My system is not decent

Chapter 1468 The Treasure of the Country
Chen Wenzhe tested this set of golden chime bells according to the "Twelve Laws".

He even tried to sing "Dongfanghong". Although it was a little rusty, the voice was really beautiful.

"It's not easy, such a set of golden chimes can be preserved so well!"

Looking at the set of golden chimes in front of him, Chen Wenzhe was also very impressed.

After more than two hundred years, apart from being stable in the palace of the Qing Dynasty before, it became popular among the people. If you want to come to this set of golden chimes, you have also experienced ups and downs.

There is no way, such a set of golden chimes, anyone who sees it will know it is a good thing, and anyone who sees it will want to keep it for themselves!
Therefore, each of their owners will carefully protect them, but it is really not easy to pass them on to this day.

As far as Chen Wenzhe knows, after the Revolution of [-], Emperor Xuantong lost his title and became Puyi.

He curled up in the Forbidden City, but his annual expenses required three or four million taels of silver.

In order to seek "financial resources", the "Qing Household Office" tried to transfer and sell the treasures and properties of the Forbidden City.

On May 1924, 5, a loan of 31 silver dollars was signed by "Minister of Internal Affairs" Puyi's father-in-law Rong Yuan, Shao Ying, Qi Ling and manager of Shendu Salt Industry Bank Yue Ganzhai.

They set a period of one year, a monthly interest rate of one cent, and a collateral must be delivered to the Salt Industry Bank.

The first loan was 40 silver dollars, and the collateral was 16 gold chimes.

The other 40 yuan of collateral is the gold treasures (gold seals) and gold books of the eight empress dowagers and five empresses.

The gold book is a gold sheet with engraved words on the canon, and is strung with gold wire to form a folding booklet.

Others include gold treasure chests (gold seal boxes), gold pagodas, gold plates, gold pots, etc.

In addition, there are 1952 gold inlaid pearls, 184 gems, and 45 agate bowls.

Back then, when the national treasure left the palace, it was escorted by the "Director of Highways" Liu Qingshan in the middle of the night.

The route is to go out of Shenwumen (the back door of the Forbidden City, on Jingshan Street), and directly transport it to the outer warehouse of the Salt Industry Bank in Dongjiaominxiang.

According to the old records in the past, Xing Peinong, a custodian (later promoted to section chief) assigned by the foreign warehouse, was in charge of checking and receiving.

The story of the stolen treasure leaving the palace spread in the gods every few days.

Later, when Wang Shaoxian (the deputy manager of the bank), one of the managers of the Shendu Salt Industry Bank, was interrogated, he said that in order to divert the target, we spread the information because of the Nihong Zhengshe Bank and Yamanaka Corporation.

Later, the "Beijing News" sponsored by Shao Piaoping officially exposed (the first disclosure was only a rumor), but the time was already February 1925.

For the next ten years, because Puyi was unable to repay the loan, the golden chimes were kept in the foreign warehouse of the Salt Bank in Dongjiaominxiang, the capital of God.

But when I went to the Xiheyan Shendu Salt Bank to investigate, there was no trace on the books.

I just discovered a letter from Chicago to Yue Ganzhai, dated July 1930, 7, from the business section chief of the bank.

It wrote: "About chime bells, there is a market in the past. Therefore, I want to know the price and how many sets?... Knowing that there are many problems, we must slow down the promotion."

Others include "It is better to be negative for the time being than to let the wind out."

The golden chime bell is the treasure of the country, and the hearts of the parties involved can be seen here.

After the "July 1937th Incident" in [-], Shendu fell into the hands of the Japanese enemy.

All of a sudden, there was a lot of turmoil, and Yue Qianzhai was shocked every day.

The "mortgage loan" between the Salt Bank and Puyi, as well as the treasures of the Forbidden City such as the golden chimes, have become time bombs for the Salt Bank.

This group of national thieves researched and first transferred the golden chime bell, the treasure among treasures, to the Salt Bank in the French Concession of Jincheng.

This is the feat of patriotic Chen Yihou to protect the national treasure.

But what about the other treasures of the "mortgage loan" between the Salt Industry Bank and Puyi?
The scheming Yue Ganzhai asked Wu Dingchang, the chairman of the Salt Industry Bank who was at the rear and an important position in Jiang's party at the time, how to deal with it.

Wu Dingchang replied decisively: "Destroy!"

As soon as the secret order was delivered to Shendu, Yue Ganzhai, manager of Shendu Salt Industry Bank, felt overjoyed.

Because among the treasures of the Forbidden City, the gold books, gold towers, treasure boxes and other gold wares other than the golden chime bells were already sent to the furnace room of Langfang Toutiao in the 20s to be turned into gold water and cast into gold bars.

The rest of the treasures can be directly owned by oneself.

However, although his private house in Xitangzi Hutong is a large courtyard house, after all, it is too eye-catching for everyone to see.

So in the name of dividing the family, he distributed the rest of the treasures to several children.

The 16 gold chimes were hidden in the Jincheng Salt Bank, and they were very valuable and well preserved, so they were left to the bank as "off-book property".

After the liberation of the whole country, at the end of 1951, a movement to increase production and save money was launched.

The case of stealing treasures from the salt shop was exposed, and the Shendu City Production Increase and Conservation Committee was stationed in Xitangzi Hutong of Yueganzhai to inspect.

They found an important clue "the separation list of the children of the Yue family" and searched overnight. Except for the foreign children of the Yue family, they seized and sealed up more than a thousand treasures.

Among them are white jade carved landscapes, 40 decimeters high, 20 decimeters thick and 30 decimeters wide.

There are also national treasure-level cultural relics such as sapphire pillows, Hetian Baiguanyin, and Gu Yuexuan small pots.

In addition to the bill of separation, a photo of a chime bell was also found at Yue’s house in Xitangzi Hutong;

After asking Yue Ganzhai's eldest son, he was known to be one of the golden chime bells.

Fortunately, after going around and going around, this set of golden chimes was finally brought back from abroad.

It was only after I came back that I realized that this set of percussion instruments was not a decoration.

Therefore, the music "Dongfanghong" played by my country's first artificial satellite was played by the golden chime bell.

He couldn't put it down and played with this set of golden bells for a long time. If he really didn't have much musical talent, Chen Wenzhe would want to play a piece with it.

"Boss, don't just look at this set of golden chimes, this set of jade rings is also very good."

Chen Wenzhe glanced at it and said, "Unearthed from Guangdong Province? I seem to have one too!"

In fact, when Li Tianqiang took out these dragon-shaped utensils, Chen Wenzhe glanced at them all.

The reason why that set of golden clocks attracted him was definitely not only because of its value, but also because of its rarity and rarity.

At the very least, Chen Wenzhe definitely didn't have one, and he hadn't even seen it.

The other pieces are different, such as this set of hollowed-out dragon and phoenix pattern jade rings.

The most famous set in China must be the one unearthed in 1983 from the tomb of the Nanyue King next to Yuexiu Mountain in Yangcheng;

That set is in the shape of two inner and outer rings, with a diameter of 10.6 centimeters and a thickness of less than 0.5 centimeters.

The whole set of jade rings is flat, and is finely carved with fine sapphire hollowwork.

The outer ring is about twice as wide as the inner ring. The inner ring is engraved with an "S"-shaped dragon, and the outer ring is engraved with a phoenix looking back, which is also in an "S" shape. The inner and outer rings are independent of each other and integrated.

Chen Wenzhe is now very familiar with the tomb of the Nanyue King.

Although such a set of jade rings is also a national treasure, it is really not too rare for him.

Of course, the most important thing is that although the set Li Tianqiang sent is flawless, it is not as good as his set in terms of jade quality and carving workmanship, let alone the set hidden in Yangcheng. .

(End of this chapter)