Chapter 405 - Finding the state to help sell the stolen goods
The burglary at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has exploded in the world's media. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info but Zhou Qingfeng is thinking about how to sell the gems and artworks in his hand every day, and he doesn't pay much attention to the bad things in the outside world, and he doesn't know that the 'god' is making trouble for him behind his back.
And if you want to sell the good goods on hand, it is no better than selling one or two diamonds in the past. Zhou Qingfeng tentatively picked out some of his boxes full of 10,000 carats of gemstones, including rubies, emeralds, sapphires, diamonds, tourmalines and so on.
As a result, when the sample was sent to Mr. Ma, who helped sell gems, the old man was almost stupid. He grabbed Zhou Qingfeng's hand and asked, "What the hell did you rob the vault of that bank?" ”
Zhou Qingfeng thought with a wry smile: Teacher, are you so excited? I only took less than one percent, and where do I still have a whole box. He asked, "Teacher, can you help sell it?" ”
Old Man Ma shook his head like a rattle, "Don't be kidding, if you sell so much, others will hack me if you can't keep it." At most, the water will flow for a long time, and it will be up to the sky if it produces more than ten carats a month. ”
A dozen carats a month? Where am I going to sell a box of tens of thousands of carats for what year and month? This time, Zhou Qingfeng shook his head like a rattle. He said dejectedly: "There is no other way? ”
Old Man Ma resolutely refused: "Those who do black market jewelry business are not good people. Sell a small amount, he can accept it with a smile with you, and tell you to continue to sell it to him next time you have goods. But you sell such a large amount, and if you don't have a backstage, you will definitely be hacked, and you can't even leave the scum. ”
That's right! There is no good person who does black market business, as long as there is a profit, all kinds of crooked things can be done. Zhou Qingfeng could only push more than ten carats of various gems, and said dejectedly: "Teacher, these gems are on consignment with you." ”
Coming out of Old Man Ma's pawn shop, the night was like ink, and there was not even a starlight. Zhou Qingfeng walked slowly out along the street lamps in the streets, bored and wondering where to find a safe and proper high roller to eat these things. It's really not easy to come up with a suitable idea!
Two days later, the imperial capital, the Palace Museum.
Researcher Kim, who is in his sixties, strolls into his office, where they study antiques, and is very particular about the office environment. A table and a chair, a stroke of ink are a little bit of a point, not to mention how precious, but to ask for an elegant.
"Mr. Jin, there is a package for you on the table." The staff on duty at the concierge reminded Researcher Jin when he saw it.
The package is not large, but the packaging is sturdy. Researcher Jin looked at the sender, and it was actually written by Zhang San, and the phone call looked fake. He strangely took a pair of scissors to open the package, only to find that it was stuffed with plastic foam.
Finally, the plastic foam was dismantled, revealing the true face of the object inside - a white porcelain vase. The bottle is skimmed, the neck is slender, the shoulders are slipped, the abdomen is hanging, the foot is circled, the surface is plain and without lines, the white glaze is smooth, the yellow is slightly yellow, the shape is unique, and the production is fine.
Oops.......
Old man Jin suddenly sighed in his heart, took a closer look, looked carefully, and took a small magnifying glass to confirm repeatedly, and finally determined that this was a jade pot spring bottle from the Northern Song Dynasty Dingyao, which was very valuable. Not long ago, Christie's Hong Kong auction house auctioned a similar bottle, which is tens of millions!
Hey......, who's going to send these tens of millions of things casually? If this is smashed, it will be a big loss.
Researcher Jin looked at the package repeatedly, and saw a note in the package box. The slip of paper was cut out of the newspaper and pasted into a sentence and an email address. The sentence was, 'I have more precious national treasures in my hands, and I am willing to donate them to the country.' But I hope the state will help me too, okay? ’
Oops...... this is amazing! It feels like something is serious.
Researcher Jin didn't dare to slack off when he saw this, and hurriedly called the director and security personnel of the Forbidden City Museum, and called the police by the way. At this moment, the Imperial Capital Police Department is paying attention to the jokes of the New York Police Department, and when they heard the police from the Palace Museum, a group of police officers came out with fright.
The director of the bureau was almost distraught, and personally led the team to rush over. He was thinking all the way: Don't make a big deal. If the Forbidden City is stolen, the whole country will be absolutely shocked, and this official of mine has done it!
Waiting for the director to see Researcher Kim, he saw that the room was crowded with people with solemn faces. His heart sank, and his mind was buzzing and he was about to faint, this was a serious incident, "Is it some national treasure that has been stolen?" ”
"Stolen? We didn't get stolen. "Researcher Jin was an eyewitness to the incident, and he took the initiative to tell the story." Someone sent us an artifact. ”
It doesn't sound like it's been stolen, but someone has sent a precious artifact. The police chief of the imperial capital just breathed a sigh of relief, "Then why did you call the police?" ”
"Because the jade pot spring vase we received from the Northern Song Dynasty Dingyao is a stolen goods in a sense. Of course, we ourselves will never admit that this is stolen goods, this is the treasure of our country. Researcher Kim turned on his computer and typed in the email address that came with the package, which contained a large number of photos.
"We have just identified the contents of these photos as Chinese artifacts that were stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York not long ago. At present, this jade pot spring vase is only the lowest grade of it, and some of the other things can even be said to be national treasures! We thought it was a burglar who had stolen the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and found us. ”
The people who can crowd into Researcher Jin's office are all old experts and scholars in the Palace Museum, and they agree with Researcher Jin's words. Even the director of the museum stood up and said solemnly: "Look at this picture, the gilded bronze Buddha statue of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
This is one of the few gilded bronze Buddhas left in the world at present, the statue is well preserved, it still shines brightly after thousands of years, it is an authentic national treasure, and it is priceless. If it can be taken back, it can be regarded as an explanation for future generations, and it can be said that the merit is in the present and the benefit is in the future. ”
As soon as they heard that it was actually about the theft of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the police officers who entered the house all became serious. After listening to the ins and outs of the matter again, the director felt that his head was big.
This is not a trivial case, and the director has no way to deal with it, so it must be reported to the Ministry of Public Security, and even the Ministry of State Security will intervene. The only thing he could do now was to find out where this mysterious package came from? Secondly, we need to find out how these precious cultural relics came to China from the United States on the other side of the world.
However, before investigating, it is more important to deal with the current request of the person who sent the package. You must know that Chinese go to large museums abroad and see their country's national treasures being appropriated by others and displayed in public, which is not pleasant!
Now some people have sent back the Chinese cultural relics that were lost abroad in the past one or two hundred years in modern times, although the means cannot be put on the table, but this is an out-and-out patriotic act. Who dares to say that sending these national treasures back is definitely a traitor!
A bunch of old men in the museum strongly said that no matter what the police think, since these national treasures have the possibility of returning to China, they must not let them go wrong in the slightest. But what exactly does this mysterious person who sends the package want?
Researcher Jin had a tangled expression on his face, as if he was constipated, and he held back for a long time before he said, "He wants us to help him sell his stolen goods." ”
What? Find the state to help you sell the stolen goods, it's a shame that you can figure it out! (To be continued.) )