The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

It's not about the tiger chasing the buttocks. It's really not authentic to wake up the domestic experts at two o'clock in the middle of the night. You have to wait until about seven in the morning, right? At that time, the experts should also get up.

I can't stop the crazy smuggling trend of cultural relics in China, but now that the guards on the side of the Forbidden City have encountered the incident, then you have to take care of it!

Not only from heart, but also to raise the value of his relatives by the way: if he can help Nong Bosheng get the deputy ministerial treatment when he is retiring, it would be great.

The administrative level of Comrade Lao Nong has long been hopeless. He has always disliked being an official, but he can try his best to be an academician of the two academies. That is a proper deputy minister!

The old farmer is an honest person and has a profound academic knowledge. Although in China, there are many people who are more experienced in domestic archaeology and cultural relic research than him, but he can study foreign archaeology..

hehe!

It’s no problem for agricultural curators to enter the top three, and their status has increased dramatically in recent years.

Last time, I explored the Tomb of the Huns in Mongolia, and this year I will go to Russia and Eastern Europe to participate in two joint archaeological projects. Here, Zhang Nan led the way.

The joint alliance has allocated a lot of places to the director of the agricultural curator and the director of the agricultural university. There are foreign foundations for funding, and the domestic government does not need to pay.

The international status has risen greatly?

Zhang Nan spent a small amount of money and then easily exerted a little influence.

The "Beijing People in New York" has not yet been released in China. If you go to Europe to participate in joint archaeology, you can still stay in high-end hotels and have subsidies. This is a real advantage and difference, gold-plated, and the quota is for adults. !

Even if it was released, it was still popular to go to Europe and North America before the mid-1990s for free inspections, not to mention the inspections with its own gilding function.

The big shots themselves may not appreciate such an opportunity, but the big shots also have children, and the opportunity to go out for gilding is not comparable to participating in a large-scale archaeological project in China.

In recent years, people are generally invited to come to the country for joint inspections. Very few people invite themselves to go out, which is precious every time!

Not to mention that apart from the war-torn Middle East and the poorly connected Spain, if you want to go to any other part of the world to join archaeology, Zhang Nan can help Nongbo.

The old farmer is really good, and if you spend some money, you must try your best to make the Nongbo to become an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences!

About a few years ago, Zhang Nan read a welfare introduction for retired deputy senior officials: full-time drivers and guards and staff, poor health (over 80 years old) and part-time medical staff;

Enjoy four domestic tours and recuperations a year, each for two weeks, and the number of family members and children is limited to five. Transportation: There is a limit of two in the first class or business class of the plane, and two soft sleepers on the train; one quasi-packed soft sleeper with poor health and limited mobility.

Local transportation: Equipped with two cars or a small station wagon and a car. Accommodation in a four-star or five-star hotel, renting a superior suite, meals during the stay, for myself and my family members, the daily standard is 300 yuan, and the accompanying staff is 200 yuan, and the actual reimbursement is actual.

In addition to the above benefits, a one-year allowance (excluding retirement pension and grade treatment expenses) per person for deputy senior officials is 930,000 yuan!

I don't know if there is any discrepancy in this standard, but once the old farmer is pushed to that position, the salary is absolutely not bad, and it can be regarded as worthy of the help he has given him.

Not only because I emptied the warehouse of the Yongcheng Exhibition Hall in compliance with regulations and laws, but because I didn’t move it myself, it would be emptied by others in a few years.

The most important thing is that he counts himself as a relative. The old farmer is selfless in helping Zhang Nan in the study of cultural relics, just as he directly sent copies of his research manuscripts on inscriptions and bronzes to Zhang Nan that time.

Zhang Nan is not a good person, but he is very affectionate to his own people. Even if others don't say it, he still has to push others.

There are not many things that you can't do if you have money, relationships, and ability!

It's okay to ask Nongbosheng for issues related to domestic cultural relics, but this will be the wrong time, so let's talk about it at night. Some of the hundreds of boxes in front of you slowly look at it.

Inside the second opened small box is a bronze statue about 35 cm high, which seems to be intact, with a weird-looking goat head with huge double horns.

The human body structure is reasonable, but the sheep’s head will feel a little wicked after a few more glances, not like a good thing: the bronze statue has a chest, a short skirt around the waist, and the two legs separated in the left front and right back, indicating this It's an ancient Egyptian thing.

Zhang Nan took a few glances and didn't even get started.

On one side, Jerry Gooden Cowan knew that the boss didn't have a cold on ancient Egyptian artifacts, and he didn't know much about the ancient Egyptian artifacts, so he stepped forward and took a closer look at the statue.

"Boss, this is a statue of Kunum. It is said that the **** of creation in ancient Egypt is that he used the mud of the Nile River to shape humans and all living things on a pottery wheel.

He should also be the local chief **** of the first waterfall area near Elephant Island in Upper Egypt, the **** of water on the Nile, and the protector of potters.

Look at this style..."

Jerry paused, then said: "It may be something from the new dynasty."

Roughly speaking, the objects from about 1567 BC to 1085 BC are roughly equivalent to the Chinese Shang Dynasty.

The bronze statue is exquisite in workmanship and not small in size. It is no problem to sell for tens of thousands of dollars in the American auction market.

But Zhang Nan doesn’t like it. For the time being, this thing is the life of a pile of warehouses, not the warehouses in the manor. This bronze statue always makes people feel gloomy. Besides, in the western world, the ram represents evil. Inappropriate.

"Let's let it go first. If there is a place in the museum in the future, let's talk about it. If there is no place, it will be sold out in the auction house in more than ten or two decades."

This is Zhang Nan's preparation. There are too many things like this, and many of them will have to be sold in batches in the future, otherwise they will only pile up with dust, which is pure waste.

The third box, Zhang Nan, took a glance and didn't bother to look at it again-a set of ancient Egyptian funeral urns that were probably made of calcite.

The carving on the lid of the urn Zhang Nan knew what it meant without Jerry speaking. It was the image of the heads of the four sons of the ancient Egyptian **** Horus: the human head urn kept the mummy’s liver, the baboon’s head kept the lungs, the jackal’s head kept the stomach, and the eagle. Keep your intestines in your head.

As for that Horus is the **** of kingship and war in ancient Egyptian mythology, incarnate as an eagle.

The four urns Zhang Nan had a headache at first sight, except for barbarians, who the **** would store dead coffins these days!

"Thomas, let people dispose of these four bottles and count them as unaccounted expenses for the joint force."

Zhang Nan didn't want to put these kinds of things in the museum he built: funerary objects are fine, and the coffins are basically free of discussion, even those of the level of Mawangdui.

I have been a tutor in my previous life, and they have all become occupational illnesses that have passed away. People with broken brains will be interested in other people's coffins!

Prying boxes is a fun thing, at least more exciting than scratching the lottery ticket, because there will be prizes no matter what.

But the old saying goes that life is unsatisfactory in all cases. There are more than a dozen large and small boxes. Inside are broken statues of ancient Egypt, clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions in the Middle East, Buddha statues in South Asia...

I even found a mummy coffin in the boss's box. Many Americans like coffin panels!

These things are left to Jerry Gooden Cowan to slowly study and sort them. As for the mummy coffin, it will be loaded into the truck compartment and transported away as soon as everything is finished.

There is a place where the company puts messy and shameful things. Let this coffin for a while to see if there are any sequelae from the looting of the cultural relics smuggler's warehouse.

If not, several sets of burial urns will be sold together and counted as the funds for the joint force.

Little money, Zhang Nan doesn't want it.

...

It took time to look at things, and finally some normal cultural relics came out: Zhang Nan played with and admired a few silver wine utensils in medieval Eastern Europe style for a few hours. The shapes are particularly interesting, and they are all vivid animal shapes.

Ask the attendant to inform the manor that he is going back later today, and at the same time inform the airport restaurant next door to prepare more work meals for tonight, and pack it to the museum when that time comes.

The simplest but delicious American steak set meal was delivered by the dining car at six in the evening. They were all placed in disposable plastic lunch boxes. I didn’t inform the airport that the boss was here. There was no rice in the meal. Zhang Nan was slightly upset.

Eating steak with black pepper sauce and skipping some rice at the end makes my stomach feel a little irritating!

After eating, pry into a box again. As a result, the first large wooden box was separated by a lot of grids, and the inside was actually a pile of clay pots that looked like the ancient Egyptian period.

It looked like an ordinary container for water and grain, and there was almost no work on it. I really didn't understand what profit the smugglers could make by smuggling these.

After prying a few more, no objects of great value were found. Seeing that the time was almost the same, Alyosha, who followed him, found out the mobile phone number of the agricultural curator of the Yongcheng Museum.

Nowadays, they are genuine department-level cadres, and they are allotted by the eldest brother.

As a result, it shuts down.

Well, now the standby time of the big brother of this year and month is so short that he is frantically mad. It will be before work hours, and few people will turn it on.

I changed the phone at home, and it was indeed there.

"Brother-in-law, I, Zhang Nan, didn't you wake you up?"

As soon as Zhang Nan finished speaking, he heard Nong Bosheng on the other end of the phone smiling and saying: "I've been up for more than half an hour, and I will wake up and go to bed early to be in good health at my age.

By the way, I said Anan, will this still be abroad or will I return home?"

In this year and month, the phone has no caller ID.

"Still in New York, I have something to ask you about this trip, and maybe I want you to help."

"If you have anything to say, you are polite!"

Nong Bosheng smiled and cursed on the other side of the phone, he was all his own, and he was not guilty of being polite.

...

Here Zhang Nan organized a language and said: "That's right, I want to ask, brother-in-law, where are the cultural relics belonging to the Palace Museum apart from the Forbidden City itself?

I'm talking about those who are registered. "

Upon hearing this, Nong Bosheng, who was in his new home in Yongcheng, knew that something must have happened to his oblique brother-in-law, and it was related to the Palace Museum.

Without thinking about it, he said: "Apart from the Forbidden City itself, there are many others. The overall situation can be divided into two situations."

"Which two?"

"The first is to borrow exhibitions. Almost every year, the Forbidden City will lend some cultural relics to museums across the country, and even exhibit them abroad, usually to large museums.

Just like me, in the second half of the year, the new Yongcheng Museum will be officially opened on the National Day. I asked the Forbidden City to say hello to the Forbidden City. Then they will lend nearly 200 cultural relics. Our short-term exhibition for two months is considered a cheer.

Anan, come back if you have time, and cheer me up. "

Zhang Nan listened carefully, and finally smiled and said: "It depends on the situation. If I can't come, my sister will definitely go. She donated the money to build the museum, which is justified."

"You can come as much as you can. It doesn't matter if you are on stage or not, I will accompany you to visit."

"Say it, say it again.

Brother-in-law, when you return the loaned cultural relics, you will definitely check it carefully, right?"

"Of course, there are strict handover procedures and requirements for in and out, and no mistakes are allowed. If there is loss or damage, it will be troublesome..."

"Then what is the second situation?" Zhang Nan continued to ask.

"Transfer.

The Palace Museum has transferred many cultural relics in the past few decades, some of which are transferred out without returning, and some can be understood as secondments, and the ownership is still in the Forbidden City.

For example, in the White Horse Temple and Luoyang Museum in Luoyang, there are about 2,000 cultural relics that theoretically belong to the Palace Museum.

However, they have been seconded for 20 years. They are pure meat buns and dogs. "

Speaking of the last sentence, Zhang Nan could hear a bit of irony in Nongbosheng's tone.

"I said, the things from the Forbidden City are still reasonable to go to the Luoyang Museum. How can I get to the White Horse Temple?"

"Receive big shots.

I remember it seems to be the beginning of 1973. It is said that Siha-Nuk in Cambodia is going to visit Luo-Yang. Cambodia is a country that believes in Buddhism. Siha-Nuk is also a Buddhist believer. If you go to Luo-Yang, you will naturally go to Baima. Temple.

Do you know the White Horse Temple?... The first temple after Buddhism was introduced to China, 20 years ago, the White Horse Temple was renovated several times after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The appearance is not magnificent, but it is simple and quiet.

But the Buddha statue inside...

hehe!

At that meeting in a special period, the mud and stones were all smashed to pieces, and the wood was burned completely.

Later, the local cultural system organized ‘learning classes’ in the White Horse Temple, where everyone lived in the hall, and the most important hall was cleaned and clean.

You said that there is no Buddha statue in this temple, that is, there is no emperor in the Jinluang Temple. Where can I bow my head for worship?

Interesting, if the head of state goes to the White Horse Temple and stops at the main hall!

I guess it won't come out.

Later, the above urgently transferred the Third Buddha, the Eighteen Arhats, and more than 2,000 other cultural relics in the Great Buddha Hall of the Forbidden City to Luoyang Baima Temple. Among them, there are a lot of furniture in the Qing Dynasty palace~www.readwn.com~ Otherwise people will go. All can only sit on a hard bench.

Ten years ago, the management structure of the temple changed, but now I want to go back.

By the way, the funny thing is that in the past 20 years, people haven't visited the White Horse Temple until now. I don't know if they will go again in this life. "

This Nan sounded a little speechless, and it was probably regarded as the "Wang Fu Shi" and "Lifetime" series in the cultural relic world.

It's all right, nothing wrong.

The speechless is speechless, and there are still some things to ask.

"Then are there other things, such as important cultural relics with the "Gu" label of the Forbidden City."

"too much!

After the Revolution of 1911, the government at that time basically moved the cultural relics of the Rehe Palace and the Shenyang Imperial Palace to the Forbidden City of the capital, and all the cultural relics were assigned to the "Gu Zi".

In the past two to three decades, in order to enrich local museums, the national cultural management department successively allocated almost 100,000 cultural relics from the Palace Museum to various local museums.

For example, many of the relics belonged to Chengde Mountain Resort and Outer Eight Temples, plus some additional cultural relics. In the 1970s, more than 5,000 pieces and sets were given to Chengde in two times..."

Yes, Zhang Nan will already know where this silver mandala came from: the eighty-nine do not leave ten, the outer eight temples!

The big case of theft of cultural relics in Kai-feng last year was very impressive. In fact, the theft cases in the Outer Eight Temples of Chengde were bigger and more stolen cultural relics!

The number of first and second level cultural relics stolen alone exceeds that of Kai-feng, but people slowly steal and sell them slowly, and they can last for ten years after they are stolen.

Many people in the antiques and cultural relic circles know about the Outer Eight Temples, but in the outside world, the popularity of this case cannot be compared with the Kai-Feng one: People are guarding and stealing, and the thief is the leader of the Outer Eight Temples' cultural relics!

What an irony!

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