The Sixth Emperor did not want to be the women's director of the Forbidden City, but wanted to know how many treasures there were in the palace.
According to the spirit of the law, the current ownership of these treasures belongs to the Sixth Emperor.
It is he, the Sixth Emperor, who has everything.
According to the plot of a general cool novel, the protagonist, as the winner, must raid the opponent's home.
The kind that doesn't let go of a single hair.
And his opponent Qianlong was an avid lover of art collection. It is said that he was a great collector in the feudal era. All the good things went away, so of course Jia Liu could not violate the secular law of confiscating his property.
In addition to taking a look at rare treasures with your own eyes, you can also be on the lookout for possible dangers and be aware of them.
Because Jia Liu was worried that if he didn't take inventory in advance, Lao Ji, Lao A, and Quinina might be able to empty his treasure chest.
This is very possible.
Especially Lao Ji, he might be able to get a pile of fakes to use them as genuine items from his Six Emperors.
Anyway, the Six Emperors didn't understand.
When it comes to art appreciation, Jia Liu's skills are not even comparable to those of Qianlong's little finger, not to mention Lao Ji.
Whatever others say is what it is, without any say.
There is no way, who could have made it so that the environment in which they were born was different, so that the level of art appreciation is not on the same starting line.
Even President Li, who is an upright man and has never been corrupt, can't guarantee that he will be dragged down by Lao Ji, Lao A and the others.
It is a common problem among scholars that when they see something with a sense of time, they will go home.
Jia Liu has always been the only one to steal other people's homes. How could he let others steal his home?
Therefore, inventory must be taken in advance.
"understand!"
Jin Jian, who had been Minister of the Interior for 20 years under the care of his late sister Fu, was definitely an expert in his field of work. He took His Majesty the Emperor to the treasure house with ease.
This treasure house is located in the Sanxi Hall of the Xinan Pavilion of Yangxin Hall.
It is the smallest and smallest place in the inner palace's collection of treasures.
However, the treasures placed here are the best of the best.
Including Wang Xizhi's "Quick Snow and Clear Tie", Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Tie" and Wang Xun's "Bo Yuan Tie" which Jia Liu managed to borrow.
These three treasures of calligraphy are also the origin of the name "Sanxi Hall".
There are also two treasures in the hall: Tianhuang Sanlianzhang and "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains", which were Qianlong's favorites. Both of them are enough to shock the world of immortality.
Although treasures cannot be measured in terms of money, there is really nothing other than money that can grade these treasures.
"The treasures in Sanxitang start at a minimum of over 100 million yuan!"
Jin Jian's statement was quite appropriate and straightforward. Jia Liu nodded repeatedly, unaware that there was a problem with Lao Jin's statement.
The old man who was following him curled his lips after hearing this, thinking that if he had known better, he would not have sold the emperor's diary to Jin Jian.
After arriving at Sanxi Hall, I saw a seal on the door, signed "Forbidden City Temporary Management Committee."
The director of this interim management committee is Queenie, and the deputy director is Youyi.
A dedicated temporary agency dedicated to Crown property.
In addition to the Forbidden City, it also manages royal gardens such as Changchun Garden and Old Summer Palace.
The eunuch in charge of Sanxitang carefully stepped forward and tore off the seal to open the warehouse. Jia Liu felt that golden light flashed in front of his eyes, just like a boy in the Qi training period who accidentally entered the place where the ancestor of the gods passed away.
That is really a piece of grass that is a treasure of heaven and earth!
What kind of golden Buddha, what kind of pearl grapes, what kind of coral tree, what kind of top-grade spiritual stone, what kind of top-grade magic weapon...
There are so many kinds of things on the shelves that people are dazzled by them.
It was like countless beauties lying there.
How can I describe Jia Liu's state at that time? The boy's hole kept enlarging, his face turned from rosy to blue, then purple, his lips turned black, and his whole body was twitching. The old man was so frightened that he quickly pinched the emperor's body, and then went to the emperor.
The emperor stuffed a Jiuxin pill into his mouth and was about to call the imperial doctor.
Just like Uncle Yu smoking, after a deep trembling, Jia Liu finally regained some consciousness.
The dazzling golden light in front of him seemed to be fading away from the beautiful woman's clothes little by little, which made him hooked.
It seems that it may be because he just became emperor and his own lack of background caused Jia Liu to lose his resistance in front of the treasure that only an emperor can possess, and he was almost fascinated.
It takes some time to get used to it.
This is also a common problem with grassroots entrepreneurship.
When Li Zicheng came to Beijing, he did not even dare to enter the Ancestral Temple where the portrait of Emperor Taizu hung, for fear of being hurt by the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang.
"Your Majesty, this is the catalog of treasures in the hall. There are 487 treasures of various kinds, including X pieces of calligraphy and painting, X pieces of jade and gold..."
Jin Jian introduced them while Jia Liu admired them one by one in the hall.
This is almost the way Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden.
From time to time, I pick up this item, and from time to time, I pick up that item, pretending to nod and praise, as if I understand.
However, Jin Jian and Lao A both noticed that no matter which item he picked up, His Majesty would first look at the nameplate on the shelf, and then start shaking his head.
"I didn't expect that this old guy Qianlong had plundered so many treasures from all dynasties. I didn't know it until I saw it. I was really shocked when I saw it, huh? This is Tang Bohu's picture of eight women playing with birds? It's amazing, amazing!"
I walked along the shelves and looked at them one by one, including Song Huizong's Daojun paintings, Tang Yin's Chun Gong pictures, Dong Qichang's running script, Wen Zhengming's landscapes, and the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties...
In short, Sanxitang has all the works of well-known characters in the textbooks.
In Jia Liu's previous life, any one of them could make people live a happy life with no worries about food and clothing, and play and sing every night.
Without any struggle at all.
Work?
Work sucks!
Isn’t the purpose of work just to not work!
"Hmm? This is it?"
Jia Liu, who was in high spirits, suddenly stopped subconsciously at a certain shelf, then rubbed his eyes, looked at the nameplate, and picked up a calligraphy post on the shelf with some disbelief.
Astonishingly, it is Wang Xizhi’s "Quick Snow and Sunny Post"!
Upon seeing this, Jin Jian quickly complimented: "Your Majesty is really knowledgeable. This "Quick Snow and Clear Tie" is the most valuable piece in Sanxitang's treasures. The market price is estimated to be upwards of one billion..."
"So expensive?"
Jia Liu put down this treasure. Due to his limited appraisal skills, he was not sure which one was real and which one was fake, between the post in front of him and the one in his private collection.
The problem is very serious.
If the piece he treasured was fake, it meant that his trustworthy Taoist friend Queenie had deceived him.
He didn't even get the real thing out of the palace, so he just found a street stall and bought a fake one to trick him into!
If the item in front of you is fake, it means there is a ghost inside Sanxitang.
Maybe even half of the treasures in this house are fake.
It's not impossible for this to happen.
After all, there have been huge security problems in the palace since the Fourth Japs were imprisoned.
It is not ruled out that the old rich man and Mr. Sexy worked together to move the palace treasures home, nor is it ruled out that some staff secretly stole them.
Since ancient times, the place where most treasures have been stolen is the safekeeping office.
"The tiger came out of the coffin, the turtle and jade were destroyed in the coffin, whose fault is it?"
Unable to help himself, Jia Liu sighed like a fourth-year-old devil.
Although the things targeted are different, the nature is similar.
Lao A and Jin Jian were both confused when they heard this. They didn't know why His Majesty the Emperor asked this.
Of course they knew the answer. It was because of his timely reply to Qianlong that boy Heshen rose to prominence and became a high-ranking official at a young age.
Jia Liu ignored the two people's reactions and only wondered whether he should ask Ding Qing to organize special personnel to conduct a private investigation, or whether he should directly search the houses of Lao Fu and Uncle Se.
While I was thinking about it, the golden slip introduced another treasure, saying it was the Eight Pillars of Orchid Pavilion.
The "Eight Pillars of the Lanting Pavilion" are the four authentic copies of the "Lanting Preface" copied by Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang, Liu Gongquan and Feng Chengsu, which Qianlong spent 40 years collecting.
Yu Minzhong was ordered to fill in the missing complete version of this original engraving, Dong Qichang's copy of "Lanting Preface", and Qianlong's copy of Dong Qichang's "Lanting Preface".
There are a total of eight kinds of ink-engraved stone copies of "Lanting Preface". Although they are all copies, no matter which one is taken out, it will cause a sensation in the antique market for months.
After listening to Jin Jian's introduction, Jia Liu suddenly asked: "If I package the Eight Pillars of Lanting Pavilion for sale, how much can it sell for?"
"Well?"
Jin Jian was stunned for a moment, and based on his professional knowledge and understanding of the market, he gave a price of 10 billion, which would be able to sell two to three million taels of silver.
But there are very few people who can afford this price. Except for the nouveau riche from the 13th industry in Guangdong and the well-established families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, probably only Westerners can afford it.
I'm afraid even the princes won't be able to pay for this in the capital.
Jin Jian thought for a while and said: "If you sell eight pieces together, I'm afraid no one can eat them. But if you sell one piece individually, I think the market in the capital can digest it."
Jia Liu nodded without saying anything, walked to a jade mountain and asked Jin Jian what it was.
"Back to the emperor, this jade mountain was named Dayu's flood control. It was built by Emperor Qianlong's Ministry of Internal Affairs. It took ten years to build. It is nine feet and five inches high and weighs more than 10,700 kilograms. The value of the jade alone is worth 600,000 taels.
, it can be sold for at least 1.5 million taels after it is carved."
Maybe he realized that His Majesty the Sixth Emperor was more concerned about the value of artworks, so Jin Jian thoughtfully gave an internal appraisal price for each treasure, but cunningly discounted it by 50%.
Even if it can be sold for one million taels in the market, the maximum it can get from him is 500,000 taels.
Maybe you want to take advantage of the price difference.
Lao A also realized this, but he did not expose Jin Jian, but prepared to do this deal with Jin Jian.
Of course, the premise is that His Majesty the Emperor is really willing to sell the treasures in the palace.
As long as the emperor opens his mouth, he, the middleman, will make the decision.
No one can steal it!
Jia Liu is really considering selling this treasure.
First of all, he doesn't have a bad habit of collecting, and he doesn't like to turn so many handed down treasures into a private property. This is also the thought of "enjoyment alone is not as good as enjoyment by everyone".
Therefore, two options are being considered.
The first is to sell some relatively recent calligraphy and painting works, as well as jade, gold and silver crafts, etc. This will not only promote the prosperity of the cultural market, but also increase the country's financial revenue.
As long as the state treasury has money, it can develop on a large scale. When the country develops, the people will naturally benefit from it. Not to mention letting the more than 300 million people in the Qing Dynasty get to a well-off society in advance. It should not be difficult to solve the problem of food and clothing.
The second is to take out some treasures and set up a museum, so that people all over the world, regardless of poverty or origin, can have a look at these treasures left by their predecessors.
Although this incident cannot generate financial revenue, it is a real thing that can truly make people all over the world feel the atmosphere of the reform.
As for his personal life, just get a few hundred pieces and put them under the bed to gather dust. There is no need to leave them all to get moldy.
In the future, if there is a revolution and future generations have no money to eat, they can just take out a few and sell them.
Thinking of this, I asked Jin Jian how many antiques were collected in the Forbidden City.
The golden slips say that there are probably more than 13,000 pieces collected in the palace, including 2,000 calligraphy and painting works from the Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, 2,000 calligraphy and painting works from the Ming Dynasty, and the rest are various jade, gold and silver carved works.
In addition, Changchun Garden, Old Summer Palace and other places also collected a large number of treasures, with a total of seven to eight thousand pieces.
The old man tried to figure out the holy intention and immediately said: "Your Majesty, assuming that the imperial mausoleum of the Holy Ancestor Kangxi is X, then the treasures stored in the palace are X multiplied by 100."
What is X?
The valuable artwork unearthed from the tomb of the holy ancestor Kangxi was sold for about 8 million taels, so X is 8 million taels, multiplied by another one hundred, 800 million taels!
This number means that Jia Liu did nothing and simply lay in the Forbidden City eating and waiting to die, which would allow the Qing Dynasty to transition to peace until the arrival of the Paris Commune.
The problem is that the domestic market will definitely not be able to sell it at this price.
Therefore, great powers need to intervene.
In Jia Liu's view, the great powers at this time were also serious businessmen.
Otherwise, hundreds of millions of taels of silver would not flow into the East every year.
It will take at least fifty years before they no longer want to be serious businessmen.
But in the past fifty years, Jia Liu was able to open an international museum, rob their things and sell them at high prices.
If you want to say it's tacky, just change it.
It's like exchanging this Jade Mountain for several steam engines. Who do you think is the best deal?
Thinking of this, Jia Liu no longer hesitated and immediately ordered the gold slips: "All calligraphy and painting works stamped with the Qianlong Imperial Treasure, Sanxitang Jingjian Seal, Yi Zisun and other seals, and those that are no more than three hundred years old, will be taken out."
Go sell it, and handicrafts made of gold, silver, jade and stoneware can be sold regardless of age...It doesn’t matter who the buyer is, even a Western devil, as long as the person can afford the high price, they can sell it."
When Lao A heard that this was not possible, how could such a wealthy person take advantage of a young man like Jin Jian? Just when he was about to protest, Lao Ji Ru's voice came from outside the house: "Your Majesty, you can't, you can't!"
The excited Lao Ji rushed in and pointed angrily at the emperor, regardless of the difference between the emperor and his ministers.
It's just that the Sixth Emperor was not the master of the people and actually wanted to sell Chinese treasures to the Western devils. It was simply a waste of money. This was even more unacceptable than losing power and humiliating the country!
"The things belong to me. I can sell them however I want. What are you talking about!"
Jia Liu was also angry. Why did he ask you, Lao Ji, to agree to selling his own things?
Besides, it's better for me to sell it myself than for you guys to steal it.
"..."
Lao Ji was stunned, and then stamped his foot angrily: "The emperor can sell it if he really wants to, but we, the people of the Qing Dynasty, must have the right of first refusal! Officials must also enjoy discounts when purchasing!"
Then he pointed to his nose, with a look of indignation on his face: "Ruchen, the Prime Minister and Deputy Minister of the Cabinet, should get a 50% discount no matter what!"