Chapter 625

"It's the same here!"

After hearing Guan Guokang's words, Du Shengqing felt a little better and said, "the maker of this bronze tripod is really powerful. If the inscriptions and the hook and link thunder patterns can be improved, it will be a real confusion between the false and the true."

Guan Guokang sighed: "yes, I don't know who that person is. If he is still alive, or his craft is handed down, it will do no less harm to our antique world than Zhang huoni!"

"I remember a candidate, but I don't know if he has a successor." Chu Chen said.

"Who is it?" Guan Guokang and Du Shengqing asked in unison.

"Zhou Meigu."

Hearing Chu Chen say the name, Du Shengqing clapped his hands: "it's possible, it's really possible!"

"Brother, who is Meigu this week?" Chu Yulan asked.

Chu Chen gave a brief introduction to Zhou Meigu's life, and Guan Guokang nodded after listening to it. After all, judging from the slurry of this bronze ware, it should not have been made very recently. Coupled with Zhou Meigu's fame, it is very possible for him to make it.

Du Shengqing sighed: "at the beginning, those dwarfs were cheated by Zhou Meigu. If this tripod was made by him, I would not be wronged if I planted it. Fortunately, Zhou Meigu doesn't seem to have heard that he has any great apprentices. Otherwise, if his skills are handed down, it will be a disaster for our antique industry. "

Everyone nodded in agreement. After all, it's not as powerful as Zhou Qinglai's fire and clay.

"Dad, can't this bronze tripod be genuine?"

At this time, Du Liyu looked at the bronze tripod with a sad face. If the bronze tripod was genuine, it would be worth at least several million. For her, who valued money very much, she felt that her heart was bleeding when she thought about it.

Du Shengqing shook his head and said: "I know what you think in your heart, but you have to know that when there was only one mistake in the past, it could be said that it was done occasionally, and the probability of two mistakes being genuine basically did not exist. Besides, I can accept all the results. What can't you accept? "

Du Liyu was silent for a while, and then he said, "Dad, let's do a scientific appraisal again."

"You..." Du Shengqing pointed to his daughter and wanted to reprimand her. At last, he sighed, "you are so immortal

Next to Guan Guokang said with a smile: "Lao Du, don't say that. After all, it's millions of things. It's necessary to thoroughly verify the authenticity."

"I think we can have an X-ray examination," Chu Chen suggested

Du Shengqing said with a slight frown: "it seems that this X-ray can only check the integrity of the utensils, not the authenticity of the utensils?"

Chuchen shook his head with a smile and said, "it's not necessary. As far as I know, there is a successful case. Do you know Mao Gong Ding

Mao Gong Ding is a bronze ware cast by Mao Gong in the late Western Zhou Dynasty. It is now collected in Baodao Gugong Museum, one of the three treasures of Baodao Gugong Museum.

The reason why Mao Gong Ding is so valuable is that the inscription in the ding is 497 words long, which records that Mao Gong sincerely offered advice to King Xuan of Zhou for the country, and is known as "a valuable book". His calligraphy is a mature style of the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is very elegant and moving. It is full of atmosphere. It has round and vigorous strokes. It is an important historical material for studying the political history of the late Western Zhou Dynasty.

"I know!" Everyone nodded.

Chu Chen then said, "after the tripod was dug up, it fell into the hands of Su Yinian, an antique dealer, and was transported to the capital by him. In the second year of Xianfeng, Chen Jieqi, a stone expert and collector in the capital, bought another 1000 liang from Su Yinian and awarded it to him. This tripod is hidden in a secret room and is rarely known. "

"Later, some people thought that Chen Jieqi used the real utensil to recast, and then made a fake utensil, and then suspected that the MaoGong ding on Baodao should be the fake utensil recast by Chen Jieqi."

"How to judge whether something is true or false? At that time, it was a difficult problem for experts. After all, it was not necessary to break the tripod and take it to test. So the experts at that time came up with an idea to use strong X-ray to irradiate a small piece of copper inside the tripod to identify the authenticity. "

"Why do you have to irradiate that little piece of copper?" Chu Yulan asks curiously.

"It was decided by the process of casting bronzes at that time."

Chu Chen explained: "at that time, the bronze ware was cast by the mold casting method, so there must be a small copper sheet between the inner mold and the outer mold to separate a certain gap, so that when casting, the liquid copper can be poured in, and the thickness of the bronze ware is the same."

"There was a regular pattern of this little copper piece at that time, but in the late Qing Dynasty, it was impossible for the counterfeiters to use X-ray, so they could not find the regular pattern. Of course, they could never know how to pad that little copper piece."

Chu Yulan suddenly nodded: "what is the result of MaoGong Ding identification?""Of course, it's genuine, otherwise it won't be the treasure of the town hall?" Chuchen said with a smile.

Chu Yulan chuckled. At this time, she remembered that what she asked was nonsense. She felt embarrassed in front of so many people.

"Xiao Chu, do you mean there may be no copper in this bronze tripod?" Asked Guan.

Chu Chen nodded: "if it was really made by Zhou Meigu, then at that time, it was not long before X-ray machine was invented. No one thought that this kind of thing would be used in antique identification, so they would not know the law of copper."

Guan Guokang nodded and agreed: "don't say at that time, before the 1980s, there were any counterfeiters who could use the X-ray machine, so I think this method is still feasible."

Du Shengqing said with a smile: "OK, after the Spring Festival, I'll let them identify. Anyway, it's them who don't believe the result!"

In spite of that, in fact, he had some ideas in his mind. After all, it was something that had been with him for more than 20 years. It was also emotional for him. Of course, he hoped that it was true. However, he also knew that the possibility of genuine products was very slim, and he didn't hold much hope.

Next, the two sides chatted for a while. Seeing that it was late, Guan Guokang left with chuchen and his brother and sister.

Out of the teahouse, Chu Chen asked: "old Guan, do you want me to take you back?"

"No, no! Xiao Xu drove over. "

Guan Guokang waved his hand, then felt guilty and said, "Xiao Chu, I'm really sorry today."

Chuchen some strange asked: "Guan Lao, what do you have to excuse me?"

"Ah Guan Guokang sighed: "although there were some problems with the inscription of the original tripod, over the years, we all think that it should be genuine. I'll take you here and mainly look for a place to see the leak you picked up. But I didn't expect that the tripod was really an imitation."

Chu Chen nodded and said, "it doesn't matter that you feel sorry for me, does it?"

Guan Guokang said: "it really matters. You don't know that old Du's sons and daughters are all things that get into the eyes of copper coins, especially his son, who looks dignified and has a small heart. If the thing is genuine, you can hate me at most, and I'm not afraid of him..."

Hearing this, Chu Chen was a little surprised and said, "Mr. Guan, you don't mean to say that because I identified that thing is wrong, he will hate me, right?"

"It's really possible, and it's very possible!" Guan Guokang said with a bitter smile.

It's said that it's true. The brother and sister look at each other and feel that Du Shengqing's son is unreasonable.

Chu Yulan sneered: "things are real, they are real, and fake can't be real. Can't my brother say things are fake, they will come true?"

Guan Guokang said with a wry smile: "I said that Lao Du's children are all in the eyes of money. If you say something wrong, his family will make millions less. How can his character not hate us. It doesn't matter if I get there. I'm afraid he will come to you if he knows. "

Chu Chen shrugged his shoulders and said, "if he wants to come, come! However, it seems that his family runs a teahouse, which has nothing to do with me? "

"That teahouse is inherited by Lao Du's daughter. His son's name is Du Yuncheng. Now we are doing jade business in the capital, so you may come across it." Guan explained.

Chuchen said with a smile: "this jade business is really in line with his greedy character, but still that sentence, he really comes to provoke me, and I will not be polite to him. If he goes too far, it's not hard for me to kill him. "

It's not a big story for Chu Chen to say that, let alone his background. With the strength of his friends in the jadeite industry and his brother-in-law Wan Zaojun, and Du Yuncheng's reputation in the jadeite market in Beijing, he should be just a small boss. It's not too difficult for him to ban such a small boss.

Guan Guokang was stunned when he heard the speech. At this time, he thought of Chu Chen's background. Just as Chu Chen thought, Du Yuncheng was only the boss who made $12 million a year. For ordinary people, he was already very powerful, but compared with Chu Chen's strength, he was just a giant and an ant. It was really easy for Chu Chen to crush him.

If that's the case, it's that he's sorry for his old friend, so he quickly advised:

"Xiao Chu, the root of today's problem is still me. If I hadn't called him over, it would not have happened. After all, Lao Du has only such a son. In my face, don't tell him the same thing. What do you think? Of course, if he really goes too far, you can do what you should do! "