Chapter 321
Because this person’s background is unclear, I said Yazai, please don’t mess around and listen to what he has to say first.
The man then spoke intermittently for more than an hour, and I wasn't sure how much of what he said was true.
This man's name is Ma Deming, a native of Luoping Village, Laishui, Hebei Province. He claims to have followed the four generations of Jiu Qingshui.
I was really surprised when I heard the name "Jiu Qingshui". I didn't recognize Ma Deming, but when it comes to the name Jiu Qingshui, many people in the Hunbei sect have heard of it, even a young man like me. I heard my second brother talk about Jiu Qingshui before.
In ancient times, there were no women to do the job of robbing tombs. In some areas, it was even considered unlucky to bring women to the tomb. Therefore, all tomb robbers in the Ming Dynasty were men.
But this situation changed in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. At that time, the landlords died rich and the poor died poor. The poor experienced years of war and famine. There were many families without boys, and naturally there were many widowed women to support the family.
Jiu Qingshui is a nickname given by people in our industry. The first generation of Jiu Qingshui is the great-grandmother of the fourth generation of Jiu Qingshui. Some people say that this woman is called Wang Lianqiu, others say that she is called Wang Qiu. It doesn’t matter what she is called. What is important is her fortune. Shi, I will call her Wang Qiu.
Wang Qiu lived in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Her husband fell ill and starved to death, leaving her with a son and a daughter. Wang Qiu was willing to do anything to support her children. It is said that she even slept with second-rate men to earn money. Later, Wang Qiu Qiu saved a little money, and she used this money to study with a teacher and learn how to make rose rouge.
In order to raise a son and a daughter, she set up a stall selling rose rouge in front of Mu Zhennu Middle School in Beijing. Mu Zhennu Middle School was one of the earliest church girls' middle schools at that time. It is now renamed No. 125 Middle School, located in Hougou Hutong, Dongcheng District.
The nickname Jiuqingshui originally came from selling rose rouge in Mu Zhennu. At that time, girls' cosmetics were not like today. Now there are special makeup removers. How could they be used before? At that time, in addition to good looks, they also paid attention to durability. As for durability, the rose rouge sold by Wang Qiu is very durable due to its special formula. If you apply it on your face once, it will not fade for half a month.
Someone did an experiment and put rouge on a girl's face. If you want to wash away the rose rouge sold by Wang Qiu, you need at least nine basins of water to completely wash it off, so some people call her Jiuqingshui.
Naturally, such a good product sold out.
That year, the Allied Forces invaded the Forbidden City, and Lafayette fled south in panic. All the officials had already fled, and only a few eunuchs and maids were left to guard the Forbidden City.
The little eunuchs and maids were not stupid. As soon as Lafayette left, they began to steal things from the palace and sell them out, mainly porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, as well as incense burners, cloisonne, tables, chairs and benches.
The guards guarding the Meridian Gate took their money and acted like blind men. Because the eunuch uniforms had no pockets, they stuffed them into their arms. This created a strange scene. At that time, the people who came out of the Meridian Gate of the South Gate every day, whether they were young eunuchs or The little palace maids are all potbellied and look like they are ten months pregnant.
There are real treasures hidden in their clothes.
Things like the Eighty-eight Pearl Dotted Green Phoenix Crown, the Chenghua Chicken Crock Cup of this Dynasty, the Ru Porcelain of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu's Flower and Bird Landscape, etc. were all leaked out this time. If it weren't for the Chenghua Chicken Crock Cup that the young eunuch stole away and lived in exile. When it comes to the private sector, it has long been brought across the ocean to the Gulf Islands of our country. If so, the collector surnamed Liu would not be able to buy it at all, not even for 200 million.
Jiu Qingshui smelled the huge profits, so she went to squat outside the Meridian Gate with cash every day. Whenever she saw a bulging eunuch and a maid coming out, she would go up and talk to them. Because she was eloquent, she could often sell her money at a low price. Good value for money.
She didn't understand the treasures in the palace at first, she only knew how to buy them and sell them at a higher price. As she saw more and more good things, her vision gradually improved. During this period, Jiu Qingshui was slowly becoming a A peasant woman transformed into an antique dealer.
Later, after Big Nose left, Lafayette came back. When she saw that her Dayazhai bowls and bowls for eating and toilet bowls were gone, she immediately became furious, so she issued an order to the people, requiring everyone, whether businessmen or common people, to get anything from the palace. , those who voluntarily surrender may have their culpability reduced as appropriate.
Whoever pays you will be stupid.
Jiu Qingshui sold so much by herself and still had many bottles and cans at home. She was afraid of being discovered, so she thought of an unfair method. She used a file to grind off all the deposits on the porcelain. In this way, it is like a person without fingerprints. No one can say that the things in her home are from the palace.
Later, many people followed her example, which resulted in the fact that there are now many exquisite Qing Dynasty porcelains that are obviously not inferior to those of the official kilns, but when you look over them, you can see that they are not the same. Some experts do not understand this period of history, so they regard them as high-quality products. Folk kilns imitate official kilns, but in fact those things are real treasures from the Qing Dynasty.
This was the famous "Official Kiln" incident in the late Qing Dynasty.
Wang Qiu became rich overnight by making an official kiln. With this money, she later moved to the underground black market to deal with tomb robbers, collecting heavy weapons, bronzes, sarcophagi and stone figures. As the money became more and more, she became an organization He began to organize his own troops to rob the tomb.
Wang Qiu's descendant, the second generation Jiu Qingshui, was better at strategy. After liberation, the great antique dealer Lu Qinzhai fled overseas and never dared to return to China. Yue Bin died in prison. Only the second generation Jiu Qingshui handed over his property and escaped safely, but He did not live long because of cancer and died before the age of 40.
Next is the third generation Jiu Qingshui, who is also a woman.
This woman is the cruelest.
