The three-day antique exhibition was very lively, and Wu Tianyuan was eye-opening by experts from all over the world, and he saw a lot of Western antiques and many unpopular collection categories.

"It seems that in the future, we should also learn more about the market situation of Western antiques.

In the middle, he visited Zhang Zongxian and saw the strength of top collectors, especially snuff bottles and porcelain, and took the opportunity to absorb a lot of energy, and returned satisfied.

After the antique exhibition, Liu Huasheng took Wu Tianyuan directly to Macau, he took it to Macau for a few years in his early years, and he was very familiar with the local area, especially casinos and pawnshops.

"Macau's casinos have six times more turnover than Las Vegas, and pawnshops are a big part of that!"

As soon as the two got off the plane, they were received, and they went to the hotel first when they got in the car, chatting while walking.

"I spent two years in Macau before I went to Japan, and I ate at a pawn shop at that time, so I was very familiar with it."

Liu Huasheng reminisced: "At that time, I learned a lot of eyesight from the master and knew several friends, and now they are all doing well and have become elites in the industry." ”

"Uncle Liu means that pawn shops are also a good place to pick up leaks on Taobao?"

"Of course!" Liu Huasheng smiled: "What is the most in Macau? Casino! Who is the cheapest? Gambler! ”

"In my two years in the pawn shop, I have seen a lot of gamblers who have lost red eyes, and they can do anything! Needless to say, there are still people who are wives and children! ”

Wu Tianyuan has also heard a lot of news from pawn shops, and Zhongzheng also has a little business dealings with them, but now they are all fixed assets that can be realized.

"The most in Macau are famous watches and jewelry, and I have a few friends who eat this way, and they have a good eye to pick up the leaks from the dead, and then renovate them, and they make tens of thousands of dollars from changing hands."

Two people took a taxi to a building, went up to the eighteenth floor, and went out to see a sign, the headquarters of the Macau Pawnshops Association.

"Lao Cao, I haven't seen you for a year, you're fat again!"

Liu Huasheng warmly hugged a big fat man in his forties, it seemed that the relationship was very good, and after a brief introduction, they went into the office to chat together.

"You guy, you only come to see me every year when you pick up leaks! It's not authentic. ”

The fat man laughed and quipped, and Liu Huasheng retorted: "Nonsense, last year, you went to Osaka for half a month, eating and taking, getting fatter and fatter!" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm just bringing this kid to recognize the door today, and you will take care of him more in the future." Liu Huasheng suddenly remembered something, and said in a low voice: "Give him a top VIP, the kind of one million." ”

"No problem, I'll do it if you ask, and I'll get the information."

Watching Cao Fatzi leave, Liu Huasheng explained: "You will run a VIP in a while, and in the future, you can go to one hundred and seventy pawnshops in Macau, and any one of them can give priority to dead products, and you can pick up the leaks next time." ”

Wu Tianyuan hurriedly completed all the formalities, entered his personal information into the information database, and later had another way to get started with the collection and pick up the missing Taobao.

"In the evening, the association happened to have an exchange meeting, which is also the largest industry exchange this year, and you can just participate."

At eight o'clock in the evening, Cao Fatzi took two people to the VIP lounge of Fuhua Hotel, where the annual pawnshop event was to be held. Because it is an internal exchange, it is mainly attended by people from the industry and VIPs.

"Let's go around, although it's very low-key here, there are a lot of good things, fortunately, Lao Cao took us to participate. Especially for famous watches, this exchange meeting is actually held for insiders to take advantage of, you look at the Vacheron Constantin ten-year limited edition, at least more than two million outside, here five or six hundred thousand can be done. ”

Wu Tianyuan saw that the venue was full of well-dressed and successful people, and understood that the real purpose of the so-called auction was to use some good grades to dredge up the relationship.

It just so happens that Wu Tianyuan also wants a few famous watches, the condition here is very new, many of them are limited editions, and it is a bastard to be cheap and not to take advantage of them.

He turned around and bought a Piaget, two Vacheron Constantin, all of which were at most two million, and the original price was tens of millions.

"Huh? Are there any curios? ”

Wu Tianyuan walked to a display case by himself, and found that there were some miscellaneous items here, snuff bottles and jade, all of which were Qing Dynasty goods, chattering.

"I'm the royal snuffbox of Chengde Summer Resort, who will save me!"

Wu Tianyuan was stunned for a moment, found a white jade painted snuff bottle that spoke, and asked the staff to take it out and communicate.

"These are going up for auction?" Wu Tianyuan looked at it for a while and asked quietly.

"Hello guests, these don't need to be auctioned, because they are small items, there is a price below, and you have the right to make a deal on the spot."

Wu Tianyuan didn't say a word, and hurriedly paid the money to buy the snuff bottle, this clue is too important.

He said hello to Liu Huasheng and said that he would go to see a friend and go back to the hotel in a while. Then take a taxi and follow the instructions of the snuffbox, find a dilapidated building, and knock directly on the door of 302.

"Who are you looking for?"

It took a while for the door to open a small crack, and a woman's face with heavy makeup stretched out from inside, asking vigilantly.

"Don't talk nonsense, I know you're Li Haitao's mistress, let me in if you don't want to be caught!"

The woman was shocked, stared at Wu Tianyuan, hurriedly opened the door, looked left and right to see if there was anyone, and pulled Wu Tianyuan into the house.

"You're a cop?" The woman picked up the fruit knife in fear and asked tremblingly.

"Don't care who I am! If you can find it, you won't be able to run away! ”

Wu Tianyuan sat down calmly, looked at the nervous woman, and said with a smile: "Li Haitao's vision is not very good, he found you as a concubine?" ”

"What exactly do you want?" The woman said excitedly: "Li Haitao has been imprisoned, and all the stolen goods have been confiscated, I don't know anything!" ”

Wu Tianyuan smiled and said disdainfully: "Confiscation? In the first major cultural relics case in Hebei, Li Haitao, as a staff member of the Cultural Relics Bureau, supervised and stole hundreds of cultural relics, and finally recovered more than half, what about the rest? ”

The woman's face turned pale, pointed a knife at Wu Tianyuan, and roared, "I don't know!" In the past few years, I have been worried all day long, and I haven't slept soundly for a day, what more do you want? ”

Wu Tianyuan stood up, approached the woman, and said firmly: "I'm just giving you a way to live now!" Hand over what you have and I can give you a sum of money to get you out of here!" ”

"Really?" The woman said incredulously, "You're not here to arrest me?" ”

"Hmph, you are an accomplice at best, Li Haitao is already in prison, what's the use of arresting you as a mistress?"

Wu Tianyuan smiled lightly: "What I want is the lost cultural relics, this is your last chance, do it yourself?" ”

"I want five million!"

The woman calmed down, she now knew that the man in front of her should not be a policeman, the lion opened his mouth.

"Five million? Dream on! ”

Wu Tianyuan sneered and looked at the old and decrepit mistress and said, "The reason why Li Haitao took risks and guarded himself back then is probably also due to you, right?" You are so greedy, why haven't you sold what you have for so many years? Still living in such a place? ”

"I ......" The woman fell silent, put down the knife, and struggled. Thinking of the reason for Li Haitao's East Window incident, how dare she be a weak female streamer to trade with the underworld, and she is not afraid of being blacked out?

Gritted his teeth, he stood up and walked to the side of the bed, took out a small suitcase, put it in front of Wu Tianyuan, and said in a low voice: "To tell you the truth, I know that a few things are very valuable goods, and Li Haitao has explained to me, saying that these are the treasures he got directly from the tomb robbers when he was the captain of the cultural relics inspection team!" ”

Wu Tianyuan tapped his fingers on the tabletop, and said with a smile: "A Chibi map of Qiu Ying, a long pavilion post of Wen Zhengming, a Shushan Fu of Zhou Wenbin, and a Wanli blue and white dragon and phoenix pattern garlic bottle!" ”

"You!" The woman was shocked and looked at Wu Tianyuan like a ghost, how did he know?

"I sue you, don't play in front of me!"

Wu Tianyuan warned viciously: "I know everything about you, fortunately, you are still smart and didn't shoot these treasures!" Again, this is your last chance, bring the money and get out of here! ”

Wu Tianyuan picked up the suitcase, threw down 500,000 cash, and turned to leave. Leave the woman with a frightened face, believing that tomorrow she will never appear again.

"Hehe, I didn't expect me to have a talent for acting!"

He returned to the hotel and hurriedly checked the baby, just now he just heard the snuffbox say, and now he is sure that the real thing is undoubtedly true, and relaxes.

"Li Haitao was known as an expert in cultural relics in Chengde, and it was with his own expertise that Li Haitao took the cultural relics in the collection out of the cultural relics warehouse, replaced the stolen cultural relics with handicrafts, cultural relics fragments, parts, accessories, non-collection cultural relics or low-grade cultural relics in the collection, and instructed the staff to tamper with cultural relics files, cataloging cards, etc., in an attempt to hide from the world."

"According to the final interrogation record, he used various means to steal a total of 259 pieces of cultural relics and cultural relics parts from the museum, such as the sitting statue of the Qianlong Buddha in pastel and gold in the Qing Dynasty, the partial gilded silver Tibetan mandala of Mount Meru, the Nepalese-style partial gilded bronze Buddha of Amitayus, and the purple gold inlaid turquoise Buddha Amitayus Buddha."

Wu Tianyuan was happy, originally he was worried that these things would not see the light of day and could not be displayed in the museum. The result turned out to be the private goods that Li Haitao directly confiscated from the tomb robbers, and it is estimated that it was because it was too valuable and did not dare to make a move, so he let his mistress keep it.

The incident occurred at an auction held on October 28, 2002.

On the afternoon of October 28, 2002, the Hong Kong Marriott Hotel Queensway held a special auction entitled "Royal Faith: Buddhist Treasures of the Qianlong Dynasty". The two items of the Qianlong Pastel Painting of the Qing Dynasty and the silver mandala of the Qianlong period auctioned by Jiashide were suspected by participating experts to be the collection of the Forbidden City.

Among the 49 lots in that auction, the most valuable was the seated statue of the Buddha of Amitayus painted in pastel painting of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. The statue was sold by a Hong Kong antiques dealer for $295,000.

A total of 20 artefacts were sold in the auction, with a total value of HK$3.9 million. In the auction, two pieces of Qing Dynasty royal cultural relics from the mainland have attracted people's attention: one is a sitting statue of the Amitayus Buddha in the pastel of the lotus petal seat of the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, with an auction reserve price of 2 million ~ 3 million Hong Kong dollars, and the original label of the Buddha statue is "Liuping 20388", "Review 22", "So 160801". happened to be inadvertently discovered by a Forbidden City expert and immediately reported the case.

On November 28 of the same year, the Chengde Municipal Public Security Bureau officially filed a case, named the "11?28" extraordinarily large theft and smuggling of cultural relics.

After the trial of the court, it was ascertained that the cultural relics resold by Li Haitao had been auctioned by Kuang's Auction Company and Hong Kong Jiashide Auction Company, and some cultural relics could not be recovered after the incident.

According to the verification of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the lotus petal base pastel depiction of the golden Amitayus Buddha and the silver mandala of the Qianlong Dynasty were transferred from the Forbidden City to the Eight Temples of Chengde on September 21, 1972 and October 28, 1974 respectively, and they are all precious cultural relics in the national classified collection.

A hidden international smuggling chain of internal and external collusion has surfaced, and Li Haitao's arrest is only the tip of the iceberg of China's largest prison guard self-theft case.

"Niu Feng investigated this case in detail in the information, that is, at that time, Kuang's and Jiashide, and even Jiade were targeted, and over the years I have been suspecting that a large number of cultural relics of unknown origin have been auctioned, and many of them have been lost overseas, reminiscent of the last time Jia Dabing, it must be a gluttonous ghost!"

This time, Wu Tianyuan accidentally found the snuffbox pawned by his mistress, so that he could find out the treasures that were lost that year, and some of them were missing.

"The masterpieces of the three great talents of the Ming Dynasty, Qiu Ying's Chibi Diagram was auctioned for 80 million a few years ago, Wen Zhengming and Zhou Wenbin are even more rare calligraphy handscrolls, and this blue and white garlic bottle in the bay, this time it's really the right one!"