The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

"Hurry up and work. A yacht of this size is 130 tons. Don't forget that 20 tons of Chinese bank gold ingots, and also add it to me."

After listening to Zhang Nan, Kunkka next to him was still calculating the counterweight with a plan of the yacht.

Because of the large amount of gold, this trip took a yacht to New York with 150 tons of the highest purity gold inlays, plus some "low-end goods" such as antiques and silver coins. The "Sunshine Star" was basically fully loaded.

Jin Ding lights up in quantity, but antiques need to choose a good choice: you don't need to pick silver dollars, a bag is 50 kilograms, and you can just move 100 bags.

The guys were orderly loading the goods outside. Zhang Nan and Xiang Weirong walked into the warehouse where the antiques and Buddha statues were kept, and picked the treasures to be transported first.

The last time I came in, I just took a general look. Many boxes were not pried open, and they would all be opened.

"Anan, don't you want a Buddha statue?"

"Well, I don't take home anything related to religion, let's not touch the red, yellow, or green ones."

Xiang Weirong held a golden Buddha weighing more than 20 kilograms, a Bodhisattva of Theravada Buddhism, and he didn't know him.

He thought of the second item who stole 18 kilograms of golden Buddha with the sheep. Now that kid should have been out of the military prison for a few years.

Feeling that life is wonderful, he carefully put the Golden Buddha back into the original box, moved the box away, and picked up the crowbar to deal with the next wooden box.

"Come and take a look."

The wooden box is very special, so I called my brother-in-law.

Zhang Nan would be like a groundhog, tumbling around intently on the opposite side of the shelf against the wall.

Upon hearing this, without asking any special circumstances, he immediately got out of the pile of Buddha statues.

A grenade box.

"interesting."

There is nothing special about the box, the special thing is that there is a seal on it: the seal of the Gendarmerie Headquarters of the Myanmar Front Army. Well, I can understand Japanese without asking Guan Xingquan to come in.

In the past, even if some packing boxes had seals affixed to the outside, they had been uncovered a long time ago, and the level of the seal-sticking unit was not so high.

"Are there any other similar boxes."

Zhang Nan asked, obviously this is the first one.

The two moved away all the nearby boxes again, and the one with the intact seal of this level was this one.

No matter what's in it, pry open it!

The seal of the Gendarmerie Headquarters of the Burmese Front Army is rare. Zhang Nan didn't tear it up at the beginning, wondering if he could take it off.

It's a pity that there is too much paste, and it has to be cut in two.

Xiang Weirong started, and when he pried it open, he found that there was a small suitcase with a small size just inserted into it.

I took out the box, checked it and found it was no problem, and then opened the leather buckle of the box.

Inside are packaging boxes of different sizes and materials, and the boxes are separated by cotton cloth.

Zhang Nan took a look and said, "It's a jewelry box."

There are about fifteen or six. The single box has silver inlaid rubies, silver gilt enamel inlaid with pearls and turquoise, silver carved dragons and phoenixes inlaid with gems, and silver gilt enamel inlaid with garnets...

There are Chinese styles, the Southeast Peninsula; obviously Ming and Qing styles, and the Southeast Peninsula can't be said at any time.

Two of them clearly carry the uterus taste that was supervised by the House of Internal Affairs of the Qing Dynasty: these boxes alone are truly cultural relics.

but……

"There should be something here."

Zhang Nan said something and picked up one of the rectangular silver gilt enamel garnet jewellery boxes: These boxes are now treasures, but they weren’t important enough to require a seal on the Gendarmerie Headquarters of the Little Devil Front Army.

When the box is gorgeous, the enamel on the top constitutes an auspicious picture. Once the lock is opened, the inner side of the box is golden flannel, and there is only one piece of jewelry inside!

"Good stuff! How could it be in Myanmar?"

Xiang Weirong said something unconsciously.

Golden yellow, royal color, this box is for royal use, but how can it be in Myanmar?

Outflow from the Republic of China?

Zhang Nan doesn't think so.

"I think this box has a taste of the mid-Qing Dynasty. It should be made by the court superintendent during the Qianlong period. It may be given to the Burmese king by the guy Qianlong after the Qing-Burmese War..."

This is a piece of history that people who have studied history know. Zhang Nan knows seven or eight. Xiang Weirong also knows this explanation.

The Qing-Burmese War was a war between the Qing Dynasty and the Kungbang Dynasty of Burma at the end of the 18th century over the control of territory and resources in the border area.

The war started with Burma's invasion of the Pu'er region of China's Yunnan Province in the winter of 1762, and the Qing army counterattacked in self-defense, and ended with the signing of an armistice agreement between the two sides at the end of 1769.

The war lasted for 7 years. Although the Qing Dynasty achieved the nominal surrender of Burma, it failed to achieve real victory in the war and suffered heavy losses.

Among the "Perfect Martial Arts" of Emperor Qianlong, the war with Burma was also the only one that was more controversial.

In his later years, Emperor Qianlong said: "There are eight wars in more than 50 years, but the conquest of Burma is not a success."

After the war, the relationship between China and Myanmar was re-incorporated into the East Asian tributary system: China gained face and Myanmar gained benefits.

Xiang Weirong said with a smile after hearing this: "These emperors are really ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ For the sake of face, everything can be given to these messy small countries."

"Face, Huaxia is used to it, it's not the same now.

However, I used to be taken advantage of, but now I can bring back even more benefits to the country. "

The surrendered small countries come to pay tribute, and the emperor of the great central country will usually give these small countries several times, even dozens of hundreds of times, and it is common for the royal jewelry made by the palace to be given to the small royal family.

Inside this silver gilt enamel inlaid garnet jewelry box is a nearly 5 cm wide inlaid and micro-carved tortoiseshell gold bracelet. The craftsmanship is so exaggerating!

The bracelet is divided into seven sections. The middle section is inlaid with an oval-shaped tortoiseshell micro-engraved piece. On both sides are two extremely complex pan dragons which are welded by drawn gold wire coils, hollowed out; there are two on both sides of the pan dragon sheet. A slightly smaller ring is inlaid with a cap, two wings and two gold wire disks are connected to the golden phoenix, followed by a live buckle that can be locked, and a small piece of small gold chain buckle that prevents falling.

You can move between the films. The three tortoiseshells are extremely detailed. I use a magnifying glass to understand that the middle one is "Wenji Guihan". One of the other two films should be "Hundred Birds Chaofeng", and the theme of the other one is not clear. .

"It's very interesting. I have not heard of it before putting together such two kinds of inlays.

"Who knows what Qianlong thinks. If you didn't give that guy's Muzi to the consulate, you can still ask this old boy."

Muzi, the tablet is here.

Yes, Xiang Weirong would be joking.

The craftsmanship of those gold flakes is definitely the highest level of craftsmanship in the Qing Dynasty. Needless to say, the craftsmanship is almost comparable to that of the Southern Song spot welding gold step that she gave to Zhang Li. The gold thread is several times thicker.

But even so, it is a superb skill that modern jewellery craftsmen can't reach!

This is a true gem of Chinese art! .

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