Jianbao life

Chapter 926 Going to the countryside to hunt for treasure is not easy

Wu Renmin said anxiously after hearing the words: "Ah! How could it be? Lao Chang told me that he bought this thing from a farmer's family whose ancestors were high-ranking officials in the Qing court."

Wang Mingcai frowned when he heard the words. He and Wu Renmin were friends since they were young. Seeing Wu Renmin's gaffe, he said earnestly: "Old Wu, it's nothing to do in our business, as long as we can learn from it, it's fine. If you have the mentality now, you will still suffer in the future.”

Hearing this, Wu Renmin seemed a little embarrassed, and smiled coyly: "I just didn't expect that Lao Chang would actually lie to me."

Wang Mingcai shook his head: "You, it's too easy to trust people. It's not that Lao Chang doesn't want to lie to you, but just wants to make more money from you. Now that he has made enough money and is ready to immigrate, of course he can lie to you. How much is how much."

Wu Renmin looked quite surprised, and said, "Old Chang is planning to immigrate? Why didn't I know about this?"

Wang Mingcai said with a speechless expression: "Almost everyone around has heard the news, but you still don't know?"

Wu Renmin said with some embarrassment: "Isn't this going to the countryside to collect some goods recently? I just came back last night."

Wang Mingcai sighed after hearing the words: "You actually went to the countryside to receive the goods again, I don't know what to say about you."

Wu Renmin waved his hand and said, "Old Wang, don't worry, I'm not a fool, how can I be fooled so easily every time!"

"You..." Wang Mingcai nodded him a few times, and said, "Forget it, I'll tell you about it after I've seen these few things."

"Row!"

Wu Renmin nodded, feeling a little disapproving of Wang Mingcai's words in his heart, thinking that his friend was too unreasonable to worry about. Of course, he also knew that it was for his own good, so he was going to listen to what his friend had to say later. To change it, if there is nothing, we will encourage it.

Then, he turned his attention and asked Chu Chen, "Boss Chu, what's wrong with my blue and white pot?"

Just now, during the conversation between the two, Chu Chen looked at other things, and when he heard this, he said: "Let's not talk about anything else, just say that the old traces on the jar are actually made, but The old ones are more powerful, it seems natural, but the method we are familiar with may still be used.”

The method Chu Chen said is to use potassium permanganate solution mixed with a little brown sugar, apply it all over the body, focusing on the foot ring at the bottom, and wipe it with a dry cloth after about 48 hours.Almost all the places where the tires are exposed and the openings are purple-brown to varying degrees.If you feel that the color of the sole is too dark, you can use washing powder to scrub it and polish it with fine sandpaper to make the tire slightly white, like a glutinous rice tire, which will give people a visual error.

Of course, it’s quite simple to say, but it’s not so easy to confuse the fake with the real one, and the old-fashioned one on Wu Renmin’s blue and white jar does look more natural, and it’s easy for ordinary collectors to catch their eyes .Of course, if this were not the case, Wu Renmin would not have been able to buy it.

Wu Renmin asked in surprise when he heard the words: "Boss Chu, are you talking about sex?"

Chu Chen nodded and said, "Yes, it's sex, look here..."

As he said that, he pointed out some old features and some flaws on the blue and white jar.

"Hey!" Wu Renmin sighed after hearing Chu Chen's explanation, his face was full of bitterness, but his mentality was not bad, and he quickly adjusted, and then asked Chu Chen to look at other things.

Wu Renmin's luck was not bad. Except for the blue and white pot, the other few items he brought at the beginning were genuine. This made him feel relieved, but also a little heartache. I don't know when the value of these remaining items will increase to make up for the loss of the blue and white pot.

Next, the last thing left was the last piece of brocade that Wu Renmin took out.

When Wang Ming saw the piece of brocade, he was a little surprised and said, "This should be Yunjin."

Wu Renmin said a little proudly: "Yes, it's brocade brocade. This brocade brocade is what I got when I went to the countryside this time."

Brocade was produced in Jinling with a history of more than 1500 years. In the Yuan Dynasty, brocade became a special product for royal clothing. After that, the brocade weaving technology became more and more mature and perfect. In the Qing Dynasty, there were many varieties of brocade. Therefore, the Qing government The "Jiangning Weaving Department" was specially set up in Jinling, and brocade weaving flourished for a while.

Yunjin is mainly divided into four categories: "woven gold", "ku brocade", "ku satin" and "zhuanghua". Winding, threading, weft winding, and loading on the machine have to go through many complicated processes.The weaving of Zhuanghua is labor-intensive and time-consuming.

For a long time, the brocade weaving method has been traditional. Each loom must be operated by a jacquard worker and a weaver. Skilled workers can only weave a five-centimeter-long brocade at the end of a busy day.

In the weaving of brocade, a large number of pure gold threads and pure silver threads are used, together with rare and precious brocade threads such as multicolored velvet threads and peacock down feathers interspersed with gold and emerald greens. It is very rare, which makes Yunjin magnificent and dazzling. As early as in ancient times, there was a metaphor of "an inch of brocade is an inch of gold".

In Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, "Jinling Yunjin" has always been an offering for the imperial court, and its production has been monopolized by the government, which is recorded in the literature.For example, in Qing Guangxu's "Great Qing Huidian Case", it is said that in the early years of Shunzhi, the imperial dress, as well as the clothes of the four seasons, the court clothes of the palaces, princes and princesses, were all handed over to Jinling and other three places for weaving according to the rules set by the Ministry of Rites.

For example, the emperor's dragon robe, as usual, was carefully designed and made by the first-class engineer of Ruyi Pavilion at that time. After the emperor personally approved and approved it, he sent a special messenger to Jinling. The weaving supervision calculated the various processes and how much material each piece of clothing used. , After a certain amount of work is completed, a special officer will be sent to escort back to Beijing on time.

The inscriptions on the cultural relics of "Jinling Yunjin" today truly reflect the strict supervision of the government. For example, the tail of the brocade material collected as a tribute in the Jinling Museum and the Jinling Yunjin Research Institute has: "Jiangnan Weaving Minister Qinglin ", "Jiangnan Weaving Minister Zengchong", "Jiangnan Weaving Minister 74", "Made in Jiangning Weaving Bureau", "Made in Jiangnan Weaving Bureau" and other inscriptions.

Like Wu Renmin's piece of brocade, the inscription on the bottom is "Jiangnan Weaving Minister 74".

After seeing it, Chu Chen said, "Boss Wu, how much did you pay for this brocade?"

"3 yuan!" Wu Renmin gestured proudly.

Seeing his friend's expression, Wang Mingcai frowned and said, "Old Wu, don't buy anything you don't understand from now on."

Wu Renmin felt a little strange when he heard it: "Why, this is a brocade with flowers and flowers, thirty thousand is still expensive!"
Wang Mingcai said: "Although this is makeup, it is actually lotus makeup."

Wu Renmin was not surprised when he heard this: "What's the difference between this and Zhuanghua?"

Wang Mingcai explained: "Furong makeup also has colorful patterns on the satin base, but the color matching is not as complicated as the usual Zhuanghua and Jinbaodi. The two adjacent units in the same section have the same pattern, and the color matching is the same. Separate several sections of different colors on the whole material."

"So the speed of weaving is also faster. In the past, the makeup of this weaving method used hibiscus flowers in many patterns, so it was called 'Furong makeup'. Later, although hibiscus flowers were not used, all fabrics of this weaving method were still called 'Hibiscus makeup'. Furong makeup'. Your piece of brocade is woven with this weaving method."

"Also, the most important point, if I'm not mistaken, this brocade should have been made in recent years, Boss Chu, am I right?"

Chu Chen nodded and said, "That's true..."

Speaking of this, he explained the basis for such a judgment.

Hearing the end, the muscles on Wu Renmin's face couldn't help twitching, and after a while, he said depressedly: "Is there really nothing good in the countryside?"

"It doesn't mean that there are no good things in the countryside, but there are few good things and more ordinary things."

Wang Mingcai said, "Many people think that there are still many good things hidden in the countryside. They generally feel that the countryside was less affected by the special period and many things are still there. Secondly, the antiques in the countryside have long been transferred from the landlords to the poor. In the hands of the lower-middle peasants, the peasants do not know the goods and ask for low prices. Also, the peasants are honest and will not make fakes, and you can buy real things from them.”

"Therefore, many people worked tirelessly to go to the countryside. The more remote the place, the more they wanted to go. They thought there might be treasures hidden there. Old Wu, you probably think the same way, right?"

Wu Renmin smiled and said, "I think so, but there's nothing wrong with thinking so, right?"

"Wrong! Big mistake!"

Wang Mingcai directly denied it: "I deny it, I thought so before, but the actual situation is quite different from these reasons..."

Then, Wang Mingcai introduced his knowledge to Wu Renmin, and Chu Chen also deeply agreed after hearing it.

In other words, no one dares to deny the existence of official kiln porcelain in the countryside, and it is true that some people bought a piece of Ru kiln porcelain in the countryside and made a fortune, but in fact, as Wang Mingcai said, there are no rural areas. Stuff, but less good stuff and more average stuff.

Most of the landowners in the countryside, Lao Cai, are people like Zhou Paopi. There may be gold buried in the ground of their house, but it is unlikely to hide antiques. It is possible for them to spend money to buy antiques, but it is relatively difficult. After all, they Their cultural level is not high, and in their hearts, gold and silver are the real way to preserve their value.

There are no antiques in the homes of these landlords and rich people, and naturally there will be no antiques in the hands of poor and lower-middle peasants.This is the case in most cases, but there are also some special cases.Some official families and scholarly families do have things. These families are famous, and the higher-ups have known about them. How could they still distribute them to poor and lower-middle peasants?

In addition, things in rural areas are generally not cheap, why?Because the farmers in our country are too poor, the only things they think are valuable are those two pots and jars, and they count on them. Can they be sold to you very cheaply?The more people asked him to buy it, the less he dared to sell it, and the higher the asking price, because he didn't understand the real value of the item at all, so he had no choice but to raise the price sharply to avoid losing money.

Of course, Chu Chen can’t deny that in the 90s and [-]s, farmers sold their things cheap because they hadn’t seen any market, but now is the era of information explosion. With the gradual popularization of TV and the Internet, antiques are sold The news about sky-high prices is known to most people, and the farmer is not stupid. How can he sell it cheaply if he has something?
In the past few years, Chu Chen has known many shovel collectors and collectors who love to go to the countryside, but none of them have gained much, and sometimes the price they buy is quite expensive.Believe it or not, if you go to the countryside to buy a folk kiln bowl, it will definitely be more expensive than the ones at the street stalls in the city.This is because those farmers don't know the difference between official and private kilns, so the prices of private kilns are set according to the official kilns on TV.

Of course, because the farmer doesn't know official kilns, if his family happens to have an official kiln, it is indeed possible to sell it at a cheaper price. Chu Chen has encountered this kind of thing two or three times, but as mentioned above, the farmer's family is very There are very few things from official kilns, and Chu Chen is lucky to meet them two or three times.

The last point, the more remote the place, the less you should go.The more remote the place, the poorer it is, and the poorer the place, the less valuable cultural relics and antiques there are. There is no doubt that even rich landlords generally store food and a small amount of gold and silver.Just imagine, people in that place used to be so poor that they couldn't even afford trousers, would they have the money to buy antiques?

In addition, in a place like this, special attention needs to be paid to safety. Once a person is poor, he may do anything for money. If you ask people to buy antiques everywhere, others will think that you have a lot of money. Don’t you think about you? Is your personal safety?In the end, don’t forget to lose the money if you don’t get the antiques. If you lose the money, you can earn it back. What if you lose your life?
At the end, Wu Renmin said: "Old Wang, what you said is indeed reasonable, but don't talk about others, Boss Liang also went to the countryside to receive goods, so he made his fortune!"

"Then don't look at the age when Boss Liang went to the countryside to receive goods."

Wang Mingcai said: "He started to go to the countryside to collect goods in the 80s. At that time, he didn't dare to blatantly collect them, for fear of being caught by others. It was not until 85, when everyone's minds were liberated, that he relaxed. Unexpected."

"Moreover, the good times don't last long. By the 90s, some unscrupulous people wantonly manufactured fakes, and even some unscrupulous people sent fake goods to the countryside, to the farmers' homes, to the honest land reformers' homes, and to the poor the landlord's house."

"Then make up a story, ask the land reform root or the landlord to memorize it, and tell them a price. If there is not so much money, you can't sell it. Then invite the gentleman into the urn, and wait for the collectors in the city to come. At that time, Mr. Liang also ate several The next time, if you don’t believe there is a chance next time, you can ask him in person.”

Hearing this, Wu Renmin was still a little unwilling to give up, and said, "Old Wang, don't you also run to the countryside from time to time?"

Wang Mingcai said with a smile: "I do run to the countryside from time to time, but I have long since ceased to be a shoveler. When I go to the countryside, I only go there after being notified by an informant. You think you will go there swaggeringly. It's no wonder you don't step on landmines! You If you don’t believe me, ask Boss Chu, will he go to the countryside to see the goods by himself without the informant’s notice?”

Seeing Wu Renmin looking at him, Chu Chen took over the conversation and said, "If I don't have an informant or a familiar friend, I really wouldn't dare to run to the countryside, or I might be hit by a 'landmine'. You know, we are collecting People who plant mines are smarter, and people who plant mines seem to be smarter."

"For example, isn't your hometown Huang Binhong's hometown? He took the imitated Huang Binhong's early paintings as landmines and put them in the farmer's home. This farmer, if you investigate, his ancestors really had contacts with Huang Binhong. , and those paintings look so serious that they were accidentally struck by thunder.”

"In addition, the landmineers also know how to prescribe the right medicine. What kind of collectors are there in a certain area and what do they like? They have already done in-depth and detailed investigation and research, prepared special mines, and blasted one accurately. If you don't believe me, you can do it It’s an experiment, you go to a strange village, put on a rich and powerful look, and specify that you want porcelain or something.”

"The first time, you can't see anything. After half a month, if you go again, you may see something small. You shake your head and say that this thing is too low-grade. After half a month, you go for the third time, sure You can see the official kilns of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and even the five major official kilns of the Song Dynasty, and he can make them for you."

(End of this chapter)