Chapter 0876 – Despicable Nation (I)

“Xiao Rui, you …… you say this porcelain in the end is real or fake ah?”

Far away from Zhuang Rui’s home in Beijing, although it was still a cold February, Qin Haoran was also looking at his forehead in a cold sweat, although 50 million dollars had not been in his eyes, but this was a bet about the dignity of the country.

If Yamagi won, then the Chinese side is not only losing money, it is even more people are lost, no diamond diamond don’t take porcelain work, smashed vessels identified as authentic, this is simply a laughing stock.

On the contrary, if Yamagi lost, then the entire Japanese academic community, even including Japan as a country, will become synonymous with nasty, shameless.

So this porcelain appraisal, has risen several levels, not only academic exchanges, but also the clash between the civilization of the two countries, which makes many of the people who were originally indifferent to the collection, but also sat next to the TV.

“It must be fake, dad, do you believe that Japan a thousand years ago, can burn such exquisite porcelain?”

Zhuang Rui laughed and replied, he had not wanted to make things so big, who let the little Japan to get an inch, this is also regarded as self-feeding!

“But ……” Qin Haoran is still a little worried.

“There’s no buts, brat, where’s the problem? Quick look, it’s about to start.”

Elder Qin was far more composed than his son, teasing the Soga granddaughter in his arms while reprimanding Qin Haoran.

Several people’s eyes turned back to the TV screen, Zhuang Rui saw the security guards of the launch venue, had isolated a ten square meter sized empty space, and the two pieces of porcelain, were placed on a table within the empty space.

Although firmly believe that Zhuang Rui will not cheat him, but in this kind of occasion, Prof. Tian heart is also a trace of nervousness, boisterous more than a month of “ancient porcelain” event, in today will come to an end.

“Professor Tian, please!”

Yamagi took a step back and made a gesture to Tian Fan, in his opinion, the behavior of the Chinese must be futile, and his name will also resonate throughout Japan after today.

Next to a staff member, handed over an electrician’s hammer, which had just been found, and after Professor Tian took the hammer, he took a deep breath and said, “In order to let everyone realize more intuitively that these four artifacts came from one person, I would like to start with the porcelain that I’ve brought with me.”

“All of them. ……”

Yamaki waved his hand indifferently, it’s your right to smash your own things, but if you want to smash mine later, you have to be mentally prepared for that fifty million dollars to change hands.

“Professor Tian, smashing objects to appraise artwork, this has no precedent in the past, may I ask, are you sure?”

A female reporter holding a long microphone, from the security guard’s side, handed to Prof. Tian’s side, this is still the first reporter’s question in today’s press release.

“I still just that sentence, really can’t be fake, fake can’t be real, whether it’s real or fake, will be able to see the difference right away, the facts speak louder than words, and so on smashing open these few porcelain, you will know.”

Prof. Tian is also some helpless, with this method of identification of objects, that is the appraiser a kind of incompetence performance, Prof. Tian this move is also a duck on the shelf, can’t just be humiliated by the small Japan, right?

At the same time, Prof. Tian also felt deep admiration for this counterfeiter, can imitate the fake so similar to the shape and spirit of the craft even national craftsmen can not be compared with it, the maker can be enough to set up a school, a system of its own.

After answering the female reporter’s question, Prof. Tian picked up the hammer in his hand, walked to the side of the table, and raised the hammer high up to the piece of complimentary artifacts sent by Peng Fei.

At this moment, both those who were at the press conference site and those who were keeping an eye in front of the TV were holding their breaths, their eyes staring dead center at the hammer that was raised high.

“Snap!”

A crunching sound was very much amplified by the excellent sound effects at the scene, and the sound seemed to be knocking on the fragile hearts of the crowd, making everyone’s body couldn’t help but tremble slightly.

Turning their eyes back to that piece of porcelain, the surface of that four-square Christine, has been knocked off, revealing a black hole as big as a baby’s fist, the camera took a close-up view of the black hole, but it was not yet possible to see what was going on inside.

“Snap …… snap!”

The sound of the hammer colliding with the porcelain came continuously, and when Prof. Tian knocked down the fifth hammer, that four-sided gong ware finally disintegrated, scattering broken porcelain irregularly distributed on the table.

Due to the security guards outside to stop, at this moment standing in front of the broken porcelain, as long as Prof. Tian and Yamagi two people, casually threw down the hammer, Prof. Tian in the broken pieces of porcelain pick up.

This artifact was not big, just a few dozen seconds later, Prof. Tian looked up with a happy face, holding a palm-sized piece of porcelain, inside out, displayed in front of all the cameras.

“Xu, November 12, 2006.”

Under the high zoom of the cameras, the line on it, slightly larger than a grain of rice, came in clearly to the viewers around the world who were watching this press conference.

“Fake, this is fake.” Someone on the scene shouted.

“Nonsense, of course it’s fake, this one was brought by Professor Tian.” Another reporter glanced disdainfully at his rookie counterpart next to him, this kid doesn’t know what he’s thinking.

“How is this …… possible?”

Standing beside Prof. Tian, Yamaki, even without using a magnifying glass, could clearly see those small words on the inner wall of the broken porcelain, and his expression couldn’t help but be in a bit of a trance, and he had an extremely unsettling feeling of foreboding. At this moment, Yamagi even have a kind of want to stop Professor Tian continue to go to crack the porcelain desire, he was afraid.

Nohe saw that Yamaki was a bit disoriented, at that moment, he walked to his side, attached to Yamaki’s ear and said, “Yamaki-kun, that itself is a fake, the inner wall engraving is not considered to be any profound technology, you have to believe in science, these two pieces of porcelain of ours, can be tested with carbon fourteen.”

“Ha ee, thanks for the reminder Nohe-kun, it’s my fault.”

Yamagi slammed his head down and bowed to Nogai, he also felt that he was a bit out of line just now, now he was facing the TV audience of the whole Japan or even the whole world, while he was representing the image of Japan.

“What I’m going to smash below, is this same Kyoji Porcelain, everyone look carefully.”

Yamagi’s mood, which had just calmed down, was violently made tense again by Prof. Tian’s words, because the porcelain that was going to be smashed now would be the same piece of kyohaku that he had purchased from China.

Just now that piece of porcelain that has been broken, was the staff took a basket received aside, until the table above no longer a piece of broken porcelain when, Prof. Tian to another piece of the same porcelain, raised the hammer.

“Snap …… snap ……”

With the rise and fall of Prof. Tian’s hammer, that piece of exquisite porcelain, turned into a pile of broken porcelain in an instant, everyone’s heart in the field, almost all of them lifted up their throats, their eyes staring at Prof. Tian’s hands without moving.

Prof. Tian is now also unusually nervous, with white gloves hands appear in the camera lens, trembling very obvious, everyone can see that Prof. Tian’s heart, is not as easy as his appearance showed.

Suddenly, Prof. Tian’s hands stopped, a stream of light emerged from his eyes under the thick lenses, his lips were unconsciously trembling, a piece of broken porcelain, which was only the size of a baby’s palm, was clutched tightly in Prof. Tian’s hand.

“Blood, bleeding.”

“Professor Tian, your hand is bleeding.”

Professor Tian in his excitement didn’t realize that the sharp piece of porcelain had cut through his palm, and a stream of blood flowed out from his fingers, staining this piece of broken porcelain red.

“Found it …… I found it.”

Professor Tian didn’t care about the blood in his hand in the slightest, his lips mumbled and made a sound that only he could hear.

To know, in Professor Tian decided to break the porcelain to identify the object of this process, bear the unspeakable pressure, if these two pieces of porcelain in the failure to find out the clues, then not only is he, is China’s entire academic community, will be the world’s shame.

Of course, now this situation no longer exists, because in Professor Tian’s hands on the inside wall of this piece of porcelain, cleaned and engraved with “Xu, April 4, 2006” such a line of words.

“Prof. Tian, what are you talking about? Can you show us the porcelain tile in your hand?” Seeing Professor Tian’s excited look, everyone realized that the results had finally come out.

On the other hand, Yamagi, who was standing on the side, was ashen, he could feel that it seemed that the loss of temper had not developed as he expected, and that the item in Professor Tian’s hand must be unfavorable to him.

“Look! This is the proof that I am overwhelmed with indignation at the despicable behavior of the Japanese ceramic academia!”

The reporter’s words woke up Prof. Tian, Tian Fan opened his hand, and with his two bloodied fingers, he pinched the ceramic piece, and showed the words inside the ceramic piece, in front of the camera full of people.

In addition to the color of the line of words stained red with blood, the font was exactly the same as the one on the porcelain tile just now, even though many journalists on the scene who did not know the square characters could tell that the words on the two porcelain tiles, it seemed that the words should come from the hand of one person.

Whether the font is the same, this is not the most important, the important thing is that the Arabic numerals in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, only after the introduction of China, as for Japan is even later, this is a historical evidence.

So alone that labeled date of the Arabic numerals, proved that this porcelain is a modern imitation.

The venue of the press conference boiled, hundreds of millions of Chinese viewers in front of the TV set boiled, a newsletter, an image in the rapid outward dissemination, in some cities in China, and even the sound of firecrackers.

On the contrary, the Japanese journalists at the scene were all ashen, their faces full of shame, they have understood that in this Chinese-Japanese cultural clash, they are the losers!