It's not that the box has a long history. It's from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, which is a few decades earlier than the Northern Song Dynasty. As for its value, it's just a silver Luban box that is suspected to be used by the royal family. It's really not that valuable.
Any item taken out from the storage space is much more valuable than this half-broken Luban box.
What Yang Jing didn't expect was that he would actually meet this half-broken Lu Ban Hai here.
There is no other reason. In Yang Jing's hand, there is also a half-broken Luban box that is very similar to this Luban box.
Yang Jing had used the holy ring to identify the half-broken Lu Ban box many times and knew that it was cast in the first year of Qingtai in the Later Tang Dynasty, which was 934 AD, the year when Li Congke, the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, cried and lost the throne.
Moreover, that half-broken Lu Ban box was indeed used by the royal family of the Later Tang Dynasty and was cast by a man named "Yuechengzi".
The half-broken Lu Ban box in the storage space was found in the treasure of the last tsar. It was an unremarkable object, but it was treasured by Nicholas II, which was enough to show his love for this box.
Unfortunately, after Yang Jing got the box, he tried many ways to open it, but he couldn't open it because half of it was missing. Yang Jing didn't dare to break the box for fear of destroying the things hidden inside, so he kept it in the storage space.
This kind of box with a complicated mechanism is called "Lubanhan" in the Chinese folk. It is said that it was invented by Lu Ban. It is also called "jihan" and "jihan". In short, it is a kind of mechanical device in ancient China used to hold important things.
This kind of box can only be opened by following certain steps to unlock the mechanism step by step. If you make a mistake in the steps, the box cannot be opened. If you want to force the box open, the mechanism inside the box will destroy the contents before the box is broken. Gambling is magical.
When Yang Jing found this half-broken Lu Ban box in the treasure of the last Tsar, he thought that there was something important hidden inside. However, because half of it was missing, the box could not be opened and he could not get the things inside. This made Yang Jing itchy for a long time.
Later, seeing that he really couldn't open the box using normal means, Yang Jing gave up completely.
Who would have thought that I could see the other half of the Lubanhai that was originally a complete set?
As expected, not many people are interested in this box. Although this box has a history of more than a thousand years, its appearance is too ordinary and it is also incomplete. How could Europeans and Americans, who have always attached great importance to interests, be interested in this box?
As if he had anticipated this, Timothy smiled bitterly and said something to his cousin Skaif who was standing beside him. Perhaps when the box was put up for auction, the Mellon family did not reach a consensus.
Seeing that the box was about to be sold out, Yang Jing stretched out his hand and asked, "Can I have my hands on it?"
The voice was particularly loud in the quiet hall, and many people's eyes were immediately focused on Yang Jing.
Yang Jing walked forward and explained, "In China, there is a rule that if you are unsure of something, you can ask the owner to let you take a closer look. I am a little unsure about this box, so I want to ask to take a closer look."
Timothy took the microphone and said, "Mr. Smith, there is no problem with this. Please take a closer look at this box. To be honest, our family has not figured out what this box is about."
After all, this is not a formal auction, and every aspect of the items must be explained in detail for the auctioneer to understand.
At this kind of charity auction, you can bid if you can, and it doesn't matter if you can't. The auctioneers are doing charity, and charity does not enforce this.
Yang Jing walked to the front desk in two or three steps, looked at Timothy and Skaif, then picked up a pair of white gloves from the table and put them on, then carefully picked up the box.
Seeing that the mysterious Mr. Cole Smith was so interested in this broken box, the people below began to discuss in low voices. The originally quiet hall was suddenly filled with countless green bean flies.
Yang Jing picked up the box and looked at it carefully, especially when he saw the slightly sunken area on the broken side of the box, he already had a pretty good idea in his mind.
This box was only as big as an adult's fist, so when Yang Jing activated the perspective function of his "eyes", he could immediately see the interior of the box.
There was indeed something inside, but because it was tightly rolled up into a ball, even if Yang Jing used his perspective function, he couldn't see clearly what was written or drawn inside the ball. The only thing that could be confirmed was that it was a ball of silk.
Yang Jing had also encountered this situation before. Wasn't the authentic "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" hidden in the scroll of "Jiangning River View" that he bought at the Jinling Night Market in the early 1980s?
Now it turns out that there is something hidden in this broken Lu Ban box, but I don’t know what is on this piece of silk.
Yang Jing also used X-ray vision to look at the half of the Lu Ban box obtained from the treasure of the last Tsar, and found that the half of the Lu Ban box was not actually a box, but more like a key, because the half of the Lu Ban box was not hollow, and it was filled with mechanisms.
However, this half of the Lu Ban Box is hollow inside. Compared with the other half of the Lu Ban Box, this half of the Lu Ban Box does not have too many mechanisms. But if the other half is missing, this half of the Lu Ban Box will definitely not be opened.
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