Since 91, Lao Pu has served as the chairman of the International Liaison Committee of the Leningrad City of the Soviet Union, in charge of the foreign economic relations of the municipal government, and has dealt with the subsidiaries of the Sunshine Star Group for the past two years.

Since the last chance encounter in eastern Germany, Zhang Nan has not met with him again, but he has called him several times.

is different from the hearsay on TV in his previous life, and now I really feel that this Lao Pu is an absolute strongman, worthy of the elite from the KGB - he basically didn't understand English before 91, because of the needs of work, he is now very proficient in talking to Zhang Nan on the phone in English.

All the formal investments and large transactions of Sunshine Star Group in Leningrad, which is now renamed St. Petersburg, are related to Lao Pu, which makes Lao Pu's performance even more outstanding!

His mentor, St. Petersburg Mayor Sobchak, was highly impressed by him, and he was recently appointed First Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg and Chairman of the International Liaison Committee.

The leaders at the top value him, and his colleagues also appreciate him, but even if someone maliciously thinks about it, it is useless to think about it, and the relationship between people and Mr. Mayor is a real mentor and a love and apprentice!

In 1970, he was admitted to Petrograd University, which is now the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University, and eventually graduated with a Ph.D. equivalent to a doctorate from other countries - the Soviet "doctor" is the "postdoctoral" of other countries, and the current mayor of St. Petersburg, Sobchakna, is his professor of economics.

People are still from the famous KGB, and they don't have to say anything about their ability to do things, so you can try it!

And now in St. Petersburg's foreign economic exchange work, the Sunshine Star Group from the United States belongs to the real giant group, investment, acquisition, ordering... The sum of money is a huge amount of money and political achievements, and people have made it clear that they only recognize Lao Pu alone, and don't even think about changing people.

I don't even bother to talk to you!

There are leaders inside, there are super big customers to support, plus their own quality is excellent, and Lao Pu is not getting ahead, that's hell.

It seems strange that the American company has a good relationship with Lao Pu, but in fact, the reason is simple.

The big boss in the background said that he believed in fate, and the passers-by who could meet at the Brandenburg Gate many years ago had an intersection, this is fate, and others want to grab the performance is not the door.

Lao Pu has been in East Germany for many years, and his work is special, and he already knows a lot of foreign entrepreneurs, which is the special one of Sunshine Star Group.

Zhang Nan likes to deal with Lao Pu, the emperor is a very emotional person, isn't it, a little understanding of his relationship with his mentor can get this conclusion.

How did his teacher and old superiors leave Russia in the first place?

Half the world knows that the old man here has risked his future, and even risked his head to the belt of his pants, which is absolutely affectionate!

When dealing with such a person, the only way to deal with such a person is not to be his enemy, and there is no big conflict of interests, at least you don't have to worry about people stabbing you.

Besides, for many years to come, Zhang Nan will need to cooperate with Russia, which is not only an emotional investment of old friends, but also an investment in interests.

Old beauty?

It's so stingy!

It's just a holy icon, and when Lao Pu reaches the pinnacle of power, if the time and reason are right, Zhang Nan will give the Amber Palace to others as a gift.

A work of art, which can't be exchanged for money and is not particularly fond of art, even if it is the most important national treasure of another country, is nothing more than chicken ribs for Zhang Nan.

Giving or exchanging is to make the best use of things.

Here Pavel was happy to take on the task, "Boss, I want to take one or two people with me to Leningrad." ”

"Whatever you want, you choose your own people.

This thing doesn't have to go through customs, so as not to get into trouble, and use the company's freight route. I will not greet him in advance, but you should contact him when you arrive in Leningrad, and do not let anyone else know about the icon.

If the other party proposes that we need someone to perform a secret donation drama when necessary, just think about it, anyway, don't get involved with me in the same company.

The identity is sensitive, it is not appropriate for our people to come forward, I want his personal favors, not Russian favors. ”

Pavel understood.

Call in the attendants, repack the icon, and leave it to Pavel.

The boss has a box, and he has to use a cart.

Pavel wants to leave as soon as possible, Zhang Nan is no problem, it doesn't matter to him sooner or later, anyway, he is not interested in the Virgin and the Son.

As for Lao Pu, he definitely knows how to make the most of this Russian national treasure, and as for Zhang Nan's intentions, he must also understand.

Push him up!

The Soviet Union is gone, but Russia will eventually become a giant, and in 10 or 20 years, a person in the United States who can influence the presidential election, has a good cooperative relationship and personal friendship with the top controllers of Russia, and has a heel in China...

Such a person on this planet is either "dancing on three eggs" as Yan Laoxi said, or a carefree fairy that no one dares to provoke!

Pavel left for St. Petersburg the next day with the icon of the Turkvin Church, which had recently been without a direct freighter and had to take a long time to transfer, which was not always available.

But it doesn't matter if you wait, it's your own company's plane anyway, and it will arrive in three or five days at most, and it's safe.

Four days later, when Pavel and the others had just arrived in St. Petersburg, and before they could contact Lao Pu, Zhang Nan saw hundreds of newly acquired boxes in the warehouse of his military museum.

Something from New York's messy Brooklyn borough was the clue provided by a friend at the General Customs Service, the inventory of a gang of antiquities smugglers.

It can only be regarded as the bad luck of that gang, and put the smuggled cultural relics warehouse in Brooklyn, where the old black gangsters will haunt at night, and as soon as Zhang Nan was interested, Thomas asked the people in the company to do the dirty work to run the warehouse!

Gangster looting, thieves coming, peers stabbing knives... The reason for the case is that the police choose their own and choose at will, and Thomas here is as long as the boss is happy.

Besides, it's Brooklyn, with dozens of robberies, several shootings, and gang fires several times a year, so it's not a matter of killing a man or robbing a warehouse.

The warehouse had been evaporated, and the owner of the smuggler, an outsider from Jersey, had disappeared as if it had never happened.

No one called the police, no body, and eventually there was no case.

Thomas is not a good person, and the people under him who do black work are not good people, what New York's Italian mafia, the skinheads, the Ku Klux Klan, the Vietnamese gang, the Mexican brotherhood...

Compared with the people raised by the joint forces, they are at most children in kindergarten!

The boxes in the warehouse were placed on the ground, and only two or three were opened, and Thomas, who accompanied Zhang Nan, said: "I asked the guards, and they are all cultural relics smuggled from Eastern Europe, Egypt, and China.

Knowing that the boss you like to watch slowly, the guys have checked these boxes for safety, there are absolutely no explosives and toxic substances, you can pry slowly and play. ”

Speaking of this, he pointed to a few who had already opened the box, "When our people went in, a few smugglers were looking at the goods, so we didn't pack them again."

I looked at these two things as smuggled goods from Huaxia, and the person below asked, saying that they were transported in containers.

The smuggling routes they know are all written down, and you can take them away if you need them. ”

Zhang Nan shook his head slightly, and said: "It's useless, the smuggling of the whole people, the characteristics of the times, and I'm embarrassed to go out if I don't have any smuggled goods at home!"

Hehe... Makes sense, Thomas.

Smuggling in, smuggling out, smuggling everywhere, container entrainment is the stupidest and safest means of success.

The container sampling rate is 5%, and no matter how high the port is, it will not be able to operate normally, and in this way, the customs of Huaxia can still seize an astonishing number of smuggled cultural relics every year.

It is impossible to find out, and if one is killed, ten will come out, and this depends on the change of social atmosphere, and it is not something we should consider.

Maybe it will be much better in 20 years, but it is impossible to ban it, and if there is interest, there will be a market..."

In the mid-90s of his last life, Zhang Nan was a professional native master, and later a cultural relics dealer, so I don't know too much about these.

Examine?

Check the hair!

As he spoke, he walked over to the open wooden box.

The inside of the one in front of me is dug out of styrofoam, and after putting something like a sponge for shockproof cushioning, I put in the items that need to be smuggled inside.

The thing had been taken out and put on the workbench aside, and Jenny, who had nothing to do with Zhang Nan this time, saw the object and said, "Why do I feel that this is something from India?"

The object can be nearly 30 centimeters in diameter, and it looks like a platform, with a building, a Buddha, a house, and a whole miniature model on it.

Jenny hadn't seen it, because there was nothing like it in Zhang Nan's previous collection.

Zhang Nan had already come closer to look at it, heard the question, and said: "This is a silver mandala, also known as Manda mandala, which is the ideal Elysian model of Buddhists, a genuine Chinese item.

I think... I think this should be something from the middle and early Qing Dynasty, most likely from the Qianlong period. ”

Jenny asked in English, and Zhang Nan replied in Chinese, anyway, she was already proficient in Chinese and could understand it: these are not only awkward to say in English, but also difficult to understand.

"Manda, it's still a bit of India. Jenny said with a smile.

Thomas Chinese on the side is really okay, half understanding is half a breath, not to mention Jerry Gooden, an expert brought in together.

Fortunately, there were several Chinese people on the side, Alyosha, Lin Ming, and Ma Wei, who acted as translators in real time.

Even if the taste changes a little after the translation, at least you won't be blind.

Here, Zhang Nan smiled and said to Jenny: "That's right, it's a Chinese cultural relic with an Indian flavor."

The name of this thing is a Sanskrit transliteration, and it is called 'mandala' or 'manda', 'manda'.

According to Buddhist scriptures, when the ancient Indian Esoteric Buddhism was practising, in order to prevent the invasion of foreign demons, the boundary was demarcated or an earthen altar was built at the cultivation place, and the statues of the Buddhas were set up on it, indicating that the Buddhas gathered... Later, the altars and boundaries set up during the practice of the Dharma were called mandalas or mandalas.

This kind of mandala uses three-dimensional or flat square and circle geometric shapes and molds or paintings with gods and goddesses, representing the mandalas and palaces of the gods, which is a metaphor for the structure of the Buddhist world.

Due to the different contents of Esoteric practice, the form and content of the mandala are also different, and the furnishings are also different, which is extremely complex.

After arriving in China, in order to facilitate practice, later generations made mandalas of different styles and sizes with gold, stone, wood, and earth materials according to the content of the mandala, which were used to represent different Buddha worlds.

This thing is usually displayed in the Buddha hall for visualization. Although the volume of this piece of silver is average, the workmanship is very fine, and ordinary craftsmen and silver buildings can't make it. ”

Speaking of which, Zhang Nan picked up this mandala and looked at it carefully, trying to find out if there was any mark left by the producer.

Outcome...

I can't find a mark from more than two hundred years ago, but I look at three marks from a few decades ago: there are actually three labels on the bottom.

Looking at it, Zhang Nan's brows furrowed!

"Alan, what's wrong?" Jenny saw that something was wrong, and her lover only had this expression when she was angry.

Zhang Nan snorted and said, "It's nothing, it's just that some people over there in Huaxia have gone too far, and they really dare to sell anything!"

Look at these three labels, they were put up at least 20 years ago, and I think the early one can be 40 years old. I really don't know if the guy who sells this thing is crazy for money, or if he's stupid enough to kick the donkey. ”

Jenny is fluent in Chinese and basically recognises commonly used Chinese characters.

Now I looked up carefully, there were three paper labels, each with "Liuping 56044", "Review 515", and "So 141442".

Looking up at Zhang Nan, "This is something that flows out of the museum?"

Zhang Nan let out a sigh of relief from his nostrils, and said gloomily: "It's not an ordinary museum, I don't know what this 'Liuping' means, but it should also be a label for registration."

The label of the word "therefore" means the Forbidden City, which is the Palace Museum in China, and this is a thing that flows out of the Palace Museum, even if it is not the Forbidden City, it is also related to the Palace Museum.

I think it is absolutely above the second-level cultural relics, and it is possible to evaluate the first-class cultural relics!

Dare to sell such things, nine times out of ten they will steal from themselves, they want to go crazy for money, and they don't want their lives!"

No matter what the meaning of the "Liuping" number, the label of the word "therefore" indicates that this silver mandala belongs to the Palace Museum, or the collection of cultural relics called the Palace Museum, at least it was.

It stands to reason that no matter where the Palace Museum's collection is, it is not allowed to be sold, which is different from selling things in a cultural relics store!

A few people nearby will hear Zhang Nan's words, and they don't feel anything, but they feel sad: Where is the Palace Museum, if that place is guarded and smuggled cultural relics, then...

I didn't think about it, Zhang Nan said again: "Wait, things are not necessarily sold in the Forbidden City, cultural relics are transferred, I have to call someone to ask." ”

However, when I saw the time at half past two in the afternoon, I temporarily dispelled this idea: Huaxia will be in the middle of the night.

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