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For publicity reasons.

Suri personally posted on his Facebook account, expressing his willingness to exchange Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" oil painting for those Van Gogh oil paintings. He also mentioned that Chinese cultural relics of equivalent value could be exchanged.

As soon as this post came out, it became very popular and attracted widespread attention across the Internet.

Not only did it successfully bring the "Savior of the World" oil painting into the attention of countless netizens again, it also made several Van Gogh oil paintings popular.

Invisibly, the value of "Salvator Mundi" has been raised to the same level as Van Gogh's masterpiece "Starry Night".

From the perspective of market value, "Starry Night" may become Van Gogh's most expensive painting. As a treasure of the museum, it has brought extremely high ticket revenue to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

If it were put up for sale in an auction house, the market value might be over US$250 million. Even if it fetched a sky-high price of US$300 million, it wouldn't be too surprising.

Whether it is "Starry Night", "Almond Blossoms in Bloom", "Harvest Scene" or "Starry Night on the Rhone", they are all collected in regular museums. Suri did not have high expectations.

However.

Less than 24 hours after the post was posted, news came from France, clearly expressing its willingness to use a batch of Chinese cultural relics in the museum's collection to exchange "Savior of the World" with Suri.

France did a lot of stealing things from Cixi back then. It is estimated that there are at least 30,000 to 40,000 fine Chinese cultural relics collected in the warehouses of various museums, many of which came from the Old Summer Palace.

Suri was also shocked when she saw the email from the French official cultural department.

It seems that those French people really want to put "Salvator Mundi" in their pocket and hang it together with the "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre. They actually wrote directly in the email that they hope he can go to Paris. Visit the warehouses of various museums and make a list of transactions as quickly as possible.

Jiang Jiaya was a little confused. After reading the email, she asked:

"What kind of medicine are they selling in the gourd, and they actually let you pick it up in the warehouse?"

Suri didn't feel too surprised and replied:

"Maybe it's for marketing purposes. The French are very good at this, so they can package cheap goods into luxury goods, sell them at sky-high prices, and make the culprits willing to pay."

"They can use this transaction to make France's museum tourism industry popular. By then, the dividends brought by a painting of "Salvator Mundi" can last a certain museum for hundreds of years, just like the "Mona Lisa". Huge ticket sales.”

"And many Chinese collections are insignificant in their eyes. They are kept in museum warehouses and eat dust all year round. They didn't spend any money to get them."

Jiang Jiaya asked, "Then do you want to agree to this exchange?"

"Why don't you agree?"

Su Rui rubbed her hands excitedly and said with a smile:

""Salvator Mundi" is a representative of the Western Renaissance. I have always found these classical oil paintings quite boring, but the many Chinese cultural relics in their warehouses and showcases are the romance of our ancestors. This opportunity to exchange things for things is too great. It’s so rare, even if you have money, it’s difficult to buy the collection from them.”

"Reply me immediately and make an appointment as soon as possible to complete the transaction. Then help me call some experts from the Forbidden City and ask them what national treasures are collected in various museums in France."

"When the book is used, it will be less regrettable. If I were to choose it myself, I might only be able to choose some bargains. I will bring some experts to act as consultants. I will also contact people from the auction house to help evaluate the overall value."

Transactions that go both ways are also easy to negotiate.

In order to increase Suri's reputation and stimulate the local tourism industry, the relevant French departments responded quickly and agreed on the signing and transaction time of both parties in 15 days, during which the transaction catalog details needed to be negotiated as soon as possible.

Given the generally lazy work efficiency of the French, 15 days is considered very fast.

Even if you get sick and go to the hospital to register, you may not necessarily see a doctor within two weeks. Some patients will recover on their own before they start seeing a doctor.

certainly.

It may also be that the patient failed to endure it and saw God directly, and could only admit that he was unlucky.

If you live in countries and regions with so-called "free medical care" for a period of time, you will find that the free ones are the most expensive. Since public hospitals cannot make appointments in time, many people can only choose to go to private hospitals, which ends up spending more money.

This transaction was led by the French official cultural department.

This means that the scope of trade covers almost all French national museums, not just the Louvre.

When it comes to how many Chinese national treasures are hidden in France, Chinese cultural relic experts may know better than the French. This is like a bully in school who bullies his classmates and probably turns around and forgets. However, the bullied student , but it is possible to remember it for a lifetime.

The Forbidden City in Mainland China.

When they learned that Suri had the opportunity to exchange a batch of collections from France, many experts were instantly shocked and couldn't wait to organize a meeting to study and discuss the transaction list.

Since the estimated value is around US$300 million, there is still an opportunity to relax it a bit, and there is quite a lot of room for development.

The first collection that was quickly finalized was the "Forty Scenes of the Old Summer Palace" drawn by Tang Dai, Shen Yuan and others under the order of Qianlong. It consists of 40 pictures and truly records the architectural style and garden features of the Old Summer Palace in its heyday.

besides.

There are also bronze elephant statues from the Shang Dynasty that were sent to the mainland for display and then returned to the Guimet Museum in France, cloisonne unicorn enamelware originally collected in the Old Summer Palace, a plum vase with a blue glaze and a white dragon pattern from the Yuan Dynasty, and a gilt pagoda from the Old Summer Palace in the Qing Dynasty. , Qianlong's armor, Shang Dynasty tiger cannibal, rabbit and rat heads, Castiglione's "Portrait of Qianlong", large cloisonné incense burner, bronze carved dragon, bronze divine dragon, etc.

Since we still need to consider what Suri likes, the list of contents drawn up is quite large. It is no exaggeration to say that even if only a part of it is exchanged, it will be enough to support the private museum Suri wants to build.

No wonder it is always said that no Chinese can walk out of the British, French and Japanese museums with a smile. There are indeed too many good things lost outside.

A rare opportunity.

The objects that can be selected by experts are all national treasure-level cultural relics.

When this catalog, whose market value obviously exceeded the budget, was handed over to Su Rui, he felt a little headache after reading it.

Because many of them are treasures in the Chinese exhibition halls of various French museums, I don’t know if they will be traded. I can only hope that the charm of "Savior of the World" is strong enough.

Suri did not dare to put his hope in the conscience of the French.

So he secretly asked Secretary Amanda to arrange for a troll to light a fire on mainland social platforms and heat up the topic "If the national treasure is not returned, we will boycott traveling to France and buying tickets to French museums and French luxury goods" as soon as possible. topic.

Considering that with the rise of mainland overseas tourism, all countries are competing for mainland tourists.

I believe that once they learn about this incident, French officials will have to consider whether they can afford the risk of losing some of their tourism revenue, while also giving Suri a chance to exchange for more national treasures.

Instead of rushing to negotiate with the French side, he first asked Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses to jointly conduct a valuation of this batch of Chinese cultural relics.

period.

Suri met with Miss Olivia Carta in private again and drove her to Griffith Observatory to enjoy the night view of Los Angeles city.

It can only be said that the wind on the top of the mountain is a bit strong. If you look closely, you will find that even the extended bulletproof version of the Rolls-Royce Phantom was slightly bumped by the wind (End of Chapter)