Chapter 863 Take advantage of Pu Wei

Compared with Japan at that time, that **** Qing Dynasty, even if you don’t want to subjugate your country, it won’t work!

Thinking about it again, Jin Muchen can only laugh at the current situation in the country. ???????????????????????? .

Dingjiro Yamanaka discussed with several gold owners, and finally after weighing them, they decided to buy all the bronzes, ceramics, jades, jadeites, etc. in Prince Kung’s mansion at a price of 340,000 oceans, except for calligraphy and painting.

It was a big gamble for the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce. To know the 340,000 oceans, for them, it was already the limit of the amount they could take out at that time, and Pu Wei, the prodigal son, didn’t even think about it. agreed. . .

This transaction not only brought the greatest loss of cultural relics to China, but also brought Yamanaka Singjiro the greatest glory in his life, and his Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce relied on this transaction to lay the foundation for the world in one fell swoop. A solid foundation on the largest Chinese antiques dealer.

This batch of Prince Kung’s mansion was purchased in the second year after the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce, that is, in 1913 at the American Art Gallery in New York, USA, with a special theme called “Art Treasures in the Sky”, with a bronzing catalogue printed for auction. This time The auction was very successful. It can be said that the auction has not yet started, and those invitations have just gone out, and they have already caused a sensation in the American collection circle.

Many wealthy people and collectors in the United States believe that this auction will be a grand event for the best collection of Chinese art. It is said that before the auction starts, those wealthy people are even willing to spend a lot of money for an invitation to enter the venue. . When the auction started, countless billionaires came from all over the United States with cash to participate in this grand event.

And the auction did not disappoint everyone. Almost all the auction items were swept away by those American local tyrants.

The final auction record was over 270,000 US dollars, setting the highest auction record in the history of the United States that year. The 270,000-dollar transaction record was absolutely a record-breaking astronomical figure that year. If you consider factors such as inflation, the US dollar, etc. , After calculation, the 270,000 US dollars that year, converted to now, it is definitely more than 2 billion US dollars.

And so far, various large shareholder auctions held all over the world have not yet reached a record of more than two billion US dollars.

In this auction, the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce sold only part of the spoils of the old mansion from the Prince Gong’s Mansion. In the second year, in 1914, he was also in the “American Art Gallery” in New York. Another special auction titled “Personal Collections of Chinese Nobles in Tianjin and Cultural Relics Purchased by Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce in Beijing” was held. The auction this time was just the last time he took out part of the spoils of the old mansion of Prince Gong’s mansion, plus In the past year, he has collected treasures from the old and young of the Qing Dynasty in Jinmen, and this auction was also very successful, with a turnover of nearly 200,000 US dollars. The Chamber of Commerce is well-known in Europe and the United States, and has become a well-known Chinese antique dealer for a while.

The Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce did not waste it. These two successes brought them great fame. They then started from 1914 to 1916. During these three years, 6 continued to hold a total of 11 Chinese events in New York. Antique art auctions, and arguably, have been huge successes every time.

Since then, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce has become veritably the largest Chinese art dealer in the world.

Later, countless historians once wanted to know how many treasures Yamanaka Seijiro took out of the Prince Kung’s mansion, but Yamanaka Seijiro remained silent on this issue until after his death. How many rare treasures he took out of Prince Gong’s mansion in those days is always a mystery to future generations.

However, after the liberation, domestic historians once found a book in China. When the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce held an auction in New York for the first time in 1913, the catalogue of the auction items cited roughly solved the loss of Prince Kung’s mansion. Part of the mystery of overseas cultural relics.

This catalogue is printed in English. On the title page, there is a photo of Prince Gong’s court clothes. It introduces the collection of Prince Gong’s mansion auctioned in New York with pictures and texts, mainly porcelain, with a total of 133 pieces.

The variety of these porcelains on the auction can be said to be all-encompassing, among which white glaze wares are mostly, there are a total of 35 pieces, accounting for 26% of the total number of all listed porcelains.

Among them are the white glazed water bowls of the Ding kiln system in the Song Dynasty, the sweet white bowls of the Yongle official kiln in the early Ming Dynasty, the white glazed stationery supplies of the Jingdezhen official kiln in the Qing Yongzheng period, the Guanyin statue and the Qing Dynasty offerings of the Dehua kiln in the Ming and Qing dynasties. and many more.

In addition, there are 35 pieces of blue-and-white multicolored porcelain, accounting for 26% of the total number of porcelains in the auction.

In addition, there are 63 pieces of monochrome glaze porcelain produced by Kangxi and Yongzheng official kilns, including black gold, blue glaze, blue-painted gold, red glaze, cowpea red, Langyao red, yellow glaze, sky blue glaze, peacock green glaze, Golden sauce glaze, coral red, Langyao green, apple green, tea powder and more than a dozen varieties.

These are all materials. After Jin Muchen came to the Oriental Museum to step on the spot, after seeing the three-piece red sandalwood set donated by Yamanaka Singjiro to the Tokyo National Museum, he became interested in the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, and then went back to find information on the Internet. found.

Looking at the three-piece red sandalwood set now, he suddenly thought of those exquisite china sold by the Mountain Chamber of Commerce in New York, and every time he thought about it, his heart felt like a twitch and pain.

How many treasures is that? Let’s just say that the 63 pieces are all kinds of monochrome glazed porcelain produced by the official kilns of Kangxi and Yongzheng. He has robbed so many museums now, and it seems that he has not collected so many kinds of porcelain. Woolen cloth.

But the unworthy descendants of Prince Gong were so stubborn, they packaged and sold all those treasures to these Japanese people at a low price. What a special thing, you deserved your grandson, and finally died miserably in a small hotel in Dalian Company. .

He also searched online specifically for the drawings of those porcelain examples, as well as the electronic version of that year’s brochure.

Judging from the drawings and brochures, the porcelains in the old collection of Prince Gong’s mansion that were auctioned in those years spanned from Song to Qing; There are also a small number of local kilns, such as Dehua kiln, Fahua porcelain and other varieties.

These porcelains can be said to be pieces, beautiful in shape and well-made, and each piece has the original hardwood base. Some people even specialize in that, from the analysis of the shape and artistic value of the objects, they believe that these porcelains should be the palace and the study room of Prince Gong’s mansion. everyday furnishings.

There are so many exquisite porcelains in the inner hall and the big study alone. How many other places must there be? Did Yamanaka Sejiro take away the little treasures from Prince Gong’s mansion at that time?

In the past few years, Professor Tomita Tohoku of Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan wrote a book “The Outflow of Qing Dynasty Royal Treasures”, which was published by the Japan Broadcasting and Publishing Association in June 2oo2. In this book, this Professor Tomita Noble, In it, the special introduction of Yamanaka Singjiro’s successful purchase in China in 1912 was introduced.

Moreover, he was bold and made a guess. He estimated that this Yamanaka Singjiro, in Prince Gong’s mansion, used pressure on Pu Wei, the Prince of Xiao Gong, fraud and other means to predatory and forcibly purchased from Pu Wei’s hands. In addition to calligraphy and painting, there are 536 cultural relics of Prince Kung’s mansion. . .

Of course, this is just a guess, but Jin Muchen doesn’t believe the result of his guess. He guessed that the treasure that Yamanaka Dingjiro took out from Prince Gong’s mansion must be added after the number 536. a zero.

But there is one thing, this Tomita Sheng is telling the truth, this Yamanaka Sejiro, when he digs out the old mansion of Prince Gong Puwei this time, he really used a secret method. In which book, he said , Through research, he can conclude that Yamanaka Jingjiro must have used disgraceful means such as pressure and fraud.

And the reason why this guy can use this method is entirely because of the two guys he took with him, Rokusaburo Yamanaka and Tomoji Okada. To know the identities of these two people, it is not just the identity of the shareholders behind the scenes of the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce. So simple, the two of them are inextricably linked with the Japanese government.

According to Professor Tomita Nobuo’s speculation, the two must have put pressure on Puwei by constantly mentioning their relationship with the Japanese government, and on the other hand, they kept promising benefits to Puwei.

For example, they can use their relationship with the Japanese government~www.readmtl.com~ to give Pu Wei a consultant, help him build a sword army, and then help him restore something, otherwise Pu Wei would definitely be reluctant to give up so much of his own family The good things, for a total of 340,000 silver dollars, were sold to this Yamanaka Dingjiro. . .

It’s a pity that Pu Wei’s wishful thinking was completely unsuccessful in the end, and he also understood that he was just being taken advantage of by others, and finally ended in depression.

And this transaction created the glory of the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce. The auction in 1913 was only the first auction they held, and you must know that in the next three years, these Japanese devils were crazy in New York. , held twelve such auctions in succession.

And from these auctions, they fetched no less than two million dollars in total.

If the exchange rate, inflation, and currency factors are all taken into account, then the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce relied on these Prince Kung’s mansions and the wealth that was collected from the hands of the old and young of the Qing Dynasty, from the Americans. Cashing out two million US dollars, converted into current US dollars, that is nearly 20 billion US dollars.

And how much tax has this money brought to the Japanese government? How many guns and bullets did the Japanese invaders buy from these taxes? (To be continued.)