The auction took a parliamentary form, nominated by the buyer and seconded by a buyer to enter the bidding process, and those who were not nominated were unbidden, and the British and French generals all thought that Shanghai was not the best auction place, and regretted agreeing to auction here first, so they hoped that most of the lots would be unsold, and generally set a very high starting price: 1,000 pounds.

According to the amount of the deposit, the priority of the buyers in the front row to the back row decreased, but the buyers in the first row were very patient, and someone raised their hands in the first round, and a buddy in the second row won the first nomination: Rongsheng Chime.

Rong Sheng is the maker of this set of bells, the minister of the Jin Kingdom, Rong Sheng, because the bells have well-preserved inscriptions, so they can know many details of it. The nominated French buyer is very interested in Chinese classical musical instruments, and this antiquity is really ancient, a treasure from 740 BC, 2600 years ago, and it is still selling well.

Bronze is a transitional stage in the three eras that historians have used materials to divide the history of mankind, namely: stone, bronze, and iron. The Stone Age is ancient, and even some intelligent animals know how to do something with stones, and if they know how to cast bronze tools, it is absolutely human beings who can do things. The Bronze Age was first seen in the Sumerian civilization of the Near East in the 4th millennium BC, but there are very few records of where humans mined copper, and the inscription on this bell records that copper was produced in a place called "Fantang" at that time.

"Rongsheng" and "Fantang", listening to the name full of primitive civilization, a strong taste of ancient Chinese civilization comes to the face. This cultural relic can be described as an important weapon of the country.

The French dude was lucky enough to take the weight off for only £1,500.

Foreign buyers in Shanghai were particularly fond of the work of a painter named Lang Shining. He is a native of Milan, Italy, but the legend is that Lang Shining came all the way to China and became the court painter of the three emperors of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. Because Lang Shining's style is Western, which is more in line with European aesthetics, foreigners in Shanghai will feel particularly pleasing to the eye, but if it is a Western connoisseur, everyone will not pay much attention to this artistic style introduced from the West to the East.

Lang Shining's most expressive is to draw horses, and his most representative work "Hundred Horses" is also in this auction, becoming the object of everyone's pursuit, even Princess Louise has taken a fancy to it, turned her head to Tang Ning and said, "Can I buy it?" ”

At this time, "Hundred Horses" has soared to 5,000 pounds, and may be the top spot in the auction.

The painting depicts a hundred horses grazing and wandering in different postures. The whole volume is rich in color, complex in composition, unique in style, and interesting. There are as many as 100 horses, and the sword and BMW are given to heroes, and in ancient times, the favorite of the heroes of the war is to have a heirloom horse like Lu Bu's red rabbit horse, which means how good.

Now that Her Royal Highness the princess has spoken, the Duke of Tuhao will naturally not let her down, and the price will be increased to 6,000 pounds at once. There is a British buddy who particularly likes this painting is not convinced, and the price is increased several times, and finally the local tyrant duke bought it for a huge sum of 7,000 pounds, and no one else wants to compete with the big tyrant in the future, everyone is an idiot strategy of adding a thousand at a time.

The treasures studded with gems all over the body are also liked by the local tyrants of the Shanghai Sea. The Qing Dynasty's rare emperor's special cup, the "Golden Ou Yonggu Cup", was also sought after. With the elephant's trunk as the foot, the cup implies the eternal stability of the territory and regime of the Qing Dynasty. The edge of the cup is cast with "Golden Ou Yonggu" and "Qianlong Year" seal book; The entire body is engraved with entwined flowers, which are encrusted with dozens of large pearls, red, sapphire and pink tourmaline. The two sides of the cup are double ears, and the dragon head is inlaid with a pearl; At the bottom is the head of the three elephants, and the shape is tripod.

The Golden Ou Permanent Cup is inlaid with 11 large and small pearls, of which two main pearls are milky white and glossy, with a diameter of more than 10mm, which can be called the best in the pearls, and the remaining 9 are also high-grade beads with a diameter of more than 5mm, and the Golden Ou Permanent Cup is inlaid with 21 red and sapphires, all of which are made of high-grade Burmese red and sapphires, some of which are with magical starlight, star rubies, star sapphires, are the best gemstones! The Golden Ou Permanent Cup is inlaid with a total of 4 tourmalines, which are red to pink in color. All belong to the highest value "double pink" tourmaline.

The final auction price of the emperor's cup by the foreigners was 5,500 pounds, and the current price is close to the picture of the little princess.

After watching it for a while, China's wealthy businessmen in Shanghai finally couldn't help but speak out, and someone shouted out the name of the world-famous work "Luo Shen Futu". Luo Shen Fu is Cao Zhi's masterpiece, fictional author and Luo Shen encounter and each other's longing and love, Luo Shen image is beautiful, the love of man and God is ethereal and blurry, but because of the difference between man and God can not be combined, and finally expresses infinite sadness and melancholy.

And "Luo Shen Futu" is based on Cao Zhi's poem as the theme, the author is the famous painter Gu Kaizhi, he works poetry, good calligraphy, is called "talent, painting, obsession", the Eastern Jin Dynasty is the peak of the ****, so "Luo Shen Futu" is quite famous. This masterpiece that Downing did not look down upon became a masterpiece for the indigenous tycoons of the Qing Dynasty, and finally soared to a high price of 5,800 pounds. It actually surpassed the golden Ou Yonggu cup loved by the rich foreigners, which is really amazing.

Gu Kaizhi's works have established a strong position in "Luo Shen Futu", and the later "Female History Atlas" scroll was also auctioned at a high price of 4,600 pounds, and it seems that the enthusiasm of the indigenous tyrants is even higher than that of the foreign tyrants.

Finally, it was Song Huizong's turn to work, and the rough soldiers got a total of two of his works, one is Song Huizong's copy of "Pounding Practice", the original work is the Tang Dynasty painter Zhang Xuan, depicting the scene of Tang Dynasty urban women in pounding, thread management, ironing, and sewing labor operations. The movements of the characters in the painting are condensed and natural, and the details are vividly depicted, which makes people see the slight backwards and leans back when pulling the silk, showing the artist's meticulous observation. Its lines are fine and vigorous, the colors are rich, and its "fat body" character shape shows the typical style of Tang Dynasty lady painting. The facsimile of Huizong of the Song Dynasty is recognized as a representative work of Gongbi figure painting in the Song Dynasty and a rare treasure of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy.

However, this is not what Tang Ning likes, he always thinks that the characters in the paintings of Chinese masters are not beautiful, and prefers other subjects, that is, another "five-colored parrot", the rich and colorful parrot is just that, the thin gold body on the right of the picture is really called a good one, absolutely unique.

"The five-colored parrot comes from the forbidden medicine of the mountain cliff food, tames the cuteness, and the flying song is comfortable......" Although Tang Ning doesn't even recognize all the words now, let alone break sentences, he still likes it quite much, and he still has to urge his subordinates to make a set of thin gold fonts for the Chinese typewriter to show his unique taste. Song Huizong is the king of the dead country, he has never been taboo, but he feels that if it were not for this kind of indulgence at the cost of the country, Zhao Ji would never have such artistic attainments.

Obviously, there are not a few local tyrants who love Song Huizong, and the five-colored parrot has reached a new high, and the super local tyrant Duke has the final word: 8,000 pounds. There was a cry of surprise, hey, it surpassed the little princess's "Hundred Horses", and it was created by the Grand Duke of Windsor.

"Good painting!" Linfield was happy for Downing, and she could tell that Downing liked the five-colored parrot, because it seemed to be the only time he made a move.

The bidding war continued, and Linfield whispered to Faraday: "Daddy, Downing said that I can pick one of them, as Daddy, you don't want to buy one for me?" ”

Faraday could see it, but it was only a few thousand pounds, and now that we had money, he smiled and said, "Okay, you can pick another one, sweetheart!" ”

Linfield said happily, "Thank you, Daddy!" He also pouted and kissed his father on the face, and his bright eyes flashed with an ulterior cunning, which seemed to make Faraday feel bad, but he couldn't think of what the problem was for a while, and his heart was drumming.

After a while, Faraday forgot about his worries, and during the whole auction process, Linfil only bought a piece of jasper called "Baohe Taihe", which only cost 1,200 pounds. No one knows why she takes a fancy to this Kangxi royal seal. In fact, she likes the words "the first thing to come out, all countries Xianning." It means that the leader came from the commoners, causing the world to be peaceful, which is just used to describe the "common thing" of Tangning, and it just so happens that his Chinese name really has the word "Ning"! What a coincidence.

It is impossible for Linfil to have such a strong knowledge of the I Ching, of course, this was written when the lot was announced. "Protect Yamato, Nari Zhen. The first out of the house, Xianning of all countries. She also asked the old pedant what he meant.

The auction will last for a maximum of 3 days, three hours a day, and at the end there will be no nominations, so it will be over, and finally the host will ask: "Now I want to ask everyone here, do you want to buy the entire Old Summer Palace?" ”

At this time, all eyes were on the local tyrant Grand Duke, but the Grand Duke looked at his nose and nose and heart, as if he had not heard of it, and it seemed that he was not ready to start. Just kidding, now that the French have spread the story of his hijacking of the Chinese emperor, where would he dare to buy a garden in a high-profile manner, even if he had this plan, it would have to be canceled.

Shanghai adventurers at home and abroad expressed their disappointment.

The auctioneer is still dutifully chattering: "The Old Summer Palace is packaged as a whole, including most of the royal items, with a reserve price of 600 million pounds!" Deposit £600,000. （http：／／.)。 At the end of each day's auction, I will ask the guests present, everyone will have a chance tomorrow! Today's auction is going to be everywhere ......"

Suddenly, a snow-white little hand was raised, and a clear beautiful girl's voice shouted: "I'll buy the Old Summer Palace!" ”

There was a commotion at the scene.

Oh! My little ancestor! Downing quickly took Linfield's raised small hand down, and a cold sweat ran down his and Faraday's faces. And the little princess Louise burst out laughing.

As soon as Downing pressed her left hand, Linfield raised her right hand undiscouraged, and her voice became louder and more powerful: "I, Alice Phil Faraday, want to buy the Old Summer Palace, just now Downing Windsor and my father Michael Faraday promised me that I could choose one thing at will." I don't care who pays for them, in short, I want to buy the Old Summer Palace. If you promise me, you must do it, talking doesn't count as a puppy! ”

Haha, the Chinese and foreign buyers at the scene laughed together, and the house was full of spring. Tangning and Faraday both covered their faces with their hands, hey, this little witch is really sad!