This "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" can be said to be one of the most valuable collections in all of Yang Jing's collections. Yang Jing can even imagine how big a sensation it will cause once this painting is exhibited in his own museum.

And this "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" will naturally become the most important exhibit in the Ancient Painting Hall of the Grand Canal Museum!

Looking further down, there are piles of scrolls, a total of forty-eight!

These calligraphy and paintings were treasures from Mu Tianbo's treasure trove that Yang Jing found in the belly of an isolated mountain outside Bhamo, Myanmar, when he traveled through time and space to 1986 to look for Peng Jiasheng.

The treasure of Mu Tianbo, Duke of Qian, can be said to be the first real treasure Yang Jing has found in his life. In that treasure hidden in the belly of the mountain, Yang Jing seized a large number of extremely precious treasures.

"Picture of Secluded Orchid" and "Red Cliff Fu" in cursive script by Xu Wei, one of the three talented scholars of the Ming Dynasty!

Xie Jin's cursive calligraphy "Ode to Rivers" and regular script "Writing Song Dynasty Poems" when he was in college!

"Lushan Pines" by Tang Yin, the leader of the four great talents of Jiangnan, and "Lament the World" a poem he created and wrote himself!

Wen Zhengming's "Proud Plum Blossoms"!

A piece of calligraphy from Yang Shen's "Sheng'an Changduanju"!

Dong Qichang's "Yanshan Xing"!

Ni Zan's "Ink Bamboo Painting"!

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These 48 pieces of calligraphy and painting almost cover all the masters of calligraphy and painting in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, of which ancient paintings and calligraphy basically account for half each. Any one of these calligraphy and painting works can be regarded as a national treasure in modern times, but Yang Jing seized a full 48 pieces at once!

Next to these precious calligraphy and paintings, there are 200,000 taels of gold ingots and 1 million taels of silver ingots! Converted into modern metric units, that's 7.45 tons of gold and 37.3 tons of silver.

These gold and silver were originally the military pay collected by Mu Tianbo, but he was gloriously martyred in Burma before he could spend the money. In the end, these military pay fell into the hands of Yang Jing.

Because these gold and silver are ingots from the Ming Dynasty, Yang Jing has not taken them out. Yang Jing has already thought about displaying these gold and silver ingots in the coin hall on the first floor of the museum. All the gold ingots are stacked into a huge gold ingot shape, surrounded by five large silver ingots stacked with silver ingots. It is placed at the entrance of the coin hall, so that every visitor who comes to visit can thoroughly experience what it means to be a "tycoon"!

For this purpose, Yang Jing specially added a reinforced concrete load-bearing column under the entrance of the coin hall in order to support these heavy gold and silver ingots.

In addition to these gold and silver ingots, there are also many gold and silver jewelry in this treasure. The most precious of them are the two phoenix crowns. One of these two phoenix crowns is the highest standard "Twelve Dragons and Nine Phoenix Crown", and the other is the "Nine Dragons and Nine Phoenix Crown".

Only the empresses of the Ming Dynasty were qualified to wear these two specifications of phoenix crowns.

In addition to those gold and silver jewelry, there are also a large number of rubies, sapphires, jadeites, Hetian jade, Dushan jade... and other gems, which filled three large boxes.

However, the most valuable items in this treasure are not the calligraphy and paintings, nor the gold and silver ingots, gold and silver jewelry, and gems, but the Ming Dynasty books and periodicals discovered by Yang Jing!

A set of Feng Menglong's imperial editions of "Stories to Enlighten the World", "Stories to Warn the World" and "Stories to Awaken the World"!

A set of "Records of Ancestors' Instructions", the only legal text that records the eunuch system in the Ming Dynasty!

"Spring and Autumn Annals" and "A Hundred Battles Strategy" were handwritten by Liu Ji, a founding hero of the Ming Dynasty!

The "Debates of Various Philosophers", "Hanyuan Collection" in forty volumes and "Hongwu Zhengyun" in sixteen volumes were written by Song Lian, the Grand Historian, who was called "the first of the founding civil officials" by Zhu Yuanzhang!

A complete set of "History of Yuan Dynasty" compiled by Song Lian and printed by the Hongwu Palace of the Ming Dynasty, totaling 210 volumes!

One hundred and seventy-four volumes of "The Four Works of Yanzhou Shanren" written by Wang Shizhen himself!

"Essentials of Song History" and "Examination of Zhou Rites" written by Fang Xiaoru himself!

"Three Collections of Xu Wenchang" and "Nan Ci Xulu" written by Xu Wei himself!

Wang Shouren, also known as Wang Yangming, wrote "The Great Learning" and "Instructions for Practical Living" in his own handwriting!

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In addition to the handwritten works of these great scholars of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Jing also discovered many masterpieces written by great writers of the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

"On Materials" and "Memorial to Ouyang Wenzhong" written by Wang Anshi himself!

"Dongpo Zhilin", "Shizhongshan Ji" and "Red Cliff Fu" were written by Su Shi, one of the Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties!

There are two volumes of "Lychee Album" and "Ink Album" written by Cai Xiang, one of the four great calligraphers in the Song Dynasty!

Fan Zhongyan's handwritten prose "Lingwu Fu", poems "Shanghan Ballad" and "Yuegutang Poetry"!

"Miscellaneous Talks on Painting" written by Song Huizong Zhao Ji himself!

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These calligraphy works are all handwritten manuscripts of these masters, and their value is really inestimable. In particular, there are some books that have never appeared in history books, such as the book "Hua Fu Za Tan" written by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji.

This book is not only written by an emperor himself, but also a book that has never been recorded in history books. Its archaeological value is immeasurable.

The value of these calligraphy works by the masters of the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties can no longer be measured by money, but compared with the most valuable set of items in Mu Tianbo's treasure, these calligraphy works are nothing.

Because Yang Jing actually seized 6,000 original copies of the "Yongle Encyclopedia" totaling 14,688 volumes in this treasure!

This is the legendary original copy of the "Yongle Encyclopedia", not the copy copied by Emperor Jiajing.

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