Chapter 186: Museum Theft
After being silent for a while, Qin Fan said directly to Su Yanran, "Sister Su, if someone entrusts you to buy the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow in the future, you will directly refuse." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
Hearing the offer of 50 million US dollars, Qin Fan was pretending to be forced if he wanted to say that he was not moved at all.
But if he really sold this national treasure to foreigners for money, I'm afraid Qin Xuedong would discount his leg and deny him as a son.
Su Yanran was exquisite, and suddenly guessed Qin Fan's thoughts, and said with a smile on the phone, "Don't worry, I'll help you decline the invitation of those international buyers later." But I don't think some people will give up, I'm afraid I'll come to Luzhou to find you in person these days, this news is so big, you will be annoyed in the future. β
Among those international buyers are members of old Western families, who are wealthy and powerful, and have extremely deep backgrounds. Ordinary auction companies simply can't afford to provoke them.
Qin Fan smiled bitterly, "Buddy, can't you hide if you can't afford to provoke me, I'll go out to travel for ten days and half a month, and I'll come back when this thing stops." β
"Well, that's a way to do that, too. Not to mention, another customer called in, probably for the sake of the knife. β
Hanging up the phone, Qin Fan was also a little distressed.
He didn't expect the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow to make such a big noise, and now the collectors who came to visit and intend to buy this treasure knife almost broke the threshold of the old Qin family.
"What's going on, my house is not a museum exhibition hall."
Qin Fan pulled his hair in distress, he could go out to travel to avoid the limelight, but it was impossible to take out that Great Xia Dragon Sparrow. If you just leave it at home, it's not very safe.
In these years, there is no shortage of outlaws who take risks for money, although the community is heavily guarded and the security force is strong, but I am afraid it will be difficult to stop those professional international thieves.
Just when Qin Fan was distressed, the appearance of a person solved his urgent need.
"Xiaofan, this is Director Shao of our Luzhou Museum, and also your Uncle Dong's old classmate. I came to you this time because I wanted to discuss something with you. Qin Xuedong brought an old man with gray hair in and introduced him to Qin Fan.
"Hello Director Shao, if my guess is correct, you are also here for that Great Xia Dragon Sparrow Treasure Knife."
In the past two days, several groups of people have come to Qin's house to visit the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow through the introduction of acquaintances, and Qin Fan has also seen it and got used to it.
"Hehe, what Xiaofan said is right. But this time the old man came with a mission, I have a reluctant request, I hope Xiaofan, you can agree to send this Daxia dragon bird to the Luzhou Museum for a few days. β
In the past few days, both at home and abroad have been paying attention to the news of the appearance of the Great Summer Dragon Sparrow, if the Luzhou Museum can open a Great Summer Dragon Sparrow exhibition hall, it will definitely cause a sensation and enhance the influence of the Luzhou Museum.
However, Director Shao did not have much friendship with the Qin family, and after tossing and turning, he learned that the Qin family had a good relationship with Principal Dong. It just so happened that Director Shao was an old classmate of President Dong, so he entrusted President Dong to introduce the Qin family, and wanted to borrow the Daxia dragon bird in Qin Fan's hand and put it on display in the Luzhou Museum.
"If you don't feel at ease, the time of the exhibition is up to you, and it will definitely be completed when the time comes. This credibility is still available in our Luzhou Museum. β
Director Shao was afraid that Qin Fan would not agree, so he hurriedly made a promise.
"Director Shao, you think too much, Luzhou Museum is the benchmark of our Luzhou collection industry, I naturally believe it. As long as I don't hand over this knife to the state and put it on display in a museum for a few days, it's a big deal. "Qin Fan was worried that there was no place to place the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow, so this Director Shao took the initiative to send it to the door.
With the security force of the Luzhou Museum, it is safer than putting it at home.
Qin Fan pondered that after the exhibition was over, he would build a safe house in the basement of the villa, and get a security door and safe, so that it would be foolproof.
Before he came, Director Shao thought that Qin Fan would not agree so easily to send this Great Xia Dragon Sparrow to the museum for exhibition, but he knew that he agreed so quickly, which made him a little surprised and surprised.
"So, Xiaofan, did you agree?"
Qin Fan nodded and said briskly, "As for the time, let's tentatively arrange to be exhibited in the museum for a month." β
Hearing this, Director Shao's face flushed with excitement, "Don't worry, the museum won't let you exhibit it for free." During the exhibition period, the museum will pay you an exhibition fee. β
Saying this, Director Shao was a little embarrassed.
Generally speaking, most public museums are open to the public for free, and some private museums only charge fees. Their Luzhou Museum's funds are tight, and it takes a lot of money to open a new exhibition hall and security, and they really can't afford to pay Qin Fan too much exhibition fees.
And with Qin Fan's current net worth, it is estimated that he can't afford this exhibition fee.
"You don't need to pay for the exhibition, but I have a small request, Director Shao, you have to strengthen the security of the museum, don't let the thieves steal this Great Xia Dragon Sparrow."
This is not Qin Fan's unfounded worries, there have been many museum thefts in history.
For example, the Palace of Fontainebleau in France once stole 15 priceless Chinese cultural relics, which caused a sensation in the world at the time, but until now the thieves who stole the cultural relics at that time have not been caught.
There are many classic cases in history, such as the theft of the Boston Garden Museum and the robbery of the Munch Art Gallery in Norway.
There are generally two types of international thieves who steal from museums, one is to steal purely for money, and it is easy to get caught in the process of selling stolen goods. The other is the thief, they are not short of money, they like to collect cultural relics and antiques, and hire professional thieves to help him steal cultural relics from museums. This thief is very famous internationally, but it is very difficult to catch.
There have also been a number of museum thefts in the Republic, but most of them have been solved.
Among them, the Kaifeng case in 1992 caused a sensation in society. At that time, local museums could borrow cultural relics from the Forbidden City for exhibition, so the Kaifeng Museum borrowed a batch of cultural relics from the Forbidden City for temporary exhibition, but was targeted by several thieves.
At the time of the temporary exhibition, Kaifeng Museum also introduced a very advanced infrared alarm from abroad. It's often seen in movies, as soon as the burglar blocks the red line in the infrared, the alarm will sound. At that time, the organizers also installed eight infrared alarms in the exhibition hall to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
But what the organizers didn't expect was that the thieves tried out the loophole of the infrared alarm, and when no one was paying attention, they covered each alarm with a red cloth, and then stole 69 priceless Forbidden City cultural relics from the Kaifeng Museum.
According to the market price at that time, the total value of the stolen cultural relics exceeded 100 million yuan. It was also the largest theft of cultural relics in the country at that time, and the second largest theft of cultural relics in the world after the theft of the "Mona Lisa".
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In the end, the Ministry of Public Security issued a wanted warrant to the whole country, and the thieves who stole cultural relics from the museum were still caught, and all of them were sentenced to death. The sixty-nine pieces of cultural relics of the Forbidden City were also recovered and returned to Zhao.
In the past, due to the lack of protection of cultural relics and antiques, many precious cultural relics were outflowed and appeared in international auctions. Nowadays, although the phenomenon of smuggling cultural relics is not as serious as before, the smuggling of cultural relics still occurs from time to time, and Qin Fan has to be careful and vigilant.
In case this Great Xia Dragon Sparrow was stolen by thieves, he would really have no place to cry when the time came.
"You can rest assured that I can arrange for security guards to take turns guarding 24 hours a day, and there will be no chance for anyone to take advantage of it." Director Shao swore an oath.
"Then it's going to trouble Curator Shao."
After sending Director Shao away, the news that the Luzhou Museum was going to exhibit the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow seemed to have wings, and everyone knew it.
Many domestic and foreign collectors who pay attention to this treasure knife made a special trip to Luzhou to visit the Luzhou Museum.
Due to the large number of visitors who came to visit, the Luzhou Museum had to limit the daily flow of visitors. However, there is still a long queue outside the Luzhou Museum every day, and those international collectors who come late can only queue for a few days to see this rare knife.
The appearance of this Great Xia Dragon Sparrow naturally attracted the peeps of some cow ghosts and snake gods. However, for this exhibition, the Luzhou Museum has strengthened its security forces, and there are security patrols and guards 24 hours a day.
In addition, the Public Security Bureau also dispatched police forces to maintain law and order, and during the exhibition of the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow, several groups of thieves wanted by the Public Security Department were arrested, which fiercely deterred some lawbreakers.
Thanks to the blessing of the museum, the old Qin family has been much quieter these days. Taking advantage of this time, Qin Fan entrusted Su Yanran to find a professional design team in Shanghai and help him design an underground treasure room for placing antiques. After seeing the design drawings finalized, Qin Fan asked people to start construction and transform the basement into a treasure room.
In order to ensure the safety of the treasure room, Qin Fan spent a lot of money to buy a security door made of alloy. According to the company that makes the security gate, this one can even withstand bullets and explosives.
According to Qin Fan's meaning, this treasure room was so solid that not even a fly could fly in. If there are international thieves eyeing this treasure room, they can only sink into the sand here in Qin Fan.
The person who designed the treasure room also joked that this treasure room is a safe house, even if it is the end of the world, as long as you hide here, it is absolutely safe.
Just when Qin Fan was busy renovating the basement, Fang Xiaojun suddenly ran over to find him.
"Xiao Fan, something happened to the National Art Pavilion." Fang Xiaojun's face was ugly, as if he was in great trouble.
"Something's wrong? Junzi, don't worry, what's going on in the National Art Pavilion. β
Seeing Fang Xiaojun's face, Qin Fan immediately realized that something was wrong, and the trouble of the National Art Pavilion would probably not be small.