The Tao Te Chronology of the Beiyang Dynasty (362): The man of the mountains and forests, who is bitter and self-indulgent; the man of the wilderness, contemptuous and naïve.
In the history of Beiyang, Wang Guowei once said that there were four major gains in the discovery of historical materials, namely the Yin Ruins Oracle, the Han and Jin Jianmu, the Six Dynasties and Tang Scrolls, and the Yuanming and Qing Dynasty Documents and Archives stored by the Cabinet Treasury, also known as the "Great Inner Archives". But this batch of precious archival materials was started by paper dealers. Beiyang was first established, intending to establish a history museum, so the Preparatory Office was established in the Guozijian, and the Cabinet Archives became its basic treasure. In the fifth year of the Republic of China, the Preparatory Office of the History Museum moved to the Duanmen Office and took over the institution of the Cabinet Treasury Archives, but did not keep them seriously, when dozens of collators sloppily placed some of the selected archives in the gatehouse, and the remaining large number of archives were packed into a large number of sacks and stacked in the Duanmen gate opening. After all, it is an important archival historical material, some people snubbed them, and some people "favored" them.
Fu Zengxiang, then the director of Beiyang Education and a versionist, belonged to the latter. Knowing that there was such a batch of treasures, Fu Zengxiang immediately sent two people to "search for treasures" in the sack, one of whom was Lu Xun. Because of this experience, Lu Xun later wrote about the so-called "Great Inner Archives". In the eleventh year of the Republic of China, the warlord Cao Kun, who was in the immediate line, staged a farce, and the teacher's salary could not be paid, and the history museum to which it belonged had no choice but to sell the archives placed in the Forbidden City twice with the approval of the request. The first time it was sold as waste paper was the files of Ming Yongle to Wanli stored on the side of the landlord totaling more than 100,000 catties, and after some paper merchants bidded, they were purchased by more than a dozen white paper merchants at a price of more than 3,000 yuan. Just by selling the archives as scrap paper, these paper dealers have made twice as much profit. The money was earned, but this precious Ming Dynasty archive was lost. The second batch of archival historical materials stored in the chaofang on both sides of the noon gate and in the opening of the Duanmen Gate were the archival historical materials of the Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty and the Shunzhi to Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty, totaling more than 148,000 catties.
This time the bidders suddenly appeared four, at that time there was a surname Fu Shuwu in the History Museum, often to the Xidan Archway To the west of the old door number 150 with Mao Zengnan Paper Stationery Store to buy office supplies, this day he said to the manager Cheng Yunzeng, this day in Tongmao Zeng said to the manager Cheng Yunzeng, this business is not done, you will regret Cheng Yunzeng can not stop lobbying, although there is still a gap in funds, still at a monthly interest of one cent and two cents to Tianxing Silver Manager Li Yunfang loan of five thousand, it is determined to repay within half a year. Later, His colleagues bought the files that had been packed into eight thousand sacks for 4,050 silver dollars. On the day of the pulling of goods, Tongmao Zeng sent a total of 50 horse-drawn carts, all the way to the mighty, countless passers-by stopped to watch. This team was led by two of his fifty-year-old and experienced associates, Li Huafu and Zhang Yufeng, who were responsible for escorting the shipment, and it took more than ten days to complete the shipment. They only picked out some of the files and sent them to the factory as waste paper as recycled paper raw materials, and most of them assigned Li Huafu and Zhang Yufeng to retail on the spot.
In just a few days, it sold a thousand catties. One day, someone went to Tongmaozeng to find the manager Cheng Yunzeng, saying that someone was willing to bid eight thousand silver dollars to buy all the contents of these sacks, and asked him if he would do it? With such a good thing, Manager Cheng was naturally happy. At this moment, Han Yixuan, the manager of the Liulichang Yue Guzhai Antique Calligraphy and Painting Shop, came back to him, and he said to Cheng, I will help you sell this batch of goods for fifteen thousand yuan, and give me a 10% introduction fee after the matter is completed. Han Yixuan's front foot had just left, and Han Ziyuan, the ancient bookseller of the Liuli Factory on the back foot, came again, and he asked Cheng to sell him the one hundred and fifty pounds of old books he had picked out earlier, one yuan of silver and one pound. Before paying, Han packed a few more bags and paid a total of two hundred silver dollars. A few days later, Han Yixuan came to Tongmao zeng again, and also brought the former Qing dynasty old Jin Liang and Bao Xi. Han Yixuan told Cheng Yunzeng that the two elders were willing to buy all those things.
In the end, after studying the deacons in Cheng He's shop, they traded with the buyer for 22,000 yuan. The next day, in order to sign the contract, the real buyer of this batch of goods finally appeared, he was Luo Zhenyu. How did Luo Zhenyu become the buyer of this big deal? It turned out that when these cabinet files were scattered through the "retail window", a person who knew Jinliang knew that Jinliang knew the goods, so he held several copies of the purchased Zhu Batch Decree archives and sold them to him at a high price. At first sight, Jin Liang saw that these were all Ouchi archives. At the same time, his friend Luo Zhenyu also inadvertently found someone selling out the "Hong Chengyu Unveiling" and "Goryeo King Tribute Table" and other Internal archives in the market stalls. After the pursuit, he finally learned that the Ouchi files that had been "rescued" earlier had now been fully acquired by his peers, so Luo Zhenyu decided to buy them all.
References: "Past Hook Sinking", "Vegetable Root Tan"