussed that the first bid will be made by Mr. Takeuchi Hideyoshi to prevent factions. The starting price is one million, and the price is increased by fifty thousand."
In fact, Guan Qingwen's words have already told everyone that there is no need to bid for this so-called Tang Dao. Let the Japanese people play with it by themselves. The museum has made a request that the Japanese people must bid first. If the Chinese side does not bid,
If so, the Japanese would lose one of their own.
Since Guan Qingwen said this, everyone sat down again with the attitude of watching a show.
Because this was a temporary addition, this samurai sword was put on the table for everyone to deliberate on for fifteen minutes to see if it was true or false.
Zhou Zichen is still very interested in ancient knives, especially Tang knives, which have left a strong mark in history.
Not many ancient Chinese swords have survived. The most famous one is probably the Goujian Sword of King Yue. The main reason is that there were laws in ancient times that no swords, bows, and crossbows should be included in burial objects, so not many can survive. Even if
Yes, they are all severely corroded.
The Tang Dao was quickly brought up. This Tang Dao is only 40 centimeters long. It is a short sword and is well preserved overall. Very few ancient swords can be so well preserved. Almost all the swords are so well preserved.
Many people don't look at weapons because they are almost certainly fake.
Zhou Zichen was not interested at first, so he casually took a look with his superpower, only to find that it was actually a weapon from the Tang Dynasty.
This discovery made Zhou Zichen ecstatic. Not many people collect weapons, so the value is difficult to measure, but such a well-preserved Tang Dao is definitely worth a fortune.
You should know that there are only two well-preserved Tang swords in the museum of Japan. One is called Bingzi Jiaolin sword, which is said to have been passed down from the Tang Dynasty. The blade is still shining with cold light; the sword worn by Emperor Shomu of Japan is named
It's called the Water Dragon Sword. This one is a real Tang sword, and it's still in the Japanese country. However, the handle and the accessories on the sword have all been re-made, and only the blade is indeed an ancient relic of the Tang Dynasty.
However, China only unearthed a corroded instrument knife in 1991. Because it was so corroded, it did not have much reference value.
Fifteen minutes passed quickly. Zhou Zichen sat down in his seat and closed his eyes slightly. Others could not tell whether Zhou Zichen fell asleep or was thinking about something.
After a brief introduction, the auctioneer said: "The auction begins now!"
No one bid because everyone was waiting for Takeuchi Hideyoshi to bid.
Takeuchi Hideyoshi followed the rules and paid "one million".
After waiting for a few seconds, there was no second bidder. Takeuchi Hideyoshi was already secretly worried. If it was really a genre this time, it would be really embarrassing, because people would not play with them at all, and it would make them look like themselves.
It's like messing around.
Just when the auctioneer was about to count down, Zhou Zichen raised his hand: "One million and fifty thousand."
Zhou Zichen's bid surprised everyone.
But Takeuchi Hideyoshi and others were a little ecstatic, as long as someone made a bid, it would be easy to say.
"Two million!"
Zhou Zichen continued to raise his hand, "Two million and a half million."
Every time Zhou Zichen bids, he only adds 50,000 yuan. Zhou Zichen knows very well that this knife is the knife Takeuchi Hideyoshi and others want to use to find face.
Soon Zhou Zichen and Takeuchi Hideyoshi raised the price of the knife to three million.
People on the Chinese side looked at Zhou Zichen in surprise, because Guan Qingwen had already hinted that they didn't need to pay attention to them, but Zhou Zichen suddenly made a bid at this time, and even raised this new-looking knife to such a high level.
High price.
"Three and a half million!"
Zhou Zichen still followed the old rules: "Three, five and a half million."
"Three million and seven hundred thousand!"
Zhou Zichen waited for dozens of seconds until the auctioneer started counting down, and then at the last second he called out the price: "Three, seven hundred and fifty thousand!"
The dozens of seconds that Zhou Zichen waited for made Takeuchi Hideyoshi unable to tell whether Zhou Zichen did it on purpose or whether Zhou Zichen really hesitated. Their original plan was five million. If Takeuchi Hideyoshi increased the price and Zhou Zichen suddenly withdrew,
Then they will have no choice but to buy it back themselves, and their purpose will not be achieved.
Takeuchi Hideyoshi looked at Komatsu and Yoshida. It was Komatsu who brought this attention. This weapon belongs to Yoshida. Whether he wants to bid or not depends on the opinions of these two people.
Both Komatsu and Yoshida couldn't tell what Zhou Zichen was thinking. It was really risky to continue to increase the price. In the end, both of them shook their heads, suggesting that Takeuchi Hideyoshi should not continue to increase the price and just give it to Zhou Zichen.
Takeuchi Hideyoshi stopped bidding. After confirming again and again, the auctioneer began to count down: "Three..."
"two……"
"one……"
"Congratulations to Mr. Zhou for buying this Tang Dao for 3.75 million."
People on the Huaxia side were a little silent, and no one understood Zhou Zichen, why on earth.
The Japanese side were overjoyed because they managed to win back a game. Although Zhou Zichen did not lose tens of millions, only a mere three million, at least they were tied with China in one aspect.
Yoshida was very proud at this time. The knife he bought for hundreds of thousands of Japanese dollars was actually sold for 3.75 million Chinese dollars. If converted into Japanese dollars, it would be 20 million Japanese dollars. How many times is this?
Yoshida walked up to Zhou Zichen proudly: "Young man, I bought that knife for 250,000 Japanese dollars, but you actually bought it for 3.75 million. If you want it, you can go to our Japanese country.
I can buy you a lot, haha..."
Yoshida smiled happily, and everyone around Zhou Zichen glared at him. This Yoshida was obviously here to show off.
Lu Wei, who was behind Zhou Zichen, was about to speak for Zhou Zichen, but Zhou Zichen spoke first: "You are very proud!"
Yoshida is naturally not afraid of Zhou Zichen: "Of course I am proud, because you were stupid enough to spend dozens of times the price to buy this knife."
Zhou Zichen showed a smile and said, "Do you know what kind of knife this is?"
"I, a Japanese craftsman, are just imitating Tang swords." Yoshida naturally knew this, at least he thought so.
Zhou Zichen shook his head: "So, you people should study more."
Zhou Zichen stood up as he spoke, walked towards it, picked up the Tang Dao directly, and continued: "This knife is called the Zhan Dao. It is one of the four Tang Dao knives. It has fine iron sandwiched in the middle.
The exterior is wrapped in fine steel.”
"Are you stupid! How can this be a real Tang Dao, haha...~" Yoshida felt that this was Zhou Zichen making excuses for himself.
Yoshida's words made Zhou Zichen's Japanese man also laugh happily.
Zhou Zichen said calmly: "Do you know what Tang Dao looks like?"
No one answered because these Japanese were not sure.
Zhou Zichen continued: "The size of the samurai sword's blade and blade are almost the same. The blade occupies nearly half and the blade occupies half, because this can make the knife reach the sharpest level, and you have always made knives this way.
.”
"But this knife completely follows the style of the Tang Dao. The blade is very narrow, with the blade taking up two-thirds and the blade taking up one-third."
"It was made this way because the army of the Tang Dynasty mainly used chopping to fight. If the armor on the enemy was not chopping, it would be difficult to cause damage."
"Because the person who is cutting is wearing armor, the Tang Dao's blade cannot be too wide, otherwise it will easily curl."
Takeuchi Hideyoshi stood up and spoke at this time. He was really afraid that this was really a Tang sword, and they would be embarrassed. "You just explained what Tang sword is, but it doesn't prove that it is a Tang sword."
Maybe the swords from the Tang Dynasty are imitations made today?”
Zhou Zichen snapped his fingers: "You asked very well. This is related to technology. Today's technology is advanced. However, it was very difficult to make such a knife in ancient times. There were only complicated processes. First, refine the iron sand.
, made into pig iron, wrought iron, and finally such metal can be made by pouring process."
"Furthermore, ancient swords were tempered repeatedly and required experienced craftsmen to make them. No one makes them like this now. The patterns on them are the result of repeated tempering."
"One more thing is the marks on this sword. This Tang sword has obviously been repaired, but the repair skills are very good, and there are almost no traces. You can put it on the blade and look carefully.
Judging from the traces, these repair traces, it is impossible for the current knife to have so many and such big gaps, not to mention that this knife is collected by you, and it is even more impossible to use it to chop randomly."
Zhou Zichen's words left Takeuchi Hideyoshi and others with no way to refute, because they really did not know that the knife had been repaired. If they knew, they would definitely take it for appraisal, and the result would be known with just one appraisal.
Yoshida almost went crazy. If this was really a sword from the Tang Dynasty, its value would be inestimable, because only two of them are preserved in good condition in the world.
Yoshida said with a bit of unwillingness: "The museum happens to have instruments for testing. We will know when the knife is from after testing it. No one will believe you if you just talk nonsense!"
"Okay!" Zhou Zichen didn't mind letting them embarrass themselves at all.
Guan Qingwen was still a little hesitant about this matter, but Zhou Zichen showed full confidence. Guan Qingwen didn't persuade him much and just asked people to take it for testing. The Japanese country also sent a few people to follow him.
The situation between the two parties has become a bit subtle at this time. Everyone is waiting for the appraisal results to come out. Both parties have arranged for people to go there, so the results will definitely not be fraudulent.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the results came. The instrument detected that the knife was indeed from the Tang Dynasty, but it had been repaired twice.
Upon hearing the news, the crowd behind Zhou Zichen immediately burst into warm cheers and applause.
On the other hand, Takeuchi Hideyoshi and all of them remained silent.