"Your matter is my Liao family's matter.
There is no need for you to hide it from me."
Liao Ruoyuan straightened his glasses, "Headmaster Zhang Guozhong just told me."
"Hey, you little brat, you're quite thoughtful."
Old man Liu didn't expect that Liao Ruoyuan had already talked to Zhang Guozhong before he came to his room.
"Damn it, this little brat Guozhong must have drunk too much again."
"Old Liu Tou cursed in his heart.
This Lanting Preface is a national treasure.
If one less person knows about it, there will be more security.
How can anyone be caught and told by this national loyalist who drank two more drinks?
"Senior Liu, if you can trust me, I can help you think of a way."
Liao Ruoyuan seemed to be a different person at this time.
The businessmanlike temper just now was gone.
At this time, Liao Ruoyuan's tone and demeanor were simply like A May Fourth youth who talks seriously about revolution "You" Old Liu squinted his head, implying that the top experts of the US Army are just anxious.
What can you, a little kid, do?
"Hey, by the way, Master Liao, if you have come to see my junior brother, what are you doing?"
Even if you don’t ask him directly, my junior brother is very enthusiastic.”
"Senior Liu, I never like to owe others favors.
I just want to say that if I can help you open this box, can you also do me a favor?"
Liao Ruoyuan did not beat around the bush.
"Hey" Old Liu Tou smiled and said to himself that this little bastard really goes to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing.
"Master Liao, if you can really help me open this box, I will definitely help you."
Although Old Liu Tou didn't know this What can Liao Ruoyuan do, but at this moment he finally sees a little hope, "But Master Liao, you have to know that this is something that even the American spies can't do anything about.
I would like to hear what master Liao you have in mind."
"Well, Senior Liu, Headmaster Zhang Guozhong has already told me about the difficulty of opening this box.
If I am not sure, I will not come to you.
I hope you can completely trust me."
Liao Ruoyuan's expression was sincere.
It was hard for Old Liu to distrust him, "I wonder if you know Qu Jiayong?"
"Never heard of it."
Old Liu shook his head. aoshan "It's a long story about this person's history."
Liao Ruoyuan seems to have done some research on history.
In 1900, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing, frightening the Empress Dowager Cixi and taking Emperor Guangxu to Xi'an, and promulgated the extremely dirty foreign policy of "measure China's material resources and win the favor of the country".
Since then, most of the Everything from tens of millions of silver to small treasures and utensils became tributes to foreigners.
During that period, there were countless treasures passed down by the Chinese nation that flowed into the pockets of foreigners.
On this day, Qixiu, the Minister of Rites, asked to see the Empress Dowager Cixi.
He said that the Queen of England's birthday would be in a few months and asked the Empress Dowager Cixi how to deal with it.
This question made the Empress Dowager Cixi go crazy.
The Queen of England was definitely not inferior to her in terms of material enjoyment.
The British Empire was the world's number one overlord at the time.
Which country had not snatched away its treasures?
China has a vast land and abundant resources, but the Old Summer Palace has already been burned.
What treasures can China come up with that others have never seen before?
After thinking about it with Qixiu for an entire afternoon, the Empress Dowager Cixi finally had an idea.
After all, both of them are women.
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Even though the Queen of England is a powerful boss, she is still a woman after all.
From this point of view, the Queen of England and the Empress Dowager Cixi are still Have a common language.
What do women like most about beauty?
No matter how much the Queen of England dominates, her love for beauty will never change.
Thinking of this, Cixi summoned the royal locksmith of the Qing Dynasty royal family at that time.
This locksmith was what Liao Ruoyuan said.
Qu Jiayong.
"Could it be that Cixi wanted to give a lock to the Queen of England when she was looking for a locksmith?"
Old Liu Tou wondered.
"It was not my mistake to give the lock, but the most outstanding thing about this gift is the lock," Liao Ruoyuan said.
At that time, it was said that on her 60th birthday, Empress Dowager Cixi did not hesitate to misappropriate naval military funds to repair the Summer Palace.
Even the leader herself cared so much, how could her subordinates not care about it?
At that time, although the Beiyang Navy was beaten to a pulp by the Japanese, the frontline The military situation is urgent and lightning is flying like snowflakes After arriving in Beijing, few people in the imperial court really cared about the war.
In everyone's mind, there was only one top priority at the moment, which was to give something that could stand out among the mountains of birthday gifts across the country.
To win the favor of Lafayette.
At that time, there was a magistrate in Jiangsu named Zou Youshan.
He wanted to take this opportunity to attract the attention of Lafayette.
Although he was good at corruption and bribery, the three melons and two dates he had corrupted were nothing compared to those of the princes.
The war was raging at that time.
People are in dire straits , especially Nanjing, as the base camp of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, made the whole of Jiangsu the target of public criticism across the country.
The surrounding areas were in a mess with robberies and beatings.
The vitality of the entire province has not yet been restored.
Even if the local officials are greedy, how much greed can they have?
Since you can't afford to give expensive gifts, you have to give clever ones.
Compared with those princes and princes who only know how to give "silly gifts", Zou Youshan is much more thoughtful.
In order to guess the preferences of the Empress Dowager Cixi, he did not hesitate to go to a brothel and visit a cloth shop.
In the cosmetics shop, he repeatedly talked to all kinds of women, and finally decided to present a jewelry box to the Empress Dowager Cixi at the suggestion of the brothel madam.
Women, no matter how old they are, love for beauty is always indispensable.
If the Empress Dowager Cixi’s jewelry boxes are piled up, it would be enough to build another Great Wall.
If you want the Empress Dowager Cixi to be interested in this jewelry box, you have to think of something.
By coincidence, Zou Youshan found Qu Jiayong, known as the King of Yingtiansuo, and directly handed him this arduous creative task.
Hearing that it was a birthday gift dedicated to Lafayette, Qu Jiayong didn't dare to neglect it.
He spent three months working with a glaze artist in Nanjing to make a "gold-inlaid eight-treasure glaze box."
This glaze box It is different from ordinary jewelry boxes.
The body of the box is made of colored glass, with a circle of gold wire inlaid around the box, and it is carved from eight different kinds of gemstones.
This craftsmanship alone is enough to amaze modern people.
But the most powerful thing is not the glass box body, but the lock on the box.
This lock is known as the "Ear Root Lock".
It is called this because the keys to unlock the lock were made into a pair of beautiful pure gold by Qu Jiayong.
Earrings, shaped like paper clips, earrings The pendant is covered with very fine lock teeth, which can only be seen clearly with a magnifying glass.
To open this glass box, you must insert the left and right earrings into the keyhole one after another, twist the key of the left earring three times, and turn the key of the right earring backward.
Twist it three times to unlock.
In fact, Qu Jiayong was also a patriotic person.
The reason why he designed this was to satirize the imperial court at that time for "going back on its word."
But it is difficult for ordinary people to guess.
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After getting the box, Zou Youshan was so impressed that he spent three thousand taels of silver to open up connections in the palace and asked a young eunuch to directly donate the box to Li Lianying.
At first, Li Lianying felt fresh and tentative when she got the box.
After presenting the box to Cixi, she did not expect that this person would be faced with a one-meter-high coral tree.
Lafayette, who didn't even raise his eyelids, was overjoyed to see Cixi so happy.
Li Lianying originally wanted to say that he had found someone to make the box, but she didn't expect that Cixi kept asking who made the box.
Li Lianying was really Unable to prevaricate, he could only tell the truth about Zou Youshan's name.
This was a good time.
With a word from Cixi, Zou Youshan was promoted to three levels in a row, and the magistrate was directly transferred to the Taoist platform.
The king of Ying Tiansuo, Qu Jiayong, and the glass craftsman were also directly recruited into the palace, and were granted the title of Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Taste.
This is great.
We made a box and one person was promoted to another official position.
One can imagine how stupid the rulers were at that time.
"You mean Cixi also wants to send a box to the Queen of England?"
Old Liu Tou said.
"It's not just a box."
Liao Ruoyuan smiled slightly.
With the funding from the imperial court, the box given to the Queen of England was more powerful than the one originally given to Cixi.
This time the key was made into a Western-style solid gold cross pendant by Qu Jiayong.
After this set of birthday gifts was given out, the beginning of the Xiu is still a little worried, even though the gift is kind The Empress Dowager Cixi chose it herself, but if something went wrong, she would be responsible for it.
However, it didn't take long for his worries to be completely dispelled, because the Queen of England not only liked the jewelry box very much, but also, like the Empress Dowager Cixi, even Everyone who makes the box wants to leave.
"So Qu Jiayong went to England."
Old Liu Tou still can't figure out what Liao Ruoyuan wants to do with these old things.
Then Qu Jiayong must have died long ago.
Could it be that he wants me to summon his soul back to unlock the door?
"Well, after getting the consent of the Empress Dowager Cixi, Qu Jiayong moved his family to England and became the royal locksmith of the British royal family.
The British are very traditional, but they emphasize safety more, so the mechanical locks designed by Qu Jiayong are widely used throughout the world.
They are very popular in the upper class.
For the British royal family, the locks designed by Qu Jiayong range from safes to secret rooms, to jewelry boxes and even necklaces.
Each lock on the pendant is individually designed and has only one key.
These locks all use some extremely complex mechanical designs.
Except for the key owner and Qu Jiayong himself, others who want to open the lock may have to Damn, some British princesses like this individually designed lock very much because it can give women a sense of security and exclusivity.
"It seems that Liao Ruoyuan understands women's thoughts quite well," Later, Qu Jiayong's son Qu Fei was knighted by the Queen of England.
He also established his own lock company, specializing in serving the British upper class.
The price of each lock The minimum is three thousand pounds.
Mr.
Liu, do you know why I am confident that I can help you?"
"You know people from this company and asked them for help?"
Old Liu Tou was puzzled.
"Yes, but there is a more important point.
Although I have never seen your box, from the description of Master Zhang Guozhong, I have seen that kind of combination lock."
"Oh" Old Liu became more energetic after hearing what Liao Ruoyuan said, "Have you seen this kind of box before?"
"Haha, this matter happened to me, Mr.
Liu, you don't need to worry."
Liao Ruoyuan did not directly answer Old Liu's question, "I can guarantee that if it were you, even if you found that company, they would not They help to open the lock because they are very professional.
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Unless the owner of the lock asks them to open the lock, there is no difference between them and the accomplices of the thief."
"Then how can you be so sure?"
At this time, an uncontrollable smile would appear on Lao Liutou's face from time to time.
"The current chairman of the board of directors of that company is named Qu Lanjiang, and his only daughter is named Qu Qingqing, who is my college classmate," Liao Ruoyuan said.
“My classmates are so proud of themselves” "Qingqing," Liao Ruoyuan was still a little embarrassed when he said this, "Actually, Qingqing is my fiancée.
We have made a lifelong commitment, but the time is not yet ripe
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