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Ye Yuan was surprised. He didn't expect that the other party wanted to take two cultural relics from China in exchange for the three things in his hand.

"I wonder what kind of cultural relics His Highness Di Lai wants to exchange for these?"

Ye Yuan was also curious. The official cultural relics mentioned by Di Lai could not be ordinary street goods.

Di Lai smiled slightly and said confidently:

"Snake heads and dog heads, I wonder if Ye Zhi knows about them?"

"What did you say?"

Ye Yuan thought he heard wrongly. Due to his excitement, he did not control his voice volume, which caused the dogs still crawling at the door to look this way.

When he saw that his master was not in any danger, he turned back.

"Are you talking about the twelve animal heads that were plundered from the Old Summer Palace in our country?"

Ye Yuanba's own understanding was different from what Di Lai expressed, so he spoke again to confirm.

"Yes"

Di Lai nodded and gave a positive answer.

After hearing Di Lai's answer, Ye Yuan became excited.

This is unreasonable excitement. There is no way. As any Chinese, you are very familiar with the capital of the Twelve Beasts.

The Old Summer Palace itself is a huge royal courtyard built during the Qing Dynasty. It borders the Summer Palace and consists of three gardens. It is also called the Three Old Summer Palaces.

It was originally given by Emperor Kangxi to his fourth son, who was later Emperor Yongzheng.

After Yongzheng ascended the throne, the park was expanded.

In the Old Summer Palace, the most well-known ones are the 12 bronze animal heads.

However, in 1856, under the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, it suffered a catastrophe and all the precious treasures in the park were wiped out.

Take away what you can, and destroy everything that cannot be taken away.

Among them, 12 bronze animal heads were all looted.

The 12 bronze animal heads represent different times of the day. At each hour, the corresponding animal head will spurt water from its mouth.

After an hour is over, water will be sprayed out from another animal head.

This represents the end of an hour.

This was also the design that Emperor Qianlong was most satisfied with. Its designer was Lang Shining, a missionary at the time, and he was also featured in many film and television works.

But a fire destroyed everything, and all the cultural relics in the park were snatched away. Naturally, the heads of the twelve zodiac animals did not escape the fate of being snatched away.

So far, both the Chinese government and the private sector have been working hard to welcome these 12 animal heads back to the country.

However, things went contrary to expectations. So far, the whereabouts of four animal heads are still unknown.

But there is also good news, that is, through the continuous efforts of many patriotic businessmen over the years, the eight known animal heads have returned to China.

Among them, the rat head and the rabbit head appeared at Christie's auction house in 2009 and were bought by the Heritage Fund for 14 million euros.

But in the end, no payment was made, and the cultural relics were not auctioned.

In the end, the two animal heads were bought by a family from the Eagle Kingdom.

And they were given to China free of charge, and are now collected in the National Museum of China.

Cow heads once appeared in private houses in Country M and were used as garden decorations. In the 1980s, people in Wanwan bought cow heads at auctions.

On April 30, 2000, at the Hong Kong Island auction, the cow head was bought by Huaguo Poly Group for HK$774.5

A few days after taking the photo of the cow's head, Poly Company took a photo of the tiger's head and placed it in the Poly Art Museum.

On March 14, 2009, according to a media report, Wang Du, a collector from Wanwan, said in an interview that the missing dragon head among the animal heads from the Old Summer Palace is currently in Wanwan.

In October 2007, the gambling god of Macau spent HK$69.1 million to buy back the horse head and donated it to the country.

The monkey head was also photographed by Huaguo Poly Group for 7.4 million yuan and is stored in the Poly Art Museum.

The last pig head was also photographed by the gambling god of Macau, and was eventually donated to the country like the horse head.

Counting the dragon heads in Wanwan, China currently has 8 animal heads, and the whereabouts of the remaining four are still unknown.

But Ye Yuan never expected that two of the remaining four missing animal heads were actually in Di Lai's hands.

Ye Yuan felt like a big pie had been hit directly on his head.

As a Chinese, there is no one who doesn't want to collect the heads of the twelve beasts. Today, this opportunity is placed in front of Ye Yuan, not to mention exchanging three Byzantine items.

Even if it is twice as much, he is willing to do so.

However, as a negotiation, maximizing interests is a must, so I put away the excitement I had just because I couldn't control it.

"If it's an exchange, then if I offer three items, am I at a loss?

As you said, the value of these items from the Byzantine period will not be the same between me and you.

Just like the twelve animal heads have different prices between you and me.

In this sense, we all want to get each other's items, so I think one for one is the fairest deal, what do you think, Your Highness?"

Ye Yuan had to admit that he really wanted to get the animal head in the opponent's hand, and it was useless even if he denied it.

After all, my excited state just now was very clearly seen by the other party, so I can only talk about the status of Byzantine items in the other party's heart.

Di Lai smiled. He could see that Ye Yuan had agreed in his heart, but for reasons he didn't know, he raised the price with him here.

Di Lai has never seen what kind of person he is, so he is not angry at all about Ye Yuan's behavior. Does this make him look like a businessman?

So he instantly became a bargaining expert. If he didn't know better, he would have thought that the person sitting opposite Ye Yuan was not Prince Tesha, but just a big brother who haggled on the roadside.

After the two people bargained back and forth, in the end, Di Lai paid an additional 1,000,000 yuan to Ye Yuan as compensation. In the end, both of them were satisfied with the transaction.

Di Lai was so happy that he spent two hot cultural relics and a mere 1,000,000 yuan in exchange for the three items that he coveted and represented rights.

There is a reason why those two cultural relics are hot to touch.

After all, China's status in the world now is completely different from before.

Tessa does not want to offend such a big country with rapid development.

In this way, it becomes a bit embarrassing to want to sell two cultural relics.

Not only will there be problems with selling it, but even if the news of this item in Tesha is known, it will be a big trouble.

At first, his father planned to use these cultural relics as conditions to get some benefits from China.

But now he can use these two cultural relics in exchange for items that are more valuable to Tesha. I believe that as the king's father, he will be very satisfied after knowing about his transaction.

Ye Yuan, on the other hand, felt that he had earned 1,000,000 through bargaining. This was the heaviest bargaining in his life.