Zhao Xin is not from the island country, he is just an ordinary Chinese who likes to travel to the island country.
Because of a little language talent and years of watching Japanese dramas... ahem, it's not that kind of Japanese drama...
Zhao Xin studied foreign languages by himself for a period of time. After several trips to the island country, his Japanese proficiency was actually quite good, and it was no problem for him to travel alone.
It all started more than half a year ago when I met Liji and his wife.
Zhao Xin came to the island country to travel alone. The main purpose of this visit was to visit Todaiji Temple. He wanted to come to the island country to see the regulations of Buddhist temples in the Tang Dynasty. Yes, Zhao Xin is very interested in Buddhism.
It is said that before the Song Dynasty, the temple entrances did not have the Four Great Vajras and the Hall of Heavenly Kings, but the Yaksha Rikishi; this kind of regulation can no longer be seen in China.
While Zhao Xin was visiting temples, he was also wandering around the streets. He entered a thrift store, and after looking around for a while, he saw a yellowish oval jade pendant on the counter. The style of the jade pendant is very beautiful, with a small dragon carved around the oval shape.
The more he looked at it, the more he felt that this thing was destined for him, so he had a casual conversation with his boss. It happened that the owner of this store was also a talkative person. It was probably because no one had chatted with him recently, but he actually started chatting with Zhao Xin very enthusiastically.
Zhao Xin said that he has worked in Tokyo for many years and this time he came to visit the temple. After talking nonsense with the boss, he casually asked about the price of the jade pendant.
The store owner couldn't tell the origin of this item, but he said that it was received from someone else and it was not Hetian jade. Judging from the style of the jade pendant, it is definitely not from the island country, but from China. As for the age, I can't say clearly.
Zhao Xin thought about MMP, thinking that it might have been stolen from China during the invasion of China. This thought made him want to win this lower jade pendant even more.
When he put the jade pendant on the counter and looked at it carefully, he found a word engraved on the back of the jade pendant.
Zhao Xin carefully identified it and could only see that there were three dashes on the left side of the word, and the right side was blurry, making it impossible to tell what the word was.
After some haggling, the deal was finally settled for 500,000 yen, or more than 30,000 RMB.
After Zhao Xin returned to the hotel in Kyoto that night, he lay on the bed and looked at the jade pendant carefully; holding it in his hand, he felt a sense of blood connection, which made him feel very strange, so he refused to put it down for a long time. As a result, he unconsciously fell asleep holding the jade pendant.
So he completed his first time travel in his sleep. Fortunately, he forgot to take off his clothes and went to bed because he was lazy. It would have been very embarrassing if he only wore pants.
Zhao Xin fell asleep and felt so cold. He tried to grab the quilt, but he couldn't find the quilt even though he was confused. In the end, he woke up from the cold.
It was dark all around, and he reached for the phone on the bedside out of habit, but found nothing. Only then did he realize that he was lying on the wooden floor.
"Where is this?" He rubbed his eyes, trying to figure out where he was, but everything was pitch black.
After some groping, he felt he touched a door. He pushed it lightly at first, but he didn't push it. Zhao Xin was angry when he got up and felt anxious. He raised his foot and kicked the door without thinking.
"Clang!!!" There was a loud sound and the door opened. Zhao Xin hurriedly got out, and then he realized that he was under a porch.
The sound of kicking the door startled the sleeping owner of the mansion. A faint light began to appear in a room not far away. Someone must have lit a candle. Zhao Xin, who was in a dazed state, saw a bright light and walked towards the room. Since he had not yet woken up, he reached the door and opened the barrier door violently.
Two men and a woman in white underwear in the room stared blankly at him.
The man and woman were stunned for a while, then suddenly shouted. The man turned around and rushed to the side of the desk, reaching out to grab the long knife placed on the desk.
Fortunately, he yelled, otherwise Zhao Xin would still not be awake.
So... then Zhao Xin closed the barrier door again, turned around and ran away.
Before the courtyard started to buzz with people, Zhao Xin hurriedly returned to the courtyard and quickly looked around.
Why? There's a low wall there!
Zhao Xin ran a few steps, jumped up the low wall, and then climbed over the wall to escape from the house. After he ran more than ten meters, there were bursts of "catch the thief" sounds behind him.
When his hand climbed over the wall, a large piece of skin was scratched by the tiles on the wall, but because of his nervousness and intense adrenal gland secretion, Zhao Xin did not notice the pain at all.
What he didn't notice was that the blood flowing out of his palm was absorbed by the jade pendant he was holding, and the wound healed quickly.
It was still early at this time and there were not many people on the street. When Zhao Xin ran through a street intersection, he saw a Gaoxuan (noticeboard). Anxious to find out what was going on, he hurried to Gaoxuan to take a look, only to see that at the end of the notice above, it actually said February of the third year of Tianming! ! !
"What the hell year is this? Dawn, dawn..." While nervous, Zhao Xin suddenly found that he was still holding the jade pendant he had just bought in his hand.
"Could it be it..." He muttered in his heart, and unconsciously rubbed the jade pendant a few times with his fingers. Then his eyes blurred, and he found that he was actually standing on the crosswalk of the main road.
"Woo~!" A taxi honked its horn and rushed over. Zhao Xin quickly retreated to the side of the road.
In the taxi that was speeding by, the driver turned to glare at Zhao Xin and cursed.
At this time, the sky was slightly bright. Zhao Xin, who was barefoot, looked around and found that it was only two blocks away from the hotel where he was staying, so he hurried to the hotel.
He returned to the guest room in confusion and found that he did not bring the room card, so Zhao Xin went downstairs to the front desk to get the room card. When everything quieted down, Zhao Xin sat on the bed in the guest room and began to think about everything that happened not long ago.
"I'm the one who went there~~ I see." After a while, until the sky was bright outside and the streets were full of people, Zhao Xin suddenly burst out laughing.
After figuring out what was going on, he checked online and found out that the third year of Tianming was 1783, the island country was in the Tokugawa Shogunate period, and the country was in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
Then he tried hard to recall the dark room he was in at the beginning. It seemed like it was a warehouse? There seem to be a lot of boxes stacked against the wall of that room?
Therefore, Zhao Xin, a chicken thief, prepared carefully. He first went to the street and bought a pair of dark blue pants and a dark blue hoodie, and then bought a dark blue pure cotton scarf. Then, when he passed a small store selling kitchenware, he went in and bought two sharp Japanese kitchen knives. Finally, he bought a small LED flashlight.
When he returned to the hotel in the evening, Zhao Xin put on the newly bought clothes and pants, then pointed at the position of his eyes and poked two holes in the scarf. He first wrapped a scarf around his face, then took out an LED flashlight to test the brightness; finally, he took out a newly bought kitchen knife...
After stroking the jade pendant a few times, Zhao Xin's eyes were dazzled, and he found himself back in the dark warehouse again.
Zhao Xin stood without daring to move. He listened quietly to the noise outside for a while. Someone actually spoke outside the door. After a while, after the speaker gradually faded away, he carefully turned on the flashlight.
This warehouse is not very big. Zhao Xin visually inspected it and found that it was about thirty square meters. Against both walls, there were dozens of small boxes stacked one on top of another. Under the other wall, there are several large boxes.
He walked gently to the small boxes, looked at them with a flashlight, and found that none of the boxes were locked, so he opened one of them.
As soon as the box was opened, Zhao Xin couldn't help but let out a slight "hiss" in his mouth.
Under the light of the flashlight, the box emitted a dazzling golden light, and a box full of small gold...
He opened several other small boxes and found that they were still small fines.
"Whose home is this? He's so rich!" Zhao Xin muttered in his heart.
He walked to the other side and gently opened a few large boxes. It is full of porcelain, all kinds of porcelain, and the porcelain is filled very tightly with straw to prevent collisions.
Zhao Xin used a flashlight to look closely and found that these porcelains were very similar to Jun porcelain. He had seen several of these large appliances at the home of a wealthy second-generation friend in China.
"Oh my god, could it be...is it that family?! No! That family can't have these things right now."
Zhao Xin's rich second-generation friend's father made his fortune by purchasing a batch of Jun porcelain from the Song Dynasty from a noble family in the island country in his early years. Many years later, he became one of the invisible richest people in the country. It is said that many large Jun porcelain pieces from the Song Dynasty in his possession are not even available in the Forbidden City. Therefore, every time museums across the country want to hold Jun porcelain exhibitions, they have to temporarily borrow large Jun porcelain pieces from his home for the exhibition. A certain industrial tycoon once spent 1.5 billion to buy three small Jun porcelain pieces from the Song Dynasty from the second-generation rich family.
what to do? At this time, Zhao Xin thought of 1894, 1904, 1931, 1937 a hundred years later...
Well, to sum up, he believed that what he was doing at this moment must be absolutely just.
So Zhao Xin tried to move a small box.
"I'll go! It's so heavy!" Without paying attention, he almost ducked.
what to do? Zhao Xin put his hand on the edge of his trouser pocket, and the jade pendant was in his trouser pocket. He is ready to run away at any time if something unusual happens.
"There should be a storage space, right? It seems like it's written in novels. Try it?" He thought of this, then took out the jade pendant, touched the box with one hand, and began to recite the "spell" softly.
"Go in. Go in." No response.
"Put it in. Put it in." Still no response.
"Let's go~" There will definitely be no reaction from this.
"what is it?"
Zhao Xin is in trouble, it seems there is no space. In this way, you can only put the gold in your pocket and take it away slowly.
So, Zhao Xin opened a small box, took out the small judgment money and put it in his jacket and trouser pockets until it was full. Then he rubbed the jade pendant and disappeared.
That is to say, the gold coins of the shogunate in this era were not pure gold, otherwise the trouser pockets would be broken if there were so many gold coins in them.
After working back and forth like this for more than half an hour, he didn't take much in total, and he was very tired.
"I'm so exhausted..."
In the darkness, Zhao Xin collapsed on the ground, holding the box with one hand and breathing lightly.
Inadvertently, he knocked on the small box with the jade pendant in his hand.
The box is missing! Zhao Xin raised his hand to the air and dodged.
"I'll go! What does this mean?" Zhao Xin was stunned, "It turns out there's no need for a spell."
He tried to tap the jade pendant gently on the ground, and the box appeared!
Okay, Zhao Xin was now satisfied. He took the jade pendant and started knocking on the boxes one by one in the warehouse until they were all taken away.
When he returned to the hotel room again, it was already bright outside the window.
Tired Zhao Xin closed the curtains, fell on the bed and fell asleep.
After waking up in the afternoon, Zhao Xin cleaned himself up and went downstairs to the 711 next to the hotel to buy some fast food to fill his stomach. After he returned to the guest room, he sat at the table, opened his laptop, and started searching online.
After several hours of careful inquiry and comparison, Zhao Xin determined that the large boxes of porcelain were Jun porcelain, but they were not the same batch as those in the home of his rich second-generation friend.
Come to think of it, the Song Dynasty was the highest peak of Chinese classical culture, and many islanders are enthusiastic Song fans. In ancient times, there were very frequent exchanges between the two sides. There should be some Jun porcelain passed down from the Southern Song Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty. But this family has too many in their warehouse! You can open a museum and charge admission tickets.
It is said that the island country has been basically stable since the Battle of Sekigahara. Except for the "Amakusa Uprising", there has been no major nationwide turmoil. Therefore, many antiques can be handed down intact. This is no longer like China. After a series of wars and movements in the late Song Dynasty, the late Yuan Dynasty, the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, etc., there are not many famous porcelains in the Song Dynasty.
At an auction held by Poly in the spring of 2019, just a Jun porcelain flowerpot from the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, 20 cm high and 28 cm in diameter, was sold for HK$9.44 million. If this is from the Northern Song Dynasty, how much does it cost?
Priceless!
There is no way, there are fewer and fewer good things from the Song Dynasty, and the imitations from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties are also very expensive.
As for the more than ten boxes of small gold coins, Zhao Xin found out that they were "Yuanwen small gold coins" that were minted in the first year of Yuanwen. Each piece has a face value of one tael, weighs about 13 grams, and has a gold content of about 65%. The current market valuation is between 100,000 and 180,000 yen per piece, but the specific transaction price will vary greatly. The best-looking ones can even be sold for 340,000 yen.
Zhao Xin felt that he must have a comprehensive plan to safely dispose of these large and small boxes and their contents.
After a night of thinking, a preliminary plan was made. Zhao Xin changed his clothes, took out 20 small judgments, put them in his bag, and went downstairs through the hotel's emergency exit. According to the navigation on the mobile phone map, I started looking for antique shops one after another on the street.
Three days passed like this.
For Zhao Xin, all his operations in the past three days were a race against time.
On the first day, after visiting almost eight or nine antique stores, Zhao Xin finally selected one and decided to chat with the boss. Although the fineness and appearance of these small gold coins were extremely good and were completely top-grade, Zhao Xin could not provide supporting documents. After some haggling, 20 gold medals were sold at a price of 120,000 yen each. After completing the transaction, the store owner seemed to see that Zhao Xin had more than the 20 small gold coins, and immediately said that if there were any of the same quality, they could be sold to him at a favorable price.
Zhao Xin didn't dare to continue trading here. If the owner of this store had bad intentions or called the police, he would be in big trouble.
The 2.4 million yen obtained from this transaction is still far from Zhao Xin's goal. Seeing that he still had time, he rushed back to the hotel and took out 30 small deposits again. Among the several antique stores he had visited before, he chose another one and sold the 10 small deposits for a total price of 1.15 million yen. Sell.
Within two days, he visited antique shops of all sizes in Kyoto, and finally sold 340 small gold pieces in more than 20 antique shops, with a total transaction amount of 51 million and an average price of 150,000 pieces.
Such frequent operations caused wild rumors among Kyoto antique circles. There was a young man who sold hundreds of Yuanwen small gold coins in the past two days. The news quickly spread to the Internet, and for a while, antique dealers and collectors in Osaka and even Tokyo were preparing to leave for Kyoto.
