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Chapter 145 Poor Puyi
"On March 1934, 3, she was canonized as the empress of the Manchurian Empire. The empress was disgusted by Puyi and smoked opium to get by. The emperor hated the empress who forced Wenxiu away and was extremely disgusted with her. The empress who was treated coldly by Puyi for a long time, On the one hand, she had normal physical needs, and on the other hand, she could not abandon the title of queen and divorced Puyi, so she had an ambiguous affair. She had committed adultery with two of Puyi's attendants, Li Tiyu and Qi Jizhong, and became pregnant. This angered the emperor!"

"In 1935, Puyi didn't know that the queen was having an affair with someone else until she was about to give birth in [-]. After that, she gave birth to a baby girl. The emperor decided to throw the daughter born by the queen into the boiler, but later lied to give her daughter to her brother to raise her .As a result, the queen didn't even know that the child was dead until she died."

Wu Tianyuan has read the unofficial history, and knows this experience. A fallen phoenix is ​​not as good as a chicken. With the unlucky Puyi, what good results can she, the so-called queen, have?

In August 1945, the Soviet Union quickly captured Manchuria in Operation August Storm. Wanrong withdrew from Xinjing to Dalizigou in Tonghua on the 8th with the court personnel, and was captured by the communist guerrillas who occupied the place.

He was transported successively to Tonghua, Changchun, Yongji, Dunhua, and Yanji, and finally died in the prison of Yanji, Jilin Province on June 1946, 6.The place of burial is unknown, and the bones are nowhere to be found.

"Then can you find the treasure left by Wanrong?"

"Before the queen left the palace, she brought a lot of gold, silver and jewelry privately, but after being captured several times, there was nothing left. She was also deceived a lot by that villain Li Tiyu. Later, I heard that the emperor executed Li Tiyu. I can feel other jewelry. location, I will take you there."

Wu Tianyuan took the gold hairpin to look for the treasure box left by the guards, ran to a small mountain village, and secretly dug the treasure behind a small temple behind the mountain.

"Is this Chaozhu?"

Wu Tianyuan did not report any hope for this treasure hunt at first, what good things can a guard have?The result was a surprise!

"I am the Eastern Pearl Chaozhu made by Emperor Qianlong, 108 Eastern Pearls, plus four fine coral Buddha heads, and turquoise..."

"Shut up, I'm Master Tongzhi Dongzhu, all of them are top-grade imperial pearls, look at the workmanship..."

"I belong to Lord Jiaqing..."

Liu Tiaochaozhu chattered, Wu Tianyuan hurriedly packed them up and put them away. These are good things, but I really don't have them in hand.There are also some gold, silver and jewelry in the box, take them away together.

Wu Tianyuan returned to his home in the capital, and cleaned up today's harvest. It seems that the last emperor Puyi lived a really useless life in the end!No treasures were left behind. It is estimated that RB was snatched by the little devil, or brought to the Soviet Union by the red-haired man.

"At that time, hundreds of Song and Yuan calligraphy and paintings disappeared like this! It's a pity that only these little things were left behind. The dignified emperor and empress, one incompetent and one thief, are a perfect match!"

The next day, Wu Tianyuan put the things here in Tianyuan's warehouse, and if he had a chance to show them, it was considered a part of the emperor's life.

"It seems that the clues to Puyi's flight have been temporarily cut off. I went to Dalizigou and found nothing. Forget it, I will go to Tianjin to find the treasure of the F4 of the Republic of China according to the original plan!"

Just as Wu Tianyuan was about to leave, he suddenly received a call from Liu Huasheng, saying that Fatty Cao from Macau had a good introduction and asked him to go there quickly.

"Brother Cao, what's the rush?"

Wu Tianyuan ran to Macau non-stop and saw Fatty Cao from the Pawnshop Association. Did he make any major discoveries?
"Brother, are you interested in the old collection of Prince Gong's Mansion?"

"What? Prince Gong's Mansion!"

Wu Tianyuan stood up excitedly, and hurriedly asked: "Where is it?"

Fatty Cao smiled and said: "Don't worry, listen to me slowly, you are a senior expert, you must know the ins and outs of Prince Kung's Mansion. I won't talk nonsense, recently there was a third son of the RB Shanzhong family who owed 800 million from the Shanzhong Hongming Casino Dollar!"

"Hongming in the mountains?" Wu Tianyuan nodded, it was a match, the family in the mountains was the head of the old collection of Prince Gong's Mansion.

Speaking of Prince Kung's Mansion, we will mention an RB person, he is one of the chief culprits in the loss of cultural relics in the Republic of China, RB Yamanaka Sadajiro!
Yamanaka Jojiro was born in 1866 in a family of antique dealers in Osaka. His original name was Adachi Jojiro. He went in and out of antique shops with his father when he was young, and he developed a strong interest in the sale of antiques.

Constant contact with scholars and collectors from Europe and the United States in business opened a door to the world for him, and made him realize that oriental art will have a large market in the future exchanges between the East and the West, and will gain huge profits. Benefit.

The first turning point in Adachi Jojiro's life was when he was 23 years old. The owner of the antique shop, Yoshihei Yamanaka, betrothed his eldest daughter to him. dirt road.

With the expansion of demand for Chinese art in overseas markets, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce turned its attention to China, which has a long history, the richest collection of antiques and cultural relics, and the most active market transactions, and began to establish a branch of the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce in Beijing.The Chamber of Commerce collected a large number of precious Chinese artworks, resulting in the loss of a large number of Chinese cultural relics overseas.

At that time, Yamanaka Jojiro bought a large number of secret collections from the Qing Palace from Prince Gong Puwei. Not long after the Revolution of [-], except for calligraphy and painting, almost all the antiques in Prince Kung's Mansion were sold to RB's Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce.

Although the specific scale of this purchase is unclear, according to some descriptions in the "Biography of Yamanaka Sadajiro", for example, "the amount is different from 20 or [-]" and "no matter which merchant, this is something that will never happen again in a lifetime."It can be seen that this large-scale acquisition must be a huge transaction, and it is very likely to be measured in millions of yen.

The amount is not inferior to the annual output of Chinese antiques before and after the 13 Revolution, or the highest loan amount borrowed by the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty with antiques as collateral in the [-]th year of the Republic of China.

Later, these cultural relics were quickly transported back to RB for sorting and sorting, and were divided into three batches for sale, one batch was shipped to the United States for auction, the other batch was shipped to the UK for auction, and the other batch was left for retail in the antique shops set up by the Mountain Chamber of Commerce in RB and the United States.Now both the American auction catalog and the British auction list have been found, which caused a huge sensation at the time.

In 1912, Prince Gong Puwei raised military salaries to help the last emperor Puyi carry out restoration activities.It was decided to sell all the collections of Prince Gong's Mansion.Accompanied by his friends Yamanaka Rokusaburo and Okada Yuji, Yamanaka Jojiro, who got the news, came to Prince Gong's Mansion to see the treasures in the Prince Kung's Mansion.

The collections of Prince Gong’s Mansion are divided into dozens of treasure houses, such as Ruyi Treasury, Calligraphy and Painting Treasury, Jade Warehouse, and Bronze Warehouse.Countless treasures were covered with dust. In the jade treasury, the steward of Prince Kung's Mansion held up a pile of jadeite ornaments and asked Yamanaka Jojiro, "How much do you plan to pay for these things?"

Yamanaka Jojiro thought to himself that this transaction could be a big one. After weighing, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce decided to buy all the bronzes, ceramics, jades, jadeites, etc. of Prince Kung's Mansion for 34 yuan. This is a big deal for the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce. At the same time, it also brought Yamanaka the greatest glory in his life, and laid a solid foundation for the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce to become the world's largest dealer of Chinese antiques and cultural relics.

In the second year after the purchase of the former collection of Prince Kung’s Mansion by the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce, a bronzing catalog was printed and auctioned at the American Art Gallery in New York, USA, under the special title "Treasures of Art in Heaven". The auction results caused a sensation in the American collection circle. , considered to be the best collection of Chinese artworks, the auction record exceeded 27 US dollars, which was a record-breaking astronomical figure at the time.

In the following year, 1914, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, also in the "American Art Gallery" in New York, held a special auction entitled "Personal Collection of Chinese Nobles in Tianjin and Cultural Relics Purchased by the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce in BJ".The auction turnover was nearly 20 US dollars, another success.

Taking advantage of the second auction, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce achieved great success in business.In 1916, 11 Chinese antique art auctions were held in New York.As a result, the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce has become the world's largest Chinese art dealer.

Wu Tianyuan found an excuse to go to the bathroom, and called Niu Feng to ask Niu Feng about the current situation of the Shanzhong family.

"The current patriarch in the mountain suffered a stroke last year and was lying in bed waiting to die. He has three sons, the eldest and the second are the most vocal, and each has a lot of support. Only the third is a prodigal son, idle all day long, not doing business, he is the least threatening .”

Niu Feng said solemnly on the phone: "Although the Shanzhong family has declined, it is still the largest antique family in RB, controlling most of the channels and resources. The forces behind it are very complicated, and they are inextricably linked with foreign forces. , you must be careful."

Wu Tianyuan hung up the phone, knowing in his heart that since he's here, he's going to meet the so-called prodigal son!
(End of this chapter)