"Mr. Zhao, please forgive me for asking, where did you get your stuff?"

"The old man in the family stayed. He packed up his things a few days ago."

The next morning, Zhao Xin's friend came as promised with an expert in the circle. The person in the circle was surnamed Dong, who was in his fifties this year. Zhao Xin's friend told him on the previous phone that this person has been in contact with porcelain since childhood and has family traditions. After joining the work, he also did porcelain research and was very famous in the circle.

After serving tea and pouring water, the three of them politely said a few words before getting it right. Before taking it out, the insider asked a routine question. Of course, Zhao Xin could not say that he was brought back from abroad, so he could only use the same rhetoric as those of the "National Treasure Gang".

Expert Dong nodded calmly. He had heard too many such words. In fact, he had already regretted it now. If he hadn't owed Zhao Xin's friend a favor, he wouldn't have said anything.

Although it only took a few minutes since he entered the door, he confirmed that this guy was not from the circle by observing the furnishings of Zhao Xin's house. After hearing Zhao Xin's saying that it was passed down from the family, he was even more sure that most of the things he was going to see today were fakes.

It’s not that he thought so. Now the antique circle is chaotic by the "National Treasure Gang". They all say that they have real things in their hands and try every means to find experts like him to identify them. The purpose is nothing more than selling fake goods.

For example, when the Yuan blue and white Guiguzi went down the mountain pot, the auction was more than 200 million yuan, and there were no few in the world. Someone said he had 100; when the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup in the Ming Dynasty, the auction was 280 million yuan, and someone said he had 200.

It sounds evil.

Some old people who retired from the cultural and museum system also joined this "treasure creation craze" and told many fakes to the truth. But the problem is that everyone in the industry knows everything. These retired people basically know how to identify them, and have never learned them. They are nothing except a title.

Expert Dong asked himself that he had a conscience. He never got involved in such a mess and hid far away. Occasionally, he met the group of people from the National Treasure Gang who politely pointed out the problems, talked about the origin, talked about history, and tried not to offend people. But at this point, people were still reluctant to give in, saying that he didn't understand, he was a pseudo-expert, and even had to sue.

Forget it, it seems that the same is true today. Say a few words that don’t offend people, and quickly leave and finish the business.

"Mr. Zhao, can you take out the things and take a look?"

"Okay." While speaking, Zhao Xin opened a half-foot square brocade box on the table and carefully took out the "tray" in the photo that was raining past the sky.

OK, this thing is actually called pen washing.

Expert Dong was amused when he saw the thing. The shape of the instrument was completely imitated by the Ru kiln pen taken by "Lecontang" last year, but it was a little bigger. He originally wanted to deal with a few words casually, but he immediately realized something was wrong as soon as he got started.

Looking at the blank, it looks like it is hand-pulled, with smooth lines, beautiful shapes, simple and elegant. When you touch the tire wall, it is thin and thick, and the ring foot is rolled out of the outside, smooth and round. The usual fakes are mostly made out of nothing and have a dull appearance. Since most of them are grouting, the tire wall is uniform and there is no difference between thickness and thin. Although the ring foot is also rolled out of the outside, the lines are not smooth.

Look at the glaze surface, it is soft and shiny, slightly emulsion-like, and it feels smooth as jade when you touch it with your hands. But the fake product cannot achieve this effect.

He turned over in disbelief and checked the nail marks at the bottom... Well, there is an oxide layer on the surface, which is very flat.

Although many parts of this pen washing are in line with the characteristics of the authentic Ru porcelain, expert Dong knows in his heart that there are no unknown Ru porcelain now!

You should know that the world is currently recognized and is confirmed to be authentic Ru kilns in the Song Dynasty, with only 67 and a half pieces. In China, there are 50 pieces in Shanghai, Taiwan and Taiwan, 7 pieces in the Great Vader Museum in the UK, 4 pieces in Japan, 5 pieces in the United States, and 1 piece in the UK private collection.

The only authentic product that has emerged in recent years is a 13-cm-diameter brush wash from the National Art Collection in Dresden, Germany. In the previous 92 years, this antique buried in the warehouse has always been considered Korean Goryeo celadon.

As time passed by minute by minute, Zhao Xin and his friends stared at Expert Dong intently. From the beginning, this man simply looked at his hands, and later took out an antique identification mirror from his bag and looked at the cracks on the surface of the pen washing.

More than twenty minutes later, expert Dong put down the appraisal mirror and said with a careful speech: "Mr. Zhao, your thing... I have been doing appraisal for decades, and this is the first time I have encountered it. My conclusion is that I can't say it."

“How to say it?”

Expert Dong carefully put the pen on the table, and then explained: "I don't know how much you know about Ru porcelain. Ru porcelain is one of the five famous porcelains in the Song Dynasty. The reason why it is called Ru porcelain is because the place where it was fired was in Ruzhou. In the late Northern Song Dynasty, Ru kiln was monopolized by the royal family and became an imperial porcelain, which cannot be seen by the people.

After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the recipe for the Ru kiln fired also disappeared. Because the kiln was only twenty years before and after the opening of the kiln, the firing time was short, and the wars later were very rare. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Ru kiln porcelain was already very rare. Now, the authentic Ru porcelain from all over the world is only 67 pieces. If you are real, it will definitely be a sensation in the world, but the problem is that I say it is really useless."

Expert Dong hesitated for a moment and said earnestly: "How about you transfer this to me? The price is easy to say."

“How much are you planning to do?”

Expert Dong hesitated for a moment, stretched out a slap and said, "Five hundred thousand."

What a joke! Zhao Xinxin said that if this is true, I will lose a lot!

He shook his head with a smile and asked, "Teacher Dong, I still want to deal with it through the auction."

Expert Dong sighed helplessly and said, "Then I suggest you do an abortion and get the exact age appraisal. Without this procedure, the auction house will not recognize it."

"Abortion?" Zhao Xinxin said that this is all messy.

When Dong saw that this person was a stick, he explained that the so-called "absorbing" is scientifically called "thermal lightening method". The reason here is that after a piece of porcelain is burned at a high temperature of more than one thousand degrees, the original trace elements in the body will approach zero. Then as the years grow, the longer the porcelain will absorb trace elements from nature, and the longer the time, the more it absorbs. The "thermal lightening method" is to detect trace elements in the body by sampling and then divide by the time coefficient to obtain an accurate age.

However, the "thermal lightening method" will cause damage to the porcelain and is irreversible. It requires two cylindrical sampling points with a diameter of 4mm and a depth of 5mm at the bottom of the porcelain, one for testing and one for backup. After that, the cylindrical shape must be sliced ​​and each piece is thermally analyzed. Although the sampling is generally taken from the soles of the foot, since fake porcelain often uses real foot prosthetics, they can only start from the body, which also affects the auction price.

Currently, the Oxford Appraisal Company has the highest credibility in thermal light testing in the world. Although there is also a one in Hong Kong who conducts porcelain testing, it can only provide preliminary judgments - that is, two results within 100 years or above. As for domestic appraisal institutions, it is better not to mention them.

"If this pen washing is real, how much is it worth?" After listening to expert Dong's introduction, Zhao Xin asked his most concerned question.

"If it is Korean celadon, with such a good quality, would the market reference price be... 200,000 to 300,000."

"What if it was Ru porcelain?"

Expert Dong smiled and said, "Let me say that, last year, 'Lecontang' took a Ru porcelain pen to wash it at Sotheby's, which is smaller than yours, and is 294 million yuan."

Zhao Xin's eyes were thrust straight and thudded. If he could really sell so much money, then why would he dig for gold?

However, he thought again that there were still a bunch of hungry refugees waiting for him in another time and space, and there were so many gold mines that had not been discovered. If he didn't dig him seventy or eighty or ninety tons, he would be uneasy!

Expert Dong and his friends left, and before leaving, they also left the contact information of Oxford Appraisal Company at the domestic agency. Zhao Xin sent the person away for a while and called. Unexpectedly, the other party told him that if he wanted to appraise, he had to make an appointment, and then took the things to the authorized agency in the UK or China to take samples.

In order not to waste time, Zhao Xin decided to fly to London. You should know that there are seven or eight similar pieces of porcelain in his hand. If the samples are taken in China and sent to the UK, it will be the year of the monkey and horses when the identification results are released.

He did it as soon as he said, and Zhao Xin immediately started to apply for a tourist visa to the UK. Because the visa processing time would take at least one to two weeks, he returned to the island country with concern and sent a batch of food and daily necessities to the Liji group.

When Zhao Xin boarded the flight to the UK, half a month had passed. He got off the plane and didn't even look for a hotel. He took a taxi directly to the Institute of Cultural Relics and Antiques Inspection and Appraisal of Oxford University. Because he made an appointment in advance and paid a considerable expedited fee, the Institute of Appraisal quickly began to sample the pen washing, and then waited for a while.

Two days later, the result came out. Seeing the conclusion on the appraisal book, Zhao Xin was ecstatic. The time for the burning of the pen was actually in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

Next, he flew to Hong Kong without stopping and found a very famous auction house. After seeing the appraisal certificate issued by Oxford appraisal company, the other party's account manager did not dare to neglect it. He immediately found the company's senior appraiser and initially confirmed the authenticity of the work. A few days later, several ceramic experts and scholars who heard the news from China came one after another to appraise the pen washing together.

However, several experts were puzzled by the time they came out of the appraisal report, which was more than two hundred years later than the late Northern Song Dynasty. Could it be that Ru Kiln was not destroyed in the late Northern Song Dynasty and continued until the late Jin Dynasty?

No, that's not what history books say!

Well, since the pen washing was brought back by Zhao Xin from the late 18th century, the time was less than 200 years away. This situation confused several experts, but the appraisal report of Oxford University is already the most authoritative in the world, so everyone finally judged that there might be something wrong with the storage location, which affected the absorption of trace elements of the porcelain from the outside world.

After two days of intense discussion, the experts finally reached an agreement that this pen wash was the Ru kiln handed down from the Song Dynasty.

As soon as the news came out, the entire cultural relics circle caused a sensation and media reported it. Before the auction house and Zhao Xin signed the entrustment agreement, collectors had already come to the door.

Although the auction house hopes to start a massive publicity and preheating first, and then log in to the autumn auction, Zhao Xin did not agree.

What a joke, this is Ru porcelain. Do you need to preheat? Is it necessary?

The person in charge of the auction house was helpless about Zhao Xin's insistence, and the final plan was to come to a small auction closed-door auction.

Zhao Xin agreed to the plan, but required it to be completed within a week. In terms of buyers' choice, Zhao Xin stubbornly crossed out buyers from Japan and Europe and the United States on the list, and only chose Chinese collectors and several museums.

A week later, Zhao Xin received an email from the remittance in the morning and immediately bought a flight ticket to Sydney that afternoon.

This day was July 30, just two days ago, the annual "Sydney Australia International Yacht Show" began. Zhao Xin planned to buy a yacht there, which was the result of his repeated consideration.

In fact, the most affordable way is to buy a second-hand fishing boat, which is only more than 3 million for a 300-ton class. The problem is that in addition to having a company to buy a fishing boat, you have to apply for a fishing ship inspection certificate, a fishing ship nationality certificate and ownership registration certificate after buying it. You also have to apply for a fishing license, a fishing ship network tool index transfer certificate and other piles of information. The procedures are complicated and there is no time left.

The other is the tonnage of the fishing boat. Although two people can drive it with a small one, they can't hold many people. They can't stuff refugees into the cold storage like sardines, right? But if you want to buy a large one, such as a thousand-ton type, he and Liu Sheng will definitely not be able to play with it.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The reason I want to go abroad is because Zhao Xin wants to take the boat to another time and space. There are many people in China, with strict management, and the fishery administration department will also conduct regular inspections. At that time, a fishing boat will be gone as soon as it has passed. How can I explain it?

After boarding the plane, Zhao Xin took a nap first. Before he could eat, he asked the flight attendant for a drink, turned on his laptop, and began to look through the information about the yacht show. Before he left, he sent an email to several companies, and the other party quickly sent a product catalog.

"Sorry. I'll ask, are you going to Sydney to visit the yacht show?"

"Hmm?" Zhao Xin turned his head blankly and saw a turbulent girl in glasses looking at him in the seat across the aisle.

"What did you say?" Zhao Xin didn't hear it clearly and asked again.

"I'm asking, are you going to Sydney to visit the yacht show?"

"Yes, go and see. You..."

"I will introduce myself. I am the sales representative of the Asian region of the Italian Azimut-Beti Group. This is my business card." The girl with glasses took out a business card from the small bag she carried with her and handed it to Zhao Xin.

"If you want to buy a yacht, you can contact me when you arrive, there will be a discount."

Zhao Xin took over the business card and then realized that the name of the girl with glasses was Gu Xi.

Let’s talk about whether to buy or not, let’s talk first. It’s good to have a beautiful woman chatting around you on the plane for more than ten hours. So Zhao Xin closed the notebook and quickly entered the mode of talking nonsense.

"Pekingese?"

"Shanghai people. But they have been working in Beijing."

"Oh, what I said. Beijing dialect is right, and it has the potential to develop into a pianer soup dialect."

"Haha, are you old Beijing?"

"Oh, give me some advice."

"What?"

"Don't keep you, you're so distracted."

"Haha, you, you're so funny."

"Are you born in the morning?"

"How do you know?" Gu Xi was very surprised. The big eyes behind the lens were so swaying, and a big dove flew out of Zhao Xin's heart.

"The Book of Songs says that the morning light appears slightly, and the smile on your face. The light refers to the sun."

"Ah! You're right, my father just read the name given to me by this sentence in the Book of Songs. You have read a lot of books!"

“…”

With the company of beautiful women, the voyage of more than ten hours has become less long.

Although Zhao Xin is a veteran in the negotiation field and is full of genius, he knows nothing about toys like yachts and can't even pretend, so he can only ask Gu Xi for advice. For Gu Xi, from the chat with Zhao Xin, he basically got the information he wanted, and knew the other party's needs, so he became more and more enthusiastic.

The tall, rich and handsome are too far away, so you must not let go of such big customers.
Chapter completed!