Seeing that Qian Duoqian looked so serious, Li Qinglin asked him with a smile: "How expensive, have you changed your career to be a sculptor?"

When Qian Duogui saw Li Qinglin coming in, he hurriedly threw down his work and said, "Qinglin, I took a good job some time ago, just to make an incense burner. This thing is not difficult, there is no danger, and it is easy to make money."

Li Qinglin asked in detail about the situation and found that someone was asking him to fake cultural relics. Some time ago, when Qian Duogui was carrying a copper smith's load, he walked around the streets and alleys, an acquaintance asked him if he could turn over copper devices. Naturally, the copper smith could not say that he still had copper work that he could not do. Qian Duogui agreed with his chest.

Rich people in Peking and Tianjin liked the Xuande incense burner of the Ming Dynasty. The Xuande incense burner was a copper-cast incense burner. When Emperor Xuande was reigned in the Ming Dynasty, in order to satisfy his appetite for enjoying incense burners, he ordered a batch of red copper from Siam (Thailand). He instructed the imperial craftsman Lu Zhen and the Minister of Works of the Ministry of Works to design and cast three thousand incense burners in the third year of Xuande, referring to the styles of famous porcelains in the palace and the patterns of various classics.

The Xuande furnace is not only cast with red copper, but also dozens of other precious metals such as gold and silver. It has been carefully cast with red copper for more than a dozen times. The finished Xuande copper incense burner has an ancient and strong shape, crystal clear and warm color, and is indeed a fine craftsmanship made by the Ming Dynasty.

The batch of red copper imported by Emperor Xuande cast a total of 3,000 incense burners. Except for a small number given to the royal relatives, famous civil and military ministers, as well as famous temples, temples, and ancestral halls in the country, all were hidden in the imperial palaces. The people only heard of their names but did not see their appearance.

The successful manufacturing of Xuande Furnace set a precedent for China's copper incense burners, and it can be said to have become an epoch-making handicraft. The copper Xuande incense burners were not learned before and could not continue. They are worthy of being an exquisite antique in the world. It is the crystallization of the wisdom and art of ancient Chinese craftsmen.

Since the Xuande Furnace was published, the activity of imitating Xuande Furnace has never stopped. Just after the Xuande Furnace was stopped, some officials in charge of the "Casting Affairs" in the palace summoned the original casters and imitated them according to the drawings and craftsmanship of the Xuande Furnace. These imitations are completely the same as the genuine ones, and even the cultural relics experts of later generations cannot distinguish them.

People in Beijing and Tianjin are proud of having royal goods. Incense burners are a necessity for their respect for heaven and ancestors. In the bright spot, there is a Xuande furnace at home, which seems to be able to improve the level of people. In the early years of the Republic of China, the price of an exquisite authentic Xuande furnace was often as high as hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. This time, the Xuande furnace was the Xuande furnace that was so expensive that it was the Xuande furnace.

After listening to Qian Duogui's introduction, Li Qinglin understood why Qian Duogui took a yellow wax carving incense burner. Qian Duogui's carving was the wax mold of Xuande furnace.

The metal casting method that has been established in China since ancient times is the loss of wax. This method first uses yellow wax with butter to carve into a model of the utensil, and then uses other refractory materials to fill the mud core and apply it to the outer surface. After heating and baking, all the beeswax melts and flows out, and the entire casting model becomes an empty shell. Then melt the metal and pour a metal solution into it. After the metal solution cools, it will be cast into a metal object.

But casting is just the first step in imitation. To turn it into a cultural relic that is fake and real, it also requires various other means of making old things. Li Qinglin asked how expensive the money is: "Have you learned how to make old things?"

Qian Duogui smiled and said, "I am a coppersmith. I only make new objects, and others should do the rest."

Li Qinglin laughed in her heart, and began to divide the labor and cooperate in fraud, which was a bit like socializing production.

Qian Duogui finally begged Li Qinglin: "Qinglin, I just can't get the following information. Can you help me?"

I don’t know if the Xuande furnace in Qian Duogui is true or false. There is a signature of “Made in the Xuande Period of the Ming Dynasty” under the copper incense burner. With Qian Duogui’s cultural level, it is not easy to imitate these words well.

Li Qinglin patted his shoulder and said, "This is easy to say. I will help you when you get it done."

A few days later, the wax mold of the incense burner was carved, and the signature under the wax mold was also prepared by Li Qinglin. The rest was that the money was expensive to cast. As a little copper smith, crucible, bellows, clay and fine sand were naturally prepared, but to cast this slightly larger device, more were prepared, and the crucible was also prepared. The copper material for casting the incense burner was provided by the other party. It is said that after many experiments, the materials can basically be fake and real.

After pouring the copper juice, waited until the copper ware was completely cooled. After a busy period, the money was busy and broke the sand pattern to take out the device. A copper incense burner was produced. Li Qinglin looked carefully and found that the rough appearance of this copper ware was fine, but the appearance was very rough, and there was no way to compare with the sample.

Qian Duogui was very satisfied. He held it in his hand and looked left and right and was very proud. Li Qinglin smiled strangely and said, "It took a long time to make such a rough and ugly thing. What are you so proud of?"

Qian Duogui said: "Qinglin, how can I cast good things once? All the cast items need to be polished. Although it is so rough now, all parts of it are intact. I will look good after polishing them carefully."

Two days later, the new copper furnace was polished and put the two things together. Except for the difference between the new and the old, there was really not much difference in other aspects.

Qian Duogui said proudly: "After they have made this new bronze ware old, it will be the same as the one in my hand."

Li Qinglin asked him how much money he earned, and he replied that it was no less than making guns. Li Qinglin couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the profit of fake cultural relics could be comparable to the arms business, so this matter was definitely a huge profit in huge profits. No wonder so many people made them decades later and reselled fake cultural relics.

A few days later, the time agreed with Pan Ke was up, and Li Qinglin started to set off for the county town early in the morning. At almost noon, Li Qinglin rushed to the county town and walked directly into Laifu Inn.

People at Laifu Inn now know Li Qinglin, thanks to the standard photo of searching for Junji Kobayashi, because that photo is Li Qinglin's photo, and Pan Ke has one for everyone in the group.

"Mr. Xiaolin, have you eaten?" Li Qinglin stepped into Laifu Inn, and the guy in the lobby greeted him very "enthusiastic". He was enthusiastic, but he was very frowning and not serious.

"Eat your head?" Li Qinglin was not polite and acted to beat him.

The young man smiled "hehe" and hurriedly led the way in front, saying as he walked: "Mr. Kobayashi, you are going to get rich again this time. If you get the reward today, you will treat you."

"Oh? Is that true? Why don't I know?" Li Qinglin was a little confused.

"You will know after a while!" the young man said with a smile.

It was still in the Fu-sized room upstairs, and Pan Kewei had already been waiting for him in the room.

Pan Ke was full of red face and smiled. When he saw Li Qinglin coming in, he quickly stood up and bowed: "Brother Qinglin, every time he sees you, he can bring me good luck. It seems that we need to meet more."

Li Qinglin said in his heart, if you, an old Kuomintang spy, weren't for the sake of being Chinese, and if you were still sincere in fighting against Japan, I wouldn't want to see you.
Chapter completed!