Compared with European trains, Ernst always felt that British trains were more comfortable, and I don't know if this is considered a British mentality! Laughing at himself, Ernst looked at the other nobles, who were probably a little tired at the moment.

I didn't see Count John von Clezio, although he was also a count, but there was a big difference in the status of the two, and Count John von Clezio was not necessarily qualified to rest in the place where Ernst could rest.

London wasn't very far away, and it didn't take long to feel like it had arrived, and the lively greeting scene went without saying, as Ernst drove to a manor house on the outskirts of London led by an old servant.

This is a mansion of Archduke Ferdinand in London, and on the way Ernst offers to buy this mansion, although Archduke Ferdinand has some doubts, he still does not refuse.

Buying it is just a talk, could it be that Archduke Ferdinand really asked his son for money?

The estate was not very large, and it came with a hundred acres of land and a horse farm, which could be maintained without Ernst's investment, and even a little rich.

The steward of the manor is a middle-aged man in his forties, he was taken over by his father, and he knows more about the manor than anyone else since he was a child.

Archduke Ferdinand seemed to be very busy, and left after a short time at the manor, and the Sophie lord also took Elena and ran to nowhere to go.

There is only one owner left in Ernst's manor, but this is exactly what Ernst wants, especially Lord Sophie and Elena, if they fancy one or two of their treasures, do they give it or not?

"These are ......"

The middle-aged housekeeper looked very shocked, with Ernst taking the lead, the British oriental antique market also began to prosper a little, porcelain, silk, needless to say, even calligraphy and painting, tea, bronze are also quite marketable.

There are three objects of Chinese treasure level in Ensst's hand, the first is the dragon, rabbit and snake of the bronze head of the zodiac, the second is the "Female History Scroll" of the great painter Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the third is the bronze gilt, the whole body is inlaid with emeralds in all layers of the pagoda.

In fact, there are not only these three items at the level of national treasures, but Ernst can only recognize these three, and others, such as a horse covered in white jade, a large enamel vase, etc., Ernst does not know the value at all.

The bronze head was not entirely from the Eastern Alliance, but was partly purchased by Ernst from the French aristocracy, and Ernst often lamented that he had not been born at the right time, believing that if he could catch up with the Anglo-French army, he would have gained more treasures.

What shocked the middle-aged butler was the dragon head among the three songs, it was the first time he had seen such a delicate bronze, he had seen a tiger head at the auction of the British nobles a month ago, and the auction price at that time was 3,000 pounds, which shocked many British nobles.

Compared with calligraphy and painting, tribute tea, bronze is undoubtedly a dark horse, its status is directly compared to the famous porcelain and silk, and the topic of Eastern bronze often appears in the English aristocracy and merchant circles.

The steward told Ernst about the tiger's head, and Ernst did not feel guilty about the loss of the orient's antiquities to the west, even if it was because of him that the coalition forces increased their plundering of the east.

Ernst's thought was that if it weren't for him, then it was estimated that the Manchu Jingshi would have been full of gunsmoke at this time! The calligraphy and paintings of the literati that were not easy to preserve have disappeared in the smoke and flames, and they have not appeared at auction as well-preserved and valuable as they are now.

There is a saying that there is hope for people to live!

In the same way, cultural relics are only valuable if they are well preserved, and it is extremely stupid to rather be broken than whole.

History belongs to all mankind, and each cultural relic represents a certain stage of history, and even shows the craftsmanship of the time, and their importance is self-evident.

In the future, if the dragon can take off again, it will be better to spend money to buy it back than to disappear into the war now.

"I hope you can take good care of these relics, can you promise me! Eisen Butler! ”

"No problem, my master!"

Eisen, the middle-aged butler, replied to Ernst very seriously, he was a professional butler, and one of his responsibilities was to ensure that his master's wealth was not threatened by any external forces.

"You are a qualified housekeeper and I believe in you."

"Your appreciation is the highest honor, Lord Count!"

Eisen was very happy, for them stewards, perhaps there was no praise comparable to the master's family, which was the greatest recognition for them.

A large number of easy-to-preserve objects are placed in wooden boxes, while objects such as calligraphy and paintings, which are easily affected by time, are carefully placed in the temporary museum of the manor.

"We need a bigger museum."

Eisen asked with some surprise, "Are you going to open these items?" Lord Earl? ”

As if hearing something, Ernst raised an eyebrow and asked, "Do you have a different opinion?" ”

Shaking his head, Eisen said that he had no objection, and then said: "It's just that very few nobles do this, British nobles. ”

Eisen, who had never left England, did not know the state of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so he mistakenly believed that the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy liked to make some of their collections public.

Knowing that Eisen had misunderstood Ernst, he did not explain, but thought about it and said, "How much does it cost to invest in a museum?" I have territory and can't pump out too much liquidity......"

"Perhaps your funds are not needed, my Earl!"

Ernst was interrupted before he could finish his sentence, which was supposed to be rude, but Ernst was not prepared to pursue it, because his attention was all drawn to Eisen's butler.

"Don't need me to invest? Is the bank ......"

"No, no, no, it's not a bank loan but a museum."

"Museums?"

Steward Eisen's words made Ernst wonder more and more, could it be that the museum would give the museum to himself for free when it saw so many cultural relics, this is really a bit wishful thinking!

"Yes, it's a museum, and the Earl may not know one thing when he first came to London, but two years ago Her Majesty Queen Victoria asked the Mayor of London to build an Oriental Museum."

"The Museum of the East? At that time, the cultural relics of the Orient should not have been too valuable! ”

Ernst is telling the truth, the price of oriental cultural relics and antiques has only recently begun to rise, and it is estimated that there will not be many tourists when the museum was built two years ago.

"That's right, there were indeed not many guests at that time, and even now, there are not many oriental cultural relics in the museum, and those are all in the private museums of the major nobles, which are rare for outsiders to see."

"Then you just ......"

Ernst began to guess the outcome of the matter, and sure enough......

"If the Earl is willing to put these items in the Oriental Museum, I believe that the city government will make some compromises, and it may not be difficult to ask for some shares."

The Oriental Museum itself was a whim of Queen Victoria, and now that the Victorian era has passed, even if there is a market for Oriental antiques now, no one can say what its future holds.

If at this time Ernst showed his intention to place a large number of antiques and cultural relics from the Orient in it, too much would have dared to say, and it is believed that the city government would still be willing to compromise with 30 or 40 percent of the shares.