Chapter 51 Yuan Blue and White Porcelain



Twelve during the day and twelve at night.

There are six people in each team, and two teams guard together.

Generally, no one dares to sabotage during the day. How can there be sabotage with more than 10,000 workers?

I’m afraid it’s at night, when everyone is off work and only the security staff are there.

Therefore, the Security Department has the largest number of personnel at night.

There are more than one hundred people in the security department, and at night there are at least sixty of them, not counting the twenty-four new recruits.

A few people are left in the cafeteria every night to cook for the security department.

The workers for the new workshop had been selected long ago. They were all advanced workers drawn from various workshops. They had been workers for more than ten years and were in their prime, which was a good time for them to work.

In addition to their original salary, each of these people receives a subsidy of five yuan per month.

We are organizing training for these people in the next few days, and once they learn how to operate the machines, they can start working.

Moreover, we signed a confidentiality agreement every month, and we could not tell anyone about what happened in the workshop, not even our family members.

The ideological awareness in this era is quite high. If you don’t want to say something, then don’t say it. No matter who asks, you won’t say it.

Although these people are good at it, it is not easy to learn. It took them a week to learn it, and that was by following the translated instructions.

It's fine as long as you can operate it, and you will be fine after you become proficient in it.

Zhang Weiguo exchanged a bag of coarse salt and half a bag of fine salt, and rode his motorcycle to the village he had visited last time.

These days, the villagers have sorted out the food at home.

Get some more food in exchange for salt.

They had to go to the production team to exchange salt for food, as there was no one selling salt in the villages. This time they had a chance to buy salt, so they would try to exchange more, and use it to pickle pickles.

Coarse salt is used for pickling pickles.

This time, a villager directly took out a 150-year-old ginseng, and Zhang Weiguo spent 150 yuan to buy it.

This is the villager's son getting married and he needs a dowry, so he had no other choice but to sell it.

This century-old ginseng is rare, and this ginseng has been passed down in their family for two generations.

It is a life saver at home.

I was reluctant to sell it three years ago, mainly because no one was willing to pay such a high price.

These days when people can’t even afford to eat, who would spend over a hundred bucks to buy something like this?

How much food can you buy with one hundred yuan? It's enough for a family to eat for several years.

Zhang Weiguo didn't expect to receive such a good thing. Although he collected a lot of ginseng last time, all of them were ten or twenty years old, not even a fraction of this ginseng.

Zhang Weiguo was very happy and gave the villager five kilograms of fine salt. From then on, the villager no longer had to buy salt.

If this hundred-year-old ginseng was a surprise, then the next thing would be a shock.

Why do I say so?

Because this thing is a blue and white porcelain, and it is the famous Yuan blue and white porcelain!

In the history of Chinese porcelain, blue and white porcelain is a major category, and there are countless types of blue and white porcelain.

Among them, Yuan blue and white porcelain is the best!

Yuan blue and white porcelain became famous not only because of the poem "Blue and White Porcelain", but also because of an auction.

That was the Christie's auction in London in 2005. A large blue and white Yuan Dynasty porcelain jar with the image of Guiguzi descending the mountain was sold at a sky-high price of 14 million pounds. Including commission, the total was 15.688 million pounds. The commissions at these auctions are very expensive, usually around 10%.

If you don't know how much 15.688 million pounds is, it is 230 million yuan when converted into RMB.

It set the highest price in the history of Chinese porcelain.

And what Zhang Weiguo saw was a piece of Yuan blue and white porcelain.

Zhang Weiguo recognized Su Maliqing's characteristics at a glance.

This piece of porcelain was used by villagers to hold coarse salt.

This piece of porcelain is 30 cm high, 22 cm in diameter and 19.5 cm in bottom diameter.

When Zhang Weiguo saw this thing, he was so excited that his whole body was shaking. It was Yuan blue and white porcelain.

Most of them are in the British Museum. The museum that Zhang Weiguo used to guard does not have any of them. How many people are proud to take a look at Yuan blue and white porcelain, let alone own it.

Now there is something right in front of Zhang Weiguo, how can he not be excited?

When Zhang Weiguo saw this item, he immediately expressed his desire to buy it.

The villager didn't expect that a salt jar could be sold for money, so after thinking about it, he offered a high price of ten yuan.

If Zhang Weiguo bargained, it would be worth at least five dollars.

Without saying a word, Zhang Weiguo took out ten yuan and gave it to the homeowner.

Don't even want the remaining salt.

Just run away with this big jar in your arms.

When the householder saw this situation, he knew that he had reported too low a price and saw the half bag of salt left by Zhang Weiguo.

I felt like I had made a profit. Not only did I get so much salt without spending any money, I also made ten dollars.

The householder happily looked for another jar to put the salt in.

Zhang Weiguo held the jar and came to the motorcycle. Seeing that there was no one around, he put the large Yuan blue and white porcelain jar into the warehouse.

Get on the motorcycle and rush back.

Xiaoyan walked all the way back to the courtyard, without even going back to the steel mill.

When I got home, I saw Ran Qiuye and hugged her and kissed her twice.

Until now, Zhang Weiguo still cannot calm down the excitement in his heart.

Ran Qiuye asked what happened?

Zhang Weiguo didn't tell her about the Yuan blue and white porcelain, so she didn't know its value.

Only a time traveler like Zhang Weiguo knows the value of a piece of Yuan blue and white porcelain.

Zhang Weiguo only told her that he had received a 150-year-old ginseng and asked her to find a box to keep the ginseng.

Ran Qiuye was sent away to buy a box.

Zhang Weiguo took out the large Yuan blue and white porcelain jar.

This large blue and white jar depicts the story of Yuchi Gong riding alone to save his master, and its value is even greater than that of Guiguzi descending the mountain.

If this large blue and white jar were to be auctioned, it would cost at least 300 million yuan.

The patterns on the jar from the mouth to the bottom are coiled flowers, coiled peonies, theme patterns, and variant lotus petals.

The theme decoration is grand, with a total of 7 characters of different identities painted on it.

Led by auspicious clouds and colorful phoenixes, a man came from behind the rocks on horseback, whip in hand and waving his whip. He wore a double-winged fu hat, a long robe and two jade belts, and was dressed in imperial jade attire. He looked calm. Behind him was a military general with a crown and a long beard. He was riding his horse at full speed, holding the reins in his left hand and holding a steel whip in his right hand.

Behind them are rocks and flags, with three spear-wielding and armored soldiers looming in the middle. On the other side of the picture, two people are fighting, one wearing a small crown and holding a steel fork, turning back to parry. The other holding a spear is chasing closely behind.

The story of Guiguzi Going Down the Mountain tells the story of Sun Bin being imprisoned by the State of Yan and his master Guiguzi going down the mountain to become his disciple.

So, one is to save the apprentice, and the other is to save the king.

Of course, the story of saving the king is more important. Guiguzi can only be regarded as a strange man, and his status is different from that of the king.

Everyone knows that once something is related to the emperor, its value will immediately change.

The value has increased several times, so the value of this large Yuan blue and white porcelain jar is 300 million, which is still a conservative estimate.

If it is a real auction, then 700 million to 800 million, or even 1 billion is possible.

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