The girls were puzzled when they saw this string of English: "My dear, didn't you say that this is a rhino horn cup in the Ming and Qing dynasties of China?"
Why is there English on it?
” Xiao Peng grinned: "Look at the pattern, isn't there a 'Dark Eight Immortals' on it?"
” The story of 'Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea' is well known to the world in China, and the image of the Eight Immortals is also deeply rooted in the body and mind.
Now many people say that the origin of the 'Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea' is because during the Jianlong period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Shamen Island was a place where prisoners were imprisoned by the imperial court.
Eight of the prisoners escaped by swimming and survived after swimming 30 miles.
The local fishermen knew to call him a god, and since then the folk have spread it, and the more they spread the word, the more gods they have become, and these eight people have become eight immortals。。。。。。
In fact, there is a legend of the Eight Immortals since the Tang Dynasty, what "Eight Immortals", "Eight Immortals", and then there are Huainan Eight Immortals, which refers to the eight people who helped Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, write the book "Huainanzi"; There are also records of eight immortals in the Five Dynasties period, which are the eight immortals in Shu, such as Zhang Daoling, Li Er and others.
But who these eight immortals are has not been fixed, and it was not until Wu Yuantai's novel "Journey to the East" in the Ming Dynasty that Lu Dongbin and other eight people were determined.
Therefore, it is obviously inappropriate to say that the image of the Eight Immortals is eight escaped prisoners.
In the Chinese tradition, the Eight Immortals are also divided into the Eight Immortals of the Ming Dynasty and the Eight Immortals of the Dark, and the Eight Immortals of the Ming Dynasty, as the name suggests, are the images of the eight immortals.
And the 'Dark Eight Immortals' refers to their magic weapons.
Xiao Peng pointed to the rhino horn cup and introduced to the three women: "You have arrived, right?"
This pattern is a fish drum, which represents Zhang Guolao, one of the eight immortals, which means that he can divinate bad luck; This sword represents Lu Dongbin, which means that it can suppress demons and eliminate demons; The gourd is an iron canopy plum, which can help sentient beings; Oh, and this flute, that's Han Xiangzi, which means breeding all things; The lotus flower represents He Xiangu, which makes people cultivate their minds; The fan is Han Zhongli, which means that the evil turns into good fortune and comes back to life; This jade plate is Uncle Cao, which means to purify the surrounding environment; The last flower basket is Lan Caihe, which means Guangtong God. ” "Well, even if this pattern is a Chinese pattern, how can this be explained in English?
This should be the author's name, right?
It's really awkward to say that this name is also awkward, how can anyone call this?
However, if you look at it this way, it is likely to be a rhino horn cup with a Chinese pattern carved by a foreign sculptor.
Jimma retorted.
Xiao Peng smiled and shook his head: "No, no, no, don't underestimate this English name."
With this English name, it can only be more explained that this is indeed a Chinese cup, and even I can tell you responsibly that this is a work of the late Qing Dynasty.
It was probably made around 1800. ” Hearing his words, all the women were puzzled: "Don't you don't understand antiques?"
How can you tell the year again?
” Xiao Peng smiled: "I don't know about antiques, but I understand the history of our China, the English word 'hoa' on the cup is not the name of the carver, but the name of the owner of this cup."
In the history of China, I know that there is only one person with this name, and he uses a rhino horn cup, which is also a normal thing. ” "Who are you talking about?"
Yali asked curiously.
Xiao Peng gave the answer: "Wu Bingjian, for a thousand years, there is no one of the richest people in the world!"
” "It's him!"
The three girls suddenly realized that they all knew this person.
It is said that in the West, there are two Chinese people who are the most well-known in learning Eastern history, one is Cixi, who is recognized as the 'bravest woman', who declared war with the whole world, and even the Germans had to find a few helpers during World War II.
(This is another way for Western countries to beautify their own history of aggression in those years, which means 'we are not aggressor, you declared war, we are self-defense') and the other person is Wu Bingjian, and even Marx mentioned him in his own writings, known as 'the richest man in the millennium'.
It was not surprising that the third daughter knew him.
The Wall Street Journal once was bored and counted the fifty richest people in the world for a thousand years.
Among them, six Chinese people were selected, namely Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, Liu Jin, He Shen, Song Ziwen, and Wu Bingjian.
Among them, Genghis Khan's two grandfathers are emperors, the wealth of the whole world is theirs, it is not uncommon for the grandfathers and grandsons to be selected, Liu Jin and Shen Song Ziwen are both corrupt officials and ministers, as long as they are cheeky, there are too many money, only Wu Bingjian himself, not relying on heaven or earth, relying on his own business acumen, created a huge business empire.
As for how rich he is?
Everyone knows that the Eagle Country East India Company is the number one opium supplier that the Chinese people hate it so much that it is the number one opium supplier, but what few people know is that as long as the East India Company is short of funds, it will first think of borrowing money from Wu Bingjian------ he is the number one creditor of the East India Company.
However, his biggest overseas trade was in the Stars and Stripes.
He invested in various fields such as railways, securities trading, and insurance business in the Stars and Stripes, and became one of the few multinational consortia in the world at that time.
At that time, there were two paintings hanging in Astor's study, the capital of the Stars and Stripes, one was a portrait of the father of the Stars and Stripes, Hua Sheng, and the other was a portrait of Wu Bingjian, who most often said: 'Hua Shengdon gave me a country, and Wu Bingjian gave me the whole life'------ because Astor went to China to do business in his early years, and lost a mess, and he relied on Wu Bingjian to make a fortune again and became the richest man in the Star and Striped Kingdom.
Uh, Wu Bingjian also has a godson named John Forbes, is this surname familiar?
Well, but he has nothing to do with Forbes magazine.
At that time, Forbes was just a poor jingle elementary school apprentice in China, Wu Bingjian found him and introduced him to work in a foreign bank, and later directly accepted Forbes as his godson.
Later, Forbes heard that the Stars and Stripes Country had begun to build a railway, and returned to China with the 500,000 taels of silver taken out by Wu Bingjian to invest in the railway, established the Qichang Central Bank, and became the railway king of the Stars and Stripes Country.
Then John Forbes's great-nephew, John Forbes, the secretary of state of the Stars and Stripes who had just been fired a few months earlier; John Forbes' cousin, William Forbes, is a Stars and Stripes oil tycoon and the founder of Yale University's famous fraternity society, the Skull and Bones.
(The Skull and Bones Club is a very famous secret elite society in the Stars and Stripes Country, admitting 15 Yale University third-year students every year, the members of the Skull and Bones Club with a history of nearly 200 years include three presidents, as well as a number of federal justices or university presidents, from the White House, Congress, Cabinet, Supreme Court and even the CIA, members of the Skull and Bones Club are almost everywhere, what Bush family and so on are members of the Skull and Bones Club, when Bush and Kerry fiercely ran for president, it was found that although the two were not on the same party, Actually, they are all members of the Skull and Bones Society.
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Their initiation ceremony is also very interesting, what is the light lying in the coffin, holding the skull hair and swearing and the like, if you want to know about their initiation ceremony, you can take a look at "Secret Service", which has been introduced. ） William Forbes's son was the first president of ATAPT and his grandson was the governor of the Stars and Stripes in the Philippines.
As for John Forbes' Banner Chang & Co., Warren Delano Jr., who served as O in it, his grandson's full name was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, uh, it was Roosevelt, the famous president of the Stars and Stripes.
It is for this reason that Wu Bingjian is an important figure in the history of the Stars and Stripes.
Then why in Huaxia, there are not many people who know Wu Bingjian?
Well, anyone who has watched the old movie "Lin Zexu" should remember Wu Bingjian in it, wearing a landlord's hat, a mustache, and a sharp-beaked monkey cheek.
How can such a villain be promoted?
Well, Wu Bingjian in reality is indeed a sharp-beaked monkey gills.
It's similar to the image of the actor in the movie.
But if Wu Bingjian knew how he was portrayed in the movie, he could have lifted the coffin board to find trouble with Lu Tang and Ye Yuan (both of whom were screenwriters of the 1958 version of "Lin Zexu"). ） Wu Bingjian is a businessman, yes, they all say profiteers, then he must have a profiteer side, after all, before the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty closed the country, only opened the port of Guangzhou to trade with the world, and the monopoly of Guangzhou's foreign trade is the famous 'Guangzhou Thirteen Lines', and Wu Bingjian's 'Jardine Xing' is the leader of the Thirteen Lines, he almost controls the trade between China and the world, in order to achieve the purpose of monopoly, there must be unscrupulous times, but for the country, he is really not bad.
When Guangzhou's eye disease was infected, Wu Bingjian himself funded and invited doctors from all over the world to treat eye diseases for the residents of Guangzhou for free, including Lin Zexu, who was also treated free of charge by Wu Bingjian's hospital.
During the First Opium War, Wu Bingjian donated a huge amount of property to assist officials in strengthening the city walls and building forts.
After the defeat of the Qing army, in order to prevent the Eagle Army from entering the city and disturbing the people, Wu Bingjian took out one million taels of silver to avoid the destruction of the lives in Guangzhou; After the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing, the Qing Dynasty wanted to take out three million taels of silver as war reparations, and Wu Bingjian himself donated one million taels of silver!
According to the statistics of later generations, Wu Bingjian's wealth donated alone is as high as 16 million taels of silver!
As a businessman, in order to make up for the trade deficit, the East India Company smuggled opium to China, and the state couldn't control it, how did you let Wu Bingjian manage it?
Lin Zexu went to Guangzhou to ban smoking and demanded that the merchants of the Eagle Country hand over opium, who did they care about Lin Zexu?
No one listened at all, Wu Bingjian bought a thousand boxes of opium hoarded by the Eagle Country people out of his own pocket and handed them to Lin Zexu, but Lin Zexu thought that he was fooled, put shackles on him and ran to the door of the foreigner's merchant house, saying that if he didn't hand over opium, Wu Bingjian would be executed.
Eagle businessman, who cares whether Wu Bingjian lives or dies?
Kill it, kill it, it's your country's businessman anyway.
Lin Zexu is also an understanding person, knowing that even if this Wu Bingjian is a rat in the bellows------ the kind of person who is angry at both ends, the people of the country think that you collude with foreigners and are an accomplice in the smuggling of opium, and in the eyes of foreigners, Wu Bingjian is just a businessman in the tea and porcelain trade, and your country can't control it, how can you be a businessman who is qualified to manage opium smuggling?
So Lin Zexu finally let Wu Bingjian go------ if Wu Bingjian was really an accomplice who assisted foreigners in smuggling, could Lin Zexu's upright strength still keep Wu Bingjian's life?