Chapter 947: Kyushu National Museum
Later, after the new millennium, especially after the United States violently attacked Iraq, the American economy once became prosperous because of the war dividends.
The world art market also recovered, and there were some international art buyers who came to Japan specifically to find the original painting of Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" and wanted to collect the painting.
Later, the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States broke out, the entire international economic environment deteriorated rapidly, and the world art market also declined.
Originally, when Jin Muchen came to this Fukuoka Art Museum, especially when he overheard the introduction of the director of this art museum, he thought that there would be nothing good in this art museum, but he never thought that in this art museum, he would find Van Gogh's authentic works.
This is very developed, Jin Muchen's heartbeat is accelerating sharply at this time, and he feels that this "Sunflower" alone is worth the trip.
A few policemen, including Abe Masahiro and Hasegawa, were scattered around the transportation site, seemingly careless, but they were very particular about their positions, and it can be said that if someone came to make trouble at this time, they would be attacked head-on by them no matter from that direction.
This moving yard now seems to be loose on the outside and tight on the inside, so although Jin Muchen was eager to take this Van Gogh sunflower in his pocket at this time, he didn't dare to start rashly.
Those porters, under the command of the grub, moved a lot of things out of the art museum one after another, but Jin Muchen didn't have the heart to look at it at this time, after all, in his opinion, those paintings, no matter which one, would not be as valuable as the sunflower in front of him.
This art museum has been established for less than 20 years, and its collection of artworks is only two or three thousand, but among them, the ones with high artistic value, that is, the corporate collections in this art museum, to put it bluntly, are some works of art acquired by large enterprises, put in the art museum for them to manage, and provide maintenance.
And these works of art are also the main objects of this transfer, a total of five or six hundred, and the value of these works of art varies.
The most expensive is this Van Gogh painting, as for the others, although there are occasionally some artworks of good value, but in the eyes of Jin Muchen, who has been raised by his vision, it is not in his eyes at all, and it is not even worth it for him to waste purple jade space to collect.
At this time, all his attention was on Van Gogh's "Sunflowers".
It took only two hours for five or six hundred pieces of art to be packed and transported by professional porters, and they were all loaded into the two trucks that drove over.
Then the grub and Abe Masahiro exchanged a few words of greetings, and the two sides said goodbye and broke up, Abe Masakuan and a few of them, two of them squeezed into the cars of the two transport trucks, and the others got into the two cars provided by the museum, one after the other guarded the two trucks, and drove in the direction of the Kyushu National Museum.
But none of them noticed that just before the truck was loaded and the car door behind it was closed, a transparent figure flashed in and broke into the car of one of the trucks......
The Kyushu National Museum is the fourth largest national museum in Japan after Tokyo and Kyoto Konara, and it was established in 1994 because it was not very famous in Japan, but it has a very special status among many museums in Japan.
The reason why this museum has such a special status is also because of the special status of Kyushu in Japan.
Located at the bottom of the Japanese archipelago, Kyushu is one of the most important parts of the country outside of Honshu, and has always had a unique place in Japan's history because it is only connected by a narrow passage.
Because of its geographical location, Kyushu has always been an easy to defend and difficult part of Japan's history, so the independence of the Kyushu region has always been relatively strong in the era of warlords and lords in Japan for thousands of years.
In addition, because Kyushu is the closest island in Japan to the Asian mainland, the cultural atmosphere here was very strongly influenced by the East Asian continent at that time, and the cultural atmosphere here is also different from that of Honshu Island, and it has always had its own unique administrative system during the Warring States period of Japan.
At that time, the most powerful lord in the Kyushu region was the Kuroda family, and the current Fukuoka was the nest of the Kuroda family at that time.
Later, after the Shogunate War and the Meiji Restoration, the Kuroda family has always been the most powerful chaebol in the Kyushu region, and even during World War II, because Kyushu City was the main springboard for Japan to launch a war of aggression in Northeast Asia, the Kuroda family once swelled to the point that it could compete with the Mitsubishi family, Japan's largest chaebol at the time.
It's a pity that the Japanese invading army was in an unfavorable situation later, and was defeated by the Americans in the Pacific Ocean, and later it was trapped on the mainland, when the American army wanted to defeat and occupy Japan, but the Japanese actually shouted the crazy slogan of breaking all the pieces, but the Americans were scared enough.
In order to dispel the crazy thoughts of the Japanese, the U.S. military launched a frenzied bombing campaign against Japan, and the entire Japanese mainland, except for the Tokyo area, received the most bombing and the most serious damage was Kyushu Island.
Especially in the end, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki in a frenzy, blinding the Japanese at that time, and then simply surrendered.
It was precisely because of the indiscriminate bombing that year that the economy of the Kyushu region fell apart, and the Kuroda family, the overlord of the Kyushu region that year, was even more severely damaged.
After Japan announced its surrender, in addition to landing directly in Tokyo Bay, the US military also focused on the Kyushu area, and because it was not the capital of Japan, it did not attract much attention from the international community.
The Kuroda family, as the largest lord in the Kyushu region, did not have the blood of American soldiers a few times back then, not only was the head of the family arrested, but even the house was raided several times.
After that, the overlord of the Kyushu region has never recovered, let alone argued with the Mitsubishi chaebol.
After World War II, during the period of Japan's economic recovery, the Japanese government chose several chaebols to support its own economy, among which the Mitsubishi chaebol received the most support.
However, the chaebol in the Kyushu region did not receive the attention of the Japanese government because of its unruly attitude towards the central government, and the Kuriten chaebol gradually declined from that time.
Although the Black Sky Chaebol is still one of the best chaebols in the Kyushu region, when it comes to influence, it is simply incomparable with before.
So much so that in order to make ends meet, a group of people in the Kuroda family had to send all kinds of treasures handed down by the family to the museum for escrow, and lived on a little exhibition fee given by the museum every year.
Therefore, most of the exhibits at the Kyushu National Museum are from the Kuroda family's collection.
Many of the Kuroda family's collections are artworks from the Asian continent, so the original slogan of the Kyushu National Museum was to look at Japan from Asia.
At the beginning of its establishment, it was also because of the decline of the Kuroda family, so the government and some chaebols on the island of Honshu, taking advantage of the weakness of the Kuroda family, forced them to take out the family collection, after all, this family has been entrenched in the Kyushu region for thousands of years, although it is now in decline, but the family background is very rich.
At present, the Kyushu National Museum has a collection that is not comparable to that of the Tokyo National Museum and several other national museums, but the number of fine works is quite large.
In particular, several of these fine products can be rated as national treasures.
For example, the Kuroda family took out the gold seal of the Japanese slave king and sent it to the Tokyo National Museum for collection, which is one of the more influential ones.
Speaking of fine products, in fact, among the fine products in the collection of this museum, there are so many pieces whose value is not lower than the gold and silver value of the Japanese slave king.
Jin Muchen didn't plan to attack the Kyushu National Museum before, so the investigation of this museum was not much, but he probably knew about a few more famous collections.
So at this time, he hid in the car of this truck, and just for a little while, he immediately took out his mobile phone and began to search for information about the collection of the Kyushu National Museum.
But unfortunately, the vehicle was always moving, and because he was in the car, the signal of the network was not very good, and until the speed of the truck gradually slowed down, he did not find much useful information.
The Kyushu National Museum is located a few hundred meters east of Dazaifu's Tenmangu Shrine, a famous attraction in Fukuoka City.
Because the age of the building is relatively recent, the museum has a very strong modern atmosphere, and the shape of the whole museum is more like a semi-cylindrical shape that is upside down on the ground, but the roof is not a regular cylindrical shape, but a cylindrical shape with undulating waves.
The exterior is made of plexiglass, so from a distance, it is magnificent and beautiful, and the area is not large, and it is not comparable to the Tokyo National Museum, which is only the size of a football field and a half.
Because it was originally considered here, it was just to force the Kuroda family to take out the treasures in the family collection for special construction, so it was not too big to build. (To be continued.) )