After buying this seal, Li Yi and the others swept more than a dozen stores, but they didn't get much.

Seeing that the last family had already finished seeing and was about to leave, suddenly, a young man rushed in from outside in a hurry. Before he could stand still, he shouted excitedly at the shop owner:

"Uncle Huang, come and help me see if this book is a Zhejiang book!"

Zhejiang Ben? Li Yi's heart moved, pulled Lu Ningshuang for a while, and slowly slowed down.

The Zhejiang version mainly refers to ancient books engraved in Hangzhou, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, also known as the "Hang version". In addition, depending on the place, there are many versions such as Quzhou version, Wenzhou version, Wuzhou version, etc.

However, the name Zhejiang version is not used randomly by people. Because it represents a legend in the ancient book market, the Song version and the Song engraving version! In other words, the Zhejiang version that is generally not prefixed must be the Zhejiang version of the Song engraving version!

I think the Song Dynasty engravings are extremely exquisite than those of other dynasties, and their number is rare, so they are very precious.

According to statistics, the total number of Song Dynasty books that can be found in China today will not exceed 1,200, and more than 90% of them are concentrated in those large libraries.

In fact, judging from the engraving technology of the Diamond Sutra engraved in the ninth year of Xiantong (868) of the Tang Dynasty collected by the Daying Library, the printing technology in China was already quite mature at that time.

However, before the Song Dynasty, woodblock printing has not been promoted, which has to be said to be a huge regret.

Historically, this may be related to the political turmoil during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, but it is also very likely that it is because people are used to reading handwritten books. Compared with handwritten books, many woodblock prints do have defects such as stagnation and dullness, which affect people's reading experience.

The reason why the Song Dynasty engravings are different is that they have both practicality and ornamentality. Judging from the famous products in the current Northern Song Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty editions, the Song Dynasty edition is not only good at calligraphy, but also the engraving masters understand calligraphy!

Thinking of the status of scholars in that era, the engraving masters also knew calligraphy, which is truly amazing.

Moreover, the styles of the Song Dynasty calligraphy are different. The calligraphy of Ou style, Yu style, Yan style, Liu style and other people compete for beauty and change. In addition, the exquisite paper and ink, fine production and other factors, it is definitely not a blessing to have the status of today.

However, there are too few Song-engraved books that have been passed down to this day, especially Song-engraved books that are circulated among the people. In recent years, except for occasionally glimpses at some large auctions, there has been almost no news about Song-engraved books in the market!

Before Li Yi came into contact with this industry, he had heard about the preciousness of the Song Dynasty. After that, he even studied it carefully, but he never had the chance to see the original works. Unexpectedly, he could meet the Zhejiang version by chance this time, so he naturally had to stay and take a look.

"Zhiqian, do you know the difference between ancient books and rare books?"

The shop owner took the ancient book from the young man named Zhiqian, took a simple look and asked.

Zhiqian shook his head.

"Zhang Zhidong of the Qing Dynasty defined the meaning of "rare ancient books": one is the full version: no missing volumes and pages are deleted. The second is the exquisite version: the engraved version is excellent, the font is extremely elegant, and the annotation is very detailed and complete. It is not only a few mistakes, but also the proofreading can show the context of the collection of books and the historical circulation of ancient books. The third is the old version: the manuscript engraved version with a long history, such as the Song version of Yuanli."

After saying that, he vibrated the thick thread-bound book in his hand that didn't even have a cover.

"First of all, this book is not a rare book, and its value is more than one level lower. Next, let's see if it is a real ancient book."

He put the book on the table aside, not shying away from the eyes of Li Yi and other customers.

"Zhejiang Province mostly uses European styles, the main body is mostly white mouth, with fish tails on top, and most of the frames are double columns on the left and right, and the upper and lower order columns..."

While looking through it carefully, the boss compared the characteristics of the Song-engraved Zhejiang version in his memory. However, before he could finish reading it, Li Yi had confirmed that this should be an ancient book, but it was definitely not a Song-engraved version.

"This book should be a Ming Dynasty edition, and it is a printed version from the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Although it is precious, it is incomparable to the Song Dynasty edition."

When Zhiqian's face suddenly collapsed when he heard that it was not the Song Dynasty book.

"Uncle Huang, then is this thing valuable?"

"Haha, one page of Song version is one or two gold, you, one or two silver!"

When Zhiqian heard this, he was immediately happy again. The money is also valuable!

"Now a gram of gold is about 1,500 yuan? One gram of gold is 75,000 yuan. Where is silver? Who knows silver?"

When Li Yi heard this, he burst into laughter. The boss is just a metaphor. This young man takes it seriously. It must be noted that gold is precious and silver is cheap. He is saying that your book is not valuable!

Li Yi also knew a lot about Ming engravings. The Ming Dynasty was the prosperous period of the China-Embroidery Printing Industry. Ming engravings were far superior to those of the previous generations in terms of book engraving areas, book engraving forms, book engraving techniques, book engraving ranges, and number of folk bookstores.

Therefore, there are many Ming Dynasty printed copies that have been passed down, especially those in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty engraved versions are divided into official engravings, family engravings, and wooden engravings. Among them, there are the Inner Mansion Edition (including the Jingchang Edition), the Imperial College edition, and the calligraphy and handwritten editions engraved by other central institutions and local officials, as well as the vassal editions between official engravings and family engravings.

Among these books, Neifu versions, that is, royal engravings, are the most precious. Relatively speaking, Fangen engravings are generally not of high value.

Moreover, according to records, there are almost hundreds of types of Ming-engraved versions, and several forms such as squid plates, arched flowers, overprinted versions and illustration versions have been invented in terms of plate making. These have an impact on the price of Ming-engraved versions.

Li Yi was unable to determine the source of this broken book in the hands of a young man because he did not take a closer look at it. However, from the perspective of printing quality alone, it should be the most valuable ordinary escort book.

"The current silver price is probably less than 25 per gram, right? If one or two, it's 1,200 yuan, so cheap?"

Not only Zhiqian, but also the guests did not understand what the boss was saying, so someone soon reported the price of cash.

Zhiqian couldn't help but feel a little discouraged when he heard that the silver price was only 1,200 per tael.

"Uncle Huang, then... will you accept this book?"

The boss shook his head and said with a smile:

"I'm going to charge, but you're definitely not satisfied with the price. Why don't you ask these people?"

Zhiqian nodded and calculated silently.

"This book has 36 pages in total, with each page of 1,200 yuan, which is 43,200 yuan. Forget it, I will lose another 3,000, 40,000 yuan! Are you interested?"

Several guests shook their heads, and Li Yi felt a little moved. Although the basis for this young man to calculate the price was a bit ridiculous, this price was not very high for a Ming-printed book.

Moreover, if the content of this residual book is more precious, buying it at this price should be considered a small omission!

"Show me."

As soon as he thought of this, Li Yi reached out and asked for the book.

The book has no cover, so he starts directly from the first page.

However, after just looking at the lines carefully, he knew that he had made a mistake at the beginning. This book should be a book in "The Annotation of the Thirteen Classics". This kind of classics and history books are generally printed by the Imperial College. Although it is not known whether it is the Southern Commission or the Northern Commission, it is definitely better than the Fangxi Commission.

Although it is better than a fang-engraved book, the price may not be sold.

Because the number of classics and history books put into print is too large, and of course there are quite a lot of them. In addition, the collection value of this book is indeed not high.

When I thought about it, I was too lazy to look at it again, so I directly turned on the spiritual appraisal card.

Then, a laughing and laughing expression appeared on his face, which was unbearable. It was really... Damn, these people were so determined to do so!

The Spirit Card tells Li Yi that this is a forged ancient book, except for the pages of the head and ends that are real Ming-style engraved books.

However, if it was just like this, Li Yi would at most raise his eyebrows and throw the book back to him.

But the reason why he showed that expression was because the soul-scoring card told him that there were 11 pages of real Song versions mixed here!

"One page Song version, one or two gold coins" is not just a metaphor. In the current market, the unit price of each page of the Song version of the well-quality Song version is about 50,000 soft girl coins. There are some fine products with orderly circulating, and their prices even break through the sky. The earliest existing collection of poems and essays of the Northern Song Dynasty, "The Collection of Lotus Society of Zhaoqing Temple in West Lake, Hangzhou" once set a sky-high price of 16.1 million soft girl coins, with an average single page worth hundreds of thousands!

Although the Song version in this ancient book is definitely not available, the unit price of such a single page that is not available is definitely not lower than one or two gold!

The counterfeiting actually uses materials that are dozens of times more precious than the things to be counterfeited, which reminded Li Yi of a news story in the previous paragraph. Three young patriots with lofty ideals used 200,000 soft sister coins to create counterfeit coins worth 170,000!

I was so drunk when I thought about it!

"Let's do this, 30,000, I'll want it."

Zhiqian saw Li Yi's counter-off, and took advantage of his head to look at the boss secretly. Seeing him nodding slightly, he couldn't help but smile:

"make a deal!"

Li Yi completed the transaction with a smile, and then walked out while lowering his head to read the book. Soon, he found the first Song version single page.

What he didn't expect was that this was not only a passage from "Shangshu", but also a tight connection with the Ming-engraved version of the previous article!

Li Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head. It was indeed lucky. If it weren't for this, I'm afraid there wouldn't be these Song versions in this book!

However, he also became more expectant. Since these people pay so much attention to the continuity of content, will the eleven-page Song version be continuous?

If that is the case, its value will definitely rise to another level!

One page, two pages, three pages...

Starting from the first page of Song version, seven pages in a row are real Song versions, and until the eighth page, they are old fakes. From the 20th page, the remaining four pages are connected again!

Haha, I picked it up!
Chapter completed!