The reason why this guy did this was not because of any noble sentiments, but because he wanted to keep his descendants and his life's work. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

You must know that the United States at that time was in a golden age of crazy development, and all kinds of relevant laws were not perfect, and it was completely in the era of obeying the law of the jungle.

He was Charles. Forerell became the first to eat crabs and began to collect Chinese art from Asia, and later other American business tycoons discovered the benefits of Chinese art and began to collect them, not only those tycoons, but also those museums and institutions.

Moreover, in order to collect Chinese art, it can be said that they are all uncompromising, capable and channeled, they will contact Chinese tomb robbers, steal from them everywhere, dig them up, and even contact the Japanese as agents to go to China to steal, rob, and ship art to the United States.

You must know that there were many British immigrants in the United States back then, and many of these British remnants had their ancestors, but they had participated in various wars of aggression against China in those years, and there were some Chinese antiques at home, and after the arrival of the Chinese antique collection boom, these people became the looting objects of many museums and private collection institutions in the United States.

They will use various means to pressure you to take out the good things in your hand and sell them at a low price, if you don't agree, you may face the disaster of extinction.

And Forrell is one of the most coveted objects of those guys, you must know that he has been playing Chinese antiques for decades, and his collection of good things can be said to be countless, and most importantly, he has no successor.

Because of syphilis, he never got married all his life, which was not a good thing at the time, if he could marry the daughter of a big family in the United States at that time and leave offspring, then those people would not dare to touch his descendants easily, because even if he died, his descendants would be covered by his mother's family, and everyone would not dare to do it easily.

But the key is that this guy has never been married in his life, although he has several sons, but these descendants are all illegitimate children, and the mother is either a prostitute or an ordinary good family, so once Charles. If Forrell were to die, there would be no one to cover them.

And these illegitimate children are not talented, they don't have the same business talent as their father, and they don't have much success in the business field, most of them are the kind of bastards who eat and wait for death, old Charles. When Forrell was still alive, because of his influence, those people did not dare to do anything to his descendants.

But once he kicks his legs and goes to the western sky, no one can cover them, and these rich second generations who have no brains will become their best hunting targets.

It's okay Charles. Forrell is not a simple person, in that era, how could he be willing to let his life's work be snatched away by those people.

And as a successful businessman, Charles is very far-sighted, he knows that in his life, don't look at the scenery, but in fact, what he does is a shady business, and he has been robbing by force all his life, and I don't know how many people he has offended.

Once he hangs up, his descendants will not be taken care of by the matrilineal family, then the final result will be that his inactive descendants will definitely be eaten alive by his enemies and those tycoons in the collection world.

So in order to let his children and grandchildren survive in the jungle at that time, he chose a very smart way, that is, to take out part of his net worth, donate it to the country, and then let the country protect his children and grandchildren.

His plan was so successful that in 1906 he contacted the Smithsonian Institution, an important peripheral organization of the famous Freemasonry in Washington, D.C., and conceived the idea of building a private museum under the banner of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and then donating part of its collection of Chinese and Japanese paintings and ceramics, as well as some Indian and Iranian ancient art, to the private museum.

And those museums, collection institutions, and enemies who have long coveted his family property will certainly not let him get his wish so easily, these people are Charles. Fury didn't dare to do anything to him and his family when he was alive, but they were better than Charles. Fury is even more able to survive, they all know that this guy has syphilis, an incurable disease, and it won't be long before he will burp, so they try their best to stumble on this guy and make his art museum impossible to build.

In the end, the fight between them even alarmed the then President of the United States, Theodore. Roosevelt, and the first lady Edith, in the end, this Frill was also shrewd enough, he tried his best to buy Edith, persuaded the elder Roosevelt, and got the support of the president and his wife, and finally his art museum was approved by the federal government and became the first private museum under the Smithsonian Institution.

And in order to start the construction of this museum as soon as possible, lest someone come to play tricks, this old guy also paid a million dollars out of his own pocket for the construction of the museum.

The $1 million in 1906, according to the exchange rate and inflationary factors, the $1 million is worth more than the current $100 million, which shows the old guy's bottomless pockets and eagerness.

But this old guy, it can be regarded as doing too many bad things, bad retribution, during the construction of this museum, I didn't expect to just catch up with the First World War, although the trust fund under his name is to make a lot of money from the First World War, but on the other hand, because during the war, the main energy of the United States was all concentrated in the European theater.

There were no more manpower and material resources for the construction of his museum, so his museum was delayed until 1919 and was not completed, and this old guy was finally in 1919, because of the outbreak of syphilis complications, and finally hiccups.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the construction of this museum, after all, has been included in the national project before, and the old guy also said that after his death, part of his collection will be donated to the state.

Later, after the end of the war, the museum was able to continue to be built until it was completed two years later, and his collection of more than 20,000 pieces was brought to this museum for display, and in the end, because of the country, his enemies were jealous of his family, and finally his descendants who did not become a weapon also survived by the protection of the state.

When he was dying, in order to prevent his collection from falling into the hands of his enemies, and in order to prevent his descendants from being harassed by those museums and collection institutions, he also chose to donate all the Chinese art he had collected all his life to the Smithsonian Institution.

Later, the National Museum of the United States simply merged the two art galleries into one, and then recruited them under the name of the American National Museum, which became the Asian Pavilion under the name of the American National Museum.

It is also by relying on the protection of the national government that the Frill family has been able to continue to this day, and after the merger of the Forell and Sackler Art Galleries into the Asian Pavilion of the National Museum of the United States, the U.S. government has also carried out a series of positive publicity for the Foreer family, the purpose is very simple, that is, to call on more wealthy people to donate their family heirlooms to the National Museum.

After all, even now, American society, under the cloak of fame, is still a jungle society of the jungle of the jungle.

Those small families, once they get any treasure, they will often face extinction because they are not guilty, but they are guilty of such a crime.

However, if these families wisely donate their treasures to the National Museum, they will often be protected by the state, and those big families on the top food chain often dare not do anything with these families.

And that year Charles. What Frill did has also been imitated by many small and medium-sized families in the United States, for example, there was a bronze in the Frill Museum later, which was obtained in this way.

This bronze can be said to be the top bronze in the Forer Museum, and even now it is the treasure of the Forerell Art Museum, but this treasure was donated by a wealthy man in the United States, and this rich man also had to choose to do so because he faced the same fate as Friel, so that he could save his descendants.

So in fact, this Forrell donated his life's work to the country at that time, in fact, there was a secret secret, and it had little to do with the nobility of his personal character.

And now the art in the Friel and Sackler Art Gallery, especially the collection of this part of the Frill Museum, is the crown jewel of the Asian Pavilion of the National Museum.

There are more than 1,200 pieces of ancient Chinese paintings in this art museum, which can be said to be the best in the United States in terms of quality, and even the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which has the largest collection of ancient Chinese paintings, cannot be compared with him, among which the most famous house is the famous work of Gu Kaizhi, a great painter of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

There are only seven of these paintings in existence, and the only one in the collection of Forrell Art Management is the only white sketchbook, and it is also the only painting with the most complete end to end, which can be called a peerless treasure, and it is completely unnecessary to get the top famous paintings in the British Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which are priceless works. (To be continued.) )