253 Picking up a leak in the Louvre's storeroom
There are six storerooms in the Louvre that store the inventory collections, and the first one that Xiao Yao visited was the one where the miscellaneous collections were stored.
This warehouse is particularly large, about 2,000 square meters.
The slightly more expensive items are placed on the shelves, and many of the lower priced ordinary items are even stacked on the board.
Seeing the many collections randomly stacked in this warehouse, Xiao Yao was even more determined that he would not donate cultural relics to the museum.
With so many people in society donating their private collections to museums, if those people saw this scene in front of them, they might regret it.
The number of cultural relics in the collections of top museums is often hundreds of thousands, millions, and those fine collections need to be exhibited on a rotational basis, so they can naturally be properly kept. However, those more ordinary collections have no chance to be exhibited to the public, and can only be shelved and stored in dark warehouses.
Because there are so many cultural relics, those ordinary antique cultural relics are not even properly maintained and safeguarded.
These ordinary artifacts are not worth mentioning for top museums, and it is really better to keep them in the hands of collectors than to store them in the warehouses and eat ashes.
These worthless antique relics, if left in the hands of ordinary people, are rare treasures, and they will definitely be carefully and properly kept.
With a little emotion, Xiao Yao began to release his spiritual power and select the most valuable collections among them.
After taking a dozen steps forward, he picked out a valuable collection.
The piece he picked out was an antique violin from more than 100 years ago, and the violin itself was not worth much, at most $100,000.
However, his mental power found a wooden box inside the violin, in which three pieces of diamond jewelry and one ruby sapphire were stored.
The cheapest of the three pieces of diamond jewelry, the colorless transparent round necklace pendant, has a market price of around $8 million, and the price of a blue diamond ring should be around $10 million, with a pink diamond brooch being the most expensive, with a market price of more than $20 million.
The price of the two ruby sapphires is also not low, with the cornflower sapphire necklace costing around $10 million and the ruby bracelet costing around $15 million.
The price of these 5 pieces of jewelry alone is already more than 60 million US dollars, and he can spend a maximum of 100,000 US dollars to keep these 5 pieces of jewelry for himself.
It's like picking up money!
His decision to barter this time will definitely be profitable.
Others are picking up leaks in the trading market, but he is picking up leaks in the treasury of the Louvre, and at this moment, he feels a great sense of accomplishment.
If the management of the Louvre knew that this violin contained a fortune of more than $60 million, I wonder if they would regret it to the point of vomiting blood?
Unfortunately, this is a special case, and this violin is the only one in the entire storehouse that hides a shocking fortune.
He selected more than 20 cultural relics in this warehouse, which are relatively miscellaneous, including musical instruments, lamps, ancient coins, clocks and watches.
With the exception of the first violin, the rest of the artifacts are seriously undervalued.
According to the information next to these cultural relics, the value of these more than 20 cultural relics is more than 3 million US dollars at most. But even if the price of the precious jewelry hidden in the violin is removed, the lowest price of these more than 20 undervalued artifacts is above $40 million.
After selecting the first warehouse, Xiao Yao received nearly 100 million dollars in cultural relics, and he was naturally very happy.
The second storehouse he visited was dedicated to sculptures and bronzes.
In this warehouse, Xiao Yao's harvest is also huge.
This time, he found a stone Buddha statue with something else inside.
This stone Buddha statue is supposed to be from China, and the Buddha statue itself should be the work of a master carver, and the price of the stone Buddha statue should be about $300,000.
Of course, the stone Buddha statue itself is not the focus, the focus is on the two Chinese paintings stored inside the stone Buddha statue.
After Xiao Yao used his spiritual power to investigate, he quickly found out the origin of these two Chinese paintings.
One of them turned out to be Yan Liben's "Wei Zheng's Advice"!
Although this painting is recorded in the "Xuanhe Painting Spectrum", it has long been submerged in history, and I didn't expect it to be hidden in this stone Buddha statue.
Yan Liben's most well-known work should be "Bu Yuan Tu", but the "Bu Yuan Tu" that has been handed down to this day is only a copy of the Song people, not Yan Liben's authentic work.
If Xiao Yao publicly displays this "Wei Zhengjin Advice Map", it will definitely cause a huge sensation in China.
This authentic painting of Yan Liben is definitely a well-deserved top national treasure, and if it is publicly auctioned, the price will be at least more than 1 billion yuan.
Even if Xiao Yao's "Thunder" is used to exchange for this painting, at present, it is definitely a big profit.
Another painting is "Ink and Bamboo Picture" by Liu Mengsong in the Song Dynasty.
Liu Mengsong is good at using ink as flowers and birds, especially fine ink bamboo, between light and deep, divided into light and heavy colors, although the color painting can not be added, it has become a kind of style.
Although this "Ink and Bamboo Picture" cannot be compared with Yan Liben's "Wei Zhengjin Diagram", it is also a rare national treasure painting, and if it is auctioned, the transaction price will be at least 400 million yuan.
Buying two national treasure-level paintings again, with this stone Buddha statue, the income of the second warehouse has far exceeded that of the first warehouse.
He selected three sculptures in this warehouse, these three sculptures are all famous works, and they were all imitated by later generations when they were identified, so they were placed in the warehouse to eat ashes.
Although there is no shortage of top appraisers in the Louvre, there are so many collections here, and the span of age is too large, and a few appraisal errors are inevitable.
Although the items selected in the second warehouse are few, the price is three or four times higher than the price of all the items selected in the first warehouse.
The three sculptures he selected were all masterpieces of famous artists, and the total price was about $200 million.
Coupled with the price of the two paintings in the stone Buddha statue, the total price is about 430 million.
After obtaining so many incomparably precious antique artworks one after another, Xiao Yao was almost numb.
Although he was happy to get so many national treasure-level antique artworks, he never found a single thing he wanted the most.
In addition to finding clues to the Nine Spirit Beads, or even the Nine Spirit Beads, what he wanted most was the magic weapons, strange things or various secret methods that had been handed down from ancient times.
If he could get an ancient treasure similar to the Rejuvenation Order of All Things, then these mundane things he obtained would not be worth mentioning.