Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 574 Gifts
The enthronement ceremonies of European nobles are similar, and they are basically carried out in churches, especially the enthronement ceremonies of dukes. The main ceremonies are all held in churches.

This is mainly because traditionally, the duke, like the kings of various countries, is considered to be directly granted by the gods rather than from the king, so there are naturally more religious elements in their ceremonies.

It's just that this is not good news for Liang En, because he can't enter the church, so he can't see the most important part of the ceremony.

But even what Liang En could see could explain the importance of the ceremony. For example, the clergyman at the ceremony was the chairman of the French Bishops Conference and the highest-ranking clergyman in the French Catholic Church.

This also set a precedent in the UK, because traditionally, British nobles must be believers in the Anglican Church.Before, he could not even inherit the title of duke.

Fortunately, after the law in this area was amended in 1963, people like Mr. Du Lisi who had no inheritance rights in the past can have inheritance rights.

Of course, in addition to obtaining the right of inheritance, Mr. Du Lisi also changed the succession tradition of the duke title. With the Queen's permission, the title can be passed on to a female heir in the future, instead of only choosing a male heir in the traditional way.

According to what Liang En and the others had learned in advance, this was what Mr. Du Lisi worked hard to achieve. Apart from mobilizing his own connections, the most important thing to achieve this was the tradition of the earldom itself.

After the ceremony, Butler Lubzon came to Liang En and the others to express his gratitude. After all, it was thanks to them that they were able to retrieve the important crown before the ceremony.

As a reward for Liang En and the others' kindness, Butler Lu Busong gave Liang En and the others a Hetian jade cup with an obviously strange style.

"Your Excellency the Duke bought this from a merchant. It is said that it is a relic from a certain nobleman in Central Asia. I think it will be more meaningful if you give it to you than if it is in our hands."

"The most important thing is that this thing is a little different from similar things, and there may be a secret hidden behind it. We have studied it for a long time before but can't find the problem. I think you may see something from it."

On the way home, Liang En has been studying this cup. The quality of the jade cup looks really good. If you want to sell it, you can definitely sell it for 10,000+ euros.

But what he pays attention to now is not the price of this cup at all, but the overall style of the cup that is obviously abnormal.

I have to say that the Earl really put his heart into choosing a gift for Liang En. Although the price of the item may be similar to the previous crown, there are a lot of interesting information attached to it.

To give the simplest example, this cup looks like a fusion of Chinese style and Central Asian style, and it is also carved with a series of reliefs of dancing people.

Although it is not surprising to say that Central Asia, as the crossroads of East and West, has such fusion style things, but there are not many such obvious styles like this cup.

Not to mention that unlike Burmese jadeite, which has a short history, white marble produced in geographically Central Asia has been regarded as a treasure in East Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia for thousands of years.

Therefore, such a cup with excellent texture and exquisite carving is unlikely to be a product of ordinary people, but should come from the collection of a dignitary.

After arriving home, Liang En received an e-mail from the butler Lubzon, and the e-mail contained in detail the information collected by the Earl about the origin of the cup.

The mug, which legally flowed out of Kyrgyzstan in 1993, had been in a family collection and, according to family members, was recovered from a person who froze to death on a snowy mountain in 1919.

That year, the ancestor of the family was a shepherd. When looking for a lost goat in winter, he found a frozen corpse in the snow, and found several gold rubles and this cup from the corpse.

The number of gold rubles was not large enough to completely change their status, but it also saved the family from the bad luck of freezing to death in that cold winter. At that time, the cups were not sold because everyone did not know the goods, but kept down.

Until the same cold winter of 1993, they once again used this treasure gifted by fate to get the family out of trouble, and also let the cup come to the earl.

The Earl also investigated this, but only found that the cup should have been unearthed in Kazakhstan for more than 200 years, and there are not many clues.

After returning home, Liang En quickly took the cup and began to study it. Soon, he found that the cup looked familiar, as if he had seen it there before.

"Let's go eat first." Just as Liang En was thinking about when he had seen this thing before, Joan of Arc wearing an apron came in from the outside and said, and happened to see the cup in Liang En's hand. "This is the cup you have been studying on the road?"

"Well." Liang En nodded and said, "This thing looks very different from the common Central Asian jade cups, but it looks familiar. The most important thing is that the earl said that this cup is likely to be related to some thing."

"I think this cup looks like the Tang Dynasty gold and silver cups I saw when I went to Huaxia last time." Joan of Arc said suddenly after looking at the cup in silence for a few seconds. "It's just that this one is made of jade."

"You said the gold and silver wares of the Tang Dynasty—yes, this should be the style of the gold and silver wares of the Tang Dynasty." After being reminded by Joan, Liang En immediately reacted.

He suddenly realized that the shape and pattern of this jade cup were very similar to those on the gold and silver cups of the Tang Dynasty, and it seemed to come from the same place.

The reason why he couldn't recognize it before was also very simple, because making it out of metal and carving it on jade were two completely different things, so the appearance was a little deformed, so that Liang En didn't think about it at first.

From a certain point of view, it can be said that experience has restrained him, but amateurs like Joan of Arc took a look at it and boldly guessed that it was closer to reality.

"You're right, so this should be a piece of jade from China or Central Asia." Five minutes later, when everyone was sitting at the table eating, Liang En said a little excitedly.

"No matter where it comes from, these represent various items from the Silk Road and the civilization behind it, and this is also part of history."

"Yes, but why would someone use the techniques used in metal making in jade carving." Joan of Arc asked after putting the fork aside. "You know, it's not an easy thing to do."

"I don't know, but it's really abnormal, and that's what I want to figure out next." Liang En said with a slight brow.

Because the ductility and toughness of jade and metal are completely different, it is easy to imitate the style of jade with metal, but it is difficult to do the reverse.So it seems very strange that the maker of this cup chose to do this now.

(End of this chapter)