The president of an unlimited liability company is the one who has to provide unlimited guarantee liability to the company......

So this Kojiro Matsukata became a living tragedy, and all the antiques and works of art he had purchased during his years of travel in Europe became the debts of Kawasaki Shipyard and were forcibly auctioned.

First, the treasures he brought back to Japan such as Western paintings and antiques were forced to be auctioned off to pay off the debts of the Kawasaki shipyard.

And at this time, Kojiro Matsukata also realized that he was actually tricked, no wonder the old fritters of the shareholders of Kawasaki Shipyard would agree to be the president of this shipyard so simply at the beginning, a college student who had just graduated from Yale, and the family of daring lovers had already dug a hole for themselves.

And he was stupid enough to jump in.

Thankfully, he kept his hand, because he had bought more than 10,000 antiques, works of art and paintings in Europe, but not all of them had been shipped back to China.

As for the antique furniture and artworks, he rented a large warehouse in England, and all the treasures were stored in that warehouse, and the paintings and all the other were stored in a gallery in Paris.

Because of the inconvenience of transportation and communication at that time, even if Kawasaki Shipyard won the lawsuit in Japan, he could confiscate all his assets in Japan, but there was nothing he could do with his assets in Europe.

Later, the Japanese court continued to fight with the British and French governments for these antiques, artworks, and oil paintings, but Britain and France at that time were different from now, and they were the two best hooligans in the world at that time.

The Japanese are just their little brothers, so they don't pay attention to the Japanese government's call at all, and besides, this Kojiro Matsukata didn't read Yale in the United States for nothing, he has many friends in Europe and the United States.

And when he realized that he was being toyed with by those old fritters, Kojiro Matsukata was also quite angry, and refused to cooperate with the Japanese government when it carried out the liquidation of him, and even united with his classmates to set up obstacles for the Japanese government.

In this way, regarding the issue of Kojiro Matsukata's assets in Britain and France, the Japanese government and the British and French governments have been engaged in lawsuits, and they have not been able to resolve it for more than ten years.

After more than a decade, international relations are already turbulent, and the international environment of the First World War is no longer the same as before.

At this time, the Japanese government, because of its invasion of China, had gained a lot of war benefits from China, and it was fat and strong, and it felt very unhappy about its sphere of influence in Asia.

Internationally, Britain and France are constantly at odds with Britain and France, and even constantly challenging the authority of the two countries on the Asian map, and the attitude of Britain and France toward Japan has also taken a sharp turn for the worse, making it even more impossible to cooperate with the demands of the Japanese government.

And not only the British and French governments were unhappy with Japan, but even the people of the two countries also began to be unhappy with the Japanese, so first in 1939, a few days before the outbreak of World War II, a fire broke out in Kojiro Matsukata's warehouse in England, and all the antique furniture and artworks he stored in the warehouse were burned by the fire.

This fire came very strangely, it came quickly, but the scope of the spread was not large, the most critical thing was that in the wreckage of the warehouse after the burning, there were no traces of this guy's antiques, so even now, this fire has been very suspicious.

The Japanese also wanted to sue the British for the contents of this warehouse, but then they lost World War II, and they didn't have the heart to continue to fight with the British.

However, more than 20 years after the end of World War II, when Japan's economic boom and international status were greatly improved, some Japanese archaeologists suggested that the fire that broke out in Britain that year was completely a conspiracy, and it was simply a robbery deliberately connived at by the British government......

But in any case, all the antiques stored in the warehouse were gone.

But fortunately, these British collections are not all of Matsukata's collection, and many of his collections are displayed in French art museums, and these collections are the essence of his collection, about more than 400 exquisite Western oil paintings.

But when it comes to hooliganism, the French are no worse than the British.

Don't look at the World War II, the French were beaten by the Germans, like lost dogs, but as soon as World War II ended, the country immediately prided itself on the attitude of a victorious country.

And directly confiscated the more than 400 oil paintings that Kojiro Matsukata had deposited in France, and declared them to be enemy assets.

In particular, at this time, the French recognized these paintings as enemy property, but before World War II, when they were arguing with the Japanese government, they never recognized these paintings as the property of the Japanese government or Kawasaki Shipyard, and at that time they insisted that these paintings were the personal property of Kojiro Matsukata.

Later, the Japanese government was also unruly, and they could only stare dryly when they encountered such a rogue government, and finally they could only find Kojiro Matsukata and let him come out, after all, when he was studying in the United States, there were many British and French classmates, and at this time, his classmates were still mixed well in Britain and France.

At this time, Kojiro Matsukata was already an old man in his sixties, and when he saw that the country was also bowing his head in front of him this time, and Japan after World War II was indeed in ruins, he also gave birth to patriotism.

He personally went to France to fight a lawsuit with the French government, and in the end, because of the repeated reports of various media, the French government could not play hooligans in front of the whole world, so he had to admit that these paintings were the private property of Kojiro Matsukata.

And after they admitted that these paintings belonged to Kojiro Matsukata's personal property, Kojiro Matsukata turned around and donated all these paintings to the Japanese government.

At this time, the French government no longer had any excuse to detain these paintings, but they could only return them to the Japanese government, but before returning them, they also made a request, that is, the Japanese government must establish a special Western art museum to display these Western oil paintings.

This coincided with Kojiro Matsukata's wish, and the Japanese government saw that it could get these paintings back, so it was even more busy agreeing to this request, and finally invited the French designer to design the museum.

In the earliest days, this art museum specially displayed more than 400 oil paintings by Kojiro Matsukata, and later some oil paintings purchased and collected by the museum were added one after another, and then the reputation of this art museum became more and more famous, and some enterprises and individuals successively brought their private collection of oil paintings to this art museum to store exhibitions, so the exhibition of this art museum became more and more popular.

The museum's collection is not unusually famous, with Rubens' "Plenty" and Renoir's "Algerian Parisian Dancer", as well as Monet's "Willow" and "Water Lilies", and even works by Gauguin and Picasso.

In fact, there are a total of 10 works by Monet in this museum, but the "Willow" and "Water Lilies" belong to the museum, and the other eight are in the nature of deposits, which are the property of other Japanese companies or private individuals.

The same is true of the works of Gauguin and Picasso, almost most of them are corporate or private in nature, and few belong to the museum itself.

Jin Muchen turned around almost all the places where famous paintings were hung, because there were still people in the museum, so it was inconvenient for him to start, so he could only look at them first.

After all, the famous paintings in this art museum, although they are all hung on the wall, are also powered on, and are protected by a monitoring system.

The famous paintings on the wall were all taken a look, and Jin Muchen went to the door to take a look, because there are still many sculptures of Rodin there, the most famous of which is the "Gate of Hell" carved by Rodin himself, this work is placed outside the gate of the museum, because of the huge size, it is a pure copper sculpture work, and the weight is as high as several tons, so the museum is not worried that someone will steal such a large object.

If you want to take this sculpture away, at least you have to drive a crane and a big truck in, and in this environment, unless the museum people are blind, you can't blatantly drive those cars in and move the sculpture away.

Jin Muchen was still thinking about whether he should take this sculpture away, but after thinking about it, he still forgot it, after patronizing the Tokyo National Museum, his purple jade space was almost full, and he really couldn't fit such a large object.

And although Rodin's sculpture is valuable, such a work is worth 18 million dollars if it survives in the auction market, and the goal is so obvious, so it is really not worth wasting time for such a big guy.

Turning this art museum almost around, Jin Muchen looked at the time, it was almost four o'clock in the morning, and after a while, it might be dawn, I don't know if the guys downstairs are still working, thinking of this, he came to the basement again.

When I saw it, these Japanese were really dedicated, and they were still carrying things at this time...... (To be continued.) )