Baojian

Chapter 61 Entering the Urn

"Brother Ma, have a sip of tea first. I have a magazine brought by a friend from Hong Kong. Would you like to read it?"

Nie Tianbao put the emerald pendant on the coffee table, poured a cup of tea for "Ma Zibian", opened the safe in the store, and took out a few magazines from it.

"Hey, it's a dragon, a tiger, a leopard? Old Nie, you actually managed to bring it out? Everything I brought was checked by the customs last time."

When "Mazibian" saw those magazines, his eyes lit up immediately, he grabbed the magazines in his hand, and said, "Old Nie, you can give this to me later, take your time to read the emeralds! "

"No problem, as long as Brother Ma likes it." Nie Tianbao laughed when he heard this, and finally found something to dislike this kid. Now he won't be yelling to leave, right?

"Old Zhao, come and see this."

After playing with it in his hand for a while, Nie Tianbao handed it to shopkeeper Zhao who had been waiting by his side, and said in a low voice, "I think this thing is the legendary emperor green, right?"

Nie Tianbao has not been in contact with jadeite for a long time, and he heard about the imperial green jadeite from those in the coastal and Yunnan provinces. However, even those colleagues have rarely seen the imperial green jadeite, so he is still a little uncertain about it. Is it true or false.

"That's right, it's indeed emerald. The sun green and transparent seed water, like the earrings, can reach imperial green, and the two seem to be made of the same material."

Shopkeeper Zhao took a high-power magnifying glass, looked at the Maitreya Buddha pendant under the strong light for a long time, and said in a low voice: "There are no bubbles in this thing, it should be real, boss, I think it can be bought! "

"What's the price?" Nie Tianbao glanced at the "mazibian" who was looking at the dragon, tiger and leopard, and said: "This kid is a young man, he doesn't know much, let's press harder."

"Boss, if this really belongs to Empress Dowager Cixi, then... the price is out of the question, at least it can be worth more than 1000 million!"

Shopkeeper Zhao's voice trembled. Although he was not born as a jadeite player, Cixi loved jadeite all his life. Anyone who is a collector knows about it.

Among the collections of Empress Dowager Cixi, the most famous one is naturally the emerald cabbage.

However, shopkeeper Zhao knew that in order to please Cixi, officials from all over the country gave the imperial court almost every year a lot of top-quality jadeite, and Cixi's jadeite collection was innumerable.

Some of Cixi's collections were buried with her, just like the emerald cabbage, which finally fell into the hands of Sun Dianying, the warlord of the "Thief of Dongling".

There is also a part of the emerald collection, which was rewarded by the little emperor Puyi to the palace guards and maids. In addition, the palace was chaotic at that time, and the guards stole things from it, and finally lost all of them.

Judging from the sculptors of the Maitreya Buddha pendant and the pair of earrings in front of us, it is definitely from the hands of a master, and the thick paste has a sense of time with a long history. It should undoubtedly come from Cixi's collection.

"1000?"

Hearing what shopkeeper Zhao said, Nie Tianbao quickly glanced at "Mazibian", and found that he was watching the dragon, tiger and leopard with relish, so he was relieved and said in a low voice: "Old Zhao, are you sure?"

Shopkeeper Zhao nodded and said, "Boss, this emperor green material is for people who specialize in the jadeite business, and they may never have seen it in their entire lives. Adding it to Empress Dowager Cixi's use, I say 1000 million is not enough."

Although the current market price of jadeite is not very high, it is aimed at ordinary jadeite accessories, such as imperial green jadeite, which is already the best among gemstones.

According to shopkeeper Zhao, even if the pair of earrings and Buddha statue pendant cannot be sold in China, if they are brought to Hong Kong Island and other places, someone will definitely buy them!
"1000 million, damn it, why don't you hack him?"

A look of sternness flashed in Nie Tianbao's eyes. Although he rumored that he was worth hundreds of millions, in fact Nie Tianbao only had 4000 to [-] million.

And even if the 4000 to [-] million are mostly fixed assets, part of the several million that Nie Tianbao brought to Myanmar some time ago was borrowed from the bank.

So after hearing the price of this thing, Nie Tianbao was really murderous, and he killed this stinky boy and threw it into the Xinzombie Mine, no one would be able to find out.

"Boss, this is not acceptable..."

Although shopkeeper Zhao is also a profiteer, he is not as ruthless as Nie Tianbao. After hearing his words, he couldn't help but startled, and said: "I think the string of beads on his hand should be made of high-grade lobular sandalwood." , and the patina is quite thick, at least it is an old item of more than 50 years, not something ordinary people can afford, I am afraid it is really a yellow belt!"

"Old Zhao, what is a yellow belt?" Just now I heard three words of yellow belt from "Ma Zibian", but Nie Tianbao didn't quite understand what a yellow belt was.

"He was a member of the royal family of the Qing Dynasty. I think this kid is a well-known person. I also know about the Minxue incident he mentioned..." Nie Tianbao was a monk halfway through the antique shop, but the shopkeeper Zhao was different. Knows well.

The so-called yellow belt is actually another name for the Qing clan. In the first year of Emperor Taizong Chongde of the Qing Dynasty, it was stipulated that all clans below the prince should wear golden belts to show their status, so they are called yellow belts.

The yellow belt was the backbone of the Manchu dynasty. From the time when Ha Chi unified the tribes of Jurchen, until Huang Taiji established the Qing Dynasty, and Dorgon protected the widows and young nephews into the Central Plains, the yellow belt played a vital role.

Therefore, the Yellow Belt in the early Qing Dynasty can be regarded as the four beams and eight pillars of the Qing Dynasty, enjoying a variety of political privileges and generous treatment. Just take the prince as an example. There are 250 to [-] mu of land, and [-] Zhuangding households.

When the Manchu Qing Dynasty first entered the customs, there were only a few hundred yellow belts, but after the Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties and generations of reproduction, in the Jiaqing period, there were tens of thousands of yellow belts.

As the saying goes, when you are idle, you are troubled, and nothing is wrong. If these idlers are just ordinary people, there are laws to control them, and there will be nothing serious. It's big.

At that time, these idle yellow belts could often be seen on the streets of the capital. They held a birdcage in their hands, or a shady vulture rested on their shoulders, followed by a group of wolf-like servants, shouting and drinking on the street. , Rampage.

The Qing court stipulated that killing people with yellow belts is not punishable by death, and if they violated the law, they could only be handed over to the yamen of the royal family, the Zongrenfu.Tens of thousands of lawless yellow belts, plus a lot of fake yellow belts who took advantage of the fire, were both true and false, and demons and demons, stirring up the whole capital into a miasma of smoke, ghosts crying and wolves howling.

As for the "Minxue incident", it happened during the Jiaqing period.

In the 13th year of Jiaqing, there was a yellow belt named Minxue who drank a little wine and came out of the barber shop after shaving his head. As he was walking, he suddenly saw a baked sweet potato seller on the street.

He looked up at the fiery sun, and wondered in his heart, how could there be baked sweet potatoes on such a hot day?Nine times out of ten it is fake, this is the ground of the capital, this matter has to be taken care of!
So Minxue went to the sweet potato stove and asked: "Is your sweet potato real or fake?" The sweet potato baker looked up and said angrily: "How can there be any fake sweet potatoes?" Min Xue said: "I think so." Your sweet potatoes are fake, take one and let me see."

The sweet potato roaster gave Min Xue a sidelong glance, and handed over a roasted sweet potato.

Min Xue took the sweet potato and took a bite. It was really a sweet potato. He threw the sweet potato on the ground and said, "It's really not a good product! It smells like pickled radish, it's unpalatable." After speaking, he turned and wanted to leave.

The baked sweet potato seller quit, grabbed Min Xue's arm, and said, "You have nothing to criticize, you pay me for my sweet potatoes!"

Min Xue has always been used to domineering, he came out to cut his head with only one servant, the two master and servant grabbed the baked sweet potato seller and beat them hard until the baked sweet potato seller was covered in blood all over his head and face, kneeling on his knees The ground repeatedly begged for mercy.

As soon as Minxue started to fight, someone reported to the officer, and the soldiers from the infantry commander's yamen came, restrained Minxue, and put him in handcuffs. In Minxue's rage, he drank again and forgot about himself. Without the yellow belt on, he thought it was the infantry commander who wanted to look bad on purpose, so he cursed at him.

Minxue was pushed and shoved to the Duipu room (equivalent to today's police station). Seeing that something was wrong, the servants ran back to the mansion to call for help. Not long after, more than a dozen servants arrived with knives and sticks. The stacking room where Minxue was detained.

When Minxue saw someone coming, he jumped up. Commander Ding beat up the soldiers in the pile-up room, smashed the windows of the pile-up room, and knocked down the weapon rack.

The incident happened in the downtown area, and there were a lot of onlookers. The infantry commander's yamen felt so shameless, so he sued Minxue directly to Emperor Jiaqing with a piece of paper.

After Emperor Jiaqing received the petition, Longyan was furious.Since he succeeded to the throne, he has been receiving reports of yellow belts gathering crowds to make troubles, killing and wounding people, and lawlessness.

Emperor Jiaqing decided to use Minxue as an operation. In an instant, this unhealthy trend that had already affected the national system was issued, and then he issued a strict decree to expel Minxue from the imperial family. Controlled, never allowed to return to Beijing.

Afterwards, Emperor Jiaqing ordered the clan's family to report the yellow ribbons for misconduct. Counting Minxue, a total of [-] households were allotted to Shengjing thousands of miles away.

"Damn it, dare to love this kid's unreasonableness is inherited from his ancestors?"

After listening to shopkeeper Zhao's words, Nie Tianbao couldn't laugh or cry. At first he felt that this "horse side" was already quite arrogant, but he didn't expect his ancestor to be even more lawless.

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