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Next, Earl Bolin took Wang Yi to visit his collection room. The Earl’s collection room was large in size and was built underground. It was supposed to be the treasure room of the former manor, which was later transformed.

There is a thick layer of granite outside the collection room and a thick layer of alloy inside the treasure room, which gives a sense of security just by looking at it.Although the collection room is built underground, the place is not small, and the air is not as stuffy as imagined. There should be professional ventilation equipment, which gives Wang Yi the feeling of a vault in a bank.

Before entering the collection room, one had to pass through a long corridor without any obstructions. Although Wang Yi did not find any organs, he did not think this corridor was a decoration.

The environment of the entire collection room is dry and the temperature is kept constant. Such an environment is conducive to the long-term preservation of the artwork.In the collection room are divided booths. Each booth holds an item, and there is a metal nameplate next to each item. It explains where the item comes from, what its name, size, etc. Basic information, the collection room is divided into many compartments, in each compartment are stored different types of art, divided into categories, all collections are fine.

The collections in the entire collection are completely comparable to a large museum.

"This is the coronation crown of Emperor Shinra."

"This is Rodin's statue."

"This is a gold ornament from ancient Egypt."

"This is Picasso's painting, "The Boy with a Pipe". This painting is his masterpiece through the blue melancholy and entering the pink age. This is also the time when Picasso's fame was rising. This painting changed hands several times in Paris, and later arrived. In the hands of a German Jew, after the victory of the war, the Allied forces auctioned off the seized items. Among them was this painting. My ancestors bought it at the time."

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Earl Bolin introduced Wang Yi to the precious works of art in his family's collection, and he admired Western oil paintings, sculptures, etc. There are many short stories behind many of the artworks here. Earl Bolin is very familiar with Introducing Wang Yi, these artworks also opened his eyes.

Soon, the two came to another compartment.

"Here are artworks from China," Earl Bolin said to Wang Yi.

This compartment is much larger than the previous one, and it stores a lot of artworks from China.

The largest number is all kinds of porcelain. This is also the most exported thing in ancient China. In addition to these porcelains, there are also some bronzes, jade articles, paintings and calligraphy, coins, Buddha statues, etc., and there are many kinds of them. Yi Kan was dazzled, but his mood became a little heavy.

Suddenly, Wang Yi stopped in front of a platform and saw Wang Yi stop. Earl Bolin introduced: "This is thirty volumes of Dunhuang scriptures. In 1998, I bought it from a poor nobleman. , It cost 300,000 pounds."

Wang Yi nodded and said nothing.There are tens of thousands of these Dunhuang scriptures scattered overseas. This is only a small part of them. The bulk has been collected by national museums such as the British Museum, the Russian National Museum, and the Japanese Museum. It is impossible to buy them. But now that I ran into it here, Wang Yi has already planned to buy these and take them back.

Seeing Wang Yi's gaze, Earl Bolin still smiled, but his eyes flashed a few times on Wang Yi.

"This is..." As the two continued to watch in the collection room, the appearance of several books shocked him.

The appearances of these books are unremarkable, the cover has turned yellow, and the pages are bound with twine, but the four large characters on the cover make Wang Yi's mind excited-"The Great Classic of Yongle".

Speaking of lost overseas treasures of China, many people will immediately think of the bronze head of the twelve zodiac signs in the Old Summer Palace. The bronze head of the twelve zodiac signs was originally part of the fountain outside the Haiyan Hall of the Old Summer Palace. In 1860, the British and French aggression was taken away by the invaders.

Because China has been prosperous and prosperous in the past few decades, these bronze heads of the Chinese zodiac have been used by many foreigners to take advantage of the country’s rising national pride. The auction of these bronze heads is for Chinese people to spend high prices to auction.

The Yongle Grand Ceremony is actually more precious than the bronze head of the twelve zodiac signs in the Old Summer Palace.The Yongle Dadian is an ancient Chinese encyclopedia compiled by Ming Chengzu Mingjie Jin, Yao Guangwen and others. The entire Yongle Dadian has 22,877 volumes and a catalog of 60 volumes, about 370 million. word.

At that time, more than 3,000 people were used to compile this great work, and it took several years to complete it. At that time, only one copy was copied, called the Yongle original. After the Jiajing period, I was worried that the great book would be damaged, so I copied another copy. The part is called a copy, but although there are two parts, this masterpiece is still troubled.

The original manuscript disappeared at some unknown time. The original manuscript was originally stored in Wenyuan Pavilion, Jinling. Later, Wenyuan Pavilion caught fire. The original manuscript was burned and the copy was not completed. A large number of them were lost, and until now there are only more than 400 copies left scattered around the world.

Wang Yi didn't expect that he would find several volumes of Yongle Grand Classics in the collection of Earl Bolin.

"Mr. Earl, do you still have a collection of these books?" Wang Yi asked, pointing to a few Yongle Dadians.

"I bought these books at an auction. I only have these six here." Earl Bolin shook his head and said, Wang Yi had some regrets on his face, but he immediately picked up his mood. Yongle has been lost for many years, and now he can I’m lucky to find a few books here, and what bikes are needed!

Next, Wang Yi did not directly inquire about the purchase, but continued to visit with Earl Bolin. Then Wang Yi saw a lot of art from Egypt, including stone statues, golden masks, Pharaoh’s sticks, etc. Fortunately Earl Bolin did not The hobby of collecting mummies, otherwise there will definitely be a few here.

After visiting the collections of the Bolin family for eight hundred years, Wang Yi left the collection room with Earl Bolin. As for which collections to purchase, Wang Yi was not worried that Earl Bolin would reject him. In fact, he had already felt this. The Earl Bolling invited him for the purpose of asking him for something, and in order to allow himself to agree, he also took him to the collection room to watch it. This Mr. Earl must have collected a lot of his information before.