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Jin Muchen turned his head and looked at him. The boss was beating wildly at this glance. He originally thought that the customer would turn against him, but he didn't expect that this guy would reveal his teeth in the end. ··Chinese·Wen······································································································································································································

"Okay, deal!"

The boss's heart fell to the ground, and it felt like a bottle of cold coke was eaten during the dog days of summer, and it was all comfortable.

"Hehe, boss, you have such a good view. You will definitely not be wrong if you bought this clock. Alas! If I hadn't lost money in the stock market some time ago, I would have kept this clock as a family heirloom and would not have sold it no matter what."

The boss said with a sigh, and as he spoke, he looked at a storefront on the street, with a little more lonely look in his eyes.

When Jin Muchen saw this situation, he felt that the boss had some story about this clock, which was great. When buying antiques, everyone hoped to understand the inheritance of some treasures in their hands.

"Boss, can you collect transfers? One million is too large and cash is not convenient."

"Of course it's okay, I'll give you the account."

The boss reported a series of accounts and Jin Muchen transferred the money to him. Some time ago, Yan Zhigao's son-in-law and son-in-law had some money. His father invested in Wang Xueming's company, and there was still a lot left. He was left as pocket money, which could be used for procurement in China.

"By the way, boss, how did you collect this clock and tell me."

"Okay, I'll tell you."

The boss was also interested when he saw the transaction was successful.

It turned out that the boss's family had several generations of ancestors who were also engaged in antique business, but in the early years, they were not in Bluebird, but in Quancheng. Later, in order to avoid the wars in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, Bluebird came.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the Japanese occupied the blue birds and plundered them locally. Many of the original rich families were shaved three feet from the ground by the Japanese, and they had to sell their products for their livelihood.

At that time, this clock was collected by his grandfather from a bankrupt Zhenghuang Banner. According to his grandfather, the bannerman used to be a duty in the Qing Palace when the Qing Dynasty was still there, but later he became a bluebird with a nobleman from the Qing Dynasty.

Later, the noble man left the Blue Bird because of some matters. Before leaving, he sent off many servants and rewarded the clock to the bannerman. Later, the clock fell into our hands.

The boss talked about the past and his eyes were a little vague. Jin Muchen kept paying attention to the expression on his face. Looking at his appearance, he felt that he should not be lying.

"My grandfather used to remind us to pass on this clock as a family heirloom, but it's a pity that I am an unworthy descendant..."

When the boss said this, he couldn't help but slap his thigh.

It turns out that their antique family was disconnected when they arrived in his area. When this boss was young, he didn't like to study or learn antiques. With the accumulation of several generations of family, their family was quite rich, so when this guy was young, he always had no skills in attracting cats and dogs.

Later, when he reached middle age, his father was older and he couldn't hold on to the store, so he handed over the business to him. However, because this guy didn't know much about antiques, he messed up several transactions and was cheated of a lot of money after getting started.

He was also unwilling to accept it. The domestic stock market was so popular a few months ago. He thought this was an opportunity to make up for the losses. So he raised some money and invested it in the stock market. At the beginning, it was fine and made a lot of money, but when he thought that the market fluctuated some time ago, he tossed all his money into it.

Even in the end, even the store at home was lost. In the end, there was nothing I could do, so I could only sell all the heirlooms at home!

After hearing this, Jin Muchen felt that he didn't seem to be lying, and he didn't know what to comfort him, so he could only pat his shoulder.

"Thank you, boss, do it well, sooner or later you can earn that store back!"

"Haha, I should be thankful for you. My clock has been here for a long time, but I can't sell it. I'm so anxious. You know, the most taboo thing we are when trading stocks is, books, and things with homophones. Now I'm going to deal with this clock. And with your millions, the stock market is getting warmer. Haha, I can make a profit in a few days, and maybe I can make a fortune by then!"

The boss said to Jin Muchen with a laugh. When Jin Muchen heard this, he could only sigh and shook his head inwardly.

Originally, he was a little pitiful to this guy, on the one hand, because his family was in decline, and on the other hand, because he acquired the clock, he took advantage of him, but now it seems that this guy is not worthy of being pitiful at all.

This guy didn't know what was going on with his feet on the ground? His mind was full of ridiculous things like getting rich overnight in the stock market. He would forget this good treasure, but he even disliked this treasure, which would bring him bad luck. If this clock was left in his hands, it would be a waste of resources.

Even if I don’t buy this clock today, I will sooner or later be bought by others at a cheaper price, because this boss is not a down-to-earth person, he is just a gambler!

Jin Muchen waved his hand to find a delivery guy, loaded the bell into a small cart, pushed it outside the market, loaded it into his own car, and then drove back to the hotel, and then carefully carried it to the room upstairs.

Before Candice woke up, he sat in the living room and studied the clock.

Judging from the appearance and decoration, the boss is right. This is the Guangzhong, which is the clock produced in Yangcheng back then. However, this should not be a product from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. It should be a work from the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and it is also a fine product.

What’s more important is that the three style characters of enamel filigree hidden in the four corners of the spinning flower in Zhongding’s section are Lideheng!

It also shows the origin of this clock, but the shape of these three characters is very clever and is hidden among the pieces of enamel filigree. If you don’t have enough eyesight, you can’t tell it at all.

Modern mechanical clocks first appeared in the 14th century. In 1656, the Netherlands invented the first pendulum clock in human history, which has a history of more than 500 years.

Watches should have been introduced to China from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Soon the Chinese began to manufacture them. Among them, Yangcheng was the first place in China to come into contact with self-tone bells. By the Qianlong period, it had already reached a considerable scale and became an important base for my country to produce self-tone bells.

The popularity of Western bells in China is closely related to the interests of the Qing emperors. Since Kangxi, from the Yongzheng Dynasty to the Qianlong period, his love for Western bells reached a peak.

Qianlong not only valued the timing function of Western clocks, but also its aesthetic function. For this reason, he even ordered officials from eastern Guangdong to take advantage of the opportunity of trade to collect the most exquisite and latest Western clocks from overseas, and ordered people to develop them in the palace, so that the collection and production of Chinese clocks reached the highest level.

During the Qianlong period, there were many craftsmen in the palace where the bells were ringing. More than 100 Western missionaries and craftsmen were proficient in watches. Qianlong himself relied on Western watchmakers and discussed the principles and styles of watchmaking with them many times, and rewarded them at times.

By the middle and late Qianlong period, due to the emperor's favor, two places in China that could produce their own Western bells, one was Yangcheng and the other was Jinling.

Compared with the Jinling Bell, the shapes of Yangcheng Bells are mostly imitated buildings, such as pavilions, platforms, towers, pavilions, towers, etc. Most of the bell shells are made of copper-tied enamel, with bright colors and bright luster, with distinct local and contemporary characteristics, and are generally used as luxury furnishings.

According to research, Yangcheng's watch manufacturing technology reached a very high level during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. After decades of learning and technical accumulation, after the middle of the Qianlong period, the bell shells and movements of the Yangcheng bells were comparable to Western clocks, and its most prominent feature was that the surface was mostly brightly colored enamel decorations.

This enamel, also known as Guang enamel, was developed by Yangcheng craftsmen in combination with Chinese cultural elements based on Western transparent enamel. It is bright and transparent, with yellow, green, blue and other colors. The decorative patterns on the enamel are fine and prosperous, burning layer by layer, which is very regular and is not available to watches in other places.

At that time, he was often presented to the Qing Palace as a tribute, so from creativity to design, it not only strives for novelty and uniqueness, but also conforms to the psychology of the emperors. Therefore, it can be said that he strives for excellence in production. Therefore, every piece is a rare fine product and is also deeply loved by the emperors.

Especially the firing technique of the enamel decorative patterns on the bell made the foreigners admire and envy them when they saw it. It was originally the first Western clock they created, but in the end, the merchants from European countries even imported a lot of enamel painted bells from Yangcheng and sold them to princes and nobles.

Even at that time, a European man Shi Dezhi spent a lot of money to learn the enamel painting and decoration technology imitating the Yangcheng bell, but he was always unable to do so. This shows the wisdom of ancient Chinese craftsmen.

Among the exquisite enamel colors of Yangcheng Bell, the most distinctive one is the royal blue enamel gilt piece. Its effect is dazzling, unforgettable and breathtaking. Only Yangcheng can produce this kind of hard transparent enamel of gold and honeysuckle, so it is called "bulk enamel".

As for the above characteristics of the Yangcheng enamel painted clock, the clock in front of Jin Muchen has all the features, and the more important thing is the three words "Lideheng" hidden on the top.

According to the Qing Dynasty Creation Office, this Lideheng is the archway of the workshop in Yangcheng that specializes in producing royal clocks and watches for the Qing Dynasty. According to the current understanding, this store is the imperial clock workshop of the Qing Dynasty royal family!

Any clock with the three words "Li Deheng" should basically be produced by this workshop and will undoubtedly contribute to the tributes from the Qing court!
Chapter completed!