Seeing Wang Yi's mood falling into a low state, Rao Yi smiled and asked, "Mr. Wang, how much did you collect this book?"

Wang Yi asked back without answering: "What's wrong?"

Rao Yi waved his hand and said, "Mr. Wang, don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to inquire about your privacy, but want to tell you."

"Although this book "Huajian Ji" is not a Song version of the book, it is also a treasure. Its existence era was one dynasty later than that of the Song Dynasty, and it should be a rare book of the Yuan Dynasty!"

This made Wang Yi feel excited and asked, "Is this a good idea?"

Rao Yi opened the book and showed him the seal: "There is no problem with these seals. As long as they are not problematic, then our experts' judgment will be no problem."

"To be honest, I guessed that this book was a rare book of the Yuan Dynasty, not the Song version you thought, but the tendency you showed on WeChat was too strong, so I couldn't respond here, so I asked you to bring it to us to watch it on the spot."

"I have seen it with my own eyes. My judgment with our experts is consistent. This should be one of the editions of "Huajian Ji" printed in the Yuan Dynasty at that time."

"This edition of "Huajian Ji" is a set of books, each volume is a book. Why? It has something to do with this paper."

He twisted the paper of the book and asked Wang Yi to try it out by himself:

"This is a paper made of hand-tanned calfskin. It has been specially treated. One piece of cowhide is layered into paper, but it is much thicker than paper. The number of volumes in the "Huajian Ji" is relatively large, so it is divided into volumes."

Wang Yi nodded: "This is a kind of paper used by the imperial courts of Mongolia and Yuan dynasties, and the nobles? I have seen a documentary to introduce this kind of paper."

Rao Yi smiled and said, "Yes, I made this judgment after I took out the material just now. Since Mr. Wang understands this unique leather paper technology, I won't say much. Let's talk about this book "Huajian Ji".

"Since the birth of "Huajian Ji", this collection of lyrics has been a rare treasure that everyone in the literary world knows. No matter what kind of criticism it has suffered in history, from the current perspective, it is a famous work with literary value, collection value and historical value."

"So for the ancient and modern times, such a collection of poems that are famous all over the world is definitely worth collecting. In ancient times, papermaking technology was underdeveloped. Once precious books like "Huajian Ji" were printed and published, they would be collected by people, but the rare books are of different value and the collectors have different identities."

"We all know that movable type printing was born in the Song Dynasty, and Huajianji was born about twenty years before the Song Dynasty. It was first mass-printed in the Song Dynasty, and it was widely disseminated."

"After the Song Dynasty, "Huajian Ji" was widely publicized by literati. By the Yuan Dynasty, this collection of poems became more famous and was printed many times. The set of books obtained from each printing were collected and recorded."

Hearing this, Wang Yi understood a little and asked, "There are existing records in this book to support identity?"

Rao Yi smiled and nodded: "Yes, after this set of books was printed, it has been in and out of the family of famous families. In the 800-year history, it has been handed over by famous artists and circulated in an orderly manner."

"However, the Yuan Dynasty was a short-lived dynasty. After that, the chaotic times changed, the people were displaced, and various ancient rare books were displaced, resulting in the complete set of "Huajian Ji" being left among the people."

"Fortunately, this book was printed on calf paper at that time, and it was relatively difficult to destroy and easier to preserve. It has been preserved until now, and..."

Listening to his introduction, Wang Yi pulled the book paper.

The calfskin that has been going through eight hundred years has cracked...

Rao Yi suddenly became anxious when he saw this.

He didn't go and then, and quickly grabbed Wang Yi's arm and shouted: "Mr. Wang, what's wrong with you? Even if this is not a Song version of the book, it is a rare book in the ancient Yuan Dynasty. This is a rare book! How can you destroy it?!"

Wang Yi was embarrassed.

He didn't know that when he tore it gently, the calf paper that Rao Yi praised would be broken?

Rao Yi gave him a blank look and said, "Brother, it's been eight hundred years, eight hundred years. Not to mention cowhide, even steel should be corroded so much that it's hard to touch!"

Wang Yi explained: "I'm reckless, I'm reckless."

"I thought that Sun Wukong was pressed under the Five Fingers Mountain for five hundred years. As a result, after Tang Seng unsealed the seal for him, the leather skirt was still intact. I thought this kraft paper should be intact for eight hundred years."

When the experts heard this, they looked at each other.

They don’t understand why such a stupid man can have such a valuable rare ancient book, but he is so wise but not so life? Even this kid has lush and wise hair and can even lose his hair!

One of the white-haired experts asked Wang Yi tentatively: "Have you ever thought that maybe Sun Wukong was crushed at the foot of the mountain for five hundred years, but his leather skirt was already rotten, but it did not wear leather skirts and radio and television series to not allow TV series to be played?"

Wang Yi laughed after hearing this.

The old man is interesting.

Rao Yi took the ancient book with heartache. He stroked the kraft paper and opened it to find a red seal for Wang Yi to show: "Let's introduce this book quickly. Can you recognize the name on this seal?"

Wang Yi looked at it and shook her head.

He didn't recognize a single word of the name, and his handwriting was too distorted.

Rao Yi said: "These three words are Zhou Liangjin, a famous copycat collector during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. And this one, can you recognize the name on this seal?"

He continued to flip and then turned out another seal.

Wang Yi looked at it again and shook her head again.

Rao Yi sighed, "This is Mao Zijin!"

Wang Yi said: "Is this word Mao? I saw a seal with a hairy character on it, but that's different from this word."

Rao Yi said: "The fonts used for seals are different, and some are indeed more difficult to recognize."

"Maozi Jin was named Mao Jin. Zi Jin was his name. He was known as the number one book collector in China. He was also called the master of Ji Gu. There was a library called Ji Gu Pavilion. The books stored in them were all treasures."

"Mao Jin loves books very much, with more than 84,000 books, including many rare secret books. He was the last full collection of this Yuan version of "Huajian Ji". After him, a great turmoil in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, which was a great disaster for our Han literati. Many books were destroyed in the Qing Dynasty."

After introducing this, he picked up his tablet and found a few pictures for Wang Yi: "Mao Jin regards this set of "Huajian Ji" as a treasure. He has engraved more than 80 seals of his own on the entire set of books, and has also introduced this set of books in some collections of books."

"So this book can basically determine its identity. It is a rare ancient book of the Yuan Dynasty." An appraiser added.

Wang Yi asked concerned: "Then Mao Jin didn't say that the inscriptions of Liu Sanbian in the set of books he collected?"

Rao Yi shook his head: "No."

Wang Yi smacked his lips and felt deeply regretful.

Xin Qiji's word is so valuable, and Liu San's name will not be much different.

Rao Yi said: "But having this self-written lyrics will be of great benefit to your book "Huajian Ji"."

"Why? Because we won't tell the world that we have discovered Liu Sanbian's inscriptions, we can give a special introduction to customers who are interested in collecting this book."

"When the inscription was written by Liu Sanbian, it doesn't matter whether it was written by Liu Sanbian. What's important is that it will become a topic."

"If ancient rare books have topicality, they will have higher value. Perhaps some people are willing to believe that this word was left by Liu Sanbian and you can read it carefully. The fact that this book "Huajian Ji" can be preserved to this day is related to its re-examination."

"The piece of cabrerry paper that wrote the inscription is similar to the kraft paper used in the whole book, but it is different when you look closely."

"So we can tell customers that perhaps someone in history collected this book "Huajian Ji" and collected a handwritten inscription by Liu Sanbian, so he combined the two into one."

"As it said, it really doesn't matter whether this matter is true. It is important to let the future owner of the rare book introduce this book in this way."

Wang Yi asked: "Then how much can the price of this book "Huajian Ji" be?"

Rao Yi pondered for a moment and said, "Compared with collection categories such as calligraphy, painting, jewelry, antiques and treasures, rare ancient books are niche elegant collections with high quality and low quality. Even in the art market that has been booming in recent years, its performance is much more low-key."

"But gold in troubled times and antiques in prosperous times, now our Chinese rich people are rich, and the collections of ancient books and rare books belong to the Ya Collection, and their price index system is being re-established."

"We, Qinggu, regard ancient rare books as the next dark horse on the auction hall. As the saying goes, there is a golden house in the book, and this rare ancient book is a golden book."

Wang Yi listened patiently to him talk.

After he finished talking, he asked, "So how much does it cost?"

Rao Yi spread his hands directly: "I can't say that in a special special series of ancient books and rare books at a spring auction in Guardo, China, a Yuan copy of "The 12 Volumes of the Two Han Strengths" started with 9 million yuan and was robbed."

"After nearly 70 rounds of fierce bidding, it was finally sold for 48.3 million."

"The reason why I want to mention this is that I want to tell you how uncertain the transaction price of rare ancient books is. The second is that "The Strategy of the Two Han Dynasties" is also a Yuan version of the book, but it is just a handwritten copy of the Yuan Dynasty."

Wang Yi felt a little solemn after hearing this.

I don't understand, but I was shocked.

48.3 million!

It can be said to be 50 million, half a million!

He looked at his own book "Huajian Ji" tentatively, and Rao Yi waved his hand: "Your book is probably not as expensive as this high price, because the "State of the Two Han Dynasties" is very famous and is widely rumored to be written by Zhao Mengfu, a master of calligraphy in the Yuan Dynasty!"

Zhao Mengfu...

Wang Yi saw this name when he learned about the collection, and also saw it in history books when he was in middle school.

This is a master of calligraphy, one of the four masters of regular script, one of the three major calligraphers of the Yuan Dynasty, and one of the descendants of Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty.

So he sighed subconsciously.

As a result, Rao Yi said slowly: "The value of your book is not as valuable as "The Strategy of the Two Han Dynasties", but it will not be far behind the price, because the price of 48.3 million was sold in 2011, and it has been more than ten years since then!"

Wang Yi was speechless.

Rao Yi looked at his confused expression and laughed: "Mr. Wang, don't be impatient with me. I am jealous of you who have received good goods many times and become a rich man at a young age, so I deliberately joked with you, with the purpose of bragging to others at the dinner table in the future, bragging that I once took a young rich man."

You're so kind, but you've held Wang Yi from the side.

It is better to be more beautiful than to praise Wang Yi for being handsome, has a good figure and a good temperament. Wang Yi still likes people like Ma Liu, and he blew directly when he catches him and blows desperately.

Rao Yi joked with him to activate the atmosphere and then enter the theme.

He stroked the book and asked, "Mr. Wang, what do you want to deal with this book? Should you sell it?"

Wang Yi said: "If you can sell it, sell it. I have other collections and I am not very interested in this rare ancient book. What's wrong? Do you have customers here?"

Rao Yi nodded to the others, and these people packed up their tools and went out one after another.

He went to close the door himself, poured another cup of tea for Wang Yi and said:

"Mr. Wang, ancient rare books are indeed niche and elegant collections in the collection industry. They have customers but are not so easy to find customers, and they often need to be auctioned."
To be continued...