After Chen Jieqi transported Mao Gongding back to his hometown of Weixian County, Shandong, he never made a public announcement, was very low-key, and kept it secret without showing it. In 1882, Chen Jieqi died, and Mao Gongding returned to his second son Chen Houzi, and later passed on to his grandson Chen Yi. Many people are eyeing this rare treasure, and the big bureaucracy Duan Fang of the late Qing Dynasty is one of them. He successively served as the Governor of Huguang, the Governor of Liangjiang, the Governor of Zhili and the Minister of Beiyang. He used 10,000 taels of silver and promised to give Chen Ye the condition of serving as the director of the Hubei Silver Dollar Bureau, and let Chen Yang sell Mao Gongding. In order to become an official, Chen Ye actually sold Mao Gongding against the ancestral teachings. After getting Mao Gongding, Duanfang did not let Chen Ye be an official, and Chen Ye was angry and died of illness. Mao Gongding was deceived by Duan Fang in this way.
Mao Gongding's good times did not last long, and he tried his best to deceive Mao Gongding for only a year, and he was killed in the Sichuan Road Protection Movement.
After Duanfang's death, the family fell in the middle of the road. Mao Gongding was adrift again.
Mrs. Duanfang once wanted to send Mao Gongding out as a dowry, but the man did not accept such a big dowry, and then mortgaged the Sino-Russian Daosheng Bank opened by the ** person in Tianjin.
Later, Tan Lisun, general manager of Beiping Mainland Bank, thought that it was inappropriate for the national treasure to be placed in a foreign bank, and expressed to Duanfang's family that he was willing to pledge Mao Gongding at a lower interest. Mao Gongding was relocated to the Beiping Continental Bank.
Rare treasures are mortgaged in the bank, and they are coveted for a while. Japan's Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce and British journalist Simpson both started Mao Gongding's idea, but Duanfang's family thought that the money was too little and refused to give it away. After the news of the incident came out, the Chinese people were in an uproar, and people in the cultural circles called for not letting the national treasure be lost.
Who will save the national treasure from danger? At the critical moment, Ye Gongqiu, the chief of Beiyang ** Transportation, stepped forward.
Ye GongqiuYe Gongqiu is a typical "for the government and learning". He did not have enough funds, and with the help of educator Zheng Hongnian and calligrapher Feng Shu, Ye Gong spent a lot of money to buy it. Like Chen Jieqi, he has always kept a secret from Tianjin to Shanghai. The fate of the Ye family has since been intertwined with Mao Gongding.
At the end of 1937, Shanghai was reduced to an isolated island, Ye Gongqiu hurriedly fled to Hong Kong, and Mao Gongding and other collections of calligraphy and painting were all left in Shanghai. Ye Gongxuan's concubine Pan wanted to embezzle the family property left by the Ye family in Shanghai, and also filed a lawsuit. Ye Gongxuan, it was inconvenient to come forward, so he asked his nephew Ye Gongchao to go to Shanghai to deal with it.
Ye GongchaoIn 1940, Ye Gongchao put down his teaching position at Southwest Associated University and rushed to Shanghai immediately. When passing through Hong Kong, Ye Gongyu instructed him: "I will deliver Mao Gongding to you, and you must not use it for sale in the future, and you must not pledge it, especially not let it go abroad." Someday, it can be dedicated to the country. In order to emphasize that Mao Gongding should not be allowed to flow out of the country, Ye Gongqiu told his nephew again: "Previously, there were two times when Americans and Japanese wanted to buy Mao Gongding with **, but they were not allowed. ”
Ye Gongchao came to Shanghai on a mission, but unexpectedly, in order to achieve his goal, Pan actually reported to the Japanese military police and revealed the Ye family's collection of Mao Gongding. The Japanese gendarmerie went to Ye's house to search for him. Fortunately, the gendarmerie first searched out some calligraphy books, as well as two pistols, and when they saw the pistols, the Japanese military police actually neglected Mao Gongding.
Mao Gongding escaped. Ye Gongchao was arrested by the Japanese gendarmerie on charges of espionage. He was interrogated seven times, whipped and waterboarded twice at the Japanese military police headquarters, but he never said where Mao Gongding was hidden.
Later, he forged a bronze and handed it to the Japanese, and he was finally released.
After his release, Ye Gongchao took Mao Gongding to Hong Kong and returned it to his uncle.
After the Japanese army captured Hong Kong in 1941, Ye Gongqiu returned to Shanghai with Mao Gongding. because of the embarrassment of life", he pledged Mao Gongdingdian to the bank, and later borrowed money from a businessman, Chen Yongren, and redeemed it from the bank. After Japan was defeated and surrendered, Ye Gongqiu donated Mao Gongding to **, and then it was owned by the government.
Liu Jieping, a scholar in Taiwan, quickly told a different version: Mao Gongding was not presented to ** by Ye Gonghui in the end, but by Chen Yongren.
In 1942, Liu Jieping heard that Ye Gongqiu was embarrassed by the economy and planned to make a living in Mao Gongding, and after discussing with Xu Senyu, Zhang Ziyu and others, he found an acquaintance businessman Chen Yongren.
Chen Yongren is not an ordinary businessman, he once bought a large number of arms and materials for the Japanese army, and can be regarded as the "number one economic traitor". They said to Chen Yongren: "If you can buy the Mao Gongding National Treasure Present**...As a manifestation of your atonement, "In order to leave a way back for yourself, Chen Yongren promised to secretly buy Mao Gongding for **300 taels, and Zhang Ziyu kept it secretly. In this way, it not only avoids the outflow of Mao Gongding, but also ensures that it will be returned to the public collection in the future. Sure enough, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Mao Gongding ended his fate of wandering in private hands.
There is also the most popular theory that Mao Gongding was once taken by Dai Li, director of the Military Command Bureau, as his own, and it was not until after he died in a plane crash that he was handed over by the Military Control Bureau.
In 1946, Mao Gongding was placed in Chaotian Palace in Nanjing, where the "** Museum" was being built. Accompanied by it, there are tens of thousands of boxes of cultural relics of the Forbidden City that have traveled thousands of miles and experienced disasters.
In October of the same year, at a "cultural relics exhibition", Mao Gongding met the world publicly for the first time, but he did not expect that only 2 years later, Mao Gongding was transported to Taiwan.
Now there are three "stars" in the National Palace Museum in Taipei: a vegetable - jade cabbage, a piece of meat - Dongpo meat stone, and the other is a pot - Mao Gongding.
After Mao Gongding was discovered, he passed through the hands of many people, traveled to many places, and was displaced. Fortunately, it was guarded by some patriots, who paid for the purchase to prevent loss, and even did not tell the whereabouts of Mao Gongding under severe punishment, and finally made this Baoding. It has not been lost, but has become a national treasure.