"Cheng Chumo? Fang Yiai?"
"Never heard of it!"
"But Lu Guogong, General Cheng Zhijie and Fang Xuanling, the prime minister, are indeed famous figures in the Tang Dynasty!"
"Yes, I remember that I went to Datang five years ago and met the two adults. They were so elegant, tsk tsk tsk!"
By the time Nakatomi Kamazu finished his introduction, the entire venue was in an uproar.
Among the romantic figures of the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the royal family, Cheng Zhijie among the generals and Fang Xuanling among the civil servants were both prominent among the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion.
There is no one in the Fuso political circle who does not know their names.
This kind of calligraphy was the work of two "new talents" who had never heard of it. Naturally, the chamberlain had to hold it and walk around the venue to let everyone take a look at the details.
"This is?"
"Crazy grass?"
"That's right! I had only heard that there was a young calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty named Lu Yanyuan (Zhang Xu's uncle, Zhang Xu first learned cursive writing from him) who was good at cursive writing. I didn't expect that now two talented people who are good at cursive writing would emerge."
"The Tang Dynasty is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger!"
"Do you understand what is written?"
"Joke, are the words important in this kind of work? What's important is the artistic conception inside!"
"Look at Master Cheng Chumo's words in this article. Every word is sharp and sharp, and it has the intention of killing someone from the martial arts family!"
"That's right, there is also this article about Mr. Fang Yiai, tsk tsk... just after reading it twice, I felt the character of the literati of the Tang Dynasty!"
These two characters were written like a dragon flying and a phoenix dancing. As for the source, it was a travel writing assignment assigned by Tang Ping in the past. These two idiots forgot about it, and then they didn’t know whose assignment they copied during morning self-study. .
Anyway, when Tang Ping saw it that afternoon, he asked the two of them to read it again. Neither of them knew what was written.
"Hmph, two talented men I have never heard of. Young Master Qinglian didn't just take two pictures to deceive us, right?" The eldest brother of Shanbei said: "No one knows the content in it, I I actually feel that this word is worse than even the children in the academy!"
In fact, it is not just the eldest brother Shanbei, Fusang has learned all aspects of the Tang Dynasty, and there are also several officials who have some attainments in calligraphy. They really do not see the artistic conception of this so-called wild grass, but it is because it is related to the top of the Tang Dynasty. The two civil servants and generals held back their words.
"Haha" Tang Ping laughed a few times: "It seems that the eldest brother Shanbei also has some insights into calligraphy?"
"I don't think I should take my views seriously, but I did learn some things from my late father."
The eldest brother Yamabei said without giving in that his father, Prince Shotoku, did have profound attainments in calligraphy.
"How about compared with Master Yu Shinan and Master Zhu Suiliang?" Tang Ping said loudly: "Everyone, please look carefully. These two words have the seals of Master Yu Shinan and Master Chu Suiliang!"
The so-called appreciation seals are left by people who have collected or appreciated calligraphy and painting works. In fact, many authors of calligraphy and painting works before the Song Dynasty did not have private seals, but left many appreciation seals.
"Here, this is indeed Lord Yu Shinan's appraisal seal!"
"And here, here is the appraisal seal of Lord Suiliang!"
Another member of the royal family shouted: "My next auction item is an authentic painting of ladies by Master Zhan Ziqian. It also has the seals of Master Yu Shinan and Master Chu Suiliang on it. You can compare it."
Hearing what he said, everyone in the meeting asked Nakatomi Kamazu to hurry up and bring up the picture of a beautiful lady by Zhan Ziqian.
Nakatomi Kamazu already accepted Li Bai's feelings, and the higher the auction price of these things, the more money he would have for disaster relief, so he naturally would not refuse.
Several chamberlains came up with pictures of Zhan Ziqian's maids, and put them together with the words Cheng Chumo and Fang Yiai.
Emperor Shuming also borrowed the magnifying glass he bought from Datang at a high price, and several senior Fuso officials gathered around the three paintings and calligraphy and compared them carefully.
"That's right, it's Lord Yu Shinan's seal!"
"This must be Master Chu Suiliang's seal of identification, it's exactly the same!"
"Master Zhan Ziqian has been famous for many years. It is not surprising that there are two masters' seals on his works. However, these two new talents can be recognized by Master Yu Shinan and Master Chu Suiliang, the two top calligraphers of the Tang Dynasty. Come to think of it There must be something unique about this word!”
"Look, there are several identification seals here. Can you identify who they belong to?"
"This seems to belong to Lord Yan Liben!"
"Good fellow, Master Yan Liben also left a seal of identification?"
"This is Lord Zhang Yanyuan's "Hedong Zhang Family" seal!"
"This is Master Zhiguo's appraisal seal. I have a Buddha statue at home that also has Master Zhiguo's appraisal seal on it."
In an instant, the auction site turned into a seal recognition competition.
"What about here? The two words here are... Zhenguan!"
"Zhenguan? Who dares to use these two..."
"This is the appraisal seal of His Majesty the Tang Dynasty." Tang Ping heard their discussion and said loudly.
The whole place was silent at first, and then began to boil.
There are many other appraisal seals, but the items with Li Shimin's appraisal seal were basically collected by him and then placed in the inner treasury.
At least there has never been a calligraphy or painting with Li Shimin's seal in Fusang, and this is the first one.
"Nakatomi Kamazu-sama, what is the starting price?"
"Let the auction begin, Nakatomi Kamazu-sama!"
Now everyone is gearing up to bid. Basically, there is no shortage of money here.
Sometimes everyone is fighting for a face.
And now, it would be the most honorable thing if the two works with the collection seal of Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty were taken back home.
"Master, how did you get them to stamp these seals?" Li Bai asked in a low voice.
Apart from anything else, that old-fashioned Yu Shinan couldn't stamp his seal of appreciation so easily.
"In exchange for the good wine, Old Yu took advantage of him being drunk and showed him Chu Suiliang's calligraphy first. When he stamped the seal, he secretly replaced it with the two good characters."
Li Bai gave Tang Ping a thumbs up: "High!"
"Since everyone likes these two calligraphy paintings so much, let's start the auction. The two calligraphy paintings will be auctioned together with a starting price of one hundred guan."
You must know that although the starting price of the "San Jing Yi Shu" that Tang Ping and his friends just auctioned was only one hundred guan, it was handwritten by Prince Shotoku, and Prince Shotoku is now dead and is considered out of print.
The starting price for these two calligraphy paintings is one hundred guan, which is definitely not low.
"One hundred and twenty strings."
"Only twenty more strings? Haha, I'll give you two hundred strings!"
"Two hundred and fifty strings!"
The bids were heard one after another, and Wang Chen'er whispered beside his elder brother Wang Shanbei: "Your Majesty, it doesn't matter if you offend that Datang businessman, but this calligraphy must be photographed."
"Why?" Shanbei's eldest brother asked with some dissatisfaction.
