Chapter 342 Old Furniture in the Warehouse
"Host, please note that although I can guide you most of the things, I am still powerless to do some unique things, such as the imperial seal. So when the host chooses old objects, once there is an irreconcilable contradiction, I will still warn you, and I hope you should pay attention to this too!"
It seems that some things are not good, but at least this condition has been much relaxed.
As for the legendary things like the imperial seal, hehe... Anyway, Yang Jing doesn't even dare to think about it now!
The guessed loophole is not fully valid. To be honest, this situation somewhat disappointed Yang Jing.
But thinking about it makes me feel relieved. The Holy Ring once said that although the original owner who made it lived in a global unified environment, the owner must have thought of issues regarding nationality, otherwise the "regional" rules would not appear. (PS: Chapter 192 has an explanation about regionality, so I won't talk about it here.)
Since there are even the rules of "regionality", it means that the original owner of the Holy Ring must have considered this issue, but the consideration should not be very perfect, so that a loophole that is not a loophole has appeared.
However, although it has not been proved that this loophole is fully valid, it is not a little better than before.
In the past, as long as there were old objects that could trigger the paradox of time and space, let alone acquisitions, Yang Jing stayed as far as he could, and even spent a lot of experience to implement the big plan he had formulated before. Most of them were done by foreigners, and what they were afraid of was to trigger the paradox of time and space.
Now that I have become a foreigner, the possibility of the time and space paradox being triggered has been greatly reduced. Although I cannot buy those old objects without any scruples, I can at least give me a choice.
For example, this treasure is embedded in the Arhat bed. If it were before, it would be as far as it could be, and this thing would definitely trigger the paradox of time and space.
But now, the holy rings only consumed some of their energy and led to another almost identical treasure-embedded Arhat bed. Then he acquired this Arhat bed and asked Master Ma to continue to acquire the Arhat bed placed in the canteen. This not only satisfies his desire to acquire old objects, but also avoids the occurrence of the time and space paradox. This is already a very good result.
However, this is obviously not worth the effort. Not only did it consume about two percent of the humanistic treasure qi, but it also could not be absorbed from this treasure-embedded Arhat bed. This is equivalent to using two percent of the humanistic treasure qi to exchange for a Haihuang Baibao-embedded Arhat bed in the late Ming Dynasty.
Although this treasure-embedded Arhat bed is quite precious, for Yang Jing, this bed is obviously not as precious as the two percent of the humanistic treasure. Not to mention that there is a treasure-embedded Arhat bed made of small-leaf red sandalwood in the Ming Dynasty in the basement of Hai Siheyuan. That bed is much more precious than this bed!
If you consume natural treasure energy, Yang Jing will definitely not say anything. After all, the method of replenishing natural treasure energy, but this humanistic treasure energy is much more precious than natural treasure energy.
However, the cost of two percent of the humanistic treasures proved such a half-established loophole, and also obtained a treasure-embedded Arhat bed in the late Ming Dynasty. The bed's quality is not a little stronger than the one in the cafeteria, and in general it is not a loss.
Moreover, there is not only a good-looking treasure-embedded Arhat bed in this warehouse. Yang Jing also found a pair of small-leaf red sandalwood chairs, four old sea yellow ring chairs, and an old sea yellow Eight Immortals table. Yang Jing also found a complete set of imperial red sandalwood cloisonné enamel and royal blue treasure-embedded Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea Twelve Screens of Twelve Screens of the Treasures in the Qing Qianlong imperial red sandalwood enamel.
This discovery almost made Yang Jing's face happy.
In addition to the pair of small-leafed red sandalwood chairs and the Eight Immortals table made by Lao Haihuang, whether it is the four Old Haihuang ring chairs or the pair of Qing Qianlong imperial red sandalwood cloisonné enamel Mingbaolan Twelve Twelve Treasures of Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, its value and preciousness are far from comparable to that of the Treasure-embedded Arhat Bed.
Yang Jing remembers it very clearly that at the "Jinse Years - An Siyuan Private Collection" auction held by Christie's in New York in 2015, a set of four sets of old sea yellow chairs in the Ming Dynasty were sold at a sky-high price of nearly 9.7 million US dollars equivalent to 60.64 million national currency.
Moreover, this style of ring chair is obviously different from other shapes of ring chairs. First, these four ring chairs have perfectly curved chair rings; secondly, there are unique carefully carved hook-shaped armrests; finally, the backrest plate of each ring chair is carved in three sections.
The four ring chairs in front of you, both in appearance and production skills, are no different from the four ring chairs that were sold at a sky-high price. Obviously, these four ring chairs should have been from the same period or even the same person as those four ring chairs.
The most important thing is that in the original time and space, the same style of the Ming Dynasty Laohai yellow ring chairs were recognized in the world as only eight! The other four were all in the hands of foreigners.
These four ring chairs can be said to be the only set of four ring chairs found in China!
As for the set of screens made by Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial red sandalwood cloisonné enamel and precious blue treasures embedded in the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, its value is even more remarkable!
Also in 2015, at an auction held by Poly in Yanjing, a royal red sandalwood cloisonné enamel blue land treasure embellished with flowers and eight screens made by the French Normandy diplomats collected, which was sold at a sky-high price of 30.75 million yuan.
The Eight Immortals Crossing Sea Screen in front of you is obviously higher than the Four Seasons Flower Screen in terms of size and workmanship. This Eight Immortals Crossing Sea Screen has twelve screens, which has four more screens than the Four Seasons Flower Screen, and the height is also higher, which looks 2.2 meters long.
Although the cloisonné enamel craft, that is, the cloisonné craft originated in China in the Yuan Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty, especially during the Jingtai period, the cloisonné enamel craft during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty reached the peak of this craft.
The application of cloisonné enamel technology during the Qianlong period was very wide, involving almost all aspects of daily life, among which screens were one of them.
This set of Eight Immortals Crossing Sea Screen has a high-quality small-leaf red sandalwood frame. It has a deep and quiet color and a bright and mellow patina. The screen is a five-stroke style, and each vertical material and horizontal bar form a frame and inlaid into the flower panel. Such exquisite craftsmanship and materials are the royal family even during the Qianlong period.
In fact, screens of this style once appeared in the Ningshou Palace Garden, a place where Emperor Qianlong carefully designed for himself in his later years, embodied the personal goodness and aesthetics of Emperor Qianlong. They were the ideal of exquisite and elegant life of the literati and doctors that Emperor Qianlong yearned for and the spiritual sustenance of the spiritual desire for resentment and longevity.
Its design and production also fully reflects Emperor Qianlong's concept of "three parts in craftsmanship and seven parts in masters". It was a master of the level of handicrafts such as carving, inlaying, copper engraving, and enamel during the Qianlong period. It also broke the division of labor in the inner government and manufacturing offices, united the whole body and broke the boundaries of the artifacts, spreading the craftsmanship into the indoor space. It was a rare fine work.
However, this set of screens that will definitely cause sensation in thirty years have been placed in the warehouse like garbage and no one cares about it. If Yang Jing had not come here this time, this set of screens and four ring chairs, the Eight Immortals Table and the Two Chairs would have probably been removed.
Such precious furniture is placed here in such a mess, and Yang Jing said that he didn't feel sorry for it, that was fake.
Yang Jing asked Director Wang around him: "Director Wang, where do these furniture come from?"
Director Wang said: "These furniture is the same as the bed in the canteen. They were all broken and old. They were pulled from outside. They have been here for almost twenty years. I remember that I had just entered the factory not long ago and I was learning from my master. These things were pulled from outside. At that time, my master touched the furniture and said that these were all good things, but I never saw what was better. Isn't it just some yellow rosewood? What's the best?"
After a pause, Director Wang continued, "A few years ago, someone came to me to buy these four ring chairs. I opened the price of twenty yuan per hand, but that person couldn't afford it. Cut it, you can't even get it for twenty yuan, and you can't buy it. Later, someone came to buy it, but I didn't sell it. It's better to dismantle these old furniture than to sell it. Over the years, a lot of them have been dismantled, and they have been sold into new styles. Now there are still these left."
These words made Yang Jing feel extremely distressed, and at the same time he was completely speechless. It turns out that it was really terrible that he was uneducated.
But it’s not a big deal that Director Wang was crazy about Lao Haihuang, which was 10,000 yuan per kilogram in later generations. The price is so cheap that it’s amazing. Not to mention anything else, in the late 1970s, Lao Haihuang’s price was one kilogram and one kilogram and one kilogram and five cents. Even now, the price is not more than 30 cents!
In the early 1980s, this kind of old Haihuang ring chair was of good quality, and it cost twenty yuan a hand, but it was not good quality, and it was sold for five yuan!
If it is thirty years later, twenty yuan? Two million can only be touched! Such a chair is priced at eight digits!
If Director Wang knew that thirty years later, he would take out one piece of the old furniture he had removed and could be worth millions or even tens of millions, I wonder if he would have a myocardial infarction!
It’s a pity that I came here later. If I had come a few years earlier, I might have saved more old furniture that had been demolished.
"Director Wang, if I want to buy these old furniture, I wonder if you can sell them to me? Well, I can buy them in US dollars or foreign exchange coupons. I really like these antique furniture."
When Director Wang heard this, his face immediately became happy. "Mr. Lynch, if you want these things, I will make the decision. You can take one thousand dollars! Of course, it is best to have foreign exchange coupons."
Without saying a word, Yang Jing nodded at Na Yong. Na Yong took out a thousand US dollars of foreign exchange coupons very quickly and handed them over...
Chapter completed!