Chapter 1252: The Great Event
After the reform and opening up, as the national strength is getting stronger and stronger, the people's lives are getting better and better, and those who have become wealthy have begun to attach importance to cultural relics, especially some literate people, who have collected cultural relics from the people on their own and spent a small amount of money to buy things of great value.
The people naturally have some good things, but the stock is still not much, the country has been bullied by the Western powers since more than a hundred years ago, the British and French coalition forces robbed the Old Summer Palace, and looted a generation of Ming Yuan, and later the Eight-Nation Alliance Army robbed a lot of treasures, many fine cultural relics were taken out of the country, in addition to tomb robbers, most of the cultural relics they stole from the ancient tombs were also bought abroad.
It can be said that many treasures are abroad, and Liu Lang visited Paris and saw a large number of Chinese cultural relics, all of which are national treasures.
Naturally, the Chinese cultural relics in the official museums will not come back, but there are also many scattered good things in foreign countries, so that in France, Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, and island countries, there are markets dedicated to trading Chinese cultural relics.
Liu Lang just wants to let these experts go to the foreign market to find, it is only 92 years, the domestic cultural relics counterfeiting technology has not yet risen, and there are very few foreign Chinese cultural relics transactions, even if there are Chinese cultural relics prices in some auction houses, the money is not high, thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of dollars, at most hundreds of thousands of dollars, no one will pay attention to these things, so now is a good time to "recycle" the national treasure.
Liu Lang's suggestion was supported by everyone present, these people have been engaged in the cause of cultural relics all their lives, have indescribable feelings for cultural relics, is the sustenance of emotions, one of the things they hate the most is that there are countless cultural relics robbed by foreigners, it is like losing their son, such a feeling is not at all what others can imagine.
Liu Lang arranged two groups of people, two people went to England and France, and the other two went to Europe, mainly Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and two staff members in each group, who were responsible for the lives of the experts.
In terms of money, Liu Lang is naturally out again, each group will take 500,000 US dollars first, and if the price of good cultural relics is high, he will notify Liu Lang immediately, and he will go over in person.
Money is easy to do, everyone is happy to keep their mouths together, this time not only can you find cultural relics, but also travel around Europe for free, work and travel are not wrong, where in the world is there such a good job?
Liu Lang pays money, the other party pays people, one million US dollars is not worth mentioning to Liu Lang, but it is a huge amount of money for Yongli Group.
Shao Mingtao told Liu Lang that the state does not give a penny to the cost of Yongli Group to build a museum, all of which have to be raised by itself, Shao Mingtao raised 10 million yuan from various departments, and some professionals took the money and began to wander around the country, if they found good cultural relics to buy, the price should not be too expensive.
There are also people who go to the antique market on Hong Kong Island to "Taobao", maybe they can find some good things, or pick up some cheap lots at the auction, but no one goes to Europe, because the travel fee is too expensive, and it costs 10,000 yuan to fly back and forth, and this transportation fee can buy a good antique.
Now Liu Lang paid to Europe to "sweep the goods" is undoubtedly to solve the urgent need of Yongli Group, of course, the things bought back belong to Liu Lang, but Liu Lang promised to put these collections on display in the Yongli Museum.
Liu Lang doesn't want to be a collector, he just wants to get back the Chinese cultural relics scattered around the world as much as possible, and this era is also just right.
If you put it in 20 years, even if you are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, it is extremely difficult to do this, at that time, the world's Chinese antiques have been hyped up, even the 12 zodiac "faucets" of the Old Summer Palace can be sold for tens of millions of yuan, a piece of Yuan blue and white can easily exceed 100 million yuan, Liu Lang has the money to buy one or two pieces, no matter how much it is worthless.
Now in this era, no one has recognized the value of these Chinese antiques, if you find the zodiac "faucet", at most tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars can be bought, if you come across a piece of Yuan blue and white then you can make a lot of money, even hundreds of thousands of dollars are worth it.
Several experts left here satisfied, they want to go back to prepare, and then Shao Mingtao will go through the procedures for them to go abroad for inspection, in addition to foreign bank cards, and then they will start a trip to Europe, this time to spend a month, first explore the road, familiarize yourself with the environment, and touch the foreign market situation.
After these people left, Shao Mingtao and Liu Lang chatted, and Shao Mingtao told Liu Lang a sensational inside information, and the time state sent a special person to meet with the last Hong Kong governor of Hong Kong Island, Proton, and suddenly proposed a package of agreements, which shocked Boton, no, it should be said that the United Kingdom.
Educational, judicial, financial, publicity, and residency issues were all addressed in the agreement, and Britain was explicitly informed that there would be a series of "decolonization" actions after the handover.
That's right, decolonization, which is a formal agreement put forward by the country through various means, and is even ready for another marathon negotiation with the British.
One can imagine how depressed the last Hong Kong Governor Boteng was after receiving this announcement, he originally wanted to "lay mines" for China during his own management, but this "thunder" was just ready for the other party to throw a missile directly.
This is indeed a missile, and it also carries a nuclear warhead, and Britain has not understood at all that China will make such a "non-trivial branch", but this is the fact, and Britain will "take it".
Britain once had a large number of colonies in the world, and the largest colony in Asia was India, but since India's independence, there has been a large-scale decolonization, and there are few traces of Britain's past in the decades.
In addition, there is South Korea, which was once colonized by an island country, and where can we still see the slightest trace of an island country in South Korea? That is, the United Nations advocates decolonization, so the country's proposal to carry out decolonization is not unreasonable, but a matter of course, a just act, and a major national affair.
Liu Lang was extremely excited after hearing this news, maybe this matter will not be done in one hand, and even will go through a long time, ten or twenty years, but since the country has put it forward, it must have firm confidence, and it will definitely be implemented, and it will inevitably be hindered by the British in the process, but the Chinese do things like this, once they make up their minds, then they must go on, it is conceivable that under the premise that the return has become a foregone conclusion, the final "counterattack" of Britain has been hit again, and this Proton is all "perfect." Now he is only thinking about how to deal with China's move with Britain.