The next day, Lin Qing posted information on job boards in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, but the contact person was Brie.

Strictly speaking, Lin Qing's housekeeper is British, and he remembers a proverb: live in an American house, marry a Japanese wife, hire a Chinese cook, drive a German car, wear a Swiss watch, use a British housekeeper, go to Korea for beauty, wear French fashion, and wear a South African diamond ring.

Lin Qing doesn't need a house in the United States, he has a better one, a Japanese wife, a lover can consider as for the wife, hehe, it's still good in China, the chef must have a Chinese one, this must not be changed, and it is also something that cannot be changed! German cars? Not bad, can you consider the Swiss watch? The price is too high, wait for a while, as for Korean beauty, two words hehe, South African diamond rings? It is said that diamonds are used in the settlement of South Africa's arms business, and Lin Qing felt that he must sell diamond rings to South Africa!

Yesterday afternoon, Lin Qing signed a long-term employment agreement with Brie, who is now Lin Qing's personal lawyer and chief consultant.

After sending off Old Man Sturgeon, Lin Qing began to worry about money, and now he needs money very much!

After thinking about it for a while, Lin Qing felt that he might need to sell a batch of cultural relics, otherwise the money on his body was really not enough to spend.

It took 500,000 yuan to solve the identity problem, 350,000 yuan for the down payment to buy the castle, 1.5 million yuan for decoration, and after a while, the hired personnel were complete, and the maids had to be paid every week, and there were some daily expenses, and they had to buy a car, etc.

"Brie, if I bought some cultural relics from someone else, you also know how chaotic France was some time ago, I found that there were some problems with these cultural relics after I bought them, and before I bought them, I didn't know that these cultural relics were stolen goods, they were illegally gained, can I take them to auction? After all, it's always a hassle to keep these things in your hands! ”

"Of course, there is no problem at all, sir."

"As long as no one can prove that these cultural relics were stolen by you, they can, even if you stole the stolen goods, of course, this is my analogy, as long as you don't leave any evidence, you can also take it out for auction, but it is best to choose a larger auction house, they will not be afraid of any pressure, small auction houses may because of pressure, political factors, etc., your cultural relics will be seized privately, but this possibility is not high, because I am not a decoration!"

"Big auction houses, they are not even afraid of the power of the state? I mean a big country, not a small country like Moldova, but a big country like France! ”

"Of course, a big auction house like Christie's, for example, they have branches in almost every country, and if these countries put pressure on them, they are not afraid, because the most they lose is not to hold auctions in this country in the future, and the loss is not big for them, and the business will continue as usual. And if they compromise and seize the artifacts, they will lose their integrity and will lose a large number of customers, so they will close their doors! ”

"I think I need you to put me in touch with a big auction house, I have a very valuable artifact that needs to be auctioned."

"No problem, I'll help you get in touch, there should be a Christie's branch in Amsterdam, I need to check online, when do I need to make an appointment."

"Of course, the sooner the better!"

Lin Qing now has a lot of cultural relics in his hands, and he thinks that the most precious ones are the chicken head and the Siku Quanshu (because this is a Chinese thing, in fact, the most precious is the cupid statue. ）。

The chicken head and the fragments of the Siku Quanshu must not be taken out for auction, even if he has two copies in his hand! Therefore, the only thing he could sell for a very valuable price was the statue of Cupid in Falconnai.

The next day, Lin Qing and Brie arrived at the Christie's auction house branch in Amsterdam, where a professional manager was already waiting for them.

"Welcome, Your Excellency Count Van Gart, I just heard that there is a young Earl in the Netherlands, and I didn't expect you to be so young. My name is Lucian and I am the Managing Director of Christie's Netherlands. After speaking, he stretched out his hand and prepared to shake hands with Lin Qing!

Hearing the name of this general manager, Lin Qing was obviously stunned, Holy Lance Ranger, ******, why is his skin not black, and his two guns?

Lin Qing, who came back to his senses, found that he was impolite, and the other party stretched out his hand for a long time, but he didn't react!

Lin Qing smiled and stretched out his hand and shook his hand: "I'm sorry, I just found out that you are very similar to a friend of mine, a very good friend!" So it's a bit out of the way! ”

"I think it must be your best friend, otherwise you wouldn't have fallen into deep thought, and it's my honor to look like the Earl's friend!" Look, look, this is the person of a big company, and there is no dissatisfaction with other people's faux pas, but it can help you to reach the sky!

Lin Qing obviously ate this set, and immediately felt that this Lucian was very cute and a talent!

Lucian led Lin Qing into a reception room, and after asking his assistant to bring two cups of tea: "Your Excellency, I don't know what kind of collection you brought?" I hear your assistant (Brie) is very precious? Don't know what? ”

"Do you know about the statue of Cupid in Falconnay?"

"Of course, it's a great work, but it's in the Louvre!"

Lin Qing smiled and didn't speak, and stretched his hand back.

Brie is obviously a good lawyer, but not a good assistant, when Lin Qing stretched out his hand, he was still observing the environment in the room, and finally Lin Qing coughed lightly: "Brie, help me something!" ”

After Brie heard Lin Qing's words, he reacted, opened the box that had been carrying in his hand, and took Cupid out of it.

"Ohmygod, God, is this true? It's not April Fool's Day, it's Cupid, God, it's amazing, it's really amazing, Your Excellency Count, how did you do it? Isn't it supposed to be in the Louvre now? How did it come here?"

Lin Qing was very satisfied with Lucian's reaction, and gently stroked the statue with his hand: "You know, some time ago there was a riot in France, the Louvre was attacked and ransacked, this statue was robbed at that time, when I found him, a vulgar black man was about to throw it, I stopped him, and used money to help it buy it from the hands of the black man, God forbid, a precious work of art was not destroyed!" ”

Lin Qing began to lie more and more fluently, from the beginning of lying to himself, and then lying on the train, to now almost a word of his life is true, and he himself has begun to believe his lies!

"God forbid, thank you, otherwise another precious work of art will be destroyed, in which case it will be a loss for the whole world! Can I take a closer look at him? ”

"Of course, no problem, I brought it today just to find a suitable owner for it!"

After getting Lin Qing's permission, Lucian picked up the statue and examined it carefully, first confirmed the logo of the Louvre, then carefully observed it with something similar to a magnifying glass, and finally called two people to carry the box, used a bunch of various instruments, and carefully checked it in Lin Qing's face before putting down the statue and confirming that it was genuine!

"Can your auction house take this business?" You know, this statue is a precious relic in France, you know, part of the reason I auctioned it was because of the French government, I didn't want to get in trouble! ”

"Your Excellency, this is no problem, Cupid will be the finale of the autumn auction in London in ten days, and he will be worth at least sixty million."

"That's fine, then I'll entrust you to auction him off, but you'll need to pay at least a deposit."

"No problem, this is the rule of auctioning precious cultural relics, if it were me, I wouldn't worry about handing it over to others, it is too precious."

The transaction went quickly, Christie's paid a deposit of 20 million in advance, Lin Qing did not have a European bank card, and finally Christie's helped Lin Qing to apply for a card in a Swiss bank.

The next day, Christie's began to speculate the news of Cupid's upcoming auction around the world, of course, the time is a little tight, and the auction will generally start to warm up half a year in advance, or even a year, but Lin Qing is in a hurry to cash out, so he is in such a hurry!

But the publicity was still very effective, and it caused a sensation in the collecting world, and this precious French artifact actually flowed out of the Louvre, and many people were very interested in it, while many antiquities dealers smelled something unusual and flew to Paris!

The French government first lodged a strong protest! Asked for the return of this Louvre treasure, but they were rejected by Christie's, and then the French government retreated, hoping to get information from the seller, but was refused, and the embarrassed and angry France was almost ready to block all Christie's scoring companies in France, but in the end reason made him still not do it, and had no choice but to protest again!