Don't pretend, anchor, I've seen you touch the golden talisman!

Chapter 409 civet cat for prince

Bai Lu didn't know much about Lu Qinzhai or the history that happened that year. Lin Yi only knew a little bit about it, but the details were still lacking.

As Wang Xiangfu, the apprentice of Shopkeeper Yue of Wenguzhai who has experienced these past events, he naturally understands these contents more carefully.

Uncle Wang casually took a string of small-leaf red sandalwood beads in his hand, twisted them in his hands, and told the two of them the past events of that year.

"Compared with the "Emperors and Empresses Paying Respect to Buddha" in Longmen Grottoes in Luojing, the "Six Horses of Zhaoling" buried in Zhaoling were targeted by foreigners earlier."

At the beginning of the last century, the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was on the verge of collapse, and the Eight-Power Allied Forces marched into the Forbidden City with great arrogance.

Also coming in with them were people from the great powers.

They came to this land not for tourism, but for treasure hunting. After so many years of looting, they knew that there were treasures everywhere in this magical land.

A group of French foreigners who call themselves Sinologists, along with photographers and others, traveled through Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Qin, Jin and other provinces in just a few months, inspecting cultural relics and historic sites, which lasted ten months.

When I visited the Zhaoling Mausoleum in Jiuwei Mountain, I took photos of the "Six Horses of the Zhaoling Mausoleum".

The "Six Horse Steles of Zhaoling" were originally divided into east and west rows and were displayed in the north gate of Zhaoling, with their heads facing south.The west row, from south to north, is Saluzi, Quanmaojun, and Baitiwu.The east row, from south to north, is Teqinpi, Qingzhui and Shivachi.

These six steles are relief stone carvings, carved to commemorate the six war horses that accompanied Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty on the battlefield.

It is said that the original paintings of these six horses were made by Yan Liben, a famous painter of the Tang Dynasty. There are calligraphers on them by the great calligrapher Ouyang Xun, and there are also praises written by Taizong himself.

Before, it had always existed on Jiuwei Mountain. Unfortunately, it had escaped Wen Tao and Huang Chao, but it had not escaped the eyes of these foreigners.

After seeing the photos taken by his own people, the French businessman Gruchamp immediately became interested in these six reliefs.

So, he found Zhao Hefang, an antique dealer in Liulichang, who was willing to invest in buying all the "Six Horses" and take them back to France.

Zhao Hefang is a well-known profiteer in Liulichang. He has done this kind of thing a lot.

But this time, he was more greedy and wanted to play some tricks to get both hands and fish.

At that time, not long after Yuan Datou ascended the throne, his second son Yuan Kewen was doing a lot of construction work in Shangjing and wanted to build a mansion for Yuan Datou.

After the construction started, Mr. Feng Shui said that he lacked some stone tools to support the house, otherwise the foundation would be unstable. When Yuan Kewen heard this, he began to ask his "guests" to look around for suitable things.

At that time, Zhao Hefang thought of the "Six Horses of Zhaoling".

After discussing this idea with Mr. Yuan, we hit it off instantly.

Taizong was a heroic lord, capable of conquering and fighting. If these "six horses" could be placed in the Yuan family's garden, they would surely make "the dragon look happy".

Moreover, by stealing treasures in the name of these French people, wouldn't it be nice to try his "immortal jump" when the time comes?

As soon as he said it was done, Zhao Hefang took Grushan's deposit and came to Jiuwei Mountain. After finding a stonemason, he broke all the "Six Horses of Zhaoling" into pieces and prepared to pack them and transport them away.

It "coincidentally" was discovered by the people of Lu Jianzhang, the warlord of the Three Qin Dynasty at that time. Those who transported the stones knew that they were committing a serious crime and immediately dispersed.

As everyone knows, Lu Jianzhang had already made a plan with Mr. Yuan, Zhao Hefang and others. The theft of the "Six Horses" would definitely cause public resentment, because Tang Taizong's status among the people was still very high.

Therefore, a compromise was made at that time. Two of the six horses were selected, placed in a wooden box with a special seal for Yuan Shikai's mansion, and shipped all the way to Shangjing.

The remaining fragments of the four horses were sent back to Zhaoling as Lu Jianzhang's "political achievements" under the condemnation of the Sanqin elders.

The French businessman Geshanlu was tricked by Zhao Hefang, and he had no choice but to suffer the consequences. "After 'Sa Lu Zi' and 'Fist Mao Jun' were transported to Shangjing, Zhao Hefang directly pulled the two boxes of stones into 'Wen Gu Zhai' in the middle of the night.

He personally told our shopkeeper that he had found a better buyer for this item and was willing to pay ten 'big yellow croakers' in exchange for these two boxes of broken rocks.

He also paid a lot of money himself, and he must ask the shopkeeper to make a replica as soon as possible, and then send it to Yuan's house after the splicing is completed.

Return the original product to him in exchange for the ten 'big yellow croakers'. "

When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately understood that the person who was willing to pay a lot of money to buy the "Erjun" must be Lu Qinzhai.

This kind of large stone sculpture, in that era of war and chaos, people who collected antiques would never even take a look at it.

They are still thinking about how to quickly cash in the stuff they have in hand.

The only ones interested in these things are foreigners.

As the largest "foreign trade" company in Liulichang, it is none other than Lu Qinzhai of "Yongyi Hao". "

Lu Qinzhai, who had been engaged in the smuggling of cultural relics at the beginning of the last century, was the largest cultural relic dealer in Liulichang at that time.

He also opened an antique shop in New York and Paris at that time, and he did the smuggling business alone for 30 years.

According to incomplete statistics, during this period, as many as hundreds of thousands of important national treasures were exported overseas through Lu Qinzhai's hands.

"After the shopkeeper made replicas of 'Sa Lu Zi' and 'Fisting Gun' according to Zhao Hefang's request, he specially called Zhao Hefang to persuade him and asked him to send the real ones to Yuan Mansion. At least he could guarantee these things. It is still within our borders and will not fall into the hands of foreigners.

Sold the imitation to Lu Qinzhai and asked him to use it to fool those foreigners.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Hefang was so smart. He knew that Yuan Er's company was a stick and couldn't tell the truth from the fake, so he sent the two pieces made by our shopkeeper to Yuan's house.

Lu Qinzhai had a poisonous eye and was not easy to fool, so he finally sold the original product to Lu Qinzhai.

Lu Qinzhai sold the two national treasures to the University of Pennsylvania Museum in the United States for a high price of US$18. "

After hearing what Uncle Wang said, Bai Lu was finally able to add a word.

"I know that these two things are still on display in the museum at Penn. I have seen them."

"Hey, so you're saying, what's the point of putting things belonging to our ancestors with others?
Boss Zhao is also confused. Based on the skills of our shopkeeper, Lu Qinzhai can tell that it is an imitation. "

After hearing what he said, Lin Yi suddenly asked:
"How do you know that Lu Qinzhai cannot tell the truth?"

Uncle Wang waved his hand with disdain.

"Just because the descendants of the Lu family have taken over a hundred pieces of goods from me without seeing any problems once, I know that the Lu family's abilities are just that.

My craftsmanship is not even half as good as that of our shopkeeper, but I can give the descendants of the Lu family a lot of fun, and I still expect him, old Lu Tou, to be very capable. "

"Then how do you know the relationship between the Lu family and the 'Ziyihou'?"

Uncle Wang sighed.

"This is because of what our shopkeeper committed back then. The 'Empress and Empress Paying Respect to the Buddha' came from us. The Lu family regards us as 'one of their own'."

(End of this chapter)