Chapter 570: Oops, I Forgot~

In October 1856, Britain and France, with the support of Tsarist Russia and the United States, jointly launched the Second Opium War, and captured the Forbidden City on the 6th. ≥CO

After the leaders of the British and French invasion of China broke into the Old Summer Palace, they immediately "coordinated the dispatch of three members of the British and French committees to discuss the distribution of the treasures in the garden." On the same day, the French commander Mentoban sent a letter to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs: "I instruct the French commissioners to take note of the most valuable objects of art and archaeology." It will be presented to His Majesty the Emperor (Napoleon III), a very rare piece of French art, and in the collection of the French Museum. ”

The British commander, Grant, also immediately "sent officers to collect all the things that belonged to the British." ”

Officers and soldiers, the British and the French, in order to grab the treasure, poured into the Old Summer Palace from all directions, indulged in wanton, took and plundered, and were in a hurry. They beat each other and even fought with each other in order to grab the treasure. Take fun of it. Most of the French soldiers used sticks in their hands to mash everything that could not be taken away.

On October 18, 1860, 3,500 British troops rushed into the Old Summer Palace and set fire to the Old Summer Palace. This unique masterpiece of the garden was burned to the ground.

Afterwards, according to the investigation of the Qing officials, only twenty or thirty palaces, pavilions, temples, official gates, duty rooms and other buildings survived in the huge Three Gardens of the Old Ming Dynasty, but the doors and windows were many uneven, and the interior furnishings and several cases were all looted. Since then, some buildings in Wanshoushan Qingyi Garden, Xiangshan Jingyi Garden and Yuquan Mountain Jingmingyuan have also been burned.

The Old Summer Palace and the nearby Qingyi Garden, Jingmingyuan, Jingyi Garden, Changchun Garden and Haidian Town were burned to ruins, when the British invading army burned down the Anyou Palace, because they came suddenly, the chief eunuch locked the gate of the Anyou Palace, so there were eunuchs, palace maids, craftsmen and other 300 people at that time, were burned alive in the Anyou Palace, becoming an atrocity in the history of world civilization......

Is there anyone in the international community who will be held accountable for such atrocities afterwards!?

Those noble Westerners, did they return those cultural relics!?

No.

Never.

They just put these "trophies" in their own museums, proudly exhibited them, and sold them at auction to patriotic Chinese merchants at incredibly high prices.

China has become the second most powerful country in the world, and they can all have the cheekiness to keep these cultural relics for themselves, in this time and space, do you expect this group of Western bastards to find out and spit things out to you?

It's a pipe dream......

Therefore, Su Huai's anger was not scorching, but condensed like ice, and the anger was cold and piercing, but turned into a kind of calmness.

"So, Secretary-General An, you mean the same thing?" Su Huai turned his head to look at the Secretary-General of UNESCO, unusually calm.

Secretary-General An sighed and said:

"In this case, China's experience is indeed sympathetic, but UNESCO is not a military tribunal and cannot try war crimes.

In addition, UNESCO was not founded to benefit a particular country, but rather to a 'cultural cosmopolitan' perspective and not to consider cultural relics as "nationally unique" cultural heritage.

The ultimate goal of UNESCO is to bridge cultural differences between nations and countries.

And the recovery of 'cultural relics originally abroad' is too ambiguous, is it based on the current administrative boundaries of the national border?"

Secretary-General An asked Su Huai gently, but Su Huai did not answer, because Secretary-General An did not intend to let him answer at all, but let him listen:

"If this is divided, the historical evolution of modern countries and past historical civilizations, changes over time, territorial boundaries, language and culture, and country names are mostly changed or even broken.

Should ancient Greek art made and excavated in Afghanistan, once on the edge of the Greek Empire, belong to Greece or Afghanistan?

A 2,600-year-old mummy found in Pakistan, which Iran claims is the remains of a member of the ancient Iranian royal family, should Pakistan accept such a claim?"

As he spoke, he looked at Su Huai and said:

"Each country has its own different civilizations, and its own national interests are the priority of the world, the world will be constantly disputed, there will be contradictions, there will be differences, so the United Nations, is to eliminate differences, you are Chinese, but also the world, China's cultural relics are also the world's common cultural relics, they also have the right to own.

Mr. Su, do you understand what I said?" Secretary General An's last sentence was serious, staring into Su Huai's eyes.

"Well said~~ Well said~ Quack, worthy of the Secretary-General of UNESCO. Su Huai nodded with a smile, his expression full of sarcasm:

"Just like I just said, since New Europe and the Europa Alliance do not return Chinese cultural relics, then I have no obligation to give them their lost culture, since it is 'cultural cosmopolitanism', then yours is our Chinese heritage, you keep our cultural relics, we also preserve yours...... You're European, but you're also from the world, aren't you?"

Secretary-General An frowned and said: "Mr. Su, don't be impulsive, these are two different things, the folk materials collected by your father are not cultural relics, and you, as a member of UNESCO, have the obligation to report to UNESCO." ”

"Oh...... I don't have a good memory, so I forgot everything. Su Huai touched his nose with a smile, his face full of mockery.

"Bastard, you just said that you remember everything!" Russell couldn't help but scold.

"I can't help it. Su Huai gently shook the folding fan and said with a smile:

"I don't remember anything unimportant, but if Mr. Russell doesn't believe me, open my head and see, and I swear to God, if I have a lie, I'll be your grandfather. ”

Mr. Su...... This ......" Mother Teresa said in a trembling voice, almost fainting.

"Mother Teresa~~ Don't worry, I still remember this "Dead Sea Scrolls". Su Huai hurriedly said:

"Whoever is Huaxia's friend is my Su Huai's friend, and my Su Huai has always been very attentive to his friends. ”

Su Huai laughed and scolded angrily, obviously playing with them Westerners.

Russell, Kirk, and Singer all turned their heads angrily to Secretary-General An and said, "Secretary-General An, this Su Huai does not obey the rules of the organization, and he must be punished according to the rules!"

Chairman Fan also hurriedly came over and whispered to Su Huai: "Bear with this breath first!"

"Angry, Fan Bo, where did you see that I was angry? Didn't I reason with my colleagues?" At this point, Su Huai didn't plan to give face to Secretary-General An, so he stretched his waist and said lazily to Secretary-General An:

"Secretary-General An, let's do it, I'll show you the way, since you are the Secretary-General of UNESCO, then you can amend this cultural relics law, you have amended this cultural relics law, let them return the cultural relics to us Huaxia, then what I promised you, the two do not owe each other, it is reasonable. ”