“…The three pieces of red sandalwood embedded in jade are Ruyi, one handle, yellow thread spikes and two coral beans, and are well preserved.

This is a pair of copper cloisonné enamel cranes, with the enamel base intact...

The photos at the back of the picture are Zhou Pankui tripod, copper cloisonné enamel beast-faced double ring priest, blue and white white half-wall treasure moon bottle, green Han jade hanging bi, copper body enamel square bottle, copper body enamel double tube priest, glass flower pair. Ding porcelain flat foot wash, white marble fairy insert screen, pine flower stone warm inkstone, green jade halberd four-sided bottle..."

In the library of Heckler Castle, Andy sat on a chair, his eyes narrowed slightly, and was standing beside him, Christian kept flipping through a colorful photo album on the table, while introducing him to the name of each antique on it.

"How many pieces have you found this time?" Andy reached out to take the album, looked at the exquisite, dusty, or flawed antiques in the photos above, and asked with a frown.

"There are 411 items in total, and the total cost is 47.9 million euros..." Christian reported the numbers and expenses. Seeing Andy looking at him with cold eyes, he couldn't help but explain quickly.

"Boss, the reason why I spent more than 40 million is that three of them are extremely precious antiques, one is a well-preserved cloisonne, and the other is a bronze ware about 3,000 years old and a tiger-shaped kettle. According to my understanding, even the Heavenly Dynasty only has five. There are also one intact blue and white jade, and a golden jade book filled with golden Qianlong's imperial pen, attached with a red sandalwood box."

Hearing the explanation, Andy nodded slightly. He was not worried that Christian would lie to him. After all, when Andy asked Christian, an expert antique businessman who was very knowledgeable about ancient art in the Celestial Dynasty to form his antique acquisition team, he installed financial and legal personnel in order to prevent and supervise.

The reason why Andy formed this team was to allow them to search and collect antiques in the UK and even Europe. This team was left in London by Andy because London is the third largest art market in the world.

One of the tasks that Andy gave this team was to acquire antiques from the Celestial Empire as much as possible. Britain should be the largest distribution center for Chinese antiques in Europe. There are many reasons. Of course, in addition to trade, the most important thing is that in the modern history of the Celestial Empire, the suffering brought by war was particularly profound. When the imperialist powers invaded the Celestial Empire, they stole a large number of cultural relics. A Summer Palace caused 1.5 million cultural relics to be lost overseas, let alone those cultural relics that were illegally lost overseas.

Of course, the number of 1.5 million pieces lost in the Old Summer Palace may be too exaggerated. According to the team's understanding and verification, there are indeed not so many, because there are less than 90,000 treasures in the Old Summer Palace record catalog. Of course, if such as a set of tea sets, teapots and tea cups are calculated separately, the number of 1.5 million is still very reliable.

With so many cultural relics dwelling in continental Europe, how could Andy miss the opportunity to acquire them? Especially before the tyrants of the Celestial Empire made a big move overseas, the whole world knows that the people of the Celestial Empire are not short of money, then plow them first?

In a few years, the antiques in the Celestial Dynasty will become more and more popular, and there will be fewer opportunities to acquire antiques in the Celestial Dynasty at a cheap price. The descendants of these shameless robbers are eager to sell the stolen stolen goods from the robbers' ancestors at a high price.

As for whether you are worried about buying fakes?

To be honest, Andy did have doubts about this, but the expert team convinced him.

They said that the antique market in the UK is like a pyramid. The antique market is just at the bottom of the pyramid and can only buy popular things, even real antiques are nothing more than elle. The truly valuable antiques are traded in a small circle on the upper layer of the pyramid.

To put it bluntly, that is, your consumption ability and professional level directly determine how the circle is. The higher the circle, the more authentic the things are, the orderly inheritance, and you can just negotiate the price directly. The lower the circle, all fakes will come out.

Especially after Christian in front of him recommended an idea to him, Andy became even more determined to expand the antique team he formed.

Christian took his mind to the descendants of the "robbers" who had participated in the Opium War and burned the Old Summer Palace. You should know that, in fact, overseas, especially in Europe, no collector would be willing to take the initiative to reveal the situation about the cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace in his hands.

Whether it is true shame or hypocrisy, the British attach importance to family history and family honors, and often have some concerns about the fact that their ancestors invaded the Celestial Empire and plundered the Old Summer Palace cultural relics and are reluctant to say it out loud. In France, many descendants of invaders are worried that the Celestial Empire would learn that they collected the Celestial Empire cultural relics and directly took away the cultural relics, causing heavy personal losses. Therefore, even if the Celestial Empire cultural relics were given to the auction, very few of these collectors announced their identities.

Christian suggested finding the list of soldiers who went to the Celestial Empire at that time, and then searching for their descendants based on their military ranks. Although the workload was a bit large, it was not difficult to find, especially in France, because France mainly has two cultural relics appraisal centers, and all the Old Summer Palace cultural relics circulating in the French auction market need to be recognized by these two identification centers. Therefore, mastering the information of these two enterprises is equivalent to understanding all the information of Old Summer Palace cultural relics in France.

The reason why we were able to get 411 antiques this time was mainly purchased from the French, and we could just call the other party directly with the information. The team's professionalism is enough to reassure Andy.

"Boss, although there are many Celestial cultural relics in the major cultural relics markets, the most precious one is still in the Celestial Empire. Even if some of them are precious after all, they have been collected by major museums. There are very few people who are wandering among the people now, or it is extremely difficult to find. Some of them may even disappear in a confused way."

Hearing Christian's feelings, Andy shook his head and laughed: "Don't worry, take it slowly, I'm not going to resell it. I'm a private collection, mainly because of my personal preference for the Celestial Culture. By the way, when I went back this time, Egyptian antiques were also included in the acquisition sequence. My manor has a very big relationship with Egyptian cultural relics. Although there are many Egyptian cultural relics, many of them are replicas. I want the Egyptian cultural relics exhibition room of my manor to be enriched and become worthy of its name!"

"If you want to exhibit Egyptian cultural relics, then we can only buy cultural relics from the market from the market through commercial channels. If they are smuggled or lost overseas cultural relics through war, once they are learned by the outside world, Egypt will definitely ask for recourse under the framework of international conventions.

Of course, as long as the cultural relics are left in the UK, there is no need to worry about being retried. In the consideration of the UK, the UK does not support the pursuit and does not join this international convention. However, Egypt has a very tough attitude towards the pursuit of cultural relics, and it often rises to the external level, which is very annoying and troublesome."

Christian advised that he would express the troubles and difficulties that might arise when his boss wanted to acquire Egyptian cultural relics and exhibit them.

As we all know, Egypt is a great country of cultural relics. It has accumulated over seven thousand years of historical precipitation, leaving countless brilliant civilization relics. However, it is difficult to protect more cultural relics. The phenomenon of cultural relics theft, smuggling and illegal trafficking has been repeatedly banned for a long time, making the whole world a trading market for Egyptian cultural relics. On the one hand, precious cultural relics are constantly unearthed, and on the other hand, a large number of cultural relics are lost abroad. Egypt's cultural relics pursuit is constantly advancing in pain, and at the same time, it has also opened up a road of experience.

Egypt attaches great importance to the pursuit of lost cultural relics overseas. In addition to joining the international conventions adopted by UNESCO, it also actively seeks to sign bilateral agreements on cultural relics retrieval with various countries to cut off the underground chain of illegal cultural relics transactions to the greatest extent.

The main task of the Egyptian Cultural Relics Retrieval Bureau is to track down Egyptian cultural relics scattered around the world. The Cultural Relics Retrieval Bureau closely monitors 40 websites that mainly operate cultural relics. Once Egyptian cultural relics are found to participate in auctions, exhibitions, etc., it will immediately contact the institutions or individuals that own the cultural relics and ask them to present legal documents of the cultural relics. At the same time, Egypt's embassies and consulates distributed in countries around the world are also outposts to track down lost cultural relics, and closely monitor the auction and transfer of Egyptian cultural relics in the host country.

Once an institution or individual is determined to possess lost cultural relics in Egypt, Egypt will put pressure on its country through diplomatic channels to demand the return of the cultural relics. If the country refuses to cooperate, Egypt will consider termination of all exchange activities with the country in terms of cultural relics excavations, exhibitions, etc.

Although Egypt's pursuit of zhèngfu has achieved remarkable results, it is not that easy, because the pursuit of registered cultural relics is relatively smooth, but it is quite difficult to recover those stolen and smuggled cultural relics. Since it is not registered, it is difficult to verify the ownership of these cultural relics, and the court even needs to make a judgment through legal means during the pursuit process.

The most important thing is that the above agreement does not involve signing the cultural relics lost before, but more importantly, the important cultural relics trading market in the United Kingdom, which did not sign this international convention at the beginning.

You should know that in the past few decades, everyone has used various methods, either hinting or explicitly, to return the cultural relics to the original owner. In this regard, the hypocritical mask of the British who claimed to be a gentleman was torn off without hesitation. In the words of the British Prime Minister, it is.

"There is no way to agree, and the British Museum will be empty if you agree!"

Maybe some people will complain, but they themselves know it!

Of course! They certainly knew, not only did they know, but they were too impatient, museums such as the British Museum, which had the most 'robbery stolen goods', and they directly broke up and talked.
Chapter completed!