At the Royal Shipyard of Trieste, Ernst personally took a look at the "Archduke Ferdinand", which was indeed a big guy in this era.

Ernst himself did not know much about the ship, but there was no need to worry about the Austrians fooling him, and the technicians of the Trieste shipyard in Heichengen were also involved in supervising the ship, which was the command ship of the future Ferdinand, and the emperor's younger brother would not dare to offend the average person. Seeing the rapidly forming Archduke Ferdinand, Ernst was satisfied, "Let's go!" ”

On this trip to East Africa, Ernst brought a lot of things, including many of his collections in Hohenzollernburg, most of which were antiques.

In Europe, Ernst picked up a lot of good things, all of which were cultural relics purchased from the returned soldiers of Britain and France, especially calligraphy and painting, which foreigners could not appreciate, and the possibility of counterfeiting calligraphy and painting was small, and the West currently lacked such technical talents.

In the Ernst Collection, the Portrait of a Female Historian was bought for less than two shillings, which is also considered a "high-priced" recycling.

For the rich cultural relics, the British and French soldiers did not know the value at all, and most of them were sold as war trophies, while Ernst bought them wholesale, and now he has collected more than 400 paintings alone.

There are even more books, the typical of which is the "Yongle Canon", and Ernst has about 500 copies in his hand, all of which are bought by the pound.

However, Ernst's cultural attainments and appreciation for it are not very high, but Ernst knows that what can flow from the Old Summer Palace and the Forbidden City is not bad.

Most of the French antiquities have gone into the hands of Ernst, thanks in this respect to the internationalist spirit of the people of the old district.

Compared with the British army, which was accustomed to expeditionary aggression and plunder, the French army, which also returned home in triumph, received quite different "treatment" at home.

On the one hand, most of the French domestic newspapers and media are willing to publicly disclose these "trophies" obtained from the Old Summer Palace, and relevant information abounds, and these "trophies" and the "inside story" of this war of aggression are emerging from time to time.

On the other hand, a considerable part of the French people were ashamed and angry at the plundering of the French army, and therefore rebuked it. Among them, the most famous criticism comes from the famous French writer and a generation of writer Victor Hugo, calling the Old Summer Palace "China's Versailles + Louvre + French National Library", which is an incomparable treasure of human civilization, and the act of the marauder General Montauban, the commander of the French army, is an atrocity that destroys human civilization and an ugly act that humiliates France.

Regarding the plundering of the Old Summer Palace, public opinion in France was divided and confronted, and the ensuing social impact was also divided into two.

On the one hand, newspapers and media continue to report information on various parties in depth, leaving behind a large number of historical documents with considerable research value.

On the other hand, the officers and soldiers of the French army who returned home one after another put the "spoils of war" into auction and cashed, and were unwilling to keep these controversial "souvenirs", so a large number of auctions and auction catalogues appeared.

Ernst also took the opportunity to buy a batch, but most of them were Qing court utensils, but these bells and whistles did not actually grow in Ernst's aesthetics.

In particular, the enamel color was not only liked by the Qing court, but also liked by foreigners, but Ernst felt that it was not as good as the Ru kiln in his hand.

Moreover, the price of this thing is much higher than that of Ru kiln, and Ernst found that the more bells and whistles the artifact at auction, the higher the price.

Those objects that were made according to the aesthetics of the ancient Far East, which were more elegant and simple, were less valued by the British and French robbers.

Because now they really don't know the goods, and there are also those who know the goods, that is, the Japanese who took advantage of the fire to rob, but the Japanese did not buy many cultural relics from Britain and France in this time and space, and most of them were taken away by the Black Xingen Bank.

Historically, from 1931 to 1945 alone, Japan transported 1,879 boxes of cultural heritage from the Far East. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Japan's own statistics showed that 3.6 million cultural relics were taken away from the Far East, not counting the "war trophies" inherited by the descendants of Japanese war criminals from their ancestors.

The Tokyo National Museum also has a large number of calligraphy and painting works in China, such as "Li Baixingyin", "Snow Landscape", "Six Ancestors Cutting Bamboo", and Wang Xizhi's "Seventeen Posts...... Even Japan does not shy away from listing these national treasure-level cultural relics as their 150th anniversary commemorative exhibition, and Japan, a dog-like nation, has never been redeemable.

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"You should handle these paintings and calligraphy with care, and you should send people to inspect them regularly every day on the ship, so as not to let rats eat these works of art."

The subordinate said with a smile: "Your Highness, you can rest assured, the rat will not be idle and have nothing to do with the iron box." ”

"That's what you said, but you still have to be careful, many of the things in it have to be put in the museum, and a bad one is also bad for the view."

In addition to antiques, Ernst brought the most of his stuff with him books, a full 30,000 sets, which were used to fill the empty National Library. The National Library was not built in the first town, but in the newly built city of "Soga".

In terms of culture, East Africa as a whole is relatively indifferent, and it seems that because of habitual thinking, East Africans do not like to read very much, even Germans who have received compulsory education.

After all, compulsory education was a compulsory, not a German right, and the original purpose of universal compulsory education was to train qualified soldiers and loyal and patriotic citizens.

Ernst himself didn't care much about it, adults, thinking became the norm, and Ernst was happy that the thinking of these people remained the same, and besides, the audience of the Soga National Library was not ordinary people.