Legend of Xiangjiang Tycoon

Chapter 65: The British Museum

   The British Museum, also known as the British Museum, is located in Russell Square on the north side of New Oxford Street in London, England.

   The British Museum was established in 1753 and officially opened to the public in 1759. It is the oldest and most magnificent comprehensive museum in the world, and one of the world's largest and most famous four museums in the world.

   The British Museum has the richest collection in the world, with more than 8 million items. However, due to the small size of the venue, 99% of the collection has not been displayed publicly.

The British Museum is divided into five exhibition areas. The first exhibition area mainly displays cultural relics from West Asia and Egypt. Among them, the Egyptian Antiquities Museum is divided into two museums: mummies and Egyptian architecture. It is one of the largest thematic exhibition halls in the British Museum. Many of the stone carvings of humans and animals, temple buildings, numerous mummies, inscriptions and murals, stone utensils and golden jewellery should be robbed by colonists.

   The second exhibition area is the Ancient Greek and Roman Antiquities Room. The Parthenon marble in this exhibition area even influenced the diplomatic relations between Greece and Britain.

   The third exhibition area mainly displays cultural relics from the prehistoric, ancient and medieval periods of Britain, including prehistoric, ethnographic and archeological materials from Europe and outside Europe.

The fourth exhibition area is the Oriental Cultural Relics Exhibition Room, which has more than 100,000 cultural relics from China, RB, India and other Southeast Asian countries. It is the most important and precious cultural heritage of humanity in the collection of the British Museum, and of course the most important one. It is RB's cultural relics. After all, RB's economy was developed at this time. RB antiques were of high value in the world's collections. However, Chinese cultural relics were not taken seriously at this time. At that time, it was still a backward country, and the British Museum paid more attention to Chinese cultural relics only when Chinese antiques in later generations were scrambled by the world collectors.

   The fifth exhibition area is the Treasure Room, where there are many cultural relics that the British like.

  Many of the cultural relics from West Asia and the East were captured by the British from these places during the colonial period.

   At this time, Li Zhiwen, Zhong Chuhong and others are in the Oriental Cultural Relics Exhibition Room.

   At this time, due to the high status of RB collectors in the international collection world, many exhibits are from RB cultural relics.

   Since China has just reformed and opened up, many Chinese cultural relics are not of much value in the world, so few Chinese cultural relics are exhibited.

   After China's rapid economic development, and Chinese cultural relics get high prices again and again in the auction world, the British Museum paid more attention to Chinese cultural relics and opened the China Pavilion.

   In front of this clock Chu Hong and Li Zhiwen is a Ru kiln porcelain from the Northern Song Dynasty.

The nameplate on the left side of the display cabinet reads: Ru Kiln Celestial Celadon Inlaid Bronze Mouth Vase, collected by the Da Weide Foundation. The bottle is 24.8 cm high and 15.6 cm in diameter. The foot is ringed, the mouth of the bottle is inlaid with copper rims, and the thick carcass is azure-glazed with small openings.

   Zhong Chuhong said, "Brother Wen, this porcelain bottle is really beautiful."

"Of course, this is the porcelain produced by Ru Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were five famous kilns: Ru Kiln, Guan Kiln, Ge Kiln, Jun Kiln, and Ding Kiln. In the history of ceramics in my country, Ru Kiln is the largest, and Ru Kiln is exclusively for the royal family. "

   "Brother Wen, you are so amazing, you know all this." Zhong Chuhong said.

Li Zhiwen sighed: "Unfortunately, not many Ru kilns have been handed down to the world. When the Jin dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, Ru kilns also died out. I heard that most of them were in the Inland Palace Museum and the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. I did not expect to see it in the British Museum. This is really embarrassing."

   I just listened to the staff nearby sneered and said: "This kind of porcelain is abundant in our warehouse. It is in boxes and boxes. It is useless. It is piled up with mold in the warehouse."

   "You..." Li Zhiwen was a little annoyed, and exhaled, "It was all plundered by your ancestors invading China. This is a Chinese cultural relic, but you put it on display. Don't you feel ashamed?"

   "That's because you are weak, we can get it, or our British Empire is powerful." The staff didn't know the shame, but some were proud of it.

   Suddenly, he rolled his eyes and said, "Sir, do you want to get this kind of baby?"

   "Why, do you want to return the museum to China?" Li Zhiwen asked.

   "That's impossible. These are the cultural relics of our British people. How can it be returned to China, but I can find a way to let you get them." The staff member said.

   "What way?" Li Zhiwen asked.

   "I can secretly get you a few pieces from the warehouse and sell them to you." The staff member said thiefly.

   "That's impossible. I am a law-abiding citizen and cannot do these thefts." Li Zhiwen strictly refused, and then left.

"Sir, sir..." the staff yelled in a low voice, "Oh, it's gone again. There were not a few people who came to see these porcelains, but they finally met one, but it turned out to be a coward. What should I do with gambling debts? good."

   Actually, it's not that Li Zhiwen doesn't want these porcelains, but that he can't come forward. His yellow face is already very attractive. If he trades with him, he can confess himself when he is caught.

   Li Zhiwen has to stay in the UK for a long time, but he can't make a fuss. Hong Kong is still a British colony. Even if he returns to Hong Kong, he is at risk.

The best way is to find a white race and let him come in contact with the staff. After thinking about this, Li Zhiwen called Cao Wenyu aside, told him his own ideas, and asked him to find a homeless man to do this. thing.

   Cao Wenyu was very excited when he heard that Li Zhiwen was going to buy these cultural relics back. In his opinion, these were Chinese things. They were robbed by bandits like them. He just let them return to their original owners.

   Cao Wenyu hurriedly left the museum to deal with the matter.

   Li Zhiwen walked around the British Museum for a while, no longer had the desire to look anymore, so he and Zhong Chuhong left the museum to find a restaurant for dinner.

   After Li Zhiwen returned to the hotel, Zhao Hezhuo went to the room to report on the progress.

   "Boss, 150 million U.S. dollars has been purchased." Zhao Hezhuo said.

   "There is no bank to find out." Li Zhiwen asked, he is not to blame for being careful, after all, Britain is not its own territory.

"No. First, we have a small amount of funds. I divided the 150 million US dollars into more than 200 banks to buy, and the average bank is less than 1 million US dollars. Second, Iran detains officials of the US Department of Foreign Affairs. Now gold speculators are generally optimistic about the rise in gold prices. There are too many people buying at the bank every day~www.readwn.com~ Our funds are just a splash in this market." Zhao Hezhuo said.

   "A Zhuo, you did a good job, I don't worry if you operate it, you stare carefully, I will give you a big red envelope when the matter is over," Li Zhiwen said.

"I thank the boss on their behalf. In addition, the boss, there is news from Hong Kong that Caring Group acquired 52.6% of the shares of Hanmei Enterprise from Baoguang Group of the Huang family. Now Hanmei Enterprise has been suspended, and trading is suspended. The previous stock price has soared to 3.8 Hong Kong dollars, and the 40 million Hong Kong dollars we absorbed before are now worth 100 million Hong Kong dollars." Zhao Hezhuo said.

When Zhao Hezhuo received a call from Hong Kong, he was taken aback. To know the stocks of Hanmei Enterprise, Kirin Securities had not held it for ten days, and it had increased by 2.5 times in ten days. Zhao Hezhuo could not even think about it before. But it happened. He admired Li Zhiwen terribly. Zhao Hezhuo felt that he was against you this time, and he had money and vision. There were too few bosses like this.

   "Well, I see." Li Zhiwen said lightly.

   "Boss, according to the current situation, the China Securities Regulatory Commission has ruled that Caring will take over the shareholders of Hanmei Enterprise. What should we do? Do you want to sell the stock?" Zhao Hezhuo said.

   "My idea is to hold it for a long time, but it's still early. I will wait until Chen Songqing comes to talk about it. Then we should return to Hong Kong." Li Zhiwen said.

   "Okay, boss, I will reply to the Hong Kong side immediately, let them wait for the news, and the people of Caring will come and hold them first." Zhao Hezhuo said.

   "Yes, you should deal with it first. Hong Kong matters are trivial matters, while British matters are major matters. Deal with British matters first." Li Zhiwen said.

   "Okay, boss, then I will go down first." Zhao Hezhuo left the room after speaking.

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