Chapter 308: Heist of the Lost Ark
Deng Feng and the others, who came to the next generation, may have been aggrieved for too long. They have always been haunted by the humiliation suffered by China in China's modern history, and they can't swallow that bad breath. On the ruins of the Old Summer Palace, they can't hear the splendid music in the history of the Old Summer Palace, they can't imagine the magnificence and poetry of the garden, they feel more about the humiliation of the Chinese nation over the past hundred years, the unforgettable hatred for the robbers who caused this great shame to China, and how to snow the shame of a hundred years.
Looking back at the later generations, the most incredible topics surrounding the Yuanmingyuan Gardens and forests are the reconstruction of the Old Summer Palace and the "return" of the cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace.
Rebuilding a Old Summer Palace is not too difficult for China, which has more and more spare money and speculates in various prices that are surging upward. The question is, what is the purpose of rebuilding a Old Summer Palace? Could it be that rebuilding a Old Summer Palace will erase the shame of being burned by the British and French forces? Can this "fake" Old Summer Palace withstand the weight of the history of the original Old Summer Palace? Allowing the ruins of the Old Summer Palace to continue to exist, so that the Chinese people will not forget this humiliating experience for generations, far beyond the significance of building another luxurious garden.
There is also the priceless treasures that the Old Summer Palace has lost, how much significance is it to spend a lot of money to spend money to bring them back? When the Chinese bid for the head of the Old Summer Palace in France, some foreign media bluntly said: The Chinese spent a lot of money to buy these cultural relics back, and their intention was to turn these cultural relics into ATMs for the West to continue to rob China. What is even more unexpected is that a pastel hollow porcelain vase from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, estimated at 80-1.2 million pounds, has been raised to a sky-high price Chinese of 51.6 million pounds (about 550 million yuan) in just over 20 minutes, which is more than 40 times higher than the estimate.
Is this patriotism? Should Chinese spend money like this?
A Hong Kong media article put it bluntly, "This staggering transaction price shows that Chinese are really fucking rich fools." "This kind of flaunting wealth, comparing with each other, and finally feeding the wolf with yuan, is tantamount to the most vivid manifestation of the inferiority mentality of those ugly Chinese, and the word patriotism has nothing to do with them at all." Their actions undoubtedly consciously and voluntarily allowed these Western imperialist powers to continue to expand the results of the series of wars waged against China since 1840, and willingly allowed those Western imperialist powers to plunder China for a second time at an absolutely low cost.
It stands to reason that those Manchu emperors back then definitely ran the land of Shenzhou as their own home, and it was impossible for them not to love this home. They also created the so-called Kangqian Prosperous Era, and it is said that the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Qing Dynasty at its peak was 35% of the world's GDP. However, the rich rulers did not create a rich country and a strong people, and this self-depraved [***] incompetent political axe was indeed defeated by the Anglo-French army of 18,000 people. The part of the Chinese who got rich first with a little spare money really should not forget this painful historical lesson, should know that there are still many people in China who are still struggling on the poverty line, and should know that the road to the rejuvenation of the Chinese state and nation is definitely not a smooth road.
Looking at the United States in later generations, although they are on the surface, human rights are inseparable, freedom and open-minded shouting are earth-shattering, but in essence they are still barbarian psychology, continuing the barbarian activities, still full of bandit logic, from time to time exposing the robbers' surnames, what reason do we have to sponsor them? What reason do we have to be in harmony with them?
Through reflection on history before and after, Deng Feng and the others believe that the most effective way to deal with these robbers is to attack them and torture them by unscrupulous means as long as there is an opportunity. Destroy the self-confidence they have built up over the centuries since the first industrial revolution of modern times.
As the results of the overseas recovery of stolen goods, composed of experts in the identification of various Chinese cultural relics and members of the 9th reconnaissance detachment of the Flying Leopard Commando, the investigation results continued to come back.
Located in Jingdezhen Blue Sky Ceramics Research Institute belongs to the Blue Sky Ceramics Factory is also stepping up production, they use high-end computer software plus analysis balances and no traces of old equipment, in accordance with the data sent back by the investigators and the data of the same kind of cultural relics existing in China as the standard for the work, all kinds of high imitations began to be produced in small batches in units of 100 pieces, which was coaxed by the later generations of "Wo Li Dou", to 51.6 million pounds of Qing Qianlong pastel hollow porcelain vase production of 200 pieces. They want to completely destroy the "ATM" of the West in the future. ”
In order to imitate the accuracy and achieve the effect of fake and real, they gave up cheap coal burning and gas burning, and instead used traditional pine wood firing. The products fired are no different from the porcelain fired in the official kilns of Jingdezhen in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. After aging treatment with non-trace aging equipment, porcelain irradiated by X-rays can increase the degree of glaze aging by 200 years in one second. After the thermoluminescence irradiation test, it is completely consistent with the production age of the original cultural relics. The carbon-14 determination method is used to test the recent items, and the error is very large, and it cannot be used for the identification of cultural relics of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Besides, in this era, foreign countries simply do not have this series of testing equipment.
The Blue Sky Ceramics Research Institute took these products to Yanjing, and asked the top cultural relics experts of the National Museum and the Palace Museum to identify them, and unanimously agreed that they were absolutely genuine. After being affirmed by the top cultural relics identification experts, Yang Guang and his personnel responsible for overseas civil recourse began a real "recourse operation".
They want to "export" these high-fidelity "absolutely genuine" products to high-end antique trading markets in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United States and other countries and the auction houses of world-famous auction companies through various channels such as Hong Kong's two largest Chinese antique streets, Hollywood Road in Central and Morro Street in Sheung Wan, and the Xilong Antique Market in Shannan Special Economic Zone.
They do not at all be subject to a test of conscience and morality, and this is true patriotism. Use the market means of commodity economy to throw out these high-imitation products in the world's major cultural relics markets. In the counter-plunder of the Western imperialist powers that had shamelessly plundered China, a large number of dollars, pounds, Swiss francs, and West German marks flowed into China's hands.
Completely disrupted their cultural relics market, and in the chaos they used various means to recover the original cultural relics that China had lost. Even if they cannot be recovered, they must lose their original commodity value, and use a large amount of high-quality market input to stabilize the price of "Chinese cultural relics" in the international cultural relics market. Make Chinese cultural relics worthless at all.
Through this method, it can also curb the large-scale theft and excavation of "if you want to get rich, first rob the tomb, and dig out a million households in one night" in later generations, and smuggle a large number of them abroad, which may completely interrupt the disaster of the tomb robbery industry that cannot repair the DNA fragments of Chinese history. "There is no killing, no killing" without the rampant smuggling of cultural relics for the purpose of profiteering in later generations, there would not be the unprecedented tomb robbery craze for more people than vegetable sellers. They are doing this in a wise way that is truly beneficial to the present and will be useful for thousands of years. It has fundamentally protected the history of the Chinese nation.
Yang Guang and Oyeni met in Paris for a month. An international flight from Paris to Shannan Special Economic Zone of China's civil aviation "sky train" landed on time at 10 a.m. at Xilong International Airport in China's Shannan Special Economic Zone. Oyeni, the owner of the Oriental Treasure Antique Store in the Louvre Antique City in Paris, France, took Aledou. Balu slowly stepped down from the flight and took out his luggage on the conveyor belt in the baggage room with the passengers on the flight. There is nothing unusual about it.
What they didn't expect was that in the short ten minutes between they got off the plane and picked up their luggage, Aledu. The artifacts in Baru's suitcase were also repackaged. In the luggage room of Xilong International Airport, two members of the 9th Reconnaissance Detachment of the Flying Leopard Commando disguised themselves as customs security inspectors. Balu suitcase, and then calmly with a high-imitation product, put Aledu. The strangely shaped pure gold unicorn paperweight in Balu's luggage, the open jar made from the Old Summer Palace during the Kangxi period of the Longquan official kiln, the colorful cloud crane plate from the Wanli period, and the dragon robe of the Qing Dynasty emperor wrapped in apricot yellow silk have all been replaced. Everything is done quietly and seamlessly.
Researchers Yang Guang and Hui Dehou disguised themselves as Hong Kong antique dealers to bring Oyeni and Aledoo. Balu received the Blue Sky International Hotel in Xilong City. Four people in Aledhoo. In the house of Barud, opened Aledu. Baru's suitcase, once again inspected Aledu. The "broken things" that Baru brought. Afterwards. Xu Dehou said: "I am not a shallow scholar last time in Paris, there were a few doubts I couldn't figure out for a while, and then I consulted a few old-timers in the industry, and they couldn't explain these doubts. Please also forgive me. ”
Although Oyeni has been in the antique shop for more than 20 years, he still does not dare to show off the slightest among his Chinese counterparts, and there are too many Chinese cultural relics. Under the guidance of Mr. Xu in Hong Kong, those doubts seem to be more obvious, and I feel that what Mr. Xu said also has some truth, but these things are indeed Aledoo. Left behind by Baruzu. Hey, the Chinese themselves can't explain it clearly, who can explain it clearly? Anyway, now these two Hong Kong people have provided themselves with enough high-quality and low-cost goods, and these "broken things" can be ignored.
Alledu. After hearing Mr. Xu's words, Balu said angrily: "In that case, what are you asking us to do? You have nothing to do with us noble French aristocrats? ”
"Mr. Bary, this is your fault, such a big business. No one can afford not to be cautious. Yang Guangdi said very unceremoniously to this descendant of the French invading army who burned the Old Summer Palace: "You nobles and lowly people, that's your business, and I can't talk to us." We're in business. Bringing you here is a business necessity. ”
Yang Guang then turned his face to look at the embarrassed Oyeni and said, "Everyone in the antique shop knows that if you buy a fake thing, you have to knock out your teeth and swallow it in your stomach. Don't dare to speak up, you can't afford to lose that person. If all the doubts are not explained clearly, they cannot be justified, and no one will be casual foodies. Mr. Oyeni, is that the case with you French antiques? ”
"Yes, yes," said Oyeni quickly, "although we don't have this rule, the buyer and the seller are absolutely equal. Transactions are conducted freely and voluntarily. This goods are placed here, it is so much money, if you are willing to sell, I will sell it if you are willing to sell. There is no question of whether it is true or false. For what is true or false, it is a matter of opinion and wisdom. ”
"Didn't the chronicles of Old Balu record the origin of these things, why do you still say that there is a problem?" Alledu. Balu still felt a little indignant.
"Mr. Aledu, you are right, the old Major Balu did record in his account how he obtained the Longquan official kiln open jar, the colorful cloud crane plate, the dragon robe of the Qing Dynasty emperor, and the unicorn paperweight in the Old Summer Palace in Yanjing. But how can it be proved that what he is recording is the few things in front of him? Xu Dehou pointed to the high-quality imitations on the bed and said.
"Mr. Yang, look at Aledoo. Balu is a little financially strapped right now," Oyeni said in the middle and said, "Let's see if we can buy one or two pieces, and we can raise the price by 10% at once." ”
"Didn't I just say it, it's not a matter of money, once we buy something fake, we can't afford to lose that person." Yang Guang then said: "Well, this is your first time in Shannan, right? This time, your ticket to Shannan is ours, and we invite you to come to Shannan Special Economic Zone for free travel. You guys take a break, and I'll invite you to dinner in the revolving restaurant on the 58th floor above. ”
"Thank you!" Oyeni has been in the Chinese antiques business for a long time and knows a little about Chinese culture, and he said with a generosity rarely seen in Europeans: "Mr. Yang, Mr. Xu, it's so nice to do business with you, the batch you sent me last week was really good, and all of them were sold." There are a few big customers who also ask to notify them of such a good thing when they come back. I made a little money this time, so I'll invite you to dinner today."
"Ha, ha, ha, Mr. Oyeni, you are too polite, no matter what, we are also Chinese, to Shannan we are considered hosts, it is also appropriate to enter the friendship of landlords, in the future I will go to Paris you are invited." You go to Shannan this time to have a good look, there are many good goods in the Xilong antique trading market. In addition, I will tell you another good news, recently the Chinese political axe said that in order to promote Chinese culture, it is ready to appropriately relax the restrictions on the export of cultural relics and allow the export of some national cultural relics, which is a good opportunity to make money, you should not miss it. ”
"This is really a great thing, and I hope that the two of you will take care of us and better strengthen the cooperation between us. Make our business better. ”
(To be continued)