golden ear

Chapter 151 Buying an Ancient Castle!
"How about it? Is it worth adding this?"

Tom was proud of it. He specially asked someone to look at the collection. Others were not worth much, but this was very meaningful to the Chinese. After all, the Forty Scenes are in the museum, and the copper engravings in his hand are considered treasures.

"300 million pounds!"

Wu Tianyuan didn't talk nonsense, and quoted the highest price. This batch of collections is worth more than 2000 million at most, mainly because the forty scenes of the Old Summer Palace are more precious.

Under Wu Tianyuan's tough attitude, the final transaction was 300 million pounds, and the collection was sent to Jenny first, and then brought back to China at one time.

Tom didn't have the old collection of the mountain house in his hands, and it lost its value. Wu Tianyuan didn't stop, and rushed directly to the next location, Fern Castle in Lincolnshire.

"Dear Chinese boss, many Chinese people have come to invest in the UK recently. The first choice is to buy a castle! Look at the huge area here, with gardens and fountains, it is absolutely magnificent."

An old castle agent talked about the former residence of Finn, the chief of staff of the British army. He had seen many local rich Chinese, and he liked to buy old castles.

Wu Tianyuan didn't speak. The place is very dilapidated. No one has lived in it for at least 30 to [-] years. There are many old castles in the British countryside, at least thousands of them.Except for the famous families, they are basically abandoned. Taking care of an ancient castle requires huge money and manpower, and the descendants cannot afford it, so they can only sell it.

Wu Tianyuan took a good look around, found the clues he needed, and started to negotiate the price.From the original 300 million pounds to 200 million pounds, and finally a direct transaction.

"Hey, I'm also a person who has a castle in England!"

After completing the procedures, Wu Tianyuan sighed, "However, the redecoration will cost a lot of money, plus manpower and material resources. Forget it. I'll talk about it later when I have time."

Wu Tianyuan hurried to a bedroom on the second floor, found the mechanism next to the bed, opened the secret room that had been dusty for many years,
"Qianlong's sixteen handfuls of jade wishful!"

The secret room is full of dust, and the inventory of the loot starts after cleaning. The first one is a set of jade ruyi.

In April 2013, at Baoli Hong Kong Spring Auction, a group of Qianlong jade Ruyi attracted the attention of countless collectors.The array of exquisite jade ruyis is perfect both in terms of material and craftsmanship.The perfect Jade Ruyi is a boutique collection of "Kangxizhai".

They are from the collection of Qiu Yanzhi, a great collector in the Republic of China, and the grandfather of Qiu Guofu, who is now the head of Sofuby!

"Last time, Qiu Yanzhi auctioned five pieces of jade ruyis. Here are sixteen pieces of imperial masterpieces. They must have come from the Old Summer Palace. Keep them in your collection."

Wu Tianyuan wrapped Yu Ruyi first, and then found five royal clocks used by Kang Yongqian court, which were too old and damaged by dust, so I need someone to repair them when I go back.

"This is the June Lotus Cup!"

"And Xu Wei's picture of grapes!"

Wu Tianyuan excitedly picked up the June Cup, counting the ten Kangxi five-color blue and white flower god cups in his hand, only August and September are left.

"You are Gilded Pagoda?"

After Wu Tianyuan sorted out the collection on the bookshelf, he finally noticed that the two big guys in the corner turned out to be the two gilded pagodas of the Zhengda Guangming Hall in the Old Summer Palace.

"There are three pairs of us, and another pair is in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. It seems that they were also taken away by bandits, and they are now missing."

Wu Tianyuan nodded, that pair is in the lobby of the China Pavilion in Fontainebleau, France, and there is a chance to get it back later.

"Don't forget us, Qianlong imperial golden chime bell!"

Just when Wu Tianyuan thought it wasn't there, suddenly a few voices came from an inconspicuous box, and he was very surprised when he opened it.

"Aren't you Qianlong's "Golden Chime Bells", a total of 16! There is a set in the Forbidden City?"

Wu Tianyuan carefully took out eight golden chime bells, the shape and structure are definitely the craftsmanship of the palace building office, but the Qianlong golden chime bells should be in the Forbidden City, there is another set here?
"That set is a ritual vessel for offering sacrifices to the heavens, and it can only be used in the grand ceremonies of the country. Our sixteen brothers are musical instruments, one size smaller than them, and are usually used in the Guiyue Palace in the Yuanmingyuan for the emperor to listen to music."

Wu Tianyuan became excited. He actually had two sets of golden chime bells made by Emperor Qianlong. He had visited the one in the Forbidden City, and it was very domineering.Didn't think I'd have the chance to get another set!
Now I have a few heavy objects in my hand. Except for the two Forbidden City, only Tianyuan Museum has them, such as Shiqu Baoji and Yongle Plum Vase.This set of golden chimes is definitely one of the important representatives of Yuanmingyuan, second only to the forty scenes.

There are also some small decorations, all of which were collected by the Old Summer Palace back then. Fein snatched them, packed them up and sent them to London, and sent them back to China together with Jenny's.

"My brother was stolen, go and save it!"

Xu Wei's picture of grapes screamed, and Wu Tianyuan hurriedly asked. It turned out that a few days ago, a thief ran into the study and stole another Xu Wei's flower and bird album and Zhang Ruitu's Ode to Bamboo, and he could still sense the location.

Wu Tianyuan took the treasure back to the secret room first, and hurried to find the lost treasure, but came to a small auction house, where it was actually sold.

"Sure enough, it's Xu Wei's eight albums of flowers and birds, worth tens of millions!"

"There is also the even more precious Ming Zhang Ruitu's Ode to Bamboo, which is rare in a hundred years!"

Both of them are big names. Xu Wei is the founder of China's "Pomo Daxieyi Painting School" and the originator of "Qingteng Painting School". He is the most outstanding flower and bird painting style and created a generation of painting styles. The eight monsters have a great influence.He is good at writing and cursive, and has written a large number of poems and essays. He is known as "a talented person of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhang Ruitu is famous for being good at calligraphy. His calligraphy is unique, steep and vigorous, with vivid brushwork and strange postures. He is one of the four great calligraphers of the Ming Dynasty.As famous as Dong Qichang, Xing Dong, and Mi Wanzhong, he is known as "South Zhang Bei Dong"; he is also good at landscape painting, imitating Huang Gongwang of the Yuan Dynasty, vigorous and vigorous, and his works are extremely rare.

Wu Tianyuan was relieved when he found two treasures. This auction house called Chris is very small, it should be a newly opened one in China, and there are no customers. These auctions can be sold directly.

"Xu Wei's price is [-] pounds, but Zhang Ruitu's is only [-] pounds?"

Wu Tianyuan looked at the price tag below and was surprised. It seems that the lines are interlaced like mountains, and Westerners cannot understand Chinese calligraphy and painting.Such a heavy weapon only sells for tens of thousands of yuan here?It seems that the British auction house will have a lot to do in the future!

"Sir, these are the two lots you bought. We still have some Chinese collections in our warehouse. Are you interested?"

When Wu Tianyuan heard it, there was still something?Follow the manager to the small warehouse, and see a scroll and a large box of letters.

He took a quick look, packed everything for [-] pounds, and when he left the auction house, he shouted excitedly: "Tang Bohu's Xishan thatched cottage hand scroll is only [-] pounds!"

It turned out that he knew it was Tang Bohu's authentic hand scroll, and it was the rarest hand scroll, Xishan Thatched Cottage. This time he picked up a big mistake!

"You are the evidence of the Eight-Power Allied Forces' invasion of China! Who are they?"

Wu Tianyuan seriously sorted out a large box of materials, including letters, telegrams, battle maps, etc., in all kinds of words.

"I am RB Yamamura, telegram to the Emperor!"

"I am a letter home from First Class Private Scott!"

"Battle report from the Russian Slavs!"

"German battle map!"

Wu Tianyuan saw that the Eight-Nation Allied Forces had assembled!Keep it, let's exhibit with Yuanmingyuan together!
(End of this chapter)