Chapter 456: The Treasure That Was Stolen
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"Let's talk about this later......"
Wen Wan shook her head, did not continue the topic, but introduced Han Chong to the cultural landscape of Paris, just mentioning this topic, Han Chong was not very interested in these, and after arriving at the hotel, Han Chong was a little absent-minded.
Although Han Chong is not the kind of petty angry young man who is hot-blooded, he is very uncomfortable with the cultural relics left by the country for thousands of years, which are taken out and auctioned openly by a robber family as their own.
When entering the hotel room that Wen Wan had already booked for Han Chong, Han Chong couldn't hold back any longer, and asked eagerly at this moment: "Sister Wen Wan, don't hide it, tell me what's going on?" How many artifacts from our country do the Frey family have? How do you know this? ”
Because this matter is a long story, Wen Wan didn't mention it. At this moment, she was asked by Han Chong, and she said, "That's the case." I had a student in Paris who was very interested in it, and he had been collecting information and giving me a lot of information about their family, but he couldn't do much as a student, and he didn't provide all the information, so I asked a private investigator to investigate these things. The Chinese art found in Paris is basically handed down by the Frey family......"
Han Chong's gentle words startled Han Chong, daring to love this girl who looked inconspicuous. Even private detectives were used behind the scenes, but as Wen Wan's story deepened, Han Chong's face gradually became solemn, and he investigated gently. The history is more detailed than what Han Chong knows.
That year, the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded the capital. The headquarters of the French army was stationed in the Shouhuang Palace in Jingshan, and according to the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial statues and seals of the late emperor and his concubines must be enshrined in the Shouhuang Palace.
Frey, who was the commander of the French army at the time, and his subordinates naturally would not let go of the treasures in the Shouhuang Palace, and this place was naturally to be robbed. Frey himself is said to have had a good artistic accomplishment, and many of the Chinese works of art he looted are recorded in the archives of the Shouhuang Palace.
Frey then returned to France with a full load, and he and his descendants reaped a very comfortable life from these "spoils".
In recent years, the Qing Kangxi Emperor's "Pei Wen Zhai" twelve sets of seals, Qianlong's "Treasure of the Taishang Emperor", and the Qing court painting "Qianlong's Southern Tour. Volume 1 and Qianlong's Southern Tour. Volume 7 is also from the Frey family, and the number of these treasures is surprisingly valuable.
In addition to the art that flowed to the market, Frey was sent to the French government in batches from 1925 to 1934. A total of 18 important Chinese artifacts were donated to the French government, including the fourth volume of Lang Shining's Mulan Diagram and four other portraits of the Qianlong Emperor and his concubines.
in four oil paintings. "Portrait of Emperor Qianlong in Imperial Clothes" has been recognized as painted by Lang Shining. The source, as Frey wrote to the Musée Guimet in 1914, comes from "the headquarters of the French Expeditionary Force, the main hall of the Emperor Shou, where the capital worships the ancestor emperor." ”
Frey did not hide the origin of these treasures, and he only called it an expedition, downplaying the invasion, which was really hateful.
And this auction is another big move by the Frey family, and more treasures will be taken out, I really don't know how many precious cultural relics these robbers stole from China back then? How much money is left, Han Chong really wants to steal the remaining treasures of this family.
"! These bastards don't have any shame at all. Not only do you not know what it means to return things to China and return them to the French museum of your mother? ”
Han Chong stood up angrily, hearing this in his ears, it was really breathtaking, and the feeling of watching the national treasure being auctioned was really uncomfortable.
In fact, this is also the reason for the difference in positions, if Han Chong robs Xiao Riben's palace, that thing will not be returned if he is killed.
It's definitely not okay to steal it yourself, it's inconvenient.
"Do you want Xu Guang to go to the Frey family to cause trouble? They can't be so cheap. ”
This thought suddenly popped up in Han Chong's mind, but then he interrupted him, no matter how great Xu Guang's skills are, he is not 007, and if he really causes big trouble, I am afraid that it will cause international disputes.
Wen Wan didn't know what Han Chong was thinking in her heart, and when she saw Han Chong pondering, she immediately spoke: "Han Chong, in fact, these things are still used to by those people in China, and you can't blame foreigners for everything......"
As Wen Wan said, in fact, the loss of Chinese cultural relics, tracing its roots, the biggest disaster is still the Chinese themselves, in China, there are no less than 50 rich people whose collection of purchase funds, more than hundreds of millions of yuan, the main source of the collection is overseas auctions.
Wen Wan once made a statistic that more than 85% of the collections bought by these wealthy people from foreign auction houses are official kiln porcelain of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and mainly Qing Dynasty official kiln porcelain.
According to Wen Wan's words, these Yuan, Ming and Qing official kiln porcelains that often cost millions of yuan or tens of millions of yuan a piece are just plates hyped up by international auction houses in recent years, and they are not treasures, let alone "national treasure" cultural relics.
In fact, they are also accomplices of foreigners, accomplices who have been deceived.
Han Chong nodded and said, "I know this, there are some bronzes and national treasure-level cultural relics. Auctions are not allowed in China, and many people smuggle them abroad, in fact, people who buy them. Most of them are some wealthy people in China, and some people simply buy things directly from those tomb robbers......"
"Hey, how do you know so well?" Wen Wan asked a little strangely.
"Well, I'm also an insider......"
Han Chong glanced at Wen Wan angrily, buddy almost gave away his life because of those tomb robbers. Is this unclear?
Speaking of which, the problems facing the antiques industry today are also the issues that the archaeological community has to face. That is, it is impossible to solve the problem of "three thieves".
The so-called "three thieves" refer to the three types of people who rob tombs, steal and steal cultural relics, plus smugglers, stolen goods, and counterfeiters, and there are nearly one million people in the industrial chain.
From the eighties of the last century. It has been more than twenty years now. Most of the cultural relics lost in China come from ancient tombs, cellars and underwater deposits, and their historical value is extremely high, and it is difficult to have an accurate answer as to how many of them are, even the most authoritative departments of the state.
Like Zhou Wenhai and Zheng Sen, they are just a small part of the tomb robbing team. Behind it, there are more powerful organizations and groups.
These groups are even transnational groups.
Their network of interests spreads all over the world. Of course, in the mainland, they will also choose some partners. Usually the big antique dealers are their sweethearts.
From supply to sale of stolen goods, there is a complete chain.
Han Chong heard Tu Lao mention that he knew a big businessman in Jiang Zhe, and there were more than 3,000 pieces of ancient porcelain, ancient bronzes and jade in his private museum, almost all of which were unearthed artifacts, and most of these artifacts were auctioned back from abroad.
In fact, these are all obtained from interest groups, and these people are whitewashed.
In the final analysis, these wealthy classes in China are lacking in their cultural heritage, some of them are the bosses of Shanxi Coal and the earliest batch of fallen gentlemen in the old capital, and many of them even started by selling tea and eggs, so they need to arm themselves with these things.
From an entrepreneurial point of view, they are commendable, but entering the field of collecting is to stir up the muddy waters even more muddy.
These people just regard art as an investment, which is a new form of investment, which is the same as speculating in stocks and real estate. For example, the price of things in the official kilns of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties is now speculated, especially the Yuan blue and white flowers, which are said to be only 300 pieces in existence, and the price is rare and expensive, and the price has gone up at once.
But the statement that 300 pieces of Yuan Qinghua survived is ridiculous, has anyone really studied it? On what basis did they come to this conclusion?
According to the analysis of experts, this is actually concocted by Western capital auction companies and blind Chinese theorists.
Han Chong has only understood, and the number of Yuan Qinghua in the homes of some big businessmen in China has exceeded 300 pieces, of course, there may be many fakes in it, but it is undeniable that the number of 300 pieces given abroad is really so accurate?
In addition, since the 90s of the last century, in international auctions, there have always been auctions of the Qianlong Imperial Seal, and the media reports have sold dozens of them, but according to the experts' extremely professional and accurate research, the Qianlong Imperial Seal does not exceed 10 pieces, and the extra jade seal, is it that Qianlong Lao'er built it underground? Just think about it and know what's going on.
Thinking of these things, Han Chong felt bored in his heart, these foreign auction houses used the patriotic heart of the Chinese, and some so-called national treasures continued to appear, just to let the Chinese people spend a lot of money to buy back, from the commercial interests of the blameless, but greatly hurt the feelings of the Chinese people, and the most sad thing is whether it is or not, it still needs to be dialectic.
"This is really sad, but I still want to go over and take a look, so as not to be deceived by some patriots, in fact, the Chinese people think that this is a real contribution to the country. But in fact, he was deceived by foreigners. Han Chong sighed,
"Okay, I'll apply for a license plate for you at the auction the day after tomorrow, if you want to go, you can go and see it, as long as you don't make a move, I'll contact buyers from China in the next two days, hoping to convince them......"
"Plus, I have two more treasures." Wen Wan was also helpless, but this time he successfully used the two katana swords in his private collection as the lot after this special auction.
The appraiser of the auction house came to the conclusion that it was a fifteenth-century Japanese samurai sword, and the starting price of the two together was $100,000, and as long as it could be auctioned, Wen Wan's previous eye-catching money, even if someone reimbursed it, could even make a fortune.
Now the collectors in the international sword market are basically European, American and Japanese, and they can use "Made in China" to deceive these grandchildren, and Wen Wan's heart has always been beautiful.
Now the auction market is flooded with a large number of fakes, even if they are identified by the buyer, it doesn't matter what is gentle, after all, it is the auction house that has appraised it, anyway, whoever buys it is unlucky.
"You say that, I have some ideas, I also get some fake treasures, and then sell them to foreigners, so that they can also taste the taste of being beaten, and then use this money to redeem our country's treasures, which is like using their money to redeem our treasures."
"That's a pretty good idea."
"But it's a pity I don't have anything like that in my hands."
Han Chong is sad.
"You go get in touch."
"Okay, Han Chong, don't worry about it so much now, it's none of your business, we'll have a way to buy all these things......"
"yes, if you eat us, you have to spit it out for us. I've got a little bit of something to do, so I'll go first. ”
After Wen Wan finished speaking, she left, and after Han Chong and Bi Yue sent Wen Wan away, Han Chong was still a little sullen.
Bi Yue couldn't help but hug Han Chong and comforted her, "Okay, really don't worry." ”
"Wife, I'm not in a hurry, I'm just panicking, forget it, don't talk about these things, Xu Guang and they are almost there, let's have a meal together in the evening, and go out tomorrow to play, you have to be a good guide, I'm not familiar with this place......"
Han Chong shook his head, and drained all the unhappy things in his mind, the first time he accompanied Bi Yue to a foreign country, just have a good time, there is no need to affect his emotions because of the things that the old ladies of the loser more than a hundred years ago, as the saying goes, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge.
As soon as Han Chong's words fell, there was a knock on the door outside, Han Chong opened the door and looked, but it was Xu Guang and a few people, Han Chong waved his hand and said, "Let's go, the boss is in a bad mood today, please have a big meal!" ”
This has always been a good mood to invite guests, and several people outside the door who heard Han Chong's words looked at each other.
"What are you doing? Let's go, you are free to move around tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and you will go to London the day after tomorrow......"
Han Chong calmed the star who came up, drove it back to the room, closed the door, changed the room status to Do Not Disturb, don't go out for a meal by yourself, tomorrow the Paris newspaper will publish the news that the five-star hotel is shocked.
The star didn't follow, so naturally he was a little unhappy, but it also understood, because today, he had already scared some of his fellow Frenchmen. (To be continued......)