Chapter 76 Endless Questions

  Seeing Wang Jinmao making such a mystery, everyone walked closer and formed a small circle, guessing what good things were wrapped inside.

  Wang Jinmao's movements were very slow, as if he was afraid of damaging the items inside. He opened the bag and found a small wooden box inside, which he then opened to reveal ten metal ingots resembling ancient weapons.

  Each metal ingot is roughly the width of half a grown man's palm, although some are tarnished with age, they still reveal shiny golden light on top.

  "This shouldn't be the gold ingot from that era, right?" Zhao Mengzhi picked up one of them and weighed it in his hand, which felt quite heavy, about the weight of a head, should be equivalent to the weight of gold.

  "Take a look yourself at what's behind." Wang Jinmao said as he made a flipping motion with his hand.

  Zhao Mengzhi heard and immediately flipped over the metal ingot, on which were clearly engraved two rows of characters that read "ten taels of gold".

  "It's really gold bars, and there are ten of them! Your money is getting more and more, General Wang!" Zhao Mengzhi said with a deep meaning, and looked at the gold bars again, but didn't find any year numbers on them, and couldn't help feeling puzzled. "These are gold bars from which era? Why don't they have any year numbers?"

  Wang Jinmao didn't say it directly, and handed one of them to Qu Wen with a hint of testing: "Why don't we let Mr. Qu help us make a judgment first?"

  To be honest, I haven't seen many ancient coins with inscriptions. The ones commonly found in the market are just copper plates and copper coins. Silver dollars, except for those from the Republic of China period, are rarely seen, let alone gold ingots.

  Qu Wen let out a spiritual awareness and couldn't help but secretly be greatly shocked, discovering that above there wasn't only the manifestation of essence light, but also an unseen orange-colored mist.

  "Director Wang, to be honest, I don't have a deep understanding of ancient coins. Roughly judging, I hope everyone won't laugh at me, these ten gold ingots are 100% from before the Ming Dynasty. If you want to know more details, it's better to ask my friend."

  Since it is already known that the spiritual energy on old objects from the Republic of China era are white mist, those from the Qing dynasty are green, and those from the Ming dynasty are blue, then the orange color that has never been seen before must be something from before the Ming dynasty. Qu Wen pushed Zhao Haifeng forward again, not afraid that he wouldn't be able to explain it, and stood behind him sneering with a sly smile.

  "You..." was once again betrayed by Qu Wen, Zhao Haifeng seemed to have gotten used to it, he just gave Qu Wen a slight glance before picking up the gold ingot and carefully examining it for a while before slowly saying: "Although there is no mark on top, this should be a ten-tael gold ingot from the Song Dynasty. Why I dare to be so sure, is because the font of the characters engraved on top has extremely strong characteristics of Song Dynasty gold coins."

  During the Two Song periods, the first creation of money texts written by the emperor himself was 'Yushu Ti'. The most famous one is 'Chunhua Yuanbao' personally inscribed by Emperor Taizong of Song Zhao Kuangyi. Moreover, Emperor Huizong of Song Zhao Ji created the unique thin gold body writing style for 'Chongning and Daguan Tongbao'. In addition to this, the Song Dynasty also issued the earliest dated coins and the earliest paper money. From the Northern Song's Taiping Tongbao to the Southern Song's Chunxi Yuanbao, a total of 49 kinds of yuanbao coins were cast and circulated. Due to the diverse calligraphy styles of the Song Dynasty, it formed unique characteristics of the Song Dynasty currency. From the fonts on these ten gold ingots, we can easily know that they are all gold ingot currencies from the Song Dynasty.

  Today, the people who came to attend the exchange meeting, except for Liang Zhisong and Zhou Yiqun, who are antique shop owners, the rest are all half-way collectors who have become rich. They don't understand as much about antiques as Liang Zhisong and Zhou Yiqun do. Upon hearing Zhao Haifeng's words, they all showed admiration.

  "Master Gu is really impressive, whether it's his disciples or grand-disciples, they're all top-notch experts in the field. I heard Mr. Zhao is from Beijing, I wonder what kind of business his family runs?"

  Perhaps it was the red aristocratic air that Zhao Haifeng exuded, Wang Jimao curiously asked him, he also had a red background, from the Chengdu Military Region's compound, so he had a special feeling about Zhao Haifeng.

  "My father is just a nominal figure in there..." Zhao Haifeng mentioned his father's position, calling it a nominal job, but it surprised Wang Jimao. Others may not know what they do, but anyone within the system understands that department is in charge of party discipline, and anti-corruption dual regulations are common terms for that department.

  Wang Jinmao couldn't help but raise Zhao Haifeng and Qu Wen's position in his heart by two levels after hearing this.

  "I don't know if you three are free tonight, but my friend has opened a new place with a nice environment. If possible, please come together to have a drink tonight."

  Zhao Mengzhi walked over with a thick face: "Boss Wang, you're not being fair. Ah Wen is my brother, and you invited him but not me. What kind of logic is this?"

  Wang Jinmao smiled awkwardly, indeed it was his own fault. If Zhao Mengzhi hadn't held this exchange meeting today, he wouldn't have had the chance to meet Qu Wen and Zhao Haifeng. Now that he knew Qu Wen, he would have an extra friend who could help him appreciate antiques in the future. And knowing Zhao Haifeng might be useful if something big came up at home in the future. This was his true intention.

  "Where, where, how could I forget Director Zhao? Tonight at Xinhai Garden is on me."

  "Oh, New Ocean Garden, I've heard of it a few times, but I've been busy with the company's IPO lately and haven't had time to try it out. Since President Wang is treating me, I won't be polite."

  Too lazy to listen to the two of them making official noises, Qu Wen sought Wang Jinmao's opinion and sat down with ten Song Dynasty gold ingots, carefully observing. Immediately, all ten thick spiritual energies were absorbed into his body.

  If it were the day before yesterday, ten such thick spiritual energies would have been enough to upgrade his Spiritual Awareness Divine Communication by one level. However, with the growth of his Spiritual Awareness, these ten spiritual energies could only serve as a consolidating effect, and their impact on enhancing his Spiritual Awareness was not very great.

  "Is it only things made of precious metals and stones that can reflect light?"

  After absorbing the spiritual energy of ten gold coins, Qu Wen thought about the difference between the treasures identified by Ling Jue and those valued by ordinary people. Why do things from the same era not necessarily have a high value, and why are things that are highly valued in the secular world not as good as some cheaper ones?

  If it's really about the material, then these ten Song Dynasty gold ingots can be said to be precious metals, the jade ring on my hand can be said to be a precious stone, and the sandalwood box with three friends pattern brought for everyone to appreciate can be said to be precious wood. So what about Jin Tingbiao and Wu Changshuo's authentic painting scrolls? Can't they have used some special materials when creating them?

  If it is a special material, what would it be? Ink, pigment, paper or seal mud for stamping?

  Qu Wen couldn't help but think about it more and more, and suddenly remembered the strange aura of the peculiar ceramic piece he had missed. If the Xuande Huang glaze straight-mouthed plate that Tao Jingying had taken away was in his hands, what kind of reaction effect would appear if he looked at it with his spiritual vision?

  Of course, without having the actual object in hand, it's impossible to know the outcome, but curiosity has once again been deeply stirred up.

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