The reason why this guy did this was not because of his noble sentiment, but because he wanted to save his descendants and his lifelong collection of hard work.

You should know that the United States was in a golden age of crazy development, and various relevant laws were not perfect. It was an era of completely following the law of the jungle.

At that time, Charles Forrell became the first person to take the lead in collecting artworks from Asia and China. Later, other American business tycoons also discovered the benefits of Chinese artworks and began to collect them one after another. Not only those tycoons, but also those museums and various institutions.

Moreover, in order to collect Chinese art, everyone can be said to be unswerving and capable, and those who have channels contact Chinese tomb robbers, steal and dig for them everywhere, and even contact the Japanese as agents, and go to China to steal, rob, and then transport the artwork to the United States.

Those who are unable to do so and have no channels will choose some small domestic collectors as their targets. They use various means to rob. You should know that there were many British immigrants in the United States back then, and many of these British survivors had their ancestors, but they all participated in various wars of aggression against China. There were more or less some Chinese antiques at home. After the craze for collecting Chinese antiques, these people became the targets of looting many American museums and private collection institutions.

They will use various means to force you to take out the good things in your hands and sell them at a low price. If you don’t agree, you may face a disaster of extermination.

Forrell is one of the most envious objects of those guys. You should know that he has been playing with Chinese antiques for decades, and he has collected countless good things, and the most important thing is that he has no successor.

Because of syphilis, he never got married in his entire life. This was not a good thing at that time. If he could marry the daughter of a big family in the United States at that time and leave behind his descendants, those people would not dare to touch his descendants easily, because even if he died, his descendants would be protected by his mother's family, and no one dared to do it easily.

But the key point is that this guy has never been married in his entire life. Although he has several sons, these descendants are all illegitimate children. The mother is either a prostitute or an ordinary good family. In this way, if Charles Forrell dies, no one will protect them.

Moreover, these illegitimate children have no talent, no business talent like their father, and have no achievements in the business field. Most of them are illegitimate children who are just waiting to die. When Charles Forrell was still alive, because of his influence, those people dared not do anything to his descendants.

But once he kicked his legs and went to the West, no one could protect them. These unintelligent rich second generations will become their best hunting targets.

Fortunately, Charles Forrell is not a simple person. How could the guy who could make a world of world with bare hands and bare hands in that era be willing to be snatched away by those people for his whole life's hard work?

Moreover, as a successful businessman, Charles is very visionary. He knows that although he is very glorious in his life, he actually does shameful business and is robbing for the rest of his life. I don’t know how many people he has offended.

Once he dies and his descendants are not in charge of his matriarchal family, the final result is that his mediocre descendants will definitely be eaten alive by his enemies and the tycoons in the collection industry.

So in order to make his descendants survive in the jungle at that time, he chose a very smart way, which was to take out part of his wealth, donate it to the country, and then let the country protect his descendants.

His plan was very successful. In 1906, he contacted the Smithsonian Society, an important peripheral organization of the famous Freemasons in Washington at that time, and planned to build a private museum under the capital Smithsonian Society in Washington, and then donated some of its collection of Chinese and Japanese paintings and ceramics, as well as some ancient artworks from India and Iran to this private museum.

And those museums, collection institutions, and enemies that had long coveted his property would not let him do it so simply. These people did not dare to treat him and his family when Charles Forreyer were alive, but they could endure it better than Charles Forreyer. They all knew that this guy had an incurable disease such as syphilis and would not take long to burp and burp, so they stumbling to the guy as much as possible, so they could not build the art museum.

In the end, the fight between them even alarmed the then-US President Theodore Roosevelt and the first lady Edith. In the end, Forrell was also smart enough. He tried his best to bribe Edith, convinced Roosevelt, and received the support of the president and his wife. Finally, his art museum passed the approval of the federal government and became the first private museum under the Smithsonian Society.

Moreover, in order to get the museum started as soon as possible so that no one can make trouble, the old guy also paid one million dollars out of his own pocket for the construction of the museum.

The 1 million US dollars in 1906 were considered as the exchange rate and inflation factors, and the 1 million US dollars was more valuable than the current 100 million US dollars. This shows that this old guy's bottomless pocket and his eagerness are still there.

However, this old guy did too many bad things and was a bad retribution. During the construction of the museum, he unexpectedly happened to catch up with the World War. Although the trust fund under his name made a lot of money by using the World War, on the other hand, during the war, the United States' main energy was concentrated on the European battlefield.

There was no more manpower or material resources to be used for the construction of his museum, so his museum was delayed until 1919 and could not be completed. This old guy finally broke out due to the complications of syphilis and finally got burping towards the beam.

The only thing that is thankful is that the construction of this museum has been included in the national project before, and the old guy also said that after his death, part of his collection will be donated to the country.

Later, after the war, the museum was able to continue to be built until it was completed two years later. More than 20,000 items he collected were taken to the museum for display. In the end, because of the country, his enemies were afraid of his family. In the end, his incompetent descendants survived with the protection of the country.

Later, he had the same experience as him. The famous Dr. Sekler. When he was dying, in order not to let his collection fall into the hands of his enemies and to prevent his descendants from being harassed by museums and collection institutions, he also chose to donate all the Chinese artworks he had collected for his life to the Smithsonian Society.

Later, the National Museum of the United States simply combined the two art museums into one, and then recruited them to the name of the National Museum of the United States, becoming the Asian Museum under the name of the National Museum of the United States.

It is precisely with the protection of the national government that the Forrell family has been able to continue to this day. After the Forrell and the Sekler Museum of Art merged into the Asian Pavilion of the National Museum of the United States, the US government also conducted a series of positive publicity for the Forrell family. The purpose is very simple, which is to call on more wealthy people to donate the treasures they passed on to the National Museum of the United States.

After all, even now, American society is still a jungle society where the strong prey on the weak under the closure.

If those small families get some treasure, they will often face a catastrophe because they are innocent but have a guilty conspiracy.

However, if these families wisely donate their family treasures to the National Blog, they will often receive the protection of the country. Those big families located in the top food chain often dare not do anything to these families.

Everything that Charles Forrell did was also imitated by many small and medium-sized American families. For example, there was a bronze ware in the Forrell Museum. This is how it was obtained.

This bronze ware can be said to be the top work of bronze ware in the Forrell Museum. Even now it is the treasure of the Forrell Art Museum. However, this treasure was donated by a wealthy man in the United States. This wealthy man also faced the same fate as Forrell, so he had to choose to do so in the end, so that he could protect his descendants.

So in fact, Furiel donated all his life to the country at that time, which actually had no choice but to have any hidden secrets, and it actually had nothing to do with the nobleness of his personal character.

Now the artworks collected in the Forrell and Secler Museum, especially the collections of the Forrell Museum, are the jewels in the American National Museum of Asia.

There are more than 1,200 famous Chinese paintings in this art museum that can be collected by many famous Chinese paintings. In terms of quality, it can be said that they are the best in the United States. Even the Boston Art Museum, which has the most collection of famous Chinese paintings, cannot be compared with him. The most famous house is the famous work "The Goddess of the Luo River" by Gu Kaizhi, a great painter in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

There are only seven paintings in this painting now, and Forrell Art Management collects the only plain scribble, and the only painting with the most complete beginning and end. It is a peerless treasure. There is no need for the top famous paintings that Jin Muchen had created in the British Museum and the Boston Art Museum before. It can be called a priceless work. (To be continued.)
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