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"Director Tian, I understand what you said, so I'll give you an answer after I think about it, okay?"

"No problem, Mr. Li, I will sort out some lost cultural relics with the same value as this calligraphy as soon as possible, you can take a look at it first, even if you choose to trade with private individuals, it doesn't matter, anyway, as long as you can bring these cultural relics back to China."

Li Yi smiled and nodded, glanced at Fujisawa, who had been paying attention to the movement here, got up and left, and walked towards the jewelry exhibition hall.

Seeing Li Yi leaving, Fujisawa walked to Tazawagawa's side in a few steps. He had just contacted the relevant personnel of the Yamamoto family, and learned that the time of the theft happened was a hundred years ago, and many key evidence was not complete.

As for how Tian Zechuan will communicate with Fujisawa, Li Yi didn't pay too much attention, of course it is best if the Japanese can't come up with key evidence, even if they can take it out, it's nothing more than spending some money, and slowly dragging out the lawsuit, anyway, in a word, if you don't pay enough price, you want to get this thing back, no way!

Judging from the layout of the entire exhibition hall, the location of the jewelry exhibition hall should be the best, and almost all the exhibitors have chosen a theme that fits their jewelry on the basis of the overall design for secondary decoration, with lighting effects, many booths give people the ultimate beauty of dreamy and blurry.

Although the name of the fair is the Biennale of Antiquities, it is clear that the extravagant and magnificent jewellery should be more able to attract the attention of visitors, so the crowds here are quite as crowded as the antique exhibition halls.

Graf, Tiffany, Piaget, Cartier, almost every jewelry exhibition hall is overcrowded, almost every jewelry is in front of how many people are wandering, and from time to time you can see some well-dressed men, or ladies in bright and fashionable clothes are stopped by reporters for interviews, but unfortunately Li Yi does not know any of those people.

"None of the so-called top ten brands in China received an invitation......

Li Yi browsed casually around the crowd, while shaking his head helplessly and sighing, in terms of luxury, because of economic development, Huaxia has congenital deficiencies, and now it is more of a consumer, and I don't know when I will be able to catch up, or, I will never be able to catch up?

"Lee, where have you gone, come on, I took a lot of effort to leave you a dream elf, I think it is very suitable for your girlfriend's temperament......"

Just pondering, Shi Qiba didn't know where to get out, and he was about to pull forward as soon as he dragged him, Li Yi looked up and saw that he had unconsciously walked to Van Cleef & Arpels' booth, so he smiled helplessly and let Shi Qiba drag him into the crowd.

What Shi Qiba left Li Yi was a necklace pendant, compared to the pendants that Li Yi had seen before, this one was indeed a bit different.

The pendant is an octagonal plaque with two blooming flowers carved symmetrically on the top right and bottom left, each set with two conical white diamonds. On the other two corners, it looks like stratus clouds, and it looks like pieces of Ganoderma lucidum spreading out of the leaves, and the top is inlaid with white flowers with broken diamonds. In the middle of the brand, there is a square trapezoidal cut sea blue sapphire, and what is even more amazing is that because the white gold used to make the card is specially treated, so the whole looks simple and solemn, but it does not lose the luxury of top jewelry, and it is indeed a very beautiful jewelry.

Glancing at the label next to the pendant, the weight of the sapphire is 3.72 carats, the total weight of the diamond is 4.33 carats, and the white gold used to make the tag is 20.98 grams.

"These jewels are priced at the beginning, because they are still on display, and customers can't leave the venue with the jewelry even if they buy it, so we will change the label of non-sale, do you want this one? If not, I'll swap the original price tag back. ”

"How much?"

"It's cheap, only 180,000 euros."

Li Yi focused on the sapphire, although it is indeed a top-level cornflower sapphire, but the weight of less than 4 carats, at most it is worth 40,000 euros, and other broken diamonds and white gold are not worth anything at all, so this is still cheap?

"Okay, thank you for helping me keep this tag, should I pay now or wait until the show is over?"

Li Yi shrugged his shoulders helplessly, although from the perspective of cost, it was a bit worthless, but these things were not valued in this way. What's more, this price is really nothing to him, compared to Shi Qiba's enthusiasm, well, looking at this guy's posture, it seems that he wants to earn back the 50 million euros from him......

After settling the account, Shi Qiba stayed in the exhibition hall, and Li Yi was going to look at other brands, he just took a look at the nearly 20 jewels on display in the booth, and half of them have been replaced with non-sale labels, compared with the remaining half of the jewelry, this tag priced at 180,000 euros is indeed a very cheap one......

"Sir, may I ask you, did you buy that fantasy elf of Van Cleef & Arpels?"

As soon as he walked out of Puxirati's booth, Li Yi was stopped by a burly middle-aged white man.

"Dream elves? Oh, you mean the card-shaped pendant? ”

The man nodded again and again, it turned out that just now his little girlfriend also took a fancy to the tag, but unfortunately the tag had been labeled as not for sale. When she was unwilling to return to the Van Cleef & Arpels showroom to inquire about the buyer, Li Yi had just left, and there were few young Orientals like him in the showroom, so she was soon met by the middle-aged man who was pulled out by his girlfriend to find someone.

"Yes sir, I'm very sorry, but there is one thing that you would like to help me with anyway, because Serena loves that jewel so much, so ...... Look, can you transfer it to me? ”

Seeing that Li Yi was a little hesitant, the man hurriedly gestured, no matter how much money he bought, he was willing to add 20,000!

Li Yi rubbed his chin gently, this is quite interesting, the jewelry can earn 20,000 yuan before it arrives, but this jewelry was specially left for him by Shi Qiba, and the friendship between the two of them is only worth 20,000? 200,000 is about the same!

Seeing Li Yi shaking his head and refusing, the middle-aged man also shook his head regretfully, he took out a business card and handed it to Li Yi,

"Sir, if you change your mind, please be sure to let me know at the first time, and when you travel to Moscow in the future, you can also call this number, and I will definitely do my best to entertain you......"

Moscow? Li Yi took the business card and glanced at it, and sure enough, one side was Russian and the other was English.

"Rogov, an independent antique dealer? Excuse me, were you also invited to participate in this exhibition? Oh I mean, where is your booth? ”

According to statistics, there are about 17 million pieces of cultural relics lost overseas in China, of which about 1.64 million pieces are collected in more than 200 museums in 47 countries, of which Japan, Britain, the United States, and France are the most, but in fact, the number plundered by Russia is also quite large.

As for why we rarely see Chinese cultural relics in Russian museums, there are two main reasons. One is because of the establishment of the former Soviet Union, the exiled old Tsarist aristocrats brought or sold them to the new country of residence, and on the other hand, because China and the Soviet Union were in the same camp at that time, the Soviet government did not allow these "trophies" with obvious signs of aggression to appear in public, but hid them in some research institutions.

In the history of China, there are four periods of time when there is a large loss of cultural relics, which are called the four waves of cultural relics loss by relevant experts, and the first wave is during the Opium War.

According to records, although the Old Summer Palace was looted and burned down, there was no Russian army, but during the Eight-Nation Alliance, it was the Summer Palace that the Russian army first occupied, and the occupation lasted for two months!

Subsequently, in the name of guarding the Forbidden City, the Russian, German, and Japanese armies stole and destroyed rare cultural relics, rare books, and treasures in the Forbidden City. By the winter of 1900, more than half of the palace's treasures had been lost, and all the valuables had been looted.

In this catastrophe, from the Imperial Palace, the Summer Palace, the Three Seas, the Altar Temple, the Mausoleum, the Prince's Mansion, the various ministries and government offices to the residential shops, were also looted without exception, so far, most of the treasures accumulated in Yanjing at that time were taken by the invaders, and most of them were hijacked abroad.

Later, in the plundering of the documents of the Dunhuang Cave and the Heishui City, the so-called Russian explorers also played a very disgraceful role. Nowadays, the Chinese even have to go to the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Hermitage Museum to see the world's earliest original engraving prints found so far.

Therefore, Russia definitely has a lot of Chinese cultural relics, but it is more difficult to count compared to other countries.

These materials flashed in his mind, and Li Yi stared at Luo Guofu with burning eyes, perhaps, what can he know from this guy......

Hearing Li Yi ask about his booth, Rogov shrugged his shoulders a little embarrassed, this time, he only received an invitation to visit, but not an invitation to set up the exhibition.

"That'...... Mr. Rogov, do you have any antiquities from China in your collection? ”

"This ......"

Luo Guofu hesitated for a moment, this question made it a little difficult for him to answer, because he couldn't figure out what Li Yi meant, and he didn't know whether Li Yi would actively contact him because he had a large number of Chinese cultural relics, or whether he would just walk away like some Chinese people with strong self-esteem but very fragile.

"That's right, I'm a collector, but you also know that because of the cultural relics craze in recent years, there are not many cultural relics in China for me to choose from, so ......"

"Oh! Dear collector from the East, if you just want to collect some Chinese cultural relics, I think you should have found the right person, in fact, the most in my collection is cultural relics from China......"

As soon as Li Yi explained, Luo Guofu immediately became enthusiastic,

"In fact, this Biennale des Antiquaires has brought a lot of visitors to Paris who love antiques and jewelry, so this is also an opportunity for us, although I was not invited to the exhibition, I still brought a large number of antiques, but now they are all on consignment in a friend's shop, if you are interested, I can take you to see it."

"Oh? Consignment? ”

"Yes, you know, the Biennale is so high that not every antique dealer has the opportunity to exhibit. But this opportunity is very rare, so every time there is a Biennale, there will be a large number of antique dealers with their treasures to look for opportunities, and these treasures, distributed in the streets and alleys of Paris in those antique shops, if you are interested, I can also introduce you to a few friends, as far as I know, they also have a lot of cultural relics from China. ”

Hearing this, Li Yi couldn't help but be shocked, is there such a thing? How did he not know?

"In fact, even these antique dealers who participated in the exhibition have a lot of Chinese antiques in their hands, the reason why you can't see it is because the booths are limited, and the organizing committee is also strict in reviewing antiques, and most importantly, there are not many Chinese people who appear at the exhibition, and even fewer people can afford to buy antiques, so they are more inclined to exhibit antiques from Europe......

"Hoo ......"

Li Yi exhaled a breath of turbidity, it turned out that it was not that there were no Chinese antiques, but because the sales of Chinese antiques were not smooth, so they didn't bring them to the exhibition! It seems that you still have to ask a professional for advice on these things!

Inexplicably, the scene when he bought "Wu Lu" passed by in his heart, and his heart instantly became hot, since there are so many antique dealers who have brought Chinese cultural relics over, then, there must be a big leak like "Wu Lu", but, how to find these cultural relics? And, what should you do with these artifacts once they are found?

After hesitating, Li Yi took out his business card,

"Mr. Rogov, this is my business card, I don't know when you are free, I want to go and see your cultural relics......"

"Li Yi? Well, as much as I'd love to show you now, I have to complete the task that Serena has given me, and I promised her to buy her a few jewels, and now, I haven't grabbed any of the ones she fancies. ”

"That's not a problem, Mr. Rogov, if you can show me those antiques, and if you're willing to introduce me to your friends, I'll be more than happy to give you that fantasy elf to please your girlfriend's ......" (to be continued.) )