718 Refusal to return cultural relics
Lin Yuan said, "Do you have any difficulties? Just ask, I can do my best to help you. ”
The Curies glanced at each other, very embarrassed, Lin Yuan suddenly understood what they meant, so he said, "I understand, do you have no money?" ”
The two nodded in shame, and Lin Yuan said: "You can rest assured, you can come to us to teach, we will pay you salaries, these wages are enough for you to have food and clothing, if you want, you can also learn our new knowledge after work." ”
Mary was pleasantly surprised, "Is everything you said true?" If yes, we'll say yes! ”
Lin Yuan smiled: "It's good if you agree, so be it, I will give you a few months to prepare, during this time, you can arrange things at home, and when I come back from England, you will follow me to China." ”
After Lin Yuan "subdued" the Curie couple, he returned to the post house and sent someone to deliver a letter to For, explaining the embarrassment of not being able to enter the library to see the exhibition today, and President Forer quickly sent someone to send a ticket to visit.
The next day, Lin Yuan received a notice that it was sent by President For, and the parliament had passed Lin Yuan's bill, and asked Lin Yuan to sign the agreement. ”
It turned out that most of the members of the French parliament were big capitalists, who owned all kinds of factories, and although food and art were not industrial products, these capitalists were keenly aware of the business opportunities!
First of all, the export of French cuisine, in the manufacture and transportation of raw materials and finished products, there is a lot of money to be made, and the entry of Chinese cuisine into France is even more so; It's the same with cinema and art, unlike the aristocracy who blindly rejects cinema, many of them are businessmen, they know very well what people like, they know that cinema will definitely become popular, and then cinemas will be built, and cinemas will need stone, concrete, steel, these things can generate countless income!
So the parliament did not take much effort to pass these agreements, after Lin Yuan arrived in the meeting hall, the agreement was signed smoothly, and the ceremony was attended by the heads of several large companies, they all hoped that Lin Yuan could speed up the process of trade and let the trade between the two sides start as soon as possible.
At the celebratory reception after the signing ceremony, Fuer said to Lin Yuan: "Our experts have tested your gasoline samples, and we agree to buy your gasoline in large quantities, as well as electrician steel and advanced generator sets. ”
Lin Yuan said: "That's great, I have to return to China to communicate with our country's enterprises for the specific purchase amount and price, and I also have one condition, if you don't agree to this condition, then I will definitely not sell these things to your country." ”
Fore asked, "Tell me, what are the conditions?" ”
Lin Yuan said: "Return the Chinese cultural relics you robbed!" ”
Fore frowned and said, "Well, it's not good. ”
Lin Yuan asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"Those collections are owned by museums, and our government can't interfere with them," Fore said. ”
Lin Yuan sneered: "Don't use such a reason to prevaricate me, I know very well, there are now three places in France that have the most Chinese cultural relics, one is the Palace of Fontainebleau, one is the Louvre, and the other is the Paris City Library, let's talk about the Palace of Fontainebleau first, this palace is the emperor's palace, as for which emperor built it, I can't figure it out." ”
"But I know that the Palace of Fontainebleau treasures the most and best cultural relics of our country, and most of them were looted from the Old Summer Palace, the Louvre was originally the emperor's palace, and later it was converted into a museum, you France has experienced revolution after revolution, overthrew the emperor, established a republic, and the emperor's property is naturally taken over by the government, since you are the administrator of these places, don't you have the right to dispose of these cultural relics?"
"These artifacts are already in our museum, and now it would be disrespectful to the visitors to return them," said Faure. ”
When Lin Yuan heard this, the anger in his heart was ignited at once, because in his time, various foreign museums used this ridiculous reason to refuse to return the cultural relics they had looted from China, not only Chinese cultural relics, but also the cultural relics of various oppressed ethnic groups.
After all, it was a diplomatic occasion, Lin Yuan did not get angry, but said calmly: "Mr. Fore, I always thought that you were an excellent diplomat, a president with courage and deeds, but I didn't expect you to use this kind of robber logic to perfunctory me, please imagine, if there is a robber who robs your things, you go to ask for them, he tells you that this thing has been left here with me for a few days, and now you take it back is disrespectful to me, what would you think?" ”
Although Fu heard Lin Yuan's tone not change, his words had hardened, so he was not to be outdone, and said: "These things are already the treasures of all our French people, and the number of people who visit these cultural relics every year is tens of thousands, if you want to take these things away, I have no right to decide personally, it needs to be decided by the people of France!" ”
Lin Yuan thought to himself: "What kind of logic is this! The robber robbed something, and then said that what I robbed my family is useful, can I not return it? However, Lin Yuan is not surprised, Lin Yuan has dealt with foreigners a lot, and he understands the nature of international exchanges too well.
Lin Yuan sneered: "In that case, you don't want to return it, right?" ”
Faure pretended to be innocent and said, "These treasures of all our French people, if I give them away, I will be a sinner in France!" ”
Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Since you are so resolute, I'm really sorry, we don't plan to sell anti-detonation gasoline, high-performance electrical steel, high-efficiency high-power generators, and a series of technologies such as long-distance transmission cables." ”
Fu Er didn't expect Lin Yuan to come to this hand, and couldn't help but panic in his heart, and hurriedly said, "If you don't sell it to us......"
In order to put more pressure on Fuer, Lin Yuan continued without waiting for him to react: "To tell you the truth, these advanced techniques are only available to us Chinese, and they are described in a sentence of our Chinese, that is: the emperor's daughter is not worried about getting married!" I can tell you plainly that when I was in Germany, the German Kaiser Wilhelm II made it clear that he wanted to be our ally in Europe. ”
Lin Yuan sneered: "What is the relationship between your country and Germany, I believe you don't need me to remind you, your country occupies a large number of colonies in Africa, but the Germans have nothing, and when Germany's skills are strong, will they watch you occupy the colonies?" If you do not agree to my request for the return of the antiquities, I will transfer the techniques to Germany. ”
Fuer said coldly: "You are a naked threat, I have long heard that China is a country of etiquette, and the way of Confucius and Mengmeng has been spread for more than 2,000 years, I didn't expect that the Chinese would also use such despicable means!" ”
Lin Yuan said with a smile: "It seems that you have not studied our way of Confucius and Mencius enough, Confucius has always paid attention to both civil and military cultivation, Confucius's students, not only to learn the way of benevolence, but also to learn bow and arrow, swordsmanship, to use benevolence to friends, to robbers, to use bows and arrows and long swords!" ”