Chapter 0154 – Chenghua Doucai (III)

Song Xingjun did know Zhuang Rui’s work. In her thought, pawnshops and antiques dealing with the opportunity must be a lot, there may be a doorway, when also no longer insisted, and so the brother of the two objects wrapped in newspaper after several layers, followed Zhuang Rui out of the antique market.

Inside the City God Temple antique market, there are a few good restaurants, but today is the weekend, more tourists, Zhuang Rui asked two, there is no box, simply out of the City God Temple, driving with a few people to Nanjing Road next to a five-star hotel.

Song Xingjun on Zhuang Rui’s change some surprise, in her impression, Zhuang Rui is a somewhat shy big boy, she also met Zhuang Rui’s mother and sister, from the point of view of their dress and talk, is not like a rich family, and now see Zhuang Rui driving a car, and revealed that the stock of self-confidence, so that Song Xingjun have some doubts about whether they recognized the wrong person.

“Nurse Song. You guys feel free to sit down, there’s no need to be polite if you’re Miao Gege, to be able to invite two beautiful women for dinner today, that’s also giving us face isn’t it.”

After entering the hotel’s private room, Zhuang Rui greeted the crowd in a row and sat down, and casually handed the menu to Miao Fei Fei and Song Xingjun.

“I want a shark’s fin and bird’s nest soup, and then a swordfish! Spring tide mist out swordfish, it’s just right to eat in this month, right, I’ll have two copies of the bird’s nest soup, and one for this young lady as well.” Miao Fei Fei was not polite at all, took the menu and ordered.

“No …… don’t, don’t, just order a few dishes.” Song Xingjun waved her hand after hearing Miao Fei Fei’s words, although she didn’t know the price of that Shark’s Fin Bird’s Nest Soup, but just by listening to the name, she thought it wouldn’t be cheap.

“It’s fine, bird’s nest soup for beauty, if that cheapskate doesn’t treat me, I’ll treat this meal.”

Miao Fei Fei’s words said Zhuang Rui is crying and laughing, I didn’t say not to invite ah! Besides, with your small police salary, you can afford to eat here, is not a gnawing old man. But this Zhuang Rui only dare to think in the heart.

Song Huan seems not to have come to such a high-grade hotel, came in and then looked around, of course, his arms are still tightly holding his two pieces of treasure.

After a few people sat down, Zhuang Rui asked Song Xingjun to know, it turns out that her parents are ordinary workers in Zhonghai, the father has retired, not long ago checked out suffering from stomach cancer, which is only a month or so, just the cost of treatment, spent eighty-nine million dollars, almost all of the family’s savings spent, which also has no way to Song Huan home heirlooms of the two objects stolen out of the preparation for the sale of the.

Song Huan is sitting with Zhuang Rui, after sitting down, staring at Miao Feifei looked at a moment, and then look at his sister, and finally touched Zhuang Rui’s arm, asked in a low voice: “Brother Zhuang, you and my sister, really is in the hospital to know? Then what happened to my sister just now? Obviously recognizing you, but still acting like she doesn’t know you.”

“I would have been injured in the eyes then. When it was bandaged, a large portion of my face was covered, so maybe your sister didn’t recognize me just now! Didn’t I also hear your sister’s voice before I recognized her!” Zhuang Rui’s answer made Song Huan more satisfied, carefully placing the two antiques wrapped in newspaper on the table beside him.

See Song Huan careful look, Zhuang Rui smiled, if he were himself, I’m afraid it would be more careful, in fact, in Zhuang Rui the chicken bowl cup back to Song Huan when he has used the eyes of the aura has seen, this is indeed a year old object, and from the cup contains purple aura, it is very likely that since the Ming Dynasty, all periods are famous Chenghua Doucai cocktail cups.

To talk about the Chenghua Doucai, it is necessary to first introduce the Ming Dynasty Chenghua years before the history of the Ming Dynasty, there is a very famous emperor, is the Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, although the number of the year inside the word Ming, but nine years old that Zhu Qizhen, is a full of mediocrity of the Lord.

After the reign of Zhu Qizhen, with the successive deaths of the important ministers of the Renxuan dynasty “three Yang” and retired, coupled with the sharp rise in the power of the eunuchs in the harem, the court’s politics are becoming increasingly corrupt, the famous eunuch Wang Zhen is the representative of eunuchs in the dynasty of the representative of the eunuchs’ autocracy, the British Emperor obeyed his words, and he relied on the emperor’s majesty to exclude dissenters and set up a cronyism.

At that time, the power of the Yuan Dynasty in the north of the desert had been split into two, the Wara and the Tartars. The two tribes conquered each other, and in the Yingzong Dynasty, Walar became powerful and constantly harassed the northern part of the Ming Dynasty. The real power of Walar was in the hands of Taishi Yixian, who often sent people to pay tribute to the court as a pretext to cheat the reward.

Because at that time the Ming Dynasty on the tribute to the country’s envoys, no matter how the tribute, there is always a very generous reward, and is distributed by the head, but also the first is to see this, sent the envoys continue to increase, and finally even added to more than 3,000 people.

Wang Zhen could not stand it, ordered to reduce the reward, also first in the name of the Ming Dynasty to wage war, King Yingzong was young and vigorous, want to go on a personal expedition, Wang Zhen also want to show off their power, and stay in history, so they urged King Yingzong to go on a personal expedition, but due to the main force of the Ming court were in the field of combat, it is difficult to call back, so the ministers all discourage King Yingzong not to go on a personal expedition. But finally did not change the attitude of King Yingzong, so from the capital near the temporary cobbled together 500,000 troops, under the command of King Yingzong vastly began to pro-expedition.

Due to continuous heavy rain, coupled with the food and pay not to receive, the army’s morale is very low, line to Datong near, see was killed by Yixian corpses of Ming army corpses, King and Wang Zhen are shaken, so decided to withdraw. However, Wang Zhen’s hometown was in Weizhou, which was very close to Datong, so he decided to retreat around Weizhou. Wang Zhen’s proposal was immediately opposed by his ministers. They thought that it would delay the retreat, but Wang Zhen didn’t listen to them, and since Emperor Yingzong also wanted to give Wang Zhen a chance to return to his hometown, the army started to move towards Weizhou.

At this time, Wang Zhen was afraid that the army would trample the crops in his hometown and he would be scolded, so he suggested to withdraw the army in the same way, so the precious time was delayed. When the army came to the vicinity of Huailai, the provisions had not yet arrived, so Wang Zhen ordered to stay put and wait.

If at this time Yingzong was able to enter the city of Huailai and stationed there, then the history would be rewritten, but history is history, there are not so many assumptions, just outside the city of Huailai in the Tumu Fortress, the Ming army was caught up by the army of Yixian, and surrounded. Yixian cut off the water source of the Ming army, and the Ming army was trapped in the dead land. Yixian pretended to negotiate for peace and launched a general attack while the Ming army was unprepared. The Ming army was completely annihilated, Emperor Yingzong was captured, Wang Zhen was killed by the Ming general Fan Zhong, and ministers such as the Duke of England, Zhang Fu, and the Secretary of the Ministry of War, Kuang Ye, were killed in battle. This was the famous Tumu Mutiny. Yingzong also began his year-long hunt in the north.

From then on, the Ming Dynasty began to decline.

Zhuang Rui initially knew about this history, in fact, or from Liang Yusheng wrote that martial arts novel “Ping Zong Chivalrous Shadow Records”, at that time is the British Emperor’s capture of the historical events as the background.

After Yingzong was captured, Beijing’s ministers of the Ming Dynasty to stabilize the people’s hearts and minds, under the leadership of Yu Qian, the younger brother of Yingzong Zhu Qiyu for the emperor, Ming Jingdi, after the release of Yingzong by the Verrat, was imprisoned by the Jingdi and Beijing for eight years, in 1457, Zhu Qizhen while the Jingdi was ill to launch the “change of the door,” once again on the throne, and change the name of the Tianshun.

And Chenghua emperor Ming Xianzong Zhu Jinxuan, is the eldest son of Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, after Zhu Qizhen restoration. He was also re-established as the crown prince, 18-year-old Zhu saw deep inherited his father’s throne, began his 23-year reign, the year number Chenghua.

Zhu saw deep unlike his father as passionate, like to take risks, his character quiet, cautious, generous, trust ministers, it is said that after a great chaos will be a great rule, the end of the Chenghua dynasty, in addition to the south of Guangxi’s Yao rebellion, Jingxiang Utopia mountainous areas of the exiles, the political situation is basically relatively stable, so the Ming dynasty people called the Chenghua peace and prosperity.

Because of the political stability, the crafts production during the Chenghua also reached its peak, Doucai porcelain is the masterpiece of the Chenghua period, is the Chenghua dynasty for the rich variety of colored porcelain and made a major contribution, Chenghua Doucai is the outline of the blue and white flower as decoration, or as a partial pattern and then fill in the color, the second firing at low temperature.

Zhuang Rui know, Chenghua Doucai color transparent bright, especially red color, bright and dazzling, after the imitator is difficult to reach, yellow color variations, green color has the depth of the difference, purple, such as ripe grapes of the black purple or eggplant skin light purple, special is beautiful purple, color like red iron, the surface of the dry light, the above points can be used as the identification of the special basis of Chenghua Doucai.

And the one in Song Huan’s hand, if Zhuang Rui thinks he is not wrong, it should be the authentic Chenghua Doucai chicken jar cup, this kind of object is handed down to the folk very few, even if that cup has some damage, its price is also Zhuang Rui is difficult to estimate.

“Nurse Song, if I’m not mistaken, that chicken jar cup of yours, should be the Chenghua Doucai chicken jar cup, this thing in 1999 in Hong Kong Sotheby’s auction, it was sold at a sky-high price of 29,170,000 Hong Kong dollars, you guys, although it’s broken a little bit, but the price of only three hundred thousand dollars, it’s still low.”

Zhuang Rui in his mind for a while, or put his own insights out, this if a person, Zhuang Rui may immediately pull out three hundred thousand to buy this chicken bowl cup, but since Zhuang Rui last time inadvertently saw Song Xingjun’s breasts, to the care of his ten days of female nurses, the heart really some guilt, and did not think to take advantage of this cheap.

“This is the Chenghua Doucai chicken jar cup ah? I know this thing, the price is quite expensive, small Zhuangzi good, did not take advantage of people ……” Miao Fei Fei seems to have heard of the name of the chicken jar cup, after hearing, immediately projected his eyes to that wrapped into a ball of newspaper.

After Zhuang Rui these words out, Song Xingjun and Song Huan two, but are frozen, this sister and brother did not think that this cup will be so valuable, of course, Zhuang Rui is talking about the perfect quality of the Chenghua Doucai cocktails cup, as for the value of this geometric, Zhuang Rui is also the heart is not the bottom, but want to think that it is necessary than three hundred thousand higher than some of the.

“Miao Gege, how do you know this Chenghua Doucai chicken jar cup?”

Just now, Miao Fei Fei also took this cocktail cup in the hand to play for a while, did not see her recognize, now actually said that I have heard of, Zhuang Rui can not help but be a little strange, he is now also clear, Miao Fei Fei is a whole antique small white.

“Oh, I listen to my friends in Beijing, Beijing this year, over there to shoot a TV series, is to antiques as the background, there are a few props, is my friend to provide, there is this Chenghua Doucai cocktail cup, listen to what he said is worth thirty to forty million it, hee hee, when there is also a lot of fun story it!”

Zhuang Rui could not help but roll his eyes at the words, dare to say that this Missy’s knowledge of antiques, are heard from the story.

“Sister Fei Fei, what’s the story? Tell it to us.”

Song Xingjun this will and Miao Fei Fei hot, in Zhuang Rui froze this moment, actually sister to sister, but think of Miao Fei Fei’s character, it is understandable.

“My friend said that the popularity of his ‘friendly appearance’ of these antiques almost overshadowed the ‘Royal Amah’ Zhang Tielin, ‘Police Chief’ Li Chengru and ‘Professor Tian’ Li Liqun three main actors. These pieces of antiques every time out, are escorted by two specialized props master, other staff members also hold their breath to consciously avoid, the props master said, every time you have to be careful, gently take and put, he is fast heart attack.”

About “curio heart disease” in the crew also circulated an anecdote, playing the curio store owner Ge Cunzhuang, once and this precious Chenghua Doucai cocktail cup, there was a “rivalry” when Ge masters did not know that this is only 2 inches high small cups are Valuable real antiques, held in the hands of turning over and over to study: “This small cup can be worth how much money ah?”

Li Chengru, who had really played antiques, told him in a serious manner, “Mr. Ge, the auction price of this cup is 30 million yuan.” Master Ge’s hand shivered at that moment and hurriedly put the cup on the table.

“It’s rumored that after this drama passed, the old master took several quick-acting heart pills in a row behind his back. Well, it seems like this drama hasn’t started airing yet, I guess it’ll be in June or July! You guys will be able to see it by then.”

Miao Fei Fei’s words caused Song Huan to push the two objects placed on the edge of the table towards the center of the table, presumably for fear that he would accidentally touch the floor.

Zhuang Rui heard the words of Miao Feifei, but in his heart thought: “After this TV series broadcast, I’m afraid to set off a collection of fever in the country, and then want to Taobao pick up, the opportunity is even less.” This is also a few months, Zhuang Rui even want to quit, run a few more cities of the antique market, first go to make a fortune.

Zhuang Rui guessed right, that after the TV series was released, is indeed popular north and south of the Yangtze River, a time is the whole country are concerned about the antique collection of this line of work to come, even some of the rural old lady with a ceramic basin to feed the pigs, but also sat in a dozens of kilometers of the car, ran to the county to find expert appraisal, and that happened after this kind of things that are too numerous to mention.

“Brother Zhuang, then you see us this thing how to do, sell is certainly to sell, you can help us find a buyer?”

Song Huan although impulsive a little, but the head is still very clever, from Zhuang Rui and Miao Fei Fei’s description of this chicken jar cup, he knew that Zhuang Rui did not deceive their own meaning, so he wanted to ask Zhuang Rui to help them to sell out.