Chapter 194 Tianhedang
Lu Fei and Gao Yuan drilled in along the entrance of the hole, and finally saw the whole picture clearly when they reached the bottom.
This is a small secret room built with blue bricks, one and a half meters high, covering an area of about ten square meters, and the air humidity is moderate.
Looking around, there are a dozen large camphor wood cylinders stacked inside, as well as seven large copper-covered boxes.
The size of the box is similar to Zhang Xianzhong's Paulownia box.
One of the boxes was opened and a flashlight was shined on it, reflecting a golden light.
There are several pieces of gold tableware on the top. One of the gold coasters is a set with Lu Fei's gold cup. With this coaster, the value of the gold cup can be increased several levels.
Neatly arranged under the tableware are gold ingots weighing ten ounces, and by visual inspection there are hundreds of ingots.
Open another box full of silver ingots.
Lu Fei shook his head, not very satisfied.
Open the third box, and there are more than a dozen exquisite boxes inside.
Picking up the top one and opening it, Lu Fei finally saw the good thing he wanted, porcelain.
This is a blue and white custard bowl, eight centimeters high and sixteen centimeters in diameter with a folded rim.
The blue and white painting is simple and natural, and the glaze is extremely moist and beautiful.
Round bottom double circle model, made in Wanli year of Ming Dynasty.
Gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times.
With this small bowl, it is worth the dozens of gold ingots next to it.
Lu Fei packed the bowl carefully and opened a box again.
Inside is a Southern Song Dynasty kiln plum vase with white flowers and lotus pattern on a black ground. This is a good thing.
The plum vase is twenty-five centimeters high and about six centimeters in diameter.
This plum vase has a small mouth, rolled lips, short neck, plump shoulders, oval belly, and short round feet.
This is a typical Jizhou kiln product. Although the glaze is slightly less white and hard and fine than the Jingdezhen kiln porcelain clay, it attaches great importance to painted decoration.
This plum vase with white flowers on a black ground has an overall pattern of intertwining floral patterns composed of lotus, lotus leaves and lotus pods, with rich decoration.
, soft tones.
It can be regarded as a top masterpiece among Jizhou kiln white glaze and black brown color porcelain.
This plum vase alone is enough to instantly kill a box of gold ingots next to it.
With this plum vase, Lu Fei's trip was worth a thousand dollars and it was a worthwhile trip.
But the surprises continued.
The next few boxes were filled with blue and white porcelain, and they were all clear Ming blue and white. The best one was the Yongle Carp Leaping Dragon Gate blue and white porcelain.
The continuous surprises made Lu Fei a little numb.
Opening another box, Lu Fei smelled a strong medicinal aroma.
"wooden club?"
That's right, this box contains five wild ginsengs that are at least 500 years old. Each of them is of top quality. Lu Fei's mouth opened in surprise.
With these wild ginseng, I won’t have to worry about ginseng for at least ten years.
When he has time, he prepares all the medicinal materials, uses his old disciple's filial elixir furnace, and refines two muscle-strengthening and bone-strengthening elixirs, striving to improve his physique to a higher level.
In addition to ginseng, there are also a lot of tiger bones in this box, which are all good things!
The next two boxes opened contained gold and silver jewelry and ingots. Lu Fei was not interested in these things.
It's okay if one or two pieces are fresh and fresh, but if there are too many, they become a burden.
Jubao Pavilion has been open for so many days, but only one piece of jewelry obtained by Zhang Xianzhong has been sold.
At this rate, these and Zhang Xianzhong’s jewelry would never be sold out in eight lifetimes.
It’s hard to part with it, it’s impossible to get a discount, and I’m afraid of thunderstorms when I take it out in large quantities, which makes my head hurt just thinking about it.
Opening the last box, the top box contained a thick stack of property deeds.
This thing was awesome at the time, but now, it’s no different than a piece of toilet paper.
Another box was opened next to it, and it was full of pawn tickets.
"Tianhedang?"
"Hiss——"
Lu Fei's eyes lit up when he saw Tianhedang's number. Are these things Tianhedang's private collection?
After looking at each of the next pawn tickets, it turned out that they were all Tianhe's pawns. This basically confirmed Lu Fei's guess.
Not surprisingly, everything in this secret room is Tian Hedang's private possession.
Tianhedang is very famous. It was the first pawnshop in Bashu in the Ming Dynasty, and it was also among the best in Tianzhou.
Tianhedang was founded in the third year of Hongwu. At the beginning, it had a good reputation for fair trading. By the Yongle period, Tianhedang was already the leader of Bashu and even famous in the five southwestern provinces.
When it was at its most powerful, Tianhe had countless branches and was involved in a wide variety of industries.
Catering, escort agencies, caravans, etc., whatever you want to do to make money.
In the third year of Zhengtong's reign, there was a flood in Bashu.
Tianhe donated 500,000 taels of silver with a wave of his hand, which shocked the court at that time. Even the orthodox emperor Zhu Qizhen issued an order to commend him and called him a model of Bashu.
With this halo shining on them, Tianhedang becomes even more popular.
However, during the Jiajing period, Tianhedang's descendants became somewhat expanded.
The business is getting darker and darker, and the conscience is getting worse and worse. In a vicious circle, the business will inevitably get worse.
By the Wanli period, Tianhedang had been reduced to relying on family wealth to make ends meet.
Even so, the properties and good things left by their ancestors are enough for them to squander for several lifetimes.
As the saying goes, if you don't seek death, you won't die.
In the ninth year of Wanli, Chen Yingcai, the then shopkeeper of Tianhe, secretly made weapons and sold them to local bandits.
This is much bigger than the modern crime of reselling arms.
too much.
After being reported by an insider, Lei Chengwang, the governor of Bashu, was furious and immediately ordered Tianhedang to be raided.
In just two days, the No. 1 pawnshop in Bashu, which had been popular for more than two hundred years, collapsed. Except for a few servants, the entire Chen family was executed and countless properties were confiscated.
Lu Fei estimated that these should be the treasures that the man who escaped back then took with him. He did not dare to show them to others, so he had to hide them.
Then scroll down and there are some good things.
Jade belt hook!
The approximately seven centimeters long part of this jade belt hook is yellowed, which is due to natural soil.
The shape of the device is a long barbed hook, with a long handle and a short hook. The shape is rounded in front and flat in the back, straight in front and curved in the back, and the head of the hook is shaped like a duck's head.
There is a rectangular button on the curve of the back, and the whole piece looks like a duck stretching its neck and bending its neck. The shape is extremely beautiful.
The duck-shaped jade belt hook is a typical style of the Qin and Han Dynasties. Judging from the coating, it should be similar.
This is a rare treasure. If it were released, it would be worth at least tens of millions.
Playing with the jade belt hook in his hand and looking at the gold and silver on the side, Lu Fei couldn't seem to show any interest.
"Xiao Fei, come and see, what is this?"
Lu Fei looked back and saw that Gao Yuan couldn't wait to pry open a camphor barrel, revealing a bunch of black objects inside.
Lu Fei leaned over and took a look, his eyes widened.
"Brother Gao, quickly pry open those barrels and see if they are the same as the things inside?"
Gao Yuan and Lu Fei worked together and pried open all the dozen barrels in a few minutes.
Without exception, they are full of the same stuff.
This thing was black and shiny, well-proportioned and about the size of a bottle cap. Lu Fei weighed it and found that each bucket weighed more than a hundred kilograms.
Ha ha!
Get rich, get rich!
With this thing, the rest really doesn't matter.
