"Do you like this screen very much?"

After Hassanur finished introducing his collection with a little pride, he suddenly asked Jin Muchen.

Jin Muchen didn't think much about it at all, so he replied directly: "I like it!" Of course I like it, like Your Majesty, I also like the combination of Chinese and Western style of this screen, and the materials and carvings of this screen are all top-notch, such agarwood works, and the shape is so large, it is rare in this year. ”

"Then since you like it, I'll give it to you."

Hassan Nur-Sultan's next sentence directly stunned Jin Muchen.

Big guy, this is not a matter of dozens or hundreds of dollars, I know that your old man is rich, but this is an art masterpiece worth tens of millions of dollars, can you be willing to give it away?

Is the world of the rich really so incomprehensible?

Jin Muchen really didn't know how to express his emotions at this time, the Sultan said that he wanted to give him this thing, if he said that he didn't like this thing, then he would be hypocritical.

But if you really don't say anything, doesn't it seem like you're too much?

"Your Majesty the Sultan, I know that you are also a good intention, but this is not a cheap thing after all, more than ten years ago this seat screen was worth more than five million US dollars, and now more than ten years have passed, the status of agarwood in the world collection industry, especially the status of the Chinese collection industry, I should know it! If this pedestal sculpture is based on the current market, it should at least increase in value by more than two times, and you should give it to me now. This gift is just too valuable. I can't accept it. ”

When Jin Muchen said this. also hesitated again and again, so he gritted his teeth and said it, in fact, at this time, the love in his heart for this seat screen can be said to be like it to death.

obviously likes it very much, but in the end he can't accept it, such a result is actually quite cruel to him.

Unexpectedly, he refused. The Sultan didn't take it seriously at all.

"Haha, I know what you said, this seat screen has indeed increased a lot of value in recent years, but in my eyes, it is not a top baby. I actually bought it at an auction in France, and it came from an old aristocratic family in France, and they actually looted it from your China. And this seat screen is not actually a complete work, it is just a part of a set of works. I once saw this whole set of agarwood works in the home of the French banker. At that time, the person was also desperately short of funds because of the failure of the investment. In fact, at that time, I wanted to buy all the whole set of agarwood carvings in his house, but unfortunately no matter what high price I offered at that time, he was not willing to buy it. That's why I only bought such a pedestal screen, which may seem flawless to your eyes, but in my eyes, it's not flawless. It's just a part of a whole set of works, so in my opinion, it's incomplete, even if it has increased in value a lot, and there is still a lot of room for appreciation, but in my eyes, it's still incomplete, so as time goes by, my appreciation for this sculpture is declining year by year. Now that you like it, I'll give it to you, and I hope you don't refuse. ”

Hassan Nur-Sultan's next words made Jin Muchen listen to mixed feelings.

It turns out that the perfect agarwood seat screen in my eyes is actually just one of a series of works!

Thinking about the past, Qianlong, the emperor who was obsessed with collecting, no matter what kind of art he collected, he liked to collect the top one.

Agarwood carving, in the eyes of ordinary rich and noble, can have such a small piece of ornaments, it is already good, but for the emperor who is obsessed with collecting, it is not a big deal at all, and if he likes it, he will definitely collect the best and top agarwood works.

And this thing, according to the historical records of the Qing court, Emperor Qianlong generally put it in the secret room of his own study, and admired it alone, and usually kept it secret.

Many of his treasures were only known to his successors after his death.

It's just that several of his successors don't seem to like to use dead people's things too much, so he has a lot of top collections, and after he died and returned to heaven, they were all sent to the Old Summer Palace by Emperor Jiaqing.

And the final outcome of those treasures was that during the Second Opium War, they were robbed by British and French robbers, and what they couldn't snatch away was even burned by fire.

And the whole set of agarwood carving ornaments in the mouth of His Majesty Hassanur is probably the ancestor of the French banker who snatched it back from the Old Summer Palace.

Thinking of these, Jin Muchen's heart is a burst of acid reflux, the essence of the artworks left by our ancestors back then, carrying many memories of Chinese civilization, but now it has become the private collection of some European and American collectors.

We, the descendants of later generations, don't have a chance to take a look, such as the pedestal screen in front of us, if it weren't for the fact that I saw it in the private collection of Hassan Nur-Sultan today, I'm afraid I wouldn't know that there is such a treasure in the world for the rest of my life, the treasure made by our ancestors!

As soon as he thought of this, Jin Muchen suddenly became less resistant to the fact that His Majesty Hassanur wanted to give this throne sculpture to himself.

This thing is an incomparably precious national treasure for themselves and for the Chinese, but in the eyes of the Sultan, even if it is in good condition, it is just an incomplete and unique product.

So people are tired of watching and playing, and they are not interested in it.

Although His Majesty the Sultan has not yet done the thing of burning the qin and boiling the crane, no one can guarantee that His Majesty the Sultan will suddenly look at this seat screen unpleasantly that day, and then use him as a punching bag.

Tens of millions of dollars of things, to him, are just toys that can be destroyed after playing.

Besides, even if the Sultan didn't ruin him, if he didn't want it today, maybe the Sultan would give it to someone else that day.

"Then thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"

Jin Muchen's answer made Hassan Nur very satisfied, he laughed and patted Jin Muchen's shoulder.

"That's right, in fact, you don't have to be polite to me at all, after all, you saved the lives of our father and daughter, and the lives of the two of us, aren't they as valuable as these antiques from hundreds of years ago?"

Jin Muchen was sweating profusely this time, and did not answer directly, although he wanted to answer in his heart, the lives of the two of you, in my opinion, are indeed not as valuable as this antique.

But when he thought of the fact that the Sudan was worth hundreds of billions of dollars, he couldn't say it.

In the end, the dinner ended in such a happy situation, eating what should be eaten, living where it should have been stayed, and taking what should have been taken, Jin Muchen and Belinda really couldn't find a reason to continue to stay in Brunei.

So they took their leave to His Majesty the Sultan the next day and prepared to leave the Sultan.

And the Sultan did not keep them this time, but kept his promise to give them a wad of cashier's checks worth three million dollars before they left.

The two of them didn't pretend this time, they picked it up and left, and they still came to the airport in someone's Rolls-Royce grocery cart, but this time they still did not take a civil aviation, but took a private jet from His Majesty the Sultan.

However, this time the private jet is not the slightly old Boeing 727 from last time, but a brand new castle in the sky, the Boeing 747 luxury private airliner.

That's right, it's the kind of super airliner that can carry more than 300 people at a time, and this is currently the only ultra-luxury large airliner in the world that can be used as a private jet, and its nickname is the castle in the sky.

Our domestic super-rich are still proud of their own business jets, and these local tyrants in the oil department have begun to play such a tall castle in the air......

With the last experience, after the two of them boarded the plane this time, they already had considerable immunity to the luxurious decoration of the cabin interior.

The plane quickly rushed into the sky, and after a simple lunch, the two entered a room together, mainly because there were such conditions now, so both of them wanted to try the feeling of being on the wall at an altitude of 30,000 feet......

A few hours later, the plane landed safely in Xiangjiang's cabin, and it was only then that Jin Muchen and Belinda walked out of the room.

After getting off the plane and saying goodbye to His Majesty the Sultan's send-off staff, the two of them hailed a taxi and went straight to the Four Seasons Hotel in Central.

Originally, after completing the trip to Brunei, Jin Muchen and Belinda wanted to go back to Australia directly, planning to play around Australia and then go back to the United States.

Unexpectedly, when they were under house arrest in disguise in the palace, Jin Muchen suddenly received a call from Sister Tao, the host of the underground shooting he met last time in California.

In fact, what he left for Sister Tao before was a fake phone number, but it was not an empty number, it was just a fake number he got by anonymous.

Since the last time they met, he never thought that this Sister Tao would contact him, but he didn't expect her to really call.

Sister Tao told him on the phone that they were planning to prepare a large-scale underground auction in Xiangjiang recently, and asked Jin Muchen if he was interested in coming and seeing, Jin Muchen listened to such an invitation, and agreed without thinking much about it. (To be continued......)