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000005 Screen with Napoleon

The remaining dozen boxes were too messy, so he was too lazy to take them out and search them one by one. There were many books, many daily necessities such as clothes, as well as some artworks contained in boxes, antiques, etc. Xiao Yifei even found some Chinese-related cultural relics in several boxes. Xiao Yifei had no research on antiques and could not figure out the types and values ​​of these porcelains. However, it seems that several of them had the phenomenon of opening a piece, which looked like the Ru Kiln mentioned on TV.

There were a few things in the boxes that really scared Xiao Yifei into a cold sweat.

When the box was opened, Xiao Yifei's first reaction was to run away. Because Xiao Yifei knew this thing, it was a grenade or a German wooden handle grenade. The long wooden handle immediately distinguished them from the grenades of other countries.

Xiao Yifei wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and cursed the former owner of the space. At first, he was glad that there were no dangerous goods inside, but now there were grenades, and it was not just one or two grenades, just a box. If this exploded, the treasures in the room would be completely gone except for gold.

No, you can't leave them here to threaten those treasures, you must deal with them. Xiao Yifei carefully carried the grenade box out of the room, and moved the box of dangerous goods to the river along the marble road. This is not the place where they finally live. Xiao Yifei made up his mind and threw the thing out of the space in a while. Xiao Yifei had already chosen the place to discard them, right in the Necker River, which is a tributary of the Rhine River, and happened to pass through the city from Stuttgart. At that time, find a bridge and throw the box into the water, and let it explode if it likes it.

Unfortunately, this was not over and the breath was still not sure, Xiao Yifei discovered dangerous goods again. Fortunately, this time it was not a grenade, but a gun. There were submachine guns and machine guns. Xiao Yifei knew them, and they were also equipped with MP40 submachine guns and famous MG42 machine guns that Germany was equipped during World War II.

Xiao Yifei checked and found that the gun was loaded.

Xiao Yifei was so angry that he cursed again: What kind of plane did the previous trooper do? It was really scary to death. Fortunately, I didn't act handsomely and pulled the trigger just now. Xiao Yifei cursed his ex, and quickly pulled the bullet back.

Well, as long as the guns have no bullets, they are completely "fire sticks". There is no danger now, and they are also good as collectibles.

But bullets are also dangerous goods. After so many years, the possibility of bullets being invalid is greater. So he moved the ants and moved these "sub-dangerous goods" to the river side by side. When they were thrown later, they also asked them to go to the bottom of the river to accompany the grenades.

After getting tired and sweating profusely, Xiao Yifei finally got the things done. After checking again, he saw that there were no dangerous goods, he admired the treasures that belonged to him in the room. He now felt that all this was so beautiful.

In addition to the few boxes with the Nazi logo printed on it, the cultural relics in these boxes should have been privately obtained by the previous owner. Perhaps some of them are difficult to remove, but most cultural relics, especially those Chinese bottles and jars, should still be easy to deal with. I just don’t know how much money I can get when I sell them.

The previous master who had not yet left his identity got so many things privately, not only showing that he was definitely not an ordinary person, but also showing how huge wealth the Nazis had plundered from Europe. Xiao Yifei couldn't help but greedily thinking that if there were other places for burial of other Nazi treasures in this space, he would have made a fortune. But he heard that there were still a large part of the Nazi treasures that had not been discovered by people until now, and it was worth the money of the old nose.

After dealing with this room, Xiao Yifei came to the room in the middle.

This room is as small as a small one, but it is much better than the "utility room" just now. There is a large carpet on the floor where you enter. Although the carpet is a little dirt, it can still be seen as extraordinary.

Xiao Yifei observed the room, and the first thing that caught his eye was a screen.

That's right, the screen. It's very Chinese-style screen.

The vertical screen more than one person is partitioned with a desk, chair and bookshelves in front of it as an office area, and a place to rest behind it. Xiao Yifei was very interested in things with Chinese characteristics in the space and involuntarily came to the screen.

The screen consists of twelve fans, and the two screens on the edge are hollowed out with various longevity characters. The upper half of the ten screens in the middle is embedded with silk and light-transparent, and ten kinds of flowers such as peony, plum blossoms, lotus flowers are painted on the silk. It is very vivid and vivid, and it is not an ordinary product at first glance. In the middle is gourd-shaped kesi flowers. The lower half of the screen is actually a dragon pattern carved in the cloud pattern, and the pattern is carefully added with gold tracing.

Xiao Yifei followed the screen to the back. The back of the screen was much simpler. The upper half of the ten screens in the middle was the same embroidery. The edge was a bat pattern, and six golden dragons were embroidered with gold thread in the middle. The lower half of the screen was painted with golden paint on the black base and other patterns were depicted.

This screen is obviously not the current craft. With space and other things in space, this screen is at least something from the Qing Dynasty. In feudal society, things with dragons appeared, so this screen cannot be described as "not ordinary people".

Xiao Yifei noticed that these dragons actually had five claws, which was the five clawed golden dragon. In other words, this screen was actually a royal product.

It also has the word "Shou" and is also an imperial product. It must have been a birthday gift for which emperor. When it appears here, the screen should have been snatched from China by foreign soldiers from Europe. So Xiao Yifei deliberately counted the number of "Shou" and there were 60. There were 60 characters for "Shou" and 60 golden dragons. This should be a birthday gift for which emperor of the Qing Dynasty. After slitting out one by one, it was only Kangxi, Qianlong, Jiaqing, and Daoguang who might be the owner of the screen. That is to say, the screen is probably over 200 years old, and it is a good thing, and it is worth a lot of money.

Xiao Yifei liked this thing very much and stopped in front of the screen for a long time.

The space behind the screen is indeed a residential area. It disappointed Xiao Yifei. The bed and quilt are not antiques, they are just ordinary things. Without saying that, these things were thrown outside the house by Xiao Yifei, and then they would burn or throw them outside the space.

The residential area still gave Xiao Yifei a surprise. The painting hanging on the wall opposite the bed surprised him. This oil painting was too big, much taller than Xiao Yifei. He stretched his arms and couldn't touch the top of the picture frame. The width of the oil painting was as wide as Xiao Yifei's hands spread. The painting was very large and the wooden house was low. It was said that it was hanging on the wall, but it was leaning against the wall.

In the center of the picture is a white horse with its back hooves on the ground, its front hooves off the ground, its head raised, and a soldier immediately sat, wearing a double-horned hat and a scarlet cloak. Not far away, there were soldiers moving cannons, and even further away, the mountains were covered with clouds in the sky. The soldiers on the horse held the reins with one hand and pointed forward with the other hand, as if a sharp sword that could break through the clouds.

The momentum of the whole picture is very strong, and it gives people a very unusual feeling of this soldier at first glance.

The name of the character is written on the stone in the lower left corner of the picture: "BONAPARTE", which is Bonaparte. Needless to say, after studying history, everyone knows that this is Napoleon the Great.

The other two rocks read "HANNIBAL" and "KAROLV**AGNVSIMP". Xiao Yifei only knew that one was Hannibal, and the other was transliterated by Carlos Magnus. Xiao Yifei didn't know who it was, so IMP was even more confused.

Xiao Yifei is smart now. If he doesn't understand, he searches online. Sure enough, he soon found the answer.

This painting is "Napoleon Crossing the Alps". Our Chinese translation is relatively long, "Napoleon crossing the Saint-Berna Pass in the Alps". It depicts the scene when Napoleon led a 40,000 army to the steep Alps during the Second Anti-French Alliance War from 1799 to 1802. In order to gain time to seize the shortcuts and cross the Saint-Berna Pass and enter Italy. After Napoleon's army entered Italy, it attacked the Austrian interfering army there and finally won the victory of the Battle of Malenco. The victory of this battle increased Napoleon's prestige and status, and opened a passage for him to reach the peak of power later.

Xiao Yifei also figured out who the name was engraved on the other two rocks. "HANNIBAL" is the famous Carthage general Hannibal, known as the father of strategy. Carlos's "IMP" followed by is complete. He represents the King of the Carolingian dynasty of the Frankish Kingdom known as the father of Europe. The names of the three people, Napoleon, Hannibal, and Charlemagne, were written here because they all led the army across the Alps.

According to the information, the original author of this painting, Jacques Louis David, painted a total of 5 paintings, one in Chateau de Malmaison, one in Maltenberg, Berlin, and the Palace of Beautiful Views in Austria, as well as the Palace of Versailles and the Louvre.

But Xiao Yifei has never heard of any problems with the paintings in those places, and there is no news that these paintings are lost and stolen. How did he get here?

Is it a fake? But putting this painting here shows the owner's love for this painting. He has to look at it and look at it at the first sight when he wakes up. That shouldn't be a fake?

If this Napoleon was really a fake, would the other paintings in the space also be fakes?

Xiao Yifei searched for a small interesting story about this painting. It is said that Napoleon was riding a donkey at that time, and some said it was a mule, but at his request, the mount was changed to a white horse. Someone also painted a painting of the same name, which truly reproduced the scene of Napoleon crossing the Alps. In that version of the oil painting, Napoleon was not so "outstanding and majestic". He held one hand in his arms, rode a dark mule, walking on the snow, next to it was a ragged veteran who was leaning on a stick. The whole picture was very vulgar.
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