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Capote said this to Jin Muchen, and Jin Muchen knew that there were so many ways in the museum industry.

Unlike those museums in China, because most museums in China are public and are the property of the state, the state will allocate funds every year to the staff of the museum as salaries and funds for the maintenance and operation of the museum.

It is precisely because of the support of the state that those museums in China do not have to worry about profit and loss at all.

However, these museums abroad are different, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art, and museums such as the Guggenkhan Museum and the Whitney Museum, most of which belong to the private property of the rich.

Most of the rest of the equity belongs to the rich.

Since it is not a 100% public institution, it is necessary to take into account the issue of operation.

Therefore, most foreign museums, in addition to collecting and maintaining those historical relics, also have to consider a very important issue, that is, how to survive.

And they make a profit to survive, basically there are three ways, part of it is through donations from rich people who love this area, the other part is on tickets, and part of it is on auctions.

Many people may be surprised when they hear it, isn't a museum a place dedicated to collecting? Why do they still have to auction?

That's right, most museums in the United States, in order to survive or even make a profit. Regular auctions are held every year. It's different from those museums in China that only enter but don't leave. Most of the collections in most of the museums here are circulating.

Basically, every year, these museums will eliminate some collections and replace them with new ones to attract tourists and enthusiasts to pay for admission to see.

Sometimes they swap with other museums, or they regularly swap exhibits on each other's venues, and sometimes they simply choose to auction off a portion of their collection. to maintain the museum's operations.

Sometimes this frequency will be a year or two years, and sometimes, in order to attract more people to spend money to buy tickets to come in and watch, the frequency of their changes in the museum will be faster, basically every three months to a year.

Especially for those big museums, in addition to some treasures, some other low-end antiques are almost allowed to circulate.

They even organize auctions in their own pavilions every year.

Then use the money from the auction. Go buy a new collection.

But buying a new collection, there's a lot of stuff in it. In order to remain profitable, these museums can't go to the big auctions every year and go to the auction hall to fight the rich people.

So sometimes they will send some people out to search around, this situation is more similar, our domestic practice of digging old houses, and sometimes, they will also use some shady means to obtain some collections.

For example, a few years ago, there was a lot of trouble, the Iraqi cultural relics incident, in fact, those museums must not have expected it at the beginning, and later the US government would take these seriously, so they would buy those Iraqi cultural relics from those American GIs or contractors.

If they had known that the U.S. government would elevate this matter to the level of affecting the government's face and principle, I am afraid they would not have made such a blatant acquisition.

It is precisely because of the behavior of these museums that such a group of thieves were born in the antique market, who worked for them.

There are even many people who will call those thieves the mercenaries of the museum.

It's usually the case that people in museums know that someone has some really nice antiques and they don't have a background.

Then they will first send someone to the door to try it, willing to offer a price that is higher than the ordinary price, but definitely much lower than the auction price, to buy the treasure in the man's hand, but if the person does not agree with their offer.

They wouldn't force it, but in a few days some thieves would come to the man's house.

If you're lucky, they'll steal and don't hurt anyone, but if you're unlucky, they'll kill your family while stealing.

Then your stuff will be sold to them by the thieves at the price agreed with the museum, and it will be in the basement of the museum for a few years.

Maybe in a few years, somewhere, somewhere in an unknown small auction, it will be auctioned, and then it will be bought by the staff of the big museums at a very low price, and then they will be openly exhibited.

If you come to the door and ask for it, then the legal department of these museums is not vegetarian, they will fight a lawsuit with you for three to five or seven years, and finally settle with you at a very low price, but that thing, you definitely don't want to go back.

After listening to Capote's explanation of the operation of these big museums in the United States, Jin Muchen felt a lot of coolness in his heart, he really couldn't imagine that these bright-looking museums were still doing such a dirty thing.

If you look at the things that are on display in these museums, except for the Museum of Modern Art, almost all of the most precious exhibits in other museums come from abroad, and the place that comes to the most is China.

Many museums in the United States have collections of Chinese national treasures.

And most of these things were obtained by them through guò pit abduction, some of which were snatched from China by the British Empire, and later in World War II, they had to take loans from the United States, and then they took them to the United States to mortgage them to those banks, and then the British never wanted to go back.

Others were found in the twenties and thirties of the last century, when those American robbers went to China to loot in the name of archaeology.

Back then, in China, they played this game, specifically buying some traitors and scum, stealing, robbing, and even robbing tombs, and then buying these things from those people at a very low price and shipping them back to the United States.

Nowadays, in the most famous museums in the United States, such as the Boston Museum and the Harvard Museum, almost all of them started by stealing antiquities from China when they got up in the morning.

It's just that now they can't do that in China, but I didn't expect them to use the same old routine in their own country.

"That Clark. Peyton, and that Janice. Chen, what are you calling a mercenary in the museum? ”

After listening to Capote's introduction, Jin Muchen probably already had a bottom in his heart.

"That's right, the two of them are not only the best, but also the best among their peers, and your family's burglary this time must have been done by their team. To be honest, you should be glad that you have a stubborn, bold old man in your house, otherwise your antique shop would have been looted by them. ”

Capote smiled faintly, looked at Jin Muchen and said.

Jin Muchen's face was gloomy, it was indeed thanks to Uncle Fang's bravery, otherwise what would happen next that day, it was really hard to say.

"I want to know, which museum do they work for?"

Jin Muchen asked again, after listening to Capote's explanation, Jin Muchen was sure that behind these two guys, there would definitely be some museums involved.

To others, these museums may be a behemoth that they can't be provoked, but for Jin Muchen, he is not afraid, since you want to use the next three indiscriminate means, then don't blame you for being the first year of junior high school, I will do the fifteenth.

What's more, they stole things from their own homes, and they also hurt their own families, which Jin Muchen couldn't tolerate.

"What? Boy, you want to get revenge? ”

Capote stood aside and hugged his arms, looked at Jin Muchen with a smile and asked.

"I didn't say it, I just wanted to know the real culprit behind the whole thing, if no one paid to hire them, I don't think they would have found me, right?"

Jin Muchen shrugged, and Capote patted him on the shoulder.

"You have to think about it, the employers behind them are quite amazing."

"Just say it, I have my own ideas."

"Well, the information I got this time is that the main customer behind their operation is the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and it seems that some foreign museums have also been involved. However, I haven't found out which foreign museums are which ones. ”

Capote's face was very stern this time and said to Jin Muchen, Jin Muchen nodded lightly, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this is one of the eight well-known museums in the United States, and he has heard of the name.

But he doesn't know exactly what the background is, but it doesn't matter.

The important thing is that this time I must give them a hard response, let them know that they are not easy to mess with, otherwise if I don't keep quiet this time, people in other museums will see that I am easy to bully in the future, will they send people over to steal their treasures every once in a while?

Do you want to live your own life? So this time we have to respond, and it's going to be the toughest.

Jin Muchen had already made up his mind, and then raised his head to look at Capote and asked, "Then this Clark." Peyton and Janice. Chen: Where do they live now? You know what? ”

"Hehe, you're asking the right person, the two of them are really a couple, and now they live at 335 47th Street, and their usual identities are a pair of diamond merchants......"

Jin Muchen couldn't help but be stunned, it was really a coincidence, he had only been to 47th Street a few days ago. (To be continued......)