Chapter 140: The British Museum
The British Museum, located on Lumbury Street in the north-west of London, is the world's most famous and oldest public national museum.
Founded in 1753, the British Museum covers an area of about 50,000 square meters, with a main construction area of 100,000 square meters, and has a collection of six or seven million pieces.
China's national treasure, the Shangri-La Eye, is one of the many collections of the British Museum.
"No matter how you look at it, these collections are an exaggeration." Jackie Chan walked through the British Museum and looked at the dazzling array of cultural relics inside, many of which came from his home country.
How much of these cultural relics were legally acquired by the British Museum, and how much of them were seized by imperialism, Jackie Chan can guess as long as he has a normal IQ.
"The British Museum's collection comes from all over the world, only a small part of it comes from its own country's legitimate income, and most of the rest are taken from other countries when the imperialist forces were expanding in the 19th century, and it is shameless to use the cultural relics of other countries as decorations of their own national museum civilization."
Jackie Chan looked at the cultural relics in the Chinese section of the British Museum, and his heart was stinging, if it was obtained legally, it would be fine, but these cultural relics were forcibly taken away by the British, and he couldn't help but feel full of indignation at this time.
"Mr. Jackie Chan, the cultural relics of various countries are not only the cultural relics of various countries, the essence of these civilizations belongs to the world and to mankind, and countries in the nineteenth century simply did not have the ability to protect their own cultural relics, only we in the United Kingdom have the ability to collect these cultural relics and protect them, for example, your motherland is still in war."
Evelyn felt a little uncomfortable when she heard Jackie Chan's accusations against her motherland, and she defended her country's actions, but what she got was Jackie Chan's contemptuous look.
"None of this can change the nature of the bandits of the British Empire, and your country's museums have always taken pride in cherishing artifacts from all over the world, haven't they? If Britain really claims to be civilized, why not return the cultural relics inside after the countries have prospered peacefully? ”
Jackie Chan's rhetorical question made Evelyn choke for a while, and she couldn't speak, because she was not a real imperialist, so she couldn't continue to defend herself.
How fresh.
William laughed a little at Jackie Chan's naïve words, the British Empire is not only the country with the largest territory in the Guinness Book of Records, but also the country that has launched the most wars of aggression, in the 21st century, more than 200 countries in the United Nations in the world, except for the 22 countries that are too far away and newly born, which country has not been beaten and invaded by the British Empire.
Why did the British Empire beat you, did it look at you and wanted to beat you?
Of course not, imperialist countries, of course for your territory, markets and wealth.
Of course, William is not justifying imperialism, but in this era, the British Empire is still a colonial empire, and as long as it has not experienced the baptism of World War II and the British Empire has collapsed, the country will definitely not reflect on its own behavior.
The reason why Shangri-La Eye is returned in the plot of the third part is that the British Empire has lost its imperial hegemony and has to act with respect for the other country under pressure from China.
"You two stop arguing, our goal this time is to take the Eye of Shangri."
William interrupts the argument between Jackie Chan and Evelyn, and the dignity of the country cannot be maintained by condemnation, but by strength.
Even the former colony of India wants to replace Britain's P5 seat in the United Nations, and it can be said that who will regard it as the British Empire in the past.
"Immorton, are you ready here?"
William looked at the high priest Immorton beside him, compared to Jackie Chan's mentality when he saw the exhibits in the British Museum, he was afraid that Immorton's mentality was even more explosive than Jackie Chan's.
No matter how many cultural relics China has in the British Museum, there will be no more cultural relics than Egyptians, and the most of Egypt's many cultural relics are Egyptian special mummies, although the value of mummies is not high, but it is extremely insulting to Egypt.
Not to mention cultural relics, your ancestors are all in our British museum.
"I have made contact with the descendants of my former subordinates, who have infiltrated the British Museum and are enough to act as our internal counterpart."
Immorton said calmly that these were just trivial things to him, and that he could snatch them from the British Museum if he wanted to, but he still didn't understand why he had made such a simple matter so troublesome.
Both he and William have the strength to push the entire British Museum and kill seven in and seven out in London.
"I can't lose my personality." William said something that made Immorton a little confused, and suddenly the personnel dressed in red were on one side, closing the entire museum to William and Immorton.
"Great Immorton master, this is the Shangri-La Eye you want."
The old man, dressed in red, brought a fist-sized diamond to Immorton, covered with golden stripes and an oracle bone inscription written in the center.
"Uncle Long, it's so big, it's such a beautiful diamond." Xiao Yu said happily when she saw the sparkling diamond, the only fly in the ointment was that the diamond was covered with golden stripes, and it could not show that beauty.
"This is the legendary Eye of God, the Eye of Shangri-La, which is said to lead people to the Fountain of Eternal Life."
The old man in red, Hafuz, said respectfully, at this time he had not yet ascended to the throne of the director of the British Museum as he did later, but his status was not low now, otherwise it would be impossible to get the Eye of Shangri-La.
On the surface, he is a senior manager of the British Museum, but secretly he has another layer of identity, the leader of the descendants of the Immorton Monks who intend to rule the world.
"The Fountain of Eternal Life."
William chuckled, and when Immorton handed him the Eye of Shangri-La, he suddenly felt a powerful force in it, as long as it passed through a certain medium, it would awaken, and it was a power that could make people achieve eternal life.
"The inscription on it says that only a drop of blood from a person with a pure heart can open the eyes of Shangri-La." Daddy said, taking his glasses, and glancing at the inscription of the Eye of Shangri-La.
Shangri-La Eye.
William's eyes were misty, as long as he opened them, he would obtain the full water of the Fountain of Eternal Life of the Divine Eye, and gain immortality.
Since I can live forever, why should I give it to the Dragon Emperor instead of using it for myself.