Riding the wind of rebirth

In the end, in Zhou Zhi's words, the two parties reached a "strategic cooperation agreement", and Haitong also found its first auction agency client, which was Zhou Zhi.

Zhou Zhi will be able to participate in the large-scale international auctions every year in the future through Haitong as an agent. This business originally requires agency fees and deposits, but most domestic players still cannot afford such a game.

Of course, until now, Lin Wanqiu didn't know Zhou Zhi's true strength.

In the following days, Zhou Zhi was still very busy. During the day, Master Qiao followed Yuan Quanyou to the Capital Academy of Painting, and Zhou Zhi followed the old man to the Forbidden City and the National Museum to go to work.

The cultural relics of the National Museum and the Palace Museum are the essence of Chinese cultural relics. There is a simple example, that is, the bronze wares that can be displayed in the National Museum basically have inscriptions.

Bronze ware was a very precious ritual vessel in the pre-Qin period, and the inscription records the historical events that made this bronze ware cast.

And such historical events can often be mutually confirmed with historical data. Such bronze wares are the most important among all bronze wares, even more important than the "standard wares" that mark the typical age characteristics of the wares, and are called "dating wares." .

For example, the famous bronze ware of the National Expo, Li Gui, is not very big, only [-] centimeters high, but there is a very important inscription on it, which mentions a major event and the celestial phenomenon that occurred at that time.

Li is a minister of King Wu, but his position is "You Si".In the Shang and Zhou dynasties of China, bronze was called "gold" and was a precious metal that only the royal family could use.After the defeat of the Shang army, Li, who was a Yousi, received a bronze reward from King Wu of Zhou, and cast a bronze gui as a permanent memorial.

Before the appearance of Li Gui, due to the lack of physical materials, there were many disputes in the historian circles about the specific date of the Battle of Muye for thousands of years. Scholars of all dynasties have calculated dozens of dates based on relevant records.

In addition, the discovery of Ligui not only clarified the previous doubts about the specific date of King Wu's defeat of Zhou, but also confirmed some specific historical facts recorded in "Shangshu·Mushi" and "Yizhoushu·Shiyu".

And the place where I work is not too far from the old man and Zhou Zhi's house, and the two of them can get there by bicycle.

It is equivalent to [-] yuan a piece. Compared with those that are not complete sets, the price of a single piece has doubled.

Miantang Zhaizi completed the transfer procedures very quickly, then Feng Cang recruited a design team, and completed the decoration design plan with Zhou Zhi.

Huaxia's accumulation in this area can be described as vast, and it is incredible to just look at the color classification.

The same is true for the Forbidden City. Zhou Zhi is very familiar with Song porcelain and Qing Dynasty porcelain, and he opened his eyes here.

And good news came from Director Liao. A total of more than 7501 pieces of 600 porcelain have been received, more than 5 pieces of Jianguo porcelain with the prefix 300 have been received, and more than 2000 pieces of porcelain have been shipped to Beijing from Jiangxi Province.

Most of the cultural relics of the National Expo are like this.

Red is divided into sacrificial red, cowpea red, ruby ​​red, Langyao red, wiping red, Shanshan red, carmine red, pink, begonia red, beam red, rocky red, meat red, bright red, vermilion, bright red, persimmon red, Babyface etc.

This amount of money was really nothing to Zhou Zhi, so Zhou Zhi entrusted Director Liao to get it for him, and remitted the money that afternoon.

Today's experts are still quite noble in mind and vision, and they still value Zhou Zhi's children's shoes to restore the reputation and loss of the two places. They think that this child may be a future colleague and deserves to be vigorously cultivated.

Based on the astronomical phenomenon recorded in the inscription "Jiazi" day "Sui" star in the mid-heaven, referring to the astronomical records recorded in "Guoyu·Zhouyuxia", and comparing it with the scientifically calculated position of Jupiter in the sky, the astronomers calculated that King Wu defeated Zhou. The exact time of the time is January 1046, 1 BC.

For example, King Wu defeated Zhou on the morning of Jiazi, and when the stars were in the sky, this confirms the record in "Shangshu · Mushi" that "the days of Jiazi are ambiguous, and the king is in the suburbs of Shang". Consistent with those recorded in ancient documents;
Another example is the inscription of Li Gui which confirms the correct record of "one day's battle will destroy the kingdom of Zhou" recorded in ancient books.

More importantly, Zhou Zhi bought a large number of books, materials, and papers at two places that only real researchers can access. Compared with the real objects, Zhou Zhi's progress can be imagined.

Thus, this famous battle in ancient history has an absolute date; it provides an important chronological basis for the division of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

The more gratifying news is that under the work of Director Liao, the Dishuidong Porcelain Research Institute is also willing to sell a set of plum blossom porcelain and a set of peach blossom porcelain in the institute, but the price is much higher. 47 plum blossoms Porcelain is priced at 98, while [-] peach blossoms are priced at [-].

During the busy and happy days, the old man took him to visit an old friend, and asked for two gifts promised to Zhou Zhi earlier.

The 10 yuan was spent cleanly, and Director Liao was happy to use up the extra little bit, so he wiped it off for Zhou Zhi as a discount.

Cyan includes sky blue, pink green, bean green, holly, emerald green, gray green, shrimp green, shadow green, egg green, plum green and so on.

During the implementation of the "Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties Project", carbon-14 dating experts used charcoal samples unearthed from the remains of the early Western Zhou Dynasty to date, and gave the date when King Wu's battle against Zhou took place from 1050 BC to 1020 BC scope;

So Zhou Zhi's sense of happiness is needless to say, he is like a mouse that fell into a rice bowl, and at the same time, his own knowledge is also advancing by leaps and bounds.

Coupled with Mr. Wang's face and Zhou Zhi himself's sweet and generous mouth, he was fooled into getting an old edition of "Yin Liu Zhai Talking about Porcelain" collected by Director Zhou of the Porcelain Restoration Institute.

Even if these things are not shown in the auction albums and the Forbidden City albums, they can be seen here.

This shows the value of the Li Gui, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a national treasure.

Yellows include egg yolk, jiao yellow, chicken oil yellow, turmeric yellow, goose yellow, caviar yellow, honey wax yellow, etc.

Even ceramics, Zhou Zhi still has a lot of shortcomings. For example, he is not familiar with Yuan and Ming porcelains. As for the pottery of the Three Kingdoms, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it is almost blank for him.
But in the National Expo, it can be regarded as a hard lesson.

Then Zhou Zhi had to lament again that the top circle of friends of the bosses is really just those people. This boss is the old man's superior, the chairman of the National Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee, the curator of the Central Research Institute of Culture and History, and the ninth generation of Emperor Yongzheng. Sun, Qigong.

And he has many identities, such as red scholar, calligrapher and painter, and master of Chinese studies.

On the way, Zhouzhi felt a little strange, so he asked Mr. Wang, since Mr. Qi is your regular boss, why haven't you seen him these days?

Mr. Wang said that these days, Mr. Qi has other academic tasks and is not in the institute. He also has the identity of a professor at Beijing Normal University and a doctoral supervisor. He is currently busy checking "24 History".

So Zhou Zhi had to sigh with emotion, the group of masters today can no longer be described as one specialty and many abilities, they are simply omnipotent.