A courtyard house, equipped with a fishing system, living in an era.

My bangs have been shaking quite a bit lately.

Following in the footsteps of the old man, Liu Haizhong became a squad leader in the action team at the steel rolling mill!

During this time period, with such a pretext, it's possible to simply break down the door and enter...

As a result, chaos ensued...

The first to suffer are the capitalists at the mid-level.

He doesn't have the same fame as Lou Bancheng, nor does he know as many important figures, or even hold a high-level position.

Without substantial evidence, most people wouldn't dare to touch him.

After all, this is a flag; we can't just cut it down ourselves...

Those who are one or two levels below Lou Bancheng, who are rich but have no reputation or background, are in for a lot of trouble!

Xu Pingan has been dressing very discreetly these days, moving between various warehouses.

These warehouses were all seized from those "fourth uncles"...

The items in these warehouses, such as bronze and ironware, are all intended to be melted down and recast.

As for those calligraphy, paintings, and wooden objects, their fate was even more tragic; they were said to be taken away and chopped up for firewood!

Xu Pingan didn't consider these things as stolen treasures from someone else's private property.

This is a protective packaging of these historical witnesses...

Let's just assume that these things have already been burned as firewood, or lost in the long river of history?

After following them a few times, I realized that there are no fools in this world.

Some of the best things inside had already been picked over by the leaders.

Those who stayed either didn't recognize the value of the items, or the items were too eye-catching, making them afraid to let them disappear from their possessions...

Xu Ping'an didn't have that concern. He didn't care about anything else; as long as it was good, he would simply use his mental energy to grab it and take it away.

As for how it will end?

They did all that, it has nothing to do with me!

To be honest, many of the things Xu Pingan acquired this time were better than what he had spent money to collect in Beijing over the years.

Sometimes I think, have I been doing all that work for nothing all these years?

If I had known it would be so easy to make a move now, why would I have needed to run around day and night trying to acquire companies back then?

In the past two months, Xu Ping'an's most satisfying acquisitions are Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Festival Calligraphy" and Wang Xun's "Bo Yuan Calligraphy".

Among the items that the leaders collected, gold and silver artifacts were the main ones, with white jade and porcelain as secondary items.

These calligraphy and painting copybooks are the least valued!

In the eyes of ordinary people, this thing is really worthless. People without any cultural literacy would even find it too hard to use as toilet paper.

According to Xu Ping'an, quite a few people actually use this as toilet paper.

Therefore, when Xu Pingan took these things away, it didn't cause the slightest ripple.

Besides these two most satisfying items, Xu Ping'an also packed up and took away many other books and paintings in the categories of classics, history, philosophy, and literature.

On the contrary, Xu Pingan did not touch the furniture, precious wood, or similar items.

On the one hand, these larger items are more conspicuous.

Xu Pingan did not want to attract attention.

Besides, Xu Ping'an's clone could obtain as much precious timber as he wanted in Southeast Asia.

Now, he is consciously collecting these things.

In the short term, precious timber is a non-renewable resource, and holding it in your hands is a much more reliable way to preserve its value than money.

By the time the first snow fell at the end of the year, Xu Ping'an had already completed the protective transfer of thousands of artifacts from various warehouses.

Xu Pingan didn't just pick the best ones; he took whatever was good and bad, as long as it wasn't conspicuous.

Especially if there's a pile of things, Xu Ping'an would start rummaging through the pile of scraps until it was completely empty.

It is unassuming and unnoticed by most people.

Even if problems are later discovered, it's because someone within their own ranks was stealing from them. What does that have to do with Xu Ping'an?

As the Lunar New Year approached, Xu Ping'an thought that this year's harvest would be about average.

After all, in the first wave of attack, those that were supposed to be taken down had already been taken down.

The rest either had their contents well hidden, or they simply couldn't be fried to extract any oil!

"Director Xu, have you heard? There's a wealthy family in the west of the city whose property has been completely emptied."

"Oh? Tell me more?"

Sharing gossip also requires a straight man.

Ever since Liu Lan discovered that Xu Ping'an enjoyed listening to this kind of gossip, she has paid extra attention to such news.

Although Liu Lan had Li Huaide as her backer, their relationship was actually quite awkward.

She was neither Li Huaide's first wife, nor had she been with him from the beginning...

When you're young and beautiful, everything is easy to talk about.

But as Lady Zhen said, how long can one serve others with beauty?

When she was young and beautiful a few years ago, everything was fine, but in recent years, Liu Lan has just turned 30, and Li Huaide's attitude towards her has taken a sharp turn for the worse.

The relationship between Liu Lan and Li Huaide is quite complicated.

In the beginning, it was simply a matter of mutual exploitation between the two sides.

But as the saying goes, familiarity breeds fondness!

As a woman, Liu Lan is obviously more emotional.

Being more emotional also means being more prone to falling into depravity, and experiencing greater pain when relationships change!

Fortunately, Liu Lan still retained a sliver of rationality and did not believe that Li Huaide was her final destination.

Although the other party's feelings for Liu Lan had faded, they did not make any public statements and ignored her situation.

However, based on the decorum between adults, after Li Huaide stopped contacting her for a while, Liu Lan roughly understood that their relationship was about to enter the next stage.

So, although she didn't expect anything to happen between her and Xu Ping'an, at least she pleased her boss, which would make her life a little easier in the future.

Every time Xu Pingan went to this type of warehouse, he would find a huge pile of antiques and cultural relics...

Therefore, Xu Pingan was in a very good mood whenever he received such news.

The people under his command didn't actually need Xu Ping'an and his team to explain things to them.

Those working in the kitchen knew more or less about the relationship between Liu Lan and Li Huaide.

After all, since the private dining room was restored two years ago, Liu Lan has been the exclusive waitress for Li Huaide and his group in their private room.

In his daily interactions, Li Huaide did not deliberately avoid his relationship with Liu Lan.

Now that Li Huaide is in power, who would dare to be so foolish as to cause trouble for Liu Lan at this time?

Therefore, most of the time, Liu Lan's worries were unfounded.

Xu Pingan originally thought that today's harvest would be about the same as before!

The harvest will be large, but the items will be just so-so.

When Xu Pingan scanned the area with his mental energy today, he clearly sensed something was amiss.

This blind box seems to have produced a gold item!

This is a chair!

The chair features a complete five-clawed golden dragon carved in the center of the backrest, with cloud patterns encircling its body. Two small dragons are carved on each armrest. The chair rests on a Sumeru pedestal and is entirely painted with gold lacquer.

The gold paint on the chair has shown signs of peeling and fading due to its age, but the overall structure is in excellent condition.

A mental scan revealed that the bottom of the chair even bore inscriptions dating back to the Jiajing era…

Xu Ping'an's memory is now exceptional. After glancing at this thing, he immediately remembered that it should be the same model as the one in the Hall of Supreme Harmony...

As for why such items ended up in private hands and became private collections?

Does that matter?

Theoretically, any treasure that an emperor possessed should also have similar treasures in the common people's lives!

Even the cabinets in the emperor's study were often one set for each of the Forbidden City's cabinets...

Xu Pingan didn't care whether others remembered him or whether he would be exposed.

I immediately put this thing into my space!

Just kidding, this is the dragon throne!

P.S.: There's another chapter this afternoon; I didn't write it yesterday...