The place Liulichang also has some origins. In the past, this place was outside the city of Yanjing.

When the Mongols first built the capital, they needed a lot of glazed tiles, so they naturally built glazed kilns outside the city. In the Ming Dynasty, when Chengzu moved the capital to Yanjing and built the Forbidden City, they needed a lot of glazed components.

The kiln factory prospered for a period of time due to successive official orders. It was not until the Jiajing period that the outer city was expanded. The Liuli kiln was then moved to Liuliqu Village in Yanjing, and the old site in the city did not change its name.

When the Manchus entered the customs, let’s not talk about bad things. All the Han people in the inner city were moved out. Because Liulichang is not far from Qianmen Street, Dengshikou, Qianmen and the inner city have various four treasures of the study, books, classics and antiques.

All the shops are gathered here.

Anyway, it was a bargain for Hong Dashou, so he did not go through the wrong road. We came to Beijing together, ate in Qianmen Street, went to a brothel, and bought books and pictures of acacias in Liulichang. In Yanjing, which is so big, we have been to these two places in more than a month.

Of course, Hong Dashou didn’t do it blindly. There is a store in Liulichang, which is like Dongyue Taishan in the Chinese antique world.

Rong Baozhai!

Of course, the name is not that now, but Songzhuzhai, which was founded in the eleventh year of Kangxi. At the beginning, it just sold Nanzhi, fans, banners and couplets, and helped customers purchase calligraphy and painting works by famous writers and painters.

, a small shop that collects commissions from it.

But now it is one of the largest stores in Liulichang, and it can be regarded as the leader of this industry in Yanjing City.

The reason why I remember this store is very simple. Before Hong Dashou traveled through time, there was a TV station that always showed some weird programs.

There are terrifying howling sounds that occur frequently in the middle of the night in a mountainous and deserted village, there is a sudden fire in the furniture in a strange house, and an unidentified luminous aircraft is captured on surveillance camera at a steel factory.

The answer will be revealed in the next episode: there is a fat man who weighs several hundred pounds snoring, and the wires buried in the wall of the house leak, causing a fire. What else is the camera frame rate that is too low, and the moths captured fly too fast, causing things like

It's a luminous flying object.

I won’t mention the name of the program. There was an episode on that channel about three grown men who came from Yanjing in the 1980s with three large packages of money, totaling 135,000 yuan (what was the concept in 1983?), and sat there for three days.

Take the overnight train to Fujian.

The process was full of thrills, including makeup, counter-investigation, and mission-impossible missions, making it just like 007.

At the end of the film, it was said that the state-owned Rongbaozhai Company spent a huge amount of money to purchase a 4,275-gram Tianhuang stone from Shoushan, Fujian. It is said to be the world's number one national treasure and is worth several hundred million.

This kind of program left a very deep impression on Hong Dashou during his childhood, and it can even be said to be an everlasting impression. It was so magical, with the story and the soundtrack.

Naturally, Hong Dashou also remembered the name Rongbaozhai clearly, as did Songzhuzhai before he changed its name.

This time, with Li Xizhu, who often travels to pawnshops, warehouses, and banks, and has certain appraisal skills, and now his die-hard brother Lin Shangwo, Hong Dashou walked into this six-bay room with a carefree face, facing Liulichang West Street.

The paved Songzhu Restaurant.

There were not many people in the store. There were only two young scholars who looked like they were asking if there were any rare ancient books. They were probably from the same family as Shen Weihao and had come to Beijing in advance to prepare for next year's imperial examination.

There was an old man who was obviously a minister of the imperial court and was introducing the two scholars. Hong Dashou was not interested in listening because he had business to attend to.

I saw Hong Dashou and three people walking into the store, and a middle-aged man came out. It seems that in this industry, young waiters cannot entertain customers, they can only do odd jobs and watch.

"Gentlemen, please come in." The court official who came out of the store was a little surprised. There were actually several foreigners in the store.

After all, antiques and antiques are different from other daily necessities. They must have a background in the cultural environment in order to be worth the price and have people supporting them.

Maybe he figured out that Li Chao is also known as "Little China", so it's not surprising that he likes to order Chinese antiques. The court servant was very attentive and allowed several people to sit down and watch tea.

The furnishings displayed in the store are all not very valuable. Although the cheapest ones in 9102 may be worth several million, at this time they are just cheap items.

We have to sit down and talk about all the good things, show them to the guests one by one, and discuss the ones they like.

Probably because he judged that Hong Dashou was a scholar, the middle-aged court official began to introduce. It has to be said that a large shop has its advantages. Wu Zhen and Sheng Mao in the Yuan Dynasty, Xu Wei, Chen Daofu and Chen Hongshou in the Ming Dynasty were the "Four Ming Masters".

, everything from Dong Qichang is available.

As for people in the Tang and Song dynasties, I didn’t mention it much. After all, the price of that kind of thing is not of the same level. Moreover, they mainly provide it to old customers and customers with guaranteed financial resources. Firstly, the transaction will be smoother with familiar customers, and secondly, they will avoid unnecessary trouble.

Hong Dashou took out expensive items and was embarrassed because he had no money.

"I heard that some items hidden in the old palace can also be bought?" Hong Dashou didn't mention the present, but said the old items from the past, but he understood instantly.

"Well...what do you guys want?" The court official hesitated.

"Western appreciation of ingenuity and the like."

"Huh?" Na Chaofeng was stunned.

Hong Dashou's answer was far beyond Chao Feng's expectation. Even if Hong Dashou said he wanted Sanxitang, he wouldn't be surprised if Qianlong had a carrot seal on something, but Western mechanical toys (Chao Feng made up his own mind), that's really

We met for the first time in the world.

"It's not a Western self-ringing bell, nor is it a music box."

"What do you want?"

Western objects, these two are the most famous, and those that occasionally come out of the palace are basically these two types of things. However, they were all immediately excluded by Hong Dashou, and the court's judgment was wrong again.

Chao Feng, who felt that his experience in the field was not enough, said "I'm sorry", turned around and went into the hospital to invite out a man wearing a melon cap and a tight robe.

"Gentlemen, I am Zhang Chaoyun, the foreman on duty today." The man sat down generously.

"I heard that you want Western toys? That's not easy to find."

"Toy? Hahahahahaha, I don't want that thing at all. What I want is a sample of a Western gadget." Only then did Hong Dashou realize that he had made a mistake.

"Small sample? I wonder?"

"The mechanical gadgets that England paid tribute to Xian Gao Temple! They are hidden in the Western-style Pavilion of Yuanmingyuan."

Even the experienced Zhang Zhangban was also questioned. The Qing Dynasty was not dead yet. Someone actually asked for a certain palace and a certain thing by name. Although it is common to secretly sell the treasures in the palace,

This is really the first time I've ever come to my door to ask for something like this.

"I'm afraid the small shop can't take on this job. I'm sorry to you three."

"You really can't?" Hong Dashou didn't believe that they would turn away the business that came to his door.

"For a moment, I felt so anxious that I couldn't do it."

"What about ten days and a half, or even a month?"

"You really want it?"

"Then there's still a lie?"
Chapter completed!