When the "Li Tang Museum" was still under construction, Pepe specially asked her assistant Fu Ya to sort out and understand the specific distribution of all museums in Hong Kong.

After reading all the museum materials in Hong Kong that Fu Ya investigated, Pei Pei felt very surprised - it turned out that there are more than 40 museums on such a small island as Hong Kong!

These museums have a wide variety of genres, including humanities, history, society, science, military, maritime and even daily necessities (electric fan. Tea set and much more)! These different kinds of museums are large in size of several thousand square meters; The small one is only a dozen square meters!

Among all the museums, the museums that are larger, more touristy, and relatively well-known are the Hong Kong Museum of History, the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, the Hong Kong Turf Museum, the Hong Kong Science Museum, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, the Hong Kong Space Museum, the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum, the Hong Kong Film Archive, the Madame Tussauds Hong Kong Branch, the Bethany Museum, the Rierie Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum, the Bruce Lee Memorial Hall, and so on.

The above museums also have different forms of operation - some are public, some are private joint-stock systems, and some are purely private exhibition halls!

For these museums under the jurisdiction of the Hong Kong government, the attitude of the Ministry of Culture of Hong Kong has always been a strong and supportive attitude.

Some privately run museums are not well managed and difficult to maintain because of the lack of exhibits or visitors. In order to allow these poorly managed museums to continue to maintain, the Hong Kong government has specially issued a support measure -- museums that have been in operation for more than a certain number of years. You can apply for a certain amount of operating subsidy from the Hong Kong government.

Of course, Pepe, who has deep pockets, can't look down on these subsidies at all, and the only thing she asks for is that the Hong Kong government can raise its hand in the fare she has drawn up, don't be so strict!

Among the more than 40 museums in Hong Kong, the ticket prices of locally operated museums are not as high as those of foreign-funded museums! Take the beautiful Hong Kong Space Museum, which was built with huge government investment, as an example, and its external ticket price is only 20 Hong Kong dollars.

According to Fu Ya's investigation, the highest ticket price of Hong Kong's locally run museums does not exceed 30 Hong Kong dollars, while the ticket price of the foreign Madame Tussauds is about six times that of this - a visit ticket to the Hong Kong branch of Madame Tussauds actually costs 172 Hong Kong dollars.

And the "Li Tang Museum" because of the distinction between "morning tickets" and "afternoon tickets", so. Pepe's initial ticket price was HK$80 for the morning ticket and HK$100 for the afternoon ticket!

But when she declared this fare method to the Hong Kong government's cultural department. But I got stuck!

The reply from the person in charge of the cultural department was that the ticket price must be based on the value of the exhibits!

After careful consideration, Pepe decided to scrap the idea of keeping the museum secretive and shocking the world when it officially opened, and then went through the media channels in Hong Kong. Some of the precious collections that will be exhibited in the "Li Tang Museum" were announced to the world in advance.

Since sooner or later, the world will be shocked. Pepe simply stopped hanging the world's appetite. She directly threw out the gimmick of "the jade seal of the country reappears in the world". Build momentum for your upcoming "Li Tang Museum"!

Sure enough, as soon as the heavy card of "Heirloom Jade Seal" was played, even the cultural department of the Hong Kong government was shocked. Not to mention the media side.

Let's talk about the ticket price first, the old man of the Li family has already contacted several important old friends before he left for Hong Kong.

With the dredging of these old friends, coupled with the fact that the "jade seal of the country has reappeared in the world" has spread to the mainland under the publicity of the Hong Kong media, so only two days later, the cultural department of the Hong Kong government passed Pepe's fare application!

In order to achieve the best momentum, Pepe decided to use the background relationship of Chief Engineer Chang Changhui's Shaanxi History Museum, and specially invited the director of the Shaanxi History Museum and more than a dozen other cultural relics experts to distinguish the authenticity of the "heirloom jade seal" on the day of opening.

In other words, as the most legendary and precious gem in Chinese history, the "heirloom jade seal" can be called a priceless treasure for the cultural history of the Chinese nation!

However, this priceless treasure has long been lost in the long river of history, and modern people can only hear its name through various classics that have been handed down to this day and cannot find its trace!

The first theory of the loss of the "jade seal of the country" is that in the later Tang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Shi Jingtang led the Khitan army to attack Luoyang, and the late Tang Dynasty emperor Li Congke took the national seal in his arms and set himself on fire in the Xuanwu Tower, and the jade seal of the country disappeared and disappeared again.

According to historical records, when Guo Wei, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, searched for the "national seal" but could not, and had no choice but to engrave the "Emperor's Divine Treasure" and other seals, which were passed on to the Northern Song Dynasty.

The long river of history rolls to the period of Zhezong of the Northern Song Dynasty, according to the literature - there is a farmer named Duan Yi, who found the seal of the country when plowing the field and sent it to the imperial court. According to the records of the previous dynasty, thirteen scholars determined that it was the "jade seal of the country" made by the first emperor.

However, it is also said that for the authenticity of this "heirloom jade seal", many people of insight in the government and the opposition at that time suspected that it was a fake.

Until the long river of history rolled to the first year of Song Jingkang (1126 AD), when the Jin soldiers broke through Bianliang and the two emperors of Huiqin were plundered, this "heirloom seal" judged by Song Zhezong to be genuine, along with the two emperors, was plundered by the Jin State, and then disappeared.

Subsequently, the record of the "inheritance of the national seal" reappeared in the 31st year of the Yuan Dynasty (1294 AD). After the collapse of the ancestor Kublai Khan, the "jade seal of the country" suddenly appeared in the capital, sold in the market, and was purchased by the minister of power. Boyan once smoothed out all the seals of the past dynasties confiscated by the Mengyuan and distributed them to the princes and ministers to engrave private seals.

Later generations speculated that the genuine "heirloom jade seal" was also afraid of encountering accidents in it.

Since then, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there have been "heirloom jade seals" from time to time, but after official verification at the time, they were all confirmed to be forged fakes!

For example, during the time of Ming Xiaozong, someone once offered the so-called "heirloom jade seal", and Xiaozong determined that it was a fake and did not use it.

But during the Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City had nine out of 30 imperial seals, one of which was called the "heirloom jade seal". Because Emperor Qianlong was quite good at researching, he recognized it as a fake. But the right is to take the fake as the true, and the chat is full of numbers, and there is no one who investigates deeply.

And this "heirloom jade seal" that was talked about by Emperor Qianlong and used it as fake and true has been circulated until the end of the Qing Dynasty - the last emperor Puyi was expelled from the palace by Feng Yuxiang, and this "heirloom jade seal" disappeared. At that time, Lu Zhonglin, the general of the Feng Department, and others had pursued this gold-inlaid jade seal, but there was still no follow-up.

Since then, the legend of the authenticity of the "jade seal" has been completely sung in the historical records!

The important treasure of the Chinese country handed down from the Qin Shi Huang period - the "heirloom jade seal" has gone through more than 2,000 years of ups and downs and confusion, several degrees of hidden appearance, and finally, it has been lost in the long river of history! What it left to the world is only infinite reverie and regret!

Countless historians in later generations have a consistent argument when they study the various mysterious deeds of the "Jade Seal of the Country", that is, the real "Jade Seal of the Country" in history has been plundered by the Jin State together with the Second Emperor of Huiqin in the first year of Song Jingkang, and then completely disappeared in the Yuan Dynasty, and the "Seal of the Country" that appeared since then are all fakes!

And the "heirloom jade seal" in Pepe's hand was obtained from an ambitious prince of the Yuan Dynasty when she was still locked in her soul body by the space jade!

As a royal family in the Tang Dynasty, Pepe can certainly distinguish the authenticity of this "heirloom jade seal"!

But the world doesn't know where Pepe came from!

Therefore, when the news that the soon-to-open "Li Tang Museum" was going to display this legendary priceless treasure that had long disappeared reached the ears of the world through media channels, most of the people did not believe that it was genuine!

Some experts, when they have not touched it with their own hands, make an assertion that this world-famous "heirloom jade seal" can never be a genuine product handed down from the time of Qin Shi Huang!

If the possibility of modern forgery is ruled out after verification, then the "heirloom jade seal" to be exhibited in the Li Tang Museum is very likely to be a fake jade seal that appeared in the Ming and Qing dynasties and was recorded in historical materials!

But no matter which fake of the Ming and Qing dynasties the "Li Tang Museum" will show to the world, because of its name in historical documents, it still has extremely high research value for today! For Chinese people, it can also be called a priceless treasure at the national treasure level!

As a result, the media and the people began to speculate on the origin of this "heirloom seal"!

At the same time, Hong Kong's major Bo/Cai companies have also opened a variety of pairs/bets/plates for the origin of this rumored "fake jade seal"!

Among all the pairs/bets/plates, the highest odds are - betting that this jade seal is the genuine "heirloom seal" handed down during the Qin Shi Huang period!

It's a pity that about the possibility of this article, no matter how high the odds are, few people are willing to bet on this possibility!

In contrast, the public is more willing to bet on the following three possible origins -

Origin 1: It may be a fake that emerged in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Origin 2: It is also possible that it has been circulated until the last emperor period before disappearing, and was once identified by Emperor Qianlong as a fake "heirloom seal" after being studied by Emperor Qianlong.

Origin 3: A modern fake imitated with a rare treasure jade of great value. (To be continued......)