However, cultural relics have been deposited for thousands of years, and the financial resources of the Palace Museum are not easily won. At this time, Zhang Boju made great contributions to the national cultural relics collection. Because the Palace Museum has bought too many cultural relics to buy other cultural relics, Zhang Boju sold his property to buy cultural relics in order to avoid going abroad.
Zhang Boju was born in Henan, aged 1898. He is the son of Zhang Jinfang and the nephew of Yuan Shikai, which shows that his family background is strong. Therefore, he has seen a lot since he was a child, knows a lot about cultural relics and likes to collect them. At the same time, he is a patriot. So when the Palace Museum needed his help to identify cultural relics, he quickly went to help.
The book Ping Fu Tie bought Lu Ji, which is the most typical example of all collection feats in Zhang Boju. At that time, Zhang Boju saw "Ping Fu Tie" at a disaster relief painting and calligraphy meeting in Hubei. Zhang Boju moved his mind and wanted the museum to buy it, because "Ping Fu Tie" was the property of Pu Ru (Xinyu Pu) and Pu Ru was the great-grandson of Daoguang Emperor. As a descendant of the royal family, he naturally has many cultural relics at home, but he once collected his own Han Gan in the Tang Dynasty at 1936.
You should know that the reply post is an authentic copy of the land machine of the literati in the Western Jin Dynasty, which has a history of nearly 1700 years. It is the "originator" of ink handed down from ancient times, and it is of great reference value for studying the evolution of characters and calligraphy. So Zhang Boju entrusted a Liulichang owner to ask Pu Ru for it, but Pu Ru asked for 200,000 yuan, which made Zhang Boju a little embarrassed. He told the museum, but the museum had no money to buy it. In the second year, Zhang Boju had to ask Zhang Daqian to come forward, but Zhang Daqian also stopped before the asking price of 200,000 yuan.
At that time, Pu Ru was in urgent need of money to mourn his mother because she died. Zhang Boju was afraid that he would sell the Reply Post too cheaply, so he gritted his teeth and sold a quadrangle in Beijing for 200,000 yuan. That's the quadrangle in Beijing, and the land is precious. With the current housing price in Beijing, if you want to buy a quadrangle, the unit price must start from 1 100 million yuan, but Zhang Boju just sold the quadrangle cheaply without blinking an eye, just to prevent the "reply" from being exposed.
Zhang Boju found Uncle Park Won soon to mediate this time, and spent 40,000 yuan to buy a copybook from Pu Ru. Later, when he bought it, his heart was completely relieved, because he also heard that a businessman wanted to get the copybook and sold it to the Japanese at a price of 200 thousand. He was relieved, but fortunately, he "moved first."
At 194 1, Zhang Boju was kidnapped. Kidnapping him is an open secret in Shanghai. They are the "No.76" secret service organization of Wang Puppet's headquarters, demanding 3 million counterfeit money from their families. However, Zhang Boju only "lost everything" for cultural relics and had no money to redeem himself. He also told his wife that even if he had no money, he would have to pay for it himself.
Because Zhang's parents didn't raise money in time, the kidnappers reduced the ransom from 3 million to 400 thousand. Before being redeemed, Mrs. Zhang and her family tried to borrow money from other places. After Zhang Boju came out, he donated his reply to the Palace Museum for free. In recent years, experts' appraisal of Pingtie has reached 880 million yuan, which is more than 4,400 times from the original 200,000 yuan, which is more expensive than a courtyard house in Beijing, but Zhang Boju will not regret it. Everything he did was to give these cultural relics to the country, and no matter how much money he spent, he would not regret it.