Back at the hotel, Pepe pulled out a gilded business card from her handbag, which had been given by the auction house manager who was in charge of checking out the bill for her.

Looking at the manager's title on the business card, Pepe smiled playfully and put the business card into the space.

For Pepe, the auction she participated in today was just a preliminary contact, and the purpose was only to explore the channels for selling stolen art in the Japanese market.

After the bidding of the warm auction in the afternoon, when Pepe followed the staff to the backyard to settle the payment, she was taken to a VIP room, and then the whole closing process was only the manager of the auction house and Pepe.

So in the process of closing the payment, Pepe began to inquire about the entire laundering process of the stolen goods from the manager, intentionally or unintentionally.

In order to make the manager more detailed, Pepe even used his divine sense to make the manager let down his guard against her.

During the whole communication with the manager of the auction house, Pepe told the other party bluntly that she had a private museum under her name that was about to open, so she needed to collect more valuable cultural relics and antiques from the market to fill the collection in the museum.

Before Pepe could continue to explain his intentions, the manager immediately hinted to Pepe that he had a special channel to get his hands on the stolen goods from various countries. Just like the dozens of Iraqi cultural relics in this warm auction, they were all obtained by the auction house where he works through private channels.

In other words, both Americans and Britons boast in international public opinion that the Iraq war launched by their country in 2003 was a just war. But as more and more of the precious collections of the National Museum of Iraq appear in major auction venues in Europe and the United States, this fig leaf-like lie is immediately lifted!

Internationally, public condemnation of the public auction of Iraq's national treasures by European and American countries has spread even more.

As a result, the United States, Britain, and several other European countries that participated in the Iraq War, for the sake of international face, had no choice but to make temporary moves and use such methods as banning the public auction of antique cultural relics that originally belonged to Iraq in their own auction venues as a fig leaf, so as to save some of their own country's face as much as possible.

As a result, the law of laundering stolen goods issued by Japan, an Asian country, immediately became the best tool for laundering Iraqi antiquities, and antiquities dealers from various countries bought antiques from Iraq from the GIs of the coalition forces. It was then transported to Japan through smuggling channels.

According to the manager. The dealers of antiquities from those countries had already contacted the Japanese auction company in charge of packaging and selling them in advance. These auction companies in Japan will buy these antiquities and antiques that have flowed into Iraq at a relatively low price, and then launder the stolen goods through the channels of their own auction houses.

Under the influence of Pepe's divine sense, the manager told Pepe unreservedly that in these transactions, there were also collectors who specifically bleached the unseen collections through the whitewashing channels of Japanese auction companies.

This technique Pepe has also heard his old man mention it. But not as detailed as the manager said.

Because all the items are not paid on the spot after successful bidding. Instead, he went to the backcourt to settle the payment after the hammer fell. In addition to the buyer and the auction company, there is only one auction contract and payment documents to prove the entire settlement process.

As a result, some wealthy collectors who have stolen goods in their hands that cannot see the light of day will privately sign another contract with the auction company that will not see the light of day.

On the bright side. These wealthy collectors bid high on their favorite collectibles through Japanese auction houses, but in fact the collectors hand over their stolen goods to auction companies for launder.

Assuming that the auction price on the table is $10 million, as long as the specific amount of "whitewashing" fees is negotiated, such as $200,000 or $300,000 "whitewashing brokerage fees", the auction company will issue a verifiable receipt to these collectors after the bidding is over.

As for the collector, in addition to paying the "whitewashing intermediary fee" negotiated in advance, he also has to help the auction company bear the part of the tax generated by the bidding price on the table.

Of course, compared with the real value of these cultural relics, the "whitewashing fee" and all the taxes added up can only be regarded as a fraction.

Through this warm auction in Japan, the purpose of Pepe's trip can be regarded as a successful achievement -- she not only purchased a lot of precious Iraqi cultural relics that can be called national treasures, but also established a good "friendship" with the senior management of the auction company of this warm auction. With this auction company in Japan as a cover, she will be on the right path to launder the stolen goods that cannot see the light of day in the future.

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After waking up the next day, Pepe got up and freshened up, then left the hotel and hailed a taxi and headed straight for Ueno Park in Tokyo's Taito Ward.

After entering Ueno Park, Pepe took a walk all the way north, seemingly leisurely admiring the beautiful scenery in the park.

Outside the north gate exit of Ueno Park is the Tokyo National Museum, where she is aiming for today!

The Tokyo National Museum is the largest museum in Japan, and the museum consists of a two-story building in the style of a Japanese nation, the Toyokan on the left, the Horkeikan on the right, and the Horyuji Treasure Museum next to the walled gate, with a total of 43 exhibition halls.

The 43 exhibition halls contain more than 100,000 historical artifacts and various precious art treasures looted from other countries during World War II, 70 of which have been designated as national treasures.

Among the cultural relics of other countries exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum, there is no doubt that the largest collection is the Chinese art treasures plundered from China during the Japanese invasion of China!

What's even more "interesting" is that more than half of these 70 priceless art treasures, which have been designated as national treasures by Japan, are actually antique cultural relics from the Chinese dynasties!

One of the purposes of Pepe's trip is to come to these looted treasures of Chinese art!

After a leisurely walk for more than 20 minutes, Pepe finally came to the vicinity of the north gate of Ueno Park.

Instead of buying a ticket to enter the museum from the north gate of Ueno Park, she found a chair under a cherry blossom tree near the exit near the north gate and sat down (to be continued......

PS: This is today's fourth update! The fifth is definitely not going to be there, I'm already starting to get sleepy with my eyelids, and I'm ready to wash and sleep! Continue to exert your strength tomorrow, at least three more!