treasure hunter

Yuan blue and white is the mystery of the porcelain world in history. Once, everyone believed that there was no blue and white before the Song Dynasty. Until later, the first Yuan blue and white came out, and the debut of Yuan blue and white was the peak, which shocked the whole world.

The blue and white patterns of Yuan blue and white are most expensive to draw figures, and the Guiguzi downhill picture jar is the figure pattern painting, and it is also the most famous one among the blue and white porcelains of the Yuan Dynasty. It is the story of promising to go down the mountain to rescue Sun Bin and Dugu Chen, the famous generals of Qi State who were trapped by Yan State.

鬼谷子下山图罐在2005年7月12日伦敦佳士得举行的“中国陶瓷、工艺精品及外销工艺品“拍卖会上，以1400万英镑拍出，加佣金后为1568.8万英镑,折合人民币约2.3亿，创下了当时中国艺术品在世界上的最高拍卖纪录。

From this data, we can first see how big the profit of the auction house is. Of course, this is not the point. The point is how precious the Guiguzi Downhill Map Jar is. What kind of concept is it? I can't even imagine it.

Now that the sun has set halfway, under the afterglow, you can still clearly see every detail of this love talk jar, Ye Lao hurriedly closed the lid of the box, took out his magnifying glass, and said, "Pei Miao, hurry up, put it on the box." , let me see, this is too incredible."

Pei Miao put the blue and white pot on the box as he said. He knew why Ye Lao thought it was incredible, because in ancient times these ceramics were all made by hand. There is a major characteristic of handmade things, the similarity is low, there can never be two Porcelain looks exactly the same. As for the blue and white paintings, if the porcelain from the same kiln is painted with figures, it will try to avoid the same situation in the pictures. high.

Therefore, the probability of the top blue and white pots such as Guiguzi Xiashan Jar having similar drawings is very low.

But Pei Miao has already seen it with his own ability just now, this Guiguzi downhill map jar...is real, and, inside the jar, there is a piece of folded paper with a lot of words recorded on it, he is not in a hurry Remind Ye Lao, such a big paper roll is in the jar, I believe Ye Lao will find it.

Sure enough, when Ye Lao observed the inside of the jar, he let out a soft "huh", reached into the jar, and took out a roll of paper.

The paper roll was bigger than a cigarette, and Ye Lao suddenly became hopeful again. His purpose was to find the comments on the National Games, and he would not let go of anything that could record words. This time, he didn't ask Pei Miao for his opinion. Unwrapped the paper roll.

Pei Miao leaned over to him and looked at it together, only to see a lot of densely written words on this small piece of paper, the content was still describing the origin of this Guiguzi descending pot.

The story recorded on the paper is like this. After the Battle of Yashan, the Great Song Dynasty was completely defeated, and the Great Yuan Empire was also firmly established. Generally, at this time, the Great Yuan Emperor should be benevolent and recuperate. After all, he has been fighting for decades In the battle, the people are in dire straits.

But the fact is that Kublai Khan, Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, still ordered to fight everywhere. Although some recuperation policies were issued, they were all empty policies. The racial class division established by the Yuan Empire made the life of the Han people more and more miserable.

The contemporary Guiguzi Wei Wujiu had just inherited Guiguzi's mantle for five years, and he couldn't stand it anymore, so he traveled thousands of miles to Dadu to ask to see Kublai Khan, the emperor of Yuan Dynasty.

If it was an ordinary commoner, suddenly asking to see the emperor, it would be a dream, but Wei Wujiu is not an ordinary commoner, he announced the name of his descendant of Guigu, and immediately got the opportunity to meet Kublai Khan in person.

Seeing the emperor was not a simple matter. From the time he proposed to see the emperor to seeing the emperor, the first wait was ten days.Ten days later, Kublai Khan summoned Wei Wujiu.

One monarch and one people met in the main hall, and all other ministers were present.

As soon as they met, Kublai Khan showed his eagerness to seek talents, and presented a pair of blue and white porcelain jars made in a hurry, which is the pair of Guiguzi descending the mountain picture jars, to show his respect for Guigu's lineage, and then returned Speak out to attract Wei Wujiu, hoping that he can enter the court as an official.

Of course Wei Wujiu couldn't agree, he really wanted to reprimand the emperor face to face, but he didn't, because he might die in that case, he bears the heavy responsibility of inheriting the sect, and he just took over the inheritance of the sect, how could he die so easily, so he tactfully said He refused, and then expressed his different views on Kublai Khan's current philosophy of governing the country.

Although Wei Wujiu was very tactful when expressing his opinions, Kublai Khan was still very unhappy. After all, he had just entered the Central Plains from the grasslands, and he was full of barbarism everywhere. He was always unhappy when he heard ideas that were contrary to his own. .

Fortunately, Wei Wujiu was polite and eloquent throughout the whole process. The Guigu lineage is actually not as magical as it is said in the legend. The core content of its sect is "speaking skills". To put it simply, it teaches you how to speak.

Do you still want to teach?

Really need to teach, the same meaning, some people say it, people will accept it, and some people say it, people will be furious, the way of expression is very important.

As for the other miscellaneous skills of the Guigu School, such as medical divination and astrology, astronomy and calendar, numbering, farming and mulberry, etc., they are just small heretical skills that Guiguzi of the past dynasties studied casually when they were bored when they lived in seclusion.

Since Wei Wujiu put forward different views on governing the country, he was actually negating Kublai Khan euphemistically. He said so euphemistically that Kublai Khan couldn't find any charges even if he wanted to punish him, so Kublai Khan argued with him.

No need to think about the result, of course Kublai Khan lost, and the prairie people argued with Guiguzi, isn't this looking for a loser?

Kublai Khan couldn't argue with him, he was not convinced, so he asked the officials in the hall to argue with Wei Wujiu, Wei Wujiu was not afraid, and started arguing with dozens of high-ranking officials in the hall, making the officials in the hall speechless , and even stunned an elderly official.

Kublai Khan didn't expect Wei Wujiu to be so powerful, he immediately started to use his big moves and summoned the national teacher Basiba.

Who is Ba Siba, the master of the Great Yuan Dynasty, and is also very famous in history. He created the characters of the Yuan Dynasty, so the characters of the Yuan Dynasty are also called Ba Siba. He is also quite proficient in the field of knowledge. In today's terms, this person has no knowledge blind spots.

In Jin Yong's martial arts novels, Jinlun Guoshi is a character based on Basiba.

Ba Siba was summoned and came to the main hall, where Yu Wei Wujiu started a debate.

At that time, the debate between the two wise men was very exciting, but not intense. Why did you say that, because both of you said one paragraph, and I said one paragraph, and it was a turn-based system.

Debates are like this. Even in modern debates, they take turns to speak. The key point is that both sides remain calm throughout the whole process without any aggressive tone or emotion. But what they said opened the eyes of Kublai Khan and the officials, no, it opened the ears.

The debate lasted for an hour and a half, that is, three hours. In the middle of the debate, Kublai Khan ordered someone to bring water to the two of them to moisten their throats. In the end, Basiba lost.

Gu Yu

There is a paragraph in the text on the paper: "After the term, Wei Wujiu recalled this matter, smiled and sighed: 'The loser is not a national teacher, but his position is not as good as mine'."

This sentence means that after several years, Wei Wujiu mentioned this matter, sighed with a smile, and said: "The loser is not Ba Siba, but the Tao he represents."

Because the morality represented by Ba Siba is fundamentally wrong, he seems to be bound by shackles, how can he argue that he is innocent.

Why is it wrong to say that the morality represented by Phagpa is wrong, because the morality represented by Phagpa is the morality of Kublai Khan, and it is the law on the grassland. On the grassland, the strong are invincible, plunder all resources, and survive. is selfish.

Now, Kublai Khan has already occupied the country, but he still wants to plunder everywhere. Instead of developing the social system, he degrades the social system. Wei Wujiu asked him in the hall at that time, what can he do if he plunders the world, and what if he enslaves the world? What can be done, the war is raging and the government is tyrannical, and there are not one out of ten people in the country. It has only been a few years. In another 100 years, how many people will there be in this country.

At the end of that debate, even Kublai Khan was almost brainwashed by him.

After the debate, Wei Wujiu took two blue and white pots and stroked them carefully. He said he liked it very much, but he only wanted one, so he took one blue and white pot and the other blue and white pot and left it in the hall.

After Wei Wujiu went back, he changed his hiding place, and not long after, a mountain fire broke out in Wei Wujiu's previous hiding place, and the whole mountain was burned.

After Wei Wujiu arrived at his new residence, he immediately wrote a four-character comment - "Yuan is no more than a hundred". In the end, he really got it right. It took only 98 years from the establishment of the country to the end of the Yuan Dynasty. 100 years.

"What a story!" Ye Lao couldn't help admiring after reading it, "Mr. Guigu's demeanor is really fascinating."

Pei Miao asked curiously, "Master, since Mr. Guigu is so powerful, why doesn't he want to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty?"

"Hahahaha..." Mr. Ye laughed loudly when he heard the words, and after he finished laughing, he asked, "Do you know why students from the Guigu lineage appeared frequently before the Qin Dynasty unified the world, and each of them can guide the general trend of the world?" , but since Qin Shihuang unified the world, the voice of Guigu's lineage has hardly been heard?"

Pei Miao said, "Is it because the first generation of Guiguzi died?"

"This is only the primary reason." Ye Lao said, "The first generation of Guiguzi is undoubtedly the most powerful, but it does not mean that no one can catch up with him afterwards. The root cause is that there are fewer opportunities."

"Few chances?"

Ye Lao nodded: "Yes, in fact, it is the same as doing business with you. Different times have different business opportunities. In the 90s of the last century, business opportunities were everywhere, but now, it is obvious that there are fewer business opportunities. , the same is true. During the Warring States period, the seven countries attacked each other, and everyone was eager to introduce talents. Many talents who started from the humble beginnings were reused. Rising, monopolizing the talent channels of the imperial court, even when the world is in chaos, every rioter must be funded by the family, such as the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, why has he been restrained by the family after the founding of the country? Most of the civil and military people in the Manchu Dynasty were from powerful families, and because they had no way to serve the country, the later Guigu lineage didn't bother to take care of the affairs of the world, and hid quietly in the mountains and forests, being an outsider."

Pei Miao roughly understood, nodded slowly and said, "In other words, Wei Wujiu can't actually subvert the Yuan Dynasty, can he?"

"Of course he doesn't have this ability." Ye Lao said, "In the Warring States period, he might still have such an opportunity, but in the Yuan Dynasty, he really didn't have such an opportunity, but one possibility cannot be ruled out. Later, the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the country. At that time, who knows if the Guigu lineage is secretly contributing to the flames."

After hearing what he said, Pei Miao nodded frequently, and began to wonder, among those well-known figures who participated in the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, who might have been cultivated by the Guigu lineage? After thinking about it, he felt that Liu Bowen was a bit like him, but Liu Bowen was in The history is clear, unless it is like what is said in martial arts TV, every night, the protagonist is called out by a mysterious masked man, who secretly teaches him how to practice martial arts, and then turns out to be a blockbuster.

If that's the case, then the young Liu Bowen is called out by Mr. Guigu every night, secretly teaching him some skills, such as the art of dragon slaying in troubled times...

Pei Miao was still thinking about these things, when Ye Lao sighed: "Not yet."

After Ye Lao sighed, he continued to observe the blue and white pot with a magnifying glass.

Ye Lao studied the blue-and-white jar for a while, and finally straightened up. He beat his waist lightly with his left hand, and said excitedly, "That's right, it's the real thing. There's a Guiguzi Down the Mountain Map jar, so precious."

Pei Miao cooperatively pretended to be excited: "Wow, it's true."

"It's true." Ye Lao nodded confidently, "I won't be mistaken, and with the story on this note, the origin is clear and clear. With the story on this note, I believe that Guiguzi will go down the mountain. The value will not drop because of the second one, but will go up.”

Pei Miao asked curiously, "How much is it worth?"

Ye Lao turned his head and glanced at him, and asked with a strange expression, "What do you want to do?"

Pei Miao laughed dryly, "I'll just ask casually."

Of course, it is impossible for Mr. Ye to tell him the price, but he said in a high-level way: "You can collect this kind of treasure, but you'd better not trade it."

Then, he asked again: "It seems that your grandfather left these things for you back then, did you say anything else?"

Pei Miao said: "He didn't say anything, he just said in his suicide note that some treasures were buried underground in the East Wing. If I spend all the money he left me, I can dig out these treasures and sell them, enough for future generations used."

When Ye Lao heard these words, his expression immediately became very exciting, and then he looked at Pei Miao with a smile: "Then you plan to...sell both the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" and this Guiguzi Xiashan jar?"

Pei Miao hurriedly waved her hands and smiled, "I don't sell it or sell it, I keep it, no, I keep it temporarily, and after I die, I will dedicate it to the country."