From the Island Owner to the King

"I understand very well, and I promise that I will never reveal the cultural relics listed on the list." Chen Rui nodded and said.

Chen Rui carried it carefully.

I fully understand that the Chinese cultural relics listed on the list are very sensitive to China and the British royal family.

You must know that the cultural relics listed in this list are used in exchange for the "Mona Lisa" (Part 3). They are not ordinary Chinese cultural relics. Rare treasure level.

Moreover, there are three main sources of cultural relics listed on the list. First, in 1860, British and French troops robbed Yuanmingyuan and Yanjing.

More than 1.5 million cultural relics and a large number of rare treasures were plundered from Yuanmingyuan, which was plundered overseas. The French writer Hugo at that time said: "Even if all the treasures of Notre Dame in our country are added together, it cannot be compared with this grand scale. And the magnificent Oriental Museum is comparable.

At that time, Yanjing was more plundered, no matter whether it was the imperial palace, residential houses, or merchants and shops. After Zhonghai and Beihai were robbed, there was not much left of the collection.

The British army once dedicated part of the cultural relics stolen from Yanjing in Yuanmingyuan in 1860 to the then Queen Victoria.

Most of the artifacts listed on the list come from here.

The second part, from 1900 to 1949, foreign scholars (including explorers, museum curators, university professors, etc.) came to China to explore and bought cultural relics directly from China at low prices or took them away for free. For example, the most famous British explorer Stein bought Dunhuang documents and ancient Buddhist paintings from Wang Daoshi. Others have directly excavated ancient ruins in China.

In the third part, foreign collectors go directly to China to acquire cultural relics at low prices.

the second part. The third part of the cultural relics lost to the UK is partly to the treasure house of the British royal family.

Whether it was the plundering of Yuanmingyuan and Yanjing in 1860, or the expedition of archaeology by foreign scholars, or the direct acquisition of cultural relics by foreign collectors to China at low prices.

These relics are lost to the UK, and the last part is in the treasure house of the British royal family, which can be very certain. It is illegal, direct plunder through war, or indirect, disguised plunder.

Therefore, the artifacts listed on the list are very sensitive.

An example, the head of the zodiac animal in Yuanmingyuan, when it appeared in the auction house.

Protested by the Chinese government, government and Chinese people, it has caused strong repercussions in China.

Even Christie's paid a heavy price for auctioning rabbit and rat heads, and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage issued a document. All cultural relics departments of the state are required to strictly review the cultural relics declared by Christie's and the entrusting agencies for export.

The Chinese cultural relics listed on the list are much more valuable than the bronze statues of the zodiac animals in terms of artistic value, cultural value and appreciation value.

Earl Hill nodded, took out a stack of A4 paper cultural relics list from his black briefcase, and handed it to Chen Rui.

This list was sent by fax.

In order to make this list, the British royal family dispatched people overnight to count the Chinese cultural relics in the treasury.

Chen Rui took over the list of cultural relics, which was very thick, about 100 pages.

Chen Rui turned to the first page of the list of cultural relics.

a4 paper coloring pages.

At the top of the first page are several very clear color pictures. In the picture taken is a picture of the front, side, bottom of a plate.

Very weird. The glazed surface of this porcelain plate is covered with yellow and black cracks. The cracks are large and small, long and short, thick and thin, curved and straight, and have different shapes. Some are like roe, some are like willow leaves. Some look like crab claws, look carefully. It was found that the air bubbles in the glaze were as dense as small water droplets, which were all over the inner and outer walls or the inner and outer bodies of the utensils.

Moreover, through the pictures on the front and bottom, it was found that the mouth was exposed with purple fetal bone, and the part of the ring foot exposed to the tire showed an iron-brown color.

"Golden Wire and Iron Thread", "Zhuzhu Gaoqiu", "Purple Mouth Iron Foot".

Even if Chen Rui is an outsider, he knows what this is, the famous Ge Kiln in the porcelain industry.

Porcelain has always been beautiful for its exquisiteness, crystal clear and moist, and fresh and transparent color, and it is a high-quality product, while Duge kiln porcelain is beautiful because of the disorder on the surface and the defects of irregular gold wire and iron wire cracks, and is endowed with a pursuit of beauty by literati. , called defect beauty, the highest level of aesthetics.

To the extreme, it will pursue a kind of morbid beauty of defects. Geyao porcelain has been enthusiastically sought after by countless dignitaries and royal families in all dynasties for its defect beauty.

Chen Rui looked at the bottom of the picture.

Song Ge kiln celadon-glazed Begonia flower pot.

Chen Rui defined this Geyao porcelain as a treasure.

Not only its high artistic and appreciation value to satisfy people's pursuit of "defective beauty" and "morbid beauty", but also its rarity, there are only about one hundred pieces in the world.

Obviously, Chen Rui did not set the exchange target on this 'Ge Yao Porcelain'.

Although Geyao porcelain is rare, there are only more than 100 pieces, but it can still be purchased.

In fact, Chen Rui's cultural relics acquisition team bought a piece of Geyao porcelain at the Christie's auction in New York, and it cost more than 40 million yuan.

Chen Rui opened the second page.

This is a Yuan, blue and white jar, Yuan, blue and white tangled peony cloud dragon pattern jar.

With the shape, size, appearance, and exquisite decoration of this vessel, there is no problem with breaking through 100 million.

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Chen Rui continued to scroll down.

When turning to page 57.

"This is..." Chen Rui's head banged, his eyes widened, his expression sluggish, he stared blankly at the pictures on the color page and the line of words below the color page, with an incredible expression on his face .

how can that be possible!

How could this piece appear here! !

"Be sure to get it." Chen Rui couldn't help but want to have it, and almost every cell in his body was shaking.

......

More than a dozen art appraisal experts from both Chen Rui and Earl Hill estimated the value of "Mona Lisa" (Part 3) at 724 million euros.

Neither side disagreed.

Chen Rui exchanged 23 famous paintings including "Mona Lisa" (Part 3), 1 Van Gogh oil painting, 2 Paul Cezanne oil painting, 3 Picasso sketches, etc. and 312 million euros in cash. That thing, as well as all the Buddhist scriptures, social documents, archives, Buddha paintings, murals, and Buddha statues hidden in the treasure house of the British royal family.

This exchange is very rewarding.

It can be said that both sides of the British royal family represented by Chen Rui and Earl Hill are very happy.

That thing, and the Dunhuang Tibetan scriptures are not for sale. Not only that thing, the Dunhuang Tibetan scriptures are very high-level treasures, and it is clear that the British royal family will never fail to put them up for auction or sell. (To be continued)