After the reform and opening up, as the country's strength became stronger and the people's lives became better and better, those who became rich began to pay more attention to cultural relics, especially some literate people. They went to the private sector to collect cultural relics on their own and spent a small amount of money.
The money buys something of great value.
Naturally, there are some good things among the people, but there are still not many in stock. The country has been bullied by Western powers more than a hundred years ago. The British and French allied forces robbed the Old Summer Palace and ransacked the entire Summer Palace. Later, the Allied forces also robbed many treasures.
Many high-quality cultural relics have been taken out of the country, and there are also tomb robbers who have bought most of the cultural relics they stole from ancient tombs abroad.
It can be said that many treasures are abroad. Liu Lang visited Paris and saw a large number of Chinese cultural relics, all of which are national treasures.
Naturally, the Chinese cultural relics in official museums will never come back, but there are also many good things scattered among the people abroad, so much so that there are markets specializing in trading Chinese cultural relics in France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy, and island countries.
Liu Lang wanted these experts to go to foreign markets to find them. It was only 1992, and the domestic counterfeiting technology of cultural relics had not yet emerged, and there were very few transactions of Chinese cultural relics abroad. Even if the prices of Chinese cultural relics appeared in some auction houses,
The money is not high, a few thousand US dollars, tens of thousands of US dollars, or at most hundreds of thousands of US dollars. No one will pay attention to these things, so now is a great time to "recycle" the national treasure.
Liu Lang's suggestion was supported by everyone present. These people have been engaged in cultural relics all their lives and have indescribable feelings for cultural relics, which are their emotional sustenance. One thing they hate most is that countless cultural relics have been stolen by foreigners.
Taking it away is like losing your own son. This feeling is beyond what others can imagine.
Liu Lang arranged for two groups of people, two of whom went to the United Kingdom and France, and the other two to Europe, mainly Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. In addition, each group also had two staff members who were responsible for the lives of the experts.
They are the staff of Yongli Group, they are completely trustworthy, they have received professional training, they are proficient in English, and they also know how to "bargain".
Naturally, Liu Lang was in charge of the money. Each group would receive half a million US dollars first. If they encountered good cultural relics with high prices, they would immediately notify Liu Lang and he would go there in person.
Being rich means getting things done easily, and everyone is so happy that they can not only find cultural relics, but also travel around Europe for free, so they can work and travel at the same time. Where in the world can there be such a good job?
Liu Lang provided money, and the other party provided people. One million US dollars was not worth mentioning to Liu Lang, but to Yongli Group, it was a huge sum of money.
Shao Mingtao told Liu Lang that the state would not pay a penny for the Yongli Group to build the museum, and they had to raise it all themselves. Shao Mingtao raised 10 million yuan from various departments. Some professionals took the money and started to travel around the country. If they found something good,
Just buy the cultural relics, the price shouldn't be too expensive.
There are also people who go to the antique markets on Hong Kong Island to "hunt for treasure", and maybe they can find some good things, or they can pick up some cheap items at auctions, but no one goes to Europe because the travel costs are too expensive and they have to sit back and forth.
The flight costs 10,000 to 20,000 RMB, and this transportation fee can buy a nice antique.
Now that Liu Lang has paid to go to Europe to "sweep goods", this has undoubtedly solved the urgent need of the Yongli Group. Of course, the things he bought back belong to Liu Lang, but Liu Lang promised to put these collections on display in the Yongli Museum.
Liu Lang didn't want to be a collector, he simply wanted to bring back as many Chinese cultural relics scattered around the world as possible, and this was the right time.
If you put it twenty years later, it would be extremely difficult to do this even if you were worth hundreds of millions. At that time, Chinese antiques were all very popular in the world. Even the twelve zodiac "faucets" in the Old Summer Palace could be sold for tens of millions of yuan.
, a piece of Yuan blue and white can easily exceed 100 million yuan. No matter how much money Liu Lang has, he can only buy one or two pieces. No matter how much he buys, it is not worth it.
In this era, no one has realized the value of these Chinese antiques. If you find the "faucet" of the Chinese zodiac, you can buy it for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars at most. If you come across a piece of Yuan blue and white, you will make a lot of money.
If you make money, it will be worth even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Several experts left here with satisfaction. They were going back to prepare. Then Shao Mingtao would complete the procedures for overseas inspections for them. In addition, they would also have foreign bank cards. Then they would start their European trip. This time they were going to spend a
In a few months, I will explore the road first, become familiar with the environment, and get a feel for the foreign market conditions.
After these people left, Shao Mingtao and Liu Lang chatted. As a result, Shao Mingtao told Liu Lang a sensational inside news. The Time State sent a person to meet with the last governor of Hong Kong Island, Bo Teng, and suddenly proposed a package agreement.
These agreements shocked Porton, no, it should be said that it shocked the UK.
Issues of education, justice, finance, publicity and origin were all mentioned in this agreement, and the UK was clearly informed that a series of "decolonization" actions would be carried out there after the return.
Yes, it is decolonization. This is a formal agreement proposed by the country through various channels, and it is even ready for another marathon negotiation with the British.
You can imagine how depressed the last Governor of Hong Kong, Bothen, was after receiving this announcement. He originally wanted to "lay mines" for China during his administration, but as a result, the other side just threw a missile at the "mine" when it was ready.
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This is indeed a missile with a nuclear warhead. The United Kingdom has completely failed to understand that China would make such an "extraordinary issue", but this is the fact. Let the United Kingdom "take the initiative."
Britain once owned a large number of colonies in the world, and the largest colony in Asia was India. However, since India's independence, it has carried out large-scale decolonization. Over the past few decades, there have been very few traces of Britain's past.
There is also South Korea. They were once colonized by island countries. Where can you see the slightest trace of island countries in South Korea now? The United Nations advocates decolonization, so the country’s proposal to carry out decolonization is not unreasonable, but it is a matter of course.
It is an act of justice and a major matter for the country.
Liu Lang was extremely excited after hearing the news. Maybe this matter will not be accomplished in a snap, and may even take a long time, ten? Or twenty years, but since the country has proposed it, it must have firm confidence.
will definitely continue to be implemented. In this process, they will inevitably be obstructed by the British, but the Chinese
This is how things are done. Once you make up your mind, you must go on. It is conceivable that under the premise that the return has become a foregone conclusion, Britain's final "counterattack" was once again severely beaten. All of Boton's "perfect" ideas came to nothing.
Now he is only thinking about how to deal with China's move with the UK.