Chapter 0988: The opening of the museum shocked the world
According to rumors, there are 9999.5 houses in the Forbidden City, why do you replace half of them, it is a small thatched toilet back then, which is convenient for the staff, and now it has been demolished, leaving 9999 rooms. The Long's Museum is different, except for the underground part, the above-ground part is three times the size of the Forbidden City is 29,997 rooms, in fact, it is not necessarily, this is just the area of the statement, in fact, the new building adopted by the Long's Group, many rooms are dome design, no room is divided into rooms.
The Long's Museum is ready, it will be opened, and the audience will be like a tide immediately, the Long's skyscraper will have about 100,000 people coming to visit every day, plus the Long's Film and Television City, it is already overcrowded, and there are more people although the ticket price of the Long's Museum is 200 yuan per person, a pass, it was full on the first day, reaching 200,000 people, and the result is a sea of people. Not to mention anything else, even those who sell mineral water at the door have made a fortune, and the turnover is tens of thousands a day, and it is not a problem to earn a few thousand.
In general, museums are not allowed to take pictures, and even now everyone has a mobile phone and can take pictures, and the museum staff will stop it. But the Long Museum has adopted a free model, not only can take pictures, but also can take group photos, but all the water art is covered with crystal glass, which is not touched at all, that is, can only be seen through the glass, but it is such a measure, that is, the vast majority of tourists feel very satisfied. Because tourists come to watch it as a souvenir, as long as they are allowed to take pictures.
The news of the opening of the museum was announced on CCTV, CCTV was broadcast globally, CCTV also sent its own news reporters to interview, and it was broadcast for three minutes in the prime-time news price, which can be said to be quite large, and it caused a national sensation. Come to visit Xinglong District, Fengcheng, Qilu Province, there are hundreds of thousands every day, the most one day even reaches more than one million, not to mention seeing, you can only see the back of the tourists' heads, there is no way to do it, who calls the current Chinese people to have holidays at every turn.
When the news spread abroad, it caused an uproar, especially the British collecting circle is very strange, there are many things that others have seen in the UK, how did they come to China, is it that Huaxia spent a huge amount of money to buy, but in fact, such a huge amount is not something that ordinary people can do.
The British would not be surprised when they heard that the museum was built by the Dragon Group, the world's largest enterprise, but it was not right when they thought about it in a blink of an eye, where did so many collections come from, who sold them in large quantities, and if they did, how could there be news, but there was no such news in the whole of Britain.
Careful British people found that 80% of these collections were national treasures of the Old Summer Palace of the original Chinese Qing Dynasty, and only 20% were European Renaissance things. As for the national treasures of China, it is okay to buy them back, anyway, they are things of China, and they are returned to their original owners, but there are still 40,000 or 50,000 treasures belonging to Europe, and they are displayed in private museums in China, which is tantamount to slapping Europeans in the face.
As a result, those from France, Germany, and Italy, that is, the original countries of the Eight-Nation Alliance, came to the United Kingdom one after another, found the Duke of Windsor, who was relatively famous, and discussed countermeasures whether to get back the treasures left in the Dragon Group.
It's very simple, but how to get it, you can't do it again, it's okay in the Qing Dynasty, but not now, Huaxia's military is already so strong, as long as Huaxia doesn't bully other countries, countries around the world will burn high incense, and they still want to bully Chinese people, it's impossible, so what should I do?
Buying with money is the easiest way, but who has that much money. Nearly 200,000 treasures in the Long Museum are on display, and some people have re-evaluated, not to mention the national treasures of China, even if the 40,000 or 50,000 European Renaissance treasures are worth four or five trillion euros, if they are converted into RMB, it will be 50 trillion, such a huge amount of money is not available to any European, even the European government. The Europeans ran out of options, so they came up with another stupid solution, which was barter.
The modern history of China is a history of humiliation, since entering the Qing Dynasty, it has been invaded by the world powers, either to cede the land and pay compensation, or to plunder, the land of China is suffering, so in the entire Qing Dynasty, 90% of the cultural relics of China are like foreign countries, and there are a large number of cultural relics abroad. Although there are nearly 200,000 cultural relics that Long Xiao got back, plus the cultural relics of that lost province, it is a drop in the bucket, and it is not worth mentioning at all.
Britain's modern history is a history of aggression, because Britain was the first to enter the industrial revolution, therefore, in modern history, it is the most powerful country in the world, and so far, it is also the largest country in the world, which is unknown to most people, because there are still two countries on the earth that still belong to the British vassal countries, that is, Canada and Australia. As the saying goes, a hundred-legged insect dies but does not stiffen, and since Britain is an old imperialist country, its people's financial resources are still very strong.
Although the British can't come up with much cash now, if you talk about the world's cultural relics, just take out a duke or earl, and the collection at home will be no less than thousands, which is also the characteristic of the United Kingdom, and it is a country that is truly rich in the people, that is, the current China, which is already the world's largest economic entity, is the internal strength, and it is not as good as the United Kingdom. Even the United States is the same.
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The Europeans decided to barter and exchange goods, so they recommended the Duke of Windsor of the United Kingdom to come forward, and everyone came together to come up with 50,000 pieces of Chinese national treasures to negotiate with the Long Group, and the Duke of Windsor was in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom, and selected the descendants of the officers who wanted to invade China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and there were more than 200 people, so they held consultations, and everyone came forward, and each family took out 250 pieces of Chinese cultural relics and exchanged them with the Long Group.
Speaking of which, the British are still very united and patriotic, and everyone is also a wealthy family, even if they take out hundreds of cultural relics, they don't feel any pain, so they agreed to the Duke of Windsor's request, so they gathered 50,000 cultural relics that originally belonged to China, took photos, and made a catalog to negotiate with the Long Group.
Long Shan was a little hesitant after receiving the memorandum of negotiation, because these cultural relics were brought by Long Xiao, although he was the boss of the Long Group, in fact, it was still Long Xiao who had the final say, so he discussed with Long Xiao whether to change it, Long Xiao thought about it for a while, and felt that the Europeans were bullying people, it was originally a Chinese thing, they snatched it and said it, and now they want to exchange him for their own national treasure, so there is such a good thing?
If you want to exchange it, you need to show sincerity, unless two pieces are exchanged for one, that is to say, unless the European side comes up with 100,000 pieces of Chinese national treasures, Long Xiao will agree to return the European national treasures. Long Shan passed on the meaning of Long Xiao to the Duke of Windsor in England. The Duke of Windsor was dumbfounded when he heard this, he didn't expect that the current Chinese people were so difficult, and he actually proposed that the British should unconditionally return the national treasures looted by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the Duke of Windsor couldn't be the master, so he had to discuss with the British tycoons.
In the end, it was the British who compromised, believing that even if it was something from China, it should be returned, and the current Chinese people were not very hot, and if the Chinese people were forced to rush and send nuclear-powered bombers around Britain for a few days, the government would be afraid, and it would be difficult for the rich to open the knife. So the British asked other countries in Europe to come up with 50,000 pieces of Chinese cultural relics. After making up 100,000 pieces, it was officially negotiated at Longshan. In the end, Ryusan reluctantly proposed the Duke of Windsor's request, and returned all 50,000 European Renaissance artifacts to Europe, and shipped back 100,000 national treasures.
Now, the Long's Museum has 250,000 pieces of Chinese national treasures, plus some more collected, there are basically 300,000 pieces, plus 2 million pieces of contemporary artworks, it can be regarded as the world's largest folk museum. The Forbidden City saw that the Long Museum was developing so rapidly, and it was also envious, so it discussed with the Long Museum whether to start exchanging cultural relics and exhibiting them, Wang Chengxiang agreed, and carried out the first exchange with the Palace Museum, which was not bad, and also made the people who came to watch the Long Museum feast their eyes.
Without European artworks, the Long Museum is more like a national group, and the Long Museum has integrated the original four parts into two parts, all of which have become a treasure trove of Chinese art.