"Come on, come on, you guys make a list, and get out all the antiques and works of art in China..."

In the presidential palace, after calling several major leading cadres of the Ministry of Culture, Yan Guang took out a few pieces of paper and pen and put them in front of them, and looked at them happily.

"This—" Several people hesitated. Big President, I don't know......... Uh, what's the matter? ”

It's no wonder that they are so hesitant, you must know that Yan Guang has done a lot of things like sending people to Kazakhstan to build railways, many of which are so-called "intellectuals", and until now this group of "intellectuals" has not been able to come back―――――― because they have been sent to Iran to build railways...

Now that Yan Guang has asked them to make a list, who knows if they want to do something again?

You must know that as the leaders of the Ministry of Culture, they know a lot of people, so let them make a list at this time, what if they hurt their friends?

Thinking of this, several people looked at each other.

It's okay to let them list their names, the problem is that everyone has so many friends after all, even if they don't write their friends now, who knows if the people around them will write them...

Looking at the appearance of these guys in front of him, Yan Guang was also a little inexplicable.

Yan Guang naturally did the matter of sending people to other places to build railways, and he did a lot of it.

Among them are not only the masterminds behind the match-fixing in the ball game, but also the resistance elements who occupy the territory, and of course, there are also those who attack Yan Guang through public opinion in China.

Although Yan Guang's heart is not too small. But the establishment of the [Ministry of Internal Affairs] was to deal with such things, not to mention that many times this kind of people will also hinder Yan Guang's plan, so Yan Guang had to let them go to Kazakhstan and Iran to sober up―――――― in fact, Yan Guang already felt that he was very merciful, after all, he didn't put people in sacks, tie them to stones, and then sink to the bottom of the river...

Although Yan Guang felt that he was very merciful. But others don't think so, after all, after more than twenty years of peace, they have never encountered anything like this...

Well, it's not hard to understand.

Although 28 years later, Yan Guang has also given up his position to Xu Shichang and Song Dinghan, but the real power has always been in his hands, and Xu Shichang and Song Dinghan are more like puppets than presidents compared to him. Naturally, there are more people who express their disgust at this.

In addition, it is a time of peace, and the control of the press is not very strict, and many people even simply co-founded newspapers and other media to oppose Yan Guang, and this behavior reached a climax after Yan Guang became president again...

It's just that Yan Guang's Ministry of Internal Affairs was not raised for nothing. In addition, these people are also in a group of activities, and there is often a spoonful of stew, so the source of workers who build railways in Kazakhstan and Iran has always been based on these people...

According to Yan Guang, it is labor reform...

Naturally, there are many people who are dissatisfied with this. However, the vast majority of people don't care about this, after all, this is not the era of X-power flooding in later generations, in this era, dictatorships like fascism can be accepted by the world, let alone Yan Guang...

Although it is indeed a bit arbitrary to get those who oppose him to Kazakhstan to build a railway. But these are acceptable in the eyes of people in this era, after all, in this era even communism and fascism have a large audience...

Not to mention compared to Hitler and Stalin. Yan Guang's methods are already quite merciful.

What's more, some guys have a face like a "virgin", even ordinary people are fed up...

Don't kill or rob. Where did you come from so much land now? …,――――――――――――――――――

"What? Are you mistaken? ”

seemed to understand the concerns of the guys in front of him, and Yan Guang laughed out loud "haha" there.

"A group of literati, what am I embarrassed about them doing!"

"Aren't you embarrassed..."

Hearing Yan Guang say this, several people in front of him whispered in their hearts. You must know that the main force in building the railway is the "literati" in Yan Guang's mouth, of course, they will not say these directly.

"Then, I don't know what the president is looking for these people for?"

Although Yan Guang had already said that it was not a bad thing, the vice minister of the Ministry of Culture still asked cautiously. In fact, he doesn't want to be the first bird, but who called him a deputy...

No matter what you do in these years, as long as you put a subword on it, it will be very hard.

"That's right..."

After thinking about it, Yan Guang told the British about asking the British to take out antique relics and other art collections and exchange weapons with the Nationalist government.

"So, I need a group of experts in this area to do the appraisal work now!"

Yan Guang touched his chin as he said this.

"After all, who knows if those Britons will deceive us with fakes..."

You know, even the Germans used commission rifles to pass off as Mauser rifles―――――― although commission rifles were indeed the standard equipment of the Germans at that time, and they were not replaced until the First World War.

In this era, talking about credibility with foreign devils is a bad thing in itself, so Yan Guang must be careful, lest the British deceive.

Will the British be a fraud?

Putting aside the historical misdeeds of the British, you must know that the "Piltddown Man Incident" just happened more than 20 years ago...

In fact, this so-called "Peltddown" incident is also very simple, in 1859, a new book called "The Origin of Species" caused a sensation all over the world. Robert? Darwin's masterpiece. The theory of biological evolution in the book has been held open to the minds of the people, and although it has been attacked by the church and opponents since its publication, by the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the theory of evolution has been accepted by more and more people. It is widely believed that humans are the product of biological evolution and that humans and apes share a common ancestor. And man evolved from the forest ape.

As the center of world civilization at that time, the British Empire was slow to find evidence of early human activity, which was a real embarrassment for the British people in their heyday. This is undoubtedly showing the world that the people of the British Empire are not the birthplace of human ancestors.

It was in this case that in 1912 a man named Charles? Dawson's career lawyer made a startling discovery, which made him a national hero in the eyes of the British. Dawson lives in the south of England and is unknown in his own area of expertise, but this may well have something to do with his own hobbies. His interests were paleontology, geology, and archaeology, which were very noble hobbies in Europe at the time. Dawson often used his spare time to collect fossils. He is a very enthusiastic fossil hunter.

In 1908, Dawson found a fragment of a skeleton at a place called Pirdown, which he judged to be a human skull at the time. Later, another fragment was discovered, and this fragment was on the same bone as the first fragment, and Dawson considered the fossilized skull he found to be of great value.

In February 1912, he wrote to his friend, Sir Woodward, then head of the geology department at the British Museum, to inform him of his new discovery. He also claimed that the value of the fossilized skull he found was far greater than that found in Heidelberg, Germany. …,

Sir Woodward, one of the world's most famous paleontologists at the time, had been searching for the remains of ancient human activity, including fossils, in England, but he had to endure a great deal of difficulty. In the end, no particularly decent material was found.

In June of that year, Woodward couldn't wait to form a digging team with Dawson. Came to Pierdam in the hope of making even greater discoveries. Woodward's unexpected success was thrilling for Woodward. He took everything he found back to the British Museum, put it together, and filled in the missing parts with clay to restore a simulated human head, which was very much in line with Woodward's theory: a tall, raised skull, a relatively flat, less prominent eyebrow arch, and features that resembled a human. On the other hand, the structure of the mandible and the entire mouth protrudes forward, and there is no obvious jaw, which is similar to that of an ape. Woodward later identified the fossilized skull as about 500,000 years old, 100,000 years before the human fossil found in Heidelberg, Germany.

The fossil human bone was studied by A.S. Woodward and named it "Eoanthropusdowsoni". "Dawson" is the discoverer of the fossil in remembrance, and "Akebono" means the earliest person.

However, although the bone wall of this skull is relatively thick, the shape is exactly the same as that of modern humans, and the mandible is very ape-like. At the time, many people wondered how a skull in the form of a modern man could fit together with the mandibles of a very ape-like man. The following year, it was reported that the French priest and paleontologist De Rijin had found another human canine tooth there, and continued to find stone tools and animal fossils. Many British scientists, perhaps out of narrow nationalist sentiments, are proud of the discovery of the oldest human fossil on British soil, and try to defend the "Dawn Man". However, with the discovery of more early human fossils, people increasingly feel that the morphology of "Twilight" is too incongruous with other human fossils. But because of the "authority" behind it, no one thought that it could be a hoax.

With the advancement of science and technology, scientists have invented techniques to determine the relative age of fossils. The discovery of the Pierdown fraud was initiated in 1953 by staff at the British Museum, and other institutions were invited to attend a number of scholarly events. At this time, Pildownin Man was already regarded as a deformed product that was in complete contradiction to the dominant drive of human evolution shown by fossils found elsewhere: Pildownin Man presented as a patchwork forgery, partly human-like and part-ape-like. It is a combination of a medieval human skull, the jaw of a 500-year-old Sarawak orangutan and a fossilized chimpanzee tooth, and its old appearance is rusted and eroded with chromic acid.

As far as the forgery itself is concerned, the problem of the jaw not fitting with the skull was solved by a simple expedient: knocking out the tail end of the mandibular thigh, and the teeth on the lower jaw were filed to meet the need, which unexpectedly led to doubts about the authenticity of the entire specimen, especially because the tip of one molar, which was tilted at a very different angle from the others. Microscopic examination revealed file marks on the teeth and concluded that filing was done to change the shape of the teeth, as the inclination of the teeth of apes is different from that of human teeth.

Perhaps the most ridiculous discovery was a "craft" next to a bone, which scientists at the time believed to be a tool or part of a skeleton. But in the end, it turned out to be a cricket bat.

Incidentally, as the initiator of the fraud case, Conan. Doyle is also the object of suspicion―――――― Conan. Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes...

Let's not mention the London Olympics in later generations. The "Piltdown Incident" that took place more than twenty years ago alone was enough to doubt the credibility of the British. ..., of course, considering the self-esteem of the British, Yan Guang did not jump out to expose the truth about the "Peltddown Man", after all, the "Peardown Man" thing was in 1912, when the First World War had not yet broken out, and the British were still undoubtedly the number one power in the world, and it was not a wise thing to offend the British in this situation.

As for later, it was because Yan Guang became president. There are more things to worry about, and you won't be as free as you used to be...

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"Relic..."

Hearing Yan Guang say this, several guys from the Ministry of Culture said with some excitement.

In the final analysis, you can go to the Ministry of Culture. There must be some research on culture and art, and such a person naturally has a strong interest in art.

Not to mention that one or two of them are artists themselves, and several others also have a deep skill in antiques, but...

"President, it's okay to say that the general antique artifacts are good. But the foreigners..."

The Minister of Culture coughed.

"Those foreigners, there are not many people who understand them in China..."

The Minister of Culture is still very excited to be able to get so many cultural relics from abroad, after all, the foreigners took countless precious cultural relics from China back then. These artifacts can now be retrieved, and some can be retrieved in reverse. It would be strange if he wasn't excited.

But...

Like he said, the rest will be forgotten. However, there are not many people who understand Western art in China, after all, there are still many people who love domestic products in these years, such as in later generations, a Picasso obviously can't understand but prefers to say that he can understand it, that is really countless...

"That's a problem..."

Hearing them say this, Yan Guang also nodded.

As far as he knows, even some "experts and professors" in later generations probably don't know much about Western art, let alone the present.

But if you really don't want someone who understands, then the British want cultural relics to exchange...

What if you get scammed?

For hundreds of years, many collectors have claimed that they have the real Mona Lisa, and the number of them is as high as 60, which shows that forgery is not the patent of later generations.

Although according to the agreement between the Communist government and the British, the general artifact is only equivalent to a rifle, and only an artifact of the Mona Lisa level can reach the level of a destroyer, if the British mixed in a large number of forgeries...

"Is there anything you can do?"

Although the value of a few rifles and a few cannons, as long as you think about it, if you receive a fake and still be overjoyed there, wouldn't the British behind you laugh to death?

"Is this..."

A few people imagined carefully, and finally the Minister of Culture spoke.

"If it really doesn't work, why don't we ask for foreign help?"

"Foreign aid?"

"Well, just ask a few foreigners to come over and help identify it..."

"Foreigners..."Yan Guang thought for a moment. Is it reliable? ”

You must know that the credibility of foreigners is not very good, not to mention that Britain is also a Western country, who knows if they will be in a gang...

However, hearing Yan Guang say this, the Minister of Culture said with a smile.

"You have forgotten that now Britain is at war with Germany, and in that case, why don't we simply call in German experts?"

Hearing him say this, Yan Guang tapped his head with his hand.

"Yes, yes, I've been busy with too many things lately, and I'm a little confused."

Indeed, although Britain and Germany are both Western countries, but now the two countries are mortal enemies, in this case the Germans will never help the British to be fake―――――― in Yan Guang's view, the Germans will publicize this matter well and make the British lose face is more likely. ..., "In that case, it seems that the Germans need to be contacted..."

Yan Guang didn't think the Germans would agree. After all, it was also an opportunity to disgrace the British.

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When Yan Guang informed the Germans of what had happened, the Germans were very happy and were willing to provide a group of experts in this area to help.

For the Germans. What a rare opportunity to humiliate the British...

Because things were decided quickly, it took only a week for the Germans to pack up a group of real "specialists", board ships in Romanian ports, escorted by the Black Sea Fleet to the Mediterranean, and then escorted all the way to Shanghai by the Mediterranean Fleet and the Indian Ocean Fleet.

Although it may seem a bit more troublesome, it is much more comfortable to take a boat than a train, and it is much faster in terms of speed.

When a group of experts from Germany arrived. Yan Guang held a very grand welcome party in Beijing, welcoming these German friends to come from thousands of miles to see the British lose face.

"Then I'll leave the rest to you."

Holding a wine glass, after taking a sip of juice, Yan Guang said to the leader of the expert group in fluent German.

Both in the early years. After the end of the First World War, the relationship between China and Germany was very important, so while trying to improve English, Yan Guang also taught himself German, Russian and Spanish, after all, these languages will be more important in the future. In particular, Spanish is not inferior to English in terms of application.

Although Yan Guang himself is not very smart, he has been fluent in German and Russia for decades (even if German, most of the area currently occupied by China is Russian-speaking, although he has begun to teach locals to learn Chinese). But Russian is also necessary), in Spanish. Stammering can also communicate, can diligence make up for clumsiness? Although Yan Guang pays more attention to their bodies than the curriculum when teaching language teachers...

"Don't worry."

Hearing Yan Guang say this, the team leader smiled.

"We're definitely going to work hard."

Even if it wasn't for work, he would never let go of the opportunity to disgrace the British.

After all, the war has developed to this point, and the enmity between the two sides is already very great...

"In that case, then I'm relieved."

After touching the cup with the team leader, Yan Guang drank all the juice in the cup.

It's no secret that Yan Guang likes juice rather than drinking, and even interesting stories that have been published in newspapers and other publications for many years, so the team leader didn't pay much attention to it, just drank it all after learning from Yan Guang's appearance...

In fact, Yan Guang also thought that the Metropolitan Museum in the United States may not have much to do, but the Louvre in France seems to be able to consider it, after all, it is also a large museum alongside the British Museum in the United Kingdom.

In particular, some of the collections in the Louvre, such as the "Mona Lisa", are heard by even people like Yan Guang who do not know anything about art, not to mention that there are also art treasures such as the "Code of Hammurabi" in the Louvre, which is the earliest and most complete written code found so far.

It's a pity that although France has died, it is Germany that has lost France, and now Germany is in full swing, and asking the French for cultural relics at this time is the same as asking the Germans, and the Germans are absolutely impossible to agree...

In fact, even if Germany is in a desperate situation, I am afraid that it will never agree to similar demands, after all, Hitler's own arrogance is extremely famous, such a thing as selling cultural relics, in exchange for a person like Churchill who can do anything for the sake of victory, may be acceptable, but for a person like Hitler, it is absolutely unacceptable...

"Forget it, although I can't get "Mona Lisa" or anything, but it's not bad to get "Yani's Book of the Dead" and "Rosetta Stone" steles or something, not to mention Gu Kaizhi's "Female History Atlas" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty..."

Of course, if he had the opportunity, Yan Guang would never let go of a treasure like the Mona Lisa, after all, this is not only the best item to show himself, but also the artifact like the Mona Lisa itself has extraordinary value, if it is in peacetime, it is simply priceless!

But if you really want to get it, I'm afraid you'll need a little means...

While Yan Guang was still there trying to plot works of art like the "Mona Lisa", at the British Museum in the United Kingdom, the museum staff were tearfully packing the treasured cultural relics one by one...

These artifacts and works of art once represented the splendor of the British Empire...

But at this moment...

Even the eyes of the British soldiers who watched from the sidelines were filled with tears

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