Chapter 0702 – Bronze Heavy Artifact

Although Yu Zhenping was also involved in the construction of this platform, but after several years, he had almost forgotten about it, and after a few minutes of hammering, an “empty” sound came out from a place.

Yu Zhenping face a happy, with a hand in the place to pick a bit, and then pulled out, a brick was taken out, a musty smell from inside.

After pulling out the green brick, Yu Zhenping looked around for a while, went to the back of the door, took a body some green, at one end of the three forked bronze to, inserted the fork into the green brick just now, pry hard, next to a few green bricks have scattered on the ground.

“Boss Ren, slow down, don’t do it first.”

Yu Zhenping moves too fast, Zhuang Rui’s eyes just put on the object in his hand, this side has already moved on, Zhuang Rui snatched that bronze in his hand and carefully looked up.

The three forks of the place, there is a place has been pried by Yu Zhenping bent off, see Zhuang Rui big heartache, this object is an antique candlestick, and is placed directly on the ground of which one.

Compared to the number of unearthed more, only forty or fifty centimeters long and short, placed on the table candlestick, the length of one meter five or so of bronze candlestick, extremely rare.

To know, before the Qin and Han Dynasties, although the underground empty resources, but the ancients refining iron and steel technology, is very backward, then can only be refined out of copper, and the number is also very rare.

Like the general public, there is no opportunity and qualification to have bronze products, only some aristocrats or princes and generals, can use the bronze, and most of them are used for sacrificing to the sky, can be used in the home with candlesticks, it is estimated that only the princes and lords.

Therefore, before the Qin and Han Dynasties, bronze is a symbol of identity, such as in Hubei, a bronze carriage was unearthed, if placed in modern times, it is absolutely Rolls-Royce Silver Charm level, and is still fully handmade limited edition.

Don’t look at this bronze candlestick full of patina, not very eye-catching, if you get the antique market, how can also be worth a hundred thousand dollars, Zhuang Rui does not want to be Yu Zhenping spoiled.

“Boss Ren, change the dickens! This thing is also an antique!”

Sensing the rich aura inside the bronze, Zhuang Rui was no longer willing to let Yu Zhenping use it, that said, according to the agreement between himself and the police, this object might be able to be placed in his own museum!

“Hehehe, Boss Zhuang, turn around and you won’t care about this thing.”

Yu Zhenping shook his head in disbelief and laughed when he saw Zhuang Rui’s precious look, then he looked for a crowbar left over from before in the yard and returned to the kitchen to work on it again.

Maybe it was because he would never come back in the future! Yu Zhenping’s movements were violent, and in no time, the whole kitchen was in a pandemonium, causing Zhuang Rui to only retreat to the door and wait.

“Boss Zhuang, come in!”

Hearing Yu Zhenping’s greeting, Zhuang Rui re-stepped in, and as soon as he entered the room, he almost choked and coughed on the dust that was still flying in the sky.

Looking at Yu Zhenping again, this dude’s hair was full of dust, violently looking like an old man with gray hair in general.

Zhuang Rui’s eyes in the Yu Zhenping body after a slight stay, was the original stone platform, appeared a round belly straight ear bronze tripod to attract.

As if he was being pulled by a rope, Zhuang Rui walked towards the bronze tripod without his own choice, and subconsciously asked, “Boss Ren, is this the bronze heavy artifact you were talking about?”

“Yes, Boss Zhuang take your time to look, I’ll bring you back to see what’s inside again.” Yu Zhenping nodded, took the crowbar and walked out of the room, going outside and tapping it.

“Shit, such a big thing, how did they move it in?”

Peng Fei walked into the kitchen, saw this thing also couldn’t help but eat a shock, this bronze tripod height is definitely more than one meter two, that heavy tripod body, three tripod feet, add up to at least four to five hundred pounds, not to use the crane is very difficult to carry.

Peng Fei did not know, this thing is in the construction of this house, with a small crane to be placed here, and this kitchen, is in order to place this tripod and built.

This thing had once made Boss Yu scratch his head, it was a pity to give it up, but it couldn’t be traded out, so it had been placed here, but he didn’t expect it to be cheap for Zhuang Rui, of course, whether or not Zhuang Rui could get this thing had to depend on whether or not the authorities were happy or not.

“Priceless treasure, truly priceless treasure ah!”

Zhuang Rui body half squat, hands on the bronze tripod stroked, eyes full of intoxicated look, he had previously found that the “stereoscopic sword” although precious, the value is not worse than this bronze tripod, but from the shape of the big guy in front of him, obviously more shocking.

Beijing and Pengcheng museum, Zhuang Rui basically went to stroll through, there is no lack of bronze weight, bronze tripod is also a lot, but from the volume, there is no one can be compared with it, and is the appearance, there are few more than its beautiful and pure.

Zhuang Rui roughly measured with his hands, the height of this bronze tripod should be in one meter two and a half or so, the caliber of about 80 centimeters, the upper edge of the mouth is flat, polished smooth, in the mouth, there are two heights of more than 20 inside the straight ear, ear ring is large and high thick, above the kui shaped pattern, which is the most common on the Shang and Zhou bronzes.

In the rounded bronze tripod body pendant abdomen, there are three columnar feet, the outer wall of the abdomen has three semi-circular ears, and three columnar feet corresponds to the upper part of the abdomen decorated with animal face pattern three, each animal face pattern under the carving of a bull’s head in relief, and each columnar foot is also decorated with animal face in relief.

This bronze tripod, is Zhuang Rui see the most gorgeous and complicated modeling, alone those bull head in relief, is not the general craftsmen can make out, and the most staggering Zhuang Rui is, in this tripod wall, there are dozens of inscriptions.

To know, bronze with or without inscriptions, is to measure its value of an extremely important standard, not to mention now, is in the pre-liberation period, there are inscriptions of bronze, often are a word of gold, worth a lot of money.

The capital once a patriotic collector, in order to from a group of foreign adventurous businessmen hands, snatch a bronze with inscription, then spent four hundred thousand now ocean, this price even if it is put into the present, that is also a sum of astronomical figures.

“Picked up the treasure, really fucking picked up the treasure.”

Zhuang Rui excitedly patted on the bronze tripod, he also made up his mind, say anything to pull this bronze tripod to their own museums, even if through Ouyang Zhenwu to the local museums to put pressure on, but also at all costs, because this bronze tripod, is really too valuable.

From these inscriptions, not only can test out the origin of the bronze, from whom the tomb, is the social development and form of the time, is also a very high research value.

Zhuang Rui believes that this tripod, in the domestic collection, archaeology and history scholars, will certainly cause a great sensation, its effect should not be in their own that legendary “fixed light sword” below.

According to Zhuang Rui on the understanding of the bronze tripod, in addition to that weighs 832.84 kilograms of the Division Muwu square tripod, I’m afraid that the tripod dug out from the canopied pit of the First Emperor of Qin Dynasty, not as heavy as the one in front of the generous.

And this tripod, there is a difference, is in its abdominal wall of the three semi-circular ears, Zhuang Rui has seen a lot of bronze tripod, but there is this feature, seems to be only unearthed in shaanxi chunhua county of chunhua big tripod.

However, that famous bronze weight inside, but does not carry an inscription, than this tripod again to be slightly inferior.

It can be imagined that if this bronze tripod is placed in the museum, it will surely gather many experts and scholars in China, even if I don’t charge their fees, let them help the museum to make a name for itself, which is not a big problem, right?

Although he knew that this bronze tripod would not be stolen by anyone, Zhuang Rui still took a step back and forth out of the low-slung kitchen, and after seeing Yu Zhenping, he immediately asked, “Boss Ren, I don’t know what this tripod is about.”

“Hm? Boss Zhuang, this is out of order!”

Yu Zhenping frowned, although we all know the origin of this object by heart, but we can’t let me describe the situation during the grave robbing to you, right?

“Hey …… hey, I don’t mean that, Ren boss, you also know, this thing I want to put out, there must be a reasonable origin, even if it is recovered from abroad, I also need to know this thing probably from which tomb right?”

Zhuang Rui saw Yu Zhenping frowned, hastily explained a bit, originally he was casually asked, but Yu Zhenping must be the main character who stole this bronze tripod, if you can learn the source from his mouth, in the future, I will be a lot less work to prove.

“Henan, Luoyang, Five Ladies Mound Village.”

After Yu Zhenping heard Zhuang Rui’s words, he spat out these words from his mouth, this was also because he traveled all the way and didn’t feel any danger, otherwise, beating Yu Zhenping to death he wouldn’t have said it.

“Big deal, Boss Ren is really a big deal!”

Zhuang Rui said this sincerely, the country so many archaeological teams, have so convenient conditions, busy for decades, only dug out a Chunhua Grand Cauldron.

And this area a few grave robbers, easily drummed up such a big heavy weapon that will stir the archaeological world, Zhuang Rui really feel ashamed for those archaeological experts.

“Alright, Boss Zhuang, let’s take a look at the objects in the room! If there’s nothing wrong, we can consider this deal closed, right?”

Yu Zhenping didn’t want to talk more about tomb raiding, took the key and opened the door of the small building, but didn’t go in right away, but opened the door to ventilate the place, he hadn’t been here for almost a year, and the smell in the house was definitely not good.

“Of course, just that one tripod, it’s worth the price we talked about earlier.”

Zhuang Rui nodded his head in a very honorable way, and his cheerful attitude also let Yu Zhenping’s heart relax.