Collection of Gods

Chapter 975 Private Museum

On the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, everything goes well.

Early in the morning, Tang Yuan changed into formal clothes and came to the door of the private museum not far from the garden to begin welcoming guests.

Facing the guests who came one after another, Tang Yuan always treated them with courtesy. After a brief greeting, he invited them into the private museum and let them wander around and tour.

"Mr. Ma!"

"welcome!"

"You came early today!"

At ten o'clock in the morning, there were still two hours before the ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon. Penguin Ma, along with Jingdong Qiang, Mi Tuan Wang and many other Penguin-related business tycoons appeared in Tang Yuan's sight.

"I've heard for a long time that Mr. Tang has countless treasures. Today I finally have the opportunity to check them out, so I naturally have to come and take a look." Penguin Ma wore silver-framed glasses and still looked gentle and refined. "The main reason is that after the ribbon-cutting ceremony, I have to rush to the airport immediately. If I don't come and take a look early, I won't have time later."

"Mr. Ma, the door of my private museum is always open to you. Just say hello when you have time. You can come and visit whenever you want."

Tang Yuan and Penguin Ma were talking familiarly, and at the same time, he did not neglect Jingdong Qiang, Meituan Wang and others who came with Penguin Ma. They stood in front of the private museum and greeted each other for a while. Then Tang Yuan called a staff member and asked him to temporarily act as a guide to accompany Penguin Ma and others for a tour.

Because there were so many guests at the scene, Penguin Ma and others were very tactful and did not stay for too long. After making an appointment with Tang Yuan to meet at the ribbon-cutting ceremony later, they followed the staff assigned by Tang Yuan into the private museum.

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Although Tang Yuan's private museum has the prefix "private", the total building area of ​​the museum is not inferior to those provincial museums. It has a total of eight floors above ground and underground. It not only has a cultural relics exhibition hall, but also many functional areas such as cultural relics restoration studios, cultural relics maintenance rooms, and cultural relics storage safety rooms. It's just that the latter functional areas are not open to the public.

Penguin Ma and others followed the staff into the private museum, and the first sight they saw was a dazzling mountain of gold and silver, which was particularly eye-catching for most people.

"Ouch!"

"Could it be that this mountain of gold and silver is all pure gold and silver?"

Jingdong Qiang came here with his wife today. When he saw this scene, he couldn't help but smile and said, "If all of it is pure gold and silver, it would be really valuable!"

As we all know, the same adjective has completely different meanings in different people's mouths. To Jingdong Qiang and others, what they call "valuable" is an astronomical figure in the eyes of ordinary people. It can be seen that the value of this mountain of gold and silver is not a small amount even in the eyes of Jingdong Qiang and others.

"Mr. Qiang, this mountain of gold and silver is made up of 3000 gold ingots with longevity patterns from the late Qing Dynasty and 12000 official silver coins from the late Qing Dynasty. As you can see, they are all pure gold and silver, totaling 48000 taels of gold and 60 taels of silver, without any impurities." Faced with Jingdong Qiang's exclamation, the staff from the Zhiyuan Capital Secretariat who temporarily took on the role of guide introduced the scenery in front of them to Jingdong Qiang, Penguin Ma and others in a timely manner.

"Is it really all pure gold and silver?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Meituan could not help but exclaimed: "48000 taels of gold and 60 taels of silver. Let's not talk about the historical value of these gold and silver ingots. Even if we calculate it based on the current gold and silver prices, the total value of this mountain of gold and silver has exceeded billion."

"That is to say, this may seem like a landscape, but in fact, as long as Director Tang is willing, he can convert this landscape into more than 2 billion in cash at any time. He really deserves the title of Zhonghai Cash King. He is so arrogant!"

These gold ingots with longevity patterns and fifty taels of official silver had been buried underground for more than a hundred years when they were just unearthed by Tang Yuan and the National Museum's archaeological team. At that time, these gold ingots with longevity patterns and fifty taels of official silver were all covered with dust for a long time, and some of them were even oxidized on the surface. Their appearance could only be described as ordinary.

Today, after subsequent maintenance, these gold and silver ingots have all regained their original brilliance. After being carefully placed and illuminated by soft light, they all look sparkling and dazzling.

"I have a feeling that this mountain of gold and silver alone will be enough to attract countless people to come here to check in and take photos. After all, we Chinese have a tradition of liking gold and silver. This is a gene that has been flowing in our blood since ancient times."

The milk tea lady took Jingdong Qiang's arm and replied at the right time with a gentle and soft smile.

"Don't mention other people, I want to move this mountain of gold and silver back to my home."

Jingdong Qiang recently made a mistake in the United States that all men would make. Fortunately, the Milk Tea Wife came forward in time to save his face, allowing Daqiang to barely calm down the storm of public opinion. Now is the stage to make up for his mistakes, otherwise he will not be able to take the Milk Tea Wife with him wherever he goes recently.

Everyone stopped to look at the entrance for a moment, and then, led by the staff, began to formally visit this private museum carefully built by Tang Yuan.

Generally speaking, national and provincial museums prefer to classify their collections according to a chronological order, from the Neolithic Age to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, from the Seven Kingdoms of the Warring States Period to the Three Kingdoms, and finally to the Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The reason for this classification according to the chronological axis is that the national and provincial museums have so many collections that they can completely support each exhibition hall in the chronological order. Except for the national museums, the others basically have fewer high-quality works and win by quantity.

In comparison, even though Tang Yuan discovered the treasure of Changjing Island last year, in terms of quantity alone, it still cannot be compared with those official museums, because Tang Yuan’s advantage lies not in quantity but in quality.

Tang Yuan's private museum is full of antiques and cultural relics that are common enough to serve as treasures in provincial museums. Therefore, the private museum built by Tang Yuan is divided according to the types of collections. Currently, there are nine exhibition halls for bronzes, porcelains, jades, gold and silver wares, coins, Buddhist statues, rare ancient books, seals, and calligraphy and paintings. More exhibition halls may be added in the future, and relevant spaces have been reserved in advance.

In fact, there should be ten exhibition halls that have been opened so far, and the category of this tenth exhibition hall is lacquered wood furniture. However, the exhibits in this tenth exhibition hall have basically been placed in Tang Yuan’s private manor, such as the red sandalwood throne with eight treasures, cloud bats and water waves and dragons, which is worth over 100 million yuan, and the precious lacquered wood furniture such as the red sandalwood imperial table with dragon patterns made by Emperor Qianlong of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. All of them are placed in various pavilions and towers like daily furniture. This is also the reason why everyone jokingly called Tang Yuan’s private manor a modern version of the Little Old Summer Palace after visiting it...

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