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Chapter 359 White Deer Coin

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    The reason why Meng Zitao chose to go to a pile of messy old goods to see if there was anything interesting was just out of boredom. He had no intention of picking through the pile of things.

    In fact, it was exactly like this. Meng Zitao took a brief look at it and found nothing he liked. Then he used the superpower and the result was the same.

    At this time, Wei Hongliang came back with his things, and Meng Zitao also returned to his seat.

    Wei Hongliang said with a smile: "Boss Meng, is there anything that can catch your eye?"

    Meng Zitao smiled and shook his head.

    Wei Hongliang didn¡¯t take it seriously. He took the things out of the box and put them on the table: ¡°Boss Meng, it¡¯s a coincidence that you came here. I just collected these two items a few days ago. Let¡¯s see if they suit you.¡±

    Meng Zitao nodded and looked at the two pieces of porcelain on the table.

    One of them is a small base. The upper part of the base is in the shape of a kettle stove. The four Ruyi-shaped feet are connected to the bottom of the hollow circle, and the bottom supports four legs.  The whole body is covered with Longquan celadon glaze, and the glaze color is lighter in the raised areas of the wall decoration, making the visual effect clearer.  The shape is smart and lovable.

    This piece of porcelain should be of the style of Longquan kiln in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. Meng Zitao looked at it carefully and determined that it should be a genuine piece, but its value is not very high, it is estimated to be around ten or twenty thousand.

    What remains is a deer-headed statue, with the blue and white seal script inscription "Made in the Qianlong Year of the Qing Dynasty" on the bottom.

    The earliest deer-headed statues with year names seen were from the Yongzheng period. They were usually more than 45 centimeters tall. They were grand, steady, and elegant, and were suitable for palace display. Therefore, they were favored by the royal family during the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties and became widely popular.  It is one of the most noble shapes in the Qing Dynasty.

    "But this deer-headed statue is very small, only about 17 or 18 centimeters. It is small, beautiful and very rare.  As for pattern decoration, common painted Bailu pictures and blue and white intertwining lotus patterns are used. The brushwork is clear and graceful, the layout is clear, the blue and white are the same color, and the shades vary richly, which are the characteristics of the authentic product.

    The lines of this vessel are graceful and full, the blue and white flowers are bright and meaningful, the glaze is white and moist, the layout is sparse and elegant, and the painting is delicate and agile. It can be called a rare small and large vessel among the Qianlong imperial porcelains. It is of course worth a lot of money, at least worth hundreds of dollars.  Around 10,000.

    However, during the observation process, Meng Zitao discovered something wrong. In terms of patina, it looked a little wrong. However, it was not entirely true that it was a fake, because from the glaze blue and white, it could be clearly seen that it was a fake.  It's genuine.

    This made Meng Zitao a little strange. He observed carefully and with the help of his superpower, he unexpectedly discovered that this was actually a piece of repaired porcelain, and not only was it repaired, there was a missing piece on the rim of the statue, which was repaired.  Up.

    This result really surprised Meng Zitao, so he had never seen anyone with such superb repairing skills. Even if the porcelain he had seen repaired by the master was still the repairer in the porcelain capital.  Master Zhang Lao did it. If you look carefully, you can see some problems.

    However, this person's craftsmanship is even better than that of Mr. Zhang. If he hadn't seen the repair marks with his own eyes, it would be unimaginable that someone would have such a high level of porcelain repair skills, and it would look exactly like the whole thing.  No difference.

    Meng Zitao admired this and wanted to meet him to discuss the knowledge of porcelain restoration.  Although Meng Zitao can also repair porcelain, some methods cannot be used due to conditions, so porcelain repair has become his weakness, so he thought of discussing it with the other party.

    However, Meng Zitao immediately thought of the purpose of his coming here, and couldn't help but think more about it, because in reality it is often unlikely to be such a coincidence. He felt that the porcelain maker and the repair master he was looking for were probably the same person.  .

    Meng Zitao put this matter aside for now, because even if it was indeed the same person, he would definitely not be able to find the other person. Professional matters should be handled by professionals.

    Seeing Meng Zitao put down the deer head statue, Wei Hongliang smiled and asked: "Boss Meng, are you satisfied?"

    Meng Zitao nodded: "Shopkeeper Wei, please give me a price."

    Wei Hongliang pointed to the base and the deer-headed statue: "This one costs 15,000, and this one costs 950,000!"

    First of all, the price of the base is relatively normal, and if the deer head statue is genuine, the price is certainly appropriate, but now that it is a repair device, it cannot be calculated like this.

    Meng Zitao thought for a while and counter-offered: "Twelve thousand for the base and fifty thousand for the deer head statue."

    If it is a simple restorer, the price of 50,000 is definitely low, but this deer head statue is not complete. As the saying goes, the "long hair" of porcelain is not worth a penny, let alone such a missing piece, which means that it is repaired.?I thought that if I didn¡¯t want it myself, I could give it to the auction company, which would be considered an enrichment for the lot.  So, he used his psychic powers as usual, but the result was a flash of surprise in his eyes. There was something else hidden in this booklet.

    Meng Zitao¡¯s eyes stayed on the back cover for a while, and he found some clues.

    Next, Meng Zitao and Wei Hongliang bargained for a while, and finally settled the deal for 1.2 million. This price was somewhat expensive. If Meng Zitao hadn't made an unexpected discovery, he would definitely not have agreed.

    After leaving the store, Meng Zitao talked to Zheng Zongxian on the phone and told Zheng Zongxian about the deer head statue. Zheng Zongxian also agreed with Meng Zitao's judgment and said that he would investigate immediately. As for how to investigate, that is not Meng Zitao's concern.  Something happened.

    Because of the unexpected discovery, Meng Zitao gave up the idea of ??going to the antique market, said hello to Kazuo Tian, ??and took the car back to the hotel.

    On the way, Meng Zitao received a call from Zhui Ci, asking where Meng Zitao lived now and planned to come to visit tomorrow.

    Back at the hotel, Meng Zitao asked Dajun to bring a sharp knife and prepared to take out the things.

    Dajun put the knife in front of Meng Zitao and was a little curious: "Mr. Meng, what do you want the knife for?"

    Meng Zitao opened the back cover of the booklet and said with a smile: "Guess, the answer is in this booklet."

    "In the booklet?" Da Jun looked at it with some doubts. He worked more carefully and soon saw that there was something wrong with the back cover: "The back cover seems to have been glued on deliberately. Is there something inside?"

    "That's absolutely correct." Meng Zitao smiled and said, "Let's take a look now to see what's inside."

    After saying that, Meng Zitao started working. After a while, he opened the back cover and saw a piece of animal skin with painted objects appearing in front of the two of them.

    "What is this?" Dajun was a little strange.

    "This" Meng Zitao thought of the time given by the supernatural power, and something recorded in the history books flashed in his mind: "If nothing else, this is probably the White Deer Coin of the Han Dynasty."

    Da Jun said in surprise: "You said there is such a thing as coins made of white deer skin? I have never heard of it before."

    Meng Zitao smiled and said: "It's normal if you haven't heard of it. This kind of white deer coin was originally a sudden idea of ??Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and it didn't circulate for long."

    Strange money can be found everywhere in ancient and modern times. For example, Yap Island in the Solomon Islands uses a huge hole-drilled thunder stone as money. Some of this "giant money" weighs 3 tons, and even two cows are not necessarily the same.  It can be pulled; people in the Solomon Islands still use pig teeth as money to this day. This kind of "money in the pig pen" is also used as an "important weapon of a country" and is displayed on the national flag and national emblem in a dignified manner.

    This kind of strange money that sounds a bit "weird" actually existed in ancient my country. For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che used money made from white deer skin.

    Nowadays, people's impressions of ancient coins are generally copper coins, rare ones, like five thousand for one knife, cloth coins and other coins. If they are older, they are shell coins. Generally, it is not expected that anyone would use white deer skin.  Make coins.

    Of course, there are reasons for doing this.

    It is said that during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he raised white deer in Shanglin Garden outside Chang'an City. They multiplied more and more. Not only did they completely lose the capital of pet competition due to the rarity of rare animals, but they also wasted feed and became a source of palace treasury.  huge burden.

    At this time, it was the fourth year of Yuan Shou, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which was 119 BC. At this time, large-scale wars with the Xiongnu and various ethnic groups in the southeast and southwest had begun, and various "buildings, halls, halls, buildings, and infrastructure" in the country had begun.  The project was also spread out in a big way. It was at a time when the national treasury was stretched thin. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and his financial team wanted to break a penny in half and spend it, rather than let these no longer cute white deer waste their finances.

    Zhang Tang, his favorite, really came up with a good idea: kill the white deer, salt the deer skin, cut it into one-foot-square pieces, paint on them, and then use these small pieces that are not even enough to make a pair of children's boots.  A piece of deerskin became the top dollar with a price tag of 400,000 yuan, a white deer coin.

    This idea seems really good: on the one hand, white deer hides can make money, and the number of white deer in Shanglinyuan will be effectively controlled, and they will no longer waste food and grass; on the other hand, the reproduction rate of white deer, which was originally a headache, is now  On the contrary, it has become a hugely profitable way to make money.  It can be said that if this trick works well, it is equivalent to peeling off two skins from a white deer and using it.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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