Two days passed quickly, and the city of Paris today suddenly became lively, and many people knew that the Nazi officer Major General Lucas, who was secretly called the butcher, was going to celebrate his 44th birthday tonight, and many nobles and celebrities received invitations.

Photographed in Lucas's "butcher" name, everyone who received the invitation basically said that they would definitely be there, of course, not everyone was able to talk to Lucas in person, the first purpose of Lucas's invitation was to win people's hearts, and the second purpose was to receive birthday gifts.

Giving gifts on birthdays was originally a very traditional custom, but with the passage of time, the meaning of birthday parties is gradually deteriorating, and giving gifts has become the best way for people to compare with each other.

And most of these invitees are well-known people in Paris, as well as people who claim to be descendants of the nobility, since they have shown their "noble" status, it is obviously not in accordance with the rules to come empty-handed, and everyone has to prepare some gifts to a greater or lesser extent. Major General Lucas is nominally accepting gifts, but in reality it is equivalent to accepting bribes for transsexuality.

Of course, even if Lucas's true intentions were known, no one would come forward to accuse him. Needless to say, the French are still in the control of the Germans, and the Germans are too late to slap Lucas, who will not go up to touch Lucas's moldy head without a long eye? Even some German officers who were dissatisfied with Lucas did not dare to make too much noise about the other party's "bright future", and could only curse a few times behind their backs.

"Alexander. Mr. Conrad. A set of silver cups for the British royal family! ”

"Wolfe. Mr. John, a noble sword and a gilded scabbard. ”

“……”

In front of the German officer who was in charge of registering the gifts. It was full of all kinds of gifts, all of which seemed to be antique items of relatively high value, and it was obvious that these nobles were also taking great pains to give gifts one by one.

It is impossible to send money directly, the first is that it is too vulgar in the eyes of the nobles, and the second real reason is that they don't have so much cash to get their hands on. And many people began to think about other things.

As we all know, more than 100 years ago, Britain and France had colonies all over the world. The vast empire on which the sun never sets and the Gallic rooster exude great glory.

And over the years, Britain and France have acquired countless riches from all over the world, many of which are antiques from various countries, except for the large ones that have entered the pockets of the royal family. There are also many things that have fallen into the hands of other nobles.

For cultural reasons. In fact, many countries in Western Europe are popular to build castles, and the proportion of these behemoths in Britain is extremely high, and many people are still proud to own castles today.

Inside these castles, deep underground, many secret rooms protected by thick steel walls and combination locks and other means hide many precious antiques. If you can't come up with one or two antiques that you can get your hands on, you're embarrassed to say that you're an aristocrat. For example, during the Second Opium War, British and French forces broke into the Old Summer Palace in 1860. Loot all kinds of precious cultural relics.

At that time, the defeated Qing government faced negotiators sent by Britain and France. After his later release, only 18 of the 39-man team remained, during which many people were tied to their wrists by water-soaked cowhide ropes, and they were not untied for three days, and the place where they were tied began to rot and grow maggots, and many people died of mental breakdowns.

In addition to these, coupled with the fact that Seng Lingqin forced the British and French representatives to kowtow to Emperor Xianfeng, these behaviors suddenly made the British and French troops angry, and used this as an excuse to use "violent means against primitive tribes" to deal with the Qing government, and then the British and French troops rushed into the Old Summer Palace, where the British and French representatives had been imprisoned, and specified that they would burn the Old Summer Palace as revenge, which led to the incident of "burning the Old Summer Palace".

On the one hand, it was because of the weakness and incompetence of the Qing government, and on the other hand, because the Qing officials did not understand diplomacy, coupled with their hatred and distrust of the British and French governments. On the other hand, the British and French forces tried to get the Qing government to open up the market and increase opium sales, which led to this tragedy.

In this historical event, China lost countless precious cultural relics, and to this day, many cultural relics are still hidden in major foreign museums, such as the British Museum, the Louvre Museum, etc., and there are countless cultural relics in China.

There are more cultural relics, which were put into their own pockets by the intrusion of British and French soldiers, and then passed on to their descendants or chose to trade, sell, etc., to put it bluntly, the current French aristocracy, more than half of the family cultural relics inventory, at least one cultural relics from China.

In these lists of gifts to Lucas, it can be seen that many people took out porcelain from China, which has the highest surviving rate because it is easier to preserve than porcelain such as calligraphy and painting.

"Leon. Mr. Bruno, a diamond necklace. ”

The German officer glanced at the necklace in front of him, which was obviously a little shabby compared to the gift in front of him.

Next to him were two middle-aged men with glasses, each of whom had been observed before being recorded, two connoisseurs of antiquities that Lucaste had invited to identify the authenticity of the objects and to make an estimate of the value of the gifts.

"Next, Mr. Jonas......"

The German officer glanced at several ancient gold coins placed in front of him, and handed them to the two appraisers beside him with an unchanged face.

"Huh? This seems to be an ancient Roman gold coin? ”

An appraiser was stunned for a moment when he got the gold coin, and then took a closer look at it.

The Roman Empire, like the Qin and Han dynasties in Chinese history, was one of the most powerful empires in the ancient world, stretching from Spain in the west, to the upper reaches of the Euphrates River in the east, to northern Africa in the south, and to the Rhine and Danube rivers in the north.

Many people may have heard the phrase "render to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's", the founder of the ancient Roman Empire is regarded by later people as the first ancient Roman emperor, and some people call him the uncrowned king, calling him Julius Caesar.

Caesar's personal controversy aside, Cleopatra, who had a relationship with him, was put aside, and the appraiser initially identified the gold coin from the ancient Roman period, or Julius Caesar, according to the pattern of the gold coin.

The German officer next to him did not know how to identify cultural relics, except for some gold coins that were relatively recent and could be recognized, the others were black-eyed, which is why Lucas invited these two cultural relics appraisers here.

"Twitter, twitter, twitter, goo......"

The two appraisers gathered together and bowed their heads for a few words, and from time to time glanced at the blonde man in front of them, a merchant named "Jonas", who was also the owner of these Caesar gold coins. The German officer seemed to be a little impatient, and after coughing twice, the two appraisers came to their senses, remembering that this was on German territory, not in their own storeroom, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

"Captain Smith, according to my preliminary identification with Myers, these six ancient Roman Caesar gold coins should be genuine, and it may take time to identify them."

"Then wait until you have time to be firm, Caesar gold six coins, right, I wrote it down."

The German captain waved his hand impatiently, he just loved a few gold coins, how many dollars could they be worth? I heard from one of my companions that the great Germans had collected a lot of gold in other defeated countries, and these gold coins were at best a good thing, maybe gold-plated.

It's not that the German captain is biased, but he knows very well the identity of these people who come to give gifts, many of them are relatively down-and-out nobles, because the really rich people will not take out good things, otherwise the Germans would have found an excuse to snatch the good things away when they entered Paris, where would they have to wait until today, four years later? cough cough cough, family ugliness should not be publicized.......

"This is my boss, I'll take out his gift together, the jade bracelet of the Qing Dynasty."

The blonde Jonas smiled, pointed to the yellow-skinned young man behind him and smiled, and then took out another jade bracelet, the color was pale green, and it looked very delicately polished.

"Chang. Mr. Fan, a pair of jade bracelets in the Qing Dynasty. ”

The two appraisers observed for a while and nodded, feeling that it should be something from the Qing Dynasty. As for the geometry of value, it was secretly a gesture to the German officer, and the German officer wrote his name without blinking.

After the gift was registered, Leon led the two into the manor where Lucas was, surrounded by heavily armed German soldiers, and the door was heavily guarded, and everyone who entered and exited had to be checked for invitations, which was very strict.

"Hey, I'm only responsible for bringing you here, I don't care about the rest of the matter, if you want to leave, let me know in advance." Leone. Bruno took the two men under the alias Jonas and Fan Chang outside a hall and whispered.

"No problem."

Jonas was always smiling, and Leon was not at ease and said a few more words: "Don't say that I didn't warn you in advance, this is Major General Lucas's house, the guards are very tight, it's better not to run around without anyone to lead, then you will be shot!" If you get caught, don't drag me into the water. (To be continued......)