Reborn Treasure Appraiser: I Really Didn’t Want to Be an Expert

Chapter 47: Learned from Books
Seeing Shang Yan remained silent, Wang Qizhi smiled again: "Are you shocked?"

Shang Yan opened her lips as if to ask something, then pursed them into a line.

At this point, the question is no longer whether Lin Sicheng understands or can do it, but why he can be so professional?
The rest are easy to explain, especially the last point. To put it simply: if he needs to measure both copper and glaze, how can he find the correct balance range?
To be more professional: Cloisonné is a copper-based glaze surface. During testing, the Cu-Kα peak in the copper base will interfere with the values ​​of low-content elements in the glaze layer, and the base signal must be shielded by a collimator.

Therefore, the last sentence that Lin Sicheng asked Li Zhen to set the parameters was particularly important: Collimator selection: 150μm, spot range: 0.5-1 mm...

Of course she could calculate this value, and Wang Qizhi could also calculate it, but the prerequisite was: software must be used for calculation.

But Lin Sicheng just spoke without hesitation?
If you say that this value is wrong, look at the signal acquisition: whether it is the element peak, characteristic peak energy, or standard half and standard quantification, the values ​​are more accurate than each other.

Then why can Lin Sicheng calculate the balance value to such an accurate level without having to calculate it in advance?

Unless he has done similar experiments a thousand and eight hundred times, and has reached the point where he can accurately estimate the thickness of the specimen body to 0.1 mm with just a glance, and at the same time estimate the rust percentage of the base to two decimal places.

But here's the problem: this is cloisonné, an imperial artifact from the Jingtai reign of the Ming Dynasty to the Guangxu period of the late Qing Dynasty. Due to the small number of specimens, the specific contexts of use, and the limited location of production, research institutions are limited to a handful in Beijing.

So, where did Lin Sicheng conduct hundreds or thousands of experiments?

Anyway, Shang Yan thought to herself that she definitely couldn't do it. She didn't know whether Wang Qizhi could do it, and Professor Lin... probably couldn't do it either.

This is way off the mark...

"Where did he learn that?"

“In the book!”

Shang Yan raised her head suddenly: "What?"

"He said it was in a book... Professor Shang doesn't believe it, right?"

Wang Qizhi smiled and said, "A few days ago, he sold me an iron certificate. He said he could clean it, maintain it, and even repair it, but I didn't believe him...

Then, he used the purple-infrared imager in my laboratory to collect penetrating images of the surface of the iron specimen..."

After a pause, Wang Qizhi looked at Shang Yan and asked, "Professor Shang, do you know this method?"

I don’t know shit. That’s a method for testing ironware. Why should I learn it as a ceramics researcher?
Shang Yan rolled her eyes: "Professor Wang can?"

"I don't know either, because the relevant paper was only published by the Academy of Social Sciences last year..." Wang Qizhi was very single. "Besides, I'm a copper researcher and I can't even learn everything in my major. Why would I need to learn ironware testing methods?"

yes?

Just as the two words came to Shang Yan's lips, Wang Qizhi pointed inside:
"But he would... I asked him where he learned it, and he said books! I didn't believe him, so he pointed out relevant papers published by institutions like the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the National Museum of China, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and Beijing University of Technology... He also asked me if I wanted him to recite them to me."

Shang Yan had a dazed expression on her face: Isn’t this bullshit?

"Professor Wang, I remember the iron artifacts project was only launched last year?"

"Yes, so those papers were concentrated in the second half of last year... But that's only secondary... He was preparing to mix acid to clean rust, but after I scolded him and he left, he sent me a complete set of maintenance procedures for desalination, chlorine removal, corrosion inhibition, and sealing... Then, here's the key point: I sent it to a friend in Beijing, and he told me: This technology, which Beijing University of Technology had just applied for a patent at the beginning of the year, is still in the trial stage at the National Museum of China and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage..."

Wang Qizhi spread his hands and said, "My friend asked me where I stole it from."

"I asked him where he learned that, and he kept saying the same thing: 'From a book...' Of course I don't believe it! But if you ask me to come up with another reason, I really can't find one."

Wang Qizhi sighed again. "Even before, when he said he could repair cloisonné, I didn't believe him. Then he asked me: No matter how difficult this plate is to manipulate, can it be more difficult than that iron certificate?"

"I thought about it, and it does make sense... and then, here we are!"

Shang Yan stared at the figure in the equipment room, her eyes widening little by little.

Although there are relatively few institutions that study cloisonné, the level is not low.

But there are almost no institutions that study iron tools.

The reason is simple: the technological gap leads to lagging technological research and development, and what has been learned cannot be put into practice and cannot generate benefits, thus entering a vicious cycle.

That is why the country has introduced relevant support policies and even included it in the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan Key Social Science Fund Project".

Even if the project is established, it is still in its initial stage. Apart from the paper journals, there is no relevant work. Which book did Lin Sicheng learn from?

Unless it is deduced based on a paper, but to be honest, if you want to be this awesome, why bother reading books?

Can't you just join the National Cultural Heritage Administration or the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences whichever one you want?

Hey, wait...that's not right?
Shang Yan was stunned for a moment: "What iron certificate? Red-lettered iron certificate?"

"Yes, the certificate of immunity from death that Li Zicheng bestowed upon Lin Yangcheng... Just the weekend before last, I saw him pick it up at Xiaodongmen. He paid 400,000 for it and sold it to me for 500,000... Oh, and that plate..."

Wang Qizhi pointed into the equipment room again, "He bought a dog yesterday, and this tray is used as a dog bowl, so he didn't spend a penny... but he sold it to my eldest brother for a full 800,000 yuan, plus a commission of 940,000 yuan..."

"Also, the day I first met him, he found an internal reference book for thirty yuan and sold it to me for ten thousand... Oh, and he also found a feather duster and sold it for eighty thousand yuan, and a Buddha statue and sold it for three hundred thousand yuan... Your assistant should know about these two things.

Professor Shang, please do the math: ancient books, ironware, bronzeware, calligraphy and paintings, wood carvings... Just speaking from the attributes of antiques, how many categories does it cover?
So, these past few days, I've been thinking: Whether it's ceramic research or ceramic appreciation, Professor Lin is undoubtedly very professional. But even if he surpasses his teacher, he can't surpass him to this extent?

But guess what he said: Apart from porcelain, the rest had little to do with Professor Lin, he learned it all from books..."

Shang Yan moved her lips and wanted to curse: If the knowledge in the books is so easy to learn, why do we need teachers?

Li Zhen did say that she saw Lin Sicheng pick up a duster and a Buddha statue, which he eventually sold for 380,000 yuan. But she didn't know much more.

How much did all this add up to? A full 1.69 million...and the key point is, in just over two weeks?
Although it is too vulgar to talk about money in an ivory tower, do people in the ivory tower not eat or drink?
Her annual salary, bonuses, and project subsidies add up to just over 40,000 yuan. She's 45 years old this year, and she'll have to work for another 40 years without eating or drinking...

If she were Lin Sicheng, why would she study for a master's degree?

(End of this chapter)