In the nineties of the last century, many cultural relics were expropriated and put into museums, and the expropriated cultural relics were different from the cultural relics handed over, the expropriated cultural relics were originally held by individuals, and after expert valuation, the two sides were buying and selling.
That is, in that era, many cultural relics that were rumored to have been lost were discovered, and then entered the museum and became orphans, and there were many interesting things when the cultural relics were expropriated at that time.
In a cultural museum in the northeast, a team of archaeologists went to the countryside to collect cultural relics, and many of these archaeologists did not have so prominent professional knowledge and were half-aware of cultural relics, but there were not so many fakes at that time, especially in the countryside.
After this team of archaeologists came to an old farmer's house, they found that there was a painting hanging in the main hall of the old farmer, and several archaeologists looked at it for half a day, and did not find out which period it was, who the author was, but after all, it was also well-informed, and intuitively felt that this painting was not ordinary.
So he asked the old farmer, where is this painting, the old farmer truthfully replied, it is handed down from his ancestors, how many generations have been passed down, he also forgot, the expert estimated for half a day, think this painting should not be a mortal product, he directly offered a high price of ten thousand yuan.
At that time, when it was still popular for 10,000 yuan households, 10,000 yuan was like an astronomical number for a rural family, but the old farmer felt less, and directly opened his mouth to ask for 1 million, and the expert smiled after listening to it and went directly.
A year later, in 1995, the old farmer took the painting to the Beijing Hanhai Auction Company for auction, and the auction company found after appraisal that the painting was the "Ten Yong Tu", made by Zhang Xian during the Northern Song Dynasty, and was praised as a work passed down from generation to generation.
This painting was originally in the Qing court, and later Puyi escaped from the Forbidden City, this painting is unknown, what people did not expect was that this painting was actually passed to the hands of old farmers, and finally this painting was auctioned for a sky-high price of 18 million.