Chapter 476: Stealing the Dragon and Turning the Phoenix

It would be almost impossible for ordinary people to find a suitable source for such a large number of cultural relics. For Bell, a group of professional archaeologists, it is almost a matter of getting a formal source for these prehistoric artifacts.

In fact, these archaeologists are tomb robbers and cultural relics dealers with business licenses. On the surface, these people have a high degree of education, one by one, in addition to the doctor, they are professors, but in fact, these guys' hearts are black, and they are generally second-class cultural relics, and these guys are naturally not eye-catching, and they will explain to you the origin and root of these cultural relics, but if they see precious cultural relics, these guys will change their ways to get such precious cultural relics into their own museums.

The crows in the world are as black as the archaeologists in the world. This may be a bit exaggerated, but in fact it is true. Nine is not far from ten. If you look at the Western archaeologists in the 19th and even 20th centuries, one or two experts didn't come to those backward countries in the name of archaeology to dig up people's ancestral graves and palaces, and after digging them out, as long as they were good, they were all taken away.

One of the most famous examples is the pyramids, everyone knows that the pyramids contain a large number of pharaonic funerary goods, but now, how many can be seen in them? Even in the National Museum of Egypt, how many precious pharaonic funerary objects can be seen? How many of the famous golden masks of the pharaohs are there in Egypt? Golden scepters, how many are there in Egypt?

There is also the blockbuster series filmed by Hollywood more than ten years ago, called "Legend of Gods and Ghosts", and even openly promoted what these archaeological experts did back then as a supreme glory

Of course, the pyramid is far away from us, and the movie is a bit fictional no matter how much you say it, but it's closer. Juan. After Dr. Moritz discovered the South American Tunnel in Ecuador, didn't he hide the news for three years before announcing it, and in a blink of an eye, he took the tunnel as his own, and the priceless cultural relics in it were not all moved to his own museum by this guy?

Since everyone did this before, let's do the same now. No one else can say anything else. It's just that with the gradual development of society, the laws of various countries are becoming more and more sound. Dr. Moritz's kind of thing rarely happens now, after all, even the most backward countries now know that as long as the cultural relics found in their own country belong to their own country, not to a certain person.

But even so. Up to now, the sale of cultural relics in various countries is still repeatedly prohibited, and these initiators are actually those archaeological experts who dig people's ancestral graves in the name of archaeology

Matthew. Bell is actually one of them, but before he met Tang Feng, he didn't have that much ability to go abroad to dump those precious cultural relics, but this didn't mean that he didn't know those doorways in this industry, so when he saw Tang Feng's vague words. Immediately understood what was going on with this batch of extremely valuable prehistoric artifacts that his boss and brother-in-law had gotten.

Yes, the boss and brother-in-law is a person with status and status. Naturally, this kind of thing can't be touched by him. Well, the boss is in difficulty, as a subordinate naturally has to carry it for the boss, is the million-dollar salary you really have when you are the boss for nothing?

So, from the beginning of the prehistoric artifacts that were moved into the museum, Matthew. Bell began to deal with the question of the origin of the artifact. Of course. There are a lot of expenses in this, but these expenses, in Tang Feng's eyes, are not a problem at all.

Given the large number of these artifacts, and the fact that they are all prehistoric artifacts. So Matthew. Bell used one of the most common, but not commonly used, methods to completely turn this artifact into a legitimate artifact.

This method is simple to say, but it is very cumbersome to operate, and it requires a lot of money and manpower to operate it seamlessly.

First of all, Matthew. Bell found someone to set up an art company overseas, this company registered in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, Africa, is definitely a leather bag company in the typical sense, except for a business license and related formalities, there is not even an office space, and don't forget, this company is registered in the world's most chaotic Somalia, even if it is committed, who can go to that country to verify? Even the CIA in the United States may not be able to find the owner of a leather bag company in that country.

After the company was established, find a local agent who could speak Latin, go directly to Haiti to register a leather bag company engaged in art trading, and then go to Bolivia to find a local local to register a company engaged in art trading.

The next step is the specific operation process, because Juan. Dr. Moritz brought out the exhibits from the South American Tunnel are very famous, so the company in Bolivia selected local materials, using stone and copper, silver and other metals, to imitate a number of works of art, of course, these works of art have strict rules about the shape of everything, that is, they are exactly the same as the real artifacts in the museum.

After the artworks were created and old, the company began to engage with local government officials to excavate a number of prehistoric artifacts, which of course fooled outsiders, and the local government officials in Bolivia naturally knew what these so-called "artifacts" were all about. But they took money from Bolivian companies, so naturally they didn't say anything.

At this time, the Haitian company came, saying that it had taken a fancy to this batch of cultural relics and wanted to transport them abroad, and the local Bolivian officials who understood what was going on with these "cultural relics" naturally would not stop them, so under the operation of the relevant personnel, this batch of "cultural relics" was sent to Haiti, of course, the benefits of local Bolivian officials were indispensable.

Of course, these "cultural relics" imported into Haiti in the name of works of art are transformed into real works of art in Haiti, which are then sold exclusively to an art company from Somalia. The devil knows where the art company in Somalia comes from, but since they came to buy it, it can also add a lot of tax revenue to Haiti, so this batch of art will naturally be loaded and shipped to Somalia again.

It's just that this ship didn't really go to Somalia, that place was full of pirates, and fools would go to that place to play in idleness. The ship will leave Port-au-Prince and head straight for Port Arthur, Texas, and will stop at Port Arthur and Matthew. Bell's people carry out the handover.

Because it was a work of art, this batch of things passed the customs without hindrance, and Port Arthur was sixty or seventy kilometers away from the Lambberton Museum, so soon, this batch of works of art was transported to Lambberton.

Then, the main event comes, the works of art produced in Bolivia, of course, will not escape the fate of being smashed and remelted, because these fakes are not needed here, and the real, identical prehistoric artifacts are being displayed in the museum.

That's when Matthew is needed. Archaeologists like Bell have come out and announced, at the right time, that they have purchased a batch of artworks in South America because of the needs of the museum, but when the artworks are shipped back, after inspection, they find that the artworks are real prehistoric artifacts, and invite archaeological experts from all over the world to identify them.

Of course, this statement is sure to arouse suspicion among many people, but what is the use of doubt? At that time, I bought this batch of cultural relics according to the price of art, and after three customs inspections, no one proposed that this was a cultural relic, I bought it back, and this is mine. If you don't believe me, go to the people who handle these artifacts, how do I know why they sell real artifacts as works of art!

If you have the ability, you can find those people who handle it, Nima, one in Somalia, one in Haiti, one in Bolivia, as long as you can find it, then you are awesome. Even if you find it, there is no way, because even those people can't tell how these things that are originally works of art became real cultural relics, and even if they find those local officials in Bolivia, they will definitely bite to death that they are definitely works of art and not cultural relics!

Nonsense, for the sake of the official hat on their heads, they don't dare to say that it is a cultural relic!

Then there is only one explanation, and that is that these art dealers simply sell real artifacts as works of art, and as a result, they are cheaper than the Lamberton Museum.

But this museum is also a public welfare museum, people don't use these cultural relics to make a profit at all, even if the U.S. government wants to confiscate it, you have to come up with relevant laws and regulations, but although the United States has a sound law, there is no law in this regard.

It's no wonder that this is an antique artifact, you can't see that it's your own inability, you can't buy a fake antique and then return it. In this industry, if there are no such rules, there will naturally be no such laws.

Therefore, after a big circle, these artifacts finally settled in the Lambberton Museum.

And this set of methods of stealing dragons and phoenixes will take at least two months to complete, so even now, this batch of cultural relics is still a cultural relic that cannot see the light, and it will only be able to be exhibited to the public after this set of procedures is completed, and this batch of cultural relics will truly become the collection of the Lamberton Museum. Therefore, now these cultural relics can only be placed on the second floor of the museum, which is temporarily closed to the public. (To be continued.) )